It works on Wii and 360 as well. Not to mention a number of other settop boxes. Linux is not going to happen for a long time though because media companies don't trust Linux users and think they'll work around their DRM if they just hand over the encryption routines.
First it went for Blockbuster, and I didn't complain because Blockbuster sucked ass. But now, with their chops still bloody, they turn their heads towards the internet? Can the entire collapse of civilization be far behind? Why, Netflix, Why?!?
Re:metaprogramming FTW!
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What, like for loops? Variable assignments? Could you give an example of code duplication common in C code that would not occur in Lisp?
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No, I don't really know of lots of copy and paste style redundant code in my C or C++ applications. Generally functions take care of that. If a problem comes up enough, said function is stripped out and added to a library. These are not new or novel concepts, people have been doing them for decades now.
Sometimes people will add lots of copy and paste code to a codebase. We call these people bad programmers, and they tend to be fired.
Yes, that really pissed me off. One of the reasons the Dems got walked all over by the minority party is that when it was clear that the Republicans were going to vote as a block, they didn't just go "Ok, we'll put in all of the stuff that the more liberal Dems wanted in the first place and we took out to make it more 'bipartisan' then". Republicans got most of what they wanted and still got to trumpet about how they "opposed Obama at every step, for you!" on the campain trail.
I'm also pissed that the stimulus bill wasn't attached to a big wall street reform bill. Republicans would have hated it even more, but it's not like they wanted to go along with anything congress was doing anyway, and breaking up anything that's "too big to fail" is an obvious first step. Banks and non-bank entities would absolutely hate it, but they've already shown that they can't be trusted so why trust them?
They could have. That was pretty much the approach used in 1929 and it worked great, except for the whole Great Depression thing. Say what you will about the administration, at least they know when big business has the country by the balls.
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I thought the problem with metaprogramming is that using it for more than just some trivial examples can make your program effectively impossible to debug? Its one of those tools that let people be really clever with the code on small projects, but on large projects are nothing but a nightmare. Plus the explosion of external libraries for nearly every function you could want really reduced the justification for metaprogramming in the first place. There are probably a few places where it could still benefit, but nobody wants to open up that huge can of worms for a few corner cases.
Until very recently, it was hard to find anything beyond 802.11b in most cellphones. Now they're talking about leapfrogging all the way up to WiGig? How big are WiGig chips, what kind of power budget do they require, how expensive are they? This sounds like it might be a neat idea for 5+ years in the future, but it's completely impractical for anytime in the near future. I'm guessing the target market is people who want to play back video they've recorded from their phone camera on a big screen.
The last thing China wants is to have the North Korean government collapse and create a refugee situation where hundreds of thousands of uneducated, dirt poor, and starving people come streaming across the border. I doubt the Chinese government like the North Korean government any more than the rest of the world, but at least with the government functioning they're keeping their problems to themselves for the most part.
That part of the argument didn't make much sense to me. Do people turn their AC off at night regularly? If the night is cool enough to cool down the house, you generally don't need AC anyway.
I'm not sure what makes this chair so much better than the existing desks kids use. It doesn't appear to be padded, although presumably the seatback flexes a bit? It's on wheels that will be clogged up with gunk in a year and mean that the chairs will never sit still properly. It has one of those obnoxious swivel desks that look great until you realize that there's nowhere to swivel them to that isn't in the way. Sure there's space for a bookbag underneath the seat, a feature that has been standard on desks since they were first invented. Oh, and it costs 15 times as much as a standard desk? Somehow I don't think this is going to be a roaring success.
My guess is that if you're spending a quarter or a half million dollars on an outfit, you're not going to wear it much period. I suspect that it is going to end up behind a glass case for the remainder of its life.
Well, that's a fine opinion to have, just don't be surprised if you don't find a lot of support for it outside of fringe groups. The US government was set up with checks and balances for a reason and nobody (well maybe Dick Cheney) want to see them removed.
Funnily enough, the error level analysis suggests that the SIM card messages are fakes, but the rest of the phone picture might not. It's not definitive proof, but it doesn't stand out as immediately fake.
So you think the whole "system of checks and balances" thing is a load of crap? If Congress writes the law it's the job of the Supreme Court to uphold it unless it conflicts directly with the Constitution? I don't think the court has ever defined it's role that narrowly.
That's the thing though. We were fighting Germany and Japan. We're not fighting Afghanistan, we're fighting Al Qaeda. If you firebomb cities in Afghanistan, you're mostly destroying your allies. It's an entirely different sort of war. It's a war you don't want to fight because it's almost impossible not to make a huge mess and accomplish nothing.
If North Korea decides to invade South Korea, that's the sort of war we can fight. One with a clear goal and somebody who has the kind of authority needed to stop hostilities once you negotiate a peace (even if it's unconditional surrender). You can't do that with insurgencies, because there is nobody in charge and they're run more like criminal gangs than actual armies.
The problem is that the other guys are checking all of your serial numbers, so even if you do it with one part, they'll still get the information they need from all of the other parts. You can't just make up random serial numbers either, there are important reasons why they exist and the bean counters need some way to keep track. You can encrypt them (which is what most militaries of the world currently do I think), but you can't just make up stuff on the spot.
One of the big reasons Iraq and Afghanistan are such a mess is because the US Army was still set up to fight Germany and Japan. They're two very different battles, and because the military is so large and lumbering, it takes a long time to retool to fight the war you're in. You would think they had learned after Vietnam, but it's a tough lesson and nobody likes to hear it.
Maybe someone in the government will finally learn the lesson that fighting insurgencies is just not worth the effort and avoid any such battles in the future. Sure we'll get a lot of flak for sitting back while one ethnic group murders another yet again (Darfur, Sudan, etc...), but the alternative just isn't any better.
This may come as a shock, but when someone is taking pictures from a plane they don't always do it from directly overhead. Sometimes the pictures come in at an angle.
I do agree that satellite photo evidence would have been rather hard to come by in 1950 though.
Has the cost of paper and shipping gone up substantially in the past few years? If not, I don't see how ebooks will amount to some sort of major cost savings for a textbook manufacturer. All other costs are the same in an ebook. As almost everybody else in this thread has already deduced, this is more about shutting out the used book market.
Also, the names are versioned as well. You'll probably notice that all of them have the same first letter in both name components, and that letter advances by 1 down the alphabet for every release. What they do on Release 27 I don't know, but it's still a ways off.
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It works on Wii and 360 as well. Not to mention a number of other settop boxes. Linux is not going to happen for a long time though because media companies don't trust Linux users and think they'll work around their DRM if they just hand over the encryption routines.
First it went for Blockbuster, and I didn't complain because Blockbuster sucked ass. But now, with their chops still bloody, they turn their heads towards the internet? Can the entire collapse of civilization be far behind? Why, Netflix, Why?!?
What, like for loops? Variable assignments? Could you give an example of code duplication common in C code that would not occur in Lisp?
No, I don't really know of lots of copy and paste style redundant code in my C or C++ applications. Generally functions take care of that. If a problem comes up enough, said function is stripped out and added to a library. These are not new or novel concepts, people have been doing them for decades now.
Sometimes people will add lots of copy and paste code to a codebase. We call these people bad programmers, and they tend to be fired.
Yes, that really pissed me off. One of the reasons the Dems got walked all over by the minority party is that when it was clear that the Republicans were going to vote as a block, they didn't just go "Ok, we'll put in all of the stuff that the more liberal Dems wanted in the first place and we took out to make it more 'bipartisan' then". Republicans got most of what they wanted and still got to trumpet about how they "opposed Obama at every step, for you!" on the campain trail.
I'm also pissed that the stimulus bill wasn't attached to a big wall street reform bill. Republicans would have hated it even more, but it's not like they wanted to go along with anything congress was doing anyway, and breaking up anything that's "too big to fail" is an obvious first step. Banks and non-bank entities would absolutely hate it, but they've already shown that they can't be trusted so why trust them?
They could have. That was pretty much the approach used in 1929 and it worked great, except for the whole Great Depression thing. Say what you will about the administration, at least they know when big business has the country by the balls.
I thought the problem with metaprogramming is that using it for more than just some trivial examples can make your program effectively impossible to debug? Its one of those tools that let people be really clever with the code on small projects, but on large projects are nothing but a nightmare. Plus the explosion of external libraries for nearly every function you could want really reduced the justification for metaprogramming in the first place. There are probably a few places where it could still benefit, but nobody wants to open up that huge can of worms for a few corner cases.
Until very recently, it was hard to find anything beyond 802.11b in most cellphones. Now they're talking about leapfrogging all the way up to WiGig? How big are WiGig chips, what kind of power budget do they require, how expensive are they? This sounds like it might be a neat idea for 5+ years in the future, but it's completely impractical for anytime in the near future. I'm guessing the target market is people who want to play back video they've recorded from their phone camera on a big screen.
Scarily enough, a lot of North Koreans are poor by rural Chinese dirt farmer standards.
The last thing China wants is to have the North Korean government collapse and create a refugee situation where hundreds of thousands of uneducated, dirt poor, and starving people come streaming across the border. I doubt the Chinese government like the North Korean government any more than the rest of the world, but at least with the government functioning they're keeping their problems to themselves for the most part.
That part of the argument didn't make much sense to me. Do people turn their AC off at night regularly? If the night is cool enough to cool down the house, you generally don't need AC anyway.
Theaters had their most profitable year ever last year, mostly on being able to jack up prices on 3D movie tickets.
I'm not sure what makes this chair so much better than the existing desks kids use. It doesn't appear to be padded, although presumably the seatback flexes a bit? It's on wheels that will be clogged up with gunk in a year and mean that the chairs will never sit still properly. It has one of those obnoxious swivel desks that look great until you realize that there's nowhere to swivel them to that isn't in the way. Sure there's space for a bookbag underneath the seat, a feature that has been standard on desks since they were first invented. Oh, and it costs 15 times as much as a standard desk? Somehow I don't think this is going to be a roaring success.
My guess is that if you're spending a quarter or a half million dollars on an outfit, you're not going to wear it much period. I suspect that it is going to end up behind a glass case for the remainder of its life.
Well, that's a fine opinion to have, just don't be surprised if you don't find a lot of support for it outside of fringe groups. The US government was set up with checks and balances for a reason and nobody (well maybe Dick Cheney) want to see them removed.
Funnily enough, according to the rumors this thing won't run PSP games, but instead require the devs to build entirely new ones for the platform.
This doesn't make any sense to me, so I hope it's just wrong, assuming there is any truth to the rumors in the first place.
Funnily enough, the error level analysis suggests that the SIM card messages are fakes, but the rest of the phone picture might not. It's not definitive proof, but it doesn't stand out as immediately fake.
So you think the whole "system of checks and balances" thing is a load of crap? If Congress writes the law it's the job of the Supreme Court to uphold it unless it conflicts directly with the Constitution? I don't think the court has ever defined it's role that narrowly.
That's the thing though. We were fighting Germany and Japan. We're not fighting Afghanistan, we're fighting Al Qaeda. If you firebomb cities in Afghanistan, you're mostly destroying your allies. It's an entirely different sort of war. It's a war you don't want to fight because it's almost impossible not to make a huge mess and accomplish nothing.
If North Korea decides to invade South Korea, that's the sort of war we can fight. One with a clear goal and somebody who has the kind of authority needed to stop hostilities once you negotiate a peace (even if it's unconditional surrender). You can't do that with insurgencies, because there is nobody in charge and they're run more like criminal gangs than actual armies.
The problem is that the other guys are checking all of your serial numbers, so even if you do it with one part, they'll still get the information they need from all of the other parts. You can't just make up random serial numbers either, there are important reasons why they exist and the bean counters need some way to keep track. You can encrypt them (which is what most militaries of the world currently do I think), but you can't just make up stuff on the spot.
One of the big reasons Iraq and Afghanistan are such a mess is because the US Army was still set up to fight Germany and Japan. They're two very different battles, and because the military is so large and lumbering, it takes a long time to retool to fight the war you're in. You would think they had learned after Vietnam, but it's a tough lesson and nobody likes to hear it.
Maybe someone in the government will finally learn the lesson that fighting insurgencies is just not worth the effort and avoid any such battles in the future. Sure we'll get a lot of flak for sitting back while one ethnic group murders another yet again (Darfur, Sudan, etc...), but the alternative just isn't any better.
This may come as a shock, but when someone is taking pictures from a plane they don't always do it from directly overhead. Sometimes the pictures come in at an angle.
I do agree that satellite photo evidence would have been rather hard to come by in 1950 though.
It's too bad that graphic lumped absolutely everything into the "printing costs", from paper to the HR folks to the executive Christmas bonuses.
Has the cost of paper and shipping gone up substantially in the past few years? If not, I don't see how ebooks will amount to some sort of major cost savings for a textbook manufacturer. All other costs are the same in an ebook. As almost everybody else in this thread has already deduced, this is more about shutting out the used book market.
Also, the names are versioned as well. You'll probably notice that all of them have the same first letter in both name components, and that letter advances by 1 down the alphabet for every release. What they do on Release 27 I don't know, but it's still a ways off.