Yeah yeah, and the year 2000 was just another year which would have been completely unremarkable if people used a non-base-10 counting system. Let us have our fun, will ya? At least it gets people talking and thinking about Mars, as opposed to, say, Ah-nold's sex life.
"There need to be regulations that allow a methanol cartridge to be transported in the same way that a lighter with butane fuel is transported onto airplanes," said Balcom
... or, some clever company will do things the easy way, and just develop a fuel cell that uses a standard disposable cigarette lighter as its fuel source. No need for new regulations then, since people are already allowed to take cigarette lighters on board.
Perhaps some well-funded third party with an interest in seeing Linux fail has paid off McBride to sacrifice his company, while spreading as much FUD as possible in the process?
The problem is that a non-career problem won't know what he's doing. Just because there are bad career politicians doesn't mean that all career politicans are bad. To make the point more obvious: say you went to a bad professional mechanic, and he screwed up your car. Would you then say that the only mechanics you would trust from then on are the amateurs? If so, then I guess you deserve what you get...
So that you can use strings in a multithreaded program without random crashes? (and no, just making sure access to any given string object is serialized isn't enough, because multiple strings objects can point to the same ref-counted data)
Is the STL string class still not thread-safe due to its reference-counting implementation? As I recall, that was (and maybe still is) a good reason to not use it.
Except that once you've changed the Qt source you're stuck with using that version of Qt forever -- or at least, every time you upgrade to a new version of Qt, you have to re-implement your changes into the new Qt release's QTreeView source. Not very much fun:^(
Well, there is the small detail of his never having held a single public office in his entire life. Maybe during good times it would be acceptable to allow a rank amateur to govern the most populous state in the Union, but during a crisis like this I think the state needs someone with more experience. On top of that is the fact that he hasn't said anything about what he would do as governor -- his platform is basically "vote for me, because I'm Ahnold".
In addition to whatever issues a politician purports to support (and check their Voting Record to see if they even do what they say), they probably vote for massive pork-barrel spending. Almost every politician does.
That may well be true in general, but I think you'll find that Howard Dean is pretty responsible about spending.
No, "they" ( the founders ) didn't not draw any line.
True enough, they did not. But then, they didn't live in the nuclear era, either.
It would seem to me that the continued existence of civilization is incompatible with a strict/literal interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. So either the 2nd Amendment needs to be reintepreted in such a way that the government can still limit access to WMDs, or it needs to be rescinded.
Note that I'm not attacking the 2nd amendment per se, I'm just saying you have to draw the line somewhere, because allowing any citizen to hold power over the lives of thousands or millions is a recipe for disaster.
I just think it's dangerous to be "shooting" our energy back here when that gun could be pointed anywhere quite easily.
Yup, it could be quite dangerous... just like a nuclear power plant can be quite dangerous, if the proper precautions aren't taken. Likewise in this case, you would need to design in precautions so that the beam cannot be redirected away from the target. Fortunately, this is easy to do -- you place a transmitter at the center of the target area, and design the satellite to automatically shut off microwave transmission whenever it isn't pointing directly at the receiver. (oh yeah, add in some strong cryptography to the transmitter signal so that it can't be spoofed, too)
what kind of car was he motoring down the streets of Washington, D.C. in? A huge double-stretched Lincoln Town Car limousene...probably getting 1 mile per gallon if he's lucky. Ditto for Clinton and the rest of his entourage touring the city.
Well, to be fair, the average citizen doesn't have to worry about being assassinated, and government officials do. So there are valid reasons for government officials to drive large, heavily fortified cars. There is also a real need for the US to reduce its oil consumption, and since the politicians are the ones with the power to do this, it's up to them to see that it gets done. You can cry "hypocrisy" if you want, but the fact is that we have a problem and one way or another it needs to be taken care of.
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand
I always have trouble figuring out exactly what is considered to be "arms". Apparently knives, handguns, rifles and some semi-automatic weapons are protected under the 2nd Amendment, but RPGs, SAMs, and nuclear weapons are not. By what methodology is the distinction made? Did they just draw an arbitrary line?
Douglas Adams also wrote the following. He was describing Dirk Gently at the time, but the quotation below shows that Adams was well aware of the technique...
People gravitated around [Dirk], drawn in by the stories he denied about himself, but what the source of these stories might be, if not his own denials, was never entirely clear.
The tales had to do with the psychic powers that he'd supposedly inherited from his mothe'rs side of the family who he claimed, had lived at the smarter end of Transylvania. That is to say, he didn't make any such claim at all, and said it was the most absurd nonsense. He strenuously denied that there were bats of any kind at all in his family and threatened to sue anybody who put about such malicious fabrications, but he affected nevertheless to wear a large and flappy leather coat, and had one of those machines in his room which are supposed to help cure bad backs if you hang upside down from them. He would allow people to discover him hanging from this machine at all kinds of odd hours of the day, and more particularly of the night, expressly so that he could vigorously deny that it had any significance whatsoever.
By means of an ingenious series of strategically deployed denials of the most exciting and exotic things, he was able to create the myth that he was a psychic, mystic, telepathic, fey, clairvoyant, psychosassic vampire bat.
What did "psychosassic" mean?
It was his own word and he vigorously denied that it meant anything at all.
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It says it may be based on Linux, in which case it would be GPL'd.
And the only fluid in an AIBO is battery acid... what a mess!
Defense contractors screen their employees all the time, because security is important there. Is the security of our elections any less important?
Yeah yeah, and the year 2000 was just another year which would have been completely unremarkable if people used a non-base-10 counting system. Let us have our fun, will ya? At least it gets people talking and thinking about Mars, as opposed to, say, Ah-nold's sex life.
I suspect that if and when you become the parent of your own infant, and said infant needs to get from one coast to another, you'll feel differently.
Perhaps some well-funded third party with an interest in seeing Linux fail has paid off McBride to sacrifice his company, while spreading as much FUD as possible in the process?
The problem is that a non-career problem won't know what he's doing. Just because there are bad career politicians doesn't mean that all career politicans are bad. To make the point more obvious: say you went to a bad professional mechanic, and he screwed up your car. Would you then say that the only mechanics you would trust from then on are the amateurs? If so, then I guess you deserve what you get...
So that you can use strings in a multithreaded program without random crashes? (and no, just making sure access to any given string object is serialized isn't enough, because multiple strings objects can point to the same ref-counted data)
Doesn't matter what class I'm referring to... the point is valid for any code that is in someone else's codebase.
Is the STL string class still not thread-safe due to its reference-counting implementation? As I recall, that was (and maybe still is) a good reason to not use it.
Except that once you've changed the Qt source you're stuck with using that version of Qt forever -- or at least, every time you upgrade to a new version of Qt, you have to re-implement your changes into the new Qt release's QTreeView source. Not very much fun :^(
They're essential for me! Right now my app takes too long to start up, especially under Windows and OS/X (it's pretty snappy under Linux, hmm)
No thanks.
That may well be true in general, but I think you'll find that Howard Dean is pretty responsible about spending.
True enough, they did not. But then, they didn't live in the nuclear era, either.
It would seem to me that the continued existence of civilization is incompatible with a strict/literal interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. So either the 2nd Amendment needs to be reintepreted in such a way that the government can still limit access to WMDs, or it needs to be rescinded.
Note that I'm not attacking the 2nd amendment per se, I'm just saying you have to draw the line somewhere, because allowing any citizen to hold power over the lives of thousands or millions is a recipe for disaster.
Yup, it could be quite dangerous... just like a nuclear power plant can be quite dangerous, if the proper precautions aren't taken. Likewise in this case, you would need to design in precautions so that the beam cannot be redirected away from the target. Fortunately, this is easy to do -- you place a transmitter at the center of the target area, and design the satellite to automatically shut off microwave transmission whenever it isn't pointing directly at the receiver. (oh yeah, add in some strong cryptography to the transmitter signal so that it can't be spoofed, too)
Well, to be fair, the average citizen doesn't have to worry about being assassinated, and government officials do. So there are valid reasons for government officials to drive large, heavily fortified cars. There is also a real need for the US to reduce its oil consumption, and since the politicians are the ones with the power to do this, it's up to them to see that it gets done. You can cry "hypocrisy" if you want, but the fact is that we have a problem and one way or another it needs to be taken care of.
I always have trouble figuring out exactly what is considered to be "arms". Apparently knives, handguns, rifles and some semi-automatic weapons are protected under the 2nd Amendment, but RPGs, SAMs, and nuclear weapons are not. By what methodology is the distinction made? Did they just draw an arbitrary line?
True. But that doesn't mean there aren't any "cleaner" solutions.
Interesting that you have to suckle on the teat of a barnyard animal (or hire someone to do it for you) in order to be considered civilized...
I don't see what is stopping you...
People gravitated around [Dirk], drawn in by the stories he denied about himself, but what the source of these stories might be, if not his own denials, was never entirely clear.
The tales had to do with the psychic powers that he'd supposedly inherited from his mothe'rs side of the family who he claimed, had lived at the smarter end of Transylvania. That is to say, he didn't make any such claim at all, and said it was the most absurd nonsense. He strenuously denied that there were bats of any kind at all in his family and threatened to sue anybody who put about such malicious fabrications, but he affected nevertheless to wear a large and flappy leather coat, and had one of those machines in his room which are supposed to help cure bad backs if you hang upside down from them. He would allow people to discover him hanging from this machine at all kinds of odd hours of the day, and more particularly of the night, expressly so that he could vigorously deny that it had any significance whatsoever.
By means of an ingenious series of strategically deployed denials of the most exciting and exotic things, he was able to create the myth that he was a psychic, mystic, telepathic, fey, clairvoyant, psychosassic vampire bat.
What did "psychosassic" mean?
It was his own word and he vigorously denied that it meant anything at all.
Heck, when I saw the headline I thought the doll was part of the marketing campaign surrounding Elizabeth Smart...
Are you kidding? We'll all enjoy lucrative careers as robot repairmen. How many people did computers put out of work?