You should demand that the document they sign, makes government or some official to pay you, if you find out that they have failed to obey the contract. Promise without any penalties is quite useless. But I have really strong feeling that they are not willing to sighn that kind of contracts with you...
And often food in commercials is faked and not suitable for eating (because of paint, being raw inside etc). Often chocolate is just brown paint, strawberries are painted to have more vidi colors, icecream can be made of "mashed potato covered in motor oil" etc. Commercials have long history of being full of lies and often even reviews of products are fake.
And Rasperry Pi might be more suited for tinkering than Apple products. For example, Rasperry Pi has GPIO pins and interfacing sensors etc will make the programming much more concrete and interesting.
I have quite expensive laptop, but I still can't wait that my Rasperry Pi arrives, because it is more suitable for tinkering than my expensive laptop. Because of Rasperry Pi, Arduinu etc I am feeling similar excitement I felt when I was learning how to program. If I just had more time...
I agree that it is useful to teach some programming skills to people who aren't goint to be full time programmers.
And I think is important to teach at young age, because you will probably not get "fluent" programming skills unless you start learning at young enough. The same seems to be true for playing musical instruments and many other demanding skills. However, I am not sure if 6 years old have enough mental capacity to learn programming, but soon we will find out it.
Is there any reason why wage levels would remain so different between countries that manufacturing wouldn't be done in western countries even in the future? As far as I know, the wage levels have been increasing in China and India at relatively fast rate.
And how will western countries maintain balance of trade in long term, if they don't manufacture anything that they can sell to non-western countries? I don't think tourism from outside western countries to western countries will bring enough money to buy the oild and goods manufactured outside western countries. I don't think China and other countries are going to loan money forever, if it is never going to be paid back.
I think that in many northern areas, old natural forests tend to have only/mostly spruce trees, until the trees are cut down, some serious disease kills the trees or there is forest fire.
When the old forest is destroyed by some reason, the first trees that will naturally grow, will be trees that grow quickly and need much light, like some hardwood trees. However, with enough time, there will be also small spruce trees, that tolerate shadows better than other trees and slowly they will grow bigger, until they will grow so big that their shadows will prevent other trees getting enough light to grow. I think is called ecological succession.
And although the needles of spruce trees are slightly acidic, I don't think they influence that much to the pH of soil.
IMHO, HTML5 is even more frightening. It has many security threats that java programs don't have, like cross-site scripting attacs, cross-site request forgeries etc.
My experience was that 5.25" floppies were really reliable. I had hundreds of 5.25" floppies and I don't remember any of them ever failing. I had some failures with 3.5" floppies, but not too often. IMHO, USB flash drives are much more unreliable than floppies were (although capacity of USB flash drives is much larger than floppies).
It would be interesting to check if the floppies that I used over 20 years ago are still readable. I have to try that some day...
My grandmother is only 94 years old, but she isn't interested in dying soon. However, she has said that if she couldn't live at home, she wouldn't like to live long period in a hospital.
I wish I live as old as her and have as good health. Of course, she was in better condition when she was middle aged, but as far as I see, she can still enjoy life even though she has some minor health issues (in practise most/all healthy adults have also some minor health issues).
And I think there are so many interesting things I would like to learn, so many things to do and the avarage life time just doesn't seem to be long enough for all this. I think it would be interesting if you could live more or less forever.
In some small cases this is possible, but with large and complex programs it is typically infeasible to prove them verifiably correct.
And even verifiably correct programs might be insecure. For example, program might leak sensitive information which can be measured with timing attacks, even if the computation itself is verifiably correct, can handle incorrect input etc. In some cases, timing attacks can absolutely destroy the security of the system.
That would be very short sighted with the current level of knowledge. Even when we know something about the function of some gene variant, we typically don't understand well the interaction with other genes and their variants.
With some exceptions, many known disease causing gene variants only make the risk of getting disease higher, but there is no guarantee that you will ever get the disease. Other genes (with their variants) and environmental factors play large role in all except the simplest disease genes.
And it is worth to remember that often a gene variant that has some negative effects, has also some positive effects as well. Otherwise evolution would probably have removed that variant long time ago.
I think that dog breeding that has caused very unhealthy breeds and plant monocultures like banana, which is causing extinction of variants that lack diversity to resist diseases, have shown examples of what may be ahead of human race if get carried away with short sighted breeding ideas.
During cold war, cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty stayed 15 years in US embassy in Budapest to escape communists. But even communists weren't so evil that they would have violated the Vienna Convention. I hope that UK doesn't prove to be even more evil than communists.
I think it is good idea that as many as possible, would send similar message. Even if it would not help, I think it would be important principal level and show that people around world are concerned.
Amnesty International has used mail campaigns to show that people around the world are following the fate of political prisoners and that they haven't been just forgotten.
On the other hand, Chrome refuses to support lazy loading of tabs, which Firefox supports (there used to be better support in Firefox, but not anymore). With few windows open, Chrome makes my computer unusable because of swapping. I hope that my new laptop with 32 gigabytes of memory arrives soon, because I cannot stand this anymore.
As far as I know, there are more European languages that don't have gendered nouns than just English. For example, Finnish doesn't have gendered nouns (even pronouns don't have gender and that is why Finns often forget that in English you have to choose between "he" or "she").
And at least for me, German language has seemed always easier than English, although my English skills are much better as I don't have that much need for German language skills. German language seems to be more regular, mapping between writing and pronunciation is quite regular and as a Finn, I am not afraid of long compound words as we have them too.
Sorry, I didn't read your message carefully enough. Although I do think there is some relevance. For example:
If being monogamous means that you have sex with only one person, it doesn't guarantee that the other person doesn't have sex with other persons. It is worth to remember that about 40 percent of straight persons are unfaitful and I suspect that it is even more commong among gays (and larger percentage gays are HIV positive and anal sex transmits HIV more easily than vaginal intercourse, which probably makes being cheated higher risk factor for gays than straight).
IMHO, getting tested every 1-3 months is overkill if you practise safe sex (as everyone should). And I would never have anal sex without condom, even with a person who "absolutely certain is HIV negative", because there cannot be absolute certainty and there are other STDs as well. And because condoms are not 100 percent reliable, I refuse to have sex with persons who seem to be interested in bareback sex (if they aren't already HIV postive, they will be soon), are HIV positive or persons that I suspect might have high risk of being HIV positive.
I am sad that there seems to be so many gays who have bareback sex. I have never been able to understand why they do something so stupid. Even when two HIV positive persons have sex together, they should use condom to minimize transmitting new HIV strains which might be drug resistant.
Rape doesn't involve just risk of getting pregnant - and it is the man who has to pay child support. And even man who is sterile can rape, even though the woman cannot get pregnant.
NPT explicitly gives that right to developer nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment.
And stockpiling enough uranium to start enrichment program if needed, is easier said than done. It would be costly and there is no guarantees that the uranium enrichment program would be ready before the stockpile is used and power plants would have to be shut down. And it would just postpone the problem and it is unlikely that USA or Israel would be happy with uranium enrichment at that time either.
BTW, apple seeds contain cyanide compound which is why they should not be eaten. But I guess, that it you have to eat a lot of seeds and chew them, before it your life is in danger.
Without own uranium enrichment, Iran would always depend on the good will of other countries to suply it uranium and that would make it very easy target for coersion of other countries. And Iran will run out of oil relatively soon.
It is also question of national pride and rights. Iran has absolute right for nuclear power and uranium enrichment. It is other countries which have broken NPT by having sanctions on Iran and by witholding nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. And now USA has said that even if Iran would stop nuclear encrichment, which is right Iran has, the sanctions would still stay. That doesn't sound very good offer for Iran.
Just another example how religious nutters are out of their minds. It is frightening that that kind people might be involved in deciding launching nuclear weapons...
Typical nuclear reactors need enriched uranium to work. CANDU reactors can use natural uranium instead of enriched uranium, but more common LWR reactors cannot do that.
And Iran will run out of out with time and Iran can get money by selling the oil instead of burning it for energy needs that can be fulfilled with nuclear energy.
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You should demand that the document they sign, makes government or some official to pay you, if you find out that they have failed to obey the contract. Promise without any penalties is quite useless. But I have really strong feeling that they are not willing to sighn that kind of contracts with you...
And often food in commercials is faked and not suitable for eating (because of paint, being raw inside etc). Often chocolate is just brown paint, strawberries are painted to have more vidi colors, icecream can be made of "mashed potato covered in motor oil" etc. Commercials have long history of being full of lies and often even reviews of products are fake.
And Rasperry Pi might be more suited for tinkering than Apple products. For example, Rasperry Pi has GPIO pins and interfacing sensors etc will make the programming much more concrete and interesting.
I have quite expensive laptop, but I still can't wait that my Rasperry Pi arrives, because it is more suitable for tinkering than my expensive laptop. Because of Rasperry Pi, Arduinu etc I am feeling similar excitement I felt when I was learning how to program. If I just had more time...
I agree that it is useful to teach some programming skills to people who aren't goint to be full time programmers.
And I think is important to teach at young age, because you will probably not get "fluent" programming skills unless you start learning at young enough. The same seems to be true for playing musical instruments and many other demanding skills. However, I am not sure if 6 years old have enough mental capacity to learn programming, but soon we will find out it.
Is there any reason why wage levels would remain so different between countries that manufacturing wouldn't be done in western countries even in the future? As far as I know, the wage levels have been increasing in China and India at relatively fast rate.
And how will western countries maintain balance of trade in long term, if they don't manufacture anything that they can sell to non-western countries? I don't think tourism from outside western countries to western countries will bring enough money to buy the oild and goods manufactured outside western countries. I don't think China and other countries are going to loan money forever, if it is never going to be paid back.
I think that in many northern areas, old natural forests tend to have only/mostly spruce trees, until the trees are cut down, some serious disease kills the trees or there is forest fire.
When the old forest is destroyed by some reason, the first trees that will naturally grow, will be trees that grow quickly and need much light, like some hardwood trees. However, with enough time, there will be also small spruce trees, that tolerate shadows better than other trees and slowly they will grow bigger, until they will grow so big that their shadows will prevent other trees getting enough light to grow. I think is called ecological succession.
And although the needles of spruce trees are slightly acidic, I don't think they influence that much to the pH of soil.
IMHO, HTML5 is even more frightening. It has many security threats that java programs don't have, like cross-site scripting attacs, cross-site request forgeries etc.
My experience was that 5.25" floppies were really reliable. I had hundreds of 5.25" floppies and I don't remember any of them ever failing. I had some failures with 3.5" floppies, but not too often. IMHO, USB flash drives are much more unreliable than floppies were (although capacity of USB flash drives is much larger than floppies).
It would be interesting to check if the floppies that I used over 20 years ago are still readable. I have to try that some day...
My grandmother is only 94 years old, but she isn't interested in dying soon. However, she has said that if she couldn't live at home, she wouldn't like to live long period in a hospital.
I wish I live as old as her and have as good health. Of course, she was in better condition when she was middle aged, but as far as I see, she can still enjoy life even though she has some minor health issues (in practise most/all healthy adults have also some minor health issues).
And I think there are so many interesting things I would like to learn, so many things to do and the avarage life time just doesn't seem to be long enough for all this. I think it would be interesting if you could live more or less forever.
The new logo looks ugly and oldfashioned. Just like Windows Phone or Windows 8.
In some small cases this is possible, but with large and complex programs it is typically infeasible to prove them verifiably correct.
And even verifiably correct programs might be insecure. For example, program might leak sensitive information which can be measured with timing attacks, even if the computation itself is verifiably correct, can handle incorrect input etc. In some cases, timing attacks can absolutely destroy the security of the system.
BTW, some studies suggest that height may reduce longevity, although I have heard at least one study that found out the opposite.
That would be very short sighted with the current level of knowledge. Even when we know something about the function of some gene variant, we typically don't understand well the interaction with other genes and their variants.
With some exceptions, many known disease causing gene variants only make the risk of getting disease higher, but there is no guarantee that you will ever get the disease. Other genes (with their variants) and environmental factors play large role in all except the simplest disease genes.
And it is worth to remember that often a gene variant that has some negative effects, has also some positive effects as well. Otherwise evolution would probably have removed that variant long time ago.
I think that dog breeding that has caused very unhealthy breeds and plant monocultures like banana, which is causing extinction of variants that lack diversity to resist diseases, have shown examples of what may be ahead of human race if get carried away with short sighted breeding ideas.
During cold war, cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty stayed 15 years in US embassy in Budapest to escape communists. But even communists weren't so evil that they would have violated the Vienna Convention. I hope that UK doesn't prove to be even more evil than communists.
I think it is good idea that as many as possible, would send similar message. Even if it would not help, I think it would be important principal level and show that people around world are concerned.
Amnesty International has used mail campaigns to show that people around the world are following the fate of political prisoners and that they haven't been just forgotten.
On the other hand, Chrome refuses to support lazy loading of tabs, which Firefox supports (there used to be better support in Firefox, but not anymore). With few windows open, Chrome makes my computer unusable because of swapping. I hope that my new laptop with 32 gigabytes of memory arrives soon, because I cannot stand this anymore.
As far as I know, there are more European languages that don't have gendered nouns than just English. For example, Finnish doesn't have gendered nouns (even pronouns don't have gender and that is why Finns often forget that in English you have to choose between "he" or "she").
And at least for me, German language has seemed always easier than English, although my English skills are much better as I don't have that much need for German language skills. German language seems to be more regular, mapping between writing and pronunciation is quite regular and as a Finn, I am not afraid of long compound words as we have them too.
Sorry, I didn't read your message carefully enough. Although I do think there is some relevance. For example:
If being monogamous means that you have sex with only one person, it doesn't guarantee that the other person doesn't have sex with other persons. It is worth to remember that about 40 percent of straight persons are unfaitful and I suspect that it is even more commong among gays (and larger percentage gays are HIV positive and anal sex transmits HIV more easily than vaginal intercourse, which probably makes being cheated higher risk factor for gays than straight).
IMHO, getting tested every 1-3 months is overkill if you practise safe sex (as everyone should). And I would never have anal sex without condom, even with a person who "absolutely certain is HIV negative", because there cannot be absolute certainty and there are other STDs as well. And because condoms are not 100 percent reliable, I refuse to have sex with persons who seem to be interested in bareback sex (if they aren't already HIV postive, they will be soon), are HIV positive or persons that I suspect might have high risk of being HIV positive.
I am sad that there seems to be so many gays who have bareback sex. I have never been able to understand why they do something so stupid. Even when two HIV positive persons have sex together, they should use condom to minimize transmitting new HIV strains which might be drug resistant.
Rape doesn't involve just risk of getting pregnant - and it is the man who has to pay child support. And even man who is sterile can rape, even though the woman cannot get pregnant.
NPT explicitly gives that right to developer nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment.
And stockpiling enough uranium to start enrichment program if needed, is easier said than done. It would be costly and there is no guarantees that the uranium enrichment program would be ready before the stockpile is used and power plants would have to be shut down. And it would just postpone the problem and it is unlikely that USA or Israel would be happy with uranium enrichment at that time either.
BTW, apple seeds contain cyanide compound which is why they should not be eaten. But I guess, that it you have to eat a lot of seeds and chew them, before it your life is in danger.
Without own uranium enrichment, Iran would always depend on the good will of other countries to suply it uranium and that would make it very easy target for coersion of other countries. And Iran will run out of oil relatively soon.
It is also question of national pride and rights. Iran has absolute right for nuclear power and uranium enrichment. It is other countries which have broken NPT by having sanctions on Iran and by witholding nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. And now USA has said that even if Iran would stop nuclear encrichment, which is right Iran has, the sanctions would still stay. That doesn't sound very good offer for Iran.
Just another example how religious nutters are out of their minds. It is frightening that that kind people might be involved in deciding launching nuclear weapons...
Typical nuclear reactors need enriched uranium to work. CANDU reactors can use natural uranium instead of enriched uranium, but more common LWR reactors cannot do that.
And Iran will run out of out with time and Iran can get money by selling the oil instead of burning it for energy needs that can be fulfilled with nuclear energy.