I usually dont do this. But reading the comments here has somewhat frustrated me as you are not alone in not having read the article. It is quite clear if you read it that they were not searching for the subs. They knew exactly where they were. The Navy was interested in having the reactors of the subs inspected for safety and also seeing if they could get any further information.
I once recall a story(not sure how true) about Robert Heinlein being tired of being asked "how do I become a writer?". His answer was always along the lines of Write something. Finish it. Sent it to a publisher and see if they will publish it. Repeat.
The law and regulations are often a bit behind the times. Im working on a system here that makes use of the new Direct Debit laws here in the UK. They have only recently been updated to allow people the have paperless direct debits set up online. A few years ago you had to send out a form for the customer to sign. The new system is much nicer:)
SO where are the Credit Card companies in all this. Surely their ass in on the line for fraudulent use of leaked CC information. I would think VISA and Mastercard could step in and insist that this company clean up its security or else disallow payments originating from them.
Yes. And as a strong firefox supporter/user I kinda wish that would stop happening. Ive notice ff seems particularly guilty of oscillating between version with memory instability and not. To be all judgmental Id say it points to a problem in testing and release control. Obe of the primarily thing I think most people want in software is stability(I more than prepared to put up with rendering bugs etc.. but if the browser eat a gig of RAM for no reason and dies Im kinda disappointed).
While I agree to a certain extent I still wouldnt like to see all the "LiSUX is crap and WINDOES is teh roolzor!!!1!" posts being +5. Maybe the could be modded "-1 retarded"?
Yeah I agree with that... but you could always have a scheme where say the software switches off if the battery gets down to 50% for example. For the end user it would be an option of sacrificing features such as battery life versus price. Or maybe it only switches on when the phone is plugged into a charger.
This makes me wonder... could a mobile phone company sell mesh/grid computing power? Lets say you have a special contract with the telco where for a cheaper plan they have the right to download data and crunch it when your phone is not in use.
SOmeone has made the point a few posts down from me but I would also like to make the point that Americans seem to misunderstand a lot of the reasons for migration of religious groups from Europe to the New World in the 16/17 hundreds. When people like, for example, the Puritans say they were "persecuted" they mean that they could not convince the powers that be to implement their way of thinking upon the masses.
And also are you surprised that the Pope is telling people the become Catholic. He does that all the time. Feel free to ignore the old fool.
I wonder why so many speakers use French as a second language?
Its fairly obvious. Colonialism. French and English are very popular as a second core language in many places in Africa and SE asia etc becuase they used to be former colonial possessions of the British and French empires. Russian is a popular second language because it was taught as a mandatory course in former soviet satellite states. And you see Spanish and Portuguese pop up due to being former world powers in the Americas and elsewhere.
This is going to show my age, but I recall the same argument for MS Visual C/C++ versus Borland. I was one of the Borland people... if youll excuse me I have to get back to Visual Studio 2008:)
Im an Australian by birth and live in the UK so I generally use either dd/mm/yyyy(Au and Uk standard) or yyyy/mm/dd when dealing with software sometimes... I have cultural bias also:)
Flash also supports H.264. I work on an open source server side transcoder engine based on openlibraries... the demand is all for flash... I can transcode to just about anything you like... but all the punters want is flash:(
Your cultural bias is showing... the placement of the currency symbol varies from country to country... would you write -$123 or $-123? Ask a Swede about that one. If I have to put up with dealing with silly American date formats then other have to put up with the quircks of other countries:)
THats sounds a lot for my cunning credit card scheme. I keep getting these paper spams claiming I can get a credit card with "unlimited" credit. Im tempted to get one and then use my "unlimited" credit to purchase the credit card company. My first act as owner would be to write off my own debt.
Hey. First Im not an American so the whole benefits thing is I assume medical. I dont have to worry about that even as a permie. Second Id *never* go thru another company as a contractor. Thats not really contracting IMHO. Im an independent contractor and I dont put up with crap like that. Permies say jump? I mean honestly... permies say lots of things:) Just to reemphasis... Im a contractor... not someone being contracted out by someone else... you may as well be a permie in that case.
Amen fellow contractor. Havent looked back. I actually feel sorry for the permies in some of the companies Ive worked in... since becoming a contractor I also feel so much more relaxed... and in face empowered. The money I make is up to me making the money. I dont usually have to put up with as much politics. And if I want to leave for something different I do so with much less guilt... After all Im just a contractor to most organisations:)
Good point. One thing that also bugs me a little after reading TFA is that even tho a new technology may be adopted by all competitors it is not always evenly and consistently adopted. Some competitors utilise new technologies better than others. The IT world is full of examples of this. Technology is not the key... it is how *people* *use* and *implement* technology that drives up productivity.
Im not an astrophysicist but surely we can observe the spectra and orbital behaviour of stars 100 light year away and see that they observe local physical laws. I would think anyone who could show that the laws of physics were different in a different part of the universe would be given a lot more grant money than anyone else to be honest. I would say that assuming the laws are the same everywhere until proven otherwise is pretty sound.
You seem to think that faith in a reasonable assumption is someone similar to religious faith or something... a good scientist should, I think, have "faith" in a reasonable looking assumption until proven otherwise. A person with religious faith will not generally change their position even if the evidence is overwhelmingly against them.
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I usually dont do this. But reading the comments here has somewhat frustrated me as you are not alone in not having read the article. It is quite clear if you read it that they were not searching for the subs. They knew exactly where they were. The Navy was interested in having the reactors of the subs inspected for safety and also seeing if they could get any further information.
I once recall a story(not sure how true) about Robert Heinlein being tired of being asked "how do I become a writer?". His answer was always along the lines of Write something. Finish it. Sent it to a publisher and see if they will publish it. Repeat.
The law and regulations are often a bit behind the times. Im working on a system here that makes use of the new Direct Debit laws here in the UK. They have only recently been updated to allow people the have paperless direct debits set up online. A few years ago you had to send out a form for the customer to sign. The new system is much nicer :)
SO where are the Credit Card companies in all this. Surely their ass in on the line for fraudulent use of leaked CC information. I would think VISA and Mastercard could step in and insist that this company clean up its security or else disallow payments originating from them.
Yes. And as a strong firefox supporter/user I kinda wish that would stop happening. Ive notice ff seems particularly guilty of oscillating between version with memory instability and not. To be all judgmental Id say it points to a problem in testing and release control. Obe of the primarily thing I think most people want in software is stability(I more than prepared to put up with rendering bugs etc.. but if the browser eat a gig of RAM for no reason and dies Im kinda disappointed).
Still sounds a lot more fun than being a middle manager in some fortune 500 that has to let you go cause they bought some dodgy debt in the US.
Wild almonds are also natural. Its just that one wild almond can cntain enough cyanide to kill you.
While I agree to a certain extent I still wouldnt like to see all the "LiSUX is crap and WINDOES is teh roolzor!!!1!" posts being +5. Maybe the could be modded "-1 retarded"?
Yeah I agree with that... but you could always have a scheme where say the software switches off if the battery gets down to 50% for example. For the end user it would be an option of sacrificing features such as battery life versus price. Or maybe it only switches on when the phone is plugged into a charger.
This makes me wonder... could a mobile phone company sell mesh/grid computing power? Lets say you have a special contract with the telco where for a cheaper plan they have the right to download data and crunch it when your phone is not in use.
Well he did run over my puppy as a child...
100 years ago we didn't have the weird idea that eating an animal was a tragedy
Who is *we* exactly?
Jainism
SOmeone has made the point a few posts down from me but I would also like to make the point that Americans seem to misunderstand a lot of the reasons for migration of religious groups from Europe to the New World in the 16/17 hundreds. When people like, for example, the Puritans say they were "persecuted" they mean that they could not convince the powers that be to implement their way of thinking upon the masses.
And also are you surprised that the Pope is telling people the become Catholic. He does that all the time. Feel free to ignore the old fool.
I wonder why so many speakers use French as a second language?
Its fairly obvious. Colonialism. French and English are very popular as a second core language in many places in Africa and SE asia etc becuase they used to be former colonial possessions of the British and French empires. Russian is a popular second language because it was taught as a mandatory course in former soviet satellite states. And you see Spanish and Portuguese pop up due to being former world powers in the Americas and elsewhere.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Nine Billion Names Of God
RIP ACC - Last of the big three.
This is going to show my age, but I recall the same argument for MS Visual C/C++ versus Borland. I was one of the Borland people... if youll excuse me I have to get back to Visual Studio 2008 :)
Im an Australian by birth and live in the UK so I generally use either dd/mm/yyyy(Au and Uk standard) or yyyy/mm/dd when dealing with software sometimes... I have cultural bias also :)
Flash also supports H.264. I work on an open source server side transcoder engine based on openlibraries... the demand is all for flash... I can transcode to just about anything you like... but all the punters want is flash :(
$ comes BEFORE the monetary value
:)
Your cultural bias is showing... the placement of the currency symbol varies from country to country... would you write -$123 or $-123? Ask a Swede about that one. If I have to put up with dealing with silly American date formats then other have to put up with the quircks of other countries
THats sounds a lot for my cunning credit card scheme. I keep getting these paper spams claiming I can get a credit card with "unlimited" credit. Im tempted to get one and then use my "unlimited" credit to purchase the credit card company. My first act as owner would be to write off my own debt.
Hey. First Im not an American so the whole benefits thing is I assume medical. I dont have to worry about that even as a permie. Second Id *never* go thru another company as a contractor. Thats not really contracting IMHO. Im an independent contractor and I dont put up with crap like that. Permies say jump? I mean honestly... permies say lots of things :) Just to reemphasis... Im a contractor... not someone being contracted out by someone else... you may as well be a permie in that case.
Amen fellow contractor. Havent looked back. I actually feel sorry for the permies in some of the companies Ive worked in... since becoming a contractor I also feel so much more relaxed... and in face empowered. The money I make is up to me making the money. I dont usually have to put up with as much politics. And if I want to leave for something different I do so with much less guilt... After all Im just a contractor to most organisations :)
Good point. One thing that also bugs me a little after reading TFA is that even tho a new technology may be adopted by all competitors it is not always evenly and consistently adopted. Some competitors utilise new technologies better than others. The IT world is full of examples of this. Technology is not the key... it is how *people* *use* and *implement* technology that drives up productivity.
Im not an astrophysicist but surely we can observe the spectra and orbital behaviour of stars 100 light year away and see that they observe local physical laws. I would think anyone who could show that the laws of physics were different in a different part of the universe would be given a lot more grant money than anyone else to be honest. I would say that assuming the laws are the same everywhere until proven otherwise is pretty sound.
You seem to think that faith in a reasonable assumption is someone similar to religious faith or something... a good scientist should, I think, have "faith" in a reasonable looking assumption until proven otherwise. A person with religious faith will not generally change their position even if the evidence is overwhelmingly against them.
I hope our universe has a damn good SLA and disaster recovery plan.