A choice quote: "The bottom line is that HP calculators are here to stay and they are going to be better than ever, giving our customers more than ever."
But hey, don't let a silly little thing like facts get in your way of proclaiming the end of the line for HP calculators.
That explains it perfectly. Now I finally understand why tall, muscular people of African descent are so much richer and more successful, than say, their shorter Asian counterparts.
I have a suggestion for those who would like to continue selling those pieces of plastic.
Include a live video of your concert with your studio release(or hell, just release your live show) Package it all on a DVD or two and sell it for $20.
That's what Rush is doing - and at $20.99 for 3 hours of live music + extras on 2 DVD's, it's no wonder their DVD set is in amazon's top 50 nearly a month before its release.
And really, who is going to try and download 2 DVD's worth of material(8-10 gigs) when for 20 bucks, they can get the real thing.
Arrrr, I be Iron Morty Flint, and it shivers me timbers to think that 36 percent of those polled think file swapping is never acceptable. What's wrong with plundering a bit o' booty from time to time?
Yarr, we pirates are not unlike the gangsta rappers the RIAA loves to promote as the icons of American culture. Avast, ye RIAA scum, see how we but speak the same language as ye do:
fo'ties - bottles o' rum bling bling - booty Yo! - Avast! Homey - Matey Bee-atch - Scurvey dog Pop a cap in yo ass - Make ye walk the plank Word - Arrrrrrrrr Beat down - Keel haul Wack MC Land - lubber Playah - Swashbuckler Mack Daddy - Cap'n Jacking - Plundering Rap Sea - Shanties The joint - The brig Crew - Crew
So let us be pirates, or we'll pop a cap in yo ass, er, I mean make ye walk the plank, arrrr.
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I've seen all three, and I still think the Doors has the best trip(although it's peyote rather than acid)
As engineers we build time-saving applications for others but never think to apply the power of computers to our own problems.
Huh? Software engineers use more software than anyone else. We have tools for our tools. I found the above statement bordering on the ludicrous, and almost stopped reading at this point.
Code that is copied and pasted to multiple places is difficult to maintain properly across all of the copies. Active code generation does not suffer from the same maintainability issues as copy-and-paste coding. When you need fix something, you apply the bug fix to the templates used to generate the code, which then propagates the fix to all of the code maintained by the generator. This design ensures that no code that needs fixing is left scattered around and forgotten.
That's why we use functions and classes. Then, when you change your function, the changes are magically propagated to all the places in your code where that function was called! Copy and paste programming has been frowned upon pretty much since the days when the goto was declared bad programming practice.
It really sounds like this book is just putting on a fancy name for an incomplete set of good programming practices. Really, what is covered here that Design Patterns doesn't cover in a much more thorough and professional way?
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Not if the government is more productive with your taxes than you could be yourself. It's the Republican/Libertarian mantra that private citizens would be more productive with that money, but that's not always the case. Look at tech. Where does the highest form of technology live? In national laboratories and universities, NOT companies such as IBM, Microsoft, et. al. It's only after our taxes have paid for the research and development does most high tech filter down to corporations.
How about the internet itself? Is this not a perfect example of "abundance created by public sacrifice to the common good"? Think about what the 'net might be like if Microsoft had invented it.
So if our government takes our money and actually does something productive with it, that's a little more than "taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other" wouldn't you say? As a taxpayer, I consider our universities and national labs to be an investment, not mere redistribution.
Umm...people sharing files on Kazaa aren't carrying separate MD5 checksum files. The RIAA checksums the MP3's after they download them off your computer. That way, they have your IP address, and a copy of the file that was on your computer to use as evidence. The checksums are used to prove that you illegally copied your file from someone else on Kazaa. This checksum, combined with your IP and userID, is enough evidence for the RIAA to go after you.
Furthermore, the RIAA is only checking files that you publicly share. I don't see how this honeypot idea could possibly work.
I invite you to parse the following sentence(the bulk of which makes up my sig):
A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed."
Now tell me, had this been in the Bill of Rights, how could you conceivably use this to keep individuals(as opposed to voting members of an electorate) from owning books?
If you would like to see how an English professor dissected this sentence, read here.
It's perfectly proper to infer that the Bill of Rights writers intended the 2nd amendment to extend ownership of arms to individual citizens.
Funny thing - we were just discussing this very thing in my comp architecture class. Apple specified this benchmark to be "compiler independent", hence the use of GCC on both platforms.
What they convienently left out is the fact that Apple has been steadily coding improvements for the PowerPC flavor of GCC, leaving x86 GCC in the dust speed-wise. X86 GCC does not have the same kind of corporate sponsorship. Even so, this "benchmark", compared to the same code compiled with Intel's compiler, eats Intel's dust.
Here's a link. $399 at musiciansfriend.com. At this price, even the lamest air supply cover band can buy one, so who cares? It's not like the record companies are spending tens of thousands on these so Britney can sound better than you can.
And for all you non-musicians out there who are getting irate about this, well I have news for you. There is no such thing as a music recording without some kind of artificial processing done by electronics to make the instruments and/or vocals sound better. Whether its reverb, compression, or vocal processing, everyone, and I really mean everyone "cheats" when it comes to recording(or performing) sounds electronically. Hell, look at guitar distortion, without which there would be no hard rock or metal music. That's gotta be one the most processed sounds ever, when you compare the original guitar sound with what's actually coming out of the speakers.
If you need to keep it pure, I suggest you listen only to all acoustic music that is not mic'd or amplified in any way. If it has been recorded, it has been altered.
The spelling and punctuation in the stories would be correct, the first twenty comments would contain insightful dialog, and moderation scores would fit the posts they were attached to.
I think a base OS install should come with a full-featured scripting language that gives access to all OS facilities, and as much stuff as possible should be implemented in it.
It does. It's called the shell. But the shell doesn't need to do CGI, database programming or processing XML. When you want a language that can do these things(and many more) as well as do everything a shell language can do, then use Perl.
you trying to say there are no school teachers, nurses, policemen, or blue collar workers in all of Arlington, VA? Any place where you need 75G's a year just to rent an apartment has set itself up for a serious economic shakedown. You can't run a city without some basic services, and if those who provide them can't afford to live there, well, do the math.
There is NO birth record for a Jesus bin Miriam. At all.
Ah, but you conveniently left out the story(I won't call it fact out of respect for your opinion) about the baby Jesus being hidden from Herod as he ordered the slaying of all first born infants in Judea.
Regardless if this is true or not, there were many reasons for Jews to hide themselves or people they were trying to protect from the Roman census takers.
Now come on, really, do you deny that Jesus Christ ever existed? Are all those History 101 college textbooks wrong? That's a pretty big denial on your part, if that's in fact what you believe.
The poster is incorrect about *some* things, so therefore he must be incorrect about *all* things!
Well, the grandparent's attitude seemed to be that the Bible was incorrect about all things, whereas I merely wanted to point out it's only incorrect about some things.;)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.hp.com/calculators/news/index.html
A choice quote:
"The bottom line is that HP calculators are here to stay and they are going to be better than ever, giving our customers more than ever."
But hey, don't let a silly little thing like facts get in your way of proclaiming the end of the line for HP calculators.
Statistics: Asians make more than Blacks in this country.
Therefore, this study is either racist or dubious. I'll take a guess that it's the latter.
That explains it perfectly. Now I finally understand why tall, muscular people of African descent are so much richer and more successful, than say, their shorter Asian counterparts.
I have a suggestion for those who would like to continue selling those pieces of plastic.
Include a live video of your concert with your studio release(or hell, just release your live show) Package it all on a DVD or two and sell it for $20.
That's what Rush is doing - and at $20.99 for 3 hours of live music + extras on 2 DVD's, it's no wonder their DVD set is in amazon's top 50 nearly a month before its release.
And really, who is going to try and download 2 DVD's worth of material(8-10 gigs) when for 20 bucks, they can get the real thing.
arrrr, and that not even be the site that I stole it from!
Yarr, we pirates are not unlike the gangsta rappers the RIAA loves to promote as the icons of American culture. Avast, ye RIAA scum, see how we but speak the same language as ye do:
fo'ties - bottles o' rum
bling bling - booty
Yo! - Avast!
Homey - Matey
Bee-atch - Scurvey dog
Pop a cap in yo ass - Make ye walk the plank
Word - Arrrrrrrrr
Beat down - Keel haul
Wack MC Land - lubber
Playah - Swashbuckler
Mack Daddy - Cap'n
Jacking - Plundering
Rap Sea - Shanties
The joint - The brig
Crew - Crew
So let us be pirates, or we'll pop a cap in yo ass, er, I mean make ye walk the plank, arrrr.
Huh? Software engineers use more software than anyone else. We have tools for our tools. I found the above statement bordering on the ludicrous, and almost stopped reading at this point.
Code that is copied and pasted to multiple places is difficult to maintain properly across all of the copies. Active code generation does not suffer from the same maintainability issues as copy-and-paste coding. When you need fix something, you apply the bug fix to the templates used to generate the code, which then propagates the fix to all of the code maintained by the generator. This design ensures that no code that needs fixing is left scattered around and forgotten.
That's why we use functions and classes. Then, when you change your function, the changes are magically propagated to all the places in your code where that function was called! Copy and paste programming has been frowned upon pretty much since the days when the goto was declared bad programming practice.
It really sounds like this book is just putting on a fancy name for an incomplete set of good programming practices. Really, what is covered here that Design Patterns doesn't cover in a much more thorough and professional way?
Not if the government is more productive with your taxes than you could be yourself. It's the Republican/Libertarian mantra that private citizens would be more productive with that money, but that's not always the case. Look at tech. Where does the highest form of technology live? In national laboratories and universities, NOT companies such as IBM, Microsoft, et. al. It's only after our taxes have paid for the research and development does most high tech filter down to corporations.
How about the internet itself? Is this not a perfect example of "abundance created by public sacrifice to the common good"? Think about what the 'net might be like if Microsoft had invented it.
So if our government takes our money and actually does something productive with it, that's a little more than "taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other" wouldn't you say? As a taxpayer, I consider our universities and national labs to be an investment, not mere redistribution.
Umm...people sharing files on Kazaa aren't carrying separate MD5 checksum files. The RIAA checksums the MP3's after they download them off your computer. That way, they have your IP address, and a copy of the file that was on your computer to use as evidence. The checksums are used to prove that you illegally copied your file from someone else on Kazaa. This checksum, combined with your IP and userID, is enough evidence for the RIAA to go after you.
Furthermore, the RIAA is only checking files that you publicly share. I don't see how this honeypot idea could possibly work.
A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed."
Now tell me, had this been in the Bill of Rights, how could you conceivably use this to keep individuals(as opposed to voting members of an electorate) from owning books?
If you would like to see how an English professor dissected this sentence, read here.
It's perfectly proper to infer that the Bill of Rights writers intended the 2nd amendment to extend ownership of arms to individual citizens.
What they convienently left out is the fact that Apple has been steadily coding improvements for the PowerPC flavor of GCC, leaving x86 GCC in the dust speed-wise. X86 GCC does not have the same kind of corporate sponsorship. Even so, this "benchmark", compared to the same code compiled with Intel's compiler, eats Intel's dust.
You hit the nail on the head.
Perhaps it will be Scheme.NET (sadly, not a joke)
And for all you non-musicians out there who are getting irate about this, well I have news for you. There is no such thing as a music recording without some kind of artificial processing done by electronics to make the instruments and/or vocals sound better. Whether its reverb, compression, or vocal processing, everyone, and I really mean everyone "cheats" when it comes to recording(or performing) sounds electronically. Hell, look at guitar distortion, without which there would be no hard rock or metal music. That's gotta be one the most processed sounds ever, when you compare the original guitar sound with what's actually coming out of the speakers.
If you need to keep it pure, I suggest you listen only to all acoustic music that is not mic'd or amplified in any way. If it has been recorded, it has been altered.
not to mention the two live albums A Show of Hands and Different Stages
One deep breath for breakfast, one deep breath for lunch, and for dinner, a sensible Marlboro cigarette.
It does. It's called the shell. But the shell doesn't need to do CGI, database programming or processing XML. When you want a language that can do these things(and many more) as well as do everything a shell language can do, then use Perl.
s/ain't/is
Price of new inkjet printer: $50
Price of two new inkjet cartriges, one color, one B&W $60-$75.
At these prices, I'm treating the printer itself as a disposable.
you trying to say there are no school teachers, nurses, policemen, or blue collar workers in all of Arlington, VA? Any place where you need 75G's a year just to rent an apartment has set itself up for a serious economic shakedown. You can't run a city without some basic services, and if those who provide them can't afford to live there, well, do the math.
http://us.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/07/09/thirties
Maybe somebody could get them to include the top red stripe on the American Flag. God knows we tried and failed here. :)
Ah, but you conveniently left out the story(I won't call it fact out of respect for your opinion) about the baby Jesus being hidden from Herod as he ordered the slaying of all first born infants in Judea.
Regardless if this is true or not, there were many reasons for Jews to hide themselves or people they were trying to protect from the Roman census takers.
Now come on, really, do you deny that Jesus Christ ever existed? Are all those History 101 college textbooks wrong? That's a pretty big denial on your part, if that's in fact what you believe.
Well, the grandparent's attitude seemed to be that the Bible was incorrect about all things, whereas I merely wanted to point out it's only incorrect about some things. ;)