First, this is not government censoring TV. This is a tool that allows PARENTS to sensor TV. Each household can make the decision, not government.
I think the gp was aware of that, and seems to be saying that the proposals are better. I agree. What the government doesn't want my children to see -- or what powerful lobby groups try to pressure the government into stopping my children from seeing -- is highly unlikely to match what I think is appropriate for my kids to see. There is perhaps some content that it would be abusive to allow the children to see (girls & cups...) but beyond that surely it's down to parental responsibility, parents just need the tools to help them excercise that responsibility.
That's him. Unfortunately, his quantum consciousness idea doesn't give an explanation of consciousness, it just gives a means for Descartes "ghost in the machine" to interact with the physical -- in other words it just moves the problem. On the other hand, I've not heard any other coherent explanation of consciousness either. And he's made more contributions to mathematics than any other philosophers of the mind that I can think of. So tempted to do my bathrooom in Penrose tiles!
It probably has a lot to do with the voting environment. Here in the UK the booths are not fully closed in, and the returning officer would be able to see if anybody were openly videoing. If it has to be covert, getting good, clear shots is a lot harder.
"Wouldn't like anything to happen to you kids, would you? Bring along the slip that shows you voted for Capone and everything should be ok"
Whenever someone produces this example they always use the "mafia". Well, guess what? It's not the 1930's anymore. This could already be done these days... just force the person to bring a video camera with them into the voting booth. So, you argument against print-outs doesn't hold water.
I'm basing that on an actual recent specification for actual voting machines for actual national elections in a real country (not the USA, but a country with a relatively recent history of internal violence and electoral irregularities). So I think it's fair to say that it's still a concern for some election authorities. The mafia was just an illustration I thought people would understand.
Yeah. Now wrap that in a bit of security code to make sure that nobody can tamper with it, and that nobody can find out how you voted, and that you can't prove to anybody else how you voted (one little issue with prinouts for voters: "Wouldn't like anything to happen to you kids, would you? Bring along the slip that shows you voted for Capone and everything should be ok"), and that transfers the data to the central counting station without the possibility of tampering, and everything should be fine.
I've looked at specs for voting macines (bidded for a contract to validate them, but didn't get it), and there's a heck of a lot more than integer addition.
Now either the results are just that bad that it would tank the company, and honestly hasn't there been enough of that lately?
Or somehow the company got in the judge's pocket.
Or the report contains trade secrets, the non-release of which was a condition of the original study? I can easily imagine that it might be necessary to include trade secrets in the report in order to clearly explain issues that were discovered. In that case, the judge would have to prohibit its release to the public, but may allow it to be used in the hearings. Not unlike what has happened.
The language may be, but doing most anything remotely interesting is going to create platform-specific issues. Such is the curse of a bare-metal language.
If you have the language, at least you can isolate the platform specific code and only have to rewrite that. If you don't have the language, you're stuffed.
As far as I am concerned, it's about getting the job done. I get Windows GUI jobs done much more quickly and effectively when using C# than when using Delphi. The particular set of factors that goes into that (access to libraries, language characteristics, personal programming style, whatever) is interesting, but when I have a job to do I'll pick up the toolset that is most effective for that job.
If you mean the final code, probably. If you mean the development cycle then I have not found it so, because under Delphi I was constantly having to reinvent wheels that are provided by.NET.
No, as strong a denial as can possibly be made is "That is incorrect. It is not true. Our products do not emit the fumes referred to."
The OP is saying, logically, they are the same thing. Scientifically speaking, not having evidence of something after having taken all reasonable steps to find such evidence is as concrete as it gets, because, except for very limited scenarios, you cannot prove a negative.
Even in the link you post, the notion that octothorpe is a spoof is disputed. I've linked in a previous discussion to a different source who suggests that it is a cartographical term, although they don't back it up other than to say they've seen maps using the octothorpe symbol.
The Complete Oxford English Dictionary (http://dictionary.oed.com/, but it's subscription only) says the coimage was "apparently" playful, and lists the earliest usage as being in 1974. If your friends have seen an earlier use of the term, the OED would like to hear of it. On the other hand, if they've just seen the symbol (as you say) then it tells us nothing about what the ancient cartographers called it. Probably "One of those itsy tic-tac-toe doohickeys".
True, so I'll go with "C# and.NET is a really easy combination for knocking out a medium-sized, non-mission-critical GUI-intensive program".
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Better than C#? Well, how many platforms can you name that C++ is not available for? If you're willing to go back to an early version of C++ it compiled via C (may be possible even for current versions, I've never bothered looking into it), so at least some version of C++ would run on anything that runs C (and had enough resources).
Delphi - Simpler, Faster, less overhead, By the same author!
But nowhere near as well integrated into.NET. I've used both, and although I usually advocate the B&D of the Pascal family of languages, I'm with the GP -- C# is a really easy language for knocking out a medium-sized, non-mission-critical GUI-intensive program for the.NET platform; much easier than Delphi. On the other hand, Delphi is better at preventing certain classes of bugs, C++ is better for multiplatform programming, Ada is better for preventing bugs and multiplatform programming but has a steep learning curve, and so on. No language is ideal for all purposes, but C# is a fine language for some purposes.
Except, of course, the "correct" name for the '#' character is only "octothorpe" in the world of spoofs. It's a fairly recent invented name ("recent" in terms of orthography, if not computing). http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
First recorded use of the term "bug" (in the sense of a program fault), but from the context the term must have already existed. So we actually don't know who came up with the term.
And, as I discovered yesterday, it seems you need a passport to fly from Dublin to Cork. Not just photo-id: a passport. Some of the nationals I spoke to seemed pretty annoyed.
To be fair, all the opposition parties (Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, SNP) oppose ID cards and say they would scrap them, if elected.
Sorry, I don't follow. What does what a party says pre-election have to do with what it does if it gets into power? Once the businesses that want to cream another GBP93 (about US$170) from every person in the country offer some healthy party donations to whoever is in power, pre-election promises will quickly be abandoned.
The GBP93 is an old figure; http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/may/25/immigrationpolicy.idcards -- it's probably more by now. And it doesn't seem to take into account the annual running costs estimated in 2005 to be GBP584m (about £10 -- US$18 -- for every man, woman and child in the country. Even if there were no civil liberties argument, I would resent having to pay that for something that appears to offer no benefit whatsoever except for lining the pockets of a couple of businesses.
Then again, what books to read as programmers can be a whole other post,in fact I think it's come up.
Yes, but the general principle of "keep reading" is a good one. Read code. Read books (online or dead tree). Read articles. Read about new technologies, new approaches to old technologies, innovative solutions, successes, failures, pretty much anything. The person who stops doing background reading once they can do their job is a person who stalls and gets left behind. Do read critically, though, and remember Sturgeon's 2nd Law ("90% of everything is crap") -- there's nothing (well, not much) worse that someone who wants to overhaul the complete development process just because they read a magazine article about a new approach that promises to solve all the problems of everything that went before!
An F is an F, (or an E is an E, according to the article). They still show as failing, they still fail, but now they actually have a chance to start trying. If you were in a class and had gotten 10% or something ridiculous like that, then you got your life together, decided to start trying in school and catching up, how would it be to be unable to pass the class because you'd average less than 60%?
So do like my college does; give lower weighting to early assignments, higher weighting to later assignments (the first assignment on my current module counted for, IIRC, 5% of my coursework total; the last assignment for 35%). That way, students who are caught out at the beginning of a course by the standard of work required (and it's happened to me) aren't much penalised; as long as they get it together before the end of the course they can pull their grades up.
Moderated groups are still useful, although obviously one needs to avoid one's email address appearing (unless it's an email address set up specifically as a spam trap).
I read the article too -- what is/. coming to? But I'd be amazed if they really were comfortable over normal frames. If they are, I reckon this is a bigger breakthrough than the 3-D!
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First, this is not government censoring TV. This is a tool that allows PARENTS to sensor TV. Each household can make the decision, not government.
I think the gp was aware of that, and seems to be saying that the proposals are better. I agree. What the government doesn't want my children to see -- or what powerful lobby groups try to pressure the government into stopping my children from seeing -- is highly unlikely to match what I think is appropriate for my kids to see. There is perhaps some content that it would be abusive to allow the children to see (girls & cups...) but beyond that surely it's down to parental responsibility, parents just need the tools to help them excercise that responsibility.
That's him. Unfortunately, his quantum consciousness idea doesn't give an explanation of consciousness, it just gives a means for Descartes "ghost in the machine" to interact with the physical -- in other words it just moves the problem. On the other hand, I've not heard any other coherent explanation of consciousness either. And he's made more contributions to mathematics than any other philosophers of the mind that I can think of. So tempted to do my bathrooom in Penrose tiles!
It probably has a lot to do with the voting environment. Here in the UK the booths are not fully closed in, and the returning officer would be able to see if anybody were openly videoing. If it has to be covert, getting good, clear shots is a lot harder.
"Wouldn't like anything to happen to you kids, would you? Bring along the slip that shows you voted for Capone and everything should be ok"
Whenever someone produces this example they always use the "mafia". Well, guess what? It's not the 1930's anymore. This could already be done these days... just force the person to bring a video camera with them into the voting booth. So, you argument against print-outs doesn't hold water.
I'm basing that on an actual recent specification for actual voting machines for actual national elections in a real country (not the USA, but a country with a relatively recent history of internal violence and electoral irregularities). So I think it's fair to say that it's still a concern for some election authorities. The mafia was just an illustration I thought people would understand.
Yeah. Now wrap that in a bit of security code to make sure that nobody can tamper with it, and that nobody can find out how you voted, and that you can't prove to anybody else how you voted (one little issue with prinouts for voters: "Wouldn't like anything to happen to you kids, would you? Bring along the slip that shows you voted for Capone and everything should be ok"), and that transfers the data to the central counting station without the possibility of tampering, and everything should be fine.
I've looked at specs for voting macines (bidded for a contract to validate them, but didn't get it), and there's a heck of a lot more than integer addition.
Now either the results are just that bad that it would tank the company, and honestly hasn't there been enough of that lately?
Or somehow the company got in the judge's pocket.
Or the report contains trade secrets, the non-release of which was a condition of the original study? I can easily imagine that it might be necessary to include trade secrets in the report in order to clearly explain issues that were discovered. In that case, the judge would have to prohibit its release to the public, but may allow it to be used in the hearings. Not unlike what has happened.
The language may be, but doing most anything remotely interesting is going to create platform-specific issues. Such is the curse of a bare-metal language.
If you have the language, at least you can isolate the platform specific code and only have to rewrite that. If you don't have the language, you're stuffed.
As far as I am concerned, it's about getting the job done. I get Windows GUI jobs done much more quickly and effectively when using C# than when using Delphi. The particular set of factors that goes into that (access to libraries, language characteristics, personal programming style, whatever) is interesting, but when I have a job to do I'll pick up the toolset that is most effective for that job.
If you mean the final code, probably. If you mean the development cycle then I have not found it so, because under Delphi I was constantly having to reinvent wheels that are provided by .NET.
No, as strong a denial as can possibly be made is "That is incorrect. It is not true. Our products do not emit the fumes referred to."
The OP is saying, logically, they are the same thing. Scientifically speaking, not having evidence of something after having taken all reasonable steps to find such evidence is as concrete as it gets, because, except for very limited scenarios, you cannot prove a negative.
Fixed that for ya.
Even in the link you post, the notion that octothorpe is a spoof is disputed. I've linked in a previous discussion to a different source who suggests that it is a cartographical term, although they don't back it up other than to say they've seen maps using the octothorpe symbol.
The Complete Oxford English Dictionary (http://dictionary.oed.com/, but it's subscription only) says the coimage was "apparently" playful, and lists the earliest usage as being in 1974. If your friends have seen an earlier use of the term, the OED would like to hear of it. On the other hand, if they've just seen the symbol (as you say) then it tells us nothing about what the ancient cartographers called it. Probably "One of those itsy tic-tac-toe doohickeys".
The platform referred to was Windows, not .Net
True, so I'll go with "C# and .NET is a really easy combination for knocking out a medium-sized, non-mission-critical GUI-intensive program".
Better than C#? Well, how many platforms can you name that C++ is not available for? If you're willing to go back to an early version of C++ it compiled via C (may be possible even for current versions, I've never bothered looking into it), so at least some version of C++ would run on anything that runs C (and had enough resources).
Delphi - Simpler, Faster, less overhead, By the same author!
But nowhere near as well integrated into .NET. I've used both, and although I usually advocate the B&D of the Pascal family of languages, I'm with the GP -- C# is a really easy language for knocking out a medium-sized, non-mission-critical GUI-intensive program for the .NET platform; much easier than Delphi. On the other hand, Delphi is better at preventing certain classes of bugs, C++ is better for multiplatform programming, Ada is better for preventing bugs and multiplatform programming but has a steep learning curve, and so on. No language is ideal for all purposes, but C# is a fine language for some purposes.
Except, of course, the "correct" name for the '#' character is only "octothorpe" in the world of spoofs. It's a fairly recent invented name ("recent" in terms of orthography, if not computing). http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
Paper tape? Eee, tha' were lucky. In my day we had to toggle the loader in on front panel switches.
The disturbing thing is that it's true, I *am* that old.
First recorded use of the term "bug" (in the sense of a program fault), but from the context the term must have already existed. So we actually don't know who came up with the term.
And, as I discovered yesterday, it seems you need a passport to fly from Dublin to Cork. Not just photo-id: a passport. Some of the nationals I spoke to seemed pretty annoyed.
To be fair, all the opposition parties (Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, SNP) oppose ID cards and say they would scrap them, if elected.
Sorry, I don't follow. What does what a party says pre-election have to do with what it does if it gets into power? Once the businesses that want to cream another GBP93 (about US$170) from every person in the country offer some healthy party donations to whoever is in power, pre-election promises will quickly be abandoned.
The GBP93 is an old figure; http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/may/25/immigrationpolicy.idcards -- it's probably more by now. And it doesn't seem to take into account the annual running costs estimated in 2005 to be GBP584m (about £10 -- US$18 -- for every man, woman and child in the country. Even if there were no civil liberties argument, I would resent having to pay that for something that appears to offer no benefit whatsoever except for lining the pockets of a couple of businesses.
Then again, what books to read as programmers can be a whole other post,in fact I think it's come up.
Yes, but the general principle of "keep reading" is a good one. Read code. Read books (online or dead tree). Read articles. Read about new technologies, new approaches to old technologies, innovative solutions, successes, failures, pretty much anything. The person who stops doing background reading once they can do their job is a person who stalls and gets left behind. Do read critically, though, and remember Sturgeon's 2nd Law ("90% of everything is crap") -- there's nothing (well, not much) worse that someone who wants to overhaul the complete development process just because they read a magazine article about a new approach that promises to solve all the problems of everything that went before!
An F is an F, (or an E is an E, according to the article). They still show as failing, they still fail, but now they actually have a chance to start trying. If you were in a class and had gotten 10% or something ridiculous like that, then you got your life together, decided to start trying in school and catching up, how would it be to be unable to pass the class because you'd average less than 60%?
So do like my college does; give lower weighting to early assignments, higher weighting to later assignments (the first assignment on my current module counted for, IIRC, 5% of my coursework total; the last assignment for 35%). That way, students who are caught out at the beginning of a course by the standard of work required (and it's happened to me) aren't much penalised; as long as they get it together before the end of the course they can pull their grades up.
Minuet in G would look something like this:
-7 2 2 1 2 -7 0 9 -4 2 2 2 1 -12 0 5 2 -2 -1 -2 2 1 -1 -2 -2 -1 1 2 2 -4 4 -2
Anyone in particular's Minuet in G (Bach? Mozart? Beethoven? Me?), or all of them? And I thought the key didn't matter, so that would be all minuets?
Moderated groups are still useful, although obviously one needs to avoid one's email address appearing (unless it's an email address set up specifically as a spam trap).
Much like the software, then.
I read the article too -- what is /. coming to? But I'd be amazed if they really were comfortable over normal frames. If they are, I reckon this is a bigger breakthrough than the 3-D!