I'd hate to be a conservative these days. Either the world is only 6000 years old and there is definitely enough historical data to confirm that global warming is man-made, or it's millions of years old and there isn't enough evidence for us to be completely certain.
Either way, they lose...
As for me, whether global warming is man-made or not, I'm still going to work to make the earth cleaner and more hospitable, by trying to use less energy or use it more efficiently, find cleaner fuels, not dump junk into the air and water and basically try to be a good steward. Have conservatives just completely lost the desire to be good like that? Is the quest for money so overwhelming that it blocks out all those other desires? What's going on, and when did it become wrong to try to do good for Mother Earth?
No way! The guy posted *FINANCIAL* information about a *PUBLICLY TRADED* company using inside information. There are very strict SEC rules about that stuff. Google had no choice but to fire the guy. This episode will not affect Slashdot's respect for Google at all.
Get a doctoral degree, find an academic institution that will fund your work, get tenure and then live out the rest of your life in peace and happiness, all the while contributing your knowledge and wisdom to the next generation of engineers.
Um, what if objects interract with each other? You can't simple figure out each and every object's next state in parallel, because each object's state may be dependent on the next or current state of objects it interracts with. Therefore, you *do* have to synchronize during step 2 for any objects that you know have dependencies on other objects right now, or you know *could* have dependencies on other objects in the future.
Because if they screw it up, or if the company managing their investments cheats them or their investments go belly up because of economic ruin, there's nothing there to keep them out of poverty.
When millions of people fall into poverty, you have to raise taxes on the rich to help support the people who can't pay for their own food, clothing and shelter, even more so that what they would have been paying for just plain social security.
This is what happened during the depression, and the whole reason SS exists... It's a safety net that allows the citizens of the US to have a good standard of living. You are required to sacrifice a little bit of your paycheck to ensure that the whole of the population of the U.S. isn't living on breadcrumbs, which ends up costing you less in the long run.
Of course, most of the people living today don't understand this, because they think the depression could never happen again and that the stock market only goes up. But the whole reason we've had such good economic advancement in this country is because of things like Social Security, which provide that safety net and comfort zone that allows people to reach higher and further in their goals, creating more economic possibilities for everyone.
The "free for all" approach to savings will widen the gap between rich and poor, increase poverty, increase hunger, increase crime and significantly degrade the quality of life of all Americans. Me? I'm happy to pay $400 a month to keep America strong. I don't think about just me. I think about everyone.
Computers may become faster, but if we ask them to do more to achieve the same result in the same amount of time and space, they do not really become faster.
No matter how fast a computer is, it will always read 1 bit (indicating true or false) faster than it reads 4 or 5 bytes representing the words true or false. Why waste computer cycles, no matter how fast they're going, reading and writing extra data that is unnecessary for the task at hand?
Like I said in my original post, you can have two versions of the same XML data, one that is human readable and writable and one version that the is more geared to the computer, which is exactly what is currently done with modern programing languages! So, consider binary XML as a "compiled" XML format. No human will ever read or write it, but the computers will use it when sending over the network or doing any data manipulations. If done correctly, the compilation will be handled behind the scenes by the applications so that humans never have to do anything but work with the XML "text" data.
Holy smokes, that's wrong. C code will run exactly the same speed as assembly code if they are both compiled to the same machine code. Computers don't read C or assembly. They read binary computer instructions, whether those instructions were originally written in assembly, C, Java, Perl, Python, etc... If a computer had to read C code every time it wanted to run, it would take so, so, so much longer to do anything. XML is great for humans, but sucks for computers. Not only are you sending gobs of string data that could very easily be represented in a more compact binary format, you are also doing string parsing on both ends. It just screams for optimization.
What really needs to be done is to separate the presentation of the data from the actual storage. Create translators that can convert to a human readable XML format when required, but otherwise store and communicated the data in a compact binary representation (still standard!), and I don't mean just compressing the string XML, but actually removing all string representation completely.
Slashdot Mirror
My quest is over! Bizarro world, I have found ye!
I'd hate to be a conservative these days. Either the world is only 6000 years old and there is definitely enough historical data to confirm that global warming is man-made, or it's millions of years old and there isn't enough evidence for us to be completely certain.
Either way, they lose...
As for me, whether global warming is man-made or not, I'm still going to work to make the earth cleaner and more hospitable, by trying to use less energy or use it more efficiently, find cleaner fuels, not dump junk into the air and water and basically try to be a good steward. Have conservatives just completely lost the desire to be good like that? Is the quest for money so overwhelming that it blocks out all those other desires? What's going on, and when did it become wrong to try to do good for Mother Earth?
The real question is:
What's wrong with people that they think a game that allows you to beat up women, shoot cops and steal cars is fun?
The victim, Duncan Grisby, is the developer of the excellent omniORB CORBA ORB.
Oracle's argument that 'a core is a CPU and therefore you should pay us all your money'
Translated...
HP and Intel: "Somebody set up us the core!"
Oracle: "All your money are belong to us!"
"Wait, it doesn't say if enviromental groups were pressuring the Scientists." Commented one before he was quicken beaten down.
Yeah, they were being pressured to report the facts of their research! Damn Environmentalists!
"Fore!"
Why pay someone to sit all day and think of "witty" things to write to other wasters?
You mean like what a marketing department does?
No way! The guy posted *FINANCIAL* information about a *PUBLICLY TRADED* company using inside information. There are very strict SEC rules about that stuff. Google had no choice but to fire the guy. This episode will not affect Slashdot's respect for Google at all.
I for one welcome our new open, nonproprietary technology standard overlords.
Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?
Get a doctoral degree, find an academic institution that will fund your work, get tenure and then live out the rest of your life in peace and happiness, all the while contributing your knowledge and wisdom to the next generation of engineers.
Um, what if objects interract with each other? You can't simple figure out each and every object's next state in parallel, because each object's state may be dependent on the next or current state of objects it interracts with. Therefore, you *do* have to synchronize during step 2 for any objects that you know have dependencies on other objects right now, or you know *could* have dependencies on other objects in the future.
But once you've compiled it, you don't need to compile it again, therefore your JIT optimization is over within a fraction of a second.
The guy spent 18 years of his life for a wind measurement??? That man must really love wind.
And for something more technical, try this:
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
Here's the standard book on option pricing:
Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
A game developed by EA Games, running on an X-Box, reviewed on Slashdot?!?! Wha, wha, what!?!
... are doomed to repeat it.
The Main Causes of the Great Depression
Notice any similarities?
Because if they screw it up, or if the company managing their investments cheats them or their investments go belly up because of economic ruin, there's nothing there to keep them out of poverty.
When millions of people fall into poverty, you have to raise taxes on the rich to help support the people who can't pay for their own food, clothing and shelter, even more so that what they would have been paying for just plain social security.
This is what happened during the depression, and the whole reason SS exists... It's a safety net that allows the citizens of the US to have a good standard of living. You are required to sacrifice a little bit of your paycheck to ensure that the whole of the population of the U.S. isn't living on breadcrumbs, which ends up costing you less in the long run.
Of course, most of the people living today don't understand this, because they think the depression could never happen again and that the stock market only goes up. But the whole reason we've had such good economic advancement in this country is because of things like Social Security, which provide that safety net and comfort zone that allows people to reach higher and further in their goals, creating more economic possibilities for everyone.
The "free for all" approach to savings will widen the gap between rich and poor, increase poverty, increase hunger, increase crime and significantly degrade the quality of life of all Americans. Me? I'm happy to pay $400 a month to keep America strong. I don't think about just me. I think about everyone.
I think we should be thanking Bob Bemer (the father of ASCII) a whole lot more often.
Unless you live in China, in which case you curse him every waking morning.
Computers may become faster, but if we ask them to do more to achieve the same result in the same amount of time and space, they do not really become faster.
No matter how fast a computer is, it will always read 1 bit (indicating true or false) faster than it reads 4 or 5 bytes representing the words true or false. Why waste computer cycles, no matter how fast they're going, reading and writing extra data that is unnecessary for the task at hand?
Like I said in my original post, you can have two versions of the same XML data, one that is human readable and writable and one version that the is more geared to the computer, which is exactly what is currently done with modern programing languages! So, consider binary XML as a "compiled" XML format. No human will ever read or write it, but the computers will use it when sending over the network or doing any data manipulations. If done correctly, the compilation will be handled behind the scenes by the applications so that humans never have to do anything but work with the XML "text" data.
Holy smokes, that's wrong. C code will run exactly the same speed as assembly code if they are both compiled to the same machine code. Computers don't read C or assembly. They read binary computer instructions, whether those instructions were originally written in assembly, C, Java, Perl, Python, etc... If a computer had to read C code every time it wanted to run, it would take so, so, so much longer to do anything. XML is great for humans, but sucks for computers. Not only are you sending gobs of string data that could very easily be represented in a more compact binary format, you are also doing string parsing on both ends. It just screams for optimization.
What really needs to be done is to separate the presentation of the data from the actual storage. Create translators that can convert to a human readable XML format when required, but otherwise store and communicated the data in a compact binary representation (still standard!), and I don't mean just compressing the string XML, but actually removing all string representation completely.
Last time I checked, there weren't any MILNET access points at the local Starbucks.
I didn't say anything about them not having their own internal networks. I said they don't have their own internet.