It's harsh, but having the government step in and do the job is only likely to result in new parents who are even less likely to take care of their kids.
In some way I prefer not having that sort of system. As-is, most of the time a police officer just has to slow down for a few seconds to cross. With a system like that in place, it would likely be abused by either a) government officials themselves, or b) enterprising nerds, to simply bypass every red light in the area.
Sorry, but what person that actually likes beer wants to drink it at a temperature where your taste buds are virtually incapable of processing taste. Crappy American macrobrews? I wouldn't drink them frozen.
The problem is that as stated, the Standard Model and General Relativity are mutually exclusive. As they stand, both imply the invalidity of the other. But General Relativity is great for analyzing big things, and the standard model for extremely tiny things. Both make predictions with surprising accuracy. But as stated, they're incompatible.
Best in their class? Bullshit. Have you actually _heard_ the default notification noise K3b makes when you're finished burning a CD? Did a three year old write the damn app?
I mostly agree with you. With the finale of Season 8, they closed up every single opened storyline, killed off all the major bad guys, and tied together every loose end. It was over. Richard Dean Anderson threw in the towel, and even Amanda Tapping wouldn't be available for months due to maternity.
Given that, though, they've actually managed to not do a terrible job with seasons nine and ten. The enemy is reasonably interesting, and while there have been a few terrible episodes, most of them managed to be at least alright. Not up to the legacy of the previous eight seasons, but given the conditions, not a bad effort either. I'm still glad they're done with Season 10 though.
One problem. What happens when my transmitter or receiver dies? Other cars have no knowledge of my car's presence, or I have no knowledge of theirs. Take your pick.
Any fully automated system is still going to have to have a lot of intelligence in the car for avoiding non-networked obstacles, lane following, and driving safely.
So, for all of those who dislike DST, try this: Just get up an hour later.
I know you're just trying to be snarky, but that doesn't at all solve most people's problem with DST: the unneeded hassle, complication, and complete mess of having to deal with it. Even worse is when we make arbitrary changes to it, like this one.
One major problem I see with this sort of initiative is spoofing of your provider's sign-in page. Unlike spoofing in its current form, if someone was able to get the password for your OpenID provider, he'll have access to every single one of the accounts you've used that ID with. It's putting all your eggs in one basket -- with the way everything is currently handled, your sign-on information to an individual site may be compromised, but you won't lose everything else.
Is there a solution to this kind of problem, or is OpenID really only targeted to low-risk authentication; i.e., for forums and social networking sites?
People who use "utilize" would be be mandatorily sterilized.
I don't know. I tend to use utilize in the context of a "quantity" of usage. For example, "It's a mistake to under-utilize the English language by intentionally avoiding some words."
Or better yet, drop a digit after the decimal, ditch pennies and nickels both and have dimes as the smallest coin. Instead of $9.99 for a product, it will be $9.9. Round to the nearest tenth the way we round to the nearest 100th today. End of problem--at least until inflation makes dollars worth dimes.
I just wanted to point this out, because not many people seem to realize it. If we get rid of nickels, then quarters will be harder to use, since they can only be used paired. There'd be no way to get your $0.05 change back. At that point, we might as well start using $0.50 pieces, or issue a new $0.20 coin.
Now let's look at probabilities and some history. Lots of other professional bodies that discouraged women have discovered that letting women do traditionally male work has worked out just fine. I can't think of any where allowing women was later decided to be a mistake.
As someone who ages ago found my dad's shit on his computer, you're not doing your kids any favors by leaving it around in easy-to-find places. It's like walking in on your parents having sex, only weirder.
That doesn't seem so bad. My mom still has some of her cookbooks from the 60s...
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Long story short, the mouse is a very fast input device. However, the context switch between mouse/keyboard and vice versa is incredibly slow.
Ever watched a person who hasn't yet figured out that he can use tab, the left/right arrow keys and enter to navigate dialog boxes? It's painful. They type something into a field, move the hand to the mouse, shake the mouse to figure out where the pointer is, point to the next field, move their hand back to the keyboard, locate the home row keys, type another input, move their hand to the mouse, shake it a little, locate the button they want to click, and finally click it.
This is orders of magnitudes slower than if you don't have to reposition your hand at all. Same goes for highlighting text, cutting and pasting, etc: using Shift+Home/End/PgDn/PgUp is extremely fast, while waiting for the window to scroll up while you hold down the mouse button is slow. It's no surprise that people can edit in vi far, far faster than someone can with a shinier GUI interface.
Plus, with tons of additional features (:%s/x/y/) for an extremely powerful Regexp based global search and replace, and standard features like autoindentation, etc, it's not like vim is lacking any of the features that GUI editors have. In fact, many of them are even faster to use.
"What?? I can't change the clock on the PC? How am I supposed to test this function that generates a string based on the time?"
Uh, bad example. Good design would normally dictate you prototype this function as follows:
char* generate_string(time_t time);
Now you can call it using the output of time(), or in a unit test, try a bunch of different time_t values. What, were you going to have your unit test keep changing your system time?
Then, if you area always going to call it using the current time, simply write a small wrapper that does just that.
I find it interesting that most of the people who see the comic immediately assume a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship between the two. If you look carefully, nowhere does the comic indicate which gender either character is.
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It's harsh, but having the government step in and do the job is only likely to result in new parents who are even less likely to take care of their kids.
In some way I prefer not having that sort of system. As-is, most of the time a police officer just has to slow down for a few seconds to cross. With a system like that in place, it would likely be abused by either a) government officials themselves, or b) enterprising nerds, to simply bypass every red light in the area.
Sorry, but what person that actually likes beer wants to drink it at a temperature where your taste buds are virtually incapable of processing taste. Crappy American macrobrews? I wouldn't drink them frozen.
The problem is that as stated, the Standard Model and General Relativity are mutually exclusive. As they stand, both imply the invalidity of the other. But General Relativity is great for analyzing big things, and the standard model for extremely tiny things. Both make predictions with surprising accuracy. But as stated, they're incompatible.
Yeah, unfortunately it's the other Mandriva. Seriously, why?
Best in their class? Bullshit. Have you actually _heard_ the default notification noise K3b makes when you're finished burning a CD? Did a three year old write the damn app?
I mostly agree with you. With the finale of Season 8, they closed up every single opened storyline, killed off all the major bad guys, and tied together every loose end. It was over. Richard Dean Anderson threw in the towel, and even Amanda Tapping wouldn't be available for months due to maternity.
Given that, though, they've actually managed to not do a terrible job with seasons nine and ten. The enemy is reasonably interesting, and while there have been a few terrible episodes, most of them managed to be at least alright. Not up to the legacy of the previous eight seasons, but given the conditions, not a bad effort either. I'm still glad they're done with Season 10 though.
One problem. What happens when my transmitter or receiver dies? Other cars have no knowledge of my car's presence, or I have no knowledge of theirs. Take your pick. Any fully automated system is still going to have to have a lot of intelligence in the car for avoiding non-networked obstacles, lane following, and driving safely.
I know you're just trying to be snarky, but that doesn't at all solve most people's problem with DST: the unneeded hassle, complication, and complete mess of having to deal with it. Even worse is when we make arbitrary changes to it, like this one.
One major problem I see with this sort of initiative is spoofing of your provider's sign-in page. Unlike spoofing in its current form, if someone was able to get the password for your OpenID provider, he'll have access to every single one of the accounts you've used that ID with. It's putting all your eggs in one basket -- with the way everything is currently handled, your sign-on information to an individual site may be compromised, but you won't lose everything else.
Is there a solution to this kind of problem, or is OpenID really only targeted to low-risk authentication; i.e., for forums and social networking sites?
It uses a word size of 64 bits, so is not as fast on 32-bit computers. Also, I believe it's received less scrutiny than SHA-256. IANAC.
Darwin is the "shotgun method", as opposed to a surgical strike.
I don't know. I tend to use utilize in the context of a "quantity" of usage. For example, "It's a mistake to under-utilize the English language by intentionally avoiding some words."
So in other words, the Indian woman was right? "Turtles, all the way down..."
They're also the most productive! http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/302397_grum pyworkers05.html
So, what, all terrorists have to do is cover up the wires, get some nice plastic molding, and be completely devoid of all suspicion?
I just wanted to point this out, because not many people seem to realize it. If we get rid of nickels, then quarters will be harder to use, since they can only be used paired. There'd be no way to get your $0.05 change back. At that point, we might as well start using $0.50 pieces, or issue a new $0.20 coin.
Um, voting?
I kid, I kid! Try the waitress, tip the veal...
As someone who ages ago found my dad's shit on his computer, you're not doing your kids any favors by leaving it around in easy-to-find places. It's like walking in on your parents having sex, only weirder.
That doesn't seem so bad. My mom still has some of her cookbooks from the 60s...
Long story short, the mouse is a very fast input device. However, the context switch between mouse/keyboard and vice versa is incredibly slow.
Ever watched a person who hasn't yet figured out that he can use tab, the left/right arrow keys and enter to navigate dialog boxes? It's painful. They type something into a field, move the hand to the mouse, shake the mouse to figure out where the pointer is, point to the next field, move their hand back to the keyboard, locate the home row keys, type another input, move their hand to the mouse, shake it a little, locate the button they want to click, and finally click it.
This is orders of magnitudes slower than if you don't have to reposition your hand at all. Same goes for highlighting text, cutting and pasting, etc: using Shift+Home/End/PgDn/PgUp is extremely fast, while waiting for the window to scroll up while you hold down the mouse button is slow. It's no surprise that people can edit in vi far, far faster than someone can with a shinier GUI interface.
Plus, with tons of additional features (:%s/x/y/) for an extremely powerful Regexp based global search and replace, and standard features like autoindentation, etc, it's not like vim is lacking any of the features that GUI editors have. In fact, many of them are even faster to use.
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Uh, bad example. Good design would normally dictate you prototype this function as follows:
char* generate_string(time_t time);
Now you can call it using the output of time(), or in a unit test, try a bunch of different time_t values. What, were you going to have your unit test keep changing your system time?
Then, if you area always going to call it using the current time, simply write a small wrapper that does just that.
I find it interesting that most of the people who see the comic immediately assume a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship between the two. If you look carefully, nowhere does the comic indicate which gender either character is.
Best of luck to you folks too :)