It IS the fault of the government if the politicians unjustly prosecuted various underwriters when they turned-down loans. ("But I did it because he only gets minimum wage!" "No you did it because you're racist; we're dragging you to court.") Other underwriters would observe this, decide it wasn't worth the hassle, and therefore approved risky loans just to stay out of jail.
Cite a source of this actually happening or we'll all have to continue assuming that you're just talking out your ass.
Keep track of only the information that exists. Fine, this is a valid approach. We normalize our data and extract out nulls. Great. Now our information is spread out across X number of tables/objects/stores/whatever, where X is the number of potentially "missing" pieces of information + 1. So to query the non-existence of an item, you have to query (at least) two tables.
Other (perfectly reasonable way) to do things:
Store non-repeating information as part of a single record. Now, you have all of your information in one place, and the query for non-existence is essentially free.
Now, I'm not saying that one way is necessarily better, or one way is "correct." I just tend to find that when someone has the attitude that "it must be done this way, otherwise you're wrong", they typically aren't thinking through all cases or all the ramifications of their claim. That, or it's just typical zeal from someone who's been indoctrinated to believe everything is black and white.
Be careful listening to the global warming experts. If they have devoted their career to global warming and if it turns out not to be true, they don't just lose their job they lose their field of expertise.
Yes, because if global warming turns out to not be true, we'll never again have a need for climatologists.
Perhaps it's because you come into a discussion assuming that anyone that's a "liberal" is evil and hates Amer'ka and wants the terrorists to win, thus immediately putting them on the defensive if a political topic comes up?
I have lots of friends from all over the political spectrum, and we're all able to have rational, respectful debates about what we think is right. Maybe you and/or the people you spend time with just aren't capable of rational debate and instead rely on ad hominem attacks?
Installation time? *Mouse clicks* to install? Seriously? Those have got to be some of the most useless benchmarks I've ever seen.
Startup and shutdown time are marginally more useful benchmarks, but still not really very important unless you're talking about embedded devices, which the desktop version of Windows 7 (obviously) isn't even designed for.
The file copy benchmarks really didn't find a clear winner either, and that was the only arguably significant benchmark. Or are there really desktop users that spend all day copying files between hard drives and USB drives?
I really didn't care all that much about the outcome. I don't have an emotional investment in Windows or Ubuntu, but this was nothing but a pissing contest from someone who wanted to make some poorly constructed graphs showing that their favorite OS beat another OS (and it didn't even do that! Windows won on a few of the tests!)
Stop blockading Gaza and give them government representation, and they'll stop firing rockets.
For the record, I'm not Jewish and don't give a crap what magic sky man people worship, and I believe the state of Israel's actions are absolutely inexcusable.
Ahh yes, the poor should just grow some of their own food on their vast expanses of farmable land, that would certainly save them money.
Or are you really suggesting that having a windowsill herb garden is going to feed someone? Or that it would save really them more than a few dollars a year even if they could grow things indoors?
No, the warmer air from one part of the world just won't be circulated to the colder parts of the world any more.
Let's try a simple analogy:
I have a basket of apples in my house. It has a hole in the side that lets some of the apples fall out. One day I fill it with 20 apples, and 5 of the apples spill through the hole onto the table. I still have 20 apples in my house. So, between the two locations (basket and table), I have an average of 10 apples.
Another day, I fix the hole and fill the basket with 30 apples. Now I have 30 apples in the house but 0 on the table. Are you claiming that I have fewer apples total because there are none on the table? My average is now 15 apples per location, even though one has 0.
Now, in case you couldn't follow the analogy, the apples are heat, the house is Earth, the basket is the ocean, and the hole is ocean currents. There's a higher global average temperature EVEN THOUGH some areas get colder. Get it? Have you covered averages in school yet?
If you do that, and you're playing against me, I won't care one bit. You can define your terms of "winning" the game however you want, and if they involve ignoring any of your screw ups, then that's your choice.
*My* definition of winning any game is to not make any (unforced) screw ups of my own. My goal is not affected in the slightest by your choice of rules.
If your enjoyment comes from reaching some arbitrary point total before I do, then more power to you. However, my enjoyment comes from personal improvement, not proving that I can beat you.
How does this relate to PoP and being "invincible"? If the game is fun and I'm kicking ass at it, it doesn't matter if there's an auto-rescue feature, because I won't be using it anyway. You might get to the end of the game being saved 1000 times and getting to the end might be all that matters to you. My goal might be to get to the end being saved fewer than 20 times.
So, really, someone else's childish, insecure version of "winning" doesn't mean jack to me.
Rather than consider that someone has a sophisticated opinion on the subject, too many people are all too willing to jump on the "why do you hate children?" bandwagon.
And you respond with a perfect example of what this quote refers to.
There is REALLY no need for it, at any level. There is no amount of humor, irony, enlightenment, story telling, satire... etc that excuses people even using such imagery.
Thanks for making that decision for all of us. Anything else you can proclaim in your infinite, educated wisdom?
Actually, studies show that people with these problems are less likely to go out and rape children if they have access to stuff like cartoon and computer generated child porn. (You know, the kind in which NO KIDS ARE ACTUALLY HARMED) It's got something to do with giving them a harmless outlet for their fantasies; apparently many of these people have difficulty visualizing their fantasies without some sort of aid.
So to me, it seems that you want to deny people these completely harmless outlets, which in turn creates more child rapists. Sounds like you're *for* more child rapists. You sick fuck.
I like that earlier in the discussion, you defended Bush for not being solely responsible (or even responsible at all) for the wiretaps, and here you are blaming Obama for something that any reasonable person could see he *clearly* had very little to do with.
Hypocrisy much?
Not to mention that Joe the Plumber was an idiot to begin with.
And it's a good thing that you had a time machine or an alternate reality machine to go check out these other possibilities thoroughly and report back to us about how they'll turn out.
I'd buy your "argument" if a) I could get a decent internet connection at a comparable rate as that of other countries and b) we didn't already spend more of our GDP on health care than any other industrialized nation for substantially poorer coverage.
Windows and software in general doesn't cost most schools *that* much -- certainly not as much as a corporate entity or private individual would pay.
Microsoft (and Oracle, and Adobe, etc) give away tons of software to schools for tax write offs. They can hand out a site license key and count it as a $1 million donation.
Personally, I don't think that computers belong in elementary school at all unless the material is specifically about computers, and I'm a programmer with a degree in computer science. It's a huge waste of money and a big distraction from the actual course material.
GuiltLevel DetermineGuiltLevelAI() {/* insert code to spin the hard disk and
peg the processor for a few minutes */
return GuiltLevel.ProbablyGuilty; }
Your need to run a daily virus scan to clean out your 24 hours' accumulation of crap says more about you and your usage habits than it does about Windows.
Instead of individual stupid banks going out of business for the bad loans they signed off on, you've got a whole host of financial institutions who didn't realize what they were buying
So, how are the innocent financial institutions, whose ONLY job is to keep track of money, who "didn't realize what they were buying" NOT stupid?
If this were the case of an individual customer buying, say, a TV that turned out to have a high failure rate, would you then turn around and say "buyer beware"?
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But you can still call each of them lying, incompetent douchebags if you're so inclined.
Not being able to relate Obama to an ape or monkey has more to do with cultural sensitivity than any double standard.
--Jeremy
There's most of your problem right there. You seem to think that this is a Democrat (evil!) vs. Republican/Libertarian (good!) thing.
It's not.
Also, WRT your sig: what does that even supposedly prove? 'Left-leaning' people get their news from non-cable sources?
--Jeremy
Cite a source of this actually happening or we'll all have to continue assuming that you're just talking out your ass.
--Jeremy
If you're doing it right, you are counting the tokens in the string before storing it anyway.
But eh, buffer overruns are no big deal, right?
--Jeremy
Your way:
Keep track of only the information that exists. Fine, this is a valid approach. We normalize our data and extract out nulls. Great. Now our information is spread out across X number of tables/objects/stores/whatever, where X is the number of potentially "missing" pieces of information + 1. So to query the non-existence of an item, you have to query (at least) two tables.
Other (perfectly reasonable way) to do things:
Store non-repeating information as part of a single record. Now, you have all of your information in one place, and the query for non-existence is essentially free.
Now, I'm not saying that one way is necessarily better, or one way is "correct." I just tend to find that when someone has the attitude that "it must be done this way, otherwise you're wrong", they typically aren't thinking through all cases or all the ramifications of their claim. That, or it's just typical zeal from someone who's been indoctrinated to believe everything is black and white.
--Jeremy
Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of Code::Blocks before, and it looks like it's worth checking out.
However, it's only a C++ compiler. It's not a suitable replacement for Visual Studio if you're working in any other language.
--Jeremy
Yes, because if global warming turns out to not be true, we'll never again have a need for climatologists.
--Jeremy
That's not respect, that's fear.
Respect is when you do the right thing because it's the right thing.
Somehow, I think that a lot of our current problems stem from the fact that people can't distinguish the two.
--Jeremy
While you're correct that they aren't the same thing, a 14 year old being arrested for misbehaving is just plain stupid.
What a waste of courtroom and police officer time.
--Jeremy
Perhaps it's because you come into a discussion assuming that anyone that's a "liberal" is evil and hates Amer'ka and wants the terrorists to win, thus immediately putting them on the defensive if a political topic comes up?
I have lots of friends from all over the political spectrum, and we're all able to have rational, respectful debates about what we think is right. Maybe you and/or the people you spend time with just aren't capable of rational debate and instead rely on ad hominem attacks?
--Jeremy
Installation time? *Mouse clicks* to install? Seriously? Those have got to be some of the most useless benchmarks I've ever seen.
Startup and shutdown time are marginally more useful benchmarks, but still not really very important unless you're talking about embedded devices, which the desktop version of Windows 7 (obviously) isn't even designed for.
The file copy benchmarks really didn't find a clear winner either, and that was the only arguably significant benchmark. Or are there really desktop users that spend all day copying files between hard drives and USB drives?
I really didn't care all that much about the outcome. I don't have an emotional investment in Windows or Ubuntu, but this was nothing but a pissing contest from someone who wanted to make some poorly constructed graphs showing that their favorite OS beat another OS (and it didn't even do that! Windows won on a few of the tests!)
--Jeremy
Stop blockading Gaza and give them government representation, and they'll stop firing rockets.
For the record, I'm not Jewish and don't give a crap what magic sky man people worship, and I believe the state of Israel's actions are absolutely inexcusable.
--Jeremy
Ahh yes, the poor should just grow some of their own food on their vast expanses of farmable land, that would certainly save them money.
Or are you really suggesting that having a windowsill herb garden is going to feed someone? Or that it would save really them more than a few dollars a year even if they could grow things indoors?
--Jeremy
So, $10,000/yr over 50 years is $500k. Those are some scary numbers.
However, they're also pulled out of your ass, unless you care to cite a source. So give a link so I can go "educated myself".
(Also, do you *honestly* believe that everyone in Canada pays $10,000/yr in taxes JUST for healthcare? Surely even you can see how absurd that is.)
--Jeremy
No, the warmer air from one part of the world just won't be circulated to the colder parts of the world any more.
Let's try a simple analogy:
I have a basket of apples in my house. It has a hole in the side that lets some of the apples fall out. One day I fill it with 20 apples, and 5 of the apples spill through the hole onto the table. I still have 20 apples in my house. So, between the two locations (basket and table), I have an average of 10 apples.
Another day, I fix the hole and fill the basket with 30 apples. Now I have 30 apples in the house but 0 on the table. Are you claiming that I have fewer apples total because there are none on the table? My average is now 15 apples per location, even though one has 0.
Now, in case you couldn't follow the analogy, the apples are heat, the house is Earth, the basket is the ocean, and the hole is ocean currents. There's a higher global average temperature EVEN THOUGH some areas get colder. Get it? Have you covered averages in school yet?
--Jeremy
Great point, but where are all these simple arithmetic errors that you've spotted?
Oh, you haven't found any? All you have are vague accusations that the scientific method isn't being followed?
--Jeremy
If you do that, and you're playing against me, I won't care one bit. You can define your terms of "winning" the game however you want, and if they involve ignoring any of your screw ups, then that's your choice.
*My* definition of winning any game is to not make any (unforced) screw ups of my own. My goal is not affected in the slightest by your choice of rules.
If your enjoyment comes from reaching some arbitrary point total before I do, then more power to you. However, my enjoyment comes from personal improvement, not proving that I can beat you.
How does this relate to PoP and being "invincible"? If the game is fun and I'm kicking ass at it, it doesn't matter if there's an auto-rescue feature, because I won't be using it anyway. You might get to the end of the game being saved 1000 times and getting to the end might be all that matters to you. My goal might be to get to the end being saved fewer than 20 times.
So, really, someone else's childish, insecure version of "winning" doesn't mean jack to me.
--Jeremy
GP said:
And you respond with a perfect example of what this quote refers to.
Thanks for making that decision for all of us. Anything else you can proclaim in your infinite, educated wisdom?
--Jeremy
Actually, studies show that people with these problems are less likely to go out and rape children if they have access to stuff like cartoon and computer generated child porn. (You know, the kind in which NO KIDS ARE ACTUALLY HARMED) It's got something to do with giving them a harmless outlet for their fantasies; apparently many of these people have difficulty visualizing their fantasies without some sort of aid.
So to me, it seems that you want to deny people these completely harmless outlets, which in turn creates more child rapists. Sounds like you're *for* more child rapists. You sick fuck.
--Jeremy
I like that earlier in the discussion, you defended Bush for not being solely responsible (or even responsible at all) for the wiretaps, and here you are blaming Obama for something that any reasonable person could see he *clearly* had very little to do with.
Hypocrisy much?
Not to mention that Joe the Plumber was an idiot to begin with.
--Jeremy
And it's a good thing that you had a time machine or an alternate reality machine to go check out these other possibilities thoroughly and report back to us about how they'll turn out.
I'd buy your "argument" if a) I could get a decent internet connection at a comparable rate as that of other countries and b) we didn't already spend more of our GDP on health care than any other industrialized nation for substantially poorer coverage.
--Jeremy
Windows and software in general doesn't cost most schools *that* much -- certainly not as much as a corporate entity or private individual would pay.
Microsoft (and Oracle, and Adobe, etc) give away tons of software to schools for tax write offs. They can hand out a site license key and count it as a $1 million donation.
Personally, I don't think that computers belong in elementary school at all unless the material is specifically about computers, and I'm a programmer with a degree in computer science. It's a huge waste of money and a big distraction from the actual course material.
--Jeremy
I'll take a stab at the AI that could be used to drive this thing...
enum GuiltLevel {
Innocent,
MaybeGuilty,
ProbablyGuilty,
Guilty
}
GuiltLevel DetermineGuiltLevelAI() /* insert code to spin the hard disk and
{
peg the processor for a few minutes */
return GuiltLevel.ProbablyGuilty;
}
--Jeremy
Your need to run a daily virus scan to clean out your 24 hours' accumulation of crap says more about you and your usage habits than it does about Windows.
--Jeremy
So, how are the innocent financial institutions, whose ONLY job is to keep track of money, who "didn't realize what they were buying" NOT stupid?
If this were the case of an individual customer buying, say, a TV that turned out to have a high failure rate, would you then turn around and say "buyer beware"?
--Jeremy