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Autovivification on access is seen as a bad feature, and it's intended that in perl6, there will only be autovivification on write. In other words if($hash{'index'}{'index'}==2) won't autovivify, but $hash{'index'}{'index'}=2 will. This is one of the design goals behind perl6, to fix those things which need fixing, but can't in perl5 because of backwards compatibility.
That's because hijacking a car, bus, boat, or other transport vehicle likely can't take down a huge building
And neither can hijacking an airliner. It could, but cannot now, and that is with the security settings that were in place on 9/11, as the events on the 4th airliner showed.
They just happened to be hijackers who followed all the airport regulations
And that is exactly what you will expect to see in the next terrorist incident. Probably not airports, but it will be someone who carefully follows every rule until they are ready.
No it wouldn't. Trains crashing into the buffers happens fairly frequently. You end up with 45 people or 2 people, or even 0 people killed. The worst train crashes tend to be when two trains collide, but even in the non-western countries, the death toll is counted in the hundreds.
And also owned by IBM (4,814,746). Which is another example of why software patents are not working - not only can't the examiners tell what's obvious, they can't even tell what they've already let be patented.
However, if you are on a variant of Unix, converting to another one is not as difficult as converting to/from a non-Unix like OS. I once had a junior programmer, who had been using C only for a few months, covert an application from NCR's SVR2 Unix to HP-UX. It took him about a week, with most of the time elapsed upgrading the ISAM interface. Having an alternative vendor available can be a wonderful tool when you're trying to negotigate a contract.
Even if you do do a reverse lookup, that doesn't gaurantee that the address is physically located in that country. I could send a packet from an IP address which resolves, both forward and backward, to.ie,.ca or.bm. These are all on the same physical computer, which is actually located in Canada.
In example what does XML-RPC do any good? Is conventional RPC suddendly uncool? What can XML-RPC do, what normal RPC can't? Except that it uses 5 times more bandwith.
How about that you CAN telnet to the relevent port and type the right data. Text based protocols like SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc are very easy to write clients for, and to debug, because you can simply write & read text. Binary based protocols like DNS require special libraries or more complex programming.
5) Sites which are considered 'good' can be quickly changed to be actually 'bad'. In other words, if you allow "pink fuzzy bunny's home page", after spending 6 months making sure it's not got any bad content and none of the images appear to contain messages, then the next day the owner can upload a picture of fuzzy bunny with a secret message.
There's nothing intrinisically wrong with the.doc format as far as I know
Sure there is. Any decent format should be both reverse & forward compatable. If you take a version 4 file and load it into the version 3 program, then any new features should be ignored (probably with a warning). This allows people who haven't yet upgraded to handle files which have been saved by those who have. Going the other way should be totally transparent, except perhaps if you try to save the new version - Have you tried to open a Word 2.0 document in the latest version of Word?
I'd also say that a good file format for text heavy data (word processors, spreadsheets, presentations etc) should be text based. This makes convertors easy to write. I wrote a program to convert Wordstar documents to HTML. A very easy program to write, because the wordstar format was basically plain text with extra formatting information. It would be impossible to write a similar program for Word in reasonable time.
You can easily tell when someone buys an add in the yellow pages, they always look different to the regular listings (usually bigger, or in a different colour). When newpapers run 'advertising features', they have to mark this because it's not so obvious - you have something which the uninformed might think is a regular page.
That's exactly what the FTC is asking for here. It's ok to advertise, but it's not ok to hide the fact.
I don't know the height they'd do this, but the point is sonic booms from something big enough to carry passengers carry a *long* way.
Concorde cruises at 55,000 feet, +/- 5,000. It has to fly that high so that the air density is low enough to reduce friction heating to an acceptable level. Only once it's flying subsonic can it descend to lower levels.
So instead of having software companies and hordes or programmers, companies can get their own software by feeding in to the requirements to this database, and it spits out the necessary code.
We already have these. They're called compiler-compilers. The hard part about programming isn't the writing the code which matches the requirements, it's getting the requirements well enough specified. Similarly, the hard part about a doctor's job isn't the 'standard' symptom & disease matching, it's the individual differences that we all have, which mean that every disease has to be treated individually.
The Taliban was recognized by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic, however I'd say that offical recognization isn't terribly significant - it's all politics, which doesn't reflect the realities of the situation. Taiwan is probably offically recognized by about the same number of countries, but no-one would doubt that President Chen Shui-bian is the leader of the government.
Rabbani doesn't really have any more reason to be considered legitimate than any of the various power factions since the fall of Daoud's government sparked the civil war - including the Taliban - He wasn't democratically elected, and even his election to the president of the Islamic Council was only for a one year term, and never did he truely control the whole country.
Since the start of the civil war, it's been a continous war between different ethnic groups, who gain and loose control over parts of the country. Whoever happens to control the most, claims it all.
They've got poor attention skills, are unable to buckle down and work hard when the time calls for it and haven't been successful at any job that requires more than just talking the talk.
So what you're saying is that they've become managers?
I had always assumed that was because the community approved of what we were doing.
Speaking as someone who will be seeing you give another lecture tonight, I certainly approve of what you were doing.
1k? Luxury! I had 512 bytes, for both program and data, come home and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
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Autovivification on access is seen as a bad feature, and it's intended that in perl6, there will only be autovivification on write. In other words if($hash{'index'}{'index'}==2) won't autovivify, but $hash{'index'}{'index'}=2 will. This is one of the design goals behind perl6, to fix those things which need fixing, but can't in perl5 because of backwards compatibility.
And neither can hijacking an airliner. It could, but cannot now, and that is with the security settings that were in place on 9/11, as the events on the 4th airliner showed.
And that is exactly what you will expect to see in the next terrorist incident. Probably not airports, but it will be someone who carefully follows every rule until they are ready.
Mainly small private planes. Not comparable to jets in any way.
No it wouldn't. Trains crashing into the buffers happens fairly frequently. You end up with 45 people or 2 people, or even 0 people killed. The worst train crashes tend to be when two trains collide, but even in the non-western countries, the death toll is counted in the hundreds.
El Al run 40 flights a day, and spend $6,164 per flight on security. That makes El Al's security unrealistic for the major airlines.
And also owned by IBM (4,814,746). Which is another example of why software patents are not working - not only can't the examiners tell what's obvious, they can't even tell what they've already let be patented.
The Mason enviroment offers a heck of a lot that 'bare' perl doesn't. I use it for all my websites nowadays.
Oh Drat! I'm going to get a lot of work done in the next few weeks, aren't I?
However, if you are on a variant of Unix, converting to another one is not as difficult as converting to/from a non-Unix like OS. I once had a junior programmer, who had been using C only for a few months, covert an application from NCR's SVR2 Unix to HP-UX. It took him about a week, with most of the time elapsed upgrading the ISAM interface. Having an alternative vendor available can be a wonderful tool when you're trying to negotigate a contract.
Javascript was previously known as Livescript.
Even if you do do a reverse lookup, that doesn't gaurantee that the address is physically located in that country. I could send a packet from an IP address which resolves, both forward and backward, to .ie, .ca or .bm. These are all on the same physical computer, which is actually located in Canada.
How about that you CAN telnet to the relevent port and type the right data. Text based protocols like SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc are very easy to write clients for, and to debug, because you can simply write & read text. Binary based protocols like DNS require special libraries or more complex programming.
5) Sites which are considered 'good' can be quickly changed to be actually 'bad'. In other words, if you allow "pink fuzzy bunny's home page", after spending 6 months making sure it's not got any bad content and none of the images appear to contain messages, then the next day the owner can upload a picture of fuzzy bunny with a secret message.
Sure there is. Any decent format should be both reverse & forward compatable. If you take a version 4 file and load it into the version 3 program, then any new features should be ignored (probably with a warning). This allows people who haven't yet upgraded to handle files which have been saved by those who have. Going the other way should be totally transparent, except perhaps if you try to save the new version - Have you tried to open a Word 2.0 document in the latest version of Word?
I'd also say that a good file format for text heavy data (word processors, spreadsheets, presentations etc) should be text based. This makes convertors easy to write. I wrote a program to convert Wordstar documents to HTML. A very easy program to write, because the wordstar format was basically plain text with extra formatting information. It would be impossible to write a similar program for Word in reasonable time.
You can easily tell when someone buys an add in the yellow pages, they always look different to the regular listings (usually bigger, or in a different colour). When newpapers run 'advertising features', they have to mark this because it's not so obvious - you have something which the uninformed might think is a regular page. That's exactly what the FTC is asking for here. It's ok to advertise, but it's not ok to hide the fact.
Concorde cruises at 55,000 feet, +/- 5,000. It has to fly that high so that the air density is low enough to reduce friction heating to an acceptable level. Only once it's flying subsonic can it descend to lower levels.
We already have these. They're called compiler-compilers. The hard part about programming isn't the writing the code which matches the requirements, it's getting the requirements well enough specified. Similarly, the hard part about a doctor's job isn't the 'standard' symptom & disease matching, it's the individual differences that we all have, which mean that every disease has to be treated individually.
I get the worldwide average of 2.6%.
Vison Quest's windfarm of 67 turbines generate a peak capacity of 43.5 MW. I can't find figures for a city the size of Boston, but NY has a forecasted demand of 10,470 MW for 2001. However, don't think of either wind farms or something else. As this poster shows, you can have wind farms AND something else, mainly farm land.
Rabbani doesn't really have any more reason to be considered legitimate than any of the various power factions since the fall of Daoud's government sparked the civil war - including the Taliban - He wasn't democratically elected, and even his election to the president of the Islamic Council was only for a one year term, and never did he truely control the whole country.
Since the start of the civil war, it's been a continous war between different ethnic groups, who gain and loose control over parts of the country. Whoever happens to control the most, claims it all.
So what you're saying is that they've become managers?
I had always assumed that was because the community approved of what we were doing. Speaking as someone who will be seeing you give another lecture tonight, I certainly approve of what you were doing.
1k? Luxury! I had 512 bytes, for both program and data, come home and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
</Monty Python>When US programs are shown in countries which have less adverts, you end up with programs being shown in non multiples of 30. Eg the Oprah Winfrey show takes 50 minutes in the UK, while Law & Order takes 55.