How is that not a controled scientific sample? How do you suggest I control it more. I mean you can never be 100% sure, but what other activity corelated with smoking could be causing cancer? The only other possibility is that people that are genetically prone to cancer are also genetically prone to starting smoking. There is no reason why this would be so. There is plenty of reasons why smoking could cause cancer. Or do you think maybe that the cancer patients who don't smoke don't get diagnosed? If you think that any of these variables may have a significant effect on my sample I would like to participate in gambling against you.
In science it is impossible to control all the variables therefore you control the ones that have a logical chance of having an effect. For examle in this case you would not monitor the month of birth of a patient because we have no logical reason to say that people who are born in march could be more likely to smoke or have cancer than people who are born in january.
Ha ha, this is funny, go to the hospital right now. I dare you. Go to where the lung cancer patients are. Ask EACH ONE of them if they were/are smokers or worked in an environment with a lot of smoke.
You'll see that practically ALL of them will answer yes.
A doctor once told me that if you smoke you wont necessarily get lung cancer, but if you have it it is because you smoked. Almost no one outside the smokers have lung cancer.
Ha ha, it seems that it is the people who are so stupid and uninformed that they can't even tell the difference between global warming and depletion of the ozone layer that dont accept these facts.
If you can't tell the difference between an apple and an orange you shouldn't be trying to tell people how to do groceries.
Bravo mon ami!,
When I was doing my bachelor and people were complaining about the fact that their intro to psychology, philosophy, or history course were useless, I was thinking to myself "well.. why didn't you go to a community college or trade school?" University is meant to create the intellectuals of society, the people who are informed and can think for themselves about different subjects. I did my undergrad in EE and there is a program available to become an electrical engineer technician in trade schools where you would only do courses related to EE. If you are going at university and hoping to stay ignorant in every field but one you are at the wrong place.
"'Hardware accelerated PDF viewers"
We will be able to read PDF documents at 200 PPS Pages Per Seconds) instead of the old 15 pages per second!!! Whats the page rate on YOUR desktop?
The only logical solution here is for the US to apologize to the middle east and make an agreement to reduce the stock of nuclear weapons and military force of all the countries _including the US_. But since the US is run by fanatical religious leaders that think "god" speaks to them this will never happen.
+1 Insightfull. And if you extrapolate a little you see that the US has fueled a Nuclear weapon's race and lead the path to a nuclear war. They could easily be responsible for the destruction of a large part of the human race in the near future.
"The fact is that if the US didn't try, then nobody would."
Exactly. Why would they want to try something that could provoke countries to send nuclear missles accross the globe? Why would they try something that could lead to a nuclear war and destroy this planet? That is just plain stupid.
The US is playing with fire and when you play with fire you get burnt. I'm afraid the victims might be the human race and life on earth.
Mind you, the "axis of evil" as a member of the global community is acting quite civilized and reasonable considering how the US is threatening them. If the roles were reversed and it was the US being opressed and threatened by the "axis of evil", if Iran would be invading your neighbors and looking at you saying "you might be next", the Nuclear weapons would probably already have been launched and life on earth already crippled.
Yup everyone in the world (except in the US apparently) as known about this for years. Why do you think 90% of "the rest of the world" was shocked that Bush was elected for a second time. Republicans laught at us when we say we were scared of Bush. But these events are just what we were scared of. Bush is responsible for this. This is the logical result of the irresponsible meddling with the world. Bush is effectively following the path towards the destruction of this planet in the name of oil and money to his rich friends.
Everyone is so negative that they missed the positive point of this study. The great thing seems to be that driving drunk isn't as bad as we thought it was! The study states that it just about as dangerous as driving while speaking to someone else. That is good news for all of us alcohol consumers!
"Hmmm... Gotta add it to the data structure... Okay, I've got to make sure the client and server protocols match by version." Same problems arize with XML.
"Damn. Gotta rework that validation code because my offsets have changed. (Etc. etc. etc.)"
none of this needs to be dealth with directly. see below...
"And finally, for fifty points, how expensive is your time as a developer as compared to hardware processing time as a dollar value?"
Let see, in Java all you need to do is add:
"implements Serializable"
before your class. Is that more complicated than using XML?
" but, in a world of people who have never heard of a big-endian computer regardless of a degree CS/CE/EE, it's a tough call. "
The solution to that is: Standardize on an endianness for binary serialisation and let the computer that doesn't follow the standard do the conversion.
Yes but usually when one refers to binary, one refers to the prefered language of the computer. Not some transliteration or translation of it that adds yet another conversion step to the data.
And as I suggested above he did not like the XML tags either calling them:"12 lines of bloated crap" and all.
I feel like Im talking to a two year old. I don't know what else to say. If you can't comprehend that binary is much faster to parse than XML theres nothing I can do. Oh I give up you're right. I propose to change the CPU and memory of the computer to work in XML.
"You have no problem with the overhead of parsing binary XML, but dictionary lookups and tree rotations involved in decoding a compressed file.. that's out of the question?"
huh... last time I checked binary was the language the computer natively understood and it didn't need to be parsed or processed in anyway by software.
Also, it seems to me that he did have a problem with the parsing of the XML part.
I said it before and I say it again. People really are starting to trust the free and open source software community more than commercial software companies. This is no surprise since private companies act as your enemy as soon as you buy something from them. They try to extort money from you by pushing upgrades that patch vulnerabilities and making sure your product only stays compatible for a short period. They make you subject to small prints, EULAs with mysterious and suspicious content, advertisement that is manipulative, misleading and dishonest. They give you poor quality support for their products and even worst support if the product is more than a year old. They push expensive insurance on everything you buy.
Before the advent of opensource/free software consumers had no alternatives so they had to deal with unethical deceitful entities. But now open source has proven to be much more competitive on the ethical and honesty front. If private companies want to keep their market share they are going to have to earn the trust of the consumers. They will have to stop trying the fsck everyone in the behind all the time by pulling charlatan licensing tricks on everyone otherwize consumers will slowly move away from them.
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How is that not a controled scientific sample? How do you suggest I control it more. I mean you can never be 100% sure, but what other activity corelated with smoking could be causing cancer? The only other possibility is that people that are genetically prone to cancer are also genetically prone to starting smoking. There is no reason why this would be so. There is plenty of reasons why smoking could cause cancer. Or do you think maybe that the cancer patients who don't smoke don't get diagnosed? If you think that any of these variables may have a significant effect on my sample I would like to participate in gambling against you. In science it is impossible to control all the variables therefore you control the ones that have a logical chance of having an effect. For examle in this case you would not monitor the month of birth of a patient because we have no logical reason to say that people who are born in march could be more likely to smoke or have cancer than people who are born in january.
yes but in the summer they have sunlight almost 24h a day.
Ha ha, this is funny, go to the hospital right now. I dare you. Go to where the lung cancer patients are. Ask EACH ONE of them if they were/are smokers or worked in an environment with a lot of smoke.
You'll see that practically ALL of them will answer yes.
A doctor once told me that if you smoke you wont necessarily get lung cancer, but if you have it it is because you smoked. Almost no one outside the smokers have lung cancer.
Ha ha, it seems that it is the people who are so stupid and uninformed that they can't even tell the difference between global warming and depletion of the ozone layer that dont accept these facts.
If you can't tell the difference between an apple and an orange you shouldn't be trying to tell people how to do groceries.
hehe fun to read, especially the bit about the bright carp.
Bravo mon ami!, When I was doing my bachelor and people were complaining about the fact that their intro to psychology, philosophy, or history course were useless, I was thinking to myself "well.. why didn't you go to a community college or trade school?" University is meant to create the intellectuals of society, the people who are informed and can think for themselves about different subjects. I did my undergrad in EE and there is a program available to become an electrical engineer technician in trade schools where you would only do courses related to EE. If you are going at university and hoping to stay ignorant in every field but one you are at the wrong place.
"'Hardware accelerated PDF viewers" We will be able to read PDF documents at 200 PPS Pages Per Seconds) instead of the old 15 pages per second!!! Whats the page rate on YOUR desktop?
Right, because we wouldn't want people to switch to hybrid or create incentives to be fuel effecient. That would be terrible.
Actually these must be so rare that they must be collectables.
The only logical solution here is for the US to apologize to the middle east and make an agreement to reduce the stock of nuclear weapons and military force of all the countries _including the US_. But since the US is run by fanatical religious leaders that think "god" speaks to them this will never happen.
+1 Insightfull. And if you extrapolate a little you see that the US has fueled a Nuclear weapon's race and lead the path to a nuclear war. They could easily be responsible for the destruction of a large part of the human race in the near future.
"The fact is that if the US didn't try, then nobody would."
Exactly. Why would they want to try something that could provoke countries to send nuclear missles accross the globe? Why would they try something that could lead to a nuclear war and destroy this planet? That is just plain stupid.
The US is playing with fire and when you play with fire you get burnt. I'm afraid the victims might be the human race and life on earth.
Mind you, the "axis of evil" as a member of the global community is acting quite civilized and reasonable considering how the US is threatening them. If the roles were reversed and it was the US being opressed and threatened by the "axis of evil", if Iran would be invading your neighbors and looking at you saying "you might be next", the Nuclear weapons would probably already have been launched and life on earth already crippled.
Yup everyone in the world (except in the US apparently) as known about this for years. Why do you think 90% of "the rest of the world" was shocked that Bush was elected for a second time. Republicans laught at us when we say we were scared of Bush. But these events are just what we were scared of. Bush is responsible for this. This is the logical result of the irresponsible meddling with the world. Bush is effectively following the path towards the destruction of this planet in the name of oil and money to his rich friends.
Everyone is so negative that they missed the positive point of this study. The great thing seems to be that driving drunk isn't as bad as we thought it was! The study states that it just about as dangerous as driving while speaking to someone else. That is good news for all of us alcohol consumers!
I applaud this comment.
no that is not what endianness is. Look it up on google.
"Hmmm... Gotta add it to the data structure... Okay, I've got to make sure the client and server protocols match by version." Same problems arize with XML.
"Damn. Gotta rework that validation code because my offsets have changed. (Etc. etc. etc.)"
none of this needs to be dealth with directly. see below...
"And finally, for fifty points, how expensive is your time as a developer as compared to hardware processing time as a dollar value?"
Let see, in Java all you need to do is add:
"implements Serializable"
before your class. Is that more complicated than using XML?
" but, in a world of people who have never heard of a big-endian computer regardless of a degree CS/CE/EE, it's a tough call.
"
The solution to that is: Standardize on an endianness for binary serialisation and let the computer that doesn't follow the standard do the conversion.
See? that wasn't hard, No need for XML.
What I meant to add was:
...
<ASM instruction="JMP"><PARAMETER type="32bitAdress">A3D2</ASM>
<ASM instruction="NOP"></ASM>
<ASM instruction="ADDA"><PARAMETER type="32bit Integer">D22A</ASM></ASM>
Yes but usually when one refers to binary, one refers to the prefered language of the computer. Not some transliteration or translation of it that adds yet another conversion step to the data.
...
And as I suggested above he did not like the XML tags either calling them:"12 lines of bloated crap" and all.
I feel like Im talking to a two year old. I don't know what else to say. If you can't comprehend that binary is much faster to parse than XML theres nothing I can do. Oh I give up you're right. I propose to change the CPU and memory of the computer to work in XML.
A3D2
D22A
"You have no problem with the overhead of parsing binary XML, but dictionary lookups and tree rotations involved in decoding a compressed file.. that's out of the question?"
huh... last time I checked binary was the language the computer natively understood and it didn't need to be parsed or processed in anyway by software.
Also, it seems to me that he did have a problem with the parsing of the XML part.
Ha ha, a guy who thinks he's better at dictating english definitions than dictionaries is quite ironically funny.
I said it before and I say it again. People really are starting to trust the free and open source software community more than commercial software companies. This is no surprise since private companies act as your enemy as soon as you buy something from them. They try to extort money from you by pushing upgrades that patch vulnerabilities and making sure your product only stays compatible for a short period. They make you subject to small prints, EULAs with mysterious and suspicious content, advertisement that is manipulative, misleading and dishonest. They give you poor quality support for their products and even worst support if the product is more than a year old. They push expensive insurance on everything you buy. Before the advent of opensource/free software consumers had no alternatives so they had to deal with unethical deceitful entities. But now open source has proven to be much more competitive on the ethical and honesty front. If private companies want to keep their market share they are going to have to earn the trust of the consumers. They will have to stop trying the fsck everyone in the behind all the time by pulling charlatan licensing tricks on everyone otherwize consumers will slowly move away from them. -- My posts are copyleft.
And don't forget the 0.002% right in the middle.
You made me go check out search.msn.com God is it ever similar to Google.