Wow, you didn't even bother to read the rest of the fucking *sentence*, did you? Here, let's quote the whole thing:
Compiled applications are linked with the GCJ runtime, libgcj, which provides the core class libraries, a garbage collector, and a bytecode interpreter. libgcj can dynamically load and interpret class files, resulting in mixed compiled/interpreted applications.
So why do they include an "interpreter"? Because then your *compiled* Java application can dynamically load and call into traditional bytecode that wasn't compiled with gcj (eg, libraries in JARs, etc). But the application itself is very much a compiled, binary program, just like any other executable.
School leavers handwriting skills are getting worse year on year based on what I have seen - in the past month I have met with 4 17 year olds who have handwriting that I would expect from a 10 year old, yet they can type quite well.
Err... so? Cursive is, let's face it, completely unnecessary. The days of written correspondence are over. People just don't hand write that much anymore... certainly not enough to make the speed and endurance advantages of cursive worth the effort.
Now, being able to print legibly, yes, that's a necessary skill, as everyone needs to be able to fill out a form or write a quick note to someone effectively. And certainly spelling and grammar skills are vital. But cursive? Sorry, no, it's pointless.
So yes, writing is a technology, and technology is not culture
No, but to claim technology and culture are not intertwined is deeply simplistic. One need only look at the affect of radio or television on western culture to see how changes in technology can have *drastic* effects on culture.
In this case, the abandonment of Kanji could lead to further cultural division within China (as local dialects continue to diverge, and individuals from different regions are no longer able to communicate with a common script), and *that* strikes me as a potentially massive change for China as a nation.
Watch your CPU when comparing USB and eSATA/Firewire.
I can only assume neither you nor the idiot mod who gave you a +1 Interesting actually RTFA. USB 3.0 does away with polling, which means CPU usage should be substantially lower.
That is true today. However various universities are researching the generation of hydrogen using biological processes, organism + water + sunlight --> H.
no. The scientist proposing neutrino's are causing this is ALSO proposing this
No.
The scientists said, and I quote:
"Jenkins and Fischbach write that we know some flares are tied to events deep inside the sun. "
Assuming they aren't lying, then it's already well-understood that some flares are caused by events deep in the sun. They then conclude that it may be possible that solar flares can affect neutron flux in some cases.
So your original statement:
"According to TFA, neutrinos shouldn't be altered much by solar flares which seems to be an almost slamdunk argument against the solar flare part of the claim"
Is not necessarily true, given current understanding of solar physics.
Absolutely! Which is why more experiments need to be done.
I don't think the original article came across as definitive. They've noticed a potential something that's very *very* interesting. Skepticism is absolutely warranted, and more work needs to be done, but its interesting nonetheless.
According to TFA, neutrinos shouldn't be altered much by solar flares
And according to that *very same article*, the researchers responded, pointing out that some flares are caused by core events, and so may correlate with neutrino flux changes.
So, what, did you just stop reading half-way through?
States can ban the importation of anything they want to from other states (like fruit into California, etc) if they consider it dangerous
Sorry, that argument ain't gonna fly. If they're willing to throw their own garbage in a landfill, they can't argue that someone else's garbage is unsafe.
States can and do regulate commerce between entities with the state and entities outside the state all the time.
Clearly this power is not universal. Here's a good article that covers a wide variety of causes where state laws were struck down as unlawful based on the interstate commerce clause.
Incidentally, here's what appears to be the first case regarding garbage importation: PHILADELPHIA v. NEW JERSEY.
And to your first point, apparently the majority opinion agrees with me:
The New Jersey statute is not such a quarantine law. There has been no claim here that the very movement of waste into or through New Jersey endangers health, or that waste must be disposed of as soon and as close to its point of generation as possible. The harms caused by waste are said to arise after its disposal in landfill sites, and at that point, as New Jersey concedes, there is no basis to distinguish out-of-state waste from domestic waste. If one is inherently harmful, so is the other. Yet New Jersey has banned the former while leaving its landfill sites open to the latter.
Virginia businesses cannot buy alcohol from out of state; they must buy it from the state stores. How is that legal?
Ultimately, it comes down to, to quote the aforementioned case:
whether ch. 363 is basically a protectionist measure, or whether it can fairly be viewed as a law directed to legitimate local concerns, with effects upon interstate commerce that are only incidental.
Now, without reading the laws which control the sale of liquor, I can't speak to why those laws are upheld as legal. It may be that regulating the importation of alcohol, period, is held up as legal because there is a legitimate public safety concern. But I'm guessing at this point.
The real point is that, fundamentally, whether or not such statutes are legal varies on a case-by-case basis.
I mean you're blaming the federal government, and the laws of the land, for a problem the state created for itself by handing over waste management to private firms. It was their choice, and they get to live with it now.
Every college/university I know of can charge out-of-state students a lot more than in state - why is that legal?
Who said it was legal? Heck, it probably isn't. But unless a large, monied interest challenges the law (ie, the exact opposite of your average student), it'll stay on the books.
Again, hand over power to corporations, and this is the kinda shit you're gonna get. *shrug*
It's not that easy to say "Move along". Virginia has tried to stop/stem the inflow of out-of-state garbage but was forbidden to do so by the federal government. States no longer have any right to refuse refuse from being dumped into their state! I can't imagine that the founding fathers ever envisioned the Commerce Clause being used to force interstate commerce.
Way to spin it, jackass.
The problem is that these states have privatized their landfill business in the first place. They then, understandably, have no right to prevent those businesses from striking up deals with other states, as that would be an unlawful restraint of trade.
Frankly, if they don't like this, they should take back control of their landfills. As it stands, though, they've made their bed, and now they get to lie in it.
No, the *converse* is the problem. I release code that I've tested on a dev machine, and everything is copacetic. The code is deployed to live, then something breaks. That's a failure in managing the dev environment.
IOW, until dev always perfectly mirrors live, every now and again, I'm gonna need access to live (at minimum, to diagnose bugs that only seem to happen on the live system).
That said, as a developer, the idea of developers having routine access to live fills me with dread...
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As opposed to all the North American opera-goers who speak Italian? :)
Ahh, shifting the goalposts when you're wrong... truly the mark of a sophisticated mind.
Wow, you didn't even bother to read the rest of the fucking *sentence*, did you? Here, let's quote the whole thing:
Compiled applications are linked with the GCJ runtime, libgcj, which provides the core class libraries, a garbage collector, and a bytecode interpreter. libgcj can dynamically load and interpret class files, resulting in mixed compiled/interpreted applications.
So why do they include an "interpreter"? Because then your *compiled* Java application can dynamically load and call into traditional bytecode that wasn't compiled with gcj (eg, libraries in JARs, etc). But the application itself is very much a compiled, binary program, just like any other executable.
How the hell is the OP a troll? Or did some fucking idiot mod once again misread "troll" as "I don't like what you're saying!"?
School leavers handwriting skills are getting worse year on year based on what I have seen - in the past month I have met with 4 17 year olds who have handwriting that I would expect from a 10 year old, yet they can type quite well.
Err... so? Cursive is, let's face it, completely unnecessary. The days of written correspondence are over. People just don't hand write that much anymore... certainly not enough to make the speed and endurance advantages of cursive worth the effort.
Now, being able to print legibly, yes, that's a necessary skill, as everyone needs to be able to fill out a form or write a quick note to someone effectively. And certainly spelling and grammar skills are vital. But cursive? Sorry, no, it's pointless.
So yes, writing is a technology, and technology is not culture
No, but to claim technology and culture are not intertwined is deeply simplistic. One need only look at the affect of radio or television on western culture to see how changes in technology can have *drastic* effects on culture.
In this case, the abandonment of Kanji could lead to further cultural division within China (as local dialects continue to diverge, and individuals from different regions are no longer able to communicate with a common script), and *that* strikes me as a potentially massive change for China as a nation.
So, each USB iteration offers the smallest possible increments in speed?
No, it's a jump from one level to the next. You know, kinda like a real quantum leap.
Ruh roh. Has your pedantic little brain exploded yet?
Both are bodily functions that involve the excretion of fluids.
Yeah, so's spitting, but any idiot knows that comparing spitting to shitting in public is, well, idiotic.
Or, to put it another way: If there's anything shitty around here, it's your penchant for false equivalences.
Watch your CPU when comparing USB and eSATA/Firewire.
I can only assume neither you nor the idiot mod who gave you a +1 Interesting actually RTFA. USB 3.0 does away with polling, which means CPU usage should be substantially lower.
Yeah, but, like... cock... and balls. Teehee. Hurr hurr. Now let's go to a monster truck rally!
But if I put on a kid's TV show, and there's nudity or violence on the commercials between the show, how I am supposed to block that?
If that suddenly becomes a problem in your mythical universe, I can think of a couple options:
1) Streaming content.
2) DVDs/Netflix/etc.
3) Do something else.
I know. Wild.
Why can't you take a shit in public? Some necessary bodily functions are best performed behind closed doors
So, just to be clear here, you're comparing breast feeding... to shitting in public.
Nice.
No, it's biogeneration.
No, it's solar energy. What part of *photo*synthesis don't you understand?
Not sure where you got that idea. Hydrogen burns very well if you can control the feed line.
Yeah. That's, like, totally the same as a container truck exploding...
That is true today. However various universities are researching the generation of hydrogen using biological processes, organism + water + sunlight --> H.
No, that's solar energy.
no. The scientist proposing neutrino's are causing this is ALSO proposing this
No.
The scientists said, and I quote:
"Jenkins and Fischbach write that we know some flares are tied to events deep inside the sun. "
Assuming they aren't lying, then it's already well-understood that some flares are caused by events deep in the sun. They then conclude that it may be possible that solar flares can affect neutron flux in some cases.
So your original statement:
"According to TFA, neutrinos shouldn't be altered much by solar flares which seems to be an almost slamdunk argument against the solar flare part of the claim"
Is not necessarily true, given current understanding of solar physics.
Absolutely! Which is why more experiments need to be done.
I don't think the original article came across as definitive. They've noticed a potential something that's very *very* interesting. Skepticism is absolutely warranted, and more work needs to be done, but its interesting nonetheless.
According to TFA, neutrinos shouldn't be altered much by solar flares
And according to that *very same article*, the researchers responded, pointing out that some flares are caused by core events, and so may correlate with neutrino flux changes.
So, what, did you just stop reading half-way through?
States can ban the importation of anything they want to from other states (like fruit into California, etc) if they consider it dangerous
Sorry, that argument ain't gonna fly. If they're willing to throw their own garbage in a landfill, they can't argue that someone else's garbage is unsafe.
States can and do regulate commerce between entities with the state and entities outside the state all the time.
Clearly this power is not universal. Here's a good article that covers a wide variety of causes where state laws were struck down as unlawful based on the interstate commerce clause.
Incidentally, here's what appears to be the first case regarding garbage importation: PHILADELPHIA v. NEW JERSEY.
And to your first point, apparently the majority opinion agrees with me:
Virginia businesses cannot buy alcohol from out of state; they must buy it from the state stores. How is that legal?
Ultimately, it comes down to, to quote the aforementioned case:
Now, without reading the laws which control the sale of liquor, I can't speak to why those laws are upheld as legal. It may be that regulating the importation of alcohol, period, is held up as legal because there is a legitimate public safety concern. But I'm guessing at this point.
The real point is that, fundamentally, whether or not such statutes are legal varies on a case-by-case basis.
What do you mean "spin it"?
I mean you're blaming the federal government, and the laws of the land, for a problem the state created for itself by handing over waste management to private firms. It was their choice, and they get to live with it now.
Every college/university I know of can charge out-of-state students a lot more than in state - why is that legal?
Who said it was legal? Heck, it probably isn't. But unless a large, monied interest challenges the law (ie, the exact opposite of your average student), it'll stay on the books.
Again, hand over power to corporations, and this is the kinda shit you're gonna get. *shrug*
It's not that easy to say "Move along". Virginia has tried to stop/stem the inflow of out-of-state garbage but was forbidden to do so by the federal government. States no longer have any right to refuse refuse from being dumped into their state! I can't imagine that the founding fathers ever envisioned the Commerce Clause being used to force interstate commerce.
Way to spin it, jackass.
The problem is that these states have privatized their landfill business in the first place. They then, understandably, have no right to prevent those businesses from striking up deals with other states, as that would be an unlawful restraint of trade.
Frankly, if they don't like this, they should take back control of their landfills. As it stands, though, they've made their bed, and now they get to lie in it.
If people had garbage disposals...
Wait, 'cuz its better to grind up our garbage and dump it into our graywater, instead of a land fill?
Well, we could always go the Futurama route, and just launch a gigantic garbage ball into space, and forget about it for a thousand years or so...
High school shop isn't what you're looking for. By necessity the school has got to gear to the slowest.
Yes, because no one has ever thought of, say, streamed programs, after-class clubs, etc...
No, the *converse* is the problem. I release code that I've tested on a dev machine, and everything is copacetic. The code is deployed to live, then something breaks. That's a failure in managing the dev environment.
IOW, until dev always perfectly mirrors live, every now and again, I'm gonna need access to live (at minimum, to diagnose bugs that only seem to happen on the live system).
That said, as a developer, the idea of developers having routine access to live fills me with dread...