There is no possibility of a Mars colony with foreseeable technology in the next 50 years being self-sufficient.
In principle no, but in practice give them a nuclear reactor and they're most of the way there. There's plenty of raw material on Mars if you have the energy to refine it with.
Oh sure you can do these things in C, C++, Java, or anything else just fine but in general its going to be more error prone because those languages are not really targeted at the task
In my experience that's simply not true. There's a reason we create new languages, we apply the lessons learned from old ones to make them better, and a computer programming language is the most general tool in existence - an awful lot of things are really very similar at a programming level.
and in truth probably use more total lines of code to get it done, even if most of its warped up in some frame work or STL.
So they take more code, if you include code that you don't have to write or pay for yourself.
Finally most of these business accounting type tasks really do make more sense thought about in structured programming terms or even just simply as control break processes, they can be forced on to an object model like anything else but the operative word there is forced
Again, not my experience. I was surprised, because OO makes very little sense in terms of how I expect the world to operate - but having done it in practice, it works.
Um, instant messaging hasn't given way to an interoperable standard yet. Heck, with the rise of skype, I suspect the proportion done over interoperable networks (and worse, their network is completely non-interoperable - at least with MSN/Yahoo et al third-party clients work in practice, if not in principle) has gone down.
You have no idea what AD Rights management is for. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_Management_Services It is about companies protected their trade secrets and confidential data. It isn't about stopping you from stealing something off of the piratebay.
It's designed to make it so that a document can be distributed to you that you can read, but can't copy. That's exactly the same thing that any other kind of DRM is for, and if it becomes pervasive, sooner or later it'll start being used for music/videos/etc. you buy.
Concern for the environment should not stem from wanting to respect the rights of dolphins, as that is an incomplete and ineffective environmentalism.
I'm not interested in environmentalism for environmentalism's sake. If environmentalism isn't about preserving species, what is it about - preserving all the inert matter in the universe exactly as it was? Ceasing to exist entirely? And I'm more than happy to place more emphasis on preserving environments needed by more intelligent species than those needed by less intelligent ones.
I think you underestimate us. As long as you have someone who knows each step in the process, you're fine. IIRC My school used to make solid-state chips; sure, we wouldn't get these 65nm processors, but a bunch of transistors in a package is straightforward enough. Making a car would be no problem; consider the conditions they were made under during WW2. I think I remember reading about an enthusiast constructing a flintlock musket from scratch (going so far as to smelt the ore himself), so that level of manufacturing is achievable. Some manufacturing processes would be beyond us just because of scale, but we'd find ways around them - probably bizarre compared to history, but they'd work. Just our knowledge of the scientific method, and basic QM would make so many things so much easier.
Um, Pluto is a real planet. That the IAU misdefines "planet" is neither here nor there.
Less flippantly, language is just a matter of definitions. Saying Pluto is or isn't a planet is meaningless in itself. If I say Pluto is a planet because I take this to mean it is in hydrostatic equilibrium, I'm right - and more to the point, the actually relevant fact isn't disputedor the Earth being flat,
Huh? Very few educated people have believed that for millennia - and those who did would only have believed it because it was irrelevant.
or of the aether theory
Which was a perfectly reasonable theory, in accordance with the available evidence at the time, and made useful predictions. In short, those who believed in it were better off than those who didn't. (What alternative are you even considering?)
They also can't explain why the two Voyager spacecraft haven't reached the Heliopause, or what exactly *is* dark matter. They don't have those answers do they?
So there are actually interesting mysteries out there. Which makes it all the more tragic that someone interested in working things out would waste their time on a "haunted house".
Perhaps supposed hauntings are vibrational in nature and related to another plane of existence.
What? What is this suppsode to even mean?
or maybe hauntings are really just an example of the power of the human mind and its propensity to create stories in an attempt to rationalize an event whose mechanism is unknown to the witness.
Perhaps, and there are interesting questions to be asked there. But spending the night in a haunted house isn't going to help you answer them.
What I *do* know is that irregardless of all those things, we don't even take cameras, or really even poke about the haunted hotels we stay in. We just have fun and learn a bit of local history wherever we happen to be.
So with this, and with your first paragraph, I have to ask: what are you getting out of the "haunted" part? Presumably you're paying a premium over a "regular" hotel, so why is it worth it? There's plenty of interesting local history all over the place - I used to go all over visiting civil war battlefields with my family - but I've found a lot more interest and variety hearing it straight (well, as straight as can be - we know very little with absolute accuracy), than you do through the distorting lens of a ghost story.
In ending, life is full mystery and fun, and maybe indulging in a bit of fantasy and romance in a world that seems hell bent on destroying every legend, myth, and bit of intrigue that's left out there isn't so bad after all.
Indulging in fantasy is fine. But trying to combine that with being rational and scientific, as the submitter appears to be doing, seems a recipe for trouble.
You don't need that inverse proportion to make HFT unprofitable. You could just tax a small proportion of the share's value (even 0.1% would probably do it) on every transaction. Like stamp duty for buying/selling houses here in the UK.
Of course, turns out that actually makes the market horrifically illiquid and makes prices worse for everyone.
Funny how so many languages don't have unicode support, namespaces, have sometimes a quirky browser, ambiguous commands and people aren't claiming it sucks. Perhaps the best example is the C language - you probably used more code written in C to post your disliking of php than you will ever program in any language during your lifetime.
C sucks enormously a general-purpose language. If you're writing new programs in C outside a very limited set of circumstances (i.e. where you need the performance or precise control of the machine), you're doing it wrong. However, C is not a general-purpose programming language; it's a systems programming language, and useful within that domain. I think you'll find that any remotely popular general-purpose programming language that sucks as much as PHP will have people telling you about it.
I could make that statement about any language in existence. Sure, PHP is good enough to make money in. But there are better alternatives for pretty much all use cases. And if you look at the numbers, you'll find more people making more money in each of Java, Python and probably even Ruby.
Electrical activity shows we only use a small percentage of our brain at any given time and there are regions of the brain that medical science has no idea what they are for.
That's simply false.
It is not so far fetched to believe that the logical rules of this world cannot be bent or even broken.
Yes it is. Those rules get tested trillions of times every single day - and they've never come up wrong yet.
We are just to stubborn to let go of the linear and hard-angled concepts, the rules that allow us to explain and categorize everything in our life.
As you said yourself, " The world is more interesting believing in shit like this.. same with aliens and ghost and the after life, god and jesus". It's not stubbornness that stops us believing these things, it's the fact that they're not true.
Why do you think emulating on ARM would be hard? Emulating non-x86 on x86 is hard because x86 has so few general-purpose registers - but emulating x86 on something else is relatively easy.
Porting a program that was written in C without consideration for other architectures to a new architecture is hard, really hard. Seriously, I've done it.
You do realize that there are far better places on the net to archive your images, given that you can't be bothered to do it yourself?
Go on, I'll bite. Where? Bear in mind that the most likely way for me to lose them is the company that runs the servers going out of business, so you need a company that has less chance of going bankrupt than Facebook. Flickr won't cut it, they're owned by Yahoo who're spiralling towards the plughole and have shown themselves more than willing to junk massive amounts of user data when it's no longer profitable (see: Geocities). And I can't think of anyone else anywhere near as big as Facebook. I hate many things about Facebook, but they really do seem to be the best option, even leaving aside easy commenting, tagging etc.,Just for putting a bunch of photos up on the web and being confident they'll still be there in n years' time - who's better than facebook? Go on, give me an example.
So Linux is going to break the drivers for my webcam, PDA and TV card again? Forgive me if I don't jump for joy. Surely there'd be no harm in having the BKL hanging around - if you don't use any of the old drivers that use it, it'd never get locked and so never delay anything. So not having a stable API (I don't really care about the ABI, but the lack of an API is just atrocious) still looks like laziness from here.
War is almost never economically worth it. The amount of destruction caused by WW3 would outweigh any benefits that could be gained from winning. I very much doubt the US would surrender its citizenry into slavery without using nuclear weapons first.
Can you fiddle with an exposure in Photoshop until most film snobs would swear it's a Kodachrome image? Sure. Is that a worthwhile way to spend your time? You tell me.
It sounds like that's probably easier than shooting actual Kodachrome. I'd imagine it'd be scriptable, such that you'd only ever have to do it once (heck, I'll bet there's already a "Kodachrome filter" out there you can just apply). And if you decide later on that you actually didn't want it to be Kodachrome after all, you still have the original.
Is it really that much more complicated than any other colour film process? Surely you're always going to need at least three separate development stages to get the three colours.
You don't need a laptop to distract those around you; paper, conversation and actions all work. Wheras as a student I found taking notes on my laptop enormously beneficial. I would not want to be in a class that forbids them, any more than I would want to be in a class that forbids paper.
One of the great ironies of history is that Hiragana is (post some reform in I think the 1950s) one of the most phonetic writing systems around - you can look at any word written in it and immediately read it. The Japanese have one of the best alphabets in the world - and it's used almost exclusively by schoolchildren.
Sure, there's never going to be a "last address" assigned. But the price is going to be going up, fast. So it is time to be making a fuss; we do need to be thinking about it right now.
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In principle no, but in practice give them a nuclear reactor and they're most of the way there. There's plenty of raw material on Mars if you have the energy to refine it with.
In my experience that's simply not true. There's a reason we create new languages, we apply the lessons learned from old ones to make them better, and a computer programming language is the most general tool in existence - an awful lot of things are really very similar at a programming level.
and in truth probably use more total lines of code to get it done, even if most of its warped up in some frame work or STL.
So they take more code, if you include code that you don't have to write or pay for yourself.
Finally most of these business accounting type tasks really do make more sense thought about in structured programming terms or even just simply as control break processes, they can be forced on to an object model like anything else but the operative word there is forced
Again, not my experience. I was surprised, because OO makes very little sense in terms of how I expect the world to operate - but having done it in practice, it works.
Um, instant messaging hasn't given way to an interoperable standard yet. Heck, with the rise of skype, I suspect the proportion done over interoperable networks (and worse, their network is completely non-interoperable - at least with MSN/Yahoo et al third-party clients work in practice, if not in principle) has gone down.
What's the difference? It's not like the people with 2000 facebook "friends" are seeing them all in real life.
It's designed to make it so that a document can be distributed to you that you can read, but can't copy. That's exactly the same thing that any other kind of DRM is for, and if it becomes pervasive, sooner or later it'll start being used for music/videos/etc. you buy.
I'm not interested in environmentalism for environmentalism's sake. If environmentalism isn't about preserving species, what is it about - preserving all the inert matter in the universe exactly as it was? Ceasing to exist entirely? And I'm more than happy to place more emphasis on preserving environments needed by more intelligent species than those needed by less intelligent ones.
I think you underestimate us. As long as you have someone who knows each step in the process, you're fine. IIRC My school used to make solid-state chips; sure, we wouldn't get these 65nm processors, but a bunch of transistors in a package is straightforward enough. Making a car would be no problem; consider the conditions they were made under during WW2. I think I remember reading about an enthusiast constructing a flintlock musket from scratch (going so far as to smelt the ore himself), so that level of manufacturing is achievable. Some manufacturing processes would be beyond us just because of scale, but we'd find ways around them - probably bizarre compared to history, but they'd work. Just our knowledge of the scientific method, and basic QM would make so many things so much easier.
Um, Pluto is a real planet. That the IAU misdefines "planet" is neither here nor there.
Less flippantly, language is just a matter of definitions. Saying Pluto is or isn't a planet is meaningless in itself. If I say Pluto is a planet because I take this to mean it is in hydrostatic equilibrium, I'm right - and more to the point, the actually relevant fact isn't disputedor the Earth being flat,
Huh? Very few educated people have believed that for millennia - and those who did would only have believed it because it was irrelevant.
or of the aether theory
Which was a perfectly reasonable theory, in accordance with the available evidence at the time, and made useful predictions. In short, those who believed in it were better off than those who didn't. (What alternative are you even considering?)
They also can't explain why the two Voyager spacecraft haven't reached the Heliopause, or what exactly *is* dark matter. They don't have those answers do they?
So there are actually interesting mysteries out there. Which makes it all the more tragic that someone interested in working things out would waste their time on a "haunted house".
Perhaps supposed hauntings are vibrational in nature and related to another plane of existence.
What? What is this suppsode to even mean?
or maybe hauntings are really just an example of the power of the human mind and its propensity to create stories in an attempt to rationalize an event whose mechanism is unknown to the witness.
Perhaps, and there are interesting questions to be asked there. But spending the night in a haunted house isn't going to help you answer them.
What I *do* know is that irregardless of all those things, we don't even take cameras, or really even poke about the haunted hotels we stay in. We just have fun and learn a bit of local history wherever we happen to be.
So with this, and with your first paragraph, I have to ask: what are you getting out of the "haunted" part? Presumably you're paying a premium over a "regular" hotel, so why is it worth it? There's plenty of interesting local history all over the place - I used to go all over visiting civil war battlefields with my family - but I've found a lot more interest and variety hearing it straight (well, as straight as can be - we know very little with absolute accuracy), than you do through the distorting lens of a ghost story.
In ending, life is full mystery and fun, and maybe indulging in a bit of fantasy and romance in a world that seems hell bent on destroying every legend, myth, and bit of intrigue that's left out there isn't so bad after all.
Indulging in fantasy is fine. But trying to combine that with being rational and scientific, as the submitter appears to be doing, seems a recipe for trouble.
Of course, turns out that actually makes the market horrifically illiquid and makes prices worse for everyone.
C sucks enormously a general-purpose language. If you're writing new programs in C outside a very limited set of circumstances (i.e. where you need the performance or precise control of the machine), you're doing it wrong. However, C is not a general-purpose programming language; it's a systems programming language, and useful within that domain. I think you'll find that any remotely popular general-purpose programming language that sucks as much as PHP will have people telling you about it.
I could make that statement about any language in existence. Sure, PHP is good enough to make money in. But there are better alternatives for pretty much all use cases. And if you look at the numbers, you'll find more people making more money in each of Java, Python and probably even Ruby.
They may well have. But the writers of all the zillions of random win32 applications haven't.
That's simply false.
It is not so far fetched to believe that the logical rules of this world cannot be bent or even broken.
Yes it is. Those rules get tested trillions of times every single day - and they've never come up wrong yet.
We are just to stubborn to let go of the linear and hard-angled concepts, the rules that allow us to explain and categorize everything in our life.
As you said yourself, " The world is more interesting believing in shit like this.. same with aliens and ghost and the after life, god and jesus". It's not stubbornness that stops us believing these things, it's the fact that they're not true.
Why do you think emulating on ARM would be hard? Emulating non-x86 on x86 is hard because x86 has so few general-purpose registers - but emulating x86 on something else is relatively easy.
Porting a program that was written in C without consideration for other architectures to a new architecture is hard, really hard. Seriously, I've done it.
Go on, I'll bite. Where? Bear in mind that the most likely way for me to lose them is the company that runs the servers going out of business, so you need a company that has less chance of going bankrupt than Facebook. Flickr won't cut it, they're owned by Yahoo who're spiralling towards the plughole and have shown themselves more than willing to junk massive amounts of user data when it's no longer profitable (see: Geocities). And I can't think of anyone else anywhere near as big as Facebook. I hate many things about Facebook, but they really do seem to be the best option, even leaving aside easy commenting, tagging etc.,Just for putting a bunch of photos up on the web and being confident they'll still be there in n years' time - who's better than facebook? Go on, give me an example.
So Linux is going to break the drivers for my webcam, PDA and TV card again? Forgive me if I don't jump for joy. Surely there'd be no harm in having the BKL hanging around - if you don't use any of the old drivers that use it, it'd never get locked and so never delay anything. So not having a stable API (I don't really care about the ABI, but the lack of an API is just atrocious) still looks like laziness from here.
War is almost never economically worth it. The amount of destruction caused by WW3 would outweigh any benefits that could be gained from winning. I very much doubt the US would surrender its citizenry into slavery without using nuclear weapons first.
It sounds like that's probably easier than shooting actual Kodachrome. I'd imagine it'd be scriptable, such that you'd only ever have to do it once (heck, I'll bet there's already a "Kodachrome filter" out there you can just apply). And if you decide later on that you actually didn't want it to be Kodachrome after all, you still have the original.
Is it really that much more complicated than any other colour film process? Surely you're always going to need at least three separate development stages to get the three colours.
What? There's no similarity there at all.
You don't need a laptop to distract those around you; paper, conversation and actions all work. Wheras as a student I found taking notes on my laptop enormously beneficial. I would not want to be in a class that forbids them, any more than I would want to be in a class that forbids paper.
One of the great ironies of history is that Hiragana is (post some reform in I think the 1950s) one of the most phonetic writing systems around - you can look at any word written in it and immediately read it. The Japanese have one of the best alphabets in the world - and it's used almost exclusively by schoolchildren.
To do what? Do you really believe China's more interested in starting WW3 than increasing the standard of living of its population?
Sure, there's never going to be a "last address" assigned. But the price is going to be going up, fast. So it is time to be making a fuss; we do need to be thinking about it right now.