A programming language is simply a language for writing down maths.
Uh, no. If "a specific procedure for accomplishing a task" constitutes math, then the instructions on the back of a shampoo bottle are math. Sorry dude, they are not.
And the reason why it will never work will be the absolute inability of open source developers to A) agree on a standard for gestures and B) actually adhere to the standard. Everybody will think they have some critically important reason why they can't use the same gestures everyone else is using, nobody will be able to figure out how to use the applications, and the whole thing will look like an amateurish piece of shit. Just my prediction.
Would you rather have the government do X for $100 or $200?
If they can cut $100 of spending on pointless program Y, then I don't mind if that $100 gets put on beneficial program X. Looking at line items in isolation is meaningless.
Well, they are spending the taxpayer dollar. Technically they have an obligation to do it as cheaply as possible.
In other words, the government is obligated to obtain the shittiest services possible? Speak for yourself. Me, as a taxpayer? Fuck that. If you can't afford to do things the right way with the taxes you currently collect, you either need to cancel a lot of spending or raise taxes. "Buy crappy stuff at a discount" is not an option I find acceptable.
They are just really good at it, far more skilled than even the giant of the tech industry.
RIAA: "I'll give you some money to vote for this bill."
Google: "Vote against this bill or I will ensure your name is nowhere to be found on the entire Internet, and attempts to search for you will deliver your opponent's web site instead."
You see, we'd PREFER to keep them locked up, but we need to make room for marijuana smokers in the jails. Marijuana smokers are obviously far more dangerous to us than child rapists. See, it's all based on logic.
Are you some kind of dumbshit? You'd rather the government did this to you and you had no idea it was possible? Now we know this form of tracking is possible and we can develop a defense against it.
Jesus. That is the saddest story I've ever read. I want to find that guy and give him a hug.
That's a pretty good summary of why I never bother contributing to open source any more, even though I have tons of code lying around including cool modifications of some pretty big-name projects. I've been lucky enough to never work with douchebags in the salaried, closed source world. I sure as hell will not suffer it while also not making any money from my efforts.
In a technical sense, accepting goods places a burden of debt upon the recipient.
Really? I can walk into a store, grab a bunch of shit, and walk out saying "I owe you one?" Wait a second... We have a name for that, it's THEFT, not debt.
So, if I purchase something from you with an I.O.U. I can then turn around and pay off that debt with cash. The only difference between paying a debt and making a purchase is the length of time between the to and an agreement that the debt exists, i.e. the agreed upon purchase cost.
No, the difference is deeper than that. If I fail to pay my mortgage, the bank will take my house. If I walk out of 7-11 without paying for a candy bar, I can go to jail. The two situations are fundamentally different.
Not quite sure why anyone would want to go the hardware route anymore unless they are developing for specific architectures that are not supported by the hypervisor.
Anybody whose software will be deployed on physical boxes should test their software on physical boxes. The idea of testing your stuff in the environment and configuration it will actually run in might sound a bit odd, but amazingly enough it turns out to be a good practice. </sarcasm>
Seriously though, VMs can speed development tremendously, and they're awesome for deployment, but as QA platforms they aren't a replacement for testing on actual iron, just a supplement to it.
It really looks bad when something does happen, happens only in the customer's configuration, and you have to say "I've never actually tested the configuration you are using." In fact it makes you look like a serious moron.
Can a state elect to locally invalidate the federal mandate that states that bills issued by the US Treasury are "Legal tender for all debts public and private"?
This is a common misunderstanding. The currency is legal tender for all DEBTS, not all transactions. When you purchase something, you are doing exactly that -- making a purchase, not paying off a debt.
If your bank publishes your account numbers, home address and phone number, Social Security number, and mother's maiden name, and as a result you suffer identity theft and financial damages, does it make a difference that all of the information that your bank published was TRUE?
What matters is whether the bank had a contractual obligation not to divulge the information. These problems can all be solved quite easily by drafting, reading, and adhering to appropriate legal agreements. Fuck yes the bank can publish that if it wants to, unless the bank and I have agreed that they won't. (The law may differ from what I just said, but IMHO that's how it SHOULD work.)
Expecting that people "just won't" do certain things is expecting too much.
If the actress doesn't want personal information that she submitted to IMDb in the course of a business relationship to be published, she should have that right.
Did she specify? Was there a TOS? Did she read it? If her age is sensitive information why is she giving it out?
Uh, this has little to do with "eco-friendly" and more to do with "can we still power our killing machines after they've bombed our off-shore asserts and cut off our imports?" The idea of "green war" is absurd, and I don't think anyone is talking about that.
Using "quantum" in the description makes it sound like a cool new discovery
I don't get this about people. Quantum mechanics was worked out at around the same time we were figuring out airplanes. I don't see people stopping dead in their tracks and staring slack-jawed into the sky whenever a jet flies overhead. But you can always baffle people by throwing a "quantum" in there.
Quantum means "comes in little chunks." OH MY GOD, THE WORLD COMES IN LITTLE CHUNKS?! THAT'S UTTERLY UNBELIEVABLE."
Yes you can shout "Streisand" and make fun of the futile effort all you want, but she should be allowed control of her own privacy even if she's going about it the wrong way.
Really? First Amendment right out the window, huh? Forget slander and libel, you can't even publish the TRUTH if someone perceives it as damaging?
Should be great for those in politics. When your opponent points out something you said or did, which will just slaughter you at the polls, just go ahead and sue him for damaging your career.
Modern fiat currencies are backed by a promise from the government that they will accept them in payment of taxes.
Only partially so. Modern currencies are also backed by the fact that currency traders are willing to exchange them for other currencies. If you consider currency X to be "backed" by something, and there is a liquid market which turns currency Y into currency X, then currency Y is just as legitimate as currency X because you can exchange them at will.
Bitcoin was backed by some pointless computation.
Bitcoin is backed by the fact that a dollar market exists for it. If somebody is willing to exchange bitcoins for dollars, how can it be less "real" than the dollar? More volatile, definitely, but just as real, until the day that you can no longer exchange it.
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A programming language is simply a language for writing down maths.
Uh, no. If "a specific procedure for accomplishing a task" constitutes math, then the instructions on the back of a shampoo bottle are math. Sorry dude, they are not.
Ok, so you and one of the people you gave a key to are both killed in a car accident. Now what?
And the reason why it will never work will be the absolute inability of open source developers to A) agree on a standard for gestures and B) actually adhere to the standard. Everybody will think they have some critically important reason why they can't use the same gestures everyone else is using, nobody will be able to figure out how to use the applications, and the whole thing will look like an amateurish piece of shit. Just my prediction.
Google: "I guess I'll just buy all the media companies then. Didn't really want to, but you're being a bitch. I can afford it."
Would you rather have the government do X for $100 or $200?
If they can cut $100 of spending on pointless program Y, then I don't mind if that $100 gets put on beneficial program X. Looking at line items in isolation is meaningless.
Well, they are spending the taxpayer dollar. Technically they have an obligation to do it as cheaply as possible.
In other words, the government is obligated to obtain the shittiest services possible? Speak for yourself. Me, as a taxpayer? Fuck that. If you can't afford to do things the right way with the taxes you currently collect, you either need to cancel a lot of spending or raise taxes. "Buy crappy stuff at a discount" is not an option I find acceptable.
We are human beings, not "Internet users."
They are just really good at it, far more skilled than even the giant of the tech industry.
RIAA: "I'll give you some money to vote for this bill."
Google: "Vote against this bill or I will ensure your name is nowhere to be found on the entire Internet, and attempts to search for you will deliver your opponent's web site instead."
You don't have to be skilled, if you are God.
You see, we'd PREFER to keep them locked up, but we need to make room for marijuana smokers in the jails. Marijuana smokers are obviously far more dangerous to us than child rapists. See, it's all based on logic.
I'll clarify my question then. How do they know the vaccine works IN MEN? The article is about using the vaccine on men.
"Fail" is not a noun.
Thank you for the correction. I shall record this in the archives without fail.
There is no test for HPV, yet they claim to have a vaccine which prevents infection? I wonder how they determine whether their vaccine works or not.
Are you some kind of dumbshit? You'd rather the government did this to you and you had no idea it was possible? Now we know this form of tracking is possible and we can develop a defense against it.
You might want to read this wrt tinycc: http://www.landley.net/code/tinycc/
Jesus. That is the saddest story I've ever read. I want to find that guy and give him a hug.
That's a pretty good summary of why I never bother contributing to open source any more, even though I have tons of code lying around including cool modifications of some pretty big-name projects. I've been lucky enough to never work with douchebags in the salaried, closed source world. I sure as hell will not suffer it while also not making any money from my efforts.
In a technical sense, accepting goods places a burden of debt upon the recipient.
Really? I can walk into a store, grab a bunch of shit, and walk out saying "I owe you one?" Wait a second... We have a name for that, it's THEFT, not debt.
So, if I purchase something from you with an I.O.U. I can then turn around and pay off that debt with cash. The only difference between paying a debt and making a purchase is the length of time between the to and an agreement that the debt exists, i.e. the agreed upon purchase cost.
No, the difference is deeper than that. If I fail to pay my mortgage, the bank will take my house. If I walk out of 7-11 without paying for a candy bar, I can go to jail. The two situations are fundamentally different.
Not quite sure why anyone would want to go the hardware route anymore unless they are developing for specific architectures that are not supported by the hypervisor.
Anybody whose software will be deployed on physical boxes should test their software on physical boxes. The idea of testing your stuff in the environment and configuration it will actually run in might sound a bit odd, but amazingly enough it turns out to be a good practice. </sarcasm>
Seriously though, VMs can speed development tremendously, and they're awesome for deployment, but as QA platforms they aren't a replacement for testing on actual iron, just a supplement to it.
It really looks bad when something does happen, happens only in the customer's configuration, and you have to say "I've never actually tested the configuration you are using." In fact it makes you look like a serious moron.
Can a state elect to locally invalidate the federal mandate that states that bills issued by the US Treasury are "Legal tender for all debts public and private"?
This is a common misunderstanding. The currency is legal tender for all DEBTS, not all transactions. When you purchase something, you are doing exactly that -- making a purchase, not paying off a debt.
The first pulsar ever discovered has a period of 1.337 seconds? That's... AWESOME.
If your bank publishes your account numbers, home address and phone number, Social Security number, and mother's maiden name, and as a result you suffer identity theft and financial damages, does it make a difference that all of the information that your bank published was TRUE?
What matters is whether the bank had a contractual obligation not to divulge the information. These problems can all be solved quite easily by drafting, reading, and adhering to appropriate legal agreements. Fuck yes the bank can publish that if it wants to, unless the bank and I have agreed that they won't. (The law may differ from what I just said, but IMHO that's how it SHOULD work.)
Expecting that people "just won't" do certain things is expecting too much.
If the actress doesn't want personal information that she submitted to IMDb in the course of a business relationship to be published, she should have that right.
Did she specify? Was there a TOS? Did she read it? If her age is sensitive information why is she giving it out?
Uh, this has little to do with "eco-friendly" and more to do with "can we still power our killing machines after they've bombed our off-shore asserts and cut off our imports?" The idea of "green war" is absurd, and I don't think anyone is talking about that.
Biodiesel is an ester. Ethanol is an alcohol. Neither of them are oil. And they clearly mean "petroleum oil" when they say "oil."
Using "quantum" in the description makes it sound like a cool new discovery
I don't get this about people. Quantum mechanics was worked out at around the same time we were figuring out airplanes. I don't see people stopping dead in their tracks and staring slack-jawed into the sky whenever a jet flies overhead. But you can always baffle people by throwing a "quantum" in there.
Quantum means "comes in little chunks." OH MY GOD, THE WORLD COMES IN LITTLE CHUNKS?! THAT'S UTTERLY UNBELIEVABLE."
You guys need a brain update.
Yes you can shout "Streisand" and make fun of the futile effort all you want, but she should be allowed control of her own privacy even if she's going about it the wrong way.
Really? First Amendment right out the window, huh? Forget slander and libel, you can't even publish the TRUTH if someone perceives it as damaging?
Should be great for those in politics. When your opponent points out something you said or did, which will just slaughter you at the polls, just go ahead and sue him for damaging your career.
Modern fiat currencies are backed by a promise from the government that they will accept them in payment of taxes.
Only partially so. Modern currencies are also backed by the fact that currency traders are willing to exchange them for other currencies. If you consider currency X to be "backed" by something, and there is a liquid market which turns currency Y into currency X, then currency Y is just as legitimate as currency X because you can exchange them at will.
Bitcoin was backed by some pointless computation.
Bitcoin is backed by the fact that a dollar market exists for it. If somebody is willing to exchange bitcoins for dollars, how can it be less "real" than the dollar? More volatile, definitely, but just as real, until the day that you can no longer exchange it.