No, the difference is that people buy books and other stuff all the time, so when you want/need other books/stuff later you favour the shop that served you well before.
When you get thrown 99km upwards to the "edge of space" (whoo-hoo, you're not even in orbit) and float down again, you don't need to do it again. The novelty wears off and that's over. That's the point - the interest is to due the novelty; the service being essentially uselesss it will become passe when it's common. 52 flights ought to be enough to do that.
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but lets please not mix plants and animals, it's obviously not right.
And why is it right? It may be obvious to you, but please spell it out to me. It's like saying that "homosexualtiy is obviously not right" - it means nothing except "I don't like it, and I feel self-righteous about that".
As the original article notes, high-level languages have a lot more metadata avialable. there are good tools for Java and c# (the c# one is called fxCop, I don't know what the java one is called) that can inspect your bytecode and report a wide variety of errors of this kind.
IMHO, having done a fair bit of Pascal/Delphi, I find C#s enums to be a leaky abstraction - you can't quite forget that they're really ints.
It's not limited to any particular gym. An ex-coworker told me of their experiences in a gym's IT department. The majority of the people who buy a membership drop out of using it inside the first month, or never even come at all.
I'm quite happy to say that my gym is not making it's profit margin on me.
The quote is utter rubish.... With astronomy you have stars, which aren't man made... Computers and Computer Science are both things that are entirely man-made. There is no natural phenomenon that we call 'computer' and a science that studies this natural phenomenon called "computer science".
Not. Even. Wrong.
If astronomy was called "telescope science" you'd also forget that it was about ways of looking at the skies. Computers are more flexible that that - they are used to model and study all kinds of natural phenomena. Algorithyms are strictly speaking mathematics, which is a feature of the universe and not "man made" if anything ever was. Computers are used to store and manipulate data about all kinds of things, most of which are not about computers. learning how to do all that is computer science.
This seems to suggest (last paragraph) that ATV and Progress is used for the reboost. However this mentions a "ISS reboost if adequate propellant" in 2001
A perfect example of why the argument "robots are just as good as humans at space exploration" doesn't work. When was the last time a robot came up with an "ingenious quick fix"?
When was the last time that a fault on a robot/remotely controlled craft cost human lives? Robots are expendable.
When was the last time that a robot craft had to make the dangerous and expensive return journey to the Earth's surface? Robots have the advantage of not needing to do so unless there is a sample to return.
When was the last time that a craft with humans on board went to the surface of Mars or among the moons of Saturn? Robots have done both.
Robots are not "just as good as humans at space exploration" - their proven track record is that they have done so very much more. And that gap will only widen - the standard of robots is improving faster than the standard of human.
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Either we start putting in / switching over to Ethanol which will lower the price
Too little, too late.
Or we will start drilling on our own land and say screw you to the environmentalists.
Uh, by "our own land" I think you mean the USA, which passed peak oil in 1970s. Start drilling? You've done finished already. You mean those fields left in ALaska? Too little, too late.
Or we'll tap into our doomsday reserve that we're never going to use.
What doomsday rserve?
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Why would gas prices fall? All the high-quality, easy-to reach oil that even as we speak is forming is some corner of the world? It will be ready to come on line oh, two million years.
Learn to use your tools, sure. There are some very nice IDEs and with code completion and refactoring (and addin tools) out these says that make cut-and-paste just the tip of the code-writing iceberg. Key skills for a programmer are to Learn how to use copy and paste, and the rest of the IDE's shortcuts and to Learn when not to use copy and paste
In my experience those end up either as "hurt feelings" slugfests
The recipient of the review should in that case, grow up. Unless the reviewer is being unnecesarily nasty, in which case they should grow up.
or, just as ineffectively, full of "you should put a space after this brace" comments
Find or grow a code layout standard. Use it. debates on the topic should then run like this: "Minor differences to layout standards on lines 35 to 45", "Noted and will fix. Next?". For even more fun, find a code beautifier that will add the space for you.
I wish I could beat with a crowbar all the cut-and-paste programmers who make my life difficult - I have to maintain the piles of repetitive crap code that they produced - they knew how to use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V but could not or did not bother to do the most basic of programming taske: eliminate repetition by factoring code into meaningfully-named, paramterised procedures. This was best practice in 1970 already but so many people still don't get it.
Never, ever, raise exciting new methodologies to management. They will hear all of the advantages and expect every last one of them as though it was the perfect implementation of the method whilst completely failing to hear (and certainly refusing to act on or implement if they do hear) any of the trade-offs that have to be made to enable those gains.
I think you mean "Never, ever, raise exciting new methodologies to greedy, power-drunk idiots...
You think New Orleans was submerged by *rising* water levels? That would be false.
No, I don't and I never said that. New Orleans was submerged by a combination of poor location, poor flood prepredness and the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes, which is caused in part by global warming. global warming is no joke.
And I'd say to the Kilinailau Islands, "Hey, aren't you an atoll? Shouldn't you be under water?"
Uh, what defines an atol is that it's an island. You know, land: not under water.
Then I guess perhaps you are not aware that iTunes is not just the iTunes Music Store. I use iTunes to manage my music all the time, but I have never bought anything from the iTMS. I can migrate my music to any other program I want, as long as it can handle MPEG4 Audio (AAC) and MP3, which most can.
I use file explorer to "manage my music" and to put it onto/off of my Mp3 player, but that's because my MP3 player isn't crippled.
What you say? http://www.x.org/ must surely have the same domain as http://x.org/ , since the domain is "x.org", the bit on the left is configuration internal to that domain.
Anyway, www.slashdot.org redirects to slashdot.org instantly for me.
The only problem (if you can call it that) is that the users are so not-locked in that it's hard to charge for the service (ok, you can charge for the books, but the users can still go to another online stop at the drop of a hat)
Slashdot Mirror
It could be clearer by actually loading.
No, the difference is that people buy books and other stuff all the time, so when you want/need other books/stuff later you favour the shop that served you well before.
When you get thrown 99km upwards to the "edge of space" (whoo-hoo, you're not even in orbit) and float down again, you don't need to do it again. The novelty wears off and that's over. That's the point - the interest is to due the novelty; the service being essentially uselesss it will become passe when it's common. 52 flights ought to be enough to do that.
Somewhere down the road, America needs to develop an automated system similar to progress.
Europe will have one very soon.
but lets please not mix plants and animals, it's obviously not right.
And why is it right? It may be obvious to you, but please spell it out to me. It's like saying that "homosexualtiy is obviously not right" - it means nothing except "I don't like it, and I feel self-righteous about that".
As the original article notes, high-level languages have a lot more metadata avialable. there are good tools for Java and c# (the c# one is called fxCop, I don't know what the java one is called) that can inspect your bytecode and report a wide variety of errors of this kind.
IMHO, having done a fair bit of Pascal/Delphi, I find C#s enums to be a leaky abstraction - you can't quite forget that they're really ints.
It's not limited to any particular gym. An ex-coworker told me of their experiences in a gym's IT department. The majority of the people who buy a membership drop out of using it inside the first month, or never even come at all.
I'm quite happy to say that my gym is not making it's profit margin on me.
The quote is utter rubish. ... With astronomy you have stars, which aren't man made ... Computers and Computer Science are both things that are entirely man-made. There is no natural phenomenon that we call 'computer' and a science that studies this natural phenomenon called "computer science".
Not. Even. Wrong.
If astronomy was called "telescope science" you'd also forget that it was about ways of looking at the skies. Computers are more flexible that that - they are used to model and study all kinds of natural phenomena. Algorithyms are strictly speaking mathematics, which is a feature of the universe and not "man made" if anything ever was. Computers are used to store and manipulate data about all kinds of things, most of which are not about computers. learning how to do all that is computer science.
The job of maping C++ code to machine code is trivial.
,is it?
Oh
If computer science isn't about computers, what is it about?
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - - E. Dijkstra
Nobody said that C was strongly typed. C# is a differnet matter.
The ATV will be used for reboost
This seems to suggest (last paragraph) that ATV and Progress is used for the reboost. However this mentions a "ISS reboost if adequate propellant" in 2001
essentially ALL of the strongly typed and structure languages - have pretty much died out.
Uh, Java and C# are strongly typed and structured languages.
A perfect example of why the argument "robots are just as good as humans at space exploration" doesn't work. When was the last time a robot came up with an "ingenious quick fix"?
When was the last time that a fault on a robot/remotely controlled craft cost human lives? Robots are expendable.
When was the last time that a robot craft had to make the dangerous and expensive return journey to the Earth's surface? Robots have the advantage of not needing to do so unless there is a sample to return.
When was the last time that a craft with humans on board went to the surface of Mars or among the moons of Saturn? Robots have done both.
Robots are not "just as good as humans at space exploration" - their proven track record is that they have done so very much more. And that gap will only widen - the standard of robots is improving faster than the standard of human.
It certainly isn't the right of some third-party like Cleanflix to decide how a movie is edited.
So then Star Wars Episode I.I - The Phantom Edit is an abomination to you?
Either we start putting in / switching over to Ethanol which will lower the price
Too little, too late.
Or we will start drilling on our own land and say screw you to the environmentalists.
Uh, by "our own land" I think you mean the USA, which passed peak oil in 1970s. Start drilling? You've done finished already. You mean those fields left in ALaska? Too little, too late.
Or we'll tap into our doomsday reserve that we're never going to use.
What doomsday rserve?
Why would gas prices fall? All the high-quality, easy-to reach oil that even as we speak is forming is some corner of the world? It will be ready to come on line oh, two million years.
Learn to use your tools, sure. There are some very nice IDEs and with code completion and refactoring (and addin tools) out these says that make cut-and-paste just the tip of the code-writing iceberg. Key skills for a programmer are to Learn how to use copy and paste, and the rest of the IDE's shortcuts and to Learn when not to use copy and paste
In my experience those end up either as "hurt feelings" slugfests
The recipient of the review should in that case, grow up. Unless the reviewer is being unnecesarily nasty, in which case they should grow up.
or, just as ineffectively, full of "you should put a space after this brace" comments
Find or grow a code layout standard. Use it. debates on the topic should then run like this: "Minor differences to layout standards on lines 35 to 45", "Noted and will fix. Next?".
For even more fun, find a code beautifier that will add the space for you.
Learn to use copy and paste
Nooo!
I wish I could beat with a crowbar all the cut-and-paste programmers who make my life difficult - I have to maintain the piles of repetitive crap code that they produced - they knew how to use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V but could not or did not bother to do the most basic of programming taske: eliminate repetition by factoring code into meaningfully-named, paramterised procedures. This was best practice in 1970 already but so many people still don't get it.
Never, ever, raise exciting new methodologies to management. They will hear all of the advantages and expect every last one of them as though it was the perfect implementation of the method whilst completely failing to hear (and certainly refusing to act on or implement if they do hear) any of the trade-offs that have to be made to enable those gains.
I think you mean "Never, ever, raise exciting new methodologies to greedy, power-drunk idiots...
You think New Orleans was submerged by *rising* water levels? That would be false.
No, I don't and I never said that. New Orleans was submerged by a combination of poor location, poor flood prepredness and the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes, which is caused in part by global warming. global warming is no joke.
And I'd say to the Kilinailau Islands, "Hey, aren't you an atoll? Shouldn't you be under water?"
Uh, what defines an atol is that it's an island. You know, land: not under water.
You're trying for funny, but Global Warmning ? Tell that to New Orleans, tell it to The Kilinailau Islands
Then I guess perhaps you are not aware that iTunes is not just the iTunes Music Store. I use iTunes to manage my music all the time, but I have never bought anything from the iTMS. I can migrate my music to any other program I want, as long as it can handle MPEG4 Audio (AAC) and MP3, which most can.
I use file explorer to "manage my music" and to put it onto/off of my Mp3 player, but that's because my MP3 player isn't crippled.
domain squatter
What you say? http://www.x.org/ must surely have the same domain as http://x.org/ , since the domain is "x.org", the bit on the left is configuration internal to that domain.
Anyway, www.slashdot.org redirects to slashdot.org instantly for me.
When I have to rent my word processor and spread sheet program.
Software as a service plainly doesn't make sense for word processing or spreadsheets.
But it does for search, or buying books, or news.
The only problem (if you can call it that) is that the users are so not-locked in that it's hard to charge for the service (ok, you can charge for the books, but the users can still go to another online stop at the drop of a hat)
New network stack
What was wrong with the old one?
Seriously, I have windows Xp at home and at work, and both of them connect to the local network just fine.