Um, more likely by running over racoons on the raod, you are selecting for those racoons that stay off the tarmac. Other unrealistic options are purely red herrings.
Well, I've seen on a documentary that fear of snakes is cultural. A baby isn't born with fear of snakes, it acquires it from the environment. If the baby's mother show fear of snakes, the baby acquires this fear instantly and forever
It's probably both cultural and hard-wired. If the baby's mother show fear of cute fluffy bunnies, I doubt that the baby acquires fear of bunnies instantly and forever.
Right, you can use science to prove anything that's even remotely true. You've got a much freer hand wirth religion, hence it's not bullshit.
The concept of race will not go away just because science disproves of it. The concept of race will never go away just like Christianity will never go away.
Yeah, but don't we just wish that they would.
the only thing that passes on from generation to generation is culture. Have we forgotten Einsteinian physics and Darwinian Evolution? Oh wait, you Americans almost have done that.
Cultural conservativism is the answer.
Must be the wrong question then.
Always follow the economy.
Make up your mind if you're a Christian or a capitalism. Morals or Money.
That may or may not be the case. The experiment to determine it would be to raise first-world children in the third world, and vice versa. A possible outcome is that the things that the first world children have that are no handicap in the first world (e.g. poor eyesight, correctable defects) are major handicaps in the third world, and the traits that third world children have (e.g. disease resistance) are no handicap at all in the first world.
This provides a criterion, notwithstanding that it is subjective, whereby you can say that the third-world ones are "superior"
You cannot stop natural selection, you can only change the selection criteria.
Small children are naturally scared of spiders, snakes and the like. This is no longer such an important criterion, so it is likely to wither.
For example, as the advertisments in London keep reminding us, colisions with cars is a a major killer of children and teens. Hopefully we'll eventually breed for kids that don't run out into the bloody road without looking.
And finally, your argument that "weaker individuals aren't killed off" by traditional perils like disease and conflict simply fails to apply in the third world, where the majority of the human race lives. Give them a few more generations, and they will be superior to your soft white first-world ass.
But you will need to figure the extra expense to mine in space
Why? I didn't claim that this needed to be done in space. But then, mining in space vs. safely landing a 2Km-wide rock: I wouldn't know which is easier. And nobody said that conventional mining was free either: I wouldn't know which is cheaper.
But I do know that if there's more platinum around, platinum will cost less.
Can you concoct a similar scenario whereby, through the discovery of evidence, it can be proved that an Intelligent Designer was not responsible for life on earth?
Yes. All you'd need is evidence of stupid design like oh, the human appendix and the mamalian eye for starters.
To add to that, you want an answer, but I can't give you one without knowing all about the company that you work for and the startup you are considering.
Does your boss know that you want more technical challenges? If you have career reviews, bring it up. If you don't, find another way to talk to them and see if you can be steered in that direction. Do these challenges even exist within your current company?
My advice to you is not to let your technical skills atrophy. If you can't get the challenges you want at your current employer, and you have a good feeling about the startup, then go for it.
Look to the long term. Startups aim to well, start up and make it big. Assess what you think the startup's chances of successes are, and how much you expect to gain financially if it succeeds. Ask the startup for more details if you want to. Get assurances of what you will get in the event of a buyout or IPO. Startups are not all equal.
Assess the impact on your career path if you take up his offer and the company does fold in a year or two. Could you go on to do something similar for someone else at a good salary? Would it be better pay than what yiu get now? More worryingly given what you say, assess the impact on your career if you don't move. Will you be stuck with VBA for life? Don't just consider your current salary, consider how much that salary can grow.
well, whoever made that policy made two basic mistakes
1) one size does not fit all.
2) Never use a CPU-intensive screensaver on a server. Your ideal screensaver for that has just enough movement to let you know that the box hasn't frozen. On windows, one of the simpler built-in 2-d ones with all the speeds and settings turned down to minimum works well.
The article discusses mainly the third trimester. I don't think anyone is promoting abortion or experimentation in that phase, however many on the religious right insist that in the first few days after fertlisation, when there is neither brain nor functional nervous system (http://www.ncrtl.org/LifeLine.htm), that experimentation on an embryo is both torture and murder. That's frankly nuts.
Your position may be more informed and reasonable, but you are still making sweeping generalisations. An embryo has a brain, but only from the third week or so.
They feel pain, but not from day one. As for "as intensely as you or I do", that's debatable and gradual.
What, right from when they are only like 16 cells?
They feel pain as intensely as you or I do.
References please. I seem to recall hearing that memories don't even start being retained until after 1 year old, so how can that occur with a nervous system that is only going to be wired together in a year's time?
While unlocking my account, I saw a bunch of bantownllj*@mailinator.com adresses had been attached to it. Given that around 5% of the LJ people that I know were affected by this outage, and that some of them even have paid accounts, I think that the LJ admins know very well which email addresses were used for the mass account compromises.
I for one look forward to the perps beeing traced and having the crap kicked out of them... er, in a metaphorical, legal sense, of course. Yeah.
What, I should write emails to everyone I know saying "The weather in London is rubbish today....". Sorry, but different technologies are best suited to different things. I let them all know that I have an LJ, and those that want to will go and read it, if and when they want to.
How on Earth are all those white kids in the suburbs going to express their teen angst now?
How on Earth are all those white kids in the suburbs going to express their teen angst now?
I wouldn't know mate. I'm in my 30s, and I use LJ to keep in touch with family and friends around the world (UK, Australia, US and South Africa mostly).
Or at least I did, until my account was hacked and locked today. A good number of other accounts are in the same boat. I just hope that the LJ admins sort it out soon. My account email address was changed to bantownlj292@mailinator.com . I just hope my posts are OK. I can't even tell at present.
I thought one of the things the GPL wanted to avoid were the extra clauses about what you could and couldn't use the software for.
I see your point, but it's also an important feature of the GPL that you cannot used GPL'd software to lock a customer into a single vendor's product (since you must supply the source and allow forks). What else is DRM except lock-in?
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Um, more likely by running over racoons on the raod, you are selecting for those racoons that stay off the tarmac. Other unrealistic options are purely red herrings.
If you end Aparthied in South Africa you simply are creating a new form of Aparthied somewhere else.
Of course. I'd forgotten the law of conservation of Apartheid.
Well, I've seen on a documentary that fear of snakes is cultural. A baby isn't born with fear of snakes, it acquires it from the environment. If the baby's mother show fear of snakes, the baby acquires this fear instantly and forever
It's probably both cultural and hard-wired. If the baby's mother show fear of cute fluffy bunnies, I doubt that the baby acquires fear of bunnies instantly and forever.
Science is bullshit.. Science could say anything
Right, you can use science to prove anything that's even remotely true. You've got a much freer hand wirth religion, hence it's not bullshit.
The concept of race will not go away just because science disproves of it. The concept of race will never go away just like Christianity will never go away.
Yeah, but don't we just wish that they would.
the only thing that passes on from generation to generation is culture.
Have we forgotten Einsteinian physics and Darwinian Evolution? Oh wait, you Americans almost have done that.
Cultural conservativism is the answer.
Must be the wrong question then.
Always follow the economy.
Make up your mind if you're a Christian or a capitalism. Morals or Money.
That may or may not be the case. The experiment to determine it would be to raise first-world children in the third world, and vice versa. A possible outcome is that the things that the first world children have that are no handicap in the first world (e.g. poor eyesight, correctable defects) are major handicaps in the third world, and the traits that third world children have (e.g. disease resistance) are no handicap at all in the first world.
This provides a criterion, notwithstanding that it is subjective, whereby you can say that the third-world ones are "superior"
Genetically, we have a concept called races.
No, we don't. Race is cultural, and is of little interest genetically.
You cannot stop natural selection, you can only change the selection criteria.
Small children are naturally scared of spiders, snakes and the like. This is no longer such an important criterion, so it is likely to wither.
For example, as the advertisments in London keep reminding us, colisions with cars is a a major killer of children and teens. Hopefully we'll eventually breed for kids that don't run out into the bloody road without looking.
And finally, your argument that "weaker individuals aren't killed off" by traditional perils like disease and conflict simply fails to apply in the third world, where the majority of the human race lives. Give them a few more generations, and they will be superior to your soft white first-world ass.
But you will need to figure the extra expense to mine in space
Why? I didn't claim that this needed to be done in space. But then, mining in space vs. safely landing a 2Km-wide rock: I wouldn't know which is easier. And nobody said that conventional mining was free either: I wouldn't know which is cheaper.
But I do know that if there's more platinum around, platinum will cost less.
That's 20 trillion US dollars worth of precious metal at current prices
You can guarantee that if you manage to mine this rock, prices would go down. Supply and demand.
Can you concoct a similar scenario whereby, through the discovery of evidence, it can be proved that an Intelligent Designer was not responsible for life on earth?
Yes. All you'd need is evidence of stupid design like oh, the human appendix and the mamalian eye for starters.
To add to that, you want an answer, but I can't give you one without knowing all about the company that you work for and the startup you are considering.
Does your boss know that you want more technical challenges? If you have career reviews, bring it up. If you don't, find another way to talk to them and see if you can be steered in that direction. Do these challenges even exist within your current company?
My advice to you is not to let your technical skills atrophy. If you can't get the challenges you want at your current employer, and you have a good feeling about the startup, then go for it.
Look to the long term. Startups aim to well, start up and make it big. Assess what you think the startup's chances of successes are, and how much you expect to gain financially if it succeeds. Ask the startup for more details if you want to. Get assurances of what you will get in the event of a buyout or IPO. Startups are not all equal.
Assess the impact on your career path if you take up his offer and the company does fold in a year or two. Could you go on to do something similar for someone else at a good salary? Would it be better pay than what yiu get now? More worryingly given what you say, assess the impact on your career if you don't move. Will you be stuck with VBA for life? Don't just consider your current salary, consider how much that salary can grow.
what strategies should a developer take to insure that the resulting program is as crash-free as possible?
Simple, easy answer: unit test it as much as possible, then tinker with the design to make more unit tests posible.
Beyond that, do regular code reviews and get into the habit of programming defensively.
this applies to any language, not just C++. There's even a port of JUnit to C++ over here
What the hell does a server need with a graphics display
Uh, maybe because like the poster said, it's a workstation during the day?
well, whoever made that policy made two basic mistakes
1) one size does not fit all.
2) Never use a CPU-intensive screensaver on a server. Your ideal screensaver for that has just enough movement to let you know that the box hasn't frozen. On windows, one of the simpler built-in 2-d ones with all the speeds and settings turned down to minimum works well.
The article discusses mainly the third trimester. I don't think anyone is promoting abortion or experimentation in that phase, however many on the religious right insist that in the first few days after fertlisation, when there is neither brain nor functional nervous system (http://www.ncrtl.org/LifeLine.htm), that experimentation on an embryo is both torture and murder. That's frankly nuts.
Your position may be more informed and reasonable, but you are still making sweeping generalisations. An embryo has a brain, but only from the third week or so.
They feel pain, but not from day one. As for "as intensely as you or I do", that's debatable and gradual.
Human embryos have brains.
What, right from when they are only like 16 cells?
They feel pain as intensely as you or I do.
References please. I seem to recall hearing that memories don't even start being retained until after 1 year old, so how can that occur with a nervous system that is only going to be wired together in a year's time?
I have a question about your account getting hijacked though... How do you update it?
I'm using firefox 1.5 on WinXp at home and at work.
I don't know if this had anything to do with what client I'm using, I thought it might have been between the crackers and the LJ server.
The passsword was not a dictionary word, has been changed. But I do sometimes leave it logged in with the cookie.
While unlocking my account, I saw a bunch of bantownllj*@mailinator.com adresses had been attached to it. Given that around 5% of the LJ people that I know were affected by this outage, and that some of them even have paid accounts, I think that the LJ admins know very well which email addresses were used for the mass account compromises.
... er, in a metaphorical, legal sense, of course. Yeah.
I for one look forward to the perps beeing traced and having the crap kicked out of them
Apparently it was done due to flaws in Lj's secutiry model, judging by friends acounts, it happened to about 5% of the total LJ population today.
1) Yes, Windows XP
2) No, Firefox 1.5 thankyouverymuch.
Update: We're back! Thanks, "Natasha, LiveJournal Abuse Team" I really apprecate the swift reinstatement.
Ever try email?
What, I should write emails to everyone I know saying "The weather in London is rubbish today....". Sorry, but different technologies are best suited to different things. I let them all know that I have an LJ, and those that want to will go and read it, if and when they want to.
How on Earth are all those white kids in the suburbs going to express their teen angst now?
How on Earth are all those white kids in the suburbs going to express their teen angst now?
I wouldn't know mate. I'm in my 30s, and I use LJ to keep in touch with family and friends around the world (UK, Australia, US and South Africa mostly).
Or at least I did, until my account was hacked and locked today. A good number of other accounts are in the same boat. I just hope that the LJ admins sort it out soon. My account email address was changed to bantownlj292@mailinator.com . I just hope my posts are OK. I can't even tell at present.
I thought one of the things the GPL wanted to avoid were the extra clauses about what you could and couldn't use the software for.
I see your point, but it's also an important feature of the GPL that you cannot used GPL'd software to lock a customer into a single vendor's product (since you must supply the source and allow forks). What else is DRM except lock-in?