A fair point (ignoring the poor tone of the last para), but the question "Am I the only one who..." generally precedes the question "What percentage of you find that...".
I look forward to proper "data collection" following. The fact that it has not occurred yet doesn't mean that the whole thing should be dismissed out of hand.
I had terrible problems with my new Vista Laptop, until the hardware (except for the HD with the OS on it) was replaced with another "identical" machine. No problems since.
Here in my area we too saw a large crop of at least the large variety of acorns.
And a lone observer like you can dismiss it with an anecdote. Which is why people have to compare notes across wide areas... which is pretty much what they're doing, if you read the article.
These are the kinds of things that we'll find Al Gore referencing if we're not careful.
Actually, it defines it in the summary's quote from the interview: The soul is a synonym for consciousness..
If you can make words mean anything you like, then you can say almost anything. e.g. "Does Ray Kurzweil have cottage cheese? If cottage cheese is a synonym for eyebrows, then it is clear that Ray Kurzweil has big bushy cottage cheese".
Is the soul equivalent to conciousness? Who can tell, both of those words are up for grabs. Most of what is written or said about "soul" is either fable or nonsense because of this.
there were probably fewer than seven total cheetahs in the world at some point around ten thousand years ago.
That number is too low for good breeding. As a species, cheetahs are screwed up due to inbreeding. Wikipedia touches on this: "The cheetah has unusually low genetic variability and a very low sperm count, which also suffers from low motility and deformed flagellae"
With respect to the 99.99% of all species going extinct, that is not a counter argument... ranked by biomass there is more krill on the planet than humanity.
Small, simple creatures have lower odds of extinction than large, complex ones. As a matter of fact, the large complex ones generally don't last. Sharks are the only counterexample that comes to mind. So, which category do you think human fall into?
Yes and no. The best way is to find and punish the spammers. That's why I don't think taking these servers off the net was the best thing to do - they should have been investigated instead.
But raising the cost of spamming (e.g. have to change hosting provider more frequently) is ok, it also helps to drive them out.
'Scrapping' pages is exactly what the Internet archive or Goggle do, this is common
Not always - not on sites that require you to log in, and possibly to pay, before you can see the content. Also, estate agents may put their houses for sale data freely on the internet, but they are virulently opposed to apps that scrape multiple estate agents' websites, compare and aggregate the data, and present it on another website.
Most 'free' services come with a very explicit contract detailing their allowed uses.
yes, and many of them have a paid version that allows you to do much higher volumes of transactions. Aggregating several free accounts was certainly not what they wanted you to do.
What will happen to your business when the source site detects your scrapping and decides to serve goatse to your spider, and hence your clients?
Over the last three decades, the market has favoured the latter.
I'd argue that in the time from when Java started to become popular, (1995-1996) through to the.net VM coming out with a similar philosophy in 2002, we have agreed to take a one-off performance hit of 10-50% (which was offset within the year by faster computers) in return for a VM with garbage collection and some platform independence.
So, for the last decade, the market has had some preference for the former. Perhaps 1996 was about when there was enough space computer power on the average user's PC to make it worthwhile.
Otherwise, Microsoft would be releasing a technology that will only work reliably on Windows and shun the other major platforms.
The version that Microsoft released works on Windows and Mac OS X. The "Moonlight" project is the version for "for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems"
It's aimed at de-anonymising prepaid, over-the-counter sales, since those of us who signed a contract and pay for our phones monthly by direct debit can already be tied to the phone number with a little digging.
"no open source software products were used in the development process, and that no OSS was present in the product".
I understand that the company may be afraid of being infected by the GPL and their software becoming a zombie or something, but that's a huge overreaction. I use Winmerge, (which is GPL'd) to compare files "in the development process", but it has no implication on the licence of the final product.
If I work from an example that's under BSD licence, it has no implication on the licence of the final product.
A better formulation would be that no OSS which has licence implications on the final product, or attribution required, is present in the product".
The reason that evolution in humans has almost stopped is that we screwed up natural selection.
No we didn't, we just changed the selection criteria. And only in some parts of the world. One third of Africa is malnourished, and there are conflicts and diseases. Cyclones and tidal waves kill lots of people in the east. Appalling, but how's that for selection pressure?
1000 years ago, a child who developed diabetes would probably die long before they were able to reproduce.... now a diabetic child can grow up to live a happy, healthy, normal life, including raising a family
You cannot stop natural selection, you can only change the selection criteria.
B) Our other technological advances mean that we are highly capable of surviving... This includes fighting natural disaster, possible predators, and food supply/type changes (industrialized production of food)... Welfare. We have organised the distribution of our resources. The weak will not flourish, but they won't die.
On a worldwide scale, this statement is false. It is rubbish. People die in large numbers from natural disasters, conflicts, diseases and sheer starvation.
But what do those people keen on TDD and design do on.NET now? Particularly when it comes to Web development,
Generally, they use layered architectures. They to test cases for their back ends (the more innovative ones have mock data layers for testing the bits between) and for the asp.net pages Ui layer... well, they struggle. Selenium or Watin or the like haven't really solved the testing problem. At least, that's what I see.
The category of people interested in LINQ is mostly those who also read about Lisp and Haskell
Mostly I see people getting interested in LINQ becuase it looks like, and replaces embedded SQL queries and stored procs. They they start to use it in other situations.
MVC is attractive to ex-Java developers who moved on (or were forced into).NET not long ago
I know several people interested in ASP.NET MVC, and I wouldn't call any of them recent converts from Java. Mostly it appeals to people keen on TDD and design because of the testablity and separation of concerns; and to people who like simple URLs and simple HTML.
("I dunna wanna learn what a 'lambda' or 'closure' is, and WTF is 'inversion of control'?").
I wouldn't hire people who said that. Would you? However, even "traditionist" developers (you mean.. slow?) who are not interested in whiz-bang new ideas see some of the new C# 3.5 features giving them little wins - doing the same thing in 2 readable lines instead of 6 lines of code.
Well any website with pages that end in.aspx is written in.Net, for one thing.
Check out Stackoverflow. It's written in.Net, but not as we know it. No ".aspx", no anything on the end of the pages. It uses the brand new MVC kit and other.net 3.5 features like LINQ. And it's excellent.
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A fair point (ignoring the poor tone of the last para), but the question "Am I the only one who..." generally precedes the question "What percentage of you find that...".
I look forward to proper "data collection" following. The fact that it has not occurred yet doesn't mean that the whole thing should be dismissed out of hand.
You'll be lucky if it's just the NVidia software failing They have had issues with their hardware..
I had terrible problems with my new Vista Laptop, until the hardware (except for the HD with the OS on it) was replaced with another "identical" machine. No problems since.
So don't be too quick to blame the OS.
Here in my area we too saw a large crop of at least the large variety of acorns.
And a lone observer like you can dismiss it with an anecdote. Which is why people have to compare notes across wide areas ... which is pretty much what they're doing, if you read the article.
These are the kinds of things that we'll find Al Gore referencing if we're not careful.
Oh look, I just fed a troll.
There's no turret defense. How could I live without a good turret defense game?
But there is ... Manic Miner
Actually, it defines it in the summary's quote from the interview: The soul is a synonym for consciousness..
If you can make words mean anything you like, then you can say almost anything. e.g. "Does Ray Kurzweil have cottage cheese? If cottage cheese is a synonym for eyebrows, then it is clear that Ray Kurzweil has big bushy cottage cheese".
Is the soul equivalent to conciousness? Who can tell, both of those words are up for grabs. Most of what is written or said about "soul" is either fable or nonsense because of this.
there were probably fewer than seven total cheetahs in the world at some point around ten thousand years ago.
That number is too low for good breeding. As a species, cheetahs are screwed up due to inbreeding. Wikipedia touches on this: "The cheetah has unusually low genetic variability and a very low sperm count, which also suffers from low motility and deformed flagellae"
With respect to the 99.99% of all species going extinct, that is not a counter argument ... ranked by biomass there is more krill on the planet than humanity.
Small, simple creatures have lower odds of extinction than large, complex ones. As a matter of fact, the large complex ones generally don't last. Sharks are the only counterexample that comes to mind. So, which category do you think human fall into?
Yes and no. The best way is to find and punish the spammers. That's why I don't think taking these servers off the net was the best thing to do - they should have been investigated instead.
But raising the cost of spamming (e.g. have to change hosting provider more frequently) is ok, it also helps to drive them out.
'Scrapping' pages is exactly what the Internet archive or Goggle do, this is common
Not always - not on sites that require you to log in, and possibly to pay, before you can see the content.
Also, estate agents may put their houses for sale data freely on the internet, but they are virulently opposed to apps that scrape multiple estate agents' websites, compare and aggregate the data, and present it on another website.
Most 'free' services come with a very explicit contract detailing their allowed uses.
yes, and many of them have a paid version that allows you to do much higher volumes of transactions. Aggregating several free accounts was certainly not what they wanted you to do.
What will happen to your business when the source site detects your scrapping and decides to serve goatse to your spider, and hence your clients?
I'd classify that as "sweet revenge" :)
WPF runs on XP, and it will run on OSs after vista.
As for the number of WPF apps, it's definitely got some traction
You didn't hear quite right. it was Manic Miner
Over the last three decades, the market has favoured the latter.
I'd argue that in the time from when Java started to become popular, (1995-1996) through to the .net VM coming out with a similar philosophy in 2002, we have agreed to take a one-off performance hit of 10-50% (which was offset within the year by faster computers) in return for a VM with garbage collection and some platform independence.
So, for the last decade, the market has had some preference for the former. Perhaps 1996 was about when there was enough space computer power on the average user's PC to make it worthwhile.
"Silverlight on the desktop" would be WPF and XAML.
Actually, that was last year.
Otherwise, Microsoft would be releasing a technology that will only work reliably on Windows and shun the other major platforms.
The version that Microsoft released works on Windows and Mac OS X.
The "Moonlight" project is the version for "for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems"
And the other major platforms are ... ?
Yes, it extends to prepaid. RTFM.
It's aimed at de-anonymising prepaid, over-the-counter sales, since those of us who signed a contract and pay for our phones monthly by direct debit can already be tied to the phone number with a little digging.
"no open source software products were used in the development process, and that no OSS was present in the product".
I understand that the company may be afraid of being infected by the GPL and their software becoming a zombie or something, but that's a huge overreaction. I use Winmerge, (which is GPL'd) to compare files "in the development process", but it has no implication on the licence of the final product.
If I work from an example that's under BSD licence, it has no implication on the licence of the final product.
A better formulation would be that no OSS which has licence implications on the final product, or attribution required, is present in the product".
The reason that evolution in humans has almost stopped is that we screwed up natural selection.
No we didn't, we just changed the selection criteria. And only in some parts of the world. One third of Africa is malnourished, and there are conflicts and diseases. Cyclones and tidal waves kill lots of people in the east. Appalling, but how's that for selection pressure?
1000 years ago, a child who developed diabetes would probably die long before they were able to reproduce. ... now a diabetic child can grow up to live a happy, healthy, normal life, including raising a family
You cannot stop natural selection, you can only change the selection criteria.
B) Our other technological advances mean that we are highly capable of surviving ... This includes fighting natural disaster, possible predators, and food supply/type changes (industrialized production of food) ... Welfare. We have organised the distribution of our resources. The weak will not flourish, but they won't die.
On a worldwide scale, this statement is false. It is rubbish. People die in large numbers from natural disasters, conflicts, diseases and sheer starvation.
But what do those people keen on TDD and design do on .NET now? Particularly when it comes to Web development,
Generally, they use layered architectures. They to test cases for their back ends (the more innovative ones have mock data layers for testing the bits between) and for the asp.net pages Ui layer ... well, they struggle. Selenium or Watin or the like haven't really solved the testing problem. At least, that's what I see.
The category of people interested in LINQ is mostly those who also read about Lisp and Haskell
Mostly I see people getting interested in LINQ becuase it looks like, and replaces embedded SQL queries and stored procs. They they start to use it in other situations.
MVC is attractive to ex-Java developers who moved on (or were forced into) .NET not long ago
I know several people interested in ASP.NET MVC, and I wouldn't call any of them recent converts from Java. Mostly it appeals to people keen on TDD and design because of the testablity and separation of concerns; and to people who like simple URLs and simple HTML.
("I dunna wanna learn what a 'lambda' or 'closure' is, and WTF is 'inversion of control'?").
I wouldn't hire people who said that. Would you? However, even "traditionist" developers (you mean .. slow?) who are not interested in whiz-bang new ideas see some of the new C# 3.5 features giving them little wins - doing the same thing in 2 readable lines instead of 6 lines of code.
Well any website with pages that end in .aspx is written in .Net, for one thing.
Check out Stackoverflow. It's written in .Net, but not as we know it. No ".aspx", no anything on the end of the pages. It uses the brand new MVC kit and other .net 3.5 features like LINQ. And it's excellent.
So long as the warhead only weighs as much as a tiny spore, that should work well.
I see a lot of people interested in LINQ, extension methods, a more functional style of coding, and ASP.Net MVC. So maybe your mileage will vary.
Seriously though, what applications are using Net 3.5 instead of all the stuff that can only run with Net 1.0 or Net 2.0?
The ones being written now.