It's guys like Lieberman that drag American into the whole Middle-east religious wars, due to his fundamentalist support for Israel.
I propose that whenever Google reports search results pertaining to Lieberman, they're required to mark-up him as being a root-cause of America's terrorism problem.
Serious question here: What does it mean to say that Higgs bosons are "real" ?
Physicists often go out of their way to point out that theory is under-determined by data. If you have two theories that account for all our data, but one theory contains a Higgs bosons and the other theory does not, do we still say that Higgs bosons are "real"?
Or, does saying they're "real" assume some standard model of physics as the context for the statement?
Modifiability - This captures the extent to which a programmer correctly anticipates future changes that the code will need. It wouldn't be wise to judge a developer on this track record for just a single program, but with larger sample sizes, it could be useful.
Time-to-develop - If you ignore this metric, you're unable to distinguish between a program that gets written in a day vs. the very same program getting written in a year.
Now, you could argue that these two attributes are not purely about the code, but are actually about a code/programmer combination. But I'd say that also holds for your "readability" metric, which is subjective w.r.t. who's doing the reader.
Worked like a charm. Now I'm livin' the dream: Linux Mint 12 RC, and I only needed about an hour to get everything configured and working again. Thanks a lot for the specific instructions.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot! I didn't realize that anything newer than Eclipse Helios was out yet. I'm realizing that my desire to ditch Unity is stronger than my desire to avoid a brief interruption in my work. Especially because people are speaking so highly of Mint 12 RC.
Agreed. I have two issues with Ubuntu in recent releases:
(1) It's getting too buggy for my likes. I think this stems from (a) a focus on UI innovation rather than quality, and (b) they follow a bugs-be-damned 6-month release cycle.
(2) Lots of people, including me, hate Unity vis a vis Gnome 2. To be fair, many of us also hate Gnome 3 vis a vis Gnome 2, so Ubuntu didn't have many good options for people who like Gnome 2. But a lot of us think Ubuntu would be far stronger if they put their effort into making Gnome 3 be as good as Gnome 2 (like Mint did), rather than developing Unity.
I've finally got Eclipse properly integrated with Subversion, which is less trivial than one would hope. On a whim I upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 (I figured it wouldn't break my Eclipse/Subversion setup).
I hate Unity, but I'm afraid to change distros until my current project is over, because I don't want my work to stop while I figure out how to get Eclipse and Subversion re-integrated.
If not for that, I would have ditched Ubuntu 11.10 about 5 days after "upgrading" to it. (5 days because I wanted to give Unity a fair chance.)
I wasn't referring to the Nightwatch story thread per se in my claim that B5 is a good story. I was referring to the whole show overall. No argument that the Nightwatch story arc lacked nuance.
Experience tells me that hearing only one person's side of a story almost never gives a complete picture. I'd partially suspend judgment until hearing the other guy's side of the story and/or seeing the content of the video.
You didn't think they actually care about the content of the submissions, do you? They're just trying to make the electorate feel listened to, so that they'll give Obama a second chance.
Now if a big corporation asked for the elimination of software patents, that's a different story.
If I recall, Obama had something similar around the last time he wanted to get elected. My money is on this being a craven hollow gesture in order to recapture those whom he excited in his first Presidential campaign.
The problem is not that he's ignorant of what many citizens want (return of habeus corpus to those accused of terrorism; prosecution of CIA torturers; cessation of free trade deals and IP legislation that favor corporations over regular citizens; cessation (or reversal) of crony capitalism by Bernanke and Geithner; etc.) The problem is that he won't actually execute those ideas.
If a law is written such that people don't know how it applies until a judge rules on it, isn't that an ex post facto law, for all intents and purposes?
This confusion of wants with needs has perhaps been the cause of countless wars in the Middle East.
You misspelled "Organized Religion".
There have been many wars in the middle-east. I agree that some have been due to religious conflicts. But I also believe many would have not occurred, or at least not involved the Western powers, if it were not for an unwillingness to forgo cheap oil.
looks like the hacker retroactively stole all their credibility!
You know, I hear lots of people go off on the Register's credibility, but I've never myself noticed a problem. Do you have any examples of what earned them that reputation?
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It's guys like Lieberman that drag American into the whole Middle-east religious wars, due to his fundamentalist support for Israel.
I propose that whenever Google reports search results pertaining to Lieberman, they're required to mark-up him as being a root-cause of America's terrorism problem.
Serious question here: What does it mean to say that Higgs bosons are "real" ?
Physicists often go out of their way to point out that theory is under-determined by data. If you have two theories that account for all our data, but one theory contains a Higgs bosons and the other theory does not, do we still say that Higgs bosons are "real"?
Or, does saying they're "real" assume some standard model of physics as the context for the statement?
I think you're missing a few:
Modifiability - This captures the extent to which a programmer correctly anticipates future changes that the code will need. It wouldn't be wise to judge a developer on this track record for just a single program, but with larger sample sizes, it could be useful.
Time-to-develop - If you ignore this metric, you're unable to distinguish between a program that gets written in a day vs. the very same program getting written in a year.
Now, you could argue that these two attributes are not purely about the code, but are actually about a code/programmer combination. But I'd say that also holds for your "readability" metric, which is subjective w.r.t. who's doing the reader.
Worked like a charm. Now I'm livin' the dream: Linux Mint 12 RC, and I only needed about an hour to get everything configured and working again. Thanks a lot for the specific instructions.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot! I didn't realize that anything newer than Eclipse Helios was out yet. I'm realizing that my desire to ditch Unity is stronger than my desire to avoid a brief interruption in my work. Especially because people are speaking so highly of Mint 12 RC.
Agreed. I have two issues with Ubuntu in recent releases:
(1) It's getting too buggy for my likes. I think this stems from (a) a focus on UI innovation rather than quality, and (b) they follow a bugs-be-damned 6-month release cycle.
(2) Lots of people, including me, hate Unity vis a vis Gnome 2. To be fair, many of us also hate Gnome 3 vis a vis Gnome 2, so Ubuntu didn't have many good options for people who like Gnome 2. But a lot of us think Ubuntu would be far stronger if they put their effort into making Gnome 3 be as good as Gnome 2 (like Mint did), rather than developing Unity.
I've finally got Eclipse properly integrated with Subversion, which is less trivial than one would hope. On a whim I upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 (I figured it wouldn't break my Eclipse/Subversion setup).
I hate Unity, but I'm afraid to change distros until my current project is over, because I don't want my work to stop while I figure out how to get Eclipse and Subversion re-integrated.
If not for that, I would have ditched Ubuntu 11.10 about 5 days after "upgrading" to it. (5 days because I wanted to give Unity a fair chance.)
I wasn't referring to the Nightwatch story thread per se in my claim that B5 is a good story. I was referring to the whole show overall. No argument that the Nightwatch story arc lacked nuance.
Babylon 5 reference.
BTW, if you like sci-fi and haven't watched B5, you're missing a pretty good story.
Experience tells me that hearing only one person's side of a story almost never gives a complete picture. I'd partially suspend judgment until hearing the other guy's side of the story and/or seeing the content of the video.
That's up to Congress, not the Executive Branch.
I partially disagree. The White House has plenty of influence on the legislative process due to deal-making.
You didn't think they actually care about the content of the submissions, do you? They're just trying to make the electorate feel listened to, so that they'll give Obama a second chance.
Now if a big corporation asked for the elimination of software patents, that's a different story.
Let's grant, for the sake of argument, that software patents should be no different than regular patents.
I want proof that patents at all are a net benefit to society. Could they possibly be worth the damage to our freedoms, and our pace of innovation?
I can't wait for Fox News to bash the sun as a net-carbon-emitter.
What's Canadian English for, "They're f*cked" ?
If I recall, Obama had something similar around the last time he wanted to get elected. My money is on this being a craven hollow gesture in order to recapture those whom he excited in his first Presidential campaign.
The problem is not that he's ignorant of what many citizens want (return of habeus corpus to those accused of terrorism; prosecution of CIA torturers; cessation of free trade deals and IP legislation that favor corporations over regular citizens; cessation (or reversal) of crony capitalism by Bernanke and Geithner; etc.) The problem is that he won't actually execute those ideas.
If a law is written such that people don't know how it applies until a judge rules on it, isn't that an ex post facto law, for all intents and purposes?
Nice try. I've patented the act of being fucked by legislation. And since I'm first to file, you're kind of fucked. If I give you permission, that is.
This confusion of wants with needs has perhaps been the cause of countless wars in the Middle East.
You misspelled "Organized Religion".
There have been many wars in the middle-east. I agree that some have been due to religious conflicts. But I also believe many would have not occurred, or at least not involved the Western powers, if it were not for an unwillingness to forgo cheap oil.
there is really no other source that can provide the need of our modern society.
Please define "need[s]" in this context.
This confusion of wants with needs has perhaps been the cause of countless wars in the Middle East.
Because there's a low probability that, all things considered, armed revolution would be worthwhile.
Wow, thanks for putting all that effort into your answer. Much appreciated.
This went a long way towards making me better at programming larger, non-academic-assignment programs.
looks like the hacker retroactively stole all their credibility!
You know, I hear lots of people go off on the Register's credibility, but I've never myself noticed a problem. Do you have any examples of what earned them that reputation?
Chillax, gramps. The NY Times wasn't even on your lawn!