The letter writing campaign was pathetic and annoying, but hardly 'wrong'. People do have a right to express opinions. I suppose you could call it spam but compared to commercial spam it seems trivial.
The joke was, of course, a joke. To _you_ that's a big problem because your president seems like a sacred symbol of whatever. To everyone else in the world it's a joke, a snappy way to end an article, ya know?
Remember: What Is Special To You Is Not Necessarily Special To Everyone.
I've dealt with knee-jerk liberals- hell, I lived in San Francisco for a while- and their smug, only-read-stuff-that-already-tells-me-what-I-belie ve worldview drove me up the wall.
Yeah, yeah. Cry me a frickin RIVER. I live in ENGLAND and I have to listen to Guardian readers. You don't know how damn lucky you ARE.
Someone seems to have leaked the Doom movie script.
*orchestral strings swell louder as sun rises on ruins of base*
The Rock (staring out across red dust of Mars, now dotted with demon corpses): We search for a pattern in radio signals to find proof of intelligence, yet we look at a strand of DNA and not see it. Uhuh.
Female Lead With Shiny Hair: Oh, darling, how deep!
Cute Freckled Kid Rescued From Demons: Now let's go back to Earth and kick DEMON BUTT!!
*distorted guitar sound enters music, which turns into a party metal anthem as the credits roll*
The Orthographic Commandos have been notified, and a kill squad is now on its way to your location. For your own comfort and convenience, please choose not to resist. Have a nice day!
A big advantage of statistics-based interfaces is that they automatically enforce correctness, because correct strings are more probable than incorrect ones.
In a rigorous, technical environment, being _usually_ correct is not enough and a statistics-based approach to ensuring correctness is not very useful.
In an informal environment, correctness is not nearly as common as you might hope, so again a statistics-based approach may well not be as good as actually enforcing definite correctness.
1 -- the cost is not 0, it's about 7% of your income on average
2 -- healthcare is not universal, it's a matter of where you live and how busy the resources are
Other than that, I agree with you that the UK system is superb. Replacing it with a system whereby one can actually purchase health care in some way would be just plain silly.
Good idea -- I'll patent it now. Don't dispute the claim, or I'll leave an explosive device tuned to your RFID _somewhere in your city_ -- it might be weeks till you walk past, but when you do...
The criminal uses for this are mind boggling! As a member of a global cartel of evil terroristsmugglerkidapperdrugdealers, I DEMAND this new technology!
Also, would people please stop hating on American tourists? There are a lot of loud, stupid, obnoxious, complacent American tourists, but have you seen the British in Spain? The normally-quiet Japanese at one of their party destinations? The Chinese anywhere? It's just part of being a twit, it's cross-cultural.
If your father's on the board, that narrows down your identity pretty well -- I don't think posting AC will help much!
Which leads me to suspect that either
a) Your father is not on the board because you are Supertroll (trolls at a rate of 3 billy goats per minute!) or
b) Your father is going to have harsh words with you if he ever reads slashdot:)
I agree with what you said, though. It's cute the way geeks randomly divide companies into 'good' and 'evil' while the companies just go on trying to make a profit -- kind of like primitive man personifying the thunder and rain.
As far as I can tell, especially with people from an academic background (PhDs! argh!), this guide is way too advanced -- something like this might be more useful to start with:
-- Do not keep the entire project in/tmp -- Use source control -- Run the code before delivering it -- NOT JUST ON YOUR OWN WORKSTATION, BUDDY!
Then, from that one could work up to 'try and ensure it is possible to install the software by some deterministic process', and only then would it be worth actually starting with actual code...
Well, they learn eventually I guess, in most cases.
Yay, I mostly love Firefox! What good news is this that hits my eyeballs?
All donors will be listed in the ad, the signatories of a declaration of independence from a monopolized and stagnant web.
Oh... I forgot, this is all part of that 'hackers are good luzers are bad Micro$oft is evil' movement. Eh... I'm not sure I have the energy for that... never mind then...
Heh, that's a better reply than the geek rage I was expecting... I'm afraid I don't know the answer, though.
I do know that people with bright ideas come and go but those with the huge persistence and blind arrogance required to forge a new business area are rare and valuable.
The U.S. didn't go to war for democracy -- that's just the Claim of the Day.
Did anybody even claim that? I thought the _claim_ was that the US went to war for it's own security -- a claim that now appears false but was never exactly idealistic in the first place.
Westin explains that the ISO specifications can be used without restriction for projects like his, though the copying of a commercially reproduced target is, of course, illegal.
(see, I _did_ rtfa!) So, it's illegal to reproduce the image, but creating a new image from an exact description of the image is legal. Yet that _is_ what 'reproducing the image' is!
The reason for this situation is that the image in question is very unusual, in that it has a freely-usable exact description in existance. But what if an exact (text) description of Mickey Mouse were made? You certainly wouldn't be allowed to create new images from it, and yet it's hard to see how Disney would own the rights to that description... hmm...
My ibead works like that, and it's very convenient... no wires or plugs or anything... it recharges during the time you are copying files to it so you never have to think about it.
The real significance of this project is that it's probably about the last time anyone names anything in Ainu, the old language of Japan......although SNK fans will recall that Nakoruru's moves are named in Ainu, and her 'Kamui Mutsube' is Ainu for 'God Blade'. The real Ainu pronunciation would be more like 'Mutpe' though. Okay, I'm rambling.
What are those heavy footsteps on the stairs? What's that shadow against the curtains? Oh my god, they're here! The Orthographic Commandos have come for us and there's no way out -- no way out I tell you! And now their squad leader is barking some kind of orders into his megaphone -- I can hardly hear it now above the sound of the approaching helicopters and black armored trucks but it sounds like... it sounds like...
"So-shi-o-pa-thic... no need to leave out the 'i'."
Luck really is the only thing that determines whether programmers/designers get to work for a gem.
Luck has nothing to do with it -- your own ability to position yourself and to stay aware of opportunities (and risks) determines whether or not you get stuck maintaining MFC code until 2010(*). In other words, it's just like everything else! Surely your own story suggests that.
(*) This was the worst thing I could imagine offhand. Maintaining MFC code until 2011 or later might be possible but I cannot imagine it.
Ah, you're using the UK SuperGrape rules. I think most competitions nowadays use the Russian rules (SuperGrape takes _all_ pieces except King on a given color).
Of course in USA play the SuperGrape is almost worthless as your opponent can simply invoke the Citrus Rule next turn (which usually destroys the whole board).
Indeed, but the gulf between 'pay' source control and svn is wide and shows no signs of narrowing.
svn is really a 'cvs that doesn't suck', and that's a very useful role, if only because it makes it possible to work with open-source fanatics without having to use cvs. But I'd still feel a quiet tingle of dread if I heard that a big project was going to be on svn rather than bitkeeper or clearcase. So commercial sc and it's attendant evils will be around for a while yet.
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In answer to your last paragraph:
The letter writing campaign was pathetic and annoying, but hardly 'wrong'. People do have a right to express opinions. I suppose you could call it spam but compared to commercial spam it seems trivial.
The joke was, of course, a joke. To _you_ that's a big problem because your president seems like a sacred symbol of whatever. To everyone else in the world it's a joke, a snappy way to end an article, ya know?
Remember:
What Is Special To You Is Not Necessarily Special To Everyone.
4) The Metric system is for wimps
That is actually true.
I've dealt with knee-jerk liberals- hell, I lived in San Francisco for a while- and their smug, only-read-stuff-that-already-tells-me-what-I-belie ve worldview drove me up the wall.
Yeah, yeah. Cry me a frickin RIVER. I live in ENGLAND and I have to listen to Guardian readers. You don't know how damn lucky you ARE.
Someone seems to have leaked the Doom movie script.
*orchestral strings swell louder as sun rises on ruins of base*
The Rock (staring out across red dust of Mars, now dotted with demon corpses): We search for a pattern in radio signals to find proof of intelligence, yet we look at a strand of DNA and not see it. Uhuh.
Female Lead With Shiny Hair: Oh, darling, how deep!
Cute Freckled Kid Rescued From Demons: Now let's go back to Earth and kick DEMON BUTT!!
*distorted guitar sound enters music, which turns into a party metal anthem as the credits roll*
Why, sir, I should say that all of your view is perception! Positively what views are all about, d'ye see? Jolly good!
*walks off twirling cane*
APOSTROPHE! APOSTROPHE!
The Orthographic Commandos have been notified, and a kill squad is now on its way to your location. For your own comfort and convenience, please choose not to resist. Have a nice day!
A big advantage of statistics-based interfaces is that they automatically enforce correctness, because correct strings are more probable than incorrect ones.
In a rigorous, technical environment, being _usually_ correct is not enough and a statistics-based approach to ensuring correctness is not very useful.
In an informal environment, correctness is not nearly as common as you might hope, so again a statistics-based approach may well not be as good as actually enforcing definite correctness.
You're kidding! It endorsed an opposition candidate?? Are they even allowed to do that???
There are two factual errors in your post.
1 -- the cost is not 0, it's about 7% of your income on average
2 -- healthcare is not universal, it's a matter of where you live and how busy the resources are
Other than that, I agree with you that the UK system is superb. Replacing it with a system whereby one can actually purchase health care in some way would be just plain silly.
Good idea -- I'll patent it now. Don't dispute the claim, or I'll leave an explosive device tuned to your RFID _somewhere in your city_ -- it might be weeks till you walk past, but when you do...
The criminal uses for this are mind boggling! As a member of a global cartel of evil terroristsmugglerkidapperdrugdealers, I DEMAND this new technology!
Also, would people please stop hating on American tourists? There are a lot of loud, stupid, obnoxious, complacent American tourists, but have you seen the British in Spain? The normally-quiet Japanese at one of their party destinations? The Chinese anywhere? It's just part of being a twit, it's cross-cultural.
If your father's on the board, that narrows down your identity pretty well -- I don't think posting AC will help much!
Which leads me to suspect that either
a) Your father is not on the board because you are Supertroll (trolls at a rate of 3 billy goats per minute!) or
b) Your father is going to have harsh words with you if he ever reads slashdot
I agree with what you said, though. It's cute the way geeks randomly divide companies into 'good' and 'evil' while the companies just go on trying to make a profit -- kind of like primitive man personifying the thunder and rain.
As far as I can tell, especially with people from an academic background (PhDs! argh!), this guide is way too advanced -- something like this might be more useful to start with:
-- Do not keep the entire project in
-- Use source control
-- Run the code before delivering it
-- NOT JUST ON YOUR OWN WORKSTATION, BUDDY!
Then, from that one could work up to 'try and ensure it is possible to install the software by some deterministic process', and only then would it be worth actually starting with actual code...
Well, they learn eventually I guess, in most cases.
Yay, I mostly love Firefox! What good news is this that hits my eyeballs?
All donors will be listed in the ad, the signatories of a declaration of independence from a monopolized and stagnant web.
Oh... I forgot, this is all part of that 'hackers are good luzers are bad Micro$oft is evil' movement. Eh... I'm not sure I have the energy for that... never mind then...
*opens IE*
Heh, that's a better reply than the geek rage I was expecting... I'm afraid I don't know the answer, though.
I do know that people with bright ideas come and go but those with the huge persistence and blind arrogance required to forge a new business area are rare and valuable.
Yes, in the case of software, commercializing, while just as important, is harder.
The U.S. didn't go to war for democracy -- that's just the Claim of the Day.
Did anybody even claim that? I thought the _claim_ was that the US went to war for it's own security -- a claim that now appears false but was never exactly idealistic in the first place.
Now, there's interesting:
Westin explains that the ISO specifications can be used without restriction for projects like his, though the copying of a commercially reproduced target is, of course, illegal.
(see, I _did_ rtfa!) So, it's illegal to reproduce the image, but creating a new image from an exact description of the image is legal. Yet that _is_ what 'reproducing the image' is!
The reason for this situation is that the image in question is very unusual, in that it has a freely-usable exact description in existance. But what if an exact (text) description of Mickey Mouse were made? You certainly wouldn't be allowed to create new images from it, and yet it's hard to see how Disney would own the rights to that description... hmm...
Of course using _black_ gloves would likely bring the whole of Western literature crashing down around our ears.
Those Cardinal Rules are absolutely priceless!
Well, yes.
My ibead works like that, and it's very convenient... no wires or plugs or anything... it recharges during the time you are copying files to it so you never have to think about it.
The real significance of this project is that it's probably about the last time anyone names anything in Ainu, the old language of Japan...
What are those heavy footsteps on the stairs? What's that shadow against the curtains? Oh my god, they're here! The Orthographic Commandos have come for us and there's no way out -- no way out I tell you! And now their squad leader is barking some kind of orders into his megaphone -- I can hardly hear it now above the sound of the approaching helicopters and black armored trucks but it sounds like... it sounds like...
"So-shi-o-pa-thic... no need to leave out the 'i'."
Luck really is the only thing that determines whether programmers/designers get to work for a gem.
Luck has nothing to do with it -- your own ability to position yourself and to stay aware of opportunities (and risks) determines whether or not you get stuck maintaining MFC code until 2010(*). In other words, it's just like everything else! Surely your own story suggests that.
(*) This was the worst thing I could imagine offhand. Maintaining MFC code until 2011 or later might be possible but I cannot imagine it.
Ah, you're using the UK SuperGrape rules. I think most competitions nowadays use the Russian rules (SuperGrape takes _all_ pieces except King on a given color).
Of course in USA play the SuperGrape is almost worthless as your opponent can simply invoke the Citrus Rule next turn (which usually destroys the whole board).
Indeed, but the gulf between 'pay' source control and svn is wide and shows no signs of narrowing.
svn is really a 'cvs that doesn't suck', and that's a very useful role, if only because it makes it possible to work with open-source fanatics without having to use cvs. But I'd still feel a quiet tingle of dread if I heard that a big project was going to be on svn rather than bitkeeper or clearcase. So commercial sc and it's attendant evils will be around for a while yet.