yup, by now it is clear beyond all doubt that general relativity has a clear liberal bias, and needs to be weighed against a solid dose of creationism for physics to become "balanced".
Humans have free will, or else we would just be puppets.
- and god wouldn't get to punish anybody.
Imagine how boring that would be. Why else would you go to all the trouble of creating a sentient species, if not for the joy of sentencing the suckers to eternal torture if they should happen to actualy believe any of the logical conclusions of all those "tests of faith" that you sprinkled so liberally around, nay literally built their planet and universe from?
The grammar in english is commendably simple. It's the unpredictable spelling and pronounciation that sucks. And let me tell you, the exceptions there are not few. Not even with a small vocabulary of everyday words.
That might sound like a good hypothesis on paper, if the only language you know is english. But that fact is that there are many languages, just as old ones too, that have much simpler and more consistent spelling. In fact Enlglish spelling is almost singulalry obscure in a western context. So either you arguments are wrong, or they don't actually lead to the conlusion that you claim.
My wife is a native Spanish-speaker, and she constantly tells me how much harder it is to spell and read English
I'm a native English speaker, and I told my Spanish teacher how hard that Spanish was to read and write all the time...
Not a very stinging retort I'm afraid. English orthography truly is baroque beyond belief, while spanish (along with finnish) is exceptionaly clear and consistent in that regard (if you overlook their weird onfusion of b and v:). You can in general always deduce how a spanish word is pronounced from its spelling, and what's more, you can also reconstruct the correct spelling of a word you hear. French is sort of in-between: except for certain proper naouns, pronounciation agin follows entirely predictable rules. But here the transformation is lossy and not reversible: for example there is literally no way of knowing if, say, the sound of a neutral "e" in a word should be represented by one letter (as the first e in "belle") or five (as in "aient").
English is just pure mayhem, with no discernible system at all. Unless you want to make pronounciation mistakes with embarassing frequency, you just simply cannor rely on any rules; you have to now each and every word. And as the other direction, deducing spelling from spoken words, let me just put it this way:
You guys have fucking SPELLING BEES for chrissakes!.
Case closed. I spanish the whole concept is ludicrous, making about as muchs sense as a number-writing contenst.
Air pollution and cramped housing conditions in Athens, Greece, are creating a new breed of mosquitoes which are bigger, faster
Are you sure it's not just all those steroids and stuff from snacking on olympic athletes that is producing mosquitoes that are "swifter, higher, stronger"?
That depends on the quality of your code. It's easy enough to find out, though: install one of the tools (it only takes a few minutes), try it on some of your production code, and see how many real bugs it finds. Most people are surprised by the results, but I make no guarantees about yours.
It can also save time in catching subtle bugs, even if it doesn't recognise them directly, by early on pointing out trival mistakes that would make them hard to diagnose and potentially spend hours barking up the wrong tree.
Often times it doesn't matter how much you profile your Java application. The bottleneck will often be hidden away, deep in some class library that either you can't modify (due to licensing restrictions or unavailable source code), or that you don't want to modify.
And that bit of information about your app is worth nothing to you? No wonder your java apps are slow.
I agree that consumption of recorded music is not a terribly worthy cause IMO. But fighting corporations' access and inclination to dictating the law themselves as they see fit most definitely is.
The problem with that is that the resulting sales drop will be blamed on piracy, and used as lobbying ammo for keeping and extending draconian DRM/copyright laws.
And don't get me started on those olympic running competitions. The tracks are totally unrealistic, unlike anything you'd find if you really needed to run from or to anything. And what's with those restrictions about equipment? I mean, if you wanted to get somewhere fast, you would of course use a motor vehicle, but that's forbidden. Why stifle creativity like that. Rubbish.
I'm trying to find some kind of a side job that pays whatever money,
Why do you need extra money when you say you are happy with your pay, and evidently don't have much to spend it on anyway?
If it has to be computer work, do some for a good cause that needs your help, or work on something fun you don't get a chance to wrestle with at work, or just make something that you think ought to exist, but forget about the money.
If I can tempt you away from the keyboard for a second: Learning a new skill is a good way to provide the ind of focus that some people need in order to enoy free time. There must be some sort of language (human), sport, game, instrument, craft, artistic activty, or alternate profession that you would like to master or dabble in? If you have all those boring nights to expend, you have a good chance of progressing rapidly in whatever catches your interest.
Some people even have personal regimens of "learn something new every (other?) year" or similar, which may be of help if it has to "feel like work/a project" to motivate you. Some skills require or invite you to meet and interact with people for learning them. This is great if "just meeting" new people in purely social contexts is diffiult or bothers you, since here everyone's focus is still mostly on the task.
Next time, go for some well-chosen thoughts in stead.
Of course there are more factors then Apple that influence the life of chinese workers, but apple, like everyone else, have a moral responsability for all easily foreseeable consequences of their actions. Such a big buyer could easily state requirements for working conditions at subcontractors. It might cost them a tiny bit more, but would be barely noticeable of their profit margin.
If they go shopping for the lowest bidder in a region with rampant worker exploitation without insisting on such terms, pleading ignorance about poor working conditions is not going to fool anyone.
I have implemented GUI apps in C++, C#, Java, Matlab, and VB. I am seriously looking at Java/Swing
I'f you've wokred wit GUIs in C#, I can tell you right now that you will be very frustrated with Java/Swing. The close similarity allover makes the differences in developer convenience positively glaring. Yes, a lot of it is just syntactic sugar to you language people, but boy do you get tired of writing it the long way when you know how much easier it could have been. The GUI APIs show a similar trend, Swing making you do all sorts of unneccesary stuff before you can get to the point.
You don't have to store high voltage in it, if you have a really huge area and microscopic distance, you can get a lot of energy with moderatevoltage. And if they get nanotube tansistors working they could use huge arrays of these nano caps and shunt them in in sequence digitally.
The law should serve the citizen, and do so in a way that relates to reality, not some fictional world where everyone has a law degree. Lots of people are stupid. As long as people are different, one half will always be less smart than most. That does not mean they've done anything wrong or deserve to be exploited. Ad you don't even have to be among them to be susceptible to trickery from someone who has the upper hand in understanding nuances of legalese (which of course large corps can afford people to do or them). The fact is most people will sign this stuff withiut reading or understanding that they have no right to actually receive the product. I can't think of a single reason why the seller should be entitled to enforce such terms.
You are of course free to believe that these people should be fair game for anyone who figures out how to shaft them. I believe that a major points of civilised society is precisely to protect the regular guy from the predatory ones.
Their original contract allows for a modification of the terms and conditions. What is the problem there? If you agree that the contract can be changed, accept it. If you disagree, don't accept it. The market works because if people don't want modifiable contracts, they wouldn't exist.
The market is clearly not doing its magic here, as demonstrated by the fact that droves of people are actually "accepting" these ludicrous terms that no sane person would knowingly subject themselves to; many of them in places where they can't trust local law to protect them from the worst abominations in a contract.
He said all the consumer protection laws were harmful to the market. One of the results of one of those laws in Norway is that the ombudsman complained that reserving a carte-blanche to alter the deal after making it is clearly unreasonable.
You must be talking about some other country. Here in Norway, your corner shop can't claim to operate under the law of some foreign country in order to escape the law, even with the use of a contract, and neither can Apple when they operate as a local business entity.
If the customers were dealing directly with Apple in the US, things would of course be different.
If they had to follow these idiotic laws in the beginning, the consumer would be protected, surely: protected from ever seeing great devices like the iPod and whatever the next competitor will release.
I suggest you check out which laws are being referred to before criticising them so sweepingly. Right now you are, among aother things, arguing that it is essential for a well-functioning market to allow the seller to unilaterally change the contract (e.g. revocinga all your songs) for any or no reason and at any time after the deal is done, signed and paid. And it's making you look really dumb and/or trollish.
I don't understand how Norway can say that if one of the parties is Norwegian (or in Norway) that only the laws of Norway can control.
They don't. They say that when a business which has a norwegia branch operates a norwegian-language e-shop explicitly directed at the norwegian market, distributed through a.no site, and in every way strives to come across as a local shop, then it is no longer an import scenario: they are operating in the norwegian market, and are subject to norwegian trade law, and just claiming they're not doesn't make it so.
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yup, by now it is clear beyond all doubt that general relativity has a clear liberal bias, and needs to be weighed against a solid dose of creationism for physics to become "balanced".
Humans have free will, or else we would just be puppets.
- and god wouldn't get to punish anybody.
Imagine how boring that would be. Why else would you go to all the trouble of creating a sentient species, if not for the joy of sentencing the suckers to eternal torture if they should happen to actualy believe any of the logical conclusions of all those "tests of faith" that you sprinkled so liberally around, nay literally built their planet and universe from?
Who wouldn't?
The grammar in english is commendably simple. It's the unpredictable spelling and pronounciation that sucks. And let me tell you, the exceptions there are not few. Not even with a small vocabulary of everyday words.
That might sound like a good hypothesis on paper, if the only language you know is english. But that fact is that there are many languages, just as old ones too, that have much simpler and more consistent spelling. In fact Enlglish spelling is almost singulalry obscure in a western context. So either you arguments are wrong, or they don't actually lead to the conlusion that you claim.
My wife is a native Spanish-speaker, and she constantly tells me how much harder it is to spell and read English
...
:). You can in general always deduce how a spanish word is pronounced from its spelling, and what's more, you can also reconstruct the correct spelling of a word you hear. French is sort of in-between: except for certain proper naouns, pronounciation agin follows entirely predictable rules. But here the transformation is lossy and not reversible: for example there is literally no way of knowing if, say, the sound of a neutral "e" in a word should be represented by one letter (as the first e in "belle") or five (as in "aient").
I'm a native English speaker, and I told my Spanish teacher how hard that Spanish was to read and write all the time
Not a very stinging retort I'm afraid. English orthography truly is baroque beyond belief, while spanish (along with finnish) is exceptionaly clear and consistent in that regard (if you overlook their weird onfusion of b and v
English is just pure mayhem, with no discernible system at all. Unless you want to make pronounciation mistakes with embarassing frequency, you just simply cannor rely on any rules; you have to now each and every word. And as the other direction, deducing spelling from spoken words, let me just put it this way:
You guys have fucking SPELLING BEES for chrissakes!.
Case closed.
I spanish the whole concept is ludicrous, making about as muchs sense as a number-writing contenst.
If you run the centrifuge backwards, do they come out as eggs? And if so, super strong eggs, or super weak eggs?
Air pollution and cramped housing conditions in Athens, Greece, are creating a new breed of mosquitoes which are bigger, faster
Are you sure it's not just all those steroids and stuff from snacking on olympic athletes that is producing mosquitoes that are "swifter, higher, stronger"?
Am I mistaken?
That depends on the quality of your code. It's easy enough
to find out, though: install one of the tools (it only takes
a few minutes), try it on some of your production code, and
see how many real bugs it finds. Most people are surprised
by the results, but I make no guarantees about yours.
It can also save time in catching subtle bugs, even if it
doesn't recognise them directly, by early on pointing out
trival mistakes that would make them hard to diagnose and
potentially spend hours barking up the wrong tree.
Often times it doesn't matter how much you profile your Java application. The bottleneck will often be hidden away, deep in some class library that either you can't modify (due to licensing restrictions or unavailable source code), or that you don't want to modify.
And that bit of information about your app is worth nothing to you? No wonder your java apps are slow.
I agree that consumption of recorded music is not a terribly worthy cause IMO. But fighting corporations' access and inclination to dictating the law themselves as they see fit most definitely is.
The problem with that is that the resulting sales drop will
be blamed on piracy, and used as lobbying ammo for keeping and
extending draconian DRM/copyright laws.
And don't get me started on those olympic running competitions. The tracks are totally unrealistic, unlike anything you'd find if you really needed to run from or to anything. And what's with those restrictions about equipment? I mean, if you wanted to get somewhere fast, you would of course use a motor vehicle, but that's forbidden. Why stifle creativity like that. Rubbish.
I'm trying to find some kind of a side job that pays whatever money,
Why do you need extra money when you say you are happy with your pay,
and evidently don't have much to spend it on anyway?
If it has to be computer work, do some for a good cause that needs your
help, or work on something fun you don't get a chance to wrestle with at
work, or just make something that you think ought to exist, but forget
about the money.
If I can tempt you away from the keyboard for a second:
Learning a new skill is a good way to provide the ind of focus that
some people need in order to enoy free time. There must be some sort
of language (human), sport, game, instrument, craft, artistic activty,
or alternate profession that you would like to master or dabble in?
If you have all those boring nights to expend, you have a good chance
of progressing rapidly in whatever catches your interest.
Some people even have personal regimens of "learn something new
every (other?) year" or similar, which may be of help if it has to
"feel like work/a project" to motivate you.
Some skills require or invite you to meet and interact with people
for learning them. This is great if "just meeting" new people in
purely social contexts is diffiult or bothers you, since here
everyone's focus is still mostly on the task.
Next time, go for some well-chosen thoughts in stead.
Of course there are more factors then Apple that influence
the life of chinese workers, but apple, like everyone else,
have a moral responsability for all easily foreseeable
consequences of their actions. Such a big buyer could easily
state requirements for working conditions at subcontractors.
It might cost them a tiny bit more, but would be barely
noticeable of their profit margin.
If they go shopping for the lowest bidder in a region with
rampant worker exploitation without insisting on such
terms, pleading ignorance about poor working conditions is
not going to fool anyone.
Your method is good, but if I don't **force** users to use good passords, then they never will.
How is forcing them to write them on post-its any better?
I have implemented GUI apps in C++, C#, Java, Matlab, and VB. I am seriously looking at Java/Swing
/Swing. The close similarity allover makes the differences in developer convenience positively glaring. Yes, a lot of it is just syntactic sugar to you language people, but boy do you get tired of writing it the long way when you know how much easier it could have been. The GUI APIs show a similar trend, Swing making you do all sorts of unneccesary stuff before you can get to the point.
I'f you've wokred wit GUIs in C#, I can tell you right now that you will be very frustrated with Java
You don't have to store high voltage in it, if you have a really huge area and microscopic distance, you can get a lot of energy with moderatevoltage. And if they get nanotube tansistors working they could use huge arrays of these nano caps and shunt them in in sequence digitally.
The law should serve the citizen, and do so in a way that relates to reality, not some fictional world where everyone has a law degree. Lots of people are stupid. As long as people are different, one half will always be less smart than most. That does not mean they've done anything wrong or deserve to be exploited. Ad you don't even have to be among them to be susceptible to trickery from someone who has the upper hand in understanding nuances of legalese (which of course large corps can afford people to do or them). The fact is most people will sign this stuff withiut reading or understanding that they have no right to actually receive the product. I can't think of a single reason why the seller should be entitled to enforce such terms.
You are of course free to believe that these people should be fair game for anyone who figures out how to shaft them. I believe that a major points of civilised society is precisely to protect the regular guy from the predatory ones.
bollocks. European companies know the local laws. Apple is trying to seak away from them. It's that simple.
Their original contract allows for a modification of the terms and conditions. What is the problem there? If you agree that the contract can be changed, accept it. If you disagree, don't accept it. The market works because if people don't want modifiable contracts, they wouldn't exist.
The market is clearly not doing its magic here, as demonstrated by the fact that droves of people are actually "accepting" these ludicrous terms that no sane person would knowingly subject themselves to; many of them in places where they can't trust local law to protect them from the worst abominations in a contract.
He said all the consumer protection laws were harmful to the market. One of the results of one of those laws in Norway is that the ombudsman complained that reserving a carte-blanche to alter the deal after making it is clearly unreasonable.
You must be talking about some other country. Here in Norway, your corner shop can't claim to operate under the law of some foreign country in order to escape the law, even with the use of a contract, and neither can Apple when they operate as a local business entity.
If the customers were dealing directly with Apple in the US, things would of course be different.
If they had to follow these idiotic laws in the beginning, the consumer would be protected, surely: protected from ever seeing great devices like the iPod and whatever the next competitor will release.
I suggest you check out which laws are being referred to before criticising them so sweepingly. Right now you are, among aother things, arguing that it is essential for a well-functioning market to allow the seller to unilaterally change the contract (e.g. revocinga all your songs) for any or no reason and at any time after the deal is done, signed and paid. And it's making you look really dumb and/or trollish.
I don't understand how Norway can say that if one of the parties is Norwegian (or in Norway) that only the laws of Norway can control.
.no site, and in every way strives to come across as a local shop, then it is no longer an import scenario: they are operating in the norwegian market, and are subject to norwegian trade law, and just claiming they're not doesn't make it so.
They don't. They say that when a business which has a norwegia branch operates a norwegian-language e-shop explicitly directed at the norwegian market, distributed through a
2 - bbc.co.uk - a GIANT site supplied with continuous news and audio. Runs on perl.
Well god for them they're not using PHP, because I agree that it is not very well suited to large apps.
but...
Nothing else could cope.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?