I know I'm pointing out the obvious, but perhaps he had spent more time with the family and less time gaming he wouldn't be divorcing and could be more than a face on the webcam or a guild member.
Some fathers have no choice but to work away from home for long periods of time. I know oil workers who had to work two weeks onshore and two weeks offshore. Others work in the merchant navy and have to spend months away from home. Then there are long distance truck drivers, contractors, the armed forces, airline pilots, medical staff who work odd shifts, and even some researchers have to work in remote field stations for weeks on end. Even university professors seem to have spend large amounts of time travelling to the other end of the country just to get industrial approval for the funding of their research projects as well as attend conferences. All to just be able to pay the mortgage and property tax on a house, save for a retirement pension, save for college fees, pay the bills, let alone feeding and clothing their wife and kids.
In my school, many kids (including myself) had parents divorced due to these reasons. I was fortunate enough to have parents living about one block away from each other, but shuttling between two houses depending upon which parent was home from work was a real hassle.
Interesting... but just wondering, whatever happened to the idea of backup power being stored in giant underground flywheels; the energy would be stored by bringing these up to speed, and released by slowing them down.
I would assume that the calling function is making that test - it's a bit wasteful to make a function call to do nothing. But it's easy enough to add such a test into the routine.
I love it when they come up with these totally original and ambiguous names like "mutlipartite entanglement." Why!? What EVER could that mean? Oh brother...
Perhaps you meant dasterdly-mutleypartite entanglement?
Sounds like one of Klunk's inventions that didn't quite work as expected.
I live in a city where half the workforce is government, and the other half is retail. It's the capital of ass kissing, and I'm the reverend of bad attitude! Why is it that people will bend over backwards for a measly dollar ?
Because in cities like that, all the people with creativity, inspiration, originality, self-identity and individuality stick out whenever they go for an interview, fail to get a job and end up moving elsewhere. Then you end up with a city that turns ass-kissing into an olympic competition, with working in "head-office" becomes the dream of all dreams. The only creativity in a place like that will be the artists in the newly regenerated "artistic quarter" of the city. Everything and everyone neatly arranged, organised, classified, filed and indexed.
You should read this story from the Chicago Sun-Times. A science fair student wanting to do a project based on sugar, brought in a bag of sugar to school. While in a washroom, he joked to some other kids that it was Cocaine. After a custodian at the school heard about this, the police were called and the student was arrested.
Because your property tax is set by the value of your property when it was first purchased, having rising prices all around can lead to you become financially trapped. You can't move up or down the market, nor do you want to leave the market.
In some places, talking about salaries is bizarrely taboo
Because when some companies advertise for jobs, they put out a lowball offer first, and gradually ramp up the salary until they start getting bites. Consequently, that type of workplace will have a wide range of salaries - some engineers might be earning more than managers. To avoid any kind of workplace uprising, the discussion of salaries is taboo.
That was an old BASIC game - the evil green slime kept advancing downwards from the top of the screen - by moving your spaceshovelship sideways and shooting, you could remove a whole column of slime. The game was over if one unit of slime touched your ship. Then your ship corroded and the game was over.
BUT How can a Darwinian evolutionist ever hope to convince anyone that they grew longer legs so they can travel faster, cover more ground?
Simple. Consider a group of Australians who are looking for a 'cricket ball' for their afternoon game. They see some cane toads at the edge of a field, and start running towards them. The cane toads start hopping away. However, the slowest one (with the shortest legs) gets caught by the humans first, while the others escape.
Thus, by culling the slowest cane toads, the Australians are effectively causing evolution of faster cane toads (which have longer legs).
Unless you happen to like eccentric religious programming and bizarre foreign channels, you'll quickly find there is nothing to see in FTA DVB broadcasts in North America.
That's very much true in Europe as well. All the European and African countries share the same satellite broadcast system. It's interesting to see what each culture considers the most important. While UK companies seem to broadcast porn, premium rate dial in competitions and bargain basement sales, China is broadcasting business news programs, India broadcasts Bollywood movies, Arab countries are broadcasting religious programming and Africa seems to broadcast drama series.
Wikipedia has a good article on radiation hardening, along with mention of a watchdog timer - a timer set up to perform a hard reset unless the software program writes out some useful data.
Outrageous! How unlike other MPs in other communities who pay no heed of what their constituents think! It's this kind of sneaky "keeping on the good side of your voters" that's ruining our country!
The problem is, the MP's or the local government have appeared to react quickly to a complaint from a mosque, than from a church. One example would have been explicit advertising beside a bus stop shelter. Members of a church complain - nothing happens. Members of a mosque complain - the identical advert is immediately taken down.
This is an unfounded statement. What evidence do you have that this is planned, and what evidence exists to connect Hanza to the bombings?
Here's the BBC news report. The police themselves believe he was linked to many terrorist plots:
BBC Home Editor Mark Easton said police believed the mosque, which is now under new management, was "linked to literally dozens of terrorist plots around Europe and beyond".
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Margaret Gilmore said: "If you look at those transcripts, you will see what a close relationship Abu Hamza had with MI5....
The Times has reported that the cleric had links to those responsible for the 7 July bomb attacks.... But BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner said Whitehall officials did not have any intelligence to suggest that any connection existed.
That wouldn't be any different from an ordinary CPU. You can erase your CPU simply by turning off the power. An EMP only needs to make one transistor change state in order for the CPU to go wonky. Although you may want to worry more about stray cosmic rays.
That was the court case involving Clarence Willcox
Since the 1939 National Registration Act was repealed in 1951 after Clarence Willcox, the manager of a dry cleaning shop, challenged the principle that a policeman could demand to see his wartime identity card,
Exactly. There are large muslim populations in the inner suburbs of many of the large cities in the North of England. They came across from Pakistan when Britain had a textiles industry, but now that all industry has left, they focus on religion as a means of keeping in touch with their roots. Since they form a substantial percentage of the local communities, MP's are desperate to keep on their good side to stay in power. This is where the London bombers came from.
Also, it's taken the police around 10 years to arrest Abu Hanza for charges relating to terrorism, while all the time they knew he was providing terrorism training courses. Now, the victims of the London bombings (around 500) are planning to sue the government for incompentence for failing to arrest him sooner.
In the past, the royalty and TB were desperate to keep on their side (Prince Charles retitled himself "The Keeper of the Faiths". Until the bombings that is.
Try shopping somewhere like Lucky's late at night. On some evenings, the line to the banking system would be down. So instead of asking for your PIN, they will ask for a drivers license number (or any number you care to make up).
I read the LA Times - it was rather interesting to hear how all the city mayors in SoCal were asked to play a trading game. All the city mayors with expected population growth were given blue chips. All the city mayors who had land available for housing were given red chips. The two had to trade chips so that six million new residents had to find a house each.
(1) The cost - that this is going to be a cash cow for the biometrics companies. The majority (if not all) of all UK government IT contracts, have costs that end up spiralling out of control, and have hefty cancellation fees. There is a fear that the government will charge an administration fee every time your address changes, and fine anyone who fails to update their address. Consider students, homeless people and contract workers who change address regularly.
(2) The invasion of privacy - governments departments such as the DVLA are already in trouble for selling personal information (names and addresses) to questionable private car clamping firms (with owners who have criminal records) who have sent threatening letters to car owners.
(3) The arguments for the need for ID cards have included: the ability to fight terrorism (although the home secretary admits it would not have stopped the London bombings), and the ability to fight social security fraud (although certain members of the public will be allowed to have two ID cards). If fraudsters are able to forge utility bills, passports, bank cards, what is going to stop them from faking ID cards?
(4) A good percentage of the population believe that the UK government has lost control of illegal immigration and is spending money on ID cards because they can't control the borders. And they can't target non-Christian religions, because that would be racist.
(5) Function creep - that the ID cards will be used for more basic services, such as booking flight, national train journeys and maybe even shopping purchases.
In any case, it would seem that France is also getting French ID cards
You should read up on Interactive Whiteboards. It completely blew me away to see that many classrooms no longer had chalk and blackboards, but instead presented everything using either an Powerpoint presentation or an interactive application. The advantage of the whiteboard is that is eliminates time being wasted on preparing/cleaning the whiteboard, and the mess created by chalk.
Primary school teachers seem to have developed around 100 applications already.
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I know I'm pointing out the obvious, but perhaps he had spent more time with the family and less time gaming he wouldn't be divorcing and could be more than a face on the webcam or a guild member.
Some fathers have no choice but to work away from home for long periods of time. I know oil workers who had to work two weeks onshore and two weeks offshore. Others work in the merchant navy and have to spend months away from home. Then there are long distance truck drivers, contractors, the armed forces, airline pilots, medical staff who work odd shifts, and even some researchers have to work in remote field stations for weeks on end. Even university professors seem to have spend large amounts of time travelling to the other end of the country just to get industrial approval for the funding of their research projects as well as attend conferences.
All to just be able to pay the mortgage and property tax on a house, save for a retirement pension, save for college fees, pay the bills, let alone feeding and clothing their wife and kids.
In my school, many kids (including myself) had parents divorced due to these reasons. I was fortunate enough to have parents living about one block away from each other, but shuttling between two houses depending upon which parent was home from work was a real hassle.
Interesting ... but just wondering, whatever happened to the idea of backup power being stored in giant underground flywheels; the energy would be stored by bringing these up to speed, and released by slowing them down.
I would assume that the calling function is making that test - it's a bit wasteful to make a function call to do nothing. But it's easy enough to add such a test into the routine.
As a insane code optimisation freak, I would optimise it as follows.
The assignment to zero and additional loop counter are redundant:
int sumArray(int array[], int elements) {
int t = array[--elements];
while ( --elements )
t += array[elements];
return t;
}
I love it when they come up with these totally original and ambiguous names like "mutlipartite entanglement." Why!? What EVER could that mean? Oh brother...
Perhaps you meant dasterdly-mutleypartite entanglement?
Sounds like one of Klunk's inventions that didn't quite work as expected.
The closest they get is HD 10307. The entire list is:
c ron 2 Eridani, 16 light years
Tau Ceti, 11.9 light years
Alpha Centauri B, 4.35 light years
Epsilon Eridani, 10.5 light-years
Epsilon Indi A, 11.8 light-years
http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/stars/keid.html">Omi
Beta Canum Venaticorum - 27.31 light years
HD 10307, 41.2 light years
HD 211415>/a>, 44.4 light years
18 Scorpii, 45.7 light years
51 Pegasus, 40 light years
There is also a top 50 list
... do I get a window seat?
I live in a city where half the workforce is government, and the other half is retail. It's the capital of ass kissing, and I'm the reverend of bad attitude! Why is it that people will bend over backwards for a measly dollar ?
Because in cities like that, all the people with creativity, inspiration, originality, self-identity and individuality stick out whenever they go for an interview, fail to get a job and end up moving elsewhere. Then you end up with a city that turns ass-kissing into an olympic competition, with working in "head-office" becomes the dream of all dreams. The only creativity in a place like that will be the artists in the newly regenerated "artistic quarter" of the city. Everything and everyone neatly arranged, organised, classified, filed and indexed.
You should read this story from the Chicago Sun-Times. A science fair student wanting to do a project based on sugar, brought in a bag of sugar to school. While in a washroom, he joked to some other kids that it was Cocaine. After a custodian at the school heard about this, the police were called and the student was arrested.
Even if your home doesn't increase in value you are still better off owning than renting,
Unless of course, you end up in Golden Jail.
Because your property tax is set by the value of your property when it was first purchased, having rising prices all around can lead to you become financially trapped. You can't move up or down the market, nor do you want to leave the market.
In some places, talking about salaries is bizarrely taboo
Because when some companies advertise for jobs, they put out a lowball offer first, and gradually ramp up the salary until they start getting bites. Consequently, that type of workplace will have a wide range of salaries - some engineers might be earning more than managers. To avoid any kind of workplace uprising, the discussion of salaries is taboo.
That was an old BASIC game - the evil green slime kept advancing downwards from the top of the screen - by moving your spaceshovelship sideways and shooting, you could remove a whole column of slime. The game was over if one unit of slime touched your ship. Then your ship corroded and the game was over.
BUT How can a Darwinian evolutionist ever hope to convince anyone that they grew longer legs so they can travel faster, cover more ground?
Simple. Consider a group of Australians who are looking for a 'cricket ball' for their afternoon game. They see some cane toads at the edge of a field, and start running towards them. The cane toads start hopping away. However, the slowest one (with the shortest legs) gets caught by the humans first, while the others escape.
Thus, by culling the slowest cane toads, the Australians are effectively causing evolution of faster cane toads (which have longer legs).
...and 'belseth' disappears in a puff of logic...
Unless you happen to like eccentric religious programming and bizarre foreign channels, you'll quickly find there is nothing to see in FTA DVB broadcasts in North America.
That's very much true in Europe as well. All the European and African countries share the same satellite broadcast system. It's interesting to see what each culture considers the most important. While UK companies seem to broadcast porn, premium rate dial in competitions and bargain basement sales, China is broadcasting business news programs, India broadcasts Bollywood movies, Arab countries are broadcasting religious programming and Africa seems to broadcast drama series.
Wikipedia has a good article on radiation hardening, along with mention of a watchdog timer - a timer set up to perform a hard reset unless the software program writes out some useful data.
Outrageous! How unlike other MPs in other communities who pay no heed of what their constituents think! It's this kind of sneaky "keeping on the good side of your voters" that's ruining our country!
...
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The problem is, the MP's or the local government have appeared to react quickly to a complaint from a mosque, than from a church. One example would have been explicit advertising beside a bus stop shelter. Members of a church complain - nothing happens. Members of a mosque complain - the identical advert is immediately taken down.
This is an unfounded statement. What evidence do you have that this is planned, and what evidence exists to connect Hanza to the bombings?
Here's the BBC news report. The police themselves believe he was linked to many terrorist plots:
BBC Home Editor Mark Easton said police believed the mosque, which is now under new management, was "linked to literally dozens of terrorist plots around Europe and beyond".
And another news report
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Margaret Gilmore said: "If you look at those transcripts, you will see what a close relationship Abu Hamza had with MI5.
The Times has reported that the cleric had links to those responsible for the 7 July bomb attacks.
But BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner said Whitehall officials did not have any intelligence to suggest that any connection existed.
The Times
Another article
That wouldn't be any different from an ordinary CPU. You can erase your CPU simply by turning off the power. An EMP only needs to make one transistor change state in order for the CPU to go wonky. Although you may want to worry more about stray cosmic rays.
That was the court case involving Clarence Willcox
Since the 1939 National Registration Act was repealed in 1951 after Clarence Willcox, the manager of a dry cleaning shop, challenged the principle that a policeman could demand to see his wartime identity card,
The Guardian: ID Cards
Exactly. There are large muslim populations in the inner suburbs of many of the large cities in the North of England. They came across from Pakistan when Britain had a textiles industry, but now that all industry has left, they focus on religion as a means of keeping in touch with their roots. Since they form a substantial percentage of the local communities, MP's are desperate to keep on their good side to stay in power. This is where the London bombers came from.
Also, it's taken the police around 10 years to arrest Abu Hanza for charges relating to terrorism, while all the time they knew he was providing terrorism training courses. Now, the victims of the London bombings (around 500) are planning to sue the government for incompentence for failing to arrest him sooner.
In the past, the royalty and TB were desperate to keep on their side (Prince Charles retitled himself "The Keeper of the Faiths". Until the bombings that is.
Cole's law - delicious!
Try shopping somewhere like Lucky's late at night. On some evenings, the line to the banking system would be down. So instead of asking for your PIN, they will ask for a drivers license number (or any number you care to make up).
I read the LA Times - it was rather interesting to hear how all the city mayors in SoCal were asked to play a trading game. All the city mayors with expected population growth were given blue chips. All the city mayors who had land available for housing were given red chips. The two had to trade chips so that six million new residents had to find a house each.
In the UK, we are suspicious of:
(1) The cost - that this is going to be a cash cow for the biometrics companies. The majority (if not all) of all UK government IT contracts, have costs that end up spiralling out of control, and have hefty cancellation fees. There is a fear that the government will charge an administration fee every time your address changes, and fine anyone who fails to update their address. Consider students, homeless people and contract workers who change address regularly.
(2) The invasion of privacy - governments departments such as the DVLA are already in trouble for selling personal information (names and addresses) to questionable private car clamping firms (with owners who have criminal records) who have sent threatening letters to car owners.
(3) The arguments for the need for ID cards have included: the ability to fight terrorism (although the home secretary admits it would not have stopped the London bombings), and the ability to fight social security fraud (although certain members of the public will be allowed to have two ID cards). If fraudsters are able to forge utility bills, passports, bank cards, what is going to stop them from faking ID cards?
(4) A good percentage of the population believe that the UK government has lost control of illegal immigration and is spending money on ID cards because they can't control the borders. And they can't target non-Christian religions, because that would be racist.
(5) Function creep - that the ID cards will be used for more basic services, such as booking flight, national train journeys and maybe even shopping purchases.
In any case, it would seem that France is also getting French ID cards
You should read up on
Interactive Whiteboards. It completely blew me away to see that many classrooms no longer had chalk and blackboards, but instead presented everything using either an Powerpoint presentation or an interactive application. The advantage of the whiteboard is that is eliminates time being wasted on preparing/cleaning the whiteboard, and the mess created by chalk.
Primary school teachers seem to have developed around 100 applications already.