The thing that would really cook would be making contraception available to these people
A very significant proportion of the world's population - and a significant proportion of that in poor/developing countries - willingly (apparently) submits to religious beliefs that prohibit contraception.
Reliable contraception is cheap and could be ubiquitous. Human nature/politics/religion are not easy to change. Those are the real problems.
There is this story about a vain leader and his sycophants that they tell to little children as a cautionary tale and a kind of moral primer. The thing is, once they're all grown up and working for a Company, they pretend to forget.
My beard is getting grey and I have yet so encounter a situation where it isn't true, unfortunately.
I ended my subscription to that back in the 90s when they chose to ignore anything non-Windows.
It used to have great reviews as well as technical articles and many pages of program listings in a wide variety of languages for many different platforms. There were tutorials on things like the maths behind 3D graphics and fractals, CPU architectures (there was once a superb one on the Motorola 68000 family), ARM assembly language (when the Archimedes was kicking the PeeCee's butt), you name it.
Then it turned into a Windows PeeCee shopping magazine with how-to-change-your-Windows-background-picture articles...
But we still have to deal with constant incoming feature changes and requests that are expected to be included in this week's package.
The feature requests can come in at any time, but tell "them" that they will get prioritised and planned once per week and the important ones will get done in that time box. You will not change course between planning sessions.
After three or four weeks "they" will see that progress is quicker over all and the code is more stable.
Push back on your management. As a professional, it's your responsibility to do what you can to ensure the quality and timeliness of the end product. This is part of that responsibility.
Ah now, back in the day, the IBM PeeCee (which had an 8088) kept time at a rate of 65536 ticks per hour. How this divides into a second is left as an exercise for the interested reader.
The second question for the interested reader is how on Earth anyone could achieve any sort of calculation at all on a 6502 what with it being quite the most pathetic excuse for a CPU ever devised by person-kind.
All programmers work for Microsoft and they are the guardians of the Secret Knowledge of the Diabolical Black Art of Making Computers do Stuff by Programming. They produce point-and-click tools for everyone to use their computers. If you are not part of The Sect you have no business engaging in the Diabolical Black Act and you will be hunted down and made to renounce any Secret Knowledge. You will be instructed in the use of the point-and-click tools and made to see that this is the True Path.
Yes, those pinko-commie left-wing nutjob foreigner-appeasing presidents are alien magnets! And they're in league with the 12-foot shape-shifting blood-drinking lizards who are from Zeta Reticuli and controlled by Phil the Greek from the panel behind Liz's throne.
Why pay royalties to ARM when you can have an OpenRISC for free?
OK, ARM is way ahead of OpenRISC just now, but would it be justified to make an analogy between ARM and OpenRISC like Linux in its infancy compared with Windows NT 3.1?
I'm not familiar with CPU development (yet) but I've met people who have worked on commercial projects that used it instead of ARM to save on licensing costs, and although it's only suitable for low-end projects at the moment, it works well enough. With some more development, it could be very successful.
Intuition is just subconscious thinking. It's the sum-total of life experience being used to evaluate current situations. It's not divine and it's not perfect.
Science provides a reliable, repeatable, disinterested, transferable framework for the study of Nature (well, phenomena in general).
By "disinterested" I really mean disinterested: it has no favourites and makes no moral or ethical judgements. It just lets us measure things and to make reliable predictions based on past measurements (observations).
This is the killer feature of Science. Nothing else lets us do this.
considering it takes Oracle longer to patch an exploit in Java than it does for Apple to patch an exploit, if indeed they acknowledge one, perhaps it would not be a bad thing to let ol Larry take 120 percent of nothing, and standardize on another universal API across the web.
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heh. Well, this former Missouri boy who lives/works in SF rides his own damn motorcycle to work everyday.
I hope you carry an organ donor's card.
The thing that would really cook would be making contraception available to these people
A very significant proportion of the world's population - and a significant proportion of that in poor/developing countries - willingly (apparently) submits to religious beliefs that prohibit contraception.
Reliable contraception is cheap and could be ubiquitous. Human nature/politics/religion are not easy to change. Those are the real problems.
Great... 144 000 Jehova's Witnesses, a bunch of suicide bombers, and now rats. Next you'll be telling me Heaven is full of tarantulas...
RT is just Pravda.
The Devil reads Pravda.
Just as well for Rick, he outsourced this work to HCL. They'll clean up the mess left by those lazy, grasping American engineers in no time at all!
The sad thing is, he probably didn't.
Maybe. Malice and stupidity and all that.
There is this story about a vain leader and his sycophants that they tell to little children as a cautionary tale and a kind of moral primer. The thing is, once they're all grown up and working for a Company, they pretend to forget.
My beard is getting grey and I have yet so encounter a situation where it isn't true, unfortunately.
We have a winner!
This is not redundant. It's 100% relevant.
They should send him to Xerox to help it on the downward trajectory Ursula put it on.
I ended my subscription to that back in the 90s when they chose to ignore anything non-Windows.
It used to have great reviews as well as technical articles and many pages of program listings in a wide variety of languages for many different platforms. There were tutorials on things like the maths behind 3D graphics and fractals, CPU architectures (there was once a superb one on the Motorola 68000 family), ARM assembly language (when the Archimedes was kicking the PeeCee's butt), you name it.
Then it turned into a Windows PeeCee shopping magazine with how-to-change-your-Windows-background-picture articles...
But we still have to deal with constant incoming feature changes and requests that are expected to be included in this week's package.
The feature requests can come in at any time, but tell "them" that they will get prioritised and planned once per week and the important ones will get done in that time box. You will not change course between planning sessions.
After three or four weeks "they" will see that progress is quicker over all and the code is more stable.
Push back on your management. As a professional, it's your responsibility to do what you can to ensure the quality and timeliness of the end product. This is part of that responsibility.
Ah now, back in the day, the IBM PeeCee (which had an 8088) kept time at a rate of 65536 ticks per hour. How this divides into a second is left as an exercise for the interested reader.
The second question for the interested reader is how on Earth anyone could achieve any sort of calculation at all on a 6502 what with it being quite the most pathetic excuse for a CPU ever devised by person-kind.
You'll go far, young man. Now back to your VB.NET.
All programmers work for Microsoft and they are the guardians of the Secret Knowledge of the Diabolical Black Art of Making Computers do Stuff by Programming. They produce point-and-click tools for everyone to use their computers. If you are not part of The Sect you have no business engaging in the Diabolical Black Act and you will be hunted down and made to renounce any Secret Knowledge. You will be instructed in the use of the point-and-click tools and made to see that this is the True Path.
Yes, those pinko-commie left-wing nutjob foreigner-appeasing presidents are alien magnets! And they're in league with the 12-foot shape-shifting blood-drinking lizards who are from Zeta Reticuli and controlled by Phil the Greek from the panel behind Liz's throne.
Why pay royalties to ARM when you can have an OpenRISC for free?
OK, ARM is way ahead of OpenRISC just now, but would it be justified to make an analogy between ARM and OpenRISC like Linux in its infancy compared with Windows NT 3.1?
I'm not familiar with CPU development (yet) but I've met people who have worked on commercial projects that used it instead of ARM to save on licensing costs, and although it's only suitable for low-end projects at the moment, it works well enough. With some more development, it could be very successful.
Indeed, and rust-proofing, dare I say it...
FORGET about the whole re-usability thing - it just costs too much.
Shall not!
But then, it is British, so the chances of one being built are pretty negligible...
Intuition is just subconscious thinking. It's the sum-total of life experience being used to evaluate current situations. It's not divine and it's not perfect.
There's no such thing as Earl Hickey's version of karma.
How dare you! That's my favourite documentary show.
The other system IS a way of acquiring truth. Since it is the feminine path it is no wonder most men chose to remain ignorant and blindly ignore it.
This is funny (ha-ha), ignorant and bigoted all at once!
To believe in science
There is nothing to believe in.
Science provides a reliable, repeatable, disinterested, transferable framework for the study of Nature (well, phenomena in general).
By "disinterested" I really mean disinterested: it has no favourites and makes no moral or ethical judgements. It just lets us measure things and to make reliable predictions based on past measurements (observations).
This is the killer feature of Science. Nothing else lets us do this.
100% correct. I left that company. Their stock price continues to decline.
considering it takes Oracle longer to patch an exploit in Java than it does for Apple to patch an exploit, if indeed they acknowledge one, perhaps it would not be a bad thing to let ol Larry take 120 percent of nothing, and standardize on another universal API across the web.
This is the correct answer.
i think the next step is to be able to raise and lower the lights as the girls enter and move about the room, allowing them to get even closer.
And what about the sweaty stink from the geeks' armpits?