Hardly if you like dystopias you'll almost certainly like your second category. Liking fantasy or sci-fi does not provide the same degree of certainty.
a) Not everyone submits to CPAN. I daresay a small portion of the user population does, it's rather intimidating. And often what you want is already available.
b) Perl is demi-compiled, not interepreted. Tcl is interpreted. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with perl -c
Have you ever even *watched* PBS? After almost every show there's a blurb "This broadcast was mad epossible by support of viewers like you". Well, I'm sure they don't mean viewrs like *you*. But the idea is, they accept donations from the public. these amount to a non-trivial portion of their operating budget and they are therefore not beholden to the whims of the hicks in DC.
By your logic, ABC and NBC are making crap with you money and therefore should be censored to no end by the FCC as well. Oh wait, they self-censor because unlike PBS statons, they don't realize the regs are inane and McCarthyism is dead.
Just to save things from even being routed out, and likewise solving the problem of tapping a real address or domain I try to use fvckyou@offendingdomain.com when offendingdomain.com unnecessarily requires private info. And of course, when all else fails pick yuor favorite company to hate.
I like some of Perl's magic, some borrowed from predecssors, Particularly (read from all files given on the command line), and various switches such as -n, -p and -i that simplify away common code.
It's a British English versus American "English" thing. Americans say is, as the BBC is a single entity under the law. They say are, because the BBC is comprised of many.
Aren't patents supposed to protect *something of commercial value* (for a limited time only, void where prohibited or not enforced)? How the fvck is grepping source for document content extraction/summarization for use by the *programmers* *at the company* a benefit for me the consumer?
Peters, W., Drake, E., Driscoll, M., Golay, M., & Tester, J. (2004). Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options (Review ed. January 2004) (p. 389). Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*sigh* It's amazing how much disinformation and malinformedness there is out
there.
We are not running out of fossil fuels any time soon. I repeat, we are not
running out of fossil fuels. That, of course doesn't mean we should stay
the course.
Most modern reasonable and respectable estimates peg existing reseves at
several centuries (depending upon fuel, geographic boundary of analysis,
and energy use patterns). While the US may have decades of petroleum or
natural gas left, the world has plenty. Likewise, the US has unfathomably
expansive coal deposits.
The economics of power systems is not as most people expect. For any sane
alternative energy system the sticking point is infrastructure, not the
enabling technology. Assuming hydrogen is such a great idea (it's not, at
least as currently envisioned by most) the problem is supporting infrastrucure
(pipes and pumps), not the cost of fuel cell (even if though it uses platinum).
We have a vast existing system which supports fossil fuels, and this is a
huge hurdle for anything else to overcome. Leaving things up to the market
many alternatives, even if free, could not comepete. And how did we get into
this situation? This network of fossil fuel arteries did not spring from the
earth overnight. No, we invested in it, and we paid for it. Largely through hidden costs such as subsidies (but you'll be branded a commie-bleeding heart
liberal if you suggest we give even a tiniest fraction of that money to
alternative energy systems). The other means a lot of this has been paid for
is to work it into the unit cost -- this has been part of the problem with
deregulated energy markets.
Firstly, the article is deceptive in
saying there is a poll (unless that
was the SSI error), rather's it's an RFC
It's a bad idea. Having a compromisable machine is not like owning a pool
and not fencing off your yard to keep the neighborhood rugrats out; it's
not a public nuisance. Instead, operating a compromisable machine is more
like owning a Pinto and being unaware there was a recall. Only wait, there
never was a recall of Windows 9xCeMeNT2KXP was there?
I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned (what none of you have read "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams?) how this will almost certainly result in the extinction of the Yangtze Dolphin. The Yangtze is one of four freshwater dolphin species that exists.
We use more renewable enrgy than you thank, not nearly enough of course. Besides, there are two arguments for using electric even though that energy clearly has to come from somewhere
1) It is cheaper and easier to make a more efficient, cleaner single large power plant than it is to try to make millions of small efficient clean vehicles
2) electric vehicles are source agnostic, they don't care what the source of the energy is and it would make it that much easier to switch the economy over. Only a few key players would have to change vs. every ignorant or mis-informed Tom, Dick and Harry.
PS> And for something like an NEV with low energy requirements it would be quite easy to setup a photovoltaic system for charging.
I don't think pleading poverty is a justifiable excuse for poor performance on the SAT. You can get waivers, free paper practice tests etc. If you need to "study" and "practice" beyond one run through, you really haven't learned anything and aren't prepared to do anything other than peform rote learning.
No. The earth is slowing down. For many reasons... Dams have accumulated large bodies of water on continents and thrown off the mass-distribution. Earth is continuously bombarded with tons of debris, conservation of momemtum dictates that the speed decrease if the mass increases.
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Hardly if you like dystopias you'll almost certainly
like your second category. Liking fantasy or sci-fi does not provide the same degree of certainty.
a) Not everyone submits to CPAN. I daresay a small portion of the user population does, it's rather intimidating. And often what you want is already available.
b) Perl is demi-compiled, not interepreted. Tcl
is interpreted. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with perl -c
Maybe because it still rotates around the Earth?
4! Ruminants have (3 or) 4 compartments in their stomach.
Ahh, yet more flawed logic. Counterexamples:
Who hasn't heard of Sesame Street? Or Nova?
The problem with your questions is that he's held to a *lower* standard.
Have you ever even *watched* PBS?
After almost every show there's a blurb "This broadcast was mad epossible by support of viewers like you". Well, I'm sure they don't mean viewrs like *you*. But the idea is, they accept donations
from the public. these amount to a non-trivial portion of their operating budget and they are therefore not beholden to the whims of the hicks
in DC.
By your logic, ABC and NBC are making crap with you money and therefore should be censored to no
end by the FCC as well. Oh wait, they self-censor
because unlike PBS statons, they don't realize the regs are inane and McCarthyism is dead.
Just to save things from even being routed out, and likewise solving the problem of tapping a real address or domain I try to use fvckyou@offendingdomain.com when offendingdomain.com unnecessarily requires private info. And of course, when all else fails pick yuor favorite company to hate.
Just make sure whomever does, dies. Sheesh.
Yes, and in Perl 6 you will be able to do it.
Perl 6 lets you write your own grammar.
Not to feed a troll, but if you're going to play the Crotchety old Real Programmer than you damn well better add Lisp to that list.
I like some of Perl's magic, some borrowed from predecssors, Particularly (read from all files given on the command line), and various switches such as -n, -p and -i that simplify away common code.
It's a British English versus American "English" thing. Americans say is, as the BBC is a single entity under the law. They say are, because the BBC is comprised of many.
A great CD player
l
:: dog : cat
http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/mcdp/
And of course realplayer for the terminal
(unfortunately not yet been updated to helix)
http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.htm
less : more
http://jl.photodex.com/dog/
Aren't patents supposed to protect *something of commercial value* (for a limited time only, void where prohibited or not enforced)? How the fvck is grepping source for document content extraction/summarization for use by the *programmers* *at the company* a benefit for me the consumer?
And OPEC is a reliable source to you?
The stats I give are from
Peters, W., Drake, E., Driscoll, M., Golay, M., & Tester, J. (2004). Sustainable Energy:
Choosing Among Options (Review ed. January 2004) (p. 389). Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
We are not running out of fossil fuels any time soon. I repeat, we are not running out of fossil fuels. That, of course doesn't mean we should stay the course.
Most modern reasonable and respectable estimates peg existing reseves at several centuries (depending upon fuel, geographic boundary of analysis, and energy use patterns). While the US may have decades of petroleum or natural gas left, the world has plenty. Likewise, the US has unfathomably expansive coal deposits.
The economics of power systems is not as most people expect. For any sane alternative energy system the sticking point is infrastructure, not the enabling technology. Assuming hydrogen is such a great idea (it's not, at least as currently envisioned by most) the problem is supporting infrastrucure (pipes and pumps), not the cost of fuel cell (even if though it uses platinum).
We have a vast existing system which supports fossil fuels, and this is a huge hurdle for anything else to overcome. Leaving things up to the market many alternatives, even if free, could not comepete. And how did we get into this situation? This network of fossil fuel arteries did not spring from the earth overnight. No, we invested in it, and we paid for it. Largely through hidden costs such as subsidies (but you'll be branded a commie-bleeding heart liberal if you suggest we give even a tiniest fraction of that money to alternative energy systems). The other means a lot of this has been paid for is to work it into the unit cost -- this has been part of the problem with deregulated energy markets.
I recently wrote a brief essay on the readoption of nuclear, it's available at http://pthbb.org/natural /17_32-nuclear.pdf.
It's a bad idea. Having a compromisable machine is not like owning a pool and not fencing off your yard to keep the neighborhood rugrats out; it's not a public nuisance. Instead, operating a compromisable machine is more like owning a Pinto and being unaware there was a recall. Only wait, there never was a recall of Windows 9xCeMeNT2KXP was there?
I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned
(what none of you have read "Last Chance to See"
by Douglas Adams?) how this will almost certainly result in the extinction of the Yangtze Dolphin.
The Yangtze is one of four freshwater dolphin
species that exists.
Not an entirely accurate analogy as the
airlines were a regulated industry.
We use more renewable enrgy than you thank,
not nearly enough of course. Besides, there
are two arguments for using electric even
though that energy clearly has to come from
somewhere
1) It is cheaper and easier to make a more
efficient, cleaner single large power plant
than it is to try to make millions of small
efficient clean vehicles
2) electric vehicles are source agnostic,
they don't care what the source of the energy
is and it would make it that much easier to switch the economy over. Only a few key players would
have to change vs. every ignorant or mis-informed
Tom, Dick and Harry.
PS> And for something like an NEV with low
energy requirements it would be quite easy
to setup a photovoltaic system for charging.
Most graphing calculators are programmable
and therefore not allowed.
I don't think pleading poverty is a justifiable excuse for poor performance on the SAT. You can
get waivers, free paper practice tests etc. If
you need to "study" and "practice" beyond one
run through, you really haven't learned anything
and aren't prepared to do anything other than
peform rote learning.
No. The earth is slowing down. For many reasons...
Dams have accumulated large bodies of water on
continents and thrown off the mass-distribution.
Earth is continuously bombarded with tons of
debris, conservation of momemtum dictates that
the speed decrease if the mass increases.
PHP 5? I'd settle for a production mod_php 4
that works with Apache 2.