Stop reading sites like American"thinker", they are full of cretins.
You can't ruin uranium by other-centrifuging it. If anything, it only enriches it faster and undoing the centrifuging can be made by simple mixing of the product (uranium hexafluoride in this case).
Duh. Vostok lake data basically shows Milankovich cycles.
And Milankovich cycles is an _independent_ mechanism of climate change. If the Earth was an airless hulk (but with the same orbital parameters) it would still experience these cycles.
So it's hardly a wonder that Milankovich cycles were not caused by CO2 levels.
Oh, but you know about Therac-25. And I bet you've read it on the Internet, most likely from an IEEE reprint.
So at least you know that if you're designing a piece of life-critical software, you should not do dumb things. Like actually designing. And that's the point of education.
If tomorrow someone asks me to write software for nuclear reactor control, I'd most likely spend several next years learning about formal software checking and analysis. And even then I'd insist on doing pure mechanical backups.
"and it'll also keep electric cars in the bin where they should be - what we *really* need from an ecological point of view is a lithium shortage right now"
WTF? There's NO shortage of lithium whatsoever. Absolutely NONE.
You can mine it indefinitely from seawater for about $70 per kg. Ecological footprint of lithium mining is also trivial - it's mined from salt planes which are not known for their rich ecology.
So everyone has to use a Turing-complete language for configuration files? How about IDE and tool integration which is impossible in general with Turing-complete languages?
And if we restrict ourselves to pure s-exprs, then we just get isomorphic representation of XML.
"Since all money poofs into existence from loans, the debt gets bigger and bigger. There isn't enough money in the money supply at any one time to satisfy the debt."
Unless you print more money. Don't forget, that the total quantity of circulating money is not constant.
1) Local history. It's much faster than in SVN. 2) Fast operations - git is faster, though in this case it's not that much important. 3) Ability to work offline and to have private branches.
"I'd have to disagree. There are many instances were DVCS are always superior. However, there are times - such as in corporate environments - where you simply do not want that kind of information floating around the organization."
That's just an empty string of words. What do you mean be 'not floating around'? Access controls? So use them on per-repository level, duh.
Information leaks? Developers can just use working copies for that.
"Unfortunately, he got into office and concentrated on his progressive agenda instead."
You meant "conservative agenda", surely?
"The conservatives stopped trying to actually get anything done, and instead focused on a 24/7 dirty PR campaign. In an inept attempt at fighting the smear attacks, Mr. Obama sank into the same partisan bickering that he had previously railed against."
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"Israel never removed a country's inhabitants from the map."
They did. By locking them up in a ghetto. Yes, they have not _kill_ them (yet).
"They also haven't vowed the destruction of another country in the region, unlike a certain other regime in said region."
Yup. They just keep on genociding, why waste time on public vows and declarations?
That was just a misprint.
Stop reading sites like American"thinker", they are full of cretins.
You can't ruin uranium by other-centrifuging it. If anything, it only enriches it faster and undoing the centrifuging can be made by simple mixing of the product (uranium hexafluoride in this case).
Duh. Vostok lake data basically shows Milankovich cycles.
And Milankovich cycles is an _independent_ mechanism of climate change. If the Earth was an airless hulk (but with the same orbital parameters) it would still experience these cycles.
So it's hardly a wonder that Milankovich cycles were not caused by CO2 levels.
We do know what causes ice ages. The principal cause is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovich_cycles
Small ice ages can be caused by various reasons, but the cause for the large ones is long known.
Also, look at the time scale. Milankovich cycles take _ages_.
Oh, but you know about Therac-25. And I bet you've read it on the Internet, most likely from an IEEE reprint.
So at least you know that if you're designing a piece of life-critical software, you should not do dumb things. Like actually designing. And that's the point of education.
If tomorrow someone asks me to write software for nuclear reactor control, I'd most likely spend several next years learning about formal software checking and analysis. And even then I'd insist on doing pure mechanical backups.
"Right, but judging the entire platform based on the lack or inclusion of c&p/multitasking is myopic."
It's not. WP7 has some potential. But it needs to move quickly, because Android and iPhone do not stand at one place.
(I don't really understand the usefulness of XBox integration, BTW)
"Such as "The DNS is a hierarchical namespace, P2P type controls work only for flat namespaces. Yet generally people like hierarchical namespaces"
You just need to keep one level (second-level domains' glue) in DNS. Then the usual recursive nature of DNS can take over.
Reliable PKI is a problem. But it can be fixed, somewhat, using distributed key registries and reputation systems.
The problem is, back then iPhone was the first mass-market phone with usable browser and multitouch. These were the killer features then.
But by now, every phone has them. And lots more.
Ah, but who prevents a $COMPETITOR from spending $BILLIONS to build a competing infrastructure?
After all, most homes have phones, so ADSL is possible.
Free market should solve it, right? Are you a communist if you want to stop these poor companies from getting their profit?
Do you think US "HUMINT requirements" were a secret for any self-respecting foreign espionage agency?
I still fail to see anything that is really damaging to US, except for damage to public opinion (which is low enough already).
I've read some of the 'damning' documents.
None of them has anything new. They just confirm what was known since long ago.
Sure. Seawater extraction probably won't be used in near future, mostly because there's no shortage of lithium from conventional sources.
"and it'll also keep electric cars in the bin where they should be - what we *really* need from an ecological point of view is a lithium shortage right now"
WTF? There's NO shortage of lithium whatsoever. Absolutely NONE.
You can mine it indefinitely from seawater for about $70 per kg. Ecological footprint of lithium mining is also trivial - it's mined from salt planes which are not known for their rich ecology.
So everyone has to use a Turing-complete language for configuration files? How about IDE and tool integration which is impossible in general with Turing-complete languages?
And if we restrict ourselves to pure s-exprs, then we just get isomorphic representation of XML.
"WITH the security checks hijackings have become a thing of the past and finding a bom is a very small chance. "
Uhm. No.
Underpants bomber and shoe bomber were not caught by TSA. They were caught by passengers.
Look at this as an example and cower in fear: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aim/?p=video ( http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aim/video/fcfs-insanity.mov )
"Since all money poofs into existence from loans, the debt gets bigger and bigger. There isn't enough money in the money supply at any one time to satisfy the debt."
Unless you print more money. Don't forget, that the total quantity of circulating money is not constant.
So?
Just split data into separate repositories. Problem solved.
1) Local history. It's much faster than in SVN.
2) Fast operations - git is faster, though in this case it's not that much important.
3) Ability to work offline and to have private branches.
And 4) git is not worser than SVN.
"I'd have to disagree. There are many instances were DVCS are always superior. However, there are times - such as in corporate environments - where you simply do not want that kind of information floating around the organization."
That's just an empty string of words. What do you mean be 'not floating around'? Access controls? So use them on per-repository level, duh.
Information leaks? Developers can just use working copies for that.
Actually, I _like_ paper notebooks. They are much faster to write something _fast_.
Nope. Distributed systems are ALWAYS more useful than centralized ones for source code control.
Only sometimes their advantages are not that significant.
"Unfortunately, he got into office and concentrated on his progressive agenda instead."
You meant "conservative agenda", surely?
"The conservatives stopped trying to actually get anything done, and instead focused on a 24/7 dirty PR campaign. In an inept attempt at fighting the smear attacks, Mr. Obama sank into the same partisan bickering that he had previously railed against."
Come on, Obama (and Democrats in general) can't even start to counteract this dirty PR. Onion (as usual) is right on the mark: http://www.theonion.com/articles/democrats-if-were-gonna-lose-lets-go-down-running,18333/