Comment Re:Analysis of Miguel's article (Score 1) 747
You can't control ephemeral things, like code, songs, culture, or ideas. We ignore your claims to own them, and will continue to work to remove the regime of punishment for sharing.
You can't control ephemeral things, like code, songs, culture, or ideas. We ignore your claims to own them, and will continue to work to remove the regime of punishment for sharing.
That's no moon!
Yes you are correct that the climate has changed plenty of times in the past. The question is: How do you know that? Let me answer for you: Some dedicated researchers figured it out for you, told you, and you believed them. As you should, since they know what they're talking about.
Do you realize how much overlap there is between the people saying the thing you automatically believe, and the people saying the thing you automatically don't?
Fuck "common knowledge". Climatologists sure as fuck are aware that the climate has changed before without human intervention. Yet they have ample reason (as in evidence) to suggest this change is different, and those reasons even take into account previous change. Maybe you should tell one of them how the Sahara was a savannah, and therefore anthropogenic global climate change isn't occurring, because that's such a good argument!
So yeah. You won a fight against an imaginary layman less educated than yourself. Congratulations. Of course your implied counter-logic of "climate change happened before, therefore this time isn't our fault" is equally flawed.
If you get rid of the "common knowledge" aspect of your post, you're basically saying "Scientists say X which is true, and that obviously means the scientists who say Y are wrong." Except the scientists who say X don't agree with that conclusion. I wonder why? Oh yes, because it's bullshit. Your knowledge is no better than that of the strawman you burned.
yes, people in the usa are not starving
BECAUSE OF WELFARE YOU MORON
hello???
as for the self-initiative destroying, self-esteem destroying aspect of welfare: this is 100% real
so let's kick them off welfare so they can starve instead. because that's so much better for people than low self-esteem. pffffft
and it will decrease crime too, because after they are done being shot by irate homeowners protecting their food or dying in the streets without food, crime will go down! see this is all bourne out by societies without welfare: no one is starving in the slums of india, crime is nonexistent in the slums of nigeria
you're ignorant beyond belief
I think Tolkein is a bit overrated as far as educational value goes. The books are too long and I don't see the themes being that interesting to discuss or write about. Sacrifice & temptation? There's just not much to debate about.
Ender's Game is a shorter read and much more interesting for it's political and moral commentary. A selection of some of the short stories form Asimov's "I Robot" and Bradburry's "Martian Chronicles" might be good.
I really enjoyed "Heart of the Comet" http://amzn.com/0553763415. It has some interesting topics. Possible essay questions:
I think the best Sci-Fi uses differences in alien values to examine our own values and to discuss morality.
Xenocide in the Ender's Game series is one of these. Did the aliens commit murder or was it something else? Does their intent and ignorance free them from guilt? When Ender killed the alien was it murder?
Also, "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. http://amzn.com/0449912558 This one is pretty heavy. Read it if you haven't. It involves a Jesuit priest making first contact with aliens.
"Fleet of Worlds" by Larry Niven & Edward Lerner
No, but 100% of all those services aren't paid for with tax money. That's why you pay for things with fees.
Which in my mind is the real crime here. I wonder what fraction of a percentage of the US military budget would allow us to publish these documents on gold leaf?
Given the superiority of 7z the popularity of rar is a fucking mystery, I blame net effects.
Because the movements of your car are a matter of public record anyway and should be freely available IN BULK SEARCHABLE FORM, right?
Another troll, but I'm bored.
If you installed GPS on your car, and then published your driving habits online, I'm not convinced you'd have a right to complain based on a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Then again, agencies, departments, and branches of government are not private citizens, either. And yes, I think their actions should be both freely-available and in bulk-searchable form.
I'm also in favor of a Corporate death penalty.
More like 20 errors per 24 hours of operation. Computers that do not run 24/7 will see fewer errors per day, of course.
How likely is a bad bit to cause a serious problem? The bulk of RAM is used for data, not code. Data is read more often than written. Most of the time, the bad bit was in unused memory, or passes unnoticed as one wrong pixel in an image containing a million pixels, or didn't go bad before being used. Just taking a big guess here but I'm thinking about 1% of the bad bits cause a serious problem, rare enough compared to real software bugs that it's easy to lump it in. We'd notice our computers are flaky if it happened much more often than that. With an error rate almost as high as 1 per hour, bad bits can't be crashing the OS in more than about 0.001% of occurrences. Else we couldn't possibly get uptimes of many years.
Good call. I haven't worked in C in almost a decade now and reversed the concepts in my mind.
I would still expect that interactions with an array stored in a block of memory being directly accessed in C++ with out bounds checking would execute faster than interacting with a generic list in
A generic list, even if it is array based, is going to be on the stack an array of pointers to other points of the stack and the heap.
Sorry about the confusion, my bust.
-Rick
This mythology of the Puritans "founding the country" is progressive-era propaganda.
Don't you mean socially-and-religiously-conservative-era propaganda?
Your analogy makes no sense. The video card doesn't have to care about what particular technology the display uses, only the range of vertical and horizontal frequencies it supports. The video signal is the same, whether you use a CRT, a LCD, o whatever.
What will happen on the demand side of electricity when electric cars become common?
Hopefully, at that point people will finally get over the whole "nuclear is bad" meme - because, well, they want their cars to work - and we start building more nuclear power plants.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.