I think this is a real issue. Like Wikipedia, this idea has great potential. Like Wikipedia, this will have many problems.
but unlike wikipedia, this thing is 100% commercial and owned by Google and the contents are not under any kind of open licence so all you submit belongs to Google. I think that is one of the main problems of the service.
No, if you think carefully about how are you in fact helping. Giving an alcoholic money is not helpful in any way, while giving it to poor woman, who has many children and whose husband died is a real help.
What if she is an alcoholic too? Things are not always black and white.
Not sure why the submitter of this article thinks its a scary thought. With the internet being the defacto standard for terrorist communication, both to one another and to the world via terrorist sponsored websites, its a good thing that the US is finally doing something to be proactive in this area.
I have also heard that TERRORISTS use phone lines to call each other and TALK TERRORIST TALK to each others, therefore it's really important to let US goverment to listen to all phone conversations and discussions.
Just go ahead and give us a good example where you really think there is a need for 100 column table - all previous examples here have been really, really bad examples how you can make your life harder in the long run.
You are absolutely wrong on this issue. Any experienced developer knows that you should not have 100 columns on table or use the kind of one-time solution you are implying.
Certain alcoholic drinks, like red wine, contain substances that do offer health benefits. But the alcohol does not.
Both of them have health benefits. A recent study even told that (this is crazy) more alcohol you drink, not just red wine as you point, better it is to your hearth. Some research also suggests that moderate drinking may cut the risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. The only problem is that it's also very harmful to drink large amounts of alcohol so the harmful effects are a lot bigger issue than health benefits.
The "best model" in 1995 mispredicted the temperature in 2000 by 300%
Please do a google search on global dimming and read a couple of articles about this little phenomenon that might explain why climate predictions have been wrong.
One more note.. Please do disagree with me if you will but at least READ AND STUDY unbiased, validated academic studies, reports and articles written about global warming. Do not believe articles with unverifiable or biased sources. You owe this to your children.
No, correlation is not causation. But when you have correlation and the most accurate models imply causation, you definitely have to think hard about what you're doing. The fact that global warming was predicted by the models before the data could be taken further suggest that it's not simply alarmist readings of the data.
One of the reasons that the models were wrong is global dimming. And that is REALLY something you should be worrying about.
Global dimming is a force that is slowing down the global warming. When new energy resources are used and pollution is going down, effect of global dimming goes down and this is when the global heating really begins to affect people. This is already happening in europe.
I'm not trying to scare people but people should really REALLY see the BBC document that has been done about the phenomenon.
I really think that if we do nothing to the climate change, then we or our kids will be in a deep trouble.
Some people (including some major country leaders) seem to think that whole global climate change is about economics. This is not about economics, this is about survival.
In other words, I want a single layer of cleverness: My domain model. Object-orientation is all about encapsulating clever. Letting it sieve half ways through to the database is a terrible violation of those fine intentions. And I want no part of it.
This works fine if you only have one program accessing the database but is terrible if you have multiple clients for example. Even worse if you have real "enterprise" environment with legacy apps and such.
What is it with these pseudo companies that are formed just to hold supposed IP?
When you have legistlation that allows companies like them, they will appear.
Corporate world is a lot like ecosystem. If you allow these kind of companies exists, they will exist. If your legistlation allows these kind of companies sue companies and win, they will prevail.
Hmm there seems to be a bug at slashdot code. The urls are wrong, I'm previewing them for a second time and they are still wrong even when they are correct in this box. I can't even copy and paste them as text because the buggy algorithm makes them incorrect links again.
Except that this article is about people developing in Haskell - a language that's every bit as fun to use as Python (it even has optional syntactic whitespace), but compiles to native code (so it's faster) and infers types at compile-time (so it's robuster).
And if you really want speed and the functional properties of haskell, try Ocaml. It's hella lot faster, even faster than c++ and that's something!
there is a big difference, bluetooth transmitter on your ear has skull between it and the brain. When you have the transmitter in your mouth the skull does not protect your brain from radiation.
Slashdot Mirror
And do you really think that google hasn't though about this?
I think that it cannot be done because of difference between licences of Wikipedia and Google base. Other is 100% commercial, other is open.
Just go ahead and give us a good example where you really think there is a need for 100 column table - all previous examples here have been really, really bad examples how you can make your life harder in the long run.
You are absolutely wrong on this issue. Any experienced developer knows that you should not have 100 columns on table or use the kind of one-time solution you are implying.
Also, There has been a lot discussion lately about coffees health benefits, see the following articles for example:
Coffee found to be high in health-giving antioxidants
Coffee is America's No. 1 Source of Antioxidants
Coffee: The New Health Food?
What a nice concept, provide a high quality warez search for fixed monthly fee.
Doesn't anyone else see any legal problems with their business plan?
oops :-P I totally forgot that.
It's quite an interesting question because skype is not us based company, do they need to do anything?
One more note.. Please do disagree with me if you will but at least READ AND STUDY unbiased, validated academic studies, reports and articles written about global warming. Do not believe articles with unverifiable or biased sources. You owe this to your children.
Global dimming is a force that is slowing down the global warming. When new energy resources are used and pollution is going down, effect of global dimming goes down and this is when the global heating really begins to affect people. This is already happening in europe.
I'm not trying to scare people but people should really REALLY see the BBC document that has been done about the phenomenon.
I really think that if we do nothing to the climate change, then we or our kids will be in a deep trouble.
Some people (including some major country leaders) seem to think that whole global climate change is about economics. This is not about economics, this is about survival.
Corporate world is a lot like ecosystem. If you allow these kind of companies exists, they will exist. If your legistlation allows these kind of companies sue companies and win, they will prevail.
Hmm there seems to be a bug at slashdot code. The urls are wrong, I'm previewing them for a second time and they are still wrong even when they are correct in this box. I can't even copy and paste them as text because the buggy algorithm makes them incorrect links again.
Go and compare for yourselves at The Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
(Haskell has nicer syntax though)
http://www.destatis.de/themen/e/thm_loehne.htm
there is a big difference, bluetooth transmitter on your ear has skull between it and the brain. When you have the transmitter in your mouth the skull does not protect your brain from radiation.