is the customer's right to continue to use the device in a secure way revoked?
Right to use the device in a secure way? Who granted you that right? There are probably some states that give you a little implied warranty protection for a limited duration of time, but that's it as far as rights go unless you signed a contract.
It all depends. Firebug is just my favorite thing... I can't express how thankful I am to the developers. That said, the debugger doesn't always work that well - but at least with Firebug you can spit out an entire object to console.log and go nuts on it. My complaints regarding debugging of javascript mostly center around it failing silently.
There are good Python debuggers. There are even Eclipse and Visual Studio debuggers for it. Heck, there's even a Firebug plugin if you really like that environment:)
Maybe you meant because of the need to load modules? I find learning from other people's Python to be almost as easy as BASIC as well - the exception is some of the advanced features like list comprehensions. But you don't need to use those - they are just convenient.
I am bitter that Epiphany chose to tear out python and replace it with Javascript of all things.
Javascript is an unholy mess to debug, and it often fails silently in browsers, but I do have to admit that one can write fairly Python-like code in it.
I haven't personally used it, but CoffeScript is a really neat concept and very Pythonic.
I am just very, very angry. I think I am conveying that pretty effectively.
Yes, but none of us care how angry you are - we are mostly just trying to make sense of what really happened at Fukushima.
Any thoughts on what I have posted, just to keep this semi-on-topic?
The report does seem to agree with you, though you say:
Proper cooling (which would have meant functioning ICs OR venting+water injection) could have saved the day.
While the report allows that the valve malfunctions may or may not have been caused by a lack of cooling/venting prior. In any case, it is pretty clear that they were initially trying to save the plant and avoid radioactive steam release when they should have been trying to prevent a disaster, plant and steam be damned.
I don't care for your style, but mostly because it is ineffective. The "stupid fuck" will just go into defensive mode, so you haven't changed his mind. Meanwhile, those of us in the people in the peanut gallery don't usually equate knowledgeable professionals with needless public profanity - so you aren't even convincing the peanut gallery like you would have otherwise.
The main thing we are failing at right now is getting jobs for people with no useful skill. Or rather, people whose useful skill can be done more economically by someone making $100/month in a poorer country. Talk about GDP and all is fine, and frankly very few in my circle here in the Northeast are affected by the "bad" economy, but we really do need something for the millions of unemployed to do.
Yeah, I was able to slim XP down enough to run well - but at the time it ticked me off that I had to turn off services and stuff. I think it was mostly RAM as the performance hit unless you had all the GUI stuff enabled, in which case it was legitimately slower. The thing that forced me to upgrade was that iTunes wouldn't run on 2000:)
it's quite another to deny that there are clearly evident statistical properties of groups of people that we have identified with the term "race".
Of course one has to recognize that people like to lump people into races - it would be stupid to deny it. But the minute you try to define the races, you realize how non-scientific it all is. Indians claiming to be "Caucasian" - the same race as northern Europeans - is fine as long as you don't try to claim some scientific basis to the term Caucasian.
Interesting, because I always said that XP was a pig:)
In all seriousness, it had very little new functionality over 2000, but it ran noticeably slower on commodity hardware of the day. Now, on modern commodity hardware, it positively screams! That doesn't make it any less bloated, though. At least Windows 7 comes with some interface modifications tacked on to all that bloat.
LOL. Yeah, I've been told that. Pretty sure the British must have put that in their heads.
The cool thing about race is that there is no science behind any of it, so if you meet an Indian that wants to be called Caucasian, well... they aren't wrong in any objective sense.
Please, point me to the last time china killed over 100.000 foreign civilians outside its borders.
Interesting that you apply different morality to who they kill depending on whether or not they are in or outside their borders.
Does Korea count? How about Tibet? Ask the people in Taiwan about their gentle neighbor.
I can understand how people are anxious about the behavior of the US - but just because the US is evil nowadays doesn't mean that China is automatically good.
I guess that my point is that adding "A GMO Food" to the label is completely useless information. You don't know what kind of modification was done, let alone the possible ramifications. If you are worried about GMO foods, look for those with a label that says "NOT GMO" or "ORGANIC". Last I checked, there is no shortage of "ORGANIC" labeled stuff.
There are so many people with so many hangups over agricultural products that I guess I'm just a little wary of adding every darned thing to the labels. Just assume that FDA-certified pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and GMOs were used to grow the apple unless it says otherwise and move on. I shouldn't need to pay for other people's hangups, especially when there is such an accessible alternative - organics.
I'll change my tune if GMOs turn out to be more hazardous than regular produce.
The fact that people have been talking about exactly this sort of application for decades would make it not novel and thus not patentable.
I'm not a huge fan of the way patents work in the US, but if Apple creates a laptop that lasts for weeks on a charge... well, that's what patents are for!
It's easy to turn this around, though. Why should we label for one pet cause when others go unlabeled? I think that you need to have some kind of scientific evidence to base your labeling regulation on. We don't list the pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizer used on crops, either - and there is at least some evidence that those things might effect the food.
The decay was an atom splitting into two smaller atoms and energy, which is fission. From the three dictionaries I looked up, "decay, not fission" is a contradiction, as the decay in question was necessarily *also* fission.
Yeah, you are using the wrong terminology.
The question was of why would fukishima need active cooling when passive cooling is so "easy" to do.
LOL, well, the state of the art has changed quite a bit in the last 40 years!
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is the customer's right to continue to use the device in a secure way revoked?
Right to use the device in a secure way? Who granted you that right? There are probably some states that give you a little implied warranty protection for a limited duration of time, but that's it as far as rights go unless you signed a contract.
If you cannot think of a reason yourself, why are you suggesting it to begin with?
Because he's already pulled off all of his finger and toenails with rusty pliers.
It all depends. Firebug is just my favorite thing... I can't express how thankful I am to the developers. That said, the debugger doesn't always work that well - but at least with Firebug you can spit out an entire object to console.log and go nuts on it. My complaints regarding debugging of javascript mostly center around it failing silently.
There are good Python debuggers. There are even Eclipse and Visual Studio debuggers for it. Heck, there's even a Firebug plugin if you really like that environment :)
Basic:
10 Print "Hello World"
Run
Python:
print 'Hello World'
Run
Maybe you meant because of the need to load modules? I find learning from other people's Python to be almost as easy as BASIC as well - the exception is some of the advanced features like list comprehensions. But you don't need to use those - they are just convenient.
I am bitter that Epiphany chose to tear out python and replace it with Javascript of all things.
Javascript is an unholy mess to debug, and it often fails silently in browsers, but I do have to admit that one can write fairly Python-like code in it.
I haven't personally used it, but CoffeScript is a really neat concept and very Pythonic.
I am just very, very angry. I think I am conveying that pretty effectively.
Yes, but none of us care how angry you are - we are mostly just trying to make sense of what really happened at Fukushima.
Any thoughts on what I have posted, just to keep this semi-on-topic?
The report does seem to agree with you, though you say:
Proper cooling (which would have meant functioning ICs OR venting+water injection) could have saved the day.
While the report allows that the valve malfunctions may or may not have been caused by a lack of cooling/venting prior. In any case, it is pretty clear that they were initially trying to save the plant and avoid radioactive steam release when they should have been trying to prevent a disaster, plant and steam be damned.
Can you imagine if 1% of cars would randomly blow up?
It's like you aren't aware of the millions killed by automobiles, let alone maimed.
I don't care for your style, but mostly because it is ineffective. The "stupid fuck" will just go into defensive mode, so you haven't changed his mind. Meanwhile, those of us in the people in the peanut gallery don't usually equate knowledgeable professionals with needless public profanity - so you aren't even convincing the peanut gallery like you would have otherwise.
The main thing we are failing at right now is getting jobs for people with no useful skill. Or rather, people whose useful skill can be done more economically by someone making $100 /month in a poorer country. Talk about GDP and all is fine, and frankly very few in my circle here in the Northeast are affected by the "bad" economy, but we really do need something for the millions of unemployed to do.
Yeah, I was able to slim XP down enough to run well - but at the time it ticked me off that I had to turn off services and stuff. I think it was mostly RAM as the performance hit unless you had all the GUI stuff enabled, in which case it was legitimately slower. The thing that forced me to upgrade was that iTunes wouldn't run on 2000 :)
Heh - I'm from New Jersey, and I don't think America is evil :)
it's quite another to deny that there are clearly evident statistical properties of groups of people that we have identified with the term "race".
Of course one has to recognize that people like to lump people into races - it would be stupid to deny it. But the minute you try to define the races, you realize how non-scientific it all is. Indians claiming to be "Caucasian" - the same race as northern Europeans - is fine as long as you don't try to claim some scientific basis to the term Caucasian.
Interesting, because I always said that XP was a pig :)
In all seriousness, it had very little new functionality over 2000, but it ran noticeably slower on commodity hardware of the day. Now, on modern commodity hardware, it positively screams! That doesn't make it any less bloated, though. At least Windows 7 comes with some interface modifications tacked on to all that bloat.
I'll take C# over C any day, and I have 20 years of C experience.
ANY day? Managed code is awesome, but sometimes you need hardware access or more speed.
Microsoft Research has an interesting project called Singularity -
Isn't this what "Longhorn" was supposed to be? Isn't this the reason that we still have XP? It makes sense that they didn't throw it all away.
LOL. Yeah, I've been told that. Pretty sure the British must have put that in their heads.
The cool thing about race is that there is no science behind any of it, so if you meet an Indian that wants to be called Caucasian, well... they aren't wrong in any objective sense.
Many of us also consider California part of the West Coast... Heck, even Portland counts I think.
What the romans did worked
Ahh, I thought you were going to say slavery!
Those essays were RIOTS!
Please, point me to the last time china killed over 100.000 foreign civilians outside its borders.
Interesting that you apply different morality to who they kill depending on whether or not they are in or outside their borders.
Does Korea count? How about Tibet? Ask the people in Taiwan about their gentle neighbor.
I can understand how people are anxious about the behavior of the US - but just because the US is evil nowadays doesn't mean that China is automatically good.
I for one welcome our Japanese Caucasian overlords.
I guess that my point is that adding "A GMO Food" to the label is completely useless information. You don't know what kind of modification was done, let alone the possible ramifications. If you are worried about GMO foods, look for those with a label that says "NOT GMO" or "ORGANIC". Last I checked, there is no shortage of "ORGANIC" labeled stuff.
There are so many people with so many hangups over agricultural products that I guess I'm just a little wary of adding every darned thing to the labels. Just assume that FDA-certified pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and GMOs were used to grow the apple unless it says otherwise and move on. I shouldn't need to pay for other people's hangups, especially when there is such an accessible alternative - organics.
I'll change my tune if GMOs turn out to be more hazardous than regular produce.
The fact that people have been talking about exactly this sort of application for decades would make it not novel and thus not patentable.
I'm not a huge fan of the way patents work in the US, but if Apple creates a laptop that lasts for weeks on a charge... well, that's what patents are for!
But label the damn things so people can choose
It's easy to turn this around, though. Why should we label for one pet cause when others go unlabeled? I think that you need to have some kind of scientific evidence to base your labeling regulation on. We don't list the pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizer used on crops, either - and there is at least some evidence that those things might effect the food.
The decay was an atom splitting into two smaller atoms and energy, which is fission. From the three dictionaries I looked up, "decay, not fission" is a contradiction, as the decay in question was necessarily *also* fission.
Yeah, you are using the wrong terminology.
The question was of why would fukishima need active cooling when passive cooling is so "easy" to do.
LOL, well, the state of the art has changed quite a bit in the last 40 years!