I think in the almost 20 years since learning something other than basic I haven't written a goto statement.
Me neither; but goto still has it's place. I'm digging into writing a forth-like scripting language interpreter/compiler, and I may end up having a huge central loop that relies on dozens if not hundreds of gotos. For this particular problem, that looks to be the clearest and cleanest solution... better than function vector arrays, or other ways of solving it.
I had to look up the syntax for goto, never having used it in C or C++:-)
Agree. Actionscript is really a pretty nice language. Wish more people would give it a shot.
Just like a generation learned computer programming from their C64, I think there's a lot of kids learning programming now from making flash animations, and digging into actionscript to get a few extra functions. Then, hopefully, they move to full programs in actionscript, then start studying other languages.
Quite probably. In most really cold places, it is usally to cold to snow as cold air can carry less moisture than warm air.
Back where I grew up we had lots of -20C clear cold days. It was the "warm" days near 0C when it snowed.
While that phenomenon certainly exists, it can't be used as a justification for this snowfall. There was a heavier snowfall decades ago, so this snowfall does nothing to establish warming, cooling, change, or static climate. You would have to do an analysis of frequency of snowfalls, etc., before drawing any conclusions about it.
You can draw the conclusion that anybody using this as evidence (a) for, or (b) against, climate change is not going to be somebody you want to take too seriously.
The Atacama Desert region in Chile was coated with its heaviest snow cover in nearly two decades, the BBC reported. An estimated 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) piled up in the normally arid region.
If this snowfall was due to 'more energy' being added to the system, what caused the prior snowfalls? You have to include all data. Everytime you hear some claim about 'worst hurricane season in fifty years', or anything similar, you need to realize that means there was a worse event fifty years ago. By itself, that establishes no trend.
You can't put a 'made in Germany' sign on the lack of something.
I'm happy enough letting you guys ban nuclear, and then seeing how our respective economies compare three decades from now. I'll wager that your decision will be eagerly reversed, once the results become clear. (And results will become clear.)
That's mostly because the annoying, intolerant atheists are obviously the only ones you hear. I'm an atheist, and I'm fine with people praying, thanking their God/gods, and other public demonstrations of their faith. Everybody has the right to decide their own beliefs, and to talk about their own beliefs. I think they're wrong, they think I'm wrong, and that's OK. As long as we don't force beliefs on each other, we can get along.
A lot of atheists are decent people that you probably don't even realize are atheists, because they're not the lunatic fringe that gets all shouty and frantic because somebody is believing in God in their presence.
'Better graphics' is not the important advantage consoles have over smartphones. (For the last few generations, the 'winning' console has tended to have weaker graphics.) The ergonomics is. If you could plug your smartphone into your TV, connect several nice controllers, and play games from your couch, then smartphones might replace consoles. Until that happens, they are not even in competition. Maybe they'll cut into Sony or Nintendo's handheld sales, but I doubt that will even see much of a hit.
Besides, its been a while since consoles have been about just playing games. They are working to stay relevant by offering more.
Keep in mind, the Wii was far more focused on simply playing games, and it significantly outsold the other two consoles. Also, the greatest liability that the ipad and smartphones have as game devices is that they have other functions, and so are not ergonomically fine-tuned for that purpose.
Not that they don't have fun games, but there are significant differences and obstacles. It's like comparing facebook games to normal pc games.
No they dont. it is ASSUMED and not written out clearly.
No, most married couples have actually not just 'assumed' their spouse will be faithful, but have actually MENTIONED that requirement to each other. 'Faithful' is part of the standard vows, you know; and most people, you know, TALK before they get married.
You do realize that social monogamy is not commonplace. Most Muslim countries allow a man to have multiple wives
Commonplace throughout all the cultures that have significant impact on western civilization. And most Muslim men do NOT have multiple wives. Just like most Indian, Chinese, European, or American men do not.
I don't think so. They still are supporting one copy of the game. One game, one potential person utilizing online services. That doesn't change when the game is resold; it's just a different person going online.
They hope that nobody will be using the online services of the game a year after the initial purchase, but that's not something they're necessarily entitled to enforce.
That's probably true. Doesn't mean finding her not guilty wasn't the right thing to do. The jurors were (1) more knowledgeable about the details of the case than you and I, (2) spent a lot more time thinking about the case than you or I, and (3) are being held to a much more stringent requirement of certainty than you or I.
I think she did it. I respect the jurors and their conclusion that there was not sufficient proof.
They can't lose it. You can't register a trademark and revoke the right for somebody to refer to an object by it's already existing name. That's like registering a trademark on email(tm).
Exactly. There's rational caution, and there's harmful overreaction. When your baby is murdered or kidnapped, it'll most likely be a member of the family. How many kidnappings has facebook contributed to? What percentage of total crimes is that?
Miniscule. Be careful about facebook because it may cause relationship problems, or harm employment opportunities... but it's safer than letting your kid play on your front lawn.
It allows folks at work to circumvent just about every single software installation policy in existence just by simply navigating to a website, so that way they can play their farmville and their angry birds instead of getting things done.
It also allows them to get things done without waiting three weeks for someone from IT to respond to their requests to install the software they need, or to patch their software to current versions, or to give them access to the various directories that they require.
If someone killed in self-defense and didn't have a problem with it, I wouldn't be thinking "there goes a genuinely moral person". I'd be thinking "there's something genuinely wrong with that person".
Why? There is nothing wrong with killing in self-defense. No guilt, no remorse is necessary or even proper.
Yes, it would be impossible; but the key point is that has nothing whatsoever to do with the TSA. You could make as realistic an argument saying "Now that Windows 7 is out, and the terrorists can't replicate the 9/11 attacks." It's true, but it's a random correlation.
As the other responder said, 9/11 is unreproducible because of (1) locked doors on planes and (2) passengers who will not allow it. The TSA measures are irrelevant.
Have links stopped working in slashdot comments? I'm on Firefox 5.0, and none of those worked... had to cut and paste the link. Is it just me, or is it affecting others?
I've done a little programming through the facebook API, and there is no inherent limitation there. You could basically drop in a flash module that would allow full interaction with other players... like Dragon Quest, or head-to-head arcade games. There's no restriction, really, on what or how information can pass between clients. (There's limits on passing certain types of personal info, but not any sort of game info.)
I think it's not being done because it's harder and more costly to program, and the Zynga model succeeded early and wildly, and so it's what everyone copies.
Your comment is true, except for an incorrect emphasis. The last line... "Of course, professions also seek licensing to minimize competition and increase barriers to entry."... is the primary reason for licensing, and the other paragraphs talking about ensuring competency are only a minor reason they exist.
It's much cheaper to simply buy bitcoins from other people than it is to mine them. Assuming the currency doesn't self-destruct soon, market forces will surely correct that price inequality... either by lowering the value of bitcoins back down to the creation cost, or by people abandoning creating them until a time that hardware speed brings the cost down to their value.
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I think in the almost 20 years since learning something other than basic I haven't written a goto statement.
:-)
Me neither; but goto still has it's place. I'm digging into writing a forth-like scripting language interpreter/compiler, and I may end up having a huge central loop that relies on dozens if not hundreds of gotos. For this particular problem, that looks to be the clearest and cleanest solution... better than function vector arrays, or other ways of solving it.
I had to look up the syntax for goto, never having used it in C or C++
Agree. Actionscript is really a pretty nice language. Wish more people would give it a shot.
Just like a generation learned computer programming from their C64, I think there's a lot of kids learning programming now from making flash animations, and digging into actionscript to get a few extra functions. Then, hopefully, they move to full programs in actionscript, then start studying other languages.
Quite probably. In most really cold places, it is usally to cold to snow as cold air can carry less moisture than warm air. Back where I grew up we had lots of -20C clear cold days. It was the "warm" days near 0C when it snowed.
While that phenomenon certainly exists, it can't be used as a justification for this snowfall. There was a heavier snowfall decades ago, so this snowfall does nothing to establish warming, cooling, change, or static climate. You would have to do an analysis of frequency of snowfalls, etc., before drawing any conclusions about it.
You can draw the conclusion that anybody using this as evidence (a) for, or (b) against, climate change is not going to be somebody you want to take too seriously.
But:
The Atacama Desert region in Chile was coated with its heaviest snow cover in nearly two decades, the BBC reported. An estimated 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) piled up in the normally arid region.
If this snowfall was due to 'more energy' being added to the system, what caused the prior snowfalls? You have to include all data. Everytime you hear some claim about 'worst hurricane season in fifty years', or anything similar, you need to realize that means there was a worse event fifty years ago. By itself, that establishes no trend.
You can't put a 'made in Germany' sign on the lack of something.
I'm happy enough letting you guys ban nuclear, and then seeing how our respective economies compare three decades from now. I'll wager that your decision will be eagerly reversed, once the results become clear. (And results will become clear.)
That's mostly because the annoying, intolerant atheists are obviously the only ones you hear. I'm an atheist, and I'm fine with people praying, thanking their God/gods, and other public demonstrations of their faith. Everybody has the right to decide their own beliefs, and to talk about their own beliefs. I think they're wrong, they think I'm wrong, and that's OK. As long as we don't force beliefs on each other, we can get along.
A lot of atheists are decent people that you probably don't even realize are atheists, because they're not the lunatic fringe that gets all shouty and frantic because somebody is believing in God in their presence.
I'm an atheist, and I hope I never demonstrate as much religious fervor as you just did.
'Better graphics' is not the important advantage consoles have over smartphones. (For the last few generations, the 'winning' console has tended to have weaker graphics.) The ergonomics is. If you could plug your smartphone into your TV, connect several nice controllers, and play games from your couch, then smartphones might replace consoles. Until that happens, they are not even in competition. Maybe they'll cut into Sony or Nintendo's handheld sales, but I doubt that will even see much of a hit.
Besides, its been a while since consoles have been about just playing games. They are working to stay relevant by offering more.
Keep in mind, the Wii was far more focused on simply playing games, and it significantly outsold the other two consoles. Also, the greatest liability that the ipad and smartphones have as game devices is that they have other functions, and so are not ergonomically fine-tuned for that purpose.
Not that they don't have fun games, but there are significant differences and obstacles. It's like comparing facebook games to normal pc games.
No they dont. it is ASSUMED and not written out clearly.
No, most married couples have actually not just 'assumed' their spouse will be faithful, but have actually MENTIONED that requirement to each other. 'Faithful' is part of the standard vows, you know; and most people, you know, TALK before they get married.
You do realize that social monogamy is not commonplace. Most Muslim countries allow a man to have multiple wives
Commonplace throughout all the cultures that have significant impact on western civilization. And most Muslim men do NOT have multiple wives. Just like most Indian, Chinese, European, or American men do not.
I don't think so. They still are supporting one copy of the game. One game, one potential person utilizing online services. That doesn't change when the game is resold; it's just a different person going online.
They hope that nobody will be using the online services of the game a year after the initial purchase, but that's not something they're necessarily entitled to enforce.
That's probably true. Doesn't mean finding her not guilty wasn't the right thing to do. The jurors were (1) more knowledgeable about the details of the case than you and I, (2) spent a lot more time thinking about the case than you or I, and (3) are being held to a much more stringent requirement of certainty than you or I.
I think she did it. I respect the jurors and their conclusion that there was not sufficient proof.
I don't believe Windows is trademarked. Isn't the trademark the full term "Microsoft Windows"?
They can't lose it. You can't register a trademark and revoke the right for somebody to refer to an object by it's already existing name. That's like registering a trademark on email(tm).
Exactly. There's rational caution, and there's harmful overreaction. When your baby is murdered or kidnapped, it'll most likely be a member of the family. How many kidnappings has facebook contributed to? What percentage of total crimes is that?
Miniscule. Be careful about facebook because it may cause relationship problems, or harm employment opportunities... but it's safer than letting your kid play on your front lawn.
It allows folks at work to circumvent just about every single software installation policy in existence just by simply navigating to a website, so that way they can play their farmville and their angry birds instead of getting things done.
It also allows them to get things done without waiting three weeks for someone from IT to respond to their requests to install the software they need, or to patch their software to current versions, or to give them access to the various directories that they require.
The RIAA has been doing DRM for over a century...
I'm confused. What was DRM'd prior to, say, the CD or DAT, in the 80s?
If someone killed in self-defense and didn't have a problem with it, I wouldn't be thinking "there goes a genuinely moral person". I'd be thinking "there's something genuinely wrong with that person".
Why? There is nothing wrong with killing in self-defense. No guilt, no remorse is necessary or even proper.
Yes, it would be impossible; but the key point is that has nothing whatsoever to do with the TSA. You could make as realistic an argument saying "Now that Windows 7 is out, and the terrorists can't replicate the 9/11 attacks." It's true, but it's a random correlation.
As the other responder said, 9/11 is unreproducible because of (1) locked doors on planes and (2) passengers who will not allow it. The TSA measures are irrelevant.
Have links stopped working in slashdot comments? I'm on Firefox 5.0, and none of those worked... had to cut and paste the link. Is it just me, or is it affecting others?
This may sound archaic, but I wonder if the reason social games seem so terrible to anyone who knows games, is because girls.
Those games are for them, not us.
I've done a little programming through the facebook API, and there is no inherent limitation there. You could basically drop in a flash module that would allow full interaction with other players... like Dragon Quest, or head-to-head arcade games. There's no restriction, really, on what or how information can pass between clients. (There's limits on passing certain types of personal info, but not any sort of game info.)
I think it's not being done because it's harder and more costly to program, and the Zynga model succeeded early and wildly, and so it's what everyone copies.
God help us all, I believe you.
Your comment is true, except for an incorrect emphasis. The last line... "Of course, professions also seek licensing to minimize competition and increase barriers to entry."... is the primary reason for licensing, and the other paragraphs talking about ensuring competency are only a minor reason they exist.
It's much cheaper to simply buy bitcoins from other people than it is to mine them. Assuming the currency doesn't self-destruct soon, market forces will surely correct that price inequality... either by lowering the value of bitcoins back down to the creation cost, or by people abandoning creating them until a time that hardware speed brings the cost down to their value.