No, most gays, like most americans, are quite aware that voting for tiny minority candidates does not cause their views to be heard, but to be lost entirely.
If our voting system was different, I could concionably consider voting for a candidate other than Kerry. As it is, I cannot.
A modern deep blue with a modern evaluation function could, but it's quite questionable that the flawed but powerful deep blue could trounce the sigificantly advanced state of chess software that we have today, running on a significantly powerful cluster of off-the-shelf machines. Certainly years ago the inferior (to shredder) Fritz won a match against a single deep blue node (with a large number of position evaluator chips). This was an example of superior programming winning against vastly more poweful silicon, and the two systems were concurrent.
Transgaming is selling a product based on Wine, a totally free software project. TransGaming has added to that codebase, but without contributing most of those additions back to the Wine codebase.
They have brought value to their product, which is why it is worth any money at all, but they have not really been a team player with the free software community.
In addition, there have been various sketchy issues, including a promise (unfulfilled) of opening their codebase when they get a bunch of subscribers. They also damaged sales of a native linux port by wine-porting it redundantly (kohan), have used linux-subscriber funds to port games to macintosh instead of linux which were not made available to linux subscribers.
Now, these are oversimplified descriptions, and I'm not suggesting they are an evil bunch of people. But describing them as "totally community oriented" is simply inaccurate. There is also the contestable issue that they may be helping to prevent the growth of the native Linux games market by diverting demand to windows games, while also providing a poor linux gaming experience (look at the list of fully supported games, it's quite small). This view is not airtight but it's not invalid either.
In short, they are not the "good guys". They are a business out to make a profit regardless of whether their actions are "good" or "bad".
Speaking as a gay, this is pretty much a no-brainer.
Bush: actively opposes gay marriage. Engages in mindless hate-speech against gays and nonsense rhretoric in an attack on my position in society. Attempts to pervert the Constitution of the nation in order to enshrine his personal bigotry in it.
Kerry: Will not actively work to create national marriage parity, but instead will allow states to decide as they have already begun to do. Will make at least some effort to avoid supporting obvious anti-gay bigotry as in Bush's above-mentioned constitutional amendment.
Wow, this is a really tough choice!
Sure I'd love to vote for someone who believes fervently in equality, but for a given office there is often no likely candidate who closely aligns with one's views. You make the best choice you can.
Because it is much easier to design a relateively difficult to exploit physical punch-hole counter or optical scanner than it is to design exploit-proof a generically programmable device like a windows computer (e-voting terminal.)
It also centralizes the inspectable input into the counting system with the actual input into the counting system, wheras a receipt printing does not verify this.
True both are later scannable, but the receipt case is more surruptitiously modifiable.
Okay, I'm curious. How does the XML nature of this Jelly directly benefit in any of your examples? For comparison, ask yourself: Could this have been done in a language which is implemented in plain text?
So where in this morass do you actually suggest that high density cannot scale up based on some factual information?
Modern cities are very much less dense than classic ones. Despite modern construction methods. This results from a variety of factors, including zoning, inefficient road construction, and other factors. It very directly results in long commute times. It is inefficient in several ways (energy used, land consumed, public expenses that come home to roost in tax dollars).
Does a city like venice scale up? Yes. Most old world european cities have cores which are rather similar to Venice in many ways, but to a lesser extreme. Do american cities scale up? Not efficiently they do not. Look at Atlanta for a real disaster area of efficiency issues. Atlanta doesn't have a New York skyline, but it's a lot more like New York than it is like Paris.
Read some information on urban planning, and then when you have some relevant understanding, get back to me.
And yes, if you say higher density than suburban sprawl == skyscrapers, you're fitting one definition of a troll (sadly there are a myriad, so you may not agree at all). Suburban construction is the nadir of land use efficiency. Small town USA is vastly more efficient.
Do you know that quantity and density are not the same concepts? Perhaps you should go look them up.
The density of venice is achieved without resorting to exceedingly large structures, and has no obvious scalability problems. The major components are these:
- All space is mixed use. There is no reserved space where residential use is not allowed.
- Nearly all space is focused on human use. Very little space is given over to automobiles.
- All space is in full use. There are no vast wastelands of square miles of unused, undevelopable, or unsalvagable space. Wrong-headed building codes do not force large numbers of older buildings from being financially livable or salvagable.
Anyway, your total nonsequitur of total population is dismissed.
Yes, what a stupid argument. You are equating descrimination (denying service or employment or access to a protected class of citizens) with non-accessability (denying service or employment or access to a protected class of citizens.
Clearly these two things are _completely_ different!
I mean, if I don't hire any non-whites ever in my business by accident, that's totally okay! Even after people point out to me that my hiring processes make it impossible for my company to ever hire blacks or hispanics or arabs or gays or women, and have explained clearly why these protected classes of people are unable to ever be served, employed, or recognized by my corporation, it's PERFECTLY OKAY for me to continue in these practices.
Well, in my universe, water is not a power source for humans.
Meanwhile, a gallon of actual fuel will take a cyclist somewhere around 150 miles or so. It also provides the day's nutrition, which the driver would have to purchase in addition.
In practice however, neural nets are labor intensive to set up, slow to execute, and inexact as compared to specialized solutions which are often more apparent.
Certainly if you are working on some problem domain for which a specialized solution is _not_ apparent, neural nets become something to consider. Usually however, the right course is to find that specialized solution.
Code reviews are good tools. DTrace is apparently a good tool. They are not redundant.
I can't code review code that some other company wrote, but I can trace it to identify a problem I am having while using it. Heck, I may not even understand the entire design of some app I've been given, but I can use DTrace to try to figure out why its network response times seem so sluggish. It could be something about how our systems are set up, or it might become an obvious common performance issue. Not that you couldn't necessarily investigate some of these issues in other ways, but supposedly DTrace provides a more powerful, direct, and rapid way of doing said analysis.
A second response I have is that many code reviews I've been part of have involved a lot of nudge nudge wink wink. If yours are thurough, efficient, and not onerous, count yourself truly blessed.
Perhaps it has to do with how much warning for bottleneck fillage is available in the real world situations encountered? It sounded to me like this was a sort of ASAP kind of fixing-it problem.
Obviously your method would be great to pre-emptively schedule across all systems, but I suspect in a typical shop it might be one of those things the sysadmin means to do when the fires are all out.:-(
Yeah, I was alluding to all this in my comment about failures of capitalism. It was certainly a factor, but the networks were in decline before they were destroyed. Maybe they could have been restored had there been time for a push-back, but it wasn't entirely corporate greed.
To be fair, some of the streetcar replacement was done as a transitioning of transit systems from the fixed, "bad" rail to the flexible "good" busses. Most transit companies *still* operate in ignorance of the advantages of rail to the riders, which are: obvious location, dependable route, rights of way, and quality of life issues (boarding, noise, ride quality). The issue of the route being unchanging is really the most important factor, in that neighborhoods and land use will react in relationship to a stable line quite differently from an untrusted bus route, and ridership on lines which have dependable and clear direction is MUCH higher -- the driver can't just decide to make a turn because they feel like it or because "dispatch said so", often missing stops and in the worst cases even getting lost!
Well, whether people want to live in urban areas depends on many factors, including how well they're maintained. Firstly, realize that a dense small town (5000 or less) is often a proper urban environment, with dense construction, public space, functional streets, with mixed commercial and residential etc. A well-planned well-maintained uban area commands vastly higher prices than a well-maintained suburban area. This isn't because of some immensely higher cost of the urban process, but because such spaces are in higher demand. People simply like them better.
What low gas prices allow and/or encourage however is for Wal*Mart to set up shop just outside the reach of a town council or government, so that they can refuse to be part of the urban environment, and instead be a sprawling structure which is the antithesis of real town planning.
Note that environments with multi-level stores and multi-level parking lots sometimes fail to achieve the commercial density afforded by narrow two-way streets with parallel parking, resonable sidewalks, lined with stores. Not such things are necessarily poor, but street parking directly in front of stores and on sidewalks adds to urban vitality, while parking structures are much more difficult to plan for.
The taxes are generally placed because the understood "cost of use" of gasoline is significantly higher than the cost of production. That is, road wear and tear, development, environmental destruction, cleanup, etc. etc. Some of these costs (such as pollution) are far more than others (such as tertiary costs in inefficienty city grown patterns as the result of automobile transit). Overall taxes still do not account for the total cost of gasoline use, even in europe, but they do account for most of the direct costs which are pretty guaranteed to be unrecoupable via other means.
There's also supply demand issues where we put money into projects designed to keep the competition pressure on petroleum products high and also into creating additional supply from public sources. But this quickly gets quite contentious so it isn't really worth discussing beyond a possibility of consideration.
But if you're speaking of the cost of production and delivery of gasoline to the pump, yeah mostly Europe has higher taxes due to tax.
Yes, let's optimize our operating system information architecture for the physical layout of our current filesystems, becaue god knows we're already certain that it could never be done efficiently and the cost would certainly be too high in all cases.
BZZT.
There are many solutions, such as allocating the metadata and file contiguously in the filesystem, optimizing the filesystem for small files or file bits (eg. BeFS or Reiser), and perhaps future techniques that have not been considered. This problem has been solved on 8mhz machines using 800k floppy disks. I'm certain it can be solved again for your p4 and it's 500GB hard drive.
So, you don't like the dumb things libertarians say. That's good. Now try not to sound like one.
Firing people "at will" is not ideal because the two parties are by no means in an equal bargaining position. Nor can they really be unless the current economic reality of the majority of employers changes, or the legal right set of corporations changes (so that it is not larger than that of real humans), or both. The only group of people I had previously encountered who were unaware of this are libertarians.
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The libertarian supports equal rights for all americans provided they haven't signed away these rights in a contract.
At least, that's how I see their position, so I really can't condone it.
No, most gays, like most americans, are quite aware that voting for tiny minority candidates does not cause their views to be heard, but to be lost entirely.
If our voting system was different, I could concionably consider voting for a candidate other than Kerry. As it is, I cannot.
A modern deep blue with a modern evaluation function could, but it's quite questionable that the flawed but powerful deep blue could trounce the sigificantly advanced state of chess software that we have today, running on a significantly powerful cluster of off-the-shelf machines. Certainly years ago the inferior (to shredder) Fritz won a match against a single deep blue node (with a large number of position evaluator chips). This was an example of superior programming winning against vastly more poweful silicon, and the two systems were concurrent.
Transgaming is selling a product based on Wine, a totally free software project. TransGaming has added to that codebase, but without contributing most of those additions back to the Wine codebase.
They have brought value to their product, which is why it is worth any money at all, but they have not really been a team player with the free software community.
In addition, there have been various sketchy issues, including a promise (unfulfilled) of opening their codebase when they get a bunch of subscribers. They also damaged sales of a native linux port by wine-porting it redundantly (kohan), have used linux-subscriber funds to port games to macintosh instead of linux which were not made available to linux subscribers.
Now, these are oversimplified descriptions, and I'm not suggesting they are an evil bunch of people. But describing them as "totally community oriented" is simply inaccurate. There is also the contestable issue that they may be helping to prevent the growth of the native Linux games market by diverting demand to windows games, while also providing a poor linux gaming experience (look at the list of fully supported games, it's quite small). This view is not airtight but it's not invalid either.
In short, they are not the "good guys". They are a business out to make a profit regardless of whether their actions are "good" or "bad".
Speaking as a gay, this is pretty much a no-brainer.
Bush: actively opposes gay marriage. Engages in mindless hate-speech against gays and nonsense rhretoric in an attack on my position in society. Attempts to pervert the Constitution of the nation in order to enshrine his personal bigotry in it.
Kerry: Will not actively work to create national marriage parity, but instead will allow states to decide as they have already begun to do. Will make at least some effort to avoid supporting obvious anti-gay bigotry as in Bush's above-mentioned constitutional amendment.
Wow, this is a really tough choice!
Sure I'd love to vote for someone who believes fervently in equality, but for a given office there is often no likely candidate who closely aligns with one's views. You make the best choice you can.
Because it is much easier to design a relateively difficult to exploit physical punch-hole counter or optical scanner than it is to design exploit-proof a generically programmable device like a windows computer (e-voting terminal.)
It also centralizes the inspectable input into the counting system with the actual input into the counting system, wheras a receipt printing does not verify this.
True both are later scannable, but the receipt case is more surruptitiously modifiable.
And just becuse it's possible doesn't mean it's not awful. As your post amply demonstrates.
I'm lost. You're searching scripts in a database which access the database? This seems kind of a 1 to 1 ratio here.
Also, wouldn't just a regex across the scripts work?
Okay, I'm curious. How does the XML nature of this Jelly directly benefit in any of your examples? For comparison, ask yourself: Could this have been done in a language which is implemented in plain text?
So where in this morass do you actually suggest that high density cannot scale up based on some factual information?
Modern cities are very much less dense than classic ones. Despite modern construction methods. This results from a variety of factors, including zoning, inefficient road construction, and other factors. It very directly results in long commute times. It is inefficient in several ways (energy used, land consumed, public expenses that come home to roost in tax dollars).
Does a city like venice scale up? Yes. Most old world european cities have cores which are rather similar to Venice in many ways, but to a lesser extreme. Do american cities scale up? Not efficiently they do not. Look at Atlanta for a real disaster area of efficiency issues. Atlanta doesn't have a New York skyline, but it's a lot more like New York than it is like Paris.
Read some information on urban planning, and then when you have some relevant understanding, get back to me.
And yes, if you say higher density than suburban sprawl == skyscrapers, you're fitting one definition of a troll (sadly there are a myriad, so you may not agree at all). Suburban construction is the nadir of land use efficiency. Small town USA is vastly more efficient.
Do you know that quantity and density are not the same concepts? Perhaps you should go look them up.
The density of venice is achieved without resorting to exceedingly large structures, and has no obvious scalability problems. The major components are these:
- All space is mixed use. There is no reserved space where residential use is not allowed.
- Nearly all space is focused on human use. Very little space is given over to automobiles.
- All space is in full use. There are no vast wastelands of square miles of unused, undevelopable, or unsalvagable space. Wrong-headed building codes do not force large numbers of older buildings from being financially livable or salvagable.
Anyway, your total nonsequitur of total population is dismissed.
Step 1: Fact.
Step 2: Non-sequitur.
Please try to link these together a little more closely.
I'm not arguing that your view is wrong, it might be correct. I'm arguing that your post is useless.
Yes, what a stupid argument. You are equating descrimination (denying service or employment or access to a protected class of citizens) with non-accessability (denying service or employment or access to a protected class of citizens.
Clearly these two things are _completely_ different!
I mean, if I don't hire any non-whites ever in my business by accident, that's totally okay! Even after people point out to me that my hiring processes make it impossible for my company to ever hire blacks or hispanics or arabs or gays or women, and have explained clearly why these protected classes of people are unable to ever be served, employed, or recognized by my corporation, it's PERFECTLY OKAY for me to continue in these practices.
Are you really this dumb?
Well, in my universe, water is not a power source for humans.
Meanwhile, a gallon of actual fuel will take a cyclist somewhere around 150 miles or so. It also provides the day's nutrition, which the driver would have to purchase in addition.
Note that the most dense city in the world is Venice, Italy. Note the concentration of mile high skyscrapers.
Density stems not from huge buildings but from sane city design.
There is a 14% grade leading right up to my house, here in the city of Oakland, California. Note, I do not live "in the hills".
I think he said currently. Like. Twice.
In practice however, neural nets are labor intensive to set up, slow to execute, and inexact as compared to specialized solutions which are often more apparent.
Certainly if you are working on some problem domain for which a specialized solution is _not_ apparent, neural nets become something to consider. Usually however, the right course is to find that specialized solution.
Code reviews are good tools. DTrace is apparently a good tool. They are not redundant.
I can't code review code that some other company wrote, but I can trace it to identify a problem I am having while using it. Heck, I may not even understand the entire design of some app I've been given, but I can use DTrace to try to figure out why its network response times seem so sluggish. It could be something about how our systems are set up, or it might become an obvious common performance issue. Not that you couldn't necessarily investigate some of these issues in other ways, but supposedly DTrace provides a more powerful, direct, and rapid way of doing said analysis.
A second response I have is that many code reviews I've been part of have involved a lot of nudge nudge wink wink. If yours are thurough, efficient, and not onerous, count yourself truly blessed.
Perhaps it has to do with how much warning for bottleneck fillage is available in the real world situations encountered? It sounded to me like this was a sort of ASAP kind of fixing-it problem.
:-(
Obviously your method would be great to pre-emptively schedule across all systems, but I suspect in a typical shop it might be one of those things the sysadmin means to do when the fires are all out.
Yeah, I was alluding to all this in my comment about failures of capitalism. It was certainly a factor, but the networks were in decline before they were destroyed. Maybe they could have been restored had there been time for a push-back, but it wasn't entirely corporate greed.
To be fair, some of the streetcar replacement was done as a transitioning of transit systems from the fixed, "bad" rail to the flexible "good" busses. Most transit companies *still* operate in ignorance of the advantages of rail to the riders, which are: obvious location, dependable route, rights of way, and quality of life issues (boarding, noise, ride quality). The issue of the route being unchanging is really the most important factor, in that neighborhoods and land use will react in relationship to a stable line quite differently from an untrusted bus route, and ridership on lines which have dependable and clear direction is MUCH higher -- the driver can't just decide to make a turn because they feel like it or because "dispatch said so", often missing stops and in the worst cases even getting lost!
Well, whether people want to live in urban areas depends on many factors, including how well they're maintained. Firstly, realize that a dense small town (5000 or less) is often a proper urban environment, with dense construction, public space, functional streets, with mixed commercial and residential etc. A well-planned well-maintained uban area commands vastly higher prices than a well-maintained suburban area. This isn't because of some immensely higher cost of the urban process, but because such spaces are in higher demand. People simply like them better.
What low gas prices allow and/or encourage however is for Wal*Mart to set up shop just outside the reach of a town council or government, so that they can refuse to be part of the urban environment, and instead be a sprawling structure which is the antithesis of real town planning.
Note that environments with multi-level stores and multi-level parking lots sometimes fail to achieve the commercial density afforded by narrow two-way streets with parallel parking, resonable sidewalks, lined with stores. Not such things are necessarily poor, but street parking directly in front of stores and on sidewalks adds to urban vitality, while parking structures are much more difficult to plan for.
The taxes are generally placed because the understood "cost of use" of gasoline is significantly higher than the cost of production. That is, road wear and tear, development, environmental destruction, cleanup, etc. etc. Some of these costs (such as pollution) are far more than others (such as tertiary costs in inefficienty city grown patterns as the result of automobile transit). Overall taxes still do not account for the total cost of gasoline use, even in europe, but they do account for most of the direct costs which are pretty guaranteed to be unrecoupable via other means.
There's also supply demand issues where we put money into projects designed to keep the competition pressure on petroleum products high and also into creating additional supply from public sources. But this quickly gets quite contentious so it isn't really worth discussing beyond a possibility of consideration.
But if you're speaking of the cost of production and delivery of gasoline to the pump, yeah mostly Europe has higher taxes due to tax.
Yes, let's optimize our operating system information architecture for the physical layout of our current filesystems, becaue god knows we're already certain that it could never be done efficiently and the cost would certainly be too high in all cases.
BZZT.
There are many solutions, such as allocating the metadata and file contiguously in the filesystem, optimizing the filesystem for small files or file bits (eg. BeFS or Reiser), and perhaps future techniques that have not been considered. This problem has been solved on 8mhz machines using 800k floppy disks. I'm certain it can be solved again for your p4 and it's 500GB hard drive.
So, you don't like the dumb things libertarians say. That's good. Now try not to sound like one.
Firing people "at will" is not ideal because the two parties are by no means in an equal bargaining position. Nor can they really be unless the current economic reality of the majority of employers changes, or the legal right set of corporations changes (so that it is not larger than that of real humans), or both. The only group of people I had previously encountered who were unaware of this are libertarians.
What new group can I add to this list?