"Software maintenance" has absolutely nothing to do with computer science. I wish people would stop calling business programming computer science. Computer science work gets done at universities and research institutions, not at Initech.
What are they trying to do, make up some 3D fractal that just looks like the mandelbrot? This mandelbulb seems pretty arbitrary, and the whole point of the story seems to be that they've found a good one, not that they've found any kind of "true" solution.
You heard it here first, folks. It's 'unfortunate' for the regulators when there "doesn't appear to be a whole lot that is bad about" a mood altering substance.
It's an untested drug. Its effects on the body have never been studied. People are taking it anyway, and regulators don't have an easy warning to tell users to get them to stop taking it.
FDA-approved prescription medications have a long enough history of terrifying mistakes. If there's a place to take a stand for conscientious drug use, it's not here.
It's hard to blame them; alcohol is already dangerous and adding a stimulant can only make it worse. I bet they have trouble drawing the line between "powerful psychoactive drug linked to addiction and serious long-term health problems" and "same but legal for political reasons."
Not that caffeine is particularly dangerous, but someone at the FDA probably gets buried in controversy every time a new alcohol product lands on his desk.
I hate the ridiculous anti-free nature of the app store, but it's not hard to see why Apple would be concerned. The fear is that if a program gets into the App Store that allows any sort of user-provided data to be executed, then evil unlicensed apps could be delivered to the platform through that interpreter.
For example, instead of writing your games in C and paying Apple to sell them on the app store, you could write your game in BASIC and deliver them through the C64 emulator. Apple makes no money. Not exactly practical, but if there's a hole in the interpreter environment that allows a jump into raw binary data (which could be set to ARM instructions) then it's up to the app developer to fix it, and Apple has no control. This is the kind of problem that plagued TI calculators for years until they decided to open them up, and was the door into custom unsigned software on game consoles before the age of modchips and hard drives.
Is that so hard to believe? Say the window allowed by law for events to affect your score is 45 days. When you hurt your score, lenders (their customers) have a very strong need to know immediately. When you improve it, lenders (their customers) don't consider it a priority, and in fact they have an incentive for your score to be as low as possible. So the agencies pad out the response time to the maximum allowed by law: 45 days.
It's a problem of conflicting interests, not one of making law stricter. At least in this specific case.
In fact, this is the perfect example of why the free market doesn't work sometimes. Lenders always benefit when they can justify charging you more for a loan by getting the worst credit report possible. The reporting agencies have no incentive to fix the problems because every fixed problem directly results in lost profits for their industry.
So you end up with lenders being protected while the consumers - the voters who control the laws that allow lenders to exist - get hit with higher and higher interest rates. And it's not like some fair, reasonable credit reporting startup can realistically compete when the Big Three own the central authority that everyone orders reports from.
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That free will section is embarrassing. I assume the days is a reference to this logic puzzle? His answer is just stupid. "So what? You still have free will and you know it." Wow, how convincing. You should write a book or something.
if you know the state of a system at a given point in time, you could predict the state at any future point in time if you had enough computational power (with a caveat about the randomness possibly introduced by quantum physics)
Even without quantum physics this isn't true, as it solves the halting problem. See Laplace's demon.
I have no problem with subtitles in anime. It's really not that hard to read the text while you're looking at the image.. if anything the text is easier. I want to play the video at double speed sometimes because I read the line instantly and then have to sit around for a few seconds waiting for the character to say it.
As for the story, I'm sure it depends on the type of comic. If you're reading Dresden Codak then you're getting more real material than most books. If you're reading POWs and KER-BLAMs in a superman comic then you're getting nothing. Just like good books and airport paperbacks.
To demand the company make any modifications is ludicrous. If it's profitable then Sony will do it on its own, or not. Who cares? Blind people can't do a lot of things. Video games are one of them.
There's a big difference between meeting standards for government websites and forcing developers to make a different game from what they envisioned.
There is simply no evidence - no reason to even suspect - that dowsing is real. Study after study shows random results. Nobody cares about your grandfather or how good a man he was.
The only ferrous part of us being pumped around is Hemoglobin. It's extremely weakly ferromagnetic, and you need MRI magnets to see changes in its magnetic field - it's called the fMRI. Even then we have to use very recent (as in, last 15 years) DSP technologies to sort out the noise.
Unless you have metal on you, you can't even feel the enormous magnetic field of an MRI. How are you going to feel water flowing 5 feet under ground? We have to inject contrast fluid to get a good image - does he keep a stockpile of contrast to enhance his results?
And yeah there's nuclear resonance (like how normal MRIs work) but those too are infinitesimal forces.
Maryland's pretty up there. We can rule out everything in the Midwest of course. The west coast is out on philosophical grounds (California being the most tolerable). The mountain states and the states in between are inhospitable, horrible places to live unless you must have your skiing or your 100 degree April mornings. Texas of course is a joke, with its shotgun-toting cowboys, rampant immigration problems, and embarrassing civil rights awareness. Which leaves the East Coast. Let's break it down.
The South doesn't even earn consideration. Any Confederate state is out of the running faster than Montana. The whole American South is a cesspool of religion, anti-intellectualism, racism, and good manners. And slow talking, and long-humid-summer-induced blank stares. And getting arrested for performing oral sex, and lagging behind the rest of the country since Reconstruction. Basically, if you've ever seen Cool Hand Luke (in Alabama chain gang labor was used as late as 1995!) it's impossible to live south of Virginia.
Maryland and New England are then the top spots in the nation. Maybe some other states (Illinois? California?) can be up there, but they're the exception to their regional rules. I'd put New York up high, and Massachusetts. If you can afford to live in the wealthy areas of New Jersey or Boston or whatever, those are the best spots on the east coast. As for Maryland, it's the most temperate of those states without being pest-infested (Kudzu!) like the south. Just cold enough to kill everything but mammals for a quarter of the year, but still relatively cool in the summer.
Oh and Hawaii is out because the culture is less American than many other countries.
This is what I thought too. Dark matter is by definition this extra mass we can't explain. If you explain part of it, then the part you explained isn't dark matter.
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"Software maintenance" has absolutely nothing to do with computer science. I wish people would stop calling business programming computer science. Computer science work gets done at universities and research institutions, not at Initech.
Why would Google let them do this anyway? Can you selectively deny access to certain crawlers?
What are they trying to do, make up some 3D fractal that just looks like the mandelbrot? This mandelbulb seems pretty arbitrary, and the whole point of the story seems to be that they've found a good one, not that they've found any kind of "true" solution.
It's an untested drug. Its effects on the body have never been studied. People are taking it anyway, and regulators don't have an easy warning to tell users to get them to stop taking it.
FDA-approved prescription medications have a long enough history of terrifying mistakes. If there's a place to take a stand for conscientious drug use, it's not here.
It's hard to blame them; alcohol is already dangerous and adding a stimulant can only make it worse. I bet they have trouble drawing the line between "powerful psychoactive drug linked to addiction and serious long-term health problems" and "same but legal for political reasons."
Not that caffeine is particularly dangerous, but someone at the FDA probably gets buried in controversy every time a new alcohol product lands on his desk.
I didn't say anything about free, I said outside of Apple's control.
Apple depends on community developers to make all of those thousands of apps in the app store. They have a right to complain.
But they'll only sign your game if you're not charging for it. If you don't need a signature at all then you can charge.
I hate the ridiculous anti-free nature of the app store, but it's not hard to see why Apple would be concerned. The fear is that if a program gets into the App Store that allows any sort of user-provided data to be executed, then evil unlicensed apps could be delivered to the platform through that interpreter.
For example, instead of writing your games in C and paying Apple to sell them on the app store, you could write your game in BASIC and deliver them through the C64 emulator. Apple makes no money. Not exactly practical, but if there's a hole in the interpreter environment that allows a jump into raw binary data (which could be set to ARM instructions) then it's up to the app developer to fix it, and Apple has no control. This is the kind of problem that plagued TI calculators for years until they decided to open them up, and was the door into custom unsigned software on game consoles before the age of modchips and hard drives.
Is that so hard to believe? Say the window allowed by law for events to affect your score is 45 days. When you hurt your score, lenders (their customers) have a very strong need to know immediately. When you improve it, lenders (their customers) don't consider it a priority, and in fact they have an incentive for your score to be as low as possible. So the agencies pad out the response time to the maximum allowed by law: 45 days.
It's a problem of conflicting interests, not one of making law stricter. At least in this specific case.
In fact, this is the perfect example of why the free market doesn't work sometimes. Lenders always benefit when they can justify charging you more for a loan by getting the worst credit report possible. The reporting agencies have no incentive to fix the problems because every fixed problem directly results in lost profits for their industry.
So you end up with lenders being protected while the consumers - the voters who control the laws that allow lenders to exist - get hit with higher and higher interest rates. And it's not like some fair, reasonable credit reporting startup can realistically compete when the Big Three own the central authority that everyone orders reports from.
Well apparently BlueHippo was held in contempt by federal court in April.. and this isn't the first time they've been in trouble
So why is the FTC throwing lawyers at BlueHippo instead of arresting Rensin?
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That free will section is embarrassing. I assume the days is a reference to this logic puzzle? His answer is just stupid. "So what? You still have free will and you know it." Wow, how convincing. You should write a book or something.
Even without quantum physics this isn't true, as it solves the halting problem. See Laplace's demon.
You could just return the mac...
or turn around and resell it.
It's new because the prosecutors are actually being reasonable about it. Remember this story from last year?
CP is disgusting but we shouldn't lose our freedom over it..
People already install the Flash plugin to get their IE working with YouTube. Why can't they install some HTML5 video support plugin?
I have no problem with subtitles in anime. It's really not that hard to read the text while you're looking at the image.. if anything the text is easier. I want to play the video at double speed sometimes because I read the line instantly and then have to sit around for a few seconds waiting for the character to say it.
As for the story, I'm sure it depends on the type of comic. If you're reading Dresden Codak then you're getting more real material than most books. If you're reading POWs and KER-BLAMs in a superman comic then you're getting nothing. Just like good books and airport paperbacks.
To demand the company make any modifications is ludicrous. If it's profitable then Sony will do it on its own, or not. Who cares? Blind people can't do a lot of things. Video games are one of them.
There's a big difference between meeting standards for government websites and forcing developers to make a different game from what they envisioned.
You're wrong too.
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Oh god, bury the parent in down mods please.
There is simply no evidence - no reason to even suspect - that dowsing is real. Study after study shows random results. Nobody cares about your grandfather or how good a man he was.
The only ferrous part of us being pumped around is Hemoglobin. It's extremely weakly ferromagnetic, and you need MRI magnets to see changes in its magnetic field - it's called the fMRI. Even then we have to use very recent (as in, last 15 years) DSP technologies to sort out the noise.
Unless you have metal on you, you can't even feel the enormous magnetic field of an MRI. How are you going to feel water flowing 5 feet under ground? We have to inject contrast fluid to get a good image - does he keep a stockpile of contrast to enhance his results?
And yeah there's nuclear resonance (like how normal MRIs work) but those too are infinitesimal forces.
Maryland's pretty up there. We can rule out everything in the Midwest of course. The west coast is out on philosophical grounds (California being the most tolerable). The mountain states and the states in between are inhospitable, horrible places to live unless you must have your skiing or your 100 degree April mornings. Texas of course is a joke, with its shotgun-toting cowboys, rampant immigration problems, and embarrassing civil rights awareness. Which leaves the East Coast. Let's break it down.
The South doesn't even earn consideration. Any Confederate state is out of the running faster than Montana. The whole American South is a cesspool of religion, anti-intellectualism, racism, and good manners. And slow talking, and long-humid-summer-induced blank stares. And getting arrested for performing oral sex, and lagging behind the rest of the country since Reconstruction. Basically, if you've ever seen Cool Hand Luke (in Alabama chain gang labor was used as late as 1995!) it's impossible to live south of Virginia.
Maryland and New England are then the top spots in the nation. Maybe some other states (Illinois? California?) can be up there, but they're the exception to their regional rules. I'd put New York up high, and Massachusetts. If you can afford to live in the wealthy areas of New Jersey or Boston or whatever, those are the best spots on the east coast. As for Maryland, it's the most temperate of those states without being pest-infested (Kudzu!) like the south. Just cold enough to kill everything but mammals for a quarter of the year, but still relatively cool in the summer.
Oh and Hawaii is out because the culture is less American than many other countries.
This is what I thought too. Dark matter is by definition this extra mass we can't explain. If you explain part of it, then the part you explained isn't dark matter.
Really. What a surprise. If you want a stable system, then use a stable distro. Exempli gratia, Debian stable.