The people of the time had complex social structures, the ability to read and write, architecture, agriculture and manufacturing skills and an understanding of timescales beyond their own lifespan.
I'm struggling to see how that makes them morons, or why you think they were materially less intelligent than the people of today.
As can any book. I'd rather get the lessons from simple logic than some ancient fantasy book. We don't need fairy tale books to teach us morality or attitudes.
Aesops Fables is an excellent teaching aid.
Of course, people haven't been stupid enough to build worldwide cults around it..
I have very weak arms relative to body weight. Always have done. 13 push-ups has never been easy for me, even when I could do 100 sit ups in a minute and run 2 miles in under 12.
I can however benchpress my own weight. Different muscle groups..
the only differences are your gender and your age.
Which is clearly discriminatory.
Why should I, as a fat unfit man, have to attain a higher standard of fitness than a fat unfit woman. Either we can both run the same distance and lift the same weights or we can't fulfil the same duties.
Similarly age, why should I as an old person be allowed to damage the effectiveness of the regiment and slow down the youngsters?
That's the great thing about credit cards. They're attached to accounts that you don't have any cash in at all. In fact, quite the opposite.
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External interactions (DBs, UI, etc) and highly performant code (embedded systems, kernels, etc) are where I wouldn't instinctively look to use TDD.
The benefits around testing are massive in themselves - you can set up automated unit tests that assure you not just the code coverage, but also the broad range of inputs that might cause different behaviours within that code.
The design benefits however are significant too, and worthwhile in their own right. I find that TDD leads to code that's easier to read, understand and thus maintain.
Nice suggestion - even if he needs more processing than that, it's easier to put 2-3 in and they'll run cooler too, which will help with his biggest challenge: heat dissipation.
I'm not sure that justifies the graphics card though. That's the bit that's intriguing me.
What's his use case for a high powered GPU (i.e. higher power than the already 'scarily better than 8 year old GPUs' capabilities available in embedded graphics)?
just because the IT industry is a misogynistic boys club
For the record: It is not.
See also: sizeable number of women employed in IT roles in every company I've ever worked in (including an application development house, a bespoke software house and an IT services company)
See also: everywhere I've worked I've had female peers earning more than me
See also: everywhere I've worked has had enforced rules on discrimination, bullying, etc
See also: everywhere I've worked I've had women in the management chain above me
Sure, it's all anecdote. It does mean that I have to reject your flawed hypothesis unless you can provide actual evidence that I've worked for the only six companies worldwide that aren't misogynistic.
(Note also that at least two of them have been blatantly misandrist - funding programmes to advance women and providing nothing for men)
I don't get this "lose pension benefits" thing. Seriously, I don't understand it at all.
I work somewhere for 28 years, I earn a decent pension, that's part of the compensation for the 28 years of work.
Next day I do something naughty and get sacked. My punishment for doing something naughty is that I no longer have a job, and I no longer accrue further pension rights, and (if it's a final salary based pension scheme) my final salary is lower than I may have hoped.
Why would I lose the previous 28 years of benefits?
That's like saying to someone, "You're fired. Oh, and we'll have your 401K, for every job you've ever worked at."
I don't get it. It doesn't make sense, it's overly punitive and it actually encourages the police departments to 'protect their own' as there's a big difference between, "misbehave and lose your job" and "one mistake and your entire retirement is fucked".
Seriously, don't fuck with someone's already accrued pension benefits. If they've done something illegal the courts can already impose appropriate fines.
I think most people imagine "hand grenade" and "flash grenade" to be very different things
Yeah. Hand grenade could be an incendiary, fragmentation or concussion based device intended to kill or incapacitate in a several metre blast radius.
A flash grenade is an incendiary and concussion based device capable of killing in a metre blast radius.
So the only real difference is the optional fragmentation capability and the radius of effect.
Have you ever pulled the pin on a flash-bang, dropped the grenade on the ground, put a standard army issue helmet on top and retreated to safety? A: you had to retreat to safety. Doesn't that tell you something pretty fucking important? B: holy shit look how high that helmet flew. Imagine your head still inside it.
intentionally kills a child just to spite a criminal who doesn't even live in that house.
Maybe not intentionally but I think it's reasonable to suggest that negligence was involved, whether the child died or not.
In the UK anybody can bring a private prosecution - prosecute a criminal charge. It isn't easy, and the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) have the right to take over the prosecution, but it can (and is) done.
Where life gets interesting is if the CPS take over the prosecution then drop it - this also happens.
I was over in the US a couple of weeks ago, and was invited to have a little roadside chat with the Sheriff in a small town in Texas.
Maybe it was the weird colours but he had no interest at all in the stack of British banknotes in my wallet. He didn't ask to search the vehicle. He didn't object to my camera or arrest me for having a mobile phone charging on the dashboard.
More curiously he didn't fine me for driving at 70mph in a 60 limit, even though that's the speed his radar gun told him I was doing. I deny everything, of course;)
It does leave me a little less concerned by the constant stream of fear and paranoia on Slashdot. Civil forfeiture is still inherently and implicitly wrong, and I hope it gets overturned and removed even in the US, but it's not entirely ubiquitous yet.
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The people of the time had complex social structures, the ability to read and write, architecture, agriculture and manufacturing skills and an understanding of timescales beyond their own lifespan.
I'm struggling to see how that makes them morons, or why you think they were materially less intelligent than the people of today.
erm. The challenge was credible evidence. We're still waiting..
or if shiva would rampage through london.
Without promising it'll change my theistic viewpoint, can we arrange this anyway?
Yet in some countries they'd have been beheaded.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
As can any book. I'd rather get the lessons from simple logic than some ancient fantasy book. We don't need fairy tale books to teach us morality or attitudes.
Aesops Fables is an excellent teaching aid.
Of course, people haven't been stupid enough to build worldwide cults around it..
I'm not the AC so I'll choose my own wording.
Indoctrinating a child into a religion is child abuse.
Isn't throwing tomatoes pretty light as a punishment?
Yeah, but Apple built a housing estate and are telling you what you can put in your fridge.
Their app store is their mall; the devices are not.
I have very weak arms relative to body weight. Always have done. 13 push-ups has never been easy for me, even when I could do 100 sit ups in a minute and run 2 miles in under 12.
I can however benchpress my own weight. Different muscle groups..
the only differences are your gender and your age.
Which is clearly discriminatory.
Why should I, as a fat unfit man, have to attain a higher standard of fitness than a fat unfit woman. Either we can both run the same distance and lift the same weights or we can't fulfil the same duties.
Similarly age, why should I as an old person be allowed to damage the effectiveness of the regiment and slow down the youngsters?
I've visited several offices where girls are misandrist too, but as you say, anecdote.
That doesn't an industry define.
Good job all of my liquid funds are in Sterling.
That's the great thing about credit cards. They're attached to accounts that you don't have any cash in at all. In fact, quite the opposite.
External interactions (DBs, UI, etc) and highly performant code (embedded systems, kernels, etc) are where I wouldn't instinctively look to use TDD.
The benefits around testing are massive in themselves - you can set up automated unit tests that assure you not just the code coverage, but also the broad range of inputs that might cause different behaviours within that code.
The design benefits however are significant too, and worthwhile in their own right. I find that TDD leads to code that's easier to read, understand and thus maintain.
Nice suggestion - even if he needs more processing than that, it's easier to put 2-3 in and they'll run cooler too, which will help with his biggest challenge: heat dissipation.
Holding oil in : 1 atmos of pressure
Keeping high-pressure water out: many atmos of pressure - in the other direction
I can use an open bucket as a case for a mineral oil cooled PC; it's not going to help much when you point a hose at it :)
I'm not sure that justifies the graphics card though. That's the bit that's intriguing me.
What's his use case for a high powered GPU (i.e. higher power than the already 'scarily better than 8 year old GPUs' capabilities available in embedded graphics)?
just because the IT industry is a misogynistic boys club
For the record: It is not.
See also: sizeable number of women employed in IT roles in every company I've ever worked in (including an application development house, a bespoke software house and an IT services company)
See also: everywhere I've worked I've had female peers earning more than me
See also: everywhere I've worked has had enforced rules on discrimination, bullying, etc
See also: everywhere I've worked I've had women in the management chain above me
Sure, it's all anecdote. It does mean that I have to reject your flawed hypothesis unless you can provide actual evidence that I've worked for the only six companies worldwide that aren't misogynistic.
(Note also that at least two of them have been blatantly misandrist - funding programmes to advance women and providing nothing for men)
I don't get this "lose pension benefits" thing. Seriously, I don't understand it at all.
I work somewhere for 28 years, I earn a decent pension, that's part of the compensation for the 28 years of work.
Next day I do something naughty and get sacked. My punishment for doing something naughty is that I no longer have a job, and I no longer accrue further pension rights, and (if it's a final salary based pension scheme) my final salary is lower than I may have hoped.
Why would I lose the previous 28 years of benefits?
That's like saying to someone, "You're fired. Oh, and we'll have your 401K, for every job you've ever worked at."
I don't get it. It doesn't make sense, it's overly punitive and it actually encourages the police departments to 'protect their own' as there's a big difference between, "misbehave and lose your job" and "one mistake and your entire retirement is fucked".
Seriously, don't fuck with someone's already accrued pension benefits. If they've done something illegal the courts can already impose appropriate fines.
I think most people imagine "hand grenade" and "flash grenade" to be very different things
Yeah. Hand grenade could be an incendiary, fragmentation or concussion based device intended to kill or incapacitate in a several metre blast radius.
A flash grenade is an incendiary and concussion based device capable of killing in a metre blast radius.
So the only real difference is the optional fragmentation capability and the radius of effect.
Have you ever pulled the pin on a flash-bang, dropped the grenade on the ground, put a standard army issue helmet on top and retreated to safety?
A: you had to retreat to safety. Doesn't that tell you something pretty fucking important?
B: holy shit look how high that helmet flew. Imagine your head still inside it.
intentionally kills a child just to spite a criminal who doesn't even live in that house.
Maybe not intentionally but I think it's reasonable to suggest that negligence was involved, whether the child died or not.
In the UK anybody can bring a private prosecution - prosecute a criminal charge. It isn't easy, and the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) have the right to take over the prosecution, but it can (and is) done.
Where life gets interesting is if the CPS take over the prosecution then drop it - this also happens.
See http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_... for a pretty comprehensive description of how it (should) work.
I was over in the US a couple of weeks ago, and was invited to have a little roadside chat with the Sheriff in a small town in Texas.
Maybe it was the weird colours but he had no interest at all in the stack of British banknotes in my wallet. He didn't ask to search the vehicle. He didn't object to my camera or arrest me for having a mobile phone charging on the dashboard.
More curiously he didn't fine me for driving at 70mph in a 60 limit, even though that's the speed his radar gun told him I was doing. I deny everything, of course ;)
It does leave me a little less concerned by the constant stream of fear and paranoia on Slashdot. Civil forfeiture is still inherently and implicitly wrong, and I hope it gets overturned and removed even in the US, but it's not entirely ubiquitous yet.
Soylent News can't even email a password to me. If I want to use their site, it's anonymous or not at all. Fuck 'em.
Or maybe the marine walked into the room, took the glass, pissed on the pillow and dropped some diamonds on there.
We'd better check the cameras.
Are you nuts? Being at university was the best way to get onto the internet in 1995.
I used to catch a train to my nearest one and join the students sat in their lab.
Ethics? In London? Don't make me fucking laugh.
As for language, it's called English. Leave the boundaries of the M25, you'll find we still speak it in the rest of the country.