But if you are not to cast from base to derived, and don't need to cast from derived to base, what is the FUCKING point of the cast operator? Casting to something not in the inheritance hierarchy and hope it works? Or is C++ just as stupid as we Java developers think?
Yes, but the other side to that coin is a distinct lack of documentation and blatant obfuscation (like numeric portlet ids) that makes it necessary to get that support. Yes, Liferay, I am talking about you.
Now, in this case it is Liferay-the-company which is mostly to blame, but it does not appear that WebSynergy (Sun's variant over Liferay) will be overflowing with documentation anytime soon...
The two are not comparable. Net Neutrality is the opposite since it aims to prevent "censorship" in the form of extorting money from content providers, or for that matter "lock" the customer to the ISP's own content.
It's sort of like the government regulation that ensures the radio you bought actually works when you get home because all the power outlets are compatible with it regarding physical and electrical properties, and the government regulation that ensures that you can use a washing machine without getting interference on the TV.
usually by pressing a sequence of buttons on the dvd players remote.... thus rendering his DVD player illegal in the eyes of the industry which made the DVD standard. How is the circumvention of region codes good and copyright infringement bad, whewn both of them are violations of a license?
.. except the pretext for that militia definition was the absence of a professional army (per the Federalist Papers). You now have a professional army, so the need for a militia is gone, and thus the amendment is basically void.
The only reason they forgot to put the clause about the lack of a professional army was probably that the federal government was supposed to be so small that it would be INSANE for anyone to even contemplate the idea of such a waste of money when you could defend the country using a militia. I mean, sending an army out to fight wars? How European!
You sure live up to the "Coward" family name, there.
Maybe, just maybe, if the U.S. hadn't completely FUCKED UP them Middle East during its penis contest with the Russians - incuding supplying Islamists - we would not have this problem, or what? Maybe YOU could have taken in some of the refugees from the regional wars instead of just selling legal and illegal weapons to them, the balance would have been better? Fool.
Yes, Catholic priests hump choir boys in ALL regions.
(That said, most poo-poo heads who use the "athiest" misspelling are of the Jack Chick brand of Protestant hate-choir anyway and dislike Catholics almost more than us non-slavesouls.)
It would make sense to me that costs on the network would be regulated to cost-distance acquired for said packet.
So thought the entrenched telcos back in the day, and created a bunch of protocols like X.400 which added costs on every step. That effectively died because the "shared cost" internet protocols came out the winners.
It would make sense that the major ISPs, who also happen to be owned by the entrenched telcos, now start pusing for a differentiated payment scheme - the opposite of net neutrality - and your suggestion would just be the last stage in their apparent quest to warp the internet into what they originally wanted.
Gold farmers are bad in a multitude of ways you cannot fathom, but the people buying their way instead of playing their way are bad in a different way.
What is there to do at higher levels? Multiplayer activities like raids and "dungeons" for want of a better term. What happens when a member has not learned to play their character through practice? They get the entire raid wiped because of some stupidity like pulling wrong monsters into battle or not using their spells or skills right.
You can probably extend the act of purchasing a pre-leveled character to real life: Bribing a clerk might get you a driver's license, but your total lack of driving skills since you did not take lessons or pass a test will get you or others killed.
... but is the person threatening you with a gun going to let you draw it? Or are they going to just shoot you? Guns are for offense not defense.
There is a Catch 22 like situation here: If you aren't able and willing to kill, the gun is pointless. And if you are able and willing you really should not be allowed to get one...
Was the "Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes. Ban knives, knife crime escalates." statement documented? Did you ask for evidence for those claims? Or did you simply accept them regardless because you believe the same thing?
Why should only one side (the "others") have to document claims?
Depends where you are, and not "terrorist suspects", which can be held for many days in Britain - I seem to recall the three-month length was eventually shortened.
Then again, Britain is a police state anyway. Oh, and there are prisoners in Guantanamo who have not been in any kind of trial for YEARS.
Um, try looking again: Police often can keep some suspects in custody for AGES before they come to a court.
Also, courts act in strange ways: in Japan, for instabce, they have an insanely high conviction rate because the courts reason that the accused must be guilty - otherwise the prosecution would not have brought them before the court.
Ooh, the Win16 layer reprise: Having the Win16 support in OS/2 was a major contributor to its downfall since there was no reason for vendors to make native apps when they could make Win16 apps and sell to both Windows and OS/2 users.
Maybe he belongs to the Dark Side statisticans who use the Force to morph the sample data to conform to a particular distribution? In the "if the map doesn't fit the landscape use TNT" school of thought...:)
Well, let's see: You put a convicted felon (possibly a first-time offender) in an isolated community full of (sometimes more hardened) criminals, who like to teach their trade to others and basically promote a feeling of "them against the system", with no counter-arguments since counseling is an expense. Over time, the prisoner's isolation from normal society starts to eat away at old bonds, to be replaced with bonds to the fellow convicts.
Then you release him on the street, possibly years out of date for the purposes of getting a job - in any other trade than crime, where he is up-to-date due to the constant turnover in the prison society.
Sort of, except industrial design has a different protection mechanism (like the Stressless chair from Ekornes which is protected both as a trademark and as a design). Not all IP protection can be called "copyright".
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You can go further back also, to Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty which eradicated poverty in the U.S.
But if you are not to cast from base to derived, and don't need to cast from derived to base, what is the FUCKING point of the cast operator? Casting to something not in the inheritance hierarchy and hope it works? Or is C++ just as stupid as we Java developers think?
Yes, but the other side to that coin is a distinct lack of documentation and blatant obfuscation (like numeric portlet ids) that makes it necessary to get that support. Yes, Liferay, I am talking about you.
Now, in this case it is Liferay-the-company which is mostly to blame, but it does not appear that WebSynergy (Sun's variant over Liferay) will be overflowing with documentation anytime soon...
Bill Joy would not qualify, only the "Green" team (including Gosling, the main Java advocate) would have had long enough "carreers" with Oak/Java.
http://java.sun.com/features/1998/05/birthday.html
The two are not comparable. Net Neutrality is the opposite since it aims to prevent "censorship" in the form of extorting money from content providers, or for that matter "lock" the customer to the ISP's own content.
It's sort of like the government regulation that ensures the radio you bought actually works when you get home because all the power outlets are compatible with it regarding physical and electrical properties, and the government regulation that ensures that you can use a washing machine without getting interference on the TV.
usually by pressing a sequence of buttons on the dvd players remote. ... thus rendering his DVD player illegal in the eyes of the industry which made the DVD standard. How is the circumvention of region codes good and copyright infringement bad, whewn both of them are violations of a license?
.. except the pretext for that militia definition was the absence of a professional army (per the Federalist Papers). You now have a professional army, so the need for a militia is gone, and thus the amendment is basically void.
The only reason they forgot to put the clause about the lack of a professional army was probably that the federal government was supposed to be so small that it would be INSANE for anyone to even contemplate the idea of such a waste of money when you could defend the country using a militia. I mean, sending an army out to fight wars? How European!
You sure live up to the "Coward" family name, there.
Maybe, just maybe, if the U.S. hadn't completely FUCKED UP them Middle East during its penis contest with the Russians - incuding supplying Islamists - we would not have this problem, or what? Maybe YOU could have taken in some of the refugees from the regional wars instead of just selling legal and illegal weapons to them, the balance would have been better? Fool.
Yes, Catholic priests hump choir boys in ALL regions.
(That said, most poo-poo heads who use the "athiest" misspelling are of the Jack Chick brand of Protestant hate-choir anyway and dislike Catholics almost more than us non-slavesouls.)
So thought the entrenched telcos back in the day, and created a bunch of protocols like X.400 which added costs on every step. That effectively died because the "shared cost" internet protocols came out the winners.
It would make sense that the major ISPs, who also happen to be owned by the entrenched telcos, now start pusing for a differentiated payment scheme - the opposite of net neutrality - and your suggestion would just be the last stage in their apparent quest to warp the internet into what they originally wanted.
Gold farmers are bad in a multitude of ways you cannot fathom, but the people buying their way instead of playing their way are bad in a different way.
What is there to do at higher levels? Multiplayer activities like raids and "dungeons" for want of a better term. What happens when a member has not learned to play their character through practice? They get the entire raid wiped because of some stupidity like pulling wrong monsters into battle or not using their spells or skills right.
You can probably extend the act of purchasing a pre-leveled character to real life: Bribing a clerk might get you a driver's license, but your total lack of driving skills since you did not take lessons or pass a test will get you or others killed.
Sounds like Microsoft back in the day when "multiplatform" meant it ran in both Windows 95 and Windows NT.
You don't have to pay unless you distribute. And $100 a year is less than the $500 you would pay Verisign for a code signing certificate anyway.
And "locked down" compared to what? The miniscule Java Micro Edition APIs?
... but is the person threatening you with a gun going to let you draw it? Or are they going to just shoot you? Guns are for offense not defense.
There is a Catch 22 like situation here: If you aren't able and willing to kill, the gun is pointless. And if you are able and willing you really should not be allowed to get one...
Was the "Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes. Ban knives, knife crime escalates." statement documented? Did you ask for evidence for those claims? Or did you simply accept them regardless because you believe the same thing?
Why should only one side (the "others") have to document claims?
One and a half smidgen.
Depends where you are, and not "terrorist suspects", which can be held for many days in Britain - I seem to recall the three-month length was eventually shortened.
Then again, Britain is a police state anyway. Oh, and there are prisoners in Guantanamo who have not been in any kind of trial for YEARS.
Um, try looking again: Police often can keep some suspects in custody for AGES before they come to a court.
Also, courts act in strange ways: in Japan, for instabce, they have an insanely high conviction rate because the courts reason that the accused must be guilty - otherwise the prosecution would not have brought them before the court.
Ooh, the Win16 layer reprise: Having the Win16 support in OS/2 was a major contributor to its downfall since there was no reason for vendors to make native apps when they could make Win16 apps and sell to both Windows and OS/2 users.
Maybe he belongs to the Dark Side statisticans who use the Force to morph the sample data to conform to a particular distribution? In the "if the map doesn't fit the landscape use TNT" school of thought... :)
But are you licensed to serve that beer to your neighbor?
The irony is that Elvis profited from black blues musicians who did not register the copyright on their songs...
Well, let's see: You put a convicted felon (possibly a first-time offender) in an isolated community full of (sometimes more hardened) criminals, who like to teach their trade to others and basically promote a feeling of "them against the system", with no counter-arguments since counseling is an expense. Over time, the prisoner's isolation from normal society starts to eat away at old bonds, to be replaced with bonds to the fellow convicts.
Then you release him on the street, possibly years out of date for the purposes of getting a job - in any other trade than crime, where he is up-to-date due to the constant turnover in the prison society.
So... yeah. Worst. Investment. Ever.
Sort of, except industrial design has a different protection mechanism (like the Stressless chair from Ekornes which is protected both as a trademark and as a design). Not all IP protection can be called "copyright".