I stay in lots of hotels all over the world. The one thing they have in common is that there's always one or two baffling features or annoying ones or unwanted ones. Add a whole lot of unnecessary digital crap and the experience will be even more disorientating and uncomfortable.
Direct google search yields:
USA energy consumption per capita = 6,793.96 kg of oil equivalent (2012)
China energy consumption per capita = 2,029.36 kg of oil equivalent (2011)
Note that Europe is in the 3-4k range while Canada is above 7k.
Except that a lot of that energy consumed by China is in the manufacture of the world's cheap goods. By importing from China, the rest of the world is exporting its carbon emissions.
You haven't heard of the creation concept called "apparent age" have you? Yea, I know you people get off on bashing the creationist ideology, but it's not all ignorance and folly. There are actually some pretty intelligent folk who think about these questions and have come up with reasonable answers for most of them, plus they have some answers for questions you are not asking because you haven't spent the time to think about stuff much.
So step down off the high horse and try and engage, without bashing and name calling... You will likely get further with people if you don't offend them right off the bat.
These are people blinded by their religious ignorance who first adopt a position and then attempt to justify it. Why would anyone want to "get further" with people who put faith before science?
I have a friend who is retired and he makes stuff in his shop. Instead of buying hinges, he makes them himself out of raw metal stock. He enjoys the challenge.
If he was coding instead of making stuff from wood and metal, he would be using C++.
Except the STL provides a lot of those widgets off the shelf.
Java, one of the most bug-filled, hackable software products the world
Indeed criticism should be leveled at Java for trying to retain one of it's original design intents of being a web safe sandbox while at the same time trying to be a golden hammer in pretty much every other problem/solution domains, server backend, rich client, embedded device etc meaning the platform got so huge and unwieldly it was too difficult to keep it secure if nothing because of it's sheer weight. But to call it the most hackable software products is just stupid and ignorant. Does the author understand the basic concept of memory management exploits? Buffer overruns exploits are virtually non-existant in Java, caused only by rare defects in the JVM itself.
There are gazillions of lines of Java in the enterprise space safely immune to drive-by hackers. OK, applets were over optimisitic and turned out to be a bad idea in practice. But I get bored with defending Java in other spaces. It does a great job for business in the server and on the desktop.
Their last recommendation - Complete trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership that ban digital protectionism and pressure nations that seek to erect protectionist barriers to abandon those efforts - is a reminder why Europeans do not want the TPP enacted. There's a big difference between protectionism and now wanting to hand all you private data over to the NSA. The TPP basically enforces lower US standards of business on Europe where there's more red tape to protect small companies and consumers.
OP asked a question. You obviously do not know the answer because you just made a stupid, insulting reply. Perhaps if you don't know the answer, don't reply. I don't know the answer either, but would be interested in knowing the answer as well and would have asked the question had the AC not already asked. But instead of an answer you just shit all over it and are apparently offended that it got asked. Get over yourself and realize that some people aren't afraid to ask questions when they are ignorant... you might want to try it.
Goodness knows why I feel the need to defend myself here but when a question is asked with the word "fucking" in it, I assume it was not asked in a genuine spirit of enquiry and I answered in sarcastically. Mood is sometimes hard to discern on the net so maybe we are both guilty of misreading it.
One of the comments above makes a very good attempt at a more serious answer.
How does one tell the difference between a chunk of rock and a 3.3 million year old tool? Because they both look fucking indistinguishable to me: they're both just chunks of rock.
Clearly those anthropologists are totally misguided and would be most grateful for your help on this matter.
Unfortunately it (sports) does little to soften the scary fact that some day each of us will die. Or that a loved one will die. Or when the circumstances of our life are especially shitty. It's really not an effective substitute for religion in any of those scenarios.
But it does function as another opium of the people. - something to absorb and distract from existential angst.
Over the years I have worked on complex Java desktop apps which work pretty well. Now management want to redo them as web apps but they will have to lose a lot of GUI functionality and polish. But apparently that's what the customer wants.
If you want to be exact, use a dead language. There is a reason why many dead languages are dead, they failed to evolve over time, which makes them suitable for being exacting.
I've seen this. Most coders just glue third party stuff together with a bit of business logic. Nobody ever writes anything from bare metal, no complex algorithms, nothing. It just takes too long to test your own stuff. The Java world is so rich in libraries that you can always track down something that does what you need.
It seems like the Java ecosystem is fine tuned for producing a high signal to noise ratio as far as intent of code is concerned. So much of the ecosystem stresses templates, massive IDEs and other automated tools that make the production of thousands of lines of unnecessary boilerplate incredibly easy. Besides, isn't this the nature of Java anyway? It seems like it's designed to produce the most verbose code possible in the hope that if everything is explicit more bugs can be diagnosed since the compiler has more to work with. It's almost a troll article, seriously, it's like the guy is just tryiing to piss people off.
I suppose you didn't read the article where it says "while this study only looked at Java code, the authors expect these finding would hold true for other languages, particularly C and C++, due to the similarities of the languages." I assume they only analysed a large body of Java code because it is easily parsed. And note they say C too, not just C++.
only an idiot thinks prices will stay this low.
seriously, this happened in 2008 as well.
Just until the Saudis decide they've screwed the Iranians enough and cut their production again. This dip is entirely political and nothing to do with long term trends in energy supply and demand.
I never studied. My phenomenal raw intelligence got me through. I could listen to the lecture, instantly digest the material, and understand it better than most of my classmates did even after they spent the evenings poring over books and lectures. Could I have done better if I studied? Absolutely. Would I have had nearly as much fun hanging out at the local watering hole during the evenings? No way. Grades are fleeting. Intelligence stays with you as long as you are above ground and cannot be taken away.
Taking you at face value, I would advise that you can only cruise for so long. At some point you have to combine a bit of work with that awesome mind to progress.
Or stellavore if you prefer Latin to Greek.. But "starivore" is an abomination. if you're going to make up new compound words, you should stick to the same language for each component. "Star-eater" would be ok.
The population of the USA is about 320M, so that works out at 160M, or $1.6M. NASA's budget is actually around $17,647M, so you're off by three orders of magnitude. Do you, by any chance, work for Verizon? It's actually about $55 per person in the USA (including children).
As opposed to the useless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which cost abut $6 trillion or $75,000 for every American household.
Yup, this raise one of my big complaints about some SciFi stories: lack of economic plausibility.
Science Fiction is great for looking at how we might deal with various potential technologies. Readers are perfectly happy to suspend disbelief and accept whatever technology is proposed. What readers aren't willing to do is suspend disbelief and accept people behaving implausibly.
To write good science fiction, you need to accurately portray people. You can make up the technology, but you have to get humanity right. And that means you have to get the economics right.
I would recommend Iain M. Banks' Culture series where a post-scarcity society turns economics on its head.
You really need to review your history. The open office has been around for centuries, if not millennia. Mind you back then the Monks weren't allowed to speak. And that doesn't even touch on Dicksian nightmares and the middle of last century. What is new is people not shutting the fuck up and annoying everyone else.
From a British perspective, it seems we transitioned from small offices to open plan about 20 years ago. Cubicles have never been common here.
The crux is there are a billion more people in the next ten years. There will not be enough jobs for these people. Yes, yes, we already know no one gives a damn about the bushmen in the middle of nowhere, but we are talking about Americans
From where I stand most Americans in the middle of nowhere and no one gives a damn about them either.
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I stay in lots of hotels all over the world. The one thing they have in common is that there's always one or two baffling features or annoying ones or unwanted ones. Add a whole lot of unnecessary digital crap and the experience will be even more disorientating and uncomfortable.
Direct google search yields: USA energy consumption per capita = 6,793.96 kg of oil equivalent (2012) China energy consumption per capita = 2,029.36 kg of oil equivalent (2011)
Note that Europe is in the 3-4k range while Canada is above 7k.
Except that a lot of that energy consumed by China is in the manufacture of the world's cheap goods. By importing from China, the rest of the world is exporting its carbon emissions.
You haven't heard of the creation concept called "apparent age" have you? Yea, I know you people get off on bashing the creationist ideology, but it's not all ignorance and folly. There are actually some pretty intelligent folk who think about these questions and have come up with reasonable answers for most of them, plus they have some answers for questions you are not asking because you haven't spent the time to think about stuff much.
So step down off the high horse and try and engage, without bashing and name calling... You will likely get further with people if you don't offend them right off the bat.
These are people blinded by their religious ignorance who first adopt a position and then attempt to justify it. Why would anyone want to "get further" with people who put faith before science?
I have a friend who is retired and he makes stuff in his shop. Instead of buying hinges, he makes them himself out of raw metal stock. He enjoys the challenge.
If he was coding instead of making stuff from wood and metal, he would be using C++.
Except the STL provides a lot of those widgets off the shelf.
A light-weight article, typified by this:
Java, one of the most bug-filled, hackable software products the world
Indeed criticism should be leveled at Java for trying to retain one of it's original design intents of being a web safe sandbox while at the same time trying to be a golden hammer in pretty much every other problem/solution domains, server backend, rich client, embedded device etc meaning the platform got so huge and unwieldly it was too difficult to keep it secure if nothing because of it's sheer weight. But to call it the most hackable software products is just stupid and ignorant. Does the author understand the basic concept of memory management exploits? Buffer overruns exploits are virtually non-existant in Java, caused only by rare defects in the JVM itself.
There are gazillions of lines of Java in the enterprise space safely immune to drive-by hackers. OK, applets were over optimisitic and turned out to be a bad idea in practice. But I get bored with defending Java in other spaces. It does a great job for business in the server and on the desktop.
Their last recommendation - Complete trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership that ban digital protectionism and pressure nations that seek to erect protectionist barriers to abandon those efforts - is a reminder why Europeans do not want the TPP enacted. There's a big difference between protectionism and now wanting to hand all you private data over to the NSA. The TPP basically enforces lower US standards of business on Europe where there's more red tape to protect small companies and consumers.
I decided to log in for this one.
OP asked a question. You obviously do not know the answer because you just made a stupid, insulting reply. Perhaps if you don't know the answer, don't reply. I don't know the answer either, but would be interested in knowing the answer as well and would have asked the question had the AC not already asked. But instead of an answer you just shit all over it and are apparently offended that it got asked. Get over yourself and realize that some people aren't afraid to ask questions when they are ignorant... you might want to try it.
Goodness knows why I feel the need to defend myself here but when a question is asked with the word "fucking" in it, I assume it was not asked in a genuine spirit of enquiry and I answered in sarcastically. Mood is sometimes hard to discern on the net so maybe we are both guilty of misreading it. One of the comments above makes a very good attempt at a more serious answer.
How does one tell the difference between a chunk of rock and a 3.3 million year old tool? Because they both look fucking indistinguishable to me: they're both just chunks of rock.
Clearly those anthropologists are totally misguided and would be most grateful for your help on this matter.
Unfortunately it (sports) does little to soften the scary fact that some day each of us will die. Or that a loved one will die. Or when the circumstances of our life are especially shitty. It's really not an effective substitute for religion in any of those scenarios.
But it does function as another opium of the people. - something to absorb and distract from existential angst.
This medieval superstition will die out eventually.
Over the years I have worked on complex Java desktop apps which work pretty well. Now management want to redo them as web apps but they will have to lose a lot of GUI functionality and polish. But apparently that's what the customer wants.
having multiple $9,999.00 transactions is a nearly guaranteed way to get an audit.
Falling foul of Benford's law.
If you want to be exact, use a dead language. There is a reason why many dead languages are dead, they failed to evolve over time, which makes them suitable for being exacting.
Then you have the problem of neologisms cf Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis
I've seen this. Most coders just glue third party stuff together with a bit of business logic. Nobody ever writes anything from bare metal, no complex algorithms, nothing. It just takes too long to test your own stuff. The Java world is so rich in libraries that you can always track down something that does what you need.
It seems like the Java ecosystem is fine tuned for producing a high signal to noise ratio as far as intent of code is concerned. So much of the ecosystem stresses templates, massive IDEs and other automated tools that make the production of thousands of lines of unnecessary boilerplate incredibly easy. Besides, isn't this the nature of Java anyway? It seems like it's designed to produce the most verbose code possible in the hope that if everything is explicit more bugs can be diagnosed since the compiler has more to work with. It's almost a troll article, seriously, it's like the guy is just tryiing to piss people off.
I suppose you didn't read the article where it says "while this study only looked at Java code, the authors expect these finding would hold true for other languages, particularly C and C++, due to the similarities of the languages." I assume they only analysed a large body of Java code because it is easily parsed. And note they say C too, not just C++.
Except if the other ship has lasers...
When did the US Navy last fight a proper ship vs ship battle with big guns? This is just a solution in search of a problem/budget .
only an idiot thinks prices will stay this low. seriously, this happened in 2008 as well.
Just until the Saudis decide they've screwed the Iranians enough and cut their production again. This dip is entirely political and nothing to do with long term trends in energy supply and demand.
I never studied. My phenomenal raw intelligence got me through. I could listen to the lecture, instantly digest the material, and understand it better than most of my classmates did even after they spent the evenings poring over books and lectures. Could I have done better if I studied? Absolutely. Would I have had nearly as much fun hanging out at the local watering hole during the evenings? No way. Grades are fleeting. Intelligence stays with you as long as you are above ground and cannot be taken away.
Taking you at face value, I would advise that you can only cruise for so long. At some point you have to combine a bit of work with that awesome mind to progress.
Astrophage
Or stellavore if you prefer Latin to Greek.. But "starivore" is an abomination. if you're going to make up new compound words, you should stick to the same language for each component. "Star-eater" would be ok.
The population of the USA is about 320M, so that works out at 160M, or $1.6M. NASA's budget is actually around $17,647M, so you're off by three orders of magnitude. Do you, by any chance, work for Verizon? It's actually about $55 per person in the USA (including children).
As opposed to the useless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which cost abut $6 trillion or $75,000 for every American household.
Yup, this raise one of my big complaints about some SciFi stories: lack of economic plausibility.
Science Fiction is great for looking at how we might deal with various potential technologies. Readers are perfectly happy to suspend disbelief and accept whatever technology is proposed. What readers aren't willing to do is suspend disbelief and accept people behaving implausibly.
To write good science fiction, you need to accurately portray people. You can make up the technology, but you have to get humanity right. And that means you have to get the economics right.
I would recommend Iain M. Banks' Culture series where a post-scarcity society turns economics on its head.
Bad idea, created by "Twitter Generation"
You really need to review your history. The open office has been around for centuries, if not millennia. Mind you back then the Monks weren't allowed to speak. And that doesn't even touch on Dicksian nightmares and the middle of last century. What is new is people not shutting the fuck up and annoying everyone else.
From a British perspective, it seems we transitioned from small offices to open plan about 20 years ago. Cubicles have never been common here.
"Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
-- Nixon
Ah, yes, that wise old leader. I think his best quote was
we will bomb the living bejeezus out of North Vietnam and then if anybody interferes we will threaten the nuclear weapons.
Torture is useless as an intelligence tool. It is also counterproductive for any reason other than a "sense of vengeance".
Sure, it satisfies that, but then you lose the moral high ground. And that shit is actually important.
It doesn't matter if it is effective. It doesn't matter if they lied about it. What matters is that the USA tortures people and torture is wrong.
The crux is there are a billion more people in the next ten years. There will not be enough jobs for these people. Yes, yes, we already know no one gives a damn about the bushmen in the middle of nowhere, but we are talking about Americans
From where I stand most Americans in the middle of nowhere and no one gives a damn about them either.