http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience#Use_of_misleading_language
My point:
Use of objective, scientific terminology falsely affords a veracity to a given subject, in many pseudosciences. Scrum, in this sense, could be described as a pseudo science. The storypoint is not an objective unit. But velocity, in common parlance, is. You see a graph (a quantity/value based representation) of a scrum's 'velocity' and you have a certain warm feeling of empirical certainty/reliability. That something here was measured. But a storypoint is a quality not a quantity. The graph is meaningless. And I mean entirely meaningless. And it misleads the audience. Making them think quantitative facts have been reported. When actually subjective assertions have been manipulated and described in a quantifiable context.
This is irresponsible. But gives the impression of being highly responsible. It misleads.
I no longer consider any manager to be 'professional' if they get so dogmatic and process obsessed that they underline the word 'must' before asserting the need for a given practice or methodology. What you describe here is a soulless, creativity sapping mess of ass covering. It will not make better software, but simply reduce the attack surface of you in the boardroom/excecs' meetings (I've been dev, lead dev, Arch, Lead Arch of 30 devs, CTO and owner - if that makes any difference). It helps justify larger teams. It helps eat precious time. It helps track nonsense constructs, such as 'velocity' (please - as a physicist this term misuse makes me want to commit violence - what are the units of a scrum's velocity exactly?). It helps do many things, but not make better software more productively.
My wife passed this year. And in reality, its not this simple. The first issue here is that dealing with court orders is the last thing you want to be doing. Your head is a mess. A real big mess. The question here is a great one. How do you make it easy, is the point. What you suggest sounds easy. But in practice, I promise, it's not.
And its not just legal documents you want access to. It's a friend's email address, or a recipe for her favourite cake. Even if you can get a court order to do this, would you?
This is a digital problem with a complex human coating. I want to hear the solution to the question asked, as asked. I don't have the answer.
or use other libraries easily and quickly. PyCUDA gives genuinely huge number crunching power to the language. And allows meta programming which suits scripting languages and machine learning very well. http://mathema.tician.de/dl/pub/nvidia-gtc-2009.mp4
The readability and flexibility and speed of development are what it brings, the raw power comes from the libraries it can talk to.
Agreed. They should help this project. While the opinions of readers here clearly matters to *some* degree, I'd like to think NVIDIA would care about my take. As I'm right now designing and building a GPGPU compute system. And while it won't get in the Linpack this year, it genuinely might in a few years from now. Right now (I broke away to write this) I'm pawing over the OpenCL vs CUDA options AGAIN, to weigh up which to go for. Right now OpenCL is pulling me strongest, simply because I know I could move to something else if I had to. I don't want to. NVIDIA apear to be leading the race to me, for stable, enterprise ready, server standard GPUs. I prefer CUDA.
So guys, I prefer your products, I could spend hundreds of thousands, maybe million some day, but I'm nervous enough to choose a lesser option in order to leave myself an escape path - purely because your lack of openness at the interface with the hardware worries me. I don't want the hardware opened, I want its API. The lowest level software interface to it (and preferably the code to your supported drivers). If you opened up I'd know I could always get a driver that worked if I needed to move OS. Or that I could tweek for performance in the area I need it. etc... Open up. Why not? I've given you a bloody good reason to. Haven't I?
Though I think AppScale is the way forward. I've looked at this who scaleable PaaS, node image thing for a while now, and here's where I'm at: What these things should do is what AppScale is doing. Offering a homogeneous node that has the potential to fulfill any or all rolls of a horizontally scalable webservice stack. Like a stem cell. It affords you encapsulation to the server level. Usually a virtual server. This is harder than it sounds, and more important than you may think.
That is, its servers become instances of a class of node, if you like. This is very important regarding scalability, as it reduces devops complexity massively. You have no config nightmare. No special cases, no spread of hostname and ip configs throughout your spring, ruby, grails, maven, ivy,.... You have one yaml file that contains a list of server IPs. And if you want, specifies roles for each (datastore, app server, etc...). Maybe not even that.
When you deploy new code it spread over all nodes. No config needed. When you want another node, no config needed. It's beautiful. Yes you could build something this horizontally scalable yourself with the tools the have, but its a LOT of work, and generally, people get it wrong. It becomes messy, with many configs, and poor scaling factors. Projects like this encapsulate the job of doing this assembling scalable technologies and auto configuring then. They are very valuable to those who need them (building things like large multi-tenanted SaaS solutions). Because the headache of rolling your own or coping without is quite a problem.
The fact that there is energy stored in anything is not the question we should ask. But rather is it practically stored for our safe and easy retrieval/use. The answer is no, in the case of shale, according to many, if not most.
Alchemy didn't replace Javascript. Why should browser specific solutions threaten it.
Plus JS is the most popular language in the world for a reason. In fact for many reasons.
"Neither the British or US government is an evil fascist state which brutally subjugates the populace."
Guess you've never been kettled and charged by horses for taking part in a (up until that point) peaceful protest against the ideology of the ruling government? I have. It's life threatening, and has proven fatal on more than one occasion. And undoubtedly terrifying. This is state oppression of the population by any definition I understand.
Or been detained indefinitely without charge and sleep deprived, partially drowned etc... No I haven't but its not hard to imagine how that could also be seen as oppressive and terrorising and is now admitted by the US and complicity admitted by the UK.
turn based game play also makes this possible. See Worms 3D, some years back (excellent game). Process client side, then distribute changes across the network while the players watch the pretty rendering . Perfect. Srsly I love that game.
Not the same dude. One is a browser of arguments. I.e. rational discourse. The other may be seen as God bashing, but it purely uses the Bible's words to do so. That's like saying Principia Mathematica Abridged Notes is Physics bashing.
Niether, irrationally assumes a significant proportion of the population are in need of being 'cured' of their genetic condition (which is, of course, as best science can tell, currently, practically impossible - whether it's desirable or not).
"cure" is a medical term. Medicine is a scientific and beautifully empirical endeavor. Religion is not. Clouding the two is a kin to using pseudo science to sell anti aging cream, but with MUCH more significant ramifications for the victims of the deception. Rather than keeping a few wrinkles and loosing a few bucks, you get psychologically traumatized. Potentially for life, often by your own family.
I believe such deception should be legally prevented. I still think the trades description act should allow for prosecution of this kind of deception.
Emergent and adaptive patterns often 'grow' a head, well after the pattern/system has developed into a self sustaining entity. I wouldn't fixate on the 'top' too much, or you'll be complicit in another pattern. Such as the scapegoating happening with Wikileaks. Wikileaks have help unearth much more important issues than the fixated concerns people now have (and have had cultivated for them) regarding Esange.
hardly. Most iof not all f these services offer JSONp calls that allow you to check more than just if someone on this browser is lgged in, but who they are.:
Good point. I aso think the author fails to understand complexity and emergent systems (e.g. life). Denser != more likely to contain life, necessarily. What if life could burn itself out. We often wonder why we haven't made contact with extraterrestrial beings. Its quite possible that if we did the encounter would be short lived...
However I like your consideration even more.
The fact is though, that if you're smart and play by the rules, you don't get to bring the benefits of your wisdom/insight to the company.
Rules are dumb.
They are there to keep the predictable mechanics of comerse predictable and measurable.
Genius should never be measured (in either sense). It should be let loose. It should be allowed to fail. It should be childish and annoying and rebellious. And it should not be the norm.
I know really smart people who just turn up and work, and do as they're told. They don't get paid so much, and they aren't worth that much more, just doing that. They'd be instantly worth 5 times as much by being a jerk and getting their opinions put into practice. But they like to play safe. Which isn't dumb either. Just less jerkish.
IMHO, this is more of a PR stunt against American culture.
What a load of self absorbed crap.
The qualification factors are CO2 emissions per mile. As they should be. Not car shape. You think US invented the SUV? No just the dumb and incongruent name (I presume).
Don't get me wrong the shape and size are both important factors in European annoyance at there rise in popularity in our narrow overcrowded streets.
They also get refered to as Chelsea Tractors. I've lived in Chelsea. You're right to ask who would want to ride a huge SUV there. Sadly the answer is Every dumb selfish twat. If its bigger my children will be safer (and the neighbours' less so, but I don't care), my ego will be better supported, my status further bolstered.... You have a concentration of rich, self-centered people in city centers. Which is why Chelsea has the highest concentration of 4x4 owners per capita in the UK, despight one of the lowest snow and flooding rating. And next to no mud.
This is not an attack on American culture, but on selfish individuals. The fact that you identify with these individuals in the way you do, is potentially illustrative of your own understanding or perception of your countries culture.
I think you're right that this will never produce the forces required for most 'muscle' purposes.
However if it holds its charge it could be very exciting in terms of capacitance!
I've been playing with synthetic muscles, and I believe magnatism id the only likely way forward. But that Nanotubes are the solution. Esspecially if submerged in ferro fluids, or paramagnetic liquids (e.g. liquid oxygen, though that would not be great re safety).
I've already had a bash at simply using thin wire: see vid of lego coil maker and seen here for brief comments.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience#Use_of_misleading_language My point: Use of objective, scientific terminology falsely affords a veracity to a given subject, in many pseudosciences. Scrum, in this sense, could be described as a pseudo science. The storypoint is not an objective unit. But velocity, in common parlance, is. You see a graph (a quantity/value based representation) of a scrum's 'velocity' and you have a certain warm feeling of empirical certainty/reliability. That something here was measured. But a storypoint is a quality not a quantity. The graph is meaningless. And I mean entirely meaningless. And it misleads the audience. Making them think quantitative facts have been reported. When actually subjective assertions have been manipulated and described in a quantifiable context. This is irresponsible. But gives the impression of being highly responsible. It misleads.
I no longer consider any manager to be 'professional' if they get so dogmatic and process obsessed that they underline the word 'must' before asserting the need for a given practice or methodology. What you describe here is a soulless, creativity sapping mess of ass covering. It will not make better software, but simply reduce the attack surface of you in the boardroom/excecs' meetings (I've been dev, lead dev, Arch, Lead Arch of 30 devs, CTO and owner - if that makes any difference). It helps justify larger teams. It helps eat precious time. It helps track nonsense constructs, such as 'velocity' (please - as a physicist this term misuse makes me want to commit violence - what are the units of a scrum's velocity exactly?). It helps do many things, but not make better software more productively.
only those who get caught, get heard.
My wife passed this year. And in reality, its not this simple. The first issue here is that dealing with court orders is the last thing you want to be doing. Your head is a mess. A real big mess. The question here is a great one. How do you make it easy, is the point. What you suggest sounds easy. But in practice, I promise, it's not.
And its not just legal documents you want access to. It's a friend's email address, or a recipe for her favourite cake. Even if you can get a court order to do this, would you?
This is a digital problem with a complex human coating. I want to hear the solution to the question asked, as asked. I don't have the answer.
or use other libraries easily and quickly. PyCUDA gives genuinely huge number crunching power to the language. And allows meta programming which suits scripting languages and machine learning very well. http://mathema.tician.de/dl/pub/nvidia-gtc-2009.mp4
The readability and flexibility and speed of development are what it brings, the raw power comes from the libraries it can talk to.
Agreed. They should help this project. While the opinions of readers here clearly matters to *some* degree, I'd like to think NVIDIA would care about my take. As I'm right now designing and building a GPGPU compute system. And while it won't get in the Linpack this year, it genuinely might in a few years from now. Right now (I broke away to write this) I'm pawing over the OpenCL vs CUDA options AGAIN, to weigh up which to go for. Right now OpenCL is pulling me strongest, simply because I know I could move to something else if I had to. I don't want to. NVIDIA apear to be leading the race to me, for stable, enterprise ready, server standard GPUs. I prefer CUDA.
So guys, I prefer your products, I could spend hundreds of thousands, maybe million some day, but I'm nervous enough to choose a lesser option in order to leave myself an escape path - purely because your lack of openness at the interface with the hardware worries me. I don't want the hardware opened, I want its API. The lowest level software interface to it (and preferably the code to your supported drivers). If you opened up I'd know I could always get a driver that worked if I needed to move OS. Or that I could tweek for performance in the area I need it. etc... Open up. Why not? I've given you a bloody good reason to. Haven't I?
its an exercise in ass covering.
Yes.
.... You have one yaml file that contains a list of server IPs. And if you want, specifies roles for each (datastore, app server, etc...). Maybe not even that.
Though I think AppScale is the way forward. I've looked at this who scaleable PaaS, node image thing for a while now, and here's where I'm at: What these things should do is what AppScale is doing. Offering a homogeneous node that has the potential to fulfill any or all rolls of a horizontally scalable webservice stack. Like a stem cell. It affords you encapsulation to the server level. Usually a virtual server. This is harder than it sounds, and more important than you may think.
That is, its servers become instances of a class of node, if you like. This is very important regarding scalability, as it reduces devops complexity massively. You have no config nightmare. No special cases, no spread of hostname and ip configs throughout your spring, ruby, grails, maven, ivy,
When you deploy new code it spread over all nodes. No config needed. When you want another node, no config needed. It's beautiful. Yes you could build something this horizontally scalable yourself with the tools the have, but its a LOT of work, and generally, people get it wrong. It becomes messy, with many configs, and poor scaling factors. Projects like this encapsulate the job of doing this assembling scalable technologies and auto configuring then. They are very valuable to those who need them (building things like large multi-tenanted SaaS solutions). Because the headache of rolling your own or coping without is quite a problem.
The fact that there is energy stored in anything is not the question we should ask. But rather is it practically stored for our safe and easy retrieval/use. The answer is no, in the case of shale, according to many, if not most.
do you know what could penetrate deep enough? What is your expertise? I have an interest in the subject, but not much more.
"and so will not cause cancer at any appreciable rate."
But might it detect it?...
This was not a revolution or a revolt. It was just revolting.
Sorry, link to Alchemy .
If you want native speed in any browser and the benefits of C++, then stop your moaning and give it a try....
Alchemy didn't replace Javascript. Why should browser specific solutions threaten it. Plus JS is the most popular language in the world for a reason. In fact for many reasons.
"Neither the British or US government is an evil fascist state which brutally subjugates the populace."
Guess you've never been kettled and charged by horses for taking part in a (up until that point) peaceful protest against the ideology of the ruling government? I have. It's life threatening, and has proven fatal on more than one occasion. And undoubtedly terrifying. This is state oppression of the population by any definition I understand.
Or been detained indefinitely without charge and sleep deprived, partially drowned etc... No I haven't but its not hard to imagine how that could also be seen as oppressive and terrorising and is now admitted by the US and complicity admitted by the UK.
turn based game play also makes this possible. See Worms 3D, some years back (excellent game). Process client side, then distribute changes across the network while the players watch the pretty rendering . Perfect. Srsly I love that game.
Yep:
Atheist Pocket Debater: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atheist-pocket-debater/id356411065?mt=8
BibleThumper: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/biblethumper/id334558214?mt=
Not the same dude. One is a browser of arguments. I.e. rational discourse. The other may be seen as God bashing, but it purely uses the Bible's words to do so. That's like saying Principia Mathematica Abridged Notes is Physics bashing.
Niether, irrationally assumes a significant proportion of the population are in need of being 'cured' of their genetic condition (which is, of course, as best science can tell, currently, practically impossible - whether it's desirable or not).
"cure" is a medical term. Medicine is a scientific and beautifully empirical endeavor. Religion is not. Clouding the two is a kin to using pseudo science to sell anti aging cream, but with MUCH more significant ramifications for the victims of the deception. Rather than keeping a few wrinkles and loosing a few bucks, you get psychologically traumatized. Potentially for life, often by your own family.
I believe such deception should be legally prevented. I still think the trades description act should allow for prosecution of this kind of deception.
Emergent and adaptive patterns often 'grow' a head, well after the pattern/system has developed into a self sustaining entity. I wouldn't fixate on the 'top' too much, or you'll be complicit in another pattern. Such as the scapegoating happening with Wikileaks. Wikileaks have help unearth much more important issues than the fixated concerns people now have (and have had cultivated for them) regarding Esange.
hardly. Most iof not all f these services offer JSONp calls that allow you to check more than just if someone on this browser is lgged in, but who they are.:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api XSS magic supplied by FB
Good point. I aso think the author fails to understand complexity and emergent systems (e.g. life). Denser != more likely to contain life, necessarily. What if life could burn itself out. We often wonder why we haven't made contact with extraterrestrial beings. Its quite possible that if we did the encounter would be short lived...
However I like your consideration even more.
The fact is though, that if you're smart and play by the rules, you don't get to bring the benefits of your wisdom/insight to the company. Rules are dumb. They are there to keep the predictable mechanics of comerse predictable and measurable. Genius should never be measured (in either sense). It should be let loose. It should be allowed to fail. It should be childish and annoying and rebellious. And it should not be the norm. I know really smart people who just turn up and work, and do as they're told. They don't get paid so much, and they aren't worth that much more, just doing that. They'd be instantly worth 5 times as much by being a jerk and getting their opinions put into practice. But they like to play safe. Which isn't dumb either. Just less jerkish.
IMHO, this is more of a PR stunt against American culture .
What a load of self absorbed crap.
The qualification factors are CO2 emissions per mile. As they should be. Not car shape. You think US invented the SUV? No just the dumb and incongruent name (I presume).
Don't get me wrong the shape and size are both important factors in European annoyance at there rise in popularity in our narrow overcrowded streets.
They also get refered to as Chelsea Tractors. I've lived in Chelsea. You're right to ask who would want to ride a huge SUV there. Sadly the answer is Every dumb selfish twat. If its bigger my children will be safer (and the neighbours' less so, but I don't care), my ego will be better supported, my status further bolstered.... You have a concentration of rich, self-centered people in city centers. Which is why Chelsea has the highest concentration of 4x4 owners per capita in the UK, despight one of the lowest snow and flooding rating. And next to no mud.
This is not an attack on American culture, but on selfish individuals. The fact that you identify with these individuals in the way you do, is potentially illustrative of your own understanding or perception of your countries culture.
I think you're right that this will never produce the forces required for most 'muscle' purposes.
However if it holds its charge it could be very exciting in terms of capacitance!
I've been playing with synthetic muscles, and I believe magnatism id the only likely way forward. But that Nanotubes are the solution. Esspecially if submerged in ferro fluids, or paramagnetic liquids (e.g. liquid oxygen, though that would not be great re safety). I've already had a bash at simply using thin wire: see vid of lego coil maker and seen here for brief comments.
"Since the internet is not spoken,"
Not for long if I can help it
and you don't think you could get 100 times more users to visit your web app than you could convince to download and install an exe?