In a system where everybody pays for their own care the decisions like that are up to the patient.
That in itself is a bit of right wing spin because, of course, healthcare is really expensive and most people can't afford to pay for their own healthcare, which means the decision is not theirs to make.
In the USA, I understand you have thought of that and people who have a moderate amount of money (and who are in good health) can get insurance. This means that in the USA it is the insurance corporations that make the decisions, not the government or the patient.
You get to be Mayor of London by being voted for by a majority of its population. Having gone to Eton and Oxford with David Cameron might be considered a liability in that situation.
IE6, Netscape 6.2, and Opera 6 were all released within a month of each other (Oct-Nov 2001).
IE 6 was release on August 26th 2001. Netscape 6.2 was released on October 30th 2001. Opera 6 doesn't count because Netscape had set the expectation that you don't pay for web browsers, but it's November 29 2001, if you are interested.
In fact Netscape 6.2 doesn't really count because Netscape was already dead in the water.
In the corporate world in late 2001, IE 6 really was the only viable choice (as perceived by the people who made the decisions).
Name one thing that you can get on Earth that a species capable of interstellar flight can't get elsewhere much more easily (even within our own solar system) or synthesise.
The real issue here is that SkidRow took the "values" database from the community who initially logged them, and pretty much claimed it as their own work. The original cracking community inserted some fake "values" as trackers in order to determine when anyone stole their work and released it.
One group of pirates being ripped off by another group of pirates is not an issue, it's funny.
At the heart of the problem isn't Gizmodo or the programmer, it's Apple and their idiotic secrecy.
It's standard practice for manufacturers to keep their products under wraps. There's nothing idiotic (or at least more idiotic than occurs in other companies) about Apple's secrecy.
There is nothing particularly interesting or compelling about this device.
Gizmodo paid a man $5,000 for a phone that is apparently stolen under Californian State law. Clearly they found it interesting and compelling.
And if there were, they shouldn't let people take it out of the building.
Do you think any mobile phone company would allow its products to be sold before doing proper field tests.
But you can't contribute code to those free as in beer Microsoft projects.
Yes you can. You can apply for a job with Microsoft, and, if you get in, they'll pay you for your contributions too.
How does that draw people away from coding for the Linux kernel, who I assume are interested in learning and doing systems programming?
By drawing them in to the Microsoft world. You can't write Linux kernel code using the Microsoft tool chain. On the other hand, you can write GUI applications that most of your friends can use.
Doing something you know is bad for you != low intelligence.
I'm not aware that anybody is claiming that doing things that are bad for you is equal to low intelligence (although, this being Slashdot, I'm sure somebody has made that claim here somewhere). The only factual statement I have seen is that on average young men who smoke have lower IQs than young men who don't smoke. I bet in both groups the distribution of IQs is fairly wide.
Incidentally, "young men who smoke have lower IQs" is not equivalent to "young men with low IQs are more likely to take up smoking". What if there is a causal link? What if smoking depresses your IQ?
This immersion thing is bullshit. The things that get me immersed are good characterisation and plot. I can get immersed in book if it's reasonably well written and there's not even any pictures at all in one of those - or sound.
3D is just there as a wow factor at the moment. Maybe that will change in time - I think there were probably people like me saying "colour is just a wow factor" or "talkies are just a wow factor". However, right now it's just a gimmick. You can see that by the way the shots are set up to emphasise perspective.
We can sort of classify the languages into "slow" and "not slow" in various ways.
You have missed out the most important point for a programming competition:
Implementation (actually writing and debugging the code): Python craps all over the others probably.
Pascal is a great language for teaching the concepts of programming, but the task here is not just to do that but to be able to get a team together for a programming competition and there's only a couple of months available. C and C++ would be even worse since in two months, they will still be trying to cope with buffer overruns and double frees and all the other gotchas that C and C++ have.
Java would be OK, but Python is more expressive, so I'd go for Python in this instance.
There never has been a standard file system path component separator.
I don't think "being first" is a very good argument for "is the standard" (not that Unix was necessarily the first operating system with a hierarchical directory structure). I would suggest that the most practical specifier of a de facto standard should be installed base. In that respect, the Windows backslash wins hands down.
Of course, the water is muddied by the fact that the URI path component separator is a normal slash.
As other replies have already said, you only need a TV licence if you watch or record live TV on any device. If you have no TV and you only use iPlayer to watch TV after its already happened technically you don't need a TV licence.
However, it's actually pretty difficult to convince the authorities that you don't watch or record live TV. You're in for a world of harassment if you don't have a TV licence. The BBC just can't cope with the concept that there are people in the World who do not watch telly.
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Bill Joy's epitaph will be :wq.
Or possibly :q! if he has failed to write an autobiography.
I don't know how you quit from emacs.
You can step through a large block of code bit by bit with the debugger. You can't do that with a regex.
Sorry, you're going to have repost that, it looks like your modem had some problems and there is quite a lot of line noise in it.
Honestly, if you think that is readable you need to get out more.
In a system where everybody pays for their own care the decisions like that are up to the patient.
That in itself is a bit of right wing spin because, of course, healthcare is really expensive and most people can't afford to pay for their own healthcare, which means the decision is not theirs to make.
In the USA, I understand you have thought of that and people who have a moderate amount of money (and who are in good health) can get insurance. This means that in the USA it is the insurance corporations that make the decisions, not the government or the patient.
Nobody announces how old Windows 3.0 is every year either.
You get to be Mayor of London by being voted for by a majority of its population. Having gone to Eton and Oxford with David Cameron might be considered a liability in that situation.
what an original idea. Let me offer you my most sincere contrafibularities.
That must be a different George W Bush from the one that lead the USA into a disastrous illegal war.
And also a different one to the G W Bush who presided over the worst economic disaster since The Great Depression.
Or actually, Linux is somewhat Unix-like and Mac OSX (as of Snow Leopard) actually is Unix.
My Starcraft CD has a Mac version on it. Only problem is it is for OS9
Actually, the Internet is the world-wide IP network. TCP is just one of many protocols that are used to transmit information across it.
IE6, Netscape 6.2, and Opera 6 were all released within a month of each other (Oct-Nov 2001).
IE 6 was release on August 26th 2001. Netscape 6.2 was released on October 30th 2001. Opera 6 doesn't count because Netscape had set the expectation that you don't pay for web browsers, but it's November 29 2001, if you are interested.
In fact Netscape 6.2 doesn't really count because Netscape was already dead in the water.
In the corporate world in late 2001, IE 6 really was the only viable choice (as perceived by the people who made the decisions).
Name one thing that you can get on Earth that a species capable of interstellar flight can't get elsewhere much more easily (even within our own solar system) or synthesise.
The final episode of Single Female Lawyer.
The real issue here is that SkidRow took the "values" database from the community who initially logged them, and pretty much claimed it as their own work. The original cracking community inserted some fake "values" as trackers in order to determine when anyone stole their work and released it.
One group of pirates being ripped off by another group of pirates is not an issue, it's funny.
At the heart of the problem isn't Gizmodo or the programmer, it's Apple and their idiotic secrecy.
It's standard practice for manufacturers to keep their products under wraps. There's nothing idiotic (or at least more idiotic than occurs in other companies) about Apple's secrecy.
There is nothing particularly interesting or compelling about this device.
Gizmodo paid a man $5,000 for a phone that is apparently stolen under Californian State law. Clearly they found it interesting and compelling.
And if there were, they shouldn't let people take it out of the building.
Do you think any mobile phone company would allow its products to be sold before doing proper field tests.
But you can't contribute code to those free as in beer Microsoft projects.
Yes you can. You can apply for a job with Microsoft, and, if you get in, they'll pay you for your contributions too.
How does that draw people away from coding for the Linux kernel, who I assume are interested in learning and doing systems programming?
By drawing them in to the Microsoft world. You can't write Linux kernel code using the Microsoft tool chain. On the other hand, you can write GUI applications that most of your friends can use.
but the pick-up still has a bunch of dear guts in the bed
I don't understand. Do you mean they cost you a lot of money or that you have a great deal of affection for them?
Don't highways in your country have off ramps?
Doing something you know is bad for you != low intelligence.
I'm not aware that anybody is claiming that doing things that are bad for you is equal to low intelligence (although, this being Slashdot, I'm sure somebody has made that claim here somewhere). The only factual statement I have seen is that on average young men who smoke have lower IQs than young men who don't smoke. I bet in both groups the distribution of IQs is fairly wide.
Incidentally, "young men who smoke have lower IQs" is not equivalent to "young men with low IQs are more likely to take up smoking". What if there is a causal link? What if smoking depresses your IQ?
You're obviously not familiar with female anatomy. Here's a clue: it's much harder for women to shake it after they urinate.
This immersion thing is bullshit. The things that get me immersed are good characterisation and plot. I can get immersed in book if it's reasonably well written and there's not even any pictures at all in one of those - or sound.
3D is just there as a wow factor at the moment. Maybe that will change in time - I think there were probably people like me saying "colour is just a wow factor" or "talkies are just a wow factor". However, right now it's just a gimmick. You can see that by the way the shots are set up to emphasise perspective.
We can sort of classify the languages into "slow" and "not slow" in various ways.
You have missed out the most important point for a programming competition:
Pascal is a great language for teaching the concepts of programming, but the task here is not just to do that but to be able to get a team together for a programming competition and there's only a couple of months available. C and C++ would be even worse since in two months, they will still be trying to cope with buffer overruns and double frees and all the other gotchas that C and C++ have.
Java would be OK, but Python is more expressive, so I'd go for Python in this instance.
There never has been a standard file system path component separator.
I don't think "being first" is a very good argument for "is the standard" (not that Unix was necessarily the first operating system with a hierarchical directory structure). I would suggest that the most practical specifier of a de facto standard should be installed base. In that respect, the Windows backslash wins hands down.
Of course, the water is muddied by the fact that the URI path component separator is a normal slash.
And Sky and Virgin did eventually come to an agreement so Sky 1 is back on Virgin.
As other replies have already said, you only need a TV licence if you watch or record live TV on any device. If you have no TV and you only use iPlayer to watch TV after its already happened technically you don't need a TV licence.
However, it's actually pretty difficult to convince the authorities that you don't watch or record live TV. You're in for a world of harassment if you don't have a TV licence. The BBC just can't cope with the concept that there are people in the World who do not watch telly.