Shut the fuck up. Do you think I'm ten years old? I know the difference between a democracy and a republic. It's totally irrelevant to the point I was making.
I used "democracy" as a generic term for a system of majority-rule. Click here and type in "democracy" and read the definitions for the word. No, wait. I'll save you the trouble. It says, among other things, this: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
Next time you feel the need to "correct" somebody, make sure you know what you're talking about. And stop capitalizing nouns for no reason--we're not writing in German.
Boy, I sure hit one of your hot-buttons, didn't I?
I checked the link in your sig. I agree that it's very useful to have places where people can discuss important things in the open, and where the knowledgeable can call bullshit when they see it. But, in the area I was alluding to--politics--I fear that there's really no such thing as a knowledgeable person, because everything we think we know has been filtered through "professional" journalists. There is an objective reality, but it's pretty much unknowable except to the few who are witnessing it firsthand, and their reporting is afflicted by--as I said before--incompetence and conflict of interest.
I grant you we're better off with the internet than we were without it, but it's debatable by how much.
BTW, I was a huge fan of Harlan Ellison (both his stories and his attitude) for many years. Now, I'm a afraid the only useful thing he ever told me was to not trust him any more than I did the rest of what used to be called "the establishment".
This is frustratingly typical of what passes for journalism in this world. When you consider that the press is critical to the proper functioning of a democracy, it's frightening how really bad they are at their jobs. Between the general incompetence and some people's active efforts to skew the truth, it's a wonder we ever get anything right.
For instance, I'm pretty sure there are journalists who have had enough exposure to George W. Bush to have made an informed decision on this very important question: is he stupid, or is he malicious, or is it a combination of the two? But, we'll never hear the truth from these people, because their continued access to the White House, and hence their jobs, depend on them placidly following the scripts they are handed.
I don't know what can be done about this situation, but it's the kind of thing I had hoped the internet would help with, and so far there doesn't seem to be much improvement.
Oh, and by the way, Bombardier is a publicly-held company. The reason the Forbes writer couldn't find them on the NYSE or NASDAQ is that they have the temerity to list their shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Careful, your education is showing. The actual AOL bit is "You've got mail!" The piss-poor grammar was one of the first things that turned me off about AOL.
hmmm. I hadn't thought of that. Pre-emptive bribery. I wonder if it works any better with the longshoremen than it has with the mutual fund managers or the politicians.
I don't have any time right now to look into this, but unless this guy runs a very popular blog I find it very strange that he hasn't been/.ed into oblivion by now. Are we sure this isn't some kind of setup?
I'm fascinated by what you've done here. I'm currently learning to program in Lisp/Scheme, but I feel pretty sure that at some point I'll want to branch out into the C family (because that's where so much of the action is). I can't even fully understand the member function in your class, but it still raises very interesting questions.
For instance, what is your experience with performance using your techniques? Do you notice any difference between the speed of your code and well-constructed code using more conventional techniques?
Also, do you feel that this way of programming might allow one to write a large program without giving yet another demonstration of Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (I'm sure you've read it: Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp)? Granted, you're using C++, not C, but it's still an interesting point to ponder.
My understanding (through my credit union) is that the only thing that gets checked is the dollar amount in numerals. The payee can say about anything--my wife wrote a check at Best Buy and made it out to Media Play and it cleared with no trouble--and the amount in words is not even looked at. Likewise, the date. The signature is supposed to be necessary, but it's not checked, and they're not liable if someone forges your signature and the check (or box of checks) clears.
On the bright side, you're never going to get prosecuted for post-dating checks, because nobody will ever notice.
I wonder how much better things would get if they would find a way around using the hard drives. I have had a friend's old 486 running as my router (Linux Router Project) continuously for several years--the HDD isn't even connected to the motherboard. But the thing is, it was only 500mb in the first place--easily replaced these days with an SD card or something.
Your sig is killing me, cause I can't remember what movie it's from. I remember it's a Western, and I remember Gene Hackman is talking to the little curly-headed writer about his book, but damned if I can recall where or when I saw it.
I have nothing truly on-topic to add here, since my phone only speaks TDMA. But since my wife and I are impatiently waiting until November 24 so we can change providers (and keep our phone numbers), and since we have already put up with almost 3 years of ever-deteriorating "service" (e.g. I can hold my phone in my hand, observe that I'm receiving 2 or 3 cells, dial myself from another phone--and get my voice mail about one time in five) from these fuck-wads, this seems like the perfect forum to say
KISS MY ASS, CINGULAR!
This company is being mis-managed into the ground. They're so bad that I'm half-afraid to sign up with Verizon (which is very good around here) for fear that I will be part of a herd that overwhelms their network and end up in the same straits.
Well, it all computes if you understand two "facts": 1. Of the 100 million computers sold each year, 10 million (10%) are for the desktop.
2. The average price for each desktop OS is $3000. Sun intends (apparently) to price the same functionality at $100.
So now it's a tort to call a toll-free phone number? One that's listed on the contact page of their website? I'd like to see them make that stick.
And, I think I speak for most of us here when I say I don't give a shit about these people's livelihoods. Next time they should get a job that doesn't make them a public nuisance (and a target for anger and aggression--don't they have any self-respect?).
I wonder if the UPS/Fedex guys will be willing to use the same box that you have set up for USPS. If you get your letters delivered to the same box as your parcels, even if it is divided into two sections, the parcel services may be reluctant to use the thing for fear they are breaking the law.
The guy that answered Time Zones has it right. You're just asking for a "stupid/arrogant/parochial Americans" ("USians," it would probably say) rant with a question like this.
Maybe you were tired when you wrote it. Go to sleep.
Hmmm. In the movie, we're led to believe that Solitaire really can foretell the future--until she gives her virginity to Bond. When Mr. Big finds out about her dalliance, he complains that he would have taken care of her needs in due time. I guess things are a bit different in the book.
Unfortunately, the parent post's cynicism may be justified. While you're correct that brightness (for about 20 different screen elements) and font size change automatically, based on who signed on the position, there are still a surprising number of things that have to be done manually every time an enroute controllers sits down at the radar to work.
Here's a list off the top of my head (naturally, none of these things has to be changed if the previous controller happened to use the same settings):
select scope range
enter altimeter stations in desired order
position any or all of the four windows on the display
select transparency setting for each of the windows
turn off/on and position departure/inbound/hold lists
turn "click" noise on/off for vscs (phones/radios)
adjust override and system tone volumes on vscs
adjust side tone on vscs
adjust brightness of vscs displays (2)
adjust brightness of overhead chart(s), sector lighting
This is ridiculous, when you consider that all but the chart/sector lighting are completely computer controlled. If this system we're talking about ever gets purchased for controllers, I hope somebody provides the FAA with some adult supervision for the acquisition.
I don't doubt your figures; I doubt their relevance.
Few people in making a decision about whether to risk their life flying on the Shuttle would look at the question this way. One does not make a choice between travelling half a million miles on the shuttle, or doing it some other way. One chooses between flying on the Shuttle or doing something else entirely with one's time. Few of the alternative ways to spend that time (even if one includes time spent training) involve a 2% chance of violent death.
Um, maybe that was the biggie for you, but given the apathetic, ignorant parents my mother has to deal with (she teaches in fabulous Henry county), I give the "flaggers" theory a lot of credence. I know the number of teachers is large, but not as a percentage of voters--and I don't think very many people listen to their concerns.
In your opinion (I'll keep in mind that's all it is;), would this indicate that IBM perceives a lack of broad principles on which it might base its case, or a pragmatic desire to crush these bugs in the most expedient way available?
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I'm afraid there's no honorable way to do that just yet. "You break it, you bought it" works around the world, and we broke a lot of shit in Iraq.
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I used "democracy" as a generic term for a system of majority-rule. Click here and type in "democracy" and read the definitions for the word. No, wait. I'll save you the trouble. It says, among other things, this: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
Next time you feel the need to "correct" somebody, make sure you know what you're talking about. And stop capitalizing nouns for no reason--we're not writing in German.
I checked the link in your sig. I agree that it's very useful to have places where people can discuss important things in the open, and where the knowledgeable can call bullshit when they see it. But, in the area I was alluding to--politics--I fear that there's really no such thing as a knowledgeable person, because everything we think we know has been filtered through "professional" journalists. There is an objective reality, but it's pretty much unknowable except to the few who are witnessing it firsthand, and their reporting is afflicted by--as I said before--incompetence and conflict of interest.
I grant you we're better off with the internet than we were without it, but it's debatable by how much.
BTW, I was a huge fan of Harlan Ellison (both his stories and his attitude) for many years. Now, I'm a afraid the only useful thing he ever told me was to not trust him any more than I did the rest of what used to be called "the establishment".
This is frustratingly typical of what passes for journalism in this world. When you consider that the press is critical to the proper functioning of a democracy, it's frightening how really bad they are at their jobs. Between the general incompetence and some people's active efforts to skew the truth, it's a wonder we ever get anything right.
For instance, I'm pretty sure there are journalists who have had enough exposure to George W. Bush to have made an informed decision on this very important question: is he stupid, or is he malicious, or is it a combination of the two? But, we'll never hear the truth from these people, because their continued access to the White House, and hence their jobs, depend on them placidly following the scripts they are handed.
I don't know what can be done about this situation, but it's the kind of thing I had hoped the internet would help with, and so far there doesn't seem to be much improvement.
Oh, and by the way, Bombardier is a publicly-held company. The reason the Forbes writer couldn't find them on the NYSE or NASDAQ is that they have the temerity to list their shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Careful, your education is showing. The actual AOL bit is "You've got mail!" The piss-poor grammar was one of the first things that turned me off about AOL.
hmmm. I hadn't thought of that. Pre-emptive bribery. I wonder if it works any better with the longshoremen than it has with the mutual fund managers or the politicians.
I don't have any time right now to look into this, but unless this guy runs a very popular blog I find it very strange that he hasn't been /.ed into oblivion by now. Are we sure this isn't some kind of setup?
You are correct (uh, except for your spelling). I haven't seen the print version, but the online version says "preemption".
For instance, what is your experience with performance using your techniques? Do you notice any difference between the speed of your code and well-constructed code using more conventional techniques?
Also, do you feel that this way of programming might allow one to write a large program without giving yet another demonstration of Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (I'm sure you've read it: Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp)? Granted, you're using C++, not C, but it's still an interesting point to ponder.
On the bright side, you're never going to get prosecuted for post-dating checks, because nobody will ever notice.
I wonder how much better things would get if they would find a way around using the hard drives. I have had a friend's old 486 running as my router (Linux Router Project) continuously for several years--the HDD isn't even connected to the motherboard. But the thing is, it was only 500mb in the first place--easily replaced these days with an SD card or something.
Please help me.
KISS MY ASS, CINGULAR!
This company is being mis-managed into the ground. They're so bad that I'm half-afraid to sign up with Verizon (which is very good around here) for fear that I will be part of a herd that overwhelms their network and end up in the same straits.
Avoid Cingular.
1. Of the 100 million computers sold each year, 10 million (10%) are for the desktop.
2. The average price for each desktop OS is $3000. Sun intends (apparently) to price the same functionality at $100.
See? It all makes perfect sense.
Funny as hell that you got modded up as Insightful, eh? Stupid moderator.
And, I think I speak for most of us here when I say I don't give a shit about these people's livelihoods. Next time they should get a job that doesn't make them a public nuisance (and a target for anger and aggression--don't they have any self-respect?).
I wonder if the UPS/Fedex guys will be willing to use the same box that you have set up for USPS. If you get your letters delivered to the same box as your parcels, even if it is divided into two sections, the parcel services may be reluctant to use the thing for fear they are breaking the law.
I think it's just you. It should probably say "High Frequency band" instead of "high frequency bands," but I've seen funnier stuff.
Maybe you were tired when you wrote it. Go to sleep.
Hmmm. In the movie, we're led to believe that Solitaire really can foretell the future--until she gives her virginity to Bond. When Mr. Big finds out about her dalliance, he complains that he would have taken care of her needs in due time. I guess things are a bit different in the book.
Here's a list off the top of my head (naturally, none of these things has to be changed if the previous controller happened to use the same settings):
This is ridiculous, when you consider that all but the chart/sector lighting are completely computer controlled. If this system we're talking about ever gets purchased for controllers, I hope somebody provides the FAA with some adult supervision for the acquisition.
Few people in making a decision about whether to risk their life flying on the Shuttle would look at the question this way. One does not make a choice between travelling half a million miles on the shuttle, or doing it some other way. One chooses between flying on the Shuttle or doing something else entirely with one's time. Few of the alternative ways to spend that time (even if one includes time spent training) involve a 2% chance of violent death.
Um, maybe that was the biggie for you, but given the apathetic, ignorant parents my mother has to deal with (she teaches in fabulous Henry county), I give the "flaggers" theory a lot of credence. I know the number of teachers is large, but not as a percentage of voters--and I don't think very many people listen to their concerns.
In your opinion (I'll keep in mind that's all it is ;), would this indicate that IBM perceives a lack of broad principles on which it might base its case, or a pragmatic desire to crush these bugs in the most expedient way available?