Ashcroft let Carnahan win (in other words, didn't chellenge his name on the ballot) so the Governor of Oklahoma could appoint his widow to fill the term.
At least the Dems know both their geography and election law. AG Asscrack is from Missouri, not Oklahoma. He couldn't challange Carnahan's name on the ballot under Missouri state election law.
Republican lies always sound plausible. Good thing they aren't very competent at providing documentation. Next thing ya know, they'll be telling us in a State of the Union speech that Iraq was buying Uranium from Africa and we need to go to war to defend ourselves.
Oh, wait, Shrub did that already. So let me see if I understand this. If POTUS lies about his private sex life, we should impeach him. But if he lies about WMD and puts our sons and daughters in harms way to protect his oil buddy's profits, we should cheer his patriotism.
The diff in size might just be a reflection of which language actually got used and developed a largish following. The early versions of C++ (C w/ classes) weren't too much bigger than C. Same w/ XML. The original XML was released in a little blue pamphlet of about 20 pages. Now we have XML, XPath, XMLSchema, and XMLCuresCancerAndCreatesWorldPeace. More users means more feature requests and more demands for better interoperability as ambiguities are found in the current standard. More features and better interoperability brings more users.
1. looks odd That's part of the reason. Its OBVIOUS what you are trying to do.
2. doesn't follow math rules What rules are you talking about? The equation y = x + 1 is identical to the equation x + 1 = y. Yes, we most often solve equations by reducing the left side to a single var with the right side being the numeric answer or expression, but that is merely a convention.
3. logically the part you compare your variable TO follows it, ie. goes on the right hand side. Again, we do this only by convention, like the side of the street you drive on. I wonder how people who write from left to right (Arabic and Hebrew) or from top to bottom do their derivations. Does (NULL == foo) seem unnatural to them?
But I can sorta sympathise as well. Grep, for example, drives me crazy. 1st time I use it in the day, I want to grep FILE EXP (i.e. "Look in the drawer for the socks"). But its really grep EXP FILE ("Look for the socks in the drawer"). Its backwards. Links are similarly confusing to me -- ln NEW OLD ("Link NEW_NAME to OLD_FILE") should be correct. But its really ln OLD [NEW] ("Create a link from OLD_FILE to NEW_NAME"). It seems unnatural to me.
Yes, it does. So does every other C compiler I've ever used (quite a few). I suspect the original poster may be the sort who ignores warnings....
Nope, just old enough to remember when the compiler's didn't catch this. Since I still use the trick, I haven't noticed that the compilers have caught up.
None of that bug report is at all useful if there is no logical way for all of those preconditions they listed to actually be met.
Well, Yes and No. The problem is that there may be no logical way that the pointer may be NULL today. But tomorrow, a new coder will add something that modifies the preconditions and suddenly that pointer can indeed be NULL. Even where you are sure that a condition is impossible, it is usually a good idea to check for NULL in order to avoid future errors.
And for those who haven't seen this trick before,
a nice habit to get into is to write your checks like so:
if (NULL == myPointer) {... }
This lets the compiler catch errors where you meant '==' rather than just '='. As in
/* Do we really mean this? */ if (myPointer = NULL) {... }
Thawte wants to have my Social Security Number, address, shoe size, and employer name in order to enroll. Thawte does claim that they will never, ever divulge this info to anyone. But I've never met a CEO with that kind of data who wasn't eventually tempted into selling it. Screw 'em. The Post Office might be a much better scheme if I only have to show up at a Post Office in person and show them my ID (drivers lic, passport, etc) without having to divulge this info to the CA.
Is it to delineate the end of the acronym or for the same reason that do not becomes don't? The apostrophe represents the missing letters in L[icens]ed. To quote Frank Zappa, "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe."
I'm aware of the McDonald's case (coffee so hot it burned a women's genitals when it spilled). By frivolous, I'm thinking more along the lines of the SCO sillyness. On the surface, that would pass a judge's frivolity test, but underneath, it is pure FUD and Boies and friends should have to pay all of the associated court costs if SCO loses.
You are both right. There are times when defendents need to be wacked up the side of the head with every law book in the library and made to pay enough to run them out of business. But there are a lot of frivolous lawsuits as well. I would place no limits on pain and suffering awards where someone's life was ended or made forever miserable as a result of the defendent's actions. But I like the idea of loser pays in the event that the lawsuit is deemed frivolous by the court. Even better would be to make the plaintiff's lawyer pay in the event the lawsuit is declared frivolous. This would serve as a check on the worst of the ambulance chaser class of lawyers.
The American public needs to DE-ELECT and RETIRE Senator Hatch as soon as possible, it would seem!
Not likely, he's a Senator from Utah. You know, that state where SCO is HQ'd. Maybe the EPA or the CDC should take a look at putting a quarantine around Utah. Something seems to causing a local epidemic of extra stupidity. I hope it isn't something you can catch.
Since a process scheduler is such a well studied piece of Computer Science theory, it might be that the code in both Linux and SCO's Unix is derived from the same published, academic source.
Transitions like this can be quite expensive. One reason why the move to metric is so slow in spite of the system's advantages is that mechanics will require two sets of tools until long after all new cars are 100% metric. I've had several cars from US auto cos that used a bizarre mixture of both metric and standard bolts. A carb might be held onto the manifold with standard bolts, but the manifold is held onto the head with metric bolts.
From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!
My daughter and I watched CCBB a couple of nights ago. Just when I'd stopped that song from occupying a slot in my brain's process table, your.sig comes along. Doh!
Depends on how they wrote the reg. If it is based on a definition of tele-marketing as any series of calls where the length of the series is larger than N unless the purpose of the call is X, Y, or Z, then academic research better be listed as one of X, Y, or Z if the research requires a sample size greater than N.
What effect will this have on academic research in the social sciences that uses telephone surveys? Will these still be legal? How about market research calls such as the call I got yesterday about my radio listening habits? Are these still legal? I do know that the list does not cover political calls or calls from non-profit groups, but what else is not covered?
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Beer looses all its taste when it gets too cold, which should tell you a lot about the stuff they sell in the states as beer.
Some friends of mine used to have a beer tasting contest. Everyone brought their favorite brew, everyone tasted each and then were blindfolded and had to try and identify brands. One year, two guys managed to identify all 50+ brands. To break the tie, we went and got every bad light American beer we could find. We put them in a freezer to absolutely kill any taste. Result? The two winners were able to identify all of the light beers. Maybe it was a statistical fluke, but these guys seemed to think that even near frozen light beers have distinct identifiable tastes.
Agreed. FoTR did a decent job. The diffs between book and movie were acceptable and I really enjoyed the scene w/ the Balrog.
TTT sucked. Its as if Jackson and the actors had become bored with the project as a serious subject and decided to put a video game on the screen instead. I'll probably go and see the RoTK, but I'll do so with a sense of dread rather than anticipation.
The museum looting story seems to have been overblown. During much of the looting of the museum, US forces were under fire from inside the museum and could not have prevented the looting without damaging the museum itself.
What about hospitals? What about classrooms? What about restoring power and water supplies?
You think that kind of infrastructure just gets restored overnight? Shit, we had a squirrel zap one of our transformers yesterday. The circuit has 100 families on it. It took the local power company 6 hours to get our power turned back on. Multiply that by a whole country...
And for the record, Iraq has a lower adult literacy rate (58%) than neighbors Jordan (89%) and Syria (65%). Primary education in Iraq has consisted mostly of lessons on the greatness of Saddam Hussein. And also for the record, much of Iraq's long tradition of "civilization" has consisted of conquering and looting its neighbors.
How is Afghanistan doing these days?
Afghanistan is probably better off today than at any time since the start of the Soviet invasion.
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Ashcroft let Carnahan win (in other words, didn't chellenge his name on the ballot) so the Governor of Oklahoma could appoint his widow to fill the term.
At least the Dems know both their geography and election law. AG Asscrack is from Missouri, not Oklahoma. He couldn't challange Carnahan's name on the ballot under Missouri state election law.
Republican lies always sound plausible. Good thing they aren't very competent at providing documentation. Next thing ya know, they'll be telling us in a State of the Union speech that Iraq was buying Uranium from Africa and we need to go to war to defend ourselves.
Oh, wait, Shrub did that already. So let me see if I understand this. If POTUS lies about his private sex life, we should impeach him. But if he lies about WMD and puts our sons and daughters in harms way to protect his oil buddy's profits, we should cheer his patriotism.
Class act, those Republicans.
The diff in size might just be a reflection of which language actually got used and developed a largish following. The early versions of C++ (C w/ classes) weren't too much bigger than C. Same w/ XML. The original XML was released in a little blue pamphlet of about 20 pages. Now we have XML, XPath, XMLSchema, and XMLCuresCancerAndCreatesWorldPeace. More users means more feature requests and more demands for better interoperability as ambiguities are found in the current standard. More features and better interoperability brings more users.
Take a look at Mike Stonebraker's work.
1. looks odd That's part of the reason. Its OBVIOUS what you are trying to do.
2. doesn't follow math rules What rules are you talking about? The equation y = x + 1 is identical to the equation x + 1 = y. Yes, we most often solve equations by reducing the left side to a single var with the right side being the numeric answer or expression, but that is merely a convention.
3. logically the part you compare your variable TO follows it, ie. goes on the right hand side. Again, we do this only by convention, like the side of the street you drive on. I wonder how people who write from left to right (Arabic and Hebrew) or from top to bottom do their derivations. Does (NULL == foo) seem unnatural to them?
But I can sorta sympathise as well. Grep, for example, drives me crazy. 1st time I use it in the day, I want to grep FILE EXP (i.e. "Look in the drawer for the socks"). But its really grep EXP FILE ("Look for the socks in the drawer"). Its backwards. Links are similarly confusing to me -- ln NEW OLD ("Link NEW_NAME to OLD_FILE") should be correct. But its really ln OLD [NEW] ("Create a link from OLD_FILE to NEW_NAME"). It seems unnatural to me.
Yes, it does. So does every other C compiler I've ever used (quite a few). I suspect the original poster may be the sort who ignores warnings....
Nope, just old enough to remember when the compiler's didn't catch this. Since I still use the trick, I haven't noticed that the compilers have caught up.
Well, Yes and No. The problem is that there may be no logical way that the pointer may be NULL today. But tomorrow, a new coder will add something that modifies the preconditions and suddenly that pointer can indeed be NULL. Even where you are sure that a condition is impossible, it is usually a good idea to check for NULL in order to avoid future errors.
And for those who haven't seen this trick before, a nice habit to get into is to write your checks like so:
This lets the compiler catch errors where you meant '==' rather than just '='. As in
96% conviction rate. It helps that they generally know where you live, but within thyre domain, they kick some ass.
Unless its an anthrax case...
But to be fair, IIRC it was a Postal Inspector who caught the Unibomber and that case took years to solve.
Thawte wants to have my Social Security Number, address, shoe size, and employer name in order to enroll. Thawte does claim that they will never, ever divulge this info to anyone. But I've never met a CEO with that kind of data who wasn't eventually tempted into selling it. Screw 'em. The Post Office might be a much better scheme if I only have to show up at a Post Office in person and show them my ID (drivers lic, passport, etc) without having to divulge this info to the CA.
Is it to delineate the end of the acronym or for the same reason that do not becomes don't? The apostrophe represents the missing letters in L[icens]ed. To quote Frank Zappa, "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe."
I spent years living in the Southland. Look harder, there are great brewpubs all over the South.
Congo is a former Belgian colony, not French.
I'm aware of the McDonald's case (coffee so hot it burned a women's genitals when it spilled). By frivolous, I'm thinking more along the lines of the SCO sillyness. On the surface, that would pass a judge's frivolity test, but underneath, it is pure FUD and Boies and friends should have to pay all of the associated court costs if SCO loses.
You are both right. There are times when defendents need to be wacked up the side of the head with every law book in the library and made to pay enough to run them out of business. But there are a lot of frivolous lawsuits as well. I would place no limits on pain and suffering awards where someone's life was ended or made forever miserable as a result of the defendent's actions. But I like the idea of loser pays in the event that the lawsuit is deemed frivolous by the court. Even better would be to make the plaintiff's lawyer pay in the event the lawsuit is declared frivolous. This would serve as a check on the worst of the ambulance chaser class of lawyers.
a perfect example of how partisan, rancorous our political world in the U.S. has become.
Go read some history. Twas ever thus. From a campaign song from the 1860 nomination fight between Lincoln and Seward:
Seward rides a white horse
Lincoln rides a mule
Seward is a gentleman
Lincoln is a fool!
Can't remember the 2nd verse except the last line
Seward mumble, mumble
Lincoln blah de blah
Seward is a something good
Lincoln is an ass!
The American public needs to DE-ELECT and RETIRE Senator Hatch as soon as possible, it would seem!
Not likely, he's a Senator from Utah. You know, that state where SCO is HQ'd. Maybe the EPA or the CDC should take a look at putting a quarantine around Utah. Something seems to causing a local epidemic of extra stupidity. I hope it isn't something you can catch.
2. As demand increases, so does price.
...
3. Therefore
Supply will increase since the producer is making more than a normal profit thus enticing new companies to enter the market.
Since a process scheduler is such a well studied piece of Computer Science theory, it might be that the code in both Linux and SCO's Unix is derived from the same published, academic source.
SCO is derived from Minix? That explains a lot.
Transitions like this can be quite expensive. One reason why the move to metric is so slow in spite of the system's advantages is that mechanics will require two sets of tools until long after all new cars are 100% metric. I've had several cars from US auto cos that used a bizarre mixture of both metric and standard bolts. A carb might be held onto the manifold with standard bolts, but the manifold is held onto the head with metric bolts.
Laos owned it? I'd always assumed that .la was assigned to Lower Alabama. Learn something new every day.
From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!
.sig comes along. Doh!
My daughter and I watched CCBB a couple of nights ago. Just when I'd stopped that song from occupying a slot in my brain's process table, your
Depends on how they wrote the reg. If it is based on a definition of tele-marketing as any series of calls where the length of the series is larger than N unless the purpose of the call is X, Y, or Z, then academic research better be listed as one of X, Y, or Z if the research requires a sample size greater than N.
What effect will this have on academic research in the social sciences that uses telephone surveys? Will these still be legal? How about market research calls such as the call I got yesterday about my radio listening habits? Are these still legal? I do know that the list does not cover political calls or calls from non-profit groups, but what else is not covered?
Beer looses all its taste when it gets too cold, which should tell you a lot about the stuff they sell in the states as beer.
Some friends of mine used to have a beer tasting contest. Everyone brought their favorite brew, everyone tasted each and then were blindfolded and had to try and identify brands. One year, two guys managed to identify all 50+ brands. To break the tie, we went and got every bad light American beer we could find. We put them in a freezer to absolutely kill any taste. Result? The two winners were able to identify all of the light beers. Maybe it was a statistical fluke, but these guys seemed to think that even near frozen light beers have distinct identifiable tastes.
Agreed. FoTR did a decent job. The diffs between book and movie were acceptable and I really enjoyed the scene w/ the Balrog.
TTT sucked. Its as if Jackson and the actors had become bored with the project as a serious subject and decided to put a video game on the screen instead. I'll probably go and see the RoTK, but I'll do so with a sense of dread rather than anticipation.
The museum looting story seems to have been overblown. During much of the looting of the museum, US forces were under fire from inside the museum and could not have prevented the looting without damaging the museum itself.
What about hospitals? What about classrooms? What about restoring power and water supplies?
You think that kind of infrastructure just gets restored overnight? Shit, we had a squirrel zap one of our transformers yesterday. The circuit has 100 families on it. It took the local power company 6 hours to get our power turned back on. Multiply that by a whole country...
And for the record, Iraq has a lower adult literacy rate (58%) than neighbors Jordan (89%) and Syria (65%). Primary education in Iraq has consisted mostly of lessons on the greatness of Saddam Hussein. And also for the record, much of Iraq's long tradition of "civilization" has consisted of conquering and looting its neighbors.
How is Afghanistan doing these days?
Afghanistan is probably better off today than at any time since the start of the Soviet invasion.