"Intel debuted its new Core i9 CPU today. This seems remarkably ill-timed, given recent attacks on Tokyo and LA by giant killer robots sporting intel inside stickers."
Yep, perfectly neutral tone. Just reporting the facts, ma'am!
Although few would accuse Slashdot of anything even remotely resembling "good journalism", blatantly editorializing right in the FP comes off as just a smidge gauche.
The factual correctness of the writeup has no connection with its blatantly biased tone.
Freedom of religion only says that the state won't explicitly promote or persecute any particular religion; or, more directly, that it won't do shit like codifying religious protections into zoning laws.
It says fuck-all about whether or not a private entity has to give two shakes of a rat's dick about building a brothel on top of your holy meteorite or the bones of your ancestors or the spoooky places where your gods like to chill.
Sure, go ahead and unsend all you want! I always find it hilarious when I get email recall messages that my client ignores; seeing the same thing in a real time chat should prove a real hoot!
"The State reaffirms and shall protect all rights, customarily and traditionally exercised for subsistence, cultural and religious purposes"
Well, if by "nothing" you mean "everything"...
Due process was not followed when the permit was granted. The university is free to apply for a permit again.
Does the state intend to reimburse the university for expenses already incurred as a result of the state's negligence in failing to follow their discriminatory religion-favoring "due process" rules?
If you really need a treatment, how about a nice backhand slap to the face?
SIT DOWN AND STUDY!
If you would like more information on my bold new treatments, please send away for this free brochure, entitled, "You can either calm down, or I can pop you in the mouth again." Thank you.
I agree with you in spirit, but disagree in terms of basic caloric intake.
Once we have the ability to create tasty foods with effectively no caloric value, it doesn't matter how much our bodies tell us to eat. We can only hold so much worthless food at a time. If we can literally gorge ourselves on near-zero calorie foods, we will have solved obesity, simple as that.
I do have to wonder how our bodies will rebel against this latest way to eat-without-eating, but strictly in terms of energy-budgets, this seems like a win/win.
you think Kia wants to open up their own showrooms at malls across america? I assure you not.
Hey, if Kia doesn't want to sell directly to me - Tesla does. I have no problem with both business models competing with one another.
I do, however, have a problem with needing to deal with middle-men because of protectionist laws that forbid companies like Tesla from selling directly to me. But hey, YMMV, right?
Programming, my boy, is to science what accounting is to calculus. I don't think you have even the beginning of a glimmer of understanding of what science is.
Not entirely true - I can assure you that, on a daily basis, I apply the scientific method to figuring out how to talk to undocumented "black boxes" (whether hardware, OS features, or just how to safely use buggy libraries I can't avoid or rewrite).
That said, your statement holds largely true in a bit different light than how you meant it...
In mathematics, you can spend a career mentally masturbating over your favorite "hard" problem, and retire after decades with nothing to show for it. In programming, if you work on a problem for five years, you'd damned well better get world-changing results, or find a new job.
Aaand, the OED just jumped the shark. Language may evolve, but at some point we need to draw the line - A pictogram does not count as a "word". Why not include Wood's American Gothic? Michaelangelo's statue of David (Or maybe they consider that more appropriate for the Italian dictionary?).
Remind me again - In what world do you live that forging a prescription doesn't break the law?
"So we consider these things dangerous/important/abusable enough to require a doctor's order to get them."
"Wait, what if someone fakes a doctor's orders to get them?"
"Oh, that would never happen!"
"Heh, of course not, what was I thinking??? Meeting adjourned!"
Well, when we humans learn to read, we learn to infer a few salient points not necessarily called out by the author. Non-autistic readers can deal with the absence of a word or two, taking the implied meaning from context.
For example, when someone mentions you learning how optics work, and then discussing how your eye doctor probably won't mind [possibly missing word here] changing a prescription, that carries the implicit idea of you, not your eye doctor, modifying the prescription. The entire discussion becomes pretty much meaningless if we reduce it to "Hey doc, can you bump this number up by a diopeter?".
But then, I don't know whether or not you, my reader, count as autistic, so feel free to interpret this in the most fucked up light imaginable.
Probably the optometrist will be fine with writing you a prescription for glasses that will focus at your desired distance.
If your professional reputation depended on a layman's interpretation of your advice, would you feel fine with someone altering that advice?
And on the off chance you actually said "yes", imagine that you may actually bear some legal liability for the accuracy of "your" recommendation - "Your honor, Mr. Jones died because david_thornley decided that the safety interlocks on that x-ray machine just wasted the customer's time and disabling them couldn't possibly hurt anything."
it's an easy calculation to make it, say, a half meter: drop two diopters, if I remember correctly.
Seriously, what gives with all of you trying to reduce this to a mere technical matter? "Oh, the doctor doesn't know how much this hurts, I can change that "5mg" to a "15mg", he'll probably thank me for not wasting his time in the middle of the night!". Irrelevant. You have forged a script, no matter how much better you consider your forged version.
The crime here has nothing to do with the glasses, Saul, but rather, forging a prescription (and don't get cute about "correcting" it - same crime). It doesn't matter what the prescription deals with, whether drugs or glasses or dental varnish or CPAP machines.
Were I to break a leg, and a Dr to prescribe using crutches using ones that weren't prescribed to me would not be a felony.
If you altered that prescription (even though you don't actually need a prescription for crutches), then yes, you most certainly would have broken the law, however stupid you may consider that distinction.
before you presume that you are both an expert in optics and the law...
Right back at'cha. But feel free to use your "crutches" analogy when you get your day in court.
Honestly learn how glasses are prescribed and how to modify a prescription.
Holy shit, loving all the fabulous advice in this thread!
Let's all assume the OP counts as a complete idiot and hasn't considered glasses or a bigger monitor, and recommend committing a fucking felony rather than addressing his question directly!
"Since you obviously can't afford the trivially easy solution to your problem, a giant $400 monitor, allow me to recommend a solution that costs three times as much and doesn't address your actual problem".
Born in same area, same date, same first three letters of last name-- expect collisions.
Your SSN doesn't "hash" anything. From 1972 through 2011 (the range applicable to these two women), only the the first three numbers (the area number) actually meant anything in isolation. The middle pair of numbers (the group number) only has meaning within a given area, and even then it just serves to more-or-less evenly subdivide the area. And the final four numbers (the serial number) monotonically increases from 0001 through 9999.
So rather than a collision, you could more accurately call this a race condition. Two requests go in at approximately the same time without adequate semaphores, and the serial number didn't get incremented early enough in the process to avoid both processes getting the same "next" number available.
The geek in me would love to know if no one ever received the next number in sequence - Did they double-increment after issuing the number, or did one of them overwrite the other?
If you're so invested in crappy old addons and themes that aren't being kept up to date anyway, then you're frankly part of the problem.
Yes. Yes, I am part of the problem - I have absofuckinglutely no interest in trying to hunt down new plugins once a quarter to replace still-functional old ones that do exactly what I want.
Adding support for new web technologies doesn't require completely revamping the look and feel of the browser or breaking the plugin system every other release.
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"Intel debuted its new Core i9 CPU today. This seems remarkably ill-timed, given recent attacks on Tokyo and LA by giant killer robots sporting intel inside stickers."
Yep, perfectly neutral tone. Just reporting the facts, ma'am!
Although few would accuse Slashdot of anything even remotely resembling "good journalism", blatantly editorializing right in the FP comes off as just a smidge gauche.
The factual correctness of the writeup has no connection with its blatantly biased tone.
Congrats, you fail civics.
Freedom of religion only says that the state won't explicitly promote or persecute any particular religion; or, more directly, that it won't do shit like codifying religious protections into zoning laws.
It says fuck-all about whether or not a private entity has to give two shakes of a rat's dick about building a brothel on top of your holy meteorite or the bones of your ancestors or the spoooky places where your gods like to chill.
Sure, go ahead and unsend all you want! I always find it hilarious when I get email recall messages that my client ignores; seeing the same thing in a real time chat should prove a real hoot!
This ruling has nothing to do with religion.
"The State reaffirms and shall protect all rights, customarily and traditionally exercised for subsistence, cultural and religious purposes"
Well, if by "nothing" you mean "everything"...
Due process was not followed when the permit was granted. The university is free to apply for a permit again.
Does the state intend to reimburse the university for expenses already incurred as a result of the state's negligence in failing to follow their discriminatory religion-favoring "due process" rules?
If you really need a treatment, how about a nice backhand slap to the face?
SIT DOWN AND STUDY!
If you would like more information on my bold new treatments, please send away for this free brochure, entitled, "You can either calm down, or I can pop you in the mouth again." Thank you.
I agree with you in spirit, but disagree in terms of basic caloric intake.
Once we have the ability to create tasty foods with effectively no caloric value, it doesn't matter how much our bodies tell us to eat. We can only hold so much worthless food at a time. If we can literally gorge ourselves on near-zero calorie foods, we will have solved obesity, simple as that.
I do have to wonder how our bodies will rebel against this latest way to eat-without-eating, but strictly in terms of energy-budgets, this seems like a win/win.
you think Kia wants to open up their own showrooms at malls across america? I assure you not.
Hey, if Kia doesn't want to sell directly to me - Tesla does. I have no problem with both business models competing with one another.
I do, however, have a problem with needing to deal with middle-men because of protectionist laws that forbid companies like Tesla from selling directly to me. But hey, YMMV, right?
Programming, my boy, is to science what accounting is to calculus. I don't think you have even the beginning of a glimmer of understanding of what science is.
Not entirely true - I can assure you that, on a daily basis, I apply the scientific method to figuring out how to talk to undocumented "black boxes" (whether hardware, OS features, or just how to safely use buggy libraries I can't avoid or rewrite).
That said, your statement holds largely true in a bit different light than how you meant it...
In mathematics, you can spend a career mentally masturbating over your favorite "hard" problem, and retire after decades with nothing to show for it. In programming, if you work on a problem for five years, you'd damned well better get world-changing results, or find a new job.
Wait... You might have found the ultimate loophole here!
What if I mount a gun to a quadcopter, and then by legal magic, instead of a "drone", I have a "flying gun"?
The $600 for the phone didn't cover to cost of the third-party apps or the websites you accessed using the device.
Right - The $80/month I pay to use the damned thing does.
For that to work you'd also have to come up with a scheme of monetary compensation or none of us will get to play with toys.
... And then (rightly) go out of business when your customers laugh and buy a $150 knockoff that has all the same features at a quarter the price.
If $600 for a phone doesn't cover the cost of production, charge more.
You have numerical proof of this?
See: Windows 8 adoption rates.
First it was real guns. Then it was plans for guns. Next it will be thoughts about guns.
You left out "PB&J chewed into the shape of a gun".
For the chil'ens, of course.
Aaand, the OED just jumped the shark. Language may evolve, but at some point we need to draw the line - A pictogram does not count as a "word". Why not include Wood's American Gothic? Michaelangelo's statue of David (Or maybe they consider that more appropriate for the Italian dictionary?).
/ Lumbersexual. Nice knowin' ya, OED.
Remind me again - In what world do you live that forging a prescription doesn't break the law?
"So we consider these things dangerous/important/abusable enough to require a doctor's order to get them."
"Wait, what if someone fakes a doctor's orders to get them?"
"Oh, that would never happen!"
"Heh, of course not, what was I thinking??? Meeting adjourned!"
Well, when we humans learn to read, we learn to infer a few salient points not necessarily called out by the author. Non-autistic readers can deal with the absence of a word or two, taking the implied meaning from context.
For example, when someone mentions you learning how optics work, and then discussing how your eye doctor probably won't mind [possibly missing word here] changing a prescription, that carries the implicit idea of you, not your eye doctor, modifying the prescription. The entire discussion becomes pretty much meaningless if we reduce it to "Hey doc, can you bump this number up by a diopeter?".
But then, I don't know whether or not you, my reader, count as autistic, so feel free to interpret this in the most fucked up light imaginable.
Probably the optometrist will be fine with writing you a prescription for glasses that will focus at your desired distance.
If your professional reputation depended on a layman's interpretation of your advice, would you feel fine with someone altering that advice?
And on the off chance you actually said "yes", imagine that you may actually bear some legal liability for the accuracy of "your" recommendation - "Your honor, Mr. Jones died because david_thornley decided that the safety interlocks on that x-ray machine just wasted the customer's time and disabling them couldn't possibly hurt anything."
it's an easy calculation to make it, say, a half meter: drop two diopters, if I remember correctly.
Seriously, what gives with all of you trying to reduce this to a mere technical matter? "Oh, the doctor doesn't know how much this hurts, I can change that "5mg" to a "15mg", he'll probably thank me for not wasting his time in the middle of the night!". Irrelevant. You have forged a script, no matter how much better you consider your forged version.
Prescription glasses are not prescription drugs.
The crime here has nothing to do with the glasses, Saul, but rather, forging a prescription (and don't get cute about "correcting" it - same crime). It doesn't matter what the prescription deals with, whether drugs or glasses or dental varnish or CPAP machines.
Were I to break a leg, and a Dr to prescribe using crutches using ones that weren't prescribed to me would not be a felony.
If you altered that prescription (even though you don't actually need a prescription for crutches), then yes, you most certainly would have broken the law, however stupid you may consider that distinction.
before you presume that you are both an expert in optics and the law...
Right back at'cha. But feel free to use your "crutches" analogy when you get your day in court.
Where did the OP say anything about a laptop?
Honestly learn how glasses are prescribed and how to modify a prescription.
Holy shit, loving all the fabulous advice in this thread!
Let's all assume the OP counts as a complete idiot and hasn't considered glasses or a bigger monitor, and recommend committing a fucking felony rather than addressing his question directly!
Brilliant, lads, just brilliant!
Can better lenses make blurry things clear? Why yes, yes they can.
Can better lenses reverse macular degeneration? Why no, no they can't.
Horrible analogy. The poster isn't loosing his color vision his vision is getting blurry and he needs to compensate by making everything bigger.
You realize that you typically shouldn't take analogies literally, right?
"Apples and oranges? The OP can't see! He doesn't need more fruit in his diet, he needs an optometrist!".
"Since you obviously can't afford the trivially easy solution to your problem, a giant $400 monitor, allow me to recommend a solution that costs three times as much and doesn't address your actual problem".
Born in same area, same date, same first three letters of last name-- expect collisions.
Your SSN doesn't "hash" anything. From 1972 through 2011 (the range applicable to these two women), only the the first three numbers (the area number) actually meant anything in isolation. The middle pair of numbers (the group number) only has meaning within a given area, and even then it just serves to more-or-less evenly subdivide the area. And the final four numbers (the serial number) monotonically increases from 0001 through 9999.
So rather than a collision, you could more accurately call this a race condition. Two requests go in at approximately the same time without adequate semaphores, and the serial number didn't get incremented early enough in the process to avoid both processes getting the same "next" number available.
The geek in me would love to know if no one ever received the next number in sequence - Did they double-increment after issuing the number, or did one of them overwrite the other?
If you're so invested in crappy old addons and themes that aren't being kept up to date anyway, then you're frankly part of the problem.
Yes. Yes, I am part of the problem - I have absofuckinglutely no interest in trying to hunt down new plugins once a quarter to replace still-functional old ones that do exactly what I want.
Adding support for new web technologies doesn't require completely revamping the look and feel of the browser or breaking the plugin system every other release.