Ummmm... the Arctic is less Icy (one side of the Antarctic is more icy and one side less icy).
This year saw record droughts across the US.
While no single event or year can be directly connected it's pretty easy to see why scientists might think the arctic will be ice free in the not too distant future.
There is a wealth of real science out there. People just read tabloids like the WSJ and assume they are going to get solid science news out of it. That's like watching Fox News and complaining that there is no journalism alive in America.
Yeah I tried using Iron7 a while back: (http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ruby-iron7-free/8a866ec2-461b-e011-9264-00237de2db9e) and it lets you code in Ruby using the phone's keyboard to create simple apps inside of Windows Phone. But it's hard enough to do normal typing on a tiny keyboard let alone non-dictionary words for variables etc.
Windows 8 is perfectly acceptable though for tablet dev. I've done Unity development on a Windows 8 tablet and it's great because you don't have to transfer the app to the device you just tweak your code, hit run and it's just there ready to interact with. Especially if you hook up a Bluetooth keyboard and plug in a monitor or TV. Develop normally and then do all of your touch interaction and testing on the device with no need for an emulator.
Apple could once again leap ahead of Microsoft and Google, says Segan. Microsoft hasn't yet been able to leverage its desktop strengths to achieve success as a mobile OS.
If anyone is well positioned for apps to run on both operating systems it's... Microsoft. They have one kernel running on phones and tablets and laptops. They also haven't arbitrarily delineated PCs and Tablets like OSX has.
You literally already can run an x86 or metro app on most windows 8 tablets. And with Metro almost all of the apps already run on ARM and x86-64. Not to mention Windows 8.1 works really well on my tablet and my home desktop. My work machine hasn't been upgraded yet but I just saw that MacDrive now supports Windows 8 so I think it's safe.
When OSX attempts to bridge the gulf between OSX and iOS it's going to run into the exact same challenge that Microsoft has in Windows 8. And like Windows 8 it'll have teething issues. The difference is that Windows has already been at it for over 2 years and it already has a 64 bit ready tablet OS with proven multi-tasking etc. I don't see how Apple is any kind of position to leapfrog Microsoft in development since Microsoft is *already there*.
Google is also well positioned with existing products that allow you to run Google Apps on x86 windows tablets. Intel is also investing a lot of money to port Android over to x86 natively for their phone x86 chips. So while a little behind Microsoft in porting their OS to a desktop environment between Intel's efforts and the Transformer book (which is very much like a desktop/laptop experience) Android could very easily cross over.
Apple could feasibly leapfrog Android if they doubled down on enabling keyboard/mouse input and OSX runtime but they can't by any definition leapfrog Microsoft which has already finished the transition.
I've spent way too much time trying to decypher my own code a year or two later.:D
Documentation isn't even just for other people. I've been trying to update an Python package I wrote last year and I couldn't make heads or tails of its proper usage for a couple days. I even started adding a feature that I felt was obvious and missing until closer inspection at the code reminded me of the intended mechanism to handle that class of scenarios. A simple little 3 line comment with an example or two would have cleared that right up.
I think one thing the author misses is that sometimes something, even something bad is better than nothing. While a wiki certainly can't replace a professional technical writer devoting a full time job to writing documentation--most of the time your choices are between nothing and something unreliable. In the case of documentation I would rather have unreliable information than absolutely nothing at all. With nothing at all often you will have to scour google for an inkling of a hint. Also wikis on languages like PHP offer up if not corrections at least lots of different examples of usage.
Say what you want but Stack Overflow is an amazing resource and essentially a wiki.
Like what? That's the problem I see. If your most employable skill is burger flipping... And we replace that entire class of laborer with automation you have people who are less useful than robots. That's a dangerous situation for a society to be in when there's simply nothing to do for a large segment of the population.
The app economy hasn't opened up more jobs for construction workers. I wrote a program which automated a process that normally was a full time position. That "job" simply doesn't exist in the world any more. Nothing jumped in to take its place. The time to develop it was about a month of development. The number of people to develop accounting software is several orders of magnitude less than all of the accountants in the world.
Actually in the case of the toilet seat and hammer examples they were both engineered one-off pieces that had to be carefully designed to meet specific weight and size requirements. Which is to say if you ever make one or two of anything the per-unit cost is astronomical.
Select some feature(s) or bug fix(es) you'd like in a future version, and pay the lead developers to do it for you. Or, some open source projects have lousy manuals--pay them to improve their documentation.
How would the organization then differ from a normal business? This is *precisely* why the IRS has been cracking down on "open source organizations". You call yourself a non-profit organization and then just funnel what amounts to a consulting business.
There is nothing though to stop you from paying the lead developer to improve a project you use. But you would need to pay the developer.
Red Hat for instance isn't a non-profit. And I can see why the IRS would be suspicious of an organization which essentially operates a non-profit to launder a development company through. If they did have $20k to spend, they should have asked for the names of a few contributors and paid them to do something on the Open Source project. "Hey, here is a grant to fix some part of the project, whatever you want."
It was interesting that in the same prediction he was still hedging his bets on whether fiber optic communication would be common. Laser tunnels are strung everywhere and are ubiquitous. So common we don't even use all of them.
$1,500 actually sounds on par with Cable and other broadband initiatives.
When I got wireless internet at my house back in Highschool it was about $900 for the antenna and gateway etc and speeds where nowhere near cable speeds with really high latency.
Actually I hear he notoriously doesn't pay or treat his people well. But if you want to be at the cutting edge and "change the world" you put up with it.
What did he reveal that changed the world? I can't think of any revelations from Manning except for some more details on Nordic politicians that I've never heard of.
Or they want to capture people who think that they are equivalent and pitch to them why they aren't and why VMWare is actually what they need. Just because something isn't equivalent doesn't mean it's not relevant. If you search for "Hotel" it would make sense for homeaway to also advertise its home sharing service. They aren't really the same thing but they are related to someone's need which is shelter. If you are googling openStack you probably are trying to figure out how to virtualize your infrastructure. Surprise surprise, virtualization is something VMWare does.
ts. The only difficult part is expecting the recipients to do the same in reverse and to treat your privacy as seriously as you do. There, you'll need to exercise judgment as to who to trust and with what (just like in every other area of life).
That's the real problem. If you are a 'terrorist' and you attract the 'attention' of the 'NSA' then your email header data will be unencrypted (by necessity). Therefore instead of breaking your encryption they'll just go for the weak link and read the email of whoever you sent an email to.
The other problem is that if you are most likely an "American" then you presumably do have rights assuming they are following the law. In which case the best strategy isn't to obfuscate your activity but to at the very least try and enhance your "Americanness".
If you are sending encrypted files hither thither (enmasse) you're just going to become something very "interesting" and "worth investigation". If you however pretend to be a 14 year old girl in Kansas the NSA will probably leave all of your communication alone due to legal necessity.
So if you're in the Cali or Zeta cartels your best strategy is a fake Facebook profile for an "American" and a VPN to make the origin as American as possible.
Sure it's not as "theoretically" secure as a massive super encrypted communication network... but camouflage is usually more effective in nature than armor.
The problem with "High moral standards" is that everybody has their own standards. For one it might be purging an ethnic group which threatens the moral stability and safety of the "good" guys. For another it might be helping someone cross the road. It's safe to say that unilateral decisions that affect millions shouldn't be something flippantly done. Regardless as to whether or not Manning or Snowden did the "right" thing (and in this case it's FAR from clear), circumventing the legal process because one person feels it's wrong isn't a good way to form a society.
In the case of Manning he simply dumped every classified file he could get his hands on. It had the names of informants in it. It had incredibly sensitive data. Only an extremist ideologue would say that we all should have access to that information. That wasn't a "moral" or "good" action. Yes he uncovered some embarrassing material. But embarrassing is neither illegal nor morally wrong. Even if we accept that Manning uncovered one or two wrong doings--it doesn't give you the right to leak innocent people's conversations along with it. If the NSA had dumped hundreds of thousands of emails of citizens we wouldn't say they were "national heroes". If you have evidence of corruption that doesn't mean you get to publish the private conversations of some poor employee who was just doing their job.
In spite of the summary several of those films are doing fine in the box office and a few hits like Man of Steel more than erase any losses from the others.
I would argue the opposite is true. Snowden claimed he had access to PRISM. But all he had to do was produce a single audio clip of a phone recording from say his Grandma and PRISM would have been dead.
If he had produced a recording of a senator or one of their families there would have been non-stop congressional inquiries into the program.
The fact that through all of this not a single audio clip has been produced tells me that there is in fact pretty good oversight. It's one thing to get a bunch of power point presentations. It's quite another to deliberately abuse the system to prove a point. So either Snowden is a moron (which is plausible considering his decision to flee to Hong Kong and reveal his identity before finding a truly safe sanctuary with verified amnesty) or it's a lot harder to get data on random joe than it's made out to be.
Should the federal government have guns? They've misused those. Should the federal government have cars? Police have run over more people than the NSA has wiretapped (I would rather be wiretapped than run over). Should the federal government not be allowed to have computers since the NSA misused them? Should we not perform the census since Hitler used it for evil? Should we not let the police have helicopters?
The NSA has proven that they don't need drones to spy on you. Maybe the federal government should only be able to use horses and parchment.
Do you honestly believe that once establish such surveillance would not be abused?
If you think we shouldn't be able to use technology that can be abused then our police shouldn't have weapons, cars, telephones, bullet proof vests, radios, knifes, handcuffs, computers, ropes, cameras...
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Ummmm... the Arctic is less Icy (one side of the Antarctic is more icy and one side less icy).
This year saw record droughts across the US.
While no single event or year can be directly connected it's pretty easy to see why scientists might think the arctic will be ice free in the not too distant future.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/ice-models-reality.jpg
Ooo they have a "weblog"... or for those of us who aren't still living in the early 90s a "blog".
http://realclimate.org/
There is a wealth of real science out there. People just read tabloids like the WSJ and assume they are going to get solid science news out of it. That's like watching Fox News and complaining that there is no journalism alive in America.
Yeah I tried using Iron7 a while back: (http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ruby-iron7-free/8a866ec2-461b-e011-9264-00237de2db9e) and it lets you code in Ruby using the phone's keyboard to create simple apps inside of Windows Phone. But it's hard enough to do normal typing on a tiny keyboard let alone non-dictionary words for variables etc.
Windows 8 is perfectly acceptable though for tablet dev. I've done Unity development on a Windows 8 tablet and it's great because you don't have to transfer the app to the device you just tweak your code, hit run and it's just there ready to interact with. Especially if you hook up a Bluetooth keyboard and plug in a monitor or TV. Develop normally and then do all of your touch interaction and testing on the device with no need for an emulator.
Yeah I'm a little confused by this statement:
Apple could once again leap ahead of Microsoft and Google, says Segan. Microsoft hasn't yet been able to leverage its desktop strengths to achieve success as a mobile OS.
If anyone is well positioned for apps to run on both operating systems it's... Microsoft. They have one kernel running on phones and tablets and laptops. They also haven't arbitrarily delineated PCs and Tablets like OSX has.
You literally already can run an x86 or metro app on most windows 8 tablets. And with Metro almost all of the apps already run on ARM and x86-64. Not to mention Windows 8.1 works really well on my tablet and my home desktop. My work machine hasn't been upgraded yet but I just saw that MacDrive now supports Windows 8 so I think it's safe.
When OSX attempts to bridge the gulf between OSX and iOS it's going to run into the exact same challenge that Microsoft has in Windows 8. And like Windows 8 it'll have teething issues. The difference is that Windows has already been at it for over 2 years and it already has a 64 bit ready tablet OS with proven multi-tasking etc. I don't see how Apple is any kind of position to leapfrog Microsoft in development since Microsoft is *already there*.
Google is also well positioned with existing products that allow you to run Google Apps on x86 windows tablets. Intel is also investing a lot of money to port Android over to x86 natively for their phone x86 chips. So while a little behind Microsoft in porting their OS to a desktop environment between Intel's efforts and the Transformer book (which is very much like a desktop/laptop experience) Android could very easily cross over.
Apple could feasibly leapfrog Android if they doubled down on enabling keyboard/mouse input and OSX runtime but they can't by any definition leapfrog Microsoft which has already finished the transition.
I've spent way too much time trying to decypher my own code a year or two later. :D
Documentation isn't even just for other people. I've been trying to update an Python package I wrote last year and I couldn't make heads or tails of its proper usage for a couple days. I even started adding a feature that I felt was obvious and missing until closer inspection at the code reminded me of the intended mechanism to handle that class of scenarios. A simple little 3 line comment with an example or two would have cleared that right up.
I think one thing the author misses is that sometimes something, even something bad is better than nothing. While a wiki certainly can't replace a professional technical writer devoting a full time job to writing documentation--most of the time your choices are between nothing and something unreliable. In the case of documentation I would rather have unreliable information than absolutely nothing at all. With nothing at all often you will have to scour google for an inkling of a hint. Also wikis on languages like PHP offer up if not corrections at least lots of different examples of usage.
Say what you want but Stack Overflow is an amazing resource and essentially a wiki.
Like what? That's the problem I see. If your most employable skill is burger flipping... And we replace that entire class of laborer with automation you have people who are less useful than robots. That's a dangerous situation for a society to be in when there's simply nothing to do for a large segment of the population.
The app economy hasn't opened up more jobs for construction workers. I wrote a program which automated a process that normally was a full time position. That "job" simply doesn't exist in the world any more. Nothing jumped in to take its place. The time to develop it was about a month of development. The number of people to develop accounting software is several orders of magnitude less than all of the accountants in the world.
First of all, that means mostly no apps that make use of 8.1 specific features on launch.
Unless of course... you use the 8.1 preview.
Actually in the case of the toilet seat and hammer examples they were both engineered one-off pieces that had to be carefully designed to meet specific weight and size requirements. Which is to say if you ever make one or two of anything the per-unit cost is astronomical.
Select some feature(s) or bug fix(es) you'd like in a future version, and pay the lead developers to do it for you. Or, some open source projects have lousy manuals--pay them to improve their documentation.
How would the organization then differ from a normal business? This is *precisely* why the IRS has been cracking down on "open source organizations". You call yourself a non-profit organization and then just funnel what amounts to a consulting business.
There is nothing though to stop you from paying the lead developer to improve a project you use. But you would need to pay the developer.
Red Hat for instance isn't a non-profit. And I can see why the IRS would be suspicious of an organization which essentially operates a non-profit to launder a development company through. If they did have $20k to spend, they should have asked for the names of a few contributors and paid them to do something on the Open Source project. "Hey, here is a grant to fix some part of the project, whatever you want."
It was interesting that in the same prediction he was still hedging his bets on whether fiber optic communication would be common. Laser tunnels are strung everywhere and are ubiquitous. So common we don't even use all of them.
$1,500 actually sounds on par with Cable and other broadband initiatives.
When I got wireless internet at my house back in Highschool it was about $900 for the antenna and gateway etc and speeds where nowhere near cable speeds with really high latency.
I'm sure Elon Musk pays his people well.
Actually I hear he notoriously doesn't pay or treat his people well. But if you want to be at the cutting edge and "change the world" you put up with it.
What did he reveal that changed the world? I can't think of any revelations from Manning except for some more details on Nordic politicians that I've never heard of.
Or they want to capture people who think that they are equivalent and pitch to them why they aren't and why VMWare is actually what they need. Just because something isn't equivalent doesn't mean it's not relevant. If you search for "Hotel" it would make sense for homeaway to also advertise its home sharing service. They aren't really the same thing but they are related to someone's need which is shelter. If you are googling openStack you probably are trying to figure out how to virtualize your infrastructure. Surprise surprise, virtualization is something VMWare does.
The "blast radius" is undefined in an enclosed tube.
The low pressure environment in the tube should help since it would be 'repressurizing' the tube.
ts. The only difficult part is expecting the recipients to do the same in reverse and to treat your privacy as seriously as you do. There, you'll need to exercise judgment as to who to trust and with what (just like in every other area of life).
That's the real problem. If you are a 'terrorist' and you attract the 'attention' of the 'NSA' then your email header data will be unencrypted (by necessity). Therefore instead of breaking your encryption they'll just go for the weak link and read the email of whoever you sent an email to.
The other problem is that if you are most likely an "American" then you presumably do have rights assuming they are following the law. In which case the best strategy isn't to obfuscate your activity but to at the very least try and enhance your "Americanness".
If you are sending encrypted files hither thither (enmasse) you're just going to become something very "interesting" and "worth investigation". If you however pretend to be a 14 year old girl in Kansas the NSA will probably leave all of your communication alone due to legal necessity.
So if you're in the Cali or Zeta cartels your best strategy is a fake Facebook profile for an "American" and a VPN to make the origin as American as possible.
Sure it's not as "theoretically" secure as a massive super encrypted communication network... but camouflage is usually more effective in nature than armor.
How is that different from fine folks at Nuremberg?
Well for one if the NSA oversteps its mandate and illegally does something that it's not supposed to do I don't end up gassed.
OMG they collected my meta data. This must be what the Jews felt like!
The problem with "High moral standards" is that everybody has their own standards. For one it might be purging an ethnic group which threatens the moral stability and safety of the "good" guys. For another it might be helping someone cross the road. It's safe to say that unilateral decisions that affect millions shouldn't be something flippantly done. Regardless as to whether or not Manning or Snowden did the "right" thing (and in this case it's FAR from clear), circumventing the legal process because one person feels it's wrong isn't a good way to form a society.
In the case of Manning he simply dumped every classified file he could get his hands on. It had the names of informants in it. It had incredibly sensitive data. Only an extremist ideologue would say that we all should have access to that information. That wasn't a "moral" or "good" action. Yes he uncovered some embarrassing material. But embarrassing is neither illegal nor morally wrong. Even if we accept that Manning uncovered one or two wrong doings--it doesn't give you the right to leak innocent people's conversations along with it. If the NSA had dumped hundreds of thousands of emails of citizens we wouldn't say they were "national heroes". If you have evidence of corruption that doesn't mean you get to publish the private conversations of some poor employee who was just doing their job.
In spite of the summary several of those films are doing fine in the box office and a few hits like Man of Steel more than erase any losses from the others.
I would argue the opposite is true. Snowden claimed he had access to PRISM. But all he had to do was produce a single audio clip of a phone recording from say his Grandma and PRISM would have been dead.
If he had produced a recording of a senator or one of their families there would have been non-stop congressional inquiries into the program.
The fact that through all of this not a single audio clip has been produced tells me that there is in fact pretty good oversight. It's one thing to get a bunch of power point presentations. It's quite another to deliberately abuse the system to prove a point. So either Snowden is a moron (which is plausible considering his decision to flee to Hong Kong and reveal his identity before finding a truly safe sanctuary with verified amnesty) or it's a lot harder to get data on random joe than it's made out to be.
Host $5 website. Post redirect to tumblr. Let google index your $5 website.
Should the federal government have guns? They've misused those. Should the federal government have cars? Police have run over more people than the NSA has wiretapped (I would rather be wiretapped than run over). Should the federal government not be allowed to have computers since the NSA misused them? Should we not perform the census since Hitler used it for evil? Should we not let the police have helicopters?
The NSA has proven that they don't need drones to spy on you. Maybe the federal government should only be able to use horses and parchment.
Do you honestly believe that once establish such surveillance would not be abused?
If you think we shouldn't be able to use technology that can be abused then our police shouldn't have weapons, cars, telephones, bullet proof vests, radios, knifes, handcuffs, computers, ropes, cameras...