Wouldn't help. Santorum has his own copy of the Constitution that he and his Republican byatches have been writing from scratch.
Would someone please tell me WHY these people continue to get elected? Is half the population of the U.S. just completely blind and ignorant to the damage these guys are doing to our country? It's one thing to be pro-business. I love business. I love money. It's what makes the world tick. I write stock-trading software for a living, for bejeezus sake. Money is my lifeblood. But it's a completely other thing to be so pro-business that you completely destroy everything else and people like Santorum and his fellow hard-line conservatives are doing just that.
I'd rather see a Congress full of 100 moderate Republicans than a Congress of 99 Democrats and one Santorum, Frist or DeLay. Today's Republican party is a crock.
There is a difference between reverse-engineering something and writing it from scratch. Minix and Linux were written from scratch, following the POSIX standards. They are considered clones, but they are not reverse-engineered clones.
1) If the slave owners have alternate options regarding the thing they were working with you on, you either a) continue to work with them and try to affect change from the inside by making yourself critical to their success and removing the alternatives, which is a slow process, b) pressure the alternatives to agree with you, or c) try to forcefully take the power away from them (which may have a cost to you as well).
2) If they have no power (i.e. in order to continue as they are, they require whatever it is you give them) then you refuse to work with them until they abide by your rules.
This is world politics at its simplest. Look at North Korea. The U.S. tried to go straight to (2), but found that North Korea actually had power and alternate support options, so it is threatening (1c) while quietly doing (1b).
With Iraq, because the U.S. calculated the cost as low, they tried (1b) for a little while, then moved to (1c).
With respect to China, I suspect Google is doing (1a), trying to make themselves critical to the Chinese, after which they can start doing whatever the hell they want no matter what the Chinese government says. I consider (1a) to be the path favored by people of a more "liberal" mindset, which I think Google probably is.
I've tried watching Fox News. I found it to be completely void of thought. I also consider most other cable and network news sources completely void of thought as well. "Balance" is not what we need in today's world. We need truth, and Fox News has absolutely none of that.
I've found NPR, PBS and most independent news on the web to contain more insight and thoughtfulness about the day's news than can be found on Fox News and its ilk.
It's not the sharing of old songs that the industry has a problem with. It's the _idea_ of sharing. If they don't shut down even relatively innocent sharing sites, then other sharing sites gain more credibility and will be harder to shut down. It's an all or nothing deal with the industry. Sucks, but the mere mention of the word sharing throws the music industry into a tizzy.
You must be new here. Slashdot stopped being anywhere close to "new" and "relevant" many years ago. Christ, what with scooping stories from everywhere else months after the fact and the numerous duplicate posts, I'm amazed these guys can still get paid for what they're doing. I feel sorry for anyone who actually has a subscription to this site. Now, that's sad.
Look at those leftist NPR hacks, going and interviewing an actual computer scientist, rather than the business leaders, CEOs and MBAs who really make things happen. God, they just make me so mad, those commie Public Radio personalities with their "insightful" and "interesting" guests who think they're "oh, so smart" with their "science" and "knowledge" and "thoughtfulness" crap. Someone should shut them down! I want to hear a good old "Proud to be American" conservative commentator screaming at me and telling me how to think! God Bless Red America! Thank you and good night!
When you sell your house, you're most likely going to buy another one, so when there are more sellers, there are automatically more buyers, so your market is not tremendously affected by the increase in selling. Also, since there are always more people trying to get *into* the market (who doesn't want to own property?), the market is affected even less by an increase in sellers. Therefore, you may have dips in the real estate market, but you're never going to have a crash. Most likely, real estate values will reach a critical point where they can't go any higher (because there's not enough buyers at the high levels) and will then stagnate, or dip slightly. They may then stagnate for years, but I highly doubt they'll drop precipitously.
Premature Optimization is the DEVIL! I repeat, it is the gosh darn DEVIL! Don't do it. Write clear code so that I don't have to spend days trying to figure out what you are trying to do.
The biggest mistake I see in my professional (and unprofessional) life is programmers who try to optimize their code is all sorts of "733+" ways, trying to "trick" the compiler into removing 1 or 2 lines of assembly, yet completely disregard that they are using a map instead of a hash_map, or doing a linear search when they could do a binary search, or doing the same lookup multiple times, when they could do it just once. It's just silly, and goes to show that lots of programmers don't know how to optimize effectively.
Compilers are good. They optimize code well. Don't try to help them out unless you know your code has a definite bottleneck in a tight loop that needs hand tuning. Focus on using correct algorithms and designing your code from a high level to process data efficiently. Write your code in a clear and easy to read manner, so that you or some other programmer can easily figure out what's going on a few months down the line when you need to add fixes or new functionality. These are the ways to build efficient and maintainable systems, not by writing stuff that you could enter in an obfuscated code contest.
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That's the Homer mode you see there. "Shut.. Doh!"
That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
So, did you vote Republican in the last election?
No
Wouldn't help. Santorum has his own copy of the Constitution that he and his Republican byatches have been writing from scratch.
Would someone please tell me WHY these people continue to get elected? Is half the population of the U.S. just completely blind and ignorant to the damage these guys are doing to our country? It's one thing to be pro-business. I love business. I love money. It's what makes the world tick. I write stock-trading software for a living, for bejeezus sake. Money is my lifeblood. But it's a completely other thing to be so pro-business that you completely destroy everything else and people like Santorum and his fellow hard-line conservatives are doing just that.
I'd rather see a Congress full of 100 moderate Republicans than a Congress of 99 Democrats and one Santorum, Frist or DeLay. Today's Republican party is a crock.
There is a difference between reverse-engineering something and writing it from scratch. Minix and Linux were written from scratch, following the POSIX standards. They are considered clones, but they are not reverse-engineered clones.
1) If the slave owners have alternate options regarding the thing they were working with you on, you either a) continue to work with them and try to affect change from the inside by making yourself critical to their success and removing the alternatives, which is a slow process, b) pressure the alternatives to agree with you, or c) try to forcefully take the power away from them (which may have a cost to you as well).
2) If they have no power (i.e. in order to continue as they are, they require whatever it is you give them) then you refuse to work with them until they abide by your rules.
This is world politics at its simplest. Look at North Korea. The U.S. tried to go straight to (2), but found that North Korea actually had power and alternate support options, so it is threatening (1c) while quietly doing (1b).
With Iraq, because the U.S. calculated the cost as low, they tried (1b) for a little while, then moved to (1c).
With respect to China, I suspect Google is doing (1a), trying to make themselves critical to the Chinese, after which they can start doing whatever the hell they want no matter what the Chinese government says. I consider (1a) to be the path favored by people of a more "liberal" mindset, which I think Google probably is.
No, no. It's "A Last Hope..."
A last hope for Star Wars redemption.
A last hope before I throw my hands in the air crying, "Why George, why?"
Root is safe.
Beta is production.
Cats and Dogs, living together.
Mass hysteria, people!
Hey, timothy, get your act together! April 1st was two weeks ago!
Sheesh... Flying cars... As if...
I've tried watching Fox News. I found it to be completely void of thought. I also consider most other cable and network news sources completely void of thought as well. "Balance" is not what we need in today's world. We need truth, and Fox News has absolutely none of that.
I've found NPR, PBS and most independent news on the web to contain more insight and thoughtfulness about the day's news than can be found on Fox News and its ilk.
Exactly. This explains why President Bush is still in office.
Make sure you all save that edition of Techworld! There might be a bunch of money waiting for you in the future if you do!
Moore's Law is dead. Long live Moore's Law!
(To the tune of "She Drives Me Crazy" by the Fine Young Cannibals)
Mandriva's crazy, (ooh, ooh)
Like no one else, (ooh, ooh)
Mandriva's crazy,
and they need help right now...
aw, screw it...
It's not the sharing of old songs that the industry has a problem with. It's the _idea_ of sharing. If they don't shut down even relatively innocent sharing sites, then other sharing sites gain more credibility and will be harder to shut down. It's an all or nothing deal with the industry. Sucks, but the mere mention of the word sharing throws the music industry into a tizzy.
You must be new here. Slashdot stopped being anywhere close to "new" and "relevant" many years ago. Christ, what with scooping stories from everywhere else months after the fact and the numerous duplicate posts, I'm amazed these guys can still get paid for what they're doing. I feel sorry for anyone who actually has a subscription to this site. Now, that's sad.
Food Fight!
"I think I'll go for a walk!"
Look at those leftist NPR hacks, going and interviewing an actual computer scientist, rather than the business leaders, CEOs and MBAs who really make things happen. God, they just make me so mad, those commie Public Radio personalities with their "insightful" and "interesting" guests who think they're "oh, so smart" with their "science" and "knowledge" and "thoughtfulness" crap. Someone should shut them down! I want to hear a good old "Proud to be American" conservative commentator screaming at me and telling me how to think! God Bless Red America! Thank you and good night!
The thing about real estate is this:
When you sell your house, you're most likely going to buy another one, so when there are more sellers, there are automatically more buyers, so your market is not tremendously affected by the increase in selling. Also, since there are always more people trying to get *into* the market (who doesn't want to own property?), the market is affected even less by an increase in sellers. Therefore, you may have dips in the real estate market, but you're never going to have a crash. Most likely, real estate values will reach a critical point where they can't go any higher (because there's not enough buyers at the high levels) and will then stagnate, or dip slightly. They may then stagnate for years, but I highly doubt they'll drop precipitously.
I saw the words bomb and clerics and could only think of one thing...
One...Two...Five!
Three Sir!
Three!
If you were applying to Harvard, you better well know that this was wrong to do!
Also, these people were applying to Business School, which is done after you've already been in college. These were not high schoolers.
Frodo Lives! err... Lived!
It particularly disturbs me when in said decision, they relied on "world opinion" in this ruling. I don't have to explain to you why that's bad, do I?
So, what you're saying is that if the majority of the world says one thing, but the United States says another, then the United States is right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in a Democracy, majority rules.
"One of these days, Alice! One of these days..."
Premature Optimization is the DEVIL! I repeat, it is the gosh darn DEVIL! Don't do it. Write clear code so that I don't have to spend days trying to figure out what you are trying to do.
The biggest mistake I see in my professional (and unprofessional) life is programmers who try to optimize their code is all sorts of "733+" ways, trying to "trick" the compiler into removing 1 or 2 lines of assembly, yet completely disregard that they are using a map instead of a hash_map, or doing a linear search when they could do a binary search, or doing the same lookup multiple times, when they could do it just once. It's just silly, and goes to show that lots of programmers don't know how to optimize effectively.
Compilers are good. They optimize code well. Don't try to help them out unless you know your code has a definite bottleneck in a tight loop that needs hand tuning. Focus on using correct algorithms and designing your code from a high level to process data efficiently. Write your code in a clear and easy to read manner, so that you or some other programmer can easily figure out what's going on a few months down the line when you need to add fixes or new functionality. These are the ways to build efficient and maintainable systems, not by writing stuff that you could enter in an obfuscated code contest.