Why is AIDS one of "the world's leading problems"? It's easy to avoid--just don't be gay, African, an IV drug user, or a hemophiliac in the 1980s. The rest of the world has to worry more about being struck by lightning. And let's face it, we aren't exactly talking about the world's most socially productive groups here (with the possible exception of hemophiliacs). Now, if a disease comes along that targets a smart and highly productive group like Asians or Jews, then it might be a real 'world problem.'
I read about a hundred replies to the question, and yours is the first sane one.
There are countless examples of stable, efficiently designed C++ programs. For many developers, it's the language of choice.
Follow best practices. Coding C++ like it was C, for example, is an error. Don't use pointers. Don't use arrays. Use the STL. Use RAII.
Be a C++ expert. No getting around this if you're going to code in C++.
If you are a C++ expert, you will find that C++ offers a lot more than the "easy" languages when it comes to good design.
It easier to hack out a medicore design in Java or C#. And it may even do what you want. But your code will have to be maintained by someone in the future. Good design is worth it, and if you invest the time that you need to in good design, many of the problems of C++ melt away, while other languages begin to a lose a bit of their luster.
You've haven't spent much time around Mac users have you? A little advice if you ever wind up over at one's house: it's not a good idea to drink the special kool-aid at the back of the refrigerator.
I beat Infocom's game Enchanter by (somewhat accidently) exploiting a couple of game bugs. So I didn't have full points at the end. This wasn't ever supposed to happen of course, but there was still a cool ending where the circle of Enchanters expressed vague disappointment in my deeds, saying that "something was missing."
You don't have to agree to a license in order to use most GPL software. You have to agree to a license in order to copy the source code and use it for your own programs.
That more and more open source programs make you agree to the GPL like it was some sort of EULA, baffles me. It isn't.
I took a Unix Admin job here at a university 3 months ago. This university has about a 10 to 1 male/female ratio (engineering college out in the boondocks). I've dated 5 girls so far, graduate students and undergraduates. Unfortunately they were all crazy, and I'm starting to think that I'm going to have serious trouble finding someone to marry. But other than that, it's been fun.
Microsoft has released a bunch of games that appeal to the "frat boy culture." I don't know the best way to describe Japan, but I don't think they're real heavy on that.
The trick is to bleed the giant slowly. If the fines are too big, Microsoft goes home and the EU is stuck with Linux crap that's unusable for anyone with an IQ under 130. But with little 2.4million a day fines, Microsoft stays in the game and EU bureacrats get new Paris offices.
"A non-lethal simple recessive, more or less universally carried and not selected for or against, has a 25% incidence of expression."
Let's look at your statment more closely:
"not selected for or against"
Ah hah. There is a slight problem problem here. Homosexuals don't have all that many kids. It may have something to do with all that 'only having sex with members of the same sex' thing. Any homosexuality gene would be strongly selected against.
"if homosexuality were a matter of "choice" or culture..."
Could you please read from the top of this thread before commenting any more?
By 20%, I think you mean 3%. And no it wouldn't. Any such recessive gene would be driven out of the gene pool remarkably quickly. Do the math.
In fact, the only genetic disease with nearly the same fitness hit would be sickle cell—in some of the high-malaria regions of Africa it kills 1 or 2 percent of the population. That's still far lower than the fitness hit of the imaginary homosexuality gene. Sickle cell is only around because it has been selected for. (One copy is a malaria defense, and malaria has probably killed more human beings than any other disease in human history.)
No link, but here is the citation:
Cochran, Gregory M. "Infectious Causation of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective"
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - Volume 43, Number 3, Spring 2000, pp. 406-448
Well, it wouldn't be an infection that causes homosexuality in 100% of the people who get it. It would be more like something that causes it in 5% of it's victims, and half the population comes down with it. Lots of diseases work like this.
A friend of mine, Greg Cochran, co-authored a paper a few years ago suggesting that pathogens, not genes, should be looked at as the possible cause for many fitness-reducing conditions. His reasoning was pretty simple: evolution gets rid of genes that reduce fitness.
Along these lines, he suggests that homosexuality is best explained as a side-effect of some early childhood or pre-natal infection. The numbers simply don't work out for any genetic theory. (Such as the gay uncle who improves the fitness of his nieces and nephews.)
I'm a system administrator for a network that includes a large number of windows boxes using samba as a domain controller. We use ghost (the old free version, I believe). Every few months we put out a new template for each hardware type we have and then ghost each machine, room by room. This takes an insane amount of time, and upgrading machines is a pain. Anybody got a better solution?
I lost 100 pounds over the course of a year starting in 2003, and have kept it off. It was and is hard work.
You need to count calories. This is the big secret.
Everything that you have heard about metabolism is mostly wrong. The major differences in metabolism between people are nearly all from activity. And there is exactly zero medical evidence that you can mess up your metabolism through dieting. Putting on muscle doesn't matter very much either (just run the numbers and see). Starvation diet is a myth too. But if you go on a VLCD (sub-1000 calorie diet), make sure you get plenty of high quality protein or you'll die of heart failure. Also, watch out for gall stones, especially if every female relative in your family has had their gall bladder removed. Oh, and ignoring sharp shooting pains in your gut for seven months because it's probably indigestion even though they make you literally delirious from the pain is not a great idea.
Find inspirational diet books. Read them every day. But ignore any one that strays from the absolute truth "Nobody ever lost weight by eating more." Body-building material is the worst offender in this regard.
Be a body-builder. It's a great physical activity. The muscles you develop are really impressive once you get down to 10% body fat.
Find some aerobic activity and do it every day. For me it's running. Bicycling is also a great sport.
Instead of keeping their progress on the game development a big secret, they should just be open about where they are at on it. No surprises, no rants.
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Why is AIDS one of "the world's leading problems"? It's easy to avoid--just don't be gay, African, an IV drug user, or a hemophiliac in the 1980s. The rest of the world has to worry more about being struck by lightning. And let's face it, we aren't exactly talking about the world's most socially productive groups here (with the possible exception of hemophiliacs). Now, if a disease comes along that targets a smart and highly productive group like Asians or Jews, then it might be a real 'world problem.'
The only people who believed Frey wanted to be fooled: Glory to Dr. Dolan, as they say.
You've haven't spent much time around Mac users have you? A little advice if you ever wind up over at one's house: it's not a good idea to drink the special kool-aid at the back of the refrigerator.
I beat Infocom's game Enchanter by (somewhat accidently) exploiting a couple of game bugs. So I didn't have full points at the end. This wasn't ever supposed to happen of course, but there was still a cool ending where the circle of Enchanters expressed vague disappointment in my deeds, saying that "something was missing."
You don't have to agree to a license in order to use most GPL software. You have to agree to a license in order to copy the source code and use it for your own programs.
That more and more open source programs make you agree to the GPL like it was some sort of EULA, baffles me. It isn't.
I took a Unix Admin job here at a university 3 months ago. This university has about a 10 to 1 male/female ratio (engineering college out in the boondocks). I've dated 5 girls so far, graduate students and undergraduates. Unfortunately they were all crazy, and I'm starting to think that I'm going to have serious trouble finding someone to marry. But other than that, it's been fun.
Microsoft has released a bunch of games that appeal to the "frat boy culture." I don't know the best way to describe Japan, but I don't think they're real heavy on that.
Sorry to burst your bubbles slashdotters, but there are few teenage homosexual boys that don't wind up having sex with 20-somethings at some point.
Whoa. That girl can hijack my airplane any day.
The trick is to bleed the giant slowly. If the fines are too big, Microsoft goes home and the EU is stuck with Linux crap that's unusable for anyone with an IQ under 130. But with little 2.4million a day fines, Microsoft stays in the game and EU bureacrats get new Paris offices.
"Cobalt-60 is almost as bad as it gets."
Someone has never heard of Cobalt-Thorium-G.
"A non-lethal simple recessive, more or less universally carried and not selected for or against, has a 25% incidence of expression."
Let's look at your statment more closely:
"not selected for or against"
Ah hah. There is a slight problem problem here. Homosexuals don't have all that many kids. It may have something to do with all that 'only having sex with members of the same sex' thing. Any homosexuality gene would be strongly selected against.
"if homosexuality were a matter of "choice" or culture..."
Could you please read from the top of this thread before commenting any more?
By 20%, I think you mean 3%. And no it wouldn't. Any such recessive gene would be driven out of the gene pool remarkably quickly. Do the math.
In fact, the only genetic disease with nearly the same fitness hit would be sickle cell—in some of the high-malaria regions of Africa it kills 1 or 2 percent of the population. That's still far lower than the fitness hit of the imaginary homosexuality gene. Sickle cell is only around because it has been selected for. (One copy is a malaria defense, and malaria has probably killed more human beings than any other disease in human history.)
No link, but here is the citation:
Cochran, Gregory M. "Infectious Causation of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective" Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - Volume 43, Number 3, Spring 2000, pp. 406-448
Well, it wouldn't be an infection that causes homosexuality in 100% of the people who get it. It would be more like something that causes it in 5% of it's victims, and half the population comes down with it. Lots of diseases work like this.
A friend of mine, Greg Cochran, co-authored a paper a few years ago suggesting that pathogens, not genes, should be looked at as the possible cause for many fitness-reducing conditions. His reasoning was pretty simple: evolution gets rid of genes that reduce fitness.
Along these lines, he suggests that homosexuality is best explained as a side-effect of some early childhood or pre-natal infection. The numbers simply don't work out for any genetic theory. (Such as the gay uncle who improves the fitness of his nieces and nephews.)
Yes, this should be easily and transparently fixable with some key exchange and message signing techniques.
Yes, heritability of IQ increases with age. The highest heritability estimates tend to be from studies of adult identical twins.
I'm a system administrator for a network that includes a large number of windows boxes using samba as a domain controller. We use ghost (the old free version, I believe). Every few months we put out a new template for each hardware type we have and then ghost each machine, room by room. This takes an insane amount of time, and upgrading machines is a pain. Anybody got a better solution?
The moon is dead. You aren't going to be able to break it.
"easier to use than Linux"
Yes? Where is the part about the high hopes for this operating system?
Instead of keeping their progress on the game development a big secret, they should just be open about where they are at on it. No surprises, no rants.
For peace of mind.