Would Santa and his elves relocate to Central America? Christmas in Bermuda?
Santa would be at the true north pole.
BTW, I've heard people say that the true north pole is actually part of Canada as well. Maps such as this one show Canada's territory extending to the true north pole, but one might expect the infinitesimally small point to be divided between Canada, Russia, Norway, and Denmark (Greenland). Is the true north pole really part of The True North Strong And Free?
Problem is that even though they have been found guilty no sentence has actually been carried out. They are appealing what amounts to a suspended sentence.
But they're not suffering enough! They should be stripped of their ill-gotten gains (read: ~$30-billion fine), in addition to the rest of their sentence.
We should just throw criminals in jail and skip all this shitty expensive "trial" business.
No, they should throw criminals in jail after they have been convicted and while they are exercising their endless appeals. Oh wait, they do that... unless you're Microsoft.
Then I remembered that I wasn't wrong because of the technical capabilities of the OS, but because of the licensing agreement , which states that you can only connect 5 computers to a Pro OS at any one time for file sharing and "Internet Information Services".
Does that mean IIS only or any web server (or internet-data server)? If this licensed limitation also applies to Apache (or other software you might run on your Windows box), how do they avoid getting into even more anti-trust hot water? How would it be any different from saying "you're not allowed to run any software from company X or any free software"?
Asking God for something sort of presupposes belief, doesn't it? I don't see how this answer makes much sense.
It's probably no less circular than any discussion about faith and The Bible.
Bible Thumper: "The Bible says 'this'." Rational Person: "That doesn't mean anything." Bible Thumper: "But the Bible says 'that'." Rational Person: "But that doesn't mean anything." Bible Thumper: "But the Bible says that it does mean something." Rational Person: "But it's the _Bible_ that says that the Bible means something... that doesn't mean anything." Bible Thumper: "But the Bible says 'this'...."
This is probably why Knuth leaves religion out of his "All Questions Answered" lecture.
The old joke, "if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs..." is still frighteningly true; other engineering professions do not often have a commonplace equivalent of a blue-screen or core-dump.
If only software systems were as simple as buildings.
Indeed, there are bad practices and stupid people involved, but I blame the users. Given a choice between using a system today with many bugs and using one two years from now with no bugs, which do you think they choose? Invariably they choose today, so if you want to take the extra two years, you're out of business. Repeat for each major release.
On a more personal note, before you decide that you're too good to need God, and before you place yourself above those that have chosen Him, don't you think you'd better give Him a try?
Please elucidate on how I can force myself to believe something that I don't.
This is something that it would really suck to be wrong about...
Imagine if an omniscient being was able to understand why an intelligent person was unable to believe flimsy evidence. Christians must really love children, because they invented their God a spoiled brat.
Imagine yourself showing up at the Pearly Gates to have God say to you, "Sorry, you're too stupid; down you go!".
I think that needs to be stated as "more people have probably been killed in the name of god".
Few people seem to realize that in a world of 6-billion, about 6e9/70/365.2422 = 235,000 people die every single day (probably more if the average life span isn't 70 years, though probably less since there weren't 6e9 people alive 70 years ago).
"Right Now: God is killing mothers and puppies because he has to." -- Van Halen
Even if it is a bluff, to be successful in brinksmanship against Microsoft, you must be prepared to go all the way, and you may actually need to go all the way.
If you want to compare Mozilla 1.0 to commercial software, I think you'd have to say "4 years to 3.0 is not good time". How long did IE take to get to 3.0?
The problem is that glibc doesn't handle the zlib bug properly, and the bug produces a buffer overflow.
No, I think that any reasonable programmer would classify an attempt to free() a memory block twice as an application bug. The glibc library could handle it more gracefully, but it's really not obligated to. The only special required behaviour about the ANSI-C free() interface is that it is obligated to accept a NULL pointer as a no-op.
I do feel that they should (but are not obligated to) send out a few public notices that will be spread around so that people who's programs use the library can update it and that's exactly what they did.
Unless I am missing my guess, I ran into this particular bug in zlib about a year ago and I e-mailed the people at the project address. They responded that they already knew about it and sent me the patch. So what exactly is it that happened recently? Did someone figure out a way to use the bug to crack a system and this set off all kinds of alarms? There should have been a zlib fix-up release a long time ago.
Whether the price is raised by the manufacturer (at the source), by the retailer (as point of sale), or by the government (via taxation), the cost to the end user still goes up, and thi is what will determine level of sales.
We appear to be in complete agreement, except that I was talking about the recording industry raising the prices of the pre-recorded CDs that it sells. If it were to raise its prices to offset its losses to private copying, then it would sell less product, and would probably also make less profit, since we can probably assume that their present prices are already set to maximize profits (noting that the music industry is essentially monopolized and can freely set prices to any level it wishes).
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In computer science, it's (int) 3 / (int) 22.
Damn, (int) 7 / (int) 22.
Damn again. I guess I'm trying to say that even in version 3.0, it's only (int) 22 / (int) 7.
In computer science, it's (int) 3 / (int) 22.
Damn, (int) 7 / (int) 22.
Dummy, everyone knows pi is exactly 3.14 with a
In computer science, it's (int) 3 / (int) 22.
Would Santa and his elves relocate to Central America? Christmas in Bermuda?
Santa would be at the true north pole.
BTW, I've heard people say that the true north pole is actually part of Canada as well. Maps such as this one show Canada's territory extending to the true north pole, but one might expect the infinitesimally small point to be divided between Canada, Russia, Norway, and Denmark (Greenland). Is the true north pole really part of The True North Strong And Free?
Now all we need is a mouse like this and we can perform the JEDI MOUSE TRICK.
Perhaps you could also simulate the IBM-laptop 'nipple mouse'.
Of course, if common sense prevailed, it would be the mail server vendor in court for producing insecure mail server software
I think that should be "in court for refusing to fix insecure mail-server software in a timely manner..."
Problem is that even though they have been found guilty no sentence has actually been carried out. They are appealing what amounts to a suspended sentence.
But they're not suffering enough! They should be stripped of their ill-gotten gains (read: ~$30-billion fine), in addition to the rest of their sentence.
Of course, this is a civil matter so any comparisons to criminals are inappropriate.
Still, the previous poster seems to forget that Microsoft has already been convicted and sentenced and this is the appeals stage of their case.
We should just throw criminals in jail and skip all this shitty expensive "trial" business.
No, they should throw criminals in jail after they have been convicted and while they are exercising their endless appeals. Oh wait, they do that... unless you're Microsoft.
Then I remembered that I wasn't wrong because of the technical capabilities of the OS, but because of the licensing agreement , which states that you can only connect 5 computers to a Pro OS at any one time for file sharing and "Internet Information Services".
Does that mean IIS only or any web server (or internet-data server)? If this licensed limitation also applies to Apache (or other software you might run on your Windows box), how do they avoid getting into even more anti-trust hot water? How would it be any different from saying "you're not allowed to run any software from company X or any free software"?
Asking God for something sort of presupposes belief, doesn't it? I don't see how this answer makes much sense.
It's probably no less circular than any discussion about faith and The Bible.
Bible Thumper: "The Bible says 'this'."
Rational Person: "That doesn't mean anything."
Bible Thumper: "But the Bible says 'that'."
Rational Person: "But that doesn't mean anything."
Bible Thumper: "But the Bible says that it does mean something."
Rational Person: "But it's the _Bible_ that says that the Bible means
something... that doesn't mean anything."
Bible Thumper: "But the Bible says 'this'...."
This is probably why Knuth leaves religion out of his "All Questions Answered" lecture.
But when have you ever seen anything written in a language *other* than C segfault?
I've seen lots of Java null-pointer exceptions. And numerous other exceptions. Do these count?
The old joke, "if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs ..." is still frighteningly true; other engineering professions do not often have a commonplace equivalent of a blue-screen or core-dump.
If only software systems were as simple as buildings.
Indeed, there are bad practices and stupid people involved, but I blame the users. Given a choice between using a system today with many bugs and using one two years from now with no bugs, which do you think they choose? Invariably they choose today, so if you want to take the extra two years, you're out of business. Repeat for each major release.
This, of course, leads to sloopy programming.
Is that anything like OOPL?
"Allah" is the Arabic word for "God" (capital G, "al-" prefix = *the*).
It's interesting how the definite article is associated with God. In English, "the" is the base of the word "theism". Any other languages?
On a more personal note, before you decide that you're too good to need God, and before you place yourself above those that have chosen Him, don't you think you'd better give Him a try?
Please elucidate on how I can force myself to believe something that I don't.
This is something that it would really suck to be wrong about...
Imagine if an omniscient being was able to understand why an intelligent person was unable to believe flimsy evidence. Christians must really love children, because they invented their God a spoiled brat.
Imagine yourself showing up at the Pearly Gates to have God say to you, "Sorry, you're too stupid; down you go!".
more people have probably died in the name of god
I think that needs to be stated as "more people have probably been killed in the name of god".
Few people seem to realize that in a world of 6-billion, about 6e9/70/365.2422 = 235,000 people die every single day (probably more if the average life span isn't 70 years, though probably less since there weren't 6e9 people alive 70 years ago).
"Right Now: God is killing mothers and puppies because he has to." -- Van Halen
How long did SpyGlass work on the IE predecessor before being swindled by Microsoft?
In short, I think this is a bluff on AOLs part
Even if it is a bluff, to be successful in brinksmanship against Microsoft, you must be prepared to go all the way, and you may actually need to go all the way.
If you want to compare Mozilla 1.0 to commercial software, I think you'd have to say "4 years to 3.0 is not good time". How long did IE take to get to 3.0?
I'd be quite willing to blow $20K for three orbits and a reasonable assurance of safety.
The problem is that glibc doesn't handle the zlib bug properly, and the bug produces a buffer overflow.
No, I think that any reasonable programmer would classify an attempt to free() a memory block twice as an application bug. The glibc library could handle it more gracefully, but it's really not obligated to. The only special required behaviour about the ANSI-C free() interface is that it is obligated to accept a NULL pointer as a no-op.
And it's St. John's. St. John is in New Brunswick.
The one in New Brunswick is always spelled out in full: SAINT JOHN.
I do feel that they should (but are not obligated to) send out a few public notices that will be spread around so that people who's programs use the library can update it and that's exactly what they did.
Unless I am missing my guess, I ran into this particular bug in zlib about a year ago and I e-mailed the people at the project address. They responded that they already knew about it and sent me the patch. So what exactly is it that happened recently? Did someone figure out a way to use the bug to crack a system and this set off all kinds of alarms? There should have been a zlib fix-up release a long time ago.
Whether the price is raised by the manufacturer (at the source), by the retailer (as point of sale), or by the government (via taxation), the cost to the end user still goes up, and thi is what will determine level of sales.
We appear to be in complete agreement, except that I was talking about the recording industry raising the prices of the pre-recorded CDs that it sells. If it were to raise its prices to offset its losses to private copying, then it would sell less product, and would probably also make less profit, since we can probably assume that their present prices are already set to maximize profits (noting that the music industry is essentially monopolized and can freely set prices to any level it wishes).