They're basically saying "Sell or we'll take you over by rousing your stock holders" which is just business... but you have to really consider it from the perspective of the people who have created and grown with the company from the beginning.
Boo-hoo. Those poor, poor billionaires. Their lives will have been meaningless.
Don't want to be subject to hostile takeovers? Don't go public. And good luck making a few billion.
Photons which are generated at the core of the sun, where fusion is occurring, can take tens or hundreds of millions of years to reach the surface (and by that time, they have been thermally absorbed and re-emitted so many times it's hard to even call them the same photons). It might be a big ball of gas, but star matter is also one of the most opaque substances commonly occurring in the universe, due to the enormous density.
I assume you are referring to the Asian tsunami. The problem wasn't that we couldn't find it in time, but that the warning systems were not in place to alert people once this information was known. This is not a breakdown of science, but of government.
Yeah, nothing enhances open debate better than falsely implying that there are only two legitimate viewpoints. Know what I fucking HATE? When I mention that I believe some thing, X, which is typically a "liberal" believe, and immediately getting launched into an argument about Y, another "liberal" belief, which do not even espouse. Or vice versa.
"Oh, so you're for reducing taxes? Than I guess you think we should line up all the gays and shoot them, huh? HUH?"
It's fucking ridiculous, and it's why I don't talk about my opinions with anyone. Ever.
Shoot down the guy that's making your product work. That's a brilliant strategy.
Why do you think the product "works?" How do you know there isn't some terrible bug that could corrupt everything on your hard drive, for instance? Also, certain features of the Creative driver are disabled in Vista -- the "hacker" has re-enabled these features. Perhaps they were disabled for good reason? What if an end user installs this hacked driver, and then Creative eventually releases a driver which includes the disabled features, but with Vista-specific fixes? Now the end user is running a sub-standard driver.
We're talking about Windows here, and closed source. I really don't see how anyone can take issue with Creative's ire.
So when a Bayesian spam filter classifies your email (correctly), do you feel that your email has been classified not by the software itself, but by the people who wrote it? Weird way of looking at it.
Advanced medical technology? Magic? These don't seem to go together...
The ability to precisely cut into the skull, combined with a possibly entirely coincidental therapeutic effect, does not indicate "advanced medical technology." Relieving intracranial pressure can lessen the degree of brain injury, yes -- but there is nothing to suggest that trepannation was carried out because of this understanding. It was most likely carried out in a belief that it allowed evil spirits, gasses, or whatever else, to escape the skull.
In other words, it is a sign of magical belief, not a repudiation of it.
The same problem occurs in C, when types are not treated properly. This problem has nothing to do with C++, actually.
It's sad that you tout this example, which is an extremely good example of elegant use of generic programming. The problem occurs during the division step when type conversions are performed. Yet this weird behavior taints the entire example. I wish you hadn't..
And while espousing all this bullshit, they smoke cigarettes, drive VW buses with filthy engines, eat "organic food" which was shipped from South America on a giant fuel-oil-burning freight liner, drink "fair trade" import coffee which was produced on slash-and-burn land and which contributes to toxic caffeine runoff (no shit), and indulge in various drugs which are manufactured using processes that employ all sorts of horrifically bad chemicals.
Seems like a stereotype these days, but these "hippy towns" really still exist and the people haven't changed a single bit. Just as stupid as ever. Let them rot.
I have yet to see any evidence at all that a "dirty bomb" is anything more than a crazy nightmare cooked up by an American paranoid whackjob. Do we really think "the terrorists" are going to use something like that? It seems like a huge amount of effort, with a huge risk of detection, for an effect that could just as easily be achieved in other ways. See for instance, 9/11.
Novels tend to be full of analogies, metaphors, similes, and other devices of abstraction. "His heart rose like rocket reaching to the sky." Okay, I suck at writing, but the point is, I clearly don't mean that his heart literally rocketed out of his chest. Kind of like the saying, "Information wants to be free," which obviously is not meant to be taken literally.
Legally speaking, your kid is not allowed to invite anyone into your home. After all, your child doesn't own your house, does he?
We sure have some fucked up views in this country, when we can say things like this with a straight face. Your kid is a part of your family. Your flesh and blood. And you're sitting here talking about legal status?
At any rate, if your only recourse against an uncooperative son or daughter is the court system, you are already a tragic failure of a parent.
could you imagine successfully arguing that you should not be held liable for damage you did with a bulldozer because you never bothered to read it's manual and just assumed it would work?
No, but I can imagine successfully arguing that I'm not liable for damage caused by SOMEONE ELSE who happened to find the key in the ignition. That's much more in line with what we're talking about here.
Don't we already have laws against "intentional unauthorized access to another person's computer, network, database, or software?" What the hell does the fact that it's wireless have to do with it?
Women in Denmark have larger breasts than women in Canada. There are more moose in Canada than in Denmark. So more moose means smaller breasts.
I punch you in the face. Your face is in extreme pain. Therefore, punching you in the face causes extreme pain. Wait, that one actually makes sense.
It's true that "correlation != causation." It's also true that the sky is blue. Tell me something I don't know.
Do you actually think that humanity as a whole is incapable of comprehending causative relationships? Detecting the correlation is just the start of the process. According to all these "correlation is not causation" naysayers, I guess we should never actually study anything, because any correlations we detect are obviously not meaningful...
I really don't see what your complaint is. Modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years. So they've narrowed the possible time period to 1% of that range and you're not impressed?
The range "900 to 2900 years" seems large because 900 years seems a lot more recent than 2900 years. But when you compare with the actual range it could have fallen in it's actually pretty narrow.
The failing bolt caused him to fall? What was he doing, leaning over an edge while putting all his weight on the wrench? The counterfeit bolt was part of the problem but it also sounds like they need to adjust their safe working practices. I don't mean to disparage the man who died. But that accident sounds like it could have been prevented even with the bogus bolt.
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You're kinda naive, aren't you?
They're basically saying "Sell or we'll take you over by rousing your stock holders" which is just business... but you have to really consider it from the perspective of the people who have created and grown with the company from the beginning.
Boo-hoo. Those poor, poor billionaires. Their lives will have been meaningless.
Don't want to be subject to hostile takeovers? Don't go public. And good luck making a few billion.
Obsessed much?
Somewhere in Kip Thorne's book, Black Holes and Time Warps. I'm not going to flip through it right now to give a page number.
Photons which are generated at the core of the sun, where fusion is occurring, can take tens or hundreds of millions of years to reach the surface (and by that time, they have been thermally absorbed and re-emitted so many times it's hard to even call them the same photons). It might be a big ball of gas, but star matter is also one of the most opaque substances commonly occurring in the universe, due to the enormous density.
I assume you are referring to the Asian tsunami. The problem wasn't that we couldn't find it in time, but that the warning systems were not in place to alert people once this information was known. This is not a breakdown of science, but of government.
Yeah, nothing enhances open debate better than falsely implying that there are only two legitimate viewpoints. Know what I fucking HATE? When I mention that I believe some thing, X, which is typically a "liberal" believe, and immediately getting launched into an argument about Y, another "liberal" belief, which do not even espouse. Or vice versa.
"Oh, so you're for reducing taxes? Than I guess you think we should line up all the gays and shoot them, huh? HUH?"
It's fucking ridiculous, and it's why I don't talk about my opinions with anyone. Ever.
Shoot down the guy that's making your product work. That's a brilliant strategy.
Why do you think the product "works?" How do you know there isn't some terrible bug that could corrupt everything on your hard drive, for instance? Also, certain features of the Creative driver are disabled in Vista -- the "hacker" has re-enabled these features. Perhaps they were disabled for good reason? What if an end user installs this hacked driver, and then Creative eventually releases a driver which includes the disabled features, but with Vista-specific fixes? Now the end user is running a sub-standard driver.
We're talking about Windows here, and closed source. I really don't see how anyone can take issue with Creative's ire.
So when a Bayesian spam filter classifies your email (correctly), do you feel that your email has been classified not by the software itself, but by the people who wrote it? Weird way of looking at it.
Advanced medical technology? Magic? These don't seem to go together...
The ability to precisely cut into the skull, combined with a possibly entirely coincidental therapeutic effect, does not indicate "advanced medical technology." Relieving intracranial pressure can lessen the degree of brain injury, yes -- but there is nothing to suggest that trepannation was carried out because of this understanding. It was most likely carried out in a belief that it allowed evil spirits, gasses, or whatever else, to escape the skull.
In other words, it is a sign of magical belief, not a repudiation of it.
The same problem occurs in C, when types are not treated properly. This problem has nothing to do with C++, actually.
It's sad that you tout this example, which is an extremely good example of elegant use of generic programming. The problem occurs during the division step when type conversions are performed. Yet this weird behavior taints the entire example. I wish you hadn't..
And while espousing all this bullshit, they smoke cigarettes, drive VW buses with filthy engines, eat "organic food" which was shipped from South America on a giant fuel-oil-burning freight liner, drink "fair trade" import coffee which was produced on slash-and-burn land and which contributes to toxic caffeine runoff (no shit), and indulge in various drugs which are manufactured using processes that employ all sorts of horrifically bad chemicals.
Seems like a stereotype these days, but these "hippy towns" really still exist and the people haven't changed a single bit. Just as stupid as ever. Let them rot.
So metaphor is appropriate only in fictional contexts? Oooookay then. I guess I wouldn't want to stress your brain too much.
The similarities between Perl and Emacs astound me more each day.
I have yet to see any evidence at all that a "dirty bomb" is anything more than a crazy nightmare cooked up by an American paranoid whackjob. Do we really think "the terrorists" are going to use something like that? It seems like a huge amount of effort, with a huge risk of detection, for an effect that could just as easily be achieved in other ways. See for instance, 9/11.
Novels tend to be full of analogies, metaphors, similes, and other devices of abstraction. "His heart rose like rocket reaching to the sky." Okay, I suck at writing, but the point is, I clearly don't mean that his heart literally rocketed out of his chest. Kind of like the saying, "Information wants to be free," which obviously is not meant to be taken literally.
You must get absolutely no pleasure out of reading novels. It's an expression, okay? Sit down, relax, smoke some of that "lagle" marijuana...
Legally speaking, your kid is not allowed to invite anyone into your home. After all, your child doesn't own your house, does he?
We sure have some fucked up views in this country, when we can say things like this with a straight face. Your kid is a part of your family. Your flesh and blood. And you're sitting here talking about legal status?
At any rate, if your only recourse against an uncooperative son or daughter is the court system, you are already a tragic failure of a parent.
could you imagine successfully arguing that you should not be held liable for damage you did with a bulldozer because you never bothered to read it's manual and just assumed it would work?
No, but I can imagine successfully arguing that I'm not liable for damage caused by SOMEONE ELSE who happened to find the key in the ignition. That's much more in line with what we're talking about here.
Don't we already have laws against "intentional unauthorized access to another person's computer, network, database, or software?" What the hell does the fact that it's wireless have to do with it?
Women in Denmark have larger breasts than women in Canada. There are more moose in Canada than in Denmark. So more moose means smaller breasts.
I punch you in the face. Your face is in extreme pain. Therefore, punching you in the face causes extreme pain. Wait, that one actually makes sense.
It's true that "correlation != causation." It's also true that the sky is blue. Tell me something I don't know.
Do you actually think that humanity as a whole is incapable of comprehending causative relationships? Detecting the correlation is just the start of the process. According to all these "correlation is not causation" naysayers, I guess we should never actually study anything, because any correlations we detect are obviously not meaningful...
I don't mean to put words in your mouth, but what else could you have possibly meant?
It doesn't "mean" anything. It's a statement of fact. Do you dispute the truth of it?
I really don't see what your complaint is. Modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years. So they've narrowed the possible time period to 1% of that range and you're not impressed?
The range "900 to 2900 years" seems large because 900 years seems a lot more recent than 2900 years. But when you compare with the actual range it could have fallen in it's actually pretty narrow.
The failing bolt caused him to fall? What was he doing, leaning over an edge while putting all his weight on the wrench? The counterfeit bolt was part of the problem but it also sounds like they need to adjust their safe working practices. I don't mean to disparage the man who died. But that accident sounds like it could have been prevented even with the bogus bolt.
If you're smart enough to do that in "two seconds" why the hell aren't you making billions of dollars with your own chip designs?