There are only two nations with the resources, will, and motive to attack Iran's nuclear ambitions in this way: America and Israel.
It figures that hegemony would lead either state to such an antagonistic stance.
While I agree that they are teh most likely candidates, I think Russia and China would be quite capable of doing this too if they turned their mind to it. Probably the UK, France, Gremany and maybe India. All have both nuclear and computer technology
I thought pretty much every publicly traded company did stuff like this?
Not just publically traded. I worked by a privatley owned company where basically each departments end of year bonus was decided by a bunfight to decide which department was responsible for how much revenue and at what cost. The only fixed thing was the company total, they shuffled things between departments and divisions at will.
"Microsoft's Dennis Durkin voiced an interesting idea at an investment summit last week -- the idea that the company's Kinect camera might pass data to advertisers about the way you look, play and speak. "We can cater what content gets presented to you based on who you are," he told investors,
if you count the number 5 position. So why does the OP pull this slight of hand, only counting the top 4 as the "top spots" after making reference to the "top-5" as the measure of top positions? Looks like bias to me.
When the driver was hacked I thought it was cool, but it would probably be a long time before someone actually used it for something nice. This might attract a few people.
All sounds pretty reasonable and pretty obvious. I wish someone would tell our security department. They force fourtnightly changes, with ten days warning of expitation. That means you either change more than once a week or have the expiration password pop up!
I can imagine in a few years 3D printers will be capable of printing perfectly good weapons.
No doubt governments will try to force the printers to incorporate some sort of DRM that will make them refuse to print out a gun, and this will fail just like every other initiative that involves making equipment refuse to do what it's owner wants to use it for.
Daggers, knives, etc. Yes.
Guns would at very least need a number of parts to be made then assembled. Also the ammunition could not be printable, as it would need explosives. Unless there is some drastic improvement in the types of materials that can be printed I would think that it would require a special low charge bullet, and be a single-shot throw-away device.
They missed the fact that RackSpace offers hybrid cloud options that Amazon just can't match at this point. Got IO issues? So did GitHub when they were running on Amazon's infrastructure. Know how they solved it? They moved to Rackspace and married the cloud for front-end with physical hardware for their IO intense workloads. It seems to me these guys may just be naive. They've probably only sidestepped their problems for now.
To be fair if they have probably solved their problems, in that Amazon cloud is extremely horizontally scalable. It is a typical "throw money at it" solution, like someone who has sent a package by motorcycle courtier solving the problem of shifting 10,000 packages between warehouses by hiring 10,000 motorcycle couriers - but it will probably work for them.
No, Scala doesn't have reified generics. You can get something like reified generics in Scala using manifest that covers some cases. In addition, Scala manifest are experimental, and not a stable part of the language and there is no schedule for when they will be (I still use them though.)
True, you have to implement reified generics yourself using manifest. I have not found any limitations myself yet, but I have to admit that I have only done simple reified type collections.
OK, replying to myself because I obviously didn't have enough coffee yet:
They list as the benefits over Scala
- Extensible type system
- Easy transition from Java
- Reified Generics
From those 3 points, only the last one sounds useful...
Except that reified generics are available in Scala using manifests. I am not sure what the "extensible type system" means but there are various ways of adding to a type system in Scala. However I agree on not being an "Easy transition from Java". Scala is not really an easy transition from anything!
So you are saying someone in a low cost geography (like say North Korea where they get about $1 a month), or even a place like India where $10/hr is still decent will be the ones to work on this.
I expect whoever does it will do it for the kudos (and possible job prospects), and the money will just be the bonus that makes them look at the Kinect rather than a phone, home cinema system, or whatever
The label had some general content and then something along the lines of "USA: Do not eat.
Americans must go around trying to eat everything (or at least manufacturers think so). I have seen labels saying "USA: do not eat" on packets of desiccant that are included in a box with a video recorder, on a polystyrene disk in the top of a cookie tin, and a statue packed with polystirene beads with "USA: do not eat the packing material"
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There are only two nations with the resources, will, and motive to attack Iran's nuclear ambitions in this way: America and Israel.
It figures that hegemony would lead either state to such an antagonistic stance.
While I agree that they are teh most likely candidates, I think Russia and China would be quite capable of doing this too if they turned their mind to it. Probably the UK, France, Gremany and maybe India. All have both nuclear and computer technology
Well that just leaves one question: Was it the Jews or the Yanks?
I thought pretty much every publicly traded company did stuff like this?
Not just publically traded. I worked by a privatley owned company where basically each departments end of year bonus was decided by a bunfight to decide which department was responsible for how much revenue and at what cost. The only fixed thing was the company total, they shuffled things between departments and divisions at will.
They're a Fortune 100 company. They did.
But Googles a Fortune 500 company and their motto is "do no evil" so they wouldn't lie.... oh wait their lying in their motto too.
"Microsoft's Dennis Durkin voiced an interesting idea at an investment summit last week -- the idea that the company's Kinect camera might pass data to advertisers about the way you look, play and speak. "We can cater what content gets presented to you based on who you are," he told investors,
Microsoft adds support for racial profiling!
im so excited and i just cant hide it
Well, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
if you count the number 5 position. So why does the OP pull this slight of hand, only counting the top 4 as the "top spots" after making reference to the "top-5" as the measure of top positions? Looks like bias to me.
Their supercomputer had rounding errors
2.57 petaflops per second
floating point operations per second per second?
If that's the ramp-up speed I'm impressed
Bullocks I can see it is really easy to get rid of flash cookies. If you cannot access the .sol files with a Windows SWF install then try in Linux.....
Yes that's going to be really easy for the majority of Windows users!
I wish that C# had the same Linux kernel support as Java does.
It does. None.
When the driver was hacked I thought it was cool, but it would probably be a long time before someone actually used it for something nice. This might attract a few people.
All sounds pretty reasonable and pretty obvious. I wish someone would tell our security department. They force fourtnightly changes, with ten days warning of expitation. That means you either change more than once a week or have the expiration password pop up!
I can imagine in a few years 3D printers will be capable of printing perfectly good weapons. No doubt governments will try to force the printers to incorporate some sort of DRM that will make them refuse to print out a gun, and this will fail just like every other initiative that involves making equipment refuse to do what it's owner wants to use it for.
Daggers, knives, etc. Yes. Guns would at very least need a number of parts to be made then assembled. Also the ammunition could not be printable, as it would need explosives. Unless there is some drastic improvement in the types of materials that can be printed I would think that it would require a special low charge bullet, and be a single-shot throw-away device.
Right, because a lumpy plastic copy of an item is just as good as the real thing....
Well, your wife told me that she actually thinks its better.
Pretty pathetic. Why not sue the makers of lathes and hand tools - people might make patented things with them too.
They missed the fact that RackSpace offers hybrid cloud options that Amazon just can't match at this point. Got IO issues? So did GitHub when they were running on Amazon's infrastructure. Know how they solved it? They moved to Rackspace and married the cloud for front-end with physical hardware for their IO intense workloads. It seems to me these guys may just be naive. They've probably only sidestepped their problems for now.
To be fair if they have probably solved their problems, in that Amazon cloud is extremely horizontally scalable. It is a typical "throw money at it" solution, like someone who has sent a package by motorcycle courtier solving the problem of shifting 10,000 packages between warehouses by hiring 10,000 motorcycle couriers - but it will probably work for them.
Talk of STD in the context of telephones is sure to lead to some confusion.
No, Scala doesn't have reified generics. You can get something like reified generics in Scala using manifest that covers some cases. In addition, Scala manifest are experimental, and not a stable part of the language and there is no schedule for when they will be (I still use them though.)
True, you have to implement reified generics yourself using manifest. I have not found any limitations myself yet, but I have to admit that I have only done simple reified type collections.
it isn't the language, you can write good or bad code in any language But, VB makes writing bad code trivial, and writing good code challenging.
COBOL even more so
OK, replying to myself because I obviously didn't have enough coffee yet:
They list as the benefits over Scala - Extensible type system - Easy transition from Java - Reified Generics
From those 3 points, only the last one sounds useful...
Except that reified generics are available in Scala using manifests. I am not sure what the "extensible type system" means but there are various ways of adding to a type system in Scala. However I agree on not being an "Easy transition from Java". Scala is not really an easy transition from anything!
I can buy a Picasso and then burn it, but no one has to condone that course of action.
Interestingly you could probably burn it but not necessarily export it from the country you buy it in,
So you are saying someone in a low cost geography (like say North Korea where they get about $1 a month), or even a place like India where $10/hr is still decent will be the ones to work on this.
I expect whoever does it will do it for the kudos (and possible job prospects), and the money will just be the bonus that makes them look at the Kinect rather than a phone, home cinema system, or whatever
The label had some general content and then something along the lines of "USA: Do not eat.
Americans must go around trying to eat everything (or at least manufacturers think so). I have seen labels saying "USA: do not eat" on packets of desiccant that are included in a box with a video recorder, on a polystyrene disk in the top of a cookie tin, and a statue packed with polystirene beads with "USA: do not eat the packing material"
Microsoft controls my stuffed otter?
Who knew?
Microsoft controls my stuffed beaver?
"Your friends are important to you, so we built them in.
A bit like Fred West