What's there to worry about? In a few years groundwater will be rendered toxic and everybody can move somewhere else on the Federal government's dime. It really has evolved into a "oil at all costs" situation.
A good thing for the "community" would be if the library was cleaned up. Speeding up a trainwreck only makes the end result that much more catastrophic.
Which means it won't be. PHP has taken hold, and good, bad or ugly, we're stuck with it. There's no phasing it in anything like the short or even medium term. LAMP is everywhere, and countless sites are built on it. It's like COBOL, a bad dream that will keep terrifying us even as better languages flicker and die.
PHP is like BASIC. In the right hands it can certainly produce just as readable and maintainable code as any other language, but the short learning curve to get to first base invites people with little or no discipline, or often enough, without any underpinnings at all, to write absolute garbage. Worse, this code often ends up being the core of some important infrastructure, and then some poor yob (I was one for several months) has the unlucky job of trying to maintain this garbage. And because the php.ini file allows you turn on all the worst aspects of the language, you end up having to do just that just to keep the damned code running while you try to clean it up.
Oh yes, and apart from the issues I have with the language itself, it has just a plain awful library, with inconsistencies throughout that mean I spend as much time perusing the docs as I do actually coding anything.
Between these two factors, I have to say I hate PHP, but still find myself all too often being forced to deal with it.
A little scary for us, as we have precisely one 1TB drive on the shelf right now. One of our notebooks had its drive go south, and I had to rob an old 80gb from a dead notebook. Still, I'm holding out. I don't particularly feel like paying three times or more what they were worth a few months ago.
I'm hopefully going to get some budget for some custom routers and I'll be going with SSDs so my next project won't be impacted.
It's yet another attack surface, and what's the point? Silverlight is hardly some uber-successful technology, and most developers want to get out of the hell produced by these kinds frameworks.
Silverlight is a bit player at best. Nobody actually gives a crap, and everyone's praying for Flash to die as it is, and certainly not going to jump on some other plugin's bandwagon.
Still, I'm thinking that in cases of gross negligence, stripping away corporate personhood and limited liability and making shareholders pay directly would certainly increase shareholder vigilance over the going's on of companies they're investing in. Imagine if BP's shareholders were directly sent a bill in proportion to the size of the Gulf cleanup. I'm thinking BP shareholders would probably be a bit more proactive in assuring the company management behaved themselves.
I notice you didn't answer the question. Do you think Bayer would have the right to re-patent ASA just because they introduced a low dose version, but otherwise chemically identical in every single way to an Aspirin tablet you'd take for a headache, because the active compound can reduce risk of stroke and heart attack?
Needless to say, Iranian civilization ain't what it used to be. This a major oil producing country with such inept leadership that they have to import refined fuels.
If the drug already exists, then no, I don't think it's "worth something". Do you think Bayer would have been justified in seeking a new patent on ASA if it's dosage is heavily reduced and used to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes?
You're saying pulling from CRLs requires that many more megabytes?
Let's be blunt here. Adobe Reader is an obscene piece of bloatware, packaged with all sorts of worthless cruft like the absolutely moronic download manager. I suspect that software developers who were actually interested in delivering a decent product rather than trying to push their vast library of even more bloated applications would try a little harder to bring the size of things down, if for no other reason than an abiding sense of shame at releasing such a gawdawful huge monster.
Considering WIMPs are by their nature, if they exist, hard to detect, I'm not sure what your point is. Tossing out GR is not the simplest explanation, it is by far the most complex.
The way you've written your post, I can't even blame you for knowing why cosmologists believe Dark Matter exists. It wasn't just invented out of thin air to explain a problem. Dark Matter, whatever it is, has certain effects identical, gravitionally, to any other matter. Since General Relativity has done such a damned good job up until now explaining a good deal of what we see when we look at a telescope, I'm curious as to your justification for throwing it out on the street because we have found indirect evidence for another type of matter.
Until we've eliminated all possibilities, isn't the proper thing to do to follow the most parsimonious explanation and stick with the prediction of some weakly-interacting matter than to simply throw out a century's worth of physics?
Yup. Theories trying to handwave dark matter seem to pop up about once a month these days, and each and every time they seem to be in some sort of timewarp from before recent observations.
Come on, you lazy ass cosmologist-wannabes, read the flippin' literature before you try to declare "I've got rid of dark matter!"
Those are not really equatable situations. We're talking about long-term exposure to a level of gravity nearly two and a half times what every system in our body has evolved to.
I have a feeling that they couldn't for very long. It's one thing to endure high G stress for a few minutes to get accelerate to high velocities, but for long periods of time? I can well imagine that being subject to 2.4g for days or weeks would probably lead to all sorts of nasty physiological effects. I'll wager your heart would be heavily stressed, and there would be a tendency for blood to pool.
The problem is ultimately that Firefox was out-Firefoxed. Chrome is what Firefox was in its beginning, a pretty small and basic web browser without all the cruft. Part of the issue to my mind, or at least why I abandoned Firefox was simply that the developers refused to fix long-standing bugs, and basically began to ignore the community that used the browser. So far as I'm concerned, IE and Chrome have left Firefox behind.
Avatar had a billion dollars thrown at it. Of course it was going to look good. The problem is that to make a film that looks that good with CGI you have to spend a LOT of money, and for a lot of producers, CGI is about saving costs by swinging it to post-production where a few geeks sit around and design visuals, rather than an army of set makers and model makers usually taking months in pre-production before filming even begins.
Ug. It's this sort of "demographic focus group" mentality that has delivered us the Hollywood we see today. Few people within the Hollywood system are brave enough to make a story for a story's sake. About the only big time directors that do are Clint Eastwood and Terry Gilliam, and both of them have to go hat in hand to get financing while some jackass like Michael Bay has money dropped into his hands in big piles.
I wish more film makers would outright ignore notions like demographics. All demographics delivers you is the same film made thirty times or more.
Yup. 2001 is still breathtaking. I wish they'd put it in some theaters again, because I'd love to see it on the big screen. The shots of the shuttle docking have never been matched in my opinion. That a film made four decades ago still pretty much stands as the best visually crafted sci-fi film says a lot for Kubrick and his set and model designers.
If Bush had acted like Hitler, the 2000 election would have been the last one. If there was electoral fraud it wouldn't be the first, and some of the most notorious instances in US history have been in Democrat-controlled areas.
Even within the two parties there are wide differences of opinion. The two US parties would be considered in most parliamentary systems to be stable permanent coalitions. The two parties cover so much ideological ground they are effectively four or five parties in terms of Westminster styled political systems.
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What's there to worry about? In a few years groundwater will be rendered toxic and everybody can move somewhere else on the Federal government's dime. It really has evolved into a "oil at all costs" situation.
.. run by psychopaths.
A good thing for the "community" would be if the library was cleaned up. Speeding up a trainwreck only makes the end result that much more catastrophic.
Which means it won't be. PHP has taken hold, and good, bad or ugly, we're stuck with it. There's no phasing it in anything like the short or even medium term. LAMP is everywhere, and countless sites are built on it. It's like COBOL, a bad dream that will keep terrifying us even as better languages flicker and die.
PHP is like BASIC. In the right hands it can certainly produce just as readable and maintainable code as any other language, but the short learning curve to get to first base invites people with little or no discipline, or often enough, without any underpinnings at all, to write absolute garbage. Worse, this code often ends up being the core of some important infrastructure, and then some poor yob (I was one for several months) has the unlucky job of trying to maintain this garbage. And because the php.ini file allows you turn on all the worst aspects of the language, you end up having to do just that just to keep the damned code running while you try to clean it up.
Oh yes, and apart from the issues I have with the language itself, it has just a plain awful library, with inconsistencies throughout that mean I spend as much time perusing the docs as I do actually coding anything.
Between these two factors, I have to say I hate PHP, but still find myself all too often being forced to deal with it.
A little scary for us, as we have precisely one 1TB drive on the shelf right now. One of our notebooks had its drive go south, and I had to rob an old 80gb from a dead notebook. Still, I'm holding out. I don't particularly feel like paying three times or more what they were worth a few months ago.
I'm hopefully going to get some budget for some custom routers and I'll be going with SSDs so my next project won't be impacted.
It's yet another attack surface, and what's the point? Silverlight is hardly some uber-successful technology, and most developers want to get out of the hell produced by these kinds frameworks.
Silverlight is a bit player at best. Nobody actually gives a crap, and everyone's praying for Flash to die as it is, and certainly not going to jump on some other plugin's bandwagon.
Still, I'm thinking that in cases of gross negligence, stripping away corporate personhood and limited liability and making shareholders pay directly would certainly increase shareholder vigilance over the going's on of companies they're investing in. Imagine if BP's shareholders were directly sent a bill in proportion to the size of the Gulf cleanup. I'm thinking BP shareholders would probably be a bit more proactive in assuring the company management behaved themselves.
I notice you didn't answer the question. Do you think Bayer would have the right to re-patent ASA just because they introduced a low dose version, but otherwise chemically identical in every single way to an Aspirin tablet you'd take for a headache, because the active compound can reduce risk of stroke and heart attack?
Needless to say, Iranian civilization ain't what it used to be. This a major oil producing country with such inept leadership that they have to import refined fuels.
Persia's high point was a long time ago.
If the drug already exists, then no, I don't think it's "worth something". Do you think Bayer would have been justified in seeking a new patent on ASA if it's dosage is heavily reduced and used to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes?
Egon, is that you?
You're saying pulling from CRLs requires that many more megabytes?
Let's be blunt here. Adobe Reader is an obscene piece of bloatware, packaged with all sorts of worthless cruft like the absolutely moronic download manager. I suspect that software developers who were actually interested in delivering a decent product rather than trying to push their vast library of even more bloated applications would try a little harder to bring the size of things down, if for no other reason than an abiding sense of shame at releasing such a gawdawful huge monster.
Considering WIMPs are by their nature, if they exist, hard to detect, I'm not sure what your point is. Tossing out GR is not the simplest explanation, it is by far the most complex.
As to your last paragraph, well fuck you too.
The way you've written your post, I can't even blame you for knowing why cosmologists believe Dark Matter exists. It wasn't just invented out of thin air to explain a problem. Dark Matter, whatever it is, has certain effects identical, gravitionally, to any other matter. Since General Relativity has done such a damned good job up until now explaining a good deal of what we see when we look at a telescope, I'm curious as to your justification for throwing it out on the street because we have found indirect evidence for another type of matter.
Until we've eliminated all possibilities, isn't the proper thing to do to follow the most parsimonious explanation and stick with the prediction of some weakly-interacting matter than to simply throw out a century's worth of physics?
Yup. Theories trying to handwave dark matter seem to pop up about once a month these days, and each and every time they seem to be in some sort of timewarp from before recent observations.
Come on, you lazy ass cosmologist-wannabes, read the flippin' literature before you try to declare "I've got rid of dark matter!"
Those are not really equatable situations. We're talking about long-term exposure to a level of gravity nearly two and a half times what every system in our body has evolved to.
I have a feeling that they couldn't for very long. It's one thing to endure high G stress for a few minutes to get accelerate to high velocities, but for long periods of time? I can well imagine that being subject to 2.4g for days or weeks would probably lead to all sorts of nasty physiological effects. I'll wager your heart would be heavily stressed, and there would be a tendency for blood to pool.
The problem is ultimately that Firefox was out-Firefoxed. Chrome is what Firefox was in its beginning, a pretty small and basic web browser without all the cruft. Part of the issue to my mind, or at least why I abandoned Firefox was simply that the developers refused to fix long-standing bugs, and basically began to ignore the community that used the browser. So far as I'm concerned, IE and Chrome have left Firefox behind.
Avatar had a billion dollars thrown at it. Of course it was going to look good. The problem is that to make a film that looks that good with CGI you have to spend a LOT of money, and for a lot of producers, CGI is about saving costs by swinging it to post-production where a few geeks sit around and design visuals, rather than an army of set makers and model makers usually taking months in pre-production before filming even begins.
Ug. It's this sort of "demographic focus group" mentality that has delivered us the Hollywood we see today. Few people within the Hollywood system are brave enough to make a story for a story's sake. About the only big time directors that do are Clint Eastwood and Terry Gilliam, and both of them have to go hat in hand to get financing while some jackass like Michael Bay has money dropped into his hands in big piles.
I wish more film makers would outright ignore notions like demographics. All demographics delivers you is the same film made thirty times or more.
Yup. 2001 is still breathtaking. I wish they'd put it in some theaters again, because I'd love to see it on the big screen. The shots of the shuttle docking have never been matched in my opinion. That a film made four decades ago still pretty much stands as the best visually crafted sci-fi film says a lot for Kubrick and his set and model designers.
If Bush had acted like Hitler, the 2000 election would have been the last one. If there was electoral fraud it wouldn't be the first, and some of the most notorious instances in US history have been in Democrat-controlled areas.
Even within the two parties there are wide differences of opinion. The two US parties would be considered in most parliamentary systems to be stable permanent coalitions. The two parties cover so much ideological ground they are effectively four or five parties in terms of Westminster styled political systems.