You are probably correct, but, which side would you prefer to pick and be wrong?
Also note that it's better described as 'Climate Change' - if the gulf stream goes (which it may well do if a bit too much ice melts), here in the UK we'll get much cooler (we're on the same latitude as Moscow), but large parts of, e.g. Spain, may become uninhabitable(sp?) due to high temp.
FTFS:...Final Fantasy VII is held in the minds of many gamers as the best RPG of all time.
It's interesting how many people say this, then loads of people say "No, I preferred this one". I've only completed 7 & 8 myself, and I'm not sure which one I like more - though they both get a bit silly towards the end.
I've always thought that using organs grown from stem cells is a good idea. But I've also wondered how long it would take to actually grow the organ, and what restrictions this would impose on usage, plus what the inherent limitations are - I imagine this wouldn't be very effective against cancer, for example. Anyone care to enlighten me?
It is, in theory, possible that this has already happened to some other object in our solar system long ago. However, the problem of exponentially sensitive initial conditions means we can never actually know.
I thought that dark matter was originally called such simply because we couldn't see it? If that is the case, then surely anything we haven't yet observed could qualify?
Alternatively, could it not eventually be trapped by a star? If so, one could hardly call its journey from wherever it started to the capturing star an orderly orbit.
There is a theory that this is what happened to Pluto. Recall that Pluto has a completely different composition to any other planet in our solar system and many argue it to be a comet or other such body. It's orbit is inclined to the plane upon which the rest of the solar system is found, and during a short period of it's orbit it is closer to the sun than Neptune (the inclination prevents any sort of collision, fortunately). Thus in your hypothetical example, the new orbit would be unlikely to be "orderly" - it's far more likely that the planet would be deflected by any stars it passes.
...then it's less likely to screw up.
Seriously, how many times have we heard of various satellites/probes that have screwed up due to tiny/stupid errors? I'm talking about the kind of errors that would never happen in private industry, like probes crashing because one group of people is using metric and the other imperial. Such errors would cost people their jobs in a private enterprise, but typically not for government-funded projects.
...in that email is terribly insecure and easy to fake, it's all to easy to forget that there is no such thing as a perfect system. Someone will always find a way around no matter what you do.
I think fundamentally, the biggest problem is how easy it is to fake - you just put false headers in the message and most people will believe it's from who it claims to be from. I'm no security expert - anybody care to suggest how this could be done?
Given the bad reputation ATI's drivers have (I have had first-hand experience with relatively recent versions of Catalyst), I can't see this as being good.
Secondly, with many decent AMD motherboards using nForce chipsets, this sounds rather doubtful and could, if it goes through, potentially cause all sorts of competition/anti-trust issues.
MS officially announced (some time ago) that there would be a SP3 for XP, and that it would contain some of Vista's new API's etc. My wonder is that maybe they will stick DX10 in that, given sufficient community pressure?
What on earth gave you that idea?
Vista's specs are high because they've factored in running antivirus, firewall, antispyware and other desktop stuff, particularly office. If you turn the eye-candy down it will pretty much run on any XP-capable machine. Besides, I would expect that while you're running a full screen game, windows doesn't draw the desktop etc anyway (I don't know for sure).
I feel I should point out here that the basic concept of Fourier series has both sine and cosine in, but that it is possible to rewrite them as what are referred to as sine/cosine half-series.
Fourier series, as a concept, is analogous to the polynomial-based power series of a function - both allow you to construct an infinite set of coefficients. Just as Taylor's theorem can be used to construct a power series (and determine the coefficients) for any function, the FFT can be used to obtain the Fourier coefficients.
As long as there is good competition, and I can get decent products/services because of it, I honestly don't care. I am sure plenty of you will disagree, but that's just my take on it.
I'm sorry but I really think that this is a terrible idea.
SMS is not designed to be a phone-equivilant of MSN Messenger. It's a phone - it's primary purpose is instant voice communication.
Secondly, I for one would find sharing my phone's address book with the taxman an intolerable intusion on privacy. Some might not agree with me on this, but I feel it's the kind of info that could be abused too easily.
Thirdly, what if I change my phone number and send a message to all my friends saying "Hey, this is Chris, this is my new number"? I would be paying a lot for such a thing.
Whilst I can see how an SMS tax would easily be passed onto customers, I can't see how an email tax is feasable, since if they tax ISPs, people can simply use a foreign ISP, and it would be a logistical nightmare to tax individuals for it - it's not like you have to stick a stamp on them or anything!
Oh - and summary? The title says "EU" but the summary says "Italy". There's a slight difference between these two (I didn't RTFA but it really isn't clear FTFS).
I find it more likely that the problems we have would persist across languages or architectures (lack of time and resources leading to buggy code, lack of direction from marketing, and so on).
You hit the nail on the head here. In fact you'd probably be worse off since you've mostly got to learn Java etc first, and a management willing to throw six years of code down the tube is probably not going to give you time to do silly things like learning new languages. You'd be better off rewriting sections of your existing code so as to clean it up.
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You are probably correct, but, which side would you prefer to pick and be wrong? Also note that it's better described as 'Climate Change' - if the gulf stream goes (which it may well do if a bit too much ice melts), here in the UK we'll get much cooler (we're on the same latitude as Moscow), but large parts of, e.g. Spain, may become uninhabitable(sp?) due to high temp.
FTFS: ...Final Fantasy VII is held in the minds of many gamers as the best RPG of all time.
It's interesting how many people say this, then loads of people say "No, I preferred this one". I've only completed 7 & 8 myself, and I'm not sure which one I like more - though they both get a bit silly towards the end.
I've always thought that using organs grown from stem cells is a good idea. But I've also wondered how long it would take to actually grow the organ, and what restrictions this would impose on usage, plus what the inherent limitations are - I imagine this wouldn't be very effective against cancer, for example. Anyone care to enlighten me?
It is, in theory, possible that this has already happened to some other object in our solar system long ago. However, the problem of exponentially sensitive initial conditions means we can never actually know.
I thought that dark matter was originally called such simply because we couldn't see it? If that is the case, then surely anything we haven't yet observed could qualify?
...then it's less likely to screw up.
Seriously, how many times have we heard of various satellites/probes that have screwed up due to tiny/stupid errors? I'm talking about the kind of errors that would never happen in private industry, like probes crashing because one group of people is using metric and the other imperial. Such errors would cost people their jobs in a private enterprise, but typically not for government-funded projects.
...in that email is terribly insecure and easy to fake, it's all to easy to forget that there is no such thing as a perfect system. Someone will always find a way around no matter what you do.
I think fundamentally, the biggest problem is how easy it is to fake - you just put false headers in the message and most people will believe it's from who it claims to be from. I'm no security expert - anybody care to suggest how this could be done?
Well I was in fact merely making a joke, but thanks anyway.
I actually deliberately withheld karma bonus on that post, just in case someone modded it down...
...so it may as well be me.
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In that case, stop defending MS and join the rest of us slagging them off!
Given the bad reputation ATI's drivers have (I have had first-hand experience with relatively recent versions of Catalyst), I can't see this as being good.
Secondly, with many decent AMD motherboards using nForce chipsets, this sounds rather doubtful and could, if it goes through, potentially cause all sorts of competition/anti-trust issues.
Absolutely. In the Jedi Knight series, using Force Grip to throw a squad of stormtroopers off a cliff can be quite amusing.
Besides, w.r.t. the summary, it is much quicker to kick someone in the balls than to give them a wedgie.
So it was You who beat me to it!
MS officially announced (some time ago) that there would be a SP3 for XP, and that it would contain some of Vista's new API's etc. My wonder is that maybe they will stick DX10 in that, given sufficient community pressure?
What on earth gave you that idea?
Vista's specs are high because they've factored in running antivirus, firewall, antispyware and other desktop stuff, particularly office. If you turn the eye-candy down it will pretty much run on any XP-capable machine. Besides, I would expect that while you're running a full screen game, windows doesn't draw the desktop etc anyway (I don't know for sure).
iTunes doesn't bugger your CD drive up. (There have been cases where Starforce has caused physical damage to CD burners.)
I feel I should point out here that the basic concept of Fourier series has both sine and cosine in, but that it is possible to rewrite them as what are referred to as sine/cosine half-series.
Fourier series, as a concept, is analogous to the polynomial-based power series of a function - both allow you to construct an infinite set of coefficients. Just as Taylor's theorem can be used to construct a power series (and determine the coefficients) for any function, the FFT can be used to obtain the Fourier coefficients.
The primary reason for this is is that we have extra taxes, like VAT. Also don't forget that exchange rates are variable.
...who doesn't actually care?
As long as there is good competition, and I can get decent products/services because of it, I honestly don't care. I am sure plenty of you will disagree, but that's just my take on it.
I'm sorry but I really think that this is a terrible idea.
SMS is not designed to be a phone-equivilant of MSN Messenger. It's a phone - it's primary purpose is instant voice communication.
Secondly, I for one would find sharing my phone's address book with the taxman an intolerable intusion on privacy. Some might not agree with me on this, but I feel it's the kind of info that could be abused too easily.
Thirdly, what if I change my phone number and send a message to all my friends saying "Hey, this is Chris, this is my new number"? I would be paying a lot for such a thing.
Whilst I can see how an SMS tax would easily be passed onto customers, I can't see how an email tax is feasable, since if they tax ISPs, people can simply use a foreign ISP, and it would be a logistical nightmare to tax individuals for it - it's not like you have to stick a stamp on them or anything!
Oh - and summary? The title says "EU" but the summary says "Italy". There's a slight difference between these two (I didn't RTFA but it really isn't clear FTFS).
It has just made my day to see that modded 'insightful'.