The summary is misleading in that it mentions LynxOS running on particular subsystems. But TFA states that the ship uses "...mostly IBM blade servers running Red Hat Linux...".
It isn't stupidity if they understood the terms of the purchase and preferred it to other options. Those "supposedly intelligent" fanboys probably spent less for Halflife than you did and they can play it on Windows, OS X, or linux.
Having SteamOS for running a dedicated SteamBox in the living room is great but I wonder what the implications of SteamOS are for running Steam on other linux distros. I have a capable workstation at my desk and I really don't want to have to replace my current distro just to get the additional benefits of SteamOS. Will this cripple the momentum of Steam development for other distros?
Fixing DST is great but we need metric time because I am always late (or early) for events. 60 minutes in an hour? 24 hours in a day? How can anyone be expected to convert these units? It's so arbitrary!
Well stated. I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted (and you weren't AC). I wasn't arguing for or against antibiotics - just addressing the red herring in the parent post.
I actually can't think of a sequel he's done *except* for the Matrix series. He's notably turned down Constantine 2, Speed 2, a 3rd Bill & Ted movie...
You can't think of any sequels other than the Matrix series?!? I think you can. Here's a hint from your post: He turned down a 3rd Bill & Ted movie.
Your comment is misleading. There is a single disc (that users keep) for Netflix authentication. Content is delivered is via the Netflix streaming service.
I think you are mistaken regarding what most undergraduate science students actually do (they are not maintaining/upgrading old fortran libraries). Most of the high performance capability that undergrads need involves matrix computations, FFTs, convolution, etc., all of which are included in the python numpy/Numeric module (which is a wrapper around fortran libraries, so they're just as efficient). And since they'll likely spend as much time analyzing data as producing it, python + numpy + matplotlib is a perfectly suitable solution.
I'm not suggesting that fortran isn't of value to some scientists in some situations but many science students will never have to touch fortran code unless they're forced to take a class that teaches it. As you said: "They're being taught to program as a mere tool for the important stuff being taught." Which is why it makes sense that their intro language is one that is easy to learn, supports multiple programming paradigms, has efficient numerical libraries, has easy-to-use visualization tools, an interactive interpreter, and can be used as a general purpose programming language. And while I personally prefer python for a high level language, there are others that could serve the same purpose.
You are making the common ignorant assumption about Perl based some past idiot's bad code.
And you are making the ignorant assumption that everyone's criticism of Perl is based on a common ignorant assumption. Many of the people criticizing it actually have experience with the language.
If your code is undocumented, uncommented, and hard to read it is obfuscated it means it is bad code. Saying this reflects on the interpreter/compiler is nothing but laziness as the real blame lies with the punk that wrote the mess.
Thay may often be the case. But there are also a lot of people that find their own Perl code to be hard to maintain, as opposed to code they wrote in other languages. If they are just bad programmers, why wouldn't they have the same problem with the other languages they use?
The reality is that different languages encourage programming with different paradigms, styles, and habits. Part of that is due to the language itself and part is often due to the language's history and user-community. I suspect with Perl it is a little of each. But your theories (here and in other posts) that the criticisms of Perl code maintainability are simply due to programmer ignorance/skill or management conspiracies aren't compelling.
If you look at the charts in the original article, the bump starts around two weeks before they actually appear on the show. Which makes me suspect that the Bump is more likely due to the candidate making a round of interviews (of which Colbert is one), rather than it being due specifically to the Colbert interview.
Perhaps it's interesting but little can be learned from this 'study.' There's just too many factors to say... and it would take just one nutjob billionaire who loves The Colbert Report to make those donations. Or it could be like a Hollywood joke for the rich and famous to build a fund.
TFA states that there is a significant increase not just in the amount of donations but also the number of donations.
If you ask most people what cuisine America is most famous for, the answer will probably be "fast food" or "junk food" (actual answers may also include supersize me-burgers, american pizza, fried chicken and so on).
I think part of the problem there is that non-Americans focus on chain restaurants and identify that with the U.S. So it makes perfect sense that Europeans would answer "supersize me-burgers, american pizza, fried chicken." When I was in Germany, the American restaurants in the area were McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Because that's what the locals want - a slice of Americana.
France isn't all about cheese and wine, Germany beer and sausages, Italy pizza, Japan sushi and so on but in the game of cuisine stereotypes America is pretty much bottom of the barrel. You can find good food everywhere, good local cafes and restaurants are in every city but the question is what's common and abundant. And from my slim anecdotal experience the US reputation is not entirely undeserved...
It's a bit odd that you state European countries are more than their obvious sterotypes but then you use "slim anecdotal experience" to affirm the U.S. stereo type. Double standard?
Part of the problem is that Europeans are, in general, much more ignorant of American cuisine than Americans are of European cuisine. Why? Because the U.S. has a large percentage of people of European descent, which is why we also have so many European style restaurants (Italian, Greek, French, Spanish, etc.), in addition to Middle Eastern, Asian, and Central/South American.
Can you describe "European food"? Probably not. You can describe French, Italian, etc. But there's not enough commonality to lump it all together into "European." Yet, presumably because it's a single nation, the entire U.S. gets lumped into "American food." But American cuisine various regionally just as European cuisine does. I could describe Cajun/Creole, Southern, Carolina Barbecue, Tex-Mex, etc. but I can't describe "American" cuisine, because it isn't that homogeneous.
But I should mention - Americans eat way too much junk food.
The more stories I read like this, the more grateful I am that I don't work in the US. The whole mindset when it comes to employment T&Cs seems like something out the dark ages.
Most people are quite happy to be working here. It's just that stories about supposedly mistreated workers are far more sensational and news-worthy than ones about happy workers.
I'ts bad enough that the employers treat staff badly but so many people seem to support that say ing get another job if you don't like it - what if all employers behave badly?
They don't. Many companies here offer great conditions and excellent benefits because they know it will draw talented employees and reduce turnover. IIRC, the network engineer from the original artical worked for Apple for 12 years. Do you really think he couldn't have found another job in that time if he had wanted to? Unemployment here is low and the job market is good. Categorizing voluntary employment in the IT industry here as indentured servitude is absurd. But it does sound good in news headlines and law suits.
I don't expect your average Joe to be knowledgeable about most scientific issues. But when we have politicians implementing policy related to scientific matters without understanding the issues, then we have a real problem. Of course, this extends beyond just science. For example, you would think that policy makers would have figured out (or tasked someone competent to figure out) that diverting agricultural resources to produce biofuels just might have an impact on food supplies & prices. It seems there are numerous disciplines where politicians don't bother to educate themselves adequately to make sound policy decisions.
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... and since I need to get the next release out in 10 minutes, I can safely put change X in the release build without testing.
I'll never need this code again so there's no need to document it.
The summary is misleading in that it mentions LynxOS running on particular subsystems. But TFA states that the ship uses "...mostly IBM blade servers running Red Hat Linux...".
It isn't stupidity if they understood the terms of the purchase and preferred it to other options. Those "supposedly intelligent" fanboys probably spent less for Halflife than you did and they can play it on Windows, OS X, or linux.
Well, if o is SteamOS, I'd guess that the next announcement, [o ], is the SteamBox, (since it looks like SteamOS in a box).
Having SteamOS for running a dedicated SteamBox in the living room is great but I wonder what the implications of SteamOS are for running Steam on other linux distros. I have a capable workstation at my desk and I really don't want to have to replace my current distro just to get the additional benefits of SteamOS. Will this cripple the momentum of Steam development for other distros?
Fixing DST is great but we need metric time because I am always late (or early) for events. 60 minutes in an hour? 24 hours in a day? How can anyone be expected to convert these units? It's so arbitrary!
It appears the "uninformed" in your user name is appropriate!
It should be expected because religions ARE viruses.
Well stated. I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted (and you weren't AC). I wasn't arguing for or against antibiotics - just addressing the red herring in the parent post.
And yet for a Google search on "anti-antibiotics", the first page of results contains almost all links for mis/overuse of antibiotics in humans.
You can't think of any sequels other than the Matrix series?!? I think you can. Here's a hint from your post: He turned down a 3rd Bill & Ted movie.
Come on..... You can do this.....
I'm guessing most biologists would disagree.
Your comment is misleading. There is a single disc (that users keep) for Netflix authentication. Content is delivered is via the Netflix streaming service.
Under what has been lost: $300 in purchase price.
Under what has been gained: PS Home, PS Store video rental/purchase, & Netflix.
I think you are mistaken regarding what most undergraduate science students actually do (they are not maintaining/upgrading old fortran libraries). Most of the high performance capability that undergrads need involves matrix computations, FFTs, convolution, etc., all of which are included in the python numpy/Numeric module (which is a wrapper around fortran libraries, so they're just as efficient). And since they'll likely spend as much time analyzing data as producing it, python + numpy + matplotlib is a perfectly suitable solution.
I'm not suggesting that fortran isn't of value to some scientists in some situations but many science students will never have to touch fortran code unless they're forced to take a class that teaches it. As you said: "They're being taught to program as a mere tool for the important stuff being taught." Which is why it makes sense that their intro language is one that is easy to learn, supports multiple programming paradigms, has efficient numerical libraries, has easy-to-use visualization tools, an interactive interpreter, and can be used as a general purpose programming language. And while I personally prefer python for a high level language, there are others that could serve the same purpose.
...from all the commenters on Wolfram's blog. It is actually rather amusing to read through the long list of overwhelmingly positive comments.
And you are making the ignorant assumption that everyone's criticism of Perl is based on a common ignorant assumption. Many of the people criticizing it actually have experience with the language.
Thay may often be the case. But there are also a lot of people that find their own Perl code to be hard to maintain, as opposed to code they wrote in other languages. If they are just bad programmers, why wouldn't they have the same problem with the other languages they use?
The reality is that different languages encourage programming with different paradigms, styles, and habits. Part of that is due to the language itself and part is often due to the language's history and user-community. I suspect with Perl it is a little of each. But your theories (here and in other posts) that the criticisms of Perl code maintainability are simply due to programmer ignorance/skill or management conspiracies aren't compelling.
If you look at the charts in the original article, the bump starts around two weeks before they actually appear on the show. Which makes me suspect that the Bump is more likely due to the candidate making a round of interviews (of which Colbert is one), rather than it being due specifically to the Colbert interview.
TFA states that there is a significant increase not just in the amount of donations but also the number of donations.
I think part of the problem there is that non-Americans focus on chain restaurants and identify that with the U.S. So it makes perfect sense that Europeans would answer "supersize me-burgers, american pizza, fried chicken." When I was in Germany, the American restaurants in the area were McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Because that's what the locals want - a slice of Americana.
It's a bit odd that you state European countries are more than their obvious sterotypes but then you use "slim anecdotal experience" to affirm the U.S. stereo type. Double standard?
Part of the problem is that Europeans are, in general, much more ignorant of American cuisine than Americans are of European cuisine. Why? Because the U.S. has a large percentage of people of European descent, which is why we also have so many European style restaurants (Italian, Greek, French, Spanish, etc.), in addition to Middle Eastern, Asian, and Central/South American.
Can you describe "European food"? Probably not. You can describe French, Italian, etc. But there's not enough commonality to lump it all together into "European." Yet, presumably because it's a single nation, the entire U.S. gets lumped into "American food." But American cuisine various regionally just as European cuisine does. I could describe Cajun/Creole, Southern, Carolina Barbecue, Tex-Mex, etc. but I can't describe "American" cuisine, because it isn't that homogeneous.
But I should mention - Americans eat way too much junk food.
History - Can't argue that one.
Culture - Arguable.
Beer, wine, & cuisine - Um, no. Besides, most European beer, wine, & cuisine are readily available in the U.S.
Most people are quite happy to be working here. It's just that stories about supposedly mistreated workers are far more sensational and news-worthy than ones about happy workers.
They don't. Many companies here offer great conditions and excellent benefits because they know it will draw talented employees and reduce turnover. IIRC, the network engineer from the original artical worked for Apple for 12 years. Do you really think he couldn't have found another job in that time if he had wanted to? Unemployment here is low and the job market is good. Categorizing voluntary employment in the IT industry here as indentured servitude is absurd. But it does sound good in news headlines and law suits.
Are US Politicians Informed Enough About Science?
I don't expect your average Joe to be knowledgeable about most scientific issues. But when we have politicians implementing policy related to scientific matters without understanding the issues, then we have a real problem. Of course, this extends beyond just science. For example, you would think that policy makers would have figured out (or tasked someone competent to figure out) that diverting agricultural resources to produce biofuels just might have an impact on food supplies & prices. It seems there are numerous disciplines where politicians don't bother to educate themselves adequately to make sound policy decisions.