Not quite the point I was trying to make. I don't think he wanted to die, even though he was stuck somewhere for half a lifetime. But even though he is released, he isn't going to be compensated. I say that the punishment he recieved is the same as being put to death. At that point, it would be the same to me.
Why would you? Have a great time getting any sort of real life started at the age of 50 or so. He might get a couple tens of thousands of dollars. Wow, big compensation. He's an OLD MAN now.
They owe him half of a lifetime. He should never have to work, never have to worry. He paid the debt of a murderer, and now he's probably going to get shafted around until he dies.
I despise the idea that my computer could rely on someone else's to operate. No way would I ever "rent" drivespace, bandwidth and programs from some company, whose entire purpose is to make more money. I don't believe that idea will ever take off, because it takes far too much freedom away from the consumer.
Now for the nice old lady who couldn't give a shit except for her email, then a net appliance is the best device out there for her. But there aren't too many people who only use their computer for email any more.
Don't forget that physics as we know it did not exist until that very specific time after the inital burst. I believe that was when the universe hit Plank Density, but I am unable to procure any info from google other than the plank density of wood. Someone who knows more can prrobably interject. I doubt sound at the beginning of time was even sound at that point.
If they put fucking ads on my DVD, it had damn well better be skippable or free, at most I will only compensate a small media fee and MAYBE a nominal production charge, if the movie warrants it. Why should I pay for ads, if the media allows skipping? THEY CHOSE THE DVD FORMAT, NOT ME. If the format lets me skip, they should have no say over it and try to bungle ads into the FBI warning slot (goddamn geniuses, what a use of fucking brainpower).
I believe if you use a "circumvention device", you are breaking the law as well. I could be wrong on that aspect, but I do know that importing said device (like the fabled playstation Yarzoe (or what ever it was named) connector) is also a violation.
They say, the purchase price of the movie is a LICENSE to view the material. They should not be able to stop me from doing whatever I want with it, including skipping their forcefed shit. If they reworded the agreement to state differently, this would be a different story. But that's not the way things are, and I will do what I goddamn well please with it.
Thanks, I have Redhat 4-9 (inclusive) and although I've been too lazy to install 9 on my last computer (AMD 1.333GHz) and my 8 box is a P200 and my 4.2 box is a 486/40, I will stick with my WinXP install. I actually downloaded PLTScheme, and I like the editor far better. (I don't really like emacs very much, I am more used to vi, and even more used to pico/nano).
Powerplants are far more efficient, and barely pollute. Cars are just very small, very inefficient powerplants. Running a fleet of electric cars off of coal will produce less pollution/waste than running a fleet of ICE cars on gasoline.
I think it shouldn't be immoral to "dispose of" people who restrict your rights so far that you have no recourse. Desperate times and all...
Over the past few months, I've accumulated a growing hatred for the self-proclaimed puppetmasters of our society. No one should feel that they have some sort of domineering power over everyone else. In fact, the president/congress should feel that we OWN thier bitch asses. There should be some way to motivate the president/congress into being for the proletariat, who represent 95% of this country.
Remember Mr. Puppetmaster, we do everything that makes this nation (United States, but can be transferred everywhere else) run. Give us a reason to keep doing it, or maybe we'll just stop.
I just downloaded MIT's Scheme and I must say it takes a little getting used to (like starting vi for the first time I guess, it really needs a better editor, for newbies anyway).
Not afraid of the time it takes, I've been actively writing C/C++ for about 6 years now (not bad for a 22yr old) and I can read it like it was my first language. Hopefully I can get that way with Scheme/Lisp, I know right now I have trouble following all the parentheses while writing lambdas, I keep forgetting one or I put too many in, etc...
Hell yeah, I just finished a recursive multiply function (I know it's simple, but this editor really sucks).
How much do you know about interpreter design and such? I have this project I've been working on and it's coming along, but I know jack about interpreter design, and everything that's there is what came out of my head, no real research into what has already been done, etc. I'll tell you more if you want to know. Any how thanks for the mini-lesson. Time to play with scheme.
One thing I'm having trouble grasping (and google sucked at explaining too), is the choose() statement. Is it a form of recursion that if it has no arguments it automatically triggers a jump back to the original choose()?
And if it does contain arguments, it actually will run until choose() is called again?
I must say, for being so fluent with Procedural and OO design I'm having some trouble grasping the whole continuation design. I'm probably going to download a Lisp compiler and screw around with it for a while to make sure I'm understanding all this. C's setjmp() and longjmp() make perfect sense to me, but that's like putting a freshwater fish in a saltwater tank, I can't get the full understanding until I write native code for it.
Out in Chicago, I know of a couple like that. If you get caught trying to change it, I believe you can get charged with impersonation of a police officer, if they want to be dicks about it.
One thing I'm trying to figure out, do you have to define the jump point of the continuation before using it, or does the language usually know where you want to jump to? Maybe you could show me a simple example, so I can see better. (I will google for it also, but I would still appreciate a description:))
If you have to define it in the first place, you could pretty easily implement that in a class in C++, maybe with a little assembler thrown in for fun, you could implement a simple jump point routine.
Is that semi-analogous to a catch/throw statement? I'm curious, because I've been attempting to develop a simple interpreter and the error handling is a bitch in C/C++. I imagine this "continuation" has a little more power in that it can jump back to where you exited, correct?
I am mal-informed on these paradigms, as I was schooled in COBOL and Assembler, and I myself have learned C/C++ and a bunch of other languages, but not python/ruby/etc, and such a small amount of Lisp that it's laughable...
There is a small town in Wisconsin whose main revenue is speeding tickets from their speed traps. They're right off of I-90, just before Eau Claire (I forget the name of the town, it starts with a 'T' I believe). It's too bad you can't just disregard the pigs (let's be honest, in this instance, they are pigs, tried and true) and be on your way.
Ballistics can though. You can tell the exact barrel the bullet was fired from, as well as the distance to target, and other details about the gun's location, angle etc...
On the subject of the box, how can you be sure that the data isn't falsified? The box would have to be read in front of the judge, never before, and be verified by an independant 3rd party for me to trust that the police didn't tamper with the information. A good portion of the revenue for the city comes from doling out violations, and I doubt that every judge/police dept is above falsifying information to get a higher paying conviction.
You can argue the same in a different manner, by stating that since all mass contains quanta, and all quanta is affected by all seperate quanta that interacts with it, nothing involving mass or energy (since mass IS energy) happens by chance. (Oversimplification, go look up quantum mechanics if you're truly interested).
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I've applied at such places as well, and I never get a call back. There is a lot of racism going on at some of those places, where the management only hires same-race people.
Also, with some simpler "walmart-esque" jobs, I've made the mistake of putting down all my qualifications. I often heard the phrase "overqualified". I don't know if that's just bunk or if they genuinely fear me quitting as soon as I find a better job, but regardless, it happens.
Places that DO work however, are factories. They usually don't give a shit about anything on your application (good or bad), and the pay is okay to subside on. However, I did some work at Motorola a while back, and they were damn slave drivers. You miss one day (like, being sick, not no-call, no-show).. BOOM you're gone. You get tied up at the security checkin? Fired. (That happened to me, I was there on time every day, but that check-in, which I argue is time on the job, fucked me over twice, total time missing was
I don't know where I was going with that last paragraph, other than it's just a really temporary solution, not only because the work environment was just wretched, but your job is even more temporary there than at your last one. So always have a backup.
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There's also the people who have just graduated and have a negative nest egg from their college expenses. I have a good friend who teaches and makes very little doing so, making it hard to make a nest egg, plus the 300 a month FAFSA is trying to extort from him a month. That's almost more than his rent.
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Not quite the point I was trying to make. I don't think he wanted to die, even though he was stuck somewhere for half a lifetime. But even though he is released, he isn't going to be compensated. I say that the punishment he recieved is the same as being put to death. At that point, it would be the same to me.
I would rather die than be locked away for 27.
Especially for a crime I didn't commit.
He was saying that since water won't evaporate that no rain will be produced. Not that it would eat the water.
Why would you? Have a great time getting any sort of real life started at the age of 50 or so. He might get a couple tens of thousands of dollars. Wow, big compensation. He's an OLD MAN now.
They owe him half of a lifetime. He should never have to work, never have to worry. He paid the debt of a murderer, and now he's probably going to get shafted around until he dies.
As long as I have the ability to have my own machine, with its own storage, everyone lives :)....
Just one thing:
I despise the idea that my computer could rely on someone else's to operate. No way would I ever "rent" drivespace, bandwidth and programs from some company, whose entire purpose is to make more money. I don't believe that idea will ever take off, because it takes far too much freedom away from the consumer.
Now for the nice old lady who couldn't give a shit except for her email, then a net appliance is the best device out there for her. But there aren't too many people who only use their computer for email any more.
Shit, I figured I spelled it wrong, but so did a lot of people on Everything2 as well. At least I'm not the only one....
Don't forget that physics as we know it did not exist until that very specific time after the inital burst. I believe that was when the universe hit Plank Density, but I am unable to procure any info from google other than the plank density of wood. Someone who knows more can prrobably interject. I doubt sound at the beginning of time was even sound at that point.
Yes indeed, no governmental appendage should be allowed to fund itself. It allows for easy corruption, ESPECIALLY the damn police.
What the fuck is DURRR?
If they put fucking ads on my DVD, it had damn well better be skippable or free, at most I will only compensate a small media fee and MAYBE a nominal production charge, if the movie warrants it. Why should I pay for ads, if the media allows skipping? THEY CHOSE THE DVD FORMAT, NOT ME. If the format lets me skip, they should have no say over it and try to bungle ads into the FBI warning slot (goddamn geniuses, what a use of fucking brainpower).
I believe if you use a "circumvention device", you are breaking the law as well. I could be wrong on that aspect, but I do know that importing said device (like the fabled playstation Yarzoe (or what ever it was named) connector) is also a violation.
They say, the purchase price of the movie is a LICENSE to view the material. They should not be able to stop me from doing whatever I want with it, including skipping their forcefed shit. If they reworded the agreement to state differently, this would be a different story. But that's not the way things are, and I will do what I goddamn well please with it.
Thanks, I have Redhat 4-9 (inclusive) and although I've been too lazy to install 9 on my last computer (AMD 1.333GHz) and my 8 box is a P200 and my 4.2 box is a 486/40, I will stick with my WinXP install. I actually downloaded PLTScheme, and I like the editor far better. (I don't really like emacs very much, I am more used to vi, and even more used to pico/nano).
Powerplants are far more efficient, and barely pollute. Cars are just very small, very inefficient powerplants. Running a fleet of electric cars off of coal will produce less pollution/waste than running a fleet of ICE cars on gasoline.
I think it shouldn't be immoral to "dispose of" people who restrict your rights so far that you have no recourse. Desperate times and all...
Over the past few months, I've accumulated a growing hatred for the self-proclaimed puppetmasters of our society. No one should feel that they have some sort of domineering power over everyone else. In fact, the president/congress should feel that we OWN thier bitch asses. There should be some way to motivate the president/congress into being for the proletariat, who represent 95% of this country.
Remember Mr. Puppetmaster, we do everything that makes this nation (United States, but can be transferred everywhere else) run. Give us a reason to keep doing it, or maybe we'll just stop.
I just downloaded MIT's Scheme and I must say it takes a little getting used to (like starting vi for the first time I guess, it really needs a better editor, for newbies anyway).
Not afraid of the time it takes, I've been actively writing C/C++ for about 6 years now (not bad for a 22yr old) and I can read it like it was my first language. Hopefully I can get that way with Scheme/Lisp, I know right now I have trouble following all the parentheses while writing lambdas, I keep forgetting one or I put too many in, etc...
Hell yeah, I just finished a recursive multiply function (I know it's simple, but this editor really sucks).
How much do you know about interpreter design and such? I have this project I've been working on and it's coming along, but I know jack about interpreter design, and everything that's there is what came out of my head, no real research into what has already been done, etc. I'll tell you more if you want to know. Any how thanks for the mini-lesson. Time to play with scheme.
One thing I'm having trouble grasping (and google sucked at explaining too), is the choose() statement. Is it a form of recursion that if it has no arguments it automatically triggers a jump back to the original choose()?
And if it does contain arguments, it actually will run until choose() is called again?
I must say, for being so fluent with Procedural and OO design I'm having some trouble grasping the whole continuation design. I'm probably going to download a Lisp compiler and screw around with it for a while to make sure I'm understanding all this. C's setjmp() and longjmp() make perfect sense to me, but that's like putting a freshwater fish in a saltwater tank, I can't get the full understanding until I write native code for it.
Out in Chicago, I know of a couple like that. If you get caught trying to change it, I believe you can get charged with impersonation of a police officer, if they want to be dicks about it.
So then I guess that continuations cannot really be an after thought to a language design, but rather require some sort of language cooperation.
I assume that the compiler handles all the stack unwinding and memory deallocation should you choose to jump out of a deeply nested block.
And I am also assuming that Fail is your call/cc function correct?
One more assumption: the function choose(), am I going too far by assuming that it is more than just a representation for a for loop?
Thanks.
One thing I'm trying to figure out, do you have to define the jump point of the continuation before using it, or does the language usually know where you want to jump to? Maybe you could show me a simple example, so I can see better. (I will google for it also, but I would still appreciate a description :))
If you have to define it in the first place, you could pretty easily implement that in a class in C++, maybe with a little assembler thrown in for fun, you could implement a simple jump point routine.
Is that semi-analogous to a catch/throw statement? I'm curious, because I've been attempting to develop a simple interpreter and the error handling is a bitch in C/C++. I imagine this "continuation" has a little more power in that it can jump back to where you exited, correct?
I am mal-informed on these paradigms, as I was schooled in COBOL and Assembler, and I myself have learned C/C++ and a bunch of other languages, but not python/ruby/etc, and such a small amount of Lisp that it's laughable...
There is a small town in Wisconsin whose main revenue is speeding tickets from their speed traps. They're right off of I-90, just before Eau Claire (I forget the name of the town, it starts with a 'T' I believe). It's too bad you can't just disregard the pigs (let's be honest, in this instance, they are pigs, tried and true) and be on your way.
I didn't say that I did. I was thinking about putting a disclaimer in there, I guess I should have...
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I just know it can be done
Ballistics can though. You can tell the exact barrel the bullet was fired from, as well as the distance to target, and other details about the gun's location, angle etc...
On the subject of the box, how can you be sure that the data isn't falsified? The box would have to be read in front of the judge, never before, and be verified by an independant 3rd party for me to trust that the police didn't tamper with the information. A good portion of the revenue for the city comes from doling out violations, and I doubt that every judge/police dept is above falsifying information to get a higher paying conviction.
You can argue the same in a different manner, by stating that since all mass contains quanta, and all quanta is affected by all seperate quanta that interacts with it, nothing involving mass or energy (since mass IS energy) happens by chance. (Oversimplification, go look up quantum mechanics if you're truly interested).
I've applied at such places as well, and I never get a call back. There is a lot of racism going on at some of those places, where the management only hires same-race people.
Also, with some simpler "walmart-esque" jobs, I've made the mistake of putting down all my qualifications. I often heard the phrase "overqualified". I don't know if that's just bunk or if they genuinely fear me quitting as soon as I find a better job, but regardless, it happens.
Places that DO work however, are factories. They usually don't give a shit about anything on your application (good or bad), and the pay is okay to subside on. However, I did some work at Motorola a while back, and they were damn slave drivers. You miss one day (like, being sick, not no-call, no-show).. BOOM you're gone. You get tied up at the security checkin? Fired. (That happened to me, I was there on time every day, but that check-in, which I argue is time on the job, fucked me over twice, total time missing was
I don't know where I was going with that last paragraph, other than it's just a really temporary solution, not only because the work environment was just wretched, but your job is even more temporary there than at your last one. So always have a backup.
There's also the people who have just graduated and have a negative nest egg from their college expenses. I have a good friend who teaches and makes very little doing so, making it hard to make a nest egg, plus the 300 a month FAFSA is trying to extort from him a month. That's almost more than his rent.