Well, you're going to have a problem in the future, because Oracle is replacing Sun's Java with OpenJDK. It's going to be the "real" java from now on. The summary, like usual, left this important fact out.
Almost right, but not quite. As I understand it, Sun's (now Oracle's) JDK will still exist, but it will no longer be the Reference Implementation. OpenJDK will become the Reference Implementation.
This does, of course, mean that OpenJDK will be the "real" Java, and that there should (in theory) be no differences between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK— and if there are differences, then it's Oracle JDK that's wrong. But Oracle's JDK will still exist.
I recently received an invitation in the mail to an invite-only party/sale at the Hyundai dealership where I bought my car. On the invitation it described a deal they're having on that day: "Buy a new Hyundai, get another Hyundai free". Next to this was a tiny asterisk, and at the bottom in smaller type it explained: "Receive a free Hyundai product with the purchase of any new Hyundai car". So, in other words, "we'll throw in a baseball cap or a t-shirt if you buy a car".
Probably many others too. I have no idea the legality of these, but I've seen a few of them in the wild. I don't personally use or endorse any of them.
What's particularly interesting is that it's not just the act of moving into a new (and unknown) room, but the act of moving into a different room than the one you were just in, even if that other room is one with which you're already familiar. In other words, it's not the newness, but the shift.
Hundreds of processes happen, going from one room to another. Identifying the door is a good start (walls are so unyielding) looking for the knob, using hand-eye coordination to put hand on doorknob, turn, sense door opens or does not, pulling, pushing, how far is door open, don't hit it going through...
In the experiment, the doors were opened for the subject. Additional doors that were not part of their planned path were kept closed, so they hardly had to think about where to go next, just follow the automatically opening doors. Also, the first part of the experiment was conducted entirely using a first-person video game, so the only actions required by the subject were most likely holding down the "W" key while moving the mouse left and right.
Support their needs by allowing them to not work as many hours and be available as much? Sure, but they will get paid less, which is also another equality complaint of women. Expecting women surgeons to get paid the same, have the same employment success, but not work as much is completely unfair.
And entirely a strawman. The wage disparity exists between men and women doing the same work, and that is where the complaint exists.
Slashdot, can we have a "Remove Article" option for articles like this that are quickly revealed to be a joke? The site doesn't track anything, and it even says so. The article is pointless.
Oh, it's even better than that. A new release of Windows might be released later than originally planned, according to random speculation from someone completely unrelated to the Windows development team or even Microsoft.
With the combined magic of Google Street View plus the images in the linked article, we can be more specific than that.
This image shows the cannonball's trajectory. Location #1 is the house that the cannonball went through, apparently entering through the front door and exiting through the rear wall. Location #2 is the driveway in which the cannonball came to a stop in a minivan.
Just remember that if a contract company is quoting you $14/hr, they are paying their programmers considerably less than that. If a US company can save itself a factor of 3x by going overseas, shouldn't an overseas company be able to save itself a factor of 3x? so you are looking at $5/hr or so now. Maybe. One of the biggest problems with outsourcing is that you have more hands in the cookie jar than you need. If everybody is looking to maximize their piece, the odds of corners getting cut go up dramatically.
$5/hr ($10,400/yr) is still above the national average household income of $7,600/yr. Considering a 2000 square foot house in Bangalore can be purchased for about $30,000 (roughly three years' salary), it's still a damn good wage.
No programmer worth their salt will willingly accept that pay, and if they do, you probably don't want them.
But the idea of what is a reasonable salary is relative. In India, the average household income is 390,000 INR, which is about $7,600 in USD. A wage of $14/hr works out to almost $30,000 annually, which is almost four times the average household income.
So, while it's true that no American programmer worth their salt would accept that pay, many highly skilled Indian programmers would consider themselves rich if they were making that much.
It needs to be science before you can counter it. A basic requirement of science is reproducibility.
And Mann's research has been reproduced. Multiple times. With essentially the same results. The email hunt is all part of an attempt to discredit an individual, since the science itself is pretty solid.
And if the video was so "silly" why spend money to threaten legal action?
I didn't defend his use of legal action against the makers of the video. Nor did I criticize it. I simply countered your claim that Mann is using lawsuits to prevent the science from being called into question. There are a million silly videos on YouTube made by Global Warming skeptics. He went after the one that used his image, and ignored the rest. If you really think that's part of an attack on science, well then, I don't know what more to say to you.
It's clear that my drawing parallels between Mann and quacks has incensed you. Sorry, but that's how it looks to me. I predict your next response will be an ad hominem attack.
Not really. I just saw a comment I disagreed with, and I voiced my opinion. I really don't see what you could possibly have based your prediction on. But if it'll make you feel better, I suppose I could call you a weenie. Satisfied?
Other than the countersuit already addressed by the GP, the only thing your stupid LMGTFY link produces is a cease & desist against the makers of a silly satirical music video that used his likeness without his permission. I'm sorry, but a satirical music video is not science, and attempting to suppress it is in no way an attempt to suppress legitimate scientific dissent.
If you want to counter the science, counter it with more science, not with silly videos or FOIA requests for private emails.
Two options: 1. Stay put until the fire department or emergency operator tells you it's OK to leave. 2. Leave via a stairwell that's far from where the fire is.
That's basically the same approach as what you do if you're on level 60 and there's a fire on level 2.
Well, except for the part where you have to walk UP 60 flights of stairs to safety, instead of DOWN.
If properly implemented, it is a reduction, because, while the purchaser of the credit does not have to reduce their emissions, the seller of the credit does. The theory is that it really doesn't matter who reduces their emissions, as long as somebody does.
This is relatively easy to fix. Just tighten up the rules on offsets.
Relatively easy to fix, assuming the political will is there. But it's not. This is Alberta we're talking about. The province whose former Environment Minister said that it's not his job to protect the environment.
Bullshit. The Government of Alberta's own tar sands propaganda site backs up GPs claim of 170 square kilometers of tailings ponds— that's about two Manhattans. It goes on to state that "(e)fforts continue to develop new tailings performance criteria, management technologies and practical solutions to reduce and potentially eliminate tailings ponds as we know them today." Still, tailings ponds are expected to expand to about 250 square kilometers— almost three Manhattans— by 2020.
Of course, the 3.921 seconds is how long it took to navigate the maze, not how long it took to solve it. The maze was solved in a couple of minutes, then once it had the solution mapped out, it ran through the maze in 3.921 seconds.
This. All the basement coders out there in Slashdot Land are looking at the price tag and thinking that the very first dollar spent was spent on the very first line of code. But that's not how it works in the real world. First you have to decide that you're going to build something, and then you have to decide what to build. That involves meetings with stakeholders to make decisions. And guess what? The cost of having those people sit in a room and discuss it is part of the total cost of developing the application. They could've easily churned through $40,000 before a single line of code was written.
A couple hundred grand to professionally design, develop, and test two working applications and a third that didn't quite make it to market is not even remotely unrealistic. I've seen much, much, much more than that spent to simply install a new piece of software— only to have the project canceled after chewing through many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Well yes, he claims that it has always been Groupon's policy. Of course, that was stated in response to a particular case in which the business owner claimed that Groupon refused to allow a cap on the number of groupons sold.
We can't be sure what deals and limitations the various groupon salespeople actually present to retailers, but it's completely naive to think that Groupon is completely blameless in cases like this simply because the CEO issued a sympathetic press release.
Groupon does set that limit, and the fault is doubly with the retailer.
Not necessarily. Groupon is in the business of selling these deals to retailers. A Groupon representative says in the article that they approach each retailer with a deal tailored for them based on past experiences with similar clients. It is at least possible that Groupon approached Mrs. Brown with an offer that they believed (or at least told her that they believed) would result in a few hundred purchases, and she bought it.
Sure, it's buyer beware and all that, but it's possible that Groupon is doing a poor job, intentionally or otherwise, of setting accurate expectations for retailers.
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Well, you're going to have a problem in the future, because Oracle is replacing Sun's Java with OpenJDK. It's going to be the "real" java from now on. The summary, like usual, left this important fact out.
Almost right, but not quite. As I understand it, Sun's (now Oracle's) JDK will still exist, but it will no longer be the Reference Implementation. OpenJDK will become the Reference Implementation.
This does, of course, mean that OpenJDK will be the "real" Java, and that there should (in theory) be no differences between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK— and if there are differences, then it's Oracle JDK that's wrong. But Oracle's JDK will still exist.
I recently received an invitation in the mail to an invite-only party/sale at the Hyundai dealership where I bought my car. On the invitation it described a deal they're having on that day: "Buy a new Hyundai, get another Hyundai free". Next to this was a tiny asterisk, and at the bottom in smaller type it explained: "Receive a free Hyundai product with the purchase of any new Hyundai car". So, in other words, "we'll throw in a baseball cap or a t-shirt if you buy a car".
Stick around and I might share my recipe for fat free pumpkin spice cupcakes!
Oooh! I'll bite (literally)!
Can I get this for my license plates?
Yes.
http://www.phantomplate.com/
http://loover.com/
http://www.regblocker.com/
http://www.photoblockercanada.com/
Probably many others too. I have no idea the legality of these, but I've seen a few of them in the wild. I don't personally use or endorse any of them.
What's particularly interesting is that it's not just the act of moving into a new (and unknown) room, but the act of moving into a different room than the one you were just in, even if that other room is one with which you're already familiar. In other words, it's not the newness, but the shift.
Hundreds of processes happen, going from one room to another. Identifying the door is a good start (walls are so unyielding) looking for the knob, using hand-eye coordination to put hand on doorknob, turn, sense door opens or does not, pulling, pushing, how far is door open, don't hit it going through...
In the experiment, the doors were opened for the subject. Additional doors that were not part of their planned path were kept closed, so they hardly had to think about where to go next, just follow the automatically opening doors. Also, the first part of the experiment was conducted entirely using a first-person video game, so the only actions required by the subject were most likely holding down the "W" key while moving the mouse left and right.
Support their needs by allowing them to not work as many hours and be available as much? Sure, but they will get paid less, which is also another equality complaint of women. Expecting women surgeons to get paid the same, have the same employment success, but not work as much is completely unfair.
And entirely a strawman. The wage disparity exists between men and women doing the same work, and that is where the complaint exists.
Slashdot, can we have a "Remove Article" option for articles like this that are quickly revealed to be a joke? The site doesn't track anything, and it even says so. The article is pointless.
Next thing you know we'll have CSIgrep. (enhance enhance enhance grep)
Wouldn't that need a GUI created in Visual BASIC?
Oh, it's even better than that. A new release of Windows might be released later than originally planned, according to random speculation from someone completely unrelated to the Windows development team or even Microsoft.
And here's one that shows the complete trajectory from the bomb range.
With the combined magic of Google Street View plus the images in the linked article, we can be more specific than that.
This image shows the cannonball's trajectory. Location #1 is the house that the cannonball went through, apparently entering through the front door and exiting through the rear wall. Location #2 is the driveway in which the cannonball came to a stop in a minivan.
Just remember that if a contract company is quoting you $14/hr, they are paying their programmers considerably less than that. If a US company can save itself a factor of 3x by going overseas, shouldn't an overseas company be able to save itself a factor of 3x? so you are looking at $5/hr or so now. Maybe. One of the biggest problems with outsourcing is that you have more hands in the cookie jar than you need. If everybody is looking to maximize their piece, the odds of corners getting cut go up dramatically.
$5/hr ($10,400/yr) is still above the national average household income of $7,600/yr. Considering a 2000 square foot house in Bangalore can be purchased for about $30,000 (roughly three years' salary), it's still a damn good wage.
No programmer worth their salt will willingly accept that pay, and if they do, you probably don't want them.
But the idea of what is a reasonable salary is relative. In India, the average household income is 390,000 INR, which is about $7,600 in USD. A wage of $14/hr works out to almost $30,000 annually, which is almost four times the average household income.
So, while it's true that no American programmer worth their salt would accept that pay, many highly skilled Indian programmers would consider themselves rich if they were making that much.
It needs to be science before you can counter it. A basic requirement of science is reproducibility.
And Mann's research has been reproduced. Multiple times. With essentially the same results. The email hunt is all part of an attempt to discredit an individual, since the science itself is pretty solid.
And if the video was so "silly" why spend money to threaten legal action?
I didn't defend his use of legal action against the makers of the video. Nor did I criticize it. I simply countered your claim that Mann is using lawsuits to prevent the science from being called into question. There are a million silly videos on YouTube made by Global Warming skeptics. He went after the one that used his image, and ignored the rest. If you really think that's part of an attack on science, well then, I don't know what more to say to you.
It's clear that my drawing parallels between Mann and quacks has incensed you. Sorry, but that's how it looks to me. I predict your next response will be an ad hominem attack.
Not really. I just saw a comment I disagreed with, and I voiced my opinion. I really don't see what you could possibly have based your prediction on. But if it'll make you feel better, I suppose I could call you a weenie. Satisfied?
Other than the countersuit already addressed by the GP, the only thing your stupid LMGTFY link produces is a cease & desist against the makers of a silly satirical music video that used his likeness without his permission. I'm sorry, but a satirical music video is not science, and attempting to suppress it is in no way an attempt to suppress legitimate scientific dissent.
If you want to counter the science, counter it with more science, not with silly videos or FOIA requests for private emails.
Two options:
1. Stay put until the fire department or emergency operator tells you it's OK to leave.
2. Leave via a stairwell that's far from where the fire is.
That's basically the same approach as what you do if you're on level 60 and there's a fire on level 2.
Well, except for the part where you have to walk UP 60 flights of stairs to safety, instead of DOWN.
If properly implemented, it is a reduction, because, while the purchaser of the credit does not have to reduce their emissions, the seller of the credit does. The theory is that it really doesn't matter who reduces their emissions, as long as somebody does.
This is relatively easy to fix. Just tighten up the rules on offsets.
Relatively easy to fix, assuming the political will is there. But it's not. This is Alberta we're talking about. The province whose former Environment Minister said that it's not his job to protect the environment.
We don't use tailings ponds anymore.
Bullshit. The Government of Alberta's own tar sands propaganda site backs up GPs claim of 170 square kilometers of tailings ponds— that's about two Manhattans. It goes on to state that "(e)fforts continue to develop new tailings performance criteria, management technologies and practical solutions to reduce and potentially eliminate tailings ponds as we know them today." Still, tailings ponds are expected to expand to about 250 square kilometers— almost three Manhattans— by 2020.
In the video it appears to be about 10' x 10'.
Of course, the 3.921 seconds is how long it took to navigate the maze, not how long it took to solve it. The maze was solved in a couple of minutes, then once it had the solution mapped out, it ran through the maze in 3.921 seconds.
This. All the basement coders out there in Slashdot Land are looking at the price tag and thinking that the very first dollar spent was spent on the very first line of code. But that's not how it works in the real world. First you have to decide that you're going to build something, and then you have to decide what to build. That involves meetings with stakeholders to make decisions. And guess what? The cost of having those people sit in a room and discuss it is part of the total cost of developing the application. They could've easily churned through $40,000 before a single line of code was written.
A couple hundred grand to professionally design, develop, and test two working applications and a third that didn't quite make it to market is not even remotely unrealistic. I've seen much, much, much more than that spent to simply install a new piece of software— only to have the project canceled after chewing through many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
From this interview:
Heather Brooke: Maybe if you could just tell me what you do. Have you created this name as well?
Moxie Marlinspike: No that’s my name. It’s my really real name.
H: Were you born with it?
M: I wasn’t born with it but it is a real name.
H: So you changed your born name to this one.
M: For all intents and purposes this is my real name.
I don't think he wants anyone to know his birth name.
Well yes, he claims that it has always been Groupon's policy. Of course, that was stated in response to a particular case in which the business owner claimed that Groupon refused to allow a cap on the number of groupons sold.
We can't be sure what deals and limitations the various groupon salespeople actually present to retailers, but it's completely naive to think that Groupon is completely blameless in cases like this simply because the CEO issued a sympathetic press release.
Groupon does set that limit, and the fault is doubly with the retailer.
Not necessarily. Groupon is in the business of selling these deals to retailers. A Groupon representative says in the article that they approach each retailer with a deal tailored for them based on past experiences with similar clients. It is at least possible that Groupon approached Mrs. Brown with an offer that they believed (or at least told her that they believed) would result in a few hundred purchases, and she bought it.
Sure, it's buyer beware and all that, but it's possible that Groupon is doing a poor job, intentionally or otherwise, of setting accurate expectations for retailers.