For a country with the the best health care in the world you really have quite pathetic outcomes for the most part. I go to whichever doctor I want - I don't have to worry about which doctor my insurance company wants me to go to, or what tests they'll cover, or what my deductible is. Waiting lists are based on need, not on wealth. If it's a true emergency I can be in surgery as quickly here as in any US hospital - with the comfort that nothing is going to be messed up between the hospital and my insurance company. The US government is already spending more tax dollars per capita on health care than any other country in the world - and then you pay for insurance on top of that - all because of the mess of bureaucracy and litigation that is your wonderful system.
That way, the worst that could happen is it trashes your home dir.
Barring, of course, escalation of privilege vulnerabilities, or easier - just hanging around and running a user-land spam relay - how often do you check what's running?
No, no.. you don't remove the word "freedom", you just slowly redefine it, so that being free means getting to vote for your government (provided it's for one of two identical parties), being able to say what you want (just so long as you don't say anyone that might offend any race, gender, sexual orientation, or disparage the troops), being able to go wherever you want (provided you carry enough documentation for the government to track your every move), being able to work where you want (so long as its for one of a decreasing number of giant corporate conglomerations)... That's REAL freedom!
Yeah, I never wash my hands after spilling bleach on them.. It's germ free, and just a quick wipe with a paper towel and it's not visible anymore. Off to lunch I go...
I'm pretty sure that all those 144,000 processors in the "cat brain" are not hooked up for SMP - it'd be pretty much ridiculous to handle. Not even AMD Opterons are SMP. SMP is just one of many ways to hook up more than one processor to RAM.
Which is why, in a non-GC language, you would never allocate a temporary like that on the heap. It's MUCH faster and safer just to allocate it on the stack, and let stack cleanup handle calling the destructor and freeing the memory.
, this will (eventually) destroy the universe (where Foo and Baz are some classes):
return Foo(somearg).bar(someotherarg);
In C++, you've just allocated a temporary Foo on the stack, called bar(someotherarg) on it, and returned that return value. As long as you returned by value and not reference, nothing bad is going to happen. When the function returns, a copy of result is made on the stack of the calling function, and the temporary Foo is cleaned up just fine (only, unlike the GC language, it's destructor is called upon leaving the function - meaning that if Foo holds onto some resource like a lock or DB connection, you aren't going to leak it like the GC version would, since you forgot to create it in a using{} block)
I'm not saying that religion is any less absurd - believing in any given religion is really just filling in the same emotional drives that make us think that justice means anything.
So yes we can "find meaning in life" by aiming for goals or trying to fulfill some religion or trying to do something great, but so what?
It seems to be working, Italy has an annual murder rate of 1.05 per 100,000 people. The US, with it's much longer sentences and the death penalty still used on occasion is up at 5.8 per 100,000.
Correlation != causation, blah blah blah, but liberal western Europe has consistently low crime rates. Of course, if you look at the list, the real correlation behind crime is poverty. Western Europe, the various Oil rich nations and other countries with strong welfare system have lower crime. The countries where government support for the poor is slim to non-existent, or those where the government is essentially non-existent have high crime rates.
I think the GP's point is that without some sort of external "meaning", who the hell cares if we all kill each other off, or go completely extinct for that matter. Suffering is just a chemical process - yes we've evolved reactions in the form of empathy and desire for "justice", but what is justice other than trying to re-balance a perceived order in what it really just a temporary bubble of low-entropy. If you believe in a god, then you have some sort of reason why life is something to value - Jesus, Allah, or the FSM said so. Otherwise you're just relying on emotions that evolved to keep life alive, and falling into circular reasoning.
crime was predestined, this subsequent capture was predestined, the judge was predestined to set that particular sentence too, and everything about the whole world is basically pointless.
There's plenty of theists out there who are apparently willing to believe this. They would probably disagree on the pointless bit (but only to insist that it's not up to us to try and figure out the point of everything), but otherwise you've essentially just described Calvinism. The debate between free will and predestination has gone on for a very long time, in both secular and religious circles, but I agree with your solution - just assume free will exists - if it doesn't, then there's nothing you could have done about how things turn out (including whether or not to believe in free will).
except that that resume looks like crap. He spends all this time worrying about serifs and ligatures, when as a whole it's nearly illegible. It's all crowded into the page in what seems to the eye like one big chunk of prose. It hurts my eyes just trying to read the text. There are places for bullets - and lists of things is a good place for them. A separating space or line here or there isn't going to kill anyone. Also, it's not a sin to use two pages so that you don't have to pack everything in.
It's OK, the summary is only anthropomorphizing Nature, which doesn't mind being anthropomorphized at all. It's mass-imparting, universe-annulling particles that Nature abhors. Unless of course Nature IS a Higgs boson, in which case we should be very worried about living in a self-loathing, suicidal universe that is only kept intact by the fact that if it didn't stay intact, we wouldn't be here to notice.
Well, this being a research project / proof of concept type of thing, it's probably going to be bought up by a larger company (Microsoft, Google, Adobe) and made into a more useful bit of software. The actual output of this app is irrelevant - even if they composite the images into a flat image, at some point in time they've isolated the components and getting those components into different layers of some other image format is really a trivial extension. The important parts are really pulling useful images off the internet, and pulling together the important parts of those images.
Where I live winter heating costs significantly exceed summer cooling costs,
This is a point that gets ignored in a lot of environmental recommendations. Where I live, we have about 10 days a year where we need air conditioning, and even then it's a luxury, not a necessity. But we have 6-8 months of heating our houses. My annual air conditioning cost is around $50 of renewable hydroelectricity. My annual heating costs approach $1500 of non-renewable natural gas. Obviously, my best point of attack for optimization is the work on keeping the house warm. That means I have a steep roof to shed snow, and the darkest shingles I could find.
No more than you could sue for being forced to buy a specific edition of a textbook, or being forced to pay for lab supplies. No one said school is cheap - and given that you can buy an OEM copy of Vista for $100, being forced to buy Windows is hardly that bad. You could maybe complain about an OSX requirement, since that would require buying a whole computer to go with it. But realistically, any school that requires you to use a specific program has student computer labs available with that required software. I know several people who finished off an entire CS degree without even owning their own computer. (I kind of questioned why they would want to do such a thing, but that's not my business.)
10 years on Earth, where we have loads of moisture to eat away at packaging and great conditions for growing bacteria - if you keep it outside on mars in a frozen, sterile environment, it'd likely be safe to eat for 100 years. It may not taste so great by then, but it should last - that is until our bacteria adapt to the cold...
That makes way more sense - thanks. We haven't switch to digital here so it wasn't even something that crossed my mind. The leap to wifi routers was extreme I grant you, but it was the only thing I could come up with.
Given that he/she mentioned not having entered a TV aisle since before digital switches (I'm assuming he's talking about wi-fi routers, not this kind of switch) came along, I doubt he's seen an LCD screen.
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For a country with the the best health care in the world you really have quite pathetic outcomes for the most part. I go to whichever doctor I want - I don't have to worry about which doctor my insurance company wants me to go to, or what tests they'll cover, or what my deductible is. Waiting lists are based on need, not on wealth. If it's a true emergency I can be in surgery as quickly here as in any US hospital - with the comfort that nothing is going to be messed up between the hospital and my insurance company. The US government is already spending more tax dollars per capita on health care than any other country in the world - and then you pay for insurance on top of that - all because of the mess of bureaucracy and litigation that is your wonderful system.
That way, the worst that could happen is it trashes your home dir.
Barring, of course, escalation of privilege vulnerabilities, or easier - just hanging around and running a user-land spam relay - how often do you check what's running?
No, no.. you don't remove the word "freedom", you just slowly redefine it, so that being free means getting to vote for your government (provided it's for one of two identical parties), being able to say what you want (just so long as you don't say anyone that might offend any race, gender, sexual orientation, or disparage the troops), being able to go wherever you want (provided you carry enough documentation for the government to track your every move), being able to work where you want (so long as its for one of a decreasing number of giant corporate conglomerations)... That's REAL freedom!
Yeah, I never wash my hands after spilling bleach on them.. It's germ free, and just a quick wipe with a paper towel and it's not visible anymore. Off to lunch I go...
I'm pretty sure that all those 144,000 processors in the "cat brain" are not hooked up for SMP - it'd be pretty much ridiculous to handle. Not even AMD Opterons are SMP. SMP is just one of many ways to hook up more than one processor to RAM.
How do you release non-memory resources in Java?
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
try {
stmt.executeUpdate( "..... " );
} finally {
stmt.close();
}
In C++ using RAII this would just be:
scoped_ptr stmt(conn->createStatement());
stmt->ExecuteUpdate("....");
Not only is the memory guaranteed to be release, the non-memory resource is as well.
Which is why, in a non-GC language, you would never allocate a temporary like that on the heap. It's MUCH faster and safer just to allocate it on the stack, and let stack cleanup handle calling the destructor and freeing the memory.
, this will (eventually) destroy the universe (where Foo and Baz are some classes):
return Foo(somearg).bar(someotherarg);
In C++, you've just allocated a temporary Foo on the stack, called bar(someotherarg) on it, and returned that return value. As long as you returned by value and not reference, nothing bad is going to happen. When the function returns, a copy of result is made on the stack of the calling function, and the temporary Foo is cleaned up just fine (only, unlike the GC language, it's destructor is called upon leaving the function - meaning that if Foo holds onto some resource like a lock or DB connection, you aren't going to leak it like the GC version would, since you forgot to create it in a using{} block)
I'm not saying that religion is any less absurd - believing in any given religion is really just filling in the same emotional drives that make us think that justice means anything. So yes we can "find meaning in life" by aiming for goals or trying to fulfill some religion or trying to do something great, but so what?
It seems to be working, Italy has an annual murder rate of 1.05 per 100,000 people. The US, with it's much longer sentences and the death penalty still used on occasion is up at 5.8 per 100,000. Correlation != causation, blah blah blah, but liberal western Europe has consistently low crime rates. Of course, if you look at the list, the real correlation behind crime is poverty. Western Europe, the various Oil rich nations and other countries with strong welfare system have lower crime. The countries where government support for the poor is slim to non-existent, or those where the government is essentially non-existent have high crime rates.
I think the GP's point is that without some sort of external "meaning", who the hell cares if we all kill each other off, or go completely extinct for that matter. Suffering is just a chemical process - yes we've evolved reactions in the form of empathy and desire for "justice", but what is justice other than trying to re-balance a perceived order in what it really just a temporary bubble of low-entropy. If you believe in a god, then you have some sort of reason why life is something to value - Jesus, Allah, or the FSM said so. Otherwise you're just relying on emotions that evolved to keep life alive, and falling into circular reasoning.
crime was predestined, this subsequent capture was predestined, the judge was predestined to set that particular sentence too, and everything about the whole world is basically pointless.
There's plenty of theists out there who are apparently willing to believe this. They would probably disagree on the pointless bit (but only to insist that it's not up to us to try and figure out the point of everything), but otherwise you've essentially just described Calvinism. The debate between free will and predestination has gone on for a very long time, in both secular and religious circles, but I agree with your solution - just assume free will exists - if it doesn't, then there's nothing you could have done about how things turn out (including whether or not to believe in free will).
You could always use it to power a Stargate if your DHD gets busted.
except that that resume looks like crap. He spends all this time worrying about serifs and ligatures, when as a whole it's nearly illegible. It's all crowded into the page in what seems to the eye like one big chunk of prose. It hurts my eyes just trying to read the text. There are places for bullets - and lists of things is a good place for them. A separating space or line here or there isn't going to kill anyone. Also, it's not a sin to use two pages so that you don't have to pack everything in.
It's OK, the summary is only anthropomorphizing Nature, which doesn't mind being anthropomorphized at all. It's mass-imparting, universe-annulling particles that Nature abhors. Unless of course Nature IS a Higgs boson, in which case we should be very worried about living in a self-loathing, suicidal universe that is only kept intact by the fact that if it didn't stay intact, we wouldn't be here to notice.
Well, this being a research project / proof of concept type of thing, it's probably going to be bought up by a larger company (Microsoft, Google, Adobe) and made into a more useful bit of software. The actual output of this app is irrelevant - even if they composite the images into a flat image, at some point in time they've isolated the components and getting those components into different layers of some other image format is really a trivial extension. The important parts are really pulling useful images off the internet, and pulling together the important parts of those images.
Where I live winter heating costs significantly exceed summer cooling costs,
This is a point that gets ignored in a lot of environmental recommendations. Where I live, we have about 10 days a year where we need air conditioning, and even then it's a luxury, not a necessity. But we have 6-8 months of heating our houses. My annual air conditioning cost is around $50 of renewable hydroelectricity. My annual heating costs approach $1500 of non-renewable natural gas. Obviously, my best point of attack for optimization is the work on keeping the house warm. That means I have a steep roof to shed snow, and the darkest shingles I could find.
Yeah, I don't imagine launching into CPR (or worse using a defibrillator) would be very helpful for one of these devices.
No more than you could sue for being forced to buy a specific edition of a textbook, or being forced to pay for lab supplies. No one said school is cheap - and given that you can buy an OEM copy of Vista for $100, being forced to buy Windows is hardly that bad. You could maybe complain about an OSX requirement, since that would require buying a whole computer to go with it. But realistically, any school that requires you to use a specific program has student computer labs available with that required software. I know several people who finished off an entire CS degree without even owning their own computer. (I kind of questioned why they would want to do such a thing, but that's not my business.)
10 years on Earth, where we have loads of moisture to eat away at packaging and great conditions for growing bacteria - if you keep it outside on mars in a frozen, sterile environment, it'd likely be safe to eat for 100 years. It may not taste so great by then, but it should last - that is until our bacteria adapt to the cold...
I was hoping for the coating - as in "Oooh shiny!", but no. I'll just have to stick with brushed aluminum or various shades of plastic...
Of course, writing 1/9 is really just a very succinct way of expressing the program needed to generate the number you are talking about.
Yeah, I hate it when they try and appease me with those propitiatory batteries. They could at least send flowers as well.
That makes way more sense - thanks. We haven't switch to digital here so it wasn't even something that crossed my mind. The leap to wifi routers was extreme I grant you, but it was the only thing I could come up with.
Given that he/she mentioned not having entered a TV aisle since before digital switches (I'm assuming he's talking about wi-fi routers, not this kind of switch) came along, I doubt he's seen an LCD screen.