Why is this? I checked their website, it's not a 1990's throwback. I remember the Postgres vs MySQL arguments from back in the day.
Is their syntax weird? Is there some painfully annoying thing about it? Were there different licenses in the past causing a strong divide which are no longer relevant? Was something done years ago which alienated a large chunk of the community? How did MySQL get such critical mass?
I'd imagine they'll gradually add it to services they control such as maps, iMessage, FaceTime and lastly iCloud.
With that final addition it would probably be an added feature of iOS 8.0 or 9.0 and extended to developers. Once they pick it up and the idea becomes more widely known hopefully it'll spur adoption in Apache and web browsers.
It's real annoying when I'm in the passenger seat looking for directions and we drive past a McDonalds or Starbucks and my page loading stalls as it jumps on the known network. Or when leaving the house and it goes from wifi to cellular.
I don't believe in souls as defined by most religious folks. We are living meat bags.
That said I'm not convinced in the inevitability of the singularity because I wonder about the physical limits of processing and how close the brain may already be to that.
Also the speed of light and locality of data is a limit for scaling the process.
As a programmer I laugh when people want to simply throw more hardware at a problem when software is really the key. I do agree that there is some point where simulation of large physical processes at an atomic level will be a reality, and not to far off.
I'm not saying it won't happen, just that what I've seen so far doesn't have me convinced. It's based on the assumption that we can continue improving information processing at the rate it's been going practically forever.
Rocket stoves work pretty good. They burn at a higher temperature and consume more of the fuel while reducing emissions. Very easy to construct and cheap to fuel with just sticks and leaves.
I loved playing DOOM, also playing around with a level editor. One day I realized my school would make a sweet level. You could have doors on all the rooms and lower level monsters for the "students" and a boss in each room, with the hardest monsters in the office as the VP and principle. You could theme the monsters a bit and have some as jocks in the locker rooms, fast ones on the track. Plus the layout of the buildings would be great for running and hiding.
Then I realized. People are idiots. If I put out a mod of my own school surely I'd get in a lot of trouble. So I never made the map. Besides if some sick puppy used my map and then actually did a school shooting I'd never be able to live with myself.
I work by myself on small projects assigned by the company which I am wholy responsible for. I have complete freedom of language, frameworks, data formats, etc... I get a job, give a time estimate and do it.
It's cool having that amount of freedom but the lack of peers hurts my growth, I'm sure many times I've reinvented the wheel. Then after some thought I reinvent it again in a better way.
How does one to about rating someone's programming abilities on a 1 to 10 scale in a somewhat objective way? Peer groups will affect our perception of what is easy and what is difficult. Are we judging based on speed? Use of patterns and anti-patterns? Code reuse?
If I change jobs and work with a team my perspective widens but how do I know how my local team compares to others?
It's like making the cripple hand gesture and walking with a limp while using a "retard" voice and quoting your friends.
Appropriating other people's cultural icons and flags isn't racist it just shows a lack of respect for other people. There is of course sincere imitation which is a whole other thing.
Now specifically on the Pakistani flag, it's based on religious imagery making the act doubly insensitive.
(Not playing PC police here, but grammar nazi. Another fine distinction)
As far as I'm aware ripping your own DVDs is still not legal because of the DMCA, so as I interpret it, right of first sale is substantially reduced in this case.
That was my thinking, right of first sale should permit whatever use the owner of the disc wants. But as with software titles the "purchase" is really more of a rental with an implied license that's never agreed upon by the buyer yet in full legal force.
I'm surprised DVD rental places haven't tried challenging this, or maybe they did and lost?
I haven't heard of this before, thanks for the info. They know you can't get the bulk you need anywhere else so they charge whatever they want for them?
Core electronic components, high-end general use chips and basic software products
Large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing equipment and techniques
New generation broadband wireless mobile communication networks
Advanced numeric-controlled machinery and basic manufacturing technology
Large-scale oil and gas exploration
Large advanced nuclear reactors
Water pollution control and treatment
Breeding new varieties of genetically modified organisms
Pharmaceutical innovation and development
Control and treatment of AIDS, hepatitis, and other major diseases
Large aircraft
High-definition earth observation system
Manned spaceflight and lunar probe programs
I had a buddy who was fairly overweight, I'd say 5'10" and at least 250lbs.
After a while I noticed something. Whenever he went out with a group to a restaurant he always ordered last. He also always ordered the same amount of food as everyone else. If you ordered a light snack, so would he... same with fast food places he'd get about the same number of tacos or similar meal size as you.
I used to wonder why he was fat.
Well one day another friend of mine went to a burger place with him, they had lunch and said goodbye, okay going back to work see ya.
So he's sitting in his car messing with his phone when he sees the overweight guy go back in, order 2 more burgers and eat them by himself.
Since you're not a religious person it may seem like that belief puts you between a rock and a hard place. Science or hooey. However not everyone believes in immortal souls and people going to heaven or hell when they die. If you look at the Bible's teachings on their own, you'll find that it doesn't actually teach what most Christians believe. For example the hebrew word for "soul" means "breather". It literally means a living person, not only that, it applies to animals as well. Eze. 18:4 "The soul that is sinning shall die". Numbers 6:6 "Do not touch any dead soul". The only ones who actually go with those teachings are classic Jews (modern ones have several souls), Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists. The rest believe a sort of Greek philosophy / bible syncretism.
You can have spiritual beliefs and still believe that people are based on chemicals and not spirits. As for malevolent entities... they're sort of like Mr. Mxyzptlk but meaner. If you think of angels and demons as advanced alien beings it seems not quite so crazy. That's why you can't test those phenomena and get them to repeat on schedule, they have no desire to prove their existence to scientists. If it truly was some kind of emotional energy or oddball places with bent physics it would be easily repeatable.
I've had my own experience and it was definitely an attack with ill intent. A very unpleasant experience so I understand how that sort of thing sticks with you.
So I don't think you're a nutter, but are you as open-minded as you say or am I now the nutter?:)
There's been studies on lack of oxygen to the brain. It has similar effects on people... warm light, a feeling of peace... people you care about in the room.
When it happens to younger people, they tend to see LIVING people in the room with them, but with older folks often the ones they care most about are no longer around.
I'm really surprised I haven't seen this mentioned already in the discussion, it's not exactly obscure stuff.
but sugar. YOW! That was 2 awful weeks. Sore muscles, nervousness, irritability, all that fun stuff. Can only imagine how much worse it would be for stronger substances.
A lot of people bought a season pass of breaking bad during the first half of season 5. It was already announced that the season would be halved and completed this year. Everyone was thinking "Oh good I'll get the whole season"
Well no.
On iTunes it's called season 6 so you have to pay again.
Nice money grab there.
I'm sure that contributed to piracy as well. After all, steal from people and many won't feel any moral problem with taking what they already paid for.
Very smart, turn your remaining paying customers into pirates.
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Why is this? I checked their website, it's not a 1990's throwback. I remember the Postgres vs MySQL arguments from back in the day.
Is their syntax weird? Is there some painfully annoying thing about it? Were there different licenses in the past causing a strong divide which are no longer relevant? Was something done years ago which alienated a large chunk of the community? How did MySQL get such critical mass?
We ARE talking about AI aren't we? It remains to be seen if emergent behavior will rise from the silicon and save us.
But like I said... Software guy, so of course I see it as a software problem. :-)
I'd imagine they'll gradually add it to services they control such as maps, iMessage, FaceTime and lastly iCloud.
With that final addition it would probably be an added feature of iOS 8.0 or 9.0 and extended to developers. Once they pick it up and the idea becomes more widely known hopefully it'll spur adoption in Apache and web browsers.
It's real annoying when I'm in the passenger seat looking for directions and we drive past a McDonalds or Starbucks and my page loading stalls as it jumps on the known network. Or when leaving the house and it goes from wifi to cellular.
I don't believe in souls as defined by most religious folks. We are living meat bags.
That said I'm not convinced in the inevitability of the singularity because I wonder about the physical limits of processing and how close the brain may already be to that.
Also the speed of light and locality of data is a limit for scaling the process.
As a programmer I laugh when people want to simply throw more hardware at a problem when software is really the key. I do agree that there is some point where simulation of large physical processes at an atomic level will be a reality, and not to far off.
I'm not saying it won't happen, just that what I've seen so far doesn't have me convinced. It's based on the assumption that we can continue improving information processing at the rate it's been going practically forever.
That just rewards the slower typists with a successful first post while blocking those who deserve it.
Rocket stoves work pretty good. They burn at a higher temperature and consume more of the fuel while reducing emissions. Very easy to construct and cheap to fuel with just sticks and leaves.
I loved playing DOOM, also playing around with a level editor. One day I realized my school would make a sweet level. You could have doors on all the rooms and lower level monsters for the "students" and a boss in each room, with the hardest monsters in the office as the VP and principle. You could theme the monsters a bit and have some as jocks in the locker rooms, fast ones on the track. Plus the layout of the buildings would be great for running and hiding.
Then I realized. People are idiots. If I put out a mod of my own school surely I'd get in a lot of trouble. So I never made the map. Besides if some sick puppy used my map and then actually did a school shooting I'd never be able to live with myself.
Sad that things have gotten this way.
Damn they got him before he could even finish his post!
I work by myself on small projects assigned by the company which I am wholy responsible for. I have complete freedom of language, frameworks, data formats, etc... I get a job, give a time estimate and do it.
It's cool having that amount of freedom but the lack of peers hurts my growth, I'm sure many times I've reinvented the wheel. Then after some thought I reinvent it again in a better way.
How does one to about rating someone's programming abilities on a 1 to 10 scale in a somewhat objective way? Peer groups will affect our perception of what is easy and what is difficult. Are we judging based on speed? Use of patterns and anti-patterns? Code reuse?
If I change jobs and work with a team my perspective widens but how do I know how my local team compares to others?
Awwww... "lamer". I haven't seen that in YEARS! Fond memories.
Now I wanna play Tradewars.
That's not racist, it's insensitive.
It's like making the cripple hand gesture and walking with a limp while using a "retard" voice and quoting your friends.
Appropriating other people's cultural icons and flags isn't racist it just shows a lack of respect for other people. There is of course sincere imitation which is a whole other thing.
Now specifically on the Pakistani flag, it's based on religious imagery making the act doubly insensitive.
(Not playing PC police here, but grammar nazi. Another fine distinction)
So I can go buy 10 copies of the latest flick at Walmart and start my own little neighborhood rental business?
As far as I'm aware ripping your own DVDs is still not legal because of the DMCA, so as I interpret it, right of first sale is substantially reduced in this case.
That was my thinking, right of first sale should permit whatever use the owner of the disc wants. But as with software titles the "purchase" is really more of a rental with an implied license that's never agreed upon by the buyer yet in full legal force.
I'm surprised DVD rental places haven't tried challenging this, or maybe they did and lost?
I haven't heard of this before, thanks for the info. They know you can't get the bulk you need anywhere else so they charge whatever they want for them?
The 13 published Megaprojects.
Core electronic components, high-end general use chips and basic software products
Large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing equipment and techniques
New generation broadband wireless mobile communication networks
Advanced numeric-controlled machinery and basic manufacturing technology
Large-scale oil and gas exploration
Large advanced nuclear reactors
Water pollution control and treatment
Breeding new varieties of genetically modified organisms
Pharmaceutical innovation and development
Control and treatment of AIDS, hepatitis, and other major diseases
Large aircraft
High-definition earth observation system
Manned spaceflight and lunar probe programs
After all with hundreds of TLDs added, who can remember where anything is at? Guess I'll have to google it.
I had a buddy who was fairly overweight, I'd say 5'10" and at least 250lbs.
After a while I noticed something. Whenever he went out with a group to a restaurant he always ordered last. He also always ordered the same amount of food as everyone else. If you ordered a light snack, so would he... same with fast food places he'd get about the same number of tacos or similar meal size as you.
I used to wonder why he was fat.
Well one day another friend of mine went to a burger place with him, they had lunch and said goodbye, okay going back to work see ya.
So he's sitting in his car messing with his phone when he sees the overweight guy go back in, order 2 more burgers and eat them by himself.
I used to wonder why he was fat.
And then the cops turn left and are all "Where'd he go? He just disappeared!"
How about if you were scanning for a particular vulnerability and saved only 1 bit per address?
That would be 2^48 / 8 bytes?
2 ^ 48 / 2 = 2 ^ 47
2 ^ 47 / 2 = 2 ^ 46
2 ^ 46 / 2 = 2 ^ 45 = 35TB?
Doable.
(Note I don't know what the / 2 ^ 80 step was all about so this might be waaaaay off)
Since you're not a religious person it may seem like that belief puts you between a rock and a hard place. Science or hooey. However not everyone believes in immortal souls and people going to heaven or hell when they die. If you look at the Bible's teachings on their own, you'll find that it doesn't actually teach what most Christians believe. For example the hebrew word for "soul" means "breather". It literally means a living person, not only that, it applies to animals as well. Eze. 18:4 "The soul that is sinning shall die". Numbers 6:6 "Do not touch any dead soul". The only ones who actually go with those teachings are classic Jews (modern ones have several souls), Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists. The rest believe a sort of Greek philosophy / bible syncretism.
You can have spiritual beliefs and still believe that people are based on chemicals and not spirits. As for malevolent entities... they're sort of like Mr. Mxyzptlk but meaner. If you think of angels and demons as advanced alien beings it seems not quite so crazy. That's why you can't test those phenomena and get them to repeat on schedule, they have no desire to prove their existence to scientists. If it truly was some kind of emotional energy or oddball places with bent physics it would be easily repeatable.
I've had my own experience and it was definitely an attack with ill intent. A very unpleasant experience so I understand how that sort of thing sticks with you.
So I don't think you're a nutter, but are you as open-minded as you say or am I now the nutter? :)
There's been studies on lack of oxygen to the brain. It has similar effects on people... warm light, a feeling of peace... people you care about in the room.
When it happens to younger people, they tend to see LIVING people in the room with them, but with older folks often the ones they care most about are no longer around.
I'm really surprised I haven't seen this mentioned already in the discussion, it's not exactly obscure stuff.
Funny thing, I've quit coffee no problem...
but sugar. YOW! That was 2 awful weeks. Sore muscles, nervousness, irritability, all that fun stuff. Can only imagine how much worse it would be for stronger substances.
A lot of people bought a season pass of breaking bad during the first half of season 5. It was already announced that the season would be halved and completed this year. Everyone was thinking "Oh good I'll get the whole season"
Well no.
On iTunes it's called season 6 so you have to pay again.
Nice money grab there.
I'm sure that contributed to piracy as well. After all, steal from people and many won't feel any moral problem with taking what they already paid for.
Very smart, turn your remaining paying customers into pirates.
This is not the first time this has happened. From 2007:
But Microsoft's recent gains have been so fast that furious open source proponents such as Bruce Perens claimed last year that Microsoft was paying large domain name resellers such as Go Daddy to "park" unused domain names in IIS rather than Apache.
So probably a slashdot story about that first time as well.