Anyone who complains about STL portability issues clearly hasn't written a line of C++ code in the past decade. STL is the single most portable and consistent library behind the C standard library. And don't even get me started about efficiency psuedo-arguments. std::sort outperforms qsort by a huge margin on most platforms.
And--I know I'm going to be stoned for this--Linus =/= God.
You do know the Facists (rebels) in Spanish Civil War were backed by the catholic church? It was the Nationalists (the original government) that were athiest backed.
Hitler, as mentioned by the previous poster was not athiest.
Stalin was athiest. (One of only two you got right.)
Mussolini was Roman Catholic. He created the Lateran Pacts with the Holy See, giving them diplomatic recognition for the first time in decades and all of the rights of an independant state. So almost the opposite of athiest.
Napoleon Bonaparte was not an athiest, he was Roman Catholic. I am no expert on Napoleon, but Wikipedfia says that Napoleon "pragmatically considered organised religions as key elements of social order."
Pol Pot was athiest. (Two of two.)
In other words, congratulations on naming a collection of unlikable people and arbitrarily labelling them athiest.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. I'm using IE8 right now and it is rendering Slashdot in standards compliant mode. It seems to render most sites in standards compliant mode, and I've never fiddled with the settings. IE8 probably defaults to compatibility mode only when the page doesn't have a standards compliant doctype, kind of like quirks mode in other browsers.
The reason gun control laws don't work in the US is that if one city or state has strict gun control laws, anyone can simply go to the next town, buy a full automatic gun without having to show any kind of ID, and march right on back. If there were stricter gun control laws across the country it would be much more difficult for people to illegally obtain weapons.
The shooter hardly seems like a clear leftist. In the article you point to they also favorited Mein Kampf, are against federal laws, and insists on the gold and silver standard. That's a good mix of hard right and hard left. I'd say they're just pure anarchist with a mix of pure crazy.
I'm guessing that yes, they did get scared: They dropped royalties on free videos so that VP8 wouldn't steal away all of their share of both the free _and_ the paid markets.
That's not entirely true. In theory, stock has intrinsic value because it confers partial ownership of a company. This may have been more true one hundred or two hundred years ago, but nowadays, 90% of companies hold a majority of their own stock, so it is company executives and not external shareholders that call the shots.
As a result stocks have very little intrinsic value. Stock prices are no longer determined by intrinsic value but by supply and demand. If there more people who want to buy a stock than sell it, price goes up, and if more people want to sell it than buy it, price goes down. Essentially, the stock market as a whole has become more like a futures market in this sense. Buying and selling stock is betting on the success of the company. Stock prices no longer have anything to do with the actual worth of the company, but how that worth it perceived. Judging from the fact that Apple's market capitalization is now higher than Microsoft's even though its annual profits are still lower, there is a lot of hype around the perception of Apple's worth.
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Anyone who complains about STL portability issues clearly hasn't written a line of C++ code in the past decade. STL is the single most portable and consistent library behind the C standard library. And don't even get me started about efficiency psuedo-arguments. std::sort outperforms qsort by a huge margin on most platforms.
And--I know I'm going to be stoned for this--Linus =/= God.
You do know the Facists (rebels) in Spanish Civil War were backed by the catholic church? It was the Nationalists (the original government) that were athiest backed.
Hitler, as mentioned by the previous poster was not athiest.
Stalin was athiest. (One of only two you got right.)
Mussolini was Roman Catholic. He created the Lateran Pacts with the Holy See, giving them diplomatic recognition for the first time in decades and all of the rights of an independant state. So almost the opposite of athiest.
Napoleon Bonaparte was not an athiest, he was Roman Catholic. I am no expert on Napoleon, but Wikipedfia says that Napoleon "pragmatically considered organised religions as key elements of social order."
Pol Pot was athiest. (Two of two.)
In other words, congratulations on naming a collection of unlikable people and arbitrarily labelling them athiest.
True, but it doesn't mean the earthquake isn't severe. The Northridge earthquake was "only" 6.7.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. I'm using IE8 right now and it is rendering Slashdot in standards compliant mode. It seems to render most sites in standards compliant mode, and I've never fiddled with the settings. IE8 probably defaults to compatibility mode only when the page doesn't have a standards compliant doctype, kind of like quirks mode in other browsers.
The reason gun control laws don't work in the US is that if one city or state has strict gun control laws, anyone can simply go to the next town, buy a full automatic gun without having to show any kind of ID, and march right on back. If there were stricter gun control laws across the country it would be much more difficult for people to illegally obtain weapons.
The shooter hardly seems like a clear leftist. In the article you point to they also favorited Mein Kampf, are against federal laws, and insists on the gold and silver standard. That's a good mix of hard right and hard left. I'd say they're just pure anarchist with a mix of pure crazy.
I'm guessing that yes, they did get scared: They dropped royalties on free videos so that VP8 wouldn't steal away all of their share of both the free _and_ the paid markets.
That's not entirely true. In theory, stock has intrinsic value because it confers partial ownership of a company. This may have been more true one hundred or two hundred years ago, but nowadays, 90% of companies hold a majority of their own stock, so it is company executives and not external shareholders that call the shots.
As a result stocks have very little intrinsic value. Stock prices are no longer determined by intrinsic value but by supply and demand. If there more people who want to buy a stock than sell it, price goes up, and if more people want to sell it than buy it, price goes down. Essentially, the stock market as a whole has become more like a futures market in this sense. Buying and selling stock is betting on the success of the company. Stock prices no longer have anything to do with the actual worth of the company, but how that worth it perceived. Judging from the fact that Apple's market capitalization is now higher than Microsoft's even though its annual profits are still lower, there is a lot of hype around the perception of Apple's worth.