Yeah, just be thankful it wasn't based on the bubonic system of password management: forget your password and the BOFH laces your keyboard with Yersinia pestis.
> the windmills overproduce heavily at night, where the cost of energy can actually drop to NEGATIVE (yes, you get paid to buy power at certain times of the night on rare occasions in northern Europe).
Translated to a language Slashdotters can understand: "In Soviet Russia, power company pay YOU to use electricity."
Good point - just like millions of power consumers smooth each other out to where the power demand is somewhat smooth, hundreds (a couple in every state) of wind farms would result in somewhat smooth wind power supply.
So how come India was able to snag one of the (then) 24 available positions?
Is it supposed to be allocated by population?
Will the rest of the positions be allocated to the top-breeding countries? And what about countries that don't make this list, but have a bigger GDP (since we're talking about currency and economics) than India, like Canada and Italy?
1 China 1306313800 2 India 1080264400 Rp 3 United States of America 295734100 $ 4 Indonesia 241973900 5 Brazil 186112800 6 Pakistan 162419900 7 Bangladesh 144319600 8 Russia 143420300 9 Nigeria 128772000 10 Japan 127417200 11 Mexico 106202900 12 Philippines 87857500 13 Vietnam 83535600 14 Germany 82431400 EUR 15 Egypt 77505800 16 Ethopia 73053300 17 Turkey 69660600 18 Iran 68017900 19 Thailand 65444400 20 France 60656200 EUR 21 United Kingdom (UK) 60441500 £ 22 Congo (Dem. Rep. of ) 60085800 23 Italy 58103000 EUR 24 Korea (South) 48422600 25 Ukraine 47425300 26 South Africa 44344100 27 Colombia 42954300 28 Myanmar 42909500 29 Spain 40341500 EUR 30 Sudan 40187500
The reason people seem to be arguing in circles is that we've been told again and again that censorship is bad. Since a large number of Slashdotters don't want to call Apple bad, they don't want to call deleting posts censorship.
The thing is, it's plain as day that Apple is censoring posts. The real question is: Is this instance of censorship good or bad?
Leaving aside how horribly ill-designed PHP is, the major advantage of PHP is that each instance is totally new, meaning that any server in a farm can serve the next click from a user.
>MySQL is better than SQL Server
I don't know if I'd go quite that far with a blanket statement. But it can be better (i.e., good enough) for some/many uses. Postgres, more so.
Right. $2000 can pay for tens of thousands or even millions of ads depending on the ad rate. Even better if you go pay per click.
Even better than that, actually, would be to pay $1000 to a well-connected PR person who can call up a friend in a major (or medium) newspaper who'll write an article about your startup.
OK, I'll grant you that for Google, although, even there, you need coders to implement lots of "average" kinds of things like outputting the DHTML to align labels in Google maps, which is not PhD level work.
But for the vast majority of sites, they are just grabbing stuff out of MySQL and throwing back at the user. Nothing a trained high-schooler couldn't handle.
Facebook is using PHP because it's not doing anything complicated in the first place other than leaking people's private info.
>A properly trained programmer from a university with a cs degree that has worth usually are a lot more organized.
Depends on definition of "properly trained", I guess, but for the most part being a CS graduate has nothing to do with being more organized.
CS degree holders are no more likely to document their code than an English lit. who started programming. In fact CS's are probably the least likely to have easy to understand and maintain code.
Software Engineering degree-holders, on the other hand, *do* know how to structure programs for readability and maintainability.
>I am a firm believer that program designing classes should be taught at the same time as cs 101
Why? Would you teach telescope grinding classes at the same time as Astronomy 101, progressing on to advanced grinding techniques? The fact is 90% of CS graduates got the wrong degree. If they want to work in industry, they should (for the most part) have an engineering degree, not a science degree.
2. necessitating additional salary to offset the additional tax 3. necessitating additional salary to offset the additional tax 4. necessitating additional salary to offset the additional tax... n^x. Profit?
Totally unbelievable. Thanks for highlighting who the real foe of music and small artists is.
Doesn't matter if it's NRA, NARAL, Greanpeace, ASCAP or whatever, these lobbying organizations lose sight of what they were incorporated for in the first place, or even any motive other than their own continuance.
I can't think of any way they could remove the menace of copyleft without also either weakening copyright, impairing the obligation of contracts, or running afoul of the Constitution (or all 3), can you?
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Don't forget Java 1.2 being called "Java 2", so that the current version 1.6.0 is "Java 6".
Nobody ever thought of what they would do after 1.9.
Matt M. claims that large portions of the Thesis theme includes cut-and-pastes of PHP code from WordPress GPL code.
I don't know exactly how much that is, but it's probably more than none whatsoever.
(Take it for what it's worth.)
Yeah, just be thankful it wasn't based on the bubonic system of password management: forget your password and the BOFH laces your keyboard with Yersinia pestis.
> the windmills overproduce heavily at night, where the cost of energy can actually drop to NEGATIVE (yes, you get paid to buy power at certain times of the night on rare occasions in northern Europe).
Translated to a language Slashdotters can understand: "In Soviet Russia, power company pay YOU to use electricity."
Good point - just like millions of power consumers smooth each other out to where the power demand is somewhat smooth, hundreds (a couple in every state) of wind farms would result in somewhat smooth wind power supply.
Isn't it possible to build a system whereby you can throw a switch and send the extra electrons into the earth?
Don't tag me, bro!
Uh, good point.
It just sort of initially struck me as weird bureaucratic thing: "Let's chop 1 character off this word."
>Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?
It's just one of those promotional things governments do, like Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech, and Obama's stimulus signs.
So how come India was able to snag one of the (then) 24 available positions?
Is it supposed to be allocated by population?
Will the rest of the positions be allocated to the top-breeding countries? And what about countries that don't make this list, but have a bigger GDP (since we're talking about currency and economics) than India, like Canada and Italy?
1 China 1306313800
2 India 1080264400 Rp
3 United States of America 295734100 $
4 Indonesia 241973900
5 Brazil 186112800
6 Pakistan 162419900
7 Bangladesh 144319600
8 Russia 143420300
9 Nigeria 128772000
10 Japan 127417200
11 Mexico 106202900
12 Philippines 87857500
13 Vietnam 83535600
14 Germany 82431400 EUR
15 Egypt 77505800
16 Ethopia 73053300
17 Turkey 69660600
18 Iran 68017900
19 Thailand 65444400
20 France 60656200 EUR
21 United Kingdom (UK) 60441500 £
22 Congo (Dem. Rep. of ) 60085800
23 Italy 58103000 EUR
24 Korea (South) 48422600
25 Ukraine 47425300
26 South Africa 44344100
27 Colombia 42954300
28 Myanmar 42909500
29 Spain 40341500 EUR
30 Sudan 40187500
When the long form is 4 characters, and the abbreviation is 3 characters, is there really a point to abbreviating?
man sed "awk" !
(Try it on the command line)
The reason people seem to be arguing in circles is that we've been told again and again that censorship is bad. Since a large number of Slashdotters don't want to call Apple bad, they don't want to call deleting posts censorship.
The thing is, it's plain as day that Apple is censoring posts. The real question is: Is this instance of censorship good or bad?
>PHP is better than any .net crap.
Leaving aside how horribly ill-designed PHP is, the major advantage of PHP is that each instance is totally new, meaning that any server in a farm can serve the next click from a user.
>MySQL is better than SQL Server
I don't know if I'd go quite that far with a blanket statement. But it can be better (i.e., good enough) for some/many uses. Postgres, more so.
Right. $2000 can pay for tens of thousands or even millions of ads depending on the ad rate. Even better if you go pay per click.
Even better than that, actually, would be to pay $1000 to a well-connected PR person who can call up a friend in a major (or medium) newspaper who'll write an article about your startup.
Put Goatse on one end, and Natalie Portman on the other.
Thanks for the neologism copymonopoly. It's exactly what it is, and people don't always keep that in mind: an artificial right, granted by government.
>Try to understand - every time we muck around trying to break Darwin's laws, we are only screwing ourselves.
>>The inanity of this oft-repeated excuse for lack of compassion is obvious when you remember that compassion is an evolved trait.
Wait, but isn't the propensity to encourage people to not break Darwin's laws (as in the comment you replied to) an evolved trait?
OK, I'll grant you that for Google, although, even there, you need coders to implement lots of "average" kinds of things like outputting the DHTML to align labels in Google maps, which is not PhD level work.
But for the vast majority of sites, they are just grabbing stuff out of MySQL and throwing back at the user. Nothing a trained high-schooler couldn't handle.
Facebook is using PHP because it's not doing anything complicated in the first place other than leaking people's private info.
>A properly trained programmer from a university with a cs degree that has worth usually are a lot more organized.
Depends on definition of "properly trained", I guess, but for the most part being a CS graduate has nothing to do with being more organized.
CS degree holders are no more likely to document their code than an English lit. who started programming. In fact CS's are probably the least likely to have easy to understand and maintain code.
Software Engineering degree-holders, on the other hand, *do* know how to structure programs for readability and maintainability.
>I am a firm believer that program designing classes should be taught at the same time as cs 101
Why? Would you teach telescope grinding classes at the same time as Astronomy 101, progressing on to advanced grinding techniques? The fact is 90% of CS graduates got the wrong degree. If they want to work in industry, they should (for the most part) have an engineering degree, not a science degree.
Steve Jobs says: "Don't put your mouse pointer on the lower right corner of your iTex window."
2. necessitating additional salary to offset the additional tax ...
3. necessitating additional salary to offset the additional tax
4. necessitating additional salary to offset the additional tax
n^x. Profit?
He said TV skews liberal and you gave counter-examples of the WSJ and talk radio.
I can't speak for his main argument, but two of your counterpoints missed the mark.
Totally unbelievable. Thanks for highlighting who the real foe of music and small artists is.
Doesn't matter if it's NRA, NARAL, Greanpeace, ASCAP or whatever, these lobbying organizations lose sight of what they were incorporated for in the first place, or even any motive other than their own continuance.
I can't think of any way they could remove the menace of copyleft without also either weakening copyright, impairing the obligation of contracts, or running afoul of the Constitution (or all 3), can you?