Don't forget you need a smattering of heavier elements for life. So you need to wait through a couple cycles of super novas to get a decent distribution of elements over atomic 5 (Fe)... including carbon. Hving this stiff made in a star isn't enough, it's gotta accrete into a planet after.
We all know what a nut job he is, but he's been right more times than I care to admit. This is one area where I will never agree with him. To permit a "legitimate" need for military code is an oxymoron. And I bet he would argue that it should be open source too, so both sides get it. And when this happens, only the stakes get raised. When one side has a nuke it's a problem for everyone else, when both sides have it, it's mutually assured destruction.
Just like WOPR, the only way to win is not to play. And that means not throwing more code into the military fire.
Slightly off-topic, but I wonder if others have seen this. I'm pretty senior (15yrs+) and applied for a new job.After submitting a resume, I was invited to take part in a video interview. But here's the catch. The firm is local and no one is at the other end. Best I can describe it, you talk into your webcam while answering questions. I've never felt more de-humanized in a process. And these people expect me to work for them? Maybe for an entry level position but for someone over 10 years?
I have long thought it was time for OSS licenses to support a morality clause, that does not grant license to the software when the software is used to extinguish life or violate the rights of people. This, if applied to Linux, would prohibit use of Linux in military applications, like that sniper rifle as well as a number of drones.
I have long taken a moral exception to working for defense contractors, especially since 9-11 when we started spying on everyone and killing people with drones. However Linux/OSS was not as attractive then. I want no part of my software to be used in the use of depriving people of life, liberty, or their rights.
I call on all open source licenses to add a morality clause, or offer a version with the morality clause. To not do so is to condone the use of the software for nefarious purposes.
I don't have a better word than "proxy", but here is how it works: You have two accounts registered in the software, your exchange account, and your wallet (the one that is all yours on your local machine). When you receive funds in your exchange account not from your wallet, it immediately shuffles it to your wallet. When you receive funds in your wallet account not from your exchange, it immediately shuffles it to your exchange.
This way hacking the exchanges won't net anything, except accounts. Maybe integrate a canary feature so the exchange can turn off receiving funds if the canary is set (exchange is compromised) so you don't send funds into a hacked account.
POTS supplies its own power. So now insead one one connection worki g you need two connections. VoIP data and some ki d of power, and they have to both be working at the same time.
BTW the cheapest VoIP provider if you are just trying to hold onto a number is callcentric at $3.95/mo incl 911 and pay per minute.
I don't see your point. We've been messing with genes for 10,000 years now.
The problem I have with GM food is at this point in time, the promise of "better" food is not realized. Instead we have "roundup ready" food. Meaning it can survive a lot of pesticide exposure. So what happens? It gets drenched in pesticides. So are GM foods safe? Propably, in the lab, where they don't need to be exposed to pesticides. Then you publish the results of those plants. But who knows the residual affects of pesticides on the food you actually consume, which have grown in the pesticides?
So far, unless it starts raining Round Up, there is no selection preference. meaning it's a crap shoot.
"But what if GM Food is actually perfectly safe like the science says it is." But what if it isn't? The problem I have with GM food is at this point in time, the promise of "better" food is not realized. Instead we have "roundup ready" food. Meaning it can survive a lot of pesticide exposure. So what happens? It gets drenched in pesticides. So are GM foods safe? Propably, in the lab, where they don't need to be exposed to pesticides. Then you publish the results of those plants. But who knows the residual affects of pesticides on the food you actually consume, which have grown in the pesticides?
I don't agree. If you assume he is 1.5 meters high, then the relative forces at the event horizon would be minimal, remember it is over r^2. The Schwarzschild radius as it is called. If you took our sun's mass and converted to to black hole densities, it would be r of 2,950 m. Now, the force at this even horizon would then be 2950m and 2951.5m Find the tidal forces over that 1.5 meters. It's not a whole lot. However you start to get into time dilation, again over 1.5 meters it isn't that much.
No one wants to invest in a burning platform, (Aside from Elop, who went from an already hot frying pan in to a cold skillet that was just put on the hot stove.)
Frameworks fail because of: Political pressure - blame the consortiums and trade groups (HTML5, anybody?) Commercial pressure - blame the manufactures trying to shuffle you from a free offering into a vertical Declining development interest - something got invented that was better, or a sole supporting company cut funds Declining support interest - can;t get support, means no new users to carry the torch
Frame works work when: Open access - ideally to the source, but free to try. if it isn't free to try, then it can't compete without having customers locked in. Good toolkits are free because they can compete against other free and non-free options. Open Governance - ideally not just by corporations, but by the non-corporate users. Open Access and Open governance combined to accept patches for bugs/features Effective - Not over designed or under designed. Over-designed forces you into a vertical, under-designed doesn't get the job done Good support options - open bug tracker, mailing list and IRC channel at a minimum.and optional paid support. If your toolkit doesn't have an IRC channel it's not big enough to bet the farm on)
Qt has only gotten freer. GPL - Trolltech LGPL - Nokia LGPL - Digia
Nokia kind-of had a negative affect in that desktop stagnated why mobile was developed, but now that Digia is in it, desktop will be the focus again.
You will be happier switching to Qt. I started my professional career as MFC, but quickly found and liked Qt. It's API is so much better. Even if you are onyl targeting desktop, it makes sense. There are a few caveats though. Qt is notoriously bad at servers - web servers. TCP servers are ok. But there doesn't exist a web server in Qt proper. LibQxt (Qt extension library) has one though, that is pretty good.
I am in pretty strong disagreement with your advice, bleeding edge advice aside... MVC separation is ideal but expensive. Either in development time or performance. Today's approach would to be provide a REST webservice as the controller database as the model and a JSON client as the UI
Resist the platform. These change. Do not bother to learn JS beyond he basics. Do not learn jQuery. JQuery is no better than raw JS. I have compared it a number of times, LOC are roughly the same, it's just syntactic sugar. JavaScript, CSS, HTML all change. These changes should not impact you. Your application does _something_ the/what/ is important, not so much the/how/. Look at AJAX - it (XML) was the end-all be-all until JSON came around in a relatively short amount of time. And We're on the cusp of WebSockets. The application developer should not care about the state of the web development. Web development isn't top down, a number of very different technologies have been assembled and I refuse to believe that this is the best application development system we can come up with. 5 very different techs - HTML, JS, CSS, HTTP and MIME are all in constant development. (MIME is old, but what about MIME+xop or MIME+mtom?)
A good platform will isolate you from all that and allow you to work on your application. That's why I prefer Wt (http://webtoolkit.eu) which will isolate you from all that nonsense.
Qt for local app development. Wt for web app development. (http://webtoolkit.eu - C++/ Java/ Jython) It supports Twitter's Bootstrap theme as well.
The commonality between the two past the two letter names is a boon for your developers. True, Wt (C++) uses boost, Qt does not, but your C++ devs will get over it, as they are very close. You can however use Java or Jython with Wt. They will like it because Wt is a API copy of Qt, but for the web. I can actually share my abstract item model code between the two.
One reason to choose either toolkit is the amount of isolation and independence it gives you from the platforms. As CSS. HTML, and JS changes, your application code in Wt does not, the Wt library picks up the slack and automatically takes advantage of new features. Both only need a C++ compiler.Anyone's C++ compiler.
Keeping your application code, to your application, and not to a framework really helps. Even if you move, having it in OOP makes porting it later easier.
Is coded in.NET and runs on mono. I'm playing it on Linux right now. True, a little geeky but it'll happen.
The problem is though that Halo, Gears of War, God of War, etc are all produced under exclusivity licenses. No linux game developer is willing to be exclusively Linux. Maybe Valve will start doing it now that they have a Steam box, but the allure of the major established markets will be hard to pass up.
Right now, the Republicans are actively working against the interests of the united states. We don't just let them stay here, but we let them vote in congress as well. In fact, they shut down the country over a law they don't like. This should be considered terrorism and a denial-of-service attack (Liberal version)
Right now, the Democrats are actively working against the interests of the united states. We don't just let them stay here, but we let them vote in congress as well. They are socializing our United States. (Conservative version)
Either way, participation in a a dialog is natural discourse and should not be grounds for non-admittance.
I think in the eyes of the founders when they created the patent office, the idea that one man owned the product of his labor was never to be infringed. Rather, it was to prevent companies from stealing ideas, and providing them so that they competed against the inventor', and allowing the inventor to profit from his effort. It was realized back then that you could not prevent a man from copying a plow (first US patent ever) that he observed in use or by reading the patent by his own effort.
Similarly, I don't see how patents should even apply to 3D printing, since people making things for themselves is a natural right, a right far exceeding any legislative "right" or privilege granted by the government. The idea that a company can stop you from producing something yourself for your own use, is a very chilling idea. So far the most realistic real-world example of that is Monsanto, which can prohibit farmers from replanting seeds. However this is done under a specific license contract, which is agreed to by both parties.
The OP also has a bit of fancy about it. Not everything can be 3D printed. Metals need particular traits that can't be achieved by sintering. Not all plastics are printable as well. Eventually engineers will learn to engineer for non-3d printable materials, so that replacement 3D printed parts aren't feasible. And I would postulate that if you're using 3D printable parts, then your design isn't all that patent-able.
For vehicles equiped with the 'choke' feature, I think just the fact that they have to press the gas pedal down and release the idle cam would be enough. Interestingly what they don't need to do is hold in the clutch....
I just hired a bunch of Koreans to build me a city in Minecraft. By the end of day 1 I had something resembling Rome. So I guess Rome can be built in a day? However nothing works, making it much more like Detroit.
How the heck are you to make any kind of food other than raw in space? Your microwave oven is going to take 1kW, and you'll get mushy carrots at best. How do you dice in 0g? What about stir-fry? That seems very messy!
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Don't forget you need a smattering of heavier elements for life. So you need to wait through a couple cycles of super novas to get a decent distribution of elements over atomic 5 (Fe)... including carbon. Hving this stiff made in a star isn't enough, it's gotta accrete into a planet after.
We all know what a nut job he is, but he's been right more times than I care to admit. This is one area where I will never agree with him. To permit a "legitimate" need for military code is an oxymoron. And I bet he would argue that it should be open source too, so both sides get it. And when this happens, only the stakes get raised. When one side has a nuke it's a problem for everyone else, when both sides have it, it's mutually assured destruction.
Just like WOPR, the only way to win is not to play. And that means not throwing more code into the military fire.
So you would choose your freedom to write code that obliterates people without any kind of trial, even a sham one, over that person's right to live?
That's pretty fucked up.
Slightly off-topic, but I wonder if others have seen this. I'm pretty senior (15yrs+) and applied for a new job.After submitting a resume, I was invited to take part in a video interview. But here's the catch. The firm is local and no one is at the other end. Best I can describe it, you talk into your webcam while answering questions. I've never felt more de-humanized in a process. And these people expect me to work for them? Maybe for an entry level position but for someone over 10 years?
I have long thought it was time for OSS licenses to support a morality clause, that does not grant license to the software when the software is used to extinguish life or violate the rights of people. This, if applied to Linux, would prohibit use of Linux in military applications, like that sniper rifle as well as a number of drones.
I have long taken a moral exception to working for defense contractors, especially since 9-11 when we started spying on everyone and killing people with drones. However Linux/OSS was not as attractive then. I want no part of my software to be used in the use of depriving people of life, liberty, or their rights.
I call on all open source licenses to add a morality clause, or offer a version with the morality clause. To not do so is to condone the use of the software for nefarious purposes.
It seems to me that we could follow the trail from source to destination accounts in the block chain, so we can identify who has the stolen bitcoins.
Even with a mixing service, it should still be traceable in the long run.
I don't have a better word than "proxy", but here is how it works:
You have two accounts registered in the software, your exchange account, and your wallet (the one that is all yours on your local machine).
When you receive funds in your exchange account not from your wallet, it immediately shuffles it to your wallet.
When you receive funds in your wallet account not from your exchange, it immediately shuffles it to your exchange.
This way hacking the exchanges won't net anything, except accounts. Maybe integrate a canary feature so the exchange can turn off receiving funds if the canary is set (exchange is compromised) so you don't send funds into a hacked account.
POTS supplies its own power. So now insead one one connection worki g you need two connections. VoIP data and some ki d of power, and they have to both be working at the same time.
BTW the cheapest VoIP provider if you are just trying to hold onto a number is callcentric at $3.95/mo incl 911 and pay per minute.
I don't see your point. We've been messing with genes for 10,000 years now.
The problem I have with GM food is at this point in time, the promise of "better" food is not realized. Instead we have "roundup ready" food. Meaning it can survive a lot of pesticide exposure. So what happens? It gets drenched in pesticides. So are GM foods safe? Propably, in the lab, where they don't need to be exposed to pesticides. Then you publish the results of those plants. But who knows the residual affects of pesticides on the food you actually consume, which have grown in the pesticides?
So far, unless it starts raining Round Up, there is no selection preference. meaning it's a crap shoot.
"But what if GM Food is actually perfectly safe like the science says it is."
But what if it isn't? The problem I have with GM food is at this point in time, the promise of "better" food is not realized. Instead we have "roundup ready" food. Meaning it can survive a lot of pesticide exposure. So what happens? It gets drenched in pesticides. So are GM foods safe? Propably, in the lab, where they don't need to be exposed to pesticides. Then you publish the results of those plants. But who knows the residual affects of pesticides on the food you actually consume, which have grown in the pesticides?
I can't take Arial seriously because I can't read it.
rn (RN) looks like m (M)
Il (IL) look like LL or II, L still don't know which.
Thanks. I must have messed something up with the exponents. 2 billion g is a lot of G.
I don't agree. If you assume he is 1.5 meters high, then the relative forces at the event horizon would be minimal, remember it is over r^2. The Schwarzschild radius as it is called. If you took our sun's mass and converted to to black hole densities, it would be r of 2,950 m. Now, the force at this even horizon would then be 2950m and 2951.5m Find the tidal forces over that 1.5 meters. It's not a whole lot. However you start to get into time dilation, again over 1.5 meters it isn't that much.
No one wants to invest in a burning platform, (Aside from Elop, who went from an already hot frying pan in to a cold skillet that was just put on the hot stove.)
Frameworks fail because of:
Political pressure - blame the consortiums and trade groups (HTML5, anybody?)
Commercial pressure - blame the manufactures trying to shuffle you from a free offering into a vertical
Declining development interest - something got invented that was better, or a sole supporting company cut funds
Declining support interest - can;t get support, means no new users to carry the torch
Frame works work when:
Open access - ideally to the source, but free to try. if it isn't free to try, then it can't compete without having customers locked in. Good toolkits are free because they can compete against other free and non-free options.
Open Governance - ideally not just by corporations, but by the non-corporate users.
Open Access and Open governance combined to accept patches for bugs/features
Effective - Not over designed or under designed. Over-designed forces you into a vertical, under-designed doesn't get the job done
Good support options - open bug tracker, mailing list and IRC channel at a minimum.and optional paid support. If your toolkit doesn't have an IRC channel it's not big enough to bet the farm on)
Qt has only gotten freer.
GPL - Trolltech
LGPL - Nokia
LGPL - Digia
Nokia kind-of had a negative affect in that desktop stagnated why mobile was developed, but now that Digia is in it, desktop will be the focus again.
You will be happier switching to Qt. I started my professional career as MFC, but quickly found and liked Qt. It's API is so much better. Even if you are onyl targeting desktop, it makes sense. There are a few caveats though. Qt is notoriously bad at servers - web servers. TCP servers are ok. But there doesn't exist a web server in Qt proper. LibQxt (Qt extension library) has one though, that is pretty good.
I am in pretty strong disagreement with your advice, bleeding edge advice aside...
MVC separation is ideal but expensive. Either in development time or performance. Today's approach would to be provide a REST webservice as the controller database as the model and a JSON client as the UI
Resist the platform. These change. Do not bother to learn JS beyond he basics. Do not learn jQuery. JQuery is no better than raw JS. I have compared it a number of times, LOC are roughly the same, it's just syntactic sugar. JavaScript, CSS, HTML all change. These changes should not impact you. Your application does _something_ the /what/ is important, not so much the /how/. Look at AJAX - it (XML) was the end-all be-all until JSON came around in a relatively short amount of time. And We're on the cusp of WebSockets. The application developer should not care about the state of the web development. Web development isn't top down, a number of very different technologies have been assembled and I refuse to believe that this is the best application development system we can come up with. 5 very different techs - HTML, JS, CSS, HTTP and MIME are all in constant development. (MIME is old, but what about MIME+xop or MIME+mtom?)
A good platform will isolate you from all that and allow you to work on your application. That's why I prefer Wt (http://webtoolkit.eu) which will isolate you from all that nonsense.
Qt for local app development.
Wt for web app development. (http://webtoolkit.eu - C++/ Java/ Jython) It supports Twitter's Bootstrap theme as well.
The commonality between the two past the two letter names is a boon for your developers. True, Wt (C++) uses boost, Qt does not, but your C++ devs will get over it, as they are very close. You can however use Java or Jython with Wt. They will like it because Wt is a API copy of Qt, but for the web. I can actually share my abstract item model code between the two.
One reason to choose either toolkit is the amount of isolation and independence it gives you from the platforms. As CSS. HTML, and JS changes, your application code in Wt does not, the Wt library picks up the slack and automatically takes advantage of new features. Both only need a C++ compiler.Anyone's C++ compiler.
Keeping your application code, to your application, and not to a framework really helps. Even if you move, having it in OOP makes porting it later easier.
Is coded in .NET and runs on mono. I'm playing it on Linux right now. True, a little geeky but it'll happen.
The problem is though that Halo, Gears of War, God of War, etc are all produced under exclusivity licenses. No linux game developer is willing to be exclusively Linux. Maybe Valve will start doing it now that they have a Steam box, but the allure of the major established markets will be hard to pass up.
Right now, the Republicans are actively working against the interests of the united states. We don't just let them stay here, but we let them vote in congress as well. In fact, they shut down the country over a law they don't like. This should be considered terrorism and a denial-of-service attack (Liberal version)
Right now, the Democrats are actively working against the interests of the united states. We don't just let them stay here, but we let them vote in congress as well. They are socializing our United States. (Conservative version)
Either way, participation in a a dialog is natural discourse and should not be grounds for non-admittance.
At $45/per 64GB card, that's almost a billion dollars!
I think in the eyes of the founders when they created the patent office, the idea that one man owned the product of his labor was never to be infringed. Rather, it was to prevent companies from stealing ideas, and providing them so that they competed against the inventor', and allowing the inventor to profit from his effort. It was realized back then that you could not prevent a man from copying a plow (first US patent ever) that he observed in use or by reading the patent by his own effort.
Similarly, I don't see how patents should even apply to 3D printing, since people making things for themselves is a natural right, a right far exceeding any legislative "right" or privilege granted by the government. The idea that a company can stop you from producing something yourself for your own use, is a very chilling idea. So far the most realistic real-world example of that is Monsanto, which can prohibit farmers from replanting seeds. However this is done under a specific license contract, which is agreed to by both parties.
The OP also has a bit of fancy about it. Not everything can be 3D printed. Metals need particular traits that can't be achieved by sintering. Not all plastics are printable as well. Eventually engineers will learn to engineer for non-3d printable materials, so that replacement 3D printed parts aren't feasible. And I would postulate that if you're using 3D printable parts, then your design isn't all that patent-able.
For vehicles equiped with the 'choke' feature, I think just the fact that they have to press the gas pedal down and release the idle cam would be enough. Interestingly what they don't need to do is hold in the clutch....
Jalopnik has accumulated plenty of evidence that driving a stick foils car thieves, simply because they never learned to drive a stick.
I just hired a bunch of Koreans to build me a city in Minecraft. By the end of day 1 I had something resembling Rome. So I guess Rome can be built in a day? However nothing works, making it much more like Detroit.
How the heck are you to make any kind of food other than raw in space? Your microwave oven is going to take 1kW, and you'll get mushy carrots at best. How do you dice in 0g? What about stir-fry? That seems very messy!