Well, given that they think it's a great idea to take two different data sets measured in the same units, but measured in completely different ways, and put them together as a comparison over time then I'd say the definition of deviation is the least of their worries.
Mono apps are wiping the floor in mobile? Where is the mobile platform they're doing this on because it's very strange that neither I nor anyone else lives in that imaginary world. Just how many iOS or Android Apps are written in Mono?
If you want code that runs well on Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, and probably even Windows Phone (although never done any windows phone tbh) nothing else even comes close.
I can tell you right now that this comment made me laugh. Writing cross-platform GUI apps with Mono is incredibly painful and on OS X they look like outright dog shit.
That must be why it's selling so well then. Oh wait...... A lot of anonymous cowards turning up at the moment. I wonder if we'll find a lot of Seattle area IPs......
That is NOT the point with SecureBoot. It has to be disabled right to allow booting of various imaging software and custom boot disks that lots of companies tend to use for mass installs. When the dust settles from that then it's highly doubtful whether SecureBoot will then be allowed to be turned off on new machines.
Frankly, this kind of backlash from OEMs is exactly the sort of thing SecureBoot is meant to counter, since Microsoft controls the keys to it.
So deflation means the opposite - your currency goes up in value, so you can buy more stuff. Of course this means the people who own things would have things (typically property) that are worth less, and they don't like that.
It doesn't actually. What deflation is is currency destruction.
No, and this comment displays the real problem with a lay person's view of 'money'. They believe rising prices are somehow necessary, or they represent rising 'values'. They do not.
Everything is relative. If your salary is going up that means everything else is going up as well, and what happens is that everything else goes up faster than your salary transferring your wealth to the wealthy.
The speculative frenzy over BTC is based strictly on artificial scarcity, and scarcity over a bunch of digital bits, at that. (I find it amusing how some of the same people who condemn the enforced artificial scarcity of digital media via DRM have embraced BTC while remaining completely oblivious of their cognitive dissonance.) But BitCoin's success will be its downfall.
Absolute tripe, and no, the two can't be compared. I don't need to read the rest of this comment.
There is research out there claiming green tea, spices like tumeric, and just eating better can have dramatic results. I would like to see some serious research by respected oncologists into the efficacy of simple life changes like that, instead of study after study pushing big pharma's insanely expensive drugs (thankfully covered by the trial in our case) that cause side effects potentially more dangerous than the disease they are intended to treat.
Sadly, after seeing the countless billions thrown at cancer research over the years I can't be anything but extremely sceptical and downhearted on that one. A simple, cheap remedy or even something that would help in a small way is just not on the cards. So much money has been chucked at cancer that if those things haven't been properly researched by now they never will be. Cancer research is a sinkhole for lots and lots of money and that will never change as things stand.
Oh, sod off, you're full of it. I've heard these excuses countless times over the years, and they are excuses, plain and simple. Countless billions, probably trillions, have been literally thrown at cancer research over the decades and very little has come out of it. A modest increase in survival rates and life but at a cost where extremely pricey drugs are required to do it that simply drive a wedge between rich and poor.
The simple fact is that if you have just about any cancer that is moderately advanced in any way then your prognosis is not good, and it's a hack of a lot less if you aren't at least moderately wealthy.
Drugs that treat the patient for a few months and then they die, or a working treatment that the patient has to receive over their entire (longer now) life?
A cure for cancer would be a gold mine for a pharmaceutical company.
The publishing frequency is not really the determining factor.
I very much think you will find it is these days. The research that is being done today is mostly junk, cheap industrial research and that's based on keeping the grants and the patent applications flowing. If you aren't part of the team who buys into that and wants to do something that takes time and effort you're not going to fit in.
No. There is a distinct difference between poor quality science and bad science.
That statement ironically confirms everything I'm pointing out and the reality distortion field much of the scientific community lives in.
There's also the public tendency to reduce everything to a simple answer, when it's rarely simple.
When you see a heck of a lot of anti-depressant drugs handed out for ailments that aren't even psychological, it becomes obvious to even the public what is going on.
When the same things start cropping up time and again Occam's Razor becomes even more applicable, and yes, it is that simple regardless of the scientific community's refrain that you don't understand what is going and things are too complicated for you to understand.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, given that they think it's a great idea to take two different data sets measured in the same units, but measured in completely different ways, and put them together as a comparison over time then I'd say the definition of deviation is the least of their worries.
Mono apps are wiping the floor in mobile? Where is the mobile platform they're doing this on because it's very strange that neither I nor anyone else lives in that imaginary world. Just how many iOS or Android Apps are written in Mono?
If you want code that runs well on Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, and probably even Windows Phone (although never done any windows phone tbh) nothing else even comes close.
I can tell you right now that this comment made me laugh. Writing cross-platform GUI apps with Mono is incredibly painful and on OS X they look like outright dog shit.
Bzzzt. That's how useful that comment is.
That must be why it's selling so well then. Oh wait...... A lot of anonymous cowards turning up at the moment. I wonder if we'll find a lot of Seattle area IPs......
That is NOT the point with SecureBoot. It has to be disabled right to allow booting of various imaging software and custom boot disks that lots of companies tend to use for mass installs. When the dust settles from that then it's highly doubtful whether SecureBoot will then be allowed to be turned off on new machines.
Frankly, this kind of backlash from OEMs is exactly the sort of thing SecureBoot is meant to counter, since Microsoft controls the keys to it.
But then you probably already knew that.
Whatever. You've been confronted and called out.
I work for a SaaS company. Our customers hold us strongly to the SLAs
Of course you're going to say that. The reality is very, very, very different. SLA contracts have holes you can drive a truck through in them.
If your providers aren't, then you need a different provider, better lawyers, or both.
Ahhh, yes. I need to spend money on lawyers..........
So deflation means the opposite - your currency goes up in value, so you can buy more stuff. Of course this means the people who own things would have things (typically property) that are worth less, and they don't like that.
It doesn't actually. What deflation is is currency destruction.
You mean the system that is processing many, many orders of magnitude more transactions that bitcoin?
The system that steals your wealth for the privilege of moving currency? Yes, that one.
So many that bitcoin as it currently exists couldn't even begin to handle them without major overhaul?
What a load of crap.
It's hilarious how its proponents have zero sense of perspective about their favourite little toy.
It's hilarious how anonymous morons profess to make statements on this they haven't got the slightest clue about.
Deflation encourages hoarding wealth and inflation encourages investment and wealth creation.
What a load of shit.
No, and this comment displays the real problem with a lay person's view of 'money'. They believe rising prices are somehow necessary, or they represent rising 'values'. They do not.
Everything is relative. If your salary is going up that means everything else is going up as well, and what happens is that everything else goes up faster than your salary transferring your wealth to the wealthy.
Price != value.
Central banks are. ;-)
...oh, and who is Charles Stross and why should I give a shit?
.....you know they are a moron, know nothing about economics........and are probably an economist.
I'm afraid no one is getting the humour in this, even though it is a heartfelt eulogy in many ways.
For those who don't get humour, he's taking the piss in a somewhat serious way.
Absolute tripe, and no, the two can't be compared. I don't need to read the rest of this comment.
Not the case with an SLA between a cloud provider and an organization.
I really don't know where you get that idea from. Cloud SLA's are not worth the paper they aren't written on.
There is research out there claiming green tea, spices like tumeric, and just eating better can have dramatic results. I would like to see some serious research by respected oncologists into the efficacy of simple life changes like that, instead of study after study pushing big pharma's insanely expensive drugs (thankfully covered by the trial in our case) that cause side effects potentially more dangerous than the disease they are intended to treat.
Sadly, after seeing the countless billions thrown at cancer research over the years I can't be anything but extremely sceptical and downhearted on that one. A simple, cheap remedy or even something that would help in a small way is just not on the cards. So much money has been chucked at cancer that if those things haven't been properly researched by now they never will be. Cancer research is a sinkhole for lots and lots of money and that will never change as things stand.
You're confusing a cure with paying a company to keep you alive for the rest of your life.
Oh, sod off, you're full of it. I've heard these excuses countless times over the years, and they are excuses, plain and simple. Countless billions, probably trillions, have been literally thrown at cancer research over the decades and very little has come out of it. A modest increase in survival rates and life but at a cost where extremely pricey drugs are required to do it that simply drive a wedge between rich and poor.
The simple fact is that if you have just about any cancer that is moderately advanced in any way then your prognosis is not good, and it's a hack of a lot less if you aren't at least moderately wealthy.
Drugs that treat the patient for a few months and then they die, or a working treatment that the patient has to receive over their entire (longer now) life?
A cure for cancer would be a gold mine for a pharmaceutical company.
That is not a cure.
The publishing frequency is not really the determining factor.
I very much think you will find it is these days. The research that is being done today is mostly junk, cheap industrial research and that's based on keeping the grants and the patent applications flowing. If you aren't part of the team who buys into that and wants to do something that takes time and effort you're not going to fit in.
No. There is a distinct difference between poor quality science and bad science.
That statement ironically confirms everything I'm pointing out and the reality distortion field much of the scientific community lives in.
There's also the public tendency to reduce everything to a simple answer, when it's rarely simple.
When you see a heck of a lot of anti-depressant drugs handed out for ailments that aren't even psychological, it becomes obvious to even the public what is going on.
When the same things start cropping up time and again Occam's Razor becomes even more applicable, and yes, it is that simple regardless of the scientific community's refrain that you don't understand what is going and things are too complicated for you to understand.