I am saying that if I were a neocon Rumsfeld interested in protecting my job then I would have issued an order banning cameras a year ago.
If you were a neocon, you would think of the world in black and white. You would consider American soldiers to be "the good guys", and thus incapable of doing such things. So the idea of banning cameras would never occur to you.
What's wrong with just posting information on packages, as it is now?
Physical objects of common sizes can't hold that much text. I know it would be nice if, instead of having to hunt through my closet for the manual for device X, I could just point my phone at the device and have the phone show me the man page.
You're right that the response would need to be very quick for people to want to use it, though.
The "early bailout on error" model clearly surpasses the "endless nesting" model.
I disagree. Early bailouts make it too easy to accidentally skip necessary cleanup/rollback steps, and end up with leaked memory / file descriptors / etc. (Yes, smart pointers, I know... but not all APIs support them) "Single entry point / Single exit point" is a standard principle of structured design, and not without reason.
using print routines to output logs can [...] alter the timing, and voila, race condition begone!
Now that's what I call a debugging technique! Just be sure to include a comment next to the printf() statement explaining that the printf() call is necessary for correct behaviour of the program, and should not be removed....:^)
You're confused. FOX has had to neutralize the leftward spin on items acquired externally. Some people find it difficult to handle the resulting neutral objects, as they're used to items which have ridiculous charges.
Actually I think Einstein's concept of relative frames applies here -- there is no "absolute leftward spin", or "absolute rightward spin", only a differential relative to the user's own spin. Thus, Observer A (say, Al Franken) and Observer B (perhaps Rush Limbaugh), when both observing the same object, will nonetheless report different spins, and they will both be correct in a sense.
Or to put it more simply: objective news is a myth.
It still seems, he also sincerely believed Iraq to be still in posession of WMD, so I don't see him lying about that one.
The Bush administration claimed to know exactly where the WMDs were hidden. It was just a matter of going in and getting them. But now that we've gone in, they are nowhere to be found. If that's not lying, then it's certainly unbelievably gross incompetence, and the result is the same.
I think, leaving Saddam Hussein alone despite his not living up to the cease-fire agreement of 1991, would've done a lot more damage to our credibility.
This is a false choice -- it was not a matter of either doing a unilateral invasion, or doing nothing. We could have continued to contain Saddam, continued inspections, and verified that WMDs were or were not there. If we had verified that WMDs did exist, we'd have few problems getting support for war. If we had verified that they did not exist, we'd have avoided the whole mess we are in now.
Future and present villains see, that we come after word-breakers.
Actually, they see that our military is completely tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan, so there is little the USA can do for the forseeable future about other countries. Do you think North Korea is worried about us invading them now?
This is foolish. The most damaging act of Al Quaeda -- the 9/11 attack -- happened before the supposed "duplicity" was exposed
You missed the point. I said "will use", not "did use". Obviously, W's Iraq invasion didn't cause the 9/11. But that doesn't mean that his invasion didn't encourage the radicalization of hundreds or thousands of more terrorists.
"Jeremi and I" don't despise the president, so much as despise the damage he has done to our country's position in the world. The USA used to be a beacon of hope, a model for other countries to look up to. Now it is practically a rogue nation, a country that even our allies dislike and fear, rather than respect. Being hated the world over does not make us safer.
If anybody made us look silly, it was Clinton -- lying through his teeth over a non-issue (but under oath) and disgracing the presidency.
I won't try to defend Clinton's actions, but I must say that Clinton's lying about his personal life didn't kill anyone. Bush's lying about WMDs and Al-Quaeda ties to Iraq has already cost about 10,000 people their lives (including around 700 Americans). Now that America is discredited in the eyes of the world, Al Quaeda will use our government's unabashed duplicity as a tool to recruit more terrorists, amd so I won't be at all surprised to see that figure continue to grow in the future.
Bush's unwillingness to bow to the "public opinion" seems a rather positive trait too.
Sometimes, public opinion is well founded. Most people, when confronted by near-universal criticism of their policies by many of their own closest allies, might re-evaluate those policies. Not the Bush administration, however -- they are so convinced that they know everything that they won't listen to anyone. Bush's unwillingness to bow to "common sense" is a rather negative trait in my opinion.
Random shuffle is nice and all, but wait until Apple (or somebody) comes out with the next step: software that automatically analyzes your song collection, does beat matching, etc, and figures out which songs can be blended into other songs in a smooth/pleasing way. Enable this feature and enjoy a custom mix, auto-mashups, etc...
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At home I have an FM alarm clock radio tuned to NPR, with the headphone jack plugged in to my sound card's line-in jack. At the appropriate time, a scheduler program starts recording from the line-in jack and encoding to an mp3 file in my p2p client's "Shared files" folder. Thus every NPR program is available to me in mp3 format as soon as it goes out over the air. And they are worried about their digital media rights? The horse is out of the barn folks.... let it go.
I'm willing to bet Da Vinci spent a lot of time doing silly little projects that didn't turn out to be masterpieces of historical importance, and were quickly forgotten -- that's how you learn, by doing. And even making cardboard junk is a lot more creative than sitting around thinking up clever put-downs to post on Slashdot.
Again, if your hard drive is so unreliable that it can't keep large executables free from errors, then your problem isn't large executables, it's flaky hardware. The correct solution would be to replace your hard drive with something more reliable. Trying to work around the problem by limiting executable size is a non-solution, because even if your executables were teeny, your data files would still be at risk due to the same drive errors.
You might also work on your attitude a bit, your attempted insults are juvenile and make you look bad.
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If you were a neocon, you would think of the world in black and white. You would consider American soldiers to be "the good guys", and thus incapable of doing such things. So the idea of banning cameras would never occur to you.
Physical objects of common sizes can't hold that much text. I know it would be nice if, instead of having to hunt through my closet for the manual for device X, I could just point my phone at the device and have the phone show me the man page.
You're right that the response would need to be very quick for people to want to use it, though.
It appears you have answered your own question!
Now I can post goatse links on every building in town! No phone user will be safe!
vi handles arbitarily long line lengths without any trouble.
I disagree. Early bailouts make it too easy to accidentally skip necessary cleanup/rollback steps, and end up with leaked memory / file descriptors / etc. (Yes, smart pointers, I know... but not all APIs support them) "Single entry point / Single exit point" is a standard principle of structured design, and not without reason.
Now that's what I call a debugging technique! Just be sure to include a comment next to the printf() statement explaining that the printf() call is necessary for correct behaviour of the program, and should not be removed....
true" every iteration.
Only if your compiler was really primitive. Any semi-modern compiler would optimize this out for you.
You're absolutely right. Leashes are not the best solution. What's really needed here is a distance-activated electric shock collar.
Actually I think Einstein's concept of relative frames applies here -- there is no "absolute leftward spin", or "absolute rightward spin", only a differential relative to the user's own spin. Thus, Observer A (say, Al Franken) and Observer B (perhaps Rush Limbaugh), when both observing the same object, will nonetheless report different spins, and they will both be correct in a sense.
Or to put it more simply: objective news is a myth.
If you liked "Saturday Night Fever", you'll love Dance Dance Revolution: The Movie!
You're telling me that stainless steel stains easily? Either you're trolling, or I just lost all faith in humanity...
You mean -- he's going to take us to another planet?
The Bush administration claimed to know exactly where the WMDs were hidden. It was just a matter of going in and getting them. But now that we've gone in, they are nowhere to be found. If that's not lying, then it's certainly unbelievably gross incompetence, and the result is the same.
I think, leaving Saddam Hussein alone despite his not living up to the cease-fire agreement of 1991, would've done a lot more damage to our credibility.
This is a false choice -- it was not a matter of either doing a unilateral invasion, or doing nothing. We could have continued to contain Saddam, continued inspections, and verified that WMDs were or were not there. If we had verified that WMDs did exist, we'd have few problems getting support for war. If we had verified that they did not exist, we'd have avoided the whole mess we are in now.
Future and present villains see, that we come after word-breakers.
Actually, they see that our military is completely tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan, so there is little the USA can do for the forseeable future about other countries. Do you think North Korea is worried about us invading them now?
This is foolish. The most damaging act of Al Quaeda -- the 9/11 attack -- happened before the supposed "duplicity" was exposed
You missed the point. I said "will use", not "did use". Obviously, W's Iraq invasion didn't cause the 9/11. But that doesn't mean that his invasion didn't encourage the radicalization of hundreds or thousands of more terrorists.
"Jeremi and I" don't despise the president, so much as despise the damage he has done to our country's position in the world. The USA used to be a beacon of hope, a model for other countries to look up to. Now it is practically a rogue nation, a country that even our allies dislike and fear, rather than respect. Being hated the world over does not make us safer.
I won't try to defend Clinton's actions, but I must say that Clinton's lying about his personal life didn't kill anyone. Bush's lying about WMDs and Al-Quaeda ties to Iraq has already cost about 10,000 people their lives (including around 700 Americans). Now that America is discredited in the eyes of the world, Al Quaeda will use our government's unabashed duplicity as a tool to recruit more terrorists, amd so I won't be at all surprised to see that figure continue to grow in the future.
Bush's unwillingness to bow to the "public opinion" seems a rather positive trait too.
Sometimes, public opinion is well founded. Most people, when confronted by near-universal criticism of their policies by many of their own closest allies, might re-evaluate those policies. Not the Bush administration, however -- they are so convinced that they know everything that they won't listen to anyone. Bush's unwillingness to bow to "common sense" is a rather negative trait in my opinion.
(You'll have to pardon us Americans -- after three years of being made to look like idiots by Bush, we've pretty much lost our sense of humor)
I think I see a little problem here in step 2...
Oh? MSDN Universal will let me recompile my source code under OS/X, Linux, Irix, BSD, etc? I didn't realize Microsoft had gone cross platform...
Note that this is exactly why radio stations are now forbidden to play too many songs from the same album in a row... :^/
Random shuffle is nice and all, but wait until Apple (or somebody) comes out with the next step: software that automatically analyzes your song collection, does beat matching, etc, and figures out which songs can be blended into other songs in a smooth/pleasing way. Enable this feature and enjoy a custom mix, auto-mashups, etc...
At home I have an FM alarm clock radio tuned to NPR, with the headphone jack plugged in to my sound card's line-in jack. At the appropriate time, a scheduler program starts recording from the line-in jack and encoding to an mp3 file in my p2p client's "Shared files" folder. Thus every NPR program is available to me in mp3 format as soon as it goes out over the air. And they are worried about their digital media rights? The horse is out of the barn folks.... let it go.
I think the real solution is that the time clock should print out receipts for the employees when they check out.
I'm willing to bet Da Vinci spent a lot of time doing silly little projects that didn't turn out to be masterpieces of historical importance, and were quickly forgotten -- that's how you learn, by doing. And even making cardboard junk is a lot more creative than sitting around thinking up clever put-downs to post on Slashdot.
You might also work on your attitude a bit, your attempted insults are juvenile and make you look bad.
Can your three-year-old do this?