You would just end up with an average move by doing this. Majority rule is not a parallel system...unless you split up the problem between the players there would be no benefit in this.
I graduated with a CS degree a couple years back and I would say one third of the graduates in my major were regular cheaters. These guys would routinely copy other people's code while they were not looking, or sometimes even form groups were one of the ten members would actually write the code, and the others would copy...they would take turns so everyone in the group wrote something at some point, kind of like buying rounds at a bar.
We all graduated and the cheaters are the ones that are either unemployed or have very shitty jobs where a CS degree isn't required in the first place. They have degrees but most programming jobs screen potential employees with some kind of test to make sure the applicant knows how to program. The cheaters will fail these test, and even if they pass and get hired, they won't last long when management sees they are useless. The hard workers are the ones now with good companies getting payed a lot of money. I never turned in any of the cheaters because I knew they were digging their own graves...but its a shame that their parents all spend $60,000 so that their kids could go to a good school and learn next to nothing.
Remember that whole thing over the holidays where we were stopping various flights from entering the US? Remember how the authorities found no evidence of anything remotely suspicious? Remember the country being in code orange through this whole ordeal?
Scare the people and they'll hand you their freedoms wrapped in a big red bow...
Unless you plan to have perfect specs for a given project, expect outsourcing to be more trouble than its worth. You need inhouse developers in any software project where any moderate level of flexibility is required, which basically encompasses 99.99% of projects I have ever come across.
I know you were being sarcastic, but thats the defense most people give for public nudity laws...the fact of the matter is, what you describe is no different than someone going door to door and showing people an open sore. It would at a certain point be considered harassment, and really has nothing to do with the concept of allowing people to wear whatever they wish in public.
Just because something makes people uncomfortable doesn't mean it should be made illegal. I'd say that woman's right to freedom of expression trumps your right not to accidentally see something you don't want to see.
There are many, many people that you absolutely do NOT want to see naked.
Yeah, and there's a guy down my street with a really annoying voice who I would prefer not to hear. Does that mean we should make a law outlawing him from talking? Because thats exactly what we have done with the act of not wearing clothes.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean there should be a law against it. Seeing someone without their clothes does not violate your rights, and should not be illegal.
Just look at different poll ratings of the current president...they can differ by as much as 10% while asking the same question. see Bush job ratings
The only real use for these telephone polls is to spot trends, not to get hard data points. Telephone polling is able to spot trends in the population of people who own and answer landline phones. I think this is a subset that covers all kinds of demographics and can therefore spot general trends.
I mean nothing at all in terms of our goals in Iraq. Of course its good that a total asshole like Saddam was captured, but I'm questioning whether it will mean anything to the rebuilding of Iraq as a democratic nation. If he was not involved with the attacks on coalition troops, I guess the good that comes out of this (in terms of US goals) is that the Iraqi people might trust us a little more. We'll all just have to wait and see.
My prediction? I think this will have a positive effect on the way the Iraqis view us, but that will not be enough when they see our troops still patrolling their neighborhoods in a year...
The only potential danger Saddam posed was organizing attacks against coalition troops. If the attacks slow down or stop now, arresting Saddam was a good thing. If the attacks keep up pace or increase, arresting Saddam means nothing at all.
Remember, the theory isn't that Saddam is trying to get back into power, the theory is that the Baathists are trying to get back into power. I think its more than likely that the Baathist faction of the resistance could easily find a replacement for SH.
After the "Clear Sky Initiative" (reducing emmission limits on some of our heaviest polluters), changes to the "Clean Water Act" (reducing environmental protections on 1/5 of nations water sources), and the "Healthy Forests Initiative" (boils down to allowing logging in protected areas), I wouldn't be surprised if "Going back to the Moon" meant "Nuking the Moon and using the bits and pieces to build parking lots in Yellowstone."
...and according to M-Theory, after adding transistors in the 3rd dimension, they have another 8 dimensions to work with. Something tells me that having the ability to work in the dimensions above 4 will make transistor based chips obsolete anyways...
What is the point of reading a review AFTER seeing a movie?
So you can be told how you should feel about the movie?
No, so I can compare my thoughts about the movie with someone else's...much like you do on the ride home with the person(s) you saw the movie with. After I watch most movies, I have a mixed set of emotions and thoughts, it sometimes takes another perspective for me to sort out my feelings on any particular film. (Some) professional reviewers can bring up some very valid insights into a movie which can give me a greater/less of an appreciation for it.
If a car runs over somebody on the road, do you just automatically arrest the owner of the car? No, this would obviously be ridiculous. You ask witnesses who was driving the car, and arrest that person. Same with computers, find proof that a certain person was using a computer at the time of the infringement by asking witnesses.
500,000+ lines, eh? If you had written that same application in Java or VB.NET, how many lines would you have saved?
We are soon going to be porting it to VB.NET. I don't know how many lines it would take to write this application in Java, but when this project was started, Java was out of the question. The GUI aspect of Java was simply not mature enough for our needs, and finding good/seasoned Java developers was much harder than finding good/seasoned VB developers, at least in this area. The VB IDE is also very functional, and takes a lot of the pain out of the process for our developers.
If we were to rewrite this project from scratch, VB.NET would most likely be the language we would do it in, with Java coming in a close second...but that is not going to happen.
I don't understand this blind hatred of VB. It certainly has its uses and its limitations. Is it that its a Microsoft language? All I can tell you is that, yes, we have a very well written 500,000 line project currently in production at a mid-sized (500 employees) company. Yes, it works fine.
We have a 500,000+ line VB project that is very GUI intensive and it works/scale quite well. OO is good for some applications, but its more work than its worth for others. There are places in our project where having inheritence would be very helpful, but we have designed around this limitation. Threading for would have limited use as well. The ease of the GUI building more than makes up for the threading and OO limitations, at least in our project.
I'm not sure if your post was a troll or not, but it is pretty arrogant to assume any one language, especially one as widely used as VB, is for "kiddies."
Does Slashdot even read the articles they post? The company is sueing the grad student for 2 things:
1. The student made "erroneous assumptions" about their DRM technology in his published paper. This caused a $10 million drop in their stock prices.
2. The student published the names of certain files that can be deleted from the hard drive after the installation of the CD which would disable the copy-protection. This is a violation of the DMCA.
This isn't about the student saying you can just press the shift key to get around the copy-protection. He actually named "unpublished" (whatever that means) files that could be deleted to disable the DRM.
There are many positions in chess where having the initiative is a bad thing, and inevitably lead to a loss. This is called "zugzwang." The opening position may be a zugzwang position for white...My gut tells me that there are more positions where having the initiative is advantageous, but I don't know if there is any statistical data to back this up.
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Guinness does give you strength...
You would just end up with an average move by doing this. Majority rule is not a parallel system...unless you split up the problem between the players there would be no benefit in this.
Anyone care to place a bet on how long it takes the US to figure out how to make aerogel an efficient means of killing a bunch of people?
I graduated with a CS degree a couple years back and I would say one third of the graduates in my major were regular cheaters. These guys would routinely copy other people's code while they were not looking, or sometimes even form groups were one of the ten members would actually write the code, and the others would copy...they would take turns so everyone in the group wrote something at some point, kind of like buying rounds at a bar.
We all graduated and the cheaters are the ones that are either unemployed or have very shitty jobs where a CS degree isn't required in the first place. They have degrees but most programming jobs screen potential employees with some kind of test to make sure the applicant knows how to program. The cheaters will fail these test, and even if they pass and get hired, they won't last long when management sees they are useless. The hard workers are the ones now with good companies getting payed a lot of money. I never turned in any of the cheaters because I knew they were digging their own graves...but its a shame that their parents all spend $60,000 so that their kids could go to a good school and learn next to nothing.
Strike three for Boies!
Seriously, how did this guy ever get the rep for being an effective litigator?
Remember that whole thing over the holidays where we were stopping various flights from entering the US? Remember how the authorities found no evidence of anything remotely suspicious? Remember the country being in code orange through this whole ordeal?
Scare the people and they'll hand you their freedoms wrapped in a big red bow...
Unless you plan to have perfect specs for a given project, expect outsourcing to be more trouble than its worth. You need inhouse developers in any software project where any moderate level of flexibility is required, which basically encompasses 99.99% of projects I have ever come across.
I know you were being sarcastic, but thats the defense most people give for public nudity laws...the fact of the matter is, what you describe is no different than someone going door to door and showing people an open sore. It would at a certain point be considered harassment, and really has nothing to do with the concept of allowing people to wear whatever they wish in public.
Uhhhh...try putting the laptop in the backseat?
Just because something makes people uncomfortable doesn't mean it should be made illegal. I'd say that woman's right to freedom of expression trumps your right not to accidentally see something you don't want to see.
There are many, many people that you absolutely do NOT want to see naked.
Yeah, and there's a guy down my street with a really annoying voice who I would prefer not to hear. Does that mean we should make a law outlawing him from talking? Because thats exactly what we have done with the act of not wearing clothes.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean there should be a law against it. Seeing someone without their clothes does not violate your rights, and should not be illegal.
The idea is that she wasn't in the public eye when she took her clothes off. Nobody saw her, so it wasn't public nudity.
Just look at different poll ratings of the current president...they can differ by as much as 10% while asking the same question. see Bush job ratings
The only real use for these telephone polls is to spot trends, not to get hard data points. Telephone polling is able to spot trends in the population of people who own and answer landline phones. I think this is a subset that covers all kinds of demographics and can therefore spot general trends.
if you lost your cell phone...just ask a friend with a cell phone and you'll at least get a general idea where it is.
I mean nothing at all in terms of our goals in Iraq. Of course its good that a total asshole like Saddam was captured, but I'm questioning whether it will mean anything to the rebuilding of Iraq as a democratic nation. If he was not involved with the attacks on coalition troops, I guess the good that comes out of this (in terms of US goals) is that the Iraqi people might trust us a little more. We'll all just have to wait and see.
My prediction? I think this will have a positive effect on the way the Iraqis view us, but that will not be enough when they see our troops still patrolling their neighborhoods in a year...
The only potential danger Saddam posed was organizing attacks against coalition troops. If the attacks slow down or stop now, arresting Saddam was a good thing. If the attacks keep up pace or increase, arresting Saddam means nothing at all.
Remember, the theory isn't that Saddam is trying to get back into power, the theory is that the Baathists are trying to get back into power. I think its more than likely that the Baathist faction of the resistance could easily find a replacement for SH.
After the "Clear Sky Initiative" (reducing emmission limits on some of our heaviest polluters), changes to the "Clean Water Act" (reducing environmental protections on 1/5 of nations water sources), and the "Healthy Forests Initiative" (boils down to allowing logging in protected areas), I wouldn't be surprised if "Going back to the Moon" meant "Nuking the Moon and using the bits and pieces to build parking lots in Yellowstone."
...and according to M-Theory, after adding transistors in the 3rd dimension, they have another 8 dimensions to work with. Something tells me that having the ability to work in the dimensions above 4 will make transistor based chips obsolete anyways...
What is the point of reading a review AFTER seeing a movie?
So you can be told how you should feel about the movie?
No, so I can compare my thoughts about the movie with someone else's...much like you do on the ride home with the person(s) you saw the movie with. After I watch most movies, I have a mixed set of emotions and thoughts, it sometimes takes another perspective for me to sort out my feelings on any particular film. (Some) professional reviewers can bring up some very valid insights into a movie which can give me a greater/less of an appreciation for it.
If a car runs over somebody on the road, do you just automatically arrest the owner of the car? No, this would obviously be ridiculous. You ask witnesses who was driving the car, and arrest that person. Same with computers, find proof that a certain person was using a computer at the time of the infringement by asking witnesses.
when a console can pull down the vast amount of pron that my computer can...
500,000+ lines, eh? If you had written that same application in Java or VB.NET, how many lines would you have saved?
We are soon going to be porting it to VB.NET. I don't know how many lines it would take to write this application in Java, but when this project was started, Java was out of the question. The GUI aspect of Java was simply not mature enough for our needs, and finding good/seasoned Java developers was much harder than finding good/seasoned VB developers, at least in this area. The VB IDE is also very functional, and takes a lot of the pain out of the process for our developers.
If we were to rewrite this project from scratch, VB.NET would most likely be the language we would do it in, with Java coming in a close second...but that is not going to happen.
I don't understand this blind hatred of VB. It certainly has its uses and its limitations. Is it that its a Microsoft language? All I can tell you is that, yes, we have a very well written 500,000 line project currently in production at a mid-sized (500 employees) company. Yes, it works fine.
We have a 500,000+ line VB project that is very GUI intensive and it works/scale quite well. OO is good for some applications, but its more work than its worth for others. There are places in our project where having inheritence would be very helpful, but we have designed around this limitation. Threading for would have limited use as well. The ease of the GUI building more than makes up for the threading and OO limitations, at least in our project.
I'm not sure if your post was a troll or not, but it is pretty arrogant to assume any one language, especially one as widely used as VB, is for "kiddies."
Does Slashdot even read the articles they post? The company is sueing the grad student for 2 things:
1. The student made "erroneous assumptions" about their DRM technology in his published paper. This caused a $10 million drop in their stock prices.
2. The student published the names of certain files that can be deleted from the hard drive after the installation of the CD which would disable the copy-protection. This is a violation of the DMCA.
This isn't about the student saying you can just press the shift key to get around the copy-protection. He actually named "unpublished" (whatever that means) files that could be deleted to disable the DRM.
There are many positions in chess where having the initiative is a bad thing, and inevitably lead to a loss. This is called "zugzwang." The opening position may be a zugzwang position for white...My gut tells me that there are more positions where having the initiative is advantageous, but I don't know if there is any statistical data to back this up.