I'm wondering how they get there in the first place
The same way they get into any other cell. Eggs, like all cells, are produced by cell division. It's not exactly the same process (meiosis rather than mitosis) but many aspects are the same.
My most successful Valentine's day ever didn't involved doing nothing, but it did involve doing none of the things that we're told we should do. We got some beers and sushi to take home, then spent the evening consuming them and watching porn (and having sex, of course). She loved it, precisely because it wasn't "production-line romance".
Do you actually know your PIN? I just remember the shape of the key sequence I need to press - it's all in "muscle memory". I have to think quite hard to know what the actual numbers are so I'd be pretty much stuck with the interface you suggest:)
Okay Anonymous Coward, try looking at it this way: making light of particular bad news is just a symptom of a world view that would rather not worry about bad news in general. Nobody (that I know of) makes jokes about September 11th because they think September 11th was a personal loss. Plenty of people make jokes about September 11th because it's a stark reminder that, however hard we try, humanity is still a messed up bunch of animals and we'll all still be dead in the end. They'd rather treat death the same way as anything else life throws at them, instead of investing in the same stock of emotions the media deal out just like with any other tragedy.
As for Steve Irwin, he seemed to be a great guy and I hope that everyone who knew him finds their way to deal with his death.
... and still keep a straight face? "2.0" is surely the most risible buzzword ever conceived. Everyone with any sense realises that it's just a short way of saying "with more hype and less quality".
I dismissed the relevance of the lists on the basis of the magazine's title. When I checked my dismissal, I found I was correct to do so.
Okay maybe I'm just a retard, but Visio for easily designing and prototyping? It's the most f*cking sh*t piece of diagramming software I've ever had the misfortune to have to use. Visio makes it incredibly hard to build a diagram where the arrows go where they're meant to and the text doesn't flow over arrows and other text. The list of basic layout tasks that it fails to automate is longer than the list of tasks that it does in fact automate.
Using Visio for designs is like using Project for management. It just doesn't do you any favours.
The difference is that if you have to go and ask in person to look at a someone's details, then the county knows who's looking at whose records. It also limits the set of people to whom the information is available, to just those within driving distance.
Making all the data so widely available in such an impersonal way is going to make it orders of magnitude harder to work out who has abused knowledge of a particular person's information.
That is a very neat explanation. Earlier posts described the ring oscillator as a "proof of concept" or similar, but you have successully taken advantage of a better-known concept to be both more concise and more lucid.
OS X may or may not be more secure that Windows. In fact, it could be less secure. Either way, at present OS X is a safer choice for a user, simply because there isn't so much (any?) malicious code that targets it.
So if you give the author the benefit of the doubt, and assume that by "safe" he meant "safe for a user to connect to the internet" rather than "secure", then his point stands.
In a world where predators attack X but not Y, it's safer to be a Y than an X even if an X has more armour. The concern is that if Y becomes interesting enough to be attacked, then it's really in trouble.
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I completely agree. Switching from "1.0" to "2.0" technologies loses you as much as it gains. You win:
Some portability. I reckon AJAX is little more portable than Java (if at all) because no two Web browsers are ever quite the same; you're just dealing with differences between browsers rather than differences between OSes.
No installation step. Users can launch your application just by following a hyperlink.
You lose:
All the accessibility mechanisms that OS GUI frameworks have. Everyone loves GMail, but navigating around it without a mouse is a real pain. No hotkeys, and an unpredictable tab order.
Proper control of the layout of your UI.
A whole lot of performance.
Of course, you could implement the missing parts yourself, but the extra layer of abstraction that is "Web 2.0" remains pointless. To my mind, a far better approach would be to push the advantages of AJAX down onto the platform, rather than push the advantages of the platform up into AJAX.
For example you could use things like Java Web Start, or the OSGI framework that underpins Eclipse, to simplify product installation. Once you've got that, you can build a much more flexible application that integrates better with the host OS and runs that much closer to the hardware.
I strongly suspect that the whole "Web 2.0" idea is only creating any hype because Web designers have now realised that they can create relatively complex applications without having to learn anything new.
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You stole my joke :-/
My most successful Valentine's day ever didn't involved doing nothing, but it did involve doing none of the things that we're told we should do. We got some beers and sushi to take home, then spent the evening consuming them and watching porn (and having sex, of course). She loved it, precisely because it wasn't "production-line romance".
That redundancy is probably pretty helpful when it comes to working out what was actually meant, instead of what was said/written.
Do you actually know your PIN? I just remember the shape of the key sequence I need to press - it's all in "muscle memory". I have to think quite hard to know what the actual numbers are so I'd be pretty much stuck with the interface you suggest :)
Technically that would be irony. Sarcasm (from the Greek for "tearing flesh") has offensive intent by definition.
I'd be tempted to leave a message at this number ... but for all I know, it's the number of someone unrelated whom you just happen not to like :)
This is undeniably off-topic, but I love your use of "Google" and "mainframe" in the same sentence :-)
Okay Anonymous Coward, try looking at it this way: making light of particular bad news is just a symptom of a world view that would rather not worry about bad news in general. Nobody (that I know of) makes jokes about September 11th because they think September 11th was a personal loss. Plenty of people make jokes about September 11th because it's a stark reminder that, however hard we try, humanity is still a messed up bunch of animals and we'll all still be dead in the end. They'd rather treat death the same way as anything else life throws at them, instead of investing in the same stock of emotions the media deal out just like with any other tragedy.
As for Steve Irwin, he seemed to be a great guy and I hope that everyone who knew him finds their way to deal with his death.
Will investing in rubber plantations rather than biofuel crops do less environmental damage?
One would have to assume that federal investigations are relatively rare in the UK.
Well, technically it's irony unless it's meant to be offensive. (The word sarcasm comes from Greek for 'tearing flesh'.) But enough of this pedantism.
Could this be the new self-killer?
... and still keep a straight face? "2.0" is surely the most risible buzzword ever conceived. Everyone with any sense realises that it's just a short way of saying "with more hype and less quality".
I dismissed the relevance of the lists on the basis of the magazine's title. When I checked my dismissal, I found I was correct to do so.
Hmm, is this going to be supported on Hurd?
That said, roads and cars in the US are spectacularly crap :-)
Using Visio for designs is like using Project for management. It just doesn't do you any favours.
(end of rant)
The difference is that if you have to go and ask in person to look at a someone's details, then the county knows who's looking at whose records. It also limits the set of people to whom the information is available, to just those within driving distance.
Making all the data so widely available in such an impersonal way is going to make it orders of magnitude harder to work out who has abused knowledge of a particular person's information.
That is a very neat explanation. Earlier posts described the ring oscillator as a "proof of concept" or similar, but you have successully taken advantage of a better-known concept to be both more concise and more lucid.
Google using Linux doesn't make it more viable; it demonstrates Linux's existing viability in a very high-profile way.
I'm not even a Linux fanboy, but really: do your research.
Then read Foundation by Asimov. Sure, it's fiction, but it makes the motivation very clear. And it's a good book too.
I'm not using a non-MS browser, and it's still dog slow. Windows Live? Only just. Windows Terminally Ill, perhaps.
In three years I never really saw the evidence just by walking around Cambridge. It's not like autist are prolific graffiti artists or anything...
So if you give the author the benefit of the doubt, and assume that by "safe" he meant "safe for a user to connect to the internet" rather than "secure", then his point stands.
In a world where predators attack X but not Y, it's safer to be a Y than an X even if an X has more armour. The concern is that if Y becomes interesting enough to be attacked, then it's really in trouble.
You lose:
Of course, you could implement the missing parts yourself, but the extra layer of abstraction that is "Web 2.0" remains pointless. To my mind, a far better approach would be to push the advantages of AJAX down onto the platform, rather than push the advantages of the platform up into AJAX.
For example you could use things like Java Web Start, or the OSGI framework that underpins Eclipse, to simplify product installation. Once you've got that, you can build a much more flexible application that integrates better with the host OS and runs that much closer to the hardware.
I strongly suspect that the whole "Web 2.0" idea is only creating any hype because Web designers have now realised that they can create relatively complex applications without having to learn anything new.