Maybe I'm just an obnoxious Prius driver, but when the article promised a review of the performance of the Volt in gas-only mode, I was expecting to hear what the equivalent mileage is. As another poster responded, "duh" about the electric motor performance being identical. I'd rather hear about the overall system efficiency in gas mode.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia"...
Oh wait... that's not it. Try again:
Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe
If atheists in Ireland really want to stir up trouble, a group of them should formally recognize that atheism is itself a form of religion, register with the government (or submit whatever paperwork is necessary to make their beliefs protected under this law), and then ask that the law be used against priests who advocate that those who do not believe will burn in Hell, since it's a pretty abusive thing to say about a person and surely shouldn't be allowed.
Maybe they rolled it out quietly because, as dictionaries go, this one sucks. It's the only one I've ever seen that defines every word by using that word in a sentence. E.g. for the word "hold", we find:
If one thing is used to hold another, it is used to store it.
That's fine for a spelling bee, but in a dictionary, I prefer the more conventional (and more succinct) definition:
I thought the whole point of ACTA as a secret agreement was that it could be implemented by merely tweaking enforcement of existing law. I know of no element of US law that supports the 3 strikes notion. If Congress won't play ball, ACTA could fall apart no matter what the various international executive branches agree to.
Even if you can bring programming to the masses, workaday programmers better hope that nothing those masses produce becomes important, because such things inevitably land on their desks when they need a tweak and the author has moved on. Maintainability is a quality that is difficult for even experienced programmers to put into their work. First timers rarely see the costs a year down the road of any implementation decisions, usually because they don't yet know there are multiple implementation possibilities.
I suppose that would include turning to the person sitting next to you and commenting on the game. Or even cheering in response. In fact, I would expect a stadium filled with people studiously following these restrictions to be utterly silent. Aren't sporting events fun? Don't answer that.
Requiring students to evaluate every scientific explanation in light of the evidence that supports it will be a monumental waste of time. From the theory of gravity to the theory of the atom, spending time discussing the basis of scientific consensus will prevent students from getting very deep into any topic. I'm just glad that the most likely effect for students outside Texas is that science textbooks will be distributed in two volumes: the part Texas students are able to get through while critiquing the evidence and the rest of the curriculum all other high schools will be able to get to.
Applying elegant algorithms to super-densely pack articles does little to improve the total optimization situation when the articles being packed are themselves optimized for store shelf marketing.
Seriously, anyone who's living under a gag order like that and can't go to the "media" won't be able to talk about it on Slashdot, either. It's right there in the first concern listed in TFA:
discussions of contractual details require the vendor's written permission
Actually, it was Newsweek, a month ago. There was even a follow-up online-only piece on the same experiment as TFA that was out one day earlier.
To comment on the topic at hand, though, it's no surprise that there are elements beyond genetics that contribute to evolutionary success. Embryology is extraordinarily complicated and there's plenty of room in there for the environment supplied by the mother to affect the form of the child, especially in species that gestate internally as long as most mammals do.
Don't just say you read his emails. Actually put them up there! Continuous scroll of everything in your boss's inbox.
If you're slightly less daring, feed your log of all URLs (site name only, perhaps) as they're being viewed by anyone in the office. Your boss did make you keep a log, didn't he?
Can't read the slashdotted article, but from the youtube video it looks like, instead of properly disposing of your DoD data, you put it in your front yard where anyone could snag a platter unnoticed and then announced your "accomplishment" on Slashdot so everyone can go find your data.
There is another picture with the same message apparently being approved by Hoover. It also shows most of the text so carefully covered up in the photo in TFA. Part of it is in shadow and perhaps someone more skilled than I with GIMP can tease it out (frankly, I think you'll need access to the photographic negative), but "... the following message to:" is what's visible. This lends credence to the "setup" theory, since that's hardly worth covering up for a photo op and even if it were, why be so careless as to reveal it in another photo (on J. Edgar Hoover's desk, no less).
Am I the only one who wondered (at first) what Messier could have to do with this? Are the FSF going to go all "Messier" on their asses and catalog all their anomolies?
Don't kid yourself
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Once objects of derision and schoolyard bullying, nerds are now acknowledged as having a place in society.
I seriously doubt things have changed, regardless of what books or technologies reach blockbuster status in the mainstream. Anyone overly interested in what's under the hood of those blockbusters will still be treated differently. And nerds have always had a place in society: as objects of derision and schoolyard bullying.
By what authority can a U.S. Senator, even one with the (ceremonial) title of President Elect (ain't over till the House of Representatives says it's over), unilaterally take control of a.gov domain name? Did someone in the current administration, who has an (admittedly realistic) view that this is inevitable, do this at the request of the new administration?
I can afford one subscription game (the limited resource here being time, not money)
Blizzard should pay attention to this aspect and, should they choose a subscription model anyway, arrange for a single subscription to be usable for all their games (with interlocks to prevent using the same account for two different games at the same time).
Well, that's just a link to another blog. Why would I trust a blogger to tell me that some blogger is being investigated by the SEC for misleading blogging? Oh wait, it's got a link to a bloomberg.com article. But who wrote that one? Connie Guglielmo? Who's that? Is she another "citizen journalist"? Hmmm... dunno. Well, at least her posting consists of something more than "I heard from a friend who's, like, totally reliable."
The defendants had 30 days to review the report and make formal motions. They chose instead to make an unchallenged assertion of harm and ask for a stay without giving the plaintiffs a chance to refute the assertion. If 30 days is too short to make formal motions, the defendants should not have agreed to such a short timetable. Perhaps their intention all along was to suppress the report through "grossly mischaracteriz[ing]" it if it wasn't to their liking.
I'll do you one better: Legacy code is anything developed under a different process than you're using now. If all you'll ever do is TDD, then Feathers' definition is fine. But if, like me, you've seen a dozen major development philosophies come and go and be refined over the years, you know that TDD will eventually be supplanted. The only thing that remains constant in the recognition of difficult maintenance is this: "We didn't plan to maintain it the way we're maintaining it now."
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Maybe I'm just an obnoxious Prius driver, but when the article promised a review of the performance of the Volt in gas-only mode, I was expecting to hear what the equivalent mileage is. As another poster responded, "duh" about the electric motor performance being identical. I'd rather hear about the overall system efficiency in gas mode.
Obligatory Princess Bride quote:
Oh wait... that's not it. Try again:
If atheists in Ireland really want to stir up trouble, a group of them should formally recognize that atheism is itself a form of religion, register with the government (or submit whatever paperwork is necessary to make their beliefs protected under this law), and then ask that the law be used against priests who advocate that those who do not believe will burn in Hell, since it's a pretty abusive thing to say about a person and surely shouldn't be allowed.
Maybe they rolled it out quietly because, as dictionaries go, this one sucks. It's the only one I've ever seen that defines every word by using that word in a sentence. E.g. for the word "hold", we find:
That's fine for a spelling bee, but in a dictionary, I prefer the more conventional (and more succinct) definition:
I thought the whole point of ACTA as a secret agreement was that it could be implemented by merely tweaking enforcement of existing law. I know of no element of US law that supports the 3 strikes notion. If Congress won't play ball, ACTA could fall apart no matter what the various international executive branches agree to.
Even if you can bring programming to the masses, workaday programmers better hope that nothing those masses produce becomes important, because such things inevitably land on their desks when they need a tweak and the author has moved on. Maintainability is a quality that is difficult for even experienced programmers to put into their work. First timers rarely see the costs a year down the road of any implementation decisions, usually because they don't yet know there are multiple implementation possibilities.
If I could hack her heart, she'd really love me...
I suspect you might only know that if you had a high Wisdom score...
This sounds like a job for... Aluminum Oxide Paint!
I suppose that would include turning to the person sitting next to you and commenting on the game. Or even cheering in response. In fact, I would expect a stadium filled with people studiously following these restrictions to be utterly silent. Aren't sporting events fun? Don't answer that.
Sounds like the most direct form of Microsoft's favorite tactic against "open" competitors: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Requiring students to evaluate every scientific explanation in light of the evidence that supports it will be a monumental waste of time. From the theory of gravity to the theory of the atom, spending time discussing the basis of scientific consensus will prevent students from getting very deep into any topic. I'm just glad that the most likely effect for students outside Texas is that science textbooks will be distributed in two volumes: the part Texas students are able to get through while critiquing the evidence and the rest of the curriculum all other high schools will be able to get to.
Applying elegant algorithms to super-densely pack articles does little to improve the total optimization situation when the articles being packed are themselves optimized for store shelf marketing.
Seriously, anyone who's living under a gag order like that and can't go to the "media" won't be able to talk about it on Slashdot, either. It's right there in the first concern listed in TFA:
Actually, it was Newsweek, a month ago. There was even a follow-up online-only piece on the same experiment as TFA that was out one day earlier.
To comment on the topic at hand, though, it's no surprise that there are elements beyond genetics that contribute to evolutionary success. Embryology is extraordinarily complicated and there's plenty of room in there for the environment supplied by the mother to affect the form of the child, especially in species that gestate internally as long as most mammals do.
Don't just say you read his emails. Actually put them up there! Continuous scroll of everything in your boss's inbox.
If you're slightly less daring, feed your log of all URLs (site name only, perhaps) as they're being viewed by anyone in the office. Your boss did make you keep a log, didn't he?
Can't read the slashdotted article, but from the youtube video it looks like, instead of properly disposing of your DoD data, you put it in your front yard where anyone could snag a platter unnoticed and then announced your "accomplishment" on Slashdot so everyone can go find your data.
How did you get this job? Somebody call Security.
There is another picture with the same message apparently being approved by Hoover. It also shows most of the text so carefully covered up in the photo in TFA. Part of it is in shadow and perhaps someone more skilled than I with GIMP can tease it out (frankly, I think you'll need access to the photographic negative), but "... the following message to:" is what's visible. This lends credence to the "setup" theory, since that's hardly worth covering up for a photo op and even if it were, why be so careless as to reveal it in another photo (on J. Edgar Hoover's desk, no less).
Am I the only one who wondered (at first) what Messier could have to do with this? Are the FSF going to go all "Messier" on their asses and catalog all their anomolies?
I seriously doubt things have changed, regardless of what books or technologies reach blockbuster status in the mainstream. Anyone overly interested in what's under the hood of those blockbusters will still be treated differently. And nerds have always had a place in society: as objects of derision and schoolyard bullying.
By what authority can a U.S. Senator, even one with the (ceremonial) title of President Elect (ain't over till the House of Representatives says it's over), unilaterally take control of a .gov domain name? Did someone in the current administration, who has an (admittedly realistic) view that this is inevitable, do this at the request of the new administration?
Blizzard should pay attention to this aspect and, should they choose a subscription model anyway, arrange for a single subscription to be usable for all their games (with interlocks to prevent using the same account for two different games at the same time).
Well, that's just a link to another blog. Why would I trust a blogger to tell me that some blogger is being investigated by the SEC for misleading blogging? Oh wait, it's got a link to a bloomberg.com article. But who wrote that one? Connie Guglielmo? Who's that? Is she another "citizen journalist"? Hmmm... dunno. Well, at least her posting consists of something more than "I heard from a friend who's, like, totally reliable."
The defendants had 30 days to review the report and make formal motions. They chose instead to make an unchallenged assertion of harm and ask for a stay without giving the plaintiffs a chance to refute the assertion. If 30 days is too short to make formal motions, the defendants should not have agreed to such a short timetable. Perhaps their intention all along was to suppress the report through "grossly mischaracteriz[ing]" it if it wasn't to their liking.
I'll do you one better: Legacy code is anything developed under a different process than you're using now. If all you'll ever do is TDD, then Feathers' definition is fine. But if, like me, you've seen a dozen major development philosophies come and go and be refined over the years, you know that TDD will eventually be supplanted. The only thing that remains constant in the recognition of difficult maintenance is this: "We didn't plan to maintain it the way we're maintaining it now."