I'm interested in collaboratively writing free (as in beer) textbooks. Are there any groups already doing this (that aren't going to ever to switch to non-free obviously)?
Could anyone decode the precise meaning of "queer/genderqueer woman" for me?
Anyway the author article seems very angry about everything which is difficult for me as an emotionally repressed-to-the-point-of-non-existence geek like me to relate to. They probably only want to hire her because of the benefit she'd have on their diversity metrics anyway so she's right to boycott them.
"Simply" hmm. They could default on the debt but then no-one else will lend them any money. Greece has little in the way of exports or resources. It would be reduced to an agricultural/fishing economy with tourism earning a bit of foreign money.
I'm not familiar with the platform but leaving dev/test code in a constructor seems a fairly basic mistake. Just repeating the mantra 'the tests didn't catch it' is indicative of a drone mentality. The objective is not to pass the tests. The objective is to develop a bug-free app, which a test suit helps you achieve.
It seems very appropriate for John Major to be commenting on the end of CeeFax. While other former leaders might be asked about the Middle East peace process, or the Euro crisis, or global warming, Major seems perfectly suited to topics like this, garden gnomes, the decline in the size of Wagon Wheels, the positioning of traffic cones etc etc.
Hey! I'm English and I found Rab C difficult to follow at first. Not just because of the accent but because of the dialect words used (eg. wain/wean = child).
It's not that bad. Carbon14 dating does have a sound scientific basis and is ballpark correct. However there is sufficient variation between labs that it's clear the measuring process itself is not precise and, worse, there are clear systemic differences between C14 dates and dendrochronology. It's not clear what causes this - variation in C14 over time? over different regions? different rates of decay? - so anything which helps reconcile the figures is good.
"There is no practical obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements, to the creation, that is, of a complete planetary memory for all mankind. And not simply an index; the direct reproduction of the thing itself can be summoned to any properly prepared spot. A microfilm, coloured where necessary, occupying an inch or so of space and weighing little more than a letter, can be duplicated from the records and sent anywhere, and thrown enlarged upon the screen so that the student may study it in every detail." H.G.Wells, "The World Brain" 1937
I'd say that was a reasonable prediction of the internet.
Many Slashdotters have a permanent blind spot when it comes to NASA. In every field of technology you have witnessed revolutionary change coming from the new disruptive innovators and yet you still imagine that somehow NASA is different. A Cold-War era style command-structure and top-down management spending billions of dollars on not going into space is somehow the best way to develop new technology as spinoffs.
The market would determine the value of the shares. That is what markets are for.
I wasn't including the back office settlements of already processed transactions in my hypothetical destruction of the electronic exchanges. But settlement is a completely separate issue to the exchange functionality discussed by the OP in any case.
Lol. Just l-o-l. The stock market has no value. It's merely a price-discovery method for secondary markets in securities. You could destroy all the electronic markets in the world tomorrow and we'd just go back to rooms full of people shouting at eachother to do the trading. Yes it would be a little less efficient but no real harm would be done.
Actually Merry and Pippin did very well with the ladies after their return and Sam married Rosie Cotton.
Neither Bilbo nor Frodo ever exhibited any interest in a female hobbit.
Uhhh... OK I'll bite. What is wrong with using a vector in a single-threaded operation? And what would you use instead? I can only think you must be talking about a very specific language or domain because it's a very bizarre statement to make.
It would have been utterly impossible for humans just over a hundred years ago to predict the existence of nuclear power stations generating huge amounts of energy. We cannot possibly anticipate the energy generation technology of an alien civilisation.
Why do you want the media to censor what it shows you? They didn't influence the guy shooting himself in any way. I'd rather just see what happened than have TV executives "protect me".
My credit card company kept me on my toes by applying an apparently random set of criteria to purchases. Small amounts to vendors online I'd used before regularly failed and got the card blocked while the purchase of high-end electronic devices for large amounts invariably went through. Eventually I just cancelled the card as it was unusable online.
The costs and resources to achieve this so far outweigh the benefits that I don't believe any rational analysis can justify it. There are many important projects on Earth that could be pursued for a thousandth of the cost and increase US national pride if that's important to you (I'm not American). Irrigating the Sahara? Cleaning up the Pacific Garbage Patch? Or just getting rid of some dictators (Mugabe?).
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I'm interested in collaboratively writing free (as in beer) textbooks. Are there any groups already doing this (that aren't going to ever to switch to non-free obviously)?
Could anyone decode the precise meaning of "queer/genderqueer woman" for me? Anyway the author article seems very angry about everything which is difficult for me as an emotionally repressed-to-the-point-of-non-existence geek like me to relate to. They probably only want to hire her because of the benefit she'd have on their diversity metrics anyway so she's right to boycott them.
Notsureifserious.jpg but there is no "75 year cycle" pattern in the Earth's weather.
Nice theory except that John Browett was Cook's first hire and is leaving after 6 months
"Simply" hmm. They could default on the debt but then no-one else will lend them any money. Greece has little in the way of exports or resources. It would be reduced to an agricultural/fishing economy with tourism earning a bit of foreign money.
I'm not familiar with the platform but leaving dev/test code in a constructor seems a fairly basic mistake. Just repeating the mantra 'the tests didn't catch it' is indicative of a drone mentality. The objective is not to pass the tests. The objective is to develop a bug-free app, which a test suit helps you achieve.
It seems very appropriate for John Major to be commenting on the end of CeeFax. While other former leaders might be asked about the Middle East peace process, or the Euro crisis, or global warming, Major seems perfectly suited to topics like this, garden gnomes, the decline in the size of Wagon Wheels, the positioning of traffic cones etc etc.
Hey! I'm English and I found Rab C difficult to follow at first. Not just because of the accent but because of the dialect words used (eg. wain/wean = child).
It's not that bad. Carbon14 dating does have a sound scientific basis and is ballpark correct. However there is sufficient variation between labs that it's clear the measuring process itself is not precise and, worse, there are clear systemic differences between C14 dates and dendrochronology. It's not clear what causes this - variation in C14 over time? over different regions? different rates of decay? - so anything which helps reconcile the figures is good.
Totally false. You get the full value. Of course it is often split 50-50 between the landowner and the finder. Oh and it's taxed.
"There is no practical obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements, to the creation, that is, of a complete planetary memory for all mankind. And not simply an index; the direct reproduction of the thing itself can be summoned to any properly prepared spot. A microfilm, coloured where necessary, occupying an inch or so of space and weighing little more than a letter, can be duplicated from the records and sent anywhere, and thrown enlarged upon the screen so that the student may study it in every detail." H.G.Wells, "The World Brain" 1937 I'd say that was a reasonable prediction of the internet.
Many Slashdotters have a permanent blind spot when it comes to NASA. In every field of technology you have witnessed revolutionary change coming from the new disruptive innovators and yet you still imagine that somehow NASA is different. A Cold-War era style command-structure and top-down management spending billions of dollars on not going into space is somehow the best way to develop new technology as spinoffs.
The market would determine the value of the shares. That is what markets are for. I wasn't including the back office settlements of already processed transactions in my hypothetical destruction of the electronic exchanges. But settlement is a completely separate issue to the exchange functionality discussed by the OP in any case.
Lol. Just l-o-l. The stock market has no value. It's merely a price-discovery method for secondary markets in securities. You could destroy all the electronic markets in the world tomorrow and we'd just go back to rooms full of people shouting at eachother to do the trading. Yes it would be a little less efficient but no real harm would be done.
Oh he's talking about Java specifically. Thanks.
Actually Merry and Pippin did very well with the ladies after their return and Sam married Rosie Cotton. Neither Bilbo nor Frodo ever exhibited any interest in a female hobbit.
No he didn't. He was known for his large size. It was Gerontius Took ("the Old Took") who lived to 130.
Uhhh ... OK I'll bite. What is wrong with using a vector in a single-threaded operation? And what would you use instead? I can only think you must be talking about a very specific language or domain because it's a very bizarre statement to make.
What "resources" would you need that you couldn't just synthesise? Well apart from Earth women of course.
It would have been utterly impossible for humans just over a hundred years ago to predict the existence of nuclear power stations generating huge amounts of energy. We cannot possibly anticipate the energy generation technology of an alien civilisation.
He and a fellow Scot were arguing over a copper penny.
Why do you want the media to censor what it shows you? They didn't influence the guy shooting himself in any way. I'd rather just see what happened than have TV executives "protect me".
My credit card company kept me on my toes by applying an apparently random set of criteria to purchases. Small amounts to vendors online I'd used before regularly failed and got the card blocked while the purchase of high-end electronic devices for large amounts invariably went through. Eventually I just cancelled the card as it was unusable online.
The costs and resources to achieve this so far outweigh the benefits that I don't believe any rational analysis can justify it. There are many important projects on Earth that could be pursued for a thousandth of the cost and increase US national pride if that's important to you (I'm not American). Irrigating the Sahara? Cleaning up the Pacific Garbage Patch? Or just getting rid of some dictators (Mugabe?).
Yes, why not build spacecraft there? Because we don't have a trillion dollars to spare? That might be it.