WE REJECT the idiotarianism of the Left -- the moral blindness that refuses to recognize that free markets, individual liberty, and experimental science have made the West a fundamentally better place than any culture in which jihad, 'honor killings', and female genital mutilation are daily practices approved by a stultifying religion.
So actually what it comes down to is that he's an ignorant religious bigot. 'Jihad' means a religious struggle, not necessarily an armed one, and it seems very few Muslims believe that terrorism can be part of jihad. 'Honour killings' and female genital mutilation are not, so far as I am aware, sanctioned by Islam though they are part of the culture of some Muslim countries. (Don't forget, by the way, that many non-Muslims practice circumcison of infant males, a less extreme but also appalling practice.)
As an atheist I feel all religious belief is mistaken but mostly harmless. Islam seems to have more than its fair share of violent extremists at the moment, but certainly not a monopoly, and most of its adherents are peaceful and decent people.
I suggest you read some of the good C++ books - Accelerated C++, Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL, Exceptional C++, More Exceptional C++ and Modern C++ Programming are all well worth a look. Also try subscribing to some of the C++ newsgroups - comp.lang.c++ or comp.lang.c++.moderated are the main ones.
These are roughly the arguments I would use, and have used successfully at my current job and a previous one in regard to the Boehm garbage collector. Thankfully I have had clueful managers that already understand the benefits of open source, so not much argument was needed.
Yeah, it's so great that the Gutenberg Project only uses plain text with no markup of metadata, indexes, chapter headings and so on. I'm sure everyone enjoys having to manually pick these things out when republishing them.
TGssh doesn't verify the server's public key, so it's not actually secure at all.
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Why do you think that someone who likes the film sympathises with Tyler Durden? I can sympathise with the dissatisfaction that the Fight Club members have with the way they live. The film makes it very clear that the narrator/Tyler is mentally ill and that Tyler is a terrorist. It shows how someone like that could exploit this dissatisfaction to do terrible things. I don't see that it attempts to justify or encourage it.
Spyglass is not out of business. It settled its dispute with Microsoft and continued to develop and sell Mosaic for use in embedded systems (calling it Device Mosaic). It was eventually bought by OpenTV.
Then Tyler says "I told you not to cut the green wire!", kicks him, and adjusts the bomb himself. I think the building where they were sitting at the beginning/end was supposed to be a different building, even though the rapid pans show it as being the same one.
The ending in the film was too Hollywood. Too pat. "Oh, he shot himself in the face and now everything is great. We haven't really discussed a sense of love between "Jack" and Marla, but they're the male and female leads, so just have them hold hands."
Everything is not great. The narrator's last line is supposed to be ironic. He's rid himself of Tyler (or merged with him?), but the buildings still got blown up and the space monkeys are still out there. We don't know quite what's going to happen, and that's good. We do know that the narrator always fancied Marla and has been in denial about it - that was the reason for Tyler coming into being in the first place!
As I remember it the movie gives even less attention to what happens to the space monkeys than the book.
Where, when?
what happened to the bomb in the building where the narrator is sitting?
He says repeatedly that paraffin never worked for him. The building didn't blow up.
I meant, in the film. It doesn't seem like Tyler wants to kill himself, but the film shows that there is a bomb below the building where the narrator and Tyler are going to watch the destruction from. Maybe it was supposed to detonate later than the others. However, I think in one of the DVD commentaries this is mentioned as being a mistake.
The book seems unfinished - bits of it don't make a whole lot of sense. The film is rather more polished and coherent, and the ending is a lot more believable than the deus ex machina in the book (but what happened to the bomb in the building where the narrator is sitting?). If you listen to the commentary on the DVD from Palahniuk and the screenwriter it seems like even Palahniuk sees the film as an improvement.
There are no extra taxes on calls to mobiles; the mobile operators simply charge more for calls to their networks (about 25-30 cents per minute). Your service provider may be charging you a lot more on top of that.
In Europe, mobile numbers tend to be clearly distinguishable from fixed numbers. For example, in the UK all mobile area codes begin with a 7 (77-79 for cellular phones, 76 for pagers, 70-75 for forwarding numbers). So it's easy to choose not to make the expensive call. Alternately you could find a less extortionate service provider for your international calls...
The US cell phone market is uncompetitive in that it's not possible to take your existing handset and number to another network.
The land line network provides cheap local calls but seems to more than make up for it with high subscription fees and high long-distance charges (depending on provider and package). For comparison, here in the UK I can get phone service for £9.50/month with call charges of 1-3p/min ($15/month, 1.5-5 cents/min) with no local/national distinction. BT has a Light User Scheme with a subscription charge of as little as £11.30/quarter (I think) - this is probably mandated by the regulator, Oftel. I can call the US and much of Europe for 3-5p/min through a separate pre-paid service with no subscription charge. It seems like the US system works nicely for very heavy users but not light users.
...people like static typing because you can tell whether your program could possibly work at compile time with static typing...
It also forces a lot of work in defining and selecting types, which isn't necessary in a dynamically typed language, while only eliminating a fairly small class of bugs. The real reason for static typing, I think, is to allow the generation of faster code.
There was no attempt at hiding the use of GNU code here. OpenTV distributed an SDK including modified versions of GNU make, gcc and binutils with 'o' added to most of the command names. These produce o-code, which is bytecode for a virtual machine that OpenTV provides for set-top boxes.
I had access to the OpenTV development kit at a previous place of employment, and never saw any sign of source, or an offer to supply source, for the GNU-derived tools. We did consider making a request for source, but never got round to it.
The number of illegal and dangerous manouevres I see every week is significant, and I doubt that this is specific to where I live. I was pondering the idea of having a DVR like this and passing on recordings to the police (and volunteering as a witness to attest to the locations, times and accuracy of the recordings). It isn't going to happen any time soon, especially given that I'm going around on a bike not in a car, but maybe some time in the future it will be practical to fit DVRs to vehicles. The mere fact that they are commonplace would, I hope, act as a deterrent against the sort of crappy driving that people mostly get away with now. (Bad cyclists are another matter; without registration plates it's going to be hard to identify them. They're mostly a danger to themselves, though.)
You don't think rebates are for real, do you? Bet you paid sales tax on the $39.95, too, and you're not getting that back (though neither is the company that sold it).
PNG is entirely chunk-based, aside from the identifier that appears at the beginning of files. Every chunk has a 4-letter ID where the case of each letter (bit 5 of each byte) is a flag indicating how the chunk should be handled. A proprietary chunk ID can be set to be ignored by any reader that doesn't understand.
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Did some twisted person configure bash to masquerade as C-shell?
UPnP: providing remote administration to Windows XP since 2001.
It still does.
Quoth ESR:
So actually what it comes down to is that he's an ignorant religious bigot. 'Jihad' means a religious struggle, not necessarily an armed one, and it seems very few Muslims believe that terrorism can be part of jihad. 'Honour killings' and female genital mutilation are not, so far as I am aware, sanctioned by Islam though they are part of the culture of some Muslim countries. (Don't forget, by the way, that many non-Muslims practice circumcison of infant males, a less extreme but also appalling practice.)
As an atheist I feel all religious belief is mistaken but mostly harmless. Islam seems to have more than its fair share of violent extremists at the moment, but certainly not a monopoly, and most of its adherents are peaceful and decent people.
I suggest you read some of the good C++ books - Accelerated C++, Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL, Exceptional C++, More Exceptional C++ and Modern C++ Programming are all well worth a look. Also try subscribing to some of the C++ newsgroups - comp.lang.c++ or comp.lang.c++.moderated are the main ones.
These are roughly the arguments I would use, and have used successfully at my current job and a previous one in regard to the Boehm garbage collector. Thankfully I have had clueful managers that already understand the benefits of open source, so not much argument was needed.
Yeah, it's so great that the Gutenberg Project only uses plain text with no markup of metadata, indexes, chapter headings and so on. I'm sure everyone enjoys having to manually pick these things out when republishing them.
TGssh doesn't verify the server's public key, so it's not actually secure at all.
Why do you think that someone who likes the film sympathises with Tyler Durden? I can sympathise with the dissatisfaction that the Fight Club members have with the way they live. The film makes it very clear that the narrator/Tyler is mentally ill and that Tyler is a terrorist. It shows how someone like that could exploit this dissatisfaction to do terrible things. I don't see that it attempts to justify or encourage it.
Spyglass is not out of business. It settled its dispute with Microsoft and continued to develop and sell Mosaic for use in embedded systems (calling it Device Mosaic). It was eventually bought by OpenTV.
Then Tyler says "I told you not to cut the green wire!", kicks him, and adjusts the bomb himself. I think the building where they were sitting at the beginning/end was supposed to be a different building, even though the rapid pans show it as being the same one.
Everything is not great. The narrator's last line is supposed to be ironic. He's rid himself of Tyler (or merged with him?), but the buildings still got blown up and the space monkeys are still out there. We don't know quite what's going to happen, and that's good. We do know that the narrator always fancied Marla and has been in denial about it - that was the reason for Tyler coming into being in the first place!
Where, when?
I meant, in the film. It doesn't seem like Tyler wants to kill himself, but the film shows that there is a bomb below the building where the narrator and Tyler are going to watch the destruction from. Maybe it was supposed to detonate later than the others. However, I think in one of the DVD commentaries this is mentioned as being a mistake.
The book seems unfinished - bits of it don't make a whole lot of sense. The film is rather more polished and coherent, and the ending is a lot more believable than the deus ex machina in the book (but what happened to the bomb in the building where the narrator is sitting?). If you listen to the commentary on the DVD from Palahniuk and the screenwriter it seems like even Palahniuk sees the film as an improvement.
There are no extra taxes on calls to mobiles; the mobile operators simply charge more for calls to their networks (about 25-30 cents per minute). Your service provider may be charging you a lot more on top of that.
Maybe you were using the wrong IMAP server - e.g. UW-imapd, which uses Berkeley mailboxes. Cyrus imapd, however, is nice and fast.
In Europe, mobile numbers tend to be clearly distinguishable from fixed numbers. For example, in the UK all mobile area codes begin with a 7 (77-79 for cellular phones, 76 for pagers, 70-75 for forwarding numbers). So it's easy to choose not to make the expensive call. Alternately you could find a less extortionate service provider for your international calls...
The US cell phone market is uncompetitive in that it's not possible to take your existing handset and number to another network.
The land line network provides cheap local calls but seems to more than make up for it with high subscription fees and high long-distance charges (depending on provider and package). For comparison, here in the UK I can get phone service for £9.50/month with call charges of 1-3p/min ($15/month, 1.5-5 cents/min) with no local/national distinction. BT has a Light User Scheme with a subscription charge of as little as £11.30/quarter (I think) - this is probably mandated by the regulator, Oftel. I can call the US and much of Europe for 3-5p/min through a separate pre-paid service with no subscription charge. It seems like the US system works nicely for very heavy users but not light users.
The cellular network there is brand new.
It also forces a lot of work in defining and selecting types, which isn't necessary in a dynamically typed language, while only eliminating a fairly small class of bugs. The real reason for static typing, I think, is to allow the generation of faster code.
There was no attempt at hiding the use of GNU code here. OpenTV distributed an SDK including modified versions of GNU make, gcc and binutils with 'o' added to most of the command names. These produce o-code, which is bytecode for a virtual machine that OpenTV provides for set-top boxes.
That will not only satisfy the GPL's source distribution if the binaries are being distributed commercially.
I had access to the OpenTV development kit at a previous place of employment, and never saw any sign of source, or an offer to supply source, for the GNU-derived tools. We did consider making a request for source, but never got round to it.
The number of illegal and dangerous manouevres I see every week is significant, and I doubt that this is specific to where I live. I was pondering the idea of having a DVR like this and passing on recordings to the police (and volunteering as a witness to attest to the locations, times and accuracy of the recordings). It isn't going to happen any time soon, especially given that I'm going around on a bike not in a car, but maybe some time in the future it will be practical to fit DVRs to vehicles. The mere fact that they are commonplace would, I hope, act as a deterrent against the sort of crappy driving that people mostly get away with now. (Bad cyclists are another matter; without registration plates it's going to be hard to identify them. They're mostly a danger to themselves, though.)
You don't think rebates are for real, do you? Bet you paid sales tax on the $39.95, too, and you're not getting that back (though neither is the company that sold it).
PNG is entirely chunk-based, aside from the identifier that appears at the beginning of files. Every chunk has a 4-letter ID where the case of each letter (bit 5 of each byte) is a flag indicating how the chunk should be handled. A proprietary chunk ID can be set to be ignored by any reader that doesn't understand.