The 4 hours you spent talking will save you 40 hours time wasted correcting a stupid mistake that happened because you didn't bother to talk about it first.
The fact that the most recent information is posted at the top means you can easily disregard the information further down. Bottom-posting forces the reader to scroll to the bottom and makes it harder to find where the most recent information begins. We are communicating here, not writing a novel. There is no need for the most recent information to come after older information. Only a crazy person could argue that putting the most recent nfrmation at the bottom of an email is appropriate.
Congratulations, you realize the difference between criminal behavior and illegal behavior (one does not necessarily encompass the other). What do you want, a lollipop?
If something is not a crime, then its legal.. Right?
No. Example: you cut down a tree on the edge of your property in violation of a zoning ordinance that requires there to be at least N trees per each hundred yards (yes, some communities have such standards). Result: You receive a civil fine. No criminal activity took place, yet you were fined. That's "not criminal, yet illegal." A criminal, illegal act is something for which you could receive a criminal fine, or jail time. When something is "legal" it means you are allowed to do it.
Decriminalized marijuana basically means if you get caught, you get to pay a fine but otherwise no consequence is enforced. LEGAL marijuana means it's a perfectly legitimate activity, like dancing.
Pot is still ILLEGAL everywhere that the United States federal government has jurisdiction. Don't make a stupid mistake, and get busted because you THINK that pot is legal.
Who will bust you? The federal cops? Who are they?
If the government is willing to break laws, why would they break them in the most atrocious way possible? Instead of shattering my knees, they would just fabricate evidence. That's a much safer plan.
It's never been about having something to hide or not...
Privacy in general is not about hiding things, not just restricted to IT-related topics. I once had a debate with a previous manager -- her claim was that if you didn't want anybody to know you were doing something, then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it. I wanted to counter that if she believed that, perhaps she wouldn't mind installing a camera in her bedroom so I could watch her having sex.
Our third parties are definitely a bit, uh, radical. But there's a difference between a government made up entirely of Greens, and a government that has a certain amount of Green influence. I voted for some Green candidates in the past election, and some Libertarians too. It's not because I want to see a government entirely composed of those viewpoints. I simply feel that a mixture of all of these views may lead to more diverse and effective government.
A government composed entirely of Greens would probably require us to all kill ourselves for the good of the planet. A government composed entirely of Libertarians would disband itself the moment it formed. I don't want either of those things.
Because scientists are ALWAYS correct. Hell we have hard enough time predicting the weather beyond 5 days in the future. What leads me to trust these predictions 50 years from now?
As an analogy, think of a snow globe. Shake it up so all the pieces are swirling around. Can you predict the exact path that will be taken by each of those pieces? Not easily. Can you predict with confidence that after, say, five minutes, they will all be sitting on the bottom of the snow globe? Yes. Your inability to predict phenomenon A at timescale X has nothing to do with your ability to predict phenomenon B at timescale Y. Every time I here such an argument I can't help but think it's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
GIF is an acronym for Graphic Interchange Format, not for Giraffe interchange format. So the G in GIF is hard, just like the G in Graphic.
Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, not Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation. Therefore the 's' in laser is unvoiced and should be pronounced "lay-sir" not "lay-zer."
Actually, no, that's still not right. The A in Amplification is a short A not a long one, so the word should be pronounced "lah-sir." But wait, the E in emission is long, so it should actually be "lah-seer."
Or we could admit that that's not how acronym pronunciation works and stop being dumbshits.
Power != energy. As your own calculation demonstrates. Bravo, you both understand and fail to understand something at the same time! I haven't seen that one before.
So, if you were reviewing the code for an app and found some sneaky logic, you'd just remove it and proceed to use the app anyway?
You think the person who put one thing like that in there, didn't also put ten things like that? And you think you're smart enough to be able to recognize them all? I think that's insanely reckless.
I agree that mass produced American beer is crap, but that goes for every country. Where do you live? There are good American beers, you just need to find where they are being sold.
The vast majority of power consumed by the computer ends up as heat. Computers make heat, light (EM), and sound. Sound is mostly absorbed by the walls of your house. The amount of EM which leaks out of the case and after that, past the walls of your house, is pretty negligible. Note that "negligible" doesn't mean "not detectable," you can easily detect it, it just doesn't amount to much.
Not to mention that most people, when given a method of reducing base risk, will alter their behavior to bring risk back to previous levels. If you give somebody a way to be safer in a car crash, they'll use that "risk capital" to drive faster.
The crotchety old father of a friend of mine has a suggestion to reduce accident rates: installation of an eight inch metal spike in the center of the steering wheel, pointed at the driver's chest. And no seat belts. Bet you'll drive a bit safer in that configuration.
When you've done something wrong, then you own the data and are responsible for it. When you've done nothing wrong, you do not own your data and have no rights to it when it is taken as collateral damage. See, the government can always have it both ways if it wants.
That doesn't explain why joining a hardcore game persistently sets the player's hardcore flag. Wouldn't that flag be set because the player chooses to set it, not because they joined a game that has that flag set? I really really doubt this behavior was intentional.
I can think of a couple of possibilities. One, is mistaken exchange of AND/OR in an expression. I've done that one, it's hilarious and depending on the likelihood of various components of the expression, hard to find in testing (though code review might catch it -- people, have other people look at your code!) Two, some mixup in the way that a property is queried or set, so that the property is accidentally merged into the different player objects. For instance you meant to write SetForPlayerObject() but instead you wrote SetForCurrentPlayerSet() which might do something subtly different, but again, hard to find in test, especially if the bug only involves some obscure feature that's intended to be disabled (lesson #2, do not disable code, yank that shit out of there)
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The 4 hours you spent talking will save you 40 hours time wasted correcting a stupid mistake that happened because you didn't bother to talk about it first.
The fact that the most recent information is posted at the top means you can easily disregard the information further down. Bottom-posting forces the reader to scroll to the bottom and makes it harder to find where the most recent information begins. We are communicating here, not writing a novel. There is no need for the most recent information to come after older information. Only a crazy person could argue that putting the most recent nfrmation at the bottom of an email is appropriate.
No. On Windows, sizeof(int) == 4. Always. sizeof(long int) == 4. Always. To get a 64-bit int, you must declare it as "long long."
Congratulations, you realize the difference between criminal behavior and illegal behavior (one does not necessarily encompass the other). What do you want, a lollipop?
If something is not a crime, then its legal.. Right?
No. Example: you cut down a tree on the edge of your property in violation of a zoning ordinance that requires there to be at least N trees per each hundred yards (yes, some communities have such standards). Result: You receive a civil fine. No criminal activity took place, yet you were fined. That's "not criminal, yet illegal." A criminal, illegal act is something for which you could receive a criminal fine, or jail time. When something is "legal" it means you are allowed to do it.
Decriminalized marijuana basically means if you get caught, you get to pay a fine but otherwise no consequence is enforced. LEGAL marijuana means it's a perfectly legitimate activity, like dancing.
Pot is still ILLEGAL everywhere that the United States federal government has jurisdiction. Don't make a stupid mistake, and get busted because you THINK that pot is legal.
Who will bust you? The federal cops? Who are they?
"Somebody is going to take this guy's money anyway, so it might as well be me." Nice.
You are insulting cum-burpers and shit stains everywhere by the comparison. Some of my best friends are cum-burpers!
If the government is willing to break laws, why would they break them in the most atrocious way possible? Instead of shattering my knees, they would just fabricate evidence. That's a much safer plan.
It's never been about having something to hide or not...
Privacy in general is not about hiding things, not just restricted to IT-related topics. I once had a debate with a previous manager -- her claim was that if you didn't want anybody to know you were doing something, then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it. I wanted to counter that if she believed that, perhaps she wouldn't mind installing a camera in her bedroom so I could watch her having sex.
Of course, I didn't say that. But I wanted to.
Our third parties are definitely a bit, uh, radical. But there's a difference between a government made up entirely of Greens, and a government that has a certain amount of Green influence. I voted for some Green candidates in the past election, and some Libertarians too. It's not because I want to see a government entirely composed of those viewpoints. I simply feel that a mixture of all of these views may lead to more diverse and effective government.
A government composed entirely of Greens would probably require us to all kill ourselves for the good of the planet. A government composed entirely of Libertarians would disband itself the moment it formed. I don't want either of those things.
Because scientists are ALWAYS correct. Hell we have hard enough time predicting the weather beyond 5 days in the future. What leads me to trust these predictions 50 years from now?
As an analogy, think of a snow globe. Shake it up so all the pieces are swirling around. Can you predict the exact path that will be taken by each of those pieces? Not easily. Can you predict with confidence that after, say, five minutes, they will all be sitting on the bottom of the snow globe? Yes. Your inability to predict phenomenon A at timescale X has nothing to do with your ability to predict phenomenon B at timescale Y. Every time I here such an argument I can't help but think it's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
GIF is an acronym for Graphic Interchange Format, not for Giraffe interchange format. So the G in GIF is hard, just like the G in Graphic.
Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, not Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation. Therefore the 's' in laser is unvoiced and should be pronounced "lay-sir" not "lay-zer."
Actually, no, that's still not right. The A in Amplification is a short A not a long one, so the word should be pronounced "lah-sir." But wait, the E in emission is long, so it should actually be "lah-seer."
Or we could admit that that's not how acronym pronunciation works and stop being dumbshits.
Hey wise-ass -- how do you pronounce "laser?" I bet you pronounce the 's' like a 'z' don't you?
It's STIMULATED emission, not ZTIMULATED! You are pronouncing it wrong!
Get a life.
Power != energy. As your own calculation demonstrates. Bravo, you both understand and fail to understand something at the same time! I haven't seen that one before.
The better question is: if somebody invents a gaseous-state persistent storage technology, would that technology actually be called "VaporWare?"
So, if you were reviewing the code for an app and found some sneaky logic, you'd just remove it and proceed to use the app anyway?
You think the person who put one thing like that in there, didn't also put ten things like that? And you think you're smart enough to be able to recognize them all? I think that's insanely reckless.
How is that when people speak their mind it is labeled "racist"? Isn't there a freedom of speech?
Ding ding ding! We have a winner. Calling these idiots racists is an exercise of free speech.
Oh, you wanted us to sit silently while you spew little-minded vitriolic bullshit? Is that how you think free speech works?
I agree that mass produced American beer is crap, but that goes for every country. Where do you live? There are good American beers, you just need to find where they are being sold.
The vast majority of power consumed by the computer ends up as heat. Computers make heat, light (EM), and sound. Sound is mostly absorbed by the walls of your house. The amount of EM which leaks out of the case and after that, past the walls of your house, is pretty negligible. Note that "negligible" doesn't mean "not detectable," you can easily detect it, it just doesn't amount to much.
This is only the case if your heat is electric. Otherwise you're comparing apples and oranges.
Not to mention that most people, when given a method of reducing base risk, will alter their behavior to bring risk back to previous levels. If you give somebody a way to be safer in a car crash, they'll use that "risk capital" to drive faster.
The crotchety old father of a friend of mine has a suggestion to reduce accident rates: installation of an eight inch metal spike in the center of the steering wheel, pointed at the driver's chest. And no seat belts. Bet you'll drive a bit safer in that configuration.
When you've done something wrong, then you own the data and are responsible for it. When you've done nothing wrong, you do not own your data and have no rights to it when it is taken as collateral damage. See, the government can always have it both ways if it wants.
That doesn't explain why joining a hardcore game persistently sets the player's hardcore flag. Wouldn't that flag be set because the player chooses to set it, not because they joined a game that has that flag set? I really really doubt this behavior was intentional.
I can think of a couple of possibilities. One, is mistaken exchange of AND/OR in an expression. I've done that one, it's hilarious and depending on the likelihood of various components of the expression, hard to find in testing (though code review might catch it -- people, have other people look at your code!) Two, some mixup in the way that a property is queried or set, so that the property is accidentally merged into the different player objects. For instance you meant to write SetForPlayerObject() but instead you wrote SetForCurrentPlayerSet() which might do something subtly different, but again, hard to find in test, especially if the bug only involves some obscure feature that's intended to be disabled (lesson #2, do not disable code, yank that shit out of there)