In a war of resource, you have to make decisions about allocation continuously. Faced with rapid technological change, it is near impossible to make correct judgements about which routes will pan out, and of those that pan out will be effective when used in combat. Both sides made huge numbers of mistakes, some forgivable, some less so. On the Allied side the failure to pile in immediately Poland was invaded was strategically the worst. It really could have been over by Christmas.
Germany made very, very few mistakes in WWII that actually mattered. Had they not screwed up Enigma and continued to bomb airfields, I'd be speaking German to you. The majority of warfighting at scale is about resource and it is only occasionally that such decisions really, really matter. Certainly the design of Germany's planes was not the tipping factor.
Transitioning to GPL3 would be non-trivial, but legally possible with sufficient agreement of current codebase contributors. A notice period for objections, re-write any code as required, and you're good. I think Groklaw discussed this back when the hoo-hah over GPL3 was in full flight.
The thing is, they know. They have a really well paid team of people to tell them what's real and what's not and then they change it, for whatever reason. Realism is fine, but therre are other constraints.
On records, part of the explanation is that there are so many potential records to break that even with a fairly small chance of breaking any one of them in a month or year there's a steady stream of records being broken...
The men I know who work in fields like nursing or childcare do experience sexism, but it is ridiculous to suggest that their experience is comparable to that of women in many technology fields. As for "experiencing the exact same environment", what bullshit. Yes, they do. And they're on the receiving end. Congratulations on really not getting it.
No, it is not scientism, it is living in a society filled with hogwash psuedo-scientific bullshit every minute of every day. You're making the same argument Creationists make. Time-travelling earthquake waves that influence our brains fall squarely into the category of things I can ignore unless someone proves there is something of interest.
No. There is anecdotal evidence for everything from aliens to talking dogs. With finite resources, we have to pick the most likely avenues for investigation. Magical earthquake fields travelling through time to influence the mind - yeah, maybe, but if you really believe it, you do the work and show there's something real worth investigating.
No, we know many of the causes, though by no means all, but we have incomplete understandings of the mechanisms. Again, though, there is simply no evidence for external phenomena having the effect you posit. I don't need to demonstrate anything. You do. Science is not a performing monkey that disproves whatever bullshit hypothesis you dream up.
A hallucination is disordered activity, typical in the frontal cortex. There are many causes, many of them well understood (eg LSD). That and the mathematics of probability lead me to conclude that a hallucination is more likely than a magical, unobserved and unexplained field. If you think your theory is more likely, propose a mechanism and we'll test it. I would be delighted to be wrong.
What? No. Your body has issues if it is presented with zero pathogens whatsoever but in the real world this is not the case. And while the immmune system routinely attacks proto-cancerous cells, the problem is that it cannot catch all these cells. The ones that escape are the ones we need to be able to cure.
Dude, I appreciate the time and effort you put into writing that but as a practical contribution it's not rteally much better than "yo, researchers should cure cancer, dawg". And we're a long way from a general scalable solution, though you're right that DNA analysis will become increasingly important.
Dogs are quite efficiently switched off with a crowbar or sleeping pills in meat, and shotguns are more likely to be used against you, kill you b accident, or sit there in the cupboard while you're out. You are right though that there are other more important steps to be taken before worrying about any kind of alarm system.
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Being jailed because you won't pay your taxes in USD is in no way abstract.
In a war of resource, you have to make decisions about allocation continuously. Faced with rapid technological change, it is near impossible to make correct judgements about which routes will pan out, and of those that pan out will be effective when used in combat. Both sides made huge numbers of mistakes, some forgivable, some less so. On the Allied side the failure to pile in immediately Poland was invaded was strategically the worst. It really could have been over by Christmas.
Germany made very, very few mistakes in WWII that actually mattered. Had they not screwed up Enigma and continued to bomb airfields, I'd be speaking German to you. The majority of warfighting at scale is about resource and it is only occasionally that such decisions really, really matter. Certainly the design of Germany's planes was not the tipping factor.
If you're going to use an acronym, use it correctly...
I notice /. has taken to blocking the ohno tage...
I suggest you have a look at an orchestral performer's text sometime. More pencil than ink.
Insurers in some territories require notification of modifications, as generally modding your car is quite a good indicator of risk.
Transitioning to GPL3 would be non-trivial, but legally possible with sufficient agreement of current codebase contributors. A notice period for objections, re-write any code as required, and you're good. I think Groklaw discussed this back when the hoo-hah over GPL3 was in full flight.
That is interseting. Please continue.
Fuck that. Murder your own people if you want to, don't come asking for our help.
The thing is, they know. They have a really well paid team of people to tell them what's real and what's not and then they change it, for whatever reason. Realism is fine, but therre are other constraints.
There are examples of condoms made of sheepskin, and other unpleasant things, much older than that.
On records, part of the explanation is that there are so many potential records to break that even with a fairly small chance of breaking any one of them in a month or year there's a steady stream of records being broken...
The men I know who work in fields like nursing or childcare do experience sexism, but it is ridiculous to suggest that their experience is comparable to that of women in many technology fields. As for "experiencing the exact same environment", what bullshit. Yes, they do. And they're on the receiving end. Congratulations on really not getting it.
Did you feel the whoosh?
No, it is not scientism, it is living in a society filled with hogwash psuedo-scientific bullshit every minute of every day. You're making the same argument Creationists make. Time-travelling earthquake waves that influence our brains fall squarely into the category of things I can ignore unless someone proves there is something of interest.
Have you seen GNU's hello.c? Worth a look.
No. There is anecdotal evidence for everything from aliens to talking dogs. With finite resources, we have to pick the most likely avenues for investigation. Magical earthquake fields travelling through time to influence the mind - yeah, maybe, but if you really believe it, you do the work and show there's something real worth investigating.
No, we know many of the causes, though by no means all, but we have incomplete understandings of the mechanisms. Again, though, there is simply no evidence for external phenomena having the effect you posit. I don't need to demonstrate anything. You do. Science is not a performing monkey that disproves whatever bullshit hypothesis you dream up.
I guess peope dying of infectious disease for most of recorded history doesn't count?
A hallucination is disordered activity, typical in the frontal cortex. There are many causes, many of them well understood (eg LSD). That and the mathematics of probability lead me to conclude that a hallucination is more likely than a magical, unobserved and unexplained field. If you think your theory is more likely, propose a mechanism and we'll test it. I would be delighted to be wrong.
Or in fact, not necessarily a cure.
What? No. Your body has issues if it is presented with zero pathogens whatsoever but in the real world this is not the case. And while the immmune system routinely attacks proto-cancerous cells, the problem is that it cannot catch all these cells. The ones that escape are the ones we need to be able to cure.
Dude, I appreciate the time and effort you put into writing that but as a practical contribution it's not rteally much better than "yo, researchers should cure cancer, dawg". And we're a long way from a general scalable solution, though you're right that DNA analysis will become increasingly important.
Dogs are quite efficiently switched off with a crowbar or sleeping pills in meat, and shotguns are more likely to be used against you, kill you b accident, or sit there in the cupboard while you're out. You are right though that there are other more important steps to be taken before worrying about any kind of alarm system.