The best models that they have are ones that have as part of them global warming. Can you point us at other models that have produced better predictions ?
No, I thought not... so let us go with the best models that we have, even if they do have flaws.
Imagine all files and programs on my phone have labels on them.
There are that sort of thing, eg android sandboxes. However the problem is that when an application is installed it asks for access to more things than it rightly needs. End users just install it, without really being aware what the new application can do.
The crying shame in the UK is that many graduates cannot find real jobs and end up flipping burgers. If Putin ensures that they have a good chance of getting a job upon return to Russia - many will find that an attractive proposition and be more than willing to return.
Maybe the NSA isn't focused on capturing terrorists, but instead; manipulating elected officials.
A certain amount of that is very likely true: NSA/GCHQ officials will do what is needed to keep their funding. Since they deal in uncertain maybes (maybe if we do this we will catch another terrorist/paedophile) they just produce the documents to worry those who control the purse strings. Which elected official would want to be named as the one who cut the funding that let in a bomber/... ?
is why I have not had an elephant knock my fence down. The evidence is there - my fences have stood strong after I replaced them in the gales a couple of years ago. If I were to cut the tree down I would run the risk of damaged fences; it is far safer to keep the tree.
Likewise: we know that if the NSA had not been snooping then there would have been worse attacks than the Boston bombers, etc. They just have to deny their achievements to protect their effectiveness.
If they are reined in they will loudly tell everyone how it could have been prevented when the next attack happens.
(The fact that I live in urban England is surely irrelevant on the absence of elephants in my garden.)
If the students are not competent with the tools that they have then should your college not provide remedial classes ? They would if a student could not speak English (or whatever) or had problems in writing or maths. It should not be down to you as a professor in something (I assume not computing) to provide that education - but down to your college.
There is an unfortunate assumption made by many employers (also colleges, etc) that people do understand how to: use a computer file system; use a word processor; write emails that others can understand;... This is often false (or their knowledge is rudimentary) with the result that huge amounts of time are wasted. These skills need to be taught - unfortunately many school teachers that I have come across only have a hazy understanding themselves; these skills are rarely taught to adults.
whatever that monoculture is based on, especially in education. Pupils will just end up learning how to drive one device, become familiar with its applications (and implicitly whatever file formats and wire protocols underpin it) and conclude that everthing else is broken. They will then demand/expect future employers to use the same kit. We don't want the next 25 years to be dominated by Apple in the way that the last 25 years were dominated by Microsoft.
I even would not want a school system that had a monoculture based on some Linux distro, it is good for kids to have to understand what they are doing rather than just knowing which buttons to press - blindly. OK: Linux is not as bad since file formats & protocols are open and thus different products can compete.
I would never have seen this video if they had not been tried in a kangaroo court. What makes Dubai a laughing stock, the video or the prison sentences ?
So perhaps the answer is to now 'lobby' for more filtering, along the lines of what you suggest.
No, I am not suggesting more filtering. I am saying that to achieve what they claim they are trying to do they are going after the wrong targets. It should be the parents who know what their kids are up to.
This is, supposedly, what this is all about. So why not ban the ones that really cause damage: violent sites (people shooting people, stories about murder), religious sites (think of the guilt complex that many catholics have, islamic fundamentalist sites,...), facebook (nuff said),... ?
We will never agree on what causes damage, the current list has more to do with the daily mail tory electorate than any rational sense.
Putting it in a form that people are familiar with can make it an easier or more entertaining read. I first read Henry Spencer's 10 commandments for C programmers some 30 years ago. It was good then; it is still largely relevant with a few changes, eg: in commandment 10 substitute 'Intel' for 'VAX'; commandment 1: well the 'lint' function is usually available as a high warning level in most compilers.
Why didn't anyone else think of it before Apple? Well, the fryer pan people did.
Did Apple cite the deep pan use on their patent application ? If not then should they not be prosecuted for submitting a fraudulent patent application ? Use with 'electronic equipment' is hardly a reason for considering it novel
One problem with this is that some laptops take much more juice to run than others. So will the standard charger have to be powerful enough to feed the biggest laptop or will we get a range of, say, 3 -- which would be a good advance on what we have today if the same plug was used, so the most powerful PSU could be used with a light laptop, as long as a light PSU had a cutout to protect it from overload?
The specifications are protected from download by a password, so I can't check:-(
If it is not an asset and I were to sell some bitcoin, would I need to charge VAT (I am VAT registered as I am self employed) ? VAT is 20% in the UK at the moment, so it is a large cut. The person buying the bitcoin could reclaim VAT but only if they are VAT registered... it is getting complicated.
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It might be more accurate to draw the analogy of a social disease such as syphilis, one where people keep on infecting each other.
The best models that they have are ones that have as part of them global warming. Can you point us at other models that have produced better predictions ?
No, I thought not ... so let us go with the best models that we have, even if they do have flaws.
In the UK we use that sort of technology to tag petty criminals. Nice to know how the mouse views me!
Imagine all files and programs on my phone have labels on them.
There are that sort of thing, eg android sandboxes. However the problem is that when an application is installed it asks for access to more things than it rightly needs. End users just install it, without really being aware what the new application can do.
Poor space probe, I sympathise with it. What a day to wake up on!
The crying shame in the UK is that many graduates cannot find real jobs and end up flipping burgers. If Putin ensures that they have a good chance of getting a job upon return to Russia - many will find that an attractive proposition and be more than willing to return.
Of course in England, they are even more willing to give up their rights than Americans.
Some of us are apathetic, the rest are incensed are to how our government is acting as the USA's poodle.
Maybe the NSA isn't focused on capturing terrorists, but instead; manipulating elected officials.
A certain amount of that is very likely true: NSA/GCHQ officials will do what is needed to keep their funding. Since they deal in uncertain maybes (maybe if we do this we will catch another terrorist/paedophile) they just produce the documents to worry those who control the purse strings. Which elected official would want to be named as the one who cut the funding that let in a bomber/... ?
Fixing that on your PC will take me a couple of hours. The bottom of my garden needs a couple of hours digging. Do we have a deal ?
is why I have not had an elephant knock my fence down. The evidence is there - my fences have stood strong after I replaced them in the gales a couple of years ago. If I were to cut the tree down I would run the risk of damaged fences; it is far safer to keep the tree.
Likewise: we know that if the NSA had not been snooping then there would have been worse attacks than the Boston bombers, etc. They just have to deny their achievements to protect their effectiveness. If they are reined in they will loudly tell everyone how it could have been prevented when the next attack happens.
(The fact that I live in urban England is surely irrelevant on the absence of elephants in my garden.)
If the students are not competent with the tools that they have then should your college not provide remedial classes ? They would if a student could not speak English (or whatever) or had problems in writing or maths. It should not be down to you as a professor in something (I assume not computing) to provide that education - but down to your college.
There is an unfortunate assumption made by many employers (also colleges, etc) that people do understand how to: use a computer file system; use a word processor; write emails that others can understand; ... This is often false (or their knowledge is rudimentary) with the result that huge amounts of time are wasted. These skills need to be taught - unfortunately many school teachers that I have come across only have a hazy understanding themselves; these skills are rarely taught to adults.
whatever that monoculture is based on, especially in education. Pupils will just end up learning how to drive one device, become familiar with its applications (and implicitly whatever file formats and wire protocols underpin it) and conclude that everthing else is broken. They will then demand/expect future employers to use the same kit. We don't want the next 25 years to be dominated by Apple in the way that the last 25 years were dominated by Microsoft.
I even would not want a school system that had a monoculture based on some Linux distro, it is good for kids to have to understand what they are doing rather than just knowing which buttons to press - blindly. OK: Linux is not as bad since file formats & protocols are open and thus different products can compete.
And always test for the null set.
I once tried to get the following into some coding standards, unfortunately I failed: Every program and function should do nothing correctly
Ie does it also apply to the top level of management, or does it only apply to lower level, dispensible, minions ?
I would never have seen this video if they had not been tried in a kangaroo court. What makes Dubai a laughing stock, the video or the prison sentences ?
It also blocks the Tory's (also known as Conservatives) own web site: http://www.conservatives.com/Splash.aspx under Parental Control. The irony is delicious!
selfies ?
So perhaps the answer is to now 'lobby' for more filtering, along the lines of what you suggest.
No, I am not suggesting more filtering. I am saying that to achieve what they claim they are trying to do they are going after the wrong targets. It should be the parents who know what their kids are up to.
This is, supposedly, what this is all about. So why not ban the ones that really cause damage: violent sites (people shooting people, stories about murder), religious sites (think of the guilt complex that many catholics have, islamic fundamentalist sites, ...), facebook (nuff said), ... ?
We will never agree on what causes damage, the current list has more to do with the daily mail tory electorate than any rational sense.
Putting it in a form that people are familiar with can make it an easier or more entertaining read. I first read Henry Spencer's 10 commandments for C programmers some 30 years ago. It was good then; it is still largely relevant with a few changes, eg: in commandment 10 substitute 'Intel' for 'VAX'; commandment 1: well the 'lint' function is usually available as a high warning level in most compilers.
Why didn't anyone else think of it before Apple? Well, the fryer pan people did.
Did Apple cite the deep pan use on their patent application ? If not then should they not be prosecuted for submitting a fraudulent patent application ? Use with 'electronic equipment' is hardly a reason for considering it novel
One problem with this is that some laptops take much more juice to run than others. So will the standard charger have to be powerful enough to feed the biggest laptop or will we get a range of, say, 3 -- which would be a good advance on what we have today if the same plug was used, so the most powerful PSU could be used with a light laptop, as long as a light PSU had a cutout to protect it from overload?
The specifications are protected from download by a password, so I can't check :-(
I doubt that the likes of Apple would adopt this.
I have just received the 3rd copy of his December newsletter - all to the one email address that he has for me. I don't know what is happening.
If it is not an asset and I were to sell some bitcoin, would I need to charge VAT (I am VAT registered as I am self employed) ? VAT is 20% in the UK at the moment, so it is a large cut. The person buying the bitcoin could reclaim VAT but only if they are VAT registered ... it is getting complicated.
Of course, this would be somewhat complex, and require some fancy software architecture since ARMs aren't binary-compatible with x86-64s.
Make all the CPUs ARM and use Big.Little that allows you to seamlessly switch to a low power CPU on the same chip when not much is happening.