Hmm guess who was sitting there with there 10,000 word essay loaded into Notepad just waiting for the story to go live. Congratulations on the masterful piece of kharma whoring.
Make it difficult to know who to BOOOOH! at!: Ugly Sister 1 (speciality: cutting wages to the bone and destroying local stores) or Ugly Sister 2 (speciality: suing young children and pensioners).
The War on Terror. Yep that's working: so far two countried fucked up and Iran's next.
So how can we deal with counterfeiting? I know: we'll declare war on it, that always works.
The US Government: the world's leading terror organisation for the last 50 years.
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What kind of a fag moderator mods an unmoderated post as overrated? FFS grow some balls! If you think it's a troll mod it as such, if you think it's flamebait say so!
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Hey he's learning English one word at a time by working his way through the Dictionary. "Autonomy" is today's word.
Or, to misquote Gandalf from the LOTR:FOR film: "Autonomy means precisely what I mean it to mean".;-)
Hmm just three, of the many flaws, in your argument.
1. Resistance is not a constant: it varies with temperature: in conductors it increases with temperature. Oh and neither is the voltage: the voltage supplied to the CPU is not necessarily the same as that supplied to the motherboard.
2. Pure silicon is worthless as a semi-conductor. All silicon used in chips has deliberately introduced impurities (it's called doping) and it's what makes the N-type and P-type silicons (to put it simply) that are the building blocks of transitors.
3. Modern chips do run much hotter than old ones. The Z80 in my ZX Spectrum barely needed a heat sink let a lone a fan, the 286 and 386 didn't need fans either. My Athlon 64 requires one huge mother of a heatsink plus a decent fan.
Actually my experience in my current job is that having spent time doing A, and explained before hand that that would mean B wouldn't get done, they still expect B to be done. My reaction? I arrive at 7am and leave at 4pm. If something hasn't been done by then it waits and the PHBs can go fuck themselves.
Trivial. The same way that you handle calls in a large shopping mall or other localised concentration of people. You setup a micro-cell. The difference is the one in the cinema will only route emergency calls; the rest get a recorded message saying "fuck off you sad bastards: try watching the film." QED.
I think you've completely misunderstood polymorphism and/or varargs.
I've never, ever had to write a Java method that would have been better implemented using varargs, but I've written plenty in C and C++ in the past that would have been better written without them...
I can only think of a couple of cases in Java where varargs would actually improve matters (have a look at MessageFormat, the work around it uses to emulate varargs is painful so varargs would be great there). But I just know varargs will get horribly absued: so overall I think Java was better off without them.
Personally I think that, overall, Java 5.0 is a mistake. Metadata is already going out of fashion: Google for "metadata hell" to read why. It's a passing fad that's passing. Autoboxing/unboxing *shrug* nice when you need it, but how often do you actually need it? Generics/templates was something I missed when I first moved from C++ to Java 10 years ago: but now it feels like more unnecessary complexity.
So overall it seems to me the 1.5 changes address some limited circumstances at the cost of additional complexity; and no doubt we'll see them mis-used and abused and that will outweigh any benefit by an order of magnitude.
What they should have done in 1.5 is strip out all the deprecated crap: Sun has this habit of constantly adding layers but never actually removing the old stuff. I really would hate to be learning Java now: it's so bloody big!
Kill somebody, and what are the chances you'll notice the eyelash that conveniently fell out? You'd have to look for your own mistakes, while not utilising the information of how it was done at all for you to gain any skill, a...
Yeah that must be the reason homicide detectives don't get their training by killing people. Moron.
Stupid Slashdot misinterpreting less than signs, you'd think they'd get a competent developer to fix their code as well (and make the pound symbol work without requiring arcane knowledge).
I think you've misunderstood the scenario.
Dishonest shopkeeper installs tampered with reader (why would he care about certification)? Shoopers come in and buy the low value items (say less than 100GBP ) and swallows that loss. Shopkeeper takes their card data and stolen PINS and goes on a spending spree.
We've seen something like that here in the UK with crooks setting up their own ATMs, which do dispense money (at their cost) which they re-coup many times over using the stolen card details.
Dishonest shopkeeper installs tampered with reader (why would he care about certification)? Shoopers come in and buy the low value items (say We've seen something like that here in the UK with crooks setting up their own ATMs, which do dispense money (at their cost) which they re-coup many times over using the stolen card details.
You know it doesn't count as an Apple product if all you do is tippex over the word Dell and write Apple in crayon over the top. No not even if you add a scrawl of an apple logo alongside it.
The other flaw in American democracy today: and this is pretty much nationwide is the fact that the incumbents get to decide their boundarys of their constituency: so they re-draw them to ensure no inconvenient voters for the other side are in "their" constituency: just look at the number of bizarrelt shaped constituencies: including doughtnuts and the like, there are in the US.
The US needs someone else to point out where they're fucking up: because it's in your politicians best interests not to. Whether there are too many meatheads who'll stick their fingers in their ears yelling "there's nothing wrong here" whilst their politicians fucks them up the arse isn't something an outsider can fix.
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You've heard of this interweb thing haven't you?
Google didn't exist when Leisure Suit Larry first came out...
Hmm guess who was sitting there with there 10,000 word essay loaded into Notepad just waiting for the story to go live. Congratulations on the masterful piece of kharma whoring.
meet Evil Empire 2.
Make it difficult to know who to BOOOOH! at!: Ugly Sister 1 (speciality: cutting wages to the bone and destroying local stores) or Ugly Sister 2 (speciality: suing young children and pensioners).
The War on Drugs. Yep that worked.
The War on Terror. Yep that's working: so far two countried fucked up and Iran's next.
So how can we deal with counterfeiting? I know: we'll declare war on it, that always works.
The US Government: the world's leading terror organisation for the last 50 years.
What kind of a fag moderator mods an unmoderated post as overrated? FFS grow some balls! If you think it's a troll mod it as such, if you think it's flamebait say so!
Hey he's learning English one word at a time by working his way through the Dictionary. "Autonomy" is today's word.
Or, to misquote Gandalf from the LOTR:FOR film: "Autonomy means precisely what I mean it to mean". ;-)
Actually my experience in my current job is that having spent time doing A, and explained before hand that that would mean B wouldn't get done, they still expect B to be done. My reaction? I arrive at 7am and leave at 4pm. If something hasn't been done by then it waits and the PHBs can go fuck themselves.
Trivial. The same way that you handle calls in a large shopping mall or other localised concentration of people. You setup a micro-cell. The difference is the one in the cinema will only route emergency calls; the rest get a recorded message saying "fuck off you sad bastards: try watching the film." QED.
of complete and utter conmen.
I think you've completely misunderstood polymorphism and/or varargs.
I've never, ever had to write a Java method that would have been better implemented using varargs, but I've written plenty in C and C++ in the past that would have been better written without them...
I can only think of a couple of cases in Java where varargs would actually improve matters (have a look at MessageFormat, the work around it uses to emulate varargs is painful so varargs would be great there). But I just know varargs will get horribly absued: so overall I think Java was better off without them.
Personally I think that, overall, Java 5.0 is a mistake. Metadata is already going out of fashion: Google for "metadata hell" to read why. It's a passing fad that's passing. Autoboxing/unboxing *shrug* nice when you need it, but how often do you actually need it? Generics/templates was something I missed when I first moved from C++ to Java 10 years ago: but now it feels like more unnecessary complexity.
So overall it seems to me the 1.5 changes address some limited circumstances at the cost of additional complexity; and no doubt we'll see them mis-used and abused and that will outweigh any benefit by an order of magnitude.
What they should have done in 1.5 is strip out all the deprecated crap: Sun has this habit of constantly adding layers but never actually removing the old stuff. I really would hate to be learning Java now: it's so bloody big!
...and to still expect handouts from first world countries because they're so poor.
India has always struck me as a bizarre place: one of the poorest places in the world and yet they still feel they can afford to have nukes.
Yeah that must be the reason homicide detectives don't get their training by killing people. Moron.
Stupid Slashdot misinterpreting less than signs, you'd think they'd get a competent developer to fix their code as well (and make the pound symbol work without requiring arcane knowledge).
I think you've misunderstood the scenario.
Dishonest shopkeeper installs tampered with reader (why would he care about certification)? Shoopers come in and buy the low value items (say less than 100GBP ) and swallows that loss. Shopkeeper takes their card data and stolen PINS and goes on a spending spree.
We've seen something like that here in the UK with crooks setting up their own ATMs, which do dispense money (at their cost) which they re-coup many times over using the stolen card details.
I think you've misunderstood the scenario.
Dishonest shopkeeper installs tampered with reader (why would he care about certification)? Shoopers come in and buy the low value items (say We've seen something like that here in the UK with crooks setting up their own ATMs, which do dispense money (at their cost) which they re-coup many times over using the stolen card details.
You know it doesn't count as an Apple product if all you do is tippex over the word Dell and write Apple in crayon over the top. No not even if you add a scrawl of an apple logo alongside it.
'Nuff Said.
relevant? perhaps, but also ill-informed and obviously rushed to get the all important first post crowd.
In a universe in which "charm" is defined to be something "so slow your granny could out run it"?
And instead you got hit with a "redundant" and a "troll". Worth staying up?
In the UK it would be cost, there's a huge tax on pure ethanol (to stop people drinking it) or they add nasty poisons to it for the same reason.
Not to mention the maintenance headache if you've got more than one kind of client (say a web service that can also be used to submit stuff).
Huh? I completely missed that reference- someone care to explain?
Jeb Bush is the Governor of Florida.
But other than that I think you're right, although the flaw has to be in the system that allows this kind of abuse.
The US needs someone else to point out where they're fucking up: because it's in your politicians best interests not to. Whether there are too many meatheads who'll stick their fingers in their ears yelling "there's nothing wrong here" whilst their politicians fucks them up the arse isn't something an outsider can fix.