Is this a case of preprocessing gone wrong? Sometimes preprocessing can be a monster because it blows up each.c file into a monster file due to (almost) every.h file being included, which lead to long compile times. This is especially the case when you have large numbers of.c files. Preprocessing was invented as a hack in the time that memory too small for the whole source to be compiled in one time. But when applied to large systems, it causes the compile time to increase, because every piece of code in a.h files is compiled over and over again. I think that it is one of those hacks (short-cuts) that has gone wrong, because it is due to legacy very difficult to get rid of. The D language would be a good alternative, but translating all C code to equivalent D code is impossible. And I guess that in some case, such as operating systems deployed at multiple platforms, you do need conditional compiling, and I am not sure if that can be implemented with D.
And they also had some luck with the weather. It was the 21Connect from the University of Twente (from which I graduated) who started in pole position. They only by a small margin won from the Nuon, the other Dutch team. On the first day, they suffered a small malfunction and lost 20 minutes. They took over many other cars, but got much further behind, because the weather conditions became worse compared to those on the top. And the conditions only became worse. Just today, the had to battle against strong winds (up to 70 Km/h) and thick clouds. Although they are on fifth position, they are not sure whether they can finish tomorrow, while Nuon team finished second behind the Tokai university team. Those differences in finishing times cannot be explained by differences in performance, but must be contributed to differences in weather conditions.
Really a silly remark if you think about the amouth of money that the Dutch donate to charity and to funds to third world countries compared to other countries. See List of most charitable countries.
Here in the Netherlands it was all over the news that Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, a lady who died at age 115 and left her body to science, had speciale genes.
I am considering removing all hyperlinks from my private website and possibly replace them with a link to a Google search that might return the page. Can't risk your life being destroyed nowadays by a stupid hyperlink.
As I understand it correctly, this is not the case. If Microsoft EU would be a daughter of a US based division of Microsoft (and it would) they still would be required to hand over the data on request even if Mircosoft EU and it cloud servers would be placed inside the EU. I thought that that was the whole issue, that the Patriot Act applies to all U.S. based companies and all its daughter companies no matter where they are based. In a sense there is simpy no way, Microsoft is going to provide any type of cloud service if they want to adhere to European laws. And this is true for any company based in the U.S.. Actually, this will be a boost for European companies providing cloud services inside Europe.
It would be more interesting to have some data about usages per head of the country. In the Netherlands cannabis can be bought legally in small quantaties for personal use. In some other countries it is illegale. For some reason teenagers are drawn to things that are illegale. So, it could well be that in the United States the largest percentage of people who used cannabis used it just for a few times, while in the Netherlands there is a much larger group of regular users.
I got the impression that it could not be corrected after the vote was taken and the president of the House declared the amendement to be accepted. I also understand that according to the procedures, there is no way to redo the vote. The only way to correct the mistake is to stop the bill in the Senate or create a new bill that would correct the mistake.
The procedure was also not immediately halted. According to the regulations it is not possible to halt a voting for this kind of reason. There was some discussion among the representatives of the different parties. The Laybor party was not asking the procedure to be halted, but requisted for a break to have a private meeting with the members of the party. Some of the parties stated that it was very exceptional to request for such a break during voting. Other parties argued that such a break had been allowed on a previous occasion. Finally the president of the House decided to grand a break and delay the voting to continue today.
The cases in which performance is critical, are getting less and less, now that hardware is getting faster and faster. Not strange that Microsoft is focussing on JavaScript and HTML5. It seems that at the moment the greatest effort in performance improvement is put into JavaScript.
It is often the case that those who suffer from Alzheimer's Disease live a happy life. My wife has recently been accepted in a home and for most of the time she seems quite happy with the life that she is living there. As a patient of Alzheimer's Disease you realize less and less what is going on when the disease progresses. But depressions and periodes of anxiety do occur. But it is often the people around the patient that suffer far more than the patient her/himself. I can testify this from first hand experience with respect to me, my children and our friends. In case I would be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease that would be a reason for me to want to terminate my life and sparing the people around me the prolonged sufferings of having me see go backwards.
I think it should be possible to state that you want your life to be terminated when the disease has been progressed to a certain spcified level. There are some 'objective' milestones in the progress of the disease. Already dementia is one of the most expensive diseases in the western world, and especially in Europe, where the population is no longer growing, these costs are going to get much higher in the coming decades. Especially the last years are very expensive. That too would be a reason for me to consider early termination of my life, not wanting to put an unnecessary burden to society as a whole. But I also feel that people who do not want to terminate their life early, should get the best possible care.
A 'Myst' movie is already in the works. It will not be primarily be based on one of the games, but one of the novels, and its provisory title is "Myst: The Book of Ti’ana". For more information, see mystmovie.com.
There are strong reasons to believe that go is more challenging than chess. Chess is mainly a tactical game, where go is far more strategic. Also it seems you can only become strong in chess by learning large number of opening games by heart. True, go does also have it's joseki's, but it seems that these play a less significant role, and that there is more room for variation.
How did the universe come into existence? Created out of nothing? Existing for ever? How do you explain second law of thermodynamics? The arrow of time? Do we have a free will? Is there anyway we can influence future events or are we just observers? What is consciousness/awareness? Are we just 'dreaming' machines? My feeling is that the answer of any of these questions (some overlap) is related to the question whether God exists or not?
Throughout my life I have tried to reason for both the existence and non-existence of God, and it seems I always arrive at one of the above question that I cannot answer. It seems I always arrive are at a big mystery. Sometimes, when I walk through a book store, I am hoping to come across the one book that answers all these questions, but slowly I am becoming convinced that the answers to these questions are beyond our grasp and will always remain a mystery, at least in this life. Because if God does exists there might be life after this life, and it might be possible to 'meet' God. I feel that in this life there is nothing more to discover (with respect to these questions, at least), so in a sense I am seeing my death as the ultimate moment of truth. At the moment, I expect that my consciousness will simply evaporate and that it is like falling in an eternal sleep. But there is still a small hope that I might be wrong.
I was raised as a Catholic and I for some decennia I considered myself an evangelical born-again Christian. Now I see myself a sceptic, doubting everything that I know, but still trying to live life to the best of my knowledge and abilities.
I agree with you, except for the signature you are using. You cannot claim that there is no God, because to do so, you would need to be omniscient. And that would make you God-like. Stating with absolute certainty that there is no God is also an ideology and not based on scientific truth. And that gives me the impression that you are rather ignorant about the nature of scientific truth.
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Contrary to the popular belief, it is probably impossible to know if there is a God or not.
Sell the back of the monolite per square inch as advertising space or for private investors to put their name on. Maybe in a million years it will be rediscovered by some descendant of the mouse who then have achieved human like intelligence.
Although, I agree that TMG is better than most other software packages, it is still not the correct approach to really sound genealogy, because sound genealogy is all about documenting your sources. Every fact stored in your software package should have a source. Also, every assumption (such as that person A mentioned in birth certificate B is the same as person C mentioned in birth certificate D) should be entered as such with a source as well (even if it is you yourself). In that way, it is always possible to derive on which facts and assumptions a certain relationship between two persons is based. Actually, This approach is especially important when you exchange data with other genealogists. Just adding an author to a collection of facts, is not good enough, because you can never see if a fact from two sources isn't actually based on the same (possible incorrect) source or assumption. In such a system, it would also be possible to quickly fix errors, such as you discover that person A and person C are not the same.
It started out as an economical union, but than politicians thought that an econical union would only be possible with fair trade, meaning that all countries should stick to the same laws with respect to quality standards and production methods. But because people also have ecnomical rights, as to work where they want, it was decided that those kinds of laws should also be made uniform. Thus it was decided to create a political union, the European Union. Now the European Union, not being a very democratic union, because the center of the power is with the council of ministers of all countries involved and operates mostly behind closed doors, has started creating all kinds of laws that are not really related to the economical proces.
I don't understand the fuss about this, because it simply means that they are going to implement the laws that the European Union already has made. This same kind of law already has been implemented or is in the process of being implemented in many European countries, including my own, The Netherlands. If I remember correctly, the European Union laws are in the process of being extended to include all URL's (including search terms) as well.Telephone companies are already performing a lot of tracking for many years. Many ISP's are complaining that this will be very expensive to implement and that it will raise costs for the end-users, while the effectiviness of these laws are probably going to be very small.
I think it is not progressing surprisingly rapidly. Because I do have a partner with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, I follow the scientic news announcements, and I have to say that this particular news announcement is like many that are made almost every month. This is only talking about a potential target. It does not even talk about a possible medicine. If a medicine is found, it usually takes at least five year before it could become available for the general public. Even if this is a valid target, it could still take several years before finding a medicine that only works on the target. So, it could still take ten years before a medicine based on this target could become available.
Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and fatal disease with an life expectancy of about 10 years after diagnoses. So, based on this facts I would conclude that this is no hope for Pratchett!
It is true that Alzheimer's Disease is now where cancer used to be fifty years ago. What many people don't know is that the total costs for Alzheimer's Disease, in the Western world, are already larger than the total costs for cancer, and are expected to rise rapidly in face of demographic developments, especially in Europe.
Just this week there was an announcement that with a spinal fluid test may diagnose Alzheimer's Disease with a great level of reliability. In the fall of 2006 a spinal fluid test was used to diagnose Alzheimer's Disease with my wife. Then she was still in the early stages. In the past four years she has progress to the point that she needs help with almost all daily routines. She also lost the ability to write. I have enlisted her to be accepted in a caring home, because she a too great a burden for our family life. We have two kids of 15 and 12 years old. My wife is 53 at the moment. She has Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease, which is relatively rare. Alzeimer's Disease is a fatal disease with a life expectancy of about ten years after diagnoses. Most old people who get Alzheimer's Disease often die from another cause. But if you get it when younger than 65 years, it is likely going to be the main cause of your death. Most people who die from Alzheimer's Disease, die from a (lung) infection, because they have become too weak due to eating or moving too less.
I think it was also governments who decided that science should be made profitable and not being fully paid by taxes, especially when the costs for science seems to increase more and more. Many scientist nowadays, have no other way then to depend on fundraising, and that can only be done effectively with writing papers. In some fields, for example computer science, there are areas where people put all their energie in writing papers with actually no content, just speculations and promisses. There are incrowds who only visit their own conferences and go on producing papers after papers with no real results at all.
I have been following research around Alzheimer's Disease in the past four years, because my wife has Early Onset Alzeheimer's Disease (she is only 53), and also in this area, I have encountered papers that present no result, but only talk about a potential application of a certain mechanism, which sole purpose seems to be fund-raising. And in a sense, I do not object against those papers, because if there is one disease that does not receive enough funding, it is Alzheimer's Disease. The costs of Alzheimer's Disease for society as a whole is probable of the same order as that of all forms of cancer together, but only a fraction of the amount of research that is put into cancer is put into Alzheimer's Disease. Especially in western countries, with a relatively large percentage of people over the age of 65, the costs for Alzheimer's Disease are becoming a great burden.
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Is this a case of preprocessing gone wrong? Sometimes preprocessing can be a monster because it blows up each .c file into a monster file due to (almost) every .h file being included, which lead to long compile times. This is especially the case when you have large numbers of .c files. Preprocessing was invented as a hack in the time that memory too small for the whole source to be compiled in one time. But when applied to large systems, it causes the compile time to increase, because every piece of code in a .h files is compiled over and over again. I think that it is one of those hacks (short-cuts) that has gone wrong, because it is due to legacy very difficult to get rid of. The D language would be a good alternative, but translating all C code to equivalent D code is impossible. And I guess that in some case, such as operating systems deployed at multiple platforms, you do need conditional compiling, and I am not sure if that can be implemented with D.
And they also had some luck with the weather. It was the 21Connect from the University of Twente (from which I graduated) who started in pole position. They only by a small margin won from the Nuon, the other Dutch team. On the first day, they suffered a small malfunction and lost 20 minutes. They took over many other cars, but got much further behind, because the weather conditions became worse compared to those on the top. And the conditions only became worse. Just today, the had to battle against strong winds (up to 70 Km/h) and thick clouds. Although they are on fifth position, they are not sure whether they can finish tomorrow, while Nuon team finished second behind the Tokai university team. Those differences in finishing times cannot be explained by differences in performance, but must be contributed to differences in weather conditions.
Really a silly remark if you think about the amouth of money that the Dutch donate to charity and to funds to third world countries compared to other countries. See List of most charitable countries.
Here in the Netherlands it was all over the news that Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, a lady who died at age 115 and left her body to science, had speciale genes.
It seems that only recently (today) Bell Labs removed his home page. Or did they take it off-line due to extensive traffic?
The first was the Witkar in Amsterdam more than 35 years ago.
Anybody found a website where it is possible to follow the progression of the supernova in (near) real-time? A brightness graph would be interesting.
I am considering removing all hyperlinks from my private website and possibly replace them with a link to a Google search that might return the page. Can't risk your life being destroyed nowadays by a stupid hyperlink.
As I understand it correctly, this is not the case. If Microsoft EU would be a daughter of a US based division of Microsoft (and it would) they still would be required to hand over the data on request even if Mircosoft EU and it cloud servers would be placed inside the EU. I thought that that was the whole issue, that the Patriot Act applies to all U.S. based companies and all its daughter companies no matter where they are based. In a sense there is simpy no way, Microsoft is going to provide any type of cloud service if they want to adhere to European laws. And this is true for any company based in the U.S.. Actually, this will be a boost for European companies providing cloud services inside Europe.
It would be more interesting to have some data about usages per head of the country. In the Netherlands cannabis can be bought legally in small quantaties for personal use. In some other countries it is illegale. For some reason teenagers are drawn to things that are illegale. So, it could well be that in the United States the largest percentage of people who used cannabis used it just for a few times, while in the Netherlands there is a much larger group of regular users.
I got the impression that it could not be corrected after the vote was taken and the president of the House declared the amendement to be accepted. I also understand that according to the procedures, there is no way to redo the vote. The only way to correct the mistake is to stop the bill in the Senate or create a new bill that would correct the mistake.
The procedure was also not immediately halted. According to the regulations it is not possible to halt a voting for this kind of reason. There was some discussion among the representatives of the different parties. The Laybor party was not asking the procedure to be halted, but requisted for a break to have a private meeting with the members of the party. Some of the parties stated that it was very exceptional to request for such a break during voting. Other parties argued that such a break had been allowed on a previous occasion. Finally the president of the House decided to grand a break and delay the voting to continue today.
The cases in which performance is critical, are getting less and less, now that hardware is getting faster and faster. Not strange that Microsoft is focussing on JavaScript and HTML5. It seems that at the moment the greatest effort in performance improvement is put into JavaScript.
It is often the case that those who suffer from Alzheimer's Disease live a happy life. My wife has recently been accepted in a home and for most of the time she seems quite happy with the life that she is living there. As a patient of Alzheimer's Disease you realize less and less what is going on when the disease progresses. But depressions and periodes of anxiety do occur. But it is often the people around the patient that suffer far more than the patient her/himself. I can testify this from first hand experience with respect to me, my children and our friends. In case I would be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease that would be a reason for me to want to terminate my life and sparing the people around me the prolonged sufferings of having me see go backwards.
I think it should be possible to state that you want your life to be terminated when the disease has been progressed to a certain spcified level. There are some 'objective' milestones in the progress of the disease. Already dementia is one of the most expensive diseases in the western world, and especially in Europe, where the population is no longer growing, these costs are going to get much higher in the coming decades. Especially the last years are very expensive. That too would be a reason for me to consider early termination of my life, not wanting to put an unnecessary burden to society as a whole. But I also feel that people who do not want to terminate their life early, should get the best possible care.
A 'Myst' movie is already in the works. It will not be primarily be based on one of the games, but one of the novels, and its provisory title is "Myst: The Book of Ti’ana". For more information, see mystmovie.com.
There are strong reasons to believe that go is more challenging than chess. Chess is mainly a tactical game, where go is far more strategic. Also it seems you can only become strong in chess by learning large number of opening games by heart. True, go does also have it's joseki's, but it seems that these play a less significant role, and that there is more room for variation.
Throughout my life I have tried to reason for both the existence and non-existence of God, and it seems I always arrive at one of the above question that I cannot answer. It seems I always arrive are at a big mystery. Sometimes, when I walk through a book store, I am hoping to come across the one book that answers all these questions, but slowly I am becoming convinced that the answers to these questions are beyond our grasp and will always remain a mystery, at least in this life. Because if God does exists there might be life after this life, and it might be possible to 'meet' God. I feel that in this life there is nothing more to discover (with respect to these questions, at least), so in a sense I am seeing my death as the ultimate moment of truth. At the moment, I expect that my consciousness will simply evaporate and that it is like falling in an eternal sleep. But there is still a small hope that I might be wrong.
I was raised as a Catholic and I for some decennia I considered myself an evangelical born-again Christian. Now I see myself a sceptic, doubting everything that I know, but still trying to live life to the best of my knowledge and abilities.
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Contrary to the popular belief, it is probably impossible to know if there is a God or not.
Sell the back of the monolite per square inch as advertising space or for private investors to put their name on. Maybe in a million years it will be rediscovered by some descendant of the mouse who then have achieved human like intelligence.
Although, I agree that TMG is better than most other software packages, it is still not the correct approach to really sound genealogy, because sound genealogy is all about documenting your sources. Every fact stored in your software package should have a source. Also, every assumption (such as that person A mentioned in birth certificate B is the same as person C mentioned in birth certificate D) should be entered as such with a source as well (even if it is you yourself). In that way, it is always possible to derive on which facts and assumptions a certain relationship between two persons is based. Actually, This approach is especially important when you exchange data with other genealogists. Just adding an author to a collection of facts, is not good enough, because you can never see if a fact from two sources isn't actually based on the same (possible incorrect) source or assumption. In such a system, it would also be possible to quickly fix errors, such as you discover that person A and person C are not the same.
It started out as an economical union, but than politicians thought that an econical union would only be possible with fair trade, meaning that all countries should stick to the same laws with respect to quality standards and production methods. But because people also have ecnomical rights, as to work where they want, it was decided that those kinds of laws should also be made uniform. Thus it was decided to create a political union, the European Union. Now the European Union, not being a very democratic union, because the center of the power is with the council of ministers of all countries involved and operates mostly behind closed doors, has started creating all kinds of laws that are not really related to the economical proces.
I don't understand the fuss about this, because it simply means that they are going to implement the laws that the European Union already has made. This same kind of law already has been implemented or is in the process of being implemented in many European countries, including my own, The Netherlands. If I remember correctly, the European Union laws are in the process of being extended to include all URL's (including search terms) as well.Telephone companies are already performing a lot of tracking for many years. Many ISP's are complaining that this will be very expensive to implement and that it will raise costs for the end-users, while the effectiviness of these laws are probably going to be very small.
See, for example, BBC: Dementia 'losing out' to cancer in funding stakes, which refers to Dementia 2010 Report. Or more recently, Alzheimer's disease to cost 1 pct of world's GDP in 2010.
I think it is not progressing surprisingly rapidly. Because I do have a partner with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, I follow the scientic news announcements, and I have to say that this particular news announcement is like many that are made almost every month. This is only talking about a potential target. It does not even talk about a possible medicine. If a medicine is found, it usually takes at least five year before it could become available for the general public. Even if this is a valid target, it could still take several years before finding a medicine that only works on the target. So, it could still take ten years before a medicine based on this target could become available.
Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and fatal disease with an life expectancy of about 10 years after diagnoses. So, based on this facts I would conclude that this is no hope for Pratchett!
It is true that Alzheimer's Disease is now where cancer used to be fifty years ago. What many people don't know is that the total costs for Alzheimer's Disease, in the Western world, are already larger than the total costs for cancer, and are expected to rise rapidly in face of demographic developments, especially in Europe.
Just this week there was an announcement that with a spinal fluid test may diagnose Alzheimer's Disease with a great level of reliability. In the fall of 2006 a spinal fluid test was used to diagnose Alzheimer's Disease with my wife. Then she was still in the early stages. In the past four years she has progress to the point that she needs help with almost all daily routines. She also lost the ability to write. I have enlisted her to be accepted in a caring home, because she a too great a burden for our family life. We have two kids of 15 and 12 years old. My wife is 53 at the moment. She has Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease, which is relatively rare. Alzeimer's Disease is a fatal disease with a life expectancy of about ten years after diagnoses. Most old people who get Alzheimer's Disease often die from another cause. But if you get it when younger than 65 years, it is likely going to be the main cause of your death. Most people who die from Alzheimer's Disease, die from a (lung) infection, because they have become too weak due to eating or moving too less.
I think it was also governments who decided that science should be made profitable and not being fully paid by taxes, especially when the costs for science seems to increase more and more. Many scientist nowadays, have no other way then to depend on fundraising, and that can only be done effectively with writing papers. In some fields, for example computer science, there are areas where people put all their energie in writing papers with actually no content, just speculations and promisses. There are incrowds who only visit their own conferences and go on producing papers after papers with no real results at all.
I have been following research around Alzheimer's Disease in the past four years, because my wife has Early Onset Alzeheimer's Disease (she is only 53), and also in this area, I have encountered papers that present no result, but only talk about a potential application of a certain mechanism, which sole purpose seems to be fund-raising. And in a sense, I do not object against those papers, because if there is one disease that does not receive enough funding, it is Alzheimer's Disease. The costs of Alzheimer's Disease for society as a whole is probable of the same order as that of all forms of cancer together, but only a fraction of the amount of research that is put into cancer is put into Alzheimer's Disease. Especially in western countries, with a relatively large percentage of people over the age of 65, the costs for Alzheimer's Disease are becoming a great burden.