Who gets to decide if Christianity or Islam or Atheism is "true"? Richard Dawkins? Hahahahahahahaha.
The problem is that a lot of "truth" is subjective. In fact I would go as far as to say the only things that have a chance of being solidly defined as being "true" would be the scientific "laws".
Actually you can generalise "As long as you are using a liquid where heating it makes it less dense this should work." to "As long as you are using a luquid that changes its density linearlly when heating".
If it decreases in density you put the item being cooled at the bottom and if it increases then you put it at the top.
So why not run pipes all round the motherboard, seal the whole thing up with rubber gaskets where the pipes exit, and then run coolant in through the pipes and keep the heatsinks completely external?
Only if you have the authority to make such an agreement. If you can't agree to give away the company's goods, in whatever form, then you're incapable of signing them over to Google. Obviously you'll need to find a way from stopping Chrome from shipping this information off to Google anway (be interesting to see what Chrome does if you put up a firewall rule to block whatever address it tries to send stuff to, or perhaps redirect it to null.)
I think there's a big difference and that is that the Slashdot agreement is constrained to Slashdot. The Google EULA applies globally. In my opinion I find the Slashdot requirement reasonable as a result and the Google one completely unreasonable (I'll be sticking with Safari and FF).
The owner can do always do anything they like with their code whether in binary or source form: they could release it under a FOSS license today and choose to release v2 under a closed license if they wanted to. The license only binds everyone else (if you don't like the license then full copyright restrictions apply, including loading it into your machine's memory to run). FOSS licenses absolutely can cover binaries generally they something like "If you redistribute this binary you must also make the source available".
So what you're saying is that it is irresponsible to enjoy life and that we should all live as misers on the chance that we might live to 70 and hope that by that time we aren't senile/disabled/blind/whatever and able to enjoy the money you saved by not living?
No thanks.
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Ah the old argumentum ad hominem gambit: if you can't attack the argument attack the person instead.
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Ah the old ad hominem gambit: if you can't attack the argument attack the person.
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And just to follow up my own post: if you want to keep your job, don't learn a skill that all the Indian outsource shops have (i.e. Java).
And in any case, most employers of Java developers are big corporates and they DO NOT CARE about your programming skill. As far as they are concerned you are completely interchangable for an Indian they can pay 1/5 what they pay you. To give you an example: we have a 20 man team that maintains a core system of ours. Management are adamant the job will be outsourced to an indian team of 10. They don't care about skill, they don't even care about the knowledge of the system the current team has: all they see is Indian programmers cost less.
I agree with you. He'll also get comments like mine (I've been developing Java apps since it first released in 1472) begging him to run as fast as he can and pick something else (C if he wants to be a real programmer, Ruby on Rails if he wants to be happy).
Groovy is just a second-rate Ruby and Grails is poor Rails clone. Ruby's aim is to make programmers happy: Groovy's appears to be to make programmers happy but with just a smidgen of ground glass added to the diet.
If you must run in a JVM then use JRuby (a Java implementation of Ruby).
Java is only really used by corporate drones developing in-house crap-ware applications that you'll never be allowed to develop past the "it's good enough to fool the customer" stage. And in a year you'll be back to fix the bugs and crap design you didn't have the time to fix before. But only enough to make it good enough to fool the customer again. You'll never be allowed to "do the job properly".
And I speak as one who has suffered through many such cycles in various companies. for the last 10+ years.
If you want to learn a high level language to develop web apps choose Ruby on Rails instead. If you want to right low level code, learn C (personally I don't think you're a real programmer if you don't grok pointers and recursion).
Then find a job working either for a software house developing a shrink-wrap product: because there it's in the company's interest to "get it right" or for a web boutique: because they'll be small, agile and do interesting stuff.
And don't blame me if in 10 years time you find yourself giving the same advice to someone on/. asking if they should learn Java...
Which would you prefer (and no you don't have a time machine)? A browser that, by default, works with all existing web sites or one that, by default, doesn't?
In any case a standard is a nonsense without a standard implementation and there isn't one for "web standards".
If that's the case he's leaving himself wide open to a massive defamation or interference with trade lawsuit. Nvidia will be able to fund a full recall with the cash they'd get.;-)
And you're an idiot if you think the people at the top have no influence over the culture of the organisation they head. If you can't see that you'll only ever be a humble engineer.
If the people at the top care long term about security because they know their pension/knighthood depend on their minions not fucking up guess what: they're going to make sure that their minions know. They'll kick people up the arse and make it clear which procedures are acceptable (keeping important stuff encrypted) and which isn't (leaving USB sticks with citizen data lying around, leaving laptops in the backs of taxis, sending disks with 25 million citizens through the post).
Just because you're too fucking short-sighted to see that doesn't make your narrow and blinkered point of view "rational" it just makes you stupid fucking cunt.
It's Government incompetence: constant changes in policy, meaningless targets and, most critically, the replacement of the most senior civil servants, whose pensions and knighthoods depend on not fucking up, with a bunch of consultants on short term (typically 5 year) contracts.
This is the government that wants to have us give us our biometric data, impose the use of id cards and keep DNA records on us all.
That's really strange: I've never had any lag with my iPhone keyboard but I really, really, really hate the autocorrect. It's like Clippy for the 21st century except you can't turn the damn thing off.
Where have you been? Macs have been Intel based for a while now.
If what you meant to ask was why don't I buy Dell then the list is endless. I have a Dell laptop that work provides and there are so many things I hate about it: unreliable trackpad, the nipple, crappy plastic case, poor design (eg the case/lid, the presence of multiple volume control buttons). It goes on and on. I'd rather do without than buy any consumer Dell.
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If you were a properly qualified pedant you would know that C is the symbol for carbon. The symbol for copper is Cu.
Who gets to decide if Christianity or Islam or Atheism is "true"? Richard Dawkins? Hahahahahahahaha.
The problem is that a lot of "truth" is subjective. In fact I would go as far as to say the only things that have a chance of being solidly defined as being "true" would be the scientific "laws".
Actually you can generalise "As long as you are using a liquid where heating it makes it less dense this should work." to "As long as you are using a luquid that changes its density linearlly when heating".
If it decreases in density you put the item being cooled at the bottom and if it increases then you put it at the top.
So why not run pipes all round the motherboard, seal the whole thing up with rubber gaskets where the pipes exit, and then run coolant in through the pipes and keep the heatsinks completely external?
You're right air is a poor thermal conductor but, unlike a coating, air can carry heat away by convection.
Only if you have the authority to make such an agreement. If you can't agree to give away the company's goods, in whatever form, then you're incapable of signing them over to Google. Obviously you'll need to find a way from stopping Chrome from shipping this information off to Google anway (be interesting to see what Chrome does if you put up a firewall rule to block whatever address it tries to send stuff to, or perhaps redirect it to null.)
I think there's a big difference and that is that the Slashdot agreement is constrained to Slashdot. The Google EULA applies globally. In my opinion I find the Slashdot requirement reasonable as a result and the Google one completely unreasonable (I'll be sticking with Safari and FF).
The owner can do always do anything they like with their code whether in binary or source form: they could release it under a FOSS license today and choose to release v2 under a closed license if they wanted to. The license only binds everyone else (if you don't like the license then full copyright restrictions apply, including loading it into your machine's memory to run). FOSS licenses absolutely can cover binaries generally they something like "If you redistribute this binary you must also make the source available".
"There can't be an easier to control method of communication than SMS." of course there is, don't allow it at all.
Then you need to factor in the cost to society for your children (healthcare, education etc):
1 kid -> 50% taxed
2 kids -> 67% taxed
3 kids -> 75% taxed
4 kids -> 80% taxed
That combined with your system would make it completely fair.
So what you're saying is that it is irresponsible to enjoy life and that we should all live as misers on the chance that we might live to 70 and hope that by that time we aren't senile/disabled/blind/whatever and able to enjoy the money you saved by not living?
No thanks.
Ah the old argumentum ad hominem gambit: if you can't attack the argument attack the person instead.
Ah the old ad hominem gambit: if you can't attack the argument attack the person.
And just to follow up my own post: if you want to keep your job, don't learn a skill that all the Indian outsource shops have (i.e. Java).
And in any case, most employers of Java developers are big corporates and they DO NOT CARE about your programming skill. As far as they are concerned you are completely interchangable for an Indian they can pay 1/5 what they pay you. To give you an example: we have a 20 man team that maintains a core system of ours. Management are adamant the job will be outsourced to an indian team of 10. They don't care about skill, they don't even care about the knowledge of the system the current team has: all they see is Indian programmers cost less.
I agree with you. He'll also get comments like mine (I've been developing Java apps since it first released in 1472) begging him to run as fast as he can and pick something else (C if he wants to be a real programmer, Ruby on Rails if he wants to be happy).
Groovy is just a second-rate Ruby and Grails is poor Rails clone. Ruby's aim is to make programmers happy: Groovy's appears to be to make programmers happy but with just a smidgen of ground glass added to the diet.
If you must run in a JVM then use JRuby (a Java implementation of Ruby).
Java is only really used by corporate drones developing in-house crap-ware applications that you'll never be allowed to develop past the "it's good enough to fool the customer" stage. And in a year you'll be back to fix the bugs and crap design you didn't have the time to fix before. But only enough to make it good enough to fool the customer again. You'll never be allowed to "do the job properly".
/. asking if they should learn Java...
And I speak as one who has suffered through many such cycles in various companies. for the last 10+ years.
If you want to learn a high level language to develop web apps choose Ruby on Rails instead. If you want to right low level code, learn C (personally I don't think you're a real programmer if you don't grok pointers and recursion).
Then find a job working either for a software house developing a shrink-wrap product: because there it's in the company's interest to "get it right" or for a web boutique: because they'll be small, agile and do interesting stuff.
And don't blame me if in 10 years time you find yourself giving the same advice to someone on
The original decision was wrong.
Which would you prefer (and no you don't have a time machine)? A browser that, by default, works with all existing web sites or one that, by default, doesn't?
In any case a standard is a nonsense without a standard implementation and there isn't one for "web standards".
If that's the case he's leaving himself wide open to a massive defamation or interference with trade lawsuit. Nvidia will be able to fund a full recall with the cash they'd get. ;-)
And you're an idiot if you think the people at the top have no influence over the culture of the organisation they head. If you can't see that you'll only ever be a humble engineer.
If the people at the top care long term about security because they know their pension/knighthood depend on their minions not fucking up guess what: they're going to make sure that their minions know. They'll kick people up the arse and make it clear which procedures are acceptable (keeping important stuff encrypted) and which isn't (leaving USB sticks with citizen data lying around, leaving laptops in the backs of taxis, sending disks with 25 million citizens through the post).
Just because you're too fucking short-sighted to see that doesn't make your narrow and blinkered point of view "rational" it just makes you stupid fucking cunt.
It's Government incompetence: constant changes in policy, meaningless targets and, most critically, the replacement of the most senior civil servants, whose pensions and knighthoods depend on not fucking up, with a bunch of consultants on short term (typically 5 year) contracts.
This is the government that wants to have us give us our biometric data, impose the use of id cards and keep DNA records on us all.
That's really strange: I've never had any lag with my iPhone keyboard but I really, really, really hate the autocorrect. It's like Clippy for the 21st century except you can't turn the damn thing off.
Oh and re your double the price comment: that's been debunked so many times on /. that you must be new here.
Where have you been? Macs have been Intel based for a while now.
If what you meant to ask was why don't I buy Dell then the list is endless. I have a Dell laptop that work provides and there are so many things I hate about it: unreliable trackpad, the nipple, crappy plastic case, poor design (eg the case/lid, the presence of multiple volume control buttons). It goes on and on. I'd rather do without than buy any consumer Dell.
That's would only be true if all software were DRM'd.