I'll believe that IE9 is up to par with the other browsers when I see it; from what I have heard, they have no plans to add things like the video tag to IE9, so that's at least one thing that will not be up to par with the rest of the world. I have a friend who works at MS and he forwarded my complaints about the lack of the video tag and canvas tag, and the IE guys didn't even seem to have that on the agenda.
There's Scala, Erlang, and, as you mentioned, Haskell. All of them have active development, but I am most familiar with Haskell itself. All of them have the advantage that any more established language will have: they will have better or more numerous compilers, libraries, and instructional materials. They all have mindshare that Go does not have. In the case of Haskell, Haskell has a very strong type system and lazy evaluation, in addition to being a mostly pure functional language. Go does not use LE from what I can tell, and this will have important effects on the optimizations that can be done. Haskell tends to avoid mutable types and side effects, which can make it easier to go parallel, but they can also cause it to miss out on things like the (efficient) quicksort algorithm. If you can't modify an array in place, it become pointless to use that algorithm. Without more information on Go, I cannot say much more.
We attempted that in our own organization, but the fact that no one read any error messages didn't change. All that did change was that we now had a large mass of grown adults who wet themselves. What we did find effective was sending the individuals to a kindergarten, where they would be taught how to read. Electroshock treatment continued, however, as a means to address the stress of the help desk personnel.
Ah, MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries. That was a great game. Sadly I never was able to play online because of my connection, but I have lots of happy memories of that game.
That would be correct; her views fall under the purview of politics and philosophy. I do not think that she ever even studied econ; she instead tried to put forth her vision of a free society, utilitarianism be damned. That's how I see it, anyways. Other than that, she wasn't a very good writer; the only book of hers I could stand was Anthem, which just so happens to be very short. She also wanted to claim that she invented libertarianism.
My own phone has survived more than a mere season's worth of snow, getting run over, being dropped in a cup, and the more mundane causes of death. My own phone has survived the nuclear apocalypse. The zombie one. It was used as a weapon to bash in zombie skulls, and it survived a direct nuclear blast from a 50 megaton nuclear warhead; not even a scratch. Let's see your phones do that! Oh, and it survived a direct attack by God Almighty; all I had to do was trick the bastard into thinking that the phone was a chariot of iron. And you know what? It still had a full charge! It never drops a call or anything. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will return to my time machine after I laugh at your pathetic "iPhone" and "Droid." Smart phones? Ha! If only I could tell you more....
I think they feel that not washing it gets rid of some of the flavor. IIRC, some people do that with pots and pans. Remind me not to eat food cooked in those again....
My own experience with deja vu hasn't been anything major. The one I remember most was a time in which I was in a class room and had the sense; I had the feeling that I had seen the scene before, months before I set foot in the classroom, but walking into it the first time showed no signs of familiarity. But this particular scene, with the children in just the right spots, caused the sense. It was nothing special; just a day in the class, no test or anything. Based on my own anecdote, I would have to go with the "it's some kind of seizure/wiring mistake/etc." hypothesis.
Halt! As Captain of the Internets, I cannot stand to hear you lies anymore! No randomness? Blasphemy! Lunacy! Have you ever been to Wikipedia? The dark corners of the Internet, such as 4chan? Fark? IRC? Had you been there, you would have seen the reality of randomness! Now repent your crimes before I am forced to put you into the Total Perspective Vortex with a half naked anime character, a motivational poster, and a Wiki article on the nature of the Etruscan language, which you got to by starting on the page on pastrie!
Insightful? Really? I was going for humor, not some deep insight into the way the world works or an explanation of monads and why Haskell programmers would want them.
NAFTA had even pro-trade people against it, because what sort of free trade bill needs to be so long and have so many negotiations? How about this:
All businesses and individuals in nations that are signatories may sell any good in the nations that are party to this treaty so long as the products obey the standards and regulations in that nation, and they will, for tax and trade purposes, be treated as if they were a local product. All tariffs are to be removed, and all quotas likewise.
That is all that is needed for a trade treaty, really, because that opens everything up. Instead we were left with all sorts of restrictions and changes that made it less a free trade treaty and more a managed trade treaty. See, for example, the squabbles over agriculture (which also apply to the EU's ag policies).
And now that the Supreme Court has ruled it is unconstitutional to limit corporate campaign funding (via advertisements) expect corporate ownership of all branches of government to increase.
Wait, you mean that that ownership ever decreased at some point? You know, I never believed in any deity before, but proof of that might make me reconsider.
They didn't undo half of the things that the Dems have done for years that they have opposed from time to time (such as their opposition to the New Deal in the 30s), and the Dems have also done little in the way of repealing themselves. I am awaiting the death of the PATRIOT act, for example, and the closure of Guantanamo Bay's prison. So why do you think they would repeal it now?
Who's representing the US in the ACTA negotiations. If it's just the usual **AA people, then good luck getting this past The Senate.
The DMCA made it past the Senate, as did the PATRIOT act, the war on (some) drugs, Prohibition, and I believe the Corwin Amendment. I feel your faith in the Senate is misplaced. You see, to have real influence in the Senate, you must either be someone with enough cash to make a difference in an election, such as a CEO, or you must be someone who represents a collection of people that have that power, such as union bosses.
Get slaughtered by the US military for inciting rebellion?
The last major rebellion by the southern half of the US ended with control firmly established and more governmental power in place, so I'll add that to what would happen in any hypothetical rebellion. You know, we gotta keep them turr'rists down.
Nah, the aliens were using Limewire, and that is the vulnerability. Any race that uses that aboard a mothership is not as advanced as we think. They had to get their alien porn fix, you know, and that opens up all kinds of opportunities.
Which is why religion and all other straight-faced magical thinking should be abolished.
It depends on the method by which religion is ended. If it is by private individuals convincing the world to go atheist, then I would be all for that. However, if it is enforced by government fiat, you have merely replaced one evil with another. I would not want to live under any state that tells me, or anyone else, what beliefs are tolerated.
The only time you would really "struggle" with turning with no power steering car would be in a parking lot, you will never struggle with turning anything at freeway speed.
I would have to guess it depends on the vehicle. My old truck (older than I am by decades) is a beast to steer when parking in a tight space, but even at just a slight speed increase the resistance lowers enough that I have no trouble with it. But parking is a bitch.
For older vehicles, you can change the mounts out to squeeze in a new engine. My old Ford truck has mounts available to at least be able to put in GM engines (which use the same mounts for all their lines, IIRC, with perhaps some changes over the years); I bet I can find one to put in a Toyota or Honda motor too. More interesting would be seeing if the transmission would work with the new motor.
Reach has more polygons in the Assault Rifle first person model than an entire Marine had in Halo 3 due to improvements to their engine.
Despite that, the gameplay will likely not have improved by that much. It'll likely be the same, only maybe we can dual wield swords or something like that now.
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I'll believe that IE9 is up to par with the other browsers when I see it; from what I have heard, they have no plans to add things like the video tag to IE9, so that's at least one thing that will not be up to par with the rest of the world. I have a friend who works at MS and he forwarded my complaints about the lack of the video tag and canvas tag, and the IE guys didn't even seem to have that on the agenda.
That's right! We have to teach the controversy! I demand that the schools teach the geocentric model.
There's Scala, Erlang, and, as you mentioned, Haskell. All of them have active development, but I am most familiar with Haskell itself. All of them have the advantage that any more established language will have: they will have better or more numerous compilers, libraries, and instructional materials. They all have mindshare that Go does not have. In the case of Haskell, Haskell has a very strong type system and lazy evaluation, in addition to being a mostly pure functional language. Go does not use LE from what I can tell, and this will have important effects on the optimizations that can be done. Haskell tends to avoid mutable types and side effects, which can make it easier to go parallel, but they can also cause it to miss out on things like the (efficient) quicksort algorithm. If you can't modify an array in place, it become pointless to use that algorithm. Without more information on Go, I cannot say much more.
Or I'll use Haskell instead. I love seeing things like orderWords = unwords. sort. words. Yum.
We attempted that in our own organization, but the fact that no one read any error messages didn't change. All that did change was that we now had a large mass of grown adults who wet themselves. What we did find effective was sending the individuals to a kindergarten, where they would be taught how to read. Electroshock treatment continued, however, as a means to address the stress of the help desk personnel.
They may not have to; Bono may go after the copyright extension himself.
Ah, MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries. That was a great game. Sadly I never was able to play online because of my connection, but I have lots of happy memories of that game.
That would be correct; her views fall under the purview of politics and philosophy. I do not think that she ever even studied econ; she instead tried to put forth her vision of a free society, utilitarianism be damned. That's how I see it, anyways. Other than that, she wasn't a very good writer; the only book of hers I could stand was Anthem, which just so happens to be very short. She also wanted to claim that she invented libertarianism.
My own phone has survived more than a mere season's worth of snow, getting run over, being dropped in a cup, and the more mundane causes of death. My own phone has survived the nuclear apocalypse. The zombie one. It was used as a weapon to bash in zombie skulls, and it survived a direct nuclear blast from a 50 megaton nuclear warhead; not even a scratch. Let's see your phones do that! Oh, and it survived a direct attack by God Almighty; all I had to do was trick the bastard into thinking that the phone was a chariot of iron. And you know what? It still had a full charge! It never drops a call or anything. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will return to my time machine after I laugh at your pathetic "iPhone" and "Droid." Smart phones? Ha! If only I could tell you more....
I think they feel that not washing it gets rid of some of the flavor. IIRC, some people do that with pots and pans. Remind me not to eat food cooked in those again....
My own experience with deja vu hasn't been anything major. The one I remember most was a time in which I was in a class room and had the sense; I had the feeling that I had seen the scene before, months before I set foot in the classroom, but walking into it the first time showed no signs of familiarity. But this particular scene, with the children in just the right spots, caused the sense. It was nothing special; just a day in the class, no test or anything. Based on my own anecdote, I would have to go with the "it's some kind of seizure/wiring mistake/etc." hypothesis.
could ever experience anything truly random?
Halt! As Captain of the Internets, I cannot stand to hear you lies anymore! No randomness? Blasphemy! Lunacy! Have you ever been to Wikipedia? The dark corners of the Internet, such as 4chan? Fark? IRC? Had you been there, you would have seen the reality of randomness! Now repent your crimes before I am forced to put you into the Total Perspective Vortex with a half naked anime character, a motivational poster, and a Wiki article on the nature of the Etruscan language, which you got to by starting on the page on pastrie!
Insightful? Really? I was going for humor, not some deep insight into the way the world works or an explanation of monads and why Haskell programmers would want them.
NAFTA had even pro-trade people against it, because what sort of free trade bill needs to be so long and have so many negotiations? How about this:
All businesses and individuals in nations that are signatories may sell any good in the nations that are party to this treaty so long as the products obey the standards and regulations in that nation, and they will, for tax and trade purposes, be treated as if they were a local product. All tariffs are to be removed, and all quotas likewise.
That is all that is needed for a trade treaty, really, because that opens everything up. Instead we were left with all sorts of restrictions and changes that made it less a free trade treaty and more a managed trade treaty. See, for example, the squabbles over agriculture (which also apply to the EU's ag policies).
And now that the Supreme Court has ruled it is unconstitutional to limit corporate campaign funding (via advertisements) expect corporate ownership of all branches of government to increase.
Wait, you mean that that ownership ever decreased at some point? You know, I never believed in any deity before, but proof of that might make me reconsider.
They didn't undo half of the things that the Dems have done for years that they have opposed from time to time (such as their opposition to the New Deal in the 30s), and the Dems have also done little in the way of repealing themselves. I am awaiting the death of the PATRIOT act, for example, and the closure of Guantanamo Bay's prison. So why do you think they would repeal it now?
Who's representing the US in the ACTA negotiations. If it's just the usual **AA people, then good luck getting this past The Senate.
The DMCA made it past the Senate, as did the PATRIOT act, the war on (some) drugs, Prohibition, and I believe the Corwin Amendment. I feel your faith in the Senate is misplaced. You see, to have real influence in the Senate, you must either be someone with enough cash to make a difference in an election, such as a CEO, or you must be someone who represents a collection of people that have that power, such as union bosses.
Get slaughtered by the US military for inciting rebellion?
The last major rebellion by the southern half of the US ended with control firmly established and more governmental power in place, so I'll add that to what would happen in any hypothetical rebellion. You know, we gotta keep them turr'rists down.
Those posts took real courage to post! Now, who's with me? Let's go glare ominously outside the White House! FREEEDOOOM!!!!11!!11eleventy1111!!
One of my CS intro classes made us watch this movie, and though it was dated by decades, it was still enjoyable.
Nah, the aliens were using Limewire, and that is the vulnerability. Any race that uses that aboard a mothership is not as advanced as we think. They had to get their alien porn fix, you know, and that opens up all kinds of opportunities.
Which is why religion and all other straight-faced magical thinking should be abolished.
It depends on the method by which religion is ended. If it is by private individuals convincing the world to go atheist, then I would be all for that. However, if it is enforced by government fiat, you have merely replaced one evil with another. I would not want to live under any state that tells me, or anyone else, what beliefs are tolerated.
The only time you would really "struggle" with turning with no power steering car would be in a parking lot, you will never struggle with turning anything at freeway speed.
I would have to guess it depends on the vehicle. My old truck (older than I am by decades) is a beast to steer when parking in a tight space, but even at just a slight speed increase the resistance lowers enough that I have no trouble with it. But parking is a bitch.
For older vehicles, you can change the mounts out to squeeze in a new engine. My old Ford truck has mounts available to at least be able to put in GM engines (which use the same mounts for all their lines, IIRC, with perhaps some changes over the years); I bet I can find one to put in a Toyota or Honda motor too. More interesting would be seeing if the transmission would work with the new motor.
Reach has more polygons in the Assault Rifle first person model than an entire Marine had in Halo 3 due to improvements to their engine.
Despite that, the gameplay will likely not have improved by that much. It'll likely be the same, only maybe we can dual wield swords or something like that now.