Not to defend the history of religious oppression, but atheistic Leninist Russia had quite a habit of stopping religious people living, as does CommunistChina
The persecution of minorities is a feature of all totalitarian ideologies, religious or otherwise.
In "Contact" the conceit was that the message occurred much earlier than would be statistically expected. The protagonist found another "message" in a non-base-ten expansion which decoded to bitmap image of a circle. Circles within circles!
Again, around ten years ago (1998) we learnt C++ in first-year computer science at the University of Wollongong. Second year branched out into java and assembler, but I was a physics major so didn't go that far.
Alice wants to get out of her car and into Bob's car. In laboratory conditions both cars are perfectly still so it's easy. Out on the freeway travelling at high speeds it's a recipe for disaster.
But these clever engineers have come up with a wonderful design for a semi-trailer that both cars can sit on while being driven down the freeway. Now Alice and get out of her car and into Bob's car for that secret rendezvous. In the middle of the freeway.
When I went to see Avatar 3D they had a preview for Alice in Wonderland 3D. It was all flashy "look-at-me, I'm in 3D!" showy rubbish. I despaired at having to sit through almost three hours of Avatar if it was going to draw that much attention to the special effects. Fortunately, the effects were used much more effectively (excuse the pun) in the movie proper.
But the title "Web 2.0" is definitely marketer speak. If it were titled by programmers it would be web0.2alpha. Definitely not ready for production use.
Gift cards are worse than lame - they convert cash that is thoroughly liquid into cash that is only available to spend at particular stores - and those stores are always the big chains. So the big chains get money up front for goods that will eventually be bought, goods that can often be found cheaper elsewhere (especially online).
Furthermore, when you spend the gift card, the value of the purchase will never equal the value on the card. So you either get goods under the value of the card and waste the rest (which eventually goes to the store), or you end up forking over your own cash to make up the difference.
Speaking of which, how were they able to "manage each of them from other PCs with the OpenSSH remote control program"? I thought Ubuntu has never included sshd by default.
I assume they configured it rather than just trying to manage it out-of-the-box.
1) People tried to run it on old, slow systems and it didn't work well. Of course rather than saying "Man, my hardware is too old for a brand new OS, I should upgrade," they blamed the OS for being bad. This was much less of a problem with 7 since there had been 2 years of hardware advances. While dual cores were still a bit of a high end item when Vista hit the market, they are the majority now.
This was Microsoft's fault in the way they marketed and allowed OEM manufacturers to distribute Vista. I bought a bottom-end Compaq laptop Celeron 540 @ 1.86GHZ with 512MB RAM and Vista was pre-installed. It ran like a dog. All the RAM was taken up when the OS booted and trying to do anything just mean that the swap file thrashed constantly. I upgraded to 1GB RAM, it was bearable. But still limited enough that I tried Ubuntu (starting at 8.10) instead. Now I only go back to Windows for the occasional Windows-only game, and Ubuntu (now 9.10) rarely goes above 600MB of RAM used.
Long story short - Microsoft encouraged Vista installation on hardware that was unsuitable for it. And at least in my case, this caused a user to abandon Windows for Linux.
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Simcity 3000, Civilization 4, Tetris :)
We can't even prove that our critical, lower-level embedded software (aerospace, health-related, etc) is bug-free
Car braking software...
Not to defend the history of religious oppression, but atheistic Leninist Russia had quite a habit of stopping religious people living, as does Communist China
The persecution of minorities is a feature of all totalitarian ideologies, religious or otherwise.
Dislaimer: I am not a Roman Catholic but a Reformed Christian. However I broadly agree with this conclusion.
I'm assuming that the celebrations will involve lots of roots? A phi day without roots would be irrational. Completely absurd. Uh...
In "Contact" the conceit was that the message occurred much earlier than would be statistically expected. The protagonist found another "message" in a non-base-ten expansion which decoded to bitmap image of a circle. Circles within circles!
#ifdef INDIANA
#define PI_VALUE 3
#endif
Again, around ten years ago (1998) we learnt C++ in first-year computer science at the University of Wollongong. Second year branched out into java and assembler, but I was a physics major so didn't go that far.
And to join the parade of apple fans. Isn't thatwhy mounting the phoneas a drive is dangerous?
No, that is why mounting the phone as a drive AND EXECUTING WHATEVER CODE IT TELLS YOU TO is dangerous.
Don't drink and park, accidents cause people.
I'll give it a shot.
Alice wants to get out of her car and into Bob's car. In laboratory conditions both cars are perfectly still so it's easy. Out on the freeway travelling at high speeds it's a recipe for disaster.
But these clever engineers have come up with a wonderful design for a semi-trailer that both cars can sit on while being driven down the freeway. Now Alice and get out of her car and into Bob's car for that secret rendezvous. In the middle of the freeway.
Even Christians are divided over this, some arguing against this legislation precisely BECAUSE they have unpopular (or potentially unpopular) views which could be silenced through future use of this scheme: http://solapanel.org/article/conroys_internet_filter_full_of_contradictions/
I suspect that many of the later Trek series were written by similar software algorithms.
When I went to see Avatar 3D they had a preview for Alice in Wonderland 3D. It was all flashy "look-at-me, I'm in 3D!" showy rubbish. I despaired at having to sit through almost three hours of Avatar if it was going to draw that much attention to the special effects. Fortunately, the effects were used much more effectively (excuse the pun) in the movie proper.
Me neither.
But the title "Web 2.0" is definitely marketer speak. If it were titled by programmers it would be web0.2alpha. Definitely not ready for production use.
Gift cards are worse than lame - they convert cash that is thoroughly liquid into cash that is only available to spend at particular stores - and those stores are always the big chains. So the big chains get money up front for goods that will eventually be bought, goods that can often be found cheaper elsewhere (especially online).
Furthermore, when you spend the gift card, the value of the purchase will never equal the value on the card. So you either get goods under the value of the card and waste the rest (which eventually goes to the store), or you end up forking over your own cash to make up the difference.
To paraphrase: what? -- Not everyone has sigs turned on
Whoosh!
Stop being ironic
Speaking of which, how were they able to "manage each of them from other PCs with the OpenSSH remote control program"? I thought Ubuntu has never included sshd by default.
I assume they configured it rather than just trying to manage it out-of-the-box.
If it's not supposed to move but does... use duct tape.
If it is supposed to move but doesn't... use WD40.
1) People tried to run it on old, slow systems and it didn't work well. Of course rather than saying "Man, my hardware is too old for a brand new OS, I should upgrade," they blamed the OS for being bad. This was much less of a problem with 7 since there had been 2 years of hardware advances. While dual cores were still a bit of a high end item when Vista hit the market, they are the majority now.
This was Microsoft's fault in the way they marketed and allowed OEM manufacturers to distribute Vista. I bought a bottom-end Compaq laptop Celeron 540 @ 1.86GHZ with 512MB RAM and Vista was pre-installed. It ran like a dog. All the RAM was taken up when the OS booted and trying to do anything just mean that the swap file thrashed constantly. I upgraded to 1GB RAM, it was bearable. But still limited enough that I tried Ubuntu (starting at 8.10) instead. Now I only go back to Windows for the occasional Windows-only game, and Ubuntu (now 9.10) rarely goes above 600MB of RAM used.
Long story short - Microsoft encouraged Vista installation on hardware that was unsuitable for it. And at least in my case, this caused a user to abandon Windows for Linux.
At least in cricket there are neutral umpires and a referral system for appeals.
Don't fight - there's more than enough blame to be shared around here! Both for the corrupters and the corruptees.
I'd notice. I'd get my wife back. I'm a Facebook widower.
It used to be me on Slashdot ignoring my wife. Now she's on Facebook ignoring me.