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For your first two points, a decent IDE helps a lot, or just being familiar with your editor of choice. It's much easier to figure out the key combo in emacs/vi than it is to indent 50+ lines.
For your second point, 10 levels of nesting is, IMHO, at least 7 too many. That's what subroutines are for. If you find yourself adding another level after three, it's probably time to look at your design.
Funny, a lot of people in the world look at the U.S and think the same thing. No universial health care!? No free university!? High school students who can't read!? Weird.
Chernobyl did not explode, it had a partial meltdown. No reactor can explode, in the sense that a nuclear weapon explodes.
Canadian reactors (Candus) do not use weapon grade plutonium and uranium, but they do produce (concentrate) it, like most reactors in most countries.
Other than the factual errors, youre post is correct:-). Differences in design of reactors can have a big impact of saftey. Any reactor being built today is probably incapable of a full meltdown.
The original poster wasn't talking about a racial group, he was talking about a nation, Mexico. Tying the racial groups of Mexico's identity to the nation state of Mexico is a form of racism in itself.
Even though I agree with the idea that as humans we should strive for the elimination of borders, and see it as inevitable, suddenly dropping all immigration controls and trade protections of every nation would result in famine and war.
Of course, if you're going through any countries border, and they tell you to stick your eye against a scanner, you don't really have a choice about it.
IMO, that data making its way into big secret databases is pretty much unstoppable.
I would have thought that karma whoreing was a more advanced concept the the/. effect. - anyway, even if it wasn't whoreing, your post is still somewhat offtopic since 99.8% of the people reading it know what karma whoreing is.
p.s. It's good to stop caring about how AC's percive your posts, or moderators mod them, We're all idiots:-) I never reply to AC's out of principle.
Good point. I hate it when people try to compare OpenSource and closed source in this way. Why the hell should it ship on friday!? You're not paying me, it was my idea in the first place, and I'm going camping.
The idea that open source projects need to improve anything is stupid. It's free, for christ's sake, you get what you pay for.
You seem to be confusing 'expensive computer' with 'beowulf cluster'. Clusters have a great price/performance ratio for a small class of problems. Climate modeling, fluid dynamics, some life sciences, etc. The machines from IBM are designed to do , in enterprise speak, 'transactions'. SQL querys, web services, distibuted software, etc. A cluster makes a very shitty web server.
You're missing the most interesting fact about the segway, in that the rider doesn't activly balance, the segway does. The trick to riding the things is to stop trying to balance.
I always thought the segway looked like a push mower, and was picturing a design with the blades around the body. It'd be much cooler to just strap a segway to a regular mower though. For both designs the auto balancing isn't needed.
But that's what makes the segway a good choice as a platform. It's ability to support 200 lbs of shifting mass over changing terrain lets you design the rest of the robot with a lot of latitude. Building a custom platform with the same range of specs would be very expensive.
"That's merely the short list of hard-wired assumptions that were short-circuited by last weekend's publication of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.""
This whole article asumes that Harry Potter is high art, and that it is a product that can earn 100 million while not being part of the hype machine.
I've never read any of the Harry Potter series. I think I'd probably enjoy them, though. But I'm _very_ aware of them. The Harry Potter phenom is well covered in the media, and I doubt they would be so popular without the involment of the media.
I think the OP is most certainly _not_ against space travel. I say this because I agree with everything said, and I'm not against space travel.
Manned space travel is _very_ expensive. I think that we can get further, faster, if we stop blowing all this cash on getting humans into space and pour it into robotic exploration. At $500,000,000 U.S a launch the shuttle is just stupid. We should be able to get 20 payloads into LEO for that price.
So what? Choose to use Debian ot Gentoo, choose to contribute to either. Who cares if there is duplicated effort? Opensource is what it is. It doesn't have to 'compete'. I fail to understand how open source has 'failed'. By what measure? I'm useing it, others use it. If I want to spend the next year of my life working on a useless duplication of effort, that's my problem, stop making it yours.
Microwaving an RFID does in fact destroy it. It's a bit hard to microwave a Mercedes M Class, though. For most items this is quite viable.
The forgery angle is sure to be interesting. I'm sure it won't be long before we see a whole bunch of interesting articles on the hacker sites about interesting spoofs and deceptions.
Ain't gonna happen. But if gravity was shown to be instantaneous, the repurcussions would be a whole lot of people going back to the drawing board. We could probably figure out some way to use that to transmit information instantaneously, and yes, that would certainly violate causality, which is ugly.
There are a few differences between UPC's and RFID's that make them a subject of concern. One is that you might not be aware when the RFID tag is being read. Another is that an RFID is unique, it doesn't just identify a brand, it identifies an instance of that brand. Another is that some RFID tags can be written to. I think that the benifits of RFID far outweigh the privacy risks, but I think it's a good idea to get some guidelines in place on what uses are acceptable.
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Well, they are 259 square km, so it's not exactly tiny. Oh, and they arn't chock full of some of the leaders in computing today (a la Berkely).
I'm guessing you mean the G4 line of Macs. These boxes exel at certain types of calculations, with the help of the Altivec, but would suffer from the same disadvantage the P4 does, namely lousy integer performance.
I expect this might be a different picture tomorow, with the much rumored anouncment of the G5@2GHz.
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For your second point, 10 levels of nesting is, IMHO, at least 7 too many. That's what subroutines are for. If you find yourself adding another level after three, it's probably time to look at your design.
Yes, as a quick look at the website would have told you, Mr.First Post.
Funny, a lot of people in the world look at the U.S and think the same thing. No universial health care!? No free university!? High school students who can't read!? Weird.
Canadian reactors (Candus) do not use weapon grade plutonium and uranium, but they do produce (concentrate) it, like most reactors in most countries.
Other than the factual errors, youre post is correct :-). Differences in design of reactors can have a big impact of saftey. Any reactor being built today is probably incapable of a full meltdown.
Even though I agree with the idea that as humans we should strive for the elimination of borders, and see it as inevitable, suddenly dropping all immigration controls and trade protections of every nation would result in famine and war.
IMO, that data making its way into big secret databases is pretty much unstoppable.
p.s. It's good to stop caring about how AC's percive your posts, or moderators mod them, We're all idiots :-) I never reply to AC's out of principle.
The idea that open source projects need to improve anything is stupid. It's free, for christ's sake, you get what you pay for.
You seem to be confusing 'expensive computer' with 'beowulf cluster'. Clusters have a great price/performance ratio for a small class of problems. Climate modeling, fluid dynamics, some life sciences, etc. The machines from IBM are designed to do , in enterprise speak, 'transactions'. SQL querys, web services, distibuted software, etc. A cluster makes a very shitty web server.
I have a feeling that the apple boxen will still be better workstations for the money. These machines will be optimized for transactions per second.
You're missing the most interesting fact about the segway, in that the rider doesn't activly balance, the segway does. The trick to riding the things is to stop trying to balance.
I always thought the segway looked like a push mower, and was picturing a design with the blades around the body. It'd be much cooler to just strap a segway to a regular mower though. For both designs the auto balancing isn't needed.
But that's what makes the segway a good choice as a platform. It's ability to support 200 lbs of shifting mass over changing terrain lets you design the rest of the robot with a lot of latitude. Building a custom platform with the same range of specs would be very expensive.
I've seen several companies decide on Oracle when mysql would have served thier needs just fine. Yes Oracle is powerfull, but it's sometimes overkill.
These guys were mentioned on /. several months ago. They have been doing launches with video cameras for a while. The videos are very impressive.
This whole article asumes that Harry Potter is high art, and that it is a product that can earn 100 million while not being part of the hype machine.
I've never read any of the Harry Potter series. I think I'd probably enjoy them, though. But I'm _very_ aware of them. The Harry Potter phenom is well covered in the media, and I doubt they would be so popular without the involment of the media.
Manned space travel is _very_ expensive. I think that we can get further, faster, if we stop blowing all this cash on getting humans into space and pour it into robotic exploration. At $500,000,000 U.S a launch the shuttle is just stupid. We should be able to get 20 payloads into LEO for that price.
Aeroenviroment, the company of which you speak, has done sevel cool projects. Their MAV's (micro air veichles) are the coolest. (pdf)
So what? Choose to use Debian ot Gentoo, choose to contribute to either. Who cares if there is duplicated effort? Opensource is what it is. It doesn't have to 'compete'. I fail to understand how open source has 'failed'. By what measure? I'm useing it, others use it. If I want to spend the next year of my life working on a useless duplication of effort, that's my problem, stop making it yours.
Uh....Isn't that what this article is about? It doesn't have the friken lasers though....
The forgery angle is sure to be interesting. I'm sure it won't be long before we see a whole bunch of interesting articles on the hacker sites about interesting spoofs and deceptions.
Ain't gonna happen. But if gravity was shown to be instantaneous, the repurcussions would be a whole lot of people going back to the drawing board. We could probably figure out some way to use that to transmit information instantaneously, and yes, that would certainly violate causality, which is ugly.
There are a few differences between UPC's and RFID's that make them a subject of concern. One is that you might not be aware when the RFID tag is being read. Another is that an RFID is unique, it doesn't just identify a brand, it identifies an instance of that brand. Another is that some RFID tags can be written to. I think that the benifits of RFID far outweigh the privacy risks, but I think it's a good idea to get some guidelines in place on what uses are acceptable.
Well, they are 259 square km, so it's not exactly tiny. Oh, and they arn't chock full of some of the leaders in computing today (a la Berkely).
Huh! he's right, and it doesn't seem like many folks were very happy with him.
I expect this might be a different picture tomorow, with the much rumored anouncment of the G5@2GHz.