That is not the only thing they are being asked for. They are also being asked to cut the minimum wage, rise working hours, cut pensions, fire public sector employees and sell state enterprises including the electric power company. The result of those measures, rather unsurprisingly, was 25% unemployment, including over 50% youth unemployment, people who cannot pay back their loans and more vagrant on the streets.
Unless the Greek government offers these people a change to live a decent life what do you think will happen?
Or it could be that the bacteria break down the nutrients that reach the intestines better so that it eases their absorption by the gut. It is well known for example that termites can only digest cellulose tanks to microbial flora.
requiring US tech companies to release their source code to the Chinese government so their in-house industries can steal it
Like the FADEC code they got from Pratt and Whitney Canada so they could clone a US designed helicopter turbine engine for their WZ-10 military attack helicopter? Yep.
I wonder if they got the F-22 and F-35 source code as well. Then again considering how delayed the F-35 software is not even the US Government contractor has the code on hand either.:-P
China can always redirect their economic output inwards. With low resource prices production costs are not an issue. They got nearly all the military technology specimens they needed for their military by now. They are still having trouble reverse engineering some things but in the long run it just does not matter. The next stop for them is economically co-opting Africa. It is Russia and the EU which will get shafted. The EU has incompetent leaders and Russia is still too dependent on selling resources at the same time as China is increasingly going to out compete them in the weapons market over the next 20 years. China already has better naval military hardware and electronics than Russia. China's main issues are with metallurgy and propulsion technology but even those are being solved. Military hardware exports are the only viable industry Russia has besides the resource exports.
China is only vulnerable in that they can't feed themselves so they are vulnerable to an economic blockade. But if someone blockades them it will probably be the start of WWIII.
Countries which rely on resource extraction like Russia, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, etc are going to have financial difficulties as the price of basically all resources is crashing down.
Usually when resource prices go down industry can reduce costs and with cheaper oil people can search for profitable jobs further away from home. Because of the past housing prices a lot of people cannot move houses easily. This means unemployment is bound to go down and productivity will go up.
The US dollar is increasing in value versus the Euro and oil is cheaper to air travel to Europe will probably increase. Airline companies should increase in value substantially.
As for IT two things might happen. The cheaper resources enable people to consume more products and rise requirements for IT services. Or it could just happen that people will require less telecoms and Internet services as transportation costs go down. I am not quite sure of which will happen. But it is true the business seems to work in 20 year cycles and the current boom cycle should end soon. The housing market on the other hand should start picking up in the next 5 years.
Wrong. PGP was created by Phil Zimmermann and Hal Finney was the second developer they hired. GnuGP is an open-source reimplementation of the PGP standard written by Werner Koch.
That is the other reason. High-end cameras are usually more optimized for high-speed shooting for sports events and so on. So you have less light exposure before you generate the image.
You assume the software is bug free to begin with.
Of course you need to do minimal testing. As for complete test coverage good luck doing that when you don't even know what the code is supposed to do in the first place. Unit testing is fine when you are starting a project from scratch but not on something like this.
Theoretically it should be possible to test if two pieces of code are functionally equivalent but I know of no tool which does this without annotating the code all over by hand first. I have experience with theorem proving and compiler design so I can do it automatically to a large degree just by looking at the code.
It is more important to make rolling back errors easy by using a revision control system than assuming you can write bug free code to begin with anyway.
Response time has not been a problem for a long time. Black levels are not a problem either. You just need to be more selective when buying an LCD and price is not a good indicator. Color can be an issue but once OLED becomes more common even that won't matter.
Monitors are better in that they have less flickering, use less power, space, weight less, have more (flat) view area etc.
Compact cameras suck and a lot of them are even worse stock than smartphone cameras with good built-in software. That is one of the problems.
What is needed basically is the new Leica. A compact camera with the quality of a DSLR but that can fit into a pocket. That requires some way to fold the glass piece or whatever. The problem is can you make it good enough (sensitivity to light, low noise sensor, flash, fast capture time) to matter or not? The main manufacturers don't want to cut into their DSLR revenue so they hobble their compacts so much they are basically useless.
The other problem is the DSLRs themselves which are basically not necessary in order for most people to take a decent picture. The only thing which has been keeping their sales up is that increasingly more people are using modern DSLRs, which can shoot video, to replace even more expensive video and cinema cameras for indie film and video production. For these cameras the 35mm format is probably not ideal and something like an Hasselblad medium-format would be better.
Small, for most people, is something with tens of kLOC or less, medium projects have hundreds of kLOC and large projects have millions of LOC.
A large project would be something like the Linux kernel which has around 16 million LOC.
I would advise using doxygen to have a global view of the codebase, some kind of lint like g++ -Wall, and a good editor preferably with refactoring support as tools. Plus static code analyzers and valgrind.
First thing you should do is backups. Save the old codebase source repository somewhere safe. If the code is stored in an old repository like CVS, SVN, or worse no repository at all, you should migrate it to something better like Git. Then you start working by removing dead code, indenting, do static and run-time code analysis to find bugs, then merge duplicate code. Start with the more mechanical parts first. Once you get that working and bug free you basically have the new version 1.0.
Then you can start analyzing the codebase in order to understand it and refactor the code for real. That will be version 2.0. You will be proud of it because it has your touch on it but will probably be crap and worse than 1.0 was.
Then you work on version 3.0 which downscopes the feature creep and bad problem analysis mistakes you made in 2.0 and is finally better than 1.0.
No what I am saying is that people need energy to heat themselves when it is cold. That energy needs to come from somewhere. If the energy is too expensive some people will die and do die. Guess which are the cheapest sources of electric power around? Coal and nuclear.
If you don't like nuclear you are a coal supporter. Or you support people dying in the winter freezing. Simple as that.
Would you rather people started burning wood and coal again in urban communities with all the air pollution issues that this causes?
Also not everyone has a boiler in their house. For those people which do not, they quite often just to not have the disposable income to invest in a long term heating solution with a high installation cost like that, so they use an electric heater instead. They are living month by month if not week by week.
Would you rather have that or some rich dude who pays to get in front of the transplant queue to get someone else's liver only to ignore the doctors advice and stop taking his medication hence making said transplant useless?
Apple also came with real security. There still has not been a single case of a non-jailbroken iDevice hacked and infected with malware, which is a sterling record.
Do you even know how jailbreaking works? If the picture viewing app or the browser allows remote code execution and everyone is using the same hardware architecture of course malware and spyware are perfectly doable. You never heard of one hacked and infected because you haven't searched well enough.
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That is not the only thing they are being asked for. They are also being asked to cut the minimum wage, rise working hours, cut pensions, fire public sector employees and sell state enterprises including the electric power company. The result of those measures, rather unsurprisingly, was 25% unemployment, including over 50% youth unemployment, people who cannot pay back their loans and more vagrant on the streets.
Unless the Greek government offers these people a change to live a decent life what do you think will happen?
Science advances one funeral at a time.
I wonder what people will think of AGW theory in 50 years.
You underestimate how many people think that anything that was published in a science publication is gospel.
Like using acid baths to produce stem cells.
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Or it could be that the bacteria break down the nutrients that reach the intestines better so that it eases their absorption by the gut. It is well known for example that termites can only digest cellulose tanks to microbial flora.
requiring US tech companies to release their source code to the Chinese government so their in-house industries can steal it
Like the FADEC code they got from Pratt and Whitney Canada so they could clone a US designed helicopter turbine engine for their WZ-10 military attack helicopter? Yep.
I wonder if they got the F-22 and F-35 source code as well. Then again considering how delayed the F-35 software is not even the US Government contractor has the code on hand either. :-P
China can always redirect their economic output inwards. With low resource prices production costs are not an issue. They got nearly all the military technology specimens they needed for their military by now. They are still having trouble reverse engineering some things but in the long run it just does not matter. The next stop for them is economically co-opting Africa. It is Russia and the EU which will get shafted. The EU has incompetent leaders and Russia is still too dependent on selling resources at the same time as China is increasingly going to out compete them in the weapons market over the next 20 years. China already has better naval military hardware and electronics than Russia. China's main issues are with metallurgy and propulsion technology but even those are being solved. Military hardware exports are the only viable industry Russia has besides the resource exports.
China is only vulnerable in that they can't feed themselves so they are vulnerable to an economic blockade. But if someone blockades them it will probably be the start of WWIII.
Is there any capitalist society which isn't a kleptocracy in some way?
Or any other regime for that matter.
Countries which rely on resource extraction like Russia, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, etc are going to have financial difficulties as the price of basically all resources is crashing down.
Usually when resource prices go down industry can reduce costs and with cheaper oil people can search for profitable jobs further away from home. Because of the past housing prices a lot of people cannot move houses easily. This means unemployment is bound to go down and productivity will go up.
The US dollar is increasing in value versus the Euro and oil is cheaper to air travel to Europe will probably increase. Airline companies should increase in value substantially.
As for IT two things might happen. The cheaper resources enable people to consume more products and rise requirements for IT services. Or it could just happen that people will require less telecoms and Internet services as transportation costs go down. I am not quite sure of which will happen. But it is true the business seems to work in 20 year cycles and the current boom cycle should end soon. The housing market on the other hand should start picking up in the next 5 years.
s/GnuGP/GnuPG/.
Wrong. PGP was created by Phil Zimmermann and Hal Finney was the second developer they hired. GnuGP is an open-source reimplementation of the PGP standard written by Werner Koch.
A larger area sensor also helps.
That is the other reason. High-end cameras are usually more optimized for high-speed shooting for sports events and so on. So you have less light exposure before you generate the image.
You assume the software is bug free to begin with.
Of course you need to do minimal testing. As for complete test coverage good luck doing that when you don't even know what the code is supposed to do in the first place. Unit testing is fine when you are starting a project from scratch but not on something like this.
Theoretically it should be possible to test if two pieces of code are functionally equivalent but I know of no tool which does this without annotating the code all over by hand first. I have experience with theorem proving and compiler design so I can do it automatically to a large degree just by looking at the code.
It is more important to make rolling back errors easy by using a revision control system than assuming you can write bug free code to begin with anyway.
To be honest one reason they have a lower resolution is that they refresh the top end models a lot less frequently.
Response time has not been a problem for a long time. Black levels are not a problem either. You just need to be more selective when buying an LCD and price is not a good indicator. Color can be an issue but once OLED becomes more common even that won't matter.
Monitors are better in that they have less flickering, use less power, space, weight less, have more (flat) view area etc.
Compact cameras suck and a lot of them are even worse stock than smartphone cameras with good built-in software. That is one of the problems.
What is needed basically is the new Leica. A compact camera with the quality of a DSLR but that can fit into a pocket. That requires some way to fold the glass piece or whatever. The problem is can you make it good enough (sensitivity to light, low noise sensor, flash, fast capture time) to matter or not? The main manufacturers don't want to cut into their DSLR revenue so they hobble their compacts so much they are basically useless.
The other problem is the DSLRs themselves which are basically not necessary in order for most people to take a decent picture. The only thing which has been keeping their sales up is that increasingly more people are using modern DSLRs, which can shoot video, to replace even more expensive video and cinema cameras for indie film and video production. For these cameras the 35mm format is probably not ideal and something like an Hasselblad medium-format would be better.
Small, for most people, is something with tens of kLOC or less, medium projects have hundreds of kLOC and large projects have millions of LOC.
A large project would be something like the Linux kernel which has around 16 million LOC.
I would advise using doxygen to have a global view of the codebase, some kind of lint like g++ -Wall, and a good editor preferably with refactoring support as tools. Plus static code analyzers and valgrind.
First thing you should do is backups. Save the old codebase source repository somewhere safe. If the code is stored in an old repository like CVS, SVN, or worse no repository at all, you should migrate it to something better like Git. Then you start working by removing dead code, indenting, do static and run-time code analysis to find bugs, then merge duplicate code. Start with the more mechanical parts first. Once you get that working and bug free you basically have the new version 1.0.
Then you can start analyzing the codebase in order to understand it and refactor the code for real. That will be version 2.0. You will be proud of it because it has your touch on it but will probably be crap and worse than 1.0 was.
Then you work on version 3.0 which downscopes the feature creep and bad problem analysis mistakes you made in 2.0 and is finally better than 1.0.
I have done rm -rf / opt as root once. even better.
No what I am saying is that people need energy to heat themselves when it is cold. That energy needs to come from somewhere. If the energy is too expensive some people will die and do die. Guess which are the cheapest sources of electric power around? Coal and nuclear.
If you don't like nuclear you are a coal supporter. Or you support people dying in the winter freezing. Simple as that.
Would you rather people started burning wood and coal again in urban communities with all the air pollution issues that this causes?
Also not everyone has a boiler in their house. For those people which do not, they quite often just to not have the disposable income to invest in a long term heating solution with a high installation cost like that, so they use an electric heater instead. They are living month by month if not week by week.
People can't heat themselves at night with negawatts. When power prices rise the the most vulnerable like the poor and the old are the first to die.
Yet space does not have that much friction to fight against. So I would say it's a win.
The truth hurts doesn't it fanboys?
Would you rather have that or some rich dude who pays to get in front of the transplant queue to get someone else's liver only to ignore the doctors advice and stop taking his medication hence making said transplant useless?
Apple also came with real security. There still has not been a single case of a non-jailbroken iDevice hacked and infected with malware, which is a sterling record.
Do you even know how jailbreaking works? If the picture viewing app or the browser allows remote code execution and everyone is using the same hardware architecture of course malware and spyware are perfectly doable. You never heard of one hacked and infected because you haven't searched well enough.