Computer programs are lists of instructions to be executed in sequence. Since roughly the invention of writing lists have been organized on a one item per line basis. I can see the argument for allowing ; as well as EOL in order to fold short loops into a single line, but not defaulting EOL to end-of-statement makes no sense and just makes obfuscation contests possible. And comparing this to FORTRAN's requirement that you start everything in column X is a total straw man.
Simply treat both cr and lf as endlines; a compiler isn't formatting output and ignores a blank line so treating \r\n as two endlines doesn't matter. Use a visible character like the _ in vb to indicate that the next nonblank line is a continuation. I have to agree with parent that ignoring whitespace is one of the dumbest ideas ever. How often do you really needa 140 character line, versus the frequency of lazy programmers writing unreadable code because the language doesn't require even minimal formatting?
This is a bad thing. I do not want it. I do not want the cool icons instead of text (I suppose that "by default" means I can turn the text back on for now). I do not want cool apps "pinned" to my taskbar which are not running which look like they are. I want the fucking taskbar to show me what is running and taking up CPU and risking the always-around-the-corner Windows crash. I want that clean empty taskbar to be a signal that it is safe to execute the shutdown sequence, that I won't get caught with any documents open possibly in some application that will hiccup trying to save them. I DO NOT WANT THIS. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS A BAD IDEA. It might not be such a bad idea on the Mac where all app writers know you might kill the machine while their opus is running, but it is a HORRIBLY BAD idea in Windows where so many don't.
TFA is right about one thing, which is that in Windows a Window is an application. So it has been since Windows was DOS and so it should be until Windows is OSX. Meanwhile, it's a kludge on top of a misnomer topped with a catastrophe and I have no desire whatsoever to "upgrade" to this stupidity.
Even though autorun is like one of the dumbest ideas ever, MS thinks of it as a COOL FEATURE and disabling it is going to break the COOL AUTOMATION that they have sold your grandma, who will no longer be able to just plug her camera into the computer and have it do its thing automatically. Their users might have to THINK which we all know is a bad thing, especially if you are thinking about how well your Microsoft product works.
What you say is often true, but I know at least one professional who flatly told his bosses that if they made him use Vista, he would leave. Most of us probably wouldn't go quite that far but there is a point at which the people who have to make things work simply say "boss, we can't make this work." At that point the received wisdom that you don't get fired for buying Microsoft is no longer operative.
I know plenty of people (not as many as 2 years ago, but still some) who run Win2K because of their objection to the license key checks introduced with XP. As long as they aren't playing games or HD multimedia, it doesn't seem to matter.
And if a large organization has to make a major unscheduled effort because Microsoft is ramping up the pressure -- you can still get XP but it's more expensive, available on fewer models, and deliberately more poorly supported -- then you have to ask whether to take the next step on that treadmill which is only going to turn again in a few years, or go in a different direction. I have heard the words "Apple" and "Linux" uttered by people who would never have taken either seriously a couple of years ago, and you can see how that's working out for Apple very clearly.
Microsoft's headlock on the desktop is slipping, and with it their lock on the OS. A lot of stuff that used to require Microsoft and Office can now be done just fine with Linux and OpenOffice. My own company would never have considered moving away from Microsoft even two years ago, but now they're asking for a couple of test boxes to be set up, and they also pester our local Apple fanboy a lot about his system.
Consumers don't care. They didn't care about Vista, except that it didn't work like their old XP box and they had to learn new stuff. Consumers don't like learning the new stuff but they do it because it's easier than jumping through the hoops to get another XP box.
IT people killed Vista, and I see no reason why they will be any happier with Win7. I have talked to dozens of industry people, from the guys who network mom & pop shops to guys who run databases for Fortune 100 companies, and NONE of them wanted anything to do with Vista. Their complaints were that it was entirely too dependent on internet connectivity, it was totaly different and therefore a major hassle to integrate with their existing network infrastructure and to maintain at the user level, and could not be locked down in a corporate environment properly. Win7 is a finger in the eye to these people -- it doesn't even have Classic mode any more. I've only spoken to a couple of them since Win7 was introduced but they aren't impressed.
And it is a truism from the days of Dos 2.0 that people do prefer to use at home what they use at work. When the tech friends they depend on to fix what they can't insist they run XP, they will insist on XP. Office and Word became popular not because they're all that good but because people brought them home and became comfortable with them there.
This has all come down to a giant Mexican standoff between Microsoft, which wants to determine how your computer looks and acts, and corporate IT types who want to determine those things. (As for you determining those things, that ship has sailed; the end of Classic mode tells that tale.) The IT guyes will not give up their control. Microsoft has obviously dug in their heels. It is not clear to me how this will end, but from what I have seen it will not end with widespread Win7 on the corporate desktop.
You do realize that the output of a biometric scanner is a data file, right? It can be copied and presented to a machine that expects to be talking to a biometric scanner, but is actually talking to your computer pretending to be a biometric scanner and feeding it the same file.
...and you are better off swimming across the Rio Grande in the wrong direction than complying with this. This almost makes the county that makes you live under a bridge look sane by comparison.
After years of telling people to avoid eggs suddenly it turns out that they're not bad for you after all. It's partly the media and partly scientists who want the limelight provided by the media, but it's really irresponsible how lifestyle changes are suggested (and in some cases demanded) based on one or two studies like this, while centuries of anecdotal evidence to the contrary are ignored.
It takes hundreds of people to make a movie, and most of them are selected not for their familiarity with the target material but for their previously demonstrated moviemaking skill. This hit home when I was reading an interview with one of the top people responsible for Terminator 3; IIRC it may have been James Cameron but I'm not sure. In any case he was going on about the time travel scenes, and how the terminators appear naked, and he tossed out a comment along the lines of "It's part of the franchise, the terminators appear naked. Who knows why? I don't know why, but that's just the way it is." And so we had to wall off the whole street for Kristanna Loken, yadda yadda yadda.
My immediate reaction was, WTF? You are spending millions of dollars to make this thing and you don't even understand the first most basic thing, a thing any American ten year old could probably explain to you? But that's just it; millions of dollars are on line, put up mostly by people who have not read the book and would rather spend those dollars on people who have proven movie experience. And sometimes those people just don't get it, even if they are very good at what they do, and things like I, Robot are the result.
First, you need to understand what a patent is; it is legal protection, to be sure, but more than that it is a form of publication. Patents exist to encourage inventors to reveal what they have discovered so that others can build on it. Their reward for giving away their secrets is the period of artificial monopoly to capitalize on their discovery. But yes, you can read patents and glean what went into them and expand upon them, because that's what patents are designed to make possible.
Second, you need to understand what the remedy is for a patent holder whose patent is violated. There are no "patent police" who go out and look for patent violators. Patent owners have to keep their own vigilance, and when they think their patent is being infringed the remedy is to sue the infringers. The result of such a suit is usually an injunction to force the infringer to stop selling his competing products. (Probably the most famous case of this was Polaroid v. Kodak, where Kodak was forced to abandon their entire line of Polaroid-like instant cameras, of which they had sold millions.)
Now bearing this in mind, exactly what would Sony or Fox or whoever get by suing Doom9? They aren't making money off of this, they just gave it away. Injunctions notwithstanding it's almost impossible to stop the dissemination of software whose authors have deliberately tried to make it available for free. There are no profits to seize, and any effort to show a dollar amount for damages would be very iffy. Patent infringement is not fraud and is not criminal, so there is no risk of anybody going to jail. All in all, there's not much the patent holder can do in this case except suck it up and go on to the next project.
You should ask again about flood insurance, particularly now that you've been flooded. We were once told the same thing, but there have been a number of incidents like yours since 1995 or so when we got to experience one of the first on record (Yay Louisiana! We're #1!) You should be able to buy flood insurance now, at appropriately cheap rates, even if you're in a non flood area.
You look at most rich people and you wonder what the hell they get for all that money. A few spend it on splashy things like big yachts, but that's just a bigger version of what most of us do with our more limited means. Once you have enough money to not have to worry about the rent and health insurance, what exactly does having more get you? Fossett actually had the answer for that. He did stuff that was completely different, stuff you couldn't do on any scale if you weren't that wealthy. It's too bad there aren't more like him.
Via Wiki. It suggests that extremophile life is common, since however it started it started on Earth just about as soon as conditions were hospitable enough, but that most places in the galaxy will be too unstable to allow evolution of complex forms such as multicellular plants and animals.
There is a tremendous amount of weather on Titan because of tidal interactions, and like any fairly large world its interior is significantly warmer than its surface. There's quite a bit of radiation in the area due to Saturn's magnetic field and the Solar wind. And Titan would have been significantly warmer closer to the time of its formation and during the period when its rotation was winding down toward tidal lock.
...water lava would remain in a liquid state for hundreds or thousands of years. I'm not sure how they reach this conclusion, but they address the issue. Also, just a few weeks ago the Cassini team announced that there may be a massive subsurface ocean, which kind of changes things in ways even this article didn't address.
In the original 2001 book they went to Saturn, where Titan and Enceladus are. It would have been a long walk to get to Europa. In the movie and sequels they go to Jupiter, where Europa is. It would be a long walk from there to Titan.
One of the recent blips on the Cassini-Huygens website (since scrolled off) is that Titan's crust seems to be decoupled from the moon's core, indicting that its "mantle" may be liquid -- an ocean of water hundreds of kilometers deep. Combined with all the organic crap sitting on top and the ice volcanoes I am starting to think it would be surprising if there weren't life on Titan.
You have to wonder why they decided to throw this much CPU power at lithium. The fact that hydrogen bombs work in part by compressing lithium-6 deuteride to almost exactly these conditions couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, I'm sure.
Weight gain that does not respond to exercise is diagnostic of syndrome X. Get a blood glucose meter and check your resting blood glucose; if it's over 90, take a drink of orange juice or eat a snickers bar and check your glucose level about 45 minutes later. If it's over 140, you are poisoning yourself every time you eat.
There are no drugs that can fully fix this, though metformin can help if your syndrome is advanced. You mainly have to adopt an atkins-like diet which avoids anything that spikes your glucose level over 140 mg/dl. That will cut out just about all bread, pasta, potatoes, and other starches. But in my case the gout was also a consideration, so I'm highly motivated to stick to it.
The existing device includes a ballistic recovery system, basically an explosive-launched parachute that you deploy when something goes wrong. The main trick with that is to be flying high enough for the parachute to deploy and float you down. It's a common thing in ultralight aircraft and probably accounts for a lot of the cost. Most ultralight fatalities occur because the failure occurred too low for the BRD to deply, or it fouled in a propeller or something.
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Computer programs are lists of instructions to be executed in sequence. Since roughly the invention of writing lists have been organized on a one item per line basis. I can see the argument for allowing ; as well as EOL in order to fold short loops into a single line, but not defaulting EOL to end-of-statement makes no sense and just makes obfuscation contests possible. And comparing this to FORTRAN's requirement that you start everything in column X is a total straw man.
Simply treat both cr and lf as endlines; a compiler isn't formatting output and ignores a blank line so treating \r\n as two endlines doesn't matter. Use a visible character like the _ in vb to indicate that the next nonblank line is a continuation. I have to agree with parent that ignoring whitespace is one of the dumbest ideas ever. How often do you really needa 140 character line, versus the frequency of lazy programmers writing unreadable code because the language doesn't require even minimal formatting?
TFA is right about one thing, which is that in Windows a Window is an application. So it has been since Windows was DOS and so it should be until Windows is OSX. Meanwhile, it's a kludge on top of a misnomer topped with a catastrophe and I have no desire whatsoever to "upgrade" to this stupidity.
Even though autorun is like one of the dumbest ideas ever, MS thinks of it as a COOL FEATURE and disabling it is going to break the COOL AUTOMATION that they have sold your grandma, who will no longer be able to just plug her camera into the computer and have it do its thing automatically. Their users might have to THINK which we all know is a bad thing, especially if you are thinking about how well your Microsoft product works.
What you say is often true, but I know at least one professional who flatly told his bosses that if they made him use Vista, he would leave. Most of us probably wouldn't go quite that far but there is a point at which the people who have to make things work simply say "boss, we can't make this work." At that point the received wisdom that you don't get fired for buying Microsoft is no longer operative.
And if a large organization has to make a major unscheduled effort because Microsoft is ramping up the pressure -- you can still get XP but it's more expensive, available on fewer models, and deliberately more poorly supported -- then you have to ask whether to take the next step on that treadmill which is only going to turn again in a few years, or go in a different direction. I have heard the words "Apple" and "Linux" uttered by people who would never have taken either seriously a couple of years ago, and you can see how that's working out for Apple very clearly.
Microsoft's headlock on the desktop is slipping, and with it their lock on the OS. A lot of stuff that used to require Microsoft and Office can now be done just fine with Linux and OpenOffice. My own company would never have considered moving away from Microsoft even two years ago, but now they're asking for a couple of test boxes to be set up, and they also pester our local Apple fanboy a lot about his system.
IT people killed Vista, and I see no reason why they will be any happier with Win7. I have talked to dozens of industry people, from the guys who network mom & pop shops to guys who run databases for Fortune 100 companies, and NONE of them wanted anything to do with Vista. Their complaints were that it was entirely too dependent on internet connectivity, it was totaly different and therefore a major hassle to integrate with their existing network infrastructure and to maintain at the user level, and could not be locked down in a corporate environment properly. Win7 is a finger in the eye to these people -- it doesn't even have Classic mode any more. I've only spoken to a couple of them since Win7 was introduced but they aren't impressed.
And it is a truism from the days of Dos 2.0 that people do prefer to use at home what they use at work. When the tech friends they depend on to fix what they can't insist they run XP, they will insist on XP. Office and Word became popular not because they're all that good but because people brought them home and became comfortable with them there.
This has all come down to a giant Mexican standoff between Microsoft, which wants to determine how your computer looks and acts, and corporate IT types who want to determine those things. (As for you determining those things, that ship has sailed; the end of Classic mode tells that tale.) The IT guyes will not give up their control. Microsoft has obviously dug in their heels. It is not clear to me how this will end, but from what I have seen it will not end with widespread Win7 on the corporate desktop.
Because I'm sure as hell not going to tell him.
EN TEA.
You do realize that the output of a biometric scanner is a data file, right? It can be copied and presented to a machine that expects to be talking to a biometric scanner, but is actually talking to your computer pretending to be a biometric scanner and feeding it the same file.
...and you are better off swimming across the Rio Grande in the wrong direction than complying with this. This almost makes the county that makes you live under a bridge look sane by comparison.
After years of telling people to avoid eggs suddenly it turns out that they're not bad for you after all. It's partly the media and partly scientists who want the limelight provided by the media, but it's really irresponsible how lifestyle changes are suggested (and in some cases demanded) based on one or two studies like this, while centuries of anecdotal evidence to the contrary are ignored.
It takes hundreds of people to make a movie, and most of them are selected not for their familiarity with the target material but for their previously demonstrated moviemaking skill. This hit home when I was reading an interview with one of the top people responsible for Terminator 3; IIRC it may have been James Cameron but I'm not sure. In any case he was going on about the time travel scenes, and how the terminators appear naked, and he tossed out a comment along the lines of "It's part of the franchise, the terminators appear naked. Who knows why? I don't know why, but that's just the way it is." And so we had to wall off the whole street for Kristanna Loken, yadda yadda yadda.
My immediate reaction was, WTF? You are spending millions of dollars to make this thing and you don't even understand the first most basic thing, a thing any American ten year old could probably explain to you? But that's just it; millions of dollars are on line, put up mostly by people who have not read the book and would rather spend those dollars on people who have proven movie experience. And sometimes those people just don't get it, even if they are very good at what they do, and things like I, Robot are the result.
OK it was set in LA instead of SF, but the implication in Kim Stanley Robinson's novel was that the slotcar grid was at least statewide.
Second, you need to understand what the remedy is for a patent holder whose patent is violated. There are no "patent police" who go out and look for patent violators. Patent owners have to keep their own vigilance, and when they think their patent is being infringed the remedy is to sue the infringers. The result of such a suit is usually an injunction to force the infringer to stop selling his competing products. (Probably the most famous case of this was Polaroid v. Kodak, where Kodak was forced to abandon their entire line of Polaroid-like instant cameras, of which they had sold millions.)
Now bearing this in mind, exactly what would Sony or Fox or whoever get by suing Doom9? They aren't making money off of this, they just gave it away. Injunctions notwithstanding it's almost impossible to stop the dissemination of software whose authors have deliberately tried to make it available for free. There are no profits to seize, and any effort to show a dollar amount for damages would be very iffy. Patent infringement is not fraud and is not criminal, so there is no risk of anybody going to jail. All in all, there's not much the patent holder can do in this case except suck it up and go on to the next project.
You should ask again about flood insurance, particularly now that you've been flooded. We were once told the same thing, but there have been a number of incidents like yours since 1995 or so when we got to experience one of the first on record (Yay Louisiana! We're #1!) You should be able to buy flood insurance now, at appropriately cheap rates, even if you're in a non flood area.
You look at most rich people and you wonder what the hell they get for all that money. A few spend it on splashy things like big yachts, but that's just a bigger version of what most of us do with our more limited means. Once you have enough money to not have to worry about the rent and health insurance, what exactly does having more get you? Fossett actually had the answer for that. He did stuff that was completely different, stuff you couldn't do on any scale if you weren't that wealthy. It's too bad there aren't more like him.
Via Wiki. It suggests that extremophile life is common, since however it started it started on Earth just about as soon as conditions were hospitable enough, but that most places in the galaxy will be too unstable to allow evolution of complex forms such as multicellular plants and animals.
There is a tremendous amount of weather on Titan because of tidal interactions, and like any fairly large world its interior is significantly warmer than its surface. There's quite a bit of radiation in the area due to Saturn's magnetic field and the Solar wind. And Titan would have been significantly warmer closer to the time of its formation and during the period when its rotation was winding down toward tidal lock.
...water lava would remain in a liquid state for hundreds or thousands of years. I'm not sure how they reach this conclusion, but they address the issue. Also, just a few weeks ago the Cassini team announced that there may be a massive subsurface ocean, which kind of changes things in ways even this article didn't address.
In the original 2001 book they went to Saturn, where Titan and Enceladus are. It would have been a long walk to get to Europa. In the movie and sequels they go to Jupiter, where Europa is. It would be a long walk from there to Titan.
One of the recent blips on the Cassini-Huygens website (since scrolled off) is that Titan's crust seems to be decoupled from the moon's core, indicting that its "mantle" may be liquid -- an ocean of water hundreds of kilometers deep. Combined with all the organic crap sitting on top and the ice volcanoes I am starting to think it would be surprising if there weren't life on Titan.
You have to wonder why they decided to throw this much CPU power at lithium. The fact that hydrogen bombs work in part by compressing lithium-6 deuteride to almost exactly these conditions couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, I'm sure.
There are no drugs that can fully fix this, though metformin can help if your syndrome is advanced. You mainly have to adopt an atkins-like diet which avoids anything that spikes your glucose level over 140 mg/dl. That will cut out just about all bread, pasta, potatoes, and other starches. But in my case the gout was also a consideration, so I'm highly motivated to stick to it.
The existing device includes a ballistic recovery system, basically an explosive-launched parachute that you deploy when something goes wrong. The main trick with that is to be flying high enough for the parachute to deploy and float you down. It's a common thing in ultralight aircraft and probably accounts for a lot of the cost. Most ultralight fatalities occur because the failure occurred too low for the BRD to deply, or it fouled in a propeller or something.