Ruby and python are really just variants of Object BASIC yes they have their unique syntax sugar and slight twists like Ruby where everything is a object even things like literal ints. None of that much matters having an itor on something like 5 does not really alter the design of my program it's just little shorter to type than for I=0 to 5; dosomething(I); endfor.
None of this bad as developer I rather like it, but I agree with the author it's not really innovative
But does it make sense to wait until then to start investigating a mission to deflect it away our planet?
Well lets see, a potential catastrophe is 28 years away and there is 1/625 odds based on the data we do have that it will happen. We will know evidently with much better certainty what that odds are when its a mere 26-27 years away. Given we are talking about altering the path of a massive object in space, I say wait.
If we can't solve the problem in 26 years we mostly likely could not solve it in 28. The odds are already quite low, the cost to do anything about it quite high. If the numbers change after we can see and measure it better thats different. If we had to wait until it was much closer to get the better data that would be different. I don't see any advantage in getting a 12-24 month jump on this, given the time scales, and the complexity of solutions to the problem and risk.
One of the factors in that statistic is that a large. Number of DUI accidents are with pedestrians. Generally pedestrians fare worse that driver in auto accidents. I would expect cell phone while driving accidents to be similar in that they are more likely to happen in day light hours where more pedestrians are likely to be about. That's is educated guessing though.
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I completely agree with you. One thing you left out that I think people who have really not compared the experience on both types of devices is that e-ink really is a vastly better way to read lots of text. I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad. The quality fonts etc is very good on both but there is something to be said for reading on a display that is not backlit. Especially if you try to read out doors.
I certainly how those were the only copies and the hackers deleted them. If there is one thing Sony does not need its more money, and if there is one thing I don't want to have to suffer hearing on the play list of every pub, is more of that man's terrible music.
I don't know anyone can learn to quote law books. Its just wrote learning. I have not heard any of his Harvard lectures but while polished not political speech has stuck me as terribly intelligent. Intelligent demonstrated in speech would be thru combining idea in new ways and showing unique insight into existing problems.
Obama as far as I have head has push plenty of jingoism, catchy sound bytes like "Hope and Change", and lots of very tired old saw. I am not saying the man is not intelligent but I doubt he really has much on most the people who post here.
No No, these are important changes that are being made. Older math texts typically had no sensitivity to diversity and cultural awareness. Why you'd read a word problem and it was always someone with a name like James or John that was hiring the work and poor Jose had figure out how much paint to buy.
New math texts have Jose hiring out the work and Brahmaputra figuring out how much paint to buy. I don't know what has happened to James or John. Presumably they sailing their yachts in the Caribbean or something; they were just in their as distractors in the first place so its no matter.
As usual its not capitalism at fault its where capitalism and government collide that we have problems. We have private industry producing education materials and and public educational entities that have consistently worked over the past century and half to make sure it is far beyond the reach of accountability to those it serves.
Private schools in most parts of this nation spending drastically less per student (even when adjust out the cost of special ed for they don't provide) than most public schools. They also achieve consistently better results. Now some of that can be ascribed to their picking their pupils and the usually superior social and economic backgrounds of those pupils; hover it does appear at least on the surface the more ideologically pure capitalist institutions do better with less than the socialized educational services that are provided.
A fully vertically integrated socialized education system might work well too, but we don't have one of those here in the US to look at; and looking at international ones would only add more difference difficult to control for.
So once again don't bash capitalism; its not at fault here. You only think that because of leftist propaganda. Clearly the fault lies with the way public education is being run. Its public education that is creating a market for second and third rate educational materials. Capitalists are merely serving that market. They have finite number of customers (public school districts), if those customers demanded different terms, and something better they'd get it. They don't because they be run be the inept; who were trained by the inept before them, and they don't like or want change; and won't have their ideas challenged by outsiders. The who institution of teacher education, license, curriculum development, degree requirements, etc is run like mid evil guild.
ÃatalhÃyük is somewhat unique in that its really the only know permanent settlement prior to the adoption of agriculture. The concentration of near buy resources must have especially high to enable are large and sustained population there; which also might have in turn reduced the need for the wheel. People did not have to bring things to the city from over large distances.
Spoken like someone who spent little or no time in the wild. First if your stocking prey thru the woods the places where you could even use a cart are exceeding rare. Early humans lived in forest and jungle like other primates. Trying to move cart over most of that terrain would be impossible, something like a hand truck might work but 90% would be added burden. Do some back packing for about week, if you still don't believe, you will understand after that.
Second within certain limits and needing to plan for winter survival and the like most of the time the best place to store food is in your belly. A group of early humans would probably have consumed most of a kill right away, and only carried off things like skin and bone for tools.
Actually early people did not live in villages. If anything it was probably the village that created a need to have a wheel. The earliest human groups did not create villages, they were nomadic hunter gatherers. They had little need to transport anything they could not carry or ware because they went where the food was not the other way round. Paleolithic people likely had little use for a wheel. When they did need to move something there is evidence they would roll it on logs. As the object rolled off the logs at the rear they'd be brought back around front. A crude degenerate axle free form of wheel if you like.
Neolithic people started villages and need to transport from a wide area to their more concentrated population center and early agricultural efforts; they would need a wheels for pottery making to carry things, and eventually a cart.
Web of trust models will only work where there is an incentive to keep people out of the network. In the P2P world its just exactly the opposite. Users want as many other users on the network as possible because it speeds up their transfers and increases the amount of available content. You could use web of trust for something like e-mail where users generally want to prevent spoofs, scams, and spam.
I realize that users of P2P networks want to keep *some* people (FBI,Secret Service,DOJ,Interpol,[M,R]P?IAA employees ) off but for the most part they want users on. The next problem is you have the lowest common denominator issues. Again you want it to be simple enough that everyone and anyone can use it so you have content selection but that also means you get the same idiots who are still providing the account and routing numbers to 419 spammers. All mister federal agent needs to is promise to upload tons of free porn and John HighSchool is going to cross sign his PGP key.
You go to seamonkey, new gekko classic but maintained interface and compatible with most ff Addons. Naturally as with FF the Addons can be a source of trouble, unlike ff as of late seamonkey is well behaved out of box
Yea, I can't help but laugh Obama's little UAW trash the rule of law give away is about to blow up.
Its time to short GM, they will NOT be repeating their record profits next quarter or the one after it. The numbers are rigged. Its come out in recent days that GM has stuffed the channel like never before. Makes it look like the parent company sold a ton of cars (and technically they did) but the dealers and resellers did not move the inventory; so there will be FAR fewer re-orders.
Also Consumer reports just rated them near the bottom as usual; so much for that turn around and building cars American's want to buy. After a couple years on the road its being revealed the changes are all window dressing and the quality problems are still there. I only hope the next time these fools go bankrupt we let it get handled by the courts like its supposed to so that all that tooling can get sold off cheap to someone who is going to do something worth while with it.
Except that terrorists strike where their efforts will be noticed. That tends to be where lots of people are. Disrupting the phone and radio networks (cb,ham) in such places is usually bad because what if someone needs to call for help? To bad you can't call 911 about that heart attack because the president happens to be in town today?
Often insurance companies offer "stated value" polices on more difficult to value and thinly traded items. Classic cars are common situation here. The value of a specific make/model/year vehicle will vary widely depending on its condition how "original" it is, what options it has on it etc.
Very often as the person purchasing the policy the insurance company will let you name your price. Its going to have be something that falls within a few standard deviations of whatever limited market value data points do exist naturally; you can't just say its "its worth 1 billion dollars" while holding you pinky to your lips, but it is pretty flexible. Naturally the higher you state the value the more their risk goes up so and to offset that so do your premiums.
"who don't really distinguish between 'security' and 'surveillance'
Surveillance is a legitimate component of security. You will never be able to eliminate the capability of an opponent to defeat other security controls. Surveillance is a powerful deterrent and can mitigate losses by enhancing the potential for recovery.
Is surveillance an appropriate solution all the time, hell no. It certainly has a place in the security professional's tool box and there are plenty of perfectly ethical uses for it.
It can be MAD in that at some point the rate of hostile traffic becomes so large you can't IDS it anymore and you don't know what to pass and what not to; at that point the victim cuts their losses and severs the line.
Trouble is if your China doing all that manufacturing and sales to us business and we decide we have no choice but black hole all your netblocks; well suddenly your economy grinds to slow crawl as does ours.
So it is MAD but its not exactly Cyber warfare specific any way. Its simply the fact that both parties USA and China stand to suffer economically should ANYTHING make normal relations suddenly become impossible.
Pointers in anything other than the very lowest-level-touching-the-metal code are an abomination. They cause far more confusion and grief than they ever help. Yes, there are situations in which the best way to address a problem is to pass a pointer around. However, in this day and age of multi-gigabyte ram sticks, I'd rather bloat up a program's ram usage with maybe unnecessary copies of large objects than dick around with pointers.
I am going to disagree. There is basically no difference between C pointers and the byRef concept in all the higher level languages. It requires the same understanding, its just slightly different vocabulary and syntax.
C method is superior because it makes it CLEAR when things are being passed by value and when they are not.
C method is superior because it makes programmers consciously decide every time, if a reference or value should be passed. Not doing this results in code that passes massive objects by value and causes performance/resource issues, or often hard to solve bugs where values change in unexpected ways because multiple references exist and its not clear they are only references not clones.
Not having pointer syntax is a mistake most modern languages are making IMHO.
we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe' to make Americans trade in their 'love affair with the automobile' for a marriage to mass transit.
The first thing you have to realize is that we as American's pay more for our precious petrol than pretty much any other western nation. We don't pay for it at the pump but we do pay. We maintain a massive military commitment in the middle east to make sure there is a stable flow of oil out of that region. We pay for cheap gas in income taxes.
As to that make me trade my love affair for the automobile bit, if that is your attitude screw you! Seriously its my planet too and NOBODY living in this nation really has all that small a carbon foot print. Driving your hybrid roller skate just moves that carbon to a generation plant some place else.
I agree we should stop the military miss adventures; the unfairly shift costs on to those who 'don't want oil' if any such people really exist. The moment you tax my gasoline just for it being gasoline, or burden oil producers trying to exploit their own property you are unfairly shifting costs on to me and you haven't the right! I will fight you tooth and nail at every turn, and I will enlist others to do so as well. The result will be the good you might have done improving efficiencies solving problems that everyone wants solved will be wasted bickering with me and others.
No its not for me to back down. Personal freedom is MORE important than anything. We are not human if we don't have that; I don't care what you say. If I had to destroy the plant in order to defend my right destroy my little plot of earth if that is what I want to do with it, I would. Don't think otherwise. I'd rather do neither of course.
At some point a privileged operation more than likely has to take place. Perhaps Linus should do a little introspection about how his own kernel handles module loading?
I don't use SUSE so I don't know what I am talking about here but it seems maybe the problem is along the lines of their add user script should suggest putting new users in plugdev? Which would let udev(which runs as 0) load the required modules and the default rules would likely make a lp device writable by members of lp.
So it probably is an issue in SUSE but its also most likely a minor oversight than it is a serious flaw.
No heat control means you have a poor appliance. A modern induction stove gives you perfect control. Much better than any gas stove; even commercial ones, and way better than conventional resistance heat electrics.
I would have to guess you are correct as well. When you think of all the people who have prosthetic legs and how uncomfortable those are supposed to be. I would expect if it were possible to use donor tissue lots of people would choose it. Even if the nerves and tendons could not get attached a paralyzed limb say from the knee down would be better than the prosthetic alternatives for many patients.
You might not get as much potential function out if; but you would not have the painful chaffing, binding, and pressure on the end of the stump which is not designed to take in that way you have now. A stiff boot to keep the ankle raised and a spring type knee brace you'd just be walking with a limp.
I know I'd choose pain free limping over a better performing prosthetic.
It would work yes, but it would provide no granularity. So there would be little if any added security. I suppose you *might* identified some calls user land software of the type installed on a cell phone or tablet should *never* need to do and disable those but that is such a finite number other approaches to that likely make more sense.
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Ruby and python are really just variants of Object BASIC yes they have their unique syntax sugar and slight twists like Ruby where everything is a object even things like literal ints. None of that much matters having an itor on something like 5 does not really alter the design of my program it's just little shorter to type than for I=0 to 5; dosomething(I); endfor.
None of this bad as developer I rather like it, but I agree with the author it's not really innovative
But does it make sense to wait until then to start investigating a mission to deflect it away our planet?
Well lets see, a potential catastrophe is 28 years away and there is 1/625 odds based on the data we do have that it will happen. We will know evidently with much better certainty what that odds are when its a mere 26-27 years away. Given we are talking about altering the path of a massive object in space, I say wait.
If we can't solve the problem in 26 years we mostly likely could not solve it in 28. The odds are already quite low, the cost to do anything about it quite high. If the numbers change after we can see and measure it better thats different. If we had to wait until it was much closer to get the better data that would be different. I don't see any advantage in getting a 12-24 month jump on this, given the time scales, and the complexity of solutions to the problem and risk.
Don't they call that business management?
One of the factors in that statistic is that a large. Number of DUI accidents are with pedestrians. Generally pedestrians fare worse that driver in auto accidents. I would expect cell phone while driving accidents to be similar in that they are more likely to happen in day light hours where more pedestrians are likely to be about. That's is educated guessing though.
I completely agree with you. One thing you left out that I think people who have really not compared the experience on both types of devices is that e-ink really is a vastly better way to read lots of text. I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad. The quality fonts etc is very good on both but there is something to be said for reading on a display that is not backlit. Especially if you try to read out doors.
I certainly how those were the only copies and the hackers deleted them. If there is one thing Sony does not need its more money, and if there is one thing I don't want to have to suffer hearing on the play list of every pub, is more of that man's terrible music.
I don't know anyone can learn to quote law books. Its just wrote learning. I have not heard any of his Harvard lectures but while polished not political speech has stuck me as terribly intelligent. Intelligent demonstrated in speech would be thru combining idea in new ways and showing unique insight into existing problems.
Obama as far as I have head has push plenty of jingoism, catchy sound bytes like "Hope and Change", and lots of very tired old saw. I am not saying the man is not intelligent but I doubt he really has much on most the people who post here.
No No, these are important changes that are being made. Older math texts typically had no sensitivity to diversity and cultural awareness. Why you'd read a word problem and it was always someone with a name like James or John that was hiring the work and poor Jose had figure out how much paint to buy.
New math texts have Jose hiring out the work and Brahmaputra figuring out how much paint to buy. I don't know what has happened to James or John. Presumably they sailing their yachts in the Caribbean or something; they were just in their as distractors in the first place so its no matter.
As usual its not capitalism at fault its where capitalism and government collide that we have problems. We have private industry producing education materials and and public educational entities that have consistently worked over the past century and half to make sure it is far beyond the reach of accountability to those it serves.
Private schools in most parts of this nation spending drastically less per student (even when adjust out the cost of special ed for they don't provide) than most public schools. They also achieve consistently better results. Now some of that can be ascribed to their picking their pupils and the usually superior social and economic backgrounds of those pupils; hover it does appear at least on the surface the more ideologically pure capitalist institutions do better with less than the socialized educational services that are provided.
A fully vertically integrated socialized education system might work well too, but we don't have one of those here in the US to look at; and looking at international ones would only add more difference difficult to control for.
So once again don't bash capitalism; its not at fault here. You only think that because of leftist propaganda. Clearly the fault lies with the way public education is being run. Its public education that is creating a market for second and third rate educational materials. Capitalists are merely serving that market. They have finite number of customers (public school districts), if those customers demanded different terms, and something better they'd get it. They don't because they be run be the inept; who were trained by the inept before them, and they don't like or want change; and won't have their ideas challenged by outsiders. The who institution of teacher education, license, curriculum development, degree requirements, etc is run like mid evil guild.
ÃatalhÃyük is somewhat unique in that its really the only know permanent settlement prior to the adoption of agriculture. The concentration of near buy resources must have especially high to enable are large and sustained population there; which also might have in turn reduced the need for the wheel. People did not have to bring things to the city from over large distances.
Spoken like someone who spent little or no time in the wild. First if your stocking prey thru the woods the places where you could even use a cart are exceeding rare. Early humans lived in forest and jungle like other primates. Trying to move cart over most of that terrain would be impossible, something like a hand truck might work but 90% would be added burden. Do some back packing for about week, if you still don't believe, you will understand after that.
Second within certain limits and needing to plan for winter survival and the like most of the time the best place to store food is in your belly. A group of early humans would probably have consumed most of a kill right away, and only carried off things like skin and bone for tools.
Actually early people did not live in villages. If anything it was probably the village that created a need to have a wheel. The earliest human groups did not create villages, they were nomadic hunter gatherers. They had little need to transport anything they could not carry or ware because they went where the food was not the other way round. Paleolithic people likely had little use for a wheel. When they did need to move something there is evidence they would roll it on logs. As the object rolled off the logs at the rear they'd be brought back around front. A crude degenerate axle free form of wheel if you like.
Neolithic people started villages and need to transport from a wide area to their more concentrated population center and early agricultural efforts; they would need a wheels for pottery making to carry things, and eventually a cart.
Web of trust models will only work where there is an incentive to keep people out of the network. In the P2P world its just exactly the opposite. Users want as many other users on the network as possible because it speeds up their transfers and increases the amount of available content. You could use web of trust for something like e-mail where users generally want to prevent spoofs, scams, and spam.
I realize that users of P2P networks want to keep *some* people (FBI,Secret Service,DOJ,Interpol,[M,R]P?IAA employees ) off but for the most part they want users on. The next problem is you have the lowest common denominator issues. Again you want it to be simple enough that everyone and anyone can use it so you have content selection but that also means you get the same idiots who are still providing the account and routing numbers to 419 spammers. All mister federal agent needs to is promise to upload tons of free porn and John HighSchool is going to cross sign his PGP key.
You go to seamonkey, new gekko classic but maintained interface and compatible with most ff Addons. Naturally as with FF the Addons can be a source of trouble, unlike ff as of late seamonkey is well behaved out of box
Yea, I can't help but laugh Obama's little UAW trash the rule of law give away is about to blow up.
Its time to short GM, they will NOT be repeating their record profits next quarter or the one after it. The numbers are rigged. Its come out in recent days that GM has stuffed the channel like never before. Makes it look like the parent company sold a ton of cars (and technically they did) but the dealers and resellers did not move the inventory; so there will be FAR fewer re-orders.
Also Consumer reports just rated them near the bottom as usual; so much for that turn around and building cars American's want to buy. After a couple years on the road its being revealed the changes are all window dressing and the quality problems are still there. I only hope the next time these fools go bankrupt we let it get handled by the courts like its supposed to so that all that tooling can get sold off cheap to someone who is going to do something worth while with it.
Except that terrorists strike where their efforts will be noticed. That tends to be where lots of people are. Disrupting the phone and radio networks (cb,ham) in such places is usually bad because what if someone needs to call for help? To bad you can't call 911 about that heart attack because the president happens to be in town today?
Remember we don't have pay phones anymore.
Often insurance companies offer "stated value" polices on more difficult to value and thinly traded items. Classic cars are common situation here. The value of a specific make/model/year vehicle will vary widely depending on its condition how "original" it is, what options it has on it etc.
Very often as the person purchasing the policy the insurance company will let you name your price. Its going to have be something that falls within a few standard deviations of whatever limited market value data points do exist naturally; you can't just say its "its worth 1 billion dollars" while holding you pinky to your lips, but it is pretty flexible. Naturally the higher you state the value the more their risk goes up so and to offset that so do your premiums.
"who don't really distinguish between 'security' and 'surveillance'
Surveillance is a legitimate component of security. You will never be able to eliminate the capability of an opponent to defeat other security controls. Surveillance is a powerful deterrent and can mitigate losses by enhancing the potential for recovery.
Is surveillance an appropriate solution all the time, hell no. It certainly has a place in the security professional's tool box and there are plenty of perfectly ethical uses for it.
It can be MAD in that at some point the rate of hostile traffic becomes so large you can't IDS it anymore and you don't know what to pass and what not to; at that point the victim cuts their losses and severs the line.
Trouble is if your China doing all that manufacturing and sales to us business and we decide we have no choice but black hole all your netblocks; well suddenly your economy grinds to slow crawl as does ours.
So it is MAD but its not exactly Cyber warfare specific any way. Its simply the fact that both parties USA and China stand to suffer economically should ANYTHING make normal relations suddenly become impossible.
Pointers in anything other than the very lowest-level-touching-the-metal code are an abomination. They cause far more confusion and grief than they ever help. Yes, there are situations in which the best way to address a problem is to pass a pointer around. However, in this day and age of multi-gigabyte ram sticks, I'd rather bloat up a program's ram usage with maybe unnecessary copies of large objects than dick around with pointers.
I am going to disagree. There is basically no difference between C pointers and the byRef concept in all the higher level languages. It requires the same understanding, its just slightly different vocabulary and syntax.
C method is superior because it makes it CLEAR when things are being passed by value and when they are not.
C method is superior because it makes programmers consciously decide every time, if a reference or value should be passed. Not doing this results in code that passes massive objects by value and causes performance/resource issues, or often hard to solve bugs where values change in unexpected ways because multiple references exist and its not clear they are only references not clones.
Not having pointer syntax is a mistake most modern languages are making IMHO.
we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe' to make Americans trade in their 'love affair with the automobile' for a marriage to mass transit.
The first thing you have to realize is that we as American's pay more for our precious petrol than pretty much any other western nation. We don't pay for it at the pump but we do pay. We maintain a massive military commitment in the middle east to make sure there is a stable flow of oil out of that region. We pay for cheap gas in income taxes.
As to that make me trade my love affair for the automobile bit, if that is your attitude screw you! Seriously its my planet too and NOBODY living in this nation really has all that small a carbon foot print. Driving your hybrid roller skate just moves that carbon to a generation plant some place else.
I agree we should stop the military miss adventures; the unfairly shift costs on to those who 'don't want oil' if any such people really exist. The moment you tax my gasoline just for it being gasoline, or burden oil producers trying to exploit their own property you are unfairly shifting costs on to me and you haven't the right! I will fight you tooth and nail at every turn, and I will enlist others to do so as well. The result will be the good you might have done improving efficiencies solving problems that everyone wants solved will be wasted bickering with me and others.
No its not for me to back down. Personal freedom is MORE important than anything. We are not human if we don't have that; I don't care what you say. If I had to destroy the plant in order to defend my right destroy my little plot of earth if that is what I want to do with it, I would. Don't think otherwise. I'd rather do neither of course.
At some point a privileged operation more than likely has to take place. Perhaps Linus should do a little introspection about how his own kernel handles module loading?
I don't use SUSE so I don't know what I am talking about here but it seems maybe the problem is along the lines of their add user script should suggest putting new users in plugdev? Which would let udev(which runs as 0) load the required modules and the default rules would likely make a lp device writable by members of lp.
So it probably is an issue in SUSE but its also most likely a minor oversight than it is a serious flaw.
No heat control means you have a poor appliance. A modern induction stove gives you perfect control. Much better than any gas stove; even commercial ones, and way better than conventional resistance heat electrics.
You do have to have the right cookware though...
I would have to guess you are correct as well. When you think of all the people who have prosthetic legs and how uncomfortable those are supposed to be. I would expect if it were possible to use donor tissue lots of people would choose it. Even if the nerves and tendons could not get attached a paralyzed limb say from the knee down would be better than the prosthetic alternatives for many patients.
You might not get as much potential function out if; but you would not have the painful chaffing, binding, and pressure on the end of the stump which is not designed to take in that way you have now. A stiff boot to keep the ankle raised and a spring type knee brace you'd just be walking with a limp.
I know I'd choose pain free limping over a better performing prosthetic.
It would work yes, but it would provide no granularity. So there would be little if any added security. I suppose you *might* identified some calls user land software of the type installed on a cell phone or tablet should *never* need to do and disable those but that is such a finite number other approaches to that likely make more sense.