Would they have pulled their guns and blown his head off for this terrible crime?
From my knowledge of US produced films, I know that all US police officers have the right to shoot anyone in the back if they run away after the cops say "Stop or I'll shoot".
Capital punishment seems like overkill to me, especially for the crime of "running away".
And yes, I am happy for Slobodan Milosovic to remain locked up for the rest of his natural life if he is found guilty.
But businesses still prefer the pile of crap known as SourceSafe because it is cheaper. So why would I spend my time learning how Perforce works when the bean-counters won't ever consider buying it?
Of course there are freebie programs written by students in their spare time that claim to be source control programs, but you have to play a text adventure game to get them setup, and unlike Zork there are no decent strategy guides (CVS has just a pamphlet from O'reilly that doesn't cover any of the front ends!). Also it doesn't have CRCs or an analyze utility and has a chip on its shoulder about binary files. But this is veering offtopic...
So while making stuff available for personal use may be an important strategy, if you price things ridiculously like Maya used to be, or AlienBrain then they may not overcome a cheaper incumbant.
your plane is more than late. You are late. In the Six Feet Under sense.
Remember that the control surfaces on modern jets are not connected mechanically to the yoke, you are completely at the mercy of software. You don't want it to halt.
That is why planes use redundant systems - the requirement for reliability is for the system as a whole, not necessarily for an individual processor. The control services need to be accessible by the pilots (or auto-pilot) at all times.
Of course the trucks they use for tourists travelling cairo...capetown are quite meaty, when I've seen them at shows (lots of ground clearance, sleeps 20 people).
Oil production in the US peaked in the 1970s, as predicted by the people (not WWF) who predict that global oil production will peak real soon now. Prices will increase. This will be more noticeable in the US than in the EU since fuel taxes in the US are so low, which means the price is more volitile in percentage terms.
If you reverse the situation, you make everyone with cell phones happier ("Hey, my cell phone bill just went WAY down!") but you anger all the non-cell phone users ("What are all these extra charges on my bill?").
What, all ten of them living underneath some mountain? Who doesn't have a mobile? Landlines are for Internet (cable doesn't reach everywhere yet, and the price plans for cable cost more than my internet phone usage). I would say there are more in-use mobiles than in-use domestic landlines in northern european countries.
It costs me way less today to ring 12,000 miles to the other side of the world on my mobile than it did on a landline 8 years ago. Admittedly the mobile-to-mobile rate (across different networks) costs the same as that, which seems a bit steep. But that is nationwide so I don't get charged extra if they are at the beach for the weekend. Admittedly they do if the beach is in Spain, but they can choose to turn roving on or off.
All cellphone numbers start with 07. Other ranges of numbers are reserved for various things. There was much disruption while the phone number for London changed from 01 to 071/081 to 0171/0181 to 020(7/8) though - a boon for all stationary reprinting companies:-)
You can opt out of all junk phone calls by joining the Telephone Preference System. This applies to landlines as well as mobiles. If they ring you when you are on the TPS, you get medium large amounts of cash from them.
You don't pay for receiving calls, unless you are out of the country and are on a roving tariff (in which case you pay the bill for calling from your home country to the country you are currently in). It seems absolutely crazy to charge to receive calls, as this would cause the penetration of mobiles to drop dramatically as it would exclude poor people (e.g. many teenagers). Generally people I know receive lots of calls, and then spend up to their limit of outgoing calls and wait until they get more money.
Your moral rights (as in the Paris treaty) include two very important rights: you can claim to have written stuff that you have written, and no-one else can claim you have written stuff you didn't write.
If you as a computer user do not exercise due dilligence in reading the user agreements for software installed
The length and obscurity of EULAs means that most commercial software is very expensive - multiply a lawyers hourly rate by the size of the EULA for every weekly microsoft security update and you will find that IE or Win XP is very expensive indeed. At least you only need to read the GPL once, which should only take a couple of hours.
Instead of working at a higher level, using built-in Unicode Strings, well-designed collections classes (where you simply can't write "outside the box")...
Well that eliminates Java, at least until they support Generic coding properly. Java cannot even support a collection of ints (it can support one of Objects though, which you can typecast all over the place to be Integers if you don't care about type-safety or memory usage).
surely, since christmas island is administered by Australia.
There was a fuss recently about illegal immigrants parked near it, they were eventually sent to Nauru who needed the money. BTW Look at the map and you will see that Jakarta is far nearer than any decent sized Australian port.
So how does it fare under the Aussie laws? Is slashdot in danger of broken links?:-)
Do you think we should have cigarette vending machines in schools, as well?
That idea was on a news program last night:-) someone (in Norway) had actually followed through the politicians' rhetoric about "listening to kids" and did a survey on what kids really wanted.
Number one was for classes to be optional.
Number two was for smoking to be allowed.
I have to say, I don't agree with the "let them do what they please" way of thinking on that one. I guess if you were a libertarian, you could argue for the first but make it clear that if they didn't get a job, they could not get anything back from the state; this sounds vaguely like my prejudiced view of a 3rd world education system, where the kids are really keen to learn, to avoid starving later on.
Since the topic is about how to get kids fit, I fail to see how it is offtopic or a troll. Not exactly funny either, except in an ironic way (like the person who drives to a gym).
Obviously more contentious than I thought. When I was at school we brought relatively healthy sandwiches from home and drank water. Once a week I would have a meat pie and a doughnut. The coke addiction only started once I went to university.
I suppose you'd recommend taking a home economics class to meet chicks too right?
Strangely enough, I was the only boy in the cooking class too (different year).
At one stage I had to type in the option choices of 14yo students. It was very easy, since the boys all took tech drawing, woodwork and either metalwork or horticulture, and the girls took home economics, typing and something else I can't remember. I would hope that things have moved on since then!
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From my knowledge of US produced films, I know that all US police officers have the right to shoot anyone in the back if they run away after the cops say "Stop or I'll shoot".
Capital punishment seems like overkill to me, especially for the crime of "running away".
And yes, I am happy for Slobodan Milosovic to remain locked up for the rest of his natural life if he is found guilty.
But businesses still prefer the pile of crap known as SourceSafe because it is cheaper. So why would I spend my time learning how Perforce works when the bean-counters won't ever consider buying it?
Of course there are freebie programs written by students in their spare time that claim to be source control programs, but you have to play a text adventure game to get them setup, and unlike Zork there are no decent strategy guides (CVS has just a pamphlet from O'reilly that doesn't cover any of the front ends!). Also it doesn't have CRCs or an analyze utility and has a chip on its shoulder about binary files. But this is veering offtopic...
So while making stuff available for personal use may be an important strategy, if you price things ridiculously like Maya used to be, or AlienBrain then they may not overcome a cheaper incumbant.
I have put easter eggs in a program for a 64K machine (C64).
However, my current machine has less than 1K of RAM so I might have to be careful about usage.
Kids these days with their 256Mbyte personal organisers that fit into shirt pockets... pah!
Of course, the USA classifies it as a dangerous munition (they think Saddam will use it to write nuclear bomb simulations :-)
And frankly I'd rather not be in a plane that lost control for five minutes once a year.
Remember that the control surfaces on modern jets are not connected mechanically to the yoke, you are completely at the mercy of software. You don't want it to halt.
That is why planes use redundant systems - the requirement for reliability is for the system as a whole, not necessarily for an individual processor. The control services need to be accessible by the pilots (or auto-pilot) at all times.
You're thinking of Los Angeles.
Of course the trucks they use for tourists travelling cairo...capetown are quite meaty, when I've seen them at shows (lots of ground clearance, sleeps 20 people).
Oil production in the US peaked in the 1970s, as predicted by the people (not WWF) who predict that global oil production will peak real soon now. Prices will increase. This will be more noticeable in the US than in the EU since fuel taxes in the US are so low, which means the price is more volitile in percentage terms.
I guess they know how to spell; pity I don't.
http://www.hmso.gov.uk
If you reverse the situation, you make everyone with cell phones happier ("Hey, my cell phone bill just went WAY down!") but you anger all the non-cell phone users ("What are all these extra charges on my bill?").
What, all ten of them living underneath some mountain? Who doesn't have a mobile? Landlines are for Internet (cable doesn't reach everywhere yet, and the price plans for cable cost more than my internet phone usage). I would say there are more in-use mobiles than in-use domestic landlines in northern european countries.
It costs me way less today to ring 12,000 miles to the other side of the world on my mobile than it did on a landline 8 years ago. Admittedly the mobile-to-mobile rate (across different networks) costs the same as that, which seems a bit steep. But that is nationwide so I don't get charged extra if they are at the beach for the weekend. Admittedly they do if the beach is in Spain, but they can choose to turn roving on or off.
Introducing those changes should help you.
Your moral rights (as in the Paris treaty) include two very important rights: you can claim to have written stuff that you have written, and no-one else can claim you have written stuff you didn't write.
The length and obscurity of EULAs means that most commercial software is very expensive - multiply a lawyers hourly rate by the size of the EULA for every weekly microsoft security update and you will find that IE or Win XP is very expensive indeed. At least you only need to read the GPL once, which should only take a couple of hours.
Well that eliminates Java, at least until they support Generic coding properly. Java cannot even support a collection of ints (it can support one of Objects though, which you can typecast all over the place to be Integers if you don't care about type-safety or memory usage).
A fan of std::vector
Let me guess, they've been sending these files to radio stations recently?
Redmond has my vote.
Hey, don't pick on Nintendo! I love the GameCube!
Now that's a futile show. What's the point in watching if they are all mingers?
Well, I have to try to plug it!
I don't need that when there's C to be coded or slashdot to be read!
There was a fuss recently about illegal immigrants parked near it, they were eventually sent to Nauru who needed the money. BTW Look at the map and you will see that Jakarta is far nearer than any decent sized Australian port.
So how does it fare under the Aussie laws? Is slashdot in danger of broken links? :-)
I sometimes used to see Americans wearing those :-) or at least a Maple leaf on their backpack...
That idea was on a news program last night :-) someone (in Norway) had actually followed through the politicians' rhetoric about "listening to kids" and did a survey on what kids really wanted.
I have to say, I don't agree with the "let them do what they please" way of thinking on that one. I guess if you were a libertarian, you could argue for the first but make it clear that if they didn't get a job, they could not get anything back from the state; this sounds vaguely like my prejudiced view of a 3rd world education system, where the kids are really keen to learn, to avoid starving later on.
Since the topic is about how to get kids fit, I fail to see how it is offtopic or a troll. Not exactly funny either, except in an ironic way (like the person who drives to a gym).
Obviously more contentious than I thought. When I was at school we brought relatively healthy sandwiches from home and drank water. Once a week I would have a meat pie and a doughnut. The coke addiction only started once I went to university.
Strangely enough, I was the only boy in the cooking class too (different year).
At one stage I had to type in the option choices of 14yo students. It was very easy, since the boys all took tech drawing, woodwork and either metalwork or horticulture, and the girls took home economics, typing and something else I can't remember. I would hope that things have moved on since then!