I had to go back and read your sentence again to see how it wasn't implying that the iPhone was a sat phone. A second reading showed how it could be taken to refer to the emergency, but it certainly wasn't clear to me on the first reading.
Honestly, it was the unnecessary parenthesis that threw me off. Simply writing "for emergencies like this" or completely omitting the entire parenthetical phrase would have been clearer.
I can't seem to find the link to download the Android OS nor any of the source code. All I found was the SDK. Is there a "missing link" out on code.google.com that I'm not finding?
What I'm actually referring to is the second link in the summary which I took the time to click and then read.
I'm well aware of the details here. Just hoping the GP might take the time to follow the links and educate themselves rather than expecting to be hand fed. It's not even a lengthy article to read - just another/. summary. Couldn't be that hard to do.
As to the merits, that's for a court to decide. But both of them are in the semiconductor business, so the GP's list was faulty. I doubt that IBM would react any differently if the guy went to Intel as head of accounting.
He obviously knew his opinion was going to be controversial, hence his final sentence. And yes, it is extreme. What he's saying is that if you *opt* for the bone marrow transplant, then he doesn't think that should give you a genetic advantage to reproduce, because it's an unnatural advantage. And in this case, it's not something that causes you personally to perhaps be a burden upon society. Rather, it's something that can potentially cause you to infect multitudes of others. Which will only result in a majority populace that isn't immune, rather than the natural majority populace that is immune.
Having said all of that, the same can be said of polio and smallpox; which are at least closer analogies than Down's syndrome or sickle-cell. That is, if I'm correct in believing that neither of them are contagious.
Dude, you are SO totally right on this. I agree with you completely man... if she weighs the same as a duck, it means she's made of wood. And therefore.... a witch!
Contrary to a lot of responses, #1 is at least partially correct. Constants were NEVER parsed at entry time. So, 3.14159 was stored as ASCII "3.14159" and converted to floating point every time. And although everything else was tokenized, expressions weren't parsed into evaluation order, so that also had to be done every time.
I asked Bill Gates about this back in the early 90's, because it had always bugged me as to why they did it this way. He claimed it was because they were tight on ROM and had to cut some of the features, that being one of them. Since it had to be done at SOME point, that always struck me as bullshit, but it's what he said.
Oh and typing in five pages of numbers representing binary code was fun. There were actually checksums printed at the end of each line and a little program showed you the checksums in the corner of the screen after entering each line of code.
Criminy. Did they disable GOTO while they were at it? I wrote quicksort in BASIC on a C64 just for the hell of it (obviously using an array for my stack). As you can imagine, it was anything but "quick", but I would have been pretty peeved if something had been disabled to save me from myself.
You mean one that's intentionally missing key functionality in order to reduce the threat of Macs spreading into businesses? You don't really think that Access & Project not being ported to the Mac is a simple oversight, do you?
Not to get into the overall fray here, but it would be nice if Safari supported Flash. Not that I'm all that fond of the unnecessary multitude of Flash dis^H^H^Henabled sites, but it is annoying not to have it available at least as an option.
As to your final sentence, I get a kick out of websites that auto-detect the iPhone and put up a "special" page. Try eBay's - it's a complete joke. Fortunately they added a link to see the normal site, otherwise the thing would be unusable. Amazon's is fairly decent (last I saw it anyway).
I never noticed. I usually use Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N, Ctrl, A, and Ctrl-E. Certainly not because it was obvious - just did it without thinking about it and it worked. Unlike Ctrl-P in DOS - ever make that mistake? I'd like to say I only did that once... I'd like to say it.
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I had to go back and read your sentence again to see how it wasn't implying that the iPhone was a sat phone. A second reading showed how it could be taken to refer to the emergency, but it certainly wasn't clear to me on the first reading.
Honestly, it was the unnecessary parenthesis that threw me off. Simply writing "for emergencies like this" or completely omitting the entire parenthetical phrase would have been clearer.
Damn! And me with no mod points...
The bottom line is that the books are missing from my library!
Just thought I'd toss in another type of non sequitur.
Well, what exactly does 'android is completely open' mean then?
I can't seem to find the link to download the Android OS nor any of the source code. All I found was the SDK. Is there a "missing link" out on code.google.com that I'm not finding?
Umm... and PCs had viruses back in the System/360 days. And we all wrote Cobol back then. I see your point.
Touche! (/. doesn't seem to like my attempt at adding an accente gue)
However, I'd have to say your categorization might be considered an insult to douchebags.
You didn't meet their benchmark requirement - all you did was put them on. You have to also include the time it takes to actually kick Vista.
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I pulled on a pair of boots and managed to beat their time by more than 3 seconds.
What I'm actually referring to is the second link in the summary which I took the time to click and then read.
I'm well aware of the details here. Just hoping the GP might take the time to follow the links and educate themselves rather than expecting to be hand fed. It's not even a lengthy article to read - just another /. summary. Couldn't be that hard to do.
As to the merits, that's for a court to decide. But both of them are in the semiconductor business, so the GP's list was faulty. I doubt that IBM would react any differently if the guy went to Intel as head of accounting.
He obviously knew his opinion was going to be controversial, hence his final sentence. And yes, it is extreme. What he's saying is that if you *opt* for the bone marrow transplant, then he doesn't think that should give you a genetic advantage to reproduce, because it's an unnatural advantage. And in this case, it's not something that causes you personally to perhaps be a burden upon society. Rather, it's something that can potentially cause you to infect multitudes of others. Which will only result in a majority populace that isn't immune, rather than the natural majority populace that is immune.
Having said all of that, the same can be said of polio and smallpox; which are at least closer analogies than Down's syndrome or sickle-cell. That is, if I'm correct in believing that neither of them are contagious.
Semiconductors.
Dude, you are SO totally right on this. I agree with you completely man... if she weighs the same as a duck, it means she's made of wood. And therefore.... a witch!
Burn her!!!!
I should have known...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o
Damn your eyes. Now I'm really gonna have to pull those spare ZX-81 kits out of the garage and teach the kids how to solder.
Um... 64k of source code? Or 64k of *executable* code...
For my money, nothing beats Bicycle Built for Two played via head chatter on the 1541 drive.
Well, make that someone else's money. It only made it onto my drive once.
Don't forget COMAL. I did a fair amount of AI classwork with it.
Contrary to a lot of responses, #1 is at least partially correct. Constants were NEVER parsed at entry time. So, 3.14159 was stored as ASCII "3.14159" and converted to floating point every time. And although everything else was tokenized, expressions weren't parsed into evaluation order, so that also had to be done every time.
I asked Bill Gates about this back in the early 90's, because it had always bugged me as to why they did it this way. He claimed it was because they were tight on ROM and had to cut some of the features, that being one of them. Since it had to be done at SOME point, that always struck me as bullshit, but it's what he said.
Oh and typing in five pages of numbers representing binary code was fun. There were actually checksums printed at the end of each line and a little program showed you the checksums in the corner of the screen after entering each line of code.
Those were in Compute! IIRC, weren't they?
Criminy. Did they disable GOTO while they were at it? I wrote quicksort in BASIC on a C64 just for the hell of it (obviously using an array for my stack). As you can imagine, it was anything but "quick", but I would have been pretty peeved if something had been disabled to save me from myself.
The true thing, just like MS Office for OS X.
You mean one that's intentionally missing key functionality in order to reduce the threat of Macs spreading into businesses? You don't really think that Access & Project not being ported to the Mac is a simple oversight, do you?
Not to get into the overall fray here, but it would be nice if Safari supported Flash. Not that I'm all that fond of the unnecessary multitude of Flash dis^H^H^Henabled sites, but it is annoying not to have it available at least as an option.
As to your final sentence, I get a kick out of websites that auto-detect the iPhone and put up a "special" page. Try eBay's - it's a complete joke. Fortunately they added a link to see the normal site, otherwise the thing would be unusable. Amazon's is fairly decent (last I saw it anyway).
U ramippad ill ef my vewals te ethar vewals, bot U hivan't gettan tha hing ef typung thit wiy yat.
I never noticed. I usually use Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N, Ctrl, A, and Ctrl-E. Certainly not because it was obvious - just did it without thinking about it and it worked. Unlike Ctrl-P in DOS - ever make that mistake? I'd like to say I only did that once... I'd like to say it.