You just measure a large number of evenly distributed points on the surface and take the mean.
Oh, is that all? Great! Get me the list of the points where the measurements were taken in 1606 and then we can do a meaningful comparison. What? They didn't do that in 1606? Then what, I ask you, is the standard for comparison? Oh, an estimate you say? How large is the sampling error, then? More than 1 degree? Oh, yes, let's spend trillions of dollars in reducing CO2 emissions while the developing countries increase their emissions. It will certainly be better for everyone if the first world bankrupted themselves.
...maybe - just maybe - CFCs didn't have as much to do with it as we were told. Maybe, just maybe, the atmosphere is more complicated than we understand and maybe, just maybe, it would be a good idea to study problems before we base public policy on suppositions. Of course, we needn't do that with global warming, after all, we've got all the information we need on that in order to commit trillions in public resources, excuse me, American resources. Everyone knows that the US is the wholly responsible for it. Just because Europe missed its quotas by billions of tons and the third world never had any is no reason to absolve the United States of its culpability, right? Right?!
In a country where there is still a large percentage of people who don't believe in evolution - a large enough percentage to have nearly frozen any teaching of evolution in the public schools - we have no right to expect anything better. Americans, by and large, are stupid. Not because we like big sport utes, not because we like cheap energy, not because we don't cut CO2 emissions, but because we don't care to educate our students. Yes, we do very well at indoctrinating them. Practically every product of the American public school system is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue liberal. But they are dumb as posts and their eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word "science." The US is gripped with a national desire to be a third-world nation. We don't have far to go.
Our gov't several years ago set out with a plan and malice aforethought to torpedo tech salaries in this country by flooding us with h1b visas and looking the other way when cheap foreign labor starting taking jobs that more expensive - and talented - older American programmers should have gotten. They compounded this with tax changes to make outsourcing to other countries cheaper. They did all of this at the behest of large tech corporations. And now they are reaping what they have sown and all they can do is bellyache about it? Well guess what? We've set up our country to provide large labor markets for suits and lawyers, so now everyone in college has read the handwriting on the wall and decided to be a suit or a lawyer. And why not? Tech jobs are hard, they tend to be boring and annoying and rewards are few in this day and age when a suit's mistakes and not technical excellence are what decide a product's success or failure. Money was one of the big factors in keeping people in tech jobs. Now all they have left is job satisfaction in working on FOSS and - surprise! - it's not enough to keep all the tech jobs filled. There are only two kinds of people in Washington: morons, and Evil-Suit-Bastards. Not that I'm bitter or anything...
> The findings support the argument for global warming as a > result of human interference rather than natural climate change.
If they had any intellectual honesty at all they would have seen the findings support the fact that the Earth was as warm 1200 years ago as it is today, which there- fore indicates the planet can reach such temperatures without any human help at all. In other and simpler words: they've proven the Earth has its own cycles that are apart from human activity.
This is just my opinion, but I think you're screwed. I came to the conclusion years
ago that no one can write stable software in C++, no matter what they spend on the
task or who they get. I don't recall who first said it, but I wholeheartedly agree
with the sentiment: "I wouldn't allow anyone to program in it but me."
The reasons for this are as large and as complex as the language itself. However,
just to touch on a couple of the most obvious: incompatibility between compilers
(and even within a compiler as new features are added), to some really poor
encapsulation techniques (some of this can be addressed using opaque data types
and discipline, provided your management is prepared for complaints from coworkers
about how hard it is to understand your code). And then...well, you get the picture.
I wouldn't wish a C++ project on my worst enemy (and I could have, and I didn't).
If your management is insisting on C++ then they are already emboiled in micromanaging
details they should not be - start polishing your resume, you are going to need it soon,
no matter how the project goes.
With regard to Bill Gates: it's easy to be a great humanitarian when you are doing it with other people's money. I'd like to see what kind of humanitarian he is when he starts charging what his software is really worth.
With regard to Steve Jobs: I'd have more respect for him if he was still friends with Steve Wozniak.
If the French gov't is that serious about absenting themselves from what is proving to be the most significant - and accepted - advance in the state of the software arts since the advent of Fortran, then by all means let them. The world needs a good example of where this kind of nonsense can lead, and France will be, as ever, a wonderful bad example.
...I think there's just no place stupider for SCO to go, somehow - they surprise me. Every time. Maybe IBM should just ship a cd full of the Solaris 10 source code and see what happens next...
So you take your name as "Violated" and set up a script that runs in the background making "Violated" say "formerly known as CmdrTaco" every so many seconds.
> Try naming some "realistic drama" type shows where the female characters are the smarter/in-charge/competent characters. That would be more convincing.
This is childish. Equating the accidental introduction of small nonpredators with astronomical birthrates to the deliberate, carefully considered introduction of large predators with extremely low birthrates is foolish and completely counter-productive. It adds nothing of value to the discussion whatsoever.
The largest native american cat left is the cougar. It runs 150 - 220 lbs (www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/cougar.html). The african lion runs twice that, and the tiger is bigger still - and all of them are smaller than the extinct American lion. Cougars may be considered a "large cat" for etymological purposes, but when large cat experts talk about large cats, they ain't talking about cougars, son.
"Hunting-free, tamper-free zones" - what a nice way to say "let the lot of them starve to death". There are not enough predators. It's that simple. Deer and antelope don't die from predation - not even all that many die from hunting - they starve, or die from disease running rampant in overcrowded grazing areas. The ecology is just, plain, broken. Leaving it alone won't fix it - not on anything less than a geologic scale anyway.
The creatures proposed for introduction into the American wilds are shrewdly chosen to try to re-implement the ecosystem as it stood before the first humans arrived. The suggestions serves several purposes: firstly, in a renewed ecosystem the wolves, bison, and eagles - and many other endangered animals - would find it easier to survive. Our modern, truncated ecosystems are one reason why we have trouble keeping native animals alive.
Secondly, we are establishing new breeding populations of endangered species. By giving over some of our land we put our money where our mouths are, and take some real responsibility for the long-term survival of these animals, rather than endless lecturing the 3rd world about how they need to protect biodiversity.
Lastly, the US is able to police it's wilderness areas far better than over-strapped 3rd world police, who are often corrupt, engaged in tribal warfare or terrorism, or who just plain don't care. It has been demonstrated already that the existing populations of these animals are dwindling, and we have every reason to expect that to continue. They aren't going to survive in their "native" habitats, either we make alternative arrangements for them, or we say goodbye to them.
Not that it matters. It has also been amply demonstrated that Congress wouldn't know a good idea if it up and bit them in their collective asses, Republocrat or Demolican, it makes no difference. By the time they realize the crisis is upon us, the megafauna will be gone...
Congress and the big software companies have conspired to drive down the value of IT jobs with outsourcing and H1B visas in the tens of thousands. And now that they have succeeded in reducing the average salary by - what? - 20%? 25%? - NOW they come whining to the universities and complain that not enough people are dumb enough to believe that IT jobs are worthwhile any more and yet smart enough to be able to do them? Have they no sense of irony? This is EXACTLY what they were inevitably going to get. The bastards had it coming.
Screw 'em. I still won't tell my kid to go into IT.
Simply the best construction toy ever. Build skyscrapers, bridges, roads - all sorts of stuff. You can still get sets put together from bits by various collectors, but they are hard to come by.
>The first argument is easy- exceptions are a Bad >Idea. Error codes are much cleaner and more >logical.
Error codes put exception handling code in line with code trying to do the main job. They are also error-prone because nothing requires you to check them. That made them "cleaner and more logical" when exception handling was expensive in time and memory. The whole point of this announcement is that exceptions are no longer expensive in time or memory. Exceptions are now "cleaner and more logical" - also more reliable, more modular, and separate from the code doing the actual work, hence more readable.
>C++ has hidden allocations
If you use them. The kernel already requires one to write code that respects convention. If Linus decides the convention should require no hidden allocations then such is life, C++ or not. But with clean, fast exception handling, hidden allocations may not be all that bad.
Now, C++ is the kind of language where I wouldn't trust anyone but myself to write things with it, if you take my meaning. But to be honest, if I were to trust anyone else with it, that anyone would be Linus. He has taste. =)
The UK does not have a "Constitution" per se - no document that specifically empowers the government. "Rights" there are actually grants from the gov't in its sublime wisdom - done with laws passed by Parliament. And they can be revoked the exact same way. There is really no equivalent of a Constitutional appeal, therefore no real "rights" as Americans understand them.
Our local channels use windows systems to display their content, which is usually framed by text announcements/ads/etc. A couple years ago it was not uncommon for the system to BSOD and leave it on the channel right through the weekend. This is in NH.
For decades so-called "environmentalists" have pushed "clean" hydropower as an alternative to fossil fuel or nuclear plants. And as always, they were pushing a solution without having any idea what they were advocating. And now, we have hydroelectric to thank for large-scale depletion of commercial fish stocks. Salmon is now competing with lobster and crab instead of tuna. All because hydroelectric plants are blocking the fish from their breeding grounds upriver. We are driving salmon to extinction for "clean" power.
Fusion isn't viable yet. We need nuclear and we need it yesterday.
I can't imagine a more useful device for helping manage diabetes. Anything that can take glucose out of the blood would be of immense help - but something that could then be used to power pacemakers and other electronic gear often needed to help with the debilitating cardiac effects of diabetes is an invaluable step forward.
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Oh, is that all? Great! Get me the list of the points where the measurements were taken in 1606 and then we can do a meaningful comparison. What? They didn't do that in 1606? Then what, I ask you, is the standard for comparison? Oh, an estimate you say? How large is the sampling error, then? More than 1 degree? Oh, yes, let's spend trillions of dollars in reducing CO2 emissions while the developing countries increase their emissions. It will certainly be better for everyone if the first world bankrupted themselves.
Ron White is right...you can't fix stupid.
...maybe - just maybe - CFCs didn't have as much to do with it as we were told. Maybe, just maybe, the atmosphere is more complicated than we understand and maybe, just maybe, it would be a good idea to study problems before we base public policy on suppositions. Of course, we needn't do that with global warming, after all, we've got all the information we need on that in order to commit trillions in public resources, excuse me, American resources. Everyone knows that the US is the wholly responsible for it. Just because Europe missed its quotas by billions of tons and the third world never had any is no reason to absolve the United States of its culpability, right? Right?!
In a country where there is still a large percentage of people who don't believe in evolution - a large enough percentage to have nearly frozen any teaching of evolution in the public schools - we have no right to expect anything better. Americans, by and large, are stupid. Not because we like big sport utes, not because we like cheap energy, not because we don't cut CO2 emissions, but because we don't care to educate our students. Yes, we do very well at indoctrinating them. Practically every product of the American public school system is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue liberal. But they are dumb as posts and their eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word "science." The US is gripped with a national desire to be a third-world nation. We don't have far to go.
Our gov't several years ago set out with a plan and malice aforethought to torpedo tech salaries in this country by flooding us with h1b visas and looking the other way when cheap foreign labor starting taking jobs that more expensive - and talented - older American programmers should have gotten. They compounded this with tax changes to make outsourcing to other countries cheaper. They did all of this at the behest of large tech corporations. And now they are reaping what they have sown and all they can do is bellyache about it? Well guess what? We've set up our country to provide large labor markets for suits and lawyers, so now everyone in college has read the handwriting on the wall and decided to be a suit or a lawyer. And why not? Tech jobs are hard, they tend to be boring and annoying and rewards are few in this day and age when a suit's mistakes and not technical excellence are what decide a product's success or failure. Money was one of the big factors in keeping people in tech jobs. Now all they have left is job satisfaction in working on FOSS and - surprise! - it's not enough to keep all the tech jobs filled. There are only two kinds of people in Washington: morons, and Evil-Suit-Bastards. Not that I'm bitter or anything...
...is why God invented "vmware".
> The findings support the argument for global warming as a
> result of human interference rather than natural climate change.
If they had any intellectual honesty at all they would
have seen the findings support the fact that the Earth
was as warm 1200 years ago as it is today, which there-
fore indicates the planet can reach such temperatures
without any human help at all. In other and simpler
words: they've proven the Earth has its own cycles that
are apart from human activity.
The reasons for this are as large and as complex as the language itself. However, just to touch on a couple of the most obvious: incompatibility between compilers (and even within a compiler as new features are added), to some really poor encapsulation techniques (some of this can be addressed using opaque data types and discipline, provided your management is prepared for complaints from coworkers about how hard it is to understand your code). And then...well, you get the picture. I wouldn't wish a C++ project on my worst enemy (and I could have, and I didn't).
If your management is insisting on C++ then they are already emboiled in micromanaging details they should not be - start polishing your resume, you are going to need it soon, no matter how the project goes.
With regard to Bill Gates: it's easy to be a great humanitarian when you are doing it with other people's money. I'd like to see what kind of humanitarian he is when he starts charging what his software is really worth.
With regard to Steve Jobs: I'd have more respect for him if he was still friends with Steve Wozniak.
If the French gov't is that serious about absenting themselves from
what is proving to be the most significant - and accepted - advance
in the state of the software arts since the advent of Fortran, then
by all means let them. The world needs a good example of where this
kind of nonsense can lead, and France will be, as ever, a wonderful
bad example.
...I think there's just no place stupider for SCO to go, somehow - they surprise me. Every time. Maybe IBM should just ship a cd full of the
Solaris 10 source code and see what happens next...
So you take your name as "Violated" and set up a script that runs in
the background making "Violated" say "formerly known as CmdrTaco"
every so many seconds.
Damn that global warming! Now it's screwing up the sun!
> Try naming some "realistic drama" type shows where the female characters are the smarter/in-charge/competent characters. That would be more convincing.
"The Closer"
...I mean, come on - most women insist on marrying men. Most men insist on marrying women. What better proof of men's superior intellect do we need?
This is childish. Equating the accidental introduction of small nonpredators with astronomical birthrates to the deliberate, carefully considered introduction of large predators with extremely low birthrates is foolish and completely counter-productive. It adds nothing of value to the discussion whatsoever.
The largest native american cat left is the cougar. It runs 150 - 220 lbs (www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/cougar.html). The african lion runs twice that, and the tiger is bigger still - and all of them are smaller than the extinct American lion. Cougars may be considered a "large cat" for etymological purposes, but when large cat experts talk about large cats, they ain't talking about cougars, son.
The creatures proposed for introduction into the American wilds are shrewdly chosen to try to re-implement the ecosystem as it stood before the first humans arrived. The suggestions serves several purposes: firstly, in a renewed ecosystem the wolves, bison, and eagles - and many other endangered animals - would find it easier to survive. Our modern, truncated ecosystems are one reason why we have trouble keeping native animals alive.
Secondly, we are establishing new breeding populations of endangered species. By giving over some of our land we put our money where our mouths are, and take some real responsibility for the long-term survival of these animals, rather than endless lecturing the 3rd world about how they need to protect biodiversity.
Lastly, the US is able to police it's wilderness areas far better than over-strapped 3rd world police, who are often corrupt, engaged in tribal warfare or terrorism, or who just plain don't care. It has been demonstrated already that the existing populations of these animals are dwindling, and we have every reason to expect that to continue. They aren't going to survive in their "native" habitats, either we make alternative arrangements for them, or we say goodbye to them.
Not that it matters. It has also been amply demonstrated that Congress wouldn't know a good idea if it up and bit them in their collective asses, Republocrat or Demolican, it makes no difference. By the time they realize the crisis is upon us, the megafauna will be gone...
...then it would be worth it.
Screw 'em. I still won't tell my kid to go into IT.
Not that I'm BITTER or anything... :(
Simply the best construction toy ever. Build
skyscrapers, bridges, roads - all sorts of stuff.
You can still get sets put together from bits by
various collectors, but they are hard to come by.
I wish someone would bring that one back!
>Idea. Error codes are much cleaner and more
>logical.
Error codes put exception handling code in line
with code trying to do the main job. They are
also error-prone because nothing requires you to
check them. That made them "cleaner and more
logical" when exception handling was expensive
in time and memory. The whole point of this
announcement is that exceptions are no longer
expensive in time or memory. Exceptions are now
"cleaner and more logical" - also more reliable,
more modular, and separate from the code doing
the actual work, hence more readable.
>C++ has hidden allocations
If you use them. The kernel already requires one
to write code that respects convention. If Linus
decides the convention should require no hidden
allocations then such is life, C++ or not. But
with clean, fast exception handling, hidden
allocations may not be all that bad.
Now, C++ is the kind of language where I wouldn't
trust anyone but myself to write things with it,
if you take my meaning. But to be honest, if I
were to trust anyone else with it, that
anyone would be Linus. He has taste. =)
> What happened to freedom of expression online?"
The UK does not have a "Constitution" per se
- no document that specifically empowers the
government. "Rights" there are actually grants
from the gov't in its sublime wisdom - done with
laws passed by Parliament. And they can be revoked
the exact same way. There is really no
equivalent of a Constitutional appeal, therefore
no real "rights" as Americans understand them.
Our local channels use windows systems to display
their content, which is usually framed by text
announcements/ads/etc. A couple years ago it was
not uncommon for the system to BSOD and leave it
on the channel right through the weekend. This is
in NH.
For decades so-called "environmentalists" have
pushed "clean" hydropower as an alternative to
fossil fuel or nuclear plants. And as always,
they were pushing a solution without having
any idea what they were advocating. And now,
we have hydroelectric to thank for large-scale
depletion of commercial fish stocks. Salmon
is now competing with lobster and crab instead
of tuna. All because hydroelectric plants are
blocking the fish from their breeding grounds
upriver. We are driving salmon to extinction
for "clean" power.
Fusion isn't viable yet. We need nuclear and we
need it yesterday.
I can't imagine a more useful device for helping
manage diabetes. Anything that can take glucose
out of the blood would be of immense help - but
something that could then be used to power
pacemakers and other electronic gear often
needed to help with the debilitating cardiac
effects of diabetes is an invaluable step
forward.