That's an interesting point to bring up. In a simple language you're on your own to piece together a coherent sentence out of independent building blocks. In English there are tons of strong subject-verb agreement / idiom / tense rules that tightly bind together the sentence and make it very obvious when the sentence is ambiguous or incorrect.
TFS:
[This sort of programming] is very bureaucratic. Every step must be justified to the compiler. Every step must be justified to the compiler.
Like simple human languages, practically anything you care to write in weakly-typed languages like JavaScript will parse, but that doesn't mean that it will be interpreted the way you want. But if by some miracle you can get your Haskell program to compile then 90% of the time it will work perfectly on the first run.
That's not true, it's illegal for UPS and FedEx to deliver first class mail (normal priority letters in an envelope). The Postal Inspection Service investigates and aggressively prosecutes companies for sending normal mail through other carriers. I remember some story from awhile back where a big corporation was fined a large sum when the postal service found out that the "high priority mail" they were sending through a carrier was just normal priority.
It's all GPL so there has to be source somewhere. Their site says
The source code of the standard packages on the CD are available from their respective original providers (for example on the FTP servers at Debian). Special components such as the WatchOCR program and scripts are available on the CD.
How is dropping a text file in the same folder as wordpress creating something that is "part of WP"? This is exactly the kind of restrictive insanity that free software licenses were supposed to eliminate.
The definition of a good social networking site is: Whatever the most of your friends are using. If a strong competitor emerged, since nobody is using it yet nobody will use it.
Also, I don't know why Wikipedia should have such a good user satisfaction. I hate the new look and have to log in everywhere to restore sanity.
Yeah because America's enemies are just bristling with 20-million-dollar ballistic missiles.
Oh but what if they get planes within range to fire air-to-surface missiles at us? That's something to worry about, what with the formidable 2-plane Cold War-era surplus air force that Iran can field, and the United States' woefully underfunded (to the tune of a mere $170 billion per year) air force with its underpowered fleet of just 2,132 fighters.
I fully support the ongoing upgrades of our increasingly-relevant naval fleet to meet the real threat of, uh, ships too heavily armored to be damaged by aircraft. Since all of our allies have strongly scaled back their naval operations, I guess it's up to us to keep the seas safe from untouchable submarines and giant squid.
Who are these investors that back this company? I'm sure they'll be real thrilled to hear "Even though we didn't have to, we decided to stop conducting business for awhile for PR reasons, but almost all of our customers are outraged and leaving us."
If by crapware you mean the most excellent social gaming platform in existence?
The stated purpose of steam is to distribute game content; it's a digital distribution network. If you have a game in your library, it will serve you the entire download at high speed any number of times you please, to any computer in the world that you please, at any time. No, it won't serve you the content if you don't have it on your account. Call that DRM if you want.
I don't really get how they can release UT engine games like that for free... don't they have to pay licensing fees to distribute the executable (like, not just a mod that requires UT2004)?
Tremulous uses 2k4 code too, and doesn't require UT2004, and it's free.
Except those farm workers really are sociopaths. The animal liberation movement horror videos make it pretty clear that there are a lot of people who have no qualms at all with kicking or viciously jabbing a screaming, dying animal, and do it all day long.
I'm as hardened as any anon - no shock site will faze me anymore - but I would probably be seriously disturbed if I saw someone die in real life, or saw a lot of blood or something. It's the difference between real pain and suffering and pictures on the internet that are probably fake anyway.
I'm a medical equipment technician at a California corrections facility. My boss routinely asks me to kill people in cold blood, and I've been doing it for a few years now... there's a lot of paperwork and everything, but I'm not entirely sure it's legal.
Does anyone else have experience with being ordered to kill somebody as part of their IT duties?
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That's an interesting point to bring up. In a simple language you're on your own to piece together a coherent sentence out of independent building blocks. In English there are tons of strong subject-verb agreement / idiom / tense rules that tightly bind together the sentence and make it very obvious when the sentence is ambiguous or incorrect.
TFS:
Like simple human languages, practically anything you care to write in weakly-typed languages like JavaScript will parse, but that doesn't mean that it will be interpreted the way you want. But if by some miracle you can get your Haskell program to compile then 90% of the time it will work perfectly on the first run.
That's not true, it's illegal for UPS and FedEx to deliver first class mail (normal priority letters in an envelope). The Postal Inspection Service investigates and aggressively prosecutes companies for sending normal mail through other carriers. I remember some story from awhile back where a big corporation was fined a large sum when the postal service found out that the "high priority mail" they were sending through a carrier was just normal priority.
It's all GPL so there has to be source somewhere. Their site says
so it's probably on the disk.
How many Library of Congress National Film Registries is that?
My C program doesn't run sequentially with eglibc, it skips back and forth every time I need to call a library function.
If your storage medium has to explicitly allow your content then someone is doing it terribly, terribly wrong.
How is dropping a text file in the same folder as wordpress creating something that is "part of WP"? This is exactly the kind of restrictive insanity that free software licenses were supposed to eliminate.
Probably the same IT people who made some kind of monstrosity of an Excel macro to display live video in an Excel window.
Wow, the number is really high. I mean, I should have guessed it from youtube comments, but it's still surprising.
Defense against what? The oceans aren't exactly teeming with enemy navies. This sounds like an attempt for the navy to try to seem relevant.
etc etc.
What spec? All that scripting support is Adobe only.
You shouldn't be relying on sumatra PDF for printing at all, its printing support is terrible and the author says that it's unlikely to be fixed.
I just use evince. It even has a native Windows installer.
The definition of a good social networking site is: Whatever the most of your friends are using. If a strong competitor emerged, since nobody is using it yet nobody will use it.
Also, I don't know why Wikipedia should have such a good user satisfaction. I hate the new look and have to log in everywhere to restore sanity.
Yeah because America's enemies are just bristling with 20-million-dollar ballistic missiles.
Oh but what if they get planes within range to fire air-to-surface missiles at us? That's something to worry about, what with the formidable 2-plane Cold War-era surplus air force that Iran can field, and the United States' woefully underfunded (to the tune of a mere $170 billion per year) air force with its underpowered fleet of just 2,132 fighters.
I fully support the ongoing upgrades of our increasingly-relevant naval fleet to meet the real threat of, uh, ships too heavily armored to be damaged by aircraft. Since all of our allies have strongly scaled back their naval operations, I guess it's up to us to keep the seas safe from untouchable submarines and giant squid.
OK, proof.
1. Go to their homepage, Allow All in noscript, watch the video.
2. Have ever played UT 2004.
Who are these investors that back this company? I'm sure they'll be real thrilled to hear "Even though we didn't have to, we decided to stop conducting business for awhile for PR reasons, but almost all of our customers are outraged and leaving us."
Oh I'm sorry, I meant Nexuiz!
Nexuiz says it's a Quake 1 engine modification, but those menu widgets and fonts look awfully familiar.
If by crapware you mean the most excellent social gaming platform in existence?
The stated purpose of steam is to distribute game content; it's a digital distribution network. If you have a game in your library, it will serve you the entire download at high speed any number of times you please, to any computer in the world that you please, at any time. No, it won't serve you the content if you don't have it on your account. Call that DRM if you want.
The Ukraine and Siberia usually work well for me.
That is, if I can even start the download.. as with most new releases and all TF2 updates, the content servers are overwhelmed.
I don't really get how they can release UT engine games like that for free... don't they have to pay licensing fees to distribute the executable (like, not just a mod that requires UT2004)?
Tremulous uses 2k4 code too, and doesn't require UT2004, and it's free.
Except those farm workers really are sociopaths. The animal liberation movement horror videos make it pretty clear that there are a lot of people who have no qualms at all with kicking or viciously jabbing a screaming, dying animal, and do it all day long.
I'm as hardened as any anon - no shock site will faze me anymore - but I would probably be seriously disturbed if I saw someone die in real life, or saw a lot of blood or something. It's the difference between real pain and suffering and pictures on the internet that are probably fake anyway.
Also, cue moar pooper comic
I'm a medical equipment technician at a California corrections facility. My boss routinely asks me to kill people in cold blood, and I've been doing it for a few years now... there's a lot of paperwork and everything, but I'm not entirely sure it's legal.
Does anyone else have experience with being ordered to kill somebody as part of their IT duties?