I am a Christian, but I have a few ideas outside of Christianity:
1. What purpose would torture serve? Execution might serve a purpose. 2. Revenge is generally done by the (possibly extended) family or clan of the injured party. Are you related to Nina? 3. Vendettas have a tendency to get out of hand. A hundred years from now, you'll have a couple groups of people killing each other for revenge and nobody will remember the original cause. Just look at the middle east.
Except that the Z80 is not really a RISC design. Granted, it was fairly simply, but there was a block move and maybe a couple other instructions that weren't single cycle operations.
It's been a while since I did any Z80 assembly language programming...
Well, it does have Pagan origins. I mean, what do rabbits and eggs have to do with the death and resurrection of Christ? It's just a fertility holiday in disguise. If you really wanted to be picky, Easter weekend should coincide with Passover weekend.
I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that #1 is turtles all the way down as well. We can start by exploring the nature of "nothing". Does the quantum foam of virtual particles really exsist? What is the nature of space and time?
Turtles, more turtles. Help I'm drowning in turtles. Everywhere I look, turtles.
I remember seeing these pictures or ones like them on a "weird science" web site a year or two ago. They thought that the pictures might show bushes growing on Mars. I guess you could consider the CO2 jets to be very fast growing bushes. The jets do seem more plausable though.
From what I understand, one of the new Cessna bizjets will have a feature similar to this. When cabin pressure is lost, it immediately banks into a turn and dives to 15,000 feet. There are probably a couple of other conditions that have to be met like the aircraft being on autopilot as opposed to being hand flown or a lack of control inputs.
It is actually a fairly difficult problem to implement all these safety "features" and make sure that they all play nicely together. If you're not careful, you can make things worse.
This would be confusing because people would inevitably shorten it to "Windows Free". Then when all of us who use Mac OS X, or Linux, or *BSD, or anything else say that we are running windows free, people will think that we've upgraded to the latest version of MS Windows.
Vegitarians are not a monolithic group. There are many reasons why one becomes a vegitarian. If one is a vegitarian because one opposes killing animals, then this might be perfectly fine. If one is vegitarian for health reasons (avoid cholesterol, fat), it might not be OK.
It will probably depend partly on how this stuff is implemented. Are the vats pumped full of antibiotics and hormones like feedlot animals?
I guess the answer to your question is, "It depends".
I'm left handed, so my mouse is on the left side of my computer. I also have the "left" and "right" buttons reversed. It's a blast watching the computer support people (or anyone else for that matter) come and try and do stuff on my computer. It was had Macs, I wouldn't be able to get this dose of amusement.
Well, I'll admit to liking VMS. It has been a few years since I've used it, but there were definately some nice things about it. It was definately designed to be used in large systems with lots of users, unlike Unix. It had features like privileges for just about everything that you can think of - much finer granularity than all or nothing. It had a fairly well developed system of ACLs that could be attached to operating system objects other than files (unlike Unix, not everything is a file in VMS). One of my favorite things to play with was logical name tables (something that doesn't really have a Unix equivalent).
On the other hand, there were some things about it that were rather clunky. Spawning a sub-process took a while. There was no easy equivalent to piping the output of one command into another.
I guess the thing to do is to learn about other options and use the best too for the job. Don't get locked into a single solution for everything.
Yes, but what if you're somewhere without handy powerlines? There are some places in the world that aren't served by the power grid. However, most places have plenty of flies.
It all depends on what your software is to do. If I'm doing a quick hack, perl is a great language. If I'm doing something where people can die if the software doesn't work right, I like to use Ada. Creativity is fine - I have no problem with obfusicated C or perl. I've written a few JAPHs in my time. However, one has to remember where it is appropriate and where it is not. Be creative, just not is some critical code that needs to be maintained for the next 20 years.
This is a case of choosing the right tool for the job. Ada is designed for doing safety critical things. Thus, it won't let you do some things that might cause problems.
The FAA will have fits if you try to certify some flight software that uses dynamic memory allocation regardless of the language that you are using.
This has more to do with what you can prove/demonstrate is correct (or at least safe) under worst case conditions than with what will probably work most of the time.
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I am a Christian, but I have a few ideas outside of Christianity:
1. What purpose would torture serve? Execution might serve a purpose.
2. Revenge is generally done by the (possibly extended) family or clan of the injured party. Are you related to Nina?
3. Vendettas have a tendency to get out of hand. A hundred years from now, you'll have a couple groups of people killing each other for revenge and nobody will remember the original cause. Just look at the middle east.
Except that the Z80 is not really a RISC design. Granted, it was fairly simply, but there was a block move and maybe a couple other instructions that weren't single cycle operations.
It's been a while since I did any Z80 assembly language programming...
Anyone want to give me two tens for a five? I think that's a fair price.
Well, it does have Pagan origins. I mean, what do rabbits and eggs have to do with the death and resurrection of Christ? It's just a fertility holiday in disguise. If you really wanted to be picky, Easter weekend should coincide with Passover weekend.
So, does this invention allow me to filter out the goat.cx trolls? If so, then it might be worth it.
Actually, copper would be a much better material to use. Silver would be even better, but more expensive.
Start collecting phone books.
I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that #1 is turtles all the way down as well. We can start by exploring the nature of "nothing". Does the quantum foam of virtual particles really exsist? What is the nature of space and time?
Turtles, more turtles. Help I'm drowning in turtles. Everywhere I look, turtles.
Maybe some turtle soup.
I guess the whole protestant reformation passed you by.
I remember seeing these pictures or ones like them on a "weird science" web site a year or two ago. They thought that the pictures might show bushes growing on Mars. I guess you could consider the CO2 jets to be very fast growing bushes. The jets do seem more plausable though.
Wow! I am simply in awe.
Somebody went through a lot of effort to type that in. I'll have to save it in case I need to impress some non-technical people.
How about Computer Associates
From what I understand, one of the new Cessna bizjets will have a feature similar to this. When cabin pressure is lost, it immediately banks into a turn and dives to 15,000 feet. There are probably a couple of other conditions that have to be met like the aircraft being on autopilot as opposed to being hand flown or a lack of control inputs.
It is actually a fairly difficult problem to implement all these safety "features" and make sure that they all play nicely together. If you're not careful, you can make things worse.
Many *Bothans* died to bring you this information
.sig was actually on-topic.
You mispelled *Advertizers*, though that may be wishful thinking. What can I say. Someone's
This would be confusing because people would inevitably shorten it to "Windows Free". Then when all of us who use Mac OS X, or Linux, or *BSD, or anything else say that we are running windows free, people will think that we've upgraded to the latest version of MS Windows.
hmmm, maybe it's a fiendishly clever plot...
In this case, everyone knows who the father is. It's the mother that is unknown.
Vegitarians are not a monolithic group. There are many reasons why one becomes a vegitarian. If one is a vegitarian because one opposes killing animals, then this might be perfectly fine. If one is vegitarian for health reasons (avoid cholesterol, fat), it might not be OK.
It will probably depend partly on how this stuff is implemented. Are the vats pumped full of antibiotics and hormones like feedlot animals?
I guess the answer to your question is, "It depends".
I'm left handed, so my mouse is on the left side of my computer. I also have the "left" and "right" buttons reversed. It's a blast watching the computer support people (or anyone else for that matter) come and try and do stuff on my computer. It was had Macs, I wouldn't be able to get this dose of amusement.
Well, I'll admit to liking VMS. It has been a few years since I've used it, but there were definately some nice things about it. It was definately designed to be used in large systems with lots of users, unlike Unix. It had features like privileges for just about everything that you can think of - much finer granularity than all or nothing. It had a fairly well developed system of ACLs that could be attached to operating system objects other than files (unlike Unix, not everything is a file in VMS). One of my favorite things to play with was logical name tables (something that doesn't really have a Unix equivalent).
On the other hand, there were some things about it that were rather clunky. Spawning a sub-process took a while. There was no easy equivalent to piping the output of one command into another.
I guess the thing to do is to learn about other options and use the best too for the job. Don't get locked into a single solution for everything.
Yes, but what if you're somewhere without handy powerlines? There are some places in the world that aren't served by the power grid. However, most places have plenty of flies.
More great dicoveries start with someone saying "hmmm, that's odd." than with someone shouting "Eureka!!!".
And how would this be a bad thing?
Cool, does this mean that I'll be able to watch streaming video ads over my 28.8 (on a good day) modem connection?
It all depends on what your software is to do. If I'm doing a quick hack, perl is a great language. If I'm doing something where people can die if the software doesn't work right, I like to use Ada. Creativity is fine - I have no problem with obfusicated C or perl. I've written a few JAPHs in my time. However, one has to remember where it is appropriate and where it is not. Be creative, just not is some critical code that needs to be maintained for the next 20 years.
This is a case of choosing the right tool for the job. Ada is designed for doing safety critical things. Thus, it won't let you do some things that might cause problems.
The FAA will have fits if you try to certify some flight software that uses dynamic memory allocation regardless of the language that you are using.
This has more to do with what you can prove/demonstrate is correct (or at least safe) under worst case conditions than with what will probably work most of the time.