Because, at the end of the day, most people only care about getting what they want as cheaply as possible.
Not necessarily. Lopsided trade has been slipped in by the rich without asking, for the most part.
Consumers may agree to tariffs, and higher prices, if "forced" to weigh it against the downsides such as pollution and inequality. When one is shopping, they are focused on shopping, not geopolitical issues.
You mean individual-to-individual? That's pretty much what we got now, and it has lead to pollution, de-facto slaves, rust-belt job-loss violence, and a plutocracy (in the USA).
Let this be a reminder to those enamored with politicians who claim "we can compete with China by relaxing our regulations".
I believe we should tariff goods from countries who don't adhere to basic labor, pollution, and safety standards.
For those who claim that prevents such countries from "advancing", the country can instead encourage more local consumption. Asian countries have been slow to do this, largely because governments are afraid it will make their population pop-culture addicts, like those found in the USA. They don't like "work hard, play hard". They only want the first.
But if you want the benefits of pop culture (sales & profits), you have to take the downsides also. We make it too easy for them to have the good sides of globalization without the bad. We should put our foot down. Why do we always trade on THEIR terms?
There's also the possibility of much larger objects further out...
That certainly may be true, but for larger objects to have avoided detection thus far, they are probably too far away from the Sun to be affected by it often enough.
Even IF such further objects do swing close to the sun on occasion, they probably due so too infrequently for the "heat pump" action to make much difference to their geology.
We've probably spotted all the larger ones with shorter-period orbits, because those have to be fairly close to the sun to have short periods; and those with longer period orbits probably won't get sun-heat often enough to have significant Pluto-like dynamism, even if they do have a highly elliptical sun-visiting orbit.
If we do find a Mars/Earth-sized object further out, I bet its surface is not nearly as dynamic as Pluto's. But it would be an interesting find regardless.
I suppose it's possible such a large object could come really close to the sun during its infrequent visits such as to have "big melt" events. But most likely Jupiter and company would have mucked up its orbit by now the same way it bleeps with comets. Something in a "stable" orbit would probably not come much closer than Neptune. We may find something out there that used to have such "melty" visits until Jupiter/Saturn "fixed" its orbit.
You are behind, dude, Cherry MX Periwinkle Switches Reloaded++ is now out.
Seriously, who the hell knows what's 10 years down the road. The industry is driven as much by fads as logic, if not more.
I just hope the UI side simplifies so that one doesn't have to say diddle with the minutia of scroll-bar coordinates for everyday GUI idioms and bread-and-butter CRUD. I'd like to focus on domain logic rather than micromanage UI glitches all day.
UI's are f8cking mess unless you target a specific browser brand and version. We devolved from the desktop days. I pray the industry cleans up the UI mess created by the browser. Unfortunately the industry seems to be chasing eye candy fads instead instead of practical things, but I guess the money is in hype and flash.
I can't help but wonder whether the architectural similarities of typical PHP, ColdFusion and ASP.NET have something to do with the tendencies of some programmers to produce vulnerable code with them
They are, or at least were, often used for intranet projects, where security may be a smaller concern. Intranet habits are perhaps spilling over.
Pluto is the prototype for the most common type of world in the Universe
It may be true that Kuiper-belt-like objects are the most common kind, but Pluto is probably unique in that it comes relatively close to the sun, and the temporary heat is likely what causes the "pumping action" that shapes Pluto's dynamic geology. Bodies further out may not get enough energy from the sun to drive similar processes.
But being we've only seen one so far*, we can only speculate. Although other large Kuiper bodies are (on average) further away, they may still come close enough on occasion for some of the same heat/cold pump cycling action.
Eris is a possible example. It comes about as close as Pluto does but swings further away. It would be interesting to see how a wider temperature range shapes it.
* Some moons of the gas giants may be from the Kuiper belt, but being close to a large planet shapes them in ways that makes it difficult to know what they originally were like.
Trying to define "true intelligence" and "common sense" is a losing game. I've been in some long and winding debates on such.
Many attempts seem to come down to "does it act like a human in a wide variety of circumstances?" But that's measuring "acting like a human", not necessarily intelligence. If you only want to measure human-ness then call it "human-like intelligence" or "human-like behavior", not AI, but HLB.
Let's be practical and instead focus on whether a device can do something useful. Is it a good tool?
I'm not sure we want our tools to be too general anyhow. Do you want your vacuum cleaner flirting with your wife?
The "Express" SQL-Server version is limited by more than just capacity. Last I checked, it's limited to processing on one core and lacks the automatic backup scheduling feature. Regular file backups are not sufficient for such database files unless you switch off all updates temporarily during backup file copy (to avoid orphaned data pointers). You can script the process-shutdown/copy-files/startup steps, but if something goes wrong, you have a downed database to manually restart.
Funny names give OSS street-cred. The more it sounds like a bodily function, disease, and/or something from Mork's planet, the better in OSS circles. "Ogg Vorbis" is one of my favorites in that regard.
PHP, like Javascript, are complete clusterfucks written by people who don't have a fucking clue how a good language is designed.
To be fair, all the common scripting languages suck. C#/VB.net is actually a fairly decent "compiled" language (ignoring the MS API's and environment).
But, the common scripting/dynamic languages out there all suck in different ways. (I suppose a lot of it is subjective.)
Here are the main features I'd like to see in a "production" dynamic language:
* Non-type-tag-based type system. Whether "123.4" is a string or number depends entirely on the operation acting on it. You don't have to test for a hidden type tag/indicator. I hate those. I want WYSIWYG typing for scalars. Perl and ColdFusion almost got it right. (Perhaps it can store probable numbers as floating point under the hood as a speed optimization, but such "compression" should be hidden from the programmer and not affect results/output.)
* No overloading of common operators such as "+" for both addition and string concatenation. And better syntax or built-in functions to explicitly indicate comparison types. Perl almost got it right, but it's too easy to forget and cross confuse. There are some interesting solutions to this.
* No white-space block indicators, per Python/Ruby. Use either {...} and/or foo...end foo.
* Optional and optionally named parameters. MS's recent languages did this fairly well.
* Better parameter type checking options/syntax (via parsing if need be).
* Type name should come after variable name in declarations, not before. The C family fucked this up. Pascal and VB do it better.
* Modern set-based switch/case statement. C's "break" is fucked.
* A real OOP system, not JS's anonymous function-based bastard.
* Don't sacrifice rank-and-file features for cutesy FP or meta-programming. I'm not necessarily against those, just don't screw up the regular parts to make FP/meta easier or shorter if a trade-off arises. Take care of business before you go Lisp-y or hacky.
* Maps and objects are the same thing. It's one of the few things JS almost got right.
* One-based indexing for string dissection. It makes the string functions much cleaner than zero-based.
Cue the PHP haters...[but] coding in it enabled me to make a shitload of money over the last...
Job security and "good language" are very different things, and perhaps inversely related. The screwier the language, the more time it takes a coder to work with it. More paychecks for you, perhaps, but the company could be paying more compared to a "good" language.
It's like asking an auto-mechanic if a Ford Escort car is any good. Good to own, or good for his wallet?
I'm not judging PHP here, just questioning the perspective of your metric.
Slashbonk: Technology news for cavemen, stuff that splatters.
1. Hacking with blunt objects 2. Encryption by smashing to pieces 3. Decryption? Make the cave-women do it! 4. Bronze vs. rocks, does it matter? 5. Will your job be outsourced to Pangaea? 6. How to tell if you are on Pangaea 8. How to get more cave-women into smashing 7. When to run from volcanoes 9. Numbering lists correctly 10. What are numbers? 11. What are lists? 12. Does it run Cavix?
In general, Adobe's product version naming has been very odd and confusing. Numeric version numbers are not "sexy" enough I guess, so they give their versions names seemingly stolen from sports shoes or Honda's Department of Hipster Marketing.
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Not necessarily. Lopsided trade has been slipped in by the rich without asking, for the most part.
Consumers may agree to tariffs, and higher prices, if "forced" to weigh it against the downsides such as pollution and inequality. When one is shopping, they are focused on shopping, not geopolitical issues.
You mean individual-to-individual? That's pretty much what we got now, and it has lead to pollution, de-facto slaves, rust-belt job-loss violence, and a plutocracy (in the USA).
Yeah, as long as YOU are NOT one of the branches trimmed.
Let this be a reminder to those enamored with politicians who claim "we can compete with China by relaxing our regulations".
I believe we should tariff goods from countries who don't adhere to basic labor, pollution, and safety standards.
For those who claim that prevents such countries from "advancing", the country can instead encourage more local consumption. Asian countries have been slow to do this, largely because governments are afraid it will make their population pop-culture addicts, like those found in the USA. They don't like "work hard, play hard". They only want the first.
But if you want the benefits of pop culture (sales & profits), you have to take the downsides also. We make it too easy for them to have the good sides of globalization without the bad. We should put our foot down. Why do we always trade on THEIR terms?
It seems it's hard for a company to change its personality overnight. The Gates Jerkiness survives in the culture and leader selection process.
Once a Borg, always a Borg.
That certainly may be true, but for larger objects to have avoided detection thus far, they are probably too far away from the Sun to be affected by it often enough.
Even IF such further objects do swing close to the sun on occasion, they probably due so too infrequently for the "heat pump" action to make much difference to their geology.
We've probably spotted all the larger ones with shorter-period orbits, because those have to be fairly close to the sun to have short periods; and those with longer period orbits probably won't get sun-heat often enough to have significant Pluto-like dynamism, even if they do have a highly elliptical sun-visiting orbit.
If we do find a Mars/Earth-sized object further out, I bet its surface is not nearly as dynamic as Pluto's. But it would be an interesting find regardless.
I suppose it's possible such a large object could come really close to the sun during its infrequent visits such as to have "big melt" events. But most likely Jupiter and company would have mucked up its orbit by now the same way it bleeps with comets. Something in a "stable" orbit would probably not come much closer than Neptune. We may find something out there that used to have such "melty" visits until Jupiter/Saturn "fixed" its orbit.
You are behind, dude, Cherry MX Periwinkle Switches Reloaded++ is now out.
Seriously, who the hell knows what's 10 years down the road. The industry is driven as much by fads as logic, if not more.
I just hope the UI side simplifies so that one doesn't have to say diddle with the minutia of scroll-bar coordinates for everyday GUI idioms and bread-and-butter CRUD. I'd like to focus on domain logic rather than micromanage UI glitches all day.
UI's are f8cking mess unless you target a specific browser brand and version. We devolved from the desktop days. I pray the industry cleans up the UI mess created by the browser. Unfortunately the industry seems to be chasing eye candy fads instead instead of practical things, but I guess the money is in hype and flash.
In summary, get off my UI lawn!
They are, or at least were, often used for intranet projects, where security may be a smaller concern. Intranet habits are perhaps spilling over.
Get up earlier instead of staying up too late writing silly scripts.
Or just eat cake.
and only one skilled in shooting womp rats.
Why are so many trying to compete with a company that is barely profitable, especially since oil has dropped?
It may be true that Kuiper-belt-like objects are the most common kind, but Pluto is probably unique in that it comes relatively close to the sun, and the temporary heat is likely what causes the "pumping action" that shapes Pluto's dynamic geology. Bodies further out may not get enough energy from the sun to drive similar processes.
But being we've only seen one so far*, we can only speculate. Although other large Kuiper bodies are (on average) further away, they may still come close enough on occasion for some of the same heat/cold pump cycling action.
Eris is a possible example. It comes about as close as Pluto does but swings further away. It would be interesting to see how a wider temperature range shapes it.
* Some moons of the gas giants may be from the Kuiper belt, but being close to a large planet shapes them in ways that makes it difficult to know what they originally were like.
What an amazing pla....uh...round thing!
Shadow copy does not work right on those database files.
Trying to define "true intelligence" and "common sense" is a losing game. I've been in some long and winding debates on such.
Many attempts seem to come down to "does it act like a human in a wide variety of circumstances?" But that's measuring "acting like a human", not necessarily intelligence. If you only want to measure human-ness then call it "human-like intelligence" or "human-like behavior", not AI, but HLB.
Let's be practical and instead focus on whether a device can do something useful. Is it a good tool?
I'm not sure we want our tools to be too general anyhow. Do you want your vacuum cleaner flirting with your wife?
The "Express" SQL-Server version is limited by more than just capacity. Last I checked, it's limited to processing on one core and lacks the automatic backup scheduling feature. Regular file backups are not sufficient for such database files unless you switch off all updates temporarily during backup file copy (to avoid orphaned data pointers). You can script the process-shutdown/copy-files/startup steps, but if something goes wrong, you have a downed database to manually restart.
Funny names give OSS street-cred. The more it sounds like a bodily function, disease, and/or something from Mork's planet, the better in OSS circles. "Ogg Vorbis" is one of my favorites in that regard.
To be fair, all the common scripting languages suck. C#/VB.net is actually a fairly decent "compiled" language (ignoring the MS API's and environment).
But, the common scripting/dynamic languages out there all suck in different ways. (I suppose a lot of it is subjective.)
Here are the main features I'd like to see in a "production" dynamic language:
* Non-type-tag-based type system. Whether "123.4" is a string or number depends entirely on the operation acting on it. You don't have to test for a hidden type tag/indicator. I hate those. I want WYSIWYG typing for scalars. Perl and ColdFusion almost got it right. (Perhaps it can store probable numbers as floating point under the hood as a speed optimization, but such "compression" should be hidden from the programmer and not affect results/output.)
* No overloading of common operators such as "+" for both addition and string concatenation. And better syntax or built-in functions to explicitly indicate comparison types. Perl almost got it right, but it's too easy to forget and cross confuse. There are some interesting solutions to this.
* No white-space block indicators, per Python/Ruby. Use either {...} and/or foo...end foo.
* Optional and optionally named parameters. MS's recent languages did this fairly well.
* Better parameter type checking options/syntax (via parsing if need be).
* Type name should come after variable name in declarations, not before. The C family fucked this up. Pascal and VB do it better.
* Modern set-based switch/case statement. C's "break" is fucked.
* A real OOP system, not JS's anonymous function-based bastard.
* Don't sacrifice rank-and-file features for cutesy FP or meta-programming. I'm not necessarily against those, just don't screw up the regular parts to make FP/meta easier or shorter if a trade-off arises. Take care of business before you go Lisp-y or hacky.
* Maps and objects are the same thing. It's one of the few things JS almost got right.
* One-based indexing for string dissection. It makes the string functions much cleaner than zero-based.
Job security and "good language" are very different things, and perhaps inversely related. The screwier the language, the more time it takes a coder to work with it. More paychecks for you, perhaps, but the company could be paying more compared to a "good" language.
It's like asking an auto-mechanic if a Ford Escort car is any good. Good to own, or good for his wallet?
I'm not judging PHP here, just questioning the perspective of your metric.
Slashbonk: Technology news for cavemen, stuff that splatters.
1. Hacking with blunt objects
2. Encryption by smashing to pieces
3. Decryption? Make the cave-women do it!
4. Bronze vs. rocks, does it matter?
5. Will your job be outsourced to Pangaea?
6. How to tell if you are on Pangaea
8. How to get more cave-women into smashing
7. When to run from volcanoes
9. Numbering lists correctly
10. What are numbers?
11. What are lists?
12. Does it run Cavix?
...the fox will test your hen-house for free.
In general, Adobe's product version naming has been very odd and confusing. Numeric version numbers are not "sexy" enough I guess, so they give their versions names seemingly stolen from sports shoes or Honda's Department of Hipster Marketing.
Damn whippersnappers, get off my LXWN!
640 jobs oughta be enough for anyone
It's okay, the GOP's existing ACA and immigration lawsuits toward O have backlogged the courts through a president or two down the road...