Some "super" athletes already are superhuman, there is people living today who are Superhuman, such as: - Super flexible - Extreme threshold for pain (still feels, but no such reaction to pain) - Those who can control their surface temperature exchange, useful in extreme temperatures, ie. Sauna and swimming in ice cold water - Those who can control rate of oxygen consumption AND how much they can extract oxygen from air AND don't have as strong Co2 reaction - Extreme tolerance to electric shocks (tens of times higher than what would kill average joe) - Superior mathematical ability - Echolocation like in daredevil - Extreme strength - Extreme endurance
Really how'd you notice? The dystopia is here. It's called anti-intellectualism. It prevents people from having even an enlightened self-interest. If they were a bit smarter they'd realize that they too benefit from not being completely selfish. But that would mean a few seconds of thought and.. ooh shiny american idol!
You mean they would benefit from not being complete a**holes:)
Unless they happen to be rich, they won't have access. Tho, their children might need it most, so some countries might make it available for them free of charge for removing tendencies to addictions, and other highly negative elements.
...and it always starts with the best of intentions...
One problem tho in your statement. We've not had this kind of technology before.
We have been doing selective breeding however, unfortunately it's usually with too small population of subjects, leading to all kinds of diseases etc. That being the case on cats, dogs and horses, so called purebreds. Albeit, they tend to be genetically superior on the traits chosen by the breeder. My understanding is that the inherited diseases etc. is a result of breeding within too small population.
My personal opinion? Genetically engineering is Eugenics 2.0, where the major kinks has been solved. Watch Game of Thrones and you can see where the "old kind" of eugenics can lead (in game of thrones it's incest, brother and sister having children, yuck!), and the resulting son is crazy. Not sure if it's being researched, but there is "folk lore" that children of incest tend to be crazy like that. So that kind of "eugenics" is rigged to fail from get-go.
BUT, 2 completely non-related people having children, and then having for example genetic diseases fixed and introducing a gene known to increase mental ability, i don't see a problem in that. The changes are still rather small, say if there is 1-2 inherited potential genetic diseases and a single gene added. IT CAN however result in unexpected consequences for the better or worse, and i would say this leads to evolution speed in the exponent, at the expense of less completely random changes where multiples of undesired genes are warranted for the positive change to happen.
But on the other hand basic evolution will become extremely rapid, there are some absolutely amazing people in terms of mental capability and physical ability, which are considered to be abnormal, someone might even call those people freaks. Some of the extreme abilities: Extreme flexibility, extreme pain threshold (still feels but doesn't get the same reaction as others), ability to control skin surface temperature exchange (Ability to withstand temperature extremes better), ability to change the rate of oxygen consumption AND negated Co2 reaction (Extremely good for free divers). There's also that one guy who seems to have ACTUAL photographic memory, tho i'm not still 100% conceived as some experts considers that ability to be near impossible and/or causing severe drawbacks. In that guys case we've seen in the news the drawback is autism.
Imagine you could introduce the same genes that made einstein so brilliant to your child! I would pay some serious dough for that - mental capability is one of the most important factors for success in life, albeit not a necessity (just watch some of the reality tv shows... Some really dumb people are making quite an success)
Also, some people have dyslexia and the mathematics variety of dyslexia, i wouldn't want my child to suffer from either. There is also related ailments of lesser, but still important, drawbacks.
The new article prohibits media from "either directly or indirectly promoting any given candidate, proposal, options, electoral preferences or political thesis, through articles, specials or any other form of message".
That's damn right, the journalists SHOULD BE OBJECTIVE, and not biased like Faux News. Not sure how the full article goes, but given that Assange wanted asylum at Ecuador AND this from TFA:
President Rafael Correa, a self-declared enemy of "corrupt" media and U.S. "imperialism".
I'm saying the truth is not so simple.
Following does not represent my opinion or viewpoint, but could as well be true/what's actually going on: Rafael Correa is actually FOR objective and open journalism without bias, and those articles saying otherwise are drawn out of context and/or wildly exaggerated, cases where President Correa has been trying to weed out corruption, smear campaigning (maybe against himself, but anyone else could be the target) or otherwise being tried to ruin reputation for.
It could be possible that El Universo was a corrupt organization who under the journalism & free speech protection thought they could run any kind of smear campaign articles based loosely, or not based at all on truth. Being very biased, and maybe being paid for by 3rd parties to drive the agenda of said 3rd parties.
Such a biased "reporting" or outright lies about Media wouldn't be anything new at all. There are far too often a bias on the news being "represented". A good comparison would be watching the usual Faux News, CNN or other western media reporting and compare that report to the Russian broadcast! I haven't personally seen, but my dad has gotten to compare Russian broadcast vs. BBC/CNN etc. on a terrorism case happening at a theater in Russia, plenty hostages etc. The report was certainly a lot different between the two. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2363601.stm
What the actual truth and reality is then, everyone has to judge for themselves.
That's a pretty bad metric. Defects found is most certainly not the same as defects existing, or we wouldn't have the security situation we have today.
To make matters even worse, many vendors refuse to admit any issues, i know several such vendors, and more important it is, the worse they are admitting and fixing those issues. The worst crap i've seen is eCommerce applications, and the worst pieces of code i've seen is in the payment gateways and handling of money/transactions.
It's funny how it's inverse relationship with required quality to defects, more serious it is, more defects there is going to be.
For example, WHMCS considers 1EUR = 1GBP = 1USD = 1AUD for the most part! They fixed some of the issues after i reported WITH solutions (tho they did not give credit for it), but those i reported without solutions they simply swept under the rug. I even found a severe exploit which could gain free services for the attacker on very specific circumstances. I also did find a DOS exploit in the system, requiring 0 resources from the attacker to make it happen.
The system also includes the people using it. A piece of software can be of excellent quality and have nearly zero defects in it when run against the environment it was designed for, but it is hardly a rare scenario where the very same program is then run against something completely different.
Exactly, developers testing it rarely no problems arise but as soon as the system is demo'd in a new system with new users a lot of problems are bound to arise due to differing usage patterns and installation on a fresh new system.
No amount of QC will make bad coders produce quality code. Absolutely none.
For example, the Indian development philosophy is no testing what-so-ever, other people test. Resulting in very bad kludges as the developer itself hasn't bothered to check if the code actually works. Continuous testing is the pre-requisite for quality code. And no, i do not mean unit tests, but manually, during development testing, if at all possible.
Defects found is far from perfect measure, infact, it does not actually test for code design quality at all, simply the line-level quality. Design in a big system is EVERYTHING, and i do not mean "ABSTRACT EVERYTHING", but keeping it simple, not abstracting 1-2 line things, but logic which is to be repeated. It all boils down to spotting and understanding repeating patterns, building short (sub 100 line) methods, in a structurized manner, human readable and understandable (so instead of prtcsh($data,gcnf('sirs')) do somethings like reports::print::calculationSheet($thisSheetData, $thisReportStyle))
Some good rules are also keeping intends at maximum of 4 levels (linux kernel rule by Linus Torvald's), camelCasing variables & methods, not shortening any variable or method names but typing them in full, realising coding is atleast 4 times more reading than typing, keeping it all human readable (humans do coding, not computers!), and intending correctly and in right places with the right formatting, ie. all if clause contents should be intended, some for switch case clauses, method contents should be intended (except in very few cases 1-2 first lines MIGHT be unintended when those have somekind of global influence, ie. sometimes fetching registry objects but not always, as those could be considered defining that method), first load all your data into variables then after empty line do the business logic so -> do not mix & match control & logic. Do separation layers as needed on codebase global basis.
The bottomline is that there is a tool best fitting for every task, there is no magic bullet. Even quick'n'dirty code is the perfect choice for some things, things that do just one thing, like a database backup which needs more than a mysqldump cronjob (ie. send e-mail notification if backup failed)
Too often programmers fail for wanting to make things too fancy, forgetting the golden rule of code: Keep It Simple, Stupid!
For example, Zend Framework used to be quite great couple years back, but already suffering from the Coder's God Complex, things needing to be too fancy, a simple redirect doing 13+ method class to different classes. However, mainly it was still fairly simple and easy to work with. Today? It's insane complexity even for the most basic tasks, and basicly ruined completely. Magento is the culmination of this Coder's God Complex problem. (Weeks to just template the thing for all which is not exactly the same layout just colors changed!)
Then there is the other kind of problem: Absolutely no thought given to the task at hand, and a big complex system done completely Quick'n'Dirty, like WHMCS, osCommerce.
WHMCS is the worst piece of crap i've seen, they seriously thought that 1 EUR = 1 AUD = 1 GBP. WTF?! They still point towards mysql result arrays by *NUMBERS*, not utilizing the column names like they should. It's mostly function based code, no classes, no abstractions, no structure. It even have serious security flaws due to these, for example mass invoice payment works by giving the customer credit then marking all the mass invoice payment invoices paid, which results in many automated systems that the customer gets free services, as auto-suspending doesn't work anymore and services looks like paid. Hell, if you enabled multi-currency you can't even sanely go back at all anymore! You need to build a big conversion script and verify everything manually. Also, by default TAX reports are done invoice based not transaction based like they should, and amounts checked from invoice. So you end up with completely wrong tax reports. Infact, all the reports are screwed up by default, every single one of them concerning money are too badly flawed to be useable.
Also, there is e-mail bomb security flaw in WHMCS, allowing a nefarious attacker, especially if smart one, to DoS attack your system with spending 0 of their own resources and completely untraceable (we had an attack like this).
I've reported tens upon tens of these bugs to WHMCS, and they simply delete the threads claiming there is no such bugs even tho repros have been provided, only if i provide workarounds/solutions they will not delete them immediately. Some of my fixes did flow back into future releases tho (without credit).
Nevermind the huge usability issues, i do specialize in UX and tend to notice usability issues very easily.
The most worrying part tho? Some vendors simply refuse to admit any issues exist, and simply ignore you, for example i found potential critical security flaws in Bit-Pay WHMCS payment gateway module, Bit-Pay never bothered to even reply to my concerns, even tho i showed the particular issues with the module. That particular module had the worst crap i've seen in many years tbh, just a glance over the code showed severe code QA issues, and altho i did not test, i'm fairly confident there is a exploit there due to incorrect handling of payment verification. I even refactored and fixed some checkup code before giving up as it being too far off
not just for joe averages, even for some power users who need the giant storage but also the speed.
In the past i've solved this by RAIDing multiple magnetic drives, but now i got couple 128Gb Kingstons sitting on my table for next upgrade of my workstation, going to through out the 6 magnetic drives and replace them with 2xSSD + 2x2Tb WD blacks. or maybe 4x2Tb WD Blacks.
2x128Gb on RAID0 is still a bit smallish for me, but i'm going to try it out (virtual machines for development) if i can survive with just that amount of fast storage. then again, 2x2Tb WD Blacks ain't exactly slow neither.
Mac OSX is basicly highly modified FreeBSD/NetBSD, so it might actually already have ZFS support, therefore L2ARC. Knowing apple tho they have probably disabled it and gives you no means to even try using ZFS. Besides that they've probably locked down SSD support to few select drives as well.
Linux does not by default have these options but several are available. I bet some vendors do include these supports. For ZFS you don't need kernel mods in many distros.
USB latency is actually rather high. Infact, rather VERY high.
Absolute minimum latency for a fetch is 16ms on USB port. It seems this has had some work on it, now being 125Hz rate by default, instead of 90. But still 8ms for sending request for file, device gets it, let's assume it's ultra fast and takes just 3ms to find, fetch and prep reply packet (and assuming fits on 1 packet), it means 16ms has been spent BEFORE the data can be sent back, 24ms for the whole round trip.
HDDs seek faster than this, SO if your HDD is not having other activity, for single fetch your HDD is faster. Unless it's Caviar Green.
last time i checked bcache was during last winter, and it was FAR FAR ready from serious production. Maybe the situation has improved now, but back then it was deemed too experimental for our usage. Also because it requires custom kernel it's not a choice for us in production as we operate so many servers a server setup routine time increase of 30mins is just too much most of the time.
maybe you ought to do a little bit of research first. We have easily to feed to whole world 10 times over if everyone was vegan (no animal products whatsoever) or even vegetarian.
Livestock takes tons more space and uses tons more resources than plants.
here in Finland meat prices have increased a lot faster than other foods. Eating meat is kind of expensive now. Not only that, we had a big shortage of pork and pork based products this summer... there simply wasn't enough:(
Eating vegan (or vegetarian) is actually very cheap. Soy, rice + seasoning, and you got yourself a decent tasting meal which costs next to nothing. Yea, i used i to eat mostly vegan for years.
To continue in that way of thinking, consciousness could be thought of as our operating system while as the brain is the CPU, RAM, Drivers etc.
If that's the way of thinking then it becomes clear how brain affects our mental capabilities, even if our operating system could be easily capable of greater things but processing speed and RAM is too limited to handle certain things.
Then where is this O/S stored in? Is it in brain as well, and it is inherited from our parents? That is the mainstream science, but what if that O/S is something in religion described as "Soul"? Where does this "Soul" exist then? How could we interact directly with it?
If we figure out the O/S and data storage (our memory, learned abilities etc.) portion, then we can achieve great things. But first we need to isolate and distinguis the O/S, or consciousness, can we be certain it resides in brains as well, and brain damage also damages our consciousness directly? No we cannot prove that at this point of time.
But what if brain is the mere "driver" for our I/O channels? Like in computers we have drivers for devices, in our case brain is a collection of drivers.
Theology might not be true science, and mostly fairy tales, but those are REALLY old, when you start reading those writings between the lines, and thinking what they might have meant really as they had no better ways to describe things.
Sure, it's a odd joining of fields, probably will not bring anything tangible, BUT still needs to be looked upon. Who knows, they might find some similarities between all the religions and with the help of philosophy they might be able to derive something physical sciences needs to take a look into. Maybe a new perspective or a new idea.
I'm an atheist and think believing in gods is simply dumb, yet i find religions to be potentially a fictionalized record of historical events some of the time - those people didn't just have better ways to describe things than god(s) and supernatural things. Also religions do tend to teach you moral values - whether right or wrong, those at least were right in the eyes of the people of the time. Just because religious people choose to believe in things which are not that sane, and many religious people are outright borderline insane (and some are insane) does not mean those religions are complete bullshit.
Btw, there is research into a "religious" area of the brain, stimulation of that area will cause you to have a religious experience, and in extreme cases make you religious nutjob the like of cult leaders leading to mass suicides or murder. Yes i tend to think that being religious is a mental illness. However, that does not negate the fact that the world religions are FULL of amazing things, such as aerodynamically correct shape of aeroplane (even tested to be valid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqqara_Bird ), mega monolithic structures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths_in_the_world ) which we still couldn't build todate, structures in extremely precise shapes forming constellation/star position charts which has been impossible to see at the time of construction, texts with descriptions of flying things (planes, rockets) and even nuclear reactor is being described in bible. Anunnaki literally translates to something like "those who from the stars came" or something like that (wikipedia refers to loose translation and does not even meantion the literal translation, which is usual for wikipedia which is full of errors & popular myths spread as fact even when evidence is shown, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki ) Some people even believe the flood for which Noah's ark was built actually happened but was not a world wide flood, just a region.
Bottomline is religions have interesting stories, when you don't take them as exactly as written, but think about what they might have meant. Magic does not exist, and advanced enough technology is indistinguishable from magic, therefore ancient people might have easily confused someone with very advanced technology for the time to be a god. Whether that advanced theology were just a zippo lighter, or knowledge of gun powder, mathematics or something. Hell, they've found even really ancient batteries, who knows if someone figured how to make a light bulb even! Whether fictitious or not, those are some interesting stories.
Don't you want to take the off chance that there actually is some viable information in the religions of the world? What if the "soul" is actually real, and they come up with a clue for physicists to look for it? Wouldn't you like to know about it? Even if we could "upload our brain" to a supercomputer, but if there is some other, say quantum level, thing about consciousness wouldn't you like to know that? What if the "soul" as described in bible is a quantum level effect which makes humans greater than it's sum of parts? If it is so, and we just try to make a copy to a computer are you really still alive, or is a mere inferior copy o
everything, absolutely everything needs research. Otherwise you wouldn't be making that kind of comments, instead you'd probably be hunting for wild animals to have dinner today.
they are doing that. Quite stupidly tho. They are banning advertisements with common terms, such as BitTorrent which albeit being a trademark is also name of a common protocol. That's the term i best remember, but there was others, that's when i stopped AdWords completely. In any case, adwords was worthless and over priced for us, didn't lead to enough sales to justify the cost (something like 100€+ per sale cost), one of the least effective advertising we have done. The very same ads, well same content, did elsewhere at best ~4.8€ cost per sale! We tried probably 150 different ads.
Especially bad was advertising on other sites/"content partners" or whatever it was called, we spent a lot of money on that for exactly 0 sales. Ads on google search atleast yielded some sales.
Also the management interface was a bit worse nowadays, some things wasn't as easy to do anymore. It used to be a lot simpler and easier. Same problem has happened with google analytics, the new interface overcomplicates things (we have dozens of sites being monitored).
Am i really the only one thinking there is something wrong about that? oO;
And here i thought you were innocent until proven quilty AND you do not need to testify against yourself - That is including giving your passwords, ie. granting access to potentially incriminating evidence or at the very least giving up your privacy.
What's next, sentenced for not confessing to something you may have or may not have done? Why not skip court all together.
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and unfortunately every bit of regulation, laws etc. are designed with the worst of the idiots in mind.
yea but we could decrease the complexity of the habitat to a great degree probably, with few nicely chosen microbes, and maybe eventually plants.
What are they going to do when The X-Men show up?
Some "super" athletes already are superhuman, there is people living today who are Superhuman, such as:
- Super flexible
- Extreme threshold for pain (still feels, but no such reaction to pain)
- Those who can control their surface temperature exchange, useful in extreme temperatures, ie. Sauna and swimming in ice cold water
- Those who can control rate of oxygen consumption AND how much they can extract oxygen from air AND don't have as strong Co2 reaction
- Extreme tolerance to electric shocks (tens of times higher than what would kill average joe)
- Superior mathematical ability
- Echolocation like in daredevil
- Extreme strength
- Extreme endurance
Really how'd you notice? The dystopia is here. It's called anti-intellectualism. It prevents people from having even an enlightened self-interest. If they were a bit smarter they'd realize that they too benefit from not being completely selfish. But that would mean a few seconds of thought and .. ooh shiny american idol!
You mean they would benefit from not being complete a**holes :)
Unless they happen to be rich, they won't have access.
Tho, their children might need it most, so some countries might make it available for them free of charge for removing tendencies to addictions, and other highly negative elements.
...and it always starts with the best of intentions...
One problem tho in your statement. We've not had this kind of technology before.
We have been doing selective breeding however, unfortunately it's usually with too small population of subjects, leading to all kinds of diseases etc. That being the case on cats, dogs and horses, so called purebreds.
Albeit, they tend to be genetically superior on the traits chosen by the breeder.
My understanding is that the inherited diseases etc. is a result of breeding within too small population.
My personal opinion? Genetically engineering is Eugenics 2.0, where the major kinks has been solved.
Watch Game of Thrones and you can see where the "old kind" of eugenics can lead (in game of thrones it's incest, brother and sister having children, yuck!), and the resulting son is crazy.
Not sure if it's being researched, but there is "folk lore" that children of incest tend to be crazy like that.
So that kind of "eugenics" is rigged to fail from get-go.
BUT, 2 completely non-related people having children, and then having for example genetic diseases fixed and introducing a gene known to increase mental ability, i don't see a problem in that. The changes are still rather small, say if there is 1-2 inherited potential genetic diseases and a single gene added.
IT CAN however result in unexpected consequences for the better or worse, and i would say this leads to evolution speed in the exponent, at the expense of less completely random changes where multiples of undesired genes are warranted for the positive change to happen.
But on the other hand basic evolution will become extremely rapid, there are some absolutely amazing people in terms of mental capability and physical ability, which are considered to be abnormal, someone might even call those people freaks.
Some of the extreme abilities: Extreme flexibility, extreme pain threshold (still feels but doesn't get the same reaction as others), ability to control skin surface temperature exchange (Ability to withstand temperature extremes better), ability to change the rate of oxygen consumption AND negated Co2 reaction (Extremely good for free divers).
There's also that one guy who seems to have ACTUAL photographic memory, tho i'm not still 100% conceived as some experts considers that ability to be near impossible and/or causing severe drawbacks. In that guys case we've seen in the news the drawback is autism.
Imagine you could introduce the same genes that made einstein so brilliant to your child! I would pay some serious dough for that - mental capability is one of the most important factors for success in life, albeit not a necessity (just watch some of the reality tv shows... Some really dumb people are making quite an success)
Also, some people have dyslexia and the mathematics variety of dyslexia, i wouldn't want my child to suffer from either. There is also related ailments of lesser, but still important, drawbacks.
Things rarely are that black & white or simple.
For example the last bit you quoted is precious:
The new article prohibits media from "either directly or indirectly promoting any given candidate, proposal, options, electoral preferences or political thesis, through articles, specials or any other form of message".
That's damn right, the journalists SHOULD BE OBJECTIVE, and not biased like Faux News.
Not sure how the full article goes, but given that Assange wanted asylum at Ecuador AND this from TFA:
President Rafael Correa, a self-declared enemy of "corrupt" media and U.S. "imperialism".
I'm saying the truth is not so simple.
Following does not represent my opinion or viewpoint, but could as well be true/what's actually going on:
Rafael Correa is actually FOR objective and open journalism without bias, and those articles saying otherwise are drawn out of context and/or wildly exaggerated, cases where President Correa has been trying to weed out corruption, smear campaigning (maybe against himself, but anyone else could be the target) or otherwise being tried to ruin reputation for.
It could be possible that El Universo was a corrupt organization who under the journalism & free speech protection thought they could run any kind of smear campaign articles based loosely, or not based at all on truth. Being very biased, and maybe being paid for by 3rd parties to drive the agenda of said 3rd parties.
Such a biased "reporting" or outright lies about Media wouldn't be anything new at all. There are far too often a bias on the news being "represented".
A good comparison would be watching the usual Faux News, CNN or other western media reporting and compare that report to the Russian broadcast! I haven't personally seen, but my dad has gotten to compare Russian broadcast vs. BBC/CNN etc. on a terrorism case happening at a theater in Russia, plenty hostages etc.
The report was certainly a lot different between the two.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2363601.stm
What the actual truth and reality is then, everyone has to judge for themselves.
100$ taxable at even 50% is still more than 0$ non-taxable.
So, what google is doing is amazing. This is ON TOP of any life insurance the employee might have afterall!
That's a pretty bad metric. Defects found is most certainly not the same as defects existing, or we wouldn't have the security situation we have today.
To make matters worse the more code there is, more defects there is going to be, so it again boils down to design. http://amartester.blogspot.fi/2007/04/bugs-per-lines-of-code.html
To make matters even worse, many vendors refuse to admit any issues, i know several such vendors, and more important it is, the worse they are admitting and fixing those issues. The worst crap i've seen is eCommerce applications, and the worst pieces of code i've seen is in the payment gateways and handling of money/transactions.
It's funny how it's inverse relationship with required quality to defects, more serious it is, more defects there is going to be.
For example, WHMCS considers 1EUR = 1GBP = 1USD = 1AUD for the most part! They fixed some of the issues after i reported WITH solutions (tho they did not give credit for it), but those i reported without solutions they simply swept under the rug.
I even found a severe exploit which could gain free services for the attacker on very specific circumstances. I also did find a DOS exploit in the system, requiring 0 resources from the attacker to make it happen.
The system also includes the people using it. A piece of software can be of excellent quality and have nearly zero defects in it when run against the environment it was designed for, but it is hardly a rare scenario where the very same program is then run against something completely different.
Exactly, developers testing it rarely no problems arise but as soon as the system is demo'd in a new system with new users a lot of problems are bound to arise due to differing usage patterns and installation on a fresh new system.
No amount of QC will make bad coders produce quality code. Absolutely none.
For example, the Indian development philosophy is no testing what-so-ever, other people test. Resulting in very bad kludges as the developer itself hasn't bothered to check if the code actually works. Continuous testing is the pre-requisite for quality code. And no, i do not mean unit tests, but manually, during development testing, if at all possible.
Defects found is far from perfect measure, infact, it does not actually test for code design quality at all, simply the line-level quality.
Design in a big system is EVERYTHING, and i do not mean "ABSTRACT EVERYTHING", but keeping it simple, not abstracting 1-2 line things, but logic which is to be repeated. It all boils down to spotting and understanding repeating patterns, building short (sub 100 line) methods, in a structurized manner, human readable and understandable (so instead of prtcsh($data,gcnf('sirs')) do somethings like reports::print::calculationSheet($thisSheetData, $thisReportStyle))
Some good rules are also keeping intends at maximum of 4 levels (linux kernel rule by Linus Torvald's), camelCasing variables & methods, not shortening any variable or method names but typing them in full, realising coding is atleast 4 times more reading than typing, keeping it all human readable (humans do coding, not computers!), and intending correctly and in right places with the right formatting, ie. all if clause contents should be intended, some for switch case clauses, method contents should be intended (except in very few cases 1-2 first lines MIGHT be unintended when those have somekind of global influence, ie. sometimes fetching registry objects but not always, as those could be considered defining that method), first load all your data into variables then after empty line do the business logic so -> do not mix & match control & logic.
Do separation layers as needed on codebase global basis.
The bottomline is that there is a tool best fitting for every task, there is no magic bullet.
Even quick'n'dirty code is the perfect choice for some things, things that do just one thing, like a database backup which needs more than a mysqldump cronjob (ie. send e-mail notification if backup failed)
Too often programmers fail for wanting to make things too fancy, forgetting the golden rule of code: Keep It Simple, Stupid!
For example, Zend Framework used to be quite great couple years back, but already suffering from the Coder's God Complex, things needing to be too fancy, a simple redirect doing 13+ method class to different classes. However, mainly it was still fairly simple and easy to work with. Today? It's insane complexity even for the most basic tasks, and basicly ruined completely. Magento is the culmination of this Coder's God Complex problem. (Weeks to just template the thing for all which is not exactly the same layout just colors changed!)
Then there is the other kind of problem: Absolutely no thought given to the task at hand, and a big complex system done completely Quick'n'Dirty, like WHMCS, osCommerce.
WHMCS is the worst piece of crap i've seen, they seriously thought that 1 EUR = 1 AUD = 1 GBP. WTF?!
They still point towards mysql result arrays by *NUMBERS*, not utilizing the column names like they should.
It's mostly function based code, no classes, no abstractions, no structure.
It even have serious security flaws due to these, for example mass invoice payment works by giving the customer credit then marking all the mass invoice payment invoices paid, which results in many automated systems that the customer gets free services, as auto-suspending doesn't work anymore and services looks like paid.
Hell, if you enabled multi-currency you can't even sanely go back at all anymore! You need to build a big conversion script and verify everything manually.
Also, by default TAX reports are done invoice based not transaction based like they should, and amounts checked from invoice. So you end up with completely wrong tax reports.
Infact, all the reports are screwed up by default, every single one of them concerning money are too badly flawed to be useable.
Also, there is e-mail bomb security flaw in WHMCS, allowing a nefarious attacker, especially if smart one, to DoS attack your system with spending 0 of their own resources and completely untraceable (we had an attack like this).
I've reported tens upon tens of these bugs to WHMCS, and they simply delete the threads claiming there is no such bugs even tho repros have been provided, only if i provide workarounds/solutions they will not delete them immediately. Some of my fixes did flow back into future releases tho (without credit).
Nevermind the huge usability issues, i do specialize in UX and tend to notice usability issues very easily.
The most worrying part tho? Some vendors simply refuse to admit any issues exist, and simply ignore you, for example i found potential critical security flaws in Bit-Pay WHMCS payment gateway module, Bit-Pay never bothered to even reply to my concerns, even tho i showed the particular issues with the module. That particular module had the worst crap i've seen in many years tbh, just a glance over the code showed severe code QA issues, and altho i did not test, i'm fairly confident there is a exploit there due to incorrect handling of payment verification. I even refactored and fixed some checkup code before giving up as it being too far off
not just for joe averages, even for some power users who need the giant storage but also the speed.
In the past i've solved this by RAIDing multiple magnetic drives, but now i got couple 128Gb Kingstons sitting on my table for next upgrade of my workstation, going to through out the 6 magnetic drives and replace them with 2xSSD + 2x2Tb WD blacks. or maybe 4x2Tb WD Blacks.
2x128Gb on RAID0 is still a bit smallish for me, but i'm going to try it out (virtual machines for development) if i can survive with just that amount of fast storage. then again, 2x2Tb WD Blacks ain't exactly slow neither.
Mac OSX is basicly highly modified FreeBSD/NetBSD, so it might actually already have ZFS support, therefore L2ARC.
Knowing apple tho they have probably disabled it and gives you no means to even try using ZFS.
Besides that they've probably locked down SSD support to few select drives as well.
Linux does not by default have these options but several are available. I bet some vendors do include these supports.
For ZFS you don't need kernel mods in many distros.
USB latency is actually rather high. Infact, rather VERY high.
Absolute minimum latency for a fetch is 16ms on USB port. It seems this has had some work on it, now being 125Hz rate by default, instead of 90.
But still 8ms for sending request for file, device gets it, let's assume it's ultra fast and takes just 3ms to find, fetch and prep reply packet (and assuming fits on 1 packet), it means 16ms has been spent BEFORE the data can be sent back, 24ms for the whole round trip.
HDDs seek faster than this, SO if your HDD is not having other activity, for single fetch your HDD is faster. Unless it's Caviar Green.
last time i checked bcache was during last winter, and it was FAR FAR ready from serious production.
Maybe the situation has improved now, but back then it was deemed too experimental for our usage.
Also because it requires custom kernel it's not a choice for us in production as we operate so many servers a server setup routine time increase of 30mins is just too much most of the time.
Might take a new look into it tho :)
maybe you ought to do a little bit of research first.
We have easily to feed to whole world 10 times over if everyone was vegan (no animal products whatsoever) or even vegetarian.
Livestock takes tons more space and uses tons more resources than plants.
Infact, you are so wrong it's ridiculous.
here in Finland meat prices have increased a lot faster than other foods. Eating meat is kind of expensive now. ... there simply wasn't enough :(
Not only that, we had a big shortage of pork and pork based products this summer
Eating vegan (or vegetarian) is actually very cheap. Soy, rice + seasoning, and you got yourself a decent tasting meal which costs next to nothing.
Yea, i used i to eat mostly vegan for years.
To continue in that way of thinking, consciousness could be thought of as our operating system while as the brain is the CPU, RAM, Drivers etc.
If that's the way of thinking then it becomes clear how brain affects our mental capabilities, even if our operating system could be easily capable of greater things but processing speed and RAM is too limited to handle certain things.
Then where is this O/S stored in? Is it in brain as well, and it is inherited from our parents? That is the mainstream science, but what if that O/S is something in religion described as "Soul"? Where does this "Soul" exist then? How could we interact directly with it?
If we figure out the O/S and data storage (our memory, learned abilities etc.) portion, then we can achieve great things. But first we need to isolate and distinguis the O/S, or consciousness, can we be certain it resides in brains as well, and brain damage also damages our consciousness directly?
No we cannot prove that at this point of time.
But what if brain is the mere "driver" for our I/O channels? Like in computers we have drivers for devices, in our case brain is a collection of drivers.
and yet is sounds like quantum effects where you cannot really measure something.
Theology might not be true science, and mostly fairy tales, but those are REALLY old, when you start reading those writings between the lines, and thinking what they might have meant really as they had no better ways to describe things.
Sure, it's a odd joining of fields, probably will not bring anything tangible, BUT still needs to be looked upon. Who knows, they might find some similarities between all the religions and with the help of philosophy they might be able to derive something physical sciences needs to take a look into. Maybe a new perspective or a new idea.
I'm an atheist and think believing in gods is simply dumb, yet i find religions to be potentially a fictionalized record of historical events some of the time - those people didn't just have better ways to describe things than god(s) and supernatural things. Also religions do tend to teach you moral values - whether right or wrong, those at least were right in the eyes of the people of the time.
Just because religious people choose to believe in things which are not that sane, and many religious people are outright borderline insane (and some are insane) does not mean those religions are complete bullshit.
Btw, there is research into a "religious" area of the brain, stimulation of that area will cause you to have a religious experience, and in extreme cases make you religious nutjob the like of cult leaders leading to mass suicides or murder. Yes i tend to think that being religious is a mental illness.
However, that does not negate the fact that the world religions are FULL of amazing things, such as aerodynamically correct shape of aeroplane (even tested to be valid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqqara_Bird ), mega monolithic structures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths_in_the_world ) which we still couldn't build todate, structures in extremely precise shapes forming constellation/star position charts which has been impossible to see at the time of construction, texts with descriptions of flying things (planes, rockets) and even nuclear reactor is being described in bible. Anunnaki literally translates to something like "those who from the stars came" or something like that (wikipedia refers to loose translation and does not even meantion the literal translation, which is usual for wikipedia which is full of errors & popular myths spread as fact even when evidence is shown, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki )
Some people even believe the flood for which Noah's ark was built actually happened but was not a world wide flood, just a region.
Bottomline is religions have interesting stories, when you don't take them as exactly as written, but think about what they might have meant. Magic does not exist, and advanced enough technology is indistinguishable from magic, therefore ancient people might have easily confused someone with very advanced technology for the time to be a god. Whether that advanced theology were just a zippo lighter, or knowledge of gun powder, mathematics or something. Hell, they've found even really ancient batteries, who knows if someone figured how to make a light bulb even!
Whether fictitious or not, those are some interesting stories.
Don't you want to take the off chance that there actually is some viable information in the religions of the world? What if the "soul" is actually real, and they come up with a clue for physicists to look for it? Wouldn't you like to know about it?
Even if we could "upload our brain" to a supercomputer, but if there is some other, say quantum level, thing about consciousness wouldn't you like to know that?
What if the "soul" as described in bible is a quantum level effect which makes humans greater than it's sum of parts? If it is so, and we just try to make a copy to a computer are you really still alive, or is a mere inferior copy o
everything, absolutely everything needs research.
Otherwise you wouldn't be making that kind of comments, instead you'd probably be hunting for wild animals to have dinner today.
they are doing that. Quite stupidly tho. They are banning advertisements with common terms, such as BitTorrent which albeit being a trademark is also name of a common protocol. That's the term i best remember, but there was others, that's when i stopped AdWords completely.
In any case, adwords was worthless and over priced for us, didn't lead to enough sales to justify the cost (something like 100€+ per sale cost), one of the least effective advertising we have done. The very same ads, well same content, did elsewhere at best ~4.8€ cost per sale!
We tried probably 150 different ads.
Especially bad was advertising on other sites/"content partners" or whatever it was called, we spent a lot of money on that for exactly 0 sales.
Ads on google search atleast yielded some sales.
Also the management interface was a bit worse nowadays, some things wasn't as easy to do anymore. It used to be a lot simpler and easier.
Same problem has happened with google analytics, the new interface overcomplicates things (we have dozens of sites being monitored).
Am i really the only one thinking there is something wrong about that? oO;
And here i thought you were innocent until proven quilty AND you do not need to testify against yourself - That is including giving your passwords, ie. granting access to potentially incriminating evidence or at the very least giving up your privacy.
What's next, sentenced for not confessing to something you may have or may not have done?
Why not skip court all together.