We have possible theories regarding how life might have arisen, but to say we "know" how life came to be is an exaggeration at best. The theories we do have are rather hard to test too (at least the ones I know of), so I wouldn't put too much stock in them just yet.
Or you could just stop buying things that are beyond your means.
Being a juror is a civil service that you shouldn't have to be paid to do. If people can't manage your finance sufficiently such that you are not able to take a (generally minor - 1 week or so) leave of absence, then thats their problem, not mine. I keep money in the bank for stuff like this. My taxes should not go to subsidize people's infatuation with deficit spending.
Kids, houses, and cars are commodities. If you can't afford them, then dont have them.
Anyone on salary doesn't care, as they get paid the same whether they are at work, or at jury duty. From my experience, a lot of the "smart people" are employed this way.
Because it affects a good chunk of us at work. At least, from my experience, it does.
I work at a pretty decent sized hedge fund. We have been growing since before I arrived, and continue to do so at what I feel is a fairly rapid pace. In order to seem "current" and keep up with the market, our trading desk has been expanding into unholy amounts of new investment strategies. Lots of fun OTC derivatives, energy markets, weather, pollution trading, etc.
This is all well and good on the face of it, but in order to support these new strategies as quickly as they claim they need to, we need to purchase outside software instead of developing it in house. So a good portion of the IT staff (myself included) has been entirely devoted to figuring out how to integrate these new applications with our existing structure. Basically - theres no time for new code, and its frustrating most individuals involved, since we kind of like to write code, and not attend multi-day training sessions on how to support some lame half-engineered application that does all its work in stored procs from a single threaded windows form based server. No joke on that last one either, that app bites hard - yay for me being in the department in charge of that monstrosity.
So, its a common problem - or, at least I think it is. I guess this article is supposed to foster discussion on that idea. Of course, its not actually a problem with the IT staff, but we still have to deal with it. The staff in my area alone has doubled in about a year's time in order to try and keep up.
Things coming over the wire, yeah - be very paranoid about. Generally you do trust the devices that plug into the box, though. Otherwise we would constantly be scanning the keyboard for possible viruses, what with all those interrupts it keeps triggering.
Heck, lets go one step further. Lets not trust the SATA drive - who knows where that thing has been.
I have it on good authority that the 9-11 terrorists were wearing deodorant that day, thus allowing them their calm and cool (and fresh smelling) exterior to belie their true, nefarious, intent.
You clearly do not engage in amateur high powered rocketry. There have been quite strict regulations involving the launching of the rockets. The only change in recent years is that now you get treated like a terrorist if you try to get involved with the fuel aspect of it - and that is just plain stupid. As mentioned elsewhere, the chemicals used aren't really even explosive. Gas is far cheaper, and far more effective, at destroying things - and its quite easy to obtain.
You have no constitutionally protected right to build a rocket or to pursue any other hobby that presents a clear and present danger to others.
I hereby request we remove all rights to drive motorized vehicles. They are proven to be far more dangerous than model rocketry, and ANYONE can do it. OMG save me from teh TERROR!!!
Public emergency responses should be public knowledge. If you want to call a private service (Bell Ambulance comes to mind) to come and rescue you to keep your information private, then do so. However, I, as a taxpayer, want to know what is being done with my money, so I can supervise it.
So... because its faster that means its more creepy? Really, unless someone is just sitting there hitting F5 constantly, this wont even come into the equation.
In order for chips to produce steam energy, they would have to heat the water to 100 degrees Celcius, or higher. This will have a negative impact on chip performance, and reduce the performance of the datacenter, and probably outweigh the benefit of the moderate amount of power they would produce.
Also, I wouldn't want to be a technician in a datacenter that was that warm. Its kind of, you know, fatal.
Making fun of a behavior is quite a bit different than making fun of an ethnicity. You choose to do the behavior, while you can't choose your ethnicity. I have absolutely no problem making fun of people who make a conscious choice to be retarded in their online conversations.
I'm not entirely sure why you are turning this into a gender thing. Sure, women comprise the majority of the people who commit such heinous acts of grammar and spelling, but its not as if we were criticizing them for being women. We were critizing what we felt was silly behavior, not the fact that they have an extra X chromosome.
I don't see a huge uproar about the "White and Nerdy" music video, despite the fact that it stereotypes male geeks. This is, of course, due to the double standard that society holds towards such things, but also due to the fact that guys tend to not care. I, personally, thought it was hillarious.
You are also quite right that Myspace is not Slashdot. Slashcode actually has a halfway decent uptime. Also, simply because a joke appeared on slashdot, does not mean it was personally directed at some subset of the slashdot audience. Besides, I would wager a good portion of the female readers of slashdot were quite amused by that day, along with everyone else who has a sense of humor.
You do realize that if you cruise myspace for more than a few minutes, you will find ample examples of the "OMG Ponies!" flavor of female netizen.
Stereotypes, more often than not, exist for a reason - that being a significant percentage of the population is percieved as acting in the manner consistent with the stereotype. Making jests about such things may be disgraceful to you, but it is quite amusing to the rest of us who aren't wound up quite so tight.
Yeah, except there is really only one strategy to employ. I haven't beaten the game yet, but every level so far is very linear. Strategy games are supposed to offer you the ability to, you know, strategize.
You should rephrase "programmer" to be "MFC Programmer" or similar. Not everyone uses windows components for their development. Having worked with them in the past, I tend to avoid using them if at all possible.
Amazon lets you create wish lists, which will track whatever items you want. Not quite an RSS feed, but close enough.
Amazon also gives you reccomendations based on what you have tagged/purchased, based on other people's tags/purchases. They are really quite good at it, as well - pretty much everything on my reccomended items list I either already own, or plan on purchasing at some point in the future. Yes, in the end they are trying to get you to buy, but they use a bunch of the same techniques, and are really quite good at it.
Nothing wrong with the site, mind you, just nothing really all that impressive about it.
You code for the platform that the market is based around. The PC games market is based around the... wait for it... PC. Computers are historically simpler to code for, given the ease of access to the hardware, and long history of development on them. For most consoles, you will have to get a dev kit from the company in order to even start looking into it.
From what I understand, however, the gap is closing. The 360 is supposedly getting much easier to target (its just a windows box anyway), although this is all just what I hear. I have yet to code for a console myself.
Fans. Artists must never be allowed to accumulate enough of a fanbase where they can actually survive on their own. If they sold non-drm'd stuff, you would be able to lend it to friends, and spread the popularity of the artist. This rogue promotional method is far cheaper and more effective than the big label's methods, and must never be allowable under law.
Parrot is a VM. I'm not entirely sure why you would stack VMs. One is more than enough.
Of course, you may have meant Perl 6, the primary thing targeting Parrot, but they are quite distinct terms... so... dunno. Besides, with the way Parrot is going, you could just create a COLA -> CLR compiler and be done with it. That way the same language backend that produces COLA for compilation into PASM could be used and pipe the COLA into the equivalent CLR thingy and have everything work.
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We have possible theories regarding how life might have arisen, but to say we "know" how life came to be is an exaggeration at best. The theories we do have are rather hard to test too (at least the ones I know of), so I wouldn't put too much stock in them just yet.
Or you could just stop buying things that are beyond your means.
Being a juror is a civil service that you shouldn't have to be paid to do. If people can't manage your finance sufficiently such that you are not able to take a (generally minor - 1 week or so) leave of absence, then thats their problem, not mine. I keep money in the bank for stuff like this. My taxes should not go to subsidize people's infatuation with deficit spending.
Kids, houses, and cars are commodities. If you can't afford them, then dont have them.
Anyone on salary doesn't care, as they get paid the same whether they are at work, or at jury duty. From my experience, a lot of the "smart people" are employed this way.
Because it affects a good chunk of us at work. At least, from my experience, it does.
I work at a pretty decent sized hedge fund. We have been growing since before I arrived, and continue to do so at what I feel is a fairly rapid pace. In order to seem "current" and keep up with the market, our trading desk has been expanding into unholy amounts of new investment strategies. Lots of fun OTC derivatives, energy markets, weather, pollution trading, etc.
This is all well and good on the face of it, but in order to support these new strategies as quickly as they claim they need to, we need to purchase outside software instead of developing it in house. So a good portion of the IT staff (myself included) has been entirely devoted to figuring out how to integrate these new applications with our existing structure. Basically - theres no time for new code, and its frustrating most individuals involved, since we kind of like to write code, and not attend multi-day training sessions on how to support some lame half-engineered application that does all its work in stored procs from a single threaded windows form based server. No joke on that last one either, that app bites hard - yay for me being in the department in charge of that monstrosity.
So, its a common problem - or, at least I think it is. I guess this article is supposed to foster discussion on that idea. Of course, its not actually a problem with the IT staff, but we still have to deal with it. The staff in my area alone has doubled in about a year's time in order to try and keep up.
Things coming over the wire, yeah - be very paranoid about. Generally you do trust the devices that plug into the box, though. Otherwise we would constantly be scanning the keyboard for possible viruses, what with all those interrupts it keeps triggering.
Heck, lets go one step further. Lets not trust the SATA drive - who knows where that thing has been.
I have it on good authority that the 9-11 terrorists were wearing deodorant that day, thus allowing them their calm and cool (and fresh smelling) exterior to belie their true, nefarious, intent.
You clearly do not engage in amateur high powered rocketry. There have been quite strict regulations involving the launching of the rockets. The only change in recent years is that now you get treated like a terrorist if you try to get involved with the fuel aspect of it - and that is just plain stupid. As mentioned elsewhere, the chemicals used aren't really even explosive. Gas is far cheaper, and far more effective, at destroying things - and its quite easy to obtain.
Public emergency responses should be public knowledge. If you want to call a private service (Bell Ambulance comes to mind) to come and rescue you to keep your information private, then do so. However, I, as a taxpayer, want to know what is being done with my money, so I can supervise it.
So, if there is a fire downtown you don't think it will possibly make traffic just a tiny bit more congested?
So ... because its faster that means its more creepy? Really, unless someone is just sitting there hitting F5 constantly, this wont even come into the equation.
In order for chips to produce steam energy, they would have to heat the water to 100 degrees Celcius, or higher. This will have a negative impact on chip performance, and reduce the performance of the datacenter, and probably outweigh the benefit of the moderate amount of power they would produce.
Also, I wouldn't want to be a technician in a datacenter that was that warm. Its kind of, you know, fatal.
Making fun of a behavior is quite a bit different than making fun of an ethnicity. You choose to do the behavior, while you can't choose your ethnicity. I have absolutely no problem making fun of people who make a conscious choice to be retarded in their online conversations.
I'm not entirely sure why you are turning this into a gender thing. Sure, women comprise the majority of the people who commit such heinous acts of grammar and spelling, but its not as if we were criticizing them for being women. We were critizing what we felt was silly behavior, not the fact that they have an extra X chromosome.
I don't see a huge uproar about the "White and Nerdy" music video, despite the fact that it stereotypes male geeks. This is, of course, due to the double standard that society holds towards such things, but also due to the fact that guys tend to not care. I, personally, thought it was hillarious.
You are also quite right that Myspace is not Slashdot. Slashcode actually has a halfway decent uptime. Also, simply because a joke appeared on slashdot, does not mean it was personally directed at some subset of the slashdot audience. Besides, I would wager a good portion of the female readers of slashdot were quite amused by that day, along with everyone else who has a sense of humor.
You do realize that if you cruise myspace for more than a few minutes, you will find ample examples of the "OMG Ponies!" flavor of female netizen.
Stereotypes, more often than not, exist for a reason - that being a significant percentage of the population is percieved as acting in the manner consistent with the stereotype. Making jests about such things may be disgraceful to you, but it is quite amusing to the rest of us who aren't wound up quite so tight.
Yeah, except there is really only one strategy to employ. I haven't beaten the game yet, but every level so far is very linear. Strategy games are supposed to offer you the ability to, you know, strategize.
The exist. Not exactly the most popular kind of motherboard in existence, but still - out there if you want them. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16813157087
You should rephrase "programmer" to be "MFC Programmer" or similar. Not everyone uses windows components for their development. Having worked with them in the past, I tend to avoid using them if at all possible.
Amazon lets you create wish lists, which will track whatever items you want. Not quite an RSS feed, but close enough.
Amazon also gives you reccomendations based on what you have tagged/purchased, based on other people's tags/purchases. They are really quite good at it, as well - pretty much everything on my reccomended items list I either already own, or plan on purchasing at some point in the future. Yes, in the end they are trying to get you to buy, but they use a bunch of the same techniques, and are really quite good at it.
Nothing wrong with the site, mind you, just nothing really all that impressive about it.
I salute you, sir. I hereby burn Karma offtopic style in your honor.
Wii!
There is more than one game platform!
You code for the platform that the market is based around. The PC games market is based around the ... wait for it ... PC. Computers are historically simpler to code for, given the ease of access to the hardware, and long history of development on them. For most consoles, you will have to get a dev kit from the company in order to even start looking into it.
From what I understand, however, the gap is closing. The 360 is supposedly getting much easier to target (its just a windows box anyway), although this is all just what I hear. I have yet to code for a console myself.
Fans. Artists must never be allowed to accumulate enough of a fanbase where they can actually survive on their own. If they sold non-drm'd stuff, you would be able to lend it to friends, and spread the popularity of the artist. This rogue promotional method is far cheaper and more effective than the big label's methods, and must never be allowable under law.
Parrot is a VM. I'm not entirely sure why you would stack VMs. One is more than enough.
... so ... dunno. Besides, with the way Parrot is going, you could just create a COLA -> CLR compiler and be done with it. That way the same language backend that produces COLA for compilation into PASM could be used and pipe the COLA into the equivalent CLR thingy and have everything work.
Of course, you may have meant Perl 6, the primary thing targeting Parrot, but they are quite distinct terms