While we have a larger government, that's not the main problem.
The problem is the fact that there are 50 separate governments, each handling those matters individually, and probably with different systems.
While some information would be/could be/is available federally (like tax stuff, from irs.gov), almost everything else and a whole lot more is handled by the *state* government
School, state taxes, car stuff, police info, etc. Most dealings you have with the "government" here are actually dealings with the state government.
What makes our government so huge is mostly things like welfare and social security and the other hand-out programs. And while those could be put on line, I doubt that would help many slash dotters.
I admit it, your knowledge of Star Trek, The Next Generation far exceeds my own. I only vaguely remembered the episode at all, and that he had smashed up the glass thing
I'm not really sure that's a complement. It's not like I'm a fanatic, in fact I think I only saw that eppisode once. I just have a pretty good memory
Anyway, You're ticket example dosn't really fly, because you're just going to have to pay a $50, not die:P
Anyway, you are obviously capable of expressing yourself clearly. Sorry for insulting you, I'm just bitter:P
Replies to off topic posts are not off topic
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Does it have a 'supernatural' connotation in the UK? I havn't been able to figure this out either, but my best guess is that the word 'philosopher' dosn't mean anything magical here.
I'll bet that at least half of all dictionaries consider "hacker" to be one who breaks into computer systems.
Well they should, because that's what the word means in modern english. If someone says 'hacker', depending on the context, they may mean someone who breaks into computer systems. When they say 'warlock' they mean male witch.
Are you serious? Of course you can leak memory in Java. You're creating objects, and you're holding on to a reference to them. The garbage collector cannot destroy them until you're done with them.
I realize this, and I spent hours looking for any possible extra refrencing, but I couldn't find it. The images are only put in one vector, and each one is removed after downloading.
Well, The way my software works is it would collect a bunch of "WebImage" objects, which at the time just held urls in a vector... and this is the only place that they would be held. After downloading and saving each image, the reference would be pointed to null, and it would be removed from the vector.
After all of the images in the vector were downloaded (and the vector was empty) I would call the clear method of the already empty vector, and then set the reference of the vector to null. And as I said, there were no other references to this vector, or the images within, anywhere else in the program.
Also, I called System.gc() after processing every single image.
I am absolutely not collecting references anywhere other then the vectors, and I have been meticulous in getting rid of them/clearing the vectors.
I have no idea what's wrong, but after several hours of staring at the code, tracing the program by hand, I just gave up.
They have these cool things called "roman numerals". They work kind of like regular numbers, but are incredibly complex and unwieldy. They are popular these days because people don't like using things invented by dirty towel head ay-rabs.*
The only real downside is that no one realizes when something is at '10' and just think it's had an 'X' appended to sound cool
That isn't a very well thought out argument at all. For the simple fact that they didn't know every crime was punished by death. There is no way that the mother could have told him not to commit any crimes, and certainly no way for him to know that smashing the glass thing would have resulted in death.
Not to say that Crusher wasn't a moron in that episode. He should have boinked those chicks, "There are some games I'm not ready for..." Yeh, sure, what 14 year old boy wouldn't 'jump' on that opportunity.
By the way, consider a remedial English class. Calling someone an idiot using the language of a 2nd grader is not going to convince many people.
I think that software could be written as well as engineering projects, however although I'm sure we would all really like super-stable software, it just doesn't matter that much. Unlike a bridge or a moonshot, if software fails all we have to do push the reset button.
The reason that bridges are made better then software is because you can't have it fail, people could die. The reason most software isn't made as well as most buildings is because it simply isn't worth it to the people paying for the software. Why expend ten times the cash to have a rock-solid system when dealing with shoddy one would only cost twice as much to deal with?
Nowadays, things like OSs are a lot stabler then they used to be, but as computers become more depended upon, the cost of downtime is going up. Us desktop users are just getting a virtuous windfall.
I'll give you an example. I wrote a support program for my porn site that would spider a specified TGP site and download all the galleries so that I could review them for inclusion on my own site. The program is written in java, but it leaks memory like a motherfucker. (I have no idea why, since the program is written in java, so it shouldn't even be possible). After a while, I'll get an out of memory error, but I can just start again and pick up where I left off. But it simply isn't worth it for me to go through and radically change the structure or rewrite the program in C++ (doing my own memory management) because it works well enough for what it needs to do.
No ones life depends on my ability to download gigs of porn, and so the quality of the software reflects that.
Netscape 4.x's CSS is BROKEN it does things WRONG. One can have perfictly compliant HTML+CSS and have it fucked to hell in netscape.
Netscape 4.x is a horrid, horrid peice of shit. If you still use it, turn CSS fucking off, if you don't then don't bitch about shit not working, it's your own damn fault.
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That's the same thing I was thinking. Have you ever gotten a hard drive in the mail? Look at the way it's packaged... shipping a HD inside an assembled PC is just insane.
At least if some of the pieces get damaged, they'll be easier to replace individually.
I personally would never trust my computer, etc to an external shipping company. It'd get packed with me in my car.
But anyway, if UPS didn't have insurance, he shouldn't have used them.
Also, don't UPS et-al usually allow insurance based on weight? Although all his computer stuff probably would have weighed a lot, sometimes smaller, yet still expensive stuff can't be insured for more then like $25 or whatever, which is ridiculous.
Repair estimates top $30M...That comes out to approximately $300 million per day! Or we will spend what is required to fix the SuperK in 12 hours
No. $300/$30million = 1/10. We will spend the equivalent of the super-k repair in 1/10th of day, or 2.4 hours, or two hours, 24 minutes, not twelve. Of course, the cost of the war in Afghanistan is not constant, but that's not the point.
OT: target and walmart.
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Targets (Midwest equivalent of Wal-Mart)
There are targets and Wal-Mart's all over the nation. Target has been advertising on MTV of late, and are trying to reinvent themselves as the 'classy' low-price department store, rather then competing with Wal-Mart on price. The target where I live has a much nicer appearance, etc.
There was chick on Conan O'Brian a long time ago raving about target and how she shopped in the target in Manhattan because they were the only place that sold the perfume she used.
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While we have a larger government, that's not the main problem.
The problem is the fact that there are 50 separate governments, each handling those matters individually, and probably with different systems.
While some information would be/could be/is available federally (like tax stuff, from irs.gov), almost everything else and a whole lot more is handled by the *state* government
School, state taxes, car stuff, police info, etc. Most dealings you have with the "government" here are actually dealings with the state government.
What makes our government so huge is mostly things like welfare and social security and the other hand-out programs. And while those could be put on line, I doubt that would help many slash dotters.
it's not like you were bitching about people with good old file://con/con trick to crash win9x.
I admit it, your knowledge of Star Trek, The Next Generation far exceeds my own. I only vaguely remembered the episode at all, and that he had smashed up the glass thing
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I'm not really sure that's a complement. It's not like I'm a fanatic, in fact I think I only saw that eppisode once. I just have a pretty good memory
Anyway, You're ticket example dosn't really fly, because you're just going to have to pay a $50, not die
Anyway, you are obviously capable of expressing yourself clearly. Sorry for insulting you, I'm just bitter
and souldn't be modded as such
now this is an example of a funny joke.
Does it have a 'supernatural' connotation in the UK? I havn't been able to figure this out either, but my best guess is that the word 'philosopher' dosn't mean anything magical here.
I'll bet that at least half of all dictionaries consider "hacker" to be one who breaks into computer systems.
Well they should, because that's what the word means in modern english. If someone says 'hacker', depending on the context, they may mean someone who breaks into computer systems. When they say 'warlock' they mean male witch.
Jokes are by their nature off topic. If it isn't funny then it shouldn't be rated up.
Are you serious? Of course you can leak memory in Java. You're creating objects, and you're holding on to a reference to them. The garbage collector cannot destroy them until you're done with them.
I realize this, and I spent hours looking for any possible extra refrencing, but I couldn't find it. The images are only put in one vector, and each one is removed after downloading.
Well, The way my software works is it would collect a bunch of "WebImage" objects, which at the time just held urls in a vector... and this is the only place that they would be held. After downloading and saving each image, the reference would be pointed to null, and it would be removed from the vector.
After all of the images in the vector were downloaded (and the vector was empty) I would call the clear method of the already empty vector, and then set the reference of the vector to null. And as I said, there were no other references to this vector, or the images within, anywhere else in the program.
Also, I called System.gc() after processing every single image.
I am absolutely not collecting references anywhere other then the vectors, and I have been meticulous in getting rid of them/clearing the vectors.
I have no idea what's wrong, but after several hours of staring at the code, tracing the program by hand, I just gave up.
They have these cool things called "roman numerals". They work kind of like regular numbers, but are incredibly complex and unwieldy. They are popular these days because people don't like using things invented by dirty towel head ay-rabs.*
The only real downside is that no one realizes when something is at '10' and just think it's had an 'X' appended to sound cool
(like Arabic numbers for example)
That's why, dumbass.
(I realze the above post was a joke, so is this)
That isn't a very well thought out argument at all. For the simple fact that they didn't know every crime was punished by death. There is no way that the mother could have told him not to commit any crimes, and certainly no way for him to know that smashing the glass thing would have resulted in death.
Not to say that Crusher wasn't a moron in that episode. He should have boinked those chicks, "There are some games I'm not ready for..." Yeh, sure, what 14 year old boy wouldn't 'jump' on that opportunity.
By the way, consider a remedial English class. Calling someone an idiot using the language of a 2nd grader is not going to convince many people.
I think that software could be written as well as engineering projects, however although I'm sure we would all really like super-stable software, it just doesn't matter that much. Unlike a bridge or a moonshot, if software fails all we have to do push the reset button.
The reason that bridges are made better then software is because you can't have it fail, people could die. The reason most software isn't made as well as most buildings is because it simply isn't worth it to the people paying for the software. Why expend ten times the cash to have a rock-solid system when dealing with shoddy one would only cost twice as much to deal with?
Nowadays, things like OSs are a lot stabler then they used to be, but as computers become more depended upon, the cost of downtime is going up. Us desktop users are just getting a virtuous windfall.
I'll give you an example. I wrote a support program for my porn site that would spider a specified TGP site and download all the galleries so that I could review them for inclusion on my own site. The program is written in java, but it leaks memory like a motherfucker. (I have no idea why, since the program is written in java, so it shouldn't even be possible). After a while, I'll get an out of memory error, but I can just start again and pick up where I left off. But it simply isn't worth it for me to go through and radically change the structure or rewrite the program in C++ (doing my own memory management) because it works well enough for what it needs to do.
No ones life depends on my ability to download gigs of porn, and so the quality of the software reflects that.
It just fucks it up. You can turn CSS of, and then things will work again.
I had a page that would work fine on any version of netscape after and before netscape 4. It would also work fine in netscape 4 with CSS turned off.
CSS on, and netscape would simply drop the main table.
Netscape four is a blight on the web and should be killed as soon as possible.
Netscape 4.x's CSS is BROKEN it does things WRONG. One can have perfictly compliant HTML+CSS and have it fucked to hell in netscape.
Netscape 4.x is a horrid, horrid peice of shit. If you still use it, turn CSS fucking off, if you don't then don't bitch about shit not working, it's your own damn fault.
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That's the same thing I was thinking. Have you ever gotten a hard drive in the mail? Look at the way it's packaged... shipping a HD inside an assembled PC is just insane.
At least if some of the pieces get damaged, they'll be easier to replace individually.
Handling actualy refers to handling by the company you're buying from, not by the shipping people.
There can be no claim, and thus no paperwork to be done. UPS wouldn't insure international stuff.
I personally would never trust my computer, etc to an external shipping company. It'd get packed with me in my car.
But anyway, if UPS didn't have insurance, he shouldn't have used them.
Also, don't UPS et-al usually allow insurance based on weight? Although all his computer stuff probably would have weighed a lot, sometimes smaller, yet still expensive stuff can't be insured for more then like $25 or whatever, which is ridiculous.
I hope this is meant as a joke, really. It's been modded as funny so..
Anyway, these PMTs are sensitive enough to detect a single photon, I doubt you'd be able to find a CCD that could do that.
Don't they teach math in highschool anymore?
Repair estimates top $30M...That comes out to approximately $300 million per day! Or we will spend what is required to fix the SuperK in 12 hours
No. $300/$30million = 1/10. We will spend the equivalent of the super-k repair in 1/10th of day, or 2.4 hours, or two hours, 24 minutes, not twelve. Of course, the cost of the war in Afghanistan is not constant, but that's not the point.
It's been stated quite clearly that the tank was half full when it 'detonated' for lack of a better term...
or never equalized the pressure in the sensors.
Do you know what a VACUUM TUBE is?
Targets (Midwest equivalent of Wal-Mart)
There are targets and Wal-Mart's all over the nation. Target has been advertising on MTV of late, and are trying to reinvent themselves as the 'classy' low-price department store, rather then competing with Wal-Mart on price. The target where I live has a much nicer appearance, etc.
There was chick on Conan O'Brian a long time ago raving about target and how she shopped in the target in Manhattan because they were the only place that sold the perfume she used.