Learn to comprehend what you read and properly maintain context.
When I posted that I thought it possible someone my dumbly jump all over this and then I thought - naw, this is slashdot, the people here should be able to maintain and comprehend such a small, simple context. Giving the benefit of doubt on slashdot once against proves to be a dumb idea. Go figure.
Wrong. What I was modded down was that everyone found the mere correlation of preliminary research indicated that things are far more complex and the other camp could stand it that climate change is really fucking complex and us humans are still trying to figure out the variables, let alone how things actually work.
You see, when it comes to climate change and slashdot, rarely does intelligence prevail. Censorship, by means of moderation rather than debate, generally prevails.
My next point...how fucking stupid are you? Your UID clearly says you've been here a long time but your post clearly says you're a really dumb fucking idiot to suggest herd-think doesn't exist on slashdot. Your post does not make sense in the least. It is in of itself a complete contradiction.
Slashdot is fucking dead - jumped the shark over a year ago.
...posting on this very topic a couple of years back in a climate change thread. I was troll moderated to hell and quickly attacked by the slashdot masses about how this could never cause anything to happen. Never mind such research has been going on for easily a decade, if not the very preliminary work for over two decades.
So according to the slashdot herd, this is completely wrong and there is absolutely no need to ever study it as they long ago confirmed this is all nonsense. Hurry! We've all been saved by the massive stupidity which is the slashdot masses.
American culture is not Wall Street culture. There most definitely is a massive divide there. Which really means, power has its perks. Hardly surprising. But not really topical either.
Not true in the least. In the west that expression exists BECAUSE its not the norm. In the east, that expression exists because, "saving face" is so important.
Apparently, the desire is not to drain the battery; but the telco is willing to do so in order to cut down on the number of TCP connections they need to deal with.
That is exactly right. The issue is, many carriers still have large NAT deployments. This means they must NAT every connection originating from every smart phone in their network. In the old days this wasn't a problem because the number of connections were typically fairly small and limited. Now that smart phones are general purpose computing devices, the number of connections which must be tracked have exploded. In other to more closely guard their finite resources, they lower their timeouts.
Of course, the proper solution is to migrate all smart phones to IPv6 and completely stop NATing. Its a win-win for everyone at that point.
You're confusing an empowered minority who are frequently sociopaths with American culture. America has no such cultural norm. In fact, in American, the norm is exactly opposite of this. That doesn't mean in any way, it doesn't happen here.
A cultural element of both China and Japan is that nothing is really bad, wrong, or immoral, unless you get publicly caught. That's not to say everyone embraces such ideology but it is pervasive in their cultures.
You forgot quotes around the word, "information." And "information" is not the same thing as data. We have a lot of "information" about climate change; we just have little concrete data in so far as what the hell it actually means and/or how should we properly interpret it.
The main problem is, we honestly have no clue what's going on. Anyone who says we have this all figured out is either an idiot or someone pandering for funding.
There is lots of contradictory data and that's ignoring the fact that some of the data is extremely suspect from the start. Hell, some of the data has several multiples more noise the then signal they hope to detect. When questioned, literally the official response is, "Shhhh....noise doesn't effect our signal." Which is, of course, a major WTF??!?
Seriously, should we learn more about it? Absolutely! Should we be wary of absolute claims? Absolutely! Again, we honestly have no idea what's going on. Some 20% of climatologists admit this. Some 80% of meteorologists admit this. Please note, meteorologists don't get their funding from "Climate change grants."
I don't really get why people emphasize to be able to program in assembler. Or machine code...
Says a lot. There are still plenty of platforms where assembler is REQUIRED. Furthermore, on others, even where higher level languages, such as C, are available, to access certain hardware features are still only available via direct assemble and/or machine code.
Do you really believe a programmer who can program in Java or even Visual Basic is incapable of learning assembler?
Bit of a red herring there. Capable of learning? Probably they are capable of learning. Do they have a desire to learn it? Probably not. Are they capable of learning it well? Maybe. Are they capable of understand the overall implications of some of the code they may generate at this level? Its iffy if we're talking about the average Java coder.
nevertheless assembler is easy to learn.
Reading a dictionary is easy. Remembering the words and knowing how to put them together properly and concisely is an entirely different animal.
When I first started doing Java, I was shocked and amazed at how very shitty the entire IO model and APIs were for IO and Data/Time. Literally, doing it in C++ and especially Python would have been leaps about bounds faster, easier, and better. I quickly found my self wonderful why so many claim Java development is faster than C++ when in these areas, clearly it is not.
Its funny that Python has had this licked for some time now. In fact, they have an entire interface to allow for clean resource acquisition and release of any object and even added a statement to compliment.
Python's combination of, "with/as", context management, and, "try/except/else/finally", make error handling and recovery for even complex use cases fairly easy and extremely powerful.
Let me get this straight - you think that a harder programming language increases programmer competence. While I'm not defending Java, this logic is deeply flawed.
Glad to know you're here to fix the entire world's education system. Sorry, but YOUR logic is deeply flawed. With your logic, none of the "good schools" are actually any good. So yes, clearly those capable of mastering difficult tasks show they are better in any way.
I'm going to take a wild stab here and say, perhaps you are a Java programmer? And even if you are not, YOUR logic is dubious at best and in no way invalidates the line of thinking which spurred your initial response.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes because a polite post pointing out that someone didn't maintain context and/or comprehend what they said is SOOOO entirely trollish.
Holy shit slashdot is dead.
Learn to comprehend what you read and properly maintain context.
When I posted that I thought it possible someone my dumbly jump all over this and then I thought - naw, this is slashdot, the people here should be able to maintain and comprehend such a small, simple context. Giving the benefit of doubt on slashdot once against proves to be a dumb idea. Go figure.
Wrong. What I was modded down was that everyone found the mere correlation of preliminary research indicated that things are far more complex and the other camp could stand it that climate change is really fucking complex and us humans are still trying to figure out the variables, let alone how things actually work.
You see, when it comes to climate change and slashdot, rarely does intelligence prevail. Censorship, by means of moderation rather than debate, generally prevails.
Great herd-think.
My next point...how fucking stupid are you? Your UID clearly says you've been here a long time but your post clearly says you're a really dumb fucking idiot to suggest herd-think doesn't exist on slashdot. Your post does not make sense in the least. It is in of itself a complete contradiction.
Slashdot is fucking dead - jumped the shark over a year ago.
Please learn to maintain context and comprehend what you read.
...posting on this very topic a couple of years back in a climate change thread. I was troll moderated to hell and quickly attacked by the slashdot masses about how this could never cause anything to happen. Never mind such research has been going on for easily a decade, if not the very preliminary work for over two decades.
So according to the slashdot herd, this is completely wrong and there is absolutely no need to ever study it as they long ago confirmed this is all nonsense. Hurry! We've all been saved by the massive stupidity which is the slashdot masses.
falling at terminal velocity simulator.
That's EXACTLY what NASA uses as their primary zero-G training tool.
I did. Re-read my original statement. The door clearly swung both ways and I made sure it wasn't an overly broad statement. Period.
American culture is not Wall Street culture. There most definitely is a massive divide there. Which really means, power has its perks. Hardly surprising. But not really topical either.
True enough. An obvious fact that slipped by. TY
Not true in the least. In the west that expression exists BECAUSE its not the norm. In the east, that expression exists because, "saving face" is so important.
Apparently, the desire is not to drain the battery; but the telco is willing to do so in order to cut down on the number of TCP connections they need to deal with.
That is exactly right. The issue is, many carriers still have large NAT deployments. This means they must NAT every connection originating from every smart phone in their network. In the old days this wasn't a problem because the number of connections were typically fairly small and limited. Now that smart phones are general purpose computing devices, the number of connections which must be tracked have exploded. In other to more closely guard their finite resources, they lower their timeouts.
Of course, the proper solution is to migrate all smart phones to IPv6 and completely stop NATing. Its a win-win for everyone at that point.
You're confusing an empowered minority who are frequently sociopaths with American culture. America has no such cultural norm. In fact, in American, the norm is exactly opposite of this. That doesn't mean in any way, it doesn't happen here.
Protip: Sociopaths are MASSIVELY disproportionately represented in positions of power.
I was going to point this out. I completely agree.
Don't forget the IRS.
A cultural element of both China and Japan is that nothing is really bad, wrong, or immoral, unless you get publicly caught. That's not to say everyone embraces such ideology but it is pervasive in their cultures.
Actually, its well known the primary reason its slow is that its written in Ruby - or at least it used to be.
+1 Insightful
You forgot quotes around the word, "information." And "information" is not the same thing as data. We have a lot of "information" about climate change; we just have little concrete data in so far as what the hell it actually means and/or how should we properly interpret it.
Don't forget your towel. Thanks for all the fish.
Sadly, yet another nail in the coffin for /.
The main problem is, we honestly have no clue what's going on. Anyone who says we have this all figured out is either an idiot or someone pandering for funding.
There is lots of contradictory data and that's ignoring the fact that some of the data is extremely suspect from the start. Hell, some of the data has several multiples more noise the then signal they hope to detect. When questioned, literally the official response is, "Shhhh....noise doesn't effect our signal." Which is, of course, a major WTF??!?
Seriously, should we learn more about it? Absolutely! Should we be wary of absolute claims? Absolutely! Again, we honestly have no idea what's going on. Some 20% of climatologists admit this. Some 80% of meteorologists admit this. Please note, meteorologists don't get their funding from "Climate change grants."
I don't really get why people emphasize to be able to program in assembler. Or machine code ...
Says a lot. There are still plenty of platforms where assembler is REQUIRED. Furthermore, on others, even where higher level languages, such as C, are available, to access certain hardware features are still only available via direct assemble and/or machine code.
Do you really believe a programmer who can program in Java or even Visual Basic is incapable of learning assembler?
Bit of a red herring there. Capable of learning? Probably they are capable of learning. Do they have a desire to learn it? Probably not. Are they capable of learning it well? Maybe. Are they capable of understand the overall implications of some of the code they may generate at this level? Its iffy if we're talking about the average Java coder.
nevertheless assembler is easy to learn.
Reading a dictionary is easy. Remembering the words and knowing how to put them together properly and concisely is an entirely different animal.
When I first started doing Java, I was shocked and amazed at how very shitty the entire IO model and APIs were for IO and Data/Time. Literally, doing it in C++ and especially Python would have been leaps about bounds faster, easier, and better. I quickly found my self wonderful why so many claim Java development is faster than C++ when in these areas, clearly it is not.
Its funny that Python has had this licked for some time now. In fact, they have an entire interface to allow for clean resource acquisition and release of any object and even added a statement to compliment.
Python's combination of, "with/as", context management, and, "try/except/else/finally", make error handling and recovery for even complex use cases fairly easy and extremely powerful.
Let me get this straight - you think that a harder programming language increases programmer competence. While I'm not defending Java, this logic is deeply flawed.
Glad to know you're here to fix the entire world's education system. Sorry, but YOUR logic is deeply flawed. With your logic, none of the "good schools" are actually any good. So yes, clearly those capable of mastering difficult tasks show they are better in any way.
I'm going to take a wild stab here and say, perhaps you are a Java programmer? And even if you are not, YOUR logic is dubious at best and in no way invalidates the line of thinking which spurred your initial response.