"...often I see someone post about a "problem" that reading the man pages..."
The behaviour you describe was also a problem for cro-magnon cave painters. Faint markings near the entance of these caves are said to be an example of the first primative attempts to create the acronym: RTFM. Since those early days humanity has attempted to standardised on TLA's and no longer has manually spray the "ink" with their mouths.
As the GP pointed out, unit testing has nothing to do with language, it is taught in software engineering. All language classes that I have attended (and taught) focus on the language itself. Teaching a programming language is similar to teaching algebra. It is not the correctness of the numerical answer that matters, it is how the student "worked out" the answer.
I have also worked as a developer and system tester for over 15 years, primarily in C/C++, every single employer has demanded documented unit tests.
It's the latest psuedo-science message, this one says "don't worry because even if the greenies are right only 2% of the warming is due to humans". As usual it is based on a half-truth. Without water vapour the temprature on earth would plummet by about 33degC. The thing with water however is that it is pretty much self regulating and only lasts about 10 days in the atmosphere. I read a good article on the topic over at realclimate.org...somehere?
Ummm, most corporate desktop SOE's are Windows boxes, the users do not have admin rights or passwords. I am not saying account management on Windows is either good or bad, easy or hard, secure or leaky, but it certainly exists in large scale corporate networks.
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I agree with all of what you say, I was responding to the GP's assertion that it was the Italian's own fault for "speeding", the conspiracy thing was sarcasam disguised as a conter-example.
In Australia MS owns a registered trademark on the word "Windows", in the US they own the trademark "Microsoft Windows". ie: In this particular case Aussie law was on Microsoft's side.
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"As certain italian secret agents have discovered...reckless friendlies with no better escape plan..."
I see the point of the post and it is a god one but we will never know what happened until it no longer matters (30-50yrs). A complete fuck-up on both sides is no story, so like you, I have my own favorite theory. It links the headlines "Italy forged oil-for-food documents" to "Italy's top spook killed by friendly fire". Who needs fiction when you have the six-o-clock news.
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It it just me or does it seem like Iraq and Palestine territories are a testing ground for riot control and city "cleansing"?
Personaly I would like to see all violence removed from politics including the death penalty, ie: "the hippie dream", unfortunately violence is just part of our nature (ref: Clockwork Orange).
A good example of the need to quell civil unrest is the current rioting in France. OTOH: A good reason to limit the power to quell civil unrest is given by the French revolution. I can't see everyone simply accepting a non-violent talk fest anytime soon. What I can see, is that it makes little difference to people on the ground as to who's bomb it was that turned thier family into mincemeat.
Going back to France, the goverment needs to do two things. Assert authority, address the grievances. If it does the first and fails to do the second the whole thing will blow up in a more severe and organised manner at a later date.
I read "The Emperor's New Mind", what he is basically saying is that the "magical" quality of the human mind is burried somewhere in quantum physics, he doesn't point out where. The book asks alot of questions but doesn't really answer anything. For an understanding of why the human mind will never understand itself I point you to Godel.
"maybe wrong chemistry, but complex enough and true on some levels so it's a lot harder to realize it is just a recipe for snake oil"
Half truth and compexity is the hallmark of a snake oil salesman. To reduce the "obit" in CQM would mean a quantum jump to a lower energy state. It is already naturally at it's minimum state so how can you reduce the orbit by "a little bit"? There is nothing "in between" the energy states, that is why they use the word "quantum". Iff he demonstated that he was able to do this, it would obviously leave scientists scratching their head at something spectacular, but so far it's just sci-fi dibble to raise money.
Pity because the Australian is also one of the most respected papers in this country. Cahill is a known whacko, toward the end of the article they have recruited Paul Davies to say so in a polite way. Davies is well known down under as a Physicist/Philosopher (I have two of his books sitting in my bookcase).
I have no idea why they ran the story on Cahill since many people have already heard his "Einstien was wrong" mantra. Dumping Cahill and printing some ruminations from Davies would have made a much more interesting article.
...and yes the amount of psudeo-science on the front page is bad enough, the glowing summaries are a total embarrasment. I have no objection to pulling these scams apart through skeptical analysis (or slashdot mob rule), that is a good service to people who simply just don't know. However, classifying every snake-oil article as "science" puts slashdot in the same padded room as the sticker wielding creationists.
Yes it was a no brainer for China but not so easy for EU countries such as Britain. For the US it is politically impossible for Bush to warm to the Kyoto deal now that he has heaped such scorn on it. However that does not mean the US should give up on the idea of a treaty. The reluctance of the US to place any limits on CO2 emmisions has more to do with Bush's "base" than with the economy or exemptions granted to other nations (ditto for Australia).
The "market" can not sort out pollution problems unless there is a measurable cost associated with polluting that accountants can write down as a dollar figure.
"Ever stop to wonder for a second how our world might change if EVERYBODY was required to have their own landfill in their own backyard?"
I agree with what you say about "out of sight - out of mind", the same can be said of prostitution, drugs, starving people, the Bush administration and many other things that, in general, we want to pretend don't exist.
I can't agree with burrying ones own trash, as an old fart I can remeber communities where it was normal to burry your own trash. It was not a huge problem because there were few people in a large area. If you extrapolate that into an urban environment the whole thing ends up looking like the bottom of a highly toxic chicken coup. If you don't know what I mean, take a trip to a third world slum.
Growing up in the outer suburbs we used to be able to put out as many bins as we liked and the garbo would simply empty them once a week, nobody cared what was in the bins, if it was too big for the bin just dump it on the floor and it would be gone. The biggest problem was animals spilling your bin. Nowadays the council gives each house two regulation sized "wheelie bins", a small one for garbage and a large one for recycling. I am allowed to hire one extra bin but it is not cheap so few people take the option. Addmitedly the council has a "hard rubbish" day every 3 months for things that wont fit in the bin but they won't touch things like tyres, car batteries, liquids (paint,oil,etc), old bbq cylinders, the list is quite extensive. I have to go to the trouble of taking these items to a disposal point or paying someone to do it for me. Once at the disposal point I usually must pay someone ($AU25 to have the tyre disposed off but they gave me $5 for the car battery).
The point is that garbage collection combined with strict anti-litter laws can be used to, control the overall total tonage of household rubbish, dipose of it properly, make people aware of their trash problem by hitting them in the wallet. If your concil is focusing on the costs rather than the sustainability of your rubbish disposal service then hire somebody else for the job.
Roughly 1/3 of the CO2 that is emmited is eventually dissolved in the ocean and as you say this makes the ocean slightly more acidic. However he Woods Hole institute seems to think that is a problem.
"People drink frothy carbonated water all the time and they don't drop dead."
How long would a fish survive swimming in red wine, coca-cola, coffee, tea, or any other palatable beverage? Just because people drink it does not mean it is harmless to the ocean.
No, I didn't read TFA, the aurthor is obviously unaware that an increasingly acidic ocean is a less than desirable outcome.
The correct mod for the parent post is "interesting", whoever modded it "insightfull" needs to be slapped in the head with a dead fish.
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"...often I see someone post about a "problem" that reading the man pages..."
The behaviour you describe was also a problem for cro-magnon cave painters. Faint markings near the entance of these caves are said to be an example of the first primative attempts to create the acronym: RTFM. Since those early days humanity has attempted to standardised on TLA's and no longer has manually spray the "ink" with their mouths.
English: The "other" code.
As the GP pointed out, unit testing has nothing to do with language, it is taught in software engineering. All language classes that I have attended (and taught) focus on the language itself. Teaching a programming language is similar to teaching algebra. It is not the correctness of the numerical answer that matters, it is how the student "worked out" the answer.
I have also worked as a developer and system tester for over 15 years, primarily in C/C++, every single employer has demanded documented unit tests.
It's the latest psuedo-science message, this one says "don't worry because even if the greenies are right only 2% of the warming is due to humans". As usual it is based on a half-truth. Without water vapour the temprature on earth would plummet by about 33degC. The thing with water however is that it is pretty much self regulating and only lasts about 10 days in the atmosphere. I read a good article on the topic over at realclimate.org...somehere?
Ummm, most corporate desktop SOE's are Windows boxes, the users do not have admin rights or passwords. I am not saying account management on Windows is either good or bad, easy or hard, secure or leaky, but it certainly exists in large scale corporate networks.
I agree with all of what you say, I was responding to the GP's assertion that it was the Italian's own fault for "speeding", the conspiracy thing was sarcasam disguised as a conter-example.
"Those options have the major advantage of wasting considerably less taxpayers' money when their ungrateful recipients choose to burn them down."
"Let them eat cake" did not work the last time the French rulers tried it.
In Australia MS owns a registered trademark on the word "Windows", in the US they own the trademark "Microsoft Windows". ie: In this particular case Aussie law was on Microsoft's side.
"As certain italian secret agents have discovered...reckless friendlies with no better escape plan..."
I see the point of the post and it is a god one but we will never know what happened until it no longer matters (30-50yrs). A complete fuck-up on both sides is no story, so like you, I have my own favorite theory. It links the headlines "Italy forged oil-for-food documents" to "Italy's top spook killed by friendly fire". Who needs fiction when you have the six-o-clock news.
It it just me or does it seem like Iraq and Palestine territories are a testing ground for riot control and city "cleansing"?
Personaly I would like to see all violence removed from politics including the death penalty, ie: "the hippie dream", unfortunately violence is just part of our nature (ref: Clockwork Orange).
A good example of the need to quell civil unrest is the current rioting in France. OTOH: A good reason to limit the power to quell civil unrest is given by the French revolution. I can't see everyone simply accepting a non-violent talk fest anytime soon. What I can see, is that it makes little difference to people on the ground as to who's bomb it was that turned thier family into mincemeat.
Going back to France, the goverment needs to do two things. Assert authority, address the grievances. If it does the first and fails to do the second the whole thing will blow up in a more severe and organised manner at a later date.
I read "The Emperor's New Mind", what he is basically saying is that the "magical" quality of the human mind is burried somewhere in quantum physics, he doesn't point out where. The book asks alot of questions but doesn't really answer anything. For an understanding of why the human mind will never understand itself I point you to Godel.
"maybe wrong chemistry, but complex enough and true on some levels so it's a lot harder to realize it is just a recipe for snake oil"
Half truth and compexity is the hallmark of a snake oil salesman. To reduce the "obit" in CQM would mean a quantum jump to a lower energy state. It is already naturally at it's minimum state so how can you reduce the orbit by "a little bit"? There is nothing "in between" the energy states, that is why they use the word "quantum". Iff he demonstated that he was able to do this, it would obviously leave scientists scratching their head at something spectacular, but so far it's just sci-fi dibble to raise money.
The real question is why do YOU want to put words in peoples mouths?
Pity because the Australian is also one of the most respected papers in this country. Cahill is a known whacko, toward the end of the article they have recruited Paul Davies to say so in a polite way. Davies is well known down under as a Physicist/Philosopher (I have two of his books sitting in my bookcase).
...and yes the amount of psudeo-science on the front page is bad enough, the glowing summaries are a total embarrasment. I have no objection to pulling these scams apart through skeptical analysis (or slashdot mob rule), that is a good service to people who simply just don't know. However, classifying every snake-oil article as "science" puts slashdot in the same padded room as the sticker wielding creationists.
I have no idea why they ran the story on Cahill since many people have already heard his "Einstien was wrong" mantra. Dumping Cahill and printing some ruminations from Davies would have made a much more interesting article.
4. Microsoft works.
You insensitive clod!
"Theories are just that: theories"
Snake oil is not a theory, it's a marketing device.
I will take your word about TFA but I can't find the insult you are talking about.
"All of you damned hippies are going to kill us with your half-baked solutions to an insignificant, and largely exaggerated, problem"
Actually we would prefer to beat you to death, use the compost on our hemp plants and smoke your ass in a communal bong.
Yes it was a no brainer for China but not so easy for EU countries such as Britain. For the US it is politically impossible for Bush to warm to the Kyoto deal now that he has heaped such scorn on it. However that does not mean the US should give up on the idea of a treaty. The reluctance of the US to place any limits on CO2 emmisions has more to do with Bush's "base" than with the economy or exemptions granted to other nations (ditto for Australia).
The "market" can not sort out pollution problems unless there is a measurable cost associated with polluting that accountants can write down as a dollar figure.
"Ever stop to wonder for a second how our world might change if EVERYBODY was required to have their own landfill in their own backyard?"
I agree with what you say about "out of sight - out of mind", the same can be said of prostitution, drugs, starving people, the Bush administration and many other things that, in general, we want to pretend don't exist.
I can't agree with burrying ones own trash, as an old fart I can remeber communities where it was normal to burry your own trash. It was not a huge problem because there were few people in a large area. If you extrapolate that into an urban environment the whole thing ends up looking like the bottom of a highly toxic chicken coup. If you don't know what I mean, take a trip to a third world slum.
Growing up in the outer suburbs we used to be able to put out as many bins as we liked and the garbo would simply empty them once a week, nobody cared what was in the bins, if it was too big for the bin just dump it on the floor and it would be gone. The biggest problem was animals spilling your bin. Nowadays the council gives each house two regulation sized "wheelie bins", a small one for garbage and a large one for recycling. I am allowed to hire one extra bin but it is not cheap so few people take the option. Addmitedly the council has a "hard rubbish" day every 3 months for things that wont fit in the bin but they won't touch things like tyres, car batteries, liquids (paint,oil,etc), old bbq cylinders, the list is quite extensive. I have to go to the trouble of taking these items to a disposal point or paying someone to do it for me. Once at the disposal point I usually must pay someone ($AU25 to have the tyre disposed off but they gave me $5 for the car battery).
The point is that garbage collection combined with strict anti-litter laws can be used to, control the overall total tonage of household rubbish, dipose of it properly, make people aware of their trash problem by hitting them in the wallet. If your concil is focusing on the costs rather than the sustainability of your rubbish disposal service then hire somebody else for the job.
"However the Woods Hole institute seems to think that is a problem."
There was supposed to be a link to the press realese from Woods Hole describing a paper they published in Nature.
"It's slightly acidic if anything."
Roughly 1/3 of the CO2 that is emmited is eventually dissolved in the ocean and as you say this makes the ocean slightly more acidic. However he Woods Hole institute seems to think that is a problem.
"People drink frothy carbonated water all the time and they don't drop dead."
How long would a fish survive swimming in red wine, coca-cola, coffee, tea, or any other palatable beverage? Just because people drink it does not mean it is harmless to the ocean.
No, I didn't read TFA, the aurthor is obviously unaware that an increasingly acidic ocean is a less than desirable outcome.
The correct mod for the parent post is "interesting", whoever modded it "insightfull" needs to be slapped in the head with a dead fish.
Yes, you will never see a magician invited to a magical demo.
Did you know you can get RSI from typing drivel.