This is why there exists a principle of a sane default. What proportion of users do you think are building on their own machines, versus running a cross-compiling build cluster to distribute binaries across their network? Ten to one? A hundred to one? A thousand to one?
Autodetect the CPU type, and let the user change it if they want to. If that kind of solution isn't immediately obvious to you, please stay away from development. You'll waste more people's time configuring your software than they'll possibly gain from using it.
Are you kidding me? College attendance is through the roof, but dropout rates are soaring and they're having a hard time finding ways of funding it.
I went to college on HOPE. I likely wouldn't have been able to afford it without HOPE. But I can't tell you how many people I personally knew in college who didn't bother going to their classes, failed a ton of them, and eventually stopped going. Yes, it gives some kids the opportunity to go when they never would have been able to. But the net effect of the program is not positive. For individuals, it can be a godsend. For the state as a whole, it's just another money sink.
At least it's a voluntary tax, being on the lottery.
You should probably go back to school and take an economics course. It's not in your field of study, but it would probably prove pretty valuable.
Money doesn't come from nowhere. Someone has to pay it. For every dollar that would be "going into the economy" from the government fronting the bill, it has to first come out of the economy in the form of taxes.
Even moreso, illegal immigrants are afraid of _any_ attention from the U.S. government. The IRS has routinely taken the stand that they don't care whether or not you're legally able to work here, as long as they get their money. The net result is that rather than go out of their way to find potentially questionable deductions from their taxes, they take fewer deductions than average.
Bluffing, like the widely-held understanding of tells, are way overestimated in their value to the game.
By far the most valuable skill in poker is people reading. Not looking for tics, flinches, or whatever, but by understanding how they react to situations. How do they play flush draws? What kinds of cards will they play with given an under-the-gun raise, when in mid position? What size bets will they call with mediocre hands, and what size bets will they fold strong hands to?
These are far, far more important skills, and while a computer can keep track of every statistic of opponents they've ever played against, knowing which ones to apply in what situations, their relevance to the existing game texture, and how they're affected by different numbers of people in the pot is a different story.
American beer is some of the best in the world, if you discount our macro brews. Stone, Rogue, North Coast, Highland, Ommegang, etc. are all excellent. What, exactly, does Australia have in the way of good micros?
No. Their hardware scan is done either from the BIOS or from a boot CD. I've performed it multiple times on my Linux-running Dell without having to either disclose I was on Linux or "fudge" some Windows-couterpart responses.
Clausthaler is crap. You want lower calories? Drink Guinness. 125 calories, 10 grabs of carbohydrates. Compared to 96 calories and 5.8 carbs in Clausthaler (their Classic; I would wager that the Golden Amber has slightly higher stats for both). Guinness isn't amazing by any means, but it's far better than that swill and boasts only slightly higher stats for calories and carbs.
No. Alternating between the options isn't game-theoretically correct, since it's effectively no different than picking a route and staying with it (if everyone else were to play by that strategy). A much better tactic would be to randomly choose a road out of all the possible selections, weighted by the proportion of cars it can handle in a given time frame.
What the fuck? Employee figures out way to save us $15 million. Employee parts with $1 million. Net savings: $14 million. So the company netted $14 million, and suddenly thinks this whole thing was a bad idea?
I will stop now before I make a simple grammatical error myself.
Unless you're really replacing yourself with a simple grammatical error, I think you meant, "I will stop now before I make a simple grammatical error, myself."
Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!
Because this is no longer needed, now that we have proportional fonts.
Seriously. Who the fuck decided that bitching on the Internet shall no longer be researchedbeforeposting? For homework, figure out why the authors of HTML force all spaces after the first to be trimmed in the output.
What the fuck? Why should the kernel developers be responsible for picking which desktop environment, mail client, and office suite I use? You might as well have architects tell you what kind of company you can put in their building.
So, for example, it makes sense to charge more for lactose-free milk since lactose occurs naturally in milk and has to be removed in a process that costs both time and money. If, on the other hand, lactose was only added in the manufacturing process and did NOT occur naturally in milk, then there'd be no real reason why lactose-free milk should be more expensive (assuming, of course, that the lactose would be added purely for taste or similar reasons, not in order to keep other costs down for the manufacturer).
Actually it does make sense. It doesn't apply in this situation (e.g., Apple), but the manufacturer's production line would, hypothetically, include the use of machinery to add lactose. Providing another path (lactose-free) would involve new machines to circumvent that process for a portion of their product, or a completely separate production line, or some other non-cheap solution.
And people wonder why I love Ruby. Two alternatives, the latter one is more "fun" but slightly less readable for Ruby novices. The latter one reads, "999,999,999 times, run the method puts".
999_99_9999.times {|i| puts i } 999_99_9999.times &method(:puts)
Seriously, which language would you rather use on a daily basis?
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Two words, dude: sane default.
Why make the user configure something that can be reliably detected 99 out of 100 times?Holy. Crap.
This is why there exists a principle of a sane default. What proportion of users do you think are building on their own machines, versus running a cross-compiling build cluster to distribute binaries across their network? Ten to one? A hundred to one? A thousand to one?
Autodetect the CPU type, and let the user change it if they want to. If that kind of solution isn't immediately obvious to you, please stay away from development. You'll waste more people's time configuring your software than they'll possibly gain from using it.
Are you kidding me? College attendance is through the roof, but dropout rates are soaring and they're having a hard time finding ways of funding it.
I went to college on HOPE. I likely wouldn't have been able to afford it without HOPE. But I can't tell you how many people I personally knew in college who didn't bother going to their classes, failed a ton of them, and eventually stopped going. Yes, it gives some kids the opportunity to go when they never would have been able to. But the net effect of the program is not positive. For individuals, it can be a godsend. For the state as a whole, it's just another money sink.
At least it's a voluntary tax, being on the lottery.
You should probably go back to school and take an economics course. It's not in your field of study, but it would probably prove pretty valuable.
Money doesn't come from nowhere. Someone has to pay it. For every dollar that would be "going into the economy" from the government fronting the bill, it has to first come out of the economy in the form of taxes.
Actually, they would be in contrib. Projects that are themselves open source, but depend upon non-free components.
Even moreso, illegal immigrants are afraid of _any_ attention from the U.S. government. The IRS has routinely taken the stand that they don't care whether or not you're legally able to work here, as long as they get their money. The net result is that rather than go out of their way to find potentially questionable deductions from their taxes, they take fewer deductions than average.
Update in Washington Post. One of the critically injured people died after surgery.
Bluffing, like the widely-held understanding of tells, are way overestimated in their value to the game.
By far the most valuable skill in poker is people reading. Not looking for tics, flinches, or whatever, but by understanding how they react to situations. How do they play flush draws? What kinds of cards will they play with given an under-the-gun raise, when in mid position? What size bets will they call with mediocre hands, and what size bets will they fold strong hands to?
These are far, far more important skills, and while a computer can keep track of every statistic of opponents they've ever played against, knowing which ones to apply in what situations, their relevance to the existing game texture, and how they're affected by different numbers of people in the pot is a different story.
American beer is some of the best in the world, if you discount our macro brews. Stone, Rogue, North Coast, Highland, Ommegang, etc. are all excellent. What, exactly, does Australia have in the way of good micros?
Repeat after me: "corps".
Dear Volition Employee:
Please. Please dear God. Please make Freespace 3. That is all.
No. Their hardware scan is done either from the BIOS or from a boot CD. I've performed it multiple times on my Linux-running Dell without having to either disclose I was on Linux or "fudge" some Windows-couterpart responses.
Clausthaler is crap. You want lower calories? Drink Guinness. 125 calories, 10 grabs of carbohydrates. Compared to 96 calories and 5.8 carbs in Clausthaler (their Classic; I would wager that the Golden Amber has slightly higher stats for both). Guinness isn't amazing by any means, but it's far better than that swill and boasts only slightly higher stats for calories and carbs.
No. Alternating between the options isn't game-theoretically correct, since it's effectively no different than picking a route and staying with it (if everyone else were to play by that strategy). A much better tactic would be to randomly choose a road out of all the possible selections, weighted by the proportion of cars it can handle in a given time frame.
What the fuck? Employee figures out way to save us $15 million. Employee parts with $1 million. Net savings: $14 million. So the company netted $14 million, and suddenly thinks this whole thing was a bad idea?
Unless you're really replacing yourself with a simple grammatical error, I think you meant, "I will stop now before I make a simple grammatical error, myself."
Quoth your sig:
Because this is no longer needed, now that we have proportional fonts.
Seriously. Who the fuck decided that bitching on the Internet shall no longer be researched before posting? For homework, figure out why the authors of HTML force all spaces after the first to be trimmed in the output.
We also need sane speed limits in some areas. 55mph in Atlanta is just insane.
Yeah, one problem with your system. Two, actually.
What the fuck? Why should the kernel developers be responsible for picking which desktop environment, mail client, and office suite I use? You might as well have architects tell you what kind of company you can put in their building.
I agree. In my estimation, this could well foretell the cure to AIDS, cancer, world hunger, war, and genital warts.
And people wonder why I love Ruby. Two alternatives, the latter one is more "fun" but slightly less readable for Ruby novices. The latter one reads, "999,999,999 times, run the method puts".
999_99_9999.times {|i| puts i }
999_99_9999.times &method(:puts)
Seriously, which language would you rather use on a daily basis?
Antibiotics don't work against HIV because HIV is a virus.
Beat me to it. Thanks.