So while private industry did not invent it, that is no surprise because they saw no need for it at the time. But while the government might have set it up to begin with, make no mistake. The internet you use and enjoy now was built by private industry. These electrons are going over private wires.
And that is why you need governments to be at the forefront of big, long term projects. Private enterprise is myopic.
Few "academics" are on the payroll of oil companies.
Any academic in an even slightly related field that is prepared to speak, research or publish material that denies AGW can be on the payroll of Big Oil. They are more than happy to pay for it. There aren't many that do so because most scientists aren't charlatans. Most scientists are actually interested in the truth.
or that most (obviously not all) of the people preaching AGW aren't doing it because they benefit from "green" research and development, which is more often than not (and unfortunately) a rip-off.
Many conservatives are like you. They can see the science of global warming, but they hate give way to those people they see as political opponents. The denial is about not wanting to do those things that are necessary to combat the problem.
The vast majority of so-called "deniers" do not deny climate change at all; they simply dispute whether it (or much of it, anyway) is caused by humans.
They used to deny there was any climate change at all. As they looked ever more ludicrous claiming that, one by one they moved the goalposts. The gaps into which they squeeze their denial gets ever smaller.
The Republican 5 step plan to Global Warming Denial. 1) There is no such thing as Global Warming 2) There is such a thing as Global Warming, but man isn't a cause. 3) Man is a cause of Global Warming, but other causes are more significant. 4) Man is a significant cause of Global Warming, but Global warming is not detrimental to Man. 5) Global Warming is detrimental to Man, blame the (by now incumbent) Democrats for not having taken action sooner.
I like two spaces too. But its not the modern style. For example the RSA is the exam board that does most of the typing exams in Britain. For them it used to be two spaces. Now it's one space. HTML also insists on one space. You can put as many spaces as you like between sentences and it'll convert it to one. Unless you use specific tags to stop it. It's not a new thing either - when I was first working in an office in 1984, the change from 2 to 1 space was underway.
That's the T-Mobile variant with the 1.5GHz processor.
Ah that would do it! The iPhone 4S is a 800Mhz dual core. It seems a 1Ghz Android doesn't beat it. It takes a 1.5 Ghz before it edges ahead on the benchmarks.
Because it isn't nearly enough. We studied recursion in high school, and I already knew all about it before that class. That's not a high enough bar for me to hire a software engineer. It's something they should understand in order to start a CS degree. A software engineer who's highest attainment is understanding recursion is an amateur.
I wouldn't require them to understand public key cryptography, but I'd expect them to be able to work through it with me in an question and answer session.
I was quoting you, are you that forgetful that you forget your own word usage?
Indicators, not indicator.
Your comprehension skills aren't up to much. That paragraph in full: "Pilots should NOT rely on ordinary sunglasses or common “blue blocker” type glasses. Using sunglasses at dusk, night and dawn (when almost all laser incidents occur) could be unsafe. Blue blocker glasses have an effect on many different colors of blue and green. This may adversely effect how cockpit instruments and airport lights are perceived."
No one suggested they should wear 'ordinary sunglasses or common “blue blocker” type glasses'. I specifically said narrow band filters. Just as you can block a narrow band of green that matches green lasers, but doesnt block green indicators, you can block a narrow band of blue that blocks blue laser, but doesn't block other shades of blue.
Sounds like protectionism. I have sympathy with the idea that you need a certain qualification to call yourself an engineer. I have no sympathy for the idea that you need to join a club to call yourself one.
You're logical thinking comes to the opposite conclusion than looking at the results does. It's because words in proportional fonts fit closer together than in fix-width fonts, so they don't benefit from the change in spacial rhythm of two spaces that monospaced fonts benefits from.
Having said that, two spaces following a sentence in a monospaced font is now an old fashioned standard. These days one space is standard for either.
It happens all the time. In a lifetime of software engineering, I've picked my own job title for everything but the first couple of years. At some point you get an email saying they're going to do some business cards for you, and asking what job title you want on them.
There are also tiers of programmers, some of the poor fucks we've hired didn't know how to work w SQL parameters
I've worked as a software engineer for years, and I wouldn't know that either. If I was told I had to work with that sort of thing I'd probably kill myself first.
Who'd have thought HP would be having a fire sale? But that's by the by. The point is that "shipped" is not the same as "sold". HP Touchpad is just an extreme to demonstrate the difference.
Well I've seen the video and I haven't seen your test, so the believability is definitely on the side of the video so far. What are you suggesting is different in the test? Following on from part 1 of the video, he is testing the stock build of Android, and he's got Flash (and indeed all plugins) turned off.
And anyway, even your result is slower than the iPhone 4S.
Except that what you claim didn't happen with any of those things. For example no one ever claimed that NOT having cut'n'paste in early version of iOS was "the best way". Nor did anyone claim that moving to X86 was "the best way". Rather it was a sad acceptance that IBM were no longer moving ahead fast enough with their PowerPC line. There never were any maximise buttons on OSX and there still aren't. The zoom button is there as it always was. You're confusing it with full-screen. There always was a full-screen keyboard short cut and menu item on those apps that needed it, and now there's a button that does it as well. That came out of the blue. No one ever claimed it was a good idea NOT to have a full-screen button - it was never a point of contention. Last time I looked at Windows is was still in the state OSX used to be as far as full-screen goes. I think their shortcut is Alt-Enter???
Your other 2: "Larger screens. Multi-tasking." are vague. It's not even clear which OS you're talking about, let alone what specific problem and change of view you want to claim.
Sorry, but you have your facts wrong. Completely the wrong way around. And that's on top of your initial lack of understanding of the difference between shipped and sold.
...and instead have to claim they are saying something they aren't?
No indeed it wasn't. iPhone always ships more each quarter than the quarter before. But of course the really big step jumps upwards are when a new model comes out. Let's see Q4 market share figures from one of the regular market share analysts.
Try substituting HP for Samsung in that paragraph, and consider the HP Touchpad. Shipped lots. Sold virtually none. After 7 weeks they had to discontinue the product and sell the remaining stock in a fire sale. Which is only one step up from burying in the desert. And the stock that was already in retailers hands? That's why HP had to not only discontinue that product, but abandon the tablet market. What retailer is ever going to stock another HP tablet?
Shipped means someone has paid the manufacturer to ship X number of units.
LOL! You think retailers pay for stock before it's shipped? Give it up.
If you want to know why the difference between shipped and sold really matters, you probably want to look at the sorry tale of the HP Touchpad. Shipped lots. Sold virtually none. Had to be discontinued after 7 weeks. Stock had to be sold off in a fire-sale.
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So while private industry did not invent it, that is no surprise because they saw no need for it at the time. But while the government might have set it up to begin with, make no mistake. The internet you use and enjoy now was built by private industry. These electrons are going over private wires.
And that is why you need governments to be at the forefront of big, long term projects. Private enterprise is myopic.
The increasing number of natural disasters suggests it's not what the doctor ordered.
Few "academics" are on the payroll of oil companies.
Any academic in an even slightly related field that is prepared to speak, research or publish material that denies AGW can be on the payroll of Big Oil. They are more than happy to pay for it. There aren't many that do so because most scientists aren't charlatans. Most scientists are actually interested in the truth.
or that most (obviously not all) of the people preaching AGW aren't doing it because they benefit from "green" research and development, which is more often than not (and unfortunately) a rip-off.
Many conservatives are like you. They can see the science of global warming, but they hate give way to those people they see as political opponents. The denial is about not wanting to do those things that are necessary to combat the problem.
The vast majority of so-called "deniers" do not deny climate change at all; they simply dispute whether it (or much of it, anyway) is caused by humans.
They used to deny there was any climate change at all. As they looked ever more ludicrous claiming that, one by one they moved the goalposts. The gaps into which they squeeze their denial gets ever smaller.
The Republican 5 step plan to Global Warming Denial.
1) There is no such thing as Global Warming
2) There is such a thing as Global Warming, but man isn't a cause.
3) Man is a cause of Global Warming, but other causes are more significant.
4) Man is a significant cause of Global Warming, but Global warming is not detrimental to Man.
5) Global Warming is detrimental to Man, blame the (by now incumbent) Democrats for not having taken action sooner.
I like two spaces too. But its not the modern style. For example the RSA is the exam board that does most of the typing exams in Britain. For them it used to be two spaces. Now it's one space. HTML also insists on one space. You can put as many spaces as you like between sentences and it'll convert it to one. Unless you use specific tags to stop it. It's not a new thing either - when I was first working in an office in 1984, the change from 2 to 1 space was underway.
More background here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
To be honest I'm more concerned with the question of whether comments in code should have full stops (periods).
That's the T-Mobile variant with the 1.5GHz processor.
Ah that would do it! The iPhone 4S is a 800Mhz dual core. It seems a 1Ghz Android doesn't beat it. It takes a 1.5 Ghz before it edges ahead on the benchmarks.
Because it isn't nearly enough. We studied recursion in high school, and I already knew all about it before that class. That's not a high enough bar for me to hire a software engineer. It's something they should understand in order to start a CS degree. A software engineer who's highest attainment is understanding recursion is an amateur.
I wouldn't require them to understand public key cryptography, but I'd expect them to be able to work through it with me in an question and answer session.
I was quoting you, are you that forgetful that you forget your own word usage?
Indicators, not indicator.
Your comprehension skills aren't up to much. That paragraph in full: "Pilots should NOT rely on ordinary sunglasses or common “blue blocker” type glasses. Using sunglasses at dusk, night and dawn (when almost all laser incidents occur) could be unsafe. Blue blocker glasses have an effect on many different colors of blue and green. This may adversely effect how cockpit instruments and airport lights are perceived."
No one suggested they should wear 'ordinary sunglasses or common “blue blocker” type glasses'. I specifically said narrow band filters. Just as you can block a narrow band of green that matches green lasers, but doesnt block green indicators, you can block a narrow band of blue that blocks blue laser, but doesn't block other shades of blue.
Sounds like protectionism. I have sympathy with the idea that you need a certain qualification to call yourself an engineer. I have no sympathy for the idea that you need to join a club to call yourself one.
You're logical thinking comes to the opposite conclusion than looking at the results does. It's because words in proportional fonts fit closer together than in fix-width fonts, so they don't benefit from the change in spacial rhythm of two spaces that monospaced fonts benefits from.
Having said that, two spaces following a sentence in a monospaced font is now an old fashioned standard. These days one space is standard for either.
It happens all the time. In a lifetime of software engineering, I've picked my own job title for everything but the first couple of years. At some point you get an email saying they're going to do some business cards for you, and asking what job title you want on them.
Carmack is a programmer. He doesn't design the games. He comes up with some new engine technique, and then the designers make a game out of it.
The cockpit indicator"? WTF are you talking about?
What you're basically doing at that point is putting sunglasses on in a dark room while trying to read.
No. Unlike sunglasses these are narrow band filters.
And the significance of that is what? Two dimensional arrays don't involve recursion. N-dimensional array involve recursion.
My favourite interview involved a real world analogy to public key encryption. I think that would weed out 99% of the ones who understand recursion.
There are also tiers of programmers, some of the poor fucks we've hired didn't know how to work w SQL parameters
I've worked as a software engineer for years, and I wouldn't know that either. If I was told I had to work with that sort of thing I'd probably kill myself first.
Technically I'm a sys admin though
Ah, well, that explains it.
Who'd have thought HP would be having a fire sale? But that's by the by. The point is that "shipped" is not the same as "sold". HP Touchpad is just an extreme to demonstrate the difference.
The glasses protect against green laser light whilst allowing you to see green cockpit indicators. So why can't they do the same with blue?
Well I've seen the video and I haven't seen your test, so the believability is definitely on the side of the video so far. What are you suggesting is different in the test? Following on from part 1 of the video, he is testing the stock build of Android, and he's got Flash (and indeed all plugins) turned off.
And anyway, even your result is slower than the iPhone 4S.
Except that what you claim didn't happen with any of those things.
For example no one ever claimed that NOT having cut'n'paste in early version of iOS was "the best way".
Nor did anyone claim that moving to X86 was "the best way". Rather it was a sad acceptance that IBM were no longer moving ahead fast enough with their PowerPC line.
There never were any maximise buttons on OSX and there still aren't. The zoom button is there as it always was. You're confusing it with full-screen. There always was a full-screen keyboard short cut and menu item on those apps that needed it, and now there's a button that does it as well. That came out of the blue. No one ever claimed it was a good idea NOT to have a full-screen button - it was never a point of contention. Last time I looked at Windows is was still in the state OSX used to be as far as full-screen goes. I think their shortcut is Alt-Enter???
Your other 2: "Larger screens. Multi-tasking." are vague. It's not even clear which OS you're talking about, let alone what specific problem and change of view you want to claim.
See? They say SALES.
Strategy Analytics did NOT say sales, here's what they said, in it's entirety:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111027007124/en/Strategy-Analytics-Samsung-Worlds-Number-Smartphone-Vendor
The word sales doesn't appear anywhere in it.
Sorry, but you have your facts wrong. Completely the wrong way around. And that's on top of your initial lack of understanding of the difference between shipped and sold.
...and instead have to claim they are saying something they aren't?
How ironic.
No indeed it wasn't. iPhone always ships more each quarter than the quarter before. But of course the really big step jumps upwards are when a new model comes out. Let's see Q4 market share figures from one of the regular market share analysts.
Try substituting HP for Samsung in that paragraph, and consider the HP Touchpad. Shipped lots. Sold virtually none. After 7 weeks they had to discontinue the product and sell the remaining stock in a fire sale. Which is only one step up from burying in the desert. And the stock that was already in retailers hands? That's why HP had to not only discontinue that product, but abandon the tablet market. What retailer is ever going to stock another HP tablet?
Shipped means someone has paid the manufacturer to ship X number of units.
LOL! You think retailers pay for stock before it's shipped? Give it up.
If you want to know why the difference between shipped and sold really matters, you probably want to look at the sorry tale of the HP Touchpad. Shipped lots. Sold virtually none. Had to be discontinued after 7 weeks. Stock had to be sold off in a fire-sale.