Just a century ago the very same thing would have hailed as yet another victory of mankind over mother nature. Industries would be falling each other claiming it happened because of human activity and it is a great thing too. Now apologists for the fossil fuel hawkers will be vigorously be denying it has anything to do with burning of fossil fuels. All that carbon assiduously sequestered by trillions of microscopic marine organisms and millions of tons of plants over million of years has been released in just over one hundred years. People with obvious vested interests deny anthropogenesis of this phenomenon, and I am surprised they still have a few molecules of credibility left.
This is true, but how will they get the job in the first place?
Please sit down as it might come as a shock to you. There are lots of people whose job is to find jobs that could be done remotely and find people to do it on the other end.
The datalink/wire/pipe/tube that lets you work from Starbucks, extends all the way to Bangalore.
If all you need is a VPN connection to home office to be productive, suddenly Indians and Chinese and Israelis and Irishman can bid for and compete for the same job. You may feel you are on top of the game and this does not pose any immediate threat to your job. Even if the job is safe, the salaries will be lower because there are people willing to do the same job for less pay, less benefits. Eventually someone will learn to do your job, do it better than you and will be willing to accept lower pay than you.
Unlike the H1Bs, these workers do not pay taxes to USA nor do they spend the money in the local shops and take vacations within USA. It is prospect of getting cheap labor from these countries that prompt corporate America to promote telecommuting. Remember that.
The energy falling on one acre of land ~= 5kwh/m2/day x 365 days/year x 4046 m2/acre = 7.4 MM kwh/year/acre
5kwh per m^2 per day? At what latitude? If that is on the high side, they are back on the theoretical impossible part of the field. In good old days we had simple perpetual motion machine inventors who attempted to violated the second law of thermodynamics. Not these snake oil men.
I am sick of all these studies and new code development paradigm and case studies of software development etc that assume a large number of programmers with completely interchangeable skills. It might be of some relevance if you get 20 or 40 or 60 generic web developers supplied by a body shopping company like Accenture or Mastek or Cogniscent. In most other place with shipped software products working on bug fixes and features for the next release it is highly impractical.
Your chart might show UI team completing their tasks in 45 days, and the video-codec team esitmating they need 75 days. You can transfer the UI developers into video codec team and ship the product in 60 days. Programming skills are not interchangeable. Till people recognize that you can call the specs, user stories and meetings scrums, but in the end, it is not going to change anything.
In theory, even if the venture is successul, what you will get is a search engine that understands gamers well. Is that going to improve your market share?
There are some women out there having nearly 10 children simply because they feel it is a christian thing to do. How does evolution account for that, unless it accounts for obvious social influences.
What makes you think evolution does not account for that? It is very well known that almost all religions advocate producing as many children as possible. Some more fundamentalistic congregations (some Christian, many Muslim) take it very seriously. Scientists study the mating habits of bower birds, peafowl, birds of paradise and they have very good grip of what is going on. Most of them don't say anything about clearly obvious extensions to Homo sapiens because, it is likely to be misunderstood and politicized and people with an ax to grind have always misrepresented and stretched the theory of evolution to justify their own prejudices. So most scientists don't speak about it. But that does not mean evolution can not or does not explain it.
After the breakthroughs in ESS (evolutionarily stable stragies) by Smith and the seminal Tournament of Strategies by Axelrod in 1980s in the problem of iterated prisoner's dilemma, evolution is clearly in a position to explain the evolution of cooperation, requirements for a population to develop altruism, how apparently suicidal behavior actually has benefits for gene propagation etc.
Maximizing fertility is not even a counter intuitive strategy in terms of evolution. Why do you claim evolution has any difficulty explaining it?
The programmed trading is responsible for so much of the volatility in the markets. The risk assessment metrics used by these future traders were fundamentally responsible for the financial melt down. This is more dangerous than the stupid voice on the computer that keeps asking me to say yes or press 1.
Disease is just your body's way of letting you know that some part of the body is going rotten. Diagnosing something as a disease does not invalidate the cause nor does it cure what is rotten.
Apple seems to have the a premium (or premium priced) PCs. Though it has held Linux threat on the netbook side at bay, it did so by extending the life of XP, thus slowing down Vista adaptation. Now with hardware improvements, XP will run on a VirtualMachine as fast as it used to run on older machines. So one could imagine a Linux box running XP on a VM transferring the license from your old PC that you are replacing. That would let you have the security of a Linux machine with all your old programs and data backward compatible. Typically Microsoft would play its old card, making newer versions would be incompatible enough to force an upgrade while maintaining some small file level compatibility to ease the upgrade. But with ChromeOS on the horizon, and with people getting tired of vendor lock and mobile devices making the web standard compliant, its old card does not have as much "trumping" power.
Is it possible to use the license of an old XP-Home machine to run XP run under VM on a linux box?
Your pet experiments proves the potential for selection. In fact power of selective breeding is so much Charles Darwin opened his book "On the Origins of species" with a long chapter on pigeon breeding. Your experience and that of others engaged in selective breeding completely disproves the basic theory of the ID proponents Michael Behe and Jonathan Wells that there is not enough heritable variations in the breeding stock to spawn new species or novel features.
However in the case of natural selection, those individuals selected against, don't slink away in defeat with tail tucked between the legs like you
non pink peas went. The advantage or disadvantage has to enhance or reduce reproduction rate and it should be measure in number generations not years. In your garden you get one generation per year or less. And the selected varieties form 100% of the population of the next generation. In the forest, the trees take may be 10 years to reach maturity and take some 100 to 150 years to replace 50% of the original population. 500 years in the forest for these trees is like your second year of the pink peas experiment.
So the allegedly emitted light is 1000 fainter than what human eyes can see. Then why call it "visible", meaning viewable, seeable, ocularly pursuable (thanks Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities... it has been a long time since I had the pleasure of ocularly pursuing you... is Dickenesque for long time no see) ?
May be I can use this definition to claim my code is fully documented when the sole documentation is a line of comment that says, "Someday I should document this insane hack."
Some times a deleted file is sitting in the recycle bin without releasing its hold. Emptying recycle bin clears the "cant delete file because some process is using it." Also if you have a command window which has that directory as the "current dir" it wont let you delete the dir. Sometimes open file explorer on that folder creates a hold.
But in the new version of the Google Moon, when viewed at the highest resolution setting, does it use a very interesting and surprising texture map? People who have seen it know what it is, for others I don't want to spoil the surprise.
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Not that I would recommend anyone doing it, but how would the judge feel if a bunch of internet activists decide to post his home address, since it only identifies a structure, not a person, and his car license plate numbers, since they too identify an inanimate object and so on? With judges like this, I expect judges jokes to overtake lawyer jokes in popularity.
In those days we had to program the computer the size of a school bus strapped to our backs while trudging through the waist deep snow, for five miles one way, uphill both ways, without mittens while the politicians were whipping us yelling, "you don't want the Ruskies to win, do you?", those were the days boys. Now these young whippersnappers are using laptops with 8 Gigs of RAM and still could not write a simple javascript engine with a just in time debugger without creating a buffer overflow vulnerability while fed very long unicode strings.... bah... now get off my lawn.
The OLPC should have been in a bubble-pack in every Wal-Mart and Walgreens in America, in every souk in the Middle East, and in every market in India, selling at a small profit and dropping in price every three months
Looks like it is a simple device good enough to may be authorize coke vending machines and such like.
Let us say I willing to put up with some hassle, but I want really good security. What is the best choice? Like I register a cell phone number
with the bank. Bank texts a new passcode everytime I want to login to my phone. Would it be secure?
Ok, Ok, Once in a while she comes across someone like Princess Azula who could lie without setting off tremors, but still I would rather Ang depend on Toff than on some mechanism that requires the test subjects strapped to gurney and wheeled in. I mean, I know Appa is big and powerful and carry lots of load but lugging around an MRI machine? Come on gimme a break.
I agree this type of stuff is the least worst choice, but something about genetically modified bacteria designed to produce fuel, in the ocean gives me the creeps.
It is producing alcohol. It is spending a part of its energy budget into producing alcohol, which is totally useless for reproduction and survival. Thus out in the wild it will be swamped out by the regular bacteria. Remember the currently bacteria living in the ocean have been fighting it out for some 3 billion years and they are as fine tuned to optimum as they can get. Any deviation from it is likely to fall at a suboptimal point in the fitness landscape. Any large deviation like producing alcohol is really a saltation. It will land it so far off the starting point in the fitness landscape it is likely to be much much lower than optimum.
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Just a century ago the very same thing would have hailed as yet another victory of mankind over mother nature. Industries would be falling each other claiming it happened because of human activity and it is a great thing too. Now apologists for the fossil fuel hawkers will be vigorously be denying it has anything to do with burning of fossil fuels. All that carbon assiduously sequestered by trillions of microscopic marine organisms and millions of tons of plants over million of years has been released in just over one hundred years. People with obvious vested interests deny anthropogenesis of this phenomenon, and I am surprised they still have a few molecules of credibility left.
So that they can put any polar bears stranded on isolated ice floes out of their misery.
Please sit down as it might come as a shock to you. There are lots of people whose job is to find jobs that could be done remotely and find people to do it on the other end.
If all you need is a VPN connection to home office to be productive, suddenly Indians and Chinese and Israelis and Irishman can bid for and compete for the same job. You may feel you are on top of the game and this does not pose any immediate threat to your job. Even if the job is safe, the salaries will be lower because there are people willing to do the same job for less pay, less benefits. Eventually someone will learn to do your job, do it better than you and will be willing to accept lower pay than you.
Unlike the H1Bs, these workers do not pay taxes to USA nor do they spend the money in the local shops and take vacations within USA. It is prospect of getting cheap labor from these countries that prompt corporate America to promote telecommuting. Remember that.
5kwh per m^2 per day? At what latitude? If that is on the high side, they are back on the theoretical impossible part of the field. In good old days we had simple perpetual motion machine inventors who attempted to violated the second law of thermodynamics. Not these snake oil men.
Your chart might show UI team completing their tasks in 45 days, and the video-codec team esitmating they need 75 days. You can transfer the UI developers into video codec team and ship the product in 60 days. Programming skills are not interchangeable. Till people recognize that you can call the specs, user stories and meetings scrums, but in the end, it is not going to change anything.
In theory, even if the venture is successul, what you will get is a search engine that understands gamers well. Is that going to improve your market share?
What makes you think evolution does not account for that? It is very well known that almost all religions advocate producing as many children as possible. Some more fundamentalistic congregations (some Christian, many Muslim) take it very seriously. Scientists study the mating habits of bower birds, peafowl, birds of paradise and they have very good grip of what is going on. Most of them don't say anything about clearly obvious extensions to Homo sapiens because, it is likely to be misunderstood and politicized and people with an ax to grind have always misrepresented and stretched the theory of evolution to justify their own prejudices. So most scientists don't speak about it. But that does not mean evolution can not or does not explain it.
After the breakthroughs in ESS (evolutionarily stable stragies) by Smith and the seminal Tournament of Strategies by Axelrod in 1980s in the problem of iterated prisoner's dilemma, evolution is clearly in a position to explain the evolution of cooperation, requirements for a population to develop altruism, how apparently suicidal behavior actually has benefits for gene propagation etc.
Maximizing fertility is not even a counter intuitive strategy in terms of evolution. Why do you claim evolution has any difficulty explaining it?
The programmed trading is responsible for so much of the volatility in the markets. The risk assessment metrics used by these future traders were fundamentally responsible for the financial melt down. This is more dangerous than the stupid voice on the computer that keeps asking me to say yes or press 1.
Disease is just your body's way of letting you know that some part of the body is going rotten. Diagnosing something as a disease does not invalidate the cause nor does it cure what is rotten.
... my netbook inside my tinfoil hat. bah! this will show them
Is it possible to use the license of an old XP-Home machine to run XP run under VM on a linux box?
However in the case of natural selection, those individuals selected against, don't slink away in defeat with tail tucked between the legs like you non pink peas went. The advantage or disadvantage has to enhance or reduce reproduction rate and it should be measure in number generations not years. In your garden you get one generation per year or less. And the selected varieties form 100% of the population of the next generation. In the forest, the trees take may be 10 years to reach maturity and take some 100 to 150 years to replace 50% of the original population. 500 years in the forest for these trees is like your second year of the pink peas experiment.
May be I can use this definition to claim my code is fully documented when the sole documentation is a line of comment that says, "Someday I should document this insane hack."
Some times a deleted file is sitting in the recycle bin without releasing its hold. Emptying recycle bin clears the "cant delete file because some process is using it." Also if you have a command window which has that directory as the "current dir" it wont let you delete the dir. Sometimes open file explorer on that folder creates a hold.
But in the new version of the Google Moon, when viewed at the highest resolution setting, does it use a very interesting and surprising texture map? People who have seen it know what it is, for others I don't want to spoil the surprise.
Not that I would recommend anyone doing it, but how would the judge feel if a bunch of internet activists decide to post his home address, since it only identifies a structure, not a person, and his car license plate numbers, since they too identify an inanimate object and so on? With judges like this, I expect judges jokes to overtake lawyer jokes in popularity.
In those days we had to program the computer the size of a school bus strapped to our backs while trudging through the waist deep snow, for five miles one way, uphill both ways, without mittens while the politicians were whipping us yelling, "you don't want the Ruskies to win, do you?", those were the days boys. Now these young whippersnappers are using laptops with 8 Gigs of RAM and still could not write a simple javascript engine with a just in time debugger without creating a buffer overflow vulnerability while fed very long unicode strings.... bah... now get off my lawn.
Surprised you knew souk but not bazaar
Let us say I willing to put up with some hassle, but I want really good security. What is the best choice? Like I register a cell phone number with the bank. Bank texts a new passcode everytime I want to login to my phone. Would it be secure?
The best way to steal an election efficiently is to get 5 out of 9 votes that matter. Rest of the votes do not count.
They create vulnerabilities by allowing remote code to overload error handlers and thus pwn your system?
... get off my lawn.
Ok, Ok, Once in a while she comes across someone like Princess Azula who could lie without setting off tremors, but still I would rather Ang depend on Toff than on some mechanism that requires the test subjects strapped to gurney and wheeled in. I mean, I know Appa is big and powerful and carry lots of load but lugging around an MRI machine? Come on gimme a break.
It is producing alcohol. It is spending a part of its energy budget into producing alcohol, which is totally useless for reproduction and survival. Thus out in the wild it will be swamped out by the regular bacteria. Remember the currently bacteria living in the ocean have been fighting it out for some 3 billion years and they are as fine tuned to optimum as they can get. Any deviation from it is likely to fall at a suboptimal point in the fitness landscape. Any large deviation like producing alcohol is really a saltation. It will land it so far off the starting point in the fitness landscape it is likely to be much much lower than optimum.