Determining arguments as atomically true or false is a trap often used by lawyers, creationists, and other unpleasant people.
For instance, arguing that cigarette smoke is linked to higher cancer rates has been proved is specious because the evidence is circumstantial. A good arguer would be able to make the case that the proof is faulty and therefore cigarette smoke is not linked to higher cancer rates.
I understand that there are two distinct legal cultures in Europe; the English and the French. To make a gross generalization, the English system emphasizes personal freedom while the French system is more concerned with the powers of the state and is framed from the state's perspective.
Luckily the USA (inter alia) inherited the English system, along with the libertarian thread of English philosophy - Thomas Paine et al.
The thing I found most interesting about the kuro5hin article (besides the level of swearing in the comments) was how many kludges there are in Windows to circumvent bugs in Microsoft's own applications.
Doesn't this go against the various statements they have made in court - especially those regarding their secret APIs?
Yes, Mayfair and Park Lane are the UK equivalents of Boardwalk and Park Place. The UK set is based on London streets, while the original version is inexplicably based on Atlantic City, NJ.
Firewire doesn't have the bandwith to run the video stream uncompressed... therefore you would need an mpeg decoder in the display.
That's not such a big deal - your common or garden $60 DVD player has an mpeg decoder. You'd think a $2000+ display would be able to manage the same thing. Especially since most of them are able to convert ancient format RF signal back to the digital data the RF was (lossily) encoded from.
The U.S. Space Shuttle has this capability and more. No humans needed.
This is not correct. The orbiter's landing gear lowering signal is not issued by computer, so an automated flight would have to do a belly landing (or rewire the flightdeck). The reason is that the shuttle can't lift its gear once it is down, so an accidental deployment in orbit would be a loss of vehicle scenario.
I gather that George got the shaft; his wife ran off with one of his employees, leaving him to raise their children (which is why there was so long a delay between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace).
Pixar originally developed most of the software it used in-house, mostly running on Solaris (which is why Pixar had, and possibly still has, a Sun Room).
I think Mac hardware depreciates more slowly than PC stuff; there's not quite the same desperate impetus to have the very latest hardware, probably because people tend to buy Macs to do work rather than play games.
People have pointed out for years that auto manufacturers are experts at user interface design
Only insane people. Just look at the heater controls in an old car. One slider for Hot - Blow - Fan and another for Cold - Demist - Warm, then a picture of a fan and an AC button which ignores the heater settings, then a picture of a smaller fan. It's like Windows 3.1, but you're trying to use it while you're driving. Car designers make VCR interfaces look intuitive.
Yes, that's right, because Europe was so united leading up to the second world war. There was no such treaty.
I think you'll find that the main thing that triggered US entry into the war in Europe was Germany declaring war on the US. The only ones who did the right thing right away were the British, who declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Belgium.
I'm thinking this is part of the labels' restrictions on the download services. iTMS and Napster would almost certainly want to offer re-downloadables as it would increase their lock on customers.
Folder actions is a way of attaching AppleScripts to a folder. For example, you can have a folder action to email a file to a preset address when it's dropped into a folder.
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If the compiler DOES reuse address space for identical strings, then it WOULD work. If the compiler creates a new address space for every string, then yes, it would always return false.
C always does the latter. Perhaps it was in a nightmare that you encountered a compiler that works the other way?
And in Java, this would not work as it would be comparing objects. It would compile, but would always be false.
Actually in Java,
String s1 = "hello"; String s2 = "hello";
(s1 == s2) would return true. But if one of the strings was generated like this:
String s2 = "he"; s2 += "llo";
(s1 == s2) would return false, which is why using the equals function is more predictable. I don't know why Java works that way.
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Determining arguments as atomically true or false is a trap often used by lawyers, creationists, and other unpleasant people.
For instance, arguing that cigarette smoke is linked to higher cancer rates has been proved is specious because the evidence is circumstantial. A good arguer would be able to make the case that the proof is faulty and therefore cigarette smoke is not linked to higher cancer rates.
The answer to this question is entirely within the negative quadrant of the sphere of communication.
It took me a while to find what you meant, but rubylithic is an excellent word. I tip my hat.
I understand that there are two distinct legal cultures in Europe; the English and the French. To make a gross generalization, the English system emphasizes personal freedom while the French system is more concerned with the powers of the state and is framed from the state's perspective.
Luckily the USA (inter alia) inherited the English system, along with the libertarian thread of English philosophy - Thomas Paine et al.
The thing I found most interesting about the kuro5hin article (besides the level of swearing in the comments) was how many kludges there are in Windows to circumvent bugs in Microsoft's own applications.
Doesn't this go against the various statements they have made in court - especially those regarding their secret APIs?
How many of these apps are compiled for 64-bit?
Answer NONE
Just off the top of my head I can think of Final Cut Pro, DVDStudio Pro, Shake, Photoshop and Emagic.
What's your point? Do you think developers aren't going to use 64-bits when it's just a compiler switch away?
Yes, Mayfair and Park Lane are the UK equivalents of Boardwalk and Park Place. The UK set is based on London streets, while the original version is inexplicably based on Atlantic City, NJ.
Firewire doesn't have the bandwith to run the video stream uncompressed... therefore you would need an mpeg decoder in the display.
That's not such a big deal - your common or garden $60 DVD player has an mpeg decoder. You'd think a $2000+ display would be able to manage the same thing. Especially since most of them are able to convert ancient format RF signal back to the digital data the RF was (lossily) encoded from.
Also Firewire has device-device connectivity, while USB needs a computer to run the bus.
Firewire would be great as an AV standard - I can't believe people are still using RCA jacks to connect DVD players to their plasma displays.
why do you people buy your liquids by weight and not volume?
You want to pay for the bubbles?
The U.S. Space Shuttle has this capability and more. No humans needed.
This is not correct. The orbiter's landing gear lowering signal is not issued by computer, so an automated flight would have to do a belly landing (or rewire the flightdeck). The reason is that the shuttle can't lift its gear once it is down, so an accidental deployment in orbit would be a loss of vehicle scenario.
Obviously it's launch and reentry that are dangerous. The floating around listening to Strauss part is relatively safe.
I gather that George got the shaft; his wife ran off with one of his employees, leaving him to raise their children (which is why there was so long a delay between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace).
Pixar originally developed most of the software it used in-house, mostly running on Solaris (which is why Pixar had, and possibly still has, a Sun Room).
I tried replacing an app with my wife and she unexpectedly quit.
Number of Macintosh users: 25 million
Percentage of Mac users who own a PalmOS PDA: 12%
(source: Apple)
Lost market for Palm: 3 million customers
Dude, there's this new website called Google which you can use to look stuff up so you don't look like an idiot when you post something wrong.
I think Mac hardware depreciates more slowly than PC stuff; there's not quite the same desperate impetus to have the very latest hardware, probably because people tend to buy Macs to do work rather than play games.
But yeah, they could have cut a better deal.
People have pointed out for years that auto manufacturers are experts at user interface design
Only insane people. Just look at the heater controls in an old car. One slider for Hot - Blow - Fan and another for Cold - Demist - Warm, then a picture of a fan and an AC button which ignores the heater settings, then a picture of a smaller fan. It's like Windows 3.1, but you're trying to use it while you're driving. Car designers make VCR interfaces look intuitive.
Yes, that's right, because Europe was so united leading up to the second world war. There was no such treaty.
I think you'll find that the main thing that triggered US entry into the war in Europe was Germany declaring war on the US. The only ones who did the right thing right away were the British, who declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Belgium.
I'm thinking this is part of the labels' restrictions on the download services. iTMS and Napster would almost certainly want to offer re-downloadables as it would increase their lock on customers.
Perhaps they're counting on people not caring that it is coated with teflon and refusing to eat anything that is cooked on that wall afterwards.
They're going to not eat food cooked on that wall like a wolf!
FORTH is soooo much better than assembly, and just as close to the metal.
Very much so. Starting Forth is a great book to learn about computers in a non-recipe mode of understanding.
Funny how some people put down Forth as being 'old', when nothing's older than machine code.
Just what the hell are "Foldr Actions" anyway?
Folder actions is a way of attaching AppleScripts to a folder. For example, you can have a folder action to email a file to a preset address when it's dropped into a folder.
If the compiler DOES reuse address space for identical strings, then it WOULD work. If the compiler creates a new address space for every string, then yes, it would always return false.
C always does the latter. Perhaps it was in a nightmare that you encountered a compiler that works the other way?
And in Java, this would not work as it would be comparing objects. It would compile, but would always be false.
Actually in Java,
String s1 = "hello";
String s2 = "hello";
(s1 == s2) would return true. But if one of the strings was generated like this:
String s2 = "he";
s2 += "llo";
(s1 == s2) would return false, which is why using the equals function is more predictable. I don't know why Java works that way.