Currently she is building the world's largest strip mine, for brown coal, as a replacement for the nuclear plants that she closed to assuage the Greens after Fukushima. So at some point between now and 2100 a new and magical energy source will appear to make all that coal unnecessary without the use of nuclear?
"Most cars are sitting on the side of the road, in garages, or in parking lots most of the time too. I only drive my car 30 minutes every 24 hours."
So wouldn't there be a market for an app that would keep a lot of those idle cars in circulation, making rental income for their owners instead of occupying scarce city parking spaces?
--Oh, wait - this is New York City, where the medallion cabdrivers would send you to sleep with the fishes for even bringing up the idea.
This was my reaction also. Siegel writes like a sheltered Millennial who has not yet experienced the need to make his own way in the world. We're sympathetic because we know how screwed today's young people are by those astronomical tuitions everywhere they go. But wait - he is actually a 57-year-old Boomer, nearing the end of his career. He was educated in a time when a student had to seriously intend to overpay for college.
So he has had a middlebrow, forgettable career being, according to his bio:
"...a New York writer and cultural critic who has written for Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate..."
and has decided, doubtless given the cultural tenor of these publications, to stick it to the plebeians from his New York Elysium orbiting retreat. The prosecution rests.
It's a question of the same kind that we asked at the end of the 19th Century: "If light is more a wave than a particle, then what's it a wave in?" Hence, the invocation of a hypothetical medium called luminiferous aether.
As though stepping through an airport scanner compares to being thrown off a roof for one's sexual orientation.Small wonder that everyone is laughing at the moral equivalence liberals.
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"I'm still scratching my head over the use of "she" instead of "they" in that sentence."
It's Corpspeak. You have to use a precisely equal number of male and female pronouns, even when that means shifting gender confusingly back and forth throughout your Powerpoint presentation. But if your presentation contains a example of bad procedure, you have to use a male pronoun at that point ("If the nurse were to stick his finger in the 220V socket during Step 5...")
Doctors don't like the move to electronic records because it threatens the medical cartel. They see only too well what the Internet has done for Fungibility Of Things.
OR...we could get good at GMO technology and develop pigs that grow human organs cloned from specific people in need, so that after transplantation you wouldn't have to spend the rest of your life with no more immune system.
An interesting long-term effect of technology like this would be the gradual displacement of the anti-GMO crowd by adverse selection.
An API extends the function (not the syntax) of a language by allowing its users to do more things in some standard manner. Oracle can copyright the code with which it implements the API, but so far not the names and calling sequences it chooses for its library.
"They are climate models, not weather models, so that they don't work so well for weather prediction is no surprise. Good thing nobody is claiming that then, eh?"
Unfortunately those media popularizers of carbon warming love to use it as their latest club against civilization and, ultimately, the human species itself. So they do nothing but claim that every kind of weather is evidence of carbon warming. They love to predict drought, because in most parts of the world that is the worst kind of weather. But they claimed last winter's Northern chill and Boston record snowfall also - no more of that wimpy "Weather is not climate" stuff. Now they are laying claim to the flooding in Texas, and I wouldn't doubt by next week, yesterday's torrential rain in Arizona.
Google copied the name and calling sequences in the API, not Oracle's code. Since a code library is a functional extension of the language the API is for, Oracle is attempting to extend the concept of copyright to elements of the language itself. If it can do that, we lose another big chunk of our freedoms.
Let me rephrase that: Global warming as enunciated by media popularizers is untestable.
The best evidence that it exists is melting of long-term ice in different parts of the world. But as a theory, in which you can predict specific weather changes when you feed it new observational data and then turn the crank, it's a complete failure.
If all Google has done is re-impolement the API using Oracle's names and calling sequences but its own code, then Oracle has no case. Or rather, the logical, nerdly conclusion would be that it has no case. Judges and lawyers may think otherwise.
This is actually a thing, in case you didn't know. It's just that the stars are having the poop "transplanted" by enema, rather than by eating it: http://thefecaltransplantfound...
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Increasingly, "government overreach" is getting to be a redundancy.
Sure, but will the flat-earth lobby be any more inclined to let us have them?
Currently she is building the world's largest strip mine, for brown coal, as a replacement for the nuclear plants that she closed to assuage the Greens after Fukushima. So at some point between now and 2100 a new and magical energy source will appear to make all that coal unnecessary without the use of nuclear?
There is one 2016 candidate who opposes the secrecy of the TPP:
http://thehill.com/policy/fina...
"Most cars are sitting on the side of the road, in garages, or in parking lots most of the time too. I only drive my car 30 minutes every 24 hours."
So wouldn't there be a market for an app that would keep a lot of those idle cars in circulation, making rental income for their owners instead of occupying scarce city parking spaces?
--Oh, wait - this is New York City, where the medallion cabdrivers would send you to sleep with the fishes for even bringing up the idea.
"In what way?"
Because NFC was cool only when Europeans had it, but nobody else did. A US company supporting it makes it evil and corporate.
This was my reaction also. Siegel writes like a sheltered Millennial who has not yet experienced the need to make his own way in the world. We're sympathetic because we know how screwed today's young people are by those astronomical tuitions everywhere they go. But wait - he is actually a 57-year-old Boomer, nearing the end of his career. He was educated in a time when a student had to seriously intend to overpay for college.
So he has had a middlebrow, forgettable career being, according to his bio:
"...a New York writer and cultural critic who has written for Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate..."
and has decided, doubtless given the cultural tenor of these publications, to stick it to the plebeians from his New York Elysium orbiting retreat. The prosecution rests.
It's a question of the same kind that we asked at the end of the 19th Century: "If light is more a wave than a particle, then what's it a wave in?" Hence, the invocation of a hypothetical medium called luminiferous aether.
But it's the wimpy French form of bullfighting, in which you just annoy the bull.
But we're just as bad, because Windows 8.1 .
As though stepping through an airport scanner compares to being thrown off a roof for one's sexual orientation.Small wonder that everyone is laughing at the moral equivalence liberals.
Latest data says the sail is deployed:
http://spaceflightnow.com/2015...
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I thought it was "...the body of a spider and the head of a social worker."
"I'm still scratching my head over the use of "she" instead of "they" in that sentence."
It's Corpspeak. You have to use a precisely equal number of male and female pronouns, even when that means shifting gender confusingly back and forth throughout your Powerpoint presentation. But if your presentation contains a example of bad procedure, you have to use a male pronoun at that point ("If the nurse were to stick his finger in the 220V socket during Step 5...")
Doctors don't like the move to electronic records because it threatens the medical cartel. They see only too well what the Internet has done for Fungibility Of Things.
OR...we could get good at GMO technology and develop pigs that grow human organs cloned from specific people in need, so that after transplantation you wouldn't have to spend the rest of your life with no more immune system.
An interesting long-term effect of technology like this would be the gradual displacement of the anti-GMO crowd by adverse selection.
Oops - you seem to have recorded this link on vinyl.
An API extends the function (not the syntax) of a language by allowing its users to do more things in some standard manner. Oracle can copyright the code with which it implements the API, but so far not the names and calling sequences it chooses for its library.
"They are climate models, not weather models, so that they don't work so well for weather prediction is no surprise. Good thing nobody is claiming that then, eh?"
Unfortunately those media popularizers of carbon warming love to use it as their latest club against civilization and, ultimately, the human species itself. So they do nothing but claim that every kind of weather is evidence of carbon warming. They love to predict drought, because in most parts of the world that is the worst kind of weather. But they claimed last winter's Northern chill and Boston record snowfall also - no more of that wimpy "Weather is not climate" stuff. Now they are laying claim to the flooding in Texas, and I wouldn't doubt by next week, yesterday's torrential rain in Arizona.
Google copied the name and calling sequences in the API, not Oracle's code. Since a code library is a functional extension of the language the API is for, Oracle is attempting to extend the concept of copyright to elements of the language itself. If it can do that, we lose another big chunk of our freedoms.
Let me rephrase that: Global warming as enunciated by media popularizers is untestable.
The best evidence that it exists is melting of long-term ice in different parts of the world. But as a theory, in which you can predict specific weather changes when you feed it new observational data and then turn the crank, it's a complete failure.
Yes! This article better not be an attempt to keep the 'dark matter' handwave going for another generation without direct proof.
If all Google has done is re-impolement the API using Oracle's names and calling sequences but its own code, then Oracle has no case. Or rather, the logical, nerdly conclusion would be that it has no case. Judges and lawyers may think otherwise.
This is actually a thing, in case you didn't know. It's just that the stars are having the poop "transplanted" by enema, rather than by eating it:
http://thefecaltransplantfound...