Oh gosh, we need to call it TRIGGER WARNING suicidal squirrel, because if there is one thing I've learned in technology the last three years, it's that you have to say TRIGGER WARNING every time you talk about almost anything.
You eventually learn to ignore anything with TRIGGER and WARNING with it. I took up shooting as a hobby and the guy down at the gun range did the soma thing - witering on about triggers and warnings but fortunately I am conditioned to ignore the whole thing.
So they get to play computer games, where the victims are ordinary people's savings, pensions, etc. This really has to stop, as another poster suggested a.001 cents fee per transaction would be enough to do away with microsecond dealing.
[I would use SSDs in a metal padded case knowing Fedex].
Fedex is like UDP, an unreliable delivery service. In fact there is only one fault of UDP it does not duplicate. Things can arrive broken, out of order, delayed, or not at all but I have never heard of Fedex delivering multiple copies!
Having played with Java 8 I can see that it can be used in two ways. One is using a few of the enhancements but basically sticking to the procedural/OOP paradigm. The other is to incorporate the functional programming paradigm. I can see a lot of conservative Java teams just sticking to what they know - which will be interesting because at some point they will have a new developer start using the functional capabilities. I can see the culture clash, with the old team members saying "we can't support this" and the new members saying "but its more efficient and inherently more supportable as the functional paradigm uses immutable objects and avoids side-effects.
Are you suggesting that the kernel should kill of application in userspace using this instruction? Are there any other instructions you morally object to?
GMO per se are at least sometime OK, sometime probably not. For instance I don't think glyphosate (aka RoundUp (tm)) resistance is a good idea, as it will inevitably lead to glyphosate overuse and will make its way into our food with undocumented side effects. However in this case adding beta-carotene to rice is probably a good idea.
The problem is licensing. It costs more money to plant golden rice. License holders have given out free licenses to subsistence farmers, and seed reuse is OK. However I think this is a foot in the door. Make no mistake, golden rice is not a humanitarian endeavour, it is 100% commercial.
I think that this is one of the few good use of GMOs. I'd rather not have food that is engineered to produce compounds toxic to pests, no matter how often I am assured that its OK. And I share your concern about resistance to pesticides. However improving the nutritional value, like golden rice, or making plants drought resistant, able to tolerate salt so they can be grown in estuary areas, etc. seems fine to me,
Their suggestion of "they should eat more vegetables"
When I read this, I thought you were joking, thinking, "no one could be as stupid as suggesting that." Then sure enough, right after, I read this comment. I guess they are that stupid!
Yes stupid, when obviously we should let them eat cake
Its just failure to optimise a statement that nobody in their right mind would write. Like saying a compiler has a bug if it can't optimise away "if (1 != 2)".
I think if I lived in a foreign country I would quickly learn that language too. Immersion is a quick teacher.
I live in the south for 8 years, Alabama and Georgia. I still have trouble with southern accents. Sure they are not another language, but in some cases they might as well be.
That totally amazes me. My wife moved from Texas to Yorkshire and went from not understanding a word to understanding everything in about a month. I had a contract in Glasgow and for the first week I had difficulty understanding people with stronger accents but after that it just sounded ordinary. After 8 years my wife had to change her accent when visiting America to be understood (for some reason my accent doesn't seem to change).
Hmm... I have a creeping feeling the NSA has already introduced a vulnerability into the rot13! If you click on encrypt twice the original contents are revealed!
Does anyone know where I can get the original version of rot13, before NSA introduced this backdoor?
Google won because it was BETTER... not because it was first.
I remember when I first tried google. I had been using AltaVista and I was amazed at how much more relevant the Google results were. Primitive search engines seemed to just bring up any page that had a lot of the words in, Google's page ranking, and looking up related terms (you ask for "secured lending" and also get pages that say "mortgage") made a real difference.
There's a step there that you are avoiding. To exterminate everyone in a country you might need a bomb, but you might also use a genetically targeted bio weapon. Or whatever else we invent.
The problem is that the biggest risk factor is not genetic - it is Islam. I suppose in the far future it might be possible to have intelligent swarms of robot "wasps" with poisonous stings, who can look out for indications that someone is a muslim, but the problem will still be with us for many years.
But I hope he's wrong. Chances of anyone in government coming together for long enough to get something like this done again are slim, especially without a military reason.
.... unless you mean the Chinese government perhaps.
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Oh gosh, we need to call it TRIGGER WARNING suicidal squirrel, because if there is one thing I've learned in technology the last three years, it's that you have to say TRIGGER WARNING every time you talk about almost anything.
You eventually learn to ignore anything with TRIGGER and WARNING with it. I took up shooting as a hobby and the guy down at the gun range did the soma thing - witering on about triggers and warnings but fortunately I am conditioned to ignore the whole thing.
So they get to play computer games, where the victims are ordinary people's savings, pensions, etc.
Only if those people give them their savings to play with.
its hard to save without being at least indirectly effected. The very low interest rates are due to the recession and consequent easement process too.
So they get to play computer games, where the victims are ordinary people's savings, pensions, etc. This really has to stop, as another poster suggested a .001 cents fee per transaction would be enough to do away with microsecond dealing.
It is more expensive than a cloud unless you are really big.
Or indeed really small, so you would only need a fraction of a server.
[I would use SSDs in a metal padded case knowing Fedex].
Fedex is like UDP, an unreliable delivery service. In fact there is only one fault of UDP it does not duplicate. Things can arrive broken, out of order, delayed, or not at all but I have never heard of Fedex delivering multiple copies!
I would love to have a Linux system,(not android), completely free of GNU.
That's a bit like wanting a Windows 8 system completely free of Microsoft licensing ... not going to happen
Having played with Java 8 I can see that it can be used in two ways. One is using a few of the enhancements but basically sticking to the procedural/OOP paradigm. The other is to incorporate the functional programming paradigm. I can see a lot of conservative Java teams just sticking to what they know - which will be interesting because at some point they will have a new developer start using the functional capabilities. I can see the culture clash, with the old team members saying "we can't support this" and the new members saying "but its more efficient and inherently more supportable as the functional paradigm uses immutable objects and avoids side-effects.
Is it realistic enough to prepare us against the muzzie threat?
Are you suggesting that the kernel should kill of application in userspace using this instruction? Are there any other instructions you morally object to?
Op code 666
GMO per se are at least sometime OK, sometime probably not. For instance I don't think glyphosate (aka RoundUp (tm)) resistance is a good idea, as it will inevitably lead to glyphosate overuse and will make its way into our food with undocumented side effects. However in this case adding beta-carotene to rice is probably a good idea.
The problem is licensing. It costs more money to plant golden rice. License holders have given out free licenses to subsistence farmers, and seed reuse is OK. However I think this is a foot in the door. Make no mistake, golden rice is not a humanitarian endeavour, it is 100% commercial.
I think that this is one of the few good use of GMOs. I'd rather not have food that is engineered to produce compounds toxic to pests, no matter how often I am assured that its OK. And I share your concern about resistance to pesticides. However improving the nutritional value, like golden rice, or making plants drought resistant, able to tolerate salt so they can be grown in estuary areas, etc. seems fine to me,
Their suggestion of "they should eat more vegetables"
When I read this, I thought you were joking, thinking, "no one could be as stupid as suggesting that." Then sure enough, right after, I read this comment. I guess they are that stupid!
Yes stupid, when obviously we should let them eat cake
Its just failure to optimise a statement that nobody in their right mind would write. Like saying a compiler has a bug if it can't optimise away "if (1 != 2)".
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, anonymous currency and I'm fined. -- Jeff Spicoli
This will be the next big thing ... after HURD
I think if I lived in a foreign country I would quickly learn that language too. Immersion is a quick teacher.
I live in the south for 8 years, Alabama and Georgia. I still have trouble with southern accents. Sure they are not another language, but in some cases they might as well be.
That totally amazes me. My wife moved from Texas to Yorkshire and went from not understanding a word to understanding everything in about a month. I had a contract in Glasgow and for the first week I had difficulty understanding people with stronger accents but after that it just sounded ordinary. After 8 years my wife had to change her accent when visiting America to be understood (for some reason my accent doesn't seem to change).
And English cannot distinguish between "light" the radiation, "light" as not heavy, "light" as not dark. Seems people manage fine anyway.
That was very enlightening
Hmm... I have a creeping feeling the NSA has already introduced a vulnerability into the rot13! If you click on encrypt twice the original contents are revealed!
Does anyone know where I can get the original version of rot13, before NSA introduced this backdoor?
Google won because it was BETTER ... not because it was first.
I remember when I first tried google. I had been using AltaVista and I was amazed at how much more relevant the Google results were. Primitive search engines seemed to just bring up any page that had a lot of the words in, Google's page ranking, and looking up related terms (you ask for "secured lending" and also get pages that say "mortgage") made a real difference.
Alright, here's what we know about you:
Name, physical address, email address, and last four digits of your ssn.
Gotcha!
And you are +1 gullible
There's a step there that you are avoiding. To exterminate everyone in a country you might need a bomb, but you might also use a genetically targeted bio weapon. Or whatever else we invent.
The problem is that the biggest risk factor is not genetic - it is Islam. I suppose in the far future it might be possible to have intelligent swarms of robot "wasps" with poisonous stings, who can look out for indications that someone is a muslim, but the problem will still be with us for many years.
They thought it was like database metrics. If you can't win weight the results.
I first read it as a bunch of cougers teaching young boys with hard crane cocks to go down on them..
Really gotta have that first cup of coffee before hitting slashdot..
Sounds like you should take a cold shower too...
I'm sure the Chinese and Prince Philip feel practically the same family.
Good point - after all he's a Greek who married into a German family with a lot of influence in the UK...
Ah the Chinese .... Britain's oldest allies .
Brought to you by the John Kerry school of political history.
But I hope he's wrong. Chances of anyone in government coming together for long enough to get something like this done again are slim, especially without a military reason.
.... unless you mean the Chinese government perhaps.