I attended the tech details IO session (https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/gooio2012/313/ - as of this writing, the video isn't up yet), and they said the encryption keys don't leave the server where the data resides.
No, they do it that way to to have money and operating funds. It has nothing to do with a pristine copy. The checksums are all online. As another poster mentioned, the full install ISOs are now freely available (and have been for some years), in addition to the net install ISOs.
Well, yes, exactly. Global Warming means exactly three things:
1) The globe is warming in a significant manner
2) This is primarily caused by man's actions
3) This warming will cause large problems
If any one of those three things isn't true, the theory falls apart. If the globe is warming, but not enough to matter, who cares? If man didn't cause it, but it is natural, why exactly do we need to fix it? If we did cause it, but it won't do anything bad, why use tons of resources to change it?
I disagree that app engine offers nothing more than the other services. The offerings are different types of services. As proof: app engine comes with the following basic services: blobstore, memcache, database, auto-scaling. Amazon web services has options for all of these, yes, but they are all separate services: S3 (blobstore), memcache (elasticache), simple db (database), auto-scaling (cloud watch). In AWS, I have to configure all of these systems independently of the others, and pay for them, too. I have to worry about upgrades, operating systems, etc. In google app engine, all of this is bundled in already. AWS does have all of the functionality, but it requires lots more setup. After all is said and done, GAE is actually priced very competitively, and even cheaper than, its competitors.
While you make some accurate points, and I'm aware of the morale and other Foxconn issues, I don't think they qualify for this story about moving to Brazil. The complaints by Foxconn about Brazil are well founded. It is highly corrupt, and the taxes are abnormally high. Their workforce is indeed unskilled: a large portion of their population can read (that is, can pronounce the words), but is not able to understand what they are reading. The infrastructure (power, water, television) is paid for by the rich, and literally stolen by the bandits and given away or sold for very little to large populations. Moving a high tech manufacturing plant to Brazil without addressing these issues is an actual concern that makes sense, regardless of the company that is thinking about moving there.
Those were quotes from Dr. Nibley, a really smart guy. He was fluent in atleast 10 languages, could read more, and studied ancient languages and culture. He quotes from other really smart people, and cites loads of evidence to the point I made. I gave references in my post. Read the essay if you think I'm full of crap. It is of note that he (and I) are from a religious background, and do not believe that man evolved into its current form, but was instead created.
Nevertheless, there is no evidence that language evolved. Where is the incremental improvement? It is nowhere. The only stuff we have is *fully formed language*. Nothing inbetween. Just immediate language.
"We all know language has evolved"? No, we don't. In fact, the evidence is to the contrary. Language poofed into existence.
As described by Hugh Nibley in Genesis of the Written Word (from Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless): "Many scholars have pointed out that the alphabet is the miracle of miracles, the greatest of all inventions, by which even the television and jet-planes pale in comparison, and as such a thing absolutely unique in time and place... . It is also argued that by the very nature of the thing it can only have been the work of a single inventor."
From the preface of the same essay: "And in all of science there never was a more open-and-shut case than the origin of writing: intuitively we know it must have begun with pictures, and traditionally we know it can have developed in only one way - very slowly and gradually from simple to more complex forms, and all that.... Yet the discerning Kipling, taking a hard common-sense look at the official solution, found it simply absurd. It is the same hpyothesis that we now dare to question...."
That would be difficult to pull off in a public place, since it is a three movement piece for piano, with instructions to lift and lower the keyguard at appropriate times. 4'33" of silence is not the piece.
Consider the implications if we told LA that there would probably be an earthquake there sometime within the next 2-3 days. The ensuing panic and pandemonium would cause more harm than the quake.
My Father is a geologist at the USGS. This topic has come up many times. The USGS spent a lot of time and money trying to predict earthquakes, with no success - there was no consistent behavior before a quake to signal the coming of one. Furthermore, what would they do with thit information? Let's assume they had good reason to believe that L.A. would experience an earthquake in the next 24 hours. If they released this information it would cause _more_ damage in the ensuing panic than the quake itself. Earthquake prediction is not coming.
For example, when the gay marriage proposition was up for vote in California, the Mormon church organized a massive door-to-door campaign to try to deny the gays their right to marry.
Your parent poster said "except where a serious moral issue is involved", which this is.
Being a Democrat in the Mormon church all but seals your prospects of holding influential positions in the organization.
James E. Faust is the 2nd Councelor in the First Presidency, which translates roughly into "3rd in command". He is Democratic.
Apparently you've never sat in an Elder's Quorum meeting when they pass around a petition to stop a race track from being constructed in your town
I have never once been in an Elder's Quorum meeting where they passed around anything like that.
As they say, you learn more about a man from his enemies than his friends.
Unfortunately, enemies often are convinced of the truth of half truths, so they are not good sources of information.
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I attended the tech details IO session (https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/gooio2012/313/ - as of this writing, the video isn't up yet), and they said the encryption keys don't leave the server where the data resides.
Having blowfish support available is useless unless it is the default since most people won't change it.
If this is a good law in theory, then what is your stance on the citizens of the USA's right to bear arms?
The first link in the story is the human-readable changelog.
Some people don't even like Gnome 3.
No, they do it that way to to have money and operating funds. It has nothing to do with a pristine copy. The checksums are all online. As another poster mentioned, the full install ISOs are now freely available (and have been for some years), in addition to the net install ISOs.
People who deny science, like MIT professor Richard Linden? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567423917025400.html
Well, yes, exactly. Global Warming means exactly three things: 1) The globe is warming in a significant manner 2) This is primarily caused by man's actions 3) This warming will cause large problems If any one of those three things isn't true, the theory falls apart. If the globe is warming, but not enough to matter, who cares? If man didn't cause it, but it is natural, why exactly do we need to fix it? If we did cause it, but it won't do anything bad, why use tons of resources to change it?
I disagree that app engine offers nothing more than the other services. The offerings are different types of services. As proof: app engine comes with the following basic services: blobstore, memcache, database, auto-scaling. Amazon web services has options for all of these, yes, but they are all separate services: S3 (blobstore), memcache (elasticache), simple db (database), auto-scaling (cloud watch). In AWS, I have to configure all of these systems independently of the others, and pay for them, too. I have to worry about upgrades, operating systems, etc. In google app engine, all of this is bundled in already. AWS does have all of the functionality, but it requires lots more setup. After all is said and done, GAE is actually priced very competitively, and even cheaper than, its competitors.
While you make some accurate points, and I'm aware of the morale and other Foxconn issues, I don't think they qualify for this story about moving to Brazil. The complaints by Foxconn about Brazil are well founded. It is highly corrupt, and the taxes are abnormally high. Their workforce is indeed unskilled: a large portion of their population can read (that is, can pronounce the words), but is not able to understand what they are reading. The infrastructure (power, water, television) is paid for by the rich, and literally stolen by the bandits and given away or sold for very little to large populations. Moving a high tech manufacturing plant to Brazil without addressing these issues is an actual concern that makes sense, regardless of the company that is thinking about moving there.
The instance and bandwidth expenses are garbage compared to AWS.
True, but on app engine you don't have to worry about scaling, licenses, upgrades, etc. This is worth the extra cost to some.
A Google employee responded to these criticisms: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/ee70b44979b63842?hl=en
The mailing list has been awash in outrage and suprise as prices rise much higher than most can support. Although all knew the price increase was coming, the optimization done for the past models don't apply to the new pricing scheme, and the community is not happy about the quick change (2 weeks). http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/a1b7c68db2243932/043cbc3b7c296d06?hl=en
> Huh? What are these people smoking?
> Also, why is it on Idle and not on, say, science?
I think you answered your own question.
GP didn't say "2K", he said "2 K". As in 2 kelvin.
Those were quotes from Dr. Nibley, a really smart guy. He was fluent in atleast 10 languages, could read more, and studied ancient languages and culture. He quotes from other really smart people, and cites loads of evidence to the point I made. I gave references in my post. Read the essay if you think I'm full of crap. It is of note that he (and I) are from a religious background, and do not believe that man evolved into its current form, but was instead created.
Nevertheless, there is no evidence that language evolved. Where is the incremental improvement? It is nowhere. The only stuff we have is *fully formed language*. Nothing inbetween. Just immediate language.
"We all know language has evolved"? No, we don't. In fact, the evidence is to the contrary. Language poofed into existence.
... . It is also argued that by the very nature of the thing it can only have been the work of a single inventor."
... Yet the discerning Kipling, taking a hard common-sense look at the official solution, found it simply absurd. It is the same hpyothesis that we now dare to question ... ."
As described by Hugh Nibley in Genesis of the Written Word (from Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless): "Many scholars have pointed out that the alphabet is the miracle of miracles, the greatest of all inventions, by which even the television and jet-planes pale in comparison, and as such a thing absolutely unique in time and place
From the preface of the same essay: "And in all of science there never was a more open-and-shut case than the origin of writing: intuitively we know it must have begun with pictures, and traditionally we know it can have developed in only one way - very slowly and gradually from simple to more complex forms, and all that.
So, no, we don't know that language evolved.
That would be difficult to pull off in a public place, since it is a three movement piece for piano, with instructions to lift and lower the keyguard at appropriate times. 4'33" of silence is not the piece.
Consider the implications if we told LA that there would probably be an earthquake there sometime within the next 2-3 days. The ensuing panic and pandemonium would cause more harm than the quake.
You mean checksums like:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/MD5
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/i386/CKSUM
My Father is a geologist at the USGS. This topic has come up many times. The USGS spent a lot of time and money trying to predict earthquakes, with no success - there was no consistent behavior before a quake to signal the coming of one. Furthermore, what would they do with thit information? Let's assume they had good reason to believe that L.A. would experience an earthquake in the next 24 hours. If they released this information it would cause _more_ damage in the ensuing panic than the quake itself. Earthquake prediction is not coming.
3.7 comes with 1.01. Current version is 1.0.4.
I'm also LDS, or Mormon.
For example, when the gay marriage proposition was up for vote in California, the Mormon church organized a massive door-to-door campaign to try to deny the gays their right to marry.
Your parent poster said "except where a serious moral issue is involved", which this is.
Being a Democrat in the Mormon church all but seals your prospects of holding influential positions in the organization.
James E. Faust is the 2nd Councelor in the First Presidency, which translates roughly into "3rd in command". He is Democratic.
Apparently you've never sat in an Elder's Quorum meeting when they pass around a petition to stop a race track from being constructed in your town
I have never once been in an Elder's Quorum meeting where they passed around anything like that.
As they say, you learn more about a man from his enemies than his friends.
Unfortunately, enemies often are convinced of the truth of half truths, so they are not good sources of information.
Actually, OpenBSD moved to ELF (for many archs) in 3.4.
Those who choose to use Firebird due to [whatever reason].