you are not allowing him that same time to take a public speaking course, which he could be really good at
Right, exactly. Because, see, K-12 education is not about having your kid do really well at things. It's about instilling a modicum of basic skills and understanding. This is why the kids who suck at math still have to take math, and the kids who suck at writing have to take English, et cetera. A public speaking class won't teach him anything about how the most powerful approach to discovering knowledge humanity has ever tried works, and a multi-science survey course will do so much less effectively than a single in-depth look at one science.
Not that he's likely to actually learn anything given your attitude, but, at least it's a better chance than if you were being allowed to make the decisions.
Sure, if you selectively ignore the second half of the sentence, and artificially narrow the comparison to only Soyuz, you can pretend the first half is deceptive.
But, since you so strongly object to number of people killed, let's instead count merely by number of fatal in-flight failures. The Shuttle has had 50% of all fatal in-flight failures in the history of spaceflight, and 100% of all fatal in-flight failures in the last forty years.
we have intentionally interjected a middle man into the US space program for no apparent reason.
Well, you know, except for Shuttle failures accounting for 78% of all people who have ever died on space flights, and 100% of such fatalities in the last 40 years. And the repeatedly proven inability of NASA to design and build a replacement for the Shuttle.
SpaceX does not launch commercial satellites
They don't? So, in what category, exactly, do you put the Orbcomm, Inc.satellite that was part of the payload of this very rocket?
So, is the above a ridiculous, inadvertent display of your ignorance of the characteristics of standard normal distributions, or a ridiculous, inadvertent display of your ignorance of the fact that intelligence in the general population is such a distribution?
Because, you see, in the case of a standard normal distribution, there's no actual point in making a distinction in which average you're using. The mean, median, and mode are all the same value. The only people who would think saying "mean or median?" in such a case had any point are fools under the delusion that the comment makes them look smart.
Starting with your decision in 1997 to abandon what was the GNU project's official GUI toolkit in favor of GTK.
If you'd stuck with GNUStep, the discipline of compatibility with a written spec (OpenStep) and the pressure for compatibility with a living rival implementation (OPENSTEP, then Mac OS X) would have avoided the "blow everything up and restart" problem. And you wouldn't have spent any time on CORBA if you already had PDO baked-in.
And it would have been actually following the kernel approach. Whatever the kernel might do with its internal structure, in its external interfaces it's been stable. Further, that external interface has been a re-implementation and extension of an existing good-enough interface (Unix/POSIX/SysV), rather than running off and implementing its own ideal of how an OS should work.
Sure. Spontaneous fission is one of the many forms of natural radioactive decay, and a perfectly routine method of making an isotope decay by fission sooner is to whack it with a neutron. Thus the nuclear reactor . . . including the natural nuclear reactors at Oklo some two billion years ago. We don't usually call neutron-induced fission radioactive decay, but that's more a matter of definitions useful for human purposes than a bright demarcation line in the physics.
Radioactive decay in general is believed to be induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations disrupting the equilibrium of an unstable nucleus. Quantum vacuum fluctuations are random in both timing/location and magnitude, and so are consistent with the unpredictability of any particular atom being affected, and with the more stable nuclei having longer half-lives as they would need a bigger push.
So, there is no reason in principle that, say, a neutrino colliding with a nucleus, could not cause a disruption similar to what a neutron does in induced fission or quantum vacuum fluctuations are believed to do in most decay. Whether it will be categorized separately (like is usually done for neutron-induced fission) probably depends on if it's a large enough or useful enough effect to make the distinction worthwhile, or whether it's more human-convenient to treat it as a small variable in the rate of decay.
One group is fans of Apple products. They would like, if at all possible, to get Apple products with even better features are even lower prices. They want Apple to be healthy so it can keep cranking out great products, but when they look at Apple's profit margin and pile of cash, they wish some of that money had stayed in their own pockets. When Samsung makes a product that puts pressure on Apple, or Google adds a feature to Android, they see that as a force that will make their lives better, by forcing Apple to step up its game, even if they don't particularly respect Samsung or Android.
Another group is the true Apple fanbois. They are the ones who have given tribal loyalty to a corporation, and celebrate things like Apple's profit margin, root for Apple to successfully use its patents to eliminate possible competitors, et cetera.
People in group one are perfectly reasonable. People in group two are frothing cultists who have a tendency to, for example, jump into Android forums and spew flame.
Assuming this holds, Google will not have to make any changes; the nine lines of RangeCheck have already been replaced long ago, everything else has been found non-infringing.
I'm glad you have insight into Richard's brain and can tell us what he hates.
Actually, that's the exact problem, isn't it? Nobody knows what RMS might do next week.
The purpose is to do what governments and their constitutions fail to do - support progress, by ensuring that new code becomes available to anyone who can improve on or learn from it.
That's clearly not the goal of the GPL3, because if it were, there would be no need of an anti-TiVoization clause, but the Affero clause would be standard.
Meteoric iron has very high concentrations of nickel and platinum-group metals compared to terrestrial ores, where the nickel and platinum-group metals mostly wound up in the planetary core. And how many asteroids are the "right type" isn't a big issue. You identify the ones you want with telescopes and spectography, and just recover them.
But the other half is, delivering light elements to orbit is how you bypass the expense of having to launch them up a gravity well. If you want to build a carbon nanotube space elevator, it may well be cheaper to move a high-carbon asteroid into the right place than try to boost all the carbon needed into orbit. (You have to originally manufacture a space elevator in orbit anyway.)
that's mainly an issue for those who work in the dying industry of paper-publishing
Printing and publishing are not the same industry. The people printing labels, packaging, billboards, and junk mail are not particularly threatened by ebooks and digital editions of periodicals; even if the entire publishing industry goes entirely nonphysical they'll still be around. And they'll still need high-bits-per-channel CMYK for best results.
Selling? They would lose money doing that. Now, they can threaten to stop building them in China. That's a threat.
And since the A5 is made in Texas, it's actually possible for Apple to make such a decision stick, rather than have China respond to the blackmail threat by ordering the factories keep making iPads anyway.
There has been no statistically significant warming in the last 15 years. The Earth is not getting hotter, it got hotter and then, a decade and a half ago, it stopped. This may well be a blip; noted climatoligist Professor Phil Jones, Director of Research for the University of East Angliaâ(TM)s Climatic Research Unit certainly thinks so. But claims the Earth hasn't been getting warmer for the last 15 years are not fantasies; they are the actual consensus of real, respected climate scientists, based on the best data available.
Cannabis, defined in such a manner as to include seeds, is listed as one of the substances banned in Canada's anti-drug trafficking statute, so it is technically illegal for him to sell in Canada. In practice, last time he was prosecuted he just got a small fine, and nobody in Canada has bothered to prosecute anyone's seed sales ever since. Is something illegal if there's a law against it, but nobody is ever punished for breaking it, and the state actually refers people to the lawbreaker as a supplier?
I'm for full marijuana legalization, so I think the results are stupid, but I do think it's important to remember that the actions and inactions of the Canadian Parliament were essential steps in Emery getting fucked over.
Actually, this is a very important point you got wrong. It is, in fact, illegal in Canada; the Canadian law is merely not enforced.
The US-Canada extradition treaty specifies that the US can only demand extradition in cases where the act was, by Canadian law, punishable by a prison sentence exceeding 1 year. Emery could only be extradited because Canada left that law on its books, even though it didn't actually enforce it.
The Parliament of Canada could have, at any time, shut down the extradition effort by simply repealing the law in question, or reducing the maximum sentence to less than a year, or the like. And despite the Conservative government, the House of Commons of Canada had a Liberal-NDP-BQ majority during most of the extradition effort.
So Mr. Emery is in jail because the freely-elected representatives of the Canadian commons, of all parties, jointly exercised the sovereign power of the Queen-in-Parliament to outlaw his conduct under Canadian law and keep it illegal under Canadian law.
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That's easy, Subby. Time. Because US News & World Report already ended regular print publication.
you are not allowing him that same time to take a public speaking course, which he could be really good at
Right, exactly. Because, see, K-12 education is not about having your kid do really well at things. It's about instilling a modicum of basic skills and understanding. This is why the kids who suck at math still have to take math, and the kids who suck at writing have to take English, et cetera. A public speaking class won't teach him anything about how the most powerful approach to discovering knowledge humanity has ever tried works, and a multi-science survey course will do so much less effectively than a single in-depth look at one science.
Not that he's likely to actually learn anything given your attitude, but, at least it's a better chance than if you were being allowed to make the decisions.
Sure, if you selectively ignore the second half of the sentence, and artificially narrow the comparison to only Soyuz, you can pretend the first half is deceptive.
But, since you so strongly object to number of people killed, let's instead count merely by number of fatal in-flight failures. The Shuttle has had 50% of all fatal in-flight failures in the history of spaceflight, and 100% of all fatal in-flight failures in the last forty years.
we have intentionally interjected a middle man into the US space program for no apparent reason.
Well, you know, except for Shuttle failures accounting for 78% of all people who have ever died on space flights, and 100% of such fatalities in the last 40 years. And the repeatedly proven inability of NASA to design and build a replacement for the Shuttle.
SpaceX does not launch commercial satellites
They don't? So, in what category, exactly, do you put the Orbcomm, Inc.satellite that was part of the payload of this very rocket?
So, is the above a ridiculous, inadvertent display of your ignorance of the characteristics of standard normal distributions, or a ridiculous, inadvertent display of your ignorance of the fact that intelligence in the general population is such a distribution?
Because, you see, in the case of a standard normal distribution, there's no actual point in making a distinction in which average you're using. The mean, median, and mode are all the same value. The only people who would think saying "mean or median?" in such a case had any point are fools under the delusion that the comment makes them look smart.
Is it just me, or are more and more blatant flamebait stories reaching the front page recently?
Yeah, it's really gotten bad the last 13 years.
Starting with your decision in 1997 to abandon what was the GNU project's official GUI toolkit in favor of GTK.
If you'd stuck with GNUStep, the discipline of compatibility with a written spec (OpenStep) and the pressure for compatibility with a living rival implementation (OPENSTEP, then Mac OS X) would have avoided the "blow everything up and restart" problem. And you wouldn't have spent any time on CORBA if you already had PDO baked-in.
And it would have been actually following the kernel approach. Whatever the kernel might do with its internal structure, in its external interfaces it's been stable. Further, that external interface has been a re-implementation and extension of an existing good-enough interface (Unix/POSIX/SysV), rather than running off and implementing its own ideal of how an OS should work.
I want my supported 3.6 back.
Grab the Firefox 10 Extended Support Release and revert to the 3.6 look-and-feel.
1) Not all Kindle books are, in fact, DRMed.
2) Those willing to do so can find tools_v5.1.zip to strip the DRM off Kindle books.
Ballmer took over as CEO, and Microsoft released Windows Me nine months later which was actively stupid.
Me was followed with XP, which was not actively stupid.
XP was followed by Vista, which was actively stupid.
Vista was followed by 7, which was not actively stupid.
7 is being followed by 8. Hey, guess what? It's Actively Stupid's turn again.
Sure. Spontaneous fission is one of the many forms of natural radioactive decay, and a perfectly routine method of making an isotope decay by fission sooner is to whack it with a neutron. Thus the nuclear reactor . . . including the natural nuclear reactors at Oklo some two billion years ago. We don't usually call neutron-induced fission radioactive decay, but that's more a matter of definitions useful for human purposes than a bright demarcation line in the physics.
Radioactive decay in general is believed to be induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations disrupting the equilibrium of an unstable nucleus. Quantum vacuum fluctuations are random in both timing/location and magnitude, and so are consistent with the unpredictability of any particular atom being affected, and with the more stable nuclei having longer half-lives as they would need a bigger push.
So, there is no reason in principle that, say, a neutrino colliding with a nucleus, could not cause a disruption similar to what a neutron does in induced fission or quantum vacuum fluctuations are believed to do in most decay. Whether it will be categorized separately (like is usually done for neutron-induced fission) probably depends on if it's a large enough or useful enough effect to make the distinction worthwhile, or whether it's more human-convenient to treat it as a small variable in the rate of decay.
The trick is there are two types of "Apple fans"
One group is fans of Apple products. They would like, if at all possible, to get Apple products with even better features are even lower prices. They want Apple to be healthy so it can keep cranking out great products, but when they look at Apple's profit margin and pile of cash, they wish some of that money had stayed in their own pockets. When Samsung makes a product that puts pressure on Apple, or Google adds a feature to Android, they see that as a force that will make their lives better, by forcing Apple to step up its game, even if they don't particularly respect Samsung or Android.
Another group is the true Apple fanbois. They are the ones who have given tribal loyalty to a corporation, and celebrate things like Apple's profit margin, root for Apple to successfully use its patents to eliminate possible competitors, et cetera.
People in group one are perfectly reasonable. People in group two are frothing cultists who have a tendency to, for example, jump into Android forums and spew flame.
However, The Last Dangerous Visions, originally scheduled to be published in 1973, is still neither available nor cancelled.
ABIs were already decided in Connectix v. Sony, I believe, which Google included in a brief in this case.
Assuming this holds, Google will not have to make any changes; the nine lines of RangeCheck have already been replaced long ago, everything else has been found non-infringing.
I know how much IBM is invested in Java as a technology, so no, I wouldn't lose any confidence at all. Indeed, my confidence might well go up.
. . . in an effort to save some shred of credibility.
I'm glad you have insight into Richard's brain and can tell us what he hates.
Actually, that's the exact problem, isn't it? Nobody knows what RMS might do next week.
The purpose is to do what governments and their constitutions fail to do - support progress, by ensuring that new code becomes available to anyone who can improve on or learn from it.
That's clearly not the goal of the GPL3, because if it were, there would be no need of an anti-TiVoization clause, but the Affero clause would be standard.
Meteoric iron has very high concentrations of nickel and platinum-group metals compared to terrestrial ores, where the nickel and platinum-group metals mostly wound up in the planetary core. And how many asteroids are the "right type" isn't a big issue. You identify the ones you want with telescopes and spectography, and just recover them.
But the other half is, delivering light elements to orbit is how you bypass the expense of having to launch them up a gravity well. If you want to build a carbon nanotube space elevator, it may well be cheaper to move a high-carbon asteroid into the right place than try to boost all the carbon needed into orbit. (You have to originally manufacture a space elevator in orbit anyway.)
Printing and publishing are not the same industry. The people printing labels, packaging, billboards, and junk mail are not particularly threatened by ebooks and digital editions of periodicals; even if the entire publishing industry goes entirely nonphysical they'll still be around. And they'll still need high-bits-per-channel CMYK for best results.
Windows the family has 85% marketshare. "Windows 8" has 0%.
And remember the pattern:
Windows 98 SE
Windows Me
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Metro is a Windows 8 exclusive.
Selling? They would lose money doing that. Now, they can threaten to stop building them in China. That's a threat.
And since the A5 is made in Texas, it's actually possible for Apple to make such a decision stick, rather than have China respond to the blackmail threat by ordering the factories keep making iPads anyway.
There has been no statistically significant warming in the last 15 years. The Earth is not getting hotter, it got hotter and then, a decade and a half ago, it stopped. This may well be a blip; noted climatoligist Professor Phil Jones, Director of Research for the University of East Angliaâ(TM)s Climatic Research Unit certainly thinks so. But claims the Earth hasn't been getting warmer for the last 15 years are not fantasies; they are the actual consensus of real, respected climate scientists, based on the best data available.
Cannabis, defined in such a manner as to include seeds, is listed as one of the substances banned in Canada's anti-drug trafficking statute, so it is technically illegal for him to sell in Canada. In practice, last time he was prosecuted he just got a small fine, and nobody in Canada has bothered to prosecute anyone's seed sales ever since. Is something illegal if there's a law against it, but nobody is ever punished for breaking it, and the state actually refers people to the lawbreaker as a supplier?
I'm for full marijuana legalization, so I think the results are stupid, but I do think it's important to remember that the actions and inactions of the Canadian Parliament were essential steps in Emery getting fucked over.
It's not illegal in Canada
Actually, this is a very important point you got wrong. It is, in fact, illegal in Canada; the Canadian law is merely not enforced.
The US-Canada extradition treaty specifies that the US can only demand extradition in cases where the act was, by Canadian law, punishable by a prison sentence exceeding 1 year. Emery could only be extradited because Canada left that law on its books, even though it didn't actually enforce it.
The Parliament of Canada could have, at any time, shut down the extradition effort by simply repealing the law in question, or reducing the maximum sentence to less than a year, or the like. And despite the Conservative government, the House of Commons of Canada had a Liberal-NDP-BQ majority during most of the extradition effort.
So Mr. Emery is in jail because the freely-elected representatives of the Canadian commons, of all parties, jointly exercised the sovereign power of the Queen-in-Parliament to outlaw his conduct under Canadian law and keep it illegal under Canadian law.