To make matters worse, I'm not even supposed to have the time to test things out on our internal network and the pay is low enough that I can't afford to purchase equipment to test at home on my own time....
Honestly, you are better off with a smaller salary if you would spend a raise on the company. The opportunity costs of such an idea are just absurd.
Everybody is "allowed" to use it. Black people who go around calling other black people "niggers" are seen as scum by every black person I have ever met.
However, the devices in TFA, it seems, would bypass (most of) the defenses -- they aren't acting on one of our sense-organs (such as ears), and they aren't acting through chemicals. They go directly to the brain's electrical "circuitry" and I am not at all confident, that circuitry has any protection against that, for it never needed such protection during the body's millions of years of evolution...
The brain is our biggest sense organ.
The point is that drugs provide localized effects, and habituation is the result of neurons being overstimulated. The neurons that respond to the neurons the drug affects stop paying so much attention to the overactive neurons.
Electronic stimulation isn't going to stop that fact. If you stimulate a neuron, the ones it connects to will eventually stop responding as strongly. If you try to get around it by stimulating them, you end up in an induction argument. The ones that listen to them won't listen as actively. If you want to completely override this defense, you need to stimulate the entire brain (which is a bad idea...)
If we're going to whine about our tax payer dollars getting wasted by NORAD, we should just complain that they're pretending to track a fictional UFO so that precocious kids won't go on the internet and realize their parents are lying to them.
Serving up a dynamic KML file is easier than programming the Google Earth API. I won't claim that NORAD has gone out of its way to not support Linux. But they have gone out of their way, and they don't "support" Linux.
Absolutely. I'd use Python and Qt myself. But if you wanted to write a native app for Windows and you didn't HAVE Windows (or didn't care to be subjected to it), what would you use?
I'd shell out for a copy of Windows...
See, MONO is years behind.NET, and.NET is developing very quickly. When was LINQ introduced? 2007 or so? That's a fantastic tool, and the only tool I have seen like it is HaskellDB (which inspired LINQ, and was written by the same Eric Meijer)
So what are my options for high level programming? MS.NET research languages like F#, or open source (MIT/BSD) Haskell? As it stands, I am working with Linux and Haskell. Typed functional programming is too productive to ignore. Unfortunately, it seems that MS is the only provider of a modern, production quality functional programming language for "desktop/GUI" use. (Yes, there are a BUNCH of Schemes and Lisps. And they each have fewer users than Haskell or ML) Unless thousands of programmers join up and start producing high quality functional code, Microsoft is going to pull away very quickly (basically, it already has).
Sure, there's Python. I don't want to start ranting about Python. Let me just note that Python's list notation is only vaguely and tangentially related to Haskell's monad comprehension notation, and Python's list comprehension notation is a lot less useful than full blown monad comprehensions. (Despite the claims of the Python users... the whole point of a monadic computation is that you can sequence by concatenating another step. How do you sequence Python list functors? Nesting. Or unnecessary variables. Python doesn't offer a normal form for list, let alone monadic computations) Never mind that they didn't bother to write map and join as a functor on lists... The developers' attitudes are pretty bad, too. Far too arrogant considering how little they know about computation (i.e. mathematics) and its practice.
Ruby is significantly better about this kind of stuff. But is still only "cross-POSIX" (like Haskell, Python, Perl, etc) without extensions (again, like the others).
That's 200 degrees, even HOTTER than McDonalds. In a a HOME coffee maker.
Coffee might be brewed at 200 degrees, but coffee isn't served at 200 degrees. It is too hot to drink about about 180F. 190F will cause first and second degree burns.
You will also notice that your home coffee maker will slowly drip, and that the liquid previously collected will give off heat, even while more liquid collects.
I can tell you that I regularly brew coffee at 95C or so, with a press pot. It takes four to five minutes before the boiling water becomes extremely hot coffee. And a few minutes after that before it can even be drank, at 80C or so.
Whereas your home coffee maker lets coffee slowly cool, McDonalds was reheating their coffee to 200F, and serving that.
Hell, beer is brewed above 212 degrees. Do you drink your beer that hot? (I should hope not. But it illustrates the fallacy of equating brewing and serving temperatures)
The EULA might be irrelevant, depending on the specifics of the case. In particular, there is a notion of an "implied warranty", that no EULA can break.
In common law jurisdictions, an implied warranty is a contract law term for certain assurances that are presumed to be made in the sale of products or real property, due to the circumstances of the sale. These assurances are characterized as warranties irrespective of whether the seller has expressly promised them orally or in writing. They include an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, an implied warranty of merchantability for products, implied warranty of workmanlike quality for services, and an implied warranty of habitability for a home.... An implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is a warranty implied by law that if a seller knows or has reason to know of a particular purpose for which some item is being purchased by the buyer, the seller is guaranteeing that the item is fit for that particular purpose.
There's hardly any difference between the two. The only question is which hooks Apache normally calls, and which hooks the mod_p*'s call. You can easily fold in, say, URL re-writing into a PHP module if you really wanted.
It's sad how expensive bad pizza is, too. For only a dollar or two more, you can get a "local" pizza. Managers seem to love Pizza Hut and Domino's for some reason. At least in my experience.
Because I don't like QuickTime, and I don't want to use FrontRow to view a video in the corner of my enormous peni--screen while I do some work or reading. VLC's user interface is significantly better than QuickTime's. And I have four gigabytes of ram. I can afford to keep VLC running at all times.
Perian is a good product, and I was using it with FrontRow until I switched to Boxee.
MPlayer uses the freshest version of ffmpeg at any given time, since the MPlayer developers develop ffmpeg. VLC lags a bit. But VLC has a significantly better UI, so I stick to that as much as possible (which is pretty much for every video I open, at this point)
And let's not forget that people still actively maintain and back port to the 2.4 kernel line. That's got to be at least 8 years old now, right? So even an "eight year old" distro could potentially support up-to-date hardware via rolling updates.
I've been reading at -1 for many years now. The +5 comments are not usually any better than the -1 Trolls. -1 Flamebaits can be significantly more informative than +5 informatives.
The world trade center wasn't blown up. Two airliners jets were flown into it. It's was such a shocking event because before this no one even considered the idea.
That's just bullshit. Google for "Bojinka", a plot to crash planes into strategic targets Al Qaeda was known to be planning since 1992 or so. Indeed, Ramzi Yousef was the ringleader. The FBI and the CIA knew about this plot. Sound familiar?
There's already a known solution for the Somalia piracy problem. Europe needs to control its mafias, so that they stop dumping toxic waste in Somali waters. Europe also needs to reign in its fisheries, which are illegally trawling off of Somalia. Between these, there's no fish left for Somali fishermen. The vast majority of pirates are hungry fishermen.
It doesn't matter since in this case, the people this guy works for asked for the passwords.
His boss asked for the passwords. His boss was not entitled to the passwords, under the City of San Francisco's policy. Ergo, Childs did not give his boss the passwords. And was fired. And sent to jail. (This is, of course, after he did give the passwords to somebody he was entitled to -- the MAYOR -- under City of SF policy)
You cant have capitalism and arbitrary settings of price.
Why yes, you can. Capitalism is about financing businesses. If you raise capital, and make a mathematically sound bet with it, you are a capitalist. Capitalism has nothing to do with what the sound bets actually are. Investing in a natural monopoly is a smart move. And investing in a market with arbitrarily fixed prices can in fact be a mathematically sound bet.
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Hint: Just because he's called "Saint Nick" does not mean the Pope has recognized him.
Ugh. Look up Saint Nicholas of Myra. The Pope recognized Saint Nick about 1000 years ago.
To make matters worse, I'm not even supposed to have the time to test things out on our internal network and the pay is low enough that I can't afford to purchase equipment to test at home on my own time. ...
Honestly, you are better off with a smaller salary if you would spend a raise on the company. The opportunity costs of such an idea are just absurd.
Everybody is "allowed" to use it. Black people who go around calling other black people "niggers" are seen as scum by every black person I have ever met.
However, the devices in TFA, it seems, would bypass (most of) the defenses -- they aren't acting on one of our sense-organs (such as ears), and they aren't acting through chemicals. They go directly to the brain's electrical "circuitry" and I am not at all confident, that circuitry has any protection against that, for it never needed such protection during the body's millions of years of evolution...
The brain is our biggest sense organ.
The point is that drugs provide localized effects, and habituation is the result of neurons being overstimulated. The neurons that respond to the neurons the drug affects stop paying so much attention to the overactive neurons.
Electronic stimulation isn't going to stop that fact. If you stimulate a neuron, the ones it connects to will eventually stop responding as strongly. If you try to get around it by stimulating them, you end up in an induction argument. The ones that listen to them won't listen as actively. If you want to completely override this defense, you need to stimulate the entire brain (which is a bad idea...)
If we're going to whine about our tax payer dollars getting wasted by NORAD, we should just complain that they're pretending to track a fictional UFO so that precocious kids won't go on the internet and realize their parents are lying to them.
Serving up a dynamic KML file is easier than programming the Google Earth API. I won't claim that NORAD has gone out of its way to not support Linux. But they have gone out of their way, and they don't "support" Linux.
You're a few hundred decades behind...
Absolutely. I'd use Python and Qt myself. But if you wanted to write a native app for Windows and you didn't HAVE Windows (or didn't care to be subjected to it), what would you use?
I'd shell out for a copy of Windows...
See, MONO is years behind .NET, and .NET is developing very quickly. When was LINQ introduced? 2007 or so? That's a fantastic tool, and the only tool I have seen like it is HaskellDB (which inspired LINQ, and was written by the same Eric Meijer)
So what are my options for high level programming? MS .NET research languages like F#, or open source (MIT/BSD) Haskell? As it stands, I am working with Linux and Haskell. Typed functional programming is too productive to ignore. Unfortunately, it seems that MS is the only provider of a modern, production quality functional programming language for "desktop/GUI" use. (Yes, there are a BUNCH of Schemes and Lisps. And they each have fewer users than Haskell or ML) Unless thousands of programmers join up and start producing high quality functional code, Microsoft is going to pull away very quickly (basically, it already has).
Sure, there's Python. I don't want to start ranting about Python. Let me just note that Python's list notation is only vaguely and tangentially related to Haskell's monad comprehension notation, and Python's list comprehension notation is a lot less useful than full blown monad comprehensions. (Despite the claims of the Python users... the whole point of a monadic computation is that you can sequence by concatenating another step. How do you sequence Python list functors? Nesting. Or unnecessary variables. Python doesn't offer a normal form for list, let alone monadic computations) Never mind that they didn't bother to write map and join as a functor on lists... The developers' attitudes are pretty bad, too. Far too arrogant considering how little they know about computation (i.e. mathematics) and its practice.
Ruby is significantly better about this kind of stuff. But is still only "cross-POSIX" (like Haskell, Python, Perl, etc) without extensions (again, like the others).
There's no significant difference between emulation and implementation of an abstract construct...
What is the "w-word"?
That's 200 degrees, even HOTTER than McDonalds. In a a HOME coffee maker.
Coffee might be brewed at 200 degrees, but coffee isn't served at 200 degrees. It is too hot to drink about about 180F. 190F will cause first and second degree burns.
You will also notice that your home coffee maker will slowly drip, and that the liquid previously collected will give off heat, even while more liquid collects.
I can tell you that I regularly brew coffee at 95C or so, with a press pot. It takes four to five minutes before the boiling water becomes extremely hot coffee. And a few minutes after that before it can even be drank, at 80C or so.
Whereas your home coffee maker lets coffee slowly cool, McDonalds was reheating their coffee to 200F, and serving that.
Hell, beer is brewed above 212 degrees. Do you drink your beer that hot? (I should hope not. But it illustrates the fallacy of equating brewing and serving temperatures)
The EULA might be irrelevant, depending on the specifics of the case. In particular, there is a notion of an "implied warranty", that no EULA can break.
There's hardly any difference between the two. The only question is which hooks Apache normally calls, and which hooks the mod_p*'s call. You can easily fold in, say, URL re-writing into a PHP module if you really wanted.
It's sad how expensive bad pizza is, too. For only a dollar or two more, you can get a "local" pizza. Managers seem to love Pizza Hut and Domino's for some reason. At least in my experience.
Yes, there's an 87% success rate (according to the article), but how many people are actually doing that analysis?
Just about anybody involved in the Netflix challenge... that's the whole point. A competition for effective data mining methods.
Because I don't like QuickTime, and I don't want to use FrontRow to view a video in the corner of my enormous peni--screen while I do some work or reading. VLC's user interface is significantly better than QuickTime's. And I have four gigabytes of ram. I can afford to keep VLC running at all times.
Perian is a good product, and I was using it with FrontRow until I switched to Boxee.
MPlayer uses the freshest version of ffmpeg at any given time, since the MPlayer developers develop ffmpeg. VLC lags a bit. But VLC has a significantly better UI, so I stick to that as much as possible (which is pretty much for every video I open, at this point)
Nope. Mac users care. Mac users did open source.
And let's not forget that people still actively maintain and back port to the 2.4 kernel line. That's got to be at least 8 years old now, right? So even an "eight year old" distro could potentially support up-to-date hardware via rolling updates.
I've been reading at -1 for many years now. The +5 comments are not usually any better than the -1 Trolls. -1 Flamebaits can be significantly more informative than +5 informatives.
The world trade center wasn't blown up. Two airliners jets were flown into it. It's was such a shocking event because before this no one even considered the idea.
That's just bullshit. Google for "Bojinka", a plot to crash planes into strategic targets Al Qaeda was known to be planning since 1992 or so. Indeed, Ramzi Yousef was the ringleader. The FBI and the CIA knew about this plot. Sound familiar?
He wasn't being sarcastic. You just missed his point entirely.
There's already a known solution for the Somalia piracy problem. Europe needs to control its mafias, so that they stop dumping toxic waste in Somali waters. Europe also needs to reign in its fisheries, which are illegally trawling off of Somalia. Between these, there's no fish left for Somali fishermen. The vast majority of pirates are hungry fishermen.
You call that "tricky"? Sounds trivially easy to me.
It doesn't matter since in this case, the people this guy works for asked for the passwords.
His boss asked for the passwords. His boss was not entitled to the passwords, under the City of San Francisco's policy. Ergo, Childs did not give his boss the passwords. And was fired. And sent to jail. (This is, of course, after he did give the passwords to somebody he was entitled to -- the MAYOR -- under City of SF policy)
You cant have capitalism and arbitrary settings of price.
Why yes, you can. Capitalism is about financing businesses. If you raise capital, and make a mathematically sound bet with it, you are a capitalist. Capitalism has nothing to do with what the sound bets actually are. Investing in a natural monopoly is a smart move. And investing in a market with arbitrarily fixed prices can in fact be a mathematically sound bet.