What if one of these agents refuses to kill itself when ignored? What if it instead keeps cloning itself thousands of times, and becomes even more powerful?
And doesn't it strike you as odd that your child feel the need to lie to you?
What??? A teenager lying to their parents? MY GOD, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard!!!
Come on, kids, and especially teenagers, lie. That's part of being a teenager. Just because you didn't do it very often doesn't mean others don't.
Sure, you need to give teenagers a little more space and let them make their own decisions. But do you think that most kids who had sex at a young age, drank, or taken drugs did so because they wanted to? Most of the time they did it because of peer pressure. I mean, don't you think every child that has taken drugs knew they were bad? Of course they did. But children don't always make the right decisions and while you want your child to make their own mistakes and learn from them some bad decisions can can seriously harm or even kill them. That's something that, as a parent, you try to ensure doesn't happen.
IMO, you shouldn't drop your child off at a party that has no parents, has alcohol, drugs, etc, at the age of 15. As a parent it's your responsibility to make sure your kids not only know right from wrong, but that they also aren't put in unnecessarily risky or dangerous situations.
But the new G5 units are way cheaper than similarly performing Windoze CPUs from Dell, IBM, etc. Sure you can put together a piece o'crap whitebox for less, but what you won't be getting a seamlessly integrated hardware/software solution.
Uh, so a computer build from scratch using the same parts (or better) than the Dell counterpart, is a "piece o'crap"? Why is this exactly?
Oh, and I got a newsflash for ya: Dell computers aren't born assembled. Believe it or not, Dell PCs are built by buying the hardware, jacking up the price, and, gasp, assembling them! Just the same as doing it yourself (but without the price jack;))!
Dell's computers aren't more "seamlessly integrated" than any other PC built by someone who knows what they are doing.
But remember, the manual labor jobs will be slowly going away over a period of time. During that time the older manual labor work force will retire, leaving just the younger manual labor work force. And while some of those will keep what manual labor jobs and left, others will go back to school for a higher education. And of course the new generation entering the workforce will be required to have a higher education to get a job.
most compilers worth their salt will eleminate the temporary local variables for code like this at compile time. It's a technique called return value optimization.
I'm sure I'll get moderated down for this post, but how dumb are some people anyways?
According to the article the US government did not write this! So wtf are so many poeple blaming the US goverment for this???
Also, is not a law! It's a freaking draft that a US citizen is writing up to give to the new Iraqi government, when established. It's totally up to the Iraqi goverment if they want to make the draft a law or not.
Apparently half the/. readers think that because a US citizen suggests something to another country, that it means US government is forcing US values on that country.
I'm inclined to agree with you to a point. However, once could also say the same thing about a bank robbery, yet nobody is held accountable for standing there and letting the criminals hold up the bank.
As long as there is no immediate danger in trying to stop the illegal act, then yes, the person could/should be held accountable for not helping, but I don't think they would be "as guilty as the person actually doing the crime".
Still, I have a hard time understanding why the footage itself is considered illegal. Don't get me wrong, I think anybody who posseses child porn is sick. Then again, I think anybody who rents Faces of Death is sick too. But why is one illegal and not the other?
Actually, whether or not the picture gets posted/downloaded by people does not hurt the child, it's the actual act of what they did to the child that hurts him/her.
You can watch your favorite cop show and see movies of people doing illegal things, but taping it isn't illegal.
Uh, you do realize not every country has the exact same age limits on what is considered "child porn", don't you?
So do the ISP's that host a LEGAL (in that country) porn sites deserve to get all their other sites on that server blocked as well just because another country may consider that one site offensive?
I mean, that ISP certainly did nothing wrong in hosting that one site.
Maybe it's not a movie your 7 year old should see. My 5 year old girl and 9 year old boy were just fine. If you would have read any reviews on the movie you'd see that everyone is stating that it's darker and scarier than the first.
If I'm not mistaken, it's rated PG, which means that some children may not be able to handle such material. Every child is different, so it's up to the parents to decide what their children can handle.
- Houdini
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That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard, Viol8. Just because it's possible to write applications or operating systems without using patterns doesn't mean that it's better to write them without using patterns.
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I absolutely agree. At our work nobody has ever picked up a C++ book or even taken any classes on programming. We all just knew how to program, and how to write maintainable, readable, and reusable code.
Kids now-a-days...
- Houdini
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I went out and bought the book, and while it was very interesting, I never really thought that I would be in a position where I could use any of the patterns
How can any programmer state they were never in a position to use any of the patterns described in Design Patterns?
Have you ever made an instance of a class global? Then you could have used the Singleton Pattern to avoid polluting the global namespace while giving your program more control.
Or ever wanted to make something cross platform? The Bridge Pattern is the perfect choice.
Did you ever wish C++ supported class member callbacks? Then use the Command Pattern.
Have you ever used the STL? Then I'm sure you've probably used the Iterator Pattern.
Have you ever wished your application supported plugins to allow your users to enhance your application? The Abstract Factory + Bridge Pattern works wonders.
Heck, if you've ever worked with any populer GUI toolkit (QT, MFC, etc) then you've already used the Observer Pattern (a derivitive of the MVC Pattern).
Design Patterns is an absolute gem of a book for writing object oriented programs.
Exactly, the console is getting closer and closer to becoming a PC every generation. It's going to get to the point where and differences between the two, hardware wise, are moot.
By that time either the console prices will be driven up so console makers can actually make a profit on all this PC hardware included in their systems, or the PC hardware makers will lower their PC prices to be more competitive with the consoles. In reality it will probably be a combination of the two.
This is when consumers are going to say, "Hmmm, I already need a computer for the work/school, so why should I buy another computer just for games?"
I'm guessing at this point consoles will start to die off.
The fact that it's more than twice the size of it's competition (Opera) with nowhere near the functionality of it's competition (Opera) leads me to believe that, in it's current release, it's not exactly "light weight".
Heck, I'm not buying all this extra large HD space just so applications can ballon and use the same relative percentage as it did on my old HD.
Well, if your company is in the business of making web browsers, then yes, they should do the extra work to actually display web pages.
Does it suck that they get stuck cleaning up the mess the web developers created? Sure does. But it's no different from any other kind of software development. If Windows has a bug in it that causes my companies application to not work then it's up to me as a developer to code around that bug to make it work.
The end user doesn't care if it's really the web developers fault. They just want a web browser that displays web pages. If Mozilla/Phoenix can't, they won't use it, plain and simple.
Hey, I agree with you, the root of the problem is the web page developers not sticking to standard HTML.
However, Mozilla/Phoenix is not a product for developers. It's a product for end users. And, generally speaking, end users could care less about "standards" and "full compliance". All they want is to be able to browse web sites. If Phoenix can't display the web sites users want to browse, do you know what they are going to do? Yep, fire up IE, because it will display those pages.
As for developers, will Mozilla/Phoenix not supporting non-standard HTML make web developers create standard compliant web sites? Nope, because most people don't use Mozilla/Phoenix because it doesn't display many websites currently out there.
Blah, blah. I'm not trying to save the world, I'm just trying to browse the web, for crying out loud.
Bottom line: if a web browser doesn't display web pages, then it has failed as a web browswer.
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Ah, you gotta love those obscure The Princess Bride quotes. =)
Damn... someone please remind me to change the combination on my luggage...
What if one of these agents refuses to kill itself when ignored? What if it instead keeps cloning itself thousands of times, and becomes even more powerful?
Where's Neo when you need him...
- Houdini
And doesn't it strike you as odd that your child feel the need to lie to you?
What??? A teenager lying to their parents? MY GOD, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard!!!
Come on, kids, and especially teenagers, lie. That's part of being a teenager. Just because you didn't do it very often doesn't mean others don't.
Sure, you need to give teenagers a little more space and let them make their own decisions. But do you think that most kids who had sex at a young age, drank, or taken drugs did so because they wanted to? Most of the time they did it because of peer pressure. I mean, don't you think every child that has taken drugs knew they were bad? Of course they did. But children don't always make the right decisions and while you want your child to make their own mistakes and learn from them some bad decisions can can seriously harm or even kill them. That's something that, as a parent, you try to ensure doesn't happen.
IMO, you shouldn't drop your child off at a party that has no parents, has alcohol, drugs, etc, at the age of 15. As a parent it's your responsibility to make sure your kids not only know right from wrong, but that they also aren't put in unnecessarily risky or dangerous situations.
- Houdini
But the new G5 units are way cheaper than similarly performing Windoze CPUs from Dell, IBM, etc. Sure you can put together a piece o'crap whitebox for less, but what you won't be getting a seamlessly integrated hardware/software solution.
;))!
Uh, so a computer build from scratch using the same parts (or better) than the Dell counterpart, is a "piece o'crap"? Why is this exactly?
Oh, and I got a newsflash for ya: Dell computers aren't born assembled. Believe it or not, Dell PCs are built by buying the hardware, jacking up the price, and, gasp, assembling them! Just the same as doing it yourself (but without the price jack
Dell's computers aren't more "seamlessly integrated" than any other PC built by someone who knows what they are doing.
- Houdini
If Bob were alive today, he'd be rolling over in his grave over what people say about him on Slashdot.
Now, that would be a neat trick...
- Houdini
But remember, the manual labor jobs will be slowly going away over a period of time. During that time the older manual labor work force will retire, leaving just the younger manual labor work force. And while some of those will keep what manual labor jobs and left, others will go back to school for a higher education. And of course the new generation entering the workforce will be required to have a higher education to get a job.
It will all work itself out.
- Houdini
So the + operator function doesn't have to construct and return a temporary matrix class just to make matrix3 equal to that temporary class.
However, as I explained in my previous post, this isn't necessary as modern compilers will optimize the temporary variable away.
- Houdini
most compilers worth their salt will eleminate the temporary local variables for code like this at compile time. It's a technique called return value optimization.
- Houdini
I'm sure I'll get moderated down for this post, but how dumb are some people anyways?
/. readers think that because a US citizen suggests something to another country, that it means US government is forcing US values on that country.
According to the article the US government did not write this! So wtf are so many poeple blaming the US goverment for this???
Also, is not a law! It's a freaking draft that a US citizen is writing up to give to the new Iraqi government, when established. It's totally up to the Iraqi goverment if they want to make the draft a law or not.
Apparently half the
My God, did anybody even read that article?!
- Houdini
I'm inclined to agree with you to a point. However, once could also say the same thing about a bank robbery, yet nobody is held accountable for standing there and letting the criminals hold up the bank.
As long as there is no immediate danger in trying to stop the illegal act, then yes, the person could/should be held accountable for not helping, but I don't think they would be "as guilty as the person actually doing the crime".
Still, I have a hard time understanding why the footage itself is considered illegal. Don't get me wrong, I think anybody who posseses child porn is sick. Then again, I think anybody who rents Faces of Death is sick too. But why is one illegal and not the other?
Actually, whether or not the picture gets posted/downloaded by people does not hurt the child, it's the actual act of what they did to the child that hurts him/her.
You can watch your favorite cop show and see movies of people doing illegal things, but taping it isn't illegal.
Uh, you do realize not every country has the exact same age limits on what is considered "child porn", don't you? So do the ISP's that host a LEGAL (in that country) porn sites deserve to get all their other sites on that server blocked as well just because another country may consider that one site offensive? I mean, that ISP certainly did nothing wrong in hosting that one site.
You should be thanking Slashdot for posting a link to that page. There's now one less page for hackers to visit to learn the latest exploits.
- Houdini
Maybe it's not a movie your 7 year old should see. My 5 year old girl and 9 year old boy were just fine. If you would have read any reviews on the movie you'd see that everyone is stating that it's darker and scarier than the first.
If I'm not mistaken, it's rated PG, which means that some children may not be able to handle such material. Every child is different, so it's up to the parents to decide what their children can handle.
- Houdini
That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard, Viol8. Just because it's possible to write applications or operating systems without using patterns doesn't mean that it's better to write them without using patterns.
- Houdini
I absolutely agree. At our work nobody has ever picked up a C++ book or even taken any classes on programming. We all just knew how to program, and how to write maintainable, readable, and reusable code.
Kids now-a-days...
- Houdini
I went out and bought the book, and while it was very interesting, I never really thought that I would be in a position where I could use any of the patterns
How can any programmer state they were never in a position to use any of the patterns described in Design Patterns?
Have you ever made an instance of a class global? Then you could have used the Singleton Pattern to avoid polluting the global namespace while giving your program more control.
Or ever wanted to make something cross platform? The Bridge Pattern is the perfect choice.
Did you ever wish C++ supported class member callbacks? Then use the Command Pattern.
Have you ever used the STL? Then I'm sure you've probably used the Iterator Pattern.
Have you ever wished your application supported plugins to allow your users to enhance your application? The Abstract Factory + Bridge Pattern works wonders.
Heck, if you've ever worked with any populer GUI toolkit (QT, MFC, etc) then you've already used the Observer Pattern (a derivitive of the MVC Pattern).
Design Patterns is an absolute gem of a book for writing object oriented programs.
- Houdini
(NOTE: Although almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are not - and have not been - that many bugs in Mozilla.)"
Reminds me of some awful news stations around here
Rhat reminds me of something else entirely: just replace "Mozilla" with "Slashdot" and "bugs" with "new posts".
- Houdini
Exactly, the console is getting closer and closer to becoming a PC every generation. It's going to get to the point where and differences between the two, hardware wise, are moot.
By that time either the console prices will be driven up so console makers can actually make a profit on all this PC hardware included in their systems, or the PC hardware makers will lower their PC prices to be more competitive with the consoles. In reality it will probably be a combination of the two.
This is when consumers are going to say, "Hmmm, I already need a computer for the work/school, so why should I buy another computer just for games?"
I'm guessing at this point consoles will start to die off.
- Houdini
The fact that it's more than twice the size of it's competition (Opera) with nowhere near the functionality of it's competition (Opera) leads me to believe that, in it's current release, it's not exactly "light weight".
Heck, I'm not buying all this extra large HD space just so applications can ballon and use the same relative percentage as it did on my old HD.
- Houdini
Well, if your company is in the business of making web browsers, then yes, they should do the extra work to actually display web pages.
Does it suck that they get stuck cleaning up the mess the web developers created? Sure does. But it's no different from any other kind of software development. If Windows has a bug in it that causes my companies application to not work then it's up to me as a developer to code around that bug to make it work.
The end user doesn't care if it's really the web developers fault. They just want a web browser that displays web pages. If Mozilla/Phoenix can't, they won't use it, plain and simple.
- Houdini
Hey, I agree with you, the root of the problem is the web page developers not sticking to standard HTML.
However, Mozilla/Phoenix is not a product for developers. It's a product for end users. And, generally speaking, end users could care less about "standards" and "full compliance". All they want is to be able to browse web sites. If Phoenix can't display the web sites users want to browse, do you know what they are going to do? Yep, fire up IE, because it will display those pages.
As for developers, will Mozilla/Phoenix not supporting non-standard HTML make web developers create standard compliant web sites? Nope, because most people don't use Mozilla/Phoenix because it doesn't display many websites currently out there.
- Houdini
Blah, blah. I'm not trying to save the world, I'm just trying to browse the web, for crying out loud. Bottom line: if a web browser doesn't display web pages, then it has failed as a web browswer.
And what kind of freedom does a dead man enjoy?