Wow, I've never heard of a Bing (stupid) fanboy before. How much does Bing (stupid) pay for Google-bombing these days? Clearly, Bing (stupid) is getting desperate...
Millions of years of dead plant and animal life, plus shifting tectonic plates (and ever-changing coastlines), can give rise to vast undersea reservoirs of oil. Even the oil industry geologists know it: how do you think they find these reservoirs?
But we all see what you're trying to do there. Hmm, maybe oil isn't from dead plant life after all! Maybe it occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, where God put it! Gosh, maybe there's a practically infinite supply! Maybe it's even naturally renewed! Why, that would mean that all this talk about needing to find alternate energy sources is just a load of hooey! Ha ha, those environmentalist whackos sure are stupid, just like Rush said!"
It's a story being advanced by people who either (1) have a vested interest in the continued profits of oil companies, (2) refuse to believe that the earth is more than 6000 years old, or (3) have a political axe to grind against environmentalists.
And at this point, I've pretty much lost my patience with all of those camps.
I grow weary hearing "democrat party" instead of the proper phrase "democratic party". Of course, it's members of the republic party who are at fault.
The wingnuts learned the phrase "democrat party" by listening to Rush Limbaugh -- you know: the OxyContin-junkie radio host that they all worship. Apparently, when a wingnut says "democrat party" it's supposed to make Democrats mad or something. Beats me. I think it's cute, in a pathetic sort of way. Like when a five-year-old calls you a "poopy head" and thinks they've scored a victory or something.
"Pro-choice" and "anti-choice" are perfectly neutral and descriptive... the issue is whether or not you believe a woman should have the right to choose to abort her pregnancy. Personally, I'm pro-choice.
And we all know you're not, or you wouldn't have accused the OP of being "intellectually dishonest". So don't pretend.
The dishonest labels would have been "pro/anti-life" or "pro/anti-abortion". Pro-choicers are not "anti-life" (I just value the life of the mother over the life of a cluster of cells), nor are we "pro-abortion" (I want abortions to be as rare as possible -- but I want them to be legal).
It's really, really sad that in this country refraining from degrading women to objectified targets of men's lust, validating rape and violence against them, is a thing that automatically makes you a conservative
Actually, refraining from degrading women and refusing to validate rape and violence against them automatically makes you a feminist.
It's the "freaking out about depictions of sex" that automatically makes you a conservative.
Ok, this JUST happened to a co-worker of mine this week. His car flipped over into a ditch, and since it was below the surface of the roadway, no one knew he was there. He called a friend for help from his cell while seat-belted upside-down.
Did you completely prevent your daughter from watching TV -- where she would encounter a steady stream of images of little girls dressed in pink and playing with dolls?
Did you prevent her from reading kids books, which are brimming with descriptions (and illustrations) of little girls wearing pink and playing with dolls?
Did you keep her out of all malls, toy stores, and clothing stores, which display row upon row of pink clothes and dolls in the "Girls" aisles?
Did you keep her locked in a basement, where she would never meet other little girls (whose social approval she would subconsciously seek) dressed in pink and playing with dolls?
Did you prevent her from interacting with relatives who disagreed with your philosophy, and got her dolls and pretty pink dresses?
Of course you didn't.
Societal gender norms creep into every household through a hundred back doors. You can't stop them. And unless you wore pink and played with dolls in front of your little girl, and your wife never did, you were probably doing nothing to counter their influence. Being neutral is not the same as working against.
Sorry, but the GP is correct: the whole "girls love pink" thing has long been accepted as cultural, not genetic, and a hundred years from now it could very well swing the other way.
You said it... those kind've speling mistakes make me loose my temper.
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Why Java won that market I can't possibly fathom.
It didn't. Flash did.
Java might have won if the original JDK hadn't been so primitive and difficult to work with. Even long after Swing was released, browsers were still shipping with ancient 1.1 JVMs, and installing newer JVMs wasn't an automatic (or even simple) process for some browsers and platforms.
Still, though, Flash probably would have won out in the end. Swing is designed for desktop applications: standard menubars, dialogs, etc. -- themeable, maybe, but BORING to a web designer's eyes. With Flash, cool weird unique user interfaces are the whole point.
The engineer and UI-standards-advocate in me appreciates Swing. The artist wants to learn Flash.
Quit trying to put the genie back in the bottle, and just live a life where you don't have embarassing secrets to hide. It really does make life easier.
If you're going to think "long term", think millenia, and see how such approaches would fare:
10,000 years from now, people will not be speaking the same languages we speak today. Computers, if they exist, will not work on the same principles -- we're just at the beginning of the computer age, and already quantum computing is threatening a new revolution.
The Egyptians had the right idea: chisel pictures into rock, and put them inside a big stable structure made of rock, located in the desert.
An excellent book by Stewart Brand on this topic is "The Clock of the Long Now", which describes the challenges in creating a clock that will run -- reliably and unaided -- for 10,000 years. Part of this thought experiment is the design of an accompanying library of information.
This is why GIMP is utterly useless to professionals.
Nowadays, some professionals edit graphics or photos mostly for the web. CMYK is not really a big issue when you're paid to make jpgs, pngs, and animated gifs.
A one-season hit that was inexplicably cancelled, "Nowhere Man" combined elements of "The Prisoner" and "The Fugitive". Some of the scripts were weak, but the show as a whole was brilliant.
Not an expert, but I had some HVAC work done recently in my home.
The blower moving the air only has a certain amount of power. Hook it up to a duct ten feet long, and output basically equals input. Hook it up to a duct ten *miles* long -- even a perfectly airtight one -- the power you put into one end will be lost by the other end, because the air molecules lose momentum (and gain heat) as they bounce off each other and the walls of the duct.
Every time a duct turns a right angle, the molecules lose a lot of energy as they largely slam face-on into the duct work. Rounded corners improve the situation, but not perfectly so.
My HVAC designer said that as a rule of thumb, every right-angle turn in a conventional house duct was the equivalent of adding 10 linear feet, in terms of energy lost to heat.
IIRC, the machine-level representation of NULL is not guaranteed to have *all bits* set to zero. However, I think the ANSI C standard specifically says that a NULL pointer will always be == to integer 0. IOW, your compiler will do the right thing.
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Exact same shortcomings? No. Reportedly it works in Linux.
And if it does, I'm kissing Netflix goodbye.
It was all a big Google (mistake) when exposed
I see what you did there.
Wow, I've never heard of a Bing (stupid) fanboy before. How much does Bing (stupid) pay for Google-bombing these days? Clearly, Bing (stupid) is getting desperate...
What lawsuits, exactly? Tying up what wells, exactly?
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Millions of years of dead plant and animal life, plus shifting tectonic plates (and ever-changing coastlines), can give rise to vast undersea reservoirs of oil. Even the oil industry geologists know it: how do you think they find these reservoirs?
But we all see what you're trying to do there. Hmm, maybe oil isn't from dead plant life after all! Maybe it occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, where God put it! Gosh, maybe there's a practically infinite supply! Maybe it's even naturally renewed! Why, that would mean that all this talk about needing to find alternate energy sources is just a load of hooey! Ha ha, those environmentalist whackos sure are stupid, just like Rush said!"
It's a story being advanced by people who either (1) have a vested interest in the continued profits of oil companies, (2) refuse to believe that the earth is more than 6000 years old, or (3) have a political axe to grind against environmentalists.
And at this point, I've pretty much lost my patience with all of those camps.
I grow weary hearing "democrat party" instead of the proper phrase "democratic party". Of course, it's members of the republic party who are at fault.
The wingnuts learned the phrase "democrat party" by listening to Rush Limbaugh -- you know: the OxyContin-junkie radio host that they all worship. Apparently, when a wingnut says "democrat party" it's supposed to make Democrats mad or something. Beats me. I think it's cute, in a pathetic sort of way. Like when a five-year-old calls you a "poopy head" and thinks they've scored a victory or something.
Good. Glad to hear it. Then I say we give it a try.
So, what will you do if and when Bing starts showing results from Twitter/Facebook/LiveJournal? Refuse to use any search engines at all?
Choices are choices. If you don't want results from Twitter, then avert your eyes from that part of the screen.
You should definitely ask Facebook for your money back.
"Pro-choice" and "anti-choice" are perfectly neutral and descriptive ... the issue is whether or not you believe a woman should have the right to choose to abort her pregnancy. Personally, I'm pro-choice.
And we all know you're not, or you wouldn't have accused the OP of being "intellectually dishonest". So don't pretend.
The dishonest labels would have been "pro/anti-life" or "pro/anti-abortion". Pro-choicers are not "anti-life" (I just value the life of the mother over the life of a cluster of cells), nor are we "pro-abortion" (I want abortions to be as rare as possible -- but I want them to be legal).
It's really, really sad that in this country refraining from degrading women to objectified targets of men's lust, validating rape and violence against them, is a thing that automatically makes you a conservative
Actually, refraining from degrading women and refusing to validate rape and violence against them automatically makes you a feminist.
It's the "freaking out about depictions of sex" that automatically makes you a conservative.
Nice try, though.
Ok, this JUST happened to a co-worker of mine this week. His car flipped over into a ditch, and since it was below the surface of the roadway, no one knew he was there. He called a friend for help from his cell while seat-belted upside-down.
Did you completely prevent your daughter from watching TV -- where she would encounter a steady stream of images of little girls dressed in pink and playing with dolls?
Did you prevent her from reading kids books, which are brimming with descriptions (and illustrations) of little girls wearing pink and playing with dolls?
Did you keep her out of all malls, toy stores, and clothing stores, which display row upon row of pink clothes and dolls in the "Girls" aisles?
Did you keep her locked in a basement, where she would never meet other little girls (whose social approval she would subconsciously seek) dressed in pink and playing with dolls?
Did you prevent her from interacting with relatives who disagreed with your philosophy, and got her dolls and pretty pink dresses?
Of course you didn't.
Societal gender norms creep into every household through a hundred back doors. You can't stop them. And unless you wore pink and played with dolls in front of your little girl, and your wife never did, you were probably doing nothing to counter their influence. Being neutral is not the same as working against.
And by the way: just a hundred years ago, pink was considered a boy's color, and blue was for girls .
Sorry, but the GP is correct: the whole "girls love pink" thing has long been accepted as cultural, not genetic, and a hundred years from now it could very well swing the other way.
A million Davids can kick the ass of one Goliath. What rocks should we use? Ideas?
You said it ... those kind've speling mistakes make me loose my temper.
Why Java won that market I can't possibly fathom.
It didn't. Flash did.
Java might have won if the original JDK hadn't been so primitive and difficult to work with. Even long after Swing was released, browsers were still shipping with ancient 1.1 JVMs, and installing newer JVMs wasn't an automatic (or even simple) process for some browsers and platforms.
Still, though, Flash probably would have won out in the end. Swing is designed for desktop applications: standard menubars, dialogs, etc. -- themeable, maybe, but BORING to a web designer's eyes. With Flash, cool weird unique user interfaces are the whole point.
The engineer and UI-standards-advocate in me appreciates Swing. The artist wants to learn Flash.
Quit trying to put the genie back in the bottle, and just live a life where you don't have embarassing secrets to hide.
It really does make life easier.
And INCREDIBLY boring.
I'll keep my embarrassing secrets, thanks.
If you're going to think "long term", think millenia, and see how such approaches would fare:
10,000 years from now, people will not be speaking the same languages we speak today. Computers, if they exist, will not work on the same principles -- we're just at the beginning of the computer age, and already quantum computing is threatening a new revolution.
The Egyptians had the right idea: chisel pictures into rock, and put them inside a big stable structure made of rock, located in the desert.
An excellent book by Stewart Brand on this topic is "The Clock of the Long Now", which describes the challenges in creating a clock that will run -- reliably and unaided -- for 10,000 years. Part of this thought experiment is the design of an accompanying library of information.
This is why GIMP is utterly useless to professionals.
Nowadays, some professionals edit graphics or photos mostly for the web. CMYK is not really a big issue when you're paid to make jpgs, pngs, and animated gifs.
A one-season hit that was inexplicably cancelled, "Nowhere Man" combined elements of "The Prisoner" and "The Fugitive". Some of the scripts were weak, but the show as a whole was brilliant.
And the theme music Kicked Ass.
Not an expert, but I had some HVAC work done recently in my home.
The blower moving the air only has a certain amount of power. Hook it up to a duct ten feet long, and output basically equals input. Hook it up to a duct ten *miles* long -- even a perfectly airtight one -- the power you put into one end will be lost by the other end, because the air molecules lose momentum (and gain heat) as they bounce off each other and the walls of the duct.
Every time a duct turns a right angle, the molecules lose a lot of energy as they largely slam face-on into the duct work. Rounded corners improve the situation, but not perfectly so.
My HVAC designer said that as a rule of thumb, every right-angle turn in a conventional house duct was the equivalent of adding 10 linear feet, in terms of energy lost to heat.
Don't look at mirrors with remaining... er... head...
I think that opinion has been refuted.
Yes. Excellent point. I was sloppy in my reply (which is why I point people to the standard itself.)
IIRC, the machine-level representation of NULL is not guaranteed to have *all bits* set to zero. However, I think the ANSI C standard specifically says that a NULL pointer will always be == to integer 0. IOW, your compiler will do the right thing.
Look at the ANSI standard to be sure.