You really have me there. I can't figure out if you are poking fun at c++'s inability to keep "hello, world" compatible between versions, or really think that c++ has some sort of track record in consistency.
C++ is abhorrant; its author should have shot it long ago.
As a good samaritan you are already past your point. If you want to pursue it further, find a reputable media outlet - I've heard Rolling Stone is pretty good - hand the info to them. They have the appropriate legal expertise to ensure a proper procedure is followed. If there is a "your real important" press thing, you'll get credit; if not, the job is done.
If you want to try a lone wolf approach, create an account with them, then hack it in such a way as you only damage yourself. Once done, sue them in a local small claims court for $1. That establishes the base for a class action suit once they fuck-up big time. Your exposure is minimal because you only, ahem, abused yourself. Even the US (in)?justice system would have trouble going after you.
'Tar sand' is the historical name, and even Britannica lists 'Bituminous sand' as an alternate name for 'tar sand'. Notice 'alternate', not a primary.
White washing, a speciality of weasels, won't disguise the travesty that mining the tar sands is. Oil sand, and every other lame euphemism the clueless promote, will be just as dirty as 'tar sand'. It isn't just sticky, like tar, to the touch.
Next time you are standing on a road, have a look down and contemplate what you are standing on, why it is there, how it got there, and who paid for it.
Who paid for the crusades in Iraq? Who benefitted? Why? While we are at it, what is the cost of the middle east policy? Who benefits? Why?
Without even jumping into climate destruction ( although, again, who will pay for it? Who benefitted? Why? ), there is the 'other' environmental disaster - air pollution. How much does it cost? Who pays for it? Why?
Subsidy doesn't quite describe the situation; perhaps "hand out" or "graft" are closer to the mark.
Have you looked at a Wall Street directory? I know they are all disgraces that would perform a ritualized suicide if they had an iota of decency. They don't, and they won't.
They are the product of the modern MBA, and until people get the balls to haul them off to jail (or the middle of the ocean), you will remain at the mercy of their childish schemes.
Present a dumb-ass obvious ponzi scheme as a business venture that requires them to move to an island. Your only problem is finding a big enough island. You might get away with a photo of one, then they will all drown.
Is there any field that couldn't use less MBAs? It is a sort of community service to get the poor critters off the street, but they sure make a mess of things. Maybe we can find them a nice island somewhere.
Attitudes like yours cost the industry jobs. It is best for if we store data away into increasingly inappropriate places so that lusers have to pay us to get their own data.
Hell, going back to standard data formats and reusable tools would be the death of a thousand increasingly bizarre specialty languages alone.
As a penance, you should rewrite diff in python to work on sqlite databases. That should set the industry back another few years.
The "lace curtain" analogy is that the lace curtain is glued to your eyes - shifting your eyes does not affect the relative positioning of the curtain. To affect it you have to shift your head.
That is the purpose in distorting the visual field to map around these 'holes' - so your eyes can pick up everything in front of them.
The general problem here is that parts of the visual field are missing in the affected person. There is no direct analogue to other experience, but it is somewhat like you have a lace curtain in front of your eyes, so that some areas of your vision are OK, some are poor quality, and some are missing.
Ideally, what you want is something that warps the visual field around these areas, while preserving the missing content. To a person with negligible degeneration, the displayed image would look horribly distorted; however if it contains all the information, the mind of the affected person will learn to re-integrate it into a sense of normalcy (or so the theory goes).
The second bit of technology is determining the geometry of the lace curtain. The geometry of this is, necessarily, tied to the distance they are viewing from - be it disco-bondage-headgear, lcd screens or projections.
So, yes, the commercial offerings may be little more than a camera, a screen and some software; but that description covers everything from ipods to medical imaging equipment. There is some straining in the quality and application.
No offense intended, but why don't you get your gf's grandpa the best of what is available in your budget, then take a look at making a better one. It would be quite sad if you came up with a reasonable replacement two days after he died.
Is there a decent leader of any high tech company? While I think it would be both inappropriate and a bit overboard for some super-being to lay all the high tech executives to waste, I do think that the people they are supposed to serve should take the matter into their own hands.
Nobody talks about gender or racial bias in organized crime. There are bigger fish to fry.
Then stick your head in a bag of non-polluting CO2 for half an hour then tell us what you think - leaving aside that it appears you already did.
A pollutant needn't be a contaminant nor adulterant. The key is in where the harm lies. The harm can be in the nature of the substance (such as plutonium) or in the quantity. A normally benign substance in excess is thus a pollutant.
Politicians, like preachers and cow manure can be wonderful if spread around; but amassed are quite undesirable.
Funny, plan9 had it about a decade earlier, and it didn't save them. Well, not directly. At the current rate of adoption, osx, linux, bsd,... will have adopted the rest of plan9's ideas.
Maybe it is work ethic, dedication to quality and pride?
East Asia bashing is so tired. We get it, you don't like to lose, and China overtaking USA as the dominant economy must hurt. Like jumping on a bicycle with no seat. But please cut it with the whiny sour grapes - you sound like England did 50 years ago.
Not that long ago - the 80s - it wasn't rare to see people oogling playboy/penthouse/hustler on trains and busses. Uncouth, yes, but not that uncommon.
I'm keen on what the new ryan air slogans will be: Come and Fly with us?
Last summer some dolt tried to convince me it was 40C outside. I pointed to my drink, which was sitting on the table at a lovely 4C, as evidence it couldn't be that warm, or my drink would be warm too. He got all huffy and mumbled about ice-cubes moderating the temperature, but it was obvious he was just making that shit up.
I finished my drink 5 minutes later, and it was cool and refreshing to the last drop.
There is already a book in the old testament about him; I think the religion started quite a bit ago.
It is an ok read, but doesn't mention Apple, macintosh or iPods explicitly. An earlier book in the series has a bit about apples and the 'tree of knowledge'.
I don't think it is meant to be taken literally. The whole bit about the righteous suffering is obviously a poke at windows users; and satan is obviously a stand-in for billg. I don't get who God represents - maybe Gerstner?
Overall, a +1, it certainly isn't as dreary as watching Cringely suck off a dead man.
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You really have me there. I can't figure out if you are poking fun at c++'s inability to keep "hello, world" compatible between versions, or really think that c++ has some sort of track record in consistency.
C++ is abhorrant; its author should have shot it long ago.
I wonder what they'll do with all the info on those resume's...
As a good samaritan you are already past your point. If you want to pursue it further, find a reputable media outlet - I've heard Rolling Stone is pretty good - hand the info to them. They have the appropriate legal expertise to ensure a proper procedure is followed. If there is a "your real important" press thing, you'll get credit; if not, the job is done.
If you want to try a lone wolf approach, create an account with them, then hack it in such a way as you only damage yourself. Once done, sue them in a local small claims court for $1. That establishes the base for a class action suit once they fuck-up big time. Your exposure is minimal because you only, ahem, abused yourself. Even the US (in)?justice system would have trouble going after you.
The effort to warm the planet will increase the population of mosquitos. We have to eradicate them to enjoy our swan song.
Perhaps somebody who works from home used a euphemism you aren't familiar with?
Many people dream of working from home; but I don't know anybody who dreams of working in an office. I wonder why.
Once the clouds burst, there will be even more jobs than before. Looping is endemic in this industry.
'Tar sand' is the historical name, and even Britannica lists 'Bituminous sand' as an alternate name for 'tar sand'. Notice 'alternate', not a primary.
White washing, a speciality of weasels, won't disguise the travesty that mining the tar sands is. Oil sand, and every other lame euphemism the clueless promote, will be just as dirty as 'tar sand'. It isn't just sticky, like tar, to the touch.
Next time you are standing on a road, have a look down and contemplate what you are standing on, why it is there, how it got there, and who paid for it.
Who paid for the crusades in Iraq? Who benefitted? Why? While we are at it, what is the cost of the middle east policy? Who benefits? Why?
Without even jumping into climate destruction ( although, again, who will pay for it? Who benefitted? Why? ), there is the 'other' environmental disaster - air pollution. How much does it cost? Who pays for it? Why?
Subsidy doesn't quite describe the situation; perhaps "hand out" or "graft" are closer to the mark.
Have you looked at a Wall Street directory? I know they are all disgraces that would perform a ritualized suicide if they had an iota of decency. They don't, and they won't.
They are the product of the modern MBA, and until people get the balls to haul them off to jail (or the middle of the ocean), you will remain at the mercy of their childish schemes.
Present a dumb-ass obvious ponzi scheme as a business venture that requires them to move to an island. Your only problem is finding a big enough island. You might get away with a photo of one, then they will all drown.
I don't think having an MBA causes incompetence, but like moths to a flame, the talentless are so drawn.
Is there any field that couldn't use less MBAs? It is a sort of community service to get the poor critters off the street, but they sure make a mess of things. Maybe we can find them a nice island somewhere.
Attitudes like yours cost the industry jobs. It is best for if we store data away into increasingly inappropriate places so that lusers have to pay us to get their own data.
Hell, going back to standard data formats and reusable tools would be the death of a thousand increasingly bizarre specialty languages alone.
As a penance, you should rewrite diff in python to work on sqlite databases. That should set the industry back another few years.
There is nothing better than a good scam I am in on. Desperate parents are a great source of revenue.
"... did we tell you name of the game boy,
we call it riding the gravy train."
[pf wywh].
The "lace curtain" analogy is that the lace curtain is glued to your eyes - shifting your eyes does not affect the relative positioning of the curtain. To affect it you have to shift your head.
That is the purpose in distorting the visual field to map around these 'holes' - so your eyes can pick up everything in front of them.
The general problem here is that parts of the visual field are missing in the affected person. There is no direct analogue to other experience, but it is somewhat like you have a lace curtain in front of your eyes, so that some areas of your vision are OK, some are poor quality, and some are missing.
Ideally, what you want is something that warps the visual field around these areas, while preserving the missing content. To a person with negligible degeneration, the displayed image would look horribly distorted; however if it contains all the information, the mind of the affected person will learn to re-integrate it into a sense of normalcy (or so the theory goes).
The second bit of technology is determining the geometry of the lace curtain. The geometry of this is, necessarily, tied to the distance they are viewing from - be it disco-bondage-headgear, lcd screens or projections.
So, yes, the commercial offerings may be little more than a camera, a screen and some software; but that description covers everything from ipods to medical imaging equipment. There is some straining in the quality and application.
No offense intended, but why don't you get your gf's grandpa the best of what is available in your budget, then take a look at making a better one. It would be quite sad if you came up with a reasonable replacement two days after he died.
Is there a decent leader of any high tech company? While I think it would be both inappropriate and a bit overboard for some super-being to lay all the high tech executives to waste, I do think that the people they are supposed to serve should take the matter into their own hands.
Nobody talks about gender or racial bias in organized crime. There are bigger fish to fry.
I thought that saline was the new medium of choice; especially after all those messy lawsuits in the 90s.
Then stick your head in a bag of non-polluting CO2 for half an hour then tell us what you think - leaving aside that it appears you already did.
A pollutant needn't be a contaminant nor adulterant. The key is in where the harm lies. The harm can be in the nature of the substance (such as plutonium) or in the quantity. A normally benign substance in excess is thus a pollutant.
Politicians, like preachers and cow manure can be wonderful if spread around; but amassed are quite undesirable.
Funny, plan9 had it about a decade earlier, and it didn't save them. Well, not directly. At the current rate of adoption, osx, linux, bsd, ... will have adopted the rest of plan9's ideas.
Maybe it is work ethic, dedication to quality and pride?
East Asia bashing is so tired. We get it, you don't like to lose, and China overtaking USA as the dominant economy must hurt. Like jumping on a bicycle with no seat. But please cut it with the whiny sour grapes - you sound like England did 50 years ago.
Not that long ago - the 80s - it wasn't rare to see people oogling playboy/penthouse/hustler on trains and busses. Uncouth, yes, but not that uncommon.
I'm keen on what the new ryan air slogans will be:
Come and Fly with us?
Last summer some dolt tried to convince me it was 40C outside. I pointed to my drink, which was sitting on the table at a lovely 4C, as evidence it couldn't be that warm, or my drink would be warm too. He got all huffy and mumbled about ice-cubes moderating the temperature, but it was obvious he was just making that shit up.
I finished my drink 5 minutes later, and it was cool and refreshing to the last drop.
Nobody wants to miss out on the party; its now or never.
There is already a book in the old testament about him; I think the religion started quite a bit ago.
It is an ok read, but doesn't mention Apple, macintosh or iPods explicitly. An earlier book in the series has a bit about apples and the 'tree of knowledge'.
I don't think it is meant to be taken literally. The whole bit about the righteous suffering is obviously a poke at windows users; and satan is obviously a stand-in for billg. I don't get who God represents - maybe Gerstner?
Overall, a +1, it certainly isn't as dreary as watching Cringely suck off a dead man.