Yes, a deliberately inflammatory subject line. In The Olde Dayes, people said the moon was made of green cheese because it has the colour of green (unripened) cheese and their models were not very sophisticated. We still rely on models and the outcomes are only as good as the models themselves, and the observations they are based on.
People, what we have is a model, not an observation. As TFA says, this model is based on assumptions, though fewer assumptions in the past:"Now, astronomers have measured the spin of a black hole with a new method that requires fewer assumptions."
The black hole may indeed be spinning at 1000 revs, or is might just be that one of the model assumptions is invalid.
Nobody does anything in Linux to "look good", except for some of the style guide gestapo. If the Linux kernel quoted the bible and all the hackers wore suites and ties would it make you feel better? If so, I think you don't really understand how software works.
Expect any 2D to 3D conversion to work about as well as those B&W to colour conversion filters you could get back in the 50s and 60s. The tecnology they used was called "faith".
Burn the CO2 on earth then pump the CO2 into space to make smog.
The problem though with any clever ideas like dumping reflective stuff in space is that, if the modelling is wrong ("oops! missed a minus sign!") then the clean-up efforts to go fetch all the stuff back is going to cost quite a bundle and make more environmental problems than we had before we started.
If the RIAA just stuck with points of law, then they'd probably be doing OK. However, they lose it when they start trying to play the "starving artist" card. They get into trouble when they try pull on the jury's heartstrngs because that is quite easily countered for many defendants.
My "single-mom with multiple sclerosis" beats your "starving artists".
If they just stuck with a straightforward legal approach, they might fare better. ie. Just because you're a single mom with multiple sclerosis does not give you a right to steal music/software any more than it gives you a right to deal drugs.
4 bit cpus costing a few cents. Used to control rice cookers etc.
Moore's Law works both ways. Sure, you get faster CPUs, but you also get cheaper bottom end CPUs. People with the skill to design tight software to run on these can use micros in systems where they were not deasible in the past.
just see "the computer" and cannot tell the boundary between what is on their computer and what is on the www. To many/most people, the internet is just something you must plug in for some of your computer to work (ie. a bit like a power cord, but mysteriously different). I frequently get questions of the form "Do I need to connect to the internet to make my printer print in colour?"
Finer details like drivers, operating systems, internet vs www etc just cause many eyes to glaze over.
Right now,phone calls don't cost much. With all the competitive pressures they'll just come down. Let's say your life is worth $60/hour or $1/minute. How much of your life are you prepared to throw away to get that free phone call?
Project management etc is more a software engineering skill than a computer science subject. Pure CS is really about theory rather than practice. However, the way most universities teach these, there is very little distinction between the two.
It all depends on why you're attending the courses. If you want to be "marketplace ready", then project management, source management etc are all worthwhile.
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Quite. This one pisses me off more than there/their.
People, what we have is a model, not an observation. As TFA says, this model is based on assumptions, though fewer assumptions in the past:"Now, astronomers have measured the spin of a black hole with a new method that requires fewer assumptions."
The black hole may indeed be spinning at 1000 revs, or is might just be that one of the model assumptions is invalid.
Nobody does anything in Linux to "look good", except for some of the style guide gestapo. If the Linux kernel quoted the bible and all the hackers wore suites and ties would it make you feel better? If so, I think you don't really understand how software works.
Expect any 2D to 3D conversion to work about as well as those B&W to colour conversion filters you could get back in the 50s and 60s. The tecnology they used was called "faith".
because the kernel source says "fuck" in a few places, and there was a proposal to make it illegal to convey profanities via the internet.
The problem though with any clever ideas like dumping reflective stuff in space is that, if the modelling is wrong ("oops! missed a minus sign!") then the clean-up efforts to go fetch all the stuff back is going to cost quite a bundle and make more environmental problems than we had before we started.
Without light surely our plant friends won't be able to soak up the CO2 at ground level.
My "single-mom with multiple sclerosis" beats your "starving artists".
If they just stuck with a straightforward legal approach, they might fare better. ie. Just because you're a single mom with multiple sclerosis does not give you a right to steal music/software any more than it gives you a right to deal drugs.
Secondly, dynamic rerouting to overcome partial failure or congestion is as old as digital backbone telephony and predates the internet by many years.
With all these diluting words there's not much conclusive.
Bugger the costs, just charge it: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Moore's Law works both ways. Sure, you get faster CPUs, but you also get cheaper bottom end CPUs. People with the skill to design tight software to run on these can use micros in systems where they were not deasible in the past.
Morse has been used a lot and it is a lot more descriptive than music (though I guess the learning curve is a bit less for music).
I wonder how many flight attendants he's scored with?
You have to wonder where the 211k viewers come from. If we subtract the slashdotting then there are probably about 5 hits.
... to see if I raise my hand.
If he'd really wanted a patent he could have likely got one.
... assuming flipper has a sense of humour he'll also laugh his head off as the swimmers run screaming up the shore.
Finer details like drivers, operating systems, internet vs www etc just cause many eyes to glaze over.
It is very easy to replicate a spreadsheet program. The only effective protection is a patent.
Which is why RIAA has gone for a lot of soft targets http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35 669
I don't think MS really dug Apple out of their hole (Zune anyone?), and likely they're not going to tread lightly on Novell either.
Right now,phone calls don't cost much. With all the competitive pressures they'll just come down. Let's say your life is worth $60/hour or $1/minute. How much of your life are you prepared to throw away to get that free phone call?
It all depends on why you're attending the courses. If you want to be "marketplace ready", then project management, source management etc are all worthwhile.
Anything that is unproductive ulimately ends up here: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/