I agree that Obj-C is not an abomination, but its not exactly a middle-ground either.
In a lot of ways, it's C++ done "right", a thin layer doing nothing more than adding good solid object support to C, with admittedly slightly odd syntax based in its choice of "messages" instead of "methods", which with late binding actually adds a lot of flexibility.
Also, Objective-C has good introspection support where C++ basically has none
Transgender actually does not mean "of the opposite gender"...that doesn't really even make sense there.
The meaning of the term "Transgender" is that you are somehow non-normative in your gender identity or expression, i.e. in some way shape or form, your gender identity or expression do not match the gender identity you were assigned at birth by a doctor/your parents. (and yes we are all assigned one of these in our society, its the gender marker on our birth certificates and the gender role we are rasied in). Transgender can include anything from "cross-dressing" to changing your body to more match your true gender identity (commonly known as being transsexual).
Being intersexed is a physiological condition that doesn't have much to do with gender identity except that gender identity cannot be simply assigned at birth (though it often is anyway, removing or hiding or downplaying characteristics that don't fit the simple binary). Therefore its very simple for someone to be intersexed & transgender, all they have to do is express a differet gender identity than the one they were handed on that birth certificate, or even simply act outside their prescribed gender role to some large degree.
Also, there are more than just two binary gender expressions/gender identities. There are many people who are in one way or another not just 'male' or 'female' in their own internal gender identity, and these people tend to use these pronouns, as a way of showing they are not simply one of the two binary genders.
To disclose my personal stake here, I have many transgendered friends, and I myself am transsexual, what's known as "mtf".
To make your statement true, the unified theory would have to also be a hidden-variable theory, which so far seems unlikely from what I've been able to read here on the periphery of such endeavors, but of course I could be dead wrong and we could get one tomorrow...its not like I know anything about tensors or whatever, I kinda stopped my math education somewhere around integral/differential calculus.
Open source code is simply a baseline must
Open specs certainly help above and beyond open source code (and more importantly Free-Libre source code), but they are a nicety and technically anyone could write specs based on what the code does.
What your piece of code was doing must have had another step because a simple binary read into a double from that data file would not have produced the correct results, that's simply impossible, as they are different lengths (assuming your initial complaint was right and double on that system isn't 32 bits wide but 64 or greater...this is one of the major issues with C right here, data types are not fixed size)
Why does free will have to reside fully within the brain? Why could it not reside spread out through space in such a way that the quantum weirdness as someone put it has a chance to affect your apparently rote decisions? Just because a physical boundary encloses most of your self, why does one have to enclose the rest?
Well, thinking on this (and I doubt anyone will even read this post as its below the fold at this point), subconscious free will makes a lot of sense to me.
Conscious free will would mean (most likely) it would be very hard to figure out "why" we made a decision, "I just did" would be thousands of times *more* common than it is.
Yet sometimes we do have that feeling of having a decision thrust upon us by no outside force. I think *this* is free will (coupled with things like unacknowledged desire and such too, but lets try to keep this simple).
Free will, and whatever process runs it, seems to necessarily exist outside the mechanistic realms, as the idea is free will can do things a Turing machine *cannot*. Perhaps this means quantum weirdness (possibly not localized to any part of our body, more likely spread throughout the cosmos), and/or perhaps it has something to do with a weird twist of meaning from Godel's famous incompleteness theorem, or who knows. Anyway, the point is, free will is not a conscious process. Consciousness has a lot more to do with taking the information from those layers and integrating it, "rationalizing", priority sorting and enforcing, planning, all those things that are fine to do in mechanistic ways. It also has to do with how we forge these disparate things together to form one single identity, which is clearly rather fragile. It makes perfect sense that consciousness doesn't get ahold of the decision until seven seconds later, since it is far more about reacting than acting, and of course about long term planning and general cohesion.
Well, anyhow, I'm sure I've just said what others have said better, but I've never read their works and that's my excuse.
I just wanted to add, and I know this is probably going to get thought of as flamebait (though I really am not intending it as such), but this is (minus perhaps slight hyperbole, though I'm not sure, and of course the specific topic-oriented language) a very good definition of libertarian thought, or at least the aftermath of it. This is *also* why, though I respect his candor, ron paul is not getting anything from me. To delve political, Kucinich on the other hand, tends to come down on the right side of many many issues, and it upsets me to see Ron Paul's name all over the place and never see Kucinich's, even though he's equally candid. Sorry about the little off-topic jaunt there, but yeah, what I really came to post was that this describes so well what is wrong with libertarian thought, and how it is actually carried out in the real world.
Just nit-picking, since this is such an incredible number, you are off by a factor of 10, based on those numbers its more like 10,000 times over (though not of course including the impossibility of capturing all that energy, the efficiency, etc. but you get my point)
Nope, it is almost all traceable down to the mess we love to hate known as ACPI. There's a lot to it, much I don't personally understand, but after talking with folks working on suspend/resume issues, its pretty clear that strange bits of the ACPI spec, and just how it interacts with the rest of the system, lead to a lot of suspend and resume issues. Certain drivers also help make this a mess, such as the NVidia binary driver (though I've heard its gotten better, and of course this doesn't apply to non-Linux).
As a KDE user, Kopete sucks. Use pidgin. Kopete's core is just too messy, its protocol handlers just don't work all that well (except its jabber handler, but that's to be expected), pidgin is just more reliable. (well there's the whole voice/video thing, I still don't know what became of all that)
Interestingly, according to the values from the field test app, this sort of thing used to be the case, somewhere around -90dBm or worse was 5 bars, and it dropped off fast after that. In a recent software update they pushed it up to around -70 which is your more common number, and makes the signal display so much more useful. I'm not sure if this was 1.1.1 or 1.1.2, I think 1.1.2.
most iPhone users do not consider the web an acceptable way to write apps (except for just a very few things already appropriate for the web), its just that apple hasn't allowed anything else *yet*, so we're stuck with either a (very good these days) third party created "hack" to allow native code, or the webapps
Before you attack, get your facts, the only thing that could turn it into a brick was to *sim unlock* it, which is true of most sim unlocks that aren't just NCK calculators, especially with the fact that the baseband fw is often upgraded on this device.
I really wish the dock *was* like the NeXT dock. That would make it 100x better right there. I know its not as "pretty" but I'm sure there are ways around that. The clip/draggables/etc. are just much much better than the springy bouncy dock, for reasons others have covered in way more depth than I am interested in going into right here.
Simple, two organisms with differing numbers of chromosomes cannot crossbreed (barring extraordinarily exceptional cases, and not including cases of simple duplication of a "normal" chromosome, usually). When the germ cells try to unite to form a diploid cell that becomes the offspring, it simply fails because things don't "line up"
A little bit of breaking news, not sure if its hit primetime yet, but I heard a few hours ago Erica looks to have figured a way to do ringtones on 1.1.1, so expect that limitation to go away
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I agree that Obj-C is not an abomination, but its not exactly a middle-ground either. In a lot of ways, it's C++ done "right", a thin layer doing nothing more than adding good solid object support to C, with admittedly slightly odd syntax based in its choice of "messages" instead of "methods", which with late binding actually adds a lot of flexibility. Also, Objective-C has good introspection support where C++ basically has none
Apparently someone missed the sarcasm tags here.
This is NOT a Troll.
I would mod, but I figured since nobody'd posted this I'll do that instead
Transgender actually does not mean "of the opposite gender"...that doesn't really even make sense there. The meaning of the term "Transgender" is that you are somehow non-normative in your gender identity or expression, i.e. in some way shape or form, your gender identity or expression do not match the gender identity you were assigned at birth by a doctor/your parents. (and yes we are all assigned one of these in our society, its the gender marker on our birth certificates and the gender role we are rasied in). Transgender can include anything from "cross-dressing" to changing your body to more match your true gender identity (commonly known as being transsexual). Being intersexed is a physiological condition that doesn't have much to do with gender identity except that gender identity cannot be simply assigned at birth (though it often is anyway, removing or hiding or downplaying characteristics that don't fit the simple binary). Therefore its very simple for someone to be intersexed & transgender, all they have to do is express a differet gender identity than the one they were handed on that birth certificate, or even simply act outside their prescribed gender role to some large degree. Also, there are more than just two binary gender expressions/gender identities. There are many people who are in one way or another not just 'male' or 'female' in their own internal gender identity, and these people tend to use these pronouns, as a way of showing they are not simply one of the two binary genders. To disclose my personal stake here, I have many transgendered friends, and I myself am transsexual, what's known as "mtf".
No they don't, and besides, I wouldn't know, I'm not one
To make your statement true, the unified theory would have to also be a hidden-variable theory, which so far seems unlikely from what I've been able to read here on the periphery of such endeavors, but of course I could be dead wrong and we could get one tomorrow...its not like I know anything about tensors or whatever, I kinda stopped my math education somewhere around integral/differential calculus.
Open source code is simply a baseline must
Open specs certainly help above and beyond open source code (and more importantly Free-Libre source code), but they are a nicety and technically anyone could write specs based on what the code does.
What your piece of code was doing must have had another step because a simple binary read into a double from that data file would not have produced the correct results, that's simply impossible, as they are different lengths (assuming your initial complaint was right and double on that system isn't 32 bits wide but 64 or greater...this is one of the major issues with C right here, data types are not fixed size)
I believe in [a form of] magic, you insensitive clod!
Why does free will have to reside fully within the brain? Why could it not reside spread out through space in such a way that the quantum weirdness as someone put it has a chance to affect your apparently rote decisions? Just because a physical boundary encloses most of your self, why does one have to enclose the rest?
Well, thinking on this (and I doubt anyone will even read this post as its below the fold at this point), subconscious free will makes a lot of sense to me.
Conscious free will would mean (most likely) it would be very hard to figure out "why" we made a decision, "I just did" would be thousands of times *more* common than it is.
Yet sometimes we do have that feeling of having a decision thrust upon us by no outside force. I think *this* is free will (coupled with things like unacknowledged desire and such too, but lets try to keep this simple).
Free will, and whatever process runs it, seems to necessarily exist outside the mechanistic realms, as the idea is free will can do things a Turing machine *cannot*. Perhaps this means quantum weirdness (possibly not localized to any part of our body, more likely spread throughout the cosmos), and/or perhaps it has something to do with a weird twist of meaning from Godel's famous incompleteness theorem, or who knows. Anyway, the point is, free will is not a conscious process. Consciousness has a lot more to do with taking the information from those layers and integrating it, "rationalizing", priority sorting and enforcing, planning, all those things that are fine to do in mechanistic ways. It also has to do with how we forge these disparate things together to form one single identity, which is clearly rather fragile. It makes perfect sense that consciousness doesn't get ahold of the decision until seven seconds later, since it is far more about reacting than acting, and of course about long term planning and general cohesion.
Well, anyhow, I'm sure I've just said what others have said better, but I've never read their works and that's my excuse.
I think you mean gain..or even just keep would be fine ^-^
(yes I can be a pig too if I try, its not limited to you men)
but the truth is she'd be hot in almost any shape b/c of her personality & intelligence
oh my goddess! I can see the fnords!
I just wanted to add, and I know this is probably going to get thought of as flamebait (though I really am not intending it as such), but this is (minus perhaps slight hyperbole, though I'm not sure, and of course the specific topic-oriented language) a very good definition of libertarian thought, or at least the aftermath of it. This is *also* why, though I respect his candor, ron paul is not getting anything from me. To delve political, Kucinich on the other hand, tends to come down on the right side of many many issues, and it upsets me to see Ron Paul's name all over the place and never see Kucinich's, even though he's equally candid. Sorry about the little off-topic jaunt there, but yeah, what I really came to post was that this describes so well what is wrong with libertarian thought, and how it is actually carried out in the real world.
So basically.....you want labels :-P (its just funny to see someone want something that so many people don't see the point of)
Just nit-picking, since this is such an incredible number, you are off by a factor of 10, based on those numbers its more like 10,000 times over (though not of course including the impossibility of capturing all that energy, the efficiency, etc. but you get my point)
Nope, it is almost all traceable down to the mess we love to hate known as ACPI. There's a lot to it, much I don't personally understand, but after talking with folks working on suspend/resume issues, its pretty clear that strange bits of the ACPI spec, and just how it interacts with the rest of the system, lead to a lot of suspend and resume issues. Certain drivers also help make this a mess, such as the NVidia binary driver (though I've heard its gotten better, and of course this doesn't apply to non-Linux).
Sounds like the technology for ejecting warp cores, never works when you actually need it. I believe the exotic matter pulser did a similar thing.
As a KDE user, Kopete sucks. Use pidgin. Kopete's core is just too messy, its protocol handlers just don't work all that well (except its jabber handler, but that's to be expected), pidgin is just more reliable. (well there's the whole voice/video thing, I still don't know what became of all that)
Interestingly, according to the values from the field test app, this sort of thing used to be the case, somewhere around -90dBm or worse was 5 bars, and it dropped off fast after that. In a recent software update they pushed it up to around -70 which is your more common number, and makes the signal display so much more useful. I'm not sure if this was 1.1.1 or 1.1.2, I think 1.1.2.
most iPhone users do not consider the web an acceptable way to write apps (except for just a very few things already appropriate for the web), its just that apple hasn't allowed anything else *yet*, so we're stuck with either a (very good these days) third party created "hack" to allow native code, or the webapps
Before you attack, get your facts, the only thing that could turn it into a brick was to *sim unlock* it, which is true of most sim unlocks that aren't just NCK calculators, especially with the fact that the baseband fw is often upgraded on this device.
I have to agree, every web phone I've looked at *except one* has had these issues.
I've not really given WM devices enough of a look, but I would be surprised if they didn't also have these issues.
The iPhone is really the only decent phone I've ever used when it comes to web usage
I really wish the dock *was* like the NeXT dock. That would make it 100x better right there. I know its not as "pretty" but I'm sure there are ways around that. The clip/draggables/etc. are just much much better than the springy bouncy dock, for reasons others have covered in way more depth than I am interested in going into right here.
high-end CPUs and GPUs, as well as massive drive arrays (if its all in the same box, add a few watts at least of cooling too, possibly tens of watts)
Simple, two organisms with differing numbers of chromosomes cannot crossbreed (barring extraordinarily exceptional cases, and not including cases of simple duplication of a "normal" chromosome, usually). When the germ cells try to unite to form a diploid cell that becomes the offspring, it simply fails because things don't "line up"
A little bit of breaking news, not sure if its hit primetime yet, but I heard a few hours ago Erica looks to have figured a way to do ringtones on 1.1.1, so expect that limitation to go away