Good points all... or at least most. What, however, is the benefit of distinguish mutable and immutable classes? I run into this in Apple's Cocoa frameworks, and it drives me nuts to have to constantly turn mutable into immutable strings and back for various purposes. I know your comments were about language design, but could you give a practical reason why that's better? Thanks.
I suppose you're familiar with the fallacy of irrelevance? This article you cite from the Moonie-owned Washington Times is a good example. It cites the very thing I'm talking about, namely, the Clinton administration's push to get the law amended to include physical searches in addition to wiretapping. Quite different from the AG claiming Bush doesn't need to follow the law if he feels that we are at war.
You'll notice also the repeated use of the phrase "for foreign intelligence information." The problem here is that at least some of the 18,000 times this power has been used to spy on domestic political groups that posed no "terrorist" threat and certainly had no ties to foreign governments.
For the record, the reference to Clinton is a red herring. Totally different situation (a kind of search that was not covered under the law), totally different response (they went to Congress and asked for an amendment to the law specifically authorizing the new kind of serach). The kinds of searches implemented by Bush & co. were covered under the existing law, and they could have gone to the court within 72 hours of beginning surveillance to ask for authorization, but instead they chose not to. AG Gonzales actually said in press interviews that they chose to do things this way because they supposed that the court would have denied their requests. So they just did it anyway, law be damned.
This robot's ability is not in itself very interesting. What is interesting, though, is the way that developing the ability to recognize one's own movements "from the outside," as in a mirror image, is an important stage in the development of self-consciousness.
Mod parent up. This story is titled and worded poorly. It should describe what needs to be done to make sites compatible with small, mobile devices, not "wireless" devices.
This topic has been marked as subversive, based on the IP of the person submitting this story a squad has been dispatched to pick them up from their family home.
It's "Tuttle," not "Buttle"! Now, if you could just sign this 27B/6. Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27B/6.
the Pine-Sol sponge will wipe the floor with youens when the Tide comes in around Dawn
Ah, the mighty Sponge of Cleansing. Ph34r.
"youens"? Central PA? (I'm actually from New York, but were Mr. Clean to prod yo' buttock, he would surely do so in the most possessive 2nd person plurality possible.)
I must be dense. How is this not an acronym? Because the creator of the "shorthand" expression, an initialism that spells a pronounceable word, says it wasn't "intended" to be one?
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Arbeit ist Spiel! Time for a Tofutti break! (If you don't know what this is, just igFNORDnore it.)
False.
Quote from the CNN article: "No one thought this region of Uranus was very interesting."
Thanks a bunch. +5, Informative, indeed.
( could ( be right 'you ) ) or something.
You must be fun at parties. Sugar in the form of glucose is also what runs every one of your much maligned cells.
Good points all ... or at least most. What, however, is the benefit of distinguish mutable and immutable classes? I run into this in Apple's Cocoa frameworks, and it drives me nuts to have to constantly turn mutable into immutable strings and back for various purposes. I know your comments were about language design, but could you give a practical reason why that's better? Thanks.
Given the way that turned out, I think it's the other way around.
And, a propos of nothing ... *sings*
You see me now a veteran
of a thousand cola wars.
Apple's not a business? http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/
Quite a few more facts on the supposed equivalence of Bush and Clinton on wiretapping.
Yes, they do.
Would you say the same of anyone who objected to pre-flight anal-probes at all major airports? :-o
You'll notice also the repeated use of the phrase "for foreign intelligence information." The problem here is that at least some of the 18,000 times this power has been used to spy on domestic political groups that posed no "terrorist" threat and certainly had no ties to foreign governments.
Do you see the difference?
This robot's ability is not in itself very interesting. What is interesting, though, is the way that developing the ability to recognize one's own movements "from the outside," as in a mirror image, is an important stage in the development of self-consciousness.
-- Fry's still outside? He'd better watch out!
-- Why?
-- I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town!
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Mod parent up. This story is titled and worded poorly. It should describe what needs to be done to make sites compatible with small, mobile devices, not "wireless" devices.
Violins: fine. But sax sells.
You know what would make life easier for folks in the military? Demobilization.
It's "Tuttle," not "Buttle"! Now, if you could just sign this 27B/6. Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27B/6.
Ah, the mighty Sponge of Cleansing. Ph34r.
"youens"? Central PA? (I'm actually from New York, but were Mr. Clean to prod yo' buttock, he would surely do so in the most possessive 2nd person plurality possible.)
Therefore Microsoft is not a monopoly? Ooh, I know this one. A-prioristic Randroid "reasoning." Your syllogism is missing a middle term.
And your epidermis is showing. ;-)
I must be dense. How is this not an acronym? Because the creator of the "shorthand" expression, an initialism that spells a pronounceable word, says it wasn't "intended" to be one?
Better watch out! Despite his bald head and suspiciously gay-looking earring, Mr. Clean is gonna kick all y'all's asses!