The human race survived a long time without modern medical care, but a lot more babies survive to adulthood with proper modern medicine.
Exactly. And that's what makes historical life expectancy numbers so wacky looking. If you made it to about 5 years old you had a decent numbers of years ahead of you, but the child mortality rate was horrific by modern standards.
Is that a protest action? "If I'm forced to use awful software I insist on using the absolutely worst ever created!" I mean really, if I had to pick a piece of software worse than McAfee there is only one possible candidate.
He was mildly technical - he could code if he had to
Fair enough. I think of him as non-technical because he did not contribute at all to our code base. Neither he nor I thought that would be a good idea, and his manager didn't expect it either. But yes, it probably did help that he wasn't totally clueless.
Depends on the manager. I had one recently (re-org. He's still around but I don't report to him anymore) who was excellent at exactly what the summary stated: shielding us from red tape and political BS. He was mildly technical - he could code if he had to, but it wasn't his strength, and (this is probably what made him good) *he knew it*. He would do requirements gathering, secure resources when necessary, and stay out of the way on technical stuff. He'd also take my estimates and grossly inflate them, which generally made them more accurate. Good managers exist, but it's an odd niche sometimes. If we swapped jobs, we'd probably both be much worse at it.
And some people cannot be programmers, some cannot hammer a nail, and some cannot wear their wife's clothings in public. You aren't a real man until you can do all three.
Only in the US. In other jurisdictions every men's urge to be free is recognized and accordingly there are no additional sentences for prison breaks IF nobody gets hurt, bribed, and property doesn't get damaged.
Wow. There are lots of things the US might get wrong, but this ain't one of them.
Also, quoting from your link:
In Mexico, for instance, escapees who do not break any other laws are not charged for anything and no extra time is added to their sentence; however, officers are allowed to shoot prisoners attempting to escape.
You see, the difference with your half-assed attempt at a rebuttal is that the problem you describe doesn't actually exist.
Yeah, that's the whole damn point.
My problem was with the section I quoted, acting like just saying that this stuff happened is proof enough. Yes, he then proceeds to offer up some links, but he took exception to the idea that they should need to be provided in the first place.
Seriously, what the fuck kind of "citations" are you expecting here? This isn't the kind of shit that academics get funding to study, especially in a country like Japan where the society places much importance upon honor, and the very real phenomenon that the GP describes is most certainly seen as shameful. It's generally swept under the carpet.
Turkmenistan is a nation populated entirely with women who want nothing but to pleasure men sexually all day long, gratifying their every need. As a citation, I offer you: modern-day Turkmenistan. Of course, that's all I can provide because this isn't the kind of shit that academics get funding to study, especially in a country like Turkmenistan, where the society places much importance upon beastiality, and the very real phenomenon I've described is most certainly seen as shameful. It's generally swept under the carpet.
Obvious is obvious. Now, if I'd have said something naturally subjective like 'common sense,' I'd be singing a different tune. But if a child can tell you something is wrong and why, then I shouldn't have to waste breathe explaining it to an adult.
That's nice in practice, but won't really work. Sure you won't have many people fighting over whether or not we need laws against murder. But I can find you people who would tell you we "obviously" need anti-drug laws.
A more pragmatic approach might be to have 2 ways to get rid of automatic sunset provisions:
1st, a supermajority such as 75% when the law is initially passed 2nd, after X renewals (probably 3) it stops requiring renewal.
Anything as obvious as laws prohibiting murder should have no problem passing close to unanimously.
Me? I've always been one of those that when I set my mind to something or wanting something, a nice camera for instance...I'd research the hell out of it, drive everyone around me mad incessantly talking about it, and then saving and buying the absolute best of xyz I could afford.
I respect that approach, and it probably works for you. For me... I learn best by doing, and until I've used something a bit I don't really get a solid feel for what I want. Once I've played around with something and find myself saying stuff like "I wish it could do XYZ", then it's time to do some research and pony up for a legit item.
This seems to be a common strawman argument used when discussing the NSA and spying
The point of the argument isn't to say that what the US and NSA does is okay. The point is that if you're trying to build an internet without massive government snooping, building one that routes around the US doesn't solve that problem.
Also, even if the NSA were the only problem, I'd be shocked if they didn't already have ways to snoop on traffic that doesn't get routed through the US already.
So take someone with some skill, but not up to date, without any current focus on the dev process, not up to speed in priorities, and then just toss them into the dev team and expect they will make things go faster? And some how keep there marketing work happening?
Just like hiring someone new. Bringing people up to speed is a resource drain, but if you have a project with ongoing dev/maintenance it's better to take that hit than to remain perpetually understaffed.
Now, with multi-gigabit pipes making up the networks, data can be written, pushed, and read again, all at much higher bitrates than reading any storage medium. It's the read-write to physical medium that are the bottleneck with the sneakernet now.
TFA says that they have 19 million SD cards. If each one is a mid-range 6 megabyte per second speed and we access them all in parallel, that gives 912 terabit per second potential max bandwidth, which almost certainly exceeds any network you're thinking about.
19M card readers (or slots or whatever) probably isn't even necessary.. I'm sure working in rotation you'd have a steady stream of cards whose data was fully read before other cards are even unpacked. I believe the optimal number of card readers would be (time to read) / (time to unpack).
You could take the more rational approach and believe that we simply lack the technology to detect and measure what really happened. Naw, you would rather claim that the particle visited an invisible magical world!
I'm not saying he's necessarily right, but if a particle moves along an unseen dimension, its movements are likely still predictable if you've got the mathematical chops. If you're at a point where you can accurately predict something, that's what I'd call a good start.
But hey if you'd rather just throw your hands in the air and say fuck it I don't know, go for it.
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The human race survived a long time without modern medical care, but a lot more babies survive to adulthood with proper modern medicine.
Exactly. And that's what makes historical life expectancy numbers so wacky looking. If you made it to about 5 years old you had a decent numbers of years ahead of you, but the child mortality rate was horrific by modern standards.
Or refusing to let us link to a specific comment? (Pick any comment and try to come up with a link you can send to someone.)
This guy seems to be complaining about that too.
99.28% of visitors arrive directly at the site, and only 7.7% arrived from Google
But what about the other -6.98% ?
I think the 'either' that the grandparent was saying the majority of us do not do is 'think a bit' and 'practice'.
Is that a protest action? "If I'm forced to use awful software I insist on using the absolutely worst ever created!" I mean really, if I had to pick a piece of software worse than McAfee there is only one possible candidate.
Access?
He was mildly technical - he could code if he had to
Fair enough. I think of him as non-technical because he did not contribute at all to our code base. Neither he nor I thought that would be a good idea, and his manager didn't expect it either. But yes, it probably did help that he wasn't totally clueless.
Depends on the manager. I had one recently (re-org. He's still around but I don't report to him anymore) who was excellent at exactly what the summary stated: shielding us from red tape and political BS. He was mildly technical - he could code if he had to, but it wasn't his strength, and (this is probably what made him good) *he knew it*. He would do requirements gathering, secure resources when necessary, and stay out of the way on technical stuff. He'd also take my estimates and grossly inflate them, which generally made them more accurate. Good managers exist, but it's an odd niche sometimes. If we swapped jobs, we'd probably both be much worse at it.
And some people cannot be programmers, some cannot hammer a nail, and some cannot wear their wife's clothings in public. You aren't a real man until you can do all three.
... at once.
Only in the US. In other jurisdictions every men's urge to be free is recognized and accordingly there are no additional sentences for prison breaks IF nobody gets hurt, bribed, and property doesn't get damaged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_escape#Punishment
Wow. There are lots of things the US might get wrong, but this ain't one of them.
Also, quoting from your link:
In Mexico, for instance, escapees who do not break any other laws are not charged for anything and no extra time is added to their sentence; however, officers are allowed to shoot prisoners attempting to escape.
You see, the difference with your half-assed attempt at a rebuttal is that the problem you describe doesn't actually exist.
Yeah, that's the whole damn point.
My problem was with the section I quoted, acting like just saying that this stuff happened is proof enough. Yes, he then proceeds to offer up some links, but he took exception to the idea that they should need to be provided in the first place.
He gave you a citation: modern-day Japan.
Seriously, what the fuck kind of "citations" are you expecting here? This isn't the kind of shit that academics get funding to study, especially in a country like Japan where the society places much importance upon honor, and the very real phenomenon that the GP describes is most certainly seen as shameful. It's generally swept under the carpet.
Turkmenistan is a nation populated entirely with women who want nothing but to pleasure men sexually all day long, gratifying their every need. As a citation, I offer you: modern-day Turkmenistan. Of course, that's all I can provide because this isn't the kind of shit that academics get funding to study, especially in a country like Turkmenistan, where the society places much importance upon beastiality, and the very real phenomenon I've described is most certainly seen as shameful. It's generally swept under the carpet.
That's nice in theory, but won't really work.
FTFY.
Saw that after I posted and cringed a little.
Sounds like a fair compromise. Guess this means neither of us will be running for office?
Kind of sums it up I'd say.
Obvious is obvious. Now, if I'd have said something naturally subjective like 'common sense,' I'd be singing a different tune. But if a child can tell you something is wrong and why, then I shouldn't have to waste breathe explaining it to an adult.
That's nice in practice, but won't really work. Sure you won't have many people fighting over whether or not we need laws against murder. But I can find you people who would tell you we "obviously" need anti-drug laws.
A more pragmatic approach might be to have 2 ways to get rid of automatic sunset provisions:
1st, a supermajority such as 75% when the law is initially passed
2nd, after X renewals (probably 3) it stops requiring renewal.
Anything as obvious as laws prohibiting murder should have no problem passing close to unanimously.
Who snipes the snipers?
I prefer it in Latin, "Quis snipodiet ipsos snipodes?"
And yet somehow it's not legal to eat a four-year old.
Things I wish I had known yesterday...
The 1995 film, with the absolutely amazing lap dance scene, among many others??
How could anyone not find Showgirls one of the top 10 sexiest films of all time?
Because it was so overkill that by the end of the movie boobs stopped being interesting.
"Think they all know each other?"
nah, too lame.
"Booking a venue for the reunions must be a bitch."
eh, not any less lame.
"I wonder how many of them slept with each other."
More icky than funny, but so far the best I've got.
When people in Britain refer to "The City", they're talking about this tiny piece of the capital.
Then they're wrong. Everybody knows "The City" means Manhattan.
Me? I've always been one of those that when I set my mind to something or wanting something, a nice camera for instance...I'd research the hell out of it, drive everyone around me mad incessantly talking about it, and then saving and buying the absolute best of xyz I could afford.
I respect that approach, and it probably works for you. For me... I learn best by doing, and until I've used something a bit I don't really get a solid feel for what I want. Once I've played around with something and find myself saying stuff like "I wish it could do XYZ", then it's time to do some research and pony up for a legit item.
At this point dSLRs should only be used by professionals,
Thank you for pointing out your beliefs that only certain people should be able to use certain products.
I read that not so much as 'should be able to' as 'will be able to benefit from'.
Or, in other words, unless you really know what you're doing, you're probably wasting your money.
For myself, I tend to buy the cheapest item available of any category until I understand why the other ones are more expensive.
This seems to be a common strawman argument used when discussing the NSA and spying
The point of the argument isn't to say that what the US and NSA does is okay. The point is that if you're trying to build an internet without massive government snooping, building one that routes around the US doesn't solve that problem.
Also, even if the NSA were the only problem, I'd be shocked if they didn't already have ways to snoop on traffic that doesn't get routed through the US already.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in bacon and cheese
OT, but that's awesome.
So take someone with some skill, but not up to date, without any current focus on the dev process, not up to speed in priorities, and then just toss them into the dev team and expect they will make things go faster? And some how keep there marketing work happening?
Just like hiring someone new. Bringing people up to speed is a resource drain, but if you have a project with ongoing dev/maintenance it's better to take that hit than to remain perpetually understaffed.
Now, with multi-gigabit pipes making up the networks, data can be written, pushed, and read again, all at much higher bitrates than reading any storage medium. It's the read-write to physical medium that are the bottleneck with the sneakernet now.
TFA says that they have 19 million SD cards. If each one is a mid-range 6 megabyte per second speed and we access them all in parallel, that gives 912 terabit per second potential max bandwidth, which almost certainly exceeds any network you're thinking about.
19M card readers (or slots or whatever) probably isn't even necessary.. I'm sure working in rotation you'd have a steady stream of cards whose data was fully read before other cards are even unpacked. I believe the optimal number of card readers would be (time to read) / (time to unpack).
You could take the more rational approach and believe that we simply lack the technology to detect and measure what really happened. Naw, you would rather claim that the particle visited an invisible magical world!
I'm not saying he's necessarily right, but if a particle moves along an unseen dimension, its movements are likely still predictable if you've got the mathematical chops. If you're at a point where you can accurately predict something, that's what I'd call a good start.
But hey if you'd rather just throw your hands in the air and say fuck it I don't know, go for it.