Before you go off ranting about how this will "corrupt" those poor children
Relax, man. No one is ranting. Most Americans think it's pretty stupid too. It's mostly a minority of puritanical prudes who think they need to uphold the rest our morals.
Is it all a matter of personal preference, or experience? Or am I a mutant?
You are a mutant.:) No, but when I took SML in college, the problem I had was that I absolutely did *NOT* think that way. I never really got my head around it.
and now i don't have a car. you could have done the same, you didn't, and now you pay more than you think you should for gas. we both acted freely, didn't we? so what's the problem?
The problem is, as I see it, that you are an idiot.:-b
I live 25 miles from work, yes, I could have gotten closer, no it would not have made any difference. There are no buses or trains going to where I work, and this is probably 10 miles from downtown Washington frickin' DC.
I'm originally from a small town in western Pennsylvania. I didn't *choose* to live there, it's where I was born. It's where my parents were born. The only bus I ever saw near my house was the schoolbus. We stayed there because it's too bloody expensive to move anywhere else. (Yes, there *are* still poor people in the world.)
Right now I live in the 'burbs. There's a lot of construction going on in my immediate neighborhood (and I use the word 'neighborhood' very loosely, because although I "chose" to become a member of "the community", I never see my neighbors and have no idea who they even are). All this construction is starting to make me feel crowded in again. I'm wondering if it might be time to move further out.
In short, just because you chose (sutpidly, I feel) to live in the city doesn't give you the right to judge *me*.
yes, i'm aware of this, but it's an individual, inefficient, lifestyle choice.
So. I'm an idiot if I choose to life somewhere where I can actually see a tree now and then, I can take a deep breath of air without coughing, I'm not bumping elbows with a thousand other people when I walk outside, and the crime rate is 1/10 what it is in the city?
yes, i'm aware of this, but it's an individual, inefficient, lifestyle choice.
So. I'm an idiot if I choose to life somewhere where I can actually see a tree now and then, I can take a deep breath of air without coughing, I'm not bumping elbows with a thousand other people when I walk outside, and the crime rate is 1/10 what it is in the city?
milk is about half as expensive, and even soft drinks and beer are cheaper per gallon.
Er, where the hell do you live? Around here (northern Virginia), gas is about $1.60/gal for the cheap stuff. Milk is about $2.50+ and the cheapest I've gotten pop lately was 0.88 for a 2L bottle, which is about $1.75/gal.
The sad fact is that more Americans are familiar with Beavis and Butthead than with the Constitution. And we want *more* of these uneducated, drooling sheeple to vote? I think that anyone who is receiving government assistance
Amen, brother. When I leave work, I don't take it home with me. I don't have a cell phone, I don't have a Palm, and I don't have a laptop. OK, so maybe I'm not the go-getter on the fast track to the top, but at least I might be alive in 20 years.:)
Talk about naive. Do you honestly think that no terrorist group out there today is capable of 1) obtaining a small (suitcase-sized) nuclear/biological device and 2) getting it into the US?
This is very similar to a concept Economists call path dependency. The QWERTY keyboard layout, for example, has been shown to be far inferior to the DVORAK layout
Actually, this verges on being an urban legend. Much of the research that said Dvorak is better is suspect, and at least one study said that Qwerty is actually better because you switch hands more often.
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O2s only had MIPS R5000 or R10000 processors, AFAIK. At least, the ones around here did. They aren't that good. Oh, and their graphics system pretty much blows.
"The talk" went, roughly: "Look, dumbass, college is four years of unlimited sex and alcohol paid for by your parents. Are you really stupid enough to NOT go?"
Ha! I didn't get laid until I was nearly 29, didn't drink that much in college, and paid for it with grants and student loans, which I now have to pay back. What were those benefits again?:)
and there is a growing feeling that we should have found something by now.
Oh rubbish. The odds that we will ever hear a signal is pretty small. Given the number of stars and the length of time that we spend listening to any one of them, what are the odds that we are listening to the right star, at the right time, at the right frequency?
There was an explanation on TV once that I think is pretty apt. Imagine there's two people at opposite ends of a sports stadium. Every day, for one second, one of them lights a match. Every day, for one second, the other one opens his eyes. The odds that the 2nd person will see the match is pretty small. The situation for detecting an extraterrestrial signal is even worse.
Oh, and one time we picked up an unusual signal. Scientists quickly cooked up some elaborate way the signals could have been generated naturally before they found out it was a problem with the receiver. So even if we *do* hear something, it could be dismissed.:-b (And no, I don't have a reference for that story.)
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ie. to ask yourself (and answer) questions like "does variable i have a meaningful value at this point in the code, or can I use it for something new?"
Well, there's a problem going the other way too. If I'm looking at a C++ for(;;) loop, and I see 'i' used as an index, then I may have to hunt all over to see where it came from. Was it declared in the loop? Was it declared at the beginning of the function? Hell, is it member of the class?
Secondly, the names `i,j,k' give someone reading the code no clue as to what the variables stand for.
99.9% of the time, they're loop indices. How hard is that?:-b
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Relax, man. No one is ranting. Most Americans think it's pretty stupid too. It's mostly a minority of puritanical prudes who think they need to uphold the rest our morals.
You are a mutant. :) No, but when I took SML in college, the problem I had was that I absolutely did *NOT* think that way. I never really got my head around it.
Haven't they been saying that since about 1950? :)
The problem is, as I see it, that you are an idiot. :-b
I live 25 miles from work, yes, I could have gotten closer, no it would not have made any difference. There are no buses or trains going to where I work, and this is probably 10 miles from downtown Washington frickin' DC.
I'm originally from a small town in western Pennsylvania. I didn't *choose* to live there, it's where I was born. It's where my parents were born. The only bus I ever saw near my house was the schoolbus. We stayed there because it's too bloody expensive to move anywhere else. (Yes, there *are* still poor people in the world.)
Right now I live in the 'burbs. There's a lot of construction going on in my immediate neighborhood (and I use the word 'neighborhood' very loosely, because although I "chose" to become a member of "the community", I never see my neighbors and have no idea who they even are). All this construction is starting to make me feel crowded in again. I'm wondering if it might be time to move further out.
In short, just because you chose (sutpidly, I feel) to live in the city doesn't give you the right to judge *me*.
So. I'm an idiot if I choose to life somewhere where I can actually see a tree now and then, I can take a deep breath of air without coughing, I'm not bumping elbows with a thousand other people when I walk outside, and the crime rate is 1/10 what it is in the city?
So. I'm an idiot if I choose to life somewhere where I can actually see a tree now and then, I can take a deep breath of air without coughing, I'm not bumping elbows with a thousand other people when I walk outside, and the crime rate is 1/10 what it is in the city?
Er, where the hell do you live? Around here (northern Virginia), gas is about $1.60/gal for the cheap stuff. Milk is about $2.50+ and the cheapest I've gotten pop lately was 0.88 for a 2L bottle, which is about $1.75/gal.
Er, So Don't Do That. If you have that many things in your list, your UI probably needs redesigned.
Huh huh. You said 'ass'. Uh-huh huh.
Amen, brother. When I leave work, I don't take it home with me. I don't have a cell phone, I don't have a Palm, and I don't have a laptop. OK, so maybe I'm not the go-getter on the fast track to the top, but at least I might be alive in 20 years. :)
If I'm not doing anything illegal, they have no business monitoring me. It's that simple.
Fair enough. How does it know which ones to monitor? Hmm, better monitor everyone, just to be safe.
I am not advocating a police state!
You are, in fact.
Talk about naive. Do you honestly think that no terrorist group out there today is capable of 1) obtaining a small (suitcase-sized) nuclear/biological device and 2) getting it into the US?
Actually, this verges on being an urban legend. Much of the research that said Dvorak is better is suspect, and at least one study said that Qwerty is actually better because you switch hands more often.
God doesn't need man pages. Probably.
As opposed to the game being no challenge at all?
It checked for 3dfx glide during install too.
O2s only had MIPS R5000 or R10000 processors, AFAIK. At least, the ones around here did. They aren't that good. Oh, and their graphics system pretty much blows.
Ha! I didn't get laid until I was nearly 29, didn't drink that much in college, and paid for it with grants and student loans, which I now have to pay back. What were those benefits again? :)
Feh. Up until a few years ago, Penn State University, with approximately 70,000 students had one (1) T1 connection.
A few years back I picked up a copy of the Deeper Meaning of Liff in the bargain bin at a bookshop near Pittsburgh (woo! Prepositional phrases!).
The index is almost as funny as the rest of the book. :)
Pretty much, yes.
Do you want your life to mean nothing?
Doesn't much matter what I want.
I sure don't!
Jolly good.
Therefore, there is a God.
You logic, dear sir, blows goats.
Oh rubbish. The odds that we will ever hear a signal is pretty small. Given the number of stars and the length of time that we spend listening to any one of them, what are the odds that we are listening to the right star, at the right time, at the right frequency?
There was an explanation on TV once that I think is pretty apt. Imagine there's two people at opposite ends of a sports stadium. Every day, for one second, one of them lights a match. Every day, for one second, the other one opens his eyes. The odds that the 2nd person will see the match is pretty small. The situation for detecting an extraterrestrial signal is even worse.
Oh, and one time we picked up an unusual signal. Scientists quickly cooked up some elaborate way the signals could have been generated naturally before they found out it was a problem with the receiver. So even if we *do* hear something, it could be dismissed. :-b (And no, I don't have a reference for that story.)
Well, there's a problem going the other way too. If I'm looking at a C++ for(;;) loop, and I see 'i' used as an index, then I may have to hunt all over to see where it came from. Was it declared in the loop? Was it declared at the beginning of the function? Hell, is it member of the class?
Secondly, the names `i,j,k' give someone reading the code no clue as to what the variables stand for.
99.9% of the time, they're loop indices. How hard is that? :-b
I would. :) OOP is great for some tasks, for others it just gets in the way.