Not really - 'to wright good code' makes sense, in the original sense of 'wright', which is akin to 'craft'.
I thought it was a serendipitous and instructive typo.
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Nope = I wasn't trying to claim that the legislators never make bad laws.
It was just an attempt to make the distinction between physical goods and 'intellectual property' clear.
Your list of silly laws is quite impressive - but the question is: how many of these were passed as primary legislation, and how many were slipped into other bills as a joke by the more witty of the state legislators?
Sophistry and specious aren't very big words - they're just uncommon. Me - I use them because I'm egregious;=).
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Specious crap.
Why else would there be a law against theft, and a law of copyright?
If you could make copyright infringement equivalent to theft, there would not be a need for copyright law.
There's a nice Escher animation here - of Escher's Print Gallery.
Hofstadter's GEB was the cult book when I was doing my Maths degree in the early 80's - I still reread it every year, because it's a damn good read (and gives me an excuse to get the old Bach vinyl out - I haven't replaced it on CD yet:)).
Philip was just pissed because the Templars had effective control over the proposed crusade, had the nearest thing to an international banking system at the time, and had the ear of the pope.
Once Philip got his own placeman as pope (Clement V, IIRC), he managed to get the Templars excommunicated and nicked all their French holdings, which should have gone to the Hospitallers.
Not if you're making helium from deuterium, there aren't - you get them in hot fusion where tritium is being used (there are spare neutrons to go round), but 2 deuterium nuclei will make 1 helium-4 nucleus + energy.
The bnckiller reminds me of the time when the sales department complained that they couldn't see the server anymore.
Being a BNC network, I got my trusty terminator and went down to check, only to get a not very amusing electric shock as soon as I touched the first T piece.
It turned out that one of the machines had a dodgy power supply that was sending 115 volts through its chassis and thence through the BNC segment.
I'm not sure what the new bikes are like, but the Starfire (1960s) was a great fun bike, and the Gold Star was pretty much the cream of 1960s British bikes. My personal favourite was the Rocket (1970s) - a three cylinder 750 that shared its engine with the Triumph Trident.
It's nice to see some positive action against this problem, especially in a university situation where users are dropping all sorts of machines on the network.
Sounds like a cool solution, too.
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I'll answer, even to an AC.
#1 - it would be nice to know, but since Israel is the only nuclear state never to have signed the NPT, or agree to international monitoring of its weapons programmes, it's a little difficult. We have to rely on sources like Janes, who estimate 200-500 warheads.
#2 - Israel would be exactly where it is, since none of its neighbours has the conventional capability to overcome Israels forces, with or without nuclear weapons. Egypt isn't interested, Jordan is too small, and Syria would be restricted to too small a front line to maunt an effective attack.
#3 - agreed - there is no need for racism here, or anywhere. It's a question of right and wrong, not whether we like or dislike particular racial stereotypes.
#4 - this is emphatically not true. Palestine was offered a very poor deal, with non-contiguous areas forming the 'state' (in reality a series of bantustans easily isolated from one another), with the loss of not 2% or 5% of the territory, as is commonly thought, but nearly 10%. Israel even proposed to keep the border area on the Jordanian side. This was not an offer that any sane man would accept. Even Barak, after the offer was declined, tried to keep the talks going, but the upcoming Israeli election (in which, worst luck, Sharon came to power) made a deal impossible.
#5 - Geneva Conventions apply only to states. There is no war between Palestine and Israel, because Palestine is not yet a state. The parent attempts to apply the Geneva Conventions to a resistance struggle against occupation. The applicable Geneva Conventions are the first and fourth, covering settlement of occupied territories, collective punishment of occupied peoples and interference with medical personnel.
This is not a religious struggle, no matter how you try to paint it.
Israel is occupying land gained by force, and is acting illegally in settling that land and in its treatment of the local population.
Just remember that the Germans viewed French resistance actions as terrorism - Israel is the invader here, and should follow international norms and law.
If the computer is fast enough, why not run each sim twice, and rerun if the results disagree?
ECC is good for reliablility, and I certainly wouldn't run a nuclear power plant on a non-ECC machine, but if you've got 1100 processors to play with, then just run everything twice.
If you think back 20 years, people used to analyse their problems carefully to minimise computer time, and all the runs were probably justified.
I doubt whether half the runs these days are strictly necessary - better experimental design could probably eliminate a hell of a lot of computer time.
You can use DDE and call scripts from an OO1.1 macro - I haven't found a way to control OLE objects yet, but I guess it'll be accessible from the SDK sometime soon (if you really need to do OLE, you can write a quick and dirty DLL wrapper and make calls to that from a macro).
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I thought it was a serendipitous and instructive typo.
It was just an attempt to make the distinction between physical goods and 'intellectual property' clear.
Your list of silly laws is quite impressive - but the question is: how many of these were passed as primary legislation, and how many were slipped into other bills as a joke by the more witty of the state legislators?
Sophistry and specious aren't very big words - they're just uncommon. Me - I use them because I'm egregious ;=).
Why else would there be a law against theft, and a law of copyright?
If you could make copyright infringement equivalent to theft, there would not be a need for copyright law.
You're indulging in trollish sophistry.
Get back under your bridge.
Hofstadter's GEB was the cult book when I was doing my Maths degree in the early 80's - I still reread it every year, because it's a damn good read (and gives me an excuse to get the old Bach vinyl out - I haven't replaced it on CD yet :)).
The Power to Believe is well up to their standards of the past - nearly as good as Larks Tongues in Aspic.
Properly structured music, with recurring themes throughout the album, and played by real musicians.
Once Philip got his own placeman as pope (Clement V, IIRC), he managed to get the Templars excommunicated and nicked all their French holdings, which should have gone to the Hospitallers.
I believe there was an outfit in Buffalo (NY?) who made a 1000cc single, but I've never come across one in the wild.
The biggest singles I have seen are around 640cc or so on some odd motocross machines (I think they were Italian).
Most singles gop up to around 500cc, like the J.A.P. engined speedway bikes.
If you look at the power meter picture, you'll see 0.347 kWh of electricity used.
He converts this to an input power of 347 watts - which is (pardon my French) cuillons (that's 'bollocks' for the non-Francophones).
0.347 kWh used in 30 minutes is 694 watts input power - thus (as someone has pointed out) he has just made a dangerous lightbulb.
It's an elementary mistake, but buried in so much garbage that it's easy to miss.
Being a BNC network, I got my trusty terminator and went down to check, only to get a not very amusing electric shock as soon as I touched the first T piece.
It turned out that one of the machines had a dodgy power supply that was sending 115 volts through its chassis and thence through the BNC segment.
Ouch!
I'm not sure what the new bikes are like, but the Starfire (1960s) was a great fun bike, and the Gold Star was pretty much the cream of 1960s British bikes. My personal favourite was the Rocket (1970s) - a three cylinder 750 that shared its engine with the Triumph Trident.
I reckon Teflon may stop water build up, but trace heating would ensure the free flow of condensed water / snow away from the affected parts.
The Ural was marketed as the Cossack in the UK - it was the only bike that you fixed with a lump hammer.
My mate had the powered sidecar versio when we were teenagers - about as basic as you can get.
I don't think Enfields are Triumph copies - Royal Enfield was originally a British company based in Middlesex, shipping its first motorcycle in 1901.
The UK operation shut down in 1970, but the Indians have been making 1940s designs since 1955, and are still going.
Also consider that some JVMs have limitations on addressable RAM.
I program in Java where it's sensible, C/C++ where applicable, and even VB on occasions.
I'm also cheap ;)
Damn - I'll just get a brain reduction so I can talk on your level.
It's nice to see some positive action against this problem, especially in a university situation where users are dropping all sorts of machines on the network.
Sounds like a cool solution, too.
I'll answer, even to an AC. #1 - it would be nice to know, but since Israel is the only nuclear state never to have signed the NPT, or agree to international monitoring of its weapons programmes, it's a little difficult. We have to rely on sources like Janes, who estimate 200-500 warheads. #2 - Israel would be exactly where it is, since none of its neighbours has the conventional capability to overcome Israels forces, with or without nuclear weapons. Egypt isn't interested, Jordan is too small, and Syria would be restricted to too small a front line to maunt an effective attack. #3 - agreed - there is no need for racism here, or anywhere. It's a question of right and wrong, not whether we like or dislike particular racial stereotypes. #4 - this is emphatically not true. Palestine was offered a very poor deal, with non-contiguous areas forming the 'state' (in reality a series of bantustans easily isolated from one another), with the loss of not 2% or 5% of the territory, as is commonly thought, but nearly 10%. Israel even proposed to keep the border area on the Jordanian side. This was not an offer that any sane man would accept. Even Barak, after the offer was declined, tried to keep the talks going, but the upcoming Israeli election (in which, worst luck, Sharon came to power) made a deal impossible. #5 - Geneva Conventions apply only to states. There is no war between Palestine and Israel, because Palestine is not yet a state. The parent attempts to apply the Geneva Conventions to a resistance struggle against occupation. The applicable Geneva Conventions are the first and fourth, covering settlement of occupied territories, collective punishment of occupied peoples and interference with medical personnel. This is not a religious struggle, no matter how you try to paint it. Israel is occupying land gained by force, and is acting illegally in settling that land and in its treatment of the local population. Just remember that the Germans viewed French resistance actions as terrorism - Israel is the invader here, and should follow international norms and law.
If the computer is fast enough, why not run each sim twice, and rerun if the results disagree?
ECC is good for reliablility, and I certainly wouldn't run a nuclear power plant on a non-ECC machine, but if you've got 1100 processors to play with, then just run everything twice.
If you think back 20 years, people used to analyse their problems carefully to minimise computer time, and all the runs were probably justified.
I doubt whether half the runs these days are strictly necessary - better experimental design could probably eliminate a hell of a lot of computer time.
Now that really would be earplugs time.
Keep up the good work - you've obviously got the knack.
Woody Gu... aw, fuck it, just google for it.