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With the NT kernel they control everything from the ground up, that's just the way they like it. 100% proprietary. MS will switch to a non-MS kernel the same day hell freezes over, along with open-sourcing everything.
>> if they couldn't prove she did it, it's crazy to try to ticket her for something this antiquated.
That doesn't make a damn bit of difference. It's the law, period. I don't care if it dates back to the year 0003, and I don't care how stupid you (and I) think it is, if it's the law then it's the law. The parent was right, you're not being consistent.
Pictures of a murder aren't enough to convict either, and certainly not ones of unknown origin, which is what we have here. There has to be a lot of other evidence, because as has been said, photos can be manipulated easily.
All that said, I do think it's stupid to go after her for it. I think we all know no one was hurt or offended:-) But that's not going to mean a damn thing to a judge.
With all that fancy talk about tolerances and only one company in the world that could make the aparatus, you'd think it would be bit fancier... Nope, just a coper plate with a copper tube sticking up off of it that you fill with nitrogen, and it cools via evaperation. I could build it with some 2-inch copper pipe, a torch, and some soldier... 5 GHz is cool and all, but come on, is there really the need to make it sound so difficult?
>> overpaid, undereducated programmers that built corporate apps.
Why the f*** does somebody have to tell you that you need to validate input? Why the f*** isn't that obvious??? If that sort of thing isn't painfully obvious to you, you probably should be in a different line of work, educated or not.
>> I know people bitch about how screwed up C is, but with the proper debug tools I had few problems.
I'd say you had few problems because unlike so many in this business, you actually fathom the concept of validation, and know how to use C without letting it walk all over you. I don't know why that's difficult but apparently it is...
"She discovered that people focus on conversations instead of a single message."
On what planet could this ever be considered insightful or profound, or even interesting?
Maybe I'm missing something, and I did RTFA, but how is this different from what any modern email interface does already? Surely the existence of pretty little lines and dots to connect messages isn't the big selling point here, because I am not impressed. This is the stuff any mediocre software developer knows inherently, yet this stuff is coming out of 'research'? Come on...
I code for Windows and Linux, and I have to say, both cultures have stupidities. But usually the complaints that the Unix guys have about Windows are right, and the complaints the Windows guys have about Unix are very often inspired by lazy ignorance.
Writing dirty, nasty, for-my-eyes-only code is dumb. I don't care how many people will or won't see it, write like the world is watching. Windows guys love to write shitty code and when I have to look at it, it can be nausiating. Unix guys do that less because they're expecting people to look at it and derive an opinion from what they see.
Windows guys like to write code that they consider throw-away. It's similar to point one, but it has more to do with compatability and reusability. Unix guys automatically think about compatabilty and reuse.
Something bad happens when Unix guys start writing GUI code though. For some reason, it seems impossible for a Unix guy to design a GUI to be consistant with other programs that are likely to appear on the same screen. Maybe that's where the what-is-an-end-user? mentality comes out.
When it comes to GUI's, the Windows guys seem to have mostly the right idea. For everything else, the Unix guys have it spot on. What I don't understand is why it has to be like this. The seperation is obvious: when you write GUI stuff, it's for an end user, so write for the end user.
That's why I use (and used to code for) KWrite, or whatever the hell it's called these days. I'm used to it since I started on Borland and MS code editors and so I like it. If you vi guys don't like what editor I use, you can bite my shiny metal ass:-)
It's funny, but coming from Australia you'd think I'd feel right at home in both the UK and US, but there are lots of little things that make me feel slightly out of place in both countries.
Ha! It's weird just going from the northern U.S. up to Canada for the weekend. We're so similar, you just expect to get along with no problems, but the differences are there. It can be frustrating because sometimes it's hard to even put your finger on it.
This may prove to be a ray of inspiration for dim wits everywhere, beamed from the heavens to shed a new light on these dark times! Don't take it lightly. How we use this enlightenment will be a reflection on us all.
Well there's a bit of irony... Here they are with only enough to fuel to last until the next shipment. Some contigency plan they have! Somehow I doubt that an outfit like that is floating along on just enough fuel.
Except this guy wasn't doing anything useful. There was nothing in it for humanity. He wasn't proving anything we didn't already know. He was just screwing off for his own personal enjoyment.
You're comparing apples to banana bread.
That said, they probably should just have sold him the damn fuel and sent him on his way. That probably would have prevented all the publicity that will go a lot further towards promoting tourism than quietly letting him go home. All this holier than thou crap isn't doing anybody any good. IMHO.
Then why were several of the surviving whacks convicted and imprisoned on federal weapons charges? You're not going to tell me the media planted evidence, are you?
What about the fact the he owned automatic weapons?
Not that I'm defending the actions of the ATF in this case (I mean come on, a TANK???), but if you own automatic weapons in this country (without proper license), you're breaking federal law. When you break federal law, the feds tend to come after you.
This has been said already, but it can't be stressed enough. If you want to take decent pictures, spend your money on lenses! The body is just a big hole that allows light to hit your film. The lenses are what focus and modify that light. There is very little a body can do to mess up a shot; once the shutter opens, it litterally is just a big hole. Lenses are everything!
Now that you're out shopping for killer lenses, keep this in mind: The more glass between your film and your subject, the more the light is modified. Coatings make a big difference (much of the cost of a good lense). Don't expect to go out and buy some neato 28-400 zoom and have all your bases covered. As a general rule, the more zoom range, the more glass. Stick to short-range zooms and be sure to pick up at least a couple prime lenses (50mm for example). Use the primes whenever you can. This is all stuff a knowledgable lense salesman will help you with.
With decent lenses, you will take killer pictures with something simple like a K-1000 (you simply must own one of these). With cheap lenses, you'll take crap pictures no matter what you do.
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With the NT kernel they control everything from the ground up, that's just the way they like it. 100% proprietary. MS will switch to a non-MS kernel the same day hell freezes over, along with open-sourcing everything.
>> ...are quite stiff...
So too will be some members of the jury.
Funny, I went to the site and I don't remember reading one single word there :-)
So... in Iran then?
>> if they couldn't prove she did it, it's crazy to try to ticket her for something this antiquated.
:-) But that's not going to mean a damn thing to a judge.
That doesn't make a damn bit of difference. It's the law, period. I don't care if it dates back to the year 0003, and I don't care how stupid you (and I) think it is, if it's the law then it's the law. The parent was right, you're not being consistent.
Pictures of a murder aren't enough to convict either, and certainly not ones of unknown origin, which is what we have here. There has to be a lot of other evidence, because as has been said, photos can be manipulated easily.
All that said, I do think it's stupid to go after her for it. I think we all know no one was hurt or offended
I'd be demanding a lot of physical evidence on this case. We want nothing but the naked thruth.
With all that fancy talk about tolerances and only one company in the world that could make the aparatus, you'd think it would be bit fancier... Nope, just a coper plate with a copper tube sticking up off of it that you fill with nitrogen, and it cools via evaperation. I could build it with some 2-inch copper pipe, a torch, and some soldier... 5 GHz is cool and all, but come on, is there really the need to make it sound so difficult?
>> overpaid, undereducated programmers that built corporate apps.
Why the f*** does somebody have to tell you that you need to validate input? Why the f*** isn't that obvious??? If that sort of thing isn't painfully obvious to you, you probably should be in a different line of work, educated or not.
>> I know people bitch about how screwed up C is, but with the proper debug tools I had few problems.
I'd say you had few problems because unlike so many in this business, you actually fathom the concept of validation, and know how to use C without letting it walk all over you. I don't know why that's difficult but apparently it is...
Maybe I'm missing something, and I did RTFA, but how is this different from what any modern email interface does already? Surely the existence of pretty little lines and dots to connect messages isn't the big selling point here, because I am not impressed. This is the stuff any mediocre software developer knows inherently, yet this stuff is coming out of 'research'? Come on...
I code for Windows and Linux, and I have to say, both cultures have stupidities. But usually the complaints that the Unix guys have about Windows are right, and the complaints the Windows guys have about Unix are very often inspired by lazy ignorance.
Writing dirty, nasty, for-my-eyes-only code is dumb. I don't care how many people will or won't see it, write like the world is watching. Windows guys love to write shitty code and when I have to look at it, it can be nausiating. Unix guys do that less because they're expecting people to look at it and derive an opinion from what they see.
Windows guys like to write code that they consider throw-away. It's similar to point one, but it has more to do with compatability and reusability. Unix guys automatically think about compatabilty and reuse.
Something bad happens when Unix guys start writing GUI code though. For some reason, it seems impossible for a Unix guy to design a GUI to be consistant with other programs that are likely to appear on the same screen. Maybe that's where the what-is-an-end-user? mentality comes out.
When it comes to GUI's, the Windows guys seem to have mostly the right idea. For everything else, the Unix guys have it spot on. What I don't understand is why it has to be like this. The seperation is obvious: when you write GUI stuff, it's for an end user, so write for the end user.
That's why I use (and used to code for) KWrite, or whatever the hell it's called these days. I'm used to it since I started on Borland and MS code editors and so I like it. If you vi guys don't like what editor I use, you can bite my shiny metal ass :-)
Now THIS is offtopic :-)
A ray of hope coming to us in a brightly colored can!!!
This may prove to be a ray of inspiration for dim wits everywhere, beamed from the heavens to shed a new light on these dark times! Don't take it lightly. How we use this enlightenment will be a reflection on us all.
Altogether now: *grrooaaan*
There should be a moderation for horribly, painfully not funny. Even the most hard core physicist should be able to do better than that!
Or you could drop one in your beer and then it would be li... um I'm stopping right here, sorry...
Is there a such thing as light spam? Because if there is, you know, maybe it would easier to start with that...
Well there's a bit of irony... Here they are with only enough to fuel to last until the next shipment. Some contigency plan they have! Somehow I doubt that an outfit like that is floating along on just enough fuel.
And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling headwinds!
mmmmm, freezer burned snickers bars glalalalaaahh
Except this guy wasn't doing anything useful. There was nothing in it for humanity. He wasn't proving anything we didn't already know. He was just screwing off for his own personal enjoyment.
You're comparing apples to banana bread.
That said, they probably should just have sold him the damn fuel and sent him on his way. That probably would have prevented all the publicity that will go a lot further towards promoting tourism than quietly letting him go home. All this holier than thou crap isn't doing anybody any good. IMHO.
Then why were several of the surviving whacks convicted and imprisoned on federal weapons charges? You're not going to tell me the media planted evidence, are you?
What about the fact the he owned automatic weapons?
Not that I'm defending the actions of the ATF in this case (I mean come on, a TANK???), but if you own automatic weapons in this country (without proper license), you're breaking federal law. When you break federal law, the feds tend to come after you.
This has been said already, but it can't be stressed enough. If you want to take decent pictures, spend your money on lenses! The body is just a big hole that allows light to hit your film. The lenses are what focus and modify that light. There is very little a body can do to mess up a shot; once the shutter opens, it litterally is just a big hole. Lenses are everything!
Now that you're out shopping for killer lenses, keep this in mind: The more glass between your film and your subject, the more the light is modified. Coatings make a big difference (much of the cost of a good lense). Don't expect to go out and buy some neato 28-400 zoom and have all your bases covered. As a general rule, the more zoom range, the more glass. Stick to short-range zooms and be sure to pick up at least a couple prime lenses (50mm for example). Use the primes whenever you can. This is all stuff a knowledgable lense salesman will help you with.
With decent lenses, you will take killer pictures with something simple like a K-1000 (you simply must own one of these). With cheap lenses, you'll take crap pictures no matter what you do.