Do you believe knowledge is a function of proximity? That is to say, do you believe the closer physically you are to something the more you know about it? If so, then we cannot have a discussion because you clearly believe something that is verifiably false.
If however, you do not believe that one's knowledge of a given subject can be expressed as a function of one's proximity to that subject...well then perhaps we could agree on possible reasons a Governor of a southern border state may be more informed on the state of Mexican politics/economy/social-situations than a State Senator from Illinois.
But whatever those reasons are, it's not because you can see Mexico from parts of Texas.
But its also not a response that she came up with to legitimize her foreign policy knowledge.
Yeah but it is. She didn't just come up with it unprompted. Gibson asked what insight the proximity gave her and she said "...you can actually see Russia..." as a response. The implication is that since you can actually see it somehow that gives some special insight. It was a stupid answer.
As someone else mentioned, she could have brought up a number of issues including trade. But all she had to offer as to why being close geographically to Russia gives her special insight was essentially "you can see it from here."
Yes, her statement has been twisted and shortened and boiled down to its basics and turned into hyperbole for comedic effect. But that's because that's how comedy works. And people remember the joke instead of the actual quote for the same reason they remember Simpsons quotes and such but can't name the members of the Supreme Court: one of those things is funny and memorable and the other is regrettably little more than trivia to most people.
"Well, I'm giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relation with all of these countries, especially Russia. We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it's in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along."
Do you disagree with that?
That depends. Does that include our North Korean allies?
I presume you must know that Palin was rightly mocked for her actual quote as well. The "I can see Russia from my house!" bit was a hyperbole meant to ridicule the actual statement for its stupidity.
Her actual statement was trying to lend legitimacy to herself. As if being close to Russia meant she was somehow an expert on it. She was conflating seeing it with being informed and knowledgeable about it.
And that's logically asinine. I live next door to a physician. That in no way qualifies me to treat anyone medically and gives me no expertise in the medical field. And if I were trying to claim medical expertise by mentioning proximity to a doctor, I'd rightly be thought a fool for it.
Why bother with pulling you over? The slow erosion will eventually have such devices either phone home to the insurance companies (oops, I mean the state) and/or readers at every intersection will query the boxes as you drive by and send your recorded driving infractions back to the adjustment bureau for ticketing and insurance rate increase.
Get rid of all that garbage surrounding your articles and stop unnecessarily breaking tiny posts across multiple pages. The very IT crowd that is your core audience hates that shit.
I've never written kernel modules either so take this with a grain of salt: my understanding is there is a cost associated with the switching/passing back and forth between userspace and kernelspace and it's best to minimize that. I remember similar discussions going back as far as NT4 when Microsoft decided to implement the entire GDI in kernelspace, which is what led to a billion BSODs because video drivers are notoriously shitty code and you'd be way better off stability-wise having that code run in userspace. Performance-wise, not so much.
The interesting thing about encryption code working this way is there is such a tremendous speedup by running the bulk of the encryption code on the GPU as opposed to the CPU that the cost incurred in the user/kernel switch is well worth it.
Nintendo is copying Apple's business model. Look at how frequently new incremental models of Apple products are coming out. Look at the DS. Nintendo is going to do the same thing with their consoles. Instead of sinking brazillians of dollars into consoles with 5+ yr life spans, there'll be a new incremental step every few years.
The jump from Wii to Wii2 will be modeled on the jump from iPad to iPad2. Small, incremental changes. The fanbois will keep buying the latest rev. The engineering cost going into making a product designed to last 2 yrs is less.
Also, unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo realizes mobile gaming is the future battleground. And Apple is their biggest competition.
"If you're developing apps that use customers' mobile data..."
How about not writing mobile apps that store user's data?
Very few apps need to store user data. Companies aren't using the data because the apps need it. Their ad stream needs it. Which reminds me: if you're not paying for a product/service (google, facebook, slashdot, reddit, etc.) you're not the customer...you're the product.
A brief story about my history with Linux distros:
Once upon a time, I was a slacker. And it was good. Then a shadowy figure wearing a Red Hat appeared. And I was no longer a slacker. Eventually, an African concept helped me realize I am who I am because of who we all are. But then who we all are became less and less for the people and that shadowy figure wearing a Fedora turned 14. And I became a convert once again.
All along, I kept in mind how important freedom is. So I frequented a strange land called Debia. Because they truly are who they are because we all are who we all are. It's not just their marketing.
This was the same excuse/reason HP gave for not open-sourcing OpenMail. Bruce Perens was involved in the product and I think instrumental in at least getting HP to consider opening it. But too many licensing issues killed any chances of open-sourcing it. Damn shame too.
This reminds me of my favorite chiropractor story.
I went with my wife to the chiropractor's office for her initial appointment. I was skeptical. He wanted to convince me of the legitimacy of his profession. So he threw out some interesting studies. One in particular he focused on. In this study, bodies had been exhumed and their spines checked. In 80% of the dead bodies there were spinal alignment problems. 80 percent! Which he then tried to conflate to the cause of death.
I laughed at him and said that I would be willing to wager 100% of them weren't breathing either. And maybe that was a surer indication of the cause of death. Then we turned around and left.
While there may be such a thing as a reputable chiropractor, that guy wasn't one of them.
Between Google and Microsoft there are X jobs open this quarter. Let Y = Microsoft jobs and Z = Google jobs.
Google will hire a full G employees this year.
1) X = Y + Z
2) G >= Z
3) X = 6200
4) A = 6200
There's nothing in what was written suggesting the actual value of Y or Z. Because G = X you read it to also imply Z = X but that's just one possibility. Z could be 1 and Y could be 6199. G is still 6200.
Why in the name of all that is GNU would Android re-implement a DHCP client when every Linux system since forever has had good DHCP client support already there?
Did Google decide to implement their own IP layer entirely?
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Do you believe knowledge is a function of proximity? That is to say, do you believe the closer physically you are to something the more you know about it? If so, then we cannot have a discussion because you clearly believe something that is verifiably false.
If however, you do not believe that one's knowledge of a given subject can be expressed as a function of one's proximity to that subject...well then perhaps we could agree on possible reasons a Governor of a southern border state may be more informed on the state of Mexican politics/economy/social-situations than a State Senator from Illinois.
But whatever those reasons are, it's not because you can see Mexico from parts of Texas.
Yeah but it is. She didn't just come up with it unprompted. Gibson asked what insight the proximity gave her and she said "...you can actually see Russia..." as a response. The implication is that since you can actually see it somehow that gives some special insight. It was a stupid answer.
As someone else mentioned, she could have brought up a number of issues including trade. But all she had to offer as to why being close geographically to Russia gives her special insight was essentially "you can see it from here."
Yes, her statement has been twisted and shortened and boiled down to its basics and turned into hyperbole for comedic effect. But that's because that's how comedy works. And people remember the joke instead of the actual quote for the same reason they remember Simpsons quotes and such but can't name the members of the Supreme Court: one of those things is funny and memorable and the other is regrettably little more than trivia to most people.
That depends. Does that include our North Korean allies?
I presume you must know that Palin was rightly mocked for her actual quote as well. The "I can see Russia from my house!" bit was a hyperbole meant to ridicule the actual statement for its stupidity.
Her actual statement was trying to lend legitimacy to herself. As if being close to Russia meant she was somehow an expert on it. She was conflating seeing it with being informed and knowledgeable about it.
And that's logically asinine. I live next door to a physician. That in no way qualifies me to treat anyone medically and gives me no expertise in the medical field. And if I were trying to claim medical expertise by mentioning proximity to a doctor, I'd rightly be thought a fool for it.
If only I had mod points today.
Why bother with pulling you over? The slow erosion will eventually have such devices either phone home to the insurance companies (oops, I mean the state) and/or readers at every intersection will query the boxes as you drive by and send your recorded driving infractions back to the adjustment bureau for ticketing and insurance rate increase.
Get rid of all that garbage surrounding your articles and stop unnecessarily breaking tiny posts across multiple pages. The very IT crowd that is your core audience hates that shit.
I can't type the sound of my voice.
The value of a college degree is not rising as fast as the cost of obtaining one. This kind of crap doesn't help matters.
The usual caveat applies: it may be 5-10 years until this could hit the market.
The solar constant caveat applies: it will always be 5-10 years until this could hit the market.
ALWAYS.
Well there's everything at Project Gutenberg.
Now if I could just use it to store the honeycomb source.
I've never written kernel modules either so take this with a grain of salt: my understanding is there is a cost associated with the switching/passing back and forth between userspace and kernelspace and it's best to minimize that. I remember similar discussions going back as far as NT4 when Microsoft decided to implement the entire GDI in kernelspace, which is what led to a billion BSODs because video drivers are notoriously shitty code and you'd be way better off stability-wise having that code run in userspace. Performance-wise, not so much.
The interesting thing about encryption code working this way is there is such a tremendous speedup by running the bulk of the encryption code on the GPU as opposed to the CPU that the cost incurred in the user/kernel switch is well worth it.
I came to read a discussion of writing kernel functions in CUDA and a discussion about the vagaries of encryption methods broke out.
Nintendo is copying Apple's business model. Look at how frequently new incremental models of Apple products are coming out. Look at the DS. Nintendo is going to do the same thing with their consoles. Instead of sinking brazillians of dollars into consoles with 5+ yr life spans, there'll be a new incremental step every few years.
The jump from Wii to Wii2 will be modeled on the jump from iPad to iPad2. Small, incremental changes. The fanbois will keep buying the latest rev. The engineering cost going into making a product designed to last 2 yrs is less.
Also, unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo realizes mobile gaming is the future battleground. And Apple is their biggest competition.
"If you're developing apps that use customers' mobile data..."
How about not writing mobile apps that store user's data?
Very few apps need to store user data. Companies aren't using the data because the apps need it. Their ad stream needs it. Which reminds me: if you're not paying for a product/service (google, facebook, slashdot, reddit, etc.) you're not the customer...you're the product.
A brief story about my history with Linux distros:
Once upon a time, I was a slacker. And it was good. Then a shadowy figure wearing a Red Hat appeared. And I was no longer a slacker. Eventually, an African concept helped me realize I am who I am because of who we all are. But then who we all are became less and less for the people and that shadowy figure wearing a Fedora turned 14. And I became a convert once again.
All along, I kept in mind how important freedom is. So I frequented a strange land called Debia. Because they truly are who they are because we all are who we all are. It's not just their marketing.
This was the same excuse/reason HP gave for not open-sourcing OpenMail. Bruce Perens was involved in the product and I think instrumental in at least getting HP to consider opening it. But too many licensing issues killed any chances of open-sourcing it. Damn shame too.
I was worried at first. I thought it said MyOuterSpace for a minute there.
This reminds me of my favorite chiropractor story.
I went with my wife to the chiropractor's office for her initial appointment. I was skeptical. He wanted to convince me of the legitimacy of his profession. So he threw out some interesting studies. One in particular he focused on. In this study, bodies had been exhumed and their spines checked. In 80% of the dead bodies there were spinal alignment problems. 80 percent! Which he then tried to conflate to the cause of death.
I laughed at him and said that I would be willing to wager 100% of them weren't breathing either. And maybe that was a surer indication of the cause of death. Then we turned around and left.
While there may be such a thing as a reputable chiropractor, that guy wasn't one of them.
Between Google and Microsoft there are X jobs open this quarter. Let Y = Microsoft jobs and Z = Google jobs.
Google will hire a full G employees this year.
1) X = Y + Z
2) G >= Z
3) X = 6200
4) A = 6200
There's nothing in what was written suggesting the actual value of Y or Z. Because G = X you read it to also imply Z = X but that's just one possibility. Z could be 1 and Y could be 6199. G is still 6200.
Disclaimer: I am bad at math
They can't be much worse than the corporate robot sociopaths currently in charge.
I don't know why YOU would want to help make/improve a proprietary map that will owned by Google. But I know why Anonymous would: penis jokes.
This will happen.
Why in the name of all that is GNU would Android re-implement a DHCP client when every Linux system since forever has had good DHCP client support already there?
Did Google decide to implement their own IP layer entirely?
Right here on slashdot even
"Breakthrough." Slashdot submitters/editors keep using that word. I don't think it means what they think it means.