The researcher interviewed on the NPR story said <paraphrase>living on a farm during the first year of life reduced the likelihood of having allergies later in life</paraphrase>
He went on to say that living on a farm later in life did nothing, it had to be in the first year.
I usually get three or four status updates when I track a package: The first is usually something like "package left Wichita, Kansas facility." Two or three days later I see "Arrived in Marieta, Georgia facility." Then "package is out for delivery." A couple hours after delivery there's a "package delivered" update.
That's a damn far cry from knowing where it is at any given moment.
India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
That's what people see both because there's more of it around to see, and because the rich-poor divide is even wider in India than it is in other nations. While many of the descendants of the Raj continue to live opulent lifestyles surrounded by servants, whole swaths of the Indian population lives in a degree of squalor and dirt which you don't even see in most developed nations.
The fact that there's a lot of money in India doesn't stop large portions of its population from living in abject poverty.
Obvious man is obvious.
But I wasn't referring to the wealth of selected individuals. India's GDP and the money the government collects in taxes make it a fairly wealthy country by almost any measure.
It looks like they fulfilled the Requirements. Also, they pray to an elephant god, so that has to help.
There. Fixed that for you. Sort of. Hindus have several gods, only one of which is an elephant. There are also 150M+ Christians, and 125M+ Muslims living in India who don't pray to any Hindu gods.
I say cut off their aid money, if they've got so much laying around to spend on this.
Time to put the begging bowl away guys.
$93M in 2013 – that's not really much. And you know what? India has been asking us – the US and Britain – to stop. They don't want it. They don't need it.
India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
Yeah except for the whole fact that almost no developers use Linux or BSD, so all the trade offs made to support those crappy development platforms will hurt the people who use it on real OS's.
Keep thinking like that. More job security for me.
What I don't get is how someone would think of the idea of having a birdlike wing. Wouldn't it always be better to have a winglike wing?
If you want a birdlike wing you might as well get a birdlike bird.
Maybe you could get a batlike wing? Or a an F18 fighter jetlike wing? Or a pteranodonlike wing?
whudyathink?
Yes, actually they do think otherwise. It so happens that I'm employed by one of those companies.
The statement was "...making money with software.", and that's exactly what those companies do, they make money with software, by selling support.
If you want to narrow the definition of what Microsoft does to something like 'selling shrink-wrap software' then you've got a different story. And Microsoft make money other ways too, they aren't just a shrink-wrap software seller.
The main reason for going with closed source is... that it allows making money with software. Open source works only if you have something else to sell along it.
Red Hat, SuSE, and Canonical seem to think otherwise.
Microsoft has agreed to let European governments review the source code of its products to assure that they don't contain security backdoors, at a transparency center in Brussels.
Open source software has agreed to let anyone review the source code to ensure that they don't contain security back doors, at transparency centers everywhere.
As if I'd trust my government to be sure the software I use doesn't have the back doors they paid to have put in.
Why don't they charge him with sexual misconduct? Because they don't think they can win the case.
They didn't charge Al Capon with bootlegging or murder. They charged him with tax evasion. Because that's the charge they could make stick.
Obviously the prosecutors don't think they can make a sexual misconduct case stick.
Yeah, I get em too. There's a delete button on my mail readerl. I use it.
Wait for the next recession. It'll stop then, I promise; you'll wish you were getting those emails then.
The last time I looked, which was quite a few years ago TBH, the BSDs have, IIRC, less than 100 lines of x86 assembly, in the bootstrap. It's really only there to manage loading at the right address and then jumps into C code. Maybe there's some more bits scattered in other places too, IDK. Bottom line is that there's just not a lot of time spent in code written in assembly.
What the fsck is in the Linux kernel that could be sped up?
IBM knew exactly what Germany was doing with them. And it was against the law to sell to Germany. IBM mastered of skirting both the laws of the US and Germany, – to get tabulators into Germany and the profits out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
You seem to assume that I'm driving negligently or recklessly. Just because it's a muscle car with a big motor? Why should I have to take my street legal car to a track just to drive it? I pay taxes to maintain roads on which to drive my cars. If it was safe enough to drive it – responsibly – on the public roads in 1968, it's still safe 47 years later IMO.
Smarmy "Was that so difficult" comments are just, well, smarmy. Next time save that for your spot at open mike night at the comedy club.
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The researcher interviewed on the NPR story said <paraphrase>living on a farm during the first year of life reduced the likelihood of having allergies later in life</paraphrase>
He went on to say that living on a farm later in life did nothing, it had to be in the first year.
Ha ha ha. I call bullshit.
I usually get three or four status updates when I track a package: The first is usually something like "package left Wichita, Kansas facility." Two or three days later I see "Arrived in Marieta, Georgia facility." Then "package is out for delivery." A couple hours after delivery there's a "package delivered" update.
That's a damn far cry from knowing where it is at any given moment.
India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
That's what people see both because there's more of it around to see, and because the rich-poor divide is even wider in India than it is in other nations. While many of the descendants of the Raj continue to live opulent lifestyles surrounded by servants, whole swaths of the Indian population lives in a degree of squalor and dirt which you don't even see in most developed nations.
The fact that there's a lot of money in India doesn't stop large portions of its population from living in abject poverty.
Obvious man is obvious. But I wasn't referring to the wealth of selected individuals. India's GDP and the money the government collects in taxes make it a fairly wealthy country by almost any measure.
Meh. The actual numbers aren't the point.
It looks like they fulfilled the Requirements. Also, they pray to an elephant god, so that has to help.
There. Fixed that for you. Sort of. Hindus have several gods, only one of which is an elephant. There are also 150M+ Christians, and 125M+ Muslims living in India who don't pray to any Hindu gods.
I say cut off their aid money, if they've got so much laying around to spend on this.
Time to put the begging bowl away guys.
$93M in 2013 – that's not really much. And you know what? India has been asking us – the US and Britain – to stop. They don't want it. They don't need it. India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
Yeah except for the whole fact that almost no developers use Linux or BSD, so all the trade offs made to support those crappy development platforms will hurt the people who use it on real OS's.
Keep thinking like that. More job security for me.
What I don't get is how someone would think of the idea of having a birdlike wing. Wouldn't it always be better to have a winglike wing? If you want a birdlike wing you might as well get a birdlike bird.
Maybe you could get a batlike wing? Or a an F18 fighter jetlike wing? Or a pteranodonlike wing? whudyathink?
I bet The Register will get it right.
IRC, email, phone.... Makes me wonder what they're really doing.
Yes, actually they do think otherwise. It so happens that I'm employed by one of those companies.
The statement was "...making money with software.", and that's exactly what those companies do, they make money with software, by selling support.
If you want to narrow the definition of what Microsoft does to something like 'selling shrink-wrap software' then you've got a different story. And Microsoft make money other ways too, they aren't just a shrink-wrap software seller.
The main reason for going with closed source is ... that it allows making money with software. Open source works only if you have something else to sell along it.
Red Hat, SuSE, and Canonical seem to think otherwise.
just saying'
Microsoft has agreed to let European governments review the source code of its products to assure that they don't contain security backdoors, at a transparency center in Brussels.
Open source software has agreed to let anyone review the source code to ensure that they don't contain security back doors, at transparency centers everywhere.
As if I'd trust my government to be sure the software I use doesn't have the back doors they paid to have put in.
Where do you see me ascribing hints of merit, competency, or decency?
A: you don't. But you sure were quick to jump to the "evil federal prosecutor" meme. Maybe it's you that's biased?
By the same token don't assume that I don't think Hastert isn't a scumbag either.
Why don't they charge him with sexual misconduct? Because they don't think they can win the case. They didn't charge Al Capon with bootlegging or murder. They charged him with tax evasion. Because that's the charge they could make stick. Obviously the prosecutors don't think they can make a sexual misconduct case stick.
It created tons of revenue for Haliburton and Blackwater.
While paying their CEOs obscene salaries[1].
which was exactly the point of the war.
ftfy
[1]http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/12/EBC3.html, e.g.
Yeah, I get em too. There's a delete button on my mail readerl. I use it. Wait for the next recession. It'll stop then, I promise; you'll wish you were getting those emails then.
What the fsck is in the Linux kernel _assembly_ that could be sped up?
Before some anal retentive navel gazer starts obsessing over my omission.
> There are over 100 separate ... speedups
The last time I looked, which was quite a few years ago TBH, the BSDs have, IIRC, less than 100 lines of x86 assembly, in the bootstrap. It's really only there to manage loading at the right address and then jumps into C code. Maybe there's some more bits scattered in other places too, IDK. Bottom line is that there's just not a lot of time spent in code written in assembly.
What the fsck is in the Linux kernel that could be sped up?
You mean they plugged it into a Kill-a-watt? I'm sure nobody every did that before.
Okay, research paid for with my tax dollars.
Where can I download it?
Or do these guys (and gals) think they're going to hide this away in a startup and try to get rich from it?
And the Germans weren't tabulating medical data either.
IBM knew exactly what Germany was doing with them. And it was against the law to sell to Germany. IBM mastered of skirting both the laws of the US and Germany, – to get tabulators into Germany and the profits out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
You seem to assume that I'm driving negligently or recklessly. Just because it's a muscle car with a big motor? Why should I have to take my street legal car to a track just to drive it? I pay taxes to maintain roads on which to drive my cars. If it was safe enough to drive it – responsibly – on the public roads in 1968, it's still safe 47 years later IMO.
Smarmy "Was that so difficult" comments are just, well, smarmy. Next time save that for your spot at open mike night at the comedy club.
The fittest genes – edited or not – will survive. Ivory tower academics debating whether we should edit or not won't stop it from happening.