> Pfffft. The only correct answer is to wake up or stop haullcinating, because there's no such thing as a > perfectly smooth (frictionless) surface.
You must not have met many physicists... frictionless surfaces, two dimensional potentials, spherical horses... I could go on and on. And this is during real work, not just exam questions.
Knowing _which_ parameters you can idealize is one of the things which separates a good physicist from a bad one!;-)
Jury nullification consists precisely in ignoring
that particular instruction: that you should only apply
the law and not judge the law itself. Duh.
This notwithstanding, if you say you agreed with the law,
and thought it had broken it, well, then, obviously you
did the right (moral) thing and have a lot more info on
the case than random slashdotters. Well done.
First of all, it's copyright infringement, not stealing.
And, yes --- we see a clear parallel between the civil rights movement and the systematic criminalization of millions of citizens for an act we regard as ethical.
If you're trying to ship quality software, you don't just _fix_ bugs, you treat each one as a learning experience, a mini-laboratory of "what went wrong" here. You don't just fix _this_ bug; you adjust your processes/standards/whatever else so that this bug can never re-occur. You also find out where _else_ this bug may have manifested; often in slightly different ways. It's unlikely to be the only exemplar of this type of bug in your system.
Just doing a cost/benefit analysis saying: nah, unimportant, don't fix it is stupid. _This_ bug may be unimportant, but it may exist somewhere else where it is important, or someone may write the same bug tomorrow where it will be important.
I second this. I've got both my sons, aged 8 and 12, totally hooked. The 12 yr old is off writing games where sharks chase divers collecting pearls, with 3 lives and game over, the whole 9 yards. It's incredibly easy and intuitive, and teaches a distributed, message passing programming style.
I'm sure you've all noticed that since the introduction of Hawkeye, Networks have all consistently stopped showing those wonderful slo-mo replays, which, more often than not, would simply show that the machine was in error.
The irony, of course, is that those replays are being ignored just at the time when high speed camera technology was getting good and cheap enough to be useful for umpiring.
A much better system is to have players be allowed to ask an umpire for a video replay on demand, being able to be wrong at most twice in a row.
Well, to the Ruby guys, I'd say "Chin up, mate". And don't worry about it too much. After all, Lisp has been savaged over and over, and even after the AI winter, it's no deader than usual...
Imagine what the computing world would be like today if the Lisp Machines had succeeded, even just long enough for the availability of cheap, powerful systems?
We might all be running Genera, instead of Windows!:-(
Indeed, this is by far the most important benefit of breaking IE's dominance of the so called "industry standard" and a return to real standards which promote interoperability. If we reach a critical mass of people who can't do their online banking because of IE specific features, perhaps those responsible will start finally getting a clue.
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> Pfffft. The only correct answer is to wake up or stop haullcinating, because there's no such thing as a
> perfectly smooth (frictionless) surface.
You must not have met many physicists... frictionless surfaces, two dimensional
potentials, spherical horses... I could go on and on. And this is during real
work, not just exam questions.
Knowing _which_ parameters you can idealize is one of the things which ;-)
separates a good physicist from a bad one!
>>> Didn't we despise Microsoft because of how successful they were?
>> Maybe you did, but my objection to them was for the multiple crimes they committed, and >>the dismal quality of their products.
>Now Apple is doing the exact same thing MS did back in the 80's and getting a free pass.
Really? Apple is a convicted unlawful monopolist? Where was this court case?
I think I missed it.
Jury nullification consists precisely in ignoring that particular instruction: that you should only apply the law and not judge the law itself. Duh. This notwithstanding, if you say you agreed with the law, and thought it had broken it, well, then, obviously you did the right (moral) thing and have a lot more info on the case than random slashdotters. Well done.
First of all, it's copyright infringement, not stealing.
And, yes --- we see a clear parallel between the
civil rights movement and the systematic criminalization of
millions of citizens for an act we regard as ethical.
If you're trying to ship quality software, you don't just _fix_ bugs,
you treat each one as a learning experience, a mini-laboratory of
"what went wrong" here. You don't just fix _this_ bug; you adjust
your processes/standards/whatever else so that this bug can never re-occur.
You also find out where _else_ this bug may have manifested; often
in slightly different ways. It's unlikely to be the only exemplar of
this type of bug in your system.
Just doing a cost/benefit analysis saying: nah, unimportant, don't fix
it is stupid. _This_ bug may be unimportant, but it may exist somewhere
else where it is important, or someone may write the same bug tomorrow
where it will be important.
Which part of "worldwide" cost did you not understand?
Or do you think the US economy is 100% of the worldwide GDP?
> For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"
Then to whom am I replying here? Not that I care. :-)
Except you got the sense wrong. It goes like this:
Tu ne va pas au party? "(You're not going to the party?)"
Si! "(Yes, I _am_ going!)"
But agree with the general gist -- this is a human language
problem, not a programmer specific problem.
is the design.
Meh. Check out the `series' package, by R.C. Waters, for common lisp.
Predates all this by more than 20 years.
I muse my broken-screen ibook as a "mac mini" for the
kids. Plug in a USB hub; keyboard/mouse and a screen.
It works beautifully.
And nothing of value would have been lost?
I second this. I've got both my sons, aged 8 and 12, totally hooked.
The 12 yr old is off writing games where sharks chase divers collecting
pearls, with 3 lives and game over, the whole 9 yards. It's incredibly
easy and intuitive, and teaches a distributed, message passing programming
style.
Enjoy!
One for the engineers, which makes sense (something
like the linux kernel numbering system) and one for
the marketers, which is purely a label.
Before each release, you ask the marketers what "version"
this new issue should be, and you track the mapping
in your source control system.
Don't worry about utterly irrelevant trivia. You'll just
get heartburn...
You'd definitely be interested in reading
Legacy of Ashes, a
great (but depressing) book detailing the history of CIA, by Tim Weiner.
> my %hash = ( [ 1, 2, 3 ], [ 4, 5, 6 ] );
> My, that's awfully ugly, isn't it?
Yes. It's *unbelievably* ugly.
Any programmer with a sense of esthetics will
be able to tell you why.
I'm sure you've all noticed that since the
introduction of Hawkeye, Networks have all
consistently stopped showing those wonderful
slo-mo replays, which, more often than not, would
simply show that the machine was in error.
The irony, of course, is that those replays are being
ignored just at the time when high speed camera technology
was getting good and cheap enough to be useful for umpiring.
A much better system is to have players be allowed
to ask an umpire for a video replay on demand, being able
to be wrong at most twice in a row.
Obviously, if there is only one God, then all
:-)
those you have named are in fact one and the same.
You need to brush up on your math...
OT: I love that Arthur C Clarke story: "The nine
billion names of God".
Well, to the Ruby guys, I'd say "Chin up, mate". And
don't worry about it too much. After all, Lisp has
been savaged over and over, and even after the AI winter,
it's no deader than usual...
Always remember that popularity != success.
--The Gray Haired Luser Guy
> And why in God's name should your teacher give you any respect?
Because it is civilized to offer it to all other human beings,
at least until they prove that they do not deserve it?
Imagine what the computing world would be like today
:-(
if the Lisp Machines had succeeded, even just long
enough for the availability of cheap, powerful systems?
We might all be running Genera, instead of Windows!
"Painting my groin, sir..."
Is that like "girthing your loin"?
I take it you don't know John Howard very well.... I was rolling in tears as soon as "he" starts admitting being wrong!
They're from California, not Texas,
so they don't speak withdrawl.
Indeed, this is by far the most important
benefit of breaking IE's dominance
of the so called "industry standard" and
a return to real standards which promote
interoperability. If we reach a critical
mass of people who can't do their online
banking because of IE specific features,
perhaps those responsible will start
finally getting a clue.