I would say this is sort of what they are doing. This sort of thing doesn't make it any harder to make fixes in the future, it just gives a drop dead fix date sometime in the far future if we never figure out a better solution.
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The reason I never Voom was that they required a credit card to order. Note that I mean an actual credit card, not a debit card. Since there was no way I was going to get a credit card just to get their service, I didn't get it. I couldn't really get why they needed a credit card as opposed to a card tied into my bank account, seems like they could go after me just as easily if I bailed either way.
I think that's the point. The law would take away the right to obtain a service in exchange for allowing a company to spy on you in much the same way that the law takes away the right of a girl to have sex with someone for money. Now we can debate about whether this is or is not a good use of public policy, but the fundamental concept is that rights are being taken away, and we should consider whether it's appropriate to do so.
Don't know if you were kidding, but I think this is actually a great idea. Put that kind of sticker on all books in school that deal with theories be they biology or literature. It might just lead people think about what they believe more often.
Im certainly not advocating voting simply based on someones views of space travel, but the thing is, your comment is completly dismissive of the whole thing, if not outright critical. If you don't want to support Bush, then thats one thing, but theres no reason to not support one of his policies simply because he made it. It seems that too many people (especially on/.) are too ready to dismiss anything that Bush does, and even critcize it, simply because Bush is the one doing it. The problem with this attitude, is it can easily result in Bush doing away with these policies.
Yeah, I hope it does happen -- but I'm still not voting for the guy.
And thus you see why it will never happen. Everyone complains about how this is politically motivated and thus space geeks shouldn't support it. The thing is, if no one supports politcally motivated space programs, then politicians won't create any. Waiting for some mythical "true believer" to create perfect space program will result in waiting forever.
As of one day ago, as far as I know the memory issues had not been solved (I just talked to someone who talked to Srinidhi last night). Rather, for benchmark purposes, the RAM errors should not be a big deal since they can always rerun. For actually dealing with the errors, they plan on switching to ECC RAM machines once Apple is ready to ship them (presumably there is some type of special deal there, though I've heard nothing concrete about it).
I think you're wrong. Instead, Microsoft will simply patent every retarded thing they can think of, just so no one can sue them. They probably have people going through their code right now. All this does is give rise to stupid patents like Microsoft's on telling when another user is typing.
To answer your question, I have of course made several parsers. Anyway, I think I see the nature of your confusion. In general, for the purpose of generating tokens (most tokens anyway, things like nested comments must be done seperately), an fsm is all that is needed, and because an fsm (lexer) is more efficient than a fsm+stack (parser), a lexer is used for generating tokens. These tokens are then usually passed to a parser, which generates the parse tree (explicitly or implicitly). This does not mean that a parser is based on REs in any way though. In fact, a parser can be built with out a lexer, though this would usually be inefficient.
Parsers are not based on regular expressions. Lexers often use regular expresions to specify (though the REs are usually translated into an fsm), but parsers are a level up in the grammar hierarchy. I guess though you could say a lexer is a weak parser, but I think that would be rather confusing.
You say that using open source is a no-brainer and developing it is the problem. The problem is that's not what this quote says. The problem is finding support for your software products. Buisnesses don't care whether people can make a profit with open source, all they care about is getting the product, and support for it. To some extent they can now get the product, but for many things they can't get the support.
Recently somethingawful did an article about how some Americans love everything that comes out of Japan. This article seems like it was posted merely because it is about something Japanese that is not being released in America. Now admittedly some cool stuff comes out of Japan, but why must some people worship everthing that does?
refusing to pass bad anti-technology laws because the US government and entertainment industry and Religious Right wants them passed.
So...what anti-technology laws does the Religious Right want passed that actually have any chance at getting passed. Please exclude laws spearheaded by Lieberman, since that would make them laws come form the Religious Left. Also note that the Religious Right doesn't exist as such in Europe.
Many times the reason that companies stop making games or dissolve all together is they lose people. You say that Wing Commander was inexplicably dropped by Origin, but the reason they dropped it was that the creator, Chris Roberts IIRC, left after Wing Commander III. With out the driving force behind the series, it fizzled. This is the case for a large number of games, and often, unless you are following the development fairly closely, you will never know, and the game will seem to just disappear.
Ultimately, Enterprise reminds me of USA today: ignorantly pushing itself on the world and expecting to get better treatment than anyone else.
That's an interesting take. I think it should be trivally obvious how everything you said about the Enterprise crew could be applied to the way that many nations view the U.S.
I think this has as much to do with the change in the composition of the House and Senate as anything else. Since the incumbent nearly always wins, it only makes sense to give the incumbent more money. As Democrats have turned over the legislative branch to Republicans, they have received less of Microsoft's money, simply cause they were no longer as powerful.
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I would say this is sort of what they are doing. This sort of thing doesn't make it any harder to make fixes in the future, it just gives a drop dead fix date sometime in the far future if we never figure out a better solution.
The reason I never Voom was that they required a credit card to order. Note that I mean an actual credit card, not a debit card. Since there was no way I was going to get a credit card just to get their service, I didn't get it. I couldn't really get why they needed a credit card as opposed to a card tied into my bank account, seems like they could go after me just as easily if I bailed either way.
I think that's the point. The law would take away the right to obtain a service in exchange for allowing a company to spy on you in much the same way that the law takes away the right of a girl to have sex with someone for money. Now we can debate about whether this is or is not a good use of public policy, but the fundamental concept is that rights are being taken away, and we should consider whether it's appropriate to do so.
Don't know if you were kidding, but I think this is actually a great idea. Put that kind of sticker on all books in school that deal with theories be they biology or literature. It might just lead people think about what they believe more often.
Seeing as I'm likely to get 5-6 chances in my life to procreate, I don't intend to waste any of them.
Im certainly not advocating voting simply based on someones views of space travel, but the thing is, your comment is completly dismissive of the whole thing, if not outright critical. If you don't want to support Bush, then thats one thing, but theres no reason to not support one of his policies simply because he made it. It seems that too many people (especially on /.) are too ready to dismiss anything that Bush does, and even critcize it, simply because Bush is the one doing it. The problem with this attitude, is it can easily result in Bush doing away with these policies.
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Let's be serious. A bug in active script that "may allow access to a users files" is no where near the same magnitude of a remote root exploit.
As of one day ago, as far as I know the memory issues had not been solved (I just talked to someone who talked to Srinidhi last night). Rather, for benchmark purposes, the RAM errors should not be a big deal since they can always rerun. For actually dealing with the errors, they plan on switching to ECC RAM machines once Apple is ready to ship them (presumably there is some type of special deal there, though I've heard nothing concrete about it).
I think you're wrong. Instead, Microsoft will simply patent every retarded thing they can think of, just so no one can sue them. They probably have people going through their code right now. All this does is give rise to stupid patents like Microsoft's on telling when another user is typing.
To answer your question, I have of course made several parsers. Anyway, I think I see the nature of your confusion. In general, for the purpose of generating tokens (most tokens anyway, things like nested comments must be done seperately), an fsm is all that is needed, and because an fsm (lexer) is more efficient than a fsm+stack (parser), a lexer is used for generating tokens. These tokens are then usually passed to a parser, which generates the parse tree (explicitly or implicitly). This does not mean that a parser is based on REs in any way though. In fact, a parser can be built with out a lexer, though this would usually be inefficient.
I'm afraid you're wrong. Parsers are stack based. Try doing matching paranthesis with a lexer (or RE).
Parsers are not based on regular expressions. Lexers often use regular expresions to specify (though the REs are usually translated into an fsm), but parsers are a level up in the grammar hierarchy. I guess though you could say a lexer is a weak parser, but I think that would be rather confusing.
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Something makes me think that vaporizing the enemy soldiers would probably work adequetly for covering fire. You know, since frags don't shoot back.
You say that using open source is a no-brainer and developing it is the problem. The problem is that's not what this quote says. The problem is finding support for your software products. Buisnesses don't care whether people can make a profit with open source, all they care about is getting the product, and support for it. To some extent they can now get the product, but for many things they can't get the support.
Recently somethingawful did an article about how some Americans love everything that comes out of Japan. This article seems like it was posted merely because it is about something Japanese that is not being released in America. Now admittedly some cool stuff comes out of Japan, but why must some people worship everthing that does?
Many times the reason that companies stop making games or dissolve all together is they lose people. You say that Wing Commander was inexplicably dropped by Origin, but the reason they dropped it was that the creator, Chris Roberts IIRC, left after Wing Commander III. With out the driving force behind the series, it fizzled. This is the case for a large number of games, and often, unless you are following the development fairly closely, you will never know, and the game will seem to just disappear.
I think this has as much to do with the change in the composition of the House and Senate as anything else. Since the incumbent nearly always wins, it only makes sense to give the incumbent more money. As Democrats have turned over the legislative branch to Republicans, they have received less of Microsoft's money, simply cause they were no longer as powerful.