If you want to help the children in DRC, give some money to the International Trade Union organisation or the Red Cross, or lobby your congressman (or equivalent).
Samsung, Nokia, et al buy the same niobium etc from the same mining companies. Only changing the mining companies behaviour in the DRC is going to help.
Another point might be that the US itself is "too big to fail".
Basically if the US were to slide toward serious inflation the rest of the world would buy currency to prevent a bankrupt US and the follow on depression. Until the depression becomes cheaper than propping up the US that is.
A simple demonstration of their incorrect averaging should suffice to get the evidence dismissed.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 averages to 4.5 using the scheme descibed by Schneier results in 7.0078125. Egregious is the only word that can describe that error.
2 minutes in Excel shows the correct value plus the cumulative error developing in the incorrect scheme: 1.5, 2.25, 3.125, 4.0625, 5.03125, 6.015625, 7.0078125.
That demonstration will show that little or no thought went into algorithm design and testing and that the machines are effectively random number generators and useless for evidence gathering.
Trying it with 7 ones and a 9 (average is 2) produces between 5 and 1.0625 depending on the position of the 9. So two drinks becomes 5, 4, 3, or 1 because 1/2 the alcohol arrived in a spike.
There are 2 problems with IPv6 that are common problems with non-solutions: 1: It is highly disruptive 2: It doesn't solve the problem
The FUNDAMENTAL problem with IPv4 is that it has a LIMITED amount of addresses.
To fix the problem the solution needs to remove the limit, NOT make the limit further away.
IPv6 still has a limit to it, so when you explain to people why they should move to IPv6, you also explain why they should distrust IPv6 as a solution.
When you then explain that it will require a complete re-structuring of the internet infrastructure, they will realise that it can't work. Even if it could, they can safely wait for everyone else to do it first.
So, does anyone have a suggestion for an enhancement to IPv4 that is backwardly compatible and allows for an ever-increasing address space?
I don't know about the funkiness but the author has done an impressive effort composing actual music from disparate videos.
Nice editting too tho some of the vignettes are a little creepy.
As for illegal: that would be sad as the finished article is substantially different from the original pieces. It would be very harsh and closed minded judge that sided with the IP holders.
The Kettlewell experiment has been re-done to counter the criticisms, completely vindicating his findings:
"In 2000 Majerus developed plans for experiments to establish where peppered moths rest through the day, and to examine if the various valid criticisms of Kettlewellâ(TM)s experimental protocols could have altered the qualitative validity of his conclusions. In the following year he piloted a new field predation experiment designed to overcome criticisms that Kettlewell had used too few release sites, resulting in the density of moths being too high; moths had been released onto tree trunks rather than branches; moths released during the day might not have found the best places to hide; mixtures of wild-caught and lab-bred moths might have behaved differently; and the behaviour of translocated moths might have changed because of local adaptation. During the main experiment in Cambridge over the seven years 2001-2007 Majerus noted the natural resting positions of the moths, and of the 135 moths examined over half were on tree branches, mostly on the lower half of the branch, 37% were on tree trunks, mostly on the north side, and only 12.6% were resting on or under twigs. Following correspondence with Hooper he added an experiment to find if bat predation might have skewed the results â" this found that bats preyed equally on both forms of the moth. He observed a number of species of bird preying on the moths, and the overall data led him to conclude that differential bird predation was a major factor responsible for the decline in carbonaria frequency compared to typica in Cambridge during the study period.[9] He described his results as a complete vindication of the peppered moth story, and said "If the rise and fall of the peppered moth is one of the most visually impacting and easily understood examples of Darwinian evolution in action, it should be taught. It provides after all the proof of evolution." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
Sorry about the Wiki link but I did read it in New Scientist originally
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The 2 thumb pads on the Q1 disappear from the Galaxy.
Q1 is landscape but the Galaxy is portrait.
Q1 shows a scrolling list of text, but the Galaxy has icons all but identical in design, colour, and layout to the iPad/iPhone.
I grant you the patent is stupid, but the Galaxy is not an evolution from the Q1, it's a rip-off of the iPad.
I'm surprised they didn't call it the Samsung iApplePad.
Bizarrely the patent system allows Apple to patent what should be a trademarked look.
Therefore when someone egregiously copies that look, Apple rightly sue them for patent abuse.
The problem is the patent system.
It should be narrow and technical but it's not, therefore a litigation about trademark abuse becomes a patent strumach.
I'm also a software engineer. I couldn't agree more. mod parent up
Chill dude, you'll bust a vessel.
If you want to help the children in DRC, give some money to the International Trade Union organisation or the Red Cross, or lobby your congressman (or equivalent).
Samsung, Nokia, et al buy the same niobium etc from the same mining companies. Only changing the mining companies behaviour in the DRC is going to help.
There is a Weebl & Bob app? Cool!
*disappears to the app store, is disappointed*
Just download the DevKit and build from source. Works for me.
Can you please just stop calling it the English System? The English don't use it and here, and most places I know, it's called the Imperial System.
Hell, if you called it "British Imperial", you'd probably dump it into Boston Harbour within 5 years...
SQL is the most successful language in Computer Science history and the only one that has a proper mathematical basis.
Other languages have the odd mathy type thing like lambda calculus but SQL is set theory.
It's not perfect (ANSI JOIN sux, crosstabs would be great) but it's way more powerful and expressive than anything else.
If you don't get it, do some research and find out about more than SELECT, CREATE, and INSERT.
Another point might be that the US itself is "too big to fail".
Basically if the US were to slide toward serious inflation the rest of the world would buy currency to prevent a bankrupt US and the follow on depression. Until the depression becomes cheaper than propping up the US that is.
Is Sarah Palin mentioned in the convention?
You, sir, should be a journalist.
For Fox or the Onion.
Never. EVER, tell your boss this.
Some of us oldies still use Hunt And Peck, you insensitive clod!
It probably will shutdown I Can Has Cheeseburger, so anyone who likes kittens should be protesting.
A simple demonstration of their incorrect averaging should suffice to get the evidence dismissed.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 averages to 4.5
using the scheme descibed by Schneier results in 7.0078125. Egregious is the only word that can describe that error.
2 minutes in Excel shows the correct value plus the cumulative error developing in the incorrect scheme:
1.5, 2.25, 3.125, 4.0625, 5.03125, 6.015625, 7.0078125.
That demonstration will show that little or no thought went into algorithm design and testing and that the machines are effectively random number generators and useless for evidence gathering.
Trying it with 7 ones and a 9 (average is 2) produces between 5 and 1.0625 depending on the position of the 9. So two drinks becomes 5, 4, 3, or 1 because 1/2 the alcohol arrived in a spike.
You might be behind the times:
The mighty mouse has 4 buttons and 2(-ish) scrollwheels.
There are 2 problems with IPv6 that are common problems with non-solutions:
1: It is highly disruptive
2: It doesn't solve the problem
The FUNDAMENTAL problem with IPv4 is that it has a LIMITED amount of addresses.
To fix the problem the solution needs to remove the limit, NOT make the limit further away.
IPv6 still has a limit to it, so when you explain to people why they should move to IPv6, you also explain why they should distrust IPv6 as a solution.
When you then explain that it will require a complete re-structuring of the internet infrastructure, they will realise that it can't work. Even if it could, they can safely wait for everyone else to do it first.
So, does anyone have a suggestion for an enhancement to IPv4 that is backwardly compatible and allows for an ever-increasing address space?
I suspect they'll claim it was good journalism for the public good and the police will go do something useful.
I don't know about the funkiness but the author has done an impressive effort composing actual music from disparate videos.
Nice editting too tho some of the vignettes are a little creepy.
As for illegal: that would be sad as the finished article is substantially different from the original pieces. It would be very harsh and closed minded judge that sided with the IP holders.
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The Kettlewell experiment has been re-done to counter the criticisms, completely vindicating his findings:
"In 2000 Majerus developed plans for experiments to establish where peppered moths rest through the day, and to examine if the various valid criticisms of Kettlewellâ(TM)s experimental protocols could have altered the qualitative validity of his conclusions. In the following year he piloted a new field predation experiment designed to overcome criticisms that Kettlewell had used too few release sites, resulting in the density of moths being too high; moths had been released onto tree trunks rather than branches; moths released during the day might not have found the best places to hide; mixtures of wild-caught and lab-bred moths might have behaved differently; and the behaviour of translocated moths might have changed because of local adaptation. During the main experiment in Cambridge over the seven years 2001-2007 Majerus noted the natural resting positions of the moths, and of the 135 moths examined over half were on tree branches, mostly on the lower half of the branch, 37% were on tree trunks, mostly on the north side, and only 12.6% were resting on or under twigs. Following correspondence with Hooper he added an experiment to find if bat predation might have skewed the results â" this found that bats preyed equally on both forms of the moth. He observed a number of species of bird preying on the moths, and the overall data led him to conclude that differential bird predation was a major factor responsible for the decline in carbonaria frequency compared to typica in Cambridge during the study period.[9] He described his results as a complete vindication of the peppered moth story, and said "If the rise and fall of the peppered moth is one of the most visually impacting and easily understood examples of Darwinian evolution in action, it should be taught. It provides after all the proof of evolution." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
Sorry about the Wiki link but I did read it in New Scientist originally
Having actually read The Iliad recently, 300 is better. Both movie and book.
A movie of The Iliad would be eye-gougingly repetitive.
I've always used your first option and the only reason I know of not to use it is that C programmers find it reminiscent of Pascal.
if (test)
begin
operation
else
other
end
or something, it's been a long time since Pascal for me.
The doubly emphasised if and else is really useful.
BTW Just had a look at K&R and they use trailing bracket for loops and if but lowered bracket for functions. So they were a little confused too.
Actually given the patent sharing agreement that Microsoft and Apple have, it shouldn't matter at all.
Which doesn't preclude the possibility that it is still in beta.
best != perfect