Next, you'll be complaining that people are putting spaces in their file names...
Good question... let me tell you why spaces in file names are wrong: if you type it in a shell, you have to escape the space with a backslash (one extra character) or worse, by using quotes (two characters)
That is 1-2 characters extra you are forcing everyone on your team to type, making everyones job harder, simply because you didn't think of using a "_" instead of a space.
(this is tongue-in-cheek if you can't tell... oh, and I use 2 spaces for indentation.. anything else is an abomination!)
Ok... I've figured out the problem: you have no idea what you're talking about; do not understand the differences between whitespace characters; and/or don't understand the settings of your own editor.
There is a difference between setting "replace tabs with X spaces", and "display tabs as X spaces"
no, it's you who broke the formatting by mixing whitespace characters.
and you don't want to type "| expand -t4", so you're going to make a mess of the commit log, make diff a mess, and force everyone else to run everything through indent.
It's sloppy and inconsistent.. and you're making it harder for everyone else on your team because of your laziness.
you've learned your first lesson as an admin: shared hosting is shit. congrats.
you're concerned about security, but you're on a shared host that could be compromised by any of X hundred people who have access to it (not just your shared server... EVERY shared server is just waiting for a local priv escalation hole)
at least get a VM... yes, you still need a competent hosting company to ensure they apply patches to XenServer/VMWare... but that requires less work by the admins, and is harder to exploit.
a VM at rackspace is $16/mo. If your security isn't worth that, then why are we even talking about it?
And your post is exactly why people standardize on spaces. Because some people think they can insert a bunch of spaces instead of a tab, breaking everyones formatting, making diffs a huge mess and putting your whitespace changes in the commit log. Tab is not space.
a tab is a tab. It is not 8 spaces. It might be the same width as 8 spaces, but that is because your editor displays a tab as that width. Most editors allow you to change it.
If your code style calls for tabs, do not insert 8 spaces instead of a tab. it's annoying, and you break the tab settings everyone chose for themselves.
Reading is difficult, eh? No one said fair use was made up... what girlintraining said was that she used to be able to copy things as much as she wanted as long as she did not charge anything for it.
That is not fair use. and she refuses to prove that it was ever legal.
Fair use used to be legal. I could share music and videos with you freely -- even copies, even copies of copies, or copies of copies of copies. The operative word is of course 'free'. I can't charge you for it, and you can't make a profit off it. But as long as you stayed within those boundaries, it was all good.
You do NOT get to make shit up. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
Look, I get it... you're pirating material.. and you're telling yourself all day long, it's ok... this *used* to be legal.
But it's NOT true. If you want to have a reasonable discussion about copyright law.. then YOU NEED TO STICK TO THE FACTS.
The first copyright law was the The Statute of Anne in 1709 in Britain. It did not apply to the colonies. The first copyright act in the US was the US Copyright Act of 1790.. it was similar to the Statute of Anne. http://www.copyright.gov/history/1790act.pdf
That from and after the passing of this act, the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already printed... shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending such map, chart, book or books, for the term of fourteen years...
And be it further enacted, That if any other person or persons, from and after the recording the title of any map, chart, book or books, and publishing the same as aforesaid, and within the times limited and granted by this act, shall print, reprint, publish, or import, or cause to be printed, reprinted, published, or imported from any foreign Kingdom or State, any copy or copies of such map, chart, book or books, without the consent of the author or proprietor thereof, first had and obtained in writing, signed in the presence of two or more credible witnesses; or knowing the same to be so printed, reprinted, or imported, shall publish, sell, or expose to sale, or cause to be published, sold or exposed to sale, any copy of such map, chart, book or books, without such consent first had and obtained in writing as aforesaid, then such offender or offenders shall forfeit all and every sheet and sheets, being part of the same, or either of them, to the author or proprietor of such map, chart, book or books, who shall forthwith destroy the same: And every such offender and offenders shall also forfeit and pay the sum of fifty cents for every sheet which shall be found in his or their possession, either printed or printing, published, imported or exposed to sale,
Money in a bank account does help the economy. It provides banks with more funds, which allows them to make more loans and reduce interest rates, allowing business to invest more.
So for whatever reason (banks not making loans, or businesses not wanting to invest, or inadequate investment opportunities, etc), in effect you are right.
Yes, that is correct. I was listing examples of countries that have/had nuclear weapons that were developed without signing the NPT. I should have been clear that South africa is NOW a signatory.
The countries themselves decided. There are two groups of countries:
1) Those who have refused to sign the NPT. These countries are allowed to develop nuclear weapons. They include South Africa, Israel, Pakistan, and India. They receive NO assistance from the international community. They have to develop their entire nuclear program from scratch.
2) Countries that have signed the NPT. These countries have agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology (reactors, medical devices, etc). These countries receive extensive support, training, etc in developing reactors, etc from the international community. They also agree not to give any of this technology to non-NPT countries.
The problem arises when a country signs the NPT, takes nuclear technology and support from the international community, and then after they have learned everything they can, they violate the NPT and develop weapons.
That country has committed fraud, and forced other countries **that would have NEVER assisted them** develop nuclear weapons.
add to the countries that have nuclear weapons, but did not sign the NPT: Pakistan and India. Notice the international community didn't go to war to stop them either.
Iran's violation of the NPT is the ONLY issue here. If they really are developing weapons, then they've lied to their international partners -- they've committed fraud to force countries **that would have NEVER helped them** develop nuclear weapons.
If you want to go develop nuclear weapons, in theory, no one will stop you. (ie: Israel, South Africa, Libya)
If you sign the NPT, you have agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology.
But you can't say, give me all of your nuclear technology... and then turn around and use it to develop weapons. You've lied.. you've committed fraud to every country and foreign scientist that assisted you.
And the consequences for that might result in war.
That's the way it is.. if you want nuclear weapons and peace, then don't go to the international community and commit fraud.
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Next, you'll be complaining that people are putting spaces in their file names...
Good question... let me tell you why spaces in file names are wrong: if you type it in a shell, you have to escape the space with a backslash (one extra character) or worse, by using quotes (two characters)
That is 1-2 characters extra you are forcing everyone on your team to type, making everyones job harder, simply because you didn't think of using a "_" instead of a space.
(this is tongue-in-cheek if you can't tell... oh, and I use 2 spaces for indentation.. anything else is an abomination!)
I was wondering why you posted so many replies to my posts... thought no one could be this irate about freakin whitespace.. But I understand now..
The rest of us are using computers to type our code instead of typewriters
so.. you can't change the line wrapping setting of your editor?
Note to self; don't work for people who don't have a real account on Slashdot.
Seriously? How is having a slashdot account a positive personality attribute? Were you too busy reading the articles to notice what gets posted here?
Proper use of tabs means you use tabs to indent to the block level and spaces for further indentation
No, it doesn't mean that at all
So rather than be dealt with as a civilian, you would prefer to be 'unlawfully engaged in warfare against another state'?
I don't think that would be an improvement...
Ok... I've figured out the problem: you have no idea what you're talking about; do not understand the differences between whitespace characters; and/or don't understand the settings of your own editor.
There is a difference between setting "replace tabs with X spaces", and "display tabs as X spaces"
no, it's you who broke the formatting by mixing whitespace characters.
and you don't want to type "| expand -t4", so you're going to make a mess of the commit log, make diff a mess, and force everyone else to run everything through indent.
It's sloppy and inconsistent.. and you're making it harder for everyone else on your team because of your laziness.
it creates a mess because you're mixing spaces with tabs. Stop it, and it will not be a mess. That is what I've been saying!
AMD's x86 cross-licensing agreements with Intel do not transfer over to a new owner
Uhh.. what?!
AMD is a publicly listed company. Corporations are "sold" by purchasing a controlling # of shares.
If the Intel agreement prohibits transferring it, then AMD will just remain a subsidiary of the new owner.
So even after it's "sold", AMD will still be AMD, just with different shareholders.
you've learned your first lesson as an admin: shared hosting is shit. congrats.
you're concerned about security, but you're on a shared host that could be compromised by any of X hundred people who have access to it (not just your shared server... EVERY shared server is just waiting for a local priv escalation hole)
at least get a VM... yes, you still need a competent hosting company to ensure they apply patches to XenServer/VMWare... but that requires less work by the admins, and is harder to exploit.
a VM at rackspace is $16/mo. If your security isn't worth that, then why are we even talking about it?
man expand
read it.
And your post is exactly why people standardize on spaces. Because some people think they can insert a bunch of spaces instead of a tab, breaking everyones formatting, making diffs a huge mess and putting your whitespace changes in the commit log. Tab is not space.
A space is ascii # 32
A tab is ascii # 9
stop mixing them.
a tab is a tab. It is not 8 spaces. It might be the same width as 8 spaces, but that is because your editor displays a tab as that width. Most editors allow you to change it.
If your code style calls for tabs, do not insert 8 spaces instead of a tab. it's annoying, and you break the tab settings everyone chose for themselves.
Reading is difficult, eh? No one said fair use was made up... what girlintraining said was that she used to be able to copy things as much as she wanted as long as she did not charge anything for it.
That is not fair use. and she refuses to prove that it was ever legal.
This how I know you're full of shit: you refuse to post any details to back up your claims. And that "wall of text" is called evidence retard.
Fair use used to be legal. I could share music and videos with you freely -- even copies, even copies of copies, or copies of copies of copies. The operative word is of course 'free'. I can't charge you for it, and you can't make a profit off it. But as long as you stayed within those boundaries, it was all good.
You do NOT get to make shit up. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
Look, I get it... you're pirating material.. and you're telling yourself all day long, it's ok... this *used* to be legal.
But it's NOT true. If you want to have a reasonable discussion about copyright law.. then YOU NEED TO STICK TO THE FACTS.
The first copyright law was the The Statute of Anne in 1709 in Britain. It did not apply to the colonies. The first copyright act in the US was the US Copyright Act of 1790.. it was similar to the Statute of Anne. http://www.copyright.gov/history/1790act.pdf
That from and after the passing of this act, the author and ... shall have the sole right and ...
authors of any map, chart, book or books already printed
liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending such map, chart, book or books, for the
term of fourteen years
And be it further enacted, That if any other person or persons, from and after the
recording the title of any map, chart, book or books, and publishing the same as aforesaid, and
within the times limited and granted by this act, shall print, reprint, publish, or import, or cause
to be printed, reprinted, published, or imported from any foreign Kingdom or State, any copy or
copies of such map, chart, book or books, without the consent of the author or proprietor thereof,
first had and obtained in writing, signed in the presence of two or more credible witnesses; or
knowing the same to be so printed, reprinted, or imported, shall publish, sell, or expose to sale,
or cause to be published, sold or exposed to sale, any copy of such map, chart, book or books,
without such consent first had and obtained in writing as aforesaid, then such offender or
offenders shall forfeit all and every sheet and sheets, being part of the same, or either of them, to
the author or proprietor of such map, chart, book or books, who shall forthwith destroy the same:
And every such offender and offenders shall also forfeit and pay the sum of fifty cents for every
sheet which shall be found in his or their possession, either printed or printing, published,
imported or exposed to sale,
swapping an electric car battery isn't possible in reality? Thanks for enlightening the world with your clearly superior intellectual abilities.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/424587/israel-to-get-electric-car-battery-swap-stations/
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/21/159355676/dont-charge-that-electric-car-battery-just-change-it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu9PST7oXls
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/better-place/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd0WPw3p2MQ
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/better-place-unveils-battery-swap-station/
If only these people were as smart as you...
How does it know the object "won't cause as much damage"? That small object could be a concrete block. It all looks the same to the computer.
So what gives you the idea that it would swerve into what could be a concrete block?
... bank account, not helping the economy at all.
Money in a bank account does help the economy. It provides banks with more funds, which allows them to make more loans and reduce interest rates, allowing business to invest more.
Of course, what that leaves out is that while consumer spending has reached pre-recession levels, business-investment spending is about $150B lower than 2008, and banks have plenty of funds (exceeding their funding requirements). In fact, business investment is the one area of the economy that has not recovered to pre-2008 levels.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/the-mission-1-4-trillion-one-chart-that-says-u-s-business-investment-isnt-doing-fine/
So for whatever reason (banks not making loans, or businesses not wanting to invest, or inadequate investment opportunities, etc), in effect you are right.
Yes, that is correct. I was listing examples of countries that have/had nuclear weapons that were developed without signing the NPT. I should have been clear that South africa is NOW a signatory.
The countries themselves decided. There are two groups of countries:
1) Those who have refused to sign the NPT. These countries are allowed to develop nuclear weapons. They include South Africa, Israel, Pakistan, and India. They receive NO assistance from the international community. They have to develop their entire nuclear program from scratch.
2) Countries that have signed the NPT. These countries have agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology (reactors, medical devices, etc). These countries receive extensive support, training, etc in developing reactors, etc from the international community. They also agree not to give any of this technology to non-NPT countries.
The problem arises when a country signs the NPT, takes nuclear technology and support from the international community, and then after they have learned everything they can, they violate the NPT and develop weapons.
That country has committed fraud, and forced other countries **that would have NEVER assisted them** develop nuclear weapons.
And the consequence of that fraud is often war.
add to the countries that have nuclear weapons, but did not sign the NPT: Pakistan and India. Notice the international community didn't go to war to stop them either.
Iran's violation of the NPT is the ONLY issue here. If they really are developing weapons, then they've lied to their international partners -- they've committed fraud to force countries **that would have NEVER helped them** develop nuclear weapons.
If you want to go develop nuclear weapons, in theory, no one will stop you. (ie: Israel, South Africa, Libya)
If you sign the NPT, you have agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology.
But you can't say, give me all of your nuclear technology... and then turn around and use it to develop weapons. You've lied.. you've committed fraud to every country and foreign scientist that assisted you.
And the consequences for that might result in war.
That's the way it is.. if you want nuclear weapons and peace, then don't go to the international community and commit fraud.
You are correct.. but the average driver drives 29 miles per day:
http://www.bts.gov/programs/national_household_travel_survey/daily_travel.html
slashdot concensus? try Facts
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2010_fotw615.html
average: 10 miles
average to work: 12.6 miles