-an ironic comment posted on a website
..that allows you to subscribe, as a way of funding the site without seeing ads, and even allows some non-subscribers to turn off ads.
The irony is that he's ranting about poor business models on a site that doesn't have that specific problem.
From TFA:
Unless you are building your app for Windows 3.1, chances are that you want to talk to a server of some kind.
Why does everyone assume that everyone else is doing stuff exactly like them? For work I don't think I've ever written code that makes any kind of network calls.
In fact the main reason for me not to use any of the "highly optimized interfaces" they provide is that professionally none of them are of the slightest bit of use to me. It's interesting but there are more programs in this world than web-2.3.1-rc4 apps for phones.
How big is chrome?
$ls -lh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 953K Apr 15 2013
And libc is a mere 1.8M.
There are plenty of very well battle tested ways of targeting C code to multiple systems.
I think I'm going to stuff mine into libreoffice. That's only a few hundred meg and a start up time of a second or two.
Just keep in mind the typical liberal MO...
The use of the phrase "the typical liberal" makes me thing you are a "typical right wing not job", the sort of gun toting, gas guzzler driving red-stater who would declare such things as "I don't believe no man came from no monkey".
Of course drawing such broad generalizations would be indicitave of a very weak mind, but you make that a dangerously tempting hole to fall into.
I fail to see how Bitcoin is private and confidential.
It's muh more private and confidential thaan anything other than cash. In it's default form, you buy some bitcoins. Only the exchange knows the information to link your bitcoin wallet to your credit card, so someone has to get the exchange to part with the information.
The someone has to track your transactions through the blocklog.
Compare to a credit card bill which might look something like this:
1/1/2014 Large Breasted Porn Company Inc.......................$49.95
There's always a tradeoff between convenience and security (or anonymity). Bitcoin is not perfect, but it is a whole lot better than credit cards.
And that's ignoring the various mixing services available, or you could find a group of like minded people and buy each others bitcoins and exchange for cash, or you could buy some hardware and mine enough bitcoins for whatever you want.
Where it gets interesting is that large chunks of papers are literally re-telling the same stuff over and over again.
In the "keystone" course I took, (i.e. basic library use and academic writing) which included avoiding both self- and ordinary plagiarism, the main issue was clearly distinguishing among your new work, your new interpretation of others work, and the previous work of others and/or yourself.
The college uses an automated plagiarism-detection-and-measurement service, which compares newly submitted work against a database of previously submitted work, published work, and crawls of the web. We were warned, not just against using copy-and-paste boilerplate in multiple papers (or papers for multiple classes) but that the tool also tended to false-positive for self-plagiarism due to a person's writing style and word choices resulting in a tendency to put identical multi-word strings of significant length in more than one paper.
(I made a point of having a discussion with each prof, giving a heads up that I make extensive web posts under handles, consider it fair to use the same research and phrasing both in a discussion here and in a paper, and would be more than a little annoyed if the tool claimed I'd lifted a paper from my own contribution to a forum thread on some hot topic. So far I've had no problems.)
Curious minds want to know what sort of "self-plagarism" in a journal's content rates shutting the journal down.
The FCC regulations that banned cell phone usage on planes were based on the idea that the phones EM emissions might interfere with the operation of the airplane's equipment.
Also that the cellphones, when located in an aircraft, had a field-of-view including a large number of cell towers and could chew up a slot or two in each of them. One airliner full of people with operating cellphones, passing over a city, could make a substantial dent in the city's cellphone capabilities and produce a LOT of dropped calls - some of them potentially emergency calls.
These were both reasonable with the original, analog, cellphone network, where the phone-to-cell uplink was a narrowband FM signal capable of transmitting substantial power. (The "interferes with avionics" concern might have been more "can't prove it's safe but it looks risky" than "proved it's a problem", but the multi-cell interference issue was apparently an observed effect.)
The modern broadband digital systems, whether CDMA or OFDM based, spread the energy out over a broad spectrum and re-focus it internally in the receiver. These far less of a risk for interference with other radio-sensitive devices. (Meanwhile such devices have also been improved when it comes to rejection of extraneous interference.) (You'll notice that hospitals have, for a while, been deploying WiFi - also an OFDM system - internally, and have been much more permissive about where they'll let you operate a cellphone.) These systems also are less prone to being interfered with by other, weaker, cellphone signals.
With the recent retirement of the analog cellphone network (causing even multi-mode phones to cease transmitting in that mode), the problem-child mode has gone away. So it's entirely reasonable for the rule-making bodies to drop the mandate that the cell phones be shut off, and the Airlines to follow suit where they trust this analysis. (Delta, for instance, still wants phones turned off, or in "airline mode" if they have it, during the ground-to-cruising-altitude phases of the flight. They trust it while cruising, but not in the more critical near-ground phase.)
It's modulation depth (per the abstract) is only 38%, so it's not quite a broad-band as on-off-keying.
Once you've got that it's trivial to use beam splitters and destructive interference to change the modulation from 62% vs. 100% to 38% vs. essentially 0% amplitude.
Not that it matters: The receiver is AC coupled, anyhow. As long as the modulation is sufficiently deep that the signal is substantially above the noise floor, you're fine. Switching a third of the amplitude is nearly as good as switching all of the amplitude of a signal of third the amplitude. (in terms of energy, which is the square of amplitude, the switched part is more than half again the unswitched part.) If you're using stimulated-emission repeater amplification along the way you need more excitation light, but that's still a trivial cost.
You're missing the simplest explanation: during his campaign, Obama lied.
Dead on.
Obama learned politics in Chicago - the current record holder for corrupt big-city political machines. He is a classic example of a corrupt machine politician.
The Clintons are also masters of the (less intense) state-level version of the form, having risen to the top in Arkansas, which has been run by a corrupt machine since a Mafia family from New York took it over when the big city got too hot for them. Obama beat them for the Democratic nomination. He has now remade the Federal government on the model of Chigago.
This was predicted and announced by quite a large number of people well before the election. Nevertheless, he won. So how did this come about?
There are a number of factors. But IMHO this is the most decisive: The Republican Party's organization, for well over a decade, has been solidly controlled by the Neocon faction (one of the four major and several minor factions of the party). In the last two presidential nomination battles, the Liberty wing (another of the big four), under the inspiration of Ron Paul and drawing members mainly from the young and/or Internet connected, made substantial inroads.
Their successes in the 2008 nomination process threatened to eventually displace the Neocons' control of the party machinery, as the Neocons had displaced their predecessors (mainly the Christian Right) previously. So in the 2012 nomination the Neocons fought an extremely dirty battle, with large amounts of cheating, rule-breaking, and even incidents of violence (including broken bones). This so alienated the Liberty wing (and some members of other factions) that they refused to support the Neocon's nominee in the general election. Romney lost five states by margins substantially less than the number of people who voted for Ron Paul in those states' primaries, and those states' electoral votes would have swung the general election. It's a good bet that virtually none of the Ron Paul supporters voted for Romney, and even those would have been more that balanced by Republican voters for other candidates who were also appalled at the machine's treatment of their opposition.
One circulating meme was: "If this is how they behave in the nomination process, how can we allow them to control of the machinery of the Federal Government?" Even KNOWING that Obama would run the Fed like a Chicago-style machine and use it to stomp on the people, letting the Neocon's machine continue to consolidate their control of the major opposition party and drive the big-government non-choice-election system into the foreseeable future could still look like a worse choice.
Not my problem.
Not your problem, but you are to blame. You are knowingly supporting something that you know to be unethical and corrupt. That makes you part of the problem.
Is there any point at which the ethics of a company involved would stop you paying for a service?
I agree language is an issue, especially to learn it to a professional level
It isn't, provided you learn it at a young age. Basically kids seem to be language learning machines and have an ability to learn languages that cannot be matched by adults.
It requires the education system to actually care about teaching languages to kids at a young age, however.
Which labor laws are you talking about?
Oh come on there's far more than that and they're very unreasonable.
Like not being able to pay employees in credits to be redeemed at the company store. Employees not being able to sell themselves into indentured servitude, that sort of thing. those regressive policies are harming our corporations.
I have a friend that works at a construction engineering firm and they have trouble finding qualified and experienced electrical engineers to fill some positions.
No, they have trouble finding qualified and experienced electrical engineers for the apparently low salary they're paying. I'll bet if they doubled the salary they'd be swamped in great applicants. The problem is with the pay rate they're offering, not the labour pool.
It's modulation depth (per the abstract) is only 38%, so it's not quite a broad-band as on-off-keying.
Once you've got that it's trivial to use beam splitters and destructive interference to change the modulation from 62% vs. 100% to 38% vs. essentially 0% amplitude.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
