Already happening. It's not an event that drives people away en masse... WoW's done something that no other MMO has done: it's become mature and hit saturation. It's entered an attrition phase... players slip away as they always have, but the influx of new players has drawn down to a trickle.
It's still got years of life left in it, but the end is in sight.
Look, China has a huge wealth disparity: 70% of its population are rural peasants. The 30% of the country that has industrialized is producing as much CO2 as any westerner.
Because it's NOT a good feature. It's a very BAD feature. It's the UNIX equivalent to Windows' 'default user is an administrator' baggage... it's a terrible feature that is very convenient.
Forcing reboots after updates ensures that no software is running with an old, buggy (and potentially exploitable) version of a library. If you're installing OS updates without doing reboots in a UNIX based OS, you're either trawling changelogs with a fine toothed comb and have a detailed understanding of all the library dependencies for software on your computer, or you're putting your computer at risk.
Allowing one to replace files that are open is a classic example of a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong. As annoying as it can be at times, there's a very sensible reason to lock files and require reboots.
Let's say, for example, firefox depends on some shared library for handling some kind of image format. There's a bug in that library, so I go to install the security patch. Patch installed, I'm safe now, yay. Except next week my favorite tech news website gets hacked, an exploit is uploaded and my computer is drive-by compromised. What? How did that happen? I installed the security update!
Well yes, I did. But I also had firefox open at the time, and it had the old library mapped. When the new library replaced the old, that only affects programs that open it AFTER the replacement. Any program that still has a reference to the old copy, will still get data from the old copy. So while the security bug on disk was fixed, the security bug still exists in memory until every program that uses it shuts down and starts up again. Which given the way I use my computer, could be weeks away.
There's worse problems too... say I have a few pieces of software that use a shared library to access some data on disk. If I update that shared library to a new version, suddenly programs that are running and programs I launch afterward are now using different versions of the library, even though I should only have one installed. Now I've got a data corruption! Not academic: I actually lost a subversion repository to this once.
By locking files that are in use, yes, you create an annoyance. It also prevents some VERY problematic issues.
You know what else is a giant database? Your filesystem storing those all those pref files. Suggesting that one will inherently cause performance problems and the other won't, is either ignorant or disingenuous.
You aren't really making any point. You're assuming that since these particles occur naturally and we know there are collisions in the upper atmosphere, then by random chance some of those collisions would form a Higgs boson. But if the formation of a Higgs boson is impossible and does ripple backwards, preventing the event from occurring in the first place... in the upper atmosphere, all that has to happen is for the particles to randomly not hit under the perfect conditions.
We're talking about an effect which could be influencing random chance. You can't make a statistical argument against it.
I don't know if you can actually do triangulation on a CDMA network. With GSM, sure, it's TDMA, so you just measure signal strength at appropriate time intervals to compute distance. But with CDMA networks, you can't filter out a specific signal, since it uses statistical multiplexing instead of channel multiplexing.
You may not remember this, but back in the 90s blood services in Canada were run by the Canadian red cross. They infected tens of thousands of people with HIV and Hepatitis, due to improper handling and care. CBS was created in response to this scandal, so unsurprisingly they have always been enormously risk-averse when it comes to infectious disease. I, for example, am not allowed to donate blood because of time I spent in the UK- they're afraid I may be a mad cow. It seems a bit silly, but I understand the reason. Not everything is bigotry.
Bacteriophage treatments would be effective, no doubt. But the problem is bacteria have much greater genetic variability than eukaryotic organisms we're used to thinking of. Bacteriophage treatments, to be effective, usually have to be tailored specifically to each patient individually, which is an expensive and time-consuming task. The nice thing about most pharmaceuticals (as opposed to phages) is that once your drug has been invented, generally producing more of the drug is dirt cheap.
"Last known good configuration" only rolls back HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet. I imagine if it's truly been borked by an update you'd need to go into the recovery console and roll-back the system to an earlier restore point.
A simpler way would be to look at the price. Once they figure it out, artificial meat will be cheap. I suspect in the future, we'll look back on that question and consider it the same as 'but how will I be able to tell if someone replaces my cubic zirconia with a real diamond!' Um... because anybody doing that would be stupid?
I would bet that the first place it'll show up is in all those '50% meat protein' processed foods you see in frozen foods sections.
Yes, at general elections there are, practically speaking, only two options. However, the US has a very open primary system. I'm not American, but my understanding is that all one has to do is check 'Democrat' or 'Republican' on voter registration forms to be allowed to participate. At primaries there ARE a broad range of ideas and philosophies presented. So yes, the final choice is between two... but those two are in turn selected through a democratic process by a self-selected, interested subset of the general population.
So if members of the public find both options undesirable, they should be participating in the optional primary system as well. i.e., don't bitch about your choices when you have a say in what those choices were in the first place.
1. Perhaps it's true that most popular musicians would be better off working at 7-11... but if that were true they'd be spending their time working at 7-11, not making music. So that doesn't actually address the point.
2. Gutenberg invented his press in 1436. Copyright was invented in Venice in 1486, a mere 50 years later. So no, people have not been writing books without copyright for as long as there's been books. Again, that doesn't address the point.
3. With movies your argument basically boils down to 'movies suck anyway,' which is a pretty subjective statement. The 'poor quality' in your view certainly hasn't prevented Hollywood from being popular. Certainly, it produces works good enough to encourage people to break the law to view them. So again, this doesn't address the point.
You have it backwards. GDP isn't a measure of wealth, it's a measure of productivity. We don't have high GDPs because we are wealthy, we are wealthy because we have high GDPs.
Personally, I feel that when you are an activist, not just a scientist, and pressuring for major policy changes based on your research, you should be held to a higher standard.
If you're going to stand up, proclaim the end of the world, and tell everybody that they need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to avert it... you have a moral obligation to publish your data.
Huh? If you don't want.NET, don't use a Managed C++ project, use a native C++ project. You can control exactly what libraries are included, and no, it doesn't include.NET libraries by default. I'm not sure how you can claim to know anything about Visual Studio, if you don't know this.
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Yes, and any well performed study will have accounted for those confounding variables.
Already happening. It's not an event that drives people away en masse... WoW's done something that no other MMO has done: it's become mature and hit saturation. It's entered an attrition phase... players slip away as they always have, but the influx of new players has drawn down to a trickle.
It's still got years of life left in it, but the end is in sight.
Tenure.
Look, China has a huge wealth disparity: 70% of its population are rural peasants. The 30% of the country that has industrialized is producing as much CO2 as any westerner.
No, he was right. You're 100% wrong.
Because it's NOT a good feature. It's a very BAD feature. It's the UNIX equivalent to Windows' 'default user is an administrator' baggage... it's a terrible feature that is very convenient.
Forcing reboots after updates ensures that no software is running with an old, buggy (and potentially exploitable) version of a library. If you're installing OS updates without doing reboots in a UNIX based OS, you're either trawling changelogs with a fine toothed comb and have a detailed understanding of all the library dependencies for software on your computer, or you're putting your computer at risk.
Allowing one to replace files that are open is a classic example of a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong. As annoying as it can be at times, there's a very sensible reason to lock files and require reboots.
Let's say, for example, firefox depends on some shared library for handling some kind of image format. There's a bug in that library, so I go to install the security patch. Patch installed, I'm safe now, yay. Except next week my favorite tech news website gets hacked, an exploit is uploaded and my computer is drive-by compromised. What? How did that happen? I installed the security update!
Well yes, I did. But I also had firefox open at the time, and it had the old library mapped. When the new library replaced the old, that only affects programs that open it AFTER the replacement. Any program that still has a reference to the old copy, will still get data from the old copy. So while the security bug on disk was fixed, the security bug still exists in memory until every program that uses it shuts down and starts up again. Which given the way I use my computer, could be weeks away.
There's worse problems too... say I have a few pieces of software that use a shared library to access some data on disk. If I update that shared library to a new version, suddenly programs that are running and programs I launch afterward are now using different versions of the library, even though I should only have one installed. Now I've got a data corruption! Not academic: I actually lost a subversion repository to this once.
By locking files that are in use, yes, you create an annoyance. It also prevents some VERY problematic issues.
You know what else is a giant database? Your filesystem storing those all those pref files. Suggesting that one will inherently cause performance problems and the other won't, is either ignorant or disingenuous.
You aren't really making any point. You're assuming that since these particles occur naturally and we know there are collisions in the upper atmosphere, then by random chance some of those collisions would form a Higgs boson. But if the formation of a Higgs boson is impossible and does ripple backwards, preventing the event from occurring in the first place... in the upper atmosphere, all that has to happen is for the particles to randomly not hit under the perfect conditions.
We're talking about an effect which could be influencing random chance. You can't make a statistical argument against it.
After reading that article, I never want to hear 'they've been driven to it by foreign overfishing and waste dumping' again.
I don't know if you can actually do triangulation on a CDMA network. With GSM, sure, it's TDMA, so you just measure signal strength at appropriate time intervals to compute distance. But with CDMA networks, you can't filter out a specific signal, since it uses statistical multiplexing instead of channel multiplexing.
You may not remember this, but back in the 90s blood services in Canada were run by the Canadian red cross. They infected tens of thousands of people with HIV and Hepatitis, due to improper handling and care. CBS was created in response to this scandal, so unsurprisingly they have always been enormously risk-averse when it comes to infectious disease. I, for example, am not allowed to donate blood because of time I spent in the UK- they're afraid I may be a mad cow. It seems a bit silly, but I understand the reason. Not everything is bigotry.
Bacteriophage treatments would be effective, no doubt. But the problem is bacteria have much greater genetic variability than eukaryotic organisms we're used to thinking of. Bacteriophage treatments, to be effective, usually have to be tailored specifically to each patient individually, which is an expensive and time-consuming task. The nice thing about most pharmaceuticals (as opposed to phages) is that once your drug has been invented, generally producing more of the drug is dirt cheap.
"Last known good configuration" only rolls back HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet. I imagine if it's truly been borked by an update you'd need to go into the recovery console and roll-back the system to an earlier restore point.
This is why I only eat meat. I mean, the plant is buried there... it can't get away. At least the cow had a chance at escape. :)
A simpler way would be to look at the price. Once they figure it out, artificial meat will be cheap. I suspect in the future, we'll look back on that question and consider it the same as 'but how will I be able to tell if someone replaces my cubic zirconia with a real diamond!' Um... because anybody doing that would be stupid?
I would bet that the first place it'll show up is in all those '50% meat protein' processed foods you see in frozen foods sections.
Don't be obtuse, it's not becoming. Copyright isn't relevant when the production of a single copy can take years.
Copyright is pretty irrelevant when the act of copying takes months.
This is a common point, but it's not really true.
Yes, at general elections there are, practically speaking, only two options. However, the US has a very open primary system. I'm not American, but my understanding is that all one has to do is check 'Democrat' or 'Republican' on voter registration forms to be allowed to participate. At primaries there ARE a broad range of ideas and philosophies presented. So yes, the final choice is between two... but those two are in turn selected through a democratic process by a self-selected, interested subset of the general population.
So if members of the public find both options undesirable, they should be participating in the optional primary system as well. i.e., don't bitch about your choices when you have a say in what those choices were in the first place.
1. Perhaps it's true that most popular musicians would be better off working at 7-11... but if that were true they'd be spending their time working at 7-11, not making music. So that doesn't actually address the point.
2. Gutenberg invented his press in 1436. Copyright was invented in Venice in 1486, a mere 50 years later. So no, people have not been writing books without copyright for as long as there's been books. Again, that doesn't address the point.
3. With movies your argument basically boils down to 'movies suck anyway,' which is a pretty subjective statement. The 'poor quality' in your view certainly hasn't prevented Hollywood from being popular. Certainly, it produces works good enough to encourage people to break the law to view them. So again, this doesn't address the point.
You have it backwards. GDP isn't a measure of wealth, it's a measure of productivity. We don't have high GDPs because we are wealthy, we are wealthy because we have high GDPs.
It also won't work against pirates riding trained sharks, which you're about as likely to see.
Personally, I feel that when you are an activist, not just a scientist, and pressuring for major policy changes based on your research, you should be held to a higher standard.
If you're going to stand up, proclaim the end of the world, and tell everybody that they need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to avert it... you have a moral obligation to publish your data.
Intellisense is pretty slick, but overall if I'm doing development on Windows I'd rather use an emacs as my text editor.
Of course, Visual C++ makes a fantastic debugger. It's almost good enough to forgive Windows for its lack of valgrind. Almost.
Huh? If you don't want .NET, don't use a Managed C++ project, use a native C++ project. You can control exactly what libraries are included, and no, it doesn't include .NET libraries by default. I'm not sure how you can claim to know anything about Visual Studio, if you don't know this.