You know, I did not think much about it at the time, but this is the exact argument that Christans make. Revelation is nigh! No need to worry about global warming, pollution, and famine...we will all be raptured soon!
Was DNA making that joke, or am I reading too much into it?
I can't recall the study, but it showed that a significant number of Christians thought they were living in the end times for the past 2000 years.
Well NASA is paying for the things, there is already a contract in place. I suppose nothing is stopping the ESA from buying SpaceX missions.
But I expect that any Europeans that fly to the ISS on Dragon would be doing so as a part of a NASA mission launched from Cape Canaveral. Just like everyone currently flying to the ISS on Soyuz is doing so as a part of a Roscosmos launch.
I highly doubt that the ESA would purchase Falcon/Dragon to fly from their own facility. This is the entire reason why IXV is a thing. Hopefully eventually there will be an ESA manned mission, and I think this is a great thing for everyone.
The Dell server is actually running a Sybase product, which is 98% slower than the SPARC benchmark. It is the newest entry on the list.
If you want an inexpensive database, you might look at Oracle XE, which is free. However, it has some rather tight constraints and limitations, and it only runs on x86.
"Free". Unless you have plans to upgrade to full blown Oracle at some point in the future, I see no reason why you shouldn't be using Postgres instead.
In a couple of years NASA will have access to 2 operational manned vehicles. I don't think any other space agency in history has had two different manned launch vehicles operational at once.
I think this is a good thing. I want a game to be reviewed against other game's in its genre. Is a shooter that gets 9/10 better than a sports game that gets 8/10? Depends on if you like shooters or sports games.
I realize that nobody has the attention span to read full reviews anymore, and media wants everything boiled down to a simple number they can display at the top of the article, but for games a game could rate very highly... and I would think it was terrible.
A more useful abbrviated scoring system would be: "You would like this game, if you like this sort of game." "This game is a poor example of its type." "This game is unique, try it if you like X." "This game sucked."
Actually I jest, I completely agree that rating scores for pretty much anything are useless. A number expressed as a percentage out of 10 or 5 is simply not enough to tell you if a product is good anymore than a statement of "Do/Don't buy this product." In this case is why most of the five star rating systems are either 1 star (don't buy) or 4 (do buy), nobody gets a 5.
I think diversity is great. But ethnic diversity does not equal skill diversity no matter how much you say it does.
Please note that I have no said anything about race or gender. Those do not matter to me, only skills do.
But maybe caring about having the most skilled employees makes me sexist? Maybe you are the sexist one for saying that women cannot have some skill men have, and men cannot have some skill that women have.
That different genders tend towards different jobs is inconsequential here. If I have a particular job that needs to be done, maybe that means I will end up with an all female or all male team. But it is because those are the people that applied for the job. More often than not, its a bunch of one gender and a few of the other. But not because I was going out of my way to have a diverse team.
Wow. What was going on in the 1920's and '30's? And HSBC (and all the big banks, really) is still committing major crimes as a bank in 2015.
Black Friday happened, then the Great Depression. Then banking regulation became a thing. If you work for a bank in the United States you really really should know about this stuff. I feel that people not knowing this is what caused the 2008 crash.
You are describing diverse in skills, which has obvious benefits. The OP is talking about diversity in gender and race, who's benefit is unrelated to the job at hand.
The problem is the entire concept of "Social Justice". It is subjective. For them, since my great-grandfather oppressed their great-grandmother or something like that, it means that by them getting revenge on me is somehow "Justice". For them, I am oppressing them by simply existing, even if I never talk to a feminist, since I am male and white.
The Social Justice Warriors are going out and oppressing anyone they can manage to get their hands on, all in the name of Justice. Even people they are supposedly trying to protect are attacked when they do not agree 100% with the warriors.
Did he give a reason why he thought that studies everywhere are applicable to the United States? Of course not, he found a result that supported his assumption, and stopped doing research.
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You know, I did not think much about it at the time, but this is the exact argument that Christans make. Revelation is nigh! No need to worry about global warming, pollution, and famine.. .we will all be raptured soon!
Was DNA making that joke, or am I reading too much into it?
I can't recall the study, but it showed that a significant number of Christians thought they were living in the end times for the past 2000 years.
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Because without these, your dick is invisible?
I am disappointed that these are not contact lenses for my telescope.
Though I suppose putting a barlow lens on would qualify as this.
Well NASA is paying for the things, there is already a contract in place. I suppose nothing is stopping the ESA from buying SpaceX missions.
But I expect that any Europeans that fly to the ISS on Dragon would be doing so as a part of a NASA mission launched from Cape Canaveral. Just like everyone currently flying to the ISS on Soyuz is doing so as a part of a Roscosmos launch.
I highly doubt that the ESA would purchase Falcon/Dragon to fly from their own facility. This is the entire reason why IXV is a thing. Hopefully eventually there will be an ESA manned mission, and I think this is a great thing for everyone.
I don't care about PL/SQL or deep Oracle compatibility. As I said, if you plan on upgrading to full Oracle later, go for the "free" Oracle product.
The Dell server is actually running a Sybase product, which is 98% slower than the SPARC benchmark. It is the newest entry on the list.
If you want an inexpensive database, you might look at Oracle XE, which is free. However, it has some rather tight constraints and limitations, and it only runs on x86.
"Free". Unless you have plans to upgrade to full blown Oracle at some point in the future, I see no reason why you shouldn't be using Postgres instead.
If you are going to go to that trouble, why not just attach a skimmer to the credit card reader?
Somebody did not play Kerbal Space program.
In a couple of years NASA will have access to 2 operational manned vehicles. I don't think any other space agency in history has had two different manned launch vehicles operational at once.
I think this is a good thing. I want a game to be reviewed against other game's in its genre. Is a shooter that gets 9/10 better than a sports game that gets 8/10? Depends on if you like shooters or sports games.
Scores are like anuses. Everyone's got one, but I don't want to see or hear yours.
So to carry this to the logical conclusion, we need some sort of rating system for game reviewers. :)
I like it. I suppose it is kind of what the "curators" thing in Steam tries to do, or various Youtube channels.
Here is a person who's opinion I trust, I will go with their recommendation.
I realize that nobody has the attention span to read full reviews anymore, and media wants everything boiled down to a simple number they can display at the top of the article, but for games a game could rate very highly... and I would think it was terrible.
A more useful abbrviated scoring system would be:
"You would like this game, if you like this sort of game."
"This game is a poor example of its type."
"This game is unique, try it if you like X."
"This game sucked."
But I suppose that would require reading.
Actually I jest, I completely agree that rating scores for pretty much anything are useless. A number expressed as a percentage out of 10 or 5 is simply not enough to tell you if a product is good anymore than a statement of "Do/Don't buy this product." In this case is why most of the five star rating systems are either 1 star (don't buy) or 4 (do buy), nobody gets a 5.
I think diversity is great. But ethnic diversity does not equal skill diversity no matter how much you say it does.
Please note that I have no said anything about race or gender. Those do not matter to me, only skills do.
But maybe caring about having the most skilled employees makes me sexist? Maybe you are the sexist one for saying that women cannot have some skill men have, and men cannot have some skill that women have.
That different genders tend towards different jobs is inconsequential here. If I have a particular job that needs to be done, maybe that means I will end up with an all female or all male team. But it is because those are the people that applied for the job. More often than not, its a bunch of one gender and a few of the other. But not because I was going out of my way to have a diverse team.
Will anybody prosecuted?
Yes, you, for crimes against grammar.
Wow. What was going on in the 1920's and '30's? And HSBC (and all the big banks, really) is still committing major crimes as a bank in 2015.
Black Friday happened, then the Great Depression. Then banking regulation became a thing. If you work for a bank in the United States you really really should know about this stuff. I feel that people not knowing this is what caused the 2008 crash.
You are describing diverse in skills, which has obvious benefits. The OP is talking about diversity in gender and race, who's benefit is unrelated to the job at hand.
According to feminists, girls are not smart enough to make choices for themselves.
Not only that, but as buzzfeed and gawker and fox news have found, hate generates more clicks than anything else.
The problem is the entire concept of "Social Justice". It is subjective. For them, since my great-grandfather oppressed their great-grandmother or something like that, it means that by them getting revenge on me is somehow "Justice". For them, I am oppressing them by simply existing, even if I never talk to a feminist, since I am male and white.
The Social Justice Warriors are going out and oppressing anyone they can manage to get their hands on, all in the name of Justice. Even people they are supposedly trying to protect are attacked when they do not agree 100% with the warriors.
Did he give a reason why he thought that studies everywhere are applicable to the United States? Of course not, he found a result that supported his assumption, and stopped doing research.
This isn't about equal opportunities, this is about equal outcomes.
I want to know how John Travolta took a 707 into orbit. Presumably this is a Scientology thing. I thought they used a DC-8.