Well, I know you're a troll and I should ignore, but obviously evolution isn't atheistic. Theism is entirely irrelevant to the topic. Is a rock theistic or atheistic? The question is nonsensical, because rocks don't believe in things.
Well.. the proposal was with some 'ideal energy source' that provides infinite energy, so the hbomb and antimatter commentary (while accurate) doesn't really respond to the proposal.
But even with such mythical energy source, you still need to PUSH against something to accelerate. So you still need some hunk of matter to pew pew out your spaceship at relativistic speeds, constantly. In other words, to do this kind of acceleration, you still need to start multiplying your ship's mass by a factor of 3 at the very least. And you need some ideal way of converting it to acceleratable particles.. etc...
While there are strong women in corporations, HR is pretty much a backwater in most, so I wouldn't trot that out so readily.
My strongest department director (born leader -- decisive, inspiring, insightful, and thorough) was a woman, but she left the company after 3 years of brilliant success because she was tired of hitting her head against a glass ceiling.
They created another useless position over her (essentially doing what she had been doing) and hired a man into it. She left, the new guy didn't have support of the team, wasn't able to do more than corporate politics at a not very astute level. The department floundered. I left six months later.
This type of story of women in corporations is far more typical than that of unrestricted success. Just look at the statistics overall, women are not in leadership roles.
Most cloud services are built out using a significant number of other cloud services. That's the "upside" of being in the cloud -- you can use software/platform as a service to reduce the management/overhead costs of building out all that infraustructure yourself. So you can use service X for credit card running, and service Y for user support, and service Z for indexing and search, and so on.
A modern cloud offering might use 10 or more other services. And those offerings may be using a list of other cloud services. And so on.
I've been mugged, burglarized, hit by multiple cars in a blatant fashion (once the guy was tailed by other car and got away by running 5-6 red lights).
The police have never once even given the impression of being helpful.
I'm aware that police *could* be helpful, but I've never experienced it.
Please don't paint me as one of the people for whom this is a hot button issue, but circumcision is on the wane in the US, for what it's worth.
And to me that seems reasonable, because the arguments presented for the practice culturally and by the medical world in the united states in the earlier half of the century don't seem to really hold much water.
So he leads a political charge against the intentionially demonizable body searches. (why do you think those were added?) But what about all the kickback dollars to random "security equipment" like the backscatter scanners. Will that continue, increase, decrease, or be shut down and indicted as it should be?
The idea of demos and intros shifts over time. Originally, intros weren't even designed with any sort of 'competition' in mind at all, so the whole idea of 'cheating vs 'not cheating' couldn't even apply.
Nowadays, the idea of "showing lots of polygons texture mapped etc" isn't very interesting, because the hardware can this so well that there's nothing interesting to show by being clever. So the demoscene has moved on: Demos are typically more about doing something visually creative, wheras 64kb and 4kb intros are more about how much you can express in that amount of space. You have to somehow create your music, textures, objects, camera paths, and so on all in that space. If you think this is not a technical challenge, then you're deeply wrong.
Newsflash; we haven't had OS-less demos on the PC, ever. Even in msdos days we were using bios routines to load in data, if not to initialize the videocard etc.
The book is violent, the morals being presented are twisted, and the author very much damaged goods.
I don't think reading this in a scholastic setting is probably ever appropriate, unless possibly for adults deconstructing what is done right (many things) and wrong (many things) with the text.
I'm not at all surprised that someone objected to it, although it's somewhat amusing that they select essentlly a completely incorrect descriptor for its various problems.
It's not that it's Java's fault for being incapable of fulfilling its marketed features. It's Java's fault for proclaiming marketing features that cannot be fulfilled.
re: biking in snow, it's not really that hard in most cities.
There are a wide variety of purchasable and homebrew solutions to ensure a good grip on snow/ice, from spike tires to zipties. From there it's a matter of ensuring you have sufficiently warm bike-appropriate clothes, and plotting a reasonable route.
In some large cities with heavy traffic and no side streets (new york city) this might seem a bit tough, but it's totally workable in most. My sister in law commuted all winter long in Ann Arbor on her bicycle. It was only a 4 mile route, but that covers what most people would need to get to work in the type of scenario the grandparent post raised.
The cables come from the connectors, and the connectors are pretty much mandated by the form factors.
The box is stretching it, but how far can you defend trade dress on "a picture of the product" on white background? It's not really distinctive, and should lose in court.
The tablet similarly. It's black, and it has rounded corners... ?
The plug is more worth consideration. I'm betting they're using the same supplier, but there are probably similar solutions that wouldnt' be so slavish.
Wrong. We all need to have some familiarity with our company's product, so that we can pull our weight.
Luckily we don't have such ridiculous nonsense, I specced the hardware, I installed the operating system, I maintain the platform. I tell diagnose what's wrong with our infrastructure and I tell IT what they need to do to fix it. And very rarely they do so.
Well, IT are a service organization. Really. And they should remember that, and act like it.
The thing is, so are the rest of us. I've never worked in a department that isn't fundamentally offering a service. Design, Product Management, Support, IT, translation, documentation... it's all just services you're offering to other parties to make the whole thing work.
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Well, I know you're a troll and I should ignore, but obviously evolution isn't atheistic. Theism is entirely irrelevant to the topic. Is a rock theistic or atheistic? The question is nonsensical, because rocks don't believe in things.
Well.. the proposal was with some 'ideal energy source' that provides infinite energy, so the hbomb and antimatter commentary (while accurate) doesn't really respond to the proposal.
But even with such mythical energy source, you still need to PUSH against something to accelerate. So you still need some hunk of matter to pew pew out your spaceship at relativistic speeds, constantly. In other words, to do this kind of acceleration, you still need to start multiplying your ship's mass by a factor of 3 at the very least. And you need some ideal way of converting it to acceleratable particles.. etc...
While there are strong women in corporations, HR is pretty much a backwater in most, so I wouldn't trot that out so readily.
My strongest department director (born leader -- decisive, inspiring, insightful, and thorough) was a woman, but she left the company after 3 years of brilliant success because she was tired of hitting her head against a glass ceiling.
They created another useless position over her (essentially doing what she had been doing) and hired a man into it. She left, the new guy didn't have support of the team, wasn't able to do more than corporate politics at a not very astute level. The department floundered. I left six months later.
This type of story of women in corporations is far more typical than that of unrestricted success. Just look at the statistics overall, women are not in leadership roles.
You made the same joke...
I'm too old for nintendo power (there was no Atari Power).
However I did enjoy final fantasy 1 and 4 (or 1 and 2 as i knew them.)
Because expecting addon developers to constantly track your 6 week release cycle is a good way to encourage a lot of addons. Right?
But the single bed does fit. You just have to modify the people.
It's worse than this.
Most cloud services are built out using a significant number of other cloud services. That's the "upside" of being in the cloud -- you can use software/platform as a service to reduce the management/overhead costs of building out all that infraustructure yourself. So you can use service X for credit card running, and service Y for user support, and service Z for indexing and search, and so on.
A modern cloud offering might use 10 or more other services. And those offerings may be using a list of other cloud services. And so on.
This is where meltdowns become highly plausible.
Why does new legislation have to pass legality checks? It is the laws.
Nice straw man.
I've been the victim of a variety of crimes.
I've been mugged, burglarized, hit by multiple cars in a blatant fashion (once the guy was tailed by other car and got away by running 5-6 red lights).
The police have never once even given the impression of being helpful.
I'm aware that police *could* be helpful, but I've never experienced it.
Please don't paint me as one of the people for whom this is a hot button issue, but circumcision is on the wane in the US, for what it's worth.
And to me that seems reasonable, because the arguments presented for the practice culturally and by the medical world in the united states in the earlier half of the century don't seem to really hold much water.
So he leads a political charge against the intentionially demonizable body searches. (why do you think those were added?) But what about all the kickback dollars to random "security equipment" like the backscatter scanners. Will that continue, increase, decrease, or be shut down and indicted as it should be?
So the Apache Open Office tools don't fully support outside contributors. I see.
You're out of date.
The idea of demos and intros shifts over time. Originally, intros weren't even designed with any sort of 'competition' in mind at all, so the whole idea of 'cheating vs 'not cheating' couldn't even apply.
Nowadays, the idea of "showing lots of polygons texture mapped etc" isn't very interesting, because the hardware can this so well that there's nothing interesting to show by being clever. So the demoscene has moved on: Demos are typically more about doing something visually creative, wheras 64kb and 4kb intros are more about how much you can express in that amount of space. You have to somehow create your music, textures, objects, camera paths, and so on all in that space. If you think this is not a technical challenge, then you're deeply wrong.
Newsflash; we haven't had OS-less demos on the PC, ever. Even in msdos days we were using bios routines to load in data, if not to initialize the videocard etc.
Strange, I achieved this feat in 1989. Perhaps you did not get the memo.
The book is violent, the morals being presented are twisted, and the author very much damaged goods.
I don't think reading this in a scholastic setting is probably ever appropriate, unless possibly for adults deconstructing what is done right (many things) and wrong (many things) with the text.
I'm not at all surprised that someone objected to it, although it's somewhat amusing that they select essentlly a completely incorrect descriptor for its various problems.
Always-on DRM says that the customer is there to be controlled.
RMT auctions say the customer is there to be fleeced.
If you want to tell the games industry you like being treated like garbage, by all means buy Diablo 3.
It's not that it's Java's fault for being incapable of fulfilling its marketed features. It's Java's fault for proclaiming marketing features that cannot be fulfilled.
re: biking in snow, it's not really that hard in most cities.
There are a wide variety of purchasable and homebrew solutions to ensure a good grip on snow/ice, from spike tires to zipties. From there it's a matter of ensuring you have sufficiently warm bike-appropriate clothes, and plotting a reasonable route.
In some large cities with heavy traffic and no side streets (new york city) this might seem a bit tough, but it's totally workable in most. My sister in law commuted all winter long in Ann Arbor on her bicycle. It was only a 4 mile route, but that covers what most people would need to get to work in the type of scenario the grandparent post raised.
The cables come from the connectors, and the connectors are pretty much mandated by the form factors.
The box is stretching it, but how far can you defend trade dress on "a picture of the product" on white background? It's not really distinctive, and should lose in court.
The tablet similarly. It's black, and it has rounded corners... ?
The plug is more worth consideration. I'm betting they're using the same supplier, but there are probably similar solutions that wouldnt' be so slavish.
Well.. if you consider the "company to last 200 years" quote, the IPO as the target is a new thing as well.
It used to be that the IPO was a tool to gain capitalization for a specific purpose, rather than the end goal for the company creator.
Wrong. We all need to have some familiarity with our company's product, so that we can pull our weight.
Luckily we don't have such ridiculous nonsense, I specced the hardware, I installed the operating system, I maintain the platform. I tell diagnose what's wrong with our infrastructure and I tell IT what they need to do to fix it. And very rarely they do so.
Well, IT are a service organization. Really. And they should remember that, and act like it.
The thing is, so are the rest of us. I've never worked in a department that isn't fundamentally offering a service. Design, Product Management, Support, IT, translation, documentation... it's all just services you're offering to other parties to make the whole thing work.
Duh.