Well at least with my US dollars I can use then to pay taxes to the US government which in turn gives me all sorts of great things. I don't think you can exchange your bitcoins back to your GPU to get back more processing power.
K&R was a great documentation in the days where it worked best to have a book next to the keyboard - Just the function reference saved me plenty of time.
I'd say a more modern equivalent is with PHP. Sure the language isn't that great - it has all sorts of weird quirks and inconsistencies- but the documentation is exceptional. Almost all of the pages have a good description, an example, links to related functions, and a comment area where other people can extend it. There's no way PHP would have become as popular with documentation like Java
Of course I wish the original data was available, and the scientists should have made a better effort to make sure the raw materials were still around.
On the other hand, I can understand why they might get rid of boxes of data that had long since been processed after no one looking at them. It's not like anyone wanted to look at the data until they heard it was gone.
I agree, you shouldn't take anyone's claim at face value. Science however gives you methods to verify claims so you don't have to go off faith. That's where it differs from religion.
That would actually be a great way to power a pacemaker (with a built in battery of course). No one wants to have to replace the battery under their skin or run wires through it.
The thing is, there isn't an alternative to science. There's science (reality), and then there's make believe. You seem to personally hold a grudge against all the scientists in the world (seems like you never interact with them), but that doesn't change that science is all there is.
I assume you also reviewed the data yourself as well and made your own climate models that show the planet is absolutely not warming at all? Looks to me like you got the Fox News Highlights of the emails.
It must be fun living in a fantasy where millions of people are involved in a conspiracy to...improve the world?...and it's up to you to spread the truth.
Climate scientists have been wrong is the past. Models from a few decades ago predicted that the world would be cooling to a new ice age, but as more data was collected and models improved, that was reversed. According to you, they should have continued on that path and labeled the people disagreeing with them as loonbags - but they didn't because that's not how science works.
China and India obviously don't care about the environment or killing their population. Air quality is so poor that people need masks to breath outside in some areas. If you look at climate change in a pure short term economic point of view, then of course you're not going to go with it.
Take some time to learn about what science is, maybe take a class or two at your local high school. It's not like a religion at all - ask Bill Nye
The research has been under contention in the US by oil companies for years. The big scandal of "climategate" was someone had an insecure email server.
If you yourself were to learn how climate science works and then investigate the same thing, you would come to the same conclusion. The catch is it takes some work to become educated, you can't just make guesses that you're right.
I'm guessing you're going to be defending the flat-Earth supporters next? There's evidence that the world is round, but who can really prove it! Better to just assume it's flat like the Bible says.
Well if you claim anyone qualified to look into things science related are on the same side, then you're going to have trouble. Who else would be able to look into the research? Someone with no scientific background? It wasn't the same scientists looking into it, or even just one related group. Multiple independent groups cleared them of wrong doing.
When the critics have no idea what they're talking about, it's fine to shout them down.
Sure there are some scientists that would use it for pushing an agenda, but 99.99% of scientists are in it for the improvement of human knowledge.
The "climategate" fiasco showed this - some anti-science people looked at a few emails out of context and jumped to conclusions that the science was bad, but then there was an extensive review that found it to be valid.
The great thing about science is that it ISN'T a religion, so anyone can get the training needed and work it out for themself, they aren't demanded to be obedient to a priest or labeled as heretics if they make a breakthrough.
Science is about creating theories and working to prove or disprove them. Scientists never ask for unquestioning obedience, they want you to be able to verify their work. We don't give credibility to scientists that don't provide evidence or ways to duplicate their results.
Science isn't about magic or faith. All civilizations will eventually come up with the same scientific theories - the same obviously isn't true for religion. If we as a society want to progress forwards technologically and scientifically we need to push rational thinking and science on kids, not blindly believing centuries old myths.
The advantage to "secure" screws usually is that they can't be opened using the tools your average Joe might have handy. Last I checked the swiss army knife still didn't have the bit to dismantle a bathroom stall.
The petition was set to expire that day, so if you assume it expires at midnight, that's just a few hours short.
They have a month to get enough signatures, so it looks like people were just bad at promoting it. I'd go with glitch as well since the last TSA petition just got a response from the head of the TSA saying how wonderful it was.
Obama grew the government less than the previous few administrations.
The reason the deficit increased so much is because of the recession cutting jobs and removing the tax income from those people. The problem is on the income side, not the spending.
But what's the point of having it if it's just going to be on for everyone? Might as well just make a do-not-track rule that advertisers should follow.
The problem is that much of the web is funded by advertising, so people blocking advertising (or making it less effective) means that sites will either shut down or need to charge customers/visitors in other ways.
I work with voice recognition systems and there are some that work with non-American accents. Typically each variation on the accent needs its own voice model with hours of scripted or transcribed recorded data. The VRR system can run multiple models at the same time to recognize the incoming audio, and then pick the one with the highest confidence to use for the rest of the session.
The trouble is that running two accents essentially doubles the processing needed, so running the many needed (for multiple incoming calls) requires a much more powerful server farm.
If I were in the area, I'd be tempted to set up a few of the old linksys routers that cut out now and then in strange places (just powered, not networked).
Make it a little more challenging for them to find the real "WiFi Offenders"
There's also quite a difference between the Wikileaks cases where data was leaked from an insider to Wikileaks, and things like this where the people getting the information weren't authorized to access it in the first place.
I've done that (well across the building, not campus). It did give me a lot of walking, but was really a pain when I left my usb stick in the lab or had to keep running back and forth to test a new build
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Well at least with my US dollars I can use then to pay taxes to the US government which in turn gives me all sorts of great things. I don't think you can exchange your bitcoins back to your GPU to get back more processing power.
K&R was a great documentation in the days where it worked best to have a book next to the keyboard - Just the function reference saved me plenty of time. I'd say a more modern equivalent is with PHP. Sure the language isn't that great - it has all sorts of weird quirks and inconsistencies- but the documentation is exceptional. Almost all of the pages have a good description, an example, links to related functions, and a comment area where other people can extend it. There's no way PHP would have become as popular with documentation like Java
Opera mobile is full fledged and was out much earlier than the iPhone
Of course I wish the original data was available, and the scientists should have made a better effort to make sure the raw materials were still around.
On the other hand, I can understand why they might get rid of boxes of data that had long since been processed after no one looking at them. It's not like anyone wanted to look at the data until they heard it was gone.
I agree, you shouldn't take anyone's claim at face value. Science however gives you methods to verify claims so you don't have to go off faith. That's where it differs from religion.
That would actually be a great way to power a pacemaker (with a built in battery of course). No one wants to have to replace the battery under their skin or run wires through it.
The thing is, there isn't an alternative to science. There's science (reality), and then there's make believe. You seem to personally hold a grudge against all the scientists in the world (seems like you never interact with them), but that doesn't change that science is all there is.
I assume you also reviewed the data yourself as well and made your own climate models that show the planet is absolutely not warming at all? Looks to me like you got the Fox News Highlights of the emails.
It must be fun living in a fantasy where millions of people are involved in a conspiracy to...improve the world?...and it's up to you to spread the truth.
Climate scientists have been wrong is the past. Models from a few decades ago predicted that the world would be cooling to a new ice age, but as more data was collected and models improved, that was reversed. According to you, they should have continued on that path and labeled the people disagreeing with them as loonbags - but they didn't because that's not how science works.
China and India obviously don't care about the environment or killing their population. Air quality is so poor that people need masks to breath outside in some areas. If you look at climate change in a pure short term economic point of view, then of course you're not going to go with it.
Take some time to learn about what science is, maybe take a class or two at your local high school. It's not like a religion at all - ask Bill Nye
Really? What was the scandal in it? Did you even read any of the emails? Did you read ALL of the emails?
Sounds like the Fox News summary is all you're going off of here.
The research has been under contention in the US by oil companies for years. The big scandal of "climategate" was someone had an insecure email server.
If you yourself were to learn how climate science works and then investigate the same thing, you would come to the same conclusion. The catch is it takes some work to become educated, you can't just make guesses that you're right.
I'm guessing you're going to be defending the flat-Earth supporters next? There's evidence that the world is round, but who can really prove it! Better to just assume it's flat like the Bible says.
Well if you claim anyone qualified to look into things science related are on the same side, then you're going to have trouble. Who else would be able to look into the research? Someone with no scientific background? It wasn't the same scientists looking into it, or even just one related group. Multiple independent groups cleared them of wrong doing.
When the critics have no idea what they're talking about, it's fine to shout them down.
Science is just that. A tool.
Sure there are some scientists that would use it for pushing an agenda, but 99.99% of scientists are in it for the improvement of human knowledge.
The "climategate" fiasco showed this - some anti-science people looked at a few emails out of context and jumped to conclusions that the science was bad, but then there was an extensive review that found it to be valid.
The great thing about science is that it ISN'T a religion, so anyone can get the training needed and work it out for themself, they aren't demanded to be obedient to a priest or labeled as heretics if they make a breakthrough.
You failed science class didn't you?
Science is about creating theories and working to prove or disprove them. Scientists never ask for unquestioning obedience, they want you to be able to verify their work. We don't give credibility to scientists that don't provide evidence or ways to duplicate their results.
Science isn't about magic or faith. All civilizations will eventually come up with the same scientific theories - the same obviously isn't true for religion. If we as a society want to progress forwards technologically and scientifically we need to push rational thinking and science on kids, not blindly believing centuries old myths.
Well they could be going by the radio band style (though they skipped "Very High Def")
In which case, Ultra HD is first, but coming up we'll be getting:
Super HD,
Extremely HD,
and finally Tremendously HD
The advantage to "secure" screws usually is that they can't be opened using the tools your average Joe might have handy. Last I checked the swiss army knife still didn't have the bit to dismantle a bathroom stall.
The petition was set to expire that day, so if you assume it expires at midnight, that's just a few hours short.
They have a month to get enough signatures, so it looks like people were just bad at promoting it. I'd go with glitch as well since the last TSA petition just got a response from the head of the TSA saying how wonderful it was.
Obama grew the government less than the previous few administrations.
The reason the deficit increased so much is because of the recession cutting jobs and removing the tax income from those people. The problem is on the income side, not the spending.
But what's the point of having it if it's just going to be on for everyone? Might as well just make a do-not-track rule that advertisers should follow.
The problem is that much of the web is funded by advertising, so people blocking advertising (or making it less effective) means that sites will either shut down or need to charge customers/visitors in other ways.
I work with voice recognition systems and there are some that work with non-American accents. Typically each variation on the accent needs its own voice model with hours of scripted or transcribed recorded data. The VRR system can run multiple models at the same time to recognize the incoming audio, and then pick the one with the highest confidence to use for the rest of the session.
The trouble is that running two accents essentially doubles the processing needed, so running the many needed (for multiple incoming calls) requires a much more powerful server farm.
Maybe you should explain the joke then.
RTM usually means Release to Manufacturing, in that it's essentially ready.
If I were in the area, I'd be tempted to set up a few of the old linksys routers that cut out now and then in strange places (just powered, not networked).
Make it a little more challenging for them to find the real "WiFi Offenders"
There's also quite a difference between the Wikileaks cases where data was leaked from an insider to Wikileaks, and things like this where the people getting the information weren't authorized to access it in the first place.
Or if you're working near a deadline - even more running
I've done that (well across the building, not campus). It did give me a lot of walking, but was really a pain when I left my usb stick in the lab or had to keep running back and forth to test a new build