Except it would do worse, because there's over 60 years of collective knowledge centered around the construction, maintenance and flying of B-52s, whereas whatever new hotness comes out will have its own little quirks.
It's the same reason why big software re-writes never work; the old software is old and convoluted because it's had to solve problems you'd never think of the first time around.
I have to admit, I'm not really sure what's new here; you can do the same sort of thing in Visual Studio and Eclipse, as far as I know.
If documentation is available, Intellisense (or Eclipse's equivalent) will pop it up along with the function's parameters when you start typing.
If you want to play around with code, you can pause the debugger and see what happens in the Immediate Window.
If you want to search for a particular function, well, that's why you've got Google open in another window; it's a lot nicer than messing around in the IDE.
If you want to see how data is flowing through your functions, you can watch variables, which are less confusing; in the demo, variables get replaced with the current literal value, which might make you forget that there's actually variable there after a long coding session. I do admit that his idea of keeping track of what every function's state was when it was initially called and displaying that is interesting, but I'm not sure how that would work with loops or recursion (do you show the looped function multiple times?)
The only really interesting thing is this idea of pulling related functions next to each other so you can look at them all at once, but I'm pretty sure the rest of the functionality isn't very novel.
I hope you realize that pregnancy isn't just some binary on-off thing.
Laci Peterson was 32 weeks pregnant when she went missing. Divide that by four, and you get eight months; hopefully I don't need to tell you this, but most pregnancies last nine months, and infants are very much viable a month before that. In fact, the legal cutoff for getting an abortion in the USA is 24 weeks, because that's about when a fetus is viable.
Almost nobody is pro- abortions that late, because it essentially is murder. However, pretty much all abortions happen within the first trimester (that is, within 12 weeks of conception), and that's okay - though it's still pretty sad to be in that situation.
In the abortion debate, the people on the pro life side honestly believe that killing a foetus is morally equivalent to killing an adult.
They don't though. See this video - when asked what the punishment should be for women who get illegal abortions, most demonstrators either offer up punishments that are nowhere near as strict as the ones for murder, or avoid the question entirely - despite the fact that if fetuses were legally considered to have the same rights as a full human, the woman getting the abortion would be guilty of first degree murder which carries a mandatory federal penalty of life in prison or death.
Even they don't actually believe that taking a fetus's life is equivalent to taking a full adult's, or even a child's; when confronted with the consequences of that position, they simply can't accept it (well, there is one lady who accepts that by granting fetuses full human rights she's consigning women to life in prison, but she starts crying).
It turns out, actually, that our senses provide a very good representation of the world around us. Apparently, in order to be evolutionarily successful, it helps to have sense that accurately report information to you, instead of living in some philosophical dream-world. Sure, there's no way to rule out some sort of large-scale Matrix scenario, but anything less than that is pretty much ruled out.
Wittgenstein is neat, but unfortunately he's largely contradicted by that bane of philosophers everywhere: empirical evidence.
There are many shades of Agnosticism but there is only one of Atheism and that is "There is nothing supernatural."
Actually, atheism is even narrower than that - all it means is that you hold the position that there is no God. Atheists can still believe in fairies, ghosts, goblins, the healing power of chakras or what-have-you. It just so happens that these days atheists tend to be generally skeptical, which means they generally don't believe in the supernatural either.
Of course! He is the dude who said "I have come to bring not peace but the sword", cast the moneylenders (i.e, people who didn't believe as he does) out of the temple, and cursed the fig tree for not having any fruit when he wanted it.
A large part of the nice "Buddy Christ" image people have of him comes from the line Christians sell converts (and each other); the dude in the Bible was kind of a jerk.
I hope you realize that this means poor people who need abortions in anti-abortion states will be screwed unless they can drive across state lines, while rich people who need abortions will be fine since they can just catch a flight and spend a couple of days recuperating.
Which then means that you can't help your teenage niece or granddaughter get an abortion, just because her parents are controlling fundie assholes who think she should suffer for her sins (and keep in mind that the stats which will outlaw abortion are also the states that will push abstinence-only sex ed, which tends to correlate really well with a rise in teenage pregnancy - meaning that this will happen a lot).
Basically, turning abortion into a per-state decision is an absolutely terrible policy.
I think it's fair to point out that people were saying the same thing about color TV in the 1960's: It's a fad--who needs it.
It's not quite the same; the difference is, there's actual, tangible complaints about 3D, and there were tangible benefits to using color. You don't need special glasses to watch movies in color, for instance, and color doesn't give some people headaches (well, no more than black and white would have).
Furthermore, color can actually be used to make a better movie. Even Avatar, one of the best 3D movies so far, was about as enjoyable in the 2D version. I doubt you could say the same thing about color versus black and white.
Basically, it seems like 3D is full of downsides and simply doesn't offer enough of a benefit to the viewer to be useful; color, on the other hand, had basically no downsides and offered significant benefits.
Dude, they're making a game with a budget of $1 million if they're lucky. Cut them a break if they don't target one of the platforms least used for gaming!
Good grief, that's not what the quote means. Richelieu had a team of expert forgers - the six lines were a handwriting sample, that would be used to produce a false confession (generally of dealings with the devil).
Because that doesn't fit with the plot or mechanics of the game?
The plot is that the space race never ended, so in 1980ish we had ships equipped with 16 bit computers and cold sleep chambders. An endianness bug caused people who wanted to sleep for 1 year to sleep for 0x10^C years (which is where the name comes from), so now you all have to rebuild stuff.
The mechanics inolve writing programs that will be run offline; your computer in-game will execute a particular number of cycles per second. With a low level assembly language, Notch can (and does) define precisely how many cycles each instruction takes. How would you do that for a scripting language with API hooks? It would end up being ridiculously complicated.Doing it in assembly like his lets people hand-optimize their stuff a lot easier, especially when (as you say) the high-level languages will be quickly available anyway.
Basically, doing it your way would be fairly blah.
I think that even in that case, they still can't ask if the applicant is a US citizen - they say something like "fyi you must be a US citizen to work here", and then HR just doesn't approve the hire if it turns out the applicant isn't a citizen.
But after the spike of one-time purchases and brand adoption during the pregnancy, most of the purchases for actually raising a child are recurring and made from habit, so advertising is less effective.
Actually you missed the most important part - after the spike of one-time purchases during the pregnancy, most purchases for actually raising a child are made from habits that can be influenced during the pregnancy.
That's why advertising to newly pregnant women is so profitable; if you pull it off properly, you might have a customer who will now buy things from you for the next eighteen years - and then that child will have memories of shopping at Target, and refuse to shop anywhere else (e.g, my wife absolutely refuses to shop at K-Mart and will drive further to go to a Target, just because that's where her mother shopped when she was a kid).
The drop situation is the same for all iPads, even if you drop tested an older one and got different results, you just got lucky on the old one. The screen is a huge expanse of glass on any iPad, you have to be careful.
The drop thing is particularly egregious in this article. TFA cites Square Trade, who dropped iPads in various orientations and gave qualitative descriptions.
Their conclusion?
The iPad 2 screen shattered badly, but not as badly as the new iPad. The new iPad screen almost popped off and suffered much more damage.
So what? Once the screen is shattered, you're getting a new one either way; the magnitude of the shattering doesn't particularly matter. If you take it in to an Apple store, they're just going to clone the contents to a replacement; if you take it to an independent repair shop, they're still just going to replace the screen. It's not like there's much in there that'll get damaged from hitting the ground.
And the thing is, falling face down is an absolute worst-case scenario for the iPad; I've already dropped my iPad 3 from about chest height, and it survived without a scratch after landing on its corner and sliding under the stove. (tip: don't hold your iPad while cooking until they come up with better covers and cases; the Apple Smart Case will pop off when you least expect it).
The assumption was that if a hijacker came on board with a knife, the people would pummel him/her, whereas a gun was considerably more lethal. Thus, they protected against the latter and not the former. What they didn't count on was thirty years of complacency brought about by a lack of incidents.
No, that's not the assumption; the assumption was the the hijackers would take the plane to some other country, and hold the passengers hostage until some demands were met. The possibility that the airplane hijackers would kill themselves flying the airplanes into something was generally not considered, presumably because that was not something hijackers had done historically. Just look through Wikipedia's list of airplane hijackings - the majority of them end without hostage casualties if the hostages cooperate, but result in casualties when there's resistance.
Thus, before Sept 11th, the assumption was that if hijackers came on board with knives, they would demand to be flown to Cuba or something, but wouldn't otherwise harm the hostages. That's why nobody got pummeled on Sept 11th; it wasn't a reasonable course of action, since cooperation leads to better results than resistance.
After Sept 11th, the passengers probably would pummel the hijackers; in fact, we can be pretty certain that's the case, because the fourth airplane that was hijacked on Sept 11th crashed after the hostages found out that these were suicide hijackers and tried to re-take control of the plane.
That's a big leap. Countries with high populations densities, such as those in Europe and the Far East, will have a much easier/cheaper time of building out the infrastructure for reliable high-speed internet to a vast majority of their population. Here in the US, however, it's a lot more expensive.
Which is why we have such great Internet connectivity in our cities with high population density, like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston or Philadelphia?
Face it, the "population density" argument just doesn't work. The real reason the USA is fucked in terms of infrastructure is because for some reason we prefer spending money blowing up other people's roads and bridges and networks over maintaining our own.
Soooo... you're just going to let two authors you like languish, simply because you're afraid of being accused of astroturf in the depths of the comments on a post about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Yours is not even close to a reasonable argument, it is down there with arguments made by creationists and intelligent design advocates.
I hope you realize that this is kind of the point - by saying "the Bible must be taken literally, so we can't accept evolution", the IDists and Creationists are also implicitly saying "we must teach that pi is exactly 3". It's not even close to a reasonable argument, but somehow laws are passed based on those unreasonable arguments. as soon as you allow for some leeway like "maybe they didn't mean seven literal days" or "they rounded the values", the argument falls apart.
Why go through all that effort and then not mention the two authors you like? The applicable content rating system is word of mouth, after all, and if you mention them you'll help raise the signal to noise level.
I swear, all you Slashdotters had better start learning Mandarin with this attitude.
Have you ever worked with Chinese people? Like real Chinese people, from China. My wife has - she's a graduate student, and a lot of the other grad students came from over there. She's even been to a Chinese university for a couple of months, to do some field and lab work over there on a grant.
At first, she was really disappointed in herself; she could see that the Chinese kids got to work before her and left really really late, and they'd even have lunch at their desks instead of going outside to eat.
Then she paid a bit more attention, and realized something: those Chinese students weren't getting shit done. Even though she put in fewer hours and would take a break for lunch, she was getting at least as much work done, if not more.
It's not that they're lazy or incompetent or anything like that, it's that they push themselves so hard they're all in this steady state of being half burnt out.
The thing is, it doesn't matter how hard you're willing to work; there's only about eight hours per day of physical labor in you, or six hours per day of mental effort. Sure, you can put in more work for a week, maybe two, but after that the quality goes way downhill.
They are all about reducing the size, power, and involvement in daily life of government.
Though according to the polls, they're totally okay with the government involving itself in your nightly life, up to and including who you are allowed to share legal marriage benefits with and whether or not you should be allowed to have an abortion.
I don't support them for the same reason why I would never support Ron Paul - whenever they're elected, they have a snowball's chance in hell of getting their economic theories put into to practice (primarily because they wouldn't work, I imagine), so they fall back to trying to enforce their social mores on everyone else since that seems to be the only thing they think they can do.
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Except it would do worse, because there's over 60 years of collective knowledge centered around the construction, maintenance and flying of B-52s, whereas whatever new hotness comes out will have its own little quirks.
It's the same reason why big software re-writes never work; the old software is old and convoluted because it's had to solve problems you'd never think of the first time around.
I have to admit, I'm not really sure what's new here; you can do the same sort of thing in Visual Studio and Eclipse, as far as I know.
If documentation is available, Intellisense (or Eclipse's equivalent) will pop it up along with the function's parameters when you start typing.
If you want to play around with code, you can pause the debugger and see what happens in the Immediate Window.
If you want to search for a particular function, well, that's why you've got Google open in another window; it's a lot nicer than messing around in the IDE.
If you want to see how data is flowing through your functions, you can watch variables, which are less confusing; in the demo, variables get replaced with the current literal value, which might make you forget that there's actually variable there after a long coding session. I do admit that his idea of keeping track of what every function's state was when it was initially called and displaying that is interesting, but I'm not sure how that would work with loops or recursion (do you show the looped function multiple times?)
The only really interesting thing is this idea of pulling related functions next to each other so you can look at them all at once, but I'm pretty sure the rest of the functionality isn't very novel.
I hope you realize that pregnancy isn't just some binary on-off thing.
Laci Peterson was 32 weeks pregnant when she went missing. Divide that by four, and you get eight months; hopefully I don't need to tell you this, but most pregnancies last nine months, and infants are very much viable a month before that. In fact, the legal cutoff for getting an abortion in the USA is 24 weeks, because that's about when a fetus is viable.
Almost nobody is pro- abortions that late, because it essentially is murder. However, pretty much all abortions happen within the first trimester (that is, within 12 weeks of conception), and that's okay - though it's still pretty sad to be in that situation.
They don't though. See this video - when asked what the punishment should be for women who get illegal abortions, most demonstrators either offer up punishments that are nowhere near as strict as the ones for murder, or avoid the question entirely - despite the fact that if fetuses were legally considered to have the same rights as a full human, the woman getting the abortion would be guilty of first degree murder which carries a mandatory federal penalty of life in prison or death.
Even they don't actually believe that taking a fetus's life is equivalent to taking a full adult's, or even a child's; when confronted with the consequences of that position, they simply can't accept it (well, there is one lady who accepts that by granting fetuses full human rights she's consigning women to life in prison, but she starts crying).
It turns out, actually, that our senses provide a very good representation of the world around us. Apparently, in order to be evolutionarily successful, it helps to have sense that accurately report information to you, instead of living in some philosophical dream-world. Sure, there's no way to rule out some sort of large-scale Matrix scenario, but anything less than that is pretty much ruled out.
Wittgenstein is neat, but unfortunately he's largely contradicted by that bane of philosophers everywhere: empirical evidence.
Actually, atheism is even narrower than that - all it means is that you hold the position that there is no God. Atheists can still believe in fairies, ghosts, goblins, the healing power of chakras or what-have-you. It just so happens that these days atheists tend to be generally skeptical, which means they generally don't believe in the supernatural either.
Of course! He is the dude who said "I have come to bring not peace but the sword", cast the moneylenders (i.e, people who didn't believe as he does) out of the temple, and cursed the fig tree for not having any fruit when he wanted it.
A large part of the nice "Buddy Christ" image people have of him comes from the line Christians sell converts (and each other); the dude in the Bible was kind of a jerk.
I hope you realize that this means poor people who need abortions in anti-abortion states will be screwed unless they can drive across state lines, while rich people who need abortions will be fine since they can just catch a flight and spend a couple of days recuperating.
And then, of course, the anti-abortion states will start passing laws that make it illegal for anyone to drive a minor across state lines for the purposes of abortion, unless the driver is a legal guardian of the minor or has the guardian's permission.
Which then means that you can't help your teenage niece or granddaughter get an abortion, just because her parents are controlling fundie assholes who think she should suffer for her sins (and keep in mind that the stats which will outlaw abortion are also the states that will push abstinence-only sex ed, which tends to correlate really well with a rise in teenage pregnancy - meaning that this will happen a lot).
Basically, turning abortion into a per-state decision is an absolutely terrible policy.
It's not quite the same; the difference is, there's actual, tangible complaints about 3D, and there were tangible benefits to using color. You don't need special glasses to watch movies in color, for instance, and color doesn't give some people headaches (well, no more than black and white would have).
Furthermore, color can actually be used to make a better movie. Even Avatar, one of the best 3D movies so far, was about as enjoyable in the 2D version. I doubt you could say the same thing about color versus black and white.
Basically, it seems like 3D is full of downsides and simply doesn't offer enough of a benefit to the viewer to be useful; color, on the other hand, had basically no downsides and offered significant benefits.
Dude, they're making a game with a budget of $1 million if they're lucky. Cut them a break if they don't target one of the platforms least used for gaming!
Good grief, that's not what the quote means. Richelieu had a team of expert forgers - the six lines were a handwriting sample, that would be used to produce a false confession (generally of dealings with the devil).
Because that doesn't fit with the plot or mechanics of the game?
The plot is that the space race never ended, so in 1980ish we had ships equipped with 16 bit computers and cold sleep chambders. An endianness bug caused people who wanted to sleep for 1 year to sleep for 0x10^C years (which is where the name comes from), so now you all have to rebuild stuff.
The mechanics inolve writing programs that will be run offline; your computer in-game will execute a particular number of cycles per second. With a low level assembly language, Notch can (and does) define precisely how many cycles each instruction takes. How would you do that for a scripting language with API hooks? It would end up being ridiculously complicated.Doing it in assembly like his lets people hand-optimize their stuff a lot easier, especially when (as you say) the high-level languages will be quickly available anyway.
Basically, doing it your way would be fairly blah.
I think that even in that case, they still can't ask if the applicant is a US citizen - they say something like "fyi you must be a US citizen to work here", and then HR just doesn't approve the hire if it turns out the applicant isn't a citizen.
Actually you missed the most important part - after the spike of one-time purchases during the pregnancy, most purchases for actually raising a child are made from habits that can be influenced during the pregnancy.
That's why advertising to newly pregnant women is so profitable; if you pull it off properly, you might have a customer who will now buy things from you for the next eighteen years - and then that child will have memories of shopping at Target, and refuse to shop anywhere else (e.g, my wife absolutely refuses to shop at K-Mart and will drive further to go to a Target, just because that's where her mother shopped when she was a kid).
You're right, it totally doesn't matter - as long as your arms are six feet long, of course.
A bigger screen without an increase in DPI or resolution just means you should sit further away from it, not that it's necessarily any better.
The drop thing is particularly egregious in this article. TFA cites Square Trade, who dropped iPads in various orientations and gave qualitative descriptions.
Their conclusion?
So what? Once the screen is shattered, you're getting a new one either way; the magnitude of the shattering doesn't particularly matter. If you take it in to an Apple store, they're just going to clone the contents to a replacement; if you take it to an independent repair shop, they're still just going to replace the screen. It's not like there's much in there that'll get damaged from hitting the ground.
And the thing is, falling face down is an absolute worst-case scenario for the iPad; I've already dropped my iPad 3 from about chest height, and it survived without a scratch after landing on its corner and sliding under the stove. (tip: don't hold your iPad while cooking until they come up with better covers and cases; the Apple Smart Case will pop off when you least expect it).
No, that's not the assumption; the assumption was the the hijackers would take the plane to some other country, and hold the passengers hostage until some demands were met. The possibility that the airplane hijackers would kill themselves flying the airplanes into something was generally not considered, presumably because that was not something hijackers had done historically. Just look through Wikipedia's list of airplane hijackings - the majority of them end without hostage casualties if the hostages cooperate, but result in casualties when there's resistance.
Thus, before Sept 11th, the assumption was that if hijackers came on board with knives, they would demand to be flown to Cuba or something, but wouldn't otherwise harm the hostages. That's why nobody got pummeled on Sept 11th; it wasn't a reasonable course of action, since cooperation leads to better results than resistance.
After Sept 11th, the passengers probably would pummel the hijackers; in fact, we can be pretty certain that's the case, because the fourth airplane that was hijacked on Sept 11th crashed after the hostages found out that these were suicide hijackers and tried to re-take control of the plane.
Which is why we have such great Internet connectivity in our cities with high population density, like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston or Philadelphia?
Face it, the "population density" argument just doesn't work. The real reason the USA is fucked in terms of infrastructure is because for some reason we prefer spending money blowing up other people's roads and bridges and networks over maintaining our own.
Soooo... you're just going to let two authors you like languish, simply because you're afraid of being accused of astroturf in the depths of the comments on a post about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
You have a really weird sense of ethics.
I hope you realize that this is kind of the point - by saying "the Bible must be taken literally, so we can't accept evolution", the IDists and Creationists are also implicitly saying "we must teach that pi is exactly 3". It's not even close to a reasonable argument, but somehow laws are passed based on those unreasonable arguments. as soon as you allow for some leeway like "maybe they didn't mean seven literal days" or "they rounded the values", the argument falls apart.
Why go through all that effort and then not mention the two authors you like? The applicable content rating system is word of mouth, after all, and if you mention them you'll help raise the signal to noise level.
Have you ever worked with Chinese people? Like real Chinese people, from China. My wife has - she's a graduate student, and a lot of the other grad students came from over there. She's even been to a Chinese university for a couple of months, to do some field and lab work over there on a grant.
At first, she was really disappointed in herself; she could see that the Chinese kids got to work before her and left really really late, and they'd even have lunch at their desks instead of going outside to eat.
Then she paid a bit more attention, and realized something: those Chinese students weren't getting shit done. Even though she put in fewer hours and would take a break for lunch, she was getting at least as much work done, if not more.
It's not that they're lazy or incompetent or anything like that, it's that they push themselves so hard they're all in this steady state of being half burnt out.
The thing is, it doesn't matter how hard you're willing to work; there's only about eight hours per day of physical labor in you, or six hours per day of mental effort. Sure, you can put in more work for a week, maybe two, but after that the quality goes way downhill.
Though according to the polls, they're totally okay with the government involving itself in your nightly life, up to and including who you are allowed to share legal marriage benefits with and whether or not you should be allowed to have an abortion.
I don't support them for the same reason why I would never support Ron Paul - whenever they're elected, they have a snowball's chance in hell of getting their economic theories put into to practice (primarily because they wouldn't work, I imagine), so they fall back to trying to enforce their social mores on everyone else since that seems to be the only thing they think they can do.
... I thought they already made that, and called it Frozen Synapse?
But then I've signed up for the kickstarter, so I guess not :)
What the heck are you searching for that you get completely useless results on both Bing and Google?