Nah, I don't really think they'll use water from the moon. Seems too hard to extract. They could maybe do the water-asteroid-lobbing thing once space travel gets cheap enough (not in this century, then)... I think we'll be having serious water shortages way before that becomes practical though.
Well, he sure won't find a job in a department that's involved in any kind of statistical work, that's for sure. The main thing which comes out of his tables is that there is little no correlation between salary and unemployment length. The only remotely useful table in there is the unemployment by industry, but there the sample is far too small to derive any conclusions...
There's nothing wrong with not finding correlation per se, but the author of the site presents the tables as if they had some meaning, without mentioning the fact that their only meaning is that they have no meaning... He should certainly make a note about it, and that page would certainly gain from having the Pearson correlation coefficient calculated for each table (and having only two data columns in each table).
The other stuff which is mixed in with the H2O is the problem. Grains of dust are easier to filter out of the water than spills from oil tankers, factory waste, etc.
Really, my... fellow americans. *stares at camera* I strongly believe that the moon is currently harbouring all kinds... of weapons of mass destruction. They most definitely have nucular weapon facilities. They are a threat to our way of life, to our liberty... and to the liberty... of all the free people of the Earth *blank stare* And so it is with great sadness, but firmness of purpose, that we must carry on, with the help of God, and rid the solar system of weapons of mass destruction.
Wat are you toking about, d00d? English is esy two spel! No won I now as ever made eny spelling mistaxe in English. You must of been thinkin of an other language.
You can customize all the stuff you mentioned. The only problem is that, as far as I could find out, anyway, the plugins are mostly in developmental stages, and not very user-friendly at all. There's a handful which are actually useable, but even those don't come close to the integration you get in JB. That's why I like JBuilder - it automates almost everything that can be automated. But JB is good only for Java. The Eclipse project is a platform that could be used to write an IDE for any language. It's designed with extreme modularity. I think it a few years Eclipse will probably beat the shit out of JB and the like, but for the moment, JB simply has much more practical functionality when it comes to applications and web apps in Java.
In the more modern type, Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy would make an excellent (and pretty long) miniseries... maybe if it was made into 3 movies per volume or so, it might have enough space to tell the story properly:-P
Oh, and don't forget Iain M. Banks. Now that would make some seriously good movies...
Yeah, well, some of us don't wanna spend weeks doing stuff by hand when it could be automated. You may load vim up fast, but I can create a Struts application with a few clicks.
Plus vim doesn't have code completion/insight, doesn't compile shit as you type, etc. Rather than spending half my time alt-tabbing to compile, see a typo, go fix it, compile again, see another typo, go fix it, etc, it's really worth the spare cycles to just see the wrong shit underlined in red while you're typing.
And if you find Swing too slow, go get yourself a better machine and stop bitching. Swing is just spiffy on my Athlon XP 1800+, with 768MB of RAM. That's not an expensive system, either. If it's too slow on your machine, go learn some basics of getting rid of hardware bottlenecks.
I agree. Even without having actually gotten to using it directly, I've had my eye on that db for a while now. As soon as I have my own server I'll probably look into replacing MySQL with Firebird.
As for Mozilla Phoenix... never used it, never wanted to use it. Vanilla Mozilla is fine with me.
Hah, mate, you need to check out the "Why the Brain?" page:
At some point in every man's life, he's bound to find himself in bed with a Chinese girl. It may happen suddenly, and you may not remember how it happened, but it will happen -- I guarantee that. When the time comes he needs to be ready. He needs his full arsenal at hand. And by this I mean music. Too many times has the playlist run short on soft acoustic guitar songs, quieting the room to an awkward silence and giving the Chinese girl a chance to reconsider what she's about to do. I've seen it happen, and it's not pretty.
As a matter of fact, it's happened to me. And so we have spent the better part of the last six months of our lives making sure it doesn't happen to you. Because if it ever does, you won't be able to say "Why the hell doesn't my MP3 player just know what songs I want it to play?"
We've got you covered. Use the Brain.
Very "Dead Poet's society"-ish... "the ultimate purpose of all communication is... to seduce women!":-)
I see your point, but on the other hand, faulty RAM-induced crashes are not so hard to diagnose if you're running Linux. Just check out the syslog, and you get this characteristic pattern of page faults and such, and then usually you can be pretty damn sure it's the RAM. Of course, on a laptop that's not really practical, I guess...
There was a nice 10 minute mpeg off GuerillaNewsNetwork a while ago that was distributed through BitTorrent. I actually went and installed the bugger to download the damn thing, and I've gotta give the credits where they are due. The thing downloaded from about 10 different sources in all, switching to the next source when the previous one dried up, and I had the movie as fast as if I had downloaded it straight from one fast server.
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Nah, I don't really think they'll use water from the moon. Seems too hard to extract. They could maybe do the water-asteroid-lobbing thing once space travel gets cheap enough (not in this century, then)... I think we'll be having serious water shortages way before that becomes practical though.
Daniel
Well, he sure won't find a job in a department that's involved in any kind of statistical work, that's for sure. The main thing which comes out of his tables is that there is little no correlation between salary and unemployment length. The only remotely useful table in there is the unemployment by industry, but there the sample is far too small to derive any conclusions...
There's nothing wrong with not finding correlation per se, but the author of the site presents the tables as if they had some meaning, without mentioning the fact that their only meaning is that they have no meaning... He should certainly make a note about it, and that page would certainly gain from having the Pearson correlation coefficient calculated for each table (and having only two data columns in each table).
Daniel
It's also called "mobbing". It is indeed illegal.
Daniel
I guess I could wait an infinite amount of time and it still wouldn't show up on this browser =P (linux/moz)
Daniel
The other stuff which is mixed in with the H2O is the problem. Grains of dust are easier to filter out of the water than spills from oil tankers, factory waste, etc.
Daniel
The water on Earth is getting more polluted day by day. Water in asteroids (and probably the moon) is ultra-pure compared to oceans, rivers, etc.
Daniel
Really, my... fellow americans. *stares at camera* I strongly believe that the moon is currently harbouring all kinds... of weapons of mass destruction. They most definitely have nucular weapon facilities. They are a threat to our way of life, to our liberty... and to the liberty... of all the free people of the Earth *blank stare* And so it is with great sadness, but firmness of purpose, that we must carry on, with the help of God, and rid the solar system of weapons of mass destruction.
George
Wat are you toking about, d00d? English is esy two spel! No won I now as ever made eny spelling mistaxe in English. You must of been thinkin of an other language.
Daniel
You can customize all the stuff you mentioned. The only problem is that, as far as I could find out, anyway, the plugins are mostly in developmental stages, and not very user-friendly at all. There's a handful which are actually useable, but even those don't come close to the integration you get in JB. That's why I like JBuilder - it automates almost everything that can be automated. But JB is good only for Java. The Eclipse project is a platform that could be used to write an IDE for any language. It's designed with extreme modularity. I think it a few years Eclipse will probably beat the shit out of JB and the like, but for the moment, JB simply has much more practical functionality when it comes to applications and web apps in Java.
Daniel
Yeah, it's pretty scarce on screenshots... Well, take it on trust, it looks like an IDE :-P
Daniel
Asimov's robots/foundation series come to mind.
:-P
In the more modern type, Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy would make an excellent (and pretty long) miniseries... maybe if it was made into 3 movies per volume or so, it might have enough space to tell the story properly
Oh, and don't forget Iain M. Banks. Now that would make some seriously good movies...
Daniel
Yeah, well, some of us don't wanna spend weeks doing stuff by hand when it could be automated. You may load vim up fast, but I can create a Struts application with a few clicks.
Plus vim doesn't have code completion/insight, doesn't compile shit as you type, etc. Rather than spending half my time alt-tabbing to compile, see a typo, go fix it, compile again, see another typo, go fix it, etc, it's really worth the spare cycles to just see the wrong shit underlined in red while you're typing.
And if you find Swing too slow, go get yourself a better machine and stop bitching. Swing is just spiffy on my Athlon XP 1800+, with 768MB of RAM. That's not an expensive system, either. If it's too slow on your machine, go learn some basics of getting rid of hardware bottlenecks.
Daniel
*Bites tongue off*
That will be my blame for spelling it with a 'p'...
*runs to get bandages for bleeding mouth*
Daniel
You wanna get your hands on a copy of Eclipse for Java, mate. Better yet would be Borland JBuilder Enterprise edition, but that costs $$$.
Daniel
FINF
Firebird Is Not Firebird...
Daniel
I agree. Even without having actually gotten to using it directly, I've had my eye on that db for a while now. As soon as I have my own server I'll probably look into replacing MySQL with Firebird.
As for Mozilla Phoenix... never used it, never wanted to use it. Vanilla Mozilla is fine with me.
Daniel
Can they do the same with girls?
Daniel
ROFLMAO :-P
Daniel
Will they do a version in Sanskript too? Ancient Egyptian GNOME would rock, too :-)
Daniel
I've been in bed with a Chinese (American) girl and I had to put on the Beatles, at her request. I felt the dire lack of soft guitar music indeed.
Other girls just requested milder music (I had trance playing usually).
Daniel
Hah, mate, you need to check out the "Why the Brain?" page:
:-)
At some point in every man's life, he's bound to find himself in bed with a Chinese girl. It may happen suddenly, and you may not remember how it happened, but it will happen -- I guarantee that. When the time comes he needs to be ready. He needs his full arsenal at hand. And by this I mean music. Too many times has the playlist run short on soft acoustic guitar songs, quieting the room to an awkward silence and giving the Chinese girl a chance to reconsider what she's about to do. I've seen it happen, and it's not pretty.
As a matter of fact, it's happened to me. And so we have spent the better part of the last six months of our lives making sure it doesn't happen to you. Because if it ever does, you won't be able to say "Why the hell doesn't my MP3 player just know what songs I want it to play?"
We've got you covered. Use the Brain.
Very "Dead Poet's society"-ish... "the ultimate purpose of all communication is... to seduce women!"
Daniel
I see your point, but on the other hand, faulty RAM-induced crashes are not so hard to diagnose if you're running Linux. Just check out the syslog, and you get this characteristic pattern of page faults and such, and then usually you can be pretty damn sure it's the RAM. Of course, on a laptop that's not really practical, I guess...
Daniel
Hahahah... yeah, that was a brilliant episode :-)
Daniel
Audiogalaxy... now that was a friggin' good filesharing service. Low-hassle, lots of rare stuff... excellent.
Daniel
There was a nice 10 minute mpeg off GuerillaNewsNetwork a while ago that was distributed through BitTorrent. I actually went and installed the bugger to download the damn thing, and I've gotta give the credits where they are due. The thing downloaded from about 10 different sources in all, switching to the next source when the previous one dried up, and I had the movie as fast as if I had downloaded it straight from one fast server.
Daniel