Never mind that you can do all sorts of modifying behaviour inside the if/else if conditions (which would have to be evaluated by the compiler in the order that it encounters it in), and that you can do fall-trough in the case (!) of switch/case.
The problem is that we keep on knocking over these plants. And that we drain the water from under their feet. I mean, I'm all with you - we could turn two ways with regards to this CO2 problem; we could stop producing it at a rate comparable to multiple vulcanoes, or we could designate large areas of this planet to plants so that it can be re-absorbed. We don't seem to want to do either.
Gold is currently at 800 dollars an ounce. That price comes from the amount of trouble it takes to find it. To support the gold standard, and incorporate all us dollars available into all gold available to the us, you'd probably have to multiply that number by, say, about a million. So 800,000,000 US dollars per ounce. Suddenly, secretly mining the stuff would become very attractive. Suddenly, your grandmother's necklace can buy you a whole village of your own ! Suddenly, all sorts of industries (jewelry, tech, dentistry) collapse because gold becomes unavailable to them at any reasonable price. Suddenly, gold smuggling into the us becomes a big, big problem (causing, o irony of ironies, big time inflation).
In my last job, I'd pull word docs through antiword and then diff them; usually contracts for salespeople who got these fuckers from other parties and wanted to make sure none of the language had changed. Very quick and powerful indeed.
I still think that we should go to receiving whitelisted mail only. If that means that you can't get an email from a website that you just subscribed on, then we *might* need some additional challenge/response mechanism inside SMTP, or a thing like a trusted certificate authority, but no more black/greylisting/just willynilly receiving any old email. Once spammers get it that their email are just disappearing down a black hole, a lot of bandwidth will be released again to the public. And they can go and base their business models on spamming IRC and MSN.
It's thought-inflation: people from Google mentioning millions sort of wears out on me, by now. I mean, if someone/else/ were to say: we're going to invest hundreds of millions in renewable energy, I would think: wow ! That kind of money can buy you a lot of research and development. But when Google says it, I think: yeah yeah, that's just going to cover the cost of coffee machine. Does anyone else experience this ?
You _could_ go and account for that. However, it would make you no better than the RIAA claiming hundreds of bucks per download per song. I'm sure that we don't want to go down that route. Live and let live, I say.
Factory classes generating objects ? Not likely. Surely you should know better. You meant 'interfaces', didn't you ? Factory classes generating interfaces that/might/ wrap the native boolean class. But can also provide the boolean getIsTrue() and getIsFalse() method for other objects. Very usefull class indeed. - whistles -.
A bit too paranoid. He was told to shut up about it, but nothing happened to him. It was a journalist who'd found out that if you made two boarding passes at home, one in his own name (not conspicuous) and one in the name of Osama Bin Laden, and you switched bottom barcodes on them, you could get Osama on the plane. Or something. Apparently, the two barcodes are read at different stations, and only the first one checks for identity (but not the no fly list), and the second one checks for the no fly list (but not the identity). Or something.
Ehm, but the education of whomever you conscript is not lost on society, is it ? It's a well know catalyst in all sorts of branches; you get drafted, get your truck drivers license in the army, and when you get out you have yet another marketable skill. Just an example. Granted, in wartime (and in the US, it seems to be always wartime nowadays) the draft sucks. But in peacetime, it delivers.
Do we get to hear it next time Larry or Sergey break wind as well ? Or when one of them finds this really nice looking stone in his back yard ? Or maybe we can have a slashdot posting the next time somebody at Google cracks this really funny joke that's about a Russian, a Meteorologist and a Jew that walk into a bar ? Or perhaps we can have a posting about the meeting that came before the choosing of Google homepage's white color ? I really love to hear about any of that, and I do think that slashdot deserves all and any of these important facts wrapped up as front page postings. Because we just have a right to know.
That's not the result of the openness of the JDK or the JVM; the specs for both were always open. Sun always gave you the src.zip for the JDK, and they provided the bytecode spec and in what way to run such bytecode openly and free op charge.
The method for dealing with this scenario is described above: you MUST pass your newly developed drugs by government regulatory bodies in order for them to be released to the market. Same goes for safety stuff in cars, food products etc. Development of such processes could simply have a consequence that when you pass the tests - you get a monopoly for your product for n years. Won't stop the litigation (which is there now anyway), but will end patents for virtual things.
If I've ever heard of something ripe for the plucking by anyone and everyone who is just a tad corrupt, then this is it. We'll have a proper eco-mob. Seriously, who's going to regulate this market ? Who checks the validity of these certificates ? Because this sounds like printing your own money.
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Never mind that you can do all sorts of modifying behaviour inside the if/else if conditions (which would have to be evaluated by the compiler in the order that it encounters it in), and that you can do fall-trough in the case (!) of switch/case.
So, you're a terrible person and not afraid to admit it ?
Zombiesaurs from space, man ! From space !
The problem is that we keep on knocking over these plants. And that we drain the water from under their feet. I mean, I'm all with you - we could turn two ways with regards to this CO2 problem; we could stop producing it at a rate comparable to multiple vulcanoes, or we could designate large areas of this planet to plants so that it can be re-absorbed. We don't seem to want to do either.
Gold is currently at 800 dollars an ounce. That price comes from the amount of trouble it takes to find it. To support the gold standard, and incorporate all us dollars available into all gold available to the us, you'd probably have to multiply that number by, say, about a million. So 800,000,000 US dollars per ounce. Suddenly, secretly mining the stuff would become very attractive. Suddenly, your grandmother's necklace can buy you a whole village of your own ! Suddenly, all sorts of industries (jewelry, tech, dentistry) collapse because gold becomes unavailable to them at any reasonable price. Suddenly, gold smuggling into the us becomes a big, big problem (causing, o irony of ironies, big time inflation).
The file system could have been separately mounted as read-only, for example.
In my last job, I'd pull word docs through antiword and then diff them; usually contracts for salespeople who got these fuckers from other parties and wanted to make sure none of the language had changed. Very quick and powerful indeed.
I still think that we should go to receiving whitelisted mail only. If that means that you can't get an email from a website that you just subscribed on, then we *might* need some additional challenge/response mechanism inside SMTP, or a thing like a trusted certificate authority, but no more black/greylisting/just willynilly receiving any old email. Once spammers get it that their email are just disappearing down a black hole, a lot of bandwidth will be released again to the public. And they can go and base their business models on spamming IRC and MSN.
It's thought-inflation: people from Google mentioning millions sort of wears out on me, by now. I mean, if someone /else/ were to say: we're going to invest hundreds of millions in renewable energy, I would think: wow ! That kind of money can buy you a lot of research and development. But when Google says it, I think: yeah yeah, that's just going to cover the cost of coffee machine. Does anyone else experience this ?
You _could_ go and account for that. However, it would make you no better than the RIAA claiming hundreds of bucks per download per song. I'm sure that we don't want to go down that route. Live and let live, I say.
I don't have ears, you insensitive clod ! Maybe they could threaten to flood my inbox with those upskirts pics instead.
Pfff ! Collectively bearing the cost of a service; what are those Americans you speak of - communists ?!
There's already lotus notes for that.
Factory classes generating objects ? Not likely. Surely you should know better. You meant 'interfaces', didn't you ? Factory classes generating interfaces that /might/ wrap the native boolean class. But can also provide the boolean getIsTrue() and getIsFalse() method for other objects. Very usefull class indeed. - whistles -.
Hey ! Where's the 'dontshakemebro' tag ?
A bit too paranoid. He was told to shut up about it, but nothing happened to him. It was a journalist who'd found out that if you made two boarding passes at home, one in his own name (not conspicuous) and one in the name of Osama Bin Laden, and you switched bottom barcodes on them, you could get Osama on the plane. Or something. Apparently, the two barcodes are read at different stations, and only the first one checks for identity (but not the no fly list), and the second one checks for the no fly list (but not the identity). Or something.
Ehm, but the education of whomever you conscript is not lost on society, is it ? It's a well know catalyst in all sorts of branches; you get drafted, get your truck drivers license in the army, and when you get out you have yet another marketable skill. Just an example. Granted, in wartime (and in the US, it seems to be always wartime nowadays) the draft sucks. But in peacetime, it delivers.
Do we get to hear it next time Larry or Sergey break wind as well ? Or when one of them finds this really nice looking stone in his back yard ? Or maybe we can have a slashdot posting the next time somebody at Google cracks this really funny joke that's about a Russian, a Meteorologist and a Jew that walk into a bar ? Or perhaps we can have a posting about the meeting that came before the choosing of Google homepage's white color ? I really love to hear about any of that, and I do think that slashdot deserves all and any of these important facts wrapped up as front page postings. Because we just have a right to know.
That's a very dreamy video, that is. You can almost imagine yourself gliding - no sound, just you and the moon. I love it !
Does the monkeyboy throw around asteroids now ?
No. Just give us her phone number and I'll see to it.
That's not the result of the openness of the JDK or the JVM; the specs for both were always open. Sun always gave you the src.zip for the JDK, and they provided the bytecode spec and in what way to run such bytecode openly and free op charge.
Mr Schwartz is pissed as hell.
The method for dealing with this scenario is described above: you MUST pass your newly developed drugs by government regulatory bodies in order for them to be released to the market. Same goes for safety stuff in cars, food products etc. Development of such processes could simply have a consequence that when you pass the tests - you get a monopoly for your product for n years. Won't stop the litigation (which is there now anyway), but will end patents for virtual things.
If I've ever heard of something ripe for the plucking by anyone and everyone who is just a tad corrupt, then this is it. We'll have a proper eco-mob. Seriously, who's going to regulate this market ? Who checks the validity of these certificates ? Because this sounds like printing your own money.