"We'll be lucky to get a man on Mars in the next 100 years, much less a vehicle that could travel at a significant percentage of the speed of light (an absolute "must have" for an interstellar probe). The fastest probe we've ever launched would take over 100,000 years to reach even the closest solar system (and that's a *MERE* 4.2 light years away)."
If we could travel at 25% of light speed we could do it in about 17 years, and I didn't even have to invent any math to figure that out! That alone proves that speed of light travel is not a must have.
He didn't say "speed of light travel," he said "significant percentage of the speed of light." 25% of the speed of light is certainly a significant percentage.
According to what I can find online, the fastest man-made vehicle so far has been Pioneer 11, which reached a max speed of about 170000 kph. That works out to about 0.016% of the speed of light -- and that was achieved mostly by utilizing Jupiter's gravity. Getting up to 25% is a difference of three orders of magnitude.
The president isn't supposed to be "in charge". He's merely supposed to execute the laws that have been passed by the Real body in chage: The Congress.
Here's a fun game to play: listen to a speech by a presidential candidate, and count the number of times that he promises to do something, or complains about what his opponent will (or will not) do, or (in the case of the incumbent) talks about what he's already done, or (in the case of a non-incumbent) complains about what the incumbent should have done.
Now count up how many of those things are actually the job of the executive branch. Most of the time, that number will be zero.
Sometimes I think I would vote for anyone who I honestly believed would just do the president's job.
...but also, the fact is, pretty much all the choices are expensive.
Not really. When I was in school, my better teachers would just give us recommendations of which authors they believed wrote good textbooks on the subject and then told us to find one that we liked. It made it very easy to find one that was either reasonably priced or was available used.
I was going to say... I've seen pictures of it and the helicopter itself is bigger than 10 square meters, so I did not see how it could fulfill this requirement.
Well, the helicopter itself is 114 feet across, so it doesn't even fit in a 10 metre square area either. Fortunately, the rules say that a reference point on the frame is used to determine whether the helicopter stayed in the square area, so the size of the helicopter doesn't really matter.
The definitive feature of linux is being able to right click and remove a panel... good for it?
Hey, I for one was intrigued to discover that I'm apparently not using Linux. I guess I'm using some cheap chinese knockoff that doesn't include the "right-click to remove panel" feature.
Actually, I have been on a jury, and pretty much everyone took their job pretty seriously and tried to do their best. I'm not sure where you get off saying this. Have you been on a jury before?
Yes, multiple times. Otherwise I wouldn't have made that comment. Generally there have been one or two people trying to do their best job, and everyone else either doesn't care or is trying to push their own agenda.
In my experience, the stereotype of jurors being the people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty is at least partially deserved.
I call bullshit, that jury was stacked. You can't sift through such a complex case in 22 hours and come to an informed decision.
If you've ever been on a jury, you know that it's going to be full of people with very little idea of what's going on and who don't want to be there. Most of them had probably made their decisions well before deliberations even started.
It has nothing to do with the jury being "stacked" in any way; it's just a function of how juries are chosen and how they operate.
Even though that includes some content and services on top of the Kindle itself, I don't see how it reaches $6600 per unit without most of it being waste and kickbacks.
Maybe they forgot to select the "free super saver shipping" option.
At the moment there's no evidence that voter fraud, as in people pretending to be other people, is common enough to justify disenfranchising other voters. The GOP trots that out whenever they lose a close race, but the fact is that they have yet to show that there's any greater likelihood for one candidate or another to win based upon voter fraud or for it to of substantial volume.
The flip side of this is that, given the current laws that actively prevent any sort of voting security, it would be virtually impossible to prove voter fraud if it was occurring.
If they cant handle it, they should stop selling it. As far as I am concerned, I pay for unlimited bandwidth at 50 down 25 up. If I want to upload all 25 and download all 50 24/7/365, that is what I payed for.
Every ISP I've dealt with in the last ten years has included terms that they can throttle or cap your service at some point, and also do not guarantee a particular rate. As far as I'm concerned, you're getting what you paid for -- unless your ISP's terms say differently.
What I would like to see is for the Do Not Call complaints to be publicly tracked. I've submitted many complaints -- mostly against credit card scammers -- and considering that the same idiots are still calling after dozens of complaints, it's a pretty safe bet that nobody's actually looking at them. Since there's no visibility into the process, though, I don't really have any evidence that the FTC is ignoring the problems.
That second sentence and also the third one are teh definition of OO.
That is one opinion, although obviously not a universally-held one given that the Wikipedia definition explicitly does not require those as part of the definition.
you should have not ommitted the second line: Programming techniques may include features such as data abstraction, encapsulation, messaging, modularity, polymorphism, and inheritance. All that is impossible in plain C regardless how you tweak it into an OO harness.
The phrasing of the sentence makes it clear that those properties are not to be considered part of the definition. (And in any case, some of those certainly can apply to programs written in C -- data abstraction and modularity, most obviously.)
And even if you disagree: having to use fancy macros every singel line does not make it a "language" at all iin my definition.
I never said that C was an "object-oriented language." It's not. But you can do "object-oriented programming" in C. There's a difference.
From wikipedia: "Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm using "objects" - data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs."
The GP's method certainly qualifies. Just because it doesn't include all the sugary syntax or features that are included in your favorite so-called "OOP language" doesn't mean that you can't do object-oriented programming in C.
Except the law you're complaining about explicitly prohibits that. Try reading the law
I did read the law. I've also been to AZ, and was raised in the south, so I have practical experience with how the law is written and how it gets enforced. The fact they felt it necessary to put it in the law explicitly indicates that's how they expect it to be used. Just like "not to be rude, but..." is always said by someone who is being rude.
So your argument against the law is because you're afraid that the police will ignore the law? Somehow that doesn't strike me as a very strong reason to oppose it.
Also, in reference to the notion that those writing the law felt it necessary to include that -- it was included because the opponents to the law demanded it. The first draft didn't include it (since it's really unnecessary to include, since other laws prohibit racial profiling anyway.)
Obama is a flat-out Liar. He smiles in your face while lying.
And Romney tells the truth?
On planet Earth, just because one person is a liar doesn't make his opponent truthful. Since both men are national politicians, it is a virtual certainty that both of them are liars.
Here is the link that you want. You're very welcome.
While you're at it, you might want to also consult a dictionary on the meaning of the words "relatively minor," since you apparently did not understand them.
The problem with your Russia anecdote is that you were a foreign citizen in Russia and thus required to carry papers.
I'm ethnically Indian (India, not Native American). I was also born in the United States. But if you look at me from across the street, you'd have no way of knowing that I was a citizen and born here. So lets say a cop in Arizona asks me to identify myself and show some ID -- as a citizen, I'm actually not required to carry around my ID. So what happens? I get hauled down to the police station until I can prove that I'm in this country legally.
A blond Caucasian US citizen wouldn't face the same issue. They probably wouldn't even be stopped in the first place, but if they were the cop would quickly decide, even without seeing ID, that the individual was in the country legally based on look and accent.
That's why it's racism -- because two people with identical legal status would be treated differently just because of the color of their skin.
Except the law you're complaining about explicitly prohibits that. Try reading the law instead of the president's misinterpretation of it.
the only feasible way to ensure everything is updated is to restart the world. Otherwise you have users running with known security holes for months until they feel like rebooting.
This attitude is what leads to the infuriating "YOU MUST UPDATE AND REBOOT NOW" type of updates. If I want to keep running with their downlevel software, it should be up to me. Sure, pop up a reminder or a notification that I need to restart, but if I ignore it it's my business. I happen to know my schedule (and know that I'll be shutting down the computer when I'm done with it anyway); I don't need you to force me to do it on your timetable.
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"We'll be lucky to get a man on Mars in the next 100 years, much less a vehicle that could travel at a significant percentage of the speed of light (an absolute "must have" for an interstellar probe). The fastest probe we've ever launched would take over 100,000 years to reach even the closest solar system (and that's a *MERE* 4.2 light years away)."
If we could travel at 25% of light speed we could do it in about 17 years, and I didn't even have to invent any math to figure that out! That alone proves that speed of light travel is not a must have.
He didn't say "speed of light travel," he said "significant percentage of the speed of light." 25% of the speed of light is certainly a significant percentage.
According to what I can find online, the fastest man-made vehicle so far has been Pioneer 11, which reached a max speed of about 170000 kph. That works out to about 0.016% of the speed of light -- and that was achieved mostly by utilizing Jupiter's gravity. Getting up to 25% is a difference of three orders of magnitude.
At one factory where I worked 12 hour days seven days a week with three days off was the normal schedule.
Wait, you worked seven days a week with three days off? Is that metric time?
The president isn't supposed to be "in charge". He's merely supposed to execute the laws that have been passed by the Real body in chage: The Congress.
Here's a fun game to play: listen to a speech by a presidential candidate, and count the number of times that he promises to do something, or complains about what his opponent will (or will not) do, or (in the case of the incumbent) talks about what he's already done, or (in the case of a non-incumbent) complains about what the incumbent should have done.
Now count up how many of those things are actually the job of the executive branch. Most of the time, that number will be zero.
Sometimes I think I would vote for anyone who I honestly believed would just do the president's job.
...but also, the fact is, pretty much all the choices are expensive.
Not really. When I was in school, my better teachers would just give us recommendations of which authors they believed wrote good textbooks on the subject and then told us to find one that we liked. It made it very easy to find one that was either reasonably priced or was available used.
I was going to say... I've seen pictures of it and the helicopter itself is bigger than 10 square meters, so I did not see how it could fulfill this requirement.
Well, the helicopter itself is 114 feet across, so it doesn't even fit in a 10 metre square area either. Fortunately, the rules say that a reference point on the frame is used to determine whether the helicopter stayed in the square area, so the size of the helicopter doesn't really matter.
The definitive feature of linux is being able to right click and remove a panel... good for it?
Hey, I for one was intrigued to discover that I'm apparently not using Linux. I guess I'm using some cheap chinese knockoff that doesn't include the "right-click to remove panel" feature.
Actually, I have been on a jury, and pretty much everyone took their job pretty seriously and tried to do their best. I'm not sure where you get off saying this. Have you been on a jury before?
Yes, multiple times. Otherwise I wouldn't have made that comment. Generally there have been one or two people trying to do their best job, and everyone else either doesn't care or is trying to push their own agenda.
In my experience, the stereotype of jurors being the people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty is at least partially deserved.
I call bullshit, that jury was stacked. You can't sift through such a complex case in 22 hours and come to an informed decision.
If you've ever been on a jury, you know that it's going to be full of people with very little idea of what's going on and who don't want to be there. Most of them had probably made their decisions well before deliberations even started.
It has nothing to do with the jury being "stacked" in any way; it's just a function of how juries are chosen and how they operate.
$16.5 million divided by 2500 = $6600.
Even though that includes some content and services on top of the Kindle itself, I don't see how it reaches $6600 per unit without most of it being waste and kickbacks.
Maybe they forgot to select the "free super saver shipping" option.
At the moment there's no evidence that voter fraud, as in people pretending to be other people, is common enough to justify disenfranchising other voters. The GOP trots that out whenever they lose a close race, but the fact is that they have yet to show that there's any greater likelihood for one candidate or another to win based upon voter fraud or for it to of substantial volume.
The flip side of this is that, given the current laws that actively prevent any sort of voting security, it would be virtually impossible to prove voter fraud if it was occurring.
If they cant handle it, they should stop selling it. As far as I am concerned, I pay for unlimited bandwidth at 50 down 25 up. If I want to upload all 25 and download all 50 24/7/365, that is what I payed for.
Every ISP I've dealt with in the last ten years has included terms that they can throttle or cap your service at some point, and also do not guarantee a particular rate. As far as I'm concerned, you're getting what you paid for -- unless your ISP's terms say differently.
but spreading Free Software to a hardware ecosystem that is currently locked down and proprietary seems like a good goal to have.
Maybe in a vacuum it is. But do you have to kill the existing desktop environment to do it?
Open is broken as a money-making platform model, unless you're making the OS or the handsets. Most of us aren't doing that.
Am I supposed to care that "helping smartphone game developers make money" wasn't one of the primary concerns of the OS and handset makers?
If he wants a more locked-down platform, it's not like it's any secret where he can find it.
Firefox OS is still more open than anything Apple releases.
So is the Hurd.
What I would like to see is for the Do Not Call complaints to be publicly tracked. I've submitted many complaints -- mostly against credit card scammers -- and considering that the same idiots are still calling after dozens of complaints, it's a pretty safe bet that nobody's actually looking at them. Since there's no visibility into the process, though, I don't really have any evidence that the FTC is ignoring the problems.
That second sentence and also the third one are teh definition of OO.
That is one opinion, although obviously not a universally-held one given that the Wikipedia definition explicitly does not require those as part of the definition.
you should have not ommitted the second line: Programming techniques may include features such as data abstraction, encapsulation, messaging, modularity, polymorphism, and inheritance.
All that is impossible in plain C regardless how you tweak it into an OO harness.
The phrasing of the sentence makes it clear that those properties are not to be considered part of the definition. (And in any case, some of those certainly can apply to programs written in C -- data abstraction and modularity, most obviously.)
And even if you disagree: having to use fancy macros every singel line does not make it a "language" at all iin my definition.
I never said that C was an "object-oriented language." It's not. But you can do "object-oriented programming" in C. There's a difference.
So, you think that is object-orientation? Oh boy.
From wikipedia: "Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm using "objects" - data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions - to design applications and computer programs."
The GP's method certainly qualifies. Just because it doesn't include all the sugary syntax or features that are included in your favorite so-called "OOP language" doesn't mean that you can't do object-oriented programming in C.
All of you are weak. Real men solve sudoku by rolling a nine-sided die and recording the results in the grid.
It didn't work in this universe, but somewhere it did.
Except the law you're complaining about explicitly prohibits that. Try reading the law
I did read the law. I've also been to AZ, and was raised in the south, so I have practical experience with how the law is written and how it gets enforced. The fact they felt it necessary to put it in the law explicitly indicates that's how they expect it to be used. Just like "not to be rude, but..." is always said by someone who is being rude.
So your argument against the law is because you're afraid that the police will ignore the law? Somehow that doesn't strike me as a very strong reason to oppose it.
Also, in reference to the notion that those writing the law felt it necessary to include that -- it was included because the opponents to the law demanded it. The first draft didn't include it (since it's really unnecessary to include, since other laws prohibit racial profiling anyway.)
Obama is a flat-out Liar. He smiles in your face while lying.
And Romney tells the truth?
On planet Earth, just because one person is a liar doesn't make his opponent truthful. Since both men are national politicians, it is a virtual certainty that both of them are liars.
Here is the link that you want. You're very welcome.
While you're at it, you might want to also consult a dictionary on the meaning of the words "relatively minor," since you apparently did not understand them.
We gain cheap food. When immigrant workers harvest crops for pocket change we get cheap food.
Cheaper food. Studies consistently show that moving to an all-legal workforce would have a relatively minor effect on the price of food.
The problem with your Russia anecdote is that you were a foreign citizen in Russia and thus required to carry papers.
I'm ethnically Indian (India, not Native American). I was also born in the United States. But if you look at me from across the street, you'd have no way of knowing that I was a citizen and born here. So lets say a cop in Arizona asks me to identify myself and show some ID -- as a citizen, I'm actually not required to carry around my ID. So what happens? I get hauled down to the police station until I can prove that I'm in this country legally.
A blond Caucasian US citizen wouldn't face the same issue. They probably wouldn't even be stopped in the first place, but if they were the cop would quickly decide, even without seeing ID, that the individual was in the country legally based on look and accent.
That's why it's racism -- because two people with identical legal status would be treated differently just because of the color of their skin.
Except the law you're complaining about explicitly prohibits that. Try reading the law instead of the president's misinterpretation of it.
This attitude is what leads to the infuriating "YOU MUST UPDATE AND REBOOT NOW" type of updates. If I want to keep running with their downlevel software, it should be up to me. Sure, pop up a reminder or a notification that I need to restart, but if I ignore it it's my business. I happen to know my schedule (and know that I'll be shutting down the computer when I'm done with it anyway); I don't need you to force me to do it on your timetable.