This is a good example--another one is the principle of right-of-way. If I allow you to use part of my property, for example, to get to a stream, for a few years, I am not within my rights to simply stop your access--you have acquired through use a legitimate right-of-way (this is in the US). Further, your right-of-way is even transferable and whoever I sell the property to has to accommodate you as well.
There is a similar principle underlying common-law marriage and palimony, and it's real.
As always, a model that equals the complexity of its subject would be the size of the subject.
The point's well-taken, but I think this doesn't hold, at least in theory. In a functional programming language you can often replace a thing with a generator, and the thing itself isn't materialized unless it's needed. So, for example, if no-one ever looks at the Sims bookshelf, you don't need to define what's there, just how to generate it if it's needed. In a sufficiently advanced virtual world you might be able to do that without materializing every possible outcome.
Yes, but so was Python, which has good implementations on many platforms and with which you can get pretty quickly to some cool stuff.
The OP rejected Python as "too complicated" but I don't know what he means by that: in Python simple programs are generally simple, and it was designed from the get-go as a teaching language. I'd go with:
Python: Designed as a teaching language, as with BASIC, but clearer, cleaner and more useful. However...
Microsoft Visual Basic if she's Windows-oriented. I don't know much about this but I'd assume it's like BASIC but with access to Windows controls and so forth.
HTML/Javascript if she's web-oriented--I believe someone was even writing a course on programming using the Javascript interpreter on popular browsers. The con of this approach is the unusual and complicated runtime environment.
Some other captive language for a domain she likes: one of my first "languages" was MUSHcode, another was the Lotus 1-2-3 macro language. Because these may be relevant to a specific problem domain she's interested in, they might be a good choice.
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Wow! That's the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Looks to me like it's exactly what the guy is looking for--yes, works produced by government employees are in the public domain, and this appears to allow you to download vector data for roads and so forth.
If you want to use waste oil, you get a kit with a separate gas tank that preheats the oil (to thin it out--that's the difference between biodiesel and vegetable oil) and filter it. You start the car on the regular tank (of biodiesel) and switch to the waste oil once everything's warmed up, minimizing your cost. I think it's very cute.
This is dimly remembered from "reading some website somewhere," so YMMV, quite literally.
Well, I think some of it is a general unwillingness on the part of motorists to properly share the road--with anyone, motorist or cyclist. I don't know if you also drive but you will certainly be on the receiving end of anger and inappropriate driving behavior if you're in a car as well.
That said, I don't think that's the whole story, and there is an attitude of contempt for the laws of the road and for others on the road that is common among cyclists and engenders resentment. A case in point: I've never seen a cyclist stop at a stop sign (unless forced by an oncoming car); I was hit, rather hard, by
a cyclist when crossing the street as a pedestrian, and in my city a woman was put into a coma by a cyclist under similar circumstances. It's very common for cyclists to ride two or more abreast when the law clearly states they must ride as far to the right as possible. Illegal stunts like Critical Mass in San Francisco cause further resentment.
In short, the attitude one gets from cyclists is that they're not interested in sharing the road--so why should we be? I understand that's not completely fair, but it sounded like you asked the question in the spirit of honest inquiry, so I'm providing the best answer I can. And this attitude is further exacerbated off the road, where the typical outspoken cyclist is, let's face it, an arrogant tool, whose belief in their own moral superiority for using a bicycle leaks into everything they do and say.
I think the remainder of the attitude you get from motorists is plain ignorance: a lot of motorists just don't understand that they are obligated to share the road with cyclists, and are sometimes confused about when they're obligated to give way and aren't (a situation complicated by cyclists' typical contempt for the rules of the road). I'd like to see lots more education and enforcement on both sides of this issue: the laws are there that will allow us to properly share the road, we just need to follow them.
Well, diesel engines are neither dirty (particulates) nor contribute to global warming if run on biodisel, which they can without being modified (unlike gasoline engines and alcohol). Which is why I'd love to be able to pick a diesel in the car I need.
This may not be big enough for your trailer, but our Subaru Outback accommodates a class II hitch, up to 3500 lbs. However, I wouldn't advise towing it without the H6 engine, as we have, and I'm not sure you'd get better mileage with it.
This is a much better analogy than the ridiculous "gun on the porch" one. By the time your computer has been shipped to you from Dell or wherever, it's out of date, unpatched and likely to spread worms. If you plug it in and use it, are you liable for anything someone does with it?
I just don't think you need to go this far. Go ahead and do your DHCP logging. Go ahead and enable WEP encryption. It's so easy and so prepackaged to crack WEP and spoof MACs that I think you get the benefit of the deniability without the problem of intent ("I removed... I disabled...").
They can hold you responsible for monitary damages to their equipment or service caused by your negligence,
They probably can't even do that. What was negligent? That you configured a DHCP server in a manner that doesn't maximize accountability? Everything else in this scenario is the default. By the way, if I take my Airport, plug it into my cable modem, and turn it on, I have exactly this setup (the Airport serves DHCP, does NAT, and has no logging). How can that possibly be considered negligence on my part?
But when I hear you, Americans are the true heroes, the ones whose honor never faltered, uh? don't you think you have shameful acts on your conscience too? like the way you treated native indians, like the way you treated the blacks *in your own country*, like the way you treated the Vietnamese... and that buddy is more recent history than WW2!
Not to further all this nationalistic chest-beating, but hearing a French person criticize the U.S.'s involvement in Indochina, er, Vietnam, is nothing short of surreal.
Interestingly, that isn't the "origin" posited by Stephenson: however (and Quicksilver and The Confusion are both rife with these little fictional-etymological anecdotes) I don't think Stephenson intended them as literal word origins, but entertaining fictionalized imaginings about the nature of terms and words.
There are a lot of infamous "timed runs" like this throughout the Tomb Raiders, hated by many, including me. I like a little running around with my puzzles, sure, but I have suck reflexes. That's why Tomb Raider appeals because you don't have to aim the guns and so forth. But those timed runs--ugh!
Then there was something you didn't "get," at some level, about the controls in Tomb Raider, which are, in fact, excellently matched to the play of the game. The movement is broken up into units of distance and angle that are exactly matched to particular control manipulations, so that precise jumping, run-jumping, back-jumping, etc. are actually very easy and reliable compared to other games: no guesswork. Jumping puzzles, for example, are less about the jumping and more about the puzzle, unlike in some other games.
The article is about working outside the office, not just from home. I, for one, find Wi-Fi convenient when I want to get out of the house and work in the local coffee house or pub.
No, and remeber Shakespeare was writing for popular audiences: he wanted to pack them in; and his plays were entirely different from the snooty entertainments of the time. They were violent, lusty, and appealed to commoners (in which category I'd assume you'd put Dale Earnhardt fans).
A video game uses art, of course, just as an instruction booklet may use art on its cover. That doesn't necessarily mean it is art. Can we say a game is art? Is chess art?
I never understood it to have anything to do with the chip on the redhead's shoulder, merely the fact that they were not the (abusive) father's son; and this fact is that much more obvious since the kid's hair color is different from the (more-typically-colored) father. In other words, a redhead is a more obvious cuckoo.
I've read how some vehicles oil changes alone are hundreds of dollars.
I own an Audi TT (hardly a supercar) and my last service was almost $500. That wasn't just an oil change, it included some filter changes and stuff, but still. I imagine some of the exotics are actually in the thousands of dollars range for routine things like that: but when you're paying $1M for a car, you don't really consider the cost of maintenance, do you?
I agree with you that cars are meant to be driven, which is why I bought a TT and not a Porsche 911 or something. Um, yeah, that was it, not that I didn't have the money.
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This is a good example--another one is the principle of right-of-way. If I allow you to use part of my property, for example, to get to a stream, for a few years, I am not within my rights to simply stop your access--you have acquired through use a legitimate right-of-way (this is in the US). Further, your right-of-way is even transferable and whoever I sell the property to has to accommodate you as well.
There is a similar principle underlying common-law marriage and palimony, and it's real.
The point's well-taken, but I think this doesn't hold, at least in theory. In a functional programming language you can often replace a thing with a generator, and the thing itself isn't materialized unless it's needed. So, for example, if no-one ever looks at the Sims bookshelf, you don't need to define what's there, just how to generate it if it's needed. In a sufficiently advanced virtual world you might be able to do that without materializing every possible outcome.
Anyway, I agree with your point, just musing.
Yes, but so was Python, which has good implementations on many platforms and with which you can get pretty quickly to some cool stuff.
The OP rejected Python as "too complicated" but I don't know what he means by that: in Python simple programs are generally simple, and it was designed from the get-go as a teaching language. I'd go with:
Wow! That's the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Looks to me like it's exactly what the guy is looking for--yes, works produced by government employees are in the public domain, and this appears to allow you to download vector data for roads and so forth.
If you want to use waste oil, you get a kit with a separate gas tank that preheats the oil (to thin it out--that's the difference between biodiesel and vegetable oil) and filter it. You start the car on the regular tank (of biodiesel) and switch to the waste oil once everything's warmed up, minimizing your cost. I think it's very cute.
This is dimly remembered from "reading some website somewhere," so YMMV, quite literally.
Well, I think some of it is a general unwillingness on the part of motorists to properly share the road--with anyone, motorist or cyclist. I don't know if you also drive but you will certainly be on the receiving end of anger and inappropriate driving behavior if you're in a car as well.
That said, I don't think that's the whole story, and there is an attitude of contempt for the laws of the road and for others on the road that is common among cyclists and engenders resentment. A case in point: I've never seen a cyclist stop at a stop sign (unless forced by an oncoming car); I was hit, rather hard, by a cyclist when crossing the street as a pedestrian, and in my city a woman was put into a coma by a cyclist under similar circumstances. It's very common for cyclists to ride two or more abreast when the law clearly states they must ride as far to the right as possible. Illegal stunts like Critical Mass in San Francisco cause further resentment.
In short, the attitude one gets from cyclists is that they're not interested in sharing the road--so why should we be? I understand that's not completely fair, but it sounded like you asked the question in the spirit of honest inquiry, so I'm providing the best answer I can. And this attitude is further exacerbated off the road, where the typical outspoken cyclist is, let's face it, an arrogant tool, whose belief in their own moral superiority for using a bicycle leaks into everything they do and say.
I think the remainder of the attitude you get from motorists is plain ignorance: a lot of motorists just don't understand that they are obligated to share the road with cyclists, and are sometimes confused about when they're obligated to give way and aren't (a situation complicated by cyclists' typical contempt for the rules of the road). I'd like to see lots more education and enforcement on both sides of this issue: the laws are there that will allow us to properly share the road, we just need to follow them.
Well, diesel engines are neither dirty (particulates) nor contribute to global warming if run on biodisel, which they can without being modified (unlike gasoline engines and alcohol). Which is why I'd love to be able to pick a diesel in the car I need.
This may not be big enough for your trailer, but our Subaru Outback accommodates a class II hitch, up to 3500 lbs. However, I wouldn't advise towing it without the H6 engine, as we have, and I'm not sure you'd get better mileage with it.
Maybe not better, but fewer words:
Wow, a hundred inches really is a long run. Was it also in danger of being crushed by a dwarf?
This is a much better analogy than the ridiculous "gun on the porch" one. By the time your computer has been shipped to you from Dell or wherever, it's out of date, unpatched and likely to spread worms. If you plug it in and use it, are you liable for anything someone does with it?
I just don't think you need to go this far. Go ahead and do your DHCP logging. Go ahead and enable WEP encryption. It's so easy and so prepackaged to crack WEP and spoof MACs that I think you get the benefit of the deniability without the problem of intent ("I removed... I disabled...").
They probably can't even do that. What was negligent? That you configured a DHCP server in a manner that doesn't maximize accountability? Everything else in this scenario is the default. By the way, if I take my Airport, plug it into my cable modem, and turn it on, I have exactly this setup (the Airport serves DHCP, does NAT, and has no logging). How can that possibly be considered negligence on my part?
Since the answer to this question was yes, I don't think it was offensive or myopic.
Not to further all this nationalistic chest-beating, but hearing a French person criticize the U.S.'s involvement in Indochina, er, Vietnam, is nothing short of surreal.
Interestingly, that isn't the "origin" posited by Stephenson: however (and Quicksilver and The Confusion are both rife with these little fictional-etymological anecdotes) I don't think Stephenson intended them as literal word origins, but entertaining fictionalized imaginings about the nature of terms and words.
There are a lot of infamous "timed runs" like this throughout the Tomb Raiders, hated by many, including me. I like a little running around with my puzzles, sure, but I have suck reflexes. That's why Tomb Raider appeals because you don't have to aim the guns and so forth. But those timed runs--ugh!
Then there was something you didn't "get," at some level, about the controls in Tomb Raider, which are, in fact, excellently matched to the play of the game. The movement is broken up into units of distance and angle that are exactly matched to particular control manipulations, so that precise jumping, run-jumping, back-jumping, etc. are actually very easy and reliable compared to other games: no guesswork. Jumping puzzles, for example, are less about the jumping and more about the puzzle, unlike in some other games.
The article is about working outside the office, not just from home. I, for one, find Wi-Fi convenient when I want to get out of the house and work in the local coffee house or pub.
No, and remeber Shakespeare was writing for popular audiences: he wanted to pack them in; and his plays were entirely different from the snooty entertainments of the time. They were violent, lusty, and appealed to commoners (in which category I'd assume you'd put Dale Earnhardt fans).
A video game uses art, of course, just as an instruction booklet may use art on its cover. That doesn't necessarily mean it is art. Can we say a game is art? Is chess art?
Especially when you've spent mostly the entire game leveling her instead of one of the others. Oh! The pain!
I never understood it to have anything to do with the chip on the redhead's shoulder, merely the fact that they were not the (abusive) father's son; and this fact is that much more obvious since the kid's hair color is different from the (more-typically-colored) father. In other words, a redhead is a more obvious cuckoo.
I own an Audi TT (hardly a supercar) and my last service was almost $500. That wasn't just an oil change, it included some filter changes and stuff, but still. I imagine some of the exotics are actually in the thousands of dollars range for routine things like that: but when you're paying $1M for a car, you don't really consider the cost of maintenance, do you?
I agree with you that cars are meant to be driven, which is why I bought a TT and not a Porsche 911 or something. Um, yeah, that was it, not that I didn't have the money.
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