So this mayor is *not* hard at work at his desk, but wandering around getting useless publicity shots of himself - as if that is really advancing the city - and he has the nerve to call the menial employee a time waster!
dt/dt = 1... yes, that's true, but... dt1/dt2 isn't necessarily = 1, where dt1 and dt2 are different time lines (e.g. mine and yours).
Otherwise, why do we say that astronauts lose time when they are travelling at relatively high velocity in space? Because their time travels more slowly than ours: dt1 is less than dt2.
Would your prediction be classed as right or wrong?
If your prediction were classed as wrong, and there are no other predictions, then 100% of all predictions made would be wrong, in which case your prediction would actually be right!
But if your prediction were classed as right, and there are no other predictions, then 100% of all predictions made are right. In which case your prediction would be wrong!
A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox. (Oh be quiet, Bertrand Russell!)
"What really made the PC ubiquitously popular was Compaq's reverse-engineering of the IBM BIOS."
Um, wasn't it *Phoenix Technologies* that reverse engineered the IBM BIOS, i.e. produced an IBM-compatible BIOS so that other manufacturers could make IBM clones?
Why don't people ever ask for the second-born children?
Aren't they somewhat scarcer, and therefore more valuable?
And why would you want people's *children* anyway? Then you have to change their diapers, make them do their homework, cook their meals, argue with them about their choice of friends... isn't that a bargain likely to backfire?
I mean, parents have to pay somone big money to look after their kids part time, and you are offering to do it full time for free? I'll pass on the first-born, thanks. Cash works for me.
auto is a throwback to B days (the language immediately before C). B had no data types (no int, float, double, etc) but did have storage types: auto, static, and extrn.
auto was necessary in B for local variables, as a plain variable name by itself was a valid expression statement (as it is in C), not a declaration (IIRC).
All mean something different in B: the first three instances of bar are declarations, the fourth is an expression statement (and if I remember my B correctly, it is invalid as the first statement of foo(), because bar hasn't been declared one of auto, static, or extrn yet in this function).
In C, auto is completely redundant. Except, perhaps, in comments.
Ah, B. The days when programmers were programmers and data was data, and you could perform any operation you liked on any variable. Want to divide a pointer to a string by 3? Go ahead. Self-disciplined programmers don't need training wheels. Just a choice between auto, static and extrn.
Visual Studio 2005: Extending the Evil Empire One Programmer at a Time Visual Studio 2005: Free as in The First One is On Me Visual Studio 2005: Desperately Trying to Head Off Open Source
No, France would be a German "Land". Laender is plural. Unless you meant that each French province would become a separate German Land, in whcih case you should have said "France would be a bunch of German Laender" - like the former German Democratic Republic.
Ein Land. Zwei Laender.
In the next lesson, we'll teach you the number for "three" and the words for "mother" and "father".
1) It assumes there's a good reason for people to abandon MS.
Freedom. I mean it. Not being sold to and lied to and and manipulated all the time. Having co-operation, helpfulness. Source code (yes, I've used this feature of Open Source). Quick fixes to bugs (like when I reported a bug in the Perl-compatible regular expressions to the PHP site, and got an email the next day telling me that the bug had been identified, fixed, and a new version of PHP was available from CVS at that moment fixing the problem) - and it didn't cost a thing in support fees. A movement with a vision for better code, rather than a corporation with a vision for enriching its shareholders with your money by abusing its monopoly.
Freedom is priceless. Microsoft always leaves the biggest cost of Windows out of their TCO studies.
1. I block ads that block me. If the ad gets in the way, it is an enemy and I kill it. Google Ads, for example, don't get in the way. Pop-ups do - heinously.
2. Most ads are so irrelevant to my interests, hobbies, material needs... like sending breast implant ads to a man, or viagra ads to a woman. Biggest bitch: my IP indicates that I am not American - so I am going to loathe with deep vengeance any exclusive ad for Americans: NO I don't want your "Mortgage, valid in US only!" etc etc etc. Why do you even BOTHER?????
3. Ads make normal people feel powerless - so we hate them with deep bitter hatred. Ads are an assault on our privacy, our solitude, our personal space. Less is more (see comment about Google Ads).
4. Advertisers don't care about me. They just want to use me as a target audience. I don't care about them - they are assaulting me with their ad.
And in news to hand, the FBI wants to ban talking over backyard fences with the neighbors.
"We cannot bug all the backyard fences in America, so we'll just have to outlaw talking to the neighbors that way. Only authorised communication over interceptable devices can be permitted in a free society."
Fortunately, sociologists have confirmed that the universal failure of American couples to communicate, or even talk, during sex means that procreative activity will not have to be banned as well. The CIA confirmed that terrorists do their murderous acts because they are prevented from looking at wholesome bikini-clad girls - those secretive burqas hiding the female form are the true cause of extremism. "This is why our army in Iraq was trying to show the captured Iraqis that nakedness is good. I guess they just took it the wrong way", suggested an Army spokesperson.
"Only a terrorist would want free speech", added an FBI agent. "Encrypted VOIP is like wearing a burqa to hide a bomb."
And that's all the news (you're allowed to hear) from the Land of the Free.
vi is better than emacs, but mcedit is better than either.
debian is better than the other distros.
PostgreSQL is better than MySQL (which makes puppies want to cry).
WindowMaker is simply elegant, and better than than either Gnome or KDE, but Gnome is better than KDE.
Right. Can I offend anyone else?
Ah, yes, I can. Perl is better than Python, because it simply is. Syntactic whitespace is spawn of the devil, while we all know that Larry Wall is a Nice Guy(TM).
But, he whispers, PHP is better than Perl (sorry, Larry).
And JavaScript is not as bad as people make out - quite a nice little language in my opining. It's only silly flaw was allowing newlines to terminate statements (see evil whitespace comment above).
Commandline is faster than GUI, but mc is faster than command line (otherwise why do you use vi or emacs instead of ed, hmmm?????)
Which brings me back to the original question. Er, what was it again?
How do you factor in the cost of freedom? For example, MS give-aways (like IE) are only free if you ignore the lock-in costs involved. That is why MS has turned a blind eye to the copyright infringement of MS Windows in third world nations (so-called "piracy"), because the rapid distribution of MS Windows through copyright infringement was destroying the freedom of those nations to switch to genuinely free alternatives - free as in liberating.
MS software is cheaper than free software only if you put no value on freedom (liberty).
And just think... without the patent system to protect and support innovation, we wouldn't have had this new invention.
Numbers in boxes. Why next, they'll be inventing non-numeric text in boxes, but I don't really think it is technically possible. How could they pull it off with all the difficulties to overcome?
But they really should get a patent on it if they do work out how to do that too! The human race desperately needs such new technology to fight the battle against want.
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So this mayor is *not* hard at work at his desk, but wandering around getting useless publicity shots of himself - as if that is really advancing the city - and he has the nerve to call the menial employee a time waster!
Pot sacks kettle for being soot-covered.
Otherwise, why do we say that astronauts lose time when they are travelling at relatively high velocity in space? Because their time travels more slowly than ours: dt1 is less than dt2.
11. Someone will invent numbered points without bullets in front of them. Oh, wait ... I just did!
But what if no other predictions are made?
Would your prediction be classed as right or wrong?
If your prediction were classed as wrong, and there are no other predictions, then 100% of all predictions made would be wrong, in which case your prediction would actually be right!
But if your prediction were classed as right, and there are no other predictions, then 100% of all predictions made are right. In which case your prediction would be wrong!
A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox. (Oh be quiet, Bertrand Russell!)
"What really made the PC ubiquitously popular was Compaq's reverse-engineering of the IBM BIOS."
Um, wasn't it *Phoenix Technologies* that reverse engineered the IBM BIOS, i.e. produced an IBM-compatible BIOS so that other manufacturers could make IBM clones?
Why don't people ever ask for the second-born children?
... isn't that a bargain likely to backfire?
Aren't they somewhat scarcer, and therefore more valuable?
And why would you want people's *children* anyway? Then you have to change their diapers, make them do their homework, cook their meals, argue with them about their choice of friends
I mean, parents have to pay somone big money to look after their kids part time, and you are offering to do it full time for free? I'll pass on the first-born, thanks. Cash works for me.
No. Nobody has seen it yet. All that money reportedly made - that must just be advance sales.
... Of course, someone has seen it!
... sorry.
Not even the director or producers have seen it. Not even the camera operators have seen it.
What a dumb question.
Oh, that was just a lame lead-in to the real question
So you're saying that Slashdot is basically about 10-20 million years late with this story?
Hey, editors! What were you guys doing when this started?! Sleeping!?!
How about keeping up with the news?
auto is a throwback to B days (the language immediately before C). B had no data types (no int, float, double, etc) but did have storage types: auto, static, and extrn.
... } ... } ... } ... }
auto was necessary in B for local variables, as a plain variable name by itself was a valid expression statement (as it is in C), not a declaration (IIRC).
1. foo() { auto bar;
2. foo() { static bar;
3. foo() { extrn bar;
4. foo() { bar;
All mean something different in B: the first three instances of bar are declarations, the fourth is an expression statement (and if I remember my B correctly, it is invalid as the first statement of foo(), because bar hasn't been declared one of auto, static, or extrn yet in this function).
In C, auto is completely redundant. Except, perhaps, in comments.
Ah, B. The days when programmers were programmers and data was data, and you could perform any operation you liked on any variable. Want to divide a pointer to a string by 3? Go ahead. Self-disciplined programmers don't need training wheels. Just a choice between auto, static and extrn.
Visual Studio 2005: Extending the Evil Empire One Programmer at a Time
Visual Studio 2005: Free as in The First One is On Me
Visual Studio 2005: Desperately Trying to Head Off Open Source
Now if only I could read Slashdot without getting posts from rednecks in America.
Or do you only object to prejudice when it is directed at you?
"For Pete's sake... does anybody question anything anymore?"
Pete who?
No, France would be a German "Land". Laender is plural. Unless you meant that each French province would become a separate German Land, in whcih case you should have said "France would be a bunch of German Laender" - like the former German Democratic Republic.
Ein Land.
Zwei Laender.
In the next lesson, we'll teach you the number for "three" and the words for "mother" and "father".
1) It assumes there's a good reason for people to abandon MS.
Freedom. I mean it. Not being sold to and lied to and and manipulated all the time. Having co-operation, helpfulness. Source code (yes, I've used this feature of Open Source). Quick fixes to bugs (like when I reported a bug in the Perl-compatible regular expressions to the PHP site, and got an email the next day telling me that the bug had been identified, fixed, and a new version of PHP was available from CVS at that moment fixing the problem) - and it didn't cost a thing in support fees. A movement with a vision for better code, rather than a corporation with a vision for enriching its shareholders with your money by abusing its monopoly.
Freedom is priceless. Microsoft always leaves the biggest cost of Windows out of their TCO studies.
Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
"I broke the window". If anyone else had broken the window, you would have said so. Windows only break by themselves when you help them.
Hell, I'd personally lynch a politician if I thought they'd rather represent foreign interests above their own constituents.
Are you coming out to Australia any time soon? If so, we have a Prime Minister ....
1. I block ads that block me. If the ad gets in the way, it is an enemy and I kill it. Google Ads, for example, don't get in the way. Pop-ups do - heinously.
... like sending breast implant ads to a man, or viagra ads to a woman. Biggest bitch: my IP indicates that I am not American - so I am going to loathe with deep vengeance any exclusive ad for Americans: NO I don't want your "Mortgage, valid in US only!" etc etc etc. Why do you even BOTHER?????
2. Most ads are so irrelevant to my interests, hobbies, material needs
3. Ads make normal people feel powerless - so we hate them with deep bitter hatred. Ads are an assault on our privacy, our solitude, our personal space. Less is more (see comment about Google Ads).
4. Advertisers don't care about me. They just want to use me as a target audience. I don't care about them - they are assaulting me with their ad.
5. This is war. DEATH TO ADS!
What was the question again?
And in news to hand, the FBI wants to ban talking over backyard fences with the neighbors.
"We cannot bug all the backyard fences in America, so we'll just have to outlaw talking to the neighbors that way. Only authorised communication over interceptable devices can be permitted in a free society."
Fortunately, sociologists have confirmed that the universal failure of American couples to communicate, or even talk, during sex means that procreative activity will not have to be banned as well. The CIA confirmed that terrorists do their murderous acts because they are prevented from looking at wholesome bikini-clad girls - those secretive burqas hiding the female form are the true cause of extremism. "This is why our army in Iraq was trying to show the captured Iraqis that nakedness is good. I guess they just took it the wrong way", suggested an Army spokesperson.
"Only a terrorist would want free speech", added an FBI agent. "Encrypted VOIP is like wearing a burqa to hide a bomb."
And that's all the news (you're allowed to hear) from the Land of the Free.
"backing up is as simple as looking for *.doc, *.xls, *.ppt, *.mp*, *.mov, *.wmv, and *.avi."
You left out *.doc.exe, *.xls.exe, *.ppt.exe, *.mp*.exe, *.mov.exe, *.wmv.exe, and *.avi.exe
You should back those up too.
Who is Sue Baidu?
Why does she work for the Music Giants? Are they a baseball team?
And if she has got over music downloads, why haven't the rest of the RIAA got over them?
"Music Giants Sue Baidu Over Music Downloads." Well, she's a start. Now if only the rest of them catch on...
And in other news: Allies push bottles up Germans.
Let's nip this one in the bud:
vi is better than emacs, but mcedit is better than either.
debian is better than the other distros.
PostgreSQL is better than MySQL (which makes puppies want to cry).
WindowMaker is simply elegant, and better than than either Gnome or KDE, but Gnome is better than KDE.
Right. Can I offend anyone else?
Ah, yes, I can. Perl is better than Python, because it simply is. Syntactic whitespace is spawn of the devil, while we all know that Larry Wall is a Nice Guy(TM).
But, he whispers, PHP is better than Perl (sorry, Larry).
And JavaScript is not as bad as people make out - quite a nice little language in my opining. It's only silly flaw was allowing newlines to terminate statements (see evil whitespace comment above).
Commandline is faster than GUI, but mc is faster than command line (otherwise why do you use vi or emacs instead of ed, hmmm?????)
Which brings me back to the original question. Er, what was it again?
It looks just like the outback in Australia.
Such a study is impossible.
How do you factor in the cost of freedom? For example, MS give-aways (like IE) are only free if you ignore the lock-in costs involved. That is why MS has turned a blind eye to the copyright infringement of MS Windows in third world nations (so-called "piracy"), because the rapid distribution of MS Windows through copyright infringement was destroying the freedom of those nations to switch to genuinely free alternatives - free as in liberating.
MS software is cheaper than free software only if you put no value on freedom (liberty).
"Does this remind anybody else of high school, or is it just me?"
Yes, it just reminds me of you.
And hell, I don't even know you!
And just think ... without the patent system to protect and support innovation, we wouldn't have had this new invention.
Numbers in boxes. Why next, they'll be inventing non-numeric text in boxes, but I don't really think it is technically possible. How could they pull it off with all the difficulties to overcome?
But they really should get a patent on it if they do work out how to do that too! The human race desperately needs such new technology to fight the battle against want.