I recently read about bottled water containers also not being refillable. If only they had made it clear why, because without a statement like "If you refill them, they will release harmful chemicals into the water." you just think it's a profit motive. Well, that's probably why they don't state that, because people would (rightly?) conclude that the bottles leak those chemicals into the original water too.
If anyone hosts anything more important than their grocery list on someone else's servers, then they deserve the inevitable security breaches that will follow.
That's why we always host our sensitive documents on our own servers, with a robots.txt to ensure no search engines index them. Just wanted to show my agreement with your excellent advice!
If you're printing 2.999999... with only two decimals, then you should see 3.00. You ALWAYS have to remember that what you see is an approximation. If you truncate the fraction of something which displays as 3.00, you should not expect 3 as the result. If you want to find the NEAREST integer, then use some sort of rounding function, so that the greatest error magnitude is 0.5, rather than nearly 1.0 as with truncate. This mis-expectation comes up often when students are learning programming languages. They think that printing a floating-point value shows its exact value, rather than just an approximation, and then are suprised that their 1.0 compares less than 1.0 in an if statement.
For this reason, I support so called 'corporal punishment' as a tool for parents to hijack this process to teach kids to avoid behaviors where the end result might otherwise not simply provide a quick 'sting' (like running out into the road), or behaviors that break more complicated rules (like stealing). You certainly cannot reason with children this young and expect them to understand, but you can hijack a basic evolutionary mechanism and use it to your own (and the child's) advantage.
This might work if you inflicted the pain IMMEDIATELY after the action, as natural pain comes (run into wall - immediate pain, burn hand - immediate pain). But if it's delayed, the kid won't connect it; he WILL connect it with your anger or mood. If you grant that you can't reason with the kid, why do you think HE can reason that you hitting him is connected something he did unrelated to you ten minutes before?
I would have to agree with the man, consider this fact. The area in which I currently live was just 10,000 years ago covered by a glacier nearly a mile in thickness. Now we certainly where[sic] not burning fossil fuels 10k years ago, yet somehow global warming caused the glaciers to recede and melt. Yes I do believe in global warning it has been going on for over 10k years, I do not however believe that man is the ultimate and or major cause.
Consider this fact. 10,000 years ago people were murdered. Now we certainly were not firing guns 10k years ago, yet somehow bladed weapons caused people to die. Yes I do believe in murder has been going on for over 10k years, I do not, however, believe that guns are a main tool used to commit murder.
Consider this fact: Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with the climate? Nothing. Dear reader, it has nothing to do with the climate! It does not make sense!
Isn't it great how modern technology can do things like this? Back in the old days, we had to make do with defining a standard and ensuring that everything displayed things according to it. But now, we don't need the stifling constraints of consistency; browsers can be creative in their interpretation, and every developer can use a tool like this to see the amount of expression browsers put into rendering. I foresee a future where this innovation will be carried to things like simple desk calculators, where 2+2 is no longer shackled to equal 4, where one will have a "multi-calculator" that gives a range of results. I can't wait!
The point is that if your goal is to noticeably reduce monthly expenses, you don't focus on 0.1% contributions. Same as when optimizing a program; you first find the biggest contributors.
...the first 1831 lines (!) of the page are blank. That's right, the <!DOCTYPE... declaration is on line 1832, following 12 kilobytes of 0x20, 0x09, and 0x0a characters - spaces, tabs, and linefeeds. Then there's some content, and then another 500 lines of tabs and spaces between each chunk of text. WTF? (Whitespace, Then Failure?) Attention Globe and Mail web designers: When your idiot print newspaper editor tells you to make liberal use of whitespace, this is not what he had in mind!
Dude, that's just an embedded Whitespace script. You need to upgrade your browser!
Yeah, my mother always used to use this to argue against some family cost. "What, $1 a month? That's $12 a year, $120 in ten years!!! Think of what you could do what that amount of money!" She never seemed to be able to grasp comparing some cost against ALL THE OTHER costs for that same time period. When you compare $1 with $1000+ in living expenses every month, it's a miniscule 0.1%.
Earthquakes are very low frequency waves, so I'd expect the entire hard drive to shake nearly as one unit. It's high-frequency vibration that would shake the platters independently of the heads (even then, the air movement between the heads and platters provides protection).
Hell, with Windows 7 we can knock out 6 versions already:
Windows 7 Starter
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 7 Ultimate
Exactly. When a tire went out, its axle would lift up so it could be changed out safely. Actually, there would be several spare tire units ready to move down when another blew out, and there would be like 8 tires on the road all the time, so losing one wouldn't be an immediate problem. It is an interesting notion, a vehicle which wouldn't ever have to stop.
Haven't you seen 12 year olds act like two year olds? And 22 year olds act like 12 year olds? If they don't get their way, they whine and cry and throw tantrums because they expect to get their way, because that's how it's happened all their life.
I think you've got it backwards; it's the 12-year-olds (and younger) acting like the 30-year-old parents, only they aren't as refined so it's easy to see their game. You give adults way too much credit. If you gave children more credit, you wouldn't walk all over their rights all the time, and they would be able to develop into full human beings, not the stunted-growth adults that most become. By snap-judging their behavior and assuming it has nothing to do with how adults treat them, you never understand the real cause.
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Firefox's new command-line even allows you to simply type "delete web browser" to achieve this. Sweet.
UID a prime number, bah! How about a power of two, especially 2^8, 2^16, 2^24, and 2^32? Oh, and 640*2^10, since that should be enough for anybody.
I recently read about bottled water containers also not being refillable. If only they had made it clear why, because without a statement like "If you refill them, they will release harmful chemicals into the water." you just think it's a profit motive. Well, that's probably why they don't state that, because people would (rightly?) conclude that the bottles leak those chemicals into the original water too.
Exactly, this is obviously the autism causing the flooring to become made of vinyl (even if it was wood before), not the other way around!
Yeah, my college had to make-do teaching in a closet full of suits as well.
(BTW, let me introduce you to copy-and-paste, a real time- and typo- saver)
They had better filter voice chatting/VoIP services. Oh they had better, or they'll have violence on their hands.
That's why we always host our sensitive documents on our own servers, with a robots.txt to ensure no search engines index them. Just wanted to show my agreement with your excellent advice!
If you're printing 2.999999... with only two decimals, then you should see 3.00. You ALWAYS have to remember that what you see is an approximation. If you truncate the fraction of something which displays as 3.00, you should not expect 3 as the result. If you want to find the NEAREST integer, then use some sort of rounding function, so that the greatest error magnitude is 0.5, rather than nearly 1.0 as with truncate. This mis-expectation comes up often when students are learning programming languages. They think that printing a floating-point value shows its exact value, rather than just an approximation, and then are suprised that their 1.0 compares less than 1.0 in an if statement.
Dear IRS,
Do you accept drawings of dollar bills as payment?
This might work if you inflicted the pain IMMEDIATELY after the action, as natural pain comes (run into wall - immediate pain, burn hand - immediate pain). But if it's delayed, the kid won't connect it; he WILL connect it with your anger or mood. If you grant that you can't reason with the kid, why do you think HE can reason that you hitting him is connected something he did unrelated to you ten minutes before?
Consider this fact: Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with the climate? Nothing. Dear reader, it has nothing to do with the climate! It does not make sense!
Isn't it great how modern technology can do things like this? Back in the old days, we had to make do with defining a standard and ensuring that everything displayed things according to it. But now, we don't need the stifling constraints of consistency; browsers can be creative in their interpretation, and every developer can use a tool like this to see the amount of expression browsers put into rendering. I foresee a future where this innovation will be carried to things like simple desk calculators, where 2+2 is no longer shackled to equal 4, where one will have a "multi-calculator" that gives a range of results. I can't wait!
Yeah, whenever I bake a pie, I have to sit there in front of the oven for 45 minutes until it's done. I can't do anything else in the meantime.
The point is that if your goal is to noticeably reduce monthly expenses, you don't focus on 0.1% contributions. Same as when optimizing a program; you first find the biggest contributors.
Dude, that's just an embedded Whitespace script. You need to upgrade your browser!
Yeah, my mother always used to use this to argue against some family cost. "What, $1 a month? That's $12 a year, $120 in ten years!!! Think of what you could do what that amount of money!" She never seemed to be able to grasp comparing some cost against ALL THE OTHER costs for that same time period. When you compare $1 with $1000+ in living expenses every month, it's a miniscule 0.1%.
Actually, I don't think there are any arms racing here, though I could be wrong. That kind of race sounds boring, anyway.
I think a CD behind bars might be more fitting.
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Earthquakes are very low frequency waves, so I'd expect the entire hard drive to shake nearly as one unit. It's high-frequency vibration that would shake the platters independently of the heads (even then, the air movement between the heads and platters provides protection).
Hell, with Windows 7 we can knock out 6 versions already: Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Ultimate
How do you know Apple doesn't have the Nehalem chip on a little see-saw, to literally leverage it? Apple is very innovative; they might do this.
How could this contamination have caused a crime scene?!?
Exactly. When a tire went out, its axle would lift up so it could be changed out safely. Actually, there would be several spare tire units ready to move down when another blew out, and there would be like 8 tires on the road all the time, so losing one wouldn't be an immediate problem. It is an interesting notion, a vehicle which wouldn't ever have to stop.
I think you've got it backwards; it's the 12-year-olds (and younger) acting like the 30-year-old parents, only they aren't as refined so it's easy to see their game. You give adults way too much credit. If you gave children more credit, you wouldn't walk all over their rights all the time, and they would be able to develop into full human beings, not the stunted-growth adults that most become. By snap-judging their behavior and assuming it has nothing to do with how adults treat them, you never understand the real cause.