Um, actually, not really. Most rational numbers (in the sense of terminal density in the Cantor enumeration) have non-terminating repeating expansions in any fixed integral base.
No, and it hasn't been since 1998's release of Windows 2000. Remember the introduction of a "multithreaded zero-copy TCP/IP stack"? Yeah -- that was years before Linux or FreeBSD had one.
Here's your six-figure salary, your secretary, and a telephone. Henceforth, you are to report at 8am, and remain at your desk until 5, with a one-hour break for lunch, and answer that phone whenever it rings. You should notice that the telephone is not plugged in, and that all the passers-by on the street can see you sitting here with an empty desk staring at a phone that they, too, know will never ring. Oh, and your secretary will be keeping track of your hours, so don't think about coming in late or leaving early.
Actually, in the 1970's the peak oil theorists predicted that the US oil output would peak and start to decline during the 1980's. Guess what? They were right.
It's not at all expensive to randomly produce two separate forms and shuffle them together. That's enough to take care of the most straightforward forms of ballot fraud. The system still seems defeatable to me, but it is not stupid, and does take care of the worst of the problems implicit in receipt-based voting.
Actually, yes, Stallman is opposed to copyright, _per se_, at least as far a software is concerned. He's quite open about that; he believes deeply in something he refers to as "the freedom to tinker". Copyright, if it applies to software packages, completely breaks the freedom to tinker.
Ask not up whom the black hole sucks...it sucks up you.
(Parent is right, btw. There's at least one multi-million solar mass black hole within 70K light-years of you. It holds the core of our galaxy together.)
Well, actually, ZFC is Zermelo-Fraenkel with the Axiom of Choice. Although AC is almost certainly "true", there's a lot of exceedingly interesting mathematics you can do without it, or even with various strong forms of its negation.
Um, actually, all treatments for prostate cancer cause either temporary or permanent impotence. Indeed, it's only in the last decade that treatments have emerged for which there's any hope for subsequent erectile function. More than that, all the surgical alternatives for early stage prostate cancer cause functional infertility (because they cause all sperm to be forced back into the abdominal cavity, leading to a spectacular drop in the number of sperm released in ejaculate.)
However, the horror that prostate cancer causes is really neither here nor there. Breast cancer used to be the single most frequent cause of cancer death in women, and it needs to be defeated.
I've been through the process. The only one that compares to it in stringency is Microsoft's as of a decade and a half ago.
A friend of mine told me that when he sat in new engineer orientation at Google (with seventy other new hires), the first thing the first speaker said was "OK, everybody, welcome to Google. Everyone who's interview process took more than a month, please raise your hand." He says that all but a tiny number of hands went up. Only one person had had a process which only required a single interview. (I want to meet *that* one -- does he (or she) walk on water or something?)
Go back and read my comment -- I told you exactly how MS would recoup its losses. As to the rest...tell me again which browser has had the most critical security issues in the last year? (Hint: it isn't IE.)
Two words: X Box. Four more words: Two billions dollars lost. Including game sales.
Microsoft can bleed money, and not even notice it. More than that, the COGs of the Zune will fall, and, unlike the XBox, but like the XBox 360, Microsoft will be able to recoup those losses later on. MS is many things, but unwilling to learn from its mistakes is not one of those things.
The other guy is largely correct. Microsoft does, occasionally, update kernel32, which is the module into which the pluggable file system drivers, the device drives, and other third-party writable modules all plug. Windows exposes a fixed API to all such modules and, as long as the module conforms to the expectations of the operating system, it Just Works. Microsoft changes those APIs only on very rare occasions, and makes an effort to provide backwards compatibility to old module APIs.
I've always assumed that the instability of the kernel interface for drivers in Linux was partly by design -- if it was stable, then it would be feasible to write binary-only drivers, which the Linux community opposes.
The majority of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, and 74% of those HAD insurance.
And the original commenter's choice of cancer treatment is particularly insightful. Suzy's life hangs in the balance, and your oncologist says "She's not responding to respond to the standard chemo. However, there's an investigative treatment which *might* work; right now, it's her only hope."
Guess what, sonny? Your insurance company may well not pay for that therapy.
Linus adopted GPLv2 because he is in favor of reciprocity -- if he gives you something, then you need to give back. In his view, there's a reasonable level at which reciprocity should be demanded, and then a deeper level at which it should not be demanded. He believes that GPLv3 goes too far, and demands complementary gifts which exceed reciprocal giving.
That's a perfectly reasonable position, no matter whether you agree with his line or not.
Opiates bind to a set of receptors which compensate for the presence of the molecules by raising the level of an internal signalling protein. Once that level has been raised, removing the opiate causes internal depletion of the signalling protein's substrate; that depletion causes withdrawal symptoms if it is sufficiently complete.
Other analgesics, such as acetominophen (Tylenol) and naproxen, work by indirect pathways, and do not create dependency.
the XMLHTTP Request object, which has been around for several years as a solution looking for a problem, there is nothing weird needed
OK, so this guy doesn't even know that HttpRequest was added to MSXML to allow OWA 2000 -- you know, the first Ajax client -- to work. SOunds like he's got some technical issues to work through first.
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There's no such deal: Dell's OEM license only covers the CPUs they sell.
Um, actually, not really. Most rational numbers (in the sense of terminal density in the Cantor enumeration) have non-terminating repeating expansions in any fixed integral base.
Actually, in the 1970's the peak oil theorists predicted that the US oil output would peak and start to decline during the 1980's. Guess what? They were right.
It's not at all expensive to randomly produce two separate forms and shuffle them together. That's enough to take care of the most straightforward forms of ballot fraud. The system still seems defeatable to me, but it is not stupid, and does take care of the worst of the problems implicit in receipt-based voting.
Actually, yes, Stallman is opposed to copyright, _per se_, at least as far a software is concerned. He's quite open about that; he believes deeply in something he refers to as "the freedom to tinker". Copyright, if it applies to software packages, completely breaks the freedom to tinker.
Ask not up whom the black hole sucks...it sucks up you.
(Parent is right, btw. There's at least one multi-million solar mass black hole within 70K light-years of you. It holds the core of our galaxy together.)
Actually, everything but reflection and choice would be Z. Reflection is F, and AC is neither.
(And we won't even get into the correct attribution for CH/GCH.)
Well, actually, ZFC is Zermelo-Fraenkel with the Axiom of Choice. Although AC is almost certainly "true", there's a lot of exceedingly interesting mathematics you can do without it, or even with various strong forms of its negation.
Um, actually, all treatments for prostate cancer cause either temporary or permanent impotence. Indeed, it's only in the last decade that treatments have emerged for which there's any hope for subsequent erectile function. More than that, all the surgical alternatives for early stage prostate cancer cause functional infertility (because they cause all sperm to be forced back into the abdominal cavity, leading to a spectacular drop in the number of sperm released in ejaculate.)
However, the horror that prostate cancer causes is really neither here nor there. Breast cancer used to be the single most frequent cause of cancer death in women, and it needs to be defeated.
I've been through the process. The only one that compares to it in stringency is Microsoft's as of a decade and a half ago.
A friend of mine told me that when he sat in new engineer orientation at Google (with seventy other new hires), the first thing the first speaker said was "OK, everybody, welcome to Google. Everyone who's interview process took more than a month, please raise your hand." He says that all but a tiny number of hands went up. Only one person had had a process which only required a single interview. (I want to meet *that* one -- does he (or she) walk on water or something?)
The iPatch? Did they release this on the 19th of September or something?
"Arr, matey -- it's International Dress Like a Pirate Day, too, dincha know?"
Go back and read my comment -- I told you exactly how MS would recoup its losses. As to the rest...tell me again which browser has had the most critical security issues in the last year? (Hint: it isn't IE.)
Two words: X Box. Four more words: Two billions dollars lost. Including game sales.
Microsoft can bleed money, and not even notice it. More than that, the COGs of the Zune will fall, and, unlike the XBox, but like the XBox 360, Microsoft will be able to recoup those losses later on. MS is many things, but unwilling to learn from its mistakes is not one of those things.
The other guy is largely correct. Microsoft does, occasionally, update kernel32, which is the module into which the pluggable file system drivers, the device drives, and other third-party writable modules all plug. Windows exposes a fixed API to all such modules and, as long as the module conforms to the expectations of the operating system, it Just Works. Microsoft changes those APIs only on very rare occasions, and makes an effort to provide backwards compatibility to old module APIs.
I've always assumed that the instability of the kernel interface for drivers in Linux was partly by design -- if it was stable, then it would be feasible to write binary-only drivers, which the Linux community opposes.
Guess what, sonny? Your insurance company may well not pay for that therapy.
Oh, look! It's the payed Sony Fanboi AC! I thought you had finally given up you astroturf campaign -- hey, it's good to have you back.
Loser.
They'd find next to nothing. The IE codebase has been run through low-sensititivity static analysis tools like this for years.
Linus adopted GPLv2 because he is in favor of reciprocity -- if he gives you something, then you need to give back. In his view, there's a reasonable level at which reciprocity should be demanded, and then a deeper level at which it should not be demanded. He believes that GPLv3 goes too far, and demands complementary gifts which exceed reciprocal giving.
That's a perfectly reasonable position, no matter whether you agree with his line or not.
Informative? Nonsense is more like it.
Opiates bind to a set of receptors which compensate for the presence of the molecules by raising the level of an internal signalling protein. Once that level has been raised, removing the opiate causes internal depletion of the signalling protein's substrate; that depletion causes withdrawal symptoms if it is sufficiently complete.
Other analgesics, such as acetominophen (Tylenol) and naproxen, work by indirect pathways, and do not create dependency.
Actually, no, predicate nominative. "I'm going to hit somebody, and I won't care who [it is that I hit]."
The GP is correct, and the parent is wrong.
Where'd the "3" come from if he's counting in binary? Did you pick a non-standard numeral set?