Debugging that would be child's play --- rename some cell ranges to give them names that that could be debugged thoroughly in 6 hours or less.
A similar program in a sloppy programming language would be infinitely obfuscated in function calls.
But frankly, this entire article is stupid. A spreadsheet is great for prototyping and if the shoe fits, then wear it.
The above formulas are child's play compared to nest javascript turdballs or even a lot of C++ I have seen written or common PHP.
Needless to say, several casuals have been tricked or dupped into thinking those formulas would be hard to debug and modded as such. And probably by the non-programmers that visit here that can be fooled by anything, the real veterans would quickly recognize how to de-spaghetti that "code" in minutes.
And how trivial compared to even some.bat and bash files I've seen.
No company has the responsibility to care about the economy at large. That is a function of government of the government.
Case in point, do you still buy Zip Drives or go buy Garth Brooks cds or pay for paper maps?
If not, you are as much of an asshat for undermining the economy --- or worse. You are hypocritical asshat, not willing to waste your own money while simultaneously saying it is OTHERS responsibility to do so.
But your responsibility as a consumer is your own interests, right? And likewise, so is a company's interests --- unless you think it is your right to deny that right to others while not doing it yourself.
>"Apparently, that is how capitalism is supposed to work."
You are quite correct. Even if it is sarcasm.
A company is the product of free market evolution, and a company *MUST* produce the maximum output with a minimum input.
The opposite of this is a governmental organization or a charity --- HP is not a governmental organization, nor a charity.
You are righteven if it is for the wrong reasons.
Any honest company will tell you they do not exist to create jobs, just look at any of the Silicon Valley companies --- most of them exist to destroy jobs. P.S. Linux and open source don't exist to create jobs either, the goal of open source --- which is a noble one and the correct one --- is to expand freedom and reduce costs --- which *EXACTLY* what they should be doing.
I am not personally for increased costs for a commodity product --- an operating system or a work processor or a phone --- I want maximum utility at minimum cost.
Or shall you berate Wikipedia for putting major financial strain on the Encycopedia and book reference industry?
"In fact, it's rather ironic that in one paragraph you attack the idea of protecting privacy as a form of censorship, yet in the very next paragraph you argue for government supervision and market regulation so that companies are not free to act as they wish."
The two aren't related in the slightest.
You might believe that "corporations" have "rights" --- but I sure as hell don't.
I also don't believe Lex Luthor or Dick Cheney or Kim Jong Korean Dude has the right to purge the internet of facts he finds inconvenient --- you might as well rule that big enough aholes can write and sculpt their wikipedia pages how they see fit.
Apparently, you seem to call that privacy --- but such a privacy when it is backed by money and lawyers isn't a right but rather a plutocracy where the size of one's purse is your right under law.
There are a large number of things that Europe "gets right".
Europe doesn't realize that privacy in theory becomes censorship in practice.
There are a large number of things that the USA "gets right".
The USA doesn't realize an *unregulated* free market without *PROPER* government supervision means all companies merge into one company and then do really shitty things.
Which form of stupid to do you prefer: ___________ >>--- fill in your choice.
(This is my view of what happens, in Europe ultimately there ends up being a Ministry of Censorship that results in websites warning about cookies and the plutocracy having more rights, while in the USA evil corporations end up being immune to government because they contribute $$$ to our broken political system.)
I don't about you, but ESPN.com has so damn many up-to-the-minute highlight videos that I installed Flashblock long ago so I could selectively only play videos that I wanted to see instead of getting them involuntarily shoved down my throat with the volume blasted.
But roads are like your skin. Or like the tires on your car.
Roads absorb wear and tear. Roads need constant attention. Roads get potholes.
Your skin constantly grows and absorbs wear and tear. Tires absorb wear and tear and need replaced on a regular basis. Roads have to take a ton of abuse.
"Our roads need to be repaired almost constantly. How does this improve the situation? How about a dumb road that does it's job for 80 years straight?"
What the fuck?
Can't you see from the video that these roads are made from hexagons?
And they glow in the dark?
And if these roads get damaged, it can electrocute common nuisances like earthworms, birds, little kids and the like?
And all of these features are solar powered, so you know it is green (except for the toxic chemicals in the solar panels these things deposit in the water supply when it rains).
People like you are why we don't have progress and why some little kids in Asia are choking on smog and you don't care, which makes you a jerk!
Mr. Snowden is a young man, likes to use Linux and uses open source web browsers.
Of course his love of open source software, lead him down a dangerous path.
First he installs pop-up blockers, and later falls in love with FireFox and Ad-Block.
But his willingness to hurt the economy doesn't stop there, he starts "experimenting" with Bit-Torrent and then becomes addicted to "MegaUpload.com".
After the authorities were hot on his trail and about to arrest him for piracy and supporting software that harms the US economy, he does yet another illegal download -- this time abusing his position as contract worker for the NSA (despite them paying him handsomely) -- and downloads essentially materials for survelliance of world-wide terrorists.
He then abruptly flies to Hong Kong, where many ripped DVDs are freely available because it is part of China as a natural instinct.
Realizing China has business relations with the US, he is forced to flee to Russia where copyright law isn't recognized (think of "allofmp3.com"), where he will free to do as many illegal downloads as he pleases.
This "True Story", despite being a documentary is copyright (C) 2014 Sony Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
Aw shit, busted for reading TFA but not actually bothering to read any of the summary. Well, I was eager and didn't give a shit about the icing, I went straight for the cake, but I was dead on....
(So sue me... not literally, of course since these days --- well --- you know... )
Look, you probably don't realize this but everything you said is horseshit. You just don't know why.
The countries that have risen from out of the abyss in the last 30 years did it through jobs relating to export (Look at East Asia).
Exporting things to the rest of the world.
And let me tell you, food is certainly not what Africa will be exporting --- the rest of the world has heavy machinery that reduces the costs of food, Africa will never be able to compete against heavily capitalized nations in cost of food prices in production.
The permanently screwed up countries sell simple natural resources --- oil, diamonds, whatever --- and to fix Africa they need to be exporting something that is a product of at least semi-skilled labor.
Even child shoe assembly factories would be a start, as grotesque as that sounds.
Mainly because no matter how cool the prosthetic is, if you are minus a limb you still have a self-esteem blow that you don't want people thinking about your loss.
Despite it being the year 2014, humans are still largely the same group-think apes from 2000 years ago that will define you by how you are different from the other apes. And it might not even be "largely", it might even be "completely" even if the better behaved humans keep those thoughts to themselves.
(Woohoo! +1 for creative use of vegetable joke! No... really, the freemium model sucks and I'd rather pay a few bucks for a game for mobile/tablet -- but that isn't where the market is heading...)
I dug down to the source material because I wanted to see if they just managed to put this in the DNA or if it actually passes it down and it does.
But "alien" = no
From the article:
"the unnatural nucleoside triphosphates must be available inside the cell; endogenous polymerases must be able to use the unnatural triphosphates to faithfully replicate DNA containing the UBP within the complex cellular milieu; and finally, the UBP must be stable in the presence of pathways that maintain the integrity of DNA. Here we show that an exogenously expressed algal nucleotide triphosphate transporter efficiently imports the triphosphates of both d5SICS and dNaM (d5SICSTP and dNaMTP) into Escherichia coli"
Short version: It works because the particular building blocks are available in the cell for replication and the DNA repair mechanisms in the cell don't weed the modification out. Very significant stuff, but this isn't exactly "alien" or anything.
Calc is missing quite a few "1994" era Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 features. For light spreadsheet usage, Calc gets the job done and is free.
If it gets anything beyond base complexity, Excel is a time saver.
Writer on the other hand is far closer to being a peer of Word until you hit advanced stuff (which I personally almost never use). I will say options are easier to find in Microsoft Office.
His math is unchanged, but it *damaged* the ethical part of his brain and now he EXCELS at marketing and con-artistry and I heard he is now going to law school!
Slashdot Mirror
> Google Fiber. ... Do no evil my ass.
You miscalculated as both your ass and Google's ass need lots of fiber to be regular.
Your failure to understand this simple truth is your undoing.
>"7 day weeks is that your birthday will always land on the same day of the week. Born on Tuesday, your birthday will ALWAYS be on Tuesday"
I devised my own calendar and the main feature is every day is 84 hours long, and all of them are Tuesdays!
My new calendar solution > yours!
That is a load of bull!
.bat and bash files I've seen.
Debugging that would be child's play --- rename some cell ranges to give them names that that could be debugged thoroughly in 6 hours or less.
A similar program in a sloppy programming language would be infinitely obfuscated in function calls.
But frankly, this entire article is stupid. A spreadsheet is great for prototyping and if the shoe fits, then wear it.
The above formulas are child's play compared to nest javascript turdballs or even a lot of C++ I have seen written or common PHP.
Needless to say, several casuals have been tricked or dupped into thinking those formulas would be hard to debug and modded as such. And probably by the non-programmers that visit here that can be fooled by anything, the real veterans would quickly recognize how to de-spaghetti that "code" in minutes.
And how trivial compared to even some
No company has the responsibility to care about the economy at large. That is a function of government of the government.
Case in point, do you still buy Zip Drives or go buy Garth Brooks cds or pay for paper maps?
If not, you are as much of an asshat for undermining the economy --- or worse. You are hypocritical asshat, not willing to waste your own money while simultaneously saying it is OTHERS responsibility to do so.
But your responsibility as a consumer is your own interests, right? And likewise, so is a company's interests --- unless you think it is your right to deny that right to others while not doing it yourself.
Short version: you are a hypocrite.
>"Apparently, that is how capitalism is supposed to work."
You are quite correct. Even if it is sarcasm.
A company is the product of free market evolution, and a company *MUST* produce the maximum output with a minimum input.
The opposite of this is a governmental organization or a charity --- HP is not a governmental organization, nor a charity.
You are right even if it is for the wrong reasons.
Any honest company will tell you they do not exist to create jobs, just look at any of the Silicon Valley companies --- most of them exist to destroy jobs. P.S. Linux and open source don't exist to create jobs either, the goal of open source --- which is a noble one and the correct one --- is to expand freedom and reduce costs --- which *EXACTLY* what they should be doing.
I am not personally for increased costs for a commodity product --- an operating system or a work processor or a phone --- I want maximum utility at minimum cost.
Or shall you berate Wikipedia for putting major financial strain on the Encycopedia and book reference industry?
"Do not track"?
Everyone wants everything for free, and so there is advertising.
The entire idea of "do not track" was ludicrous.
Everyone wants their free lunches with no strings attached, but there will always be strings.
http://www.amazon.com/Running-...
"You are n00b because everything you are asking is in the man pages."
..."
--- Typical response anywhere when asking a "Linux question"
OR
"You shouldn't be using [insert your distro] you should be using [insert their distro] because [the distro you are using sucks and here is why]
"In fact, it's rather ironic that in one paragraph you attack the idea of protecting privacy as a form of censorship, yet in the very next paragraph you argue for government supervision and market regulation so that companies are not free to act as they wish."
The two aren't related in the slightest.
You might believe that "corporations" have "rights" --- but I sure as hell don't.
I also don't believe Lex Luthor or Dick Cheney or Kim Jong Korean Dude has the right to purge the internet of facts he finds inconvenient --- you might as well rule that big enough aholes can write and sculpt their wikipedia pages how they see fit.
Apparently, you seem to call that privacy --- but such a privacy when it is backed by money and lawyers isn't a right but rather a plutocracy where the size of one's purse is your right under law.
I think that stinks, but you seem to disagree.
There are a large number of things that Europe "gets right".
Europe doesn't realize that privacy in theory becomes censorship in practice.
There are a large number of things that the USA "gets right".
The USA doesn't realize an *unregulated* free market without *PROPER* government supervision means all companies merge into one company and then do really shitty things.
Which form of stupid to do you prefer: ___________ >>--- fill in your choice.
(This is my view of what happens, in Europe ultimately there ends up being a Ministry of Censorship that results in websites warning about cookies and the plutocracy having more rights, while in the USA evil corporations end up being immune to government because they contribute $$$ to our broken political system.)
Otherwise you watch ESPN after-game highlights
ESPN is cable.
I don't about you, but ESPN.com has so damn many up-to-the-minute highlight videos that I installed Flashblock long ago so I could selectively only play videos that I wanted to see instead of getting them involuntarily shoved down my throat with the volume blasted.
If you want to watch it live, you go friend's house or restaurant/bar to watch it.
Otherwise you watch ESPN after-game highlights which shows all the pivotal moments of the game in 5 easy minutes.
I'm all for new technology and experimentation.
But roads are like your skin. Or like the tires on your car.
Roads absorb wear and tear. Roads need constant attention. Roads get potholes.
Your skin constantly grows and absorbs wear and tear. Tires absorb wear and tear and need replaced on a regular basis. Roads have to take a ton of abuse.
"Our roads need to be repaired almost constantly. How does this improve the situation? How about a dumb road that does it's job for 80 years straight?"
What the fuck?
Can't you see from the video that these roads are made from hexagons?
And they glow in the dark?
And if these roads get damaged, it can electrocute common nuisances like earthworms, birds, little kids and the like?
And all of these features are solar powered, so you know it is green (except for the toxic chemicals in the solar panels these things deposit in the water supply when it rains).
People like you are why we don't have progress and why some little kids in Asia are choking on smog and you don't care, which makes you a jerk!
No worse, I have read the plot for the film:
Mr. Snowden is a young man, likes to use Linux and uses open source web browsers.
Of course his love of open source software, lead him down a dangerous path.
First he installs pop-up blockers, and later falls in love with FireFox and Ad-Block.
But his willingness to hurt the economy doesn't stop there, he starts "experimenting" with Bit-Torrent and then becomes addicted to "MegaUpload.com".
After the authorities were hot on his trail and about to arrest him for piracy and supporting software that harms the US economy, he does yet another illegal download -- this time abusing his position as contract worker for the NSA (despite them paying him handsomely) -- and downloads essentially materials for survelliance of world-wide terrorists.
He then abruptly flies to Hong Kong, where many ripped DVDs are freely available because it is part of China as a natural instinct.
Realizing China has business relations with the US, he is forced to flee to Russia where copyright law isn't recognized (think of "allofmp3.com"), where he will free to do as many illegal downloads as he pleases.
This "True Story", despite being a documentary is copyright (C) 2014 Sony Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
Aw shit, busted for reading TFA but not actually bothering to read any of the summary. Well, I was eager and didn't give a shit about the icing, I went straight for the cake, but I was dead on ....
... not literally, of course since these days --- well --- you know ... )
(So sue me
My guess. I didn't try hard. But the important question to everyone, is this A B C in the right order?
Look, you probably don't realize this but everything you said is horseshit. You just don't know why.
The countries that have risen from out of the abyss in the last 30 years did it through jobs relating to export (Look at East Asia).
Exporting things to the rest of the world.
And let me tell you, food is certainly not what Africa will be exporting --- the rest of the world has heavy machinery that reduces the costs of food, Africa will never be able to compete against heavily capitalized nations in cost of food prices in production.
The permanently screwed up countries sell simple natural resources --- oil, diamonds, whatever --- and to fix Africa they need to be exporting something that is a product of at least semi-skilled labor.
Even child shoe assembly factories would be a start, as grotesque as that sounds.
Mainly because no matter how cool the prosthetic is, if you are minus a limb you still have a self-esteem blow that you don't want people thinking about your loss.
Despite it being the year 2014, humans are still largely the same group-think apes from 2000 years ago that will define you by how you are different from the other apes. And it might not even be "largely", it might even be "completely" even if the better behaved humans keep those thoughts to themselves.
They won't just lettuce play for FREE!
... really, the freemium model sucks and I'd rather pay a few bucks for a game for mobile/tablet -- but that isn't where the market is heading ...)
(Woohoo! +1 for creative use of vegetable joke! No
I dug down to the source material because I wanted to see if they just managed to put this in the DNA or if it actually passes it down and it does.
But "alien" = no
From the article:
"the unnatural nucleoside triphosphates must be available inside the cell; endogenous polymerases must be able to use the unnatural triphosphates to faithfully replicate DNA containing the UBP within the complex cellular milieu; and finally, the UBP must be stable in the presence of pathways that maintain the integrity of DNA. Here we show that an exogenously expressed algal nucleotide triphosphate transporter efficiently imports the triphosphates of both d5SICS and dNaM (d5SICSTP and dNaMTP) into Escherichia coli"
Short version: It works because the particular building blocks are available in the cell for replication and the DNA repair mechanisms in the cell don't weed the modification out. Very significant stuff, but this isn't exactly "alien" or anything.
>"Stanford's coal stock is half of my country's annual state budget"
Big deal! My country has $18 billion more in debt since you posted that!
Calc is missing quite a few "1994" era Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 features. For light spreadsheet usage, Calc gets the job done and is free.
If it gets anything beyond base complexity, Excel is a time saver.
Writer on the other hand is far closer to being a peer of Word until you hit advanced stuff (which I personally almost never use). I will say options are easier to find in Microsoft Office.
His math is unchanged, but it *damaged* the ethical part of his brain and now he EXCELS at marketing and con-artistry and I heard he is now going to law school!
Netflix also has a motive here -- to create a barrier to entry to keep other smaller businesses out of streaming movies and TV shows for profit.