The difference between hieroglyphics and Chinese characters (Korean just uses a syllabary as far as I know) is that while hieroglyphics were actually alphabetic in nature, hanzi/kanji are ideograms. So hieroglyphics are actually closer to the alphabets in use today.
The Korean alphabet (Hangul) is a probably the most efficient alphabet of any widely used (ie live) language in the world. The hieroglyphic nature of Chinese is what makes it so hard to read and write. Roman alphabets like we use in the west are more efficient as words can be sounded out in most cases due to our more consistent morphology (then again, we wouldn't have spelling bees if English had better morphology). But Hangul can be seen as a perfection of that idea but you could also consider it to be similar to a subset of IPA (international phonetic alphabet). Hangul's mapping to the sounds in the Korean language is much closer than the mappings in western and romance languages. It also has a very intuitive and efficient written representation combining consonants and vowels into one glyph in a regular way. This is partially due to the fact that Hangul is much younger and was developed specifically for Korean (unlike the alphabet English uses). You can learn Hangul in an afternoon and be able to (mostly) pronounce written Korean but not understand it. Spoken Korean is just as hard to learn as any other Asian language but the written form is a marvel of linguistics.
as german (and rest of the world) facebookers are concerned. therefore it should be no problem to hold them responsible under EU law. the thing is - if that was really a concern to germany, they would already have done it. looks more like lip-service to the israelis.
Only for tax purposes. The US holding Co holds all the IP and actual valuable stuff. The Irish sub just holds all the bank accounts.
There are Nazis and right wing extremists in every country. What distinguishes Germany is that they got into power in 1933. And they didn't get into power because Germany had too much free speech, they got into power because Germany culture is steeped in the worship of authority.
Maybe, but most historians blame the harsh terms after WWI and the destruction of the German economy in the 20s for the rise of the Nazi.
You worthless piece of shit should be send to the gas chamber.
Wow, the GP gave a list of grey areas and you posted some clear hate speech to try to refute him. The GP's point was that its hard to make these grey area determinations and doing so on an internet/country wide scale is practically impossible. Even harder to write code to do this instead of having an army of culturally sensitive SJW warriors making those determinations (which they would still mess up regularly). That whooshing sound was the GP's point going over your head.
If your startup can't gain enough traction with a couple of 100k it was never going to happen for you you anyway.
Depends on the business you are in. If you are a mobile game startup, then 100k might be enough to see if the idea has legs. If you are an enterprise software platform startup, you need $50m to be competitive and even then you need better tech than your competitors with much deeper pockets. If you are starting a bank, even $50m might not be enough. If you are starting a restaurant, $500k or $1m might be a good amount to start with depending on your location and type of restaurant. But $100k is rarely enough to start more than a small 1 person shop which needs to be in a smallish niche to be successful.
Though I should probably also mention that usability, by necessity, targets the broadest range of users. You've seem a lot of complaints about Ubuntu's UI, but it's about as simple as it can get. All the most common things are lined up neatly on the left.
No, that's not what usability is about. Usability is effectively and simply communicating a mental model to the user that enables them to feel "in-control" and allows them to do what they want in the way they expect. Different user environments have different usability requirements based upon frequency of use, average time of use and size and makeup of the expected user base.
Unity (and gtk3) removed a lot of useful functionality and is less stable than what it replaced and still hasn't caught up several years later. Those are real reasons to complain. My HCI prof founded that field with a study that proved that a specific known text interface was superior to a new GUI one for telephone operators. The reason for this was mostly a lack of keyboard shortcuts coupled with a known user-base that has a long average time of use, which is exactly what Ubuntu removed/changed and messed up with Unity.
Protip, if engineers can pick apart your UI design and your target market is engineers, you are doing it wrong...
Make it cost $1 per pound less to make soy and farmers can sell soy for $1 per pound less and make exactly the same profit. This makes all your food cheaper by $1 per pound soy used. This means more poor people can eat, while more middle-class people have more money left in their pockets (residual wealth).
If only that were actually true. The problem is that in real life companies pocket that $1 (return part to investors, the rest to executive compensation). Only competition can correct that and it doesn't quite often in mature markets like oil and wheat.
No, not by humans.
By natural selection, yes, but that rarely would produce Antarctic teleost genes in vascular plants or other extreme HGT effects now "readily" possible.
Completely false. Almost everything we eat on a large scale we have transformed. Corn in its "natural" state only produces ears that are about 1.5" long (so they are about 12x their original size). Wheat, rye, and most of our livestock has undergone similar transformations. In the cases of the grains, its likely that it began as a "natural" process that humans observed and accelerated. There are entire books written on this topic alone and literally dozens of counterexamples to your claim and I know of no crop that humans haven't artificially modified through breeding, often for 100s or years or more.
The sea change is already happening - car ownership of all kinds is lowest among millenials.
I think you mean seed change. And young people often don't have high rates of ownership of any kind for obvious reasons. Just because you like Uber doesn't mean switching to a "sharing" model works for most people.
Mesa has been about 5 years behind OpenGL, seems this follows the trend, not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. After all it's not falling behind but it really doesn't seem to be closing any gaps either. So 4.0 is DirectX11 generation hardware, CodeWeavers have said they hope to have DX11 support in WINE within a year. That would be nice, several games I play that are no-go in WINE and would be at least one obstacle in going back to Linux.
If you are playing games with Mesa you are doing it wrong. You should be using the native OpenGL driver for your graphics hardware. Mesa is a software reference implementation/compatibility layer. It allows drivers with missing functionality to fill in the gaps and for ports of OpenGL to other hardware to see software implementations of the spec for comparison. Also, for systems without dedicated graphics it can provide software level OpenGL functionality but you probably wouldn't want to play 3D games on those platforms. Its very useful in the graphics ecosystem but probably shouldn't be directly used by end users looking for the highest performance their gaming system can offer.
LOL!
Women in infantry tend to be very good soldiers, well motivated with only physical strength as a limitation.
How about you stop commenting on stuff you don't know shit about? That would be most things I gather.
While women tend to do better on marksmanship, I'm not sure that alone makes them very good soldiers. Soldiers are war fighters and that includes a lot of heavy lifting. Are there women who make good soliders, sure. Do I think its a 50-50 split in the population, no...and I doubt a good female soldier would think that's true either. I bet they would know that they are far better than the average female at war fighting that that's probably something that they take a great deal of pride in.
If you are interested in schema-less/noSQL databases, I would suggest you have a look at MongoDB. It has all the features MUMPS does, but without the ancient programming language attached to it. It also has powerful searching capabilities, can store terabytes of data and supports transparent replication and distributed storage.
MongoDB is not ACID compliant. Makes it a non-starter for something in the medical field.
Except NoSQL databases are not guaranteed ACID compliant.
Except when they are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
"Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication."
Except that Berkeley DB predates NoSQL by a few years/decades. Its more of a DB library than a DB and really intended to be used when writing a DB. And no, there isn't currently a NoSQL DB that is ACID compliant.
Perhaps ubiquity is a good thing for a plug? I agree with your premise but I disagree with your use case as I prefer USB and find it better for what I need usually. Plus firewire always seemed like yet another Apple tax.
I wish there were a better term for it. But "anti-charisma" is the most accurate way I can think of to express it. People naturally seem to hate me, disagree with me, etc. I seem to naturally repulse people, no matter how sociable or nice I try to be. I'm not some autistic asshole with no sense of social convention, etiquette or emotional cues, mind you. I work hard to be nice to people and follow every social norm. But if I advocate for something, no matter how careful I am not to come on too strong, it actually hurts the cause I'm advocating for. The LAST thing you want is my support.
I think there are several possibilities happening to you, probably several at once if its as bad as you report. Either: 1) you have a habit of making people feel dumb (or at least reminding them of how truly wrong they can be) or 2) you are suffering from the Double Burden at the low end of the scale for social cues or 3) you are offering your opinion too frequently given the size of the group (the larger the group, the more you have to share the "speaking stick")
Try this for awhile, don't try to persuade anyone in a specific group of anything for a predetermined period of time (you don't have to do this at work but consistently with a specific group of people). Then after a period, wait for one group decision and chime in with what you want but just say you think it will be fun or that others will enjoy it. Don't give a long winded, logically based argument, just something short and breezy. You might be surprised with the response depending on the group of people. Obviously this probably won't work with engineers but other social groups it might weirdly work.
As a programmer, Qt is far and away a much nicer toolkit to work with if you need to do GUIs with C++ (or even if you're just using C++, GUI or not). Why anyone bothers with GTK+, I have no idea.
I write a C/C++ app that uses Qt. But people use GTK+ because its C and not C++. Sometimes that's a factor. Other than that, I prefer Qt when I don't have to make the code pure C.
We also have a much higher standard of living because we exploit more from third world nations. The standard of living of the Average American is not by his hand, but by the gun he forces on others.
I've heard this argument over and over again. Are you sure that all the technology Americans invented had nothing to do with that? Are you sure we didn't use our natural resources far more effectively than other countries did? Because if you look at history there are certainly empires whose standards of living were definitely based upon what they could take from weaker peoples. I'm not sure that the US qualifies. The US already had its high standard of living before we started extracting resources from foreign lands. Which makes that line of reasoning pretty much fall apart. But anyway, I'm sure all your problems are other people's fault.
There hasn't been another world war since major states nuked up, so I'd prefer everyone stayed armed, thank you very much.
I'd rather not minimize the alternatives that have cost the lives of thousands over the last 50+ years, so don't act like a dumb ass and assume nukes have done fuck-all to stop or curb warmongering.
Slashdot Mirror
The difference between hieroglyphics and Chinese characters (Korean just uses a syllabary as far as I know) is that while hieroglyphics were actually alphabetic in nature, hanzi/kanji are ideograms. So hieroglyphics are actually closer to the alphabets in use today.
The Korean alphabet (Hangul) is a probably the most efficient alphabet of any widely used (ie live) language in the world. The hieroglyphic nature of Chinese is what makes it so hard to read and write. Roman alphabets like we use in the west are more efficient as words can be sounded out in most cases due to our more consistent morphology (then again, we wouldn't have spelling bees if English had better morphology). But Hangul can be seen as a perfection of that idea but you could also consider it to be similar to a subset of IPA (international phonetic alphabet). Hangul's mapping to the sounds in the Korean language is much closer than the mappings in western and romance languages. It also has a very intuitive and efficient written representation combining consonants and vowels into one glyph in a regular way. This is partially due to the fact that Hangul is much younger and was developed specifically for Korean (unlike the alphabet English uses). You can learn Hangul in an afternoon and be able to (mostly) pronounce written Korean but not understand it. Spoken Korean is just as hard to learn as any other Asian language but the written form is a marvel of linguistics.
More info here: https://www.zkorean.com/korean...
as german (and rest of the world) facebookers are concerned. therefore it should be no problem to hold them responsible under EU law. the thing is - if that was really a concern to germany, they would already have done it. looks more like lip-service to the israelis.
Only for tax purposes. The US holding Co holds all the IP and actual valuable stuff. The Irish sub just holds all the bank accounts.
There are Nazis and right wing extremists in every country. What distinguishes Germany is that they got into power in 1933. And they didn't get into power because Germany had too much free speech, they got into power because Germany culture is steeped in the worship of authority.
Maybe, but most historians blame the harsh terms after WWI and the destruction of the German economy in the 20s for the rise of the Nazi.
Yes, one segment of German society is oppressing another segment, there is no doubt about that.
Better that than oppressing Greeks...I kid...
Define hate speech.
You worthless piece of shit should be send to the gas chamber.
Wow, the GP gave a list of grey areas and you posted some clear hate speech to try to refute him. The GP's point was that its hard to make these grey area determinations and doing so on an internet/country wide scale is practically impossible. Even harder to write code to do this instead of having an army of culturally sensitive SJW warriors making those determinations (which they would still mess up regularly). That whooshing sound was the GP's point going over your head.
If your startup can't gain enough traction with a couple of 100k it was never going to happen for you you anyway.
Depends on the business you are in. If you are a mobile game startup, then 100k might be enough to see if the idea has legs. If you are an enterprise software platform startup, you need $50m to be competitive and even then you need better tech than your competitors with much deeper pockets. If you are starting a bank, even $50m might not be enough. If you are starting a restaurant, $500k or $1m might be a good amount to start with depending on your location and type of restaurant. But $100k is rarely enough to start more than a small 1 person shop which needs to be in a smallish niche to be successful.
Tech is a SMALL part of CAs overall economy. Agriculture/horticulture is much, MUCH larger.
Ag and Mining is about 2% and Tech is about 15% but do continue...
Though I should probably also mention that usability, by necessity, targets the broadest range of users. You've seem a lot of complaints about Ubuntu's UI, but it's about as simple as it can get. All the most common things are lined up neatly on the left.
No, that's not what usability is about. Usability is effectively and simply communicating a mental model to the user that enables them to feel "in-control" and allows them to do what they want in the way they expect. Different user environments have different usability requirements based upon frequency of use, average time of use and size and makeup of the expected user base.
Unity (and gtk3) removed a lot of useful functionality and is less stable than what it replaced and still hasn't caught up several years later. Those are real reasons to complain. My HCI prof founded that field with a study that proved that a specific known text interface was superior to a new GUI one for telephone operators. The reason for this was mostly a lack of keyboard shortcuts coupled with a known user-base that has a long average time of use, which is exactly what Ubuntu removed/changed and messed up with Unity.
Protip, if engineers can pick apart your UI design and your target market is engineers, you are doing it wrong...
Make it cost $1 per pound less to make soy and farmers can sell soy for $1 per pound less and make exactly the same profit. This makes all your food cheaper by $1 per pound soy used. This means more poor people can eat, while more middle-class people have more money left in their pockets (residual wealth).
If only that were actually true. The problem is that in real life companies pocket that $1 (return part to investors, the rest to executive compensation). Only competition can correct that and it doesn't quite often in mature markets like oil and wheat.
Aren't all crops genetically modified?
No, not by humans. By natural selection, yes, but that rarely would produce Antarctic teleost genes in vascular plants or other extreme HGT effects now "readily" possible.
Completely false. Almost everything we eat on a large scale we have transformed. Corn in its "natural" state only produces ears that are about 1.5" long (so they are about 12x their original size). Wheat, rye, and most of our livestock has undergone similar transformations. In the cases of the grains, its likely that it began as a "natural" process that humans observed and accelerated. There are entire books written on this topic alone and literally dozens of counterexamples to your claim and I know of no crop that humans haven't artificially modified through breeding, often for 100s or years or more.
What you SJWs don't understand
What SJWs don't understand, along with many other people is your post which seems to be a long, angry undirected rant at I'm not sure what precisely.
comes oozing menstral thoughts onto slashdot
WTF is a menstral thought?
Don't feed the trolls...are you new here?
The sea change is already happening - car ownership of all kinds is lowest among millenials.
I think you mean seed change. And young people often don't have high rates of ownership of any kind for obvious reasons. Just because you like Uber doesn't mean switching to a "sharing" model works for most people.
There are several ways
- Throw a baseball - Throw a net - Throw a rock
If it's within your personal airspace (500 feet) on your property you have right to do all of these things.
You do realize that throwing a rock at a drone is probably more dangerous than firing a shotgun at it right?
Putting this dude in jail would be a waste of money, but I do hope he gets a fine equal to 1/4 to 1/2 his annual income.
You should be fined your entire annual income for posting something so inane.
Mesa has been about 5 years behind OpenGL, seems this follows the trend, not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. After all it's not falling behind but it really doesn't seem to be closing any gaps either. So 4.0 is DirectX11 generation hardware, CodeWeavers have said they hope to have DX11 support in WINE within a year. That would be nice, several games I play that are no-go in WINE and would be at least one obstacle in going back to Linux.
If you are playing games with Mesa you are doing it wrong. You should be using the native OpenGL driver for your graphics hardware. Mesa is a software reference implementation/compatibility layer. It allows drivers with missing functionality to fill in the gaps and for ports of OpenGL to other hardware to see software implementations of the spec for comparison. Also, for systems without dedicated graphics it can provide software level OpenGL functionality but you probably wouldn't want to play 3D games on those platforms. Its very useful in the graphics ecosystem but probably shouldn't be directly used by end users looking for the highest performance their gaming system can offer.
I find it difficult to believe that teenagers would hack a website because they are morally outraged about the practice of adultery.
Unless of course the hacker's parent cheated using AM and that caused the divorce of his parent. You simply lack imagination I think...
LOL! Women in infantry tend to be very good soldiers, well motivated with only physical strength as a limitation. How about you stop commenting on stuff you don't know shit about? That would be most things I gather.
While women tend to do better on marksmanship, I'm not sure that alone makes them very good soldiers. Soldiers are war fighters and that includes a lot of heavy lifting. Are there women who make good soliders, sure. Do I think its a 50-50 split in the population, no...and I doubt a good female soldier would think that's true either. I bet they would know that they are far better than the average female at war fighting that that's probably something that they take a great deal of pride in.
The US probably has their own small and quiet equivalent (or has had).
The US has a whole slew of these spec ops groups. Here is an (very) incomplete list in order of selection (easy to hard):
If you are interested in schema-less/noSQL databases, I would suggest you have a look at MongoDB. It has all the features MUMPS does, but without the ancient programming language attached to it. It also has powerful searching capabilities, can store terabytes of data and supports transparent replication and distributed storage.
MongoDB is not ACID compliant. Makes it a non-starter for something in the medical field.
Except NoSQL databases are not guaranteed ACID compliant.
Except when they are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
"Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication."
Except that Berkeley DB predates NoSQL by a few years/decades. Its more of a DB library than a DB and really intended to be used when writing a DB. And no, there isn't currently a NoSQL DB that is ACID compliant.
Perhaps ubiquity is a good thing for a plug? I agree with your premise but I disagree with your use case as I prefer USB and find it better for what I need usually. Plus firewire always seemed like yet another Apple tax.
I wish there were a better term for it. But "anti-charisma" is the most accurate way I can think of to express it. People naturally seem to hate me, disagree with me, etc. I seem to naturally repulse people, no matter how sociable or nice I try to be. I'm not some autistic asshole with no sense of social convention, etiquette or emotional cues, mind you. I work hard to be nice to people and follow every social norm. But if I advocate for something, no matter how careful I am not to come on too strong, it actually hurts the cause I'm advocating for. The LAST thing you want is my support.
I think there are several possibilities happening to you, probably several at once if its as bad as you report. Either: 1) you have a habit of making people feel dumb (or at least reminding them of how truly wrong they can be) or 2) you are suffering from the Double Burden at the low end of the scale for social cues or 3) you are offering your opinion too frequently given the size of the group (the larger the group, the more you have to share the "speaking stick") Try this for awhile, don't try to persuade anyone in a specific group of anything for a predetermined period of time (you don't have to do this at work but consistently with a specific group of people). Then after a period, wait for one group decision and chime in with what you want but just say you think it will be fun or that others will enjoy it. Don't give a long winded, logically based argument, just something short and breezy. You might be surprised with the response depending on the group of people. Obviously this probably won't work with engineers but other social groups it might weirdly work.
As a programmer, Qt is far and away a much nicer toolkit to work with if you need to do GUIs with C++ (or even if you're just using C++, GUI or not). Why anyone bothers with GTK+, I have no idea.
I write a C/C++ app that uses Qt. But people use GTK+ because its C and not C++. Sometimes that's a factor. Other than that, I prefer Qt when I don't have to make the code pure C.
>
We also have a much higher standard of living because we exploit more from third world nations. The standard of living of the Average American is not by his hand, but by the gun he forces on others.
I've heard this argument over and over again. Are you sure that all the technology Americans invented had nothing to do with that? Are you sure we didn't use our natural resources far more effectively than other countries did? Because if you look at history there are certainly empires whose standards of living were definitely based upon what they could take from weaker peoples. I'm not sure that the US qualifies. The US already had its high standard of living before we started extracting resources from foreign lands. Which makes that line of reasoning pretty much fall apart. But anyway, I'm sure all your problems are other people's fault.
There hasn't been another world war since major states nuked up, so I'd prefer everyone stayed armed, thank you very much.
I'd rather not minimize the alternatives that have cost the lives of thousands over the last 50+ years, so don't act like a dumb ass and assume nukes have done fuck-all to stop or curb warmongering.
Ahem, except for the fact that the data says you are wrong... http://www.ted.com/talks/steve...