If they'd applied for a patent on exactly that back then, yes. Now? Too late. Can't be both non-functional and functional part of the design, and you can't switch a feature back and forth between the two just to try to get two bites at the legal protection cherry.
Give law-abiding Britains their gun rights back and let them use them in public when attacked by people who clearly intend to render substantial harm to life, limb or property.
So, instead of rioting scum you're proposing we should have gun-toting rioting scum? <sarcasm> Wonderful. Really going to make things better, that. </sarcasm> Whatever problems widespread carrying of guns solve, riot isn't one of them because in that case you end up just escalating things. It also increases the likelihood of non-involved people dying or being injured (from stray shots, under the minor assumption that at least some rioters won't be careful where they fire).
Indian government is one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. There are plenty of places that are even worse; a current example is Syria, where the government has been shelling its own people for dissent, and where that well-known Bastion of Freedom, Saudi Arabia, has been protesting the actions loudly. You really don't much more repressive than that.
Not that this says anything very much about India, but rather that too many governments are simply completely awful. Tone down the hyperbole; the shameful facts don't need it.
Forgive us for gloating that we have a higher credit rating in the UK, its just about the first chance we've had to gloat about anything related to our economy since 2008. I know that this probably won't last long - they probably just haven't got round to downgrading us yet!
The UK has big growth problems and a lot of debt (it's mostly long-schedule debt so the payments aren't as bad as all that) but it does have the advantages of being good for its debts, having general political agreement that debts should be honoured in full, and able to print the currency that the debts are owed in. The US's problems are in the area of the second part of those three: too many politicians are saying that debts should be ignored (not necessarily a constitutional position) and that greatly raises the risk. The ratings agencies try to measure risk, which naturally isn't the same thing as whether the economy is doing well (though there are some relations).
What the US needs is to cut government expenditure and increase government income. There might have to be additional temporary borrowing too (raising income may require both tax rises and stimulus, and it will take some time). The problem with the Tea Party is that their recipe won't work, yet they are unwilling to give way enough to get to something that anyone else believes will actually work. Damn fanatics.
If you change the metric so arbitrarily then you can prove just about anything you want.
There are two possible ways of measuring things. Either you use an absolute metric, in which case everyone is better off than they used to be because they have bigger TVs etc., or you have a relative metric (which measures how a lot of people actually think about their wealth) and in that case most people are much worse off. Relative metrics really are zero-sum games, but they don't measure how comfortable you are; instead, they're really about measuring social status. Us primates being what we are, social status really matters, with lack of it causing all sorts of problems (e.g., health problems, greater tendency to criminality).
Some problems really are difficult, and the Rich really don't want to know.
In reality, it's fine grained virtual server rental with an API. Nothing more and nothing less.
That's exactly what IaaS is. Higher levels (notably SaaS) are a bit more; in those cases you're buying the service — wherever that's running $mdash; and not the server. You get less control but have to do less of the legwork yourself. It's the classic value-add model, and it makes a bunch of sense for many people. (Not everyone, but that's OK. Nobody can be all things to all people.)
It's not only about some specific effects but also about having a generally smooth and intuitive desktop experience. Plus it's nice to have the small flicker here and there eliminated which rids the traditional desktops.
But you can get that with X11. Intuition is not built at the basic graphics library layer anyway, and never ever was (it resides at a higher level). Smooth running? That again is a matter of correct programming (e.g., getting the handling of buffers right) as the fact that some X11 apps have been running smoothly for decades will testify. Going to Wayland will not fix these sorts of problems.
OTOH, there are things that it will fix. For example, it's finally just about becoming limiting that window dimensions have to fit in 16 bits. And it will also mean that some legacy nastiness can be dropped. (I so wish I'd never had to understand the mess that is visuals. Complex, confusing and long obsolete.)
This was done where I live. It is a fine idea, but like so many fine ideas, IT DOES NOT WORK, in the real world. I own my home, so I have no intention of moving, and my work is 53Km from my home.
Well, you've got to accept that you're going to get screwed in the ass if you don't relocate either your home or your job (or both). But other people will look at it and move; you can just keep paying up instead. Your call. It does work at a statistical level, across a whole population.
(Speaking as someone who lives further from his work than you do and boy, do I notice the cost of travel! My choice though. Can't blame anyone else.)
People drive like shit with two hands none the less put more manuals out on the road...
I drive a manual car, and I used to drive an automatic. Here the thing: most of the time, you're not changing gear. So what's the difference? Well, you can run in a higher gear in urban traffic than the automatic tends to pick, which is a gain if it isn't too stop-start. But even so, I think it should be possible to do a reasonable automatic these days. Maybe it needs a bit more technical smarts?
Want to boost safety? Make driving tests stricter so people are more likely to know what they're doing. And clamp down on both driving tired and driving intoxicated; both things screw judgement and reaction times up. (The other day I saw someone who was tailgating and driving all over the road, even on the wrong side with oncoming traffic. They then pulled a fast turn into a side road, fast enough to leave a lot smoke and rubber. Crazy. Definitely high on something; people aren't that reckless by default. Hazard to everyone around.)
Uhm, that tax already exists: It's called lower miles per gallon with raising gas prices.
So? If that doesn't go up effectively with (at least) the 4th power of vehicle mass, it's not actually helping with road costs. (No idea if it actually goes up that was or not; I've never seen a study on the matter that was even vaguely factual.)
Instead of two cars being written off, the bigger car just gets a touch up. Sounds like less liability to me.
But the liability insurance is covering the damage done by the car, not to it. More mass means more kinetic energy (at a given speed, e.g., the speed limit on a particular road) and more KE equals a bigger impact. Moreover, if a bigger car isn't absorbing so much of that KE (OK, a dubious assumption) then the other things involved in the collision must do so. That's basic physics of the sort that should be covered in K-12, never mind high school.
I've never seen one who does; preview's a decent PDF viewer (and does other things too such as image viewing). I don't know if it supports all the features of Acrobat Reader, but being without the "run arbitrary javascript without any attempt at safety" feature is Just Fine With Me.
Reading up on Pwn2Own results, and reading the security update notes on major browsers / flash / acrobat would prove really informative. Most of the viruses Ive seen are not from incompetent users.
In Lion all those are now separated into independent processes and sandboxed. Should make things a lot more secure.
Ought to make Safari more stable too, since the suck that is flash will be less coupled to the rest of the browser. Even without the improvement in security, that's still a Good Thing.
London is largest metropolitan area by population in the EU
And : NYC 8,175,133 London 7,825,200
So yes it is worth it...
Not just that, Eurostat reckons that London's over 11 million people in size (it's bigger than its official boundaries) and even that is probably an underestimation. (OTOH, NYC is probably bigger than the official 8-and-a-bit million above too.)
Measuring the size of cities is surprisingly difficult.
But that must be weighed against the disadvantages, like not being able to take advantage of CPUs zero test conditions, but instead having to maintain a counter which eats up a valuable register.
But was that a feature added because lots of code was using NUL-terminated strings? (Hardware and software have co-evolved.)
The bottom line is that in an application programming language strings need to be atomic, as they are in Python.
They also need to be defined in terms of abstract characters, which Python doesn't get quite right. There most certainly shouldn't be multiple types of string from the perspective of the programmer, and there definitely shouldn't be multiple types of string literal. (Python 3 is better than Python 2.* in this regard, and both beat Perl at a practical level.)
C though? It does what it does. As long as you don't mistake a 'char*' for a real string or a 'char' for a real character (or fluff the buffer handling) you're OK.
It depends on the type of mine. Coal mines tend to be wet, but salt mines tend to be very dry (otherwise the salt wouldn't have stayed accumulated in the first place, duh!). Both can be very deep. Since the first, keystone point of your post is uninformed rubbish, the rest of it wasn't worth reading.
Wind and solar, alas, don't work 24 hours a day in most places.
It depends on the type of plant you build. By using a suitable storage material (e.g., the Andasol plant in Spain uses a mix of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate) the average daily generating time can be extended by 7.5 hours or so (i.e., long into the evening, when you really want it). In other parts of the world, it really is windy a very large fraction of the time; the majority of the US is probably a bit too close to the equator for that to hold, but it really makes a huge amount of sense for northern and western Europe. Wave and tidal power also have a lot of potential (tidal in particular locations, wave on any oceanic coast) but they're less proven because of the difficulty of getting the engineering right.
Fixing the system is just too hard, real financial solvency is just too hard, let's invent ways to get around it and pretend we're still solvent.
The real problem is that too many ordinary people just don't have well-paying, stable, secure jobs. It's been that way for quite a while now, but borrowing was papering over the cracks until 2008. Well, the festering problem's there for all to see now. Yet fixing that is hard, and probably requires making a number of very powerful vested interests (i.e., lots of rich people who are doing well off the backs of their employees right now) unhappy. Politics has a nasty habit of not rewarding those who take difficult decisions that are unpopular with the most politically engaged...
Printing money is a stock standard used since money was invented technique of government.
Technically, it's minting money because they're talking about making coins. It's a technique that's been known for as long there's been money, over 2500 years (since around the time of Croesus in Lydia) so predating paper by a fair bit.
Why does the difference matter? Because the government is allowed to mint platinum money however it wants (unlike printing it, where there are laws that restrict it) and so it can issue a "$5T coin" which would be officially legal tender (good luck getting change!) and then borrow against that. Moreover, the Tea Party can't stop the Executive Branch from doing this: it uses laws on the books now, and getting a repeal of or amendment to those laws is well beyond their power (they don't hold the Senate, can't browbeat the Dems into overriding an executive veto, and certainly can't do either of those quickly). It's time for the grandstanding to stop, and for some political horses to be traded.
Are the TP smart enough as a whole to recognize that sometimes they just can't get their own way? (Will the rest of the GOP grow a pair? Will the Dems let the chaos happen anyway to make the GOP look bad?) The next few days will show.
They can be, but I wouldn't think that Java would be one of the cases where that is so. When dealing with programming tools, you're supposed to be careful. The licenses all say it, and for good reason. It's the user of those tools, the programmer (or deployer in some cases), who warrants that the produced piece of software is actually useful.
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Yeah, fake AV is a bit like fake alternative medicine. How can you tell?
Fake alternative meds? Easy: they heal you for real. Fake AV? Trickier...
If they'd applied for a patent on exactly that back then, yes. Now? Too late. Can't be both non-functional and functional part of the design, and you can't switch a feature back and forth between the two just to try to get two bites at the legal protection cherry.
Give law-abiding Britains their gun rights back and let them use them in public when attacked by people who clearly intend to render substantial harm to life, limb or property.
So, instead of rioting scum you're proposing we should have gun-toting rioting scum? <sarcasm> Wonderful. Really going to make things better, that. </sarcasm> Whatever problems widespread carrying of guns solve, riot isn't one of them because in that case you end up just escalating things. It also increases the likelihood of non-involved people dying or being injured (from stray shots, under the minor assumption that at least some rioters won't be careful where they fire).
Indian government is one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. There are plenty of places that are even worse; a current example is Syria, where the government has been shelling its own people for dissent, and where that well-known Bastion of Freedom, Saudi Arabia, has been protesting the actions loudly. You really don't much more repressive than that.
Not that this says anything very much about India, but rather that too many governments are simply completely awful. Tone down the hyperbole; the shameful facts don't need it.
Forgive us for gloating that we have a higher credit rating in the UK, its just about the first chance we've had to gloat about anything related to our economy since 2008. I know that this probably won't last long - they probably just haven't got round to downgrading us yet!
The UK has big growth problems and a lot of debt (it's mostly long-schedule debt so the payments aren't as bad as all that) but it does have the advantages of being good for its debts, having general political agreement that debts should be honoured in full, and able to print the currency that the debts are owed in. The US's problems are in the area of the second part of those three: too many politicians are saying that debts should be ignored (not necessarily a constitutional position) and that greatly raises the risk. The ratings agencies try to measure risk, which naturally isn't the same thing as whether the economy is doing well (though there are some relations).
What the US needs is to cut government expenditure and increase government income. There might have to be additional temporary borrowing too (raising income may require both tax rises and stimulus, and it will take some time). The problem with the Tea Party is that their recipe won't work, yet they are unwilling to give way enough to get to something that anyone else believes will actually work. Damn fanatics.
If you change the metric so arbitrarily then you can prove just about anything you want.
There are two possible ways of measuring things. Either you use an absolute metric, in which case everyone is better off than they used to be because they have bigger TVs etc., or you have a relative metric (which measures how a lot of people actually think about their wealth) and in that case most people are much worse off. Relative metrics really are zero-sum games, but they don't measure how comfortable you are; instead, they're really about measuring social status. Us primates being what we are, social status really matters, with lack of it causing all sorts of problems (e.g., health problems, greater tendency to criminality).
Some problems really are difficult, and the Rich really don't want to know.
Looks like the old "Good, fast, cheap: pick two" adage might need a little rewording. How about "Fast, reliable, cheap: pick two"?
Since when was "reliable" anything other than one of the classic metrics for "good"? The old adage needs no changes at all.
In reality, it's fine grained virtual server rental with an API. Nothing more and nothing less.
That's exactly what IaaS is. Higher levels (notably SaaS) are a bit more; in those cases you're buying the service — wherever that's running $mdash; and not the server. You get less control but have to do less of the legwork yourself. It's the classic value-add model, and it makes a bunch of sense for many people. (Not everyone, but that's OK. Nobody can be all things to all people.)
It's not only about some specific effects but also about having a generally smooth and intuitive desktop experience. Plus it's nice to have the small flicker here and there eliminated which rids the traditional desktops.
But you can get that with X11. Intuition is not built at the basic graphics library layer anyway, and never ever was (it resides at a higher level). Smooth running? That again is a matter of correct programming (e.g., getting the handling of buffers right) as the fact that some X11 apps have been running smoothly for decades will testify. Going to Wayland will not fix these sorts of problems.
OTOH, there are things that it will fix. For example, it's finally just about becoming limiting that window dimensions have to fit in 16 bits. And it will also mean that some legacy nastiness can be dropped. (I so wish I'd never had to understand the mess that is visuals. Complex, confusing and long obsolete.)
Actually, I'm just going to be hating on this movie regardless. There is no way they can keep true to the original.
What, the short story? Why would they keep true to that? The film didn't.
This was done where I live. It is a fine idea, but like so many fine ideas, IT DOES NOT WORK, in the real world. I own my home, so I have no intention of moving, and my work is 53Km from my home.
Well, you've got to accept that you're going to get screwed in the ass if you don't relocate either your home or your job (or both). But other people will look at it and move; you can just keep paying up instead. Your call. It does work at a statistical level, across a whole population.
(Speaking as someone who lives further from his work than you do and boy, do I notice the cost of travel! My choice though. Can't blame anyone else.)
People drive like shit with two hands none the less put more manuals out on the road ...
I drive a manual car, and I used to drive an automatic. Here the thing: most of the time, you're not changing gear. So what's the difference? Well, you can run in a higher gear in urban traffic than the automatic tends to pick, which is a gain if it isn't too stop-start. But even so, I think it should be possible to do a reasonable automatic these days. Maybe it needs a bit more technical smarts?
Want to boost safety? Make driving tests stricter so people are more likely to know what they're doing. And clamp down on both driving tired and driving intoxicated; both things screw judgement and reaction times up. (The other day I saw someone who was tailgating and driving all over the road, even on the wrong side with oncoming traffic. They then pulled a fast turn into a side road, fast enough to leave a lot smoke and rubber. Crazy. Definitely high on something; people aren't that reckless by default. Hazard to everyone around.)
Uhm, that tax already exists: It's called lower miles per gallon with raising gas prices.
So? If that doesn't go up effectively with (at least) the 4th power of vehicle mass, it's not actually helping with road costs. (No idea if it actually goes up that was or not; I've never seen a study on the matter that was even vaguely factual.)
Instead of two cars being written off, the bigger car just gets a touch up. Sounds like less liability to me.
But the liability insurance is covering the damage done by the car, not to it. More mass means more kinetic energy (at a given speed, e.g., the speed limit on a particular road) and more KE equals a bigger impact. Moreover, if a bigger car isn't absorbing so much of that KE (OK, a dubious assumption) then the other things involved in the collision must do so. That's basic physics of the sort that should be covered in K-12, never mind high school.
do mac users use adobe reader instead of preview?
I've never seen one who does; preview's a decent PDF viewer (and does other things too such as image viewing). I don't know if it supports all the features of Acrobat Reader, but being without the "run arbitrary javascript without any attempt at safety" feature is Just Fine With Me.
Reading up on Pwn2Own results, and reading the security update notes on major browsers / flash / acrobat would prove really informative. Most of the viruses Ive seen are not from incompetent users.
In Lion all those are now separated into independent processes and sandboxed. Should make things a lot more secure.
Ought to make Safari more stable too, since the suck that is flash will be less coupled to the rest of the browser. Even without the improvement in security, that's still a Good Thing.
London is largest metropolitan area by population in the EU
And :
NYC 8,175,133
London 7,825,200
So yes it is worth it ...
Not just that, Eurostat reckons that London's over 11 million people in size (it's bigger than its official boundaries) and even that is probably an underestimation. (OTOH, NYC is probably bigger than the official 8-and-a-bit million above too.)
Measuring the size of cities is surprisingly difficult.
But that must be weighed against the disadvantages, like not being able to take advantage of CPUs zero test conditions, but instead having to maintain a counter which eats up a valuable register.
But was that a feature added because lots of code was using NUL-terminated strings? (Hardware and software have co-evolved.)
The bottom line is that in an application programming language strings need to be atomic, as they are in Python.
They also need to be defined in terms of abstract characters, which Python doesn't get quite right. There most certainly shouldn't be multiple types of string from the perspective of the programmer, and there definitely shouldn't be multiple types of string literal. (Python 3 is better than Python 2.* in this regard, and both beat Perl at a practical level.)
C though? It does what it does. As long as you don't mistake a 'char*' for a real string or a 'char' for a real character (or fluff the buffer handling) you're OK.
So when is Cowboys vs Predators coming out?
Not cowboys. Pirates.
if there is one thing deep mines do, it is flood.
It depends on the type of mine. Coal mines tend to be wet, but salt mines tend to be very dry (otherwise the salt wouldn't have stayed accumulated in the first place, duh!). Both can be very deep. Since the first, keystone point of your post is uninformed rubbish, the rest of it wasn't worth reading.
Wind and solar, alas, don't work 24 hours a day in most places.
It depends on the type of plant you build. By using a suitable storage material (e.g., the Andasol plant in Spain uses a mix of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate) the average daily generating time can be extended by 7.5 hours or so (i.e., long into the evening, when you really want it). In other parts of the world, it really is windy a very large fraction of the time; the majority of the US is probably a bit too close to the equator for that to hold, but it really makes a huge amount of sense for northern and western Europe. Wave and tidal power also have a lot of potential (tidal in particular locations, wave on any oceanic coast) but they're less proven because of the difficulty of getting the engineering right.
Fixing the system is just too hard, real financial solvency is just too hard, let's invent ways to get around it and pretend we're still solvent.
The real problem is that too many ordinary people just don't have well-paying, stable, secure jobs. It's been that way for quite a while now, but borrowing was papering over the cracks until 2008. Well, the festering problem's there for all to see now. Yet fixing that is hard, and probably requires making a number of very powerful vested interests (i.e., lots of rich people who are doing well off the backs of their employees right now) unhappy. Politics has a nasty habit of not rewarding those who take difficult decisions that are unpopular with the most politically engaged...
Printing money is a stock standard used since money was invented technique of government.
Technically, it's minting money because they're talking about making coins. It's a technique that's been known for as long there's been money, over 2500 years (since around the time of Croesus in Lydia) so predating paper by a fair bit.
Why does the difference matter? Because the government is allowed to mint platinum money however it wants (unlike printing it, where there are laws that restrict it) and so it can issue a "$5T coin" which would be officially legal tender (good luck getting change!) and then borrow against that. Moreover, the Tea Party can't stop the Executive Branch from doing this: it uses laws on the books now, and getting a repeal of or amendment to those laws is well beyond their power (they don't hold the Senate, can't browbeat the Dems into overriding an executive veto, and certainly can't do either of those quickly). It's time for the grandstanding to stop, and for some political horses to be traded.
Are the TP smart enough as a whole to recognize that sometimes they just can't get their own way? (Will the rest of the GOP grow a pair? Will the Dems let the chaos happen anyway to make the GOP look bad?) The next few days will show.
Shitty products are not a crime.
They can be, but I wouldn't think that Java would be one of the cases where that is so. When dealing with programming tools, you're supposed to be careful. The licenses all say it, and for good reason. It's the user of those tools, the programmer (or deployer in some cases), who warrants that the produced piece of software is actually useful.