If someone comes to kill someone and asks you if you know where they are hiding, it is moral to lie.
Let's be precise about these things. It is always immoral to lie with the intent to deceive. But the consequences of the one (murder) is so much graver than the other (deception) that a moral person with a choice between only those two options would choose to deceive the would-be killer.
I mean, have you ever been to Utah? Radiation, yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. Ought to have 'em, too.
Like their unprincipled flip-flopping on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act last June, October, and November?
(Summary: 5/225 Rep nay in House, 3+1/51 Rep nay+no-vote in Senate, 0/1 Rep veto in Exec)
The Republicans having reintroduced this bill several times in different forms only to have it vetoed repeatedly by Clinton certainly undermines your position that Republicans could do a hell of a lot more on the kids-being-murdered (your words, not mine!) front.
But you're right about one thing. We should check what they do, not what they say.
I learned to program in grade school, taking little projects from Computer Recreations and implementing them in MS Basic for the Macintosh. This was not the most conducive way to learn to program in a disciplined fashion, and yet in the early nineties I found myself having to program to spec and to schedule for various people, and not doing too well. It was not until I picked up the first edition of this gem that I truly understood that the craft could be approached as a discipline, that code quality does matter to software quality, and that a well-constructed program is more maintainable and extensible.
If all McConnell did was slap a new cover on it, it would be worth looking into if you've never read it. But he put several chapters out last spring for review, comment, and critique, including some all-new chapters. I'm definitely picking it up when it becomes available.
I don't think that a region of memory can be called properly leaked if you still have a reference to it that can be deallocated. If you want to free it up, release the hash table, and the garbage collector will reclaim it. Truly leaked memory is memory that your program has allocated, is untraceable from any references you currently hold, and which the system will not give back to you because you never told the system that it could reclaim it. Properly garbage collected systems such as Java, Lisp, and Smalltalk cannot leak memory; other resources, perhaps, but not memory.
Because the payoff is 35 to 1 on 1-36, not counting the zero. At least that's how I recall it. I was looking at the art deco ceiling when I was at the Casino more than at the tables.
Actually, I think the odds are even better than that in Monte Carlo: if a zero comes off when you get an even bet (even-odds/red-black), your bet is held on the table and you have to let it ride, halving that 2.8% vig to 1.4.
Creating a traditional crossword in a cube, there are a huge number of constraints to be put on each cube, but also a large number of crosswords themselves: The 10^3 crossword requires a stack of ten crosswords of 10x10 each, top to bottom, forward to back, and left to right. That's 30 crossword puzzles you're devising, each one constrained by all the planes not paralleling it.
Perhaps a cube with only the faces showing, so that only the beginnings and ends of words (at the edges and corners) interconnect? That's only six crossword puzzles, and much fewer constraints. The layout could be an unfolded cube, say six puzzles laid out in a latin cross, with perhaps the disconnected edges connected by dashes or another color if your press has it.
Another idea would be to make a much sparser matrix, say twenty words, and drawing only the cubes that contained the letters, like an abstract spatial sculpture or scaffolding. I would put it in a slightly skewed orthogonal perspective, select one face (say, the top), and draw its edges in a heavier or darker line than the other edges. In creating it, I would concentrate on making words intersect like a tree, rather than making sheets of densely packed words.
Saying the Sims is harmful to the students is like saying that they are harmful to themselves. If they don't have dirty little minds, they won't run into these things. If they do have dirty little minds how does this affect them?
The Sims is not a game where you have complete control of the characters; it's sort of like a virtual people fishtank. You shape the Sim's environment and doing so might lead individual Sims to do something wholly unexpected, so even non-dirty-minded children may see this behavior.
That said, even if a child did have a dirty mind, it's not for the school to give them tools to encourage that. Don't the parents have a right to judge what their child ought to learn, and how he or she gets exposed to social values contrary to their own? Isn't it right for the principal to consider the local mores in judging what can and can't be placed on school equipment?
It seems to me that creating a learning environment for children hostile to the parents' values violates some sort of right. It's good sense for the principal to actually be sensitive to that.
Celestia works on Mac OS X, but Noctis does not. Orbit looks like it would work on OS X but I don't see any Mac-specific binaries (ie: compile!) Orbiter is not for the Mac, and neither is MS Space Simulator (not a huge surprise). FlightGear requires OS X 10.3.
I believe that, coming out of the whole NeXT tradition that invented the web browser, OmniWeb used a real SGML engine to parse the HTML applications that are called web pages, as you could tell by reading the status bar as pages loaded (SGMLObject parsing, or something; I've since updated to OW 4.5, with WebCore). True, this engine had trouble with many pages--that is, it did not accept as liberally as it could have--but I think that the twists and contortions that people put HTML through would have made even Jon Postel hang his head in shame.
Sorry to stick my nose in, but there are existing legal mechanisms for this, that is, I do have legal redress, and have had for hundreds of years, even before the Internet existed. They're called libel and slander laws, which are adjudicated in civil court. If someone damages my credibility on the web, I would set up my own redress on the web. If that redress does not adequately recover my credibility, then I evaluate the damage done by the defamation, then sue them for those damages and perhaps a punitive sum, I think. IANAL.
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You may not like his politics or his prognostications, but Gelernter has made solid contributions to computer science, especially in the field of distributed information spaces. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.113.9679
If someone comes to kill someone and asks you if you know where they are hiding, it is moral to lie.
Let's be precise about these things. It is always immoral to lie with the intent to deceive. But the consequences of the one (murder) is so much graver than the other (deception) that a moral person with a choice between only those two options would choose to deceive the would-be killer.
"Spanish Spanish"
Spaniard Spanish, you mean.
Castilian Spanish, probably.
I mean, have you ever been to Utah? Radiation, yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. Ought to have 'em, too.
Sequence doesn't imply causation.
They are both descendants of Algol-inspired languages.
Clicking your link...sheesh, it's even in there!
Ha!
As Peter van der Linden wrote, "Don't worry about Gary; he'd rather be flying," or something to that effect.
There are more important things than being the richest man in the world.
Yay!
(Summary: 5/225 Rep nay in House, 3+1/51 Rep nay+no-vote in Senate, 0/1 Rep veto in Exec)
The Republicans having reintroduced this bill several times in different forms only to have it vetoed repeatedly by Clinton certainly undermines your position that Republicans could do a hell of a lot more on the kids-being-murdered (your words, not mine!) front.
But you're right about one thing. We should check what they do, not what they say.
Finally! Now I see that ? = Write a book about it!
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Recapitulating:
1. Collect x, where x in {underpants, to do lists,
2. Write a book about it.
3. Profit!
Sorry. Had to be done.
Now, ObRelevantMaterial: Getting Things Done iTunes Audiobook
I learned to program in grade school, taking little projects from Computer Recreations and implementing them in MS Basic for the Macintosh. This was not the most conducive way to learn to program in a disciplined fashion, and yet in the early nineties I found myself having to program to spec and to schedule for various people, and not doing too well. It was not until I picked up the first edition of this gem that I truly understood that the craft could be approached as a discipline, that code quality does matter to software quality, and that a well-constructed program is more maintainable and extensible.
If all McConnell did was slap a new cover on it, it would be worth looking into if you've never read it. But he put several chapters out last spring for review, comment, and critique, including some all-new chapters. I'm definitely picking it up when it becomes available.
I believe that Pepsi paid for any redeemed Pepsi promotion songs, but cannot find the reference. If so, all the 95 million + songs were sold.
I don't think that a region of memory can be called properly leaked if you still have a reference to it that can be deallocated. If you want to free it up, release the hash table, and the garbage collector will reclaim it. Truly leaked memory is memory that your program has allocated, is untraceable from any references you currently hold, and which the system will not give back to you because you never told the system that it could reclaim it. Properly garbage collected systems such as Java, Lisp, and Smalltalk cannot leak memory; other resources, perhaps, but not memory.
Whoops. No, you didn't misunderstand; my high school French was just not up to the task, and I didn't pay enough attention to the action on the table.
s .c om/Roulette_Tips.htm
Here is a link with the Monte Carlo roulette rules for imprisonment.
http://www.internet-online-casino-gambling-bonu
Because the payoff is 35 to 1 on 1-36, not counting the zero. At least that's how I recall it. I was looking at the art deco ceiling when I was at the Casino more than at the tables.
Actually, I think the odds are even better than that in Monte Carlo: if a zero comes off when you get an even bet (even-odds/red-black), your bet is held on the table and you have to let it ride, halving that 2.8% vig to 1.4.
Creating a traditional crossword in a cube, there are a huge number of constraints to be put on each cube, but also a large number of crosswords themselves: The 10^3 crossword requires a stack of ten crosswords of 10x10 each, top to bottom, forward to back, and left to right. That's 30 crossword puzzles you're devising, each one constrained by all the planes not paralleling it.
Perhaps a cube with only the faces showing, so that only the beginnings and ends of words (at the edges and corners) interconnect? That's only six crossword puzzles, and much fewer constraints. The layout could be an unfolded cube, say six puzzles laid out in a latin cross, with perhaps the disconnected edges connected by dashes or another color if your press has it.
Another idea would be to make a much sparser matrix, say twenty words, and drawing only the cubes that contained the letters, like an abstract spatial sculpture or scaffolding. I would put it in a slightly skewed orthogonal perspective, select one face (say, the top), and draw its edges in a heavier or darker line than the other edges. In creating it, I would concentrate on making words intersect like a tree, rather than making sheets of densely packed words.
Only on Macs?
What about POC? Plus, of course, every GNU GCC compiler has an Objective-C front end!
be sure to find a pen(cil) that fits your style
I thought the point here was for the submitter to abandon his/her style!
Saying the Sims is harmful to the students is like saying that they are harmful to themselves. If they don't have dirty little minds, they won't run into these things. If they do have dirty little minds how does this affect them?
The Sims is not a game where you have complete control of the characters; it's sort of like a virtual people fishtank. You shape the Sim's environment and doing so might lead individual Sims to do something wholly unexpected, so even non-dirty-minded children may see this behavior.
That said, even if a child did have a dirty mind, it's not for the school to give them tools to encourage that. Don't the parents have a right to judge what their child ought to learn, and how he or she gets exposed to social values contrary to their own? Isn't it right for the principal to consider the local mores in judging what can and can't be placed on school equipment?
It seems to me that creating a learning environment for children hostile to the parents' values violates some sort of right. It's good sense for the principal to actually be sensitive to that.
Remember, these are iBooks.
Celestia works on Mac OS X, but Noctis does not. Orbit looks like it would work on OS X but I don't see any Mac-specific binaries (ie: compile!) Orbiter is not for the Mac, and neither is MS Space Simulator (not a huge surprise). FlightGear requires OS X 10.3.
I believe that, coming out of the whole NeXT tradition that invented the web browser, OmniWeb used a real SGML engine to parse the HTML applications that are called web pages, as you could tell by reading the status bar as pages loaded (SGMLObject parsing, or something; I've since updated to OW 4.5, with WebCore). True, this engine had trouble with many pages--that is, it did not accept as liberally as it could have--but I think that the twists and contortions that people put HTML through would have made even Jon Postel hang his head in shame.
Sorry to stick my nose in, but there are existing legal mechanisms for this, that is, I do have legal redress, and have had for hundreds of years, even before the Internet existed. They're called libel and slander laws, which are adjudicated in civil court. If someone damages my credibility on the web, I would set up my own redress on the web. If that redress does not adequately recover my credibility, then I evaluate the damage done by the defamation, then sue them for those damages and perhaps a punitive sum, I think. IANAL.