....And in an emergency you can wipe your arse with a newspaper, if you try that with an iPad you should ensure you have a plumber and shower on standby.
Old fart here - I reserve a copy of the paper when I get breakfast at the cafe near work (twice a week), I come back and read it during lunch then leave it on the free magazine rack for others. If I don't reserve a copy then they are usually sold out by lunchtime. Of course the web is a much deeper and broader source of news than a city newspaper, but the morning paper and a frothy coffee is still a better way to relax.
IIRC it was called a "partnership", IBM wanted a piece of the Microsoft's O/S pie, MS told them it was down a dark alley. I recall seeing an early version at a trade show running four video files simultaneously, which believe it or not was an impressive stunt for a desktop back then. From what I've heard OS2 was reincarnated for use in ATM networks.
If it were centrifugal force the universe would have have a center of mass around which it rotates, as far as anyone can tell, it doesn't. Merry-go-rounds are 4 dimensional objects, 3 of space and one of time. A singularity has only one spacial dimension, "distance" does not make sense in one dimension which means motion (eg: spinning) is impossible, since motion is impossible time cannot exist. Also your speculation seems to assume space has always existed and the lumpy bits of the universe expanded into it. Also if it was CF we would not see the even expansion we do, the rate of expansion would be biased wrt the center of gravity..
The most interesting idea I've heard for a while comes from Roger Penrose, who points out that the ultimate fate of the universe has many similarities with a singularity. The expansion rate means that eventually even the radiation left over from the heat death of the universe will be stretched flat, the universe becomes dimensionless, time and motion no longer make any sense.
Out of all the problems the world faces, drugs are the least important
Keep telling yourself that mate, don't look at actual figures that say an American is 7x as likely as a Chinese or a European to be locked up. And don't dig down to find that one reason for the appealing lead America has in incarceration rates is the war on drugs*. Ignore the fact that there is a heavily armed swat team knocking down your neighbor's door with a battering ram because someone smelt a wiff of the joint he was smoking. So yeah close your eyes and ears and everything will be just fine and dandy in the land of the free (from drugs) and for god sake don't investigate what happens to the children of the 500K pot smokers you have locked up. Don't inform yourself, just lock em all up and let god sort it out, eh?
Given that drug abuse is endemic amongst low-income minorities in America, I can't help but think that drug legalization is a covert form of racism
Now that's irony with a capital "I" - the American prohibition on dope was promoted by the government of the day as a way to get "lazy Mexicans" back to work.
Your hate for junkies and potheads is clearly and democratically expressed in those numbers, but the facts of life are such that prohibition has never worked and never will, all it does it create a huge black market and what that delivers to society is misery in the form of oppression (note the date on the bend), violence and corruption. Those who are still ignorant enough to support it are the moral criminals in the war on (some) drugs, the fact they are a "well meaning" democratic mob is of little comfort to the victims.
you should be ashamed of yourself
Why? I'm a proud grandfather of three, I'm a degree qualified professional and have not been out of work since 1981, I currently earn around twice the national average wage and live on the shores of port phillip bay. I've been a responsible pot smoker since 1977 but it's none of yours or the government's dammed business how or why I abuse my own lungs in my own home. And yes I'm sure my employer and the US government read my slashdot posts, thing is at 54 I'm too old to be ashamed of my behavior and will happily admit to, and defend, my pot smoking (although I don't normally tell people like you, for obvious reasons).
So next time you're at a work party sipping on your free grog, have a look around. One in five of those people will be a responsible pot smoker and according to you they should be locked up, their children made into wards of the state, and their family home/farm sold by the state as an illegally acquired asset (regardless of where the money actually came from or the fact that there was only a couple of plants in a well lit closet).
* - Not sure if the following stats are on that page, but here is your "non problem" in a nutshell..
-The 27 nations of the EU have a population of 500M and a total prison population of 600K.
-The US has population of 300M, a total prison population of over 2M of which 500K are locked up for victimless drug crimes.
English common law is a set of books written over a period of centuries that would take about 500 man years just to read, let alone debug. In the real world the law is not a set of commandments, it's a guide to what is and isn't acceptable behavior in the society to which it is applied. Old laws are rarely thrown out they just get ignored, however as a non-american it appears the me that it is common practice for US prosecutors to trawl through old laws for no other reason than to get a "credit" on their performance review. If you give these same prosecutors a a powerful computer program to do the trawling the you will end up in Brazil, (the movie, not the country).
I don't know the US legal system that well but I do know a US is the world leader in locking people up, almost 7X the rate the China and/or the EU.
Open your ears mate, even in the city the birds are talking to each other all day long. It's how they stay together in a stable social group without being on top of each other. Their language may not be as flexible as human language but announcing or responding to a "name" is a basic need for all social animals. Still I find these studies interesting because of the evidence they present on different species of social animals. Also I had a retriever many moons ago that knew the difference between a "sing" command (howling) and a "speak" command (barking).
OO is also possible with C, but no compiler support whatsoever and that means most people cannot do it.
Indeed, every example in K&R was using sophisticated OO design principles well before the term was coined. My first experience with C++ was on a watcom C compiler in the early 90's, the C++ extensions such as inheritance, etc, were implemented as a set of C macros that you #included as a header file.
I have a CS degree and 20+yrs experience as a "developer", I'm currently working as the CVS gatekeeper for about 30 cross-platform projects employing ~25 developers spread unevenly across the planet. I tell people I'm a "programmer" because they understand the term, I've lost count of the languages I "know" a long time ago so I tell people (not HR people) that I know 2 languages really well, C/C++ and Python. Having said that I can teach myself a new language in a couple of days and virtually every senior developer/sysadmin I've ever met does the same thing on a regular basis.
BTW: Just because a language is interpreted does not mean it's not a "real" language, a string compare in python "tells the computer" what to do just as much as a string compare in C, the programmer should not care about interpreted/compiled once the initial choice of language has been made. The whole point of high level scripting languages is to simplify the task of "telling a computer what to do".
there was never enough data to confirm or deny the theory
I remember watching a documentary about about B&W striped wet suits where the guy got a whole lot of reef sharks into a feeding frenzy and then just jumped in with them, sure enough the sharks scattered out of sight. However they were common reef sharks that are pretty much harmless, I've yet to see it tested with great whites.
Of course, the environmental activists don't want you to know that.
So name one, point to an environmentalist that is claiming the phenomena is always a result of fracking.
As an environmentalist since the 70's I want people to know they are pumping an unknown substance into the ground because they claim it's more effective than using plain old water (ie: it's more profitable). I want people to know that the US congress refuses to force frackers to reveal the recipe for their fluid.
Also as a pragmatic environmentalist I can see that burning gas (or uranium) is a lesser evil than burning coal but it seems to me (in the US at least) that greed and the regulatory blindness it creates will destroy the overall social benefit from these natural resources, just as it has in Nigeria and dozens of other resource rich hell holes around the globe.
Disclaimer: As someone who has a BSc and a lifelong passion for science I'm well aware that dissolved methane in tap water is more often a natural phenomena than a man made one. I am not responsible for other people making outrageous claims under the banner of "environmentalism", nor will I defend them if the science does not stack up.
Coincidentally, there was a Brian Cox doco on last night that mentioned the world's smallest insect, a wasp that measures 0.4mm, my 54yo eyes couldn't detect them but he described them as "very fine specs of dust". So a rough estimate says a young pair of eyes could pick out a group of less than 500 individuals. According to the same doco, if you exclude viruses from the tree of life then there is roughly 22 orders of magnitude between the largest trees and the smallest microbes. Basically the megavirus and wasp's sizes are less than three orders of magnitude apart, which is quite incredible since I'm used to thinking of viruses as basically large molecules (IIRC the smallest known viruses are composed of a mere 10,000 atoms).
I was starting to think I was on the wrong website, I had to read down this far before someone finally understands the threat is more than a just a mess of power line knocked down in a storm. Sure humans were built to survive without electricity, but not in the vast numbers created by our invention of civilization. The numbers supported by a civilization are directly related to its technology level. Without electricity we will be metaphorically back in the 1920's with 7X the number of people on our little rock requiring food and shelter.
If the damage takes too long to fix civil war and mass migration is a likely outcome, which will be hard to believe for people who think that drought has nothing to do with the Syrian war.
Irrelevant, you have no idea what the GP's source tree and processes look like. Also you appear to be talking about delivering a build to the testers rather than the end customer. If not then how do you handle a change that you know will take at least a month to test after it is added to the build?
Best if those costs are shown up-front and in their face, rather than hidden at the expense of team morale and product quality.
This^ is the actual solution, it's called "managing up" in buzzword bingo but we all know it as "office politics". As a "boomer" with 20+yrs as a corporate data plumber, I'm still learning how to do it right.
This is what they have been interested in, the structure and financing of political groups (all of them not just the violent ones). Who talks to who, the chain of command, financial backers, internal factions, etc. Metadata maps an opponents organization and it's structural weaknesses in a way that simply reading emails cannot. Less powerful versions of these tools were very useful in the dismantling the IRA and have their roots in WW2 and people like Turing (who was himself brutally oppressed by modern standards).
Disclaimer: I fully realize they are tools of oppression but you can't just undiscovered logistics anymore than you can undiscover atomic theory.. The practical questions are: who is being oppressed, in what way are they being oppressed, and for what reason?
If your mom or wife is killed in a terrorist attack, you'd be screaming about how the government isn't doing enough to protect its citizens.
IIRC, more than a few of the relatives of 9/11 victims formed a group call "Not in our name" to protest against the war. Having said that, I think it's amazing how quickly the US forgot about Nixon's plumbers, government snooping on its people has been going on non-stop since Roman times.
Richard Linzen's "Iris" hypothesis has be weighed by Science and found wanting. Nothing in Science prevents scientists from researching the Iris idea further but the vast majority won't because they have already debunked it to their own satisfaction and found something more interesting.
In less kind words Linzen's book is like the popular "Chariots of gods" from the 70's in that it attempts to baffle lay-people with speculative bullshit that just "sounds right".
Slashdot Mirror
....And in an emergency you can wipe your arse with a newspaper, if you try that with an iPad you should ensure you have a plumber and shower on standby.
Old fart here - I reserve a copy of the paper when I get breakfast at the cafe near work (twice a week), I come back and read it during lunch then leave it on the free magazine rack for others. If I don't reserve a copy then they are usually sold out by lunchtime. Of course the web is a much deeper and broader source of news than a city newspaper, but the morning paper and a frothy coffee is still a better way to relax.
IIRC it was called a "partnership", IBM wanted a piece of the Microsoft's O/S pie, MS told them it was down a dark alley. I recall seeing an early version at a trade show running four video files simultaneously, which believe it or not was an impressive stunt for a desktop back then. From what I've heard OS2 was reincarnated for use in ATM networks.
If it were centrifugal force the universe would have have a center of mass around which it rotates, as far as anyone can tell, it doesn't. Merry-go-rounds are 4 dimensional objects, 3 of space and one of time. A singularity has only one spacial dimension, "distance" does not make sense in one dimension which means motion (eg: spinning) is impossible, since motion is impossible time cannot exist. Also your speculation seems to assume space has always existed and the lumpy bits of the universe expanded into it. Also if it was CF we would not see the even expansion we do, the rate of expansion would be biased wrt the center of gravity..
The most interesting idea I've heard for a while comes from Roger Penrose, who points out that the ultimate fate of the universe has many similarities with a singularity. The expansion rate means that eventually even the radiation left over from the heat death of the universe will be stretched flat, the universe becomes dimensionless, time and motion no longer make any sense.
Out of all the problems the world faces, drugs are the least important
Keep telling yourself that mate, don't look at actual figures that say an American is 7x as likely as a Chinese or a European to be locked up. And don't dig down to find that one reason for the appealing lead America has in incarceration rates is the war on drugs*. Ignore the fact that there is a heavily armed swat team knocking down your neighbor's door with a battering ram because someone smelt a wiff of the joint he was smoking. So yeah close your eyes and ears and everything will be just fine and dandy in the land of the free (from drugs) and for god sake don't investigate what happens to the children of the 500K pot smokers you have locked up. Don't inform yourself, just lock em all up and let god sort it out, eh?
Given that drug abuse is endemic amongst low-income minorities in America, I can't help but think that drug legalization is a covert form of racism
Now that's irony with a capital "I" - the American prohibition on dope was promoted by the government of the day as a way to get "lazy Mexicans" back to work.
Your hate for junkies and potheads is clearly and democratically expressed in those numbers, but the facts of life are such that prohibition has never worked and never will, all it does it create a huge black market and what that delivers to society is misery in the form of oppression (note the date on the bend), violence and corruption. Those who are still ignorant enough to support it are the moral criminals in the war on (some) drugs, the fact they are a "well meaning" democratic mob is of little comfort to the victims.
you should be ashamed of yourself
Why? I'm a proud grandfather of three, I'm a degree qualified professional and have not been out of work since 1981, I currently earn around twice the national average wage and live on the shores of port phillip bay. I've been a responsible pot smoker since 1977 but it's none of yours or the government's dammed business how or why I abuse my own lungs in my own home. And yes I'm sure my employer and the US government read my slashdot posts, thing is at 54 I'm too old to be ashamed of my behavior and will happily admit to, and defend, my pot smoking (although I don't normally tell people like you, for obvious reasons).
So next time you're at a work party sipping on your free grog, have a look around. One in five of those people will be a responsible pot smoker and according to you they should be locked up, their children made into wards of the state, and their family home/farm sold by the state as an illegally acquired asset (regardless of where the money actually came from or the fact that there was only a couple of plants in a well lit closet).
* - Not sure if the following stats are on that page, but here is your "non problem" in a nutshell..
-The 27 nations of the EU have a population of 500M and a total prison population of 600K.
-The US has population of 300M, a total prison population of over 2M of which 500K are locked up for victimless drug crimes.
English common law is a set of books written over a period of centuries that would take about 500 man years just to read, let alone debug. In the real world the law is not a set of commandments, it's a guide to what is and isn't acceptable behavior in the society to which it is applied. Old laws are rarely thrown out they just get ignored, however as a non-american it appears the me that it is common practice for US prosecutors to trawl through old laws for no other reason than to get a "credit" on their performance review. If you give these same prosecutors a a powerful computer program to do the trawling the you will end up in Brazil, (the movie, not the country).
I don't know the US legal system that well but I do know a US is the world leader in locking people up, almost 7X the rate the China and/or the EU.
I challenge you to ever look at a document with two spaces without cringing.
I had a look, I very much doubt that I would have noticed the double spacing if it hadn't been pointed out.
Assume that I'm deliberately misleading you.
Ok, that explains your outrage at double spacing.
War is the failure of politics not an extention of it.
Open your ears mate, even in the city the birds are talking to each other all day long. It's how they stay together in a stable social group without being on top of each other. Their language may not be as flexible as human language but announcing or responding to a "name" is a basic need for all social animals. Still I find these studies interesting because of the evidence they present on different species of social animals. Also I had a retriever many moons ago that knew the difference between a "sing" command (howling) and a "speak" command (barking).
OO is also possible with C, but no compiler support whatsoever and that means most people cannot do it. Indeed, every example in K&R was using sophisticated OO design principles well before the term was coined. My first experience with C++ was on a watcom C compiler in the early 90's, the C++ extensions such as inheritance, etc, were implemented as a set of C macros that you #included as a header file.
I have a CS degree and 20+yrs experience as a "developer", I'm currently working as the CVS gatekeeper for about 30 cross-platform projects employing ~25 developers spread unevenly across the planet. I tell people I'm a "programmer" because they understand the term, I've lost count of the languages I "know" a long time ago so I tell people (not HR people) that I know 2 languages really well, C/C++ and Python. Having said that I can teach myself a new language in a couple of days and virtually every senior developer/sysadmin I've ever met does the same thing on a regular basis.
BTW: Just because a language is interpreted does not mean it's not a "real" language, a string compare in python "tells the computer" what to do just as much as a string compare in C, the programmer should not care about interpreted/compiled once the initial choice of language has been made. The whole point of high level scripting languages is to simplify the task of "telling a computer what to do".
Congress ended the Vietnam war by defunding it, this is no different.
Sharks generally only bite and shake to rip meat from huge prey such as a whale carcass. A white pointer can literally swallow a man/seal whole.
I remember watching a documentary about about B&W striped wet suits where the guy got a whole lot of reef sharks into a feeding frenzy and then just jumped in with them, sure enough the sharks scattered out of sight. However they were common reef sharks that are pretty much harmless, I've yet to see it tested with great whites.
Of course, the environmental activists don't want you to know that.
So name one, point to an environmentalist that is claiming the phenomena is always a result of fracking.
As an environmentalist since the 70's I want people to know they are pumping an unknown substance into the ground because they claim it's more effective than using plain old water (ie: it's more profitable). I want people to know that the US congress refuses to force frackers to reveal the recipe for their fluid.
Also as a pragmatic environmentalist I can see that burning gas (or uranium) is a lesser evil than burning coal but it seems to me (in the US at least) that greed and the regulatory blindness it creates will destroy the overall social benefit from these natural resources, just as it has in Nigeria and dozens of other resource rich hell holes around the globe.
Disclaimer: As someone who has a BSc and a lifelong passion for science I'm well aware that dissolved methane in tap water is more often a natural phenomena than a man made one. I am not responsible for other people making outrageous claims under the banner of "environmentalism", nor will I defend them if the science does not stack up.
Coincidentally, there was a Brian Cox doco on last night that mentioned the world's smallest insect, a wasp that measures 0.4mm, my 54yo eyes couldn't detect them but he described them as "very fine specs of dust". So a rough estimate says a young pair of eyes could pick out a group of less than 500 individuals. According to the same doco, if you exclude viruses from the tree of life then there is roughly 22 orders of magnitude between the largest trees and the smallest microbes. Basically the megavirus and wasp's sizes are less than three orders of magnitude apart, which is quite incredible since I'm used to thinking of viruses as basically large molecules (IIRC the smallest known viruses are composed of a mere 10,000 atoms).
If MS's warehouses are already overflowing with them, then whoever built them has already made a fortune.
basically a global EMP
I was starting to think I was on the wrong website, I had to read down this far before someone finally understands the threat is more than a just a mess of power line knocked down in a storm. Sure humans were built to survive without electricity, but not in the vast numbers created by our invention of civilization. The numbers supported by a civilization are directly related to its technology level. Without electricity we will be metaphorically back in the 1920's with 7X the number of people on our little rock requiring food and shelter.
If the damage takes too long to fix civil war and mass migration is a likely outcome, which will be hard to believe for people who think that drought has nothing to do with the Syrian war.
most people appreciate honesty over disappointment
Only if you consistently deliver on your own promises.
I disagree.
Irrelevant, you have no idea what the GP's source tree and processes look like. Also you appear to be talking about delivering a build to the testers rather than the end customer. If not then how do you handle a change that you know will take at least a month to test after it is added to the build?
Best if those costs are shown up-front and in their face, rather than hidden at the expense of team morale and product quality.
This^ is the actual solution, it's called "managing up" in buzzword bingo but we all know it as "office politics". As a "boomer" with 20+yrs as a corporate data plumber, I'm still learning how to do it right.
It's also recursive.
in order to establish relationships
This is what they have been interested in, the structure and financing of political groups (all of them not just the violent ones). Who talks to who, the chain of command, financial backers, internal factions, etc. Metadata maps an opponents organization and it's structural weaknesses in a way that simply reading emails cannot. Less powerful versions of these tools were very useful in the dismantling the IRA and have their roots in WW2 and people like Turing (who was himself brutally oppressed by modern standards).
Disclaimer: I fully realize they are tools of oppression but you can't just undiscovered logistics anymore than you can undiscover atomic theory.. The practical questions are: who is being oppressed, in what way are they being oppressed, and for what reason?
Nitpick: Government workers are hired, politicians are elected.
If your mom or wife is killed in a terrorist attack, you'd be screaming about how the government isn't doing enough to protect its citizens.
IIRC, more than a few of the relatives of 9/11 victims formed a group call "Not in our name" to protest against the war. Having said that, I think it's amazing how quickly the US forgot about Nixon's plumbers, government snooping on its people has been going on non-stop since Roman times.
Richard Linzen's "Iris" hypothesis has be weighed by Science and found wanting. Nothing in Science prevents scientists from researching the Iris idea further but the vast majority won't because they have already debunked it to their own satisfaction and found something more interesting.
In less kind words Linzen's book is like the popular "Chariots of gods" from the 70's in that it attempts to baffle lay-people with speculative bullshit that just "sounds right".