I called apple the other day for a technical problem on a machine, and the person I spoke to did not speak English as his first language. He also didn't speak it very well or understand me very well. We managed to communicate well enough in the end, but I was not very happy with my experience.
Either way, Apple does hire people who don't speak "perfect" English. Incidently, English is very complicated, and it takes constant effort to speak or write it clearly.
Kerry once sent a letter to a constituent saying that he was for the war and always was, and the same month sent a letter to the same constituent saying he was against it from the beginning. Kerry seems to just say whatever sounds good at the time. That not uncommon with politicians, but it makes it really hard to know what they'll actually DO.
It's flamebait because it's written in an angry tone and is "baiting" people to start a flame war. The same post could have been rewritten with a different tone and not been flamebait. A tone like that won't win many people over.
I'm not sure I can see calling it slavery. Cannibalism would be more appropriate, and just as flamebaiting. Even then, I think it would matter the source of the stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have been created without using an embryo. I those cases, a human life was never really stopped, except if that cell was going to be using in cloning. Only if the stems cells came from an abortion could you say it's killing one human for the benefit of another.
Another point I'd like to make is that I don't see how stem cells made from abortions are really of any use except in research. It seems that stem cells would need to match the recipient genetically to be of maximum use. That means taking an adult human's cells and making stem cells, or creating a clone.
Not to just tell you that you're wrong, but Mac OS X is not lacking in features to do game development. I'm saying that because I do game development. Direct3D has very little that it could say is better than OpenGL, and Mac OS and Linux both support all of the features of the new graphics cards today.
Linux has always had sound problems and configuration problems difficulties, but OS X does not have those, although the linux OpenGL drivers tend to be a little better.
The reason that games have problems in Linux and OS X is that most games are written for windows and then ported. If you don't design with the platforms in mind, you can end up with some ugly junk to deal with.
And just for the record, trying to port an OpenGL app to Direct3D is much harder. Direct3D has made same assumptions about the format of data interleaving and such that make it hard to port code. OpenGL is much more flexible.
Try to delete a file that's in use (something you can do in any Unix-like system). File in use? Whoops, can't do that.
Wow, that's the ONE complain about the FS you have? Big deal.. it doesn't let you delete a file in use. The only really ligitimate use of that "feature" is to hide what your program is doing, which a ligitmate process shouldn't need to do anyway.
I'm sorry, That causes problems during development ALL THE TIME. I can't tell you how many times I've had to sit for 30 minutes or so, or just reboot, because I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't let me delete or edit a file. That is on of the worst mis-features in windows. They just did it that because of laziness.
A lot of us laptop users have a large, 24" external screen we use while sitting at a desk. The 3D graphics cards aren't that bad, and they aren't a generation behind any longer. The biggest problem with laptops is the IO speed. However, the ability to take the computer home or on trips and still be able to work or play games is totally worth the performance loss.
IANAL, but that's actually not entirely true. Anyone who wants to use his code in a non-free application can pay for the commercial QT license. Since his code is BSD and Qt can be commercially licensed, its fine:-). Besides, you only have to buy one license. The other developers can use the GPL version for development and the final build can be built with the commercial version for release version.
There is another interesting side effect of this. If you release your app without Qt libraries and tell the user that have to get the Qt libraries for themselves, you are not distributing Qt, and therefore are not breaking the GPL. That is, the GPL says you can link it with a conflicting app on your OWN machine as long as you don't distribute them TOGETHER, it specifically says this. The "aggregation" concept refers to distribution, not physically being on the same hard drive. Since Qt CAN be non-GPL and you are distributing them together, a user can simply install the open-source versions of Qt, and run an non-GPL app with it without anyone ever breaking the license terms.
I have not read the GPL 3 yet.
That depends on which state he lives in. In a lot of states, you can be fired for no reason at all other than the employer doesn't want you to work there any longer. If they terminated him and said "we simply don't want you to work here," it could be very hard to win a court battle over wrongful termination. He would have to prove they did it for a given reason.
Catheters go up into the bladder, and they make it so that the patient doesn't have to have muscle control to release the urine. Patients with anesthesia in that area are actually unable to pee on their own, so a external tube wouldn't work.
I would mod the parent up if I had points. Note that VA Tech does not allow students or faculty to carry guns on school property, even if they have a concealed weapon permit. One armed student could have ended this right at the beginning.
I have bootcamp installed. I can already READ my ntfs partition from OS X. No write support. FUSE does have some write support, so that's handy. I may use it.
One issue with using the "mental" argument for abortion is that it's becoming very clear that around the start of the second trimester, the fetus already has a fair bit of mental capability. It's also very difficult for us to know at what point this happens since it varies per fetus, and it's pretty darn hard to test.
Babies born at 22-23 weeks, about half way through, are able to eat, and grow up to be healthy adults. Certainly a killing a newborn, regardless of the gestation, is a murder. It's pretty stupid to think because a child is inside the womb rather than outside that his/her sentience may vary.
You obviously can't make that argument about a 2 week old embryo.
The real legal argument in the US has always been whether or not the unborn have protections under the constitution and whether or not a women has control of her own body.
Back to the subject of the post, amniocentesis is pretty dangerous. Most women probably wouldn't want to just go in and be a "donor". Puncturing the amniotic sac has caused a fairly large number of miscarriages. It's like popping a balloon hoping it seals back up before the air comes out. However, in the cases where the mother already decides that the test should be done, she could be asked if she would allow the cells to be used in medical research.
The interesting thing about the phrase is that both the accepted and modern commonly used version can easily be distinguished from each other. That is, the original version is an adjective that could easily be replace with "sucks": "Your argument begs the question." The newer "incorrect" version is followed by a question, which seems more natural given the english words used. I personally find misusing it a bit irritating, but the original phase in actually sort of a bad literal translation from latin. If I had lived in the time when the phrase was translated, I would probably have even more irritated at the translation that I am at people using the phrase to mean something else. We should also keep in mind that it's a PHRASE, not a single word. The WORDS in the phrase could easily mean the "incorrect" meaning, but have to be a bit twisted to mean the original one.
I've known a fair number of homeless people in my lifetime. To my knowledge, only one of them had an E-mail address. He used to check it in the public library. Sadly, he was the sort that didn't really want to get back on his feet. He had jobs every so often, but he wouldn't work hard, and he'd act like he was better than everyone else, so he'd get fired. It's too bad, he was nice guy and very intelligent. Last time I saw him, he was living in a little boat housing on the property of someone I know. He has no electricity and his wooden roof leaks. He seems to be satified with that.
doesn't gcj run? java.sql works find in gcj (Are they ever using java.sql?). Couldn't they port/recompile all of the database stuff to that? I imagine they aren't doing any ui work in java.
Actually, it's Congress who gave them power. I think Congress delegates to organizations like this so that they won't be held directly responsible for stupid stuff like the broadcast flag. It gives them deniability.
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I guess we now have verifiable, logical reason to (keep) wear(ing) a tinfoil hat.
I called apple the other day for a technical problem on a machine, and the person I spoke to did not speak English as his first language. He also didn't speak it very well or understand me very well. We managed to communicate well enough in the end, but I was not very happy with my experience. Either way, Apple does hire people who don't speak "perfect" English. Incidently, English is very complicated, and it takes constant effort to speak or write it clearly.
Kerry once sent a letter to a constituent saying that he was for the war and always was, and the same month sent a letter to the same constituent saying he was against it from the beginning. Kerry seems to just say whatever sounds good at the time. That not uncommon with politicians, but it makes it really hard to know what they'll actually DO.
In South Korea, only old people use world telescopes.
It's flamebait because it's written in an angry tone and is "baiting" people to start a flame war. The same post could have been rewritten with a different tone and not been flamebait. A tone like that won't win many people over.
I'm not sure I can see calling it slavery. Cannibalism would be more appropriate, and just as flamebaiting. Even then, I think it would matter the source of the stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have been created without using an embryo. I those cases, a human life was never really stopped, except if that cell was going to be using in cloning. Only if the stems cells came from an abortion could you say it's killing one human for the benefit of another.
Another point I'd like to make is that I don't see how stem cells made from abortions are really of any use except in research. It seems that stem cells would need to match the recipient genetically to be of maximum use. That means taking an adult human's cells and making stem cells, or creating a clone.
Not to just tell you that you're wrong, but Mac OS X is not lacking in features to do game development. I'm saying that because I do game development. Direct3D has very little that it could say is better than OpenGL, and Mac OS and Linux both support all of the features of the new graphics cards today. Linux has always had sound problems and configuration problems difficulties, but OS X does not have those, although the linux OpenGL drivers tend to be a little better. The reason that games have problems in Linux and OS X is that most games are written for windows and then ported. If you don't design with the platforms in mind, you can end up with some ugly junk to deal with. And just for the record, trying to port an OpenGL app to Direct3D is much harder. Direct3D has made same assumptions about the format of data interleaving and such that make it hard to port code. OpenGL is much more flexible.
Try to delete a file that's in use (something you can do in any Unix-like system). File in use? Whoops, can't do that. Wow, that's the ONE complain about the FS you have? Big deal.. it doesn't let you delete a file in use. The only really ligitimate use of that "feature" is to hide what your program is doing, which a ligitmate process shouldn't need to do anyway. I'm sorry, That causes problems during development ALL THE TIME. I can't tell you how many times I've had to sit for 30 minutes or so, or just reboot, because I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't let me delete or edit a file. That is on of the worst mis-features in windows. They just did it that because of laziness.
A lot of us laptop users have a large, 24" external screen we use while sitting at a desk. The 3D graphics cards aren't that bad, and they aren't a generation behind any longer. The biggest problem with laptops is the IO speed. However, the ability to take the computer home or on trips and still be able to work or play games is totally worth the performance loss.
IANAL, but that's actually not entirely true. Anyone who wants to use his code in a non-free application can pay for the commercial QT license. Since his code is BSD and Qt can be commercially licensed, its fine :-). Besides, you only have to buy one license. The other developers can use the GPL version for development and the final build can be built with the commercial version for release version.
There is another interesting side effect of this. If you release your app without Qt libraries and tell the user that have to get the Qt libraries for themselves, you are not distributing Qt, and therefore are not breaking the GPL. That is, the GPL says you can link it with a conflicting app on your OWN machine as long as you don't distribute them TOGETHER, it specifically says this. The "aggregation" concept refers to distribution, not physically being on the same hard drive. Since Qt CAN be non-GPL and you are distributing them together, a user can simply install the open-source versions of Qt, and run an non-GPL app with it without anyone ever breaking the license terms.
I have not read the GPL 3 yet.
That depends on which state he lives in. In a lot of states, you can be fired for no reason at all other than the employer doesn't want you to work there any longer. If they terminated him and said "we simply don't want you to work here," it could be very hard to win a court battle over wrongful termination. He would have to prove they did it for a given reason.
Catheters go up into the bladder, and they make it so that the patient doesn't have to have muscle control to release the urine. Patients with anesthesia in that area are actually unable to pee on their own, so a external tube wouldn't work.
Yeah, my sons love The Three Caballeros. I have seen it so many times that I have the Portuguese lyrics memorized.
According to comments posted by users of 10.5, there is already some software support for blu-ray discs.
I can't find the link in a cursory glance, but ThinkSecret also published some "rumors" about this.
So it's not purely speculation. It still may not happen, though.
I would mod the parent up if I had points. Note that VA Tech does not allow students or faculty to carry guns on school property, even if they have a concealed weapon permit. One armed student could have ended this right at the beginning.
Actually, that's not entirely true. Stores get to keep a portion of the sales tax as a fee for collecting it.
I have bootcamp installed. I can already READ my ntfs partition from OS X. No write support. FUSE does have some write support, so that's handy. I may use it.
One issue with using the "mental" argument for abortion is that it's becoming very clear that around the start of the second trimester, the fetus already has a fair bit of mental capability. It's also very difficult for us to know at what point this happens since it varies per fetus, and it's pretty darn hard to test. Babies born at 22-23 weeks, about half way through, are able to eat, and grow up to be healthy adults. Certainly a killing a newborn, regardless of the gestation, is a murder. It's pretty stupid to think because a child is inside the womb rather than outside that his/her sentience may vary. You obviously can't make that argument about a 2 week old embryo. The real legal argument in the US has always been whether or not the unborn have protections under the constitution and whether or not a women has control of her own body. Back to the subject of the post, amniocentesis is pretty dangerous. Most women probably wouldn't want to just go in and be a "donor". Puncturing the amniotic sac has caused a fairly large number of miscarriages. It's like popping a balloon hoping it seals back up before the air comes out. However, in the cases where the mother already decides that the test should be done, she could be asked if she would allow the cells to be used in medical research.
The interesting thing about the phrase is that both the accepted and modern commonly used version can easily be distinguished from each other. That is, the original version is an adjective that could easily be replace with "sucks": "Your argument begs the question." The newer "incorrect" version is followed by a question, which seems more natural given the english words used. I personally find misusing it a bit irritating, but the original phase in actually sort of a bad literal translation from latin. If I had lived in the time when the phrase was translated, I would probably have even more irritated at the translation that I am at people using the phrase to mean something else. We should also keep in mind that it's a PHRASE, not a single word. The WORDS in the phrase could easily mean the "incorrect" meaning, but have to be a bit twisted to mean the original one.
But I'm rambling...
I've known a fair number of homeless people in my lifetime. To my knowledge, only one of them had an E-mail address. He used to check it in the public library. Sadly, he was the sort that didn't really want to get back on his feet. He had jobs every so often, but he wouldn't work hard, and he'd act like he was better than everyone else, so he'd get fired. It's too bad, he was nice guy and very intelligent. Last time I saw him, he was living in a little boat housing on the property of someone I know. He has no electricity and his wooden roof leaks. He seems to be satified with that.
Starting with the 7800 GO, nvidia is directly supporting the GO chipsets with their drivers, which is good given that Dell like to never update them.
You must be new here.
Okay, I just checked. OOO DOES work with GCJ, so all of this discussion is really moot.
doesn't gcj run? java.sql works find in gcj (Are they ever using java.sql?). Couldn't they port/recompile all of the database stuff to that? I imagine they aren't doing any ui work in java.
The real question is: how easily could it be converted to used gcj.
Actually, it's Congress who gave them power. I think Congress delegates to organizations like this so that they won't be held directly responsible for stupid stuff like the broadcast flag. It gives them deniability.