Just try doing it on a 20 year old code base where non-functional changes are prohibited by company policy and lazy programmers have been pasting thousands of lines of functionality from elsewhere into the middle of loops and if statements because they were afraid of impacting old code and where the comments which might have helped you work out what the hell was going on are all written in French and Arabic and most of them are the programmers ragging on each other anyway and everybody uses whatever editor is available, usually vee eye with tabs sometimes enabled and sometimes not and...
I suppose the big advantage of python in that environment is that it wouldn't work at all, while C soldiers on.
On the time scale for which your theory could be an issue we will most likely move ourselves into artificial environments, leaving mozzies behind entirely. Maybe this will stop us from evolving. More likely our direct genetic fiddling will take its place. Or we kill ourselves off and the original Earth habitat continues on and a different species starts making our mistakes.
Does it worry anyone else that a "developing" country is releasing genetic experiments into the wild?
Malaysia may still be developing but they are not really third world either. Many of their scientists and engineers are world class and it shows in their approach to infrastructure development. Genetically engineering mosquitoes to deal with disease is a classic long term investment with a high payoff at the end.
I don't think Palin is an idiot. She may not be Nobel prize material but she has latched on to a fairly common gimmick for right wing politicians who want to appeal to stupid voters. Her stupid act is just a way of saying I'm just a normal person like you.
Yeah a couple of years ago an accountant where I work was helping me deal with a purchasing system we have. He asked me for my password so he could log on to my account. Apparently thats how things are done in his working environment. In my team we all have root access so we can su to any account, but nobody shares their password. su only gets you in the account once. root could be changed tomorrow. The same password could be used all over the place.
Just this morning my wife said she had gone to the bank to open an account for our son and they told her this bank has accounts for five people with the same name. We thought his name was less common than that. I asked her why she thought that was a big deal and she said "you know, when you use your name as your password" and I said what?.
You know, whenever I go to Malaysia my Australian SIM logs connects to a local carrier so I have roaming access and the Malaysian carrier sends me a text message advertising their services. It seemed pretty pointless to me...
Perhaps the cell phone systems at major events (say the London Olympics) should send welcoming text messages to people about to arrive at the venues. Something friendly with information on where to park and what entrances to use. That kind of thing.
As a complete off-topic aside. Is there ANY way in this new design to click on the message notification and actually get to the fracking message instead of 8 levels up and having to click through every single level to get to the actual reply? That probably has a good deal to do with my irateness, lol.
Its slightly faster to move the message threshold slider (top right on the page) to the right which should show all messages. But I agree. Viewing a reply should mean viewing a reply.
A) The Milky Way ain't the only galaxy in the universe. There most likely is life somewhere but it may or may not be in this galaxy.
But why not elsewhere in this Galaxy? We know now that there are plenty of planets at a habitable range from their stars. Our solar system seems pretty favourable however based on what we can see there should be equally favourable solar systems within 1000 light years or so. The process of kick starting microbial life doesn't seem to have been just a stroke of luck. It happened on earth pretty much as soon as conditions were suitable.
..but they should at least be talking. Soon it may be cheaper to beam ourselves from planet to planet so aliens could do this as well. If anything space craft are redundant when information can be transmitted much faster.
I recall reading about a SETI experiment where one team devised a message and a second team tried to interpret the message. They failed, even though it wasn't a good test because both teams had a common history. I don't expect us to succeed with aliens. We can't talk to elephants, dolphins, orangutans, etc.
Strangely, the ideal vehicle seems to be one of the minivans with decent ground clearance. The things are great on ice. A close second is a small car with good ground clearance.
My Toyota Townace fits that description but it still drives a hell of a lot better with a load over the rear axle.
It's the implication of what 99mph means. It is not artificially governed, that's simply all the more power the car has. It's going to take you 20+ seconds to get up to highway speeds. With short on-ramps that go uphill, that poor of acceleration is downright dangerous. I got a low end Ford Focus loner while my car was in the shop once, and even with it floored I only managed to get to 45mph before I hit the end of the on ramp. On a crowded highway where the flow is going 65mph, you can get in some real trouble.
My 1994 toyota townace van can't go 160 km/h (or even 140) but its perfectly fine to drive around on Australian roads. Other posters have suggested (like you) that US highways and freeways are short on on-ramp space but I think this is a US specific thing. I have never seen it elsewhere. Over here roads like that always have an emergency lane or a sealed shoulder so you can use that for a bit if you get into a lot of trouble merging. And generally drivers in the curbside lane make room.
So what would you use? Remember you have to communicate with people young enough to want to risk their freedom to go against the flow. Personally I think twitter is the better tool because a lot of your messaging is going to be tactical: meet at this place at this time. Sure the government will see the same messages but they may not have the same fast response.
Yeah I meant Malaysia but I also had the thought that when a Government falls apart religious organisations have a head start because they are organised and somewhat politically oriented anyway. You even see this is Australian politics where there are way more radical Christians (see Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbot) in politics than in the community generally.
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Just try doing it on a 20 year old code base where non-functional changes are prohibited by company policy and lazy programmers have been pasting thousands of lines of functionality from elsewhere into the middle of loops and if statements because they were afraid of impacting old code and where the comments which might have helped you work out what the hell was going on are all written in French and Arabic and most of them are the programmers ragging on each other anyway and everybody uses whatever editor is available, usually vee eye with tabs sometimes enabled and sometimes not and...
I suppose the big advantage of python in that environment is that it wouldn't work at all, while C soldiers on.
On the time scale for which your theory could be an issue we will most likely move ourselves into artificial environments, leaving mozzies behind entirely. Maybe this will stop us from evolving. More likely our direct genetic fiddling will take its place. Or we kill ourselves off and the original Earth habitat continues on and a different species starts making our mistakes.
When we eradicate malaria, what do we do with all the extra humans?
Thats the beauty of it. In the winter, they freeze to death!
(But this is in Malaysa)
Doh! Maybe they can get jobs in night markets selling LED torches.
Does it worry anyone else that a "developing" country is releasing genetic experiments into the wild?
Malaysia may still be developing but they are not really third world either. Many of their scientists and engineers are world class and it shows in their approach to infrastructure development. Genetically engineering mosquitoes to deal with disease is a classic long term investment with a high payoff at the end.
Regardless of whether Deckard was a replicant I am pretty sure he wasn't having kids with Rachel.
And WHY have I decided that she's an idiot?
I don't think Palin is an idiot. She may not be Nobel prize material but she has latched on to a fairly common gimmick for right wing politicians who want to appeal to stupid voters. Her stupid act is just a way of saying I'm just a normal person like you.
Two examples from my own country are Pauline Hanson and Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Its not a coincidence that both are from Queensland.
Yeah a couple of years ago an accountant where I work was helping me deal with a purchasing system we have. He asked me for my password so he could log on to my account. Apparently thats how things are done in his working environment. In my team we all have root access so we can su to any account, but nobody shares their password. su only gets you in the account once. root could be changed tomorrow. The same password could be used all over the place.
Just this morning my wife said she had gone to the bank to open an account for our son and they told her this bank has accounts for five people with the same name. We thought his name was less common than that. I asked her why she thought that was a big deal and she said "you know, when you use your name as your password" and I said what?.
You know, whenever I go to Malaysia my Australian SIM logs connects to a local carrier so I have roaming access and the Malaysian carrier sends me a text message advertising their services. It seemed pretty pointless to me...
Perhaps the cell phone systems at major events (say the London Olympics) should send welcoming text messages to people about to arrive at the venues. Something friendly with information on where to park and what entrances to use. That kind of thing.
As a complete off-topic aside. Is there ANY way in this new design to click on the message notification and actually get to the fracking message instead of 8 levels up and having to click through every single level to get to the actual reply? That probably has a good deal to do with my irateness, lol.
Its slightly faster to move the message threshold slider (top right on the page) to the right which should show all messages. But I agree. Viewing a reply should mean viewing a reply.
And then they could tell us!
A) The Milky Way ain't the only galaxy in the universe. There most likely is life somewhere but it may or may not be in this galaxy.
But why not elsewhere in this Galaxy? We know now that there are plenty of planets at a habitable range from their stars. Our solar system seems pretty favourable however based on what we can see there should be equally favourable solar systems within 1000 light years or so. The process of kick starting microbial life doesn't seem to have been just a stroke of luck. It happened on earth pretty much as soon as conditions were suitable.
..but they should at least be talking. Soon it may be cheaper to beam ourselves from planet to planet so aliens could do this as well. If anything space craft are redundant when information can be transmitted much faster.
But due to a terrible misjudgement of scale their relativistic bombs are studied as cosmic rays.
I recall reading about a SETI experiment where one team devised a message and a second team tried to interpret the message. They failed, even though it wasn't a good test because both teams had a common history. I don't expect us to succeed with aliens. We can't talk to elephants, dolphins, orangutans, etc.
Strangely, the ideal vehicle seems to be one of the minivans with decent ground clearance. The things are great on ice. A close second is a small car with good ground clearance.
My Toyota Townace fits that description but it still drives a hell of a lot better with a load over the rear axle.
It's the implication of what 99mph means. It is not artificially governed, that's simply all the more power the car has. It's going to take you 20+ seconds to get up to highway speeds. With short on-ramps that go uphill, that poor of acceleration is downright dangerous. I got a low end Ford Focus loner while my car was in the shop once, and even with it floored I only managed to get to 45mph before I hit the end of the on ramp. On a crowded highway where the flow is going 65mph, you can get in some real trouble.
My 1994 toyota townace van can't go 160 km/h (or even 140) but its perfectly fine to drive around on Australian roads. Other posters have suggested (like you) that US highways and freeways are short on on-ramp space but I think this is a US specific thing. I have never seen it elsewhere. Over here roads like that always have an emergency lane or a sealed shoulder so you can use that for a bit if you get into a lot of trouble merging. And generally drivers in the curbside lane make room.
Oops...reread the article...99MPH.
Hmm..not too good, you could get run over on some patches of highway down here doing that...
Do you mean that where you live you have to go 160 km/h to avoid a collision? What do the police do when they are supposed to be enforcing the law?
There is little enforcement as the road runs through a conceit channel with no margins for a police officer to pull a driver over into.
Anywhere else in the world the police would just install hands off revenue cameras and rake in the profits.
Checksum based integrity is a feature of modern DVCS systems such as mercurial and git.
So what would you use? Remember you have to communicate with people young enough to want to risk their freedom to go against the flow. Personally I think twitter is the better tool because a lot of your messaging is going to be tactical: meet at this place at this time. Sure the government will see the same messages but they may not have the same fast response.
Social Media is a tool for communication. Its important when planning a revolution to invite others. Hence the need to communicate.
One of these will do.
Yeah I meant Malaysia but I also had the thought that when a Government falls apart religious organisations have a head start because they are organised and somewhat politically oriented anyway. You even see this is Australian politics where there are way more radical Christians (see Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbot) in politics than in the community generally.