I have been using visual studio professionally since version 1.5 on windows 3.1, ie: 20yrs. I do not write (serious).net programs and never have, VS is not the only IDE I am familiar with, but it is my favourite with "eclipse" a close second.
You sound like someone who tried it once, found it was different to the QT you love and gave up. If you want a job coding you would be wise to explore it a bit deeper than you have. Not suggesting you give up QT but in my (considerable) experience you often don't get a choice of IDE when you take up a programming job. For example: The large code base I currently manage and help maintain is cross-platform C/C++ which aside from running on win32/64 and windows itanium, is also expected to build and run on various flavours of linux, sun, hp, and aix. I'm not going to change all my build scripts just so the new guy can build a private development version with QT, nor will I pay for a commercial QT license when the department already has an MSDN subscription that comes with the defacto industry standard IDE for windows.
I don't use notepad to write code, however I do use it a lot for small jobs, reading a file, a quick eyeball for unix line endings, minor edits where I know what I'm going to change, and as a "notepad" to hold snippets of text while working on something. There's already a really good text editor in the VS IDE that understands different programming languages, why bother installing another stand alone text editor?
The factoid I remember (from I don't know where) is that 400x400 miles of "off the shelf photovoltaics" in the Arizona desert would provide enough electricity to cover the entire planet's current consumption (neglecting transmittion loss and other practicalities of having it all in one place).
Yes, as with the "tradgedy of the commons" the network is by it's very nature a shared resource which means everyone wants to use it but nobody wants to pay for it. In the early 90's, many western governments (eg: UK/AU) sold their public phone networks to private investors. Here in Oz that resulted in the two major telcos rolling out two fibre (pay TV) networks covering the profitable suburbs of the major cities and nowhere else.
I had both hooked up and several months of free pay TV since they were both running at a loss to attract customers with "free trials", I also tripled the money I paid for 1000 shares in the initial government prospectus. The major telco who inherited the copper from the government was forced to split the business into wholesale and retail companies. The retail end was supposed to compete on a level playing field with other retailers, ( which going by the plethora of independent ISP's we have today is one part of the sell off that seemed to work rather well). Now we have gone full circle and are building a single publically funded fibre network under the banner "NBN" which started off as "FTTP for everyone" but has now been trimmed to "FTTN for most". The NBN basically owns and maintains the network and will charge retailers a usage fee.
In other words, after a 20yr lead, private enterprise has failed to deliver the infrastructure that the government is now attempting to build. For now most people outside the middle class suburbs (or living in a flat/unit) are on DSL over the original (government built) copper network. My hope for the next 20yrs is that they can claw back that taxpayer investment from the private companies who will profit from the new "free market" that the infrastructure will provide.
Guess I made the mistake of saying something true:)
No, you made the mistake of thinking a doctor paid by the government is the same thing as a doctor employed by the government. Those of us who live in civilized societies know this to be false, under most (if not all) UHC schemes the government takes the role of medical insurer, not the role of care giver. The doctors and nurses are the same people under both regimes.
It's not about programming, it's about reading and understanding code. Also when coding you have presumably worked out what you want to do and are now in the process of translating that concept to code. TFA is not equating coding and natural language, they are merely pointing out the brain uses the same hardware to do both jobs. If you want your entire brain to light up then listening to music is the best brain exercise you can do.
JMP is a simple addition, ie: add a constant to the instruction pointer..
Variable assignment is basic algebra, X=3.
I/O, again basic algebra. O = fn(I)
Do I also need to explain that "all a computer does" is set a bunch of switches on or off?
Cuts both ways, I once worked with a guy who racked up $6k of international phone calls trying to get a job in the US. The thing that blew me away is he kept his existing job after he was caught.
Last week in Melbourne we had out of control bushfires and heatwaves, last night I put the heater on for a couple of hours to ward off a blast of cold Antarctic air. The west of the continent also received one of it's rare desert downpours last week, about 2-4 weeks from now there will be an opportunity to see the west in full bloom, the eggs of fish, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans that have lay dormant in the parched earth for years will explode into life and everything will be carpeted with wildflowers. Migratory birds have already abandoned the coastal wetlands around Perth and are swarming to the temporary inland lakes in their millions. How the birds know this natural feast is about to occur is still a mystery. It's an irregular natural spectacle, and in a couple of months it will all be gone.
Great idea for a movie, Jim Carey would be excellent in the lead role.
Seriously, I was born in 1959, in my lifetime blacks freed themselves from the company store and won the right to vote, women unchained themselves from the kitchen sink and took control of their reproduction, young men are no longer conscripted to kill other young men, homosexuals can hold hands in public without risking jail and/or chemical castration, teenage mothers are no longer forced to give up their children at birth, men and women can cohabitate without the approval of the local preacher.
Those are just a few of the ways individual freedom has increased in the last half century. We may have taken a small step backward with overzealous mass surveillance but it has done little to reverse the great strides forward that occurred in the 60's and 70's.
Iron powder alone will also explode given the right conditions, fuel/air explosions are quite a problem in both flour and steel mills. A pile of thermite powder will burn intensely but will not explode, in a pile of thermite the aluminium "steals" the oxygen from the iron oxide rather than the air. Thermite requires a high temperature ignition source such as a magnesium "fuse" or an oxy-torch to start the reaction, where as iron or flour mixed with air just needs an ordinary match.
I once had a litter of pups running around my back yard. Getting out of the back door was difficult because they would all rush inside when I opened it. One day I opened the door to go outside and sure enough a small herd of 6wk old pups came running up the stairs yapping excitedly. However on this occasion they stopped half way up the stairs and ran back down and around the side of the house. They went back and forth from me to the side of the house several times making a real racket and tripping over each other. When I finally put my head around the corner I found a pup with its head stuck in a plastic watering can. It was abundantly clear to me that the pups knew their sibling was in trouble, knew I could help, and knew how to communicate this to me.
Precisely, cats were not so much "domesticated" as attracted to rodents that were attracted to human garbage. Dogs and humans often make inter-species "friendships" for mutual benefit, the Coyote and the Badger is just one such example. It's more a less a given that highly intelligent pack hunters such as humans and dogs would combine their natural hunting skills.
Depends on what you mean by "big deal", such rapid changes in temperature are very rare in Earth's history, normally occurring as a result of a giant space rock hitting Earth, even the massive volcanism of the Siberian traps did not change things this rapidly.
So Albert was wrong more than once, who knew? The problem with that quote is that outside of axiomatic systems such as maths, there are no "facts", only observations. Karl Popper is widely credited with the modern philosophy of science, he used the phrase "Republic of Science" to describe what we are calling "consensus". Consensus is not the same as democracy, but it is very much a part of modern Science, it's the difference between "a scientist says" and "scientists say", the later of which is sometimes referred to as a "scientific fact" or a "well established theory".
Aside from that modern science says that you can never prove a theory beyond doubt, you can only disprove it. ie: Science cannot tell you if your theory is correct it can only tell you that it is incorrect. This modern view of science has been around for over a century now, it's sometimes called "model dependent reality", meaning that the model predicts the behaviour of nature but does not describe nature itself.
Very informative, I would also like to point out that Oreskes is a Science Historian not a climate scientist, she is a frequent target of deniers mainly because of her book "Merchants of Doubt", which details the history and operations of the anti-science propaganda networks.
If consensus were a scientifically valid measure of anything, we'd still be in the stone ages.
Perhaps that's why you have so much trouble comprehending this issue, go and read about Karl Popper's "republic of science" and tell us all how that is different from "consensus". At the end of the day Science is a philosophy, your own track record of posts on AGW indicate you are unable to apply that philosophy to real world questions. You clearly judge your sources not by their content but by their political colour, which is why you link to Anthony Watts and avoid the internationally recognised leaders in the field such as Mann or Hansen.
This post is no different, first you say a valid survey means nothing, then you say it's wrong, then you say another survey, the Petition Project, proves the opposite. Think about it like Karl Popper would, why do accept the politically inspired survey at face value but reject several other much more rigorous surveys that clearly show the opposite conclusion. If that's not enough to convince you that you are being used as a useful idiot then just look at the tortured logic of your post, all to try and prove black really is white.
The IPCC's attribution graph shows the various natural and man made radiative forcing's. Without mankind's influence, most climate models predict a very slight cooling for the 20th century. Feedbacks are far more difficult to quantify however using archaeological evidence their magnitude can be inferred. Climatologists use this information to calculate a metric called climate sensitivity, this number has hardly changed since it was first derived in the 1970's. A lot of people think the IPCC is exaggerating, observation has shown that their predictions are on the conservative side (in particular the rate of melt at the north pole), cautious conservatism is what one would expect when a couple of thousand experts agree with each other.
It's neither of those things. The fertile crescent and parts of N Africa suffered a sever drought which coincided with the GFC. 10% of Syria's population was internally displaced between 2007-2011, forced off their farm and into the cities. The cables leaked by Snowden included a (correct) prediction of civil war in Syria due to the internal displacement, the diplomat even correctly predicted the city where it started.
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I have been using visual studio professionally since version 1.5 on windows 3.1, ie: 20yrs. I do not write (serious) .net programs and never have, VS is not the only IDE I am familiar with, but it is my favourite with "eclipse" a close second.
You sound like someone who tried it once, found it was different to the QT you love and gave up. If you want a job coding you would be wise to explore it a bit deeper than you have. Not suggesting you give up QT but in my (considerable) experience you often don't get a choice of IDE when you take up a programming job. For example: The large code base I currently manage and help maintain is cross-platform C/C++ which aside from running on win32/64 and windows itanium, is also expected to build and run on various flavours of linux, sun, hp, and aix. I'm not going to change all my build scripts just so the new guy can build a private development version with QT, nor will I pay for a commercial QT license when the department already has an MSDN subscription that comes with the defacto industry standard IDE for windows.
I don't use notepad to write code, however I do use it a lot for small jobs, reading a file, a quick eyeball for unix line endings, minor edits where I know what I'm going to change, and as a "notepad" to hold snippets of text while working on something. There's already a really good text editor in the VS IDE that understands different programming languages, why bother installing another stand alone text editor?
It's a shinny rock! We dug it up! - Surprised Tony isn't trying to sell it to someone.
The factoid I remember (from I don't know where) is that 400x400 miles of "off the shelf photovoltaics" in the Arizona desert would provide enough electricity to cover the entire planet's current consumption (neglecting transmittion loss and other practicalities of having it all in one place).
Yes, as with the "tradgedy of the commons" the network is by it's very nature a shared resource which means everyone wants to use it but nobody wants to pay for it. In the early 90's, many western governments (eg: UK/AU) sold their public phone networks to private investors. Here in Oz that resulted in the two major telcos rolling out two fibre (pay TV) networks covering the profitable suburbs of the major cities and nowhere else.
I had both hooked up and several months of free pay TV since they were both running at a loss to attract customers with "free trials", I also tripled the money I paid for 1000 shares in the initial government prospectus. The major telco who inherited the copper from the government was forced to split the business into wholesale and retail companies. The retail end was supposed to compete on a level playing field with other retailers, ( which going by the plethora of independent ISP's we have today is one part of the sell off that seemed to work rather well). Now we have gone full circle and are building a single publically funded fibre network under the banner "NBN" which started off as "FTTP for everyone" but has now been trimmed to "FTTN for most". The NBN basically owns and maintains the network and will charge retailers a usage fee.
In other words, after a 20yr lead, private enterprise has failed to deliver the infrastructure that the government is now attempting to build. For now most people outside the middle class suburbs (or living in a flat/unit) are on DSL over the original (government built) copper network. My hope for the next 20yrs is that they can claw back that taxpayer investment from the private companies who will profit from the new "free market" that the infrastructure will provide.
Guess I made the mistake of saying something true :)
No, you made the mistake of thinking a doctor paid by the government is the same thing as a doctor employed by the government. Those of us who live in civilized societies know this to be false, under most (if not all) UHC schemes the government takes the role of medical insurer, not the role of care giver. The doctors and nurses are the same people under both regimes.
It's not about programming, it's about reading and understanding code. Also when coding you have presumably worked out what you want to do and are now in the process of translating that concept to code. TFA is not equating coding and natural language, they are merely pointing out the brain uses the same hardware to do both jobs. If you want your entire brain to light up then listening to music is the best brain exercise you can do.
JMP is a simple addition, ie: add a constant to the instruction pointer..
Variable assignment is basic algebra, X=3.
I/O, again basic algebra. O = fn(I)
Do I also need to explain that "all a computer does" is set a bunch of switches on or off?
Cuts both ways, I once worked with a guy who racked up $6k of international phone calls trying to get a job in the US. The thing that blew me away is he kept his existing job after he was caught.
Last week in Melbourne we had out of control bushfires and heatwaves, last night I put the heater on for a couple of hours to ward off a blast of cold Antarctic air. The west of the continent also received one of it's rare desert downpours last week, about 2-4 weeks from now there will be an opportunity to see the west in full bloom, the eggs of fish, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans that have lay dormant in the parched earth for years will explode into life and everything will be carpeted with wildflowers. Migratory birds have already abandoned the coastal wetlands around Perth and are swarming to the temporary inland lakes in their millions. How the birds know this natural feast is about to occur is still a mystery. It's an irregular natural spectacle, and in a couple of months it will all be gone.
Could be because a hard winter also kills off vulnerable humans.
Thing is your gut has its own nervous system, the connections to the brain can be cut and the gut will still function normally.
Until someone actually reproduces the bug I'd say the loose floor mat explanation is just as credible.
Great idea for a movie, Jim Carey would be excellent in the lead role.
Seriously, I was born in 1959, in my lifetime blacks freed themselves from the company store and won the right to vote, women unchained themselves from the kitchen sink and took control of their reproduction, young men are no longer conscripted to kill other young men, homosexuals can hold hands in public without risking jail and/or chemical castration, teenage mothers are no longer forced to give up their children at birth, men and women can cohabitate without the approval of the local preacher.
Those are just a few of the ways individual freedom has increased in the last half century. We may have taken a small step backward with overzealous mass surveillance but it has done little to reverse the great strides forward that occurred in the 60's and 70's.
Since 9/11 the fear is less about what terrorist will do to the plane and more about what they will do with the plane.
Iron powder alone will also explode given the right conditions, fuel/air explosions are quite a problem in both flour and steel mills. A pile of thermite powder will burn intensely but will not explode, in a pile of thermite the aluminium "steals" the oxygen from the iron oxide rather than the air. Thermite requires a high temperature ignition source such as a magnesium "fuse" or an oxy-torch to start the reaction, where as iron or flour mixed with air just needs an ordinary match.
I once had a litter of pups running around my back yard. Getting out of the back door was difficult because they would all rush inside when I opened it. One day I opened the door to go outside and sure enough a small herd of 6wk old pups came running up the stairs yapping excitedly. However on this occasion they stopped half way up the stairs and ran back down and around the side of the house. They went back and forth from me to the side of the house several times making a real racket and tripping over each other. When I finally put my head around the corner I found a pup with its head stuck in a plastic watering can. It was abundantly clear to me that the pups knew their sibling was in trouble, knew I could help, and knew how to communicate this to me.
Precisely, cats were not so much "domesticated" as attracted to rodents that were attracted to human garbage. Dogs and humans often make inter-species "friendships" for mutual benefit, the Coyote and the Badger is just one such example. It's more a less a given that highly intelligent pack hunters such as humans and dogs would combine their natural hunting skills.
Depends on what you mean by "big deal", such rapid changes in temperature are very rare in Earth's history, normally occurring as a result of a giant space rock hitting Earth, even the massive volcanism of the Siberian traps did not change things this rapidly.
all it needed was one fact
So Albert was wrong more than once, who knew? The problem with that quote is that outside of axiomatic systems such as maths, there are no "facts", only observations. Karl Popper is widely credited with the modern philosophy of science, he used the phrase "Republic of Science" to describe what we are calling "consensus". Consensus is not the same as democracy, but it is very much a part of modern Science, it's the difference between "a scientist says" and "scientists say", the later of which is sometimes referred to as a "scientific fact" or a "well established theory".
Aside from that modern science says that you can never prove a theory beyond doubt, you can only disprove it. ie: Science cannot tell you if your theory is correct it can only tell you that it is incorrect. This modern view of science has been around for over a century now, it's sometimes called "model dependent reality", meaning that the model predicts the behaviour of nature but does not describe nature itself.
Very informative, I would also like to point out that Oreskes is a Science Historian not a climate scientist, she is a frequent target of deniers mainly because of her book "Merchants of Doubt", which details the history and operations of the anti-science propaganda networks.
If consensus were a scientifically valid measure of anything, we'd still be in the stone ages.
Perhaps that's why you have so much trouble comprehending this issue, go and read about Karl Popper's "republic of science" and tell us all how that is different from "consensus". At the end of the day Science is a philosophy, your own track record of posts on AGW indicate you are unable to apply that philosophy to real world questions. You clearly judge your sources not by their content but by their political colour, which is why you link to Anthony Watts and avoid the internationally recognised leaders in the field such as Mann or Hansen.
This post is no different, first you say a valid survey means nothing, then you say it's wrong, then you say another survey, the Petition Project, proves the opposite. Think about it like Karl Popper would, why do accept the politically inspired survey at face value but reject several other much more rigorous surveys that clearly show the opposite conclusion. If that's not enough to convince you that you are being used as a useful idiot then just look at the tortured logic of your post, all to try and prove black really is white.
The IPCC's attribution graph shows the various natural and man made radiative forcing's. Without mankind's influence, most climate models predict a very slight cooling for the 20th century. Feedbacks are far more difficult to quantify however using archaeological evidence their magnitude can be inferred. Climatologists use this information to calculate a metric called climate sensitivity, this number has hardly changed since it was first derived in the 1970's. A lot of people think the IPCC is exaggerating, observation has shown that their predictions are on the conservative side (in particular the rate of melt at the north pole), cautious conservatism is what one would expect when a couple of thousand experts agree with each other.
It's said that there are "three dinners between civilization and anarchy".
It's neither of those things. The fertile crescent and parts of N Africa suffered a sever drought which coincided with the GFC. 10% of Syria's population was internally displaced between 2007-2011, forced off their farm and into the cities. The cables leaked by Snowden included a (correct) prediction of civil war in Syria due to the internal displacement, the diplomat even correctly predicted the city where it started.