I've also encountered the corollary -- I find some absurdly written ridiculous piece of code and wonder what moron wrote it only to find my own initials in the comments.
_Very_ good advice! My wife is from Guatemala and the move to the US was quite a shock -- language plays a part, weird food plays a part, cultural expectations are totally different, etc...
Also, to the grandparent, don't underestimate your own culture shock -- my wife experiences culture shock every time we go to Guatemala. 10 years in a culture is enough that you start to identify it as your own (at least if you've been trying to experience it)
Good luck.
Oh yeah, and like everyone else has been pointing out, all dealings with the INS tend to be wretched.
Your examples don't make any sense because Ada and Eiffel have a very C-like syntax. As does Pascal, Visual Basic, and a ton of other languages
Just a little pedantry here, but Pascal is 1 year older than C, which would seem to mean that C has a Pascalish syntax, rather than the other way around. (Other than that, I'm inclined to agree with you)
Let's see here... We don't like cameras because they might be able to see us (we don't have anyhting to hide, we just don't like being watched), but a technology that would allow us to have a chouce in the matter of being watched (as proposed by HP) is also something that we're against. So basically we're against anyhting that could be misused. Well, let's just go off to our cabins in the woods and write diatribes about technology, shall we?
Almost all museums that I've been to (admittedly a fairly small set -- the ones in LA and London mostly;) Have at least some sort of motion detector in front of the artwork. And they do in fact get lots of false alarms -- somebody leans in too close and sets the alarm off. Usually the guard/guide/some guy wearing a blue suit comes over pretty quickly to see what the beeping is about and tells the person to lean back. So I guess that they don't mind that much about having some false alarms.
... the reason Mars doesn't have an atmosphere isn't the gravity... but rather the lack of a magnetosphere...
Yeah, it turns out that my memory wasnt as good as hoped. I think the first part is still ok, though;-) Oops, I just admitted error on/. Does that revoke my account?
We currently have seas. Mars used to. It'd be a good idea to figure out why they don't have them anymore.
Well IANAPA (planetary astronomer), but the general consensus is that any water that was there has mostly evaporated and/or frozen. Mars has a very thin atmosphere, and liquid water would not stay put for long -- just as water boils faster at altitude, this is equivalent to water at a very high altitude. Now how water lasted there for thousands of years (or more likely millions, if it has modified the rocks surrounding it seriously), without evaporating is beyond me. I think the current idea is that the atmosphere must have been thicker then. As the atmosphere slowly drifted off (since Mars doesn't have the gravity to hold it), the pressure got less, and the water evaporated too. Sound reasonable?
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A lot of religious beliefs would need to be reexamined
Why? It doesn't seem to me that life elsewhere should necessarily be incompatible with religious beliefs. I am assuming (possibly erroneously if so, sorry) that you are referring more or less to Judeo-Christian type religions and probably those of the more fundamentalist persuasion. If so, I feel compelled to point out that there is nothing inherently contradictory with life being elsewhere and a belief in the Christian God. The Bible doesn't really have much to say on that point. It does mention such creatures as angels and demons which are stated to be alive and thinking creatures. So non-human life that isn't attached to this planet is mentioned. You can take that however you choose to -- but it certainly doesn't prevent other life from existing.
Yeah, I think that's all I need to say (at the moment)...
Hopefully this doesn't get me modded down -- it isn't particularly virulent, I think.
I hate election year politics. In an election year the whole political process becomes a zero-sum -- the Democrats want to prevent the Republicans from accomplishing anything that looks good, and the Republicans want to prevent the Democrats from doing anything that could be construed as positive. So who actually is losing in this case? NASA, the taxpayers, and (probably) whoever loses in the election. But all in all it sucks. Lets just divert the government funding for candidates to NASA and maybe we could get some interesting news.
Go ahead, mod me offtopic (It really isn't, though)
And this year replacing Crack Whore on the list of
worst jobs in the world is:
Assistant Crack Whore
Assistant Crack Whore everybody, worst job in the world.
I once paid Jesus $6.66 for my lunch. Even more ironically it was right after church too:-)
And some of us think "this devil shit" is bad, but aren't afraid of a number showing up on our bill for lunch.
Although if you note the great?-grandparent post, you will see that the Machines are supposedly identical. Which means that there should be no variation. You may be correct, but the argument doesn't hold with the previous one. And yes, I am a conservative who insists on reading things closely.
Actually, this software seems like it would totally useless for that purpose. The software was developed and has a bunch of heuristics and domain knowledge put in by experts in english or the relevant language. Without similar expertise, the software can't be adapted to a new language. The software isn't a universal translator.
So your hypothetical anthropologists or translators would still need to spend time and learn the language in question.
Well, yeah. I _know_ that. I was just speculating that such tools would be useful in the effort of learning/translating/etc. a language that had not as yet been studied formally.
This is a pretty cool thing. It seems like the kind of thing that would be of great use to anthropologists or others translating from a language that is more or less unknown. By unknown, I mean not used commonly outside of its people group, and probably unwritten. Neat.
... and not only that, but it is also more like the
world as we know it. When you go away (for any purpose) nothing remains the same as it was when you left. And so it is for the hobbits. They leave their comfortable corner of the world, and return to find it grossly changed.
So according to the article, this DSP is really really fast because it uses lasers. To do what? To calculate? To transmit data from place to place? I'm curious as to how they can do computations using the lasers (which is what seems to be implied by the article)
so there.
Power steering/power breaks work so long as your battery has a charge (key in "on" position)
Power brakes run off of engine vacuum which only exists when you have en engine running.
Power steering is usually powered off the engine also, although sometimes it is electronically assisted. All this to say: no.
> but the price of Freedom is eternal vigilantism.
Apparently I'm humor impaired, but...
I would think that eternal vigilantism would be counterproductive to the cause of freedom (as in say Iran with the vigilante hardliner folks beating up on students wanting freedom) Maybe vigilance??
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I've also encountered the corollary -- I find some absurdly written ridiculous piece of code and wonder what moron wrote it only to find my own initials in the comments.
thanks for reminding me.
National Geographic has a small copy of one of the images: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070928-burma-satellite.html
hmmm...
Yes, please, more COBOL. (the company I work for writes COBOL compilers)
On the other hand, I still hope you stay sick...
Ok, that's all. Nothing more to see here.
Also, to the grandparent, don't underestimate your own culture shock -- my wife experiences culture shock every time we go to Guatemala. 10 years in a culture is enough that you start to identify it as your own (at least if you've been trying to experience it)
Good luck.
Oh yeah, and like everyone else has been pointing out, all dealings with the INS tend to be wretched.
--dw
Just a little pedantry here, but Pascal is 1 year older than C, which would seem to mean that C has a Pascalish syntax, rather than the other way around. (Other than that, I'm inclined to agree with you)
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Go ahead, mod me down.
--dw
For what it's worth :)
vote for Oscar Berger.
We had a system where the admin password was none. That was a fairly good one.
Yeah, it turns out that my memory wasnt as good as hoped. I think the first part is still ok, though ;-) Oops, I just admitted error on /. Does that revoke my account?
Well IANAPA (planetary astronomer), but the general consensus is that any water that was there has mostly evaporated and/or frozen. Mars has a very thin atmosphere, and liquid water would not stay put for long -- just as water boils faster at altitude, this is equivalent to water at a very high altitude. Now how water lasted there for thousands of years (or more likely millions, if it has modified the rocks surrounding it seriously), without evaporating is beyond me. I think the current idea is that the atmosphere must have been thicker then. As the atmosphere slowly drifted off (since Mars doesn't have the gravity to hold it), the pressure got less, and the water evaporated too. Sound reasonable?
Why? It doesn't seem to me that life elsewhere should necessarily be incompatible with religious beliefs. I am assuming (possibly erroneously if so, sorry) that you are referring more or less to Judeo-Christian type religions and probably those of the more fundamentalist persuasion. If so, I feel compelled to point out that there is nothing inherently contradictory with life being elsewhere and a belief in the Christian God. The Bible doesn't really have much to say on that point. It does mention such creatures as angels and demons which are stated to be alive and thinking creatures. So non-human life that isn't attached to this planet is mentioned. You can take that however you choose to -- but it certainly doesn't prevent other life from existing.
Yeah, I think that's all I need to say (at the moment)...
Hopefully this doesn't get me modded down -- it isn't particularly virulent, I think.
Go ahead, mod me offtopic (It really isn't, though)
Shouldn't that be godly?
Assistant Crack Whore
Assistant Crack Whore everybody, worst job in the world.
I once paid Jesus $6.66 for my lunch. Even more ironically it was right after church too :-)
And some of us think "this devil shit" is bad, but aren't afraid of a number showing up on our bill for lunch.
Although if you note the great?-grandparent post, you will see that the Machines are supposedly identical. Which means that there should be no variation. You may be correct, but the argument doesn't hold with the previous one. And yes, I am a conservative who insists on reading things closely.
So your hypothetical anthropologists or translators would still need to spend time and learn the language in question.
Well, yeah. I _know_ that. I was just speculating that such tools would be useful in the effort of learning/translating/etc. a language that had not as yet been studied formally.
--dw
Neat.
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bogus_prediction ::= (some_new_spiffy_language_that_actually_sucks) is the future of (computing|operating_systems|networking)+
--dw
so i like it.
so there.
--dw
first on-topic post ;-)
Power brakes run off of engine vacuum which only exists when you have en engine running.
Power steering is usually powered off the engine also, although sometimes it is electronically
assisted. All this to say: no.
Apparently I'm humor impaired, but...
I would think that eternal vigilantism would be counterproductive to the cause of freedom (as in say Iran with the vigilante hardliner folks beating up on students wanting freedom) Maybe vigilance??
that is all... Mod me offtopic, thanks ;-)