But that's not what the original Bible quote means. Jesus was in fact arguing that they should give *him* stuff instead of the poor, because the poor would always be there. The full story, Matthew 26, verses 6 through 13 (English Standard Version):
6: Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, 7: a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 8: And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, âoeWhy this waste? 9: "For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.â 10: But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, âoeWhy do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. 11: "For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. 12: "In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. 13: "Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.â
Cigarettes won't set off gasoline. You need an open flame. A cigarette will just get put out when dipped in liquid fuel.
I'm so glad you are not working with flammable materials anywhere near me. Liquid gasoline, yes. Gasoline *vapors*, on the other hand, can go off on just a spark or lit cigarette if conditions are right. Most of the time, the vapors won't be thick enough, particularly if you handle the gasoline properly (but somebody smoking near gasoline *already* isn't handling it properly; how can he be trusted to do anything else right?)--but it can happen. My mother didn't raise me to be a statistic.
It's a classic free-rider problem and requires government intervention (and I say that as a general believer in the free market). The best way to deal with it is to simply tax carbon emissions. That provides direct de-incentive on the behavior you want to stop, while leaving it to the market as to how to lessen that behavior. Other tax rates can be adjusted so that the all-over government take isn't any larger. The main thing is that it should be flat, without exceptions or breaks. Leave it up to people as to which carbon emissions they want to pay for.
When I pointed out in another article that the death of Windows Phone 8 would be because it had no apps, I was told that there would be plenty of apps, because all the Windows 8 apps would *be* Windows Phone 8 apps. But if that's true, why is there even a Windows Phone 8 SDK? Won't they all just be using the Windows 8 SDK? Or could it be that developing for a smartphone *is* different from developing for the desktop, after all?
Let's see here. There are stories about God enabling people to fly, but somehow all such stories come from believers in God. I can go outside and point out airplanes in the sky to anybody.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Good code doesn't need comments that explain what the code does, yes; that should be clear from the code itself. But even the best code can't explain *why* the task is being performed, why this method of performing it was chosen, or what calls to other code (for which there may or may not be available source) do exactly. All this needs to be commented.
A bit of googling tells me that, in a year, the sun puts out 150 EJ.
That is so far off, I don't know where to begin. A quick trip to Wikipedia shows that, in a year, the sun pumps *3,850,000 EJ* into the earth.
The doubling time for the world's population, at current growth rates, is (after some more googling), 54 years.
Except that the growth rate has been steadily slowing for some time now. Estimates based on current trends are that the world population will top out at at about 10 billion sometime after 2100.
Either (1) my numbers are wrong, (2) I made an arithmetic mistake, (3) growth will level off very soon, (4) we will learn to practice space agricuture at a massive scale in an implausibly-short timeframe, or (5) we're in for some pain.
Personally, I can't stand ANY multiplayer games. Not sure exactly why, I guess I prefer to compete against fixed challenges and at my own pace. I am probably in the minority, but I certainly can't be alone.
If you never play multiplayer, aren't you always alone?
I would have to question the legitimacy of double blind tests. It seems really off, 50% of the patients are turned into victims destined to suffer and or die 'Here sucker take the placebo'.
Not quite so bad as that. For one thing, when prelimary results come in very positive, the trial is usually ended early so that the placebo patients can be put on the now-demonstrated effective treatment. Also, if there's already a proven effective treatment, the control group is put on that rather than a placebo. You don't need to have a group that's getting no treatment; you only need a group that's getting a known baseline.
They just decrease the perception of pain or other subjective symptoms.
Not true. Placebos have been demonstrated to relieve objective symptoms. Your state of mind can do amazing things to the body's immune and repair systems.
The President of the United States is the single most powerful person in the US political system; that's the way it is, and that's the way the Constitution intended it. However, it is also the clear intention of the Constitution that Congress *as a body* is intended to be more powerful than the President.
Keep in mind that Win8 apps are supposed to run on tablets, including ARM tablets.
"Supposed to" and "Good idea to" are two different things. So far, I do not know of any successful app that runs on both a smartphone/tablet and a desktop. Let me know when somebody does it, okay?
I don't think firing it down a hollowed tube was all that obvious. The only previous technology along the same lines that I can think of is the blowgun, which wasn't very common in medieval China.
This whole tablet and smartphone thing isn't a fad, and it's quickly outpacing desktop PCs, a great many of which are corporate and other non-personal machines.
Never said it was a fad. I have two smartphones myself (one for work, one for personal--both Android, as a matter of fact). What I *do* say is that the market dominance of Android and iPhone will break Windows Phone 8, and compatibility with Windows 8 won't save it.
The Chinese were so ignorant they thought gunpowder was useful for making delightful colors in the sky to amuse people.
On the contrary, they started making weapons out of it in fairly short order.
It took a genius to see the killer app, making round metal balls that fly through people. I guess that's literally a killer app. Go technology.
This, on the other hand, is true. Guns and cannon were not an obvious application. The Chinese used it for flamethrowers, rockets and bombs. The first guns *were* produced by Chinese, about three or four centuries after gunpowder was invented.
Fact is, developing for Windows 8 is also developing for (for the most part) Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 RT, and probably in the future Xbox 720 (or whatever they call it).
Fact is, developing for a smart phone is a completely different thing from developing for a desktop or game console; the difference in screen size, input methods, memory size, processing power and battery restrictions make them utterly different. Windows 8 apps may be theoretically runnable on Windows Phone 8 (And I'm not convinced people will be writing them anyways--as has been pointed out elsewhere, people will be writing Windows XP apps for a while yet for maximum audience), but they won't be *usable* on Windows Phone 8. I'm not surprised that Microsoft doesn't understand this; the entire attempt to shoehorn Metro into Windows 8 shows that they don't understand that you can't run a cellphone interface on a desktop, and vice-versa.
The best thing about this is how effective the platform can be for developers.
There won't be any developers. Developers want to code for platforms people are using--iPhone and Android. People want to use platforms developers are coding for--iPhone and Android. It's a self-feeding loop and Nokia is way, way too late to the party. Any phone that doesn't run iPhone or Android apps is dead, dead, dead.
Since both candidates (but especially Romney) blabbered on for so long, I thought it might be helpful to have a summary of the candidates' positions.
I don't want the summaries, I want *what they said*. The link was first slashdotted and now leads to the site front page instead of the replies (and the front page doesn't seem to lead to any links to the actual replies anymore, either). Apparently it's now impossible to find out what the candidates actually replied to all this. I'd really like a link or a post of the actual replies.
He commands the armed force of the US. He does not command the nation. To review, he gives speeches to Congress and can ask them nicely to do things. He can convene Congress outside its schedule, but he can only adjourn it if Congress itself is unable to reach an agreement on adjournment. If both bodies of Congress vote to stay in session, he can't do squat. He gets to talk foreign Ambassadors and sign treaties--but the treaties don't take until the Senate ratifies them. He gets to appoint the officers of the executive branch, none of which have more power than he does, and also judges, but those all have to be approved by the Senate. Oh, and he has to make sure that the laws *that Congress passed* get carried out.
There's a reason that the office of the Presidency is described in Article *II* of the Constitution. Guess who's number one?
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But that's not what the original Bible quote means. Jesus was in fact arguing that they should give *him* stuff instead of the poor, because the poor would always be there. The full story, Matthew 26, verses 6 through 13 (English Standard Version):
6: Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
7: a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
8: And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, âoeWhy this waste?
9: "For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.â
10: But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, âoeWhy do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
11: "For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
12: "In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
13: "Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.â
Sorry, but that counts as "operating a taxicab". If your "On Duty" flag is up, you're operating.
In other words, video game programmers.
This explains SO much...
I'm so glad you are not working with flammable materials anywhere near me. Liquid gasoline, yes. Gasoline *vapors*, on the other hand, can go off on just a spark or lit cigarette if conditions are right. Most of the time, the vapors won't be thick enough, particularly if you handle the gasoline properly (but somebody smoking near gasoline *already* isn't handling it properly; how can he be trusted to do anything else right?)--but it can happen. My mother didn't raise me to be a statistic.
It's a classic free-rider problem and requires government intervention (and I say that as a general believer in the free market). The best way to deal with it is to simply tax carbon emissions. That provides direct de-incentive on the behavior you want to stop, while leaving it to the market as to how to lessen that behavior. Other tax rates can be adjusted so that the all-over government take isn't any larger. The main thing is that it should be flat, without exceptions or breaks. Leave it up to people as to which carbon emissions they want to pay for.
When I pointed out in another article that the death of Windows Phone 8 would be because it had no apps, I was told that there would be plenty of apps, because all the Windows 8 apps would *be* Windows Phone 8 apps. But if that's true, why is there even a Windows Phone 8 SDK? Won't they all just be using the Windows 8 SDK? Or could it be that developing for a smartphone *is* different from developing for the desktop, after all?
Let's see here. There are stories about God enabling people to fly, but somehow all such stories come from believers in God. I can go outside and point out airplanes in the sky to anybody.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Good code doesn't need comments that explain what the code does, yes; that should be clear from the code itself. But even the best code can't explain *why* the task is being performed, why this method of performing it was chosen, or what calls to other code (for which there may or may not be available source) do exactly. All this needs to be commented.
That is so far off, I don't know where to begin. A quick trip to Wikipedia shows that, in a year, the sun pumps *3,850,000 EJ* into the earth.
Except that the growth rate has been steadily slowing for some time now. Estimates based on current trends are that the world population will top out at at about 10 billion sometime after 2100.
And the answers are (1), massively, and (3).
If you never play multiplayer, aren't you always alone?
Not quite so bad as that. For one thing, when prelimary results come in very positive, the trial is usually ended early so that the placebo patients can be put on the now-demonstrated effective treatment. Also, if there's already a proven effective treatment, the control group is put on that rather than a placebo. You don't need to have a group that's getting no treatment; you only need a group that's getting a known baseline.
Not true. Placebos have been demonstrated to relieve objective symptoms. Your state of mind can do amazing things to the body's immune and repair systems.
The President of the United States is the single most powerful person in the US political system; that's the way it is, and that's the way the Constitution intended it. However, it is also the clear intention of the Constitution that Congress *as a body* is intended to be more powerful than the President.
"Supposed to" and "Good idea to" are two different things. So far, I do not know of any successful app that runs on both a smartphone/tablet and a desktop. Let me know when somebody does it, okay?
I don't think firing it down a hollowed tube was all that obvious. The only previous technology along the same lines that I can think of is the blowgun, which wasn't very common in medieval China.
Never said it was a fad. I have two smartphones myself (one for work, one for personal--both Android, as a matter of fact). What I *do* say is that the market dominance of Android and iPhone will break Windows Phone 8, and compatibility with Windows 8 won't save it.
On the contrary, they started making weapons out of it in fairly short order.
This, on the other hand, is true. Guns and cannon were not an obvious application. The Chinese used it for flamethrowers, rockets and bombs. The first guns *were* produced by Chinese, about three or four centuries after gunpowder was invented.
Fact is, developing for a smart phone is a completely different thing from developing for a desktop or game console; the difference in screen size, input methods, memory size, processing power and battery restrictions make them utterly different. Windows 8 apps may be theoretically runnable on Windows Phone 8 (And I'm not convinced people will be writing them anyways--as has been pointed out elsewhere, people will be writing Windows XP apps for a while yet for maximum audience), but they won't be *usable* on Windows Phone 8. I'm not surprised that Microsoft doesn't understand this; the entire attempt to shoehorn Metro into Windows 8 shows that they don't understand that you can't run a cellphone interface on a desktop, and vice-versa.
There won't be any developers. Developers want to code for platforms people are using--iPhone and Android. People want to use platforms developers are coding for--iPhone and Android. It's a self-feeding loop and Nokia is way, way too late to the party. Any phone that doesn't run iPhone or Android apps is dead, dead, dead.
"...here's your complimentary knife in the back."
I don't want the summaries, I want *what they said*. The link was first slashdotted and now leads to the site front page instead of the replies (and the front page doesn't seem to lead to any links to the actual replies anymore, either). Apparently it's now impossible to find out what the candidates actually replied to all this. I'd really like a link or a post of the actual replies.
Well, Mormon's still believe Jesus is number one. It's just that Joe Smith is bestest right-hand bud.
He commands the armed force of the US. He does not command the nation. To review, he gives speeches to Congress and can ask them nicely to do things. He can convene Congress outside its schedule, but he can only adjourn it if Congress itself is unable to reach an agreement on adjournment. If both bodies of Congress vote to stay in session, he can't do squat. He gets to talk foreign Ambassadors and sign treaties--but the treaties don't take until the Senate ratifies them. He gets to appoint the officers of the executive branch, none of which have more power than he does, and also judges, but those all have to be approved by the Senate. Oh, and he has to make sure that the laws *that Congress passed* get carried out.
There's a reason that the office of the Presidency is described in Article *II* of the Constitution. Guess who's number one?
Well, you can only fit one guy into the ACU