Likewise, if someone was allowed to copyright particular words, they would have control over a segment of the publishing industry.
If the RIAA can claim copyright infringement because someone sung a copyrighted song in public, one could claim copyright infringement if those copyrighted words were spoken in public. You'd have control over a lot more than just the publishing industry.
Yeah and you're supposed to put a comma in front of conjunctive words like "and, or, but, because" especially if they join two sentences.
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I rocked my English SATs (99th percentile) so I'm fairly certain I'm right.
Shouldn't you have put a comma before "so" if you are going by that rule?
- I rocked my English SATs (99th percentile). I'm fairly certain I'm right.
- I rocked my English SATs (99th percentile), so I'm fairly certain I'm right.
My company don't want the expense of using leased line and other specialist stuff <snip> We have basically unlimited funds for such things and often specify overkill-measures
Er... chill out dude. They said they "did" the right choice, past tense, effectively vindicating their decision on some level. No-one ever said anything about relying solely on a news item from the future to make life changing decisions.
Since it started - it was just a preprocessor. It's now changed though to compile directly. You could in theory write a compiler that goes straight from Java to machine code if you were really keen. In fact, that has already been done. It's not just the language syntax, the toolchain matters too.
Ultimately, Google designed this so people would help populate their 3D Earth with buildings...
Not to nitpick or anything (ah heck, who am I kidding, I love to nitpick) but Google bought SketchUp when they acquired @Last Software, they didn't design it.
I also love how you aren't able to use email functionality...
That's a load of crap. I can use email, I just don't open any attachments because no-one I know sends me attachments and I prefer the Gmail interface anyway.
...because you know that it will destroy your inferior system at some point. Macs don't have to cower behind firewalls (which CAN be penetrated).
Again a load of crap. Have you never paid attention to the Pwn to Own competition? The Mac is usually the first to be broken into. And calling it my inferior system? I didn't write the OS so don't blame me for the virus epidemic. I get paid to write software for Microsoft platforms so from my use case point of view OS X is an inferior platform as it doesn't run the tools I need. Use what suits the task at hand, don't turn it into a stupid religious war.
But how much of your performance is wasted on virus protection?
In my case, none. I don't run AV software, but I don't really do any seedy stuff so don't run into that problem. If I do need to run something that is suspect, I just run it in a virtual machine. There's always Linux if you want the PC hardware without the risk of Windows viruses.
Using i3/i5 would have required either using the Intel graphics (noticeably slower than the previous gen mini) or a discrete GPU (too big and power hungry to fit in the mini). The benefits from the CPU upgrade would have been outweighed by the GPU tradeoff.
I'm not quite sure how that would help as this was built directly into the source so the official blessed hash that you are comparing against is compromised.
Adobe are just waving their hands and trying to distract from the fact that their Mac version of flash is really, really crappy because they just don't care, or they are stuck with legacy code... or who knows why?
It's not just their Mac version - they all suck in one way or another. And most people know that it is because the Adobe developers aren't particularly savvy.
The Apple panic advertising, where they are making extremely exaggerated claims, some claims so ludicrous as to come off really lame has nothing to do with hardware specifications.
A million people cutting their fuel usage by 50% will cut total consumption more than a million people cutting their fuel usage by 33%. It's basic math.
But which million people you are referring to matters. A million people who use virtually no fuel that cuts their usage by 100% will save less than a million people who use vast quantities of fuel that cuts their usage by 30%. It's slightly more advanced statistics.
Then again, in the given example the heavy users were the ones that had the higher percentage saving anyway so the result worked out in your favour.
Popularity does generally relate to quality, or at least a perceived quality. There are a lot of plebs that actually like what's on the 'popular' music charts. After a quick google, the most common definition of popular goes along the lines of liked or admired by many or by a particular group. One could argue that the topic of Objective-C is popular, but that the language itself is not.
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Likewise, if someone was allowed to copyright particular words, they would have control over a segment of the publishing industry.
If the RIAA can claim copyright infringement because someone sung a copyrighted song in public, one could claim copyright infringement if those copyrighted words were spoken in public. You'd have control over a lot more than just the publishing industry.
Yeah and you're supposed to put a comma in front of conjunctive words like "and, or, but, because" especially if they join two sentences.
<snip>
I rocked my English SATs (99th percentile) so I'm fairly certain I'm right.
Shouldn't you have put a comma before "so" if you are going by that rule?
- I rocked my English SATs (99th percentile). I'm fairly certain I'm right.
- I rocked my English SATs (99th percentile), so I'm fairly certain I'm right.
My company don't want the expense of using leased line and other specialist stuff <snip> We have basically unlimited funds for such things and often specify overkill-measures
I don't follow.
It also assumes that there's no other way to access the service without a box for each set.
Comcast made that claim themselves, so you can hold them to that even if there is some exotic workaround.
...And now I know why feminists exist - comments like yours breeds them.
Er... chill out dude. They said they "did" the right choice, past tense, effectively vindicating their decision on some level. No-one ever said anything about relying solely on a news item from the future to make life changing decisions.
You mean England, right? Take a look at their recent loss to Germany.
Since when does C++ needs to be converted to C?
Since it started - it was just a preprocessor. It's now changed though to compile directly. You could in theory write a compiler that goes straight from Java to machine code if you were really keen. In fact, that has already been done. It's not just the language syntax, the toolchain matters too.
Ultimately, Google designed this so people would help populate their 3D Earth with buildings...
Not to nitpick or anything (ah heck, who am I kidding, I love to nitpick) but Google bought SketchUp when they acquired @Last Software, they didn't design it.
I also love how you aren't able to use email functionality...
That's a load of crap. I can use email, I just don't open any attachments because no-one I know sends me attachments and I prefer the Gmail interface anyway.
...because you know that it will destroy your inferior system at some point. Macs don't have to cower behind firewalls (which CAN be penetrated).
Again a load of crap. Have you never paid attention to the Pwn to Own competition? The Mac is usually the first to be broken into. And calling it my inferior system? I didn't write the OS so don't blame me for the virus epidemic. I get paid to write software for Microsoft platforms so from my use case point of view OS X is an inferior platform as it doesn't run the tools I need. Use what suits the task at hand, don't turn it into a stupid religious war.
No, I don't open email attachments (besides, Gmail scans the emails anyway) and my machine is behind a hardware firewall.
But how much of your performance is wasted on virus protection?
In my case, none. I don't run AV software, but I don't really do any seedy stuff so don't run into that problem. If I do need to run something that is suspect, I just run it in a virtual machine. There's always Linux if you want the PC hardware without the risk of Windows viruses.
Using i3/i5 would have required either using the Intel graphics (noticeably slower than the previous gen mini) or a discrete GPU (too big and power hungry to fit in the mini). The benefits from the CPU upgrade would have been outweighed by the GPU tradeoff.
If you want to bitch about an adapter, bitch that it doesn't support VGA or DVI without buying the extra cable.
It comes with an HDMI to DVI adapter in the box. You are correct about VGA though.
While we are being pedantic, towards is a perfectly acceptable variant of toward and is not intended to indicate plurality.
From the post in the forum, it seems that only the source tgz in the mirrors was affected.
Fair enough, the site was /.ed when I looked so I wasn't able to glean that information
Considering that B'tard could be hurtling towards me at high speeds, I'd rather not encourage them to run into things.
I'm not quite sure how that would help as this was built directly into the source so the official blessed hash that you are comparing against is compromised.
Adobe are just waving their hands and trying to distract from the fact that their Mac version of flash is really, really crappy because they just don't care, or they are stuck with legacy code... or who knows why?
It's not just their Mac version - they all suck in one way or another. And most people know that it is because the Adobe developers aren't particularly savvy.
The Apple panic advertising, where they are making extremely exaggerated claims, some claims so ludicrous as to come off really lame has nothing to do with hardware specifications.
You mean like where they claim the iPad is widescreen at 1024x768?
A million people cutting their fuel usage by 50% will cut total consumption more than a million people cutting their fuel usage by 33%. It's basic math.
But which million people you are referring to matters. A million people who use virtually no fuel that cuts their usage by 100% will save less than a million people who use vast quantities of fuel that cuts their usage by 30%. It's slightly more advanced statistics.
Then again, in the given example the heavy users were the ones that had the higher percentage saving anyway so the result worked out in your favour.
nobody would buy a game that last 1-2 hours
Sure they would. The original Prince of Persia required you to complete the game in 1 hour (not including starting over if you fail).
Popularity does generally relate to quality, or at least a perceived quality. There are a lot of plebs that actually like what's on the 'popular' music charts. After a quick google, the most common definition of popular goes along the lines of liked or admired by many or by a particular group. One could argue that the topic of Objective-C is popular, but that the language itself is not.
So when did 'more discussions about something' not equate to 'more popular'?
When the discussion generally has more bad stuff to say than good.