Yeah, because humans have that 6th sense - the one that lets us detect EM waves.
I've got a sixth sense that lets me detect EM waves. Well, if you start numbering from 2. It doesn't work for the RFID wavelengths, but it seems to be correctly calibrated for the current generation of passport-reading devices.
I think I've heard this argument before. It starts with the assertion that violent misconduct is, on the whole, a lot worse than sexual misconduct. I won't dispute that, I agree completely. The obvious next leap is then to the conlcusion that depictions of violence are, on the whole, a lot worse than depictions of sex.
And here I'll have to disagree.
A child is going to have a much more developed frame of reference for dealing with ideas about violence than ideas about sex. The age when we begin indiscriminately trying to thwack people is much younger than the age at which we beging indiscriminately trying to fuck people. Also, nobody minds having a frank discussion with a curious child about violence, whereas talk about sex will make all the grownups turn red and start mumbling something about birds and bees.
So when a little boy plays some counterstrike, the fictitious acts of violence are processed in the context of all the stuff he knows about violence. The inclination toward hurting people has been a fact of life for him since the first time he ever tried to share a toy. But if the same kid finds daddy's strip poker disc, there's much less context to help him process what he's watching. He might not even have ever experienced sexual desire. I personally had not reached puberty the first time I got my hands on some images of naked women, and I've heard enough "the time I found that Playboy" stories to believe that the same is true for most people.
For one thing, you can understand how a climber can climb.
Yeah, and I understand how a rope can bear a load too. Don't try to pretend like the workings of the cable are some incomprehensible mystery, it just has to hang there and not break. That's a very difficult requirement to meet, but I think I can wrap my brain around "stays in one piece" and won't have to resort to thinking of material scientists as magicians.
We can just taper it more, which will cost a lot more and have other problems, but we can design around those then.
Yeah, and you can tow a car with twisted strands of wet cardboard. There are some implementation issues, though. In fact, the implemenation issues are such that if you want to tow a car, you'll be using a chain. Likewise, if you want to build a space elevator, you'll be using a material stronger than any currently available.
Their slogan isn't "decrease the amount of evil extant," it's "do no evil."
Even if I cede that their participation in the censorship is better than some less "good" company doing it, which I do not, they have still actively done evil, whereas if they'd let themselves be firewalled, they would not have.
he's perfectly in his rights, right?
no, he's guilty of vandalism, regardless of who's taking responsibility. Your analogy is crap because if McVoy didn't exist, nobody anywhere could reproach Tridge for his actions.
I know you're correct about that, but the designers of these "proper" dvd players have forgotten the cardinal rule about following standards: "be strict in what you produce and liberal in what you accept".
That doesn't sound like an example of the law of leaky abstractions to me, it sounds like the law of insane programmers. The control was designed to use a data object, you weren't using a data object, so you shouldn't have used the control. I'd bet my left knee you'd have had a much easier time of it if you'd simply coded a custom grid control.
Well, there's nothing wrong with pleasing to the eye. Personally, I think I'd be able to navigate through the gargantuan package list easier with a graphical tree control than with dselect's ncurses interface. But even ignoring graphics, I'd say there are several things which could be significantly improved, such as:
hardware autodetection. really, it very seldom causes problems, and the user can always skip it if it does.
Automagical creation of an appropriate initrd during the 'make system bootable' phase if mounting the root filesystem requires modules to be loaded. Last time I ran into this, I had to use knoppix to compile and install an appropriate kernel.
Disaster recovery. If your net connection fails when installing the packages you've chosen, your system is hosed (and don't try to fix it with dpkg --force-depends -r libc6, like I once did)
That said, yes, debian's installer is pretty good, better than pgi I'd say, but there are always things that could be improved.
What's to prevent someone from stealing your key backups? If some 13 year old script kiddie manages to steal your backup tape and socially engineer intel into "restoring" the key for him, can he now masquerade as you? Does this mean that your old processor, which he claimed was fried, is no longer trusted?
Well, yeah, if by "power" you mean "turing completeness," in which case two of those are unnecessary for a proceedural language. If you define the power of a language in terms of complexity of programs written vs time required, "unecessary" things such as inheritance and operator overloading aren't so useless.
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Could this be lights out for Intel?
No. No it could not.
Well, she does feature accellerated curves and purposeful contrast.
Lloyd's of London denied the Cunard line's claim for the loss of ocean liner Titanic, because "God himself could not sink this ship."
Firefox isn't doing anything to prevent it
Like what, rewriting the filesystem drivers so that firefox's configuration cannot be overwritten by other programs?
Remember Bill Gates with "640K ought to be enough for anybody."?
"I can remember all sorts of things that never happened" -- Freak the Mighty
Yeah, because humans have that 6th sense - the one that lets us detect EM waves.
I've got a sixth sense that lets me detect EM waves. Well, if you start numbering from 2. It doesn't work for the RFID wavelengths, but it seems to be correctly calibrated for the current generation of passport-reading devices.
I think I've heard this argument before. It starts with the assertion that violent misconduct is, on the whole, a lot worse than sexual misconduct. I won't dispute that, I agree completely. The obvious next leap is then to the conlcusion that depictions of violence are, on the whole, a lot worse than depictions of sex.
And here I'll have to disagree.
A child is going to have a much more developed frame of reference for dealing with ideas about violence than ideas about sex. The age when we begin indiscriminately trying to thwack people is much younger than the age at which we beging indiscriminately trying to fuck people. Also, nobody minds having a frank discussion with a curious child about violence, whereas talk about sex will make all the grownups turn red and start mumbling something about birds and bees.
So when a little boy plays some counterstrike, the fictitious acts of violence are processed in the context of all the stuff he knows about violence. The inclination toward hurting people has been a fact of life for him since the first time he ever tried to share a toy. But if the same kid finds daddy's strip poker disc, there's much less context to help him process what he's watching. He might not even have ever experienced sexual desire. I personally had not reached puberty the first time I got my hands on some images of naked women, and I've heard enough "the time I found that Playboy" stories to believe that the same is true for most people.
For one thing, you can understand how a climber can climb.
Yeah, and I understand how a rope can bear a load too. Don't try to pretend like the workings of the cable are some incomprehensible mystery, it just has to hang there and not break. That's a very difficult requirement to meet, but I think I can wrap my brain around "stays in one piece" and won't have to resort to thinking of material scientists as magicians.
We can just taper it more, which will cost a lot more and have other problems, but we can design around those then.
Yeah, and you can tow a car with twisted strands of wet cardboard. There are some implementation issues, though. In fact, the implemenation issues are such that if you want to tow a car, you'll be using a chain. Likewise, if you want to build a space elevator, you'll be using a material stronger than any currently available.
Their slogan isn't "decrease the amount of evil extant," it's "do no evil." Even if I cede that their participation in the censorship is better than some less "good" company doing it, which I do not, they have still actively done evil, whereas if they'd let themselves be firewalled, they would not have.
he's perfectly in his rights, right?
no, he's guilty of vandalism, regardless of who's taking responsibility. Your analogy is crap because if McVoy didn't exist, nobody anywhere could reproach Tridge for his actions.
I know you're correct about that, but the designers of these "proper" dvd players have forgotten the cardinal rule about following standards: "be strict in what you produce and liberal in what you accept".
a free VISA debt[sic] card
Holy Freudiand slip, Batman!
ITYM Doctrine of First Sale
. . .lists a "Component Design Life" of at least 5 years. Call me crazy, but I just wouldn't trust them any longer than that.
That doesn't sound like an example of the law of leaky abstractions to me, it sounds like the law of insane programmers. The control was designed to use a data object, you weren't using a data object, so you shouldn't have used the control. I'd bet my left knee you'd have had a much easier time of it if you'd simply coded a custom grid control.
$999 for pretty decent specs, and it doesn't even look like a see-n-spell any more. I want one.
That said, yes, debian's installer is pretty good, better than pgi I'd say, but there are always things that could be improved.
What's to prevent someone from stealing your key backups? If some 13 year old script kiddie manages to steal your backup tape and socially engineer intel into "restoring" the key for him, can he now masquerade as you? Does this mean that your old processor, which he claimed was fried, is no longer trusted?
I think that distinction goes to B1FF.
"Eat your mashed potatoes, or I'll go Linux on your a__!"
That's an adjective, or maybe a noun.
Alas, these Java hands of mine are useless! :)
Gotta drink to that!
Releasing such a challenge on Monday of finals week is pure, unmitigated evil. So much for my grades. . .
Bearocracy (i cant spell) can take the fun out of anything
Yeah, rule by large furry woodland creatures can be a real downer.
Well, yeah, if by "power" you mean "turing completeness," in which case two of those are unnecessary for a proceedural language. If you define the power of a language in terms of complexity of programs written vs time required, "unecessary" things such as inheritance and operator overloading aren't so useless.
What does that mean, anyway? Did someone just pee on the newspaper?
This answers that question fairly well.