Science makes none of these assumptions, you (and many others on both sides of the debate) make these assumptions of science. Science classifies knowledge into repeatable testable theories that can be used to make useful predictions. Science recognizes that there are limits to observation and in fact many theories characterize these limitations, the uncertainty principle is a good example of this.
It's all well and good to imagine what lies beyond human comprehension, but it belongs in the realm of musing and fantasy.
Killing an unarmed and fully secured captive has no place in a mature and civilized society. I call bullshit on any claim that the death penalty is a deterrent and somehow weighed in the minds of a person who decides to rape and kill a pregnant woman. The real aim of the death penalty is to satiate the rabid mob of townsfolk who would prefer take matters into their own hands with a rope and a tree. Heck, I'll even admit that I'd be among those first in line to get a piece of this guy if he had done this to someone I knew but that doesn't mean I don't hope that calmer minds would prevail. Even in this case it doesn't really bother me that this man suffered, but that he suffered in the name of name of supposed 'justice'.
The backlit screen in the darkened theatre is tremendously obnoxious (at least to me) by itself. That said, they could easily have resolved the situation like adults.
A: Sir, could you please turn off your cell-phone.
B: Uh, it's just the previews, relax.
A: I know, but I find the light irritating.
B: Fine.
-or-
B: I'm texting my kid, just give me a sec.
At which point A drops the matter and calmly summons a theatre employee if it continues into the feature.
Heck, even behaving like obstinate hormone-fueled adolescents and beating the crap out of each other would be better than what actually transpired.
Personally I'd be overwhelmed with curiosity with how the game physics would respond to situations the developers may not have considered. What happens if you rapidly cycle the train switch or switch it right as the train is passing over it? Perhaps you could get the train to derail and start to accordion thus clearing both sides of the tracks and destroying the train itself.
C is a very low level programming language. If you ever look at the assembly listing for a C program you will generally find that each line of code maps to a relatively short sequence of assembly instructions. This virtue of C is what makes it so attractive for its original (and continued) use as a tool for writing operating systems, OS drivers, embedded systems, or anything where the developer needs or desires fine control of exactly what operations will be performed. Adding bounds checks lessens that control and for many applications where C is an appropriate language choice, would have a very real performance impact.
That said, many C compilers, debuggers, and code analysis tools (such as cppcheck as mentioned in the summary) offer features to detect memory access violations (and other types of bugs) during development and testing but without adding permanent run-time checking to release builds.
I tend to agree. One thing I find annoying is that in order to temporarily comment out the body of a conditional you have to add a "pass" line. The ability to add members to classes at runtime has also created some situations for me that were very confusing to troubleshoot.
School just teaches you what you need to memorize and later regurgitate on the paper to get credit. The after-school religious education programs are what teach you what you need to believe lest you disappoint friends, family, and community.
Been down that road, it just didn't click. On the plus side it sounds like the new Pope is letting everyone into Heaven these days so you don't really need to hedge your bets any more.
I think it's just a natural geek tendency to look for scenarios in real life that are even remotely related to one's favorite science fiction universe and then to fantasize about how one's favorite science fiction universe is finally becoming real. People who dream up headlines know that geeks will drool like Pavlov's dog over a science-fiction tie in reference. People have a tendency to conveniently forget that the reason advances in technology occasionally align to science fiction themes is that science fiction incorporates both real and hypothetical scientific theories in the first place.
Modern computer controlled weapon systems are far more similar to a guided missile or even a trip-wire mine than some "I, Robot"-esque machine with a hand-waved synthetic form of free-will. These systems do exactly two things: 1) match a pattern 2) deliver / activate a munition. It's no more relevant to get into a discussion over violations of the three laws of robotics of a trip-mine; the pattern matching of which consists simply of whomever / whatever snags the wire.
The appropriate use and legality of autonomous weapons systems is a serious and relevant discussion to have. Bringing Asimov into the mix reduces the discussion to intellectual masturbation.
That's not what Darinbob is saying. Both the declaration and the definition of the function take 4 parameters as mandated by the API he is writing to. In his particular instance, however, he does not care what the value the caller passes to one of the parameters. This is common with things like callback routines / event handlers. Often the callback API provides you with information that you don't need for your specific implementation.
I still recommend compiling clean with -Wall but it does mean that there will be times where code is already correct but you need to add something just to tell / trick the compiler into not emitting the warning.
I'm not sure why someone would do that either but the way you talk about it perhaps they should make a movie about it. It would feature the heroic adventure of a person browsing and reserving a rental online then trekking to the climate controlled grocery store to pick up the disk from the kiosk along with their groceries.
[spoiler] In the climax of the movie our hero returns the movie the next day and purchases a soda and bag of pretzels from the adjacent vending machines to celebrate the $2 he just saved. [/spoiler]
Seized property is auctioned all the time without acknowledging said property as a currency. All they'd be acknowledging is that they possess something they have no use for that someone is willing to buy.
You can own a trading card however many online games have explicit terms of service that state that you do not own the in-game assets associated with your account. A real-world analogy would be when you play checkers at your friends house; you don't own the game pieces but you are permitted to control them within the scope of the game. This makes the publishers the judge, jury, and executioner with regards to any dispute involving in-game assets, no need to waste the time of law-enforcement. Now perhaps there could be real world charges associated with unauthorized access to your account but often the terms are written such that any such action would be between the publisher and the offender and that any charges would not factor in the supposed value of the in-game resources.
I'd be more inclined to believe you if not for the hordes of people who rush out to buy the newest iGadget even when their old one still works fine. Hardware companies have no problem marketing to people who already have a perfectly functional product.
Now if they could remove the O2 and put that back in the air and dump the remaining Carbon down the tubes, well in a few million years we'd have lots of diamonds.
And once you've finished burying the carbon we could immediately start mining it to burn (combine with oxygen to release energy) in existing coal (aka carbon) burning power plants!
They won't or can't, so there is no use in investing lots of time and effort into this type of project.
As long as we get energy by burning naturally sequestered carbon based fossil fuels in solid, liquid, and gaseous forms and producing gaseous CO2 we will be fighting an increasingly inefficient uphill battle.
I'm a little confused as to your aggressive tone, especially since I'm not trying to contest you only clarify my original statement. It's perfectly reasonable for you to point out the technical merits of other approaches, just without the ad-hominem attack.
I never said there aren't other ways to restore last-known-good working configurations for Linux or even Windows for that matter, I was only describing my own preferred solution.
The whole civility argument is nonsense anyways, I'm just surprised it isn't pointed out more. Who honestly believes that people who use their real names are going to behave in a civil manner? Have the people who believe this argument never encountered a jerk face-to-face? Did the world not have jerks before the Internet? I guess all the radio shock jocks and other media pundits are by definition civil because we know what their names are./sarcasm
You are spot on using Slashdot as an example of how to achieve the same effect less intrusively.
That has been my experience working with both Windows and Linux based OSs; easier to reimage when things get very broken. In my own experiences, this situation comes up more frequently with Linux than for Windows, largely with installing applications that have very particular requirements about the versions and configurations of dependencies let alone if the application is well supported and documented for your distro. If you can live off of what you install using apt-get or yum then you are golden, if you need to install something beyond that... well, this is why I only use Linux in virtual machines with the ability to take snapshots.
I meant that in the sense that the only way it would work is if you were actively paying full attention already as if driving on cruise control. I fully agree with you, there is no way the user is going to be able to respond to a split second cue from the system to "please start driving". I did not mean to convey this was a realistic scenario, and it is even less so given that most people will want an automatic car just so that they can sleep, play angry birds, or drive drunk as the OPs attitude confirms. Sorry for the confusion.
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Science makes none of these assumptions, you (and many others on both sides of the debate) make these assumptions of science. Science classifies knowledge into repeatable testable theories that can be used to make useful predictions. Science recognizes that there are limits to observation and in fact many theories characterize these limitations, the uncertainty principle is a good example of this.
It's all well and good to imagine what lies beyond human comprehension, but it belongs in the realm of musing and fantasy.
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Killing an unarmed and fully secured captive has no place in a mature and civilized society. I call bullshit on any claim that the death penalty is a deterrent and somehow weighed in the minds of a person who decides to rape and kill a pregnant woman. The real aim of the death penalty is to satiate the rabid mob of townsfolk who would prefer take matters into their own hands with a rope and a tree. Heck, I'll even admit that I'd be among those first in line to get a piece of this guy if he had done this to someone I knew but that doesn't mean I don't hope that calmer minds would prevail. Even in this case it doesn't really bother me that this man suffered, but that he suffered in the name of name of supposed 'justice'.
The backlit screen in the darkened theatre is tremendously obnoxious (at least to me) by itself. That said, they could easily have resolved the situation like adults.
A: Sir, could you please turn off your cell-phone.
B: Uh, it's just the previews, relax.
A: I know, but I find the light irritating.
B: Fine.
-or-
B: I'm texting my kid, just give me a sec.
At which point A drops the matter and calmly summons a theatre employee if it continues into the feature.
Heck, even behaving like obstinate hormone-fueled adolescents and beating the crap out of each other would be better than what actually transpired.
Personally I'd be overwhelmed with curiosity with how the game physics would respond to situations the developers may not have considered. What happens if you rapidly cycle the train switch or switch it right as the train is passing over it? Perhaps you could get the train to derail and start to accordion thus clearing both sides of the tracks and destroying the train itself.
C is a very low level programming language. If you ever look at the assembly listing for a C program you will generally find that each line of code maps to a relatively short sequence of assembly instructions. This virtue of C is what makes it so attractive for its original (and continued) use as a tool for writing operating systems, OS drivers, embedded systems, or anything where the developer needs or desires fine control of exactly what operations will be performed. Adding bounds checks lessens that control and for many applications where C is an appropriate language choice, would have a very real performance impact.
That said, many C compilers, debuggers, and code analysis tools (such as cppcheck as mentioned in the summary) offer features to detect memory access violations (and other types of bugs) during development and testing but without adding permanent run-time checking to release builds.
I tend to agree. One thing I find annoying is that in order to temporarily comment out the body of a conditional you have to add a "pass" line. The ability to add members to classes at runtime has also created some situations for me that were very confusing to troubleshoot.
Nobody needs to kill themselves to control population, just not reproduce so much. You first? Sure. Who's next?
Many developed countries already have low or declining population growth so again; us first? Working on it. Who's next?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate
School just teaches you what you need to memorize and later regurgitate on the paper to get credit. The after-school religious education programs are what teach you what you need to believe lest you disappoint friends, family, and community.
Been down that road, it just didn't click. On the plus side it sounds like the new Pope is letting everyone into Heaven these days so you don't really need to hedge your bets any more.
I think it's just a natural geek tendency to look for scenarios in real life that are even remotely related to one's favorite science fiction universe and then to fantasize about how one's favorite science fiction universe is finally becoming real. People who dream up headlines know that geeks will drool like Pavlov's dog over a science-fiction tie in reference. People have a tendency to conveniently forget that the reason advances in technology occasionally align to science fiction themes is that science fiction incorporates both real and hypothetical scientific theories in the first place.
Modern computer controlled weapon systems are far more similar to a guided missile or even a trip-wire mine than some "I, Robot"-esque machine with a hand-waved synthetic form of free-will. These systems do exactly two things: 1) match a pattern 2) deliver / activate a munition. It's no more relevant to get into a discussion over violations of the three laws of robotics of a trip-mine; the pattern matching of which consists simply of whomever / whatever snags the wire.
The appropriate use and legality of autonomous weapons systems is a serious and relevant discussion to have. Bringing Asimov into the mix reduces the discussion to intellectual masturbation.
That's not what Darinbob is saying. Both the declaration and the definition of the function take 4 parameters as mandated by the API he is writing to. In his particular instance, however, he does not care what the value the caller passes to one of the parameters. This is common with things like callback routines / event handlers. Often the callback API provides you with information that you don't need for your specific implementation.
I still recommend compiling clean with -Wall but it does mean that there will be times where code is already correct but you need to add something just to tell / trick the compiler into not emitting the warning.
Irradiated food doesn't spoil but it can still go bad, usually around the time it starts making anti-Semitic slurs.
I'm not sure why someone would do that either but the way you talk about it perhaps they should make a movie about it. It would feature the heroic adventure of a person browsing and reserving a rental online then trekking to the climate controlled grocery store to pick up the disk from the kiosk along with their groceries.
[spoiler] In the climax of the movie our hero returns the movie the next day and purchases a soda and bag of pretzels from the adjacent vending machines to celebrate the $2 he just saved. [/spoiler]
Seized property is auctioned all the time without acknowledging said property as a currency. All they'd be acknowledging is that they possess something they have no use for that someone is willing to buy.
You can own a trading card however many online games have explicit terms of service that state that you do not own the in-game assets associated with your account. A real-world analogy would be when you play checkers at your friends house; you don't own the game pieces but you are permitted to control them within the scope of the game. This makes the publishers the judge, jury, and executioner with regards to any dispute involving in-game assets, no need to waste the time of law-enforcement. Now perhaps there could be real world charges associated with unauthorized access to your account but often the terms are written such that any such action would be between the publisher and the offender and that any charges would not factor in the supposed value of the in-game resources.
How to Build a Happier Brain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0V4TZAyd8I
More like the name for a Garbage Pail Kid depicting Oscillating Eddie grinning while vibrating rapidly in a paint shaking machine.
I'd be more inclined to believe you if not for the hordes of people who rush out to buy the newest iGadget even when their old one still works fine. Hardware companies have no problem marketing to people who already have a perfectly functional product.
Correct.
http://earth911.com/news/2009/06/01/epa-penalizes-improper-cfl-disposal/
Now if they could remove the O2 and put that back in the air and dump the remaining Carbon down the tubes, well in a few million years we'd have lots of diamonds.
And once you've finished burying the carbon we could immediately start mining it to burn (combine with oxygen to release energy) in existing coal (aka carbon) burning power plants!
They won't or can't, so there is no use in investing lots of time and effort into this type of project.
As long as we get energy by burning naturally sequestered carbon based fossil fuels in solid, liquid, and gaseous forms and producing gaseous CO2 we will be fighting an increasingly inefficient uphill battle.
I'm a little confused as to your aggressive tone, especially since I'm not trying to contest you only clarify my original statement. It's perfectly reasonable for you to point out the technical merits of other approaches, just without the ad-hominem attack.
I never said there aren't other ways to restore last-known-good working configurations for Linux or even Windows for that matter, I was only describing my own preferred solution.
The whole civility argument is nonsense anyways, I'm just surprised it isn't pointed out more. Who honestly believes that people who use their real names are going to behave in a civil manner? Have the people who believe this argument never encountered a jerk face-to-face? Did the world not have jerks before the Internet? I guess all the radio shock jocks and other media pundits are by definition civil because we know what their names are. /sarcasm
You are spot on using Slashdot as an example of how to achieve the same effect less intrusively.
That has been my experience working with both Windows and Linux based OSs; easier to reimage when things get very broken. In my own experiences, this situation comes up more frequently with Linux than for Windows, largely with installing applications that have very particular requirements about the versions and configurations of dependencies let alone if the application is well supported and documented for your distro. If you can live off of what you install using apt-get or yum then you are golden, if you need to install something beyond that... well, this is why I only use Linux in virtual machines with the ability to take snapshots.
I'm on board. I've been on teams where 'replacing' certain developers with dead bodies would improve overall team productivity.
I meant that in the sense that the only way it would work is if you were actively paying full attention already as if driving on cruise control. I fully agree with you, there is no way the user is going to be able to respond to a split second cue from the system to "please start driving". I did not mean to convey this was a realistic scenario, and it is even less so given that most people will want an automatic car just so that they can sleep, play angry birds, or drive drunk as the OPs attitude confirms. Sorry for the confusion.