Nothing is wrong with Toyota automobiles. It's the people driving them. Otherwise, they should ban all automobiles from roads for safety reasons. For the other problem, I wouldn't point only at Toyota. If they do it, most likely, all manufactures have hidden known problems. My old Nissan 300SX Turbo was a great example of a fine car onto which they stuck a turbo which essentially screwed-up the entire exhaust system. Today, there are practically no more cars with turbos (except for a few exceptions). I paid to fix the problems, not Nissan.
I don't understand the pertinence or relevance of open source hardware. When you purchase electronic components, you pay for the licensing costs of these components as part of the purchase price (in this case Atmel). What you do with these components, especially if you wish to market your product, is still subject to existing or prior patents - for example the plant hydrometer from TFA. I must be missing something so thank you for enlightening me.
There is plenty of money. Just need to devaluate the dollar. Make it worth less and 1. more jobs at home and 2. more people will buy cheaper American goods. Unfortunately, it will impact foreign ownership of the debt so they will sell the US$ and so on and so on.
You have to admit there is a large community of wannabe stars out there. I mean LARGE. Just look at Twitter - the more followers, the more of a celebrity you become. So Creatia is a lame name - it does however translate ok in the other few languages I know. Overall, this is a brilliant marketing idea and I'm rather impressed that Shatner is behind it. Disclaimer, he is originally from my home town so I'm a bit biased.
Unfortunately War is being used as an euphemism for "hard fight against," "domination over" or "control of" rather than for the traditional meaning where one country attacks another to acquire its resources or a country forced to defend itself from an attack. War against crime, drugs, terrorism. It pleases those who are for it but also dilutes the meaning of war for those who have actually been in one.
In my opinion, if used to create fear or for political gain, it is obviously bull-shit and should be seen as so.
The solution to cyberwar/crime is very simple. Disconnect the US's from the rest of the world - just like Iran did. Some people probably think they might be better of this way.
Appeals court rulings are overturned frequently by supreme courts (google it) - if they hear the case (which the blatantly should). US postal service should be able to get there. I'm not worried but then again I'm not in the US. Why are there so many cases where there is a reversal is strange and can be infuriating.
Intriguing how copernicium was named after copper. Which is itself an element named after Copernicus. Are we that short of historical scientific figures? Ok, so maybe not exactly but one could wonder.
Note that in French copper is cuivre Cu, which actually is used to designate the "brass" section of philharmonic orchestra.
Ah the wonders of the English language: one drives in a parkway but parks in a driveway.
Well if it's a 20 year old bug, it should be renamed to a feature and patented. "Method to produce photo realistic scaling without taking gamma into account."
We should also consider the impact of gamers on CO2 emission. This growing population insist on 700-1200W power supplied to run obscenely inefficient video cards. Thankfully some manufacturers are greener than others. 343W in 2005 to less than 270W in today's best. Still we need to do some work here.
I was formally trained using assembly language. My first high-level language was Basic Plus (DEC). So Perl is just too sexy for me. I can't help using it. Statements like: open my $file, "name" or die "Error"; or print $the_report_line unless $no_space_on_page;
Are great!
It is the only language so far which I'm able to write small scripts with no syntax errors.
It is very interesting to see the interest and trends based on book sale volume. The state of the computer book contains this interesting chart. For more details see O'Reilley Radar. This was published mid-year 2009. Maybe this new edition might tip the scale.
Since MS is putting all their eggs in c# (and c,c++) it isn't surprising to see the interest. Of note, the impressive rise in Actionscript likely due to web based animated ads.
Once upon a time I could have said, have the school buy Apple laptops. Seems that's no longer a deterrent. Oh, I know, how about dumb laptops? They need to be connected to the school's terminal server to provide any applications. Not sure there is such a thing and they are likely more expensive but it would likely make it less interesting for people to steal and also never be obsolete.
Darwin will probably argue that we will simply adapt or evolve by natural selection. Those who can't handle the extra CO2 will simply make uglier kids.
The change is very slow and gradual, and unlike the proverbial boiling frog, we have the time to adapt and change to deal with this. Just like when we evolved from water based to land based.
We'll even grow UV resistant hair like our ancestors.
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Nothing is wrong with Toyota automobiles. It's the people driving them. Otherwise, they should ban all automobiles from roads for safety reasons. For the other problem, I wouldn't point only at Toyota. If they do it, most likely, all manufactures have hidden known problems. My old Nissan 300SX Turbo was a great example of a fine car onto which they stuck a turbo which essentially screwed-up the entire exhaust system. Today, there are practically no more cars with turbos (except for a few exceptions). I paid to fix the problems, not Nissan.
I don't understand the pertinence or relevance of open source hardware. When you purchase electronic components, you pay for the licensing costs of these components as part of the purchase price (in this case Atmel). What you do with these components, especially if you wish to market your product, is still subject to existing or prior patents - for example the plant hydrometer from TFA. I must be missing something so thank you for enlightening me.
There is plenty of money. Just need to devaluate the dollar. Make it worth less and 1. more jobs at home and 2. more people will buy cheaper American goods. Unfortunately, it will impact foreign ownership of the debt so they will sell the US$ and so on and so on.
-- what do you think?
and kittens died
And the world became a better place.
As they still have 8 lives left.
You have to admit there is a large community of wannabe stars out there. I mean LARGE. Just look at Twitter - the more followers, the more of a celebrity you become. So Creatia is a lame name - it does however translate ok in the other few languages I know. Overall, this is a brilliant marketing idea and I'm rather impressed that Shatner is behind it. Disclaimer, he is originally from my home town so I'm a bit biased.
Sexual intercourse is what you have been genetically programmed to do with what you have between your legs.
Apparently. Sex has to be specified in each single object through a getter/setter method.
But the root class has only one private method. All we know is if we inherit the class we're alive.
I wonder if this is true for dinosaurs as well and if certain events affecting reproduction contributed to their extinction.
I consider him a martyr. How are we to learn anything is no one talks about how they dealt with security issues.
If it's illegal in your country does it make it illegal on the entire Internet?
Or how about the Ph.d candidate who needs to experiment new medicine on rabbits.
California is California. I hope they can afford this new registry.
Unfortunately War is being used as an euphemism for "hard fight against," "domination over" or "control of" rather than for the traditional meaning where one country attacks another to acquire its resources or a country forced to defend itself from an attack. War against crime, drugs, terrorism. It pleases those who are for it but also dilutes the meaning of war for those who have actually been in one.
In my opinion, if used to create fear or for political gain, it is obviously bull-shit and should be seen as so.
The solution to cyberwar/crime is very simple. Disconnect the US's from the rest of the world - just like Iran did. Some people probably think they might be better of this way.
Appeals court rulings are overturned frequently by supreme courts (google it) - if they hear the case (which the blatantly should). US postal service should be able to get there. I'm not worried but then again I'm not in the US. Why are there so many cases where there is a reversal is strange and can be infuriating.
Intriguing how copernicium was named after copper. Which is itself an element named after Copernicus. Are we that short of historical scientific figures? Ok, so maybe not exactly but one could wonder.
Note that in French copper is cuivre Cu, which actually is used to designate the "brass" section of philharmonic orchestra.
Ah the wonders of the English language: one drives in a parkway but parks in a driveway.
Americium, the most mass market radioactive element. Everyone has at least a few milligrams at home, right in your smoke detectors made in China.
Well if it's a 20 year old bug, it should be renamed to a feature and patented. "Method to produce photo realistic scaling without taking gamma into account."
We should also consider the impact of gamers on CO2 emission. This growing population insist on 700-1200W power supplied to run obscenely inefficient video cards. Thankfully some manufacturers are greener than others. 343W in 2005 to less than 270W in today's best. Still we need to do some work here.
I was formally trained using assembly language. My first high-level language was Basic Plus (DEC). So Perl is just too sexy for me. I can't help using it. Statements like:
open my $file, "name" or die "Error";
or
print $the_report_line unless $no_space_on_page;
Are great!
It is the only language so far which I'm able to write small scripts with no syntax errors.
Of course, I forgot to mention the sudden interest in objective-c thanks to Apple.
It is very interesting to see the interest and trends based on book sale volume. The state of the computer book contains this interesting chart. For more details see O'Reilley Radar. This was published mid-year 2009. Maybe this new edition might tip the scale.
Since MS is putting all their eggs in c# (and c,c++) it isn't surprising to see the interest. Of note, the impressive rise in Actionscript likely due to web based animated ads.
Once upon a time I could have said, have the school buy Apple laptops. Seems that's no longer a deterrent. Oh, I know, how about dumb laptops? They need to be connected to the school's terminal server to provide any applications. Not sure there is such a thing and they are likely more expensive but it would likely make it less interesting for people to steal and also never be obsolete.
You make it sound like advertising is a bad thing.
I don't get it. How does my left know if it's meant for my right eye and vice-versa? Hence the 60-Hz movement? Woah!
I'm going to be really impressed when I'll be able to turn my 2D girlfriend to 3D!
Darwin will probably argue that we will simply adapt or evolve by natural selection. Those who can't handle the extra CO2 will simply make uglier kids.
The change is very slow and gradual, and unlike the proverbial boiling frog, we have the time to adapt and change to deal with this. Just like when we evolved from water based to land based.
We'll even grow UV resistant hair like our ancestors.
I'll tell you what a warming planet means:
- More/less heath
- More/less snow
- More/less rain
- Rising/lower sea waters
- More earthquakes
- More volcano eruptions
- More girls on slashdot
Yeah, I'm confused.
What I know is that:
We breathe oxygen/nitrogen and exhale CO2
Trees breathe CO2 and exhale oxygen
Plant more trees or avoid breathing.