That's not it. San Jose isn't much less expensive than SF. The construction to expand Moscone Center means there's no room for events. Read Question #1 in the FAQ.
Lies. Cross-breeding can result in poisonous plants [boingboing.net], and the random nature of it makes it harder to control than GMO.
That's a pretty strange statement, considering a lot of lab-conducted GMO research is way less "high tech" than most people think. Often, it just involves taking a sample and blasting it with some form of radiation, or some chemical bath, to cause it to mutate. That's about at random as it comes. And even intentional attempts to splice specific genes involves a lot of trial and error. Once you have something you think is good, though, you just breed like with like.
TL;DR neither method of producing new species is particularly scarier than the other.
I was a fuck-up in high school. I took geometry three times. Later in life I picked it back up again, went through Algebra 2, trigonometry, and on to calculus, but I dropped out there because it all had become too time-consuming.
Ironically, I've never had any cause to use anything past geometry. Turns out geometry is pretty damn useful in real life... proportions, the Pythagorean theorem, the concept of three points determining a plane, circular geometry with pi, all very useful for designing and building real-world stuff. And understanding geometric proofs gives you a good foundation in the logical thought processes that will help you with stuff like computer programming.
How do you know, by looking at your watch vs your phone, that the unknown phone calling you is not the hospital emergency room calling you because a loved one was just in an accident?
But if the phone is showing you an unknown number, how does that help you vs. seeing an unknown number on your watch?
Most newer car stereo systems have Bluetooth connectivity to your phone so you can see who is calling you and even answer the phone hands-free without ever touching your phone.
But that solution would require carrying a car stereo system to parties. Wearing a watch is less hassle.
Eh, the catch is that you need to have an active Facebook account. That's obvious, right? No need to go looking for some devious motive when the upside is staring you right in the face.
There are over 7 billion people on this planet, we can afford to lose a few, especially ones as dumb as this.
Ignoring for now the blatantly sociopathic nature of your comments, shouldn't it be the stupid person who suffers, and not the helpless child who depends upon that person for health care? Maybe the child isn't as stupid as the parent?
1. If you have thousands of stored procs and/or other customizations (I've done a couple of custom aggregate functions that were pretty sweet).
This is a thing. People who write PHP scripts tend to think of a database as just a big closet where you store data until you need it again. You pull it back out and then you go do something with it (with PHP). But there's another school of app dev where any manipulations done on any stored data should be done by the database itself, and that the appropriate place to store that application logic is in stored procedures. There actually are good arguments to be made in favor of that type of design. But because pretty much nobody uses "standard SQL," it gets you locked into a given platform pretty quickly.
At this point you have to be mentally ill to develop anything new around Oracle and most of their business is legacy. They keep reporting double digit declines in new licenses.
You've hit the nail. They report declines in new licenses but they claim these are offset by gains in cloud subscriptions. What is Oracle's primary cloud IaaS product? Oracle Database hosted in Oracle's cloud. Now go back and reread TFA summary.
That stylus going over the record each time you play it? Yeah, that's degrading the signal. Every. Single. Time.
But only minimally so, unless you have a pretty crappy turntable, or one that's improperly aligned. The wear and tear on cassette tapes from playing them is greater than the wear and tear on records.
And the artwork isn't any better just because you print it on a larger piece of cardboard.
But that is not an empirically true statement, is it?
In addition to the larger artwork, I also enjoy having albums divided up into two or more sides, each with its own unique track listing. Believe it or not, songs don't play in the order they do just at random.
I also enjoy the various ways vinyl itself can be presented... colors, swirls, etchings, holograms, etc. Much better than a silk-screened picture on one side of a piece of plastic.
I like the act of physically handling the records, pulling them in and out of sleeves, flipping them over, and so forth. Much more enjoyable than opening a tray and dropping a CD in... or just pushing a couple of buttons.
To me, playing records is an enjoyable activity. Firing up some MP3s, on the other hand, feels like an afterthought. It's just background noise.
This obsession with obsolete and empirically inferior technology is baffling.
"Empirically inferior"? If I can accept that a vinyl LP may not sound as good as the same CD on the same soundsystem, but I choose to buy records anyway, how do you support your claim? Apparently I still have some reason to buy them. What is it?
No. They kind of pretended it was, but it was actually a completely separate product that Adobe acquired from a company called FutureSplash. Later on, they rolled it into the Shockwave plugin along with support for Shockwave for Director.
Nah, it's better than that. It's like the GP says; the field of vision is very small. Imagine an invisible wall. Now put a window in the wall. You can only see the AR objects if you look through the window. If you look at the wall, you see nothing (you don't even see a wall; remember, it's invisible). That's the best that I can explain it.
Does that mean the results don't meet the hype? Yes, depending on what you think the hype actually was. Microsoft never sold this as a consumer product. It was only offered to developers with a very high price tag. There was never any suggestion that this version of the product would be made available broadly.
Hopefully they're going after the innumerable "satire" sites, where they act like they're copying The Onion but there's absolutely nothing funny about the stories except that nothing in them is true. Facebook is rife with people passing those around, not realizing that they're fakes -- and the site's excuse is always, "Zing! We gotcha... it was saaaaatire."
They don't do any manufacturing in any of these buildings... so ALL of this would appear to be for the purposing of coding software, designing things, or providing user support.
You seem to be ignoring the need for multiple layers of middle management, floors dedicated to designing overpriced headphones, and the thousands of people it takes to run the universe's leading online digital storefronts!
Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and leaving for better paying jobs at competitors anyway.
So do the math. Which is better, from the employer's perspective: Paying to train employees and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors, or letting the employees cover the cost of that training themselves?
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Well, technically you could have them line up for comment.
That's not it. San Jose isn't much less expensive than SF. The construction to expand Moscone Center means there's no room for events. Read Question #1 in the FAQ.
If you can't run it on top of Emacs then it must be its own OS.
Lies. Cross-breeding can result in poisonous plants [boingboing.net], and the random nature of it makes it harder to control than GMO.
That's a pretty strange statement, considering a lot of lab-conducted GMO research is way less "high tech" than most people think. Often, it just involves taking a sample and blasting it with some form of radiation, or some chemical bath, to cause it to mutate. That's about at random as it comes. And even intentional attempts to splice specific genes involves a lot of trial and error. Once you have something you think is good, though, you just breed like with like.
TL;DR neither method of producing new species is particularly scarier than the other.
They also have done the Wall-building thingie a bit later, throughout the whole country and they even got the Russians to pay for it.
Correction: the Berlin Wall was throughout the whole city.
I was a fuck-up in high school. I took geometry three times. Later in life I picked it back up again, went through Algebra 2, trigonometry, and on to calculus, but I dropped out there because it all had become too time-consuming.
Ironically, I've never had any cause to use anything past geometry. Turns out geometry is pretty damn useful in real life ... proportions, the Pythagorean theorem, the concept of three points determining a plane, circular geometry with pi, all very useful for designing and building real-world stuff. And understanding geometric proofs gives you a good foundation in the logical thought processes that will help you with stuff like computer programming.
How do you know, by looking at your watch vs your phone, that the unknown phone calling you is not the hospital emergency room calling you because a loved one was just in an accident?
But if the phone is showing you an unknown number, how does that help you vs. seeing an unknown number on your watch?
Most newer car stereo systems have Bluetooth connectivity to your phone so you can see who is calling you and even answer the phone hands-free without ever touching your phone.
But that solution would require carrying a car stereo system to parties. Wearing a watch is less hassle.
It remains unclear what sort of impact this will have on the daily retail sale of the Oculus Rift headsets.
Probably none -- at least, not until after Oculus' appeal is heard.
Eh, the catch is that you need to have an active Facebook account. That's obvious, right? No need to go looking for some devious motive when the upside is staring you right in the face.
There are over 7 billion people on this planet, we can afford to lose a few, especially ones as dumb as this.
Ignoring for now the blatantly sociopathic nature of your comments, shouldn't it be the stupid person who suffers, and not the helpless child who depends upon that person for health care? Maybe the child isn't as stupid as the parent?
MongoDB grabbing lots of Oracle customers
Wait, what? Nice try. You almost had us.
1. If you have thousands of stored procs and/or other customizations (I've done a couple of custom aggregate functions that were pretty sweet).
This is a thing. People who write PHP scripts tend to think of a database as just a big closet where you store data until you need it again. You pull it back out and then you go do something with it (with PHP). But there's another school of app dev where any manipulations done on any stored data should be done by the database itself, and that the appropriate place to store that application logic is in stored procedures. There actually are good arguments to be made in favor of that type of design. But because pretty much nobody uses "standard SQL," it gets you locked into a given platform pretty quickly.
At this point you have to be mentally ill to develop anything new around Oracle and most of their business is legacy. They keep reporting double digit declines in new licenses.
You've hit the nail. They report declines in new licenses but they claim these are offset by gains in cloud subscriptions. What is Oracle's primary cloud IaaS product? Oracle Database hosted in Oracle's cloud. Now go back and reread TFA summary.
That stylus going over the record each time you play it? Yeah, that's degrading the signal. Every. Single. Time.
But only minimally so, unless you have a pretty crappy turntable, or one that's improperly aligned. The wear and tear on cassette tapes from playing them is greater than the wear and tear on records.
And the artwork isn't any better just because you print it on a larger piece of cardboard.
But that is not an empirically true statement, is it?
In addition to the larger artwork, I also enjoy having albums divided up into two or more sides, each with its own unique track listing. Believe it or not, songs don't play in the order they do just at random.
I also enjoy the various ways vinyl itself can be presented ... colors, swirls, etchings, holograms, etc. Much better than a silk-screened picture on one side of a piece of plastic.
I like the act of physically handling the records, pulling them in and out of sleeves, flipping them over, and so forth. Much more enjoyable than opening a tray and dropping a CD in ... or just pushing a couple of buttons.
To me, playing records is an enjoyable activity. Firing up some MP3s, on the other hand, feels like an afterthought. It's just background noise.
This obsession with obsolete and empirically inferior technology is baffling.
"Empirically inferior"? If I can accept that a vinyl LP may not sound as good as the same CD on the same soundsystem, but I choose to buy records anyway, how do you support your claim? Apparently I still have some reason to buy them. What is it?
I'm talking about stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah, no. The current generation of HoloLens literally cannot do any of that.
But the hardware still leaves you impressed when you demo it. It's a neat effect. Practical for some application? Not really.
No. They kind of pretended it was, but it was actually a completely separate product that Adobe acquired from a company called FutureSplash. Later on, they rolled it into the Shockwave plugin along with support for Shockwave for Director.
Nah, it's better than that. It's like the GP says; the field of vision is very small. Imagine an invisible wall. Now put a window in the wall. You can only see the AR objects if you look through the window. If you look at the wall, you see nothing (you don't even see a wall; remember, it's invisible). That's the best that I can explain it.
Does that mean the results don't meet the hype? Yes, depending on what you think the hype actually was. Microsoft never sold this as a consumer product. It was only offered to developers with a very high price tag. There was never any suggestion that this version of the product would be made available broadly.
Either that, or it's product placement. You reckon Apple might have a few bucks to throw at marketing?
Hopefully they're going after the innumerable "satire" sites, where they act like they're copying The Onion but there's absolutely nothing funny about the stories except that nothing in them is true. Facebook is rife with people passing those around, not realizing that they're fakes -- and the site's excuse is always, "Zing! We gotcha ... it was saaaaatire."
They don't do any manufacturing in any of these buildings ... so ALL of this would appear to be for the purposing of coding software, designing things, or providing user support.
You seem to be ignoring the need for multiple layers of middle management, floors dedicated to designing overpriced headphones, and the thousands of people it takes to run the universe's leading online digital storefronts!
For one... There is no such thing as "Trump administration" yet.
Errrr... he's been inaugurated. "The administration" is the accepted way of referring to the executive branch of the U.S. government.
https://ahdictionary.com/word/...
Great. Just when I was dozing off...
Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and leaving for better paying jobs at competitors anyway.
So do the math. Which is better, from the employer's perspective: Paying to train employees and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors, or letting the employees cover the cost of that training themselves?