Astronomers are used to heavenly bodies with zany and/or boring names, but think of the poor astrologers! Who will ever take them seriously when they say that someone has Buffy in scorpio, Santa in virgo, and Xena in pisces?
IMO the most important thing is lack of frustration, and meaningful work. Coders will self-motivate if they can strive with sufficient resources and without unreasonable interruption towards a project whose design they understand and whose output they expect to be used. Perks are nowhere near as important. Therefore, hire a really good project manager.
AFAIK, PHP scales adequately in volume (about as well as java). It scales badly in complexity. Most PHP apps exploit its strengths by doing one task well. This lends itself to the OSS model of "reusable tool" development, and site construction by loosely linked seperate tools. By contrast, most java installations are bespoke and integrated, because java tends to be reusable at the library rather than app level.
Therefore:
- If you want to import functionality piecewise, and can cope with loose integration and off-the-peg tools, use PHP.
- If you need to build a coherent sitewide interface, or you need precision control of the "business logic", and are prepared to expend major effort on glue code and UI tuning, use Java.
Why does emacs still live in the antediluvian world of dynamic scoping, unoptimized tail calls and stop-the-world garbage collection? Why does it include a lisp interpreter when pluggable interpreters are a dime a dozen? They should port the whole thing to common lisp, or to a modern compiling scheme like bigloo or chicken.
What we're talking about here, in the case of nanotubes, is carbon, not silicon. Silicon is basically biologically null. Humans don't use it for much, barely need to eat it, can't digest or break down its oxide which is the form that causes silicosis. Nanotubes by contrast are elemental carbon, a material whose reaction-products the body knows intimately. In less than ridiculous quantities (ie: not enough to cause "black lung"), I think nanotubes would be quickly swept up and junked by the body. In fact, I suspect the difficulty in medical use of nanotubes would be more how to keep them undamaged, than how to keep them from persisting.
This strikes me as the usual eco-weenies looking, searching desperately, for anything that might retard the techical progress which they regard as unnatural.
The point of BT: leechers who are in process of downloading can act as virtual seeds (in aggregate). So those 400 leechers actually add up to another 35 seeds, say. And that's only for whole seeds - some pieces will be much more available than that.
I've met slow torrents from slow seeds and from what appeared to be overly rulebound trackers, but never from an excess of leechers.
In BT, once you have a handful of seeds, more is always better.
The thing with BT is: if you have say 10 seeds, then your torrent is fine. If you have even 1 seed, it won't die. It doesn't matter that some folks leech and then run. So, the core premise of these private sites is bunk. Worse, it's immensely counterproductive. DHT can keep a torrent alive and supplied with seeds. Barriers to access mean fewer downloaders, hence slower torrents and fewer seeds. I wouldn't be surprised if torrents on these sites died at least as often as on fully public sites.
Really, it seems to me that these folks want some sort of private domain to boss around and feel elite. The rest is just their rationalization.
These "private" sties IMO exist basically to screw over the BT community in one way or another. I mean, WHY take registration, require ratios, limit users, etc? Do these people not grok the essence of BT? If there are enough seeds then the leechers don't matter. No, it seems to me that what these people are doing is trying to enforce unnecessary and ridiculously anal rules, ripping people off for their saleable demographics, and then getting huffy when (get this) an uncooperative program pirates their pirated content. Well boo effing hoo. Cry me a frickin' river.
The world doesn't have to need it. Nobody has to need it, because "need" is utterly tangential. It's their money, not yours. Go take your egalitarianism, stick it in your pipe and smoke it.
BTW, seems to me that squash would be a more sensible zero-g game than football. It's fast, simple, ballistic, and it only needs two participants.
Imagine. You've spent most of your life working to perfect your body. You've suffered boredom, pain and injuries. For this, you get all the good girls, and the admiration of your peers. Then some pencil-neck geek injects himself with myostatin blocker, and in a month he's beating you at arm-wrestling. The dungeons and dragons club actually do look like steel-thewed barbarians, if barbarians had acne.
Oh, the dilution of kudos! How the mighty are fallen...
No, it can be done, has been done. I believe the sound editor "audacity" works this way. Log the actions, cache the expensive diffs. And if seeded pseudorandom functions are used, log the seeds.
There are situations where this couldn't be used, where unpredictable and non-replayable external input matters. Example, network packet logger. But most "document" based programs work fine.
Linkspammer aside, what seems interesting to me about this is the change it implies in how cancer should be viewed. Cancer cells aren't just bits of broken machinery going haywire, growing and breaking and growing somewhere else. They're parasitic colonial lifeforms actively seeking their own advancement, and treating the body as a host.
Here's a thought: the versions of a file match the undo states. So, as you edit the file, the program journals it to disk. Crash and resume, and you get your undo history back. Save, and your undo history is collapsed and the file stored in its native (un-journalled) form. So "save" transforms from a storage operation, to a render operation.
This has the advantage that a quit or crash and restart from a temporary change will allow you to back out the change. It also works for large datasets, because you aren't continually saving the whole thing, only journalling the changes.
Wealth has gone up, but the money supply has increased faster. Cause: all those various entities given the government privilege to print money.
Real buying power has still increased, because of technologies moving down into lower price brackets, commodification of products that used to be expensive and bespoke, and new inventions adding abilities that didn't previously exist. A dollar will buy less bread, but a whole lot more DVD player.
I guess there is only so much money to go around in the economy, if Google is making a huge profit, someone else is getting less.
That's an economic mistake and an important one, because it leads to bad policy. I'll explain how it's mistaken.
Value is the value of a thing to a person. Profit is the increase in value after a trade, versus before. So the seller profits by gaining money (wanted more) and losing product (wanted less). The buyer profits by losing money (wanted less) and gaining product (wanted more).
Wealth is the ability to achive personal goals. If you have more money, that's useful to you, so it's wealth. If you get something you need more, lose something you need less, then you have more wealth. Therefore profit produces personal wealth for both parties.
Some of the things you trade for, increase your efficiency. They let you achieve things you couldn't before. When other people's goals depend on your efficiency, your gain in wealth translates into a gain in societal wealth: everybody can achieve their goals a little easier. Therefore profit produces (on average) societal wealth for everyone.
Inflation and deflation reflect the usefulness of money. The limit of inflation is useless money. Infinite paper, nothing to buy, therefore infinite prices. The limit of deflation is getting everything for free. They relate to societal wealth. Wealth drops, money stays the same: inflation. Wealth rises, money stays the same: deflation. Therefore, profit is deflationary.
Given deflation, the same amount of money buys more. Therefore if anyone makes a profit, everyone makes a profit. This is the true virtue of the capitalist system, and it's the reason why Google's profits don't mean "someone else is getting less".
The species only actually sprung into existence about a year ago. You can tell that, because the local people still don't remember seeing it. Soon, the locals will remember it, complete with a history and folklore. By then it may be real enough that it can exist as a zoo specimen, rather than a mere couple of blurry photos.
Even now, its fossil ancestors are probably forming spontaneously in the rocks of Borneo.
As a libertarian with conservative sympathies, it amuses me to see the hard left starting their own wiki. Perhaps a disciple of Lysenko can be found to run the biology pages?
"Teach religion as religion, science as science" and "ID is religion". Therefore, don't intrude it into science (because it isn't), and don't directly attack it from science class (because the government isn't allowed to pick and choose religions).
Of course, if the government doesn't own your school, do as you please.
Their transaction support isn't there to supplant database transactions. In fact it implicity creates them. It's there to combine those transactions and other activities into a single "business transaction" that can span mutiple DBs, mutiple running apps, and activities not normally seen as transactional such as altering in-memory state.
If you're doing your stored procedures and triggers in the J2EE server, that's just wrong. The result would be a weak, memory hogging duplicate of DB functionality. It's as stupid as doing a "select foo.*, bar.* from foo, bar" and filtering it manually. You're using a screwdriver to hammer nails.
A typical use of J2EE transactions would be an app that needs to modify in-memory objects, modify local SQL data, modify remote data via a defined abstract interface with limited permissions, and do it all as one transaction, succeed or fail atomically. J2EE transactions make that possible, and in some cases easy.
It's an "enterprise" thing. If your business is large enough to be horizontally partitioned into departments with seperate IT, then you'll probably need it. Otherwise, probably not.
If I.D. is religion - and it is - then you doun't get to debunk it in public school on the goverment dime. Otherwise the next class might be "Islam, why it's a steaming heap of camel dung" or "Christianity and other ridiculous middle-eastern folk tales".
... major symptom: the inability to distinguish international private commerce from international government.
Learn this and engrave it on the inside of your skull: unlike mutually voluntary free trade, GOVERNMENT IS FORCE. The only thing it can do is either compel things, or let them alone. Add more government, add more interference.
The internet is international because the USA government, in choosing to leave well enough alone, has not prevented international private parties from cooperating - or from speaking freely. Do you think the UN would be so accomodating? If that were their plan, why would they have any motivation to change the status quo? The only plausible answers are respectively: that they intended to interfere, and that their power grab was predicated upon an intent to wield their newly acquired power - probably in support of repression (since, starting from freedom of speech, that's the only open direction of change).
So the question becomes: do you prefer freedom, or more government?
If you answer the latter, you make yourself my enemy.
If you use your laptop until its battery dies on the train, aircraft etc, you're screwed until you can plug it into a power socket, and leave it there an hour or two. Whereas if you have a fuel cell laptop, you pick up a disposable recharge at the airport lounge, psshht into a refueling hole, switch back on, ready to go.
Fuel is the most compact chemical energy store. That's why a car can run much further on a tank of gas than a whole bank of batteries. So a fuel cell will last longer than a battery, and you'll be able to carry a week's backup fuel supply in a small aerosol-type can. Also, because of being long-lasting, not every fuel cell need be user refillable. One-shot sealed "disposable batteries" are possible, which you either throw away or return to the vendor for recycling and money back.
Nothing about fuel cells implies lugging a 10 liter gas can from your local garage to refuel your digital camera. That's as ignorant as thinking you'd need to own an oil-well to run a car.
Fuel cells will be nothing more than a change of habit. You'll adapt and be fine.
Why is it acceptable in this society to treat children like the USSR treated adults? Herd 'em, propagandize 'em, defang 'em, and set 'em to work in huge collective institutions doing things both they and you know are dumb and meaningless. Seriously, these aren't some other species. They are the folks that, when they are 18, will hate you so much they'll elect the American Nazi Party just to piss you off.
Seriously, if under-18's want to jack off (or jill off) to nudie pics, what harm does it do anyone?
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Astronomers are used to heavenly bodies with zany and/or boring names, but think of the poor astrologers! Who will ever take them seriously when they say that someone has Buffy in scorpio, Santa in virgo, and Xena in pisces?
And whatever would such a horoscope indicate?
IMO the most important thing is lack of frustration, and meaningful work. Coders will self-motivate if they can strive with sufficient resources and without unreasonable interruption towards a project whose design they understand and whose output they expect to be used. Perks are nowhere near as important. Therefore, hire a really good project manager.
AFAIK, PHP scales adequately in volume (about as well as java). It scales badly in complexity. Most PHP apps exploit its strengths by doing one task well. This lends itself to the OSS model of "reusable tool" development, and site construction by loosely linked seperate tools. By contrast, most java installations are bespoke and integrated, because java tends to be reusable at the library rather than app level.
Therefore:
- If you want to import functionality piecewise, and can cope with loose integration and off-the-peg tools, use PHP.
- If you need to build a coherent sitewide interface, or you need precision control of the "business logic", and are prepared to expend major effort on glue code and UI tuning, use Java.
Why does emacs still live in the antediluvian world of dynamic scoping, unoptimized tail calls and stop-the-world garbage collection? Why does it include a lisp interpreter when pluggable interpreters are a dime a dozen? They should port the whole thing to common lisp, or to a modern compiling scheme like bigloo or chicken.
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What we're talking about here, in the case of nanotubes, is carbon, not silicon. Silicon is basically biologically null. Humans don't use it for much, barely need to eat it, can't digest or break down its oxide which is the form that causes silicosis. Nanotubes by contrast are elemental carbon, a material whose reaction-products the body knows intimately. In less than ridiculous quantities (ie: not enough to cause "black lung"), I think nanotubes would be quickly swept up and junked by the body. In fact, I suspect the difficulty in medical use of nanotubes would be more how to keep them undamaged, than how to keep them from persisting.
This strikes me as the usual eco-weenies looking, searching desperately, for anything that might retard the techical progress which they regard as unnatural.
The point of BT: leechers who are in process of downloading can act as virtual seeds (in aggregate). So those 400 leechers actually add up to another 35 seeds, say. And that's only for whole seeds - some pieces will be much more available than that.
I've met slow torrents from slow seeds and from what appeared to be overly rulebound trackers, but never from an excess of leechers.
In BT, once you have a handful of seeds, more is always better.
The thing with BT is: if you have say 10 seeds, then your torrent is fine. If you have even 1 seed, it won't die. It doesn't matter that some folks leech and then run. So, the core premise of these private sites is bunk. Worse, it's immensely counterproductive. DHT can keep a torrent alive and supplied with seeds. Barriers to access mean fewer downloaders, hence slower torrents and fewer seeds. I wouldn't be surprised if torrents on these sites died at least as often as on fully public sites.
Really, it seems to me that these folks want some sort of private domain to boss around and feel elite. The rest is just their rationalization.
These "private" sties IMO exist basically to screw over the BT community in one way or another. I mean, WHY take registration, require ratios, limit users, etc? Do these people not grok the essence of BT? If there are enough seeds then the leechers don't matter. No, it seems to me that what these people are doing is trying to enforce unnecessary and ridiculously anal rules, ripping people off for their saleable demographics, and then getting huffy when (get this) an uncooperative program pirates their pirated content. Well boo effing hoo. Cry me a frickin' river.
The world doesn't have to need it. Nobody has to need it, because "need" is utterly tangential. It's their money, not yours. Go take your egalitarianism, stick it in your pipe and smoke it.
BTW, seems to me that squash would be a more sensible zero-g game than football. It's fast, simple, ballistic, and it only needs two participants.
Imagine. You've spent most of your life working to perfect your body. You've suffered boredom, pain and injuries. For this, you get all the good girls, and the admiration of your peers. Then some pencil-neck geek injects himself with myostatin blocker, and in a month he's beating you at arm-wrestling. The dungeons and dragons club actually do look like steel-thewed barbarians, if barbarians had acne.
Oh, the dilution of kudos! How the mighty are fallen...
No, it can be done, has been done. I believe the sound editor "audacity" works this way. Log the actions, cache the expensive diffs. And if seeded pseudorandom functions are used, log the seeds.
There are situations where this couldn't be used, where unpredictable and non-replayable external input matters. Example, network packet logger. But most "document" based programs work fine.
Linkspammer aside, what seems interesting to me about this is the change it implies in how cancer should be viewed. Cancer cells aren't just bits of broken machinery going haywire, growing and breaking and growing somewhere else. They're parasitic colonial lifeforms actively seeking their own advancement, and treating the body as a host.
Less of a malfunction, more of an atavism?
Here's a thought: the versions of a file match the undo states. So, as you edit the file, the program journals it to disk. Crash and resume, and you get your undo history back. Save, and your undo history is collapsed and the file stored in its native (un-journalled) form. So "save" transforms from a storage operation, to a render operation.
This has the advantage that a quit or crash and restart from a temporary change will allow you to back out the change. It also works for large datasets, because you aren't continually saving the whole thing, only journalling the changes.
Wealth has gone up, but the money supply has increased faster. Cause: all those various entities given the government privilege to print money.
Real buying power has still increased, because of technologies moving down into lower price brackets, commodification of products that used to be expensive and bespoke, and new inventions adding abilities that didn't previously exist. A dollar will buy less bread, but a whole lot more DVD player.
That's an economic mistake and an important one, because it leads to bad policy. I'll explain how it's mistaken.
Value is the value of a thing to a person. Profit is the increase in value after a trade, versus before. So the seller profits by gaining money (wanted more) and losing product (wanted less). The buyer profits by losing money (wanted less) and gaining product (wanted more).
Wealth is the ability to achive personal goals. If you have more money, that's useful to you, so it's wealth. If you get something you need more, lose something you need less, then you have more wealth. Therefore profit produces personal wealth for both parties.
Some of the things you trade for, increase your efficiency. They let you achieve things you couldn't before. When other people's goals depend on your efficiency, your gain in wealth translates into a gain in societal wealth: everybody can achieve their goals a little easier. Therefore profit produces (on average) societal wealth for everyone.
Inflation and deflation reflect the usefulness of money. The limit of inflation is useless money. Infinite paper, nothing to buy, therefore infinite prices. The limit of deflation is getting everything for free. They relate to societal wealth. Wealth drops, money stays the same: inflation. Wealth rises, money stays the same: deflation. Therefore, profit is deflationary.
Given deflation, the same amount of money buys more. Therefore if anyone makes a profit, everyone makes a profit. This is the true virtue of the capitalist system, and it's the reason why Google's profits don't mean "someone else is getting less".
The species only actually sprung into existence about a year ago. You can tell that, because the local people still don't remember seeing it. Soon, the locals will remember it, complete with a history and folklore. By then it may be real enough that it can exist as a zoo specimen, rather than a mere couple of blurry photos.
Even now, its fossil ancestors are probably forming spontaneously in the rocks of Borneo.
As a libertarian with conservative sympathies, it amuses me to see the hard left starting their own wiki. Perhaps a disciple of Lysenko can be found to run the biology pages?
"Teach religion as religion, science as science" and "ID is religion". Therefore, don't intrude it into science (because it isn't), and don't directly attack it from science class (because the government isn't allowed to pick and choose religions).
Of course, if the government doesn't own your school, do as you please.
Their transaction support isn't there to supplant database transactions. In fact it implicity creates them. It's there to combine those transactions and other activities into a single "business transaction" that can span mutiple DBs, mutiple running apps, and activities not normally seen as transactional such as altering in-memory state.
If you're doing your stored procedures and triggers in the J2EE server, that's just wrong. The result would be a weak, memory hogging duplicate of DB functionality. It's as stupid as doing a "select foo.*, bar.* from foo, bar" and filtering it manually. You're using a screwdriver to hammer nails.
A typical use of J2EE transactions would be an app that needs to modify in-memory objects, modify local SQL data, modify remote data via a defined abstract interface with limited permissions, and do it all as one transaction, succeed or fail atomically. J2EE transactions make that possible, and in some cases easy.
It's an "enterprise" thing. If your business is large enough to be horizontally partitioned into departments with seperate IT, then you'll probably need it. Otherwise, probably not.
If I.D. is religion - and it is - then you doun't get to debunk it in public school on the goverment dime. Otherwise the next class might be "Islam, why it's a steaming heap of camel dung" or "Christianity and other ridiculous middle-eastern folk tales".
... major symptom: the inability to distinguish international private commerce from international government.
Learn this and engrave it on the inside of your skull: unlike mutually voluntary free trade, GOVERNMENT IS FORCE. The only thing it can do is either compel things, or let them alone. Add more government, add more interference.
The internet is international because the USA government, in choosing to leave well enough alone, has not prevented international private parties from cooperating - or from speaking freely. Do you think the UN would be so accomodating? If that were their plan, why would they have any motivation to change the status quo? The only plausible answers are respectively: that they intended to interfere, and that their power grab was predicated upon an intent to wield their newly acquired power - probably in support of repression (since, starting from freedom of speech, that's the only open direction of change).
So the question becomes: do you prefer freedom, or more government?
If you answer the latter, you make yourself my enemy.
If you use your laptop until its battery dies on the train, aircraft etc, you're screwed until you can plug it into a power socket, and leave it there an hour or two. Whereas if you have a fuel cell laptop, you pick up a disposable recharge at the airport lounge, psshht into a refueling hole, switch back on, ready to go.
Fuel is the most compact chemical energy store. That's why a car can run much further on a tank of gas than a whole bank of batteries. So a fuel cell will last longer than a battery, and you'll be able to carry a week's backup fuel supply in a small aerosol-type can. Also, because of being long-lasting, not every fuel cell need be user refillable. One-shot sealed "disposable batteries" are possible, which you either throw away or return to the vendor for recycling and money back.
Nothing about fuel cells implies lugging a 10 liter gas can from your local garage to refuel your digital camera. That's as ignorant as thinking you'd need to own an oil-well to run a car.
Fuel cells will be nothing more than a change of habit. You'll adapt and be fine.
Why is it acceptable in this society to treat children like the USSR treated adults? Herd 'em, propagandize 'em, defang 'em, and set 'em to work in huge collective institutions doing things both they and you know are dumb and meaningless. Seriously, these aren't some other species. They are the folks that, when they are 18, will hate you so much they'll elect the American Nazi Party just to piss you off.
Seriously, if under-18's want to jack off (or jill off) to nudie pics, what harm does it do anyone?