He and you are talking about two different types of distracted.
He is talking about how he can split his brains processing into two levels, one high level and one low level. You are talking about someone that is whole brain occupied on one task at a time and switching between them.
I'm convinced that there are times when the upper level conscience can actually go to sleep, and the lower level will continue doing its thing. I've driven for periods of 15 minutes or more, including freeway exits, stoplights, etc, then finally hit a stopsign and wake up. (I wake up because the stopsign can't be automatically handled by the lower level.) During the automatic period I'm either thinking deeply about some other subject, or zoned out. A friend of mine said he drove mostly through an entire state with no memory of it. Another friend said one time he was so tired that his lower level couldn't wake up his upper level.
Someone that has successfully running the low level control behaves externally just like someone that is driving fully engaged. They will have eyes on the road/mirrors all the time. I'd MUCH rather have people like that (described in gp) than what you've described (eyes on passenger, talking on cell phone, etc). People that are distracted will indeed weave, people that are zoned out won't.
The problem is that it takes a second to wake up from being zoned out.
So sorry, Javascript is the right tool for the job. It's the only tool for the job as far as Open Standards are concerned. Sorry with NoScript on HTML and CSS are the only tools for the job.
Those motorcycle-airplane mixes don't look so bad. You get the really beefy but light suspension and high horsepower to weight ratio of a motor cycle to use as the landing gear. Bonus points when you use the motorcycle engine to help with the takeoff.
Ya know I saw Billy Blaze down there the other day hangin out with the old Duke. He is gettin on to be middle aged, but still has some spunk left in him. He was complaining about a lot of back pain, I guess that pogo stick must have done a number on him. Anyways he was telling me all about how much better his new doctor, Dr Fluke Hawkins, is than that old fossil Proton.
Not so ridiculous. My optical mouse has these little fuzzy hairs that cause jitter, and I can't seem to find anything the right size to get em out with.
When they tried to force a product down the consumers throat that there was no perceived need for, which could be replaced by products that were not IP locked.
And I can build a road with just 1 shovel! Who needs a steenking bulldozer?
That you can say that and be proud of it should cause your geek card to spontaneously catch on fire. I was an embedded systems engineer, and I tended to use a different development environment for each project; so I know nasty bug-ridden incomplete environments. That you can stick with an ugly environment like that is mind-boggling.
I don't see any difference between not allowing an undesirable culture in and deporting an undesirable culture, ergo the export list. If you wanted to keep out undesirable culture you should be thorough and have a list of undesirable cultures you want deported. I'm sure there are a lot of cultures here you don't want. Say Trailer Trash or high crime rate neighborhoods?
America is a "melting pot". We do not indoctrinate (force our worldview on immigrants), we meld or combine. It ends up being the average of theirs and ours.
How do you measure the success of a culture? If you measure it just by wealth I would say that is big part of what is wrong with this country.
To discriminate against a culture that is not breaking the law is similar to racism. Having an import queue, and even worse having it be because you don't "like" their culture, is saying that they are somehow "less human" than you are. In this case it's culture based; with racism it's color based.
What happened to "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free"?
I abhor the Iron Curtain we are building. I live in San Diego, and I'm powerless to stop this insanity. Slashdot, in all its libertarian slant should be the very last place I see this kind of bigoted tripe.
How about this: Let's have a quota of people that need to be exported. That way when anyone comes in you ship a person on the export list out. If you think about it this way you can see what the issue is. Somehow you think that by living here you are somehow more deserving to live here than an immigrant.
ALL PERSONS WERE CREATED EQUAL.
Most people here seem to have forgotten that.
Bye-Bye Karma: Sometimes you gotta stand up for what you believe in.
You wouldn't expect the astronauts would have an overriding degree of control over their flight plan. I'm really glad you're not in charge of designing equipment controls. If that were the case why bother with cockpit flight controls or for that matter humans. Humans are awesome at compensating for damage. Nearly every system in our bodies handles degradation of some form another, and compensates for it. That extends all the way to our behavior too.
What's to keep your current insurance company from raising your rates if you get GT based insurance?
What's to keep your next insurance company from doing the same?
My point is that it doesn't matter if they aren't allowed or not, they can just choose give 2 types of coverage: Non-GT and GT. They can assume that you have GTable disease if you ever buy GT insurance. They make the Non-GT coverage really cheap and to not cover any diseases which you could have tested for.
The bottom line is that it is a free market, and any company that find a way to incorporate knowledge of the genetic testing in their pricing structure will be ahead of companies that don't. This pretty much guarantees that the GT information will be used in some form or another, and they don't need the information directly. The above scenario shows one way of them getting the information without asking for it.
I haven't used Boost, and my post was arguing for a solution like that implemented into the language. I did notice that it was proposed as an addition to the standard library, which sounds like a good idea.
How bullet-proof is it (for below I'm assuming no casting):
Does the compiler flag copying a non-copyable pointer (scoped_ptr) as an error? Can you delete a shared pointer without affecting the reference count? Does it catch at compile time de-referencing a pointer that has been deleted? (Compare to scoping rules for variables - Attempting to access a pointer after it has been deleted should be handled the same way that accessing a variable that is out of scope is handled)
Memory management needs to be addressed as part of the language, not as a library call. That this has not been effectively addressed I lay directly at your feet. Don't give me that garbage about memory management being a job for the programmer. If that were the case then why did you even bother with explicit typing? Expecting us to keep the track of where to release memory is just as bad as expecting us to remember the type of every variable in the system. And then you went and added exceptions.
IMO garbage collection is an ugly solution to a general problem that wasn't solved by the compiler. It ruins real-time performance and still doesn't solve the other half of the memory allocation problem: not releasing memory.
Oh and that half-assed new/delete junk you gave us just a friendly wrapper, it doesn't go anywhere near solving the problem.
How would the virtual machine run if he reboots the machine? Are you saying the BIOS has been hijacked? I would think the time delay it would take to load the virtual machine would be noticeable. Do you have a link to such an animal?
After level 100 they're going to sample your characters DNA and ship it off to this new planet called Rubi-Ka. It will begin life there as a level 1 froob and progress through the ranks to a mighty level 200 (220 if paying the pusher).
I did a mask rom project once. That was scary business. It was a voice activated clock, and after it was released they found a bug in it that made it off at the end of every day. However, there was a non-mask rom chip in the game, and we happened to have a communications protocol from it to my LCD that allowed reads and writes to anywhere in ram. My co-worker that was writing the voice chip (mine was the LCD microcontroller) wrote up a little patch that checked for the bug and patched it up when it occurred. Felt so relieved that they wouldn't be throwing out 50,000 chips because I goofed.
Dude, what do you think is the reason for the Space Elevator? Launching stuff into space? Pfft.
They're secretly going to siphon all the energy off of the earths magnetosphere. They're going to use that electricity to power up the SDI (you don't think they stopped building it did you?). That way if they see any demonstrators in Washington DC they can just Zap them with Masers. (For those who have forgotten what a MASER is, it was invented before the LASER and it does Microwaves.) The other problem is that the Magnetosphere is the only thing keeping the weaker ALIEN mind control rays from forcing us to lose all of our precious bodily fluids. Why do you think astronauts come back all weak & stuff when they've been in space? They get spontaneously weaker? You believed that? No, its because their fluids got DRAINED man!
His analogy of credit card fraud to piracy just hogwash. Credit card fraud typically doesn't occur by ISP's snooping on internet traffic because that is just too dangerous to the ISP's business and reputation. It's just easier to crack open someones database to harvest the numbers.
His analogy works far better when talking about Net Neutrality. You could say that ISPs are charging tribute based on packet type. The closest you could get is if a foreign country started blocking traffic to Amazon, or if say a British ISP started removing/substituting ads from American websites.
Article summary: Its like if you were driving your car filled with Natalie Portman dolls filled with hot grits across the Atlantic at 5 furlongs per fortnight and the RIAA stopped you and robbed all the dolls. Except on the net where its LOCs of data per fortnight, not dolls. What he's saying is that we should call out the US Army to kill all the RIAA lawyers, but of course that should be illegal but they changed the law recently because of the Katrina reaction so now it isn't.
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He and you are talking about two different types of distracted.
He is talking about how he can split his brains processing into two levels, one high level and one low level.
You are talking about someone that is whole brain occupied on one task at a time and switching between them.
I'm convinced that there are times when the upper level conscience can actually go to sleep, and the lower level will continue doing its thing. I've driven for periods of 15 minutes or more, including freeway exits, stoplights, etc, then finally hit a stopsign and wake up. (I wake up because the stopsign can't be automatically handled by the lower level.) During the automatic period I'm either thinking deeply about some other subject, or zoned out. A friend of mine said he drove mostly through an entire state with no memory of it. Another friend said one time he was so tired that his lower level couldn't wake up his upper level.
Someone that has successfully running the low level control behaves externally just like someone that is driving fully engaged. They will have eyes on the road/mirrors all the time. I'd MUCH rather have people like that (described in gp) than what you've described (eyes on passenger, talking on cell phone, etc). People that are distracted will indeed weave, people that are zoned out won't.
The problem is that it takes a second to wake up from being zoned out.
Yes but will it run without turning off NoScript?
... a couple of nukes and a boring machine they just *happened* to have lying around.
Those motorcycle-airplane mixes don't look so bad.
You get the really beefy but light suspension and high horsepower to weight ratio of a motor cycle to use as the landing gear.
Bonus points when you use the motorcycle engine to help with the takeoff.
Now if they will just get a decent GUI and searching it will wipe the floor with Bittorrent.
Ya know I saw Billy Blaze down there the other day hangin out with the old Duke. He is gettin on to be middle aged, but still has some spunk left in him. He was complaining about a lot of back pain, I guess that pogo stick must have done a number on him. Anyways he was telling me all about how much better his new doctor, Dr Fluke Hawkins, is than that old fossil Proton.
Not so ridiculous.
My optical mouse has these little fuzzy hairs that cause jitter, and I can't seem to find anything the right size to get em out with.
Same as when IBM jumped the shark...
When they tried to force a product down the consumers throat that there was no perceived need for, which could be replaced by products that were not IP locked.
For you younguns IBM's was called Microchannel.
And I can build a road with just 1 shovel!
Who needs a steenking bulldozer?
That you can say that and be proud of it should cause your geek card to spontaneously catch on fire. I was an embedded systems engineer, and I tended to use a different development environment for each project; so I know nasty bug-ridden incomplete environments. That you can stick with an ugly environment like that is mind-boggling.
2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Heck for a suit like that I'd wear one (for a while).
I don't see any difference between not allowing an undesirable culture in and deporting an undesirable culture, ergo the export list. If you wanted to keep out undesirable culture you should be thorough and have a list of undesirable cultures you want deported. I'm sure there are a lot of cultures here you don't want. Say Trailer Trash or high crime rate neighborhoods?
America is a "melting pot". We do not indoctrinate (force our worldview on immigrants), we meld or combine. It ends up being the average of theirs and ours.
How do you measure the success of a culture? If you measure it just by wealth I would say that is big part of what is wrong with this country.
To discriminate against a culture that is not breaking the law is similar to racism. Having an import queue, and even worse having it be because you don't "like" their culture, is saying that they are somehow "less human" than you are. In this case it's culture based; with racism it's color based.
Let's just call it Boink.
What happened to "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free"?
I abhor the Iron Curtain we are building. I live in San Diego, and I'm powerless to stop this insanity. Slashdot, in all its libertarian slant should be the very last place I see this kind of bigoted tripe.
How about this: Let's have a quota of people that need to be exported. That way when anyone comes in you ship a person on the export list out. If you think about it this way you can see what the issue is. Somehow you think that by living here you are somehow more deserving to live here than an immigrant.
ALL PERSONS WERE CREATED EQUAL.
Most people here seem to have forgotten that.
Bye-Bye Karma: Sometimes you gotta stand up for what you believe in.
This video sums it up:
http://www.videosift.com/video/One-winged-F-15-flying-and-landing-after-midair-collision
It seems like you want to remove the capability of some of the most well trained individuals on the planet control over their own fate.
What's to keep your current insurance company from raising your rates if you get GT based insurance?
What's to keep your next insurance company from doing the same?
My point is that it doesn't matter if they aren't allowed or not, they can just choose give 2 types of coverage: Non-GT and GT. They can assume that you have GTable disease if you ever buy GT insurance.
They make the Non-GT coverage really cheap and to not cover any diseases which you could have tested for.
The bottom line is that it is a free market, and any company that find a way to incorporate knowledge of the genetic testing in their pricing structure will be ahead of companies that don't. This pretty much guarantees that the GT information will be used in some form or another, and they don't need the information directly. The above scenario shows one way of them getting the information without asking for it.
I haven't used Boost, and my post was arguing for a solution like that implemented into the language. I did notice that it was proposed as an addition to the standard library, which sounds like a good idea.
How bullet-proof is it (for below I'm assuming no casting):
Does the compiler flag copying a non-copyable pointer (scoped_ptr) as an error?
Can you delete a shared pointer without affecting the reference count?
Does it catch at compile time de-referencing a pointer that has been deleted? (Compare to scoping rules for variables - Attempting to access a pointer after it has been deleted should be handled the same way that accessing a variable that is out of scope is handled)
Bjarne! Get off your ass!
Memory management needs to be addressed as part of the language, not as a library call. That this has not been effectively addressed I lay directly at your feet. Don't give me that garbage about memory management being a job for the programmer. If that were the case then why did you even bother with explicit typing? Expecting us to keep the track of where to release memory is just as bad as expecting us to remember the type of every variable in the system. And then you went and added exceptions.
IMO garbage collection is an ugly solution to a general problem that wasn't solved by the compiler. It ruins real-time performance and still doesn't solve the other half of the memory allocation problem: not releasing memory.
Oh and that half-assed new/delete junk you gave us just a friendly wrapper, it doesn't go anywhere near solving the problem.
We build castles on quicksand every single day we use the Internet.
How would the virtual machine run if he reboots the machine?
Are you saying the BIOS has been hijacked? I would think the time delay it would take to load the virtual machine would be noticeable. Do you have a link to such an animal?
Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAgrrwL_mk
After level 100 they're going to sample your characters DNA and ship it off to this new planet called Rubi-Ka.
It will begin life there as a level 1 froob and progress through the ranks to a mighty level 200 (220 if paying the pusher).
I did a mask rom project once. That was scary business.
It was a voice activated clock, and after it was released they found a bug in it that made it off at the end of every day. However, there was a non-mask rom chip in the game, and we happened to have a communications protocol from it to my LCD that allowed reads and writes to anywhere in ram. My co-worker that was writing the voice chip (mine was the LCD microcontroller) wrote up a little patch that checked for the bug and patched it up when it occurred.
Felt so relieved that they wouldn't be throwing out 50,000 chips because I goofed.
Dude, what do you think is the reason for the Space Elevator? Launching stuff into space? Pfft.
They're secretly going to siphon all the energy off of the earths magnetosphere. They're going to use that electricity to power up the SDI (you don't think they stopped building it did you?). That way if they see any demonstrators in Washington DC they can just Zap them with Masers. (For those who have forgotten what a MASER is, it was invented before the LASER and it does Microwaves.) The other problem is that the Magnetosphere is the only thing keeping the weaker ALIEN mind control rays from forcing us to lose all of our precious bodily fluids. Why do you think astronauts come back all weak & stuff when they've been in space? They get spontaneously weaker? You believed that? No, its because their fluids got DRAINED man!
Keep yer tinfoil hat on!
His analogy of credit card fraud to piracy just hogwash. Credit card fraud typically doesn't occur by ISP's snooping on internet traffic because that is just too dangerous to the ISP's business and reputation. It's just easier to crack open someones database to harvest the numbers.
His analogy works far better when talking about Net Neutrality. You could say that ISPs are charging tribute based on packet type. The closest you could get is if a foreign country started blocking traffic to Amazon, or if say a British ISP started removing/substituting ads from American websites.
Article summary:
Its like if you were driving your car filled with Natalie Portman dolls filled with hot grits across the Atlantic at 5 furlongs per fortnight and the RIAA stopped you and robbed all the dolls. Except on the net where its LOCs of data per fortnight, not dolls. What he's saying is that we should call out the US Army to kill all the RIAA lawyers, but of course that should be illegal but they changed the law recently because of the Katrina reaction so now it isn't.