The article is misrepresenting scientific theories. They aren't something to be believed in or denied. They are just a tool to help us predict other things about the limited system they make a statement on. If we find contradictory observations we modify the theory, or explain how those observations fit into the theory.
It doesn't really matter if Joe Shmoe on the street thinks that green fairys made the universe 10 minutes ago and implanted all the memories we have. If it serves him in making predictions on the nature of the universe, good for him. You can't prove him wrong, it's useless to try.
The big bang isn't even a theory of the origin of the universe. It's a theory about how things happened after the universe originated. It doesn't say anything about how or why the universe may have formed. I guess the person that wrote the article would fail a science literacy test too.
This media strawman science is really damaging to real science.
Unless you think there's an infinite supply of oil, we are running out. It's just a matter of time. A better question might be to ask what they think the timeframe would be.
Correct, it's 20hz at 90 or so volts AC for ring. 20hz because the old bell clappers couldn't move at 60hz, they were directly powered from the ring signal.
It's more of the fuzzing of the lines of trademark law. Red Hat is guilty of the same crime.
Used to be, trademark only applied if you attempted to use the name in trade. Hence the name trade-mark. Companies have taken it a step further though, asserting copyright like powers through trademark law.
We were going to write that sort of abstraction for our web app that's PHP, but we do too much to the data outside of the database.
Part of that is due to still sucking data from a legacy app with unchangable table formats. A legacy "schema" of a sort like you said.
Implementing a pager for paged output has been a real thorn in our side. I recently implemented a "download as CSV" output abstraction, and it works great for pages that just call our "putrow" (to screen) function a lot, since I just made a new level of abstraction for that.
But on paged output, it just downloads what you see on each page as a CSV file, since it's just redirecting the putrows to a statically declared array which gets puked at the end of page load.
Maybe we need "rent a code reviewer"... Writing code is relatively easy. Finding someone competent that is motivated to really give a good code review is harder.
We have that problem at our company, because we are a small manufacturing company with only a two coders, myself and one very part time, as he is a college student working just a few hours a week during the semester. I review his code but he doesn't really have time to review mine. I've found that unless someone else reviews code, it generally is crappy, no matter how good an idea it seemed at the time. Very few people can write great code by themselves with no review.
That's completely different, and you know it. This is software specifically created for the purpose of infringing copyright. The issue isn't whether the software is being used to infringe copyright, it's the purpose of said software, which is a horse of a different color.
Maybe you don't support things like DeCSS, maybe you do. But your argument is a dangerous one for those of us who support the availability of software that could be used for things that some people disagree with.
I don't know, I never have seriously tried Java.:)
The idea of a language limiting me to doing things they expected you to want to do, and other things being very difficult doesn't sound good though.
One VB example that comes to mind, maybe VB3 (it's been years since I developed on windows), was implementing "Always on top". Most things you tick the little box for the options you want for that window, but if you wanted to do always on top, you had to make a Windows API call that was a single line of code about 400 characters long.
If you create your application and database in a certain way then everything is very simple and easy to do. If you stray outside that way though, then suddenly you have to do so much more work.
I think they need your SSN to send you a IRS 1099 if you are in the US.
All payments are through them, not directly from the person hiring you. I've not had good experience with the coders on there, I tried to hire some of them once. They all put in lowball bids, then when they realized the project was nontrivial, as I originally said, they all just stopped responding to emails.
Yeah hehe, the prices did drop a good amount from 80 to 85. I can't seem to find a site with a good price list from 1979-80 or so, but I really don't think it would be hard to hit $10k with a PC back then.
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Thankfully, the courts have ruled the FCC has no juristiction over the Internet, as it is not broadcast.
You meant the FTC. Big difference.
Bullshit. Put an unpatched linux box on the net for a while. You'll see.
Why does it have to show evolution to be false? I can easily imagine a sort of intelligent design that can co-exist with evolution.
The article is misrepresenting scientific theories. They aren't something to be believed in or denied. They are just a tool to help us predict other things about the limited system they make a statement on. If we find contradictory observations we modify the theory, or explain how those observations fit into the theory.
It doesn't really matter if Joe Shmoe on the street thinks that green fairys made the universe 10 minutes ago and implanted all the memories we have. If it serves him in making predictions on the nature of the universe, good for him. You can't prove him wrong, it's useless to try.
The big bang isn't even a theory of the origin of the universe. It's a theory about how things happened after the universe originated. It doesn't say anything about how or why the universe may have formed. I guess the person that wrote the article would fail a science literacy test too.
This media strawman science is really damaging to real science.
Unless you think there's an infinite supply of oil, we are running out. It's just a matter of time. A better question might be to ask what they think the timeframe would be.
Correct, it's 20hz at 90 or so volts AC for ring. 20hz because the old bell clappers couldn't move at 60hz, they were directly powered from the ring signal.
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I think you forgot to hit the "Post as JonKatz" checkbox before you submitted this one.
It's more of the fuzzing of the lines of trademark law. Red Hat is guilty of the same crime.
Used to be, trademark only applied if you attempted to use the name in trade. Hence the name trade-mark. Companies have taken it a step further though, asserting copyright like powers through trademark law.
people then announce those blocks via BGP the next day.
What people? The owners?
We were going to write that sort of abstraction for our web app that's PHP, but we do too much to the data outside of the database.
Part of that is due to still sucking data from a legacy app with unchangable table formats. A legacy "schema" of a sort like you said.
Implementing a pager for paged output has been a real thorn in our side. I recently implemented a "download as CSV" output abstraction, and it works great for pages that just call our "putrow" (to screen) function a lot, since I just made a new level of abstraction for that.
But on paged output, it just downloads what you see on each page as a CSV file, since it's just redirecting the putrows to a statically declared array which gets puked at the end of page load.
How would you do this, for example, in Rails?
Maybe we need "rent a code reviewer"... Writing code is relatively easy. Finding someone competent that is motivated to really give a good code review is harder.
We have that problem at our company, because we are a small manufacturing company with only a two coders, myself and one very part time, as he is a college student working just a few hours a week during the semester. I review his code but he doesn't really have time to review mine. I've found that unless someone else reviews code, it generally is crappy, no matter how good an idea it seemed at the time. Very few people can write great code by themselves with no review.
Yes, I agree VB encourages poor design, it encourages you to put logic into event handlers.
I can't be anti-ROR, I don't know enough about it yet. The main thing I'm trying to cut through is the fuzzy talk that it seems to generate.
What's "CRUD" BTW?
Businesses have a legitimate right to block their employees from accessing whatever the employer wants to block them from accessing.
It may be a stupid business decision, but it's within their rights, legally and ethically.
I like your form letter, but what is a Federast?
Or maybe that's just what they are telling you, while other areas are just scams to funnel tax money to businesses.
You probably work on something worthwhile, for example.
Does your ISP censor your spam?
That's completely different, and you know it. This is software specifically created for the purpose of infringing copyright. The issue isn't whether the software is being used to infringe copyright, it's the purpose of said software, which is a horse of a different color.
Maybe you don't support things like DeCSS, maybe you do. But your argument is a dangerous one for those of us who support the availability of software that could be used for things that some people disagree with.
I don't know, I never have seriously tried Java. :)
The idea of a language limiting me to doing things they expected you to want to do, and other things being very difficult doesn't sound good though.
One VB example that comes to mind, maybe VB3 (it's been years since I developed on windows), was implementing "Always on top". Most things you tick the little box for the options you want for that window, but if you wanted to do always on top, you had to make a Windows API call that was a single line of code about 400 characters long.
You missed his point, either deliberately or not.
His point was Ebay is the auctioneer, not the consignment store. Ebay conducts the auction, not the person accepting items for consignment sale.
If you create your application and database in a certain way then everything is very simple and easy to do. If you stray outside that way though, then suddenly you have to do so much more work.
Sounds like VB. No thanks.
What website? I can't find any.
Guess we should shame Linus for creating software that lots of oppressive regimes use.
I think they need your SSN to send you a IRS 1099 if you are in the US.
All payments are through them, not directly from the person hiring you. I've not had good experience with the coders on there, I tried to hire some of them once. They all put in lowball bids, then when they realized the project was nontrivial, as I originally said, they all just stopped responding to emails.
Yeah hehe, the prices did drop a good amount from 80 to 85. I can't seem to find a site with a good price list from 1979-80 or so, but I really don't think it would be hard to hit $10k with a PC back then.