Proving god exists is not impossible. After all, nothing should be impossible for an omnipotent being. Proving god does not exist is impossible. If the experiment fails to find evidence of a deity: (a) that's still not proof in the scientific sense; and (b) god was probably just messing with the experimenters heads for the sheer ineffability of it. Assuming the existence of god makes it impossible to proving anything other than the existence of god. Particularly if you assume the capricious, vindictive and mutable god that most people in the world seem to believe in. Omnipotence, omniscience and ineffability mean you can't trust the results of any experiment. You just get the results god wants you to get, and you don't know why.
How about in a tube, about an inch and a half across and a foot long? I'm not saying where you should wear it, but before you hardware hackers start getting any ideas about putting an Athlon inside it, you may want to consider the relative amounts of acceptable heat dispersion at various places on the body.
You have violated the design principle that you should code for the common case first. So instead of
if (slashbot.uid=="678002") {
slashbot.girlfriend = NULL; }
we would have
slashbot.girlfriend = NULL; switch (slashbot.uid) { case 1:
slashbot.girlfriend = new Slashbot(570);
break; case 28001:
slashbot.girlfriend = NaG;// Not A Geek
break; ... default:
break; }
Note that we have allow wives to be associated with slashbots in the girlfriend member variable. This is because (a) wife derives from girlfriend in a depressingly predictable way, and (b) while very few slashbots have either, almost none have both.
Since almost all software sold at retail is, according to the software developers concerned, licenced or leased rather than sold, does this mean that I don't have to pay sales tax on, say, Windows XP Pro if I buy it in Illinois?
Alternatively, if I *do* pay sales tax on it, does that mean I retain all my first sale rights, including the right to transfer it? Can I stop eBay from taking down my auction when I want sell my copy of XP? Can I force Microsoft to reactivate the product key when I do sell it?
Of all items of clothing, said Rob Enderle, a principal analyst for the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., the shoe is a logical one to be a focus of wearable technology
Other quotes from Rob Enderle, just so you can put this into context:
Whatever Microsoft needs to get onto everybodys desktop for no additional cost is what's in the OS. I'm pretty sure that if Everquest was a free download, Asheron's Call would be part of the OS. "No, your honor, we can't take that out, Windows won't work without it".
IANACPUExpert, but my understanding is that x86 has had a distinction between code and data pages since at least the 80386. I don't know if NX is different from data. Why would you execute something that isn't code? Anyway, I know Microsoft has never taken advantage of this feature. I'm surprised *BSD (particularly) FreeBSD hasn't.
You want five different names? Because the product that meets your customer's needs quickly with great uptime and fewest bugs is unlikely to be the cheapest.
Initial development I heard quoted as seven million dollars. I don't know what they're up to now when you add in development costs for 2.0. Operating costs are pretty negligible - even the downloads are hosted elsewhere at no cost to the army.
I don't know how good it is as a recruiting tool. I know that after having played it, I have increased respect for those soldiers who can:
throw a grenade through a window, rather than having it bounce off the wall and explode at your feet;
fire a weapon on full automatic and not hit his comrades standing around him;
fire an M16 at an enemy at 10 yards and actually hit him. The greatest risk to some of my opponents would be breathing while I am firing at them. With the air that full of lead you wouldn't want it in your lungs.
The 2nd Amendment has a huge lobbying organization all to itself - the NRA. It would be a duplication of effort to have the ACLU challenging the government when it oversteps the bounds of the 2nd. I don't know if the ACLU would take up gun rights cases if the NRA didn't exist. I'd like to think their commitment to the Bill of Rights extends beyond their personal opinions. I mean, it can't be that they like the speech of some of the people they defend.
Since the right to regulate the building of television sets has not been given to the government by the people, it is retained by the people. Of course, try engaging in interstate commerce with them and you become Fritz Hollings' bitch.
Means what the grandparent described. You are just exposing the limitations of this one number as an indicator of data transfer performance. Most of the factors you describe are actually contributors to latency.
Happens all the time. And it's not always a bad thing. Like corporate income tax.
Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm talking about
Well, I was just going to tell you that you don't know what you're talking about, but since you put an "and" in there, I guess I'll have to tell you that you're an idiot, too.
In many countries, CEOs work for a fraction of the cost of an American CEO. Despite this disparity in cost, foreign CEOs produce work of comparable quality, as measured by the performance of the companies they head. So:
where are the H1-B CEOs?
which US companies have relocated their CEOs to foreign countries, rather than just their head office?
When we know the answers to these questions, we will......well, we'll sit down and cry into our beer. That's what we'll do.
I don't know about everyone who reads slashdot, but I would still be in a job. I've been programming for fifteen years and I've never done anything that didn't at some level involve specific customization for the way a particular client does business.
Did you complain about the jobs lost when compilers replaced the work of assembly programmers? Or as more and more functions make their way into standard OS libraries? Remember doing http with raw sockets?
The fact is, some problems are just plain *solved*. If your livelihood involves solving those problems over and over again, and charging money for it each time, then you're going to lose to someone who is more interested in solving new problems.
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Proving god exists is not impossible. After all, nothing should be impossible for an omnipotent being.
Proving god does not exist is impossible. If the experiment fails to find evidence of a deity: (a) that's still not proof in the scientific sense; and (b) god was probably just messing with the experimenters heads for the sheer ineffability of it.
Assuming the existence of god makes it impossible to proving anything other than the existence of god. Particularly if you assume the capricious, vindictive and mutable god that most people in the world seem to believe in. Omnipotence, omniscience and ineffability mean you can't trust the results of any experiment. You just get the results god wants you to get, and you don't know why.
How about in a tube, about an inch and a half across and a foot long? I'm not saying where you should wear it, but before you hardware hackers start getting any ideas about putting an Athlon inside it, you may want to consider the relative amounts of acceptable heat dispersion at various places on the body.
Since almost all software sold at retail is, according to the software developers concerned, licenced or leased rather than sold, does this mean that I don't have to pay sales tax on, say, Windows XP Pro if I buy it in Illinois?
Alternatively, if I *do* pay sales tax on it, does that mean I retain all my first sale rights, including the right to transfer it? Can I stop eBay from taking down my auction when I want sell my copy of XP? Can I force Microsoft to reactivate the product key when I do sell it?
Other quotes from Rob Enderle, just so you can put this into context:
Whatever Microsoft needs to get onto everybodys desktop for no additional cost is what's in the OS. I'm pretty sure that if Everquest was a free download, Asheron's Call would be part of the OS. "No, your honor, we can't take that out, Windows won't work without it".
IANACPUExpert, but my understanding is that x86 has had a distinction between code and data pages since at least the 80386. I don't know if NX is different from data. Why would you execute something that isn't code?
Anyway, I know Microsoft has never taken advantage of this feature. I'm surprised *BSD (particularly) FreeBSD hasn't.
Bear in mind that Bill Gates owns a large percentage of a waste management company. So every day is Be Nice To Microsoft Day. If you know what's good for you.
What else would you listen to while driving round and round?
...
Personally, I like the foxtrot. I drive two blocks north, then one block east, then two blocks north,
"Your star burns!"
What's the URL for your cellphone? I hope you have caller pays.
You want five different names? Because the product that meets your customer's needs quickly with great uptime and fewest bugs is unlikely to be the cheapest.
I don't know how good it is as a recruiting tool. I know that after having played it, I have increased respect for those soldiers who can:
The 2nd Amendment has a huge lobbying organization all to itself - the NRA. It would be a duplication of effort to have the ACLU challenging the government when it oversteps the bounds of the 2nd. I don't know if the ACLU would take up gun rights cases if the NRA didn't exist. I'd like to think their commitment to the Bill of Rights extends beyond their personal opinions. I mean, it can't be that they like the speech of some of the people they defend.
Crack-addled moderators strike again.
Middle Earth Online
Since the right to regulate the building of television sets has not been given to the government by the people, it is retained by the people.
Of course, try engaging in interstate commerce with them and you become Fritz Hollings' bitch.
Means what the grandparent described. You are just exposing the limitations of this one number as an indicator of data transfer performance. Most of the factors you describe are actually contributors to latency.
This is actually the first thing I thought when I watched Moulin Rouge.
... but I thought this was going to be about the random_shuffle() functor in the STL.
Happens all the time. And it's not always a bad thing. Like corporate income tax.
Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm talking about
Well, I was just going to tell you that you don't know what you're talking about, but since you put an "and" in there, I guess I'll have to tell you that you're an idiot, too.
All the men are men.
All the women are men.
All the children are cops.
In many countries, CEOs work for a fraction of the cost of an American CEO. Despite this disparity in cost, foreign CEOs produce work of comparable quality, as measured by the performance of the companies they head. So:
...well, we'll sit down and cry into our beer. That's what we'll do.
where are the H1-B CEOs?
which US companies have relocated their CEOs to foreign countries, rather than just their head office?
When we know the answers to these questions, we will...
I don't know about everyone who reads slashdot, but I would still be in a job. I've been programming for fifteen years and I've never done anything that didn't at some level involve specific customization for the way a particular client does business.
Did you complain about the jobs lost when compilers replaced the work of assembly programmers? Or as more and more functions make their way into standard OS libraries? Remember doing http with raw sockets?
The fact is, some problems are just plain *solved*. If your livelihood involves solving those problems over and over again, and charging money for it each time, then you're going to lose to someone who is more interested in solving new problems.
Nice troll. If I click on that link I'll see a really old guy in a blue vest bending over and showing us his ...
Wait...
They really are rackmounted servers at walmart.com! Would you effing believe it!