Everything has an opportunity cost. What's the economic activity lost, for example, due to business travellers not being able to work during takeoff and landing?
As far as the airlines (and the FAA) are concerned? Zero.
Flight Attendant on AF1: "Sir you need to put away your phone, we're about to take off." Toby: "If my $36 phone from Radio Shack can bring down Air Force One, we have bigger problems than we thought."
Close, but not quite; Toby was on a commercial flight - not AF1. It's in the pilot episode (which, quite coincidentally, I watched again a couple of days ago).
Flight Attendant: Sir, I'm going to have to ask that you turn off your cellular phone. Toby: We're flying in a Lockheed Eagle Series L-1011. Came off the line twenty months ago. Carries a sim 5 transponder tracking system. And you're telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at Radio Shack?
For my problem domain, Java's terminally flawed - mostly because it's entire design is predicated on the assumption that programmers are too stupid to write software. This may (or may not) be a valid assumption about Java developers, but it's certainly not a universal truth.
One of C++'s biggest strengths (a high level of backwards compatibility with existing C code) has also been one of it's biggest weaknesses. Personally, I'd rather the C++ committee stop flogging that particular dead horse, and turn it into the language it's always had the potential to be.
As for languages like Clojure, Go, Dart, and Ruby, those languages have deficiencies that warrant legitimate criticism.
Nods vigorously - although that's actually true of every language I've ever used (and there's been a lot of them in my 30-something years as a developer).
The increase in solar temperatures is such that in about another billion years the surface of the Earth will likely become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life.
So that's 4 or 5 billion years before red giant. "4 or 5" falls nicely into any reasonable definition of several.
That's pretty much my recollection; the only problem I had was a somewhat oddball SCSI card. It turned out there was already a driver for it, but it wasn't recognising my card since it was sniffing BIOS strings which didn't match. I added the string to the table, recompiled, rebooted and voila!. I'd installed and done my first kernel patch in under an hour:) - happy days...
The bad news is that the reason will be the sun puffing up into a red giant, vaporizing both planets, long before the moon would be lost to us.
The even worse news is that, several billion years before the Sun goes red giant, it will have boiled all the water (and us) off the surface of the Earth.
Your logic is... Intriguing... You claim: 1) all religions are organisations 2) atheists are an organisation And from this, you reach the conclusion: atheism is a religion
Now, even if 1 & 2 were true (when, in fact, neither is), you'd still have a false syllogism on your hands.
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We now have a bidirectional time machine.
One that travels from the past to the future - and also to the future from the past...:)
That seems like a method for passing information into the future...
Much like, say, writing it down...
If the RIAA ran banks, they would be whining that people are withdrawing money to buy stuff.
If the RIAA ran banks, they'd sue you for withdrawing money from your own account...
Well, they're almost human . . .
No, they really aren't.
if the cro-magnons who left cave paintings 30,000 years ago in France could've written something, they would've written something.
Ah, but it's also said that a picture is worth a thousand words - So clearly the did write something. In shorthand.
You think?
courtesy to the rest of the passengers!
That alone deserves "+5 - Wishful Thinking" ;)
Everything has an opportunity cost. What's the economic activity lost, for example, due to business travellers not being able to work during takeoff and landing?
As far as the airlines (and the FAA) are concerned? Zero.
In the immortal words of Toby from The West Wing:
Flight Attendant on AF1: "Sir you need to put away your phone, we're about to take off."
Toby: "If my $36 phone from Radio Shack can bring down Air Force One, we have bigger problems than we thought."
Close, but not quite; Toby was on a commercial flight - not AF1. It's in the pilot episode (which, quite coincidentally, I watched again a couple of days ago).
Flight Attendant: Sir, I'm going to have to ask that you turn off your cellular phone.
Toby: We're flying in a Lockheed Eagle Series L-1011. Came off the line twenty months ago. Carries a sim 5 transponder tracking system. And you're telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at Radio Shack?
Do you really think my Kindle is going to kill your fuel pump?
Yes - iPads are much safer.
For my problem domain, Java's terminally flawed - mostly because it's entire design is predicated on the assumption that programmers are too stupid to write software. This may (or may not) be a valid assumption about Java developers, but it's certainly not a universal truth.
Because the existing isn't (quite) unreadable enough?
Crash overdrive
That'd be Crash Override.
One of C++'s biggest strengths (a high level of backwards compatibility with existing C code) has also been one of it's biggest weaknesses. Personally, I'd rather the C++ committee stop flogging that particular dead horse, and turn it into the language it's always had the potential to be.
+1 "hitting the nail on the head"
and C#
Why? Perl gives you way more than enough rope to hang yourself with
As for languages like Clojure, Go, Dart, and Ruby, those languages have deficiencies that warrant legitimate criticism.
Nods vigorously - although that's actually true of every language I've ever used (and there's been a lot of them in my 30-something years as a developer).
...and about 1 billion from being boiled - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle :
The increase in solar temperatures is such that in about another billion years the surface of the Earth will likely become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life.
So that's 4 or 5 billion years before red giant. "4 or 5" falls nicely into any reasonable definition of several.
That's pretty much my recollection; the only problem I had was a somewhat oddball SCSI card. It turned out there was already a driver for it, but it wasn't recognising my card since it was sniffing BIOS strings which didn't match. I added the string to the table, recompiled, rebooted and voila!. I'd installed and done my first kernel patch in under an hour :) - happy days...
It was not meant to be a sueable system.
Is that a Freudian typo?
The bad news is that the reason will be the sun puffing up into a red giant, vaporizing both planets, long before the moon would be lost to us.
The even worse news is that, several billion years before the Sun goes red giant, it will have boiled all the water (and us) off the surface of the Earth.
Yahoo? You seem to be confusing antimatter with doesn't matter...
Your logic is ... Intriguing...
You claim:
1) all religions are organisations
2) atheists are an organisation
And from this, you reach the conclusion: atheism is a religion
Now, even if 1 & 2 were true (when, in fact, neither is), you'd still have a false syllogism on your hands.
Are you trying to imply that they're not? (I'm not buying it - next you'll be trying to tell me they have some sort of basis in fact...)
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