The ESA are doing a great job with locating liquids on Mars. I wish some of the same devices had been installed on Cassini. The possibility of liquids (either hydrocarbon or ammonia based) had been touted as one of the interesting possible features of Titan for many year. There have been many publications on the subject. After all that talk it's a pity they didn't actually install the equipment to detect them.
...clearly visible and 235km across that looks like a like. Previosuly a probe landed on Titan photographing lakelike features all the way down. And the only way people can be sure it is a lake is by viewing the feature from the right angle to see if it glints in the sun. 235km across! I don't know about you, but if that's the best they can do, I think they loaded up Cassini and Huygens with the wrong set of instruments.
Quicksort is a well understoord algorithm. qsort() in the standard C library is a notoriously poor implementation. std::sort() in the C++ library might be a better choice.
I seem to remember most characters in Middle Earth didn't recognise what hobbits were at all. Hobbits don't travel much and so outside of the Shire they were bascially unknown. I'm not even a Tolkien geek and I know this.
Isn't that by definition science fiction? And isn't science fiction a reasonable thing to indulge in from time to time, especially as it is presented as such, ie. as crystal ball gazing rather than as present ay fact? Wired is a completely crap magazine, but not because of articles like this.
Anyway...it's kinda unusual. Though I dare say, once it's been used a a few times I could imagine a Supreme Court judge deciding it's not unusual any more.
Note that 'Enlish' isn't an example of bad grammar but of bad spelling. My grammar is still good enough for me to count as a Nazi. I may have to give up being a spelling fascist however.
Rename all of the files so they have filenames like "Teen_Lesbian_fff_Hot!Hot!Hot!.avi". Now make them available through your favorite p2p service. Even better, prepend these files with short snippets of pr0n. You'll find that years later you can kick up just about any p2p client and you'll find your files are still available.
Only to a small minority of geeks. Everyone knows that geeks like to make up standards and then castigate people who don't follow them. Whether it's about interpreting CSS correctly or placing your braces on the right line geeks just love to bitch and moan about this stuff. And the whole cracker/hacker distinction is just another one of these issues that some minority group has made up so they can bitch and moan every time someone uses the word hacker. The fact is, almost everyone uses the word hacker to mean what you call a cracker. Even on a geek haven like/. there are plenty of people using the word hacker this way. 'Cracker' is the name of a British TV series and hackers break into computer systems.
Yeah! How could anyone be that stupid? I mean we're all taught from the moment we're born that it's not safe to login to something via a popup window. Even my grandma could tell you that.
No they're infallible for logical reasons, it has nothing to do with whether or not they can make mistakes. It's like saying that all English speaking people have been using the wrong word for 'blue' and should have been using the word 'grue' instead. It's logically impossible for all English speaking people to have been wrong in this case, even though English speaking people are fallible. The same is true here.
To borrow the language of Austin the Judges are uttering peformatives. They aren't uncovering some external state of affairs and then making statements about what they have discovered. If this were the case they I would admit that they could be incorrect. When they overruled Bowers v. Hardwick they didn't discover anything, they made it incorrect simply by declaring it to be incorrect. Similarly the act of claiming "I apologize" is itself the apology. When someone says "I apologize" they aren't reporting some fact they've just discovered about themselves.
The statement "Bowers was not correct when it was decided" is just legal language. It's typical of Judges to phrase their rulings as if they were discoveries about external states of affairs as this helps to give their statements an air of authority.
I'm influenced in my thoughts here by supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, but I'm probably twisting his ideas beyond recognition...
That's a bit like saying that French people don't know how to speak French. The meaning of the Constitution is whatever the Supreme Court judges interpret it to mean. By definition they can't be wrong.
I'm very interested to see what uses the Slashdot community can conceive for a household controlled through voice commands issued to a robot dog
Bestiality is illegal, right? I think it is anyway. Certainly it's frowned upon. But sex with robot dogs is legal (except maybe in Texas). It seems to me that a voice controlled dog could fill a much needed niche of providing an outlet for those inclined towards bestiality but who don't wish to break the law. Voice control could be particularly useful. It could be trained to respond to commands like "more", "less", "harder", "up a bit" and so on. In fact, it might be more controllable than a real dog and would certainly obviate the need to smear your testicles with meat to gain the dog's interest.
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The ESA are doing a great job with locating liquids on Mars. I wish some of the same devices had been installed on Cassini. The possibility of liquids (either hydrocarbon or ammonia based) had been touted as one of the interesting possible features of Titan for many year. There have been many publications on the subject. After all that talk it's a pity they didn't actually install the equipment to detect them.
Eh? You can see features 235km across on the Moon (ie. Earth's satellite) with the naked eye. The Moon is about 400,000km from Earth.
It's not a chance discovery. In fact, Huygens was designed to land on either a liquid or solid surface.
...clearly visible and 235km across that looks like a like. Previosuly a probe landed on Titan photographing lakelike features all the way down. And the only way people can be sure it is a lake is by viewing the feature from the right angle to see if it glints in the sun. 235km across! I don't know about you, but if that's the best they can do, I think they loaded up Cassini and Huygens with the wrong set of instruments.
Quicksort is a well understoord algorithm. qsort() in the standard C library is a notoriously poor implementation. std::sort() in the C++ library might be a better choice.
I seem to remember most characters in Middle Earth didn't recognise what hobbits were at all. Hobbits don't travel much and so outside of the Shire they were bascially unknown. I'm not even a Tolkien geek and I know this.
Isn't that by definition science fiction? And isn't science fiction a reasonable thing to indulge in from time to time, especially as it is presented as such, ie. as crystal ball gazing rather than as present ay fact? Wired is a completely crap magazine, but not because of articles like this.
Anyway...it's kinda unusual. Though I dare say, once it's been used a a few times I could imagine a Supreme Court judge deciding it's not unusual any more.
Yes. It's annoying isn't it?
Note that 'Enlish' isn't an example of bad grammar but of bad spelling. My grammar is still good enough for me to count as a Nazi. I may have to give up being a spelling fascist however.
There is at least one Enlish possessive pronoun that use an apostrophe. In particular "one's" as in "one's grammar is shite".
Nah! He left out the all important details that make this a viable scheme.
Rename all of the files so they have filenames like "Teen_Lesbian_fff_Hot!Hot!Hot!.avi". Now make them available through your favorite p2p service. Even better, prepend these files with short snippets of pr0n. You'll find that years later you can kick up just about any p2p client and you'll find your files are still available.
...could design something much better. Like a HDD that shoots out flames to burn any would be tamperer to a crisp.
...it merely looks smaller when it's high in the sky.
Yeah! How could anyone be that stupid? I mean we're all taught from the moment we're born that it's not safe to login to something via a popup window. Even my grandma could tell you that.
Note, I'm not arguing against the release of this game, just your logic.
To borrow the language of Austin the Judges are uttering peformatives. They aren't uncovering some external state of affairs and then making statements about what they have discovered. If this were the case they I would admit that they could be incorrect. When they overruled Bowers v. Hardwick they didn't discover anything, they made it incorrect simply by declaring it to be incorrect. Similarly the act of claiming "I apologize" is itself the apology. When someone says "I apologize" they aren't reporting some fact they've just discovered about themselves.
The statement "Bowers was not correct when it was decided" is just legal language. It's typical of Judges to phrase their rulings as if they were discoveries about external states of affairs as this helps to give their statements an air of authority.
I'm influenced in my thoughts here by supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, but I'm probably twisting his ideas beyond recognition...
That's a bit like saying that French people don't know how to speak French. The meaning of the Constitution is whatever the Supreme Court judges interpret it to mean. By definition they can't be wrong.
How washable is the Aibo?