I would bet that most child molesters are turned on by the children's perceived *innocence*, and as such I'd sooner expect someone like that to go after a girl in a modest, flowery dress, than one in hip huggers with a tongue piercing. That's probably true for some, but I don't know about all.
A big turn-on for me is an innocent or staid outward appearance (schoolgirl, business suit, librarian, etc.) when I know the innocence is an illusion (my wife pulls this off really well). I like the contrast. Someone else might like the same contrast the other way around, with a risque outward appearance on someone who really is innocent.
I will admit that the prosecutor was absolutely astounded that we came back with not-guilty, though. I supposed there's a chance that all of us were abnormal. Quite likely. My wife was on a murder jury a couple of years ago, and the jury basically all agreed that they had no idea what really happened, and that the only person who testified who wasn't lying to them was the medical examiner. To my mind, that's reasonable doubt, but they just knocked it down to second-degree.
"Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today I'm going to prove that these Christians stole the rights to our game for use in their church!" Why would the NFL send lawyers after Christians when they have The Lions? And The Lions certainly aren't going to be busy during the Super Bowl.
How inspired will you feel when he takes money out of your pocket and ruins the health care system by socializing it? We already have universal health care. If someone with no money shows up at a hospital, they get treated, and the hospital passes the losses along to you, me, and everyone else with official coverage. They only differences under the current system vs. single-payer are that these people get treated under emergency circumstances so it costs a lot more, and we have to pay for a huge billing infrastructure.
That, and employers are paying for it, so they're at a disadvantage vs. foreign companies whose workers get health care from their government.
and the fact that she chose her potential political career over divorcing her adulterous husband - many times We don't know for sure that she actually minded (apart from the publicly getting caught part). Many people have open marriages, of one sort or another. She might be boinking her share of interns, too.
If the technology that we have now had been available in the 16th century, Did you mean 18th century? In the 16th century, Machiavelli was explaining why pure democracy (along with pure monarchy and pure aristocracy) was a bad idea.
I believe that we might have sought a more pure version of democracy. No, we wouldn't have. This idea was a very big deal to the constitutional framers -- they disagreed on the methods, but they all wanted to be sure that the rights of (political) minorities would not be trampled by the majority.
On the other hand, I think they would have loved the idea of popular sign-off on whatever the professional politicians came up with.
Its arrays started at 1. In order to get VB to work with.Net This was actually introduced prior to.Net. I'm not sure when, exactly, but VB6 is the same way. Actually, VB6 is pretty schizophrenic about 0 vs. 1 based indexes in general. I used to make a habit of just putting in a breakpoint and looking at the array while the program ran, instead of trying to remember which was which.
Personally, I like the way Turbo Pascal made you declare both upper and lower bounds. 0-based arrays make sense in a systems programming language when it's just a thin veneer for a pointer, but VB, C# and Java shouldn't force it on you.
In the original VB, "And" and "Or" operators did NOT do short circuit evaluation. Beyond that, they were bitwise operators, not logical. The fact that 1 is true, 2 is true, but 1 AND 2 is false is far more perverse than the lack of short-circuiting. This is also why the canonical true value in VB is -1 (1111111111111111 binary) rather than the usual 1. This was appropriate in Bill G's 8K Altair BASIC, but it should have been fixed in MS BASIC well before 1980.
VB.Net Beta 1 made "And" and "Or" normal logical operators and introduced new bitwise operators for the old functionality, but too many people complained and they switched it back for Beta 2.
There are many other examples in VB like this I don't know about that. Those are pretty much the worst parts that.Net didn't fix. There are some clunky IO libraries clearly designed to be used by the migration wizard, but they're strictly optional. Plus, I really like that VB.Net still has real optional arguments, as opposed to C# that goes the Java route and makes you declare a little stub version with fewer arguments that just calls the real one and fills in a default value.
Passengers aren't problematic because they recognize road hazards (or at least your reactions to road hazards) and will temporarily stop talking when the situation calls for it. You've clearly never driven with my wife along. I have to shout a "shut up" at her every two or three weeks when she keeps going on when I have to pay close attention to the road.
could they vote for a satanist? That's a religion that ranges from just love of hedonism to actual devil worship depending who you ask. "Satanist" is not just one religion. While there probably are people who worship the Christian version of Satan, I suspect they're mostly isolated lunatics. The Church of Satan is just a group that has some vaguely hokey beliefs about power residing in each person and threw in the "Satan" name as a metaphor -- it always struck me as an excuse to annoy Christians. There's also The Temple of Set and various smaller groups.
Exactly! They believe (in the affirmative sense) that no gods exist without feeling the need for proof, i.e., they have faith in the non-existence of god(s) in exactly the same way that religious people have faith in the existence of them. No, that's not what the GP was saying. There are three categories of people we're talking about: Someone who specifically believes there is no god. Someone who does not claim to know whether there is a god. Someone who does not believe it's possible to say whether there is a god (or usually anything theological).
The first is clearly atheist. The last is clearly agnostic. The middle case is called atheist by some people and agnostic by some people, and any discussion needs to acknowledge that people disagree on the borders of the definitions.
I firmly believe that every religion I'm familiar with is wrong, and I suspect strongly that all world religions are wrong, with the possible exception of those that say there's some higher power but the metaphor you use to relate to it is up to you ("God is too big to fit in one religion", etc.). I do not, however, have any position on whether there is any intelligent higher power at all. For simplicity, I usually say "somewhere between atheist and agnostic".
Or the fact that people were willing to buy the disks in the middle of a format war when they had no guarantee it would last. On the other hand, NetFlix doesn't charge any extra for either HD format. We just signed up for NetFlix again, for the first time since 1999, after getting our PS3.
I see no value in upgrading to either high-def format Watch the Blu-Ray of Bram Stoker's Dracula. When Winona Ryder is running down the stairs in the rain or lit from behind in the bedroom in a thin nightgown, you'll see the value of high-def.
Or.. "hey guess what, i'm not wearing any underpants!" Oh, I don't know about that. I've worked with four DBAs in person, and I wouldn't mind at all hearing that from Lucy. Nor would I be terribly surprised.
I'll pass on the other three, though. Especially the dead one.
Excuse me? I think possibly one of the main PROBLEMS with lowered music quality is the fact that so many groups/bands today cannot tour...cannot play their own instruments with any acuity, and require too much electronic 'help'. You and I have completely opposite ideals here. Why is it a problem if a band can't tour (as long as they don't try to, anyway)?
If one guy can make great albums, all by himself, but can't play with other people, is too shy to play in front of a live audience, or can't stomach the risk of quitting his day job to tour, an ideal world would let him make a decent living doing that. On the other hand, if a group is good enough live that the memory makes listening to their CDs better after you've seen them (say, Opeth), that should be rewarded, too.
Where is the next Zeppelin? By your criteria, I'd say Metallica. I usually think of Led Zeppelin as standing out by being hugely overrated, in which case their successor would be U2.
You get much closer to the band, and it feels a lot more personal. Work for a smallish company that has season tickets at your local big venue (hint: anyone with advertisements there probably has season tickets). Employees probably get a crack at whatever clients aren't interested in, and the seats should be *very* good.
The RIAA members sat on their ass regarding technology... "stereo" has been around since the 1930's, yet even CARS are capable of 4 and 5 channel sound... but they still publish in stereo. The best concert CDs are BluRay DVDs. Surround sound is mostly good for movies. Music would be better served by separating the various instruments, so people could specify that bass guitar, bass drums and low synth notes go to the subwoofer, rather than making the hardware do Fourier conversions, and lead vocals go to your center channel speaker. You could keep the MIDI instruments in MIDI, too, and put in timed lyrics data for people to do karaoke with their normal recordings. You might start seeing specialty speakers for guitars and vocals, too.
The music industry is dying because of a pattern of abuse---because of all the things the industry has done in the last decade to tighten their control over music distribution. Those are certainly contributing to the decline, but I think DVDs have taken a big bite out of music sales, too. Movies have simply gotten to be a better entertainment deal than music unless you're really into music or too busy to watch movies much.
Scientology and all its offshoot cults like The Landmark Forum are brainwashing users of people. Money money money. EST/Landmark is seriously messed up, granted, but I don't think there's any connection with the Church of Scientology.
A cult hides it's core beliefs from it's members a religion does not. That's not one of the usual standards people use, but I like it. It's nicely objective.
NASA has very little to do with the development of missiles or fighter jets. All that stuff is done by the Air Force under separate contracts. That may be true these days; I don't know. Under its original NACA name (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, I believe), they did a lot of important aerodynamics research that did indeed have military applications.
Imagine being in a room completely covered with these carbon nanotubes. Even with a bright lamp with you, you'd feel as though you're sitting in outer space. It would be great for photography. You can take pictures with no background, at all.
Is Office still built on COM? *That* would be a good reason to kill VBA (since VBA is just a thin wrapper around a subset of COM). Office Automation from.Net is not remotely as friendly as it was from VB6 or VBA because Office is still built in COM and it has a different memory model than.Net. Last I checked, you have to clear every object, force a garbage collection, and repeat a couple of times to *probably* clear the memory the Office objects were using.
Yeah, but Pascal is a lot better first language than VBA. I've done a lot of VBA/VB6, but it's just one of the slew of languages I've learned. Pascal was the first language I learned seriously, and I still feel like a better programmer for having started with it.
VLIW is also highly dependent on having excellent compilers. VLIW also makes a short-term optimization for the current state of hardware permanent. It reminds me of the delay slot in the SPARC architecture. After a branch, the next instruction is executed whether the branch was taken or not. When you have a single, four-stage pipeline and the branch is executed on stage 3, that cuts your processor stalls in half, which is great. 20 year later, though, when you have a few dozen instructions in the air at any given time, the complication is still there, but it doesn't really make enough difference to count.
This means that HTT isn't particularly beneficial unless you have code that results in a large number of data dependencies or branch mispredicts, or if pipeline stalls are particularly expensive. Isn't that nearly always the case?
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I would bet that most child molesters are turned on by the children's perceived *innocence*, and as such I'd sooner expect someone like that to go after a girl in a modest, flowery dress, than one in hip huggers with a tongue piercing.
That's probably true for some, but I don't know about all.
A big turn-on for me is an innocent or staid outward appearance (schoolgirl, business suit, librarian, etc.) when I know the innocence is an illusion (my wife pulls this off really well). I like the contrast. Someone else might like the same contrast the other way around, with a risque outward appearance on someone who really is innocent.
I will admit that the prosecutor was absolutely astounded that we came back with not-guilty, though. I supposed there's a chance that all of us were abnormal.
Quite likely. My wife was on a murder jury a couple of years ago, and the jury basically all agreed that they had no idea what really happened, and that the only person who testified who wasn't lying to them was the medical examiner. To my mind, that's reasonable doubt, but they just knocked it down to second-degree.
"Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today I'm going to prove that these Christians stole the rights to our game for use in their church!"
Why would the NFL send lawyers after Christians when they have The Lions? And The Lions certainly aren't going to be busy during the Super Bowl.
How inspired will you feel when he takes money out of your pocket and ruins the health care system by socializing it?
We already have universal health care. If someone with no money shows up at a hospital, they get treated, and the hospital passes the losses along to you, me, and everyone else with official coverage. They only differences under the current system vs. single-payer are that these people get treated under emergency circumstances so it costs a lot more, and we have to pay for a huge billing infrastructure.
That, and employers are paying for it, so they're at a disadvantage vs. foreign companies whose workers get health care from their government.
and the fact that she chose her potential political career over divorcing her adulterous husband - many times
We don't know for sure that she actually minded (apart from the publicly getting caught part). Many people have open marriages, of one sort or another. She might be boinking her share of interns, too.
If the technology that we have now had been available in the 16th century,
Did you mean 18th century? In the 16th century, Machiavelli was explaining why pure democracy (along with pure monarchy and pure aristocracy) was a bad idea.
I believe that we might have sought a more pure version of democracy.
No, we wouldn't have. This idea was a very big deal to the constitutional framers -- they disagreed on the methods, but they all wanted to be sure that the rights of (political) minorities would not be trampled by the majority.
On the other hand, I think they would have loved the idea of popular sign-off on whatever the professional politicians came up with.
Its arrays started at 1. In order to get VB to work with .Net .Net. I'm not sure when, exactly, but VB6 is the same way. Actually, VB6 is pretty schizophrenic about 0 vs. 1 based indexes in general. I used to make a habit of just putting in a breakpoint and looking at the array while the program ran, instead of trying to remember which was which.
.Net didn't fix. There are some clunky IO libraries clearly designed to be used by the migration wizard, but they're strictly optional. Plus, I really like that VB.Net still has real optional arguments, as opposed to C# that goes the Java route and makes you declare a little stub version with fewer arguments that just calls the real one and fills in a default value.
This was actually introduced prior to
Personally, I like the way Turbo Pascal made you declare both upper and lower bounds. 0-based arrays make sense in a systems programming language when it's just a thin veneer for a pointer, but VB, C# and Java shouldn't force it on you.
In the original VB, "And" and "Or" operators did NOT do short circuit evaluation.
Beyond that, they were bitwise operators, not logical. The fact that 1 is true, 2 is true, but 1 AND 2 is false is far more perverse than the lack of short-circuiting. This is also why the canonical true value in VB is -1 (1111111111111111 binary) rather than the usual 1. This was appropriate in Bill G's 8K Altair BASIC, but it should have been fixed in MS BASIC well before 1980.
VB.Net Beta 1 made "And" and "Or" normal logical operators and introduced new bitwise operators for the old functionality, but too many people complained and they switched it back for Beta 2.
There are many other examples in VB like this
I don't know about that. Those are pretty much the worst parts that
Passengers aren't problematic because they recognize road hazards (or at least your reactions to road hazards) and will temporarily stop talking when the situation calls for it.
You've clearly never driven with my wife along. I have to shout a "shut up" at her every two or three weeks when she keeps going on when I have to pay close attention to the road.
could they vote for a satanist? That's a religion that ranges from just love of hedonism to actual devil worship depending who you ask.
"Satanist" is not just one religion. While there probably are people who worship the Christian version of Satan, I suspect they're mostly isolated lunatics. The Church of Satan is just a group that has some vaguely hokey beliefs about power residing in each person and threw in the "Satan" name as a metaphor -- it always struck me as an excuse to annoy Christians. There's also The Temple of Set and various smaller groups.
Exactly! They believe (in the affirmative sense) that no gods exist without feeling the need for proof, i.e., they have faith in the non-existence of god(s) in exactly the same way that religious people have faith in the existence of them.
No, that's not what the GP was saying. There are three categories of people we're talking about:
Someone who specifically believes there is no god.
Someone who does not claim to know whether there is a god.
Someone who does not believe it's possible to say whether there is a god (or usually anything theological).
The first is clearly atheist. The last is clearly agnostic. The middle case is called atheist by some people and agnostic by some people, and any discussion needs to acknowledge that people disagree on the borders of the definitions.
I firmly believe that every religion I'm familiar with is wrong, and I suspect strongly that all world religions are wrong, with the possible exception of those that say there's some higher power but the metaphor you use to relate to it is up to you ("God is too big to fit in one religion", etc.). I do not, however, have any position on whether there is any intelligent higher power at all. For simplicity, I usually say "somewhere between atheist and agnostic".
Or the fact that people were willing to buy the disks in the middle of a format war when they had no guarantee it would last.
On the other hand, NetFlix doesn't charge any extra for either HD format. We just signed up for NetFlix again, for the first time since 1999, after getting our PS3.
I see no value in upgrading to either high-def format
Watch the Blu-Ray of Bram Stoker's Dracula. When Winona Ryder is running down the stairs in the rain or lit from behind in the bedroom in a thin nightgown, you'll see the value of high-def.
Or.. "hey guess what, i'm not wearing any underpants!"
Oh, I don't know about that. I've worked with four DBAs in person, and I wouldn't mind at all hearing that from Lucy. Nor would I be terribly surprised.
I'll pass on the other three, though. Especially the dead one.
Excuse me? I think possibly one of the main PROBLEMS with lowered music quality is the fact that so many groups/bands today cannot tour...cannot play their own instruments with any acuity, and require too much electronic 'help'.
You and I have completely opposite ideals here. Why is it a problem if a band can't tour (as long as they don't try to, anyway)?
If one guy can make great albums, all by himself, but can't play with other people, is too shy to play in front of a live audience, or can't stomach the risk of quitting his day job to tour, an ideal world would let him make a decent living doing that. On the other hand, if a group is good enough live that the memory makes listening to their CDs better after you've seen them (say, Opeth), that should be rewarded, too.
Where is the next Zeppelin?
By your criteria, I'd say Metallica.
I usually think of Led Zeppelin as standing out by being hugely overrated, in which case their successor would be U2.
You get much closer to the band, and it feels a lot more personal.
Work for a smallish company that has season tickets at your local big venue (hint: anyone with advertisements there probably has season tickets). Employees probably get a crack at whatever clients aren't interested in, and the seats should be *very* good.
The RIAA members sat on their ass regarding technology... "stereo" has been around since the 1930's, yet even CARS are capable of 4 and 5 channel sound... but they still publish in stereo. The best concert CDs are BluRay DVDs.
Surround sound is mostly good for movies. Music would be better served by separating the various instruments, so people could specify that bass guitar, bass drums and low synth notes go to the subwoofer, rather than making the hardware do Fourier conversions, and lead vocals go to your center channel speaker. You could keep the MIDI instruments in MIDI, too, and put in timed lyrics data for people to do karaoke with their normal recordings. You might start seeing specialty speakers for guitars and vocals, too.
The music industry is dying because of a pattern of abuse---because of all the things the industry has done in the last decade to tighten their control over music distribution.
Those are certainly contributing to the decline, but I think DVDs have taken a big bite out of music sales, too. Movies have simply gotten to be a better entertainment deal than music unless you're really into music or too busy to watch movies much.
Scientology and all its offshoot cults like The Landmark Forum are brainwashing users of people. Money money money.
EST/Landmark is seriously messed up, granted, but I don't think there's any connection with the Church of Scientology.
A cult hides it's core beliefs from it's members a religion does not.
That's not one of the usual standards people use, but I like it. It's nicely objective.
NASA has very little to do with the development of missiles or fighter jets. All that stuff is done by the Air Force under separate contracts.
That may be true these days; I don't know. Under its original NACA name (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, I believe), they did a lot of important aerodynamics research that did indeed have military applications.
I always thought "I'm only wearing black until they make something darker" was just a joke. So when can I buy clothes made out of it?
Imagine being in a room completely covered with these carbon nanotubes. Even with a bright lamp with you, you'd feel as though you're sitting in outer space.
It would be great for photography. You can take pictures with no background, at all.
Is Office still built on COM? *That* would be a good reason to kill VBA (since VBA is just a thin wrapper around a subset of COM). Office Automation from .Net is not remotely as friendly as it was from VB6 or VBA because Office is still built in COM and it has a different memory model than .Net. Last I checked, you have to clear every object, force a garbage collection, and repeat a couple of times to *probably* clear the memory the Office objects were using.
Yeah, but Pascal is a lot better first language than VBA. I've done a lot of VBA/VB6, but it's just one of the slew of languages I've learned. Pascal was the first language I learned seriously, and I still feel like a better programmer for having started with it.
VLIW is also highly dependent on having excellent compilers.
VLIW also makes a short-term optimization for the current state of hardware permanent. It reminds me of the delay slot in the SPARC architecture. After a branch, the next instruction is executed whether the branch was taken or not. When you have a single, four-stage pipeline and the branch is executed on stage 3, that cuts your processor stalls in half, which is great. 20 year later, though, when you have a few dozen instructions in the air at any given time, the complication is still there, but it doesn't really make enough difference to count.
This means that HTT isn't particularly beneficial unless you have code that results in a large number of data dependencies or branch mispredicts, or if pipeline stalls are particularly expensive.
Isn't that nearly always the case?