I suspect it's more due to third-party tracking cookies. The Collusion add-on for Firefox was mentioned on Slashdot recently. It shows very clearly how the various sites you visit are connected.
I'm sure it will be used as an argument against high density and/or monoculture. Not necessarily a good argument though. No matter what your agricultural practices may be there will be pests and pathogens. Crop rotation and a variety of species or breeds are two of many tools used to minimize the threat.
Many of the problems that led to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have not been addressed, say the members of a commission set up by U.S. President Barack Obama to study the disaster.
If you look at who released the report you'll see that the commission set up by the President completed its work and was disbanded. This report was issued by an environmental action group which claims some previous commission members among its founders.
I assume these people are pushing their own agenda, maybe because its an election year, maybe because they really care. But I note that they are all Obama appointees.
... they need to stop thinking in a round-trip paradigm.
Agreed, but an unmanned mission will accomplish much more than wasting time and resources trying to keep a person alive. Of all the fantastic space exploration that has happened over the years, the one that impressed me the most was when Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan. That was the most unworldly thing I've ever seen.
I prefer Miss South Carolina's explaination of why 20% of Americans aren't on the internet:
“I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don’t have computers. and uh...I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as...and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”
if I implement a feature that has absolutely no bugs, no problems, no one complained and it is all hunky dory all the way. How much praise will you get for it?
If you don't get recognized for that you need to find a new job.
if you had a choice of a complex, difficult to test algorithm (say, using AVL tree based on two custom hash functions on a data set) to give you a 10% speed up versus a clean simpler algorithm
Unless there was a critical need for that extra 10% you would be foolish not to go with the simple approach. Cost, schedule, and reliability are almost always more important than an incremental performance improvement.
I suppose it depends on the nature of the project; in the example of digging up triceratops fossils and sending them to a museum it makes perfect sense.
But overall I think you're right. This isn't really crowdsourcing; more like begging for donations without any strings attached.
What this guy is talking about is a do-it-yourself code review; better would be to get coworkers to review it with you. It doesn't matter what technique you used to write the code in the first place, get a couple of fresh eyeballs to read and try to understand it.
As an unrelated comment, someone who thinks extra large gray on white fonts look good shouldn't be making web sites. At least he didn't put each paragraph on a separate page.
SInce this procedure is still in the experimental stage very few people will get it for a long time. Meanwhile I suggest you ask to be screened for depression, the VA does treat it.
Few women enter the field and a significant number of them leave. When I was a freshman in Engineering school it was unusual to see even one coed in a class, the most I ever remember was three. Fast forward a few years, women programmers are treated fairly in the workplace. But once they get married and have a couple of babies their career plans often change. When I worked in a classified environment the government wouldn't let a women keep her clearance when she went on maternity leave because most never came back; it was more cost effective to issue a new clearance for the outliers.
McAllister must have quite a few shills here on Slashdot, we see a disproportionate number of his blog posts and most (like this one) are tripe. Brogrammers? Really? Are they having bromances with each other?
...is the best/worst example of a city that's sinking. Too many people, too much water being pumped out from under it. And the Aztec Gods are still mad about what happened to their people.
I understand your point, however two other points to keep in mind: 1) The money didn't disappear, it just changed pockets. 2) If you tried to spend that money to feed a small country that needed to be fed it, would almost certainly end up arming a warlord's henchmen. Don't worry about #1, solve #2 first.
Social Security and Medicare the two big entitlements are in fact paid for from separate taxes that exceed the amount spent on those programs.
It sounds like you're suggesting a balanced budget amendment. Social Security taxes exceeding expenditures is only true if you look at the current year, long term it's accumulating obligations at a faster rate than is being funded.
Voyager's Grand Tour was a unique opportunity that the US seized while the planets were in the right alignment. Can't happen again for almost 200 years.
More money is probably being spent on space projects today than ever. But those projects are primarily space applications: GPS, communications, weather, etc. Even though those don't look like pure science, the technology for launching and operating space vehicles moves on.
Yes, in a perfect world we would all get along and use resources with infinite wisdom. It's worth working to try and get closer to that utopia, but until we reach it there are other considerations. Cave men were probably pissed when they invented the perfect technique for hunting deer, only to be eaten by a lion as they dragged it back to the cave.
A missile is something you propel toward a target. Could be a spitwad, an arrow, or something carrying an explosive weapon. A rocket is a device that's propelled by the exhaust of gasses (and it's self-contained, unlike an air breathing jet engine). A rocket is generally a missile (unless it's tethered, etc), but a missile doesn't have to be propelled by a rocket.
Japan's strategy is well known and probably would have succeeded if the US didn't have nukes. They knew a military victory was not going to happen after the Battle of Midway. From then on their goal was to make the war so expensive in terms of men killed that the US would negotiate a ceasefire. 6000 Americans killed on Iwo Jima in a month long battle, 12000 Americans killed on Okinawa in thee months. By then an invasion of the Japanese mainland was unthinkable; the Japanese were waiting for the US to sit down and negotiate when the two nukes were dropped. No US casualties, two cities incinerated; only then were they convinced that total surrender was their only option.
Look at some of the competitions they're talking about though. "Flu App Challenge", "Energy & Water from Waste", etc. There's no market potential outside of government spending.
I think the competition is because most of these will have little or no commercial potential, at least in the near term. If there was a potential for a marketable product the government wouldn't need to throw money at it. There's nothing wrong with funding pure research though.
When my kids were in school their teachers suggested evolution had problems and that creation was an alternative to be considered. The students laughed about it afterwards. They don't live in the cloistered environment their grandparents did
I expect this bill will do more to make students see the wisdom of scientific process than spread any religious philosophy.
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I suspect it's more due to third-party tracking cookies. The Collusion add-on for Firefox was mentioned on Slashdot recently. It shows very clearly how the various sites you visit are connected.
I'm sure it will be used as an argument against high density and/or monoculture. Not necessarily a good argument though. No matter what your agricultural practices may be there will be pests and pathogens. Crop rotation and a variety of species or breeds are two of many tools used to minimize the threat.
Many of the problems that led to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have not been addressed, say the members of a commission set up by U.S. President Barack Obama to study the disaster.
If you look at who released the report you'll see that the commission set up by the President completed its work and was disbanded. This report was issued by an environmental action group which claims some previous commission members among its founders.
I assume these people are pushing their own agenda, maybe because its an election year, maybe because they really care. But I note that they are all Obama appointees.
Ok, she said map, not Internet. But her answer is just as true.
... they need to stop thinking in a round-trip paradigm.
Agreed, but an unmanned mission will accomplish much more than wasting time and resources trying to keep a person alive. Of all the fantastic space exploration that has happened over the years, the one that impressed me the most was when Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan. That was the most unworldly thing I've ever seen.
I prefer Miss South Carolina's explaination of why 20% of Americans aren't on the internet:
“I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don’t have computers. and uh...I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as...and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”
if I implement a feature that has absolutely no bugs, no problems, no one complained and it is all hunky dory all the way. How much praise will you get for it?
If you don't get recognized for that you need to find a new job.
if you had a choice of a complex, difficult to test algorithm (say, using AVL tree based on two custom hash functions on a data set) to give you a 10% speed up versus a clean simpler algorithm
Unless there was a critical need for that extra 10% you would be foolish not to go with the simple approach. Cost, schedule, and reliability are almost always more important than an incremental performance improvement.
I suppose it depends on the nature of the project; in the example of digging up triceratops fossils and sending them to a museum it makes perfect sense.
But overall I think you're right. This isn't really crowdsourcing; more like begging for donations without any strings attached.
No no, ice picks and hammers are used for lobotomies
What this guy is talking about is a do-it-yourself code review; better would be to get coworkers to review it with you. It doesn't matter what technique you used to write the code in the first place, get a couple of fresh eyeballs to read and try to understand it.
As an unrelated comment, someone who thinks extra large gray on white fonts look good shouldn't be making web sites. At least he didn't put each paragraph on a separate page.
SInce this procedure is still in the experimental stage very few people will get it for a long time. Meanwhile I suggest you ask to be screened for depression, the VA does treat it.
Not suspenders. Suspendies, i.e. a garter belt.
Few women enter the field and a significant number of them leave. When I was a freshman in Engineering school it was unusual to see even one coed in a class, the most I ever remember was three. Fast forward a few years, women programmers are treated fairly in the workplace. But once they get married and have a couple of babies their career plans often change. When I worked in a classified environment the government wouldn't let a women keep her clearance when she went on maternity leave because most never came back; it was more cost effective to issue a new clearance for the outliers.
McAllister must have quite a few shills here on Slashdot, we see a disproportionate number of his blog posts and most (like this one) are tripe. Brogrammers? Really? Are they having bromances with each other?
...is the best/worst example of a city that's sinking. Too many people, too much water being pumped out from under it. And the Aztec Gods are still mad about what happened to their people.
I understand your point, however two other points to keep in mind: 1) The money didn't disappear, it just changed pockets. 2) If you tried to spend that money to feed a small country that needed to be fed it, would almost certainly end up arming a warlord's henchmen. Don't worry about #1, solve #2 first.
Social Security and Medicare the two big entitlements are in fact paid for from separate taxes that exceed the amount spent on those programs.
It sounds like you're suggesting a balanced budget amendment. Social Security taxes exceeding expenditures is only true if you look at the current year, long term it's accumulating obligations at a faster rate than is being funded.
Voyager's Grand Tour was a unique opportunity that the US seized while the planets were in the right alignment. Can't happen again for almost 200 years.
More money is probably being spent on space projects today than ever. But those projects are primarily space applications: GPS, communications, weather, etc. Even though those don't look like pure science, the technology for launching and operating space vehicles moves on.
Yes, in a perfect world we would all get along and use resources with infinite wisdom. It's worth working to try and get closer to that utopia, but until we reach it there are other considerations. Cave men were probably pissed when they invented the perfect technique for hunting deer, only to be eaten by a lion as they dragged it back to the cave.
Pretty much anyone who buys a lottery ticket or cheers for their team while watching TV is trying to use magic.
A missile is something you propel toward a target. Could be a spitwad, an arrow, or something carrying an explosive weapon. A rocket is a device that's propelled by the exhaust of gasses (and it's self-contained, unlike an air breathing jet engine). A rocket is generally a missile (unless it's tethered, etc), but a missile doesn't have to be propelled by a rocket.
Japan's strategy is well known and probably would have succeeded if the US didn't have nukes. They knew a military victory was not going to happen after the Battle of Midway. From then on their goal was to make the war so expensive in terms of men killed that the US would negotiate a ceasefire. 6000 Americans killed on Iwo Jima in a month long battle, 12000 Americans killed on Okinawa in thee months. By then an invasion of the Japanese mainland was unthinkable; the Japanese were waiting for the US to sit down and negotiate when the two nukes were dropped. No US casualties, two cities incinerated; only then were they convinced that total surrender was their only option.
So hacking is a crime?
Look at some of the competitions they're talking about though. "Flu App Challenge", "Energy & Water from Waste", etc. There's no market potential outside of government spending.
I think the competition is because most of these will have little or no commercial potential, at least in the near term. If there was a potential for a marketable product the government wouldn't need to throw money at it. There's nothing wrong with funding pure research though.
When my kids were in school their teachers suggested evolution had problems and that creation was an alternative to be considered. The students laughed about it afterwards. They don't live in the cloistered environment their grandparents did
I expect this bill will do more to make students see the wisdom of scientific process than spread any religious philosophy.