My daughter and my son each have about 10 cubic feet of space that is off limits. I bought, when they were way too young to understand even, a couple of fire proof safes. They have the only keys (as far as I know - I know I don't nor does their mother have the spare) for this case. This is where they can put anything that fits into that space and have it be as secret as they want it to be.
Hmm... what sort of trouble could a kid get up to with a 10 ft^3 safe? Actually, maybe it could keep him out of trouble!
Let's suppose, just for fun, that 2 snooping, overbearing parents suddenly go missing. What's you're mass? Your ex's? Say 80 kg and 65 kg respectively, for argument's sake. At a density of about 1 kg / litre, you'd have a combined volume of 145 litres or 5.12 ft^3.
An easy fit for the bodies, and still room for the playboy collection and dope stash!
Far from taking credit for discovering any aging mechanisms in the last 20 years, De Grey actually bases one of his key arguments on the ABSENCE of such discoveries. He uses this fact to argue that all the primary aging mechisms are already well known and understood.
Someone familiar with De Grey's ideas would also be aware of his strategy regarding telomeres. Calling them an absolute limit to longevity is tantamount to call him a fool or a fraud.
Given the nature of De Grey's work and its potential to benefit me personally (and everyone else here), I'd rather not have his time wasted fielding ill-informed questions like this one.
Although the game has made more than $600 million in sales for Rockstar Games, Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid.
Then
... it's the human performances within them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies.
OH, HEY! Respect! Well, of course!! Have all the respect you want! Help yourself.
Boy, you had me a little worried there with all that earlier talk about money.
Although the game has made more than $600 million in sales for Rockstar Games, Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid.
... it's the human performances within them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies.
Hey, if it's respect he's after, I'm sure we'd all be happy to oblige. But where's he coming from with all this talk about money?
You might suggest to your management installing some business intelligence software. This would allow your customers to poke around the data in an ad hoc way but without the absolute freedom to create chaos that direct SQL gives. Check out SourceForge for some free alternatives. I like the look of OpenI, but can't claim much knowledge in this area.
Oh, come on. That's just so weak. Sure, omnipotence would imply that god could change form. It would also imply that s/he could change anything -- personality, morality, laws of physics -- whatever. How could any omnipotent being have an immutable (meaning it cannot be changed) core?
It is possible you need to examine your beliefs a little more closely. If you did that, though, you might find that god and logic were as incompatible as imnipotence and immutability.
Iphtashu Fitz, you are confounding two separate issues. Scruffy said it well: "backward compatibility != keeping legacy code".
It seems to me that on every project of any significant duration, the engineers itch for a rewrite. Even on green fields applications, by the time they're done they think it needs replacing. In most circumstances, managers do well to ignore their pleadings, as rewrites come at great expense. Very frequently they do not improve the situation significantly either, since they don't address the fundamental problem: a team the puts out shit on the first iteration is likely to do so on the second as well. There are better ways to get a crufty code base into shape. Michael Feathers has written an entire book on the subject, "Working Effectively with Legacy Code". I highly recommend reading it if you are in this situation -- and I expect most of us are. In any case, the decision to rewrite is fundamentally a technical one.
On the other hand, a policy of maintaining backward compatibility, while it has implications for the development team, is purely a business decision. Yes, it can put a great burden on a development team and seriously hamper the delivery of new features, but any manager would be aware of this and of the potential cost in new customer accounts. At the same time, it minimizes disruption for existing customers -- customers who might be driven into your competitors' arms if you are too quick to put out compatibility breaking changes. Anybody who thinks this is an easy call should read Clayton Christensen's book, "The Innovator's Dilemma".
It's been pointed out many times here before, but not yet often enough, it seems.
The war in Iraq is not a response to 9/11. It was only painted in those colours by your prez, who already had his own (or rather Rumsfeld's/Cheney's) reason's for going there.
So, as the crow flies or as the Horta tunnels?
The summary leaves this detail out but TFA is explicit:
The diameter of the Earth is 12 750 km and the two most widely separated telescopes in our experiment were 12 304 km apart, in a straight line," Dr Tzioumis said.
Well, I do happen to be a Rolland fan. Someone please mod the parent off-topic.
Not only have I found Rolland Piquepaille's submissions over the years to be consistently interesting and informative, but he has long since dropped the one practice that anybody could gripe about with any legitimacy, the links to his own summaries of the articles.
What could anybody possibly find to criticize in any of his recent submissions?
"A spokesman for Diebold... said the company is treating the software Kagan received as "stolen"... Lawyers for the company are seeking its return.
I see. So all the authorities have to do is recover the copy of the code that was "stole", and once again the American public can sleep sound in the knowledge that this security breach has been rectified.
Now isn't this a fine illustration of how applying the term "stolen" to information is wrong-headed?
My question is this: what could Diebold possibly expect to gain from recovering this "stolen" code? Do they expect to ever be able to use it again in their voting machines? Of course they do, and I'll bet they get away with it too, though why they should be able to, I'll never understand.
A better analogy would be the choice between eating the crap at McDonald's or foraging for yourself. You may not fill up as fast or as easily foraging, but it's a much healthier diet.
If Google thinks giving access to some information is better than none then I guess that's where they and the Chinese government agree. But only a fan-boi would let a statement like that go by unexamined. When Google made their deal with China, they joined the ranks of China Central Television and The People's Daily newspaper as a new branch of the enormous Chinese propaganda machine -- where the Truth is just fine as long as it's the government censors who get to pick which truths get air time.
liliafan's scepticism is justified. RTFA. It spends most of the time talking about how they are trying to overcome problems with indoor navigation. Even the local WalMart isn't big enough to need a search and rescue team.
I met a guy who was working on autonomous fliers and he said "search and rescue" is just code for "military reconnaisance".
Well, actually you aren't contradicting the article, but agreeing with it. TFA states:
For the past ten years, major space agencies have ensured than anything launched into space will come back down to Earth within 25 years of its mission end date.
Unfortunately this doesn't address the problem adequately. The article also states that their simulation assumed that all space launches were halted in Dec. 2004. The danger arises from the inevitable collisions of junk that's already up there now, producing smaller but still lethal and much more numerous projectiles.
The problem is not being addressed until we start bringing the junk that's already up there back down.
You gotta read the rules man. Sure the printing press was useful. Revolutionary even. But it's bigger'n a bread box innit? So's the steam engine, the automobile, the Jaquardf loom, the Saturn V rocket etc.
The joke's on the companies that don't sign up. Even if you don't accept the idea that global warming is threatening us, it has to be acknowledged that we are entering a carbon constrained future. Oil reserves are forcaste to begin declining in 10 to 20 years. Countries that sign Kyoto will be the early innovators of this new era. The ones that drag their feet will be backwaters before this century is half done.
Here's a clip from their joint press release with WhenU
From the desktop, WhenU software examines keywords, URLs and search
terms currently in use on the opted-in consumer's browsers and then presents
highly relevant advertising and services.
This is from their own press release! Who in their right mind would stake the reputation of their company on a declaration that such a product is not spyware?
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Hmm... what sort of trouble could a kid get up to with a 10 ft^3 safe? Actually, maybe it could keep him out of trouble!
Let's suppose, just for fun, that 2 snooping, overbearing parents suddenly go missing. What's you're mass? Your ex's? Say 80 kg and 65 kg respectively, for argument's sake. At a density of about 1 kg / litre, you'd have a combined volume of 145 litres or 5.12 ft^3.
An easy fit for the bodies, and still room for the playboy collection and dope stash!
Why has this question been modded so high?
Far from taking credit for discovering any aging mechanisms in the last 20 years, De Grey actually bases one of his key arguments on the ABSENCE of such discoveries. He uses this fact to argue that all the primary aging mechisms are already well known and understood.
Someone familiar with De Grey's ideas would also be aware of his strategy regarding telomeres. Calling them an absolute limit to longevity is tantamount to call him a fool or a fraud.
Given the nature of De Grey's work and its potential to benefit me personally (and everyone else here), I'd rather not have his time wasted fielding ill-informed questions like this one.
Surely this doesn't open the door to Google much wider than it already was. Don't they already know about every page you hit that serves up their ads?
Then
OH, HEY! Respect! Well, of course!! Have all the respect you want! Help yourself.
Boy, you had me a little worried there with all that earlier talk about money.
Hey, if it's respect he's after, I'm sure we'd all be happy to oblige. But where's he coming from with all this talk about money?
You might suggest to your management installing some business intelligence software. This would allow your customers to poke around the data in an ad hoc way but without the absolute freedom to create chaos that direct SQL gives. Check out SourceForge for some free alternatives. I like the look of OpenI, but can't claim much knowledge in this area.
Oh, come on. That's just so weak. Sure, omnipotence would imply that god could change form. It would also imply that s/he could change anything -- personality, morality, laws of physics -- whatever. How could any omnipotent being have an immutable (meaning it cannot be changed) core?
It is possible you need to examine your beliefs a little more closely. If you did that, though, you might find that god and logic were as incompatible as imnipotence and immutability.
My guess is that it's closer to 28,140 years old
Iphtashu Fitz, you are confounding two separate issues. Scruffy said it well: "backward compatibility != keeping legacy code".
It seems to me that on every project of any significant duration, the engineers itch for a rewrite. Even on green fields applications, by the time they're done they think it needs replacing. In most circumstances, managers do well to ignore their pleadings, as rewrites come at great expense. Very frequently they do not improve the situation significantly either, since they don't address the fundamental problem: a team the puts out shit on the first iteration is likely to do so on the second as well. There are better ways to get a crufty code base into shape. Michael Feathers has written an entire book on the subject, "Working Effectively with Legacy Code". I highly recommend reading it if you are in this situation -- and I expect most of us are. In any case, the decision to rewrite is fundamentally a technical one.
On the other hand, a policy of maintaining backward compatibility, while it has implications for the development team, is purely a business decision. Yes, it can put a great burden on a development team and seriously hamper the delivery of new features, but any manager would be aware of this and of the potential cost in new customer accounts. At the same time, it minimizes disruption for existing customers -- customers who might be driven into your competitors' arms if you are too quick to put out compatibility breaking changes. Anybody who thinks this is an easy call should read Clayton Christensen's book, "The Innovator's Dilemma".
It's been pointed out many times here before, but not yet often enough, it seems. The war in Iraq is not a response to 9/11. It was only painted in those colours by your prez, who already had his own (or rather Rumsfeld's/Cheney's) reason's for going there.
Well, I do happen to be a Rolland fan. Someone please mod the parent off-topic.
Not only have I found Rolland Piquepaille's submissions over the years to be consistently interesting and informative, but he has long since dropped the one practice that anybody could gripe about with any legitimacy, the links to his own summaries of the articles.
What could anybody possibly find to criticize in any of his recent submissions?
Some reading material for you all:
c tivities/168593.htmla hideen_Poisons.pdf
The Al Qaeda Manual: http://www.disastercenter.com/terror/
The Terrorist's Handbook: http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/irresponsible_a
The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook: http://www.thedisease.net/arcana/nbc/chemical/Muj
The Dragunov Sniper Rifle Technical Description and Service Manual: http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/manual/english/svd/
Now don't go reading this stuff and getting yourself arrested.
Cringely's latest column (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20 061110_001188.html) is all about the Microsoft/Novell deal and Balmer's statement re other deals. He thinks Balmer's statement is deliberate deception to sow discord in the Linux space
I love this part:
... said the company is treating the software Kagan received as "stolen" ... Lawyers for the company are seeking its return.
"A spokesman for Diebold
I see. So all the authorities have to do is recover the copy of the code that was "stole", and once again the American public can sleep sound in the knowledge that this security breach has been rectified.
Now isn't this a fine illustration of how applying the term "stolen" to information is wrong-headed?
My question is this: what could Diebold possibly expect to gain from recovering this "stolen" code? Do they expect to ever be able to use it again in their voting machines? Of course they do, and I'll bet they get away with it too, though why they should be able to, I'll never understand.
A better analogy would be the choice between eating the crap at McDonald's or foraging for yourself. You may not fill up as fast or as easily foraging, but it's a much healthier diet.
If Google thinks giving access to some information is better than none then I guess that's where they and the Chinese government agree. But only a fan-boi would let a statement like that go by unexamined. When Google made their deal with China, they joined the ranks of China Central Television and The People's Daily newspaper as a new branch of the enormous Chinese propaganda machine -- where the Truth is just fine as long as it's the government censors who get to pick which truths get air time.
liliafan's scepticism is justified. RTFA. It spends most of the time talking about how they are trying to overcome problems with indoor navigation. Even the local WalMart isn't big enough to need a search and rescue team.
I met a guy who was working on autonomous fliers and he said "search and rescue" is just code for "military reconnaisance".
I met a guy once who worked in the field of autonomous flyers. He told me "search and rescue" was essentially just code for military reconnaisance.
Well, actually you aren't contradicting the article, but agreeing with it. TFA states:
Unfortunately this doesn't address the problem adequately. The article also states that their simulation assumed that all space launches were halted in Dec. 2004. The danger arises from the inevitable collisions of junk that's already up there now, producing smaller but still lethal and much more numerous projectiles.The problem is not being addressed until we start bringing the junk that's already up there back down.
Mike
You gotta read the rules man. Sure the printing press was useful. Revolutionary even. But it's bigger'n a bread box innit? So's the steam engine, the automobile, the Jaquardf loom, the Saturn V rocket etc.
The joke's on the companies that don't sign up. Even if you don't accept the idea that global warming is threatening us, it has to be acknowledged that we are entering a carbon constrained future. Oil reserves are forcaste to begin declining in 10 to 20 years. Countries that sign Kyoto will be the early innovators of this new era. The ones that drag their feet will be backwaters before this century is half done.
Ummmm... maybe I read something into it that wasn't intended, but I just assumed the original poster was alluding to the quality of the OS :)
Here's a clip from their joint press release with WhenU
From the desktop, WhenU software examines keywords, URLs and search terms currently in use on the opted-in consumer's browsers and then presents highly relevant advertising and services.
This is from their own press release! Who in their right mind would stake the reputation of their company on a declaration that such a product is not spyware?