Um, you think google is just grepping some big file? They are both parsing(and calculating! what do you think page rank is) big data sets, the only difference is how the datasets they search are structured and how they parse the search. If you want to say wolfram alpha isnt a WEB search engine, then you would be right to a degree, but saying its not a search engine is just plain wrong.
Its a search engine, the data structures of what it indexes are different than what google indexes, but that doesnt make it anything but a search engine.
Siri is for the most part a front end on wolfram alpha, another search engine....so basically the author is saying that perhaps one search engine is better than another. Unprecedented I know
Um, no. There was relatively little damage between southern Ibaraki prefecture and Tokyo, certainly not enough to warrant suspension of power transmission, but there simply wasnt enough power available. Ibaraki prefecture was served by 3 nuke plants(Fukushima Daichi, Daini, and Toukai), all 3 of which were shut down immediately after the quake. They simply didnt have enough material ready to burn right away to replace that huge loss of power, simple as that. So yeah, you arent even close to being correct about basically anything.
You are aware that Japan exists outside of Tokyo right, because your comments show that I don't think you do. I was in SOUTHERN Ibaraki prefecture(well inland so the tsunami didn't affect us) and we didn't have power or water for 4 days, northern Ibaraki prefecture was even worse, and lets not get started on the places that were hit by the tsunami. And we did suffer rolling blackouts periodically for about 2 weeks after the quake(though none was particularly long). And for the first week or so after the quake the trains wouldn't even run at all on some days....
So yeah, you aren't even remotely correct
AHHAHAHAHA, you honestly think thats even a fucking FRACTION of the data they store on you? If so I have a lovely "open system" I think you would be interested in.
So Sergei, when exactly will I be able to look at all the information Google has on me and share it with other search engines if I so choose? Oh...I can't huh, wow, your garden is so very, very open I cannot believe it.
Um, no, it means they won't patch any non-security related bugs(though the exact definition of what renders a bug a security issue is a bit unclear). Theres a huge difference.
It's a little early t be saying it's the end of proprietary software packages, but the OP mentions the word "framework", so it's a little unclear what exactly he is developing. Proprietary frameworks outside of large vendor created software ecosystems(Windows, iOS etc) are definitely on their way out. If devs cannot get access to your framework they aren't going to use it and frameworks with a very small user base tend to fail as nobody wants to devote any time to learning it if they don't think it will be useful creating a viscious cycle ultimately dooming the framework.
And yes I know that SOME proprietary, non-gratis frameworks exist on their own, but they are by far the exception.
Author hits the nail on the head. A lot of people debate whether Google is a search company or an ad company, truth is it's neither, it's the world's biggest statical service, gathering up and analyzing massive amounts of statistics(for good or for ill). Their main way of monetizing that right now is ads, but they are already starting to branch out. For instance you can pay to have Google's pattern matching technology mine through your own company's data to find trends, classify things etc. And I imagine that Google is looking towards other markets beyond ads, and for that they will need lots and lots of data, your data....
Well, raw income data does not seem to bear the same conclusion, from the US Census:
Married opposite-sex couples report the highest average household income (nearly $100,000), while the same-sex couple household income is around $86,000, which is higher than the unmarried opposite-sex partners with only an average household income of $51,275.
Now of course it is difficult to get an exact fix as there are bound to be generational differences in how "out" people are(older people tend to earn more as a trend) and of course this data is a bit US-centric, but overall it does look like married couples earn more, though the gap seems to be closing.
One reason gays might be worth a bit more is that they tend to cluster in urban areas as when you only have realistically less than ~5% of the population that would even be theoretically romantically interested in you, you tend to move to places with high concentrations of people, significantly increasing your chances for romantic success.
Because somehow drug cartels in Mexico are heavily involved in Tunisian politics? Did you even bother reading the fucking summary, is that seriously too much to fucking ask anymore?
And of course there are always alternate motivations to consider as well. If Iranian oil exports are cut off, Russia stands to make a huge amount of money off of increased oil exports to Europe and Asia(at much higher prices to boot), with the Russian economy being very dependent upon mineral exports at this point in time, this would be a huge domestic boost to Russia. And of course Russia has repeatedly offered to refine uranium for Iranian nuclear power plants, at a cost of course....
Says the person who knows absolutely NOTHING about the actual history. The decision to surrender was far from unanimous even AFTER the two atomic bombings, even AFTER the Russia declared war. There was basically an almost open military revolt after the Emperor agreed to surrender, and had the atomic bombs not been dropped the revolt would have gotten much more support, and the war would have dragged on, probably inducing massive starvation not only in Japan, but in even worse in it's colonies as Japan was shipping out as much food as it could from Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere.
Also, there were no "purely military" targets. The defense for the planned invasion of Kyushu was almost entirely civilian, and any military production facilities were generally located well within city limits, so again, you show you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, but feel it necessary to be self-righteous anyway.
I pity you, you really do live a sad, pointless existence if you think thats true. A lot of people enjoy learning things for the pleasure they get in learning them. Do you really think anyone learns ancient Greek, or attempts to recreate the large number of dead languages because they want to get laid? If so, they are doing it wrong.
It's views like yours that have made university education into the trade school farce it is today, learning something solely for your own edification is one of the rare unique pleasures of being human, I suggest you try it sometime.
For starters people that think that incredibly simplistic logic somehow trumps mountains of empirical evidence. Look at the healthcare debate, the fact is that countries with public health insurance spend about 1/2 as much for the same results as the US spends, case closed. But the best that people who oppose public health insurance can do is claim that the "free market will solve everything"(making the very faulty assumption that the healthcare market is 'free' in any meaningful fashion), and that if we have public health insurance all of a sudden poor and/or fat people will just start "mooching" off the "hard working" populace, of course ignoring the basic fact that ANY sort of insurance is a collectivization scheme.
It all comes down to population density(and of course limitations in communications technology). Agriculture allows for much higher population densities than is at all possible in hunter gatherer societies. This allows for much more powerful armies, esp. in the days before radio, telephone, the internet etc as it was very difficult to organize hunter gatherer armies due to their nomadic nature.
This allowed agricultural societies to dominate hunter gatherer societies as a large number of relatively highly organized malnourished soldiers will still be able to beat a small number of poorly organized very healthy people. This meant that cultures either had to adopt agriculture or die out. Humans may have been "happier" as hunter gatherers, but thanks to our war-like nature(which is present in our chimp ancestors as well) there is no way that lifestyle could have been maintained after the invention of agriculture.
In certain societies and time periods there is evidence that "plump"(not morbidly obese, but probably what today would be classified in the lower echelons of what is now classified as "overweight") women were considered attractive. Probably because they were more fertile and/or more likely to deliver a healthy baby, esp. if food became scarce, not an uncommon event.
Love it or hate it, you can tell that most of what they do on the biggest loser is HIIT(though they rarely come out and say it). They make the people go relatively fast on the treadmills, do pretty intense but short weight lifting routines etc, and yet they very rarely do anything long distance steady pace(like a 10k or half marathon etc) on the show. There is probably a reason for that, the HIIT is much more effective at burning fat than doing long sustained exercises are.
I never said fascists cannot change parties. The democrats at that point in time became Republicans en masse after the civil rights act of 1965. Times change, if you are going to try to tell me to check my history, you probably should do a half-assed job of checking yours as well. Nice try though.
I do want to draw a moral equivalency because he was only fined instead of killed because the fascists didn't have enough power to kill him. Had the fine gone through then the fascists would have demanded more and more until they got the death penalty for insulting their made up friend. Don't think for a second that the Republican fascists don't want to kill non-believers, they just know it's politically unpalatable at this point to say so, they are attempting to gain power little by little until they DO have enough power to murder non-believers. The only difference between the Republicans and the Saudi mullahs is the amount of power they currently wield, don't think for a second that if the Republicans have that power(which they so desperately want) that they wouldn't be doing what the religious police in Saudi Arabia are doing.
ANY use of force to enforce religion is a violation of human rights, don't play the moral relativism card because it simply doesn't work.
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Um, you think google is just grepping some big file? They are both parsing(and calculating! what do you think page rank is) big data sets, the only difference is how the datasets they search are structured and how they parse the search. If you want to say wolfram alpha isnt a WEB search engine, then you would be right to a degree, but saying its not a search engine is just plain wrong.
Its a search engine, the data structures of what it indexes are different than what google indexes, but that doesnt make it anything but a search engine.
Siri is for the most part a front end on wolfram alpha, another search engine....so basically the author is saying that perhaps one search engine is better than another. Unprecedented I know
Um, no. There was relatively little damage between southern Ibaraki prefecture and Tokyo, certainly not enough to warrant suspension of power transmission, but there simply wasnt enough power available. Ibaraki prefecture was served by 3 nuke plants(Fukushima Daichi, Daini, and Toukai), all 3 of which were shut down immediately after the quake. They simply didnt have enough material ready to burn right away to replace that huge loss of power, simple as that. So yeah, you arent even close to being correct about basically anything.
And that war that your darling man child started was free...oh wait......
You are aware that Japan exists outside of Tokyo right, because your comments show that I don't think you do. I was in SOUTHERN Ibaraki prefecture(well inland so the tsunami didn't affect us) and we didn't have power or water for 4 days, northern Ibaraki prefecture was even worse, and lets not get started on the places that were hit by the tsunami. And we did suffer rolling blackouts periodically for about 2 weeks after the quake(though none was particularly long). And for the first week or so after the quake the trains wouldn't even run at all on some days.... So yeah, you aren't even remotely correct
AHHAHAHAHA, you honestly think thats even a fucking FRACTION of the data they store on you? If so I have a lovely "open system" I think you would be interested in.
You can install Opera on the iPad, your point being?
So Sergei, when exactly will I be able to look at all the information Google has on me and share it with other search engines if I so choose? Oh...I can't huh, wow, your garden is so very, very open I cannot believe it.
Um, no, it means they won't patch any non-security related bugs(though the exact definition of what renders a bug a security issue is a bit unclear). Theres a huge difference.
You haven't ever wondered what a young Kate Winslets breasts and pubic mound looked like in 3d?
It's a little early t be saying it's the end of proprietary software packages, but the OP mentions the word "framework", so it's a little unclear what exactly he is developing. Proprietary frameworks outside of large vendor created software ecosystems(Windows, iOS etc) are definitely on their way out. If devs cannot get access to your framework they aren't going to use it and frameworks with a very small user base tend to fail as nobody wants to devote any time to learning it if they don't think it will be useful creating a viscious cycle ultimately dooming the framework.
And yes I know that SOME proprietary, non-gratis frameworks exist on their own, but they are by far the exception.
Author hits the nail on the head. A lot of people debate whether Google is a search company or an ad company, truth is it's neither, it's the world's biggest statical service, gathering up and analyzing massive amounts of statistics(for good or for ill). Their main way of monetizing that right now is ads, but they are already starting to branch out. For instance you can pay to have Google's pattern matching technology mine through your own company's data to find trends, classify things etc. And I imagine that Google is looking towards other markets beyond ads, and for that they will need lots and lots of data, your data....
Well, raw income data does not seem to bear the same conclusion, from the US Census:
Married opposite-sex couples report the highest average household income (nearly $100,000), while the same-sex couple household income is around $86,000, which is higher than the unmarried opposite-sex partners with only an average household income of $51,275.
Now of course it is difficult to get an exact fix as there are bound to be generational differences in how "out" people are(older people tend to earn more as a trend) and of course this data is a bit US-centric, but overall it does look like married couples earn more, though the gap seems to be closing.
One reason gays might be worth a bit more is that they tend to cluster in urban areas as when you only have realistically less than ~5% of the population that would even be theoretically romantically interested in you, you tend to move to places with high concentrations of people, significantly increasing your chances for romantic success.
Because somehow drug cartels in Mexico are heavily involved in Tunisian politics? Did you even bother reading the fucking summary, is that seriously too much to fucking ask anymore?
And of course there are always alternate motivations to consider as well. If Iranian oil exports are cut off, Russia stands to make a huge amount of money off of increased oil exports to Europe and Asia(at much higher prices to boot), with the Russian economy being very dependent upon mineral exports at this point in time, this would be a huge domestic boost to Russia. And of course Russia has repeatedly offered to refine uranium for Iranian nuclear power plants, at a cost of course....
Says the person who knows absolutely NOTHING about the actual history. The decision to surrender was far from unanimous even AFTER the two atomic bombings, even AFTER the Russia declared war. There was basically an almost open military revolt after the Emperor agreed to surrender, and had the atomic bombs not been dropped the revolt would have gotten much more support, and the war would have dragged on, probably inducing massive starvation not only in Japan, but in even worse in it's colonies as Japan was shipping out as much food as it could from Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere.
Also, there were no "purely military" targets. The defense for the planned invasion of Kyushu was almost entirely civilian, and any military production facilities were generally located well within city limits, so again, you show you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, but feel it necessary to be self-righteous anyway.
I pity you, you really do live a sad, pointless existence if you think thats true. A lot of people enjoy learning things for the pleasure they get in learning them. Do you really think anyone learns ancient Greek, or attempts to recreate the large number of dead languages because they want to get laid? If so, they are doing it wrong.
It's views like yours that have made university education into the trade school farce it is today, learning something solely for your own edification is one of the rare unique pleasures of being human, I suggest you try it sometime.
Um, no, large scale, rigorous empirical evidence is not "simplistic thinking", no matter how you wish it were so.
For starters people that think that incredibly simplistic logic somehow trumps mountains of empirical evidence. Look at the healthcare debate, the fact is that countries with public health insurance spend about 1/2 as much for the same results as the US spends, case closed. But the best that people who oppose public health insurance can do is claim that the "free market will solve everything"(making the very faulty assumption that the healthcare market is 'free' in any meaningful fashion), and that if we have public health insurance all of a sudden poor and/or fat people will just start "mooching" off the "hard working" populace, of course ignoring the basic fact that ANY sort of insurance is a collectivization scheme.
It all comes down to population density(and of course limitations in communications technology). Agriculture allows for much higher population densities than is at all possible in hunter gatherer societies. This allows for much more powerful armies, esp. in the days before radio, telephone, the internet etc as it was very difficult to organize hunter gatherer armies due to their nomadic nature. This allowed agricultural societies to dominate hunter gatherer societies as a large number of relatively highly organized malnourished soldiers will still be able to beat a small number of poorly organized very healthy people. This meant that cultures either had to adopt agriculture or die out. Humans may have been "happier" as hunter gatherers, but thanks to our war-like nature(which is present in our chimp ancestors as well) there is no way that lifestyle could have been maintained after the invention of agriculture.
In certain societies and time periods there is evidence that "plump"(not morbidly obese, but probably what today would be classified in the lower echelons of what is now classified as "overweight") women were considered attractive. Probably because they were more fertile and/or more likely to deliver a healthy baby, esp. if food became scarce, not an uncommon event.
Love it or hate it, you can tell that most of what they do on the biggest loser is HIIT(though they rarely come out and say it). They make the people go relatively fast on the treadmills, do pretty intense but short weight lifting routines etc, and yet they very rarely do anything long distance steady pace(like a 10k or half marathon etc) on the show. There is probably a reason for that, the HIIT is much more effective at burning fat than doing long sustained exercises are.
I never said fascists cannot change parties. The democrats at that point in time became Republicans en masse after the civil rights act of 1965. Times change, if you are going to try to tell me to check my history, you probably should do a half-assed job of checking yours as well. Nice try though.
I do want to draw a moral equivalency because he was only fined instead of killed because the fascists didn't have enough power to kill him. Had the fine gone through then the fascists would have demanded more and more until they got the death penalty for insulting their made up friend. Don't think for a second that the Republican fascists don't want to kill non-believers, they just know it's politically unpalatable at this point to say so, they are attempting to gain power little by little until they DO have enough power to murder non-believers. The only difference between the Republicans and the Saudi mullahs is the amount of power they currently wield, don't think for a second that if the Republicans have that power(which they so desperately want) that they wouldn't be doing what the religious police in Saudi Arabia are doing.
ANY use of force to enforce religion is a violation of human rights, don't play the moral relativism card because it simply doesn't work.