Ruby is a fad because it doesn't really offer anything new or compelling in the larger context of programming. It's slower, less secure, and less scalable than alternatives. That alone will kill it.
That quickly leads to the multi-verse concept. In one of those I'm sure someone would have gone back and stopped the dinosaur extinction event (if you can travel through time, you can pretty easily alter the course of an asteroid). The evolution from that point forward would be interesting to observe. It certainly would make that particular person never occur, so would it have happened thus stopping said person from taking such action?
This seems like such an age-specific question. I expect most of us who were adults 30 years ago were just putting in our usual workday. We weren't watching the launch, though, and didn't find out until a coworker's wife called to tell us about it.
Because he returned. Time travel, especially into the past, is a true mind warp which is why scientists believe it is impossible. The common argument is the grandfather paradox, but there are many many others. If you want some mind benders, try watching Primer or Predestination.
It's not a good measure, never has been and never will be. You can have a "perfect" BMI and be as healthy as a goose right before making foie gras. BMI means nothing. The sooner people like you realize that, the sooner we can move on to an actual health measurement, like body fat percentages and other meaningful measures.
BMI is about as useful as a medium shirt is to determining someone's weight. If they fit in the shirt, they'll probably weigh in around 150 or so. BMI uses the same concept as using your shirt size, except has additional fudge factors of height and gender. Those fudge factors make it fit the distribution of "medium" people a bit better, but that doesn't make it any more accurate than using dress shirt sizes (with arm length, chest and neck measurements).
I guess BMI proponents are as lazy as anyone else, they want a simple easy calculation to determine whether you're overweight or underweight. As soon as you're not in the couch potato class however, BMI is useless.
No superfund site has been created for activities that has taken place after 1986. The private sector simply doesn't operate that way anymore.
That is entirely unknown. They are still adding locations so they may just not have gotten to them yet. Full disclosure: I have not fully researched this topic, my conclusions are based on the fact that sites are still being added, and incidents like this mine spill and these leaks and theseincidents. The latter was only not a fund candidate because a) company had significant resources and b) cleanup needed to happen asap.
Co2 most definitely is born by the private sector. Almost all negative aspects if any are actually measurable are realized through reduced costs of products and lowered land values (most of which is controlled or owned by the rich who can afford the losses ).
You are partially correct, the costs are born by the land owners, many of whom are not rich, as they don't hold the mineral rights. Perhaps you should take a good look at the issues around fracking wells and who bears the cost. Here's a hint, it's not the company and in many cases not the land owners that are affected.
I state that land cleanup has no private sector interest nor funding. That's why we have the superfund sites. There are still issues with oil and chemical spills, and CO2 is not handled in any way by the private sector. They barely scrub the coal stacks as it is, and only under duress.
You would have no means to record anything you ask in a meaningful manner. The orientation of the phone is not fixed, so you would be basing the information off of multiple pieces of data and calculating results, none of which are accurate to the necessary degree. Since they don't want you talking on the phone etc anyways, my suggestion would be to drop your phone in an anti-static bag while driving. Solves all the above problems.
I'd make the argument that anything less than 10 mbps up is not broadband. Note that this is upstream, not down. Down is irrelevant after about 10 mbps, since nothing normal will fill that pipe at this time. Streaming multiple netflix streams (more than 3) is not "normal" behavior for the average household. My primary use case is for printing photos. Sending reasonable quality images to the printing facility takes a long time over anything less than 10 mbps up, especially in batches of 40+.
What happens if we add the cost to clean up the CO2 and other pollution associated with coal or gas, not to mention its transport and damage to land? I'm just saying let's compare apples to apples, and include the full cost.
BTW, upgrading the national electric grid is something that's overdue, and this scheme helps everyone.
Bill didn't care about backwards compatibility, or rather, he cared that things weren't backwards compatible at all. See Office95's release and complete lack of interoperation between previous versions across all platforms, including windows. Yep, backwards compatibility indeed.
But given their level of "competence" I'm sure they don't know how a lot of things work.
You don't need to be competent in something to necessarily know it is broken or smells fishy. It certainly can help, but in this case, they are spot on. ME smells fishy for sure.
As opposed to 30 years of hacks from 1981 and layers and upon layers which only a select few knew the secrets with the bios?
EFI was supported here before Windows 8. Now slashdot has become a fear of change site for IT folks which is hypocracy. Not saying UEFI is perfect but I am glad the bios is about dead.
BIOS could have been replaced with a modern EFI that merely fixed the issues with BIOS, and there would have been no issues. The problem is it was replaced with UEFI, which is much like replacing initd with systemd, and I apologize for the insult to UEFI in advance.
Like DOS with expanded vs extended ram tricks needed for games I welcomed Windows NT/95 greatly to say goodbye. Same is true with BIOS and all the limitations like 2 TB disks which that hack was implemented because the bios is hardset at 40 meg disks and a virtual 2 TB wrap around was put in.
BIOS had issues with small pointers it used (16 bit IIRC, of which several were "reserved") So you had 1024 cylinders as a max, and 512bit sectors, so the first cut was to create a cluster in between those two, which allowed for more space by aggregating sectors into clusters which could be addressed in a single cylinder. (This is all so long ago, I'm sure I have something wrong) All of this was based on the early early storage mediums where those terms really related to their physical counterparts.
Personally, I said goodbye to DOS with OS/2 - flat memory addressing and true pre-emption over time-slicing. I've run several other OSes since then. I am looking forward to the security disaster that is Windows NT/2K/XP/VISTA/8/10 to go away and be replaced by something sane.
Perhaps that you agree and think the author is technically inept discredits you as technically inept. UEFI has a whole new set of potential attack vectors by virtue of it being remotely accessible. UEFI has some good features, but I think I'd prefer the entire "remote accessibility" piece to be a separate optional chip. There are a few other parts that would be nice to have the same optional pluggable feature, but given that making a single chip that does it all is n factors cheaper than building n chips, that is likely to not ever happen unless someone (government?) says it will only buy such a design.
It seems like a really good way to deal with this is to use a non-Intel firewall between you and the internet, and only whitelist inbound ports and DPI those ports. Not terribly difficult, but likely beyond any Joe/Jane Sixpack.
Well, I had several fun experiences in the US, across multiple states. In one, uverse fiber finally showed, offered 3Mbps up max, went to 5 Mbps for about a year, and today you can maybe get 1 Mbps max up no matter what tier you pay for. People less than a mile away are in FiOS land with 50/50 links. Cable has actually moved to 5 Mbps up max. You get about the same max up on LTE (wireless). A second state has a max 1Mbps up on cable only. A third has max 5Mbps up cable. Uverse hybrid fiber claims a max of 5 Mbps up, but refuses to guarantee it. A third state has TW only with unknown up, although speed tests suggest it is 5 Mbps. A fourth location has up to 500/500 (FiOS again - seems like the thing to have). A fifth has cable at a max of 5Mbps up. Most of these are major metro areas in 4 different states spread throughout the US. So essentially it is luck of the draw of your specific residence as to whether you're in 3rd world connectivity vs 1st world, or just somewhere semi-average barely better than third world and maybe can watch a sub-dvd quality video stream but can't carry on a video call.
My last move considered internet quality as part of the criteria..
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Ruby is a fad because it doesn't really offer anything new or compelling in the larger context of programming. It's slower, less secure, and less scalable than alternatives. That alone will kill it.
That quickly leads to the multi-verse concept. In one of those I'm sure someone would have gone back and stopped the dinosaur extinction event (if you can travel through time, you can pretty easily alter the course of an asteroid). The evolution from that point forward would be interesting to observe. It certainly would make that particular person never occur, so would it have happened thus stopping said person from taking such action?
... Who turn off Windows update. All I can say is told you so.
Who still are running windows, all I can say is ....
This seems like such an age-specific question. I expect most of us who were adults 30 years ago were just putting in our usual workday. We weren't watching the launch, though, and didn't find out until a coworker's wife called to tell us about it.
There is only 1 correct answer, and it's obvious:
In front of the TV!
Because he returned. Time travel, especially into the past, is a true mind warp which is why scientists believe it is impossible. The common argument is the grandfather paradox, but there are many many others. If you want some mind benders, try watching Primer or Predestination.
It'd be no different than all those AC Cobras they sold way back when.
And this Mr. Fusion is just a scam.
He was berated by the Mrs for being gone for 50 years.
It's not a good measure, never has been and never will be. You can have a "perfect" BMI and be as healthy as a goose right before making foie gras. BMI means nothing. The sooner people like you realize that, the sooner we can move on to an actual health measurement, like body fat percentages and other meaningful measures.
BMI is about as useful as a medium shirt is to determining someone's weight. If they fit in the shirt, they'll probably weigh in around 150 or so. BMI uses the same concept as using your shirt size, except has additional fudge factors of height and gender. Those fudge factors make it fit the distribution of "medium" people a bit better, but that doesn't make it any more accurate than using dress shirt sizes (with arm length, chest and neck measurements).
I guess BMI proponents are as lazy as anyone else, they want a simple easy calculation to determine whether you're overweight or underweight. As soon as you're not in the couch potato class however, BMI is useless.
Hannibal was a better love story than Twilight.
No superfund site has been created for activities that has taken place after 1986. The private sector simply doesn't operate that way anymore.
That is entirely unknown. They are still adding locations so they may just not have gotten to them yet. Full disclosure: I have not fully researched this topic, my conclusions are based on the fact that sites are still being added, and incidents like this mine spill and these leaks and these incidents. The latter was only not a fund candidate because a) company had significant resources and b) cleanup needed to happen asap.
Co2 most definitely is born by the private sector. Almost all negative aspects if any are actually measurable are realized through reduced costs of products and lowered land values (most of which is controlled or owned by the rich who can afford the losses ).
You are partially correct, the costs are born by the land owners, many of whom are not rich, as they don't hold the mineral rights. Perhaps you should take a good look at the issues around fracking wells and who bears the cost. Here's a hint, it's not the company and in many cases not the land owners that are affected.
I state that land cleanup has no private sector interest nor funding. That's why we have the superfund sites. There are still issues with oil and chemical spills, and CO2 is not handled in any way by the private sector. They barely scrub the coal stacks as it is, and only under duress.
You would have no means to record anything you ask in a meaningful manner. The orientation of the phone is not fixed, so you would be basing the information off of multiple pieces of data and calculating results, none of which are accurate to the necessary degree. Since they don't want you talking on the phone etc anyways, my suggestion would be to drop your phone in an anti-static bag while driving. Solves all the above problems.
Why would cable ISP's offer such shitty "broadband"? Mine gives me 200/10. 25/3 is ridiculously slow.
why is yours so ridiculously slow? My ISPs lowest tier is 25 mbps up. Max is 500 up.
I'd make the argument that anything less than 10 mbps up is not broadband. Note that this is upstream, not down. Down is irrelevant after about 10 mbps, since nothing normal will fill that pipe at this time. Streaming multiple netflix streams (more than 3) is not "normal" behavior for the average household. My primary use case is for printing photos. Sending reasonable quality images to the printing facility takes a long time over anything less than 10 mbps up, especially in batches of 40+.
What happens if we add the cost to clean up the CO2 and other pollution associated with coal or gas, not to mention its transport and damage to land? I'm just saying let's compare apples to apples, and include the full cost.
BTW, upgrading the national electric grid is something that's overdue, and this scheme helps everyone.
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Bill didn't care about backwards compatibility, or rather, he cared that things weren't backwards compatible at all. See Office95's release and complete lack of interoperation between previous versions across all platforms, including windows. Yep, backwards compatibility indeed.
I can tell you I couldn't use 2008 "legacy" API calls in 2008R2, so I call bullshit.
But given their level of "competence" I'm sure they don't know how a lot of things work.
You don't need to be competent in something to necessarily know it is broken or smells fishy. It certainly can help, but in this case, they are spot on. ME smells fishy for sure.
As opposed to 30 years of hacks from 1981 and layers and upon layers which only a select few knew the secrets with the bios?
EFI was supported here before Windows 8. Now slashdot has become a fear of change site for IT folks which is hypocracy. Not saying UEFI is perfect but I am glad the bios is about dead.
BIOS could have been replaced with a modern EFI that merely fixed the issues with BIOS, and there would have been no issues. The problem is it was replaced with UEFI, which is much like replacing initd with systemd, and I apologize for the insult to UEFI in advance.
Like DOS with expanded vs extended ram tricks needed for games I welcomed Windows NT/95 greatly to say goodbye. Same is true with BIOS and all the limitations like 2 TB disks which that hack was implemented because the bios is hardset at 40 meg disks and a virtual 2 TB wrap around was put in.
BIOS had issues with small pointers it used (16 bit IIRC, of which several were "reserved") So you had 1024 cylinders as a max, and 512bit sectors, so the first cut was to create a cluster in between those two, which allowed for more space by aggregating sectors into clusters which could be addressed in a single cylinder. (This is all so long ago, I'm sure I have something wrong) All of this was based on the early early storage mediums where those terms really related to their physical counterparts.
Personally, I said goodbye to DOS with OS/2 - flat memory addressing and true pre-emption over time-slicing. I've run several other OSes since then. I am looking forward to the security disaster that is Windows NT/2K/XP/VISTA/8/10 to go away and be replaced by something sane.
Perhaps that you agree and think the author is technically inept discredits you as technically inept. UEFI has a whole new set of potential attack vectors by virtue of it being remotely accessible. UEFI has some good features, but I think I'd prefer the entire "remote accessibility" piece to be a separate optional chip. There are a few other parts that would be nice to have the same optional pluggable feature, but given that making a single chip that does it all is n factors cheaper than building n chips, that is likely to not ever happen unless someone (government?) says it will only buy such a design.
It seems like a really good way to deal with this is to use a non-Intel firewall between you and the internet, and only whitelist inbound ports and DPI those ports. Not terribly difficult, but likely beyond any Joe/Jane Sixpack.
If you give us 1 nut per week, we'll make sure you have lots of lines to walk on and should something happen, we'll feed you 2 nuts a day!
Well, I had several fun experiences in the US, across multiple states. In one, uverse fiber finally showed, offered 3Mbps up max, went to 5 Mbps for about a year, and today you can maybe get 1 Mbps max up no matter what tier you pay for. People less than a mile away are in FiOS land with 50/50 links. Cable has actually moved to 5 Mbps up max. You get about the same max up on LTE (wireless). A second state has a max 1Mbps up on cable only. A third has max 5Mbps up cable. Uverse hybrid fiber claims a max of 5 Mbps up, but refuses to guarantee it. A third state has TW only with unknown up, although speed tests suggest it is 5 Mbps. A fourth location has up to 500/500 (FiOS again - seems like the thing to have). A fifth has cable at a max of 5Mbps up. Most of these are major metro areas in 4 different states spread throughout the US. So essentially it is luck of the draw of your specific residence as to whether you're in 3rd world connectivity vs 1st world, or just somewhere semi-average barely better than third world and maybe can watch a sub-dvd quality video stream but can't carry on a video call.
My last move considered internet quality as part of the criteria..