I was going to use my mod points to mod you up but I decided to add a comment instead.
Although I have my own feelings about Bush's administration, I have to say that your description about their "policies" is nothing new. Recently I read "Overthrow - America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" which lists 14 countries where the USA was instrumental in ousting the legitimately elected government over the last 120 years. What I got from reading this book was not so much that the "OMG the USA is EVIL!!!!" but that sucessive goverments over that span of time all made pretty well the same arguments for doing something, but had no regards for the consequences. The book ended with Iraq, and you could just feel the approaching train wreck eerily predicted by every other previous forced regime change.
Bush & Co's screw ups may be bad, but the USA's continual making of the same mistakes is in my opinion far worse. And I think this goes all the way back to the 19th Century and the Monroe doctrine and the idea of manifest destiny.
Hang on.. the lay out is all wrong. I thought that Linux was ultra left wing (bunch of no good commies trying to subvert the place), OS-X was just plain ol' left wing (long haired weirdos, but at least they *sell* their software) and Windows was Right Wing (Where do you want your goverment to go to today?)
So how do you get at least a four view version of the screen?
I appologise for not remembering where I saw/heard this but in the last 24 hours I saw a comment that made a lot of sense with regards to the Zune and the 3 day/play rule. This feature is not meant as a convenience of the user so they can share their music with others. Its a feature of the marketing people so they can virally encourage you to buy more.
Imagine a bunch of kids at school. The first one buys a track from the Zune store, shares it around to all his/her friends, creates interest in the cool tune. And then *poof* the music vanishes. So what do all the friends do? The head off to the Zune store to buy buy buy.
From that perspective the feaure makes a great lot of sense.
Except as I pointed out above.. the value only applies if the summary size exceeds a certain amount, and has nothing to do with the number, size or level of the comments to the story.
But the number of bytes only applies to the "Read more..", and only if the summary spills over a certain amount. After that you have no idea how many bytes you will be downloading in terms of comments. Yes you get the number of comments, and you can control at what level to read, but you have no idea what will end up on your screen once you select that page.
Why is the size of the "Read more.. " presented in bytes?
To me this is a meaningless measurement that conveys no real information. Are we talking single or multi-byte characters? Does that include line terminators? Does it include HTML formating?
IMHO the number of words is a more beneficial stat. Or is the use of the number of bytes meant to be a throw-back to a "cutesy" geek secret club of "I know so I am 1334!!"
Whilst the quote may be accurate, the context is not. The reference was to getting rid of lawyers who would get in the way of a revolution. Thus the lawyers were in fact protecting the rule of law.
If taken at face value then "Do no evil" is an absolute that can not be achived, as there is no definition for evil itself.
For example is is Google evil for providing valuable services to computers when we know that the production process for computers is harmful to the evironment?
has been identifed as sub-standard components delivered by a third party company called "acme".
These components had a tendency to either explode at in-opportune moments, or behave in a manner that while was true to the letter of their description was totally ineffective for the desired purpose.
At the moment each side is gathering its hoards of lawyers and all involved are jumping up and down, waving thigh-bones in the air and screaming incomprehensible abuse at each other.
The problem in doing something different in Python is that in general I am using the systems to build tools for other people to use. Thus I need to use a language that will "just run" on systems that I have no control over. And the platforms I work in are MS platforms. As such it is in my best interests to use a language that is already installed with the OS. I would not get very far if I came out with "Oh here is areally useful tool, but um.. by the way you need to install this other package of which you have no idea what it is, just so you can run this one tool". JScript is built in. C# (and all the other CLR) languages are built in) and C# is as close to what I have the most experience in with C++. And my productivity matters.
You could argue that I should be dabbling in Python just for the novel learning experience. But 100% of my programming is work orientated, so working in Python is a bit of a dead end for me. (However I have dabbled with it in the past) What I am doing now is learning a new system (C#) and applying that to my work tasks in a way that benefits me and the company.
BTW you can build full real apps in JScript. Before C# I was doing just that.
Its funny about your thoughts on the languages. I've never programmed in Java (so I must be a/. guru when it comes to it:-) but I have been doing some work with C#. I have done a heap of C++ programming with the STL and C# feels to me what C++ should have been. There is an ease of putting together classes and functionality in C# that you have to do manually in C++ but you get a lot of the functionality of C++. Although I haven't used them yet the.Net 2.0 generics seems equivelent to a lot of what can be done with the STL.
However I am not going to go out on a limb and same that C# beats C++ hands down. What I really like about it is that to me it is a nice fun/easy language to program in that has a lot of the power of C++. It fits really nicely between basic scripting languages like MS's JScript and full blown C++
Personally I have never been a big fan of Python for stylistic and other issus, and I prefer languages for which I know I can deploy to a machine without having to install a speparate package. (And 100% of my OS work is on W2000 & XP)
On a similiar note, one of the few sc-fi/fantasy novels that I have kept and re-read is "The witches of Karres" by James Schmitz. Recently I found out that there was a sequel wrtten by a bunch of writers (Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer). When I saw it on the shelves I heard warning bells going off in my head which I should have heeded. They had the same characters and a similiar plot to the first book, but managed to totally miss what made the original (IMO) a great yarn. I also remember seeing a flame war between one of the writes and someone who told them to their face that the book was crap.
I have no idea what this Heinlein'ish book will be like as I haven't read andy of Spiders work, but I might sample the download to see if it stinks or not before I commit to giving money.
However I fear that the download stunt is only to drum up business for a book that may not deserve to exist.
I had the misfortune to read that first novel of his that was recently released (the one that kept getting rejected or what-not). That book was full of sexual tension all over the place and you can see the basis for all of his later stuff. After reading that I was more suprised that there wasn't any sex in a lot of his earlier works.
I don't know the quality of this website;-) , but the story as to why marijuana was banned is one I have seen in other places (this was just the first place that google turned up for me)
Depending on where you are in the world 3 phase AC is 415V or 480V, and in industry we have no problem handling that. 380 VDC doesn't seem much of an issue to me with regards to insulation safety etc and I have dealt with control panels that have operator controls running at 240VDC (and grabbed them accidently and lived to tell the story) Though now days operator controls are being specced as 24VDC.
But as for DC killing you quicker, I would disagree that its the type of system that kills you, it will depend on the type of damage that the shock causes. You can use a 9VDC battery to kill yourself if you apply it in a manner that a small current (mA level) flows to your heart and I would guess that the same level of AC current would also do the trick. On the other hand if you pass a large current through your body that causes physical damage (major burns etc) then it won't matter if its AC or DC if the so much of the body is destroyed as you will die eventually.
As for not worrying about grounding yourself with DC.. Bzzt.. Nope. grounding yourself is always an issue with ground referenced power systems. And I would never rely on any power system being perfectly isolated from ground. That sort of misguided thinking leads to nasty surprises.
Man I am impressed, I thought the US was done with its colonial masters, but here you are saying that congress wants to play Cricket instead of voting on a bill. Bring it on.. but be warned, no-one the US could field will ever match the Don.
I have always believed that when you need something translated into a language you need to have a native speaker at least review what you have done. So many companies have screwed this up to the point that things like japanese/english is a standing joke.
If you are going to devote so much effort to producing a product (closed or open source), then why the hell do you piss around with half arsed guesses as to how to translate text?
On the other hand I did have an interesting time with a russian girl once. We were using a dictionary to converse by pointing at words and reading off our native langueages. The trouble was that I missed the context of "to like" which in the sense she was using it had elements of "to love". End result was that it cost me 8 hours, a bottle of champagne, chocolates and a taxi ride home for her;-)
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I was going to use my mod points to mod you up but I decided to add a comment instead.
Although I have my own feelings about Bush's administration, I have to say that your description about their "policies" is nothing new. Recently I read "Overthrow - America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" which lists 14 countries where the USA was instrumental in ousting the legitimately elected government over the last 120 years. What I got from reading this book was not so much that the "OMG the USA is EVIL!!!!" but that sucessive goverments over that span of time all made pretty well the same arguments for doing something, but had no regards for the consequences. The book ended with Iraq, and you could just feel the approaching train wreck eerily predicted by every other previous forced regime change.
Bush & Co's screw ups may be bad, but the USA's continual making of the same mistakes is in my opinion far worse. And I think this goes all the way back to the 19th Century and the Monroe doctrine and the idea of manifest destiny.
Hang on .. the lay out is all wrong. I thought that Linux was ultra left wing (bunch of no good commies trying to subvert the place), OS-X was just plain ol' left wing (long haired weirdos, but at least they *sell* their software) and Windows was Right Wing (Where do you want your goverment to go to today?)
So how do you get at least a four view version of the screen?
I appologise for not remembering where I saw/heard this but in the last 24 hours I saw a comment that made a lot of sense with regards to the Zune and the 3 day/play rule. This feature is not meant as a convenience of the user so they can share their music with others. Its a feature of the marketing people so they can virally encourage you to buy more.
Imagine a bunch of kids at school. The first one buys a track from the Zune store, shares it around to all his/her friends, creates interest in the cool tune. And then *poof* the music vanishes. So what do all the friends do? The head off to the Zune store to buy buy buy.
From that perspective the feaure makes a great lot of sense.
I can't spell ... so sue me
Except as I pointed out above .. the value only applies if the summary size exceeds a certain amount, and has nothing to do with the number, size or level of the comments to the story.
But the number of bytes only applies to the "Read more ..", and only if the summary spills over a certain amount. After that you have no idea how many bytes you will be downloading in terms of comments. Yes you get the number of comments, and you can control at what level to read, but you have no idea what will end up on your screen once you select that page.
Why is the size of the "Read more .. " presented in bytes?
To me this is a meaningless measurement that conveys no real information. Are we talking single or multi-byte characters? Does that include line terminators? Does it include HTML formating?
IMHO the number of words is a more beneficial stat. Or is the use of the number of bytes meant to be a throw-back to a "cutesy" geek secret club of "I know so I am 1334!!"
Whilst the quote may be accurate, the context is not. The reference was to getting rid of lawyers who would get in the way of a revolution. Thus the lawyers were in fact protecting the rule of law.
5 seconds on google will show you this. (Assuming they are not evil)
If taken at face value then "Do no evil" is an absolute that can not be achived, as there is no definition for evil itself.
For example is is Google evil for providing valuable services to computers when we know that the production process for computers is harmful to the evironment?
By the way .. there are also two meanings of gallon .. US and Imperial
has been identifed as sub-standard components delivered by a third party company called "acme".
These components had a tendency to either explode at in-opportune moments, or behave in a manner that while was true to the letter of their description was totally ineffective for the desired purpose.
At the moment each side is gathering its hoards of lawyers and all involved are jumping up and down, waving thigh-bones in the air and screaming incomprehensible abuse at each other.
The problem in doing something different in Python is that in general I am using the systems to build tools for other people to use. Thus I need to use a language that will "just run" on systems that I have no control over. And the platforms I work in are MS platforms. As such it is in my best interests to use a language that is already installed with the OS. I would not get very far if I came out with "Oh here is areally useful tool, but um .. by the way you need to install this other package of which you have no idea what it is, just so you can run this one tool". JScript is built in. C# (and all the other CLR) languages are built in) and C# is as close to what I have the most experience in with C++. And my productivity matters.
You could argue that I should be dabbling in Python just for the novel learning experience. But 100% of my programming is work orientated, so working in Python is a bit of a dead end for me. (However I have dabbled with it in the past) What I am doing now is learning a new system (C#) and applying that to my work tasks in a way that benefits me and the company.
BTW you can build full real apps in JScript. Before C# I was doing just that.
In addition, we could use tags like "fud", "notfud", "dupe" for rip-offs and "thinkofthechildren" for GTA.
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Are you sure you aren't defining tags for
Its funny about your thoughts on the languages. I've never programmed in Java (so I must be a /. guru when it comes to it :-) but I have been doing some work with C#. I have done a heap of C++ programming with the STL and C# feels to me what C++ should have been. There is an ease of putting together classes and functionality in C# that you have to do manually in C++ but you get a lot of the functionality of C++. Although I haven't used them yet the .Net 2.0 generics seems equivelent to a lot of what can be done with the STL.
However I am not going to go out on a limb and same that C# beats C++ hands down. What I really like about it is that to me it is a nice fun/easy language to program in that has a lot of the power of C++. It fits really nicely between basic scripting languages like MS's JScript and full blown C++
Personally I have never been a big fan of Python for stylistic and other issus, and I prefer languages for which I know I can deploy to a machine without having to install a speparate package. (And 100% of my OS work is on W2000 & XP)
All three????
1) Games I play
.. that wasn't too hard.
2) Games I don't play
And if you really want you can expand section 1) into:
1.1) Games I enjoy playing
1.2) Games I don't enjoy playing
Although 1.2) should really be grouped in section 2) as:
2.1) Games I didn't enjoy playing
There
On a similiar note, one of the few sc-fi/fantasy novels that I have kept and re-read is "The witches of Karres" by James Schmitz. Recently I found out that there was a sequel wrtten by a bunch of writers (Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer). When I saw it on the shelves I heard warning bells going off in my head which I should have heeded. They had the same characters and a similiar plot to the first book, but managed to totally miss what made the original (IMO) a great yarn. I also remember seeing a flame war between one of the writes and someone who told them to their face that the book was crap.
I have no idea what this Heinlein'ish book will be like as I haven't read andy of Spiders work, but I might sample the download to see if it stinks or not before I commit to giving money.
However I fear that the download stunt is only to drum up business for a book that may not deserve to exist.
I had the misfortune to read that first novel of his that was recently released (the one that kept getting rejected or what-not). That book was full of sexual tension all over the place and you can see the basis for all of his later stuff. After reading that I was more suprised that there wasn't any sex in a lot of his earlier works.
So it will be full of gratuitous sex in every possible combination of the following?
Hetrosexual
Homosexual
Incest
Self
2-way
3-way
Orgy
And occur with in the realms of:
This universe (now)
This universe (time travel, forward and backward)
Parallel universes
Between people who are:
Real
Imagined
Living
Life-After-Death
Multiple people sharing the same skull
And that's just with the human characters. Heaven knows what interpsecies liasons will occur.
Boy did I read too much Heinlein when I was young.
I don't know the quality of this website ;-) , but the story as to why marijuana was banned is one I have seen in other places (this was just the first place that google turned up for me)
Why Is Marijuana Illegal
It appears that it was a combination of "think of the children", outright capitalistic greed, and politicians promoting themselves.
Depending on where you are in the world 3 phase AC is 415V or 480V, and in industry we have no problem handling that. 380 VDC doesn't seem much of an issue to me with regards to insulation safety etc and I have dealt with control panels that have operator controls running at 240VDC (and grabbed them accidently and lived to tell the story) Though now days operator controls are being specced as 24VDC.
.. Bzzt .. Nope. grounding yourself is always an issue with ground referenced power systems. And I would never rely on any power system being perfectly isolated from ground. That sort of misguided thinking leads to nasty surprises.
But as for DC killing you quicker, I would disagree that its the type of system that kills you, it will depend on the type of damage that the shock causes. You can use a 9VDC battery to kill yourself if you apply it in a manner that a small current (mA level) flows to your heart and I would guess that the same level of AC current would also do the trick. On the other hand if you pass a large current through your body that causes physical damage (major burns etc) then it won't matter if its AC or DC if the so much of the body is destroyed as you will die eventually.
As for not worrying about grounding yourself with DC
Man I am impressed, I thought the US was done with its colonial masters, but here you are saying that congress wants to play Cricket instead of voting on a bill. Bring it on .. but be warned, no-one the US could field will ever match the Don.
Under the fear of having Godwin invoked .. you do know that April 20 is Hitler's birthday?
When I was a youngen we only had 8" drives .. and we liked it.
Actually I last used 8" drives in a commerical system in 1986 . not so long ago.
I have always believed that when you need something translated into a language you need to have a native speaker at least review what you have done. So many companies have screwed this up to the point that things like japanese/english is a standing joke.
;-)
If you are going to devote so much effort to producing a product (closed or open source), then why the hell do you piss around with half arsed guesses as to how to translate text?
On the other hand I did have an interesting time with a russian girl once. We were using a dictionary to converse by pointing at words and reading off our native langueages. The trouble was that I missed the context of "to like" which in the sense she was using it had elements of "to love". End result was that it cost me 8 hours, a bottle of champagne, chocolates and a taxi ride home for her