Seven verbs and then one noun. I'm not sure about that. The construction: "verb, verb, verb preposition noun or noun" helps to show that the nouns are qualifiers to the last verb, and not in the list themselves.
Since there is ambiguity, look at the language used to form the list:
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, stoing, packing for shipment or distribution of
This is a list of verb forms (present participles) and so "shipment or distribution" (nouns) is a qualifier for "packing" and not additions to the list themselves. So from the context, or pattern, the "or" binds more tightly with the modifiers and not with the list. If the list was intended to include "distributing" or "shipping" it would have added the words in that form.
I use a cloud service as back-end storage in my web application and compress and encrypt all files before sending them off. I don't think I would trust a cloud provider's encryption, even if it was available. Perhaps just layer it on to my own.
... the EXIT strategy. Starting with Windows 8, M$ seems to have had a strategy to drive its OS customer base away. Subscriptions are just part of that strategy.
The school is very, very luck to have stopped this power drain so early. At a rate of 1kW/hr, the car would have drawn 2kW by hour 2, and 10kW after 10 hours. This is very dangerous - to have an energy draw that is accelerating!
Why oh why didn't they design a car that just draw 1kW? You know, as in 3600 kJ/hour? That would be much more sensible.
Having an accelerating power draw - 1kW/hr - is a recipe for disaster. Explosions and stuff.
I disagree. This is why we have elevators in buildings, and not just ballistic platforms that fire you up to the required floor. Much easier, and safer, to overcome the local gravitational force (Sun = 27x Earth's field) and move smoothly away.
I believe that with shields and a structural integrity field you are fine, and of course warp drive will get you out because it is FTL. Below the mundane event horizon, however, and closer towards the singularity, there is the sub-space event horizon and even your warp drive will not help you there.
blackholes are very helpful holding galaxies together
Yes, but the mass of the black hole would equally well hold the galaxy together even if it was more usefully organized - solar systems and planets etc. From the rest of the galaxy's perspective, it doesn't care what's down in the well so longer as there is something. So there is some argument to say that black holes are the least helpful form of matter from our solipsist point of view.
And anyway, isn't it a huge mass of dark matter that actually holds everything together?
You are forgetting length dilation in the moving frame of reference, and so have it all wrong. Length and time dilation have the same Lorentz transformation factor, so you can either think of it as time moving more slowly for the traveller from the outside viewer, or the distance being shortened from the traveller's perspective. Either way, the traveller could make the trip in 10mins with sufficient velocity/energy, as the original commenter said.
I doubt this is BS, sounds authentic to me. Quantum mechanics is weird. As for the "outside... space and time", note that the missing words from TFA are "outside everyday notions of space and time". In other words, outside our common sense.
Infringement itself is not criminal; it is a civil matter between the infringer and the copyright holder. Under some DMCA legislation in various countries breaking a digital lock makes you a criminal.
Yes, graphical calculators have always been a gimmick, and completely pointless.
Professionals in engineering, science, or finance never use these things. A scientific or financial calculator, a spreadsheet, and possibly MATLAB are all you need.
This is just some guy's speculation. About as real as the plans for the Starship Enterprise that some people make. Or the drawings I did as an 11 year old of what was inside Steve Austin's bionic arm.
They are all huge broken OO designs! At least, that is my experience.
The original architect considers the domain - usually poorly since he/she is only human - and says "lets have an OO structure that looks like this". And with the first enhancement request the OO design breaks because the designer thought the world worked in a different way and enshrined that thinking in to the OOD.
OO almost always turns out to be an impediment. I once inherited a project that had been a poster-child for OOD, where the architect had innovated with "design patterns". OMG. Compared with similar projects of similar complexity, this particular project ended up costing about 100% more, or $20M, and was of course massively late.
I like your comment about "thinking about OO problems". Could we say OOD is software engineering for software engineering's sake? Oh, and for the worthies who sell books and CASE tools?
OO is fine in theory but, oh dear, what a mess in reality. I would love to know how much OO has negatively impacted software development over the year. Find a disastrous project and I'm sure there will be a whole load of OO there boggling the mind. The problem is that the object design at the start of the project typically has no bearing on the model after some years, and the cost of redesign and refactoring over and over is terrible. And don't get me going on design-patterns! Lets take OO and move it beyond the whit of man, or at least 90% of developers.
OO is fine for small-scale objects, like UI widgets. Or very large container objects. But in between, oh my god.
Now I know this will be flame bait for a lot of slashdotters, but only because you have been brainwashed into thinking OO is good. Like how physicians thought blood letting was essential to balance the humours 200 years ago, but now viewed as a relic from the dark ages.
No, the answer is not assembly code either (even though I still have my 6502 hex codes by heart).
"All current life was set in place nearly three billion years ago". Absolutely not - your view of the history of biology is very warped. Study more biology itself to realize what 'current life' actually looks like. Some important points:
1.7~2 Billion years ago: probable endosymbiosis of prokaryote into eurkaryotic cells, forming mitochonria. Much later than the 3 billion years you suggest, and an absolutely vital stage in the evolution of multicellular life. In fact, it is suggested that the emergence of mitrochondria is why we are here to day - without these powerhouses single-celled life did not have enough available energy to form multi-cellular organisms.
1~1.3 Billions years ago: complex multi-cellular life: While the diversity, resilience, and ubiquity of single-celled life is amazing, I find complex multi-celled life much more astonishing. That colonies of cells can cooperate, specialise and form complex life is a wonderful achievement of evolution. Of course, it took a mind-boggling amount of time. Still, a significant step the results of which are quite distinct from life of 3 billions years ago. So your assertion is again inadequate.
~600 million years: emergence of the first neuron.
~580 million years: nerves and muscles, working together; first eyes
~550 million years: brains
And so the list goes on. Perhaps a significant development every 10-20 million years.
~540 million years: hearts and circulatory systems
There is a giant change from single-celled life to cats, dogs, and humans. What you should be saying is that, as a programmer, you are amazed that all life on Earth has the same genetic code - that the 3 base-pair codon is almost universal in every cell and organism on the plant. I suppose I do like you perspective though, when you look at a yeast cell, an oak tree, and a human and realise they are all related, all cousins, all derived from an evolutionary chain billions of years in the making.
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Seven verbs and then one noun. I'm not sure about that. The construction: "verb, verb, verb preposition noun or noun" helps to show that the nouns are qualifiers to the last verb, and not in the list themselves.
Because: natural language.
Or: { a, b, c=>{x,y} }
But the list does not include "distributing", read it again. If it had, you would be right.
Since there is ambiguity, look at the language used to form the list:
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, stoing, packing for shipment or distribution of
This is a list of verb forms (present participles) and so "shipment or distribution" (nouns) is a qualifier for "packing" and not additions to the list themselves. So from the context, or pattern, the "or" binds more tightly with the modifiers and not with the list. If the list was intended to include "distributing" or "shipping" it would have added the words in that form.
I use a cloud service as back-end storage in my web application and compress and encrypt all files before sending them off. I don't think I would trust a cloud provider's encryption, even if it was available. Perhaps just layer it on to my own.
At that pressure sulphur hydride just goes "ok ok take my electrons".
... the EXIT strategy. Starting with Windows 8, M$ seems to have had a strategy to drive its OS customer base away. Subscriptions are just part of that strategy.
The school is very, very luck to have stopped this power drain so early. At a rate of 1kW/hr, the car would have drawn 2kW by hour 2, and 10kW after 10 hours. This is very dangerous - to have an energy draw that is accelerating!
Why oh why didn't they design a car that just draw 1kW? You know, as in 3600 kJ/hour? That would be much more sensible.
Having an accelerating power draw - 1kW/hr - is a recipe for disaster. Explosions and stuff.
I disagree. This is why we have elevators in buildings, and not just ballistic platforms that fire you up to the required floor. Much easier, and safer, to overcome the local gravitational force (Sun = 27x Earth's field) and move smoothly away.
I believe that with shields and a structural integrity field you are fine, and of course warp drive will get you out because it is FTL. Below the mundane event horizon, however, and closer towards the singularity, there is the sub-space event horizon and even your warp drive will not help you there.
I have all this on good authority - must be true.
blackholes are very helpful holding galaxies together
Yes, but the mass of the black hole would equally well hold the galaxy together even if it was more usefully organized - solar systems and planets etc. From the rest of the galaxy's perspective, it doesn't care what's down in the well so longer as there is something. So there is some argument to say that black holes are the least helpful form of matter from our solipsist point of view.
And anyway, isn't it a huge mass of dark matter that actually holds everything together?
You are forgetting length dilation in the moving frame of reference, and so have it all wrong. Length and time dilation have the same Lorentz transformation factor, so you can either think of it as time moving more slowly for the traveller from the outside viewer, or the distance being shortened from the traveller's perspective. Either way, the traveller could make the trip in 10mins with sufficient velocity/energy, as the original commenter said.
I hope they have 7 firewalls because the Cylons would go through that fast.
There's probably a lot of IT in this ships. They could switch to using smaller fonts.
I doubt this is BS, sounds authentic to me. Quantum mechanics is weird. As for the "outside ... space and time", note that the missing words from TFA are "outside everyday notions of space and time". In other words, outside our common sense.
Rubbish. Gravity is not FTL, and your argument is BS.
Infringement itself is not criminal; it is a civil matter between the infringer and the copyright holder. Under some DMCA legislation in various countries breaking a digital lock makes you a criminal.
hahaha
Yes, I once bought "Linear Circuits" by Scott, and have been bitter about it ever since.
Yes, graphical calculators have always been a gimmick, and completely pointless.
Professionals in engineering, science, or finance never use these things. A scientific or financial calculator, a spreadsheet, and possibly MATLAB are all you need.
This is just some guy's speculation. About as real as the plans for the Starship Enterprise that some people make. Or the drawings I did as an 11 year old of what was inside Steve Austin's bionic arm.
They are all huge broken OO designs! At least, that is my experience.
The original architect considers the domain - usually poorly since he/she is only human - and says "lets have an OO structure that looks like this". And with the first enhancement request the OO design breaks because the designer thought the world worked in a different way and enshrined that thinking in to the OOD.
OO almost always turns out to be an impediment. I once inherited a project that had been a poster-child for OOD, where the architect had innovated with "design patterns". OMG. Compared with similar projects of similar complexity, this particular project ended up costing about 100% more, or $20M, and was of course massively late.
I like your comment about "thinking about OO problems". Could we say OOD is software engineering for software engineering's sake? Oh, and for the worthies who sell books and CASE tools?
You are not alone!
OO is fine in theory but, oh dear, what a mess in reality. I would love to know how much OO has negatively impacted software development over the year. Find a disastrous project and I'm sure there will be a whole load of OO there boggling the mind. The problem is that the object design at the start of the project typically has no bearing on the model after some years, and the cost of redesign and refactoring over and over is terrible. And don't get me going on design-patterns! Lets take OO and move it beyond the whit of man, or at least 90% of developers.
OO is fine for small-scale objects, like UI widgets. Or very large container objects. But in between, oh my god.
Now I know this will be flame bait for a lot of slashdotters, but only because you have been brainwashed into thinking OO is good. Like how physicians thought blood letting was essential to balance the humours 200 years ago, but now viewed as a relic from the dark ages.
No, the answer is not assembly code either (even though I still have my 6502 hex codes by heart).
"All current life was set in place nearly three billion years ago". Absolutely not - your view of the history of biology is very warped. Study more biology itself to realize what 'current life' actually looks like. Some important points:
1.7~2 Billion years ago: probable endosymbiosis of prokaryote into eurkaryotic cells, forming mitochonria. Much later than the 3 billion years you suggest, and an absolutely vital stage in the evolution of multicellular life. In fact, it is suggested that the emergence of mitrochondria is why we are here to day - without these powerhouses single-celled life did not have enough available energy to form multi-cellular organisms.
1~1.3 Billions years ago: complex multi-cellular life: While the diversity, resilience, and ubiquity of single-celled life is amazing, I find complex multi-celled life much more astonishing. That colonies of cells can cooperate, specialise and form complex life is a wonderful achievement of evolution. Of course, it took a mind-boggling amount of time. Still, a significant step the results of which are quite distinct from life of 3 billions years ago. So your assertion is again inadequate.
~600 million years: emergence of the first neuron.
~580 million years: nerves and muscles, working together; first eyes
~550 million years: brains
And so the list goes on. Perhaps a significant development every 10-20 million years.
~540 million years: hearts and circulatory systems
There is a giant change from single-celled life to cats, dogs, and humans. What you should be saying is that, as a programmer, you are amazed that all life on Earth has the same genetic code - that the 3 base-pair codon is almost universal in every cell and organism on the plant. I suppose I do like you perspective though, when you look at a yeast cell, an oak tree, and a human and realise they are all related, all cousins, all derived from an evolutionary chain billions of years in the making.
.... Master System....