Given the history of the Cold War, it's a little disturbing that they didn't have a "sorry, that was a false alarm" message already formally prepared.
It might be disturbing if this was the system to launch a retaliatory strike rather than a warning to take cover but nobody is dumb enough to think that.
C is still getting a large number of questions constantly, indicating that it is a popular/in use language
That assumption is not necessarily correct. It may indicate that it's a "being learned" language.
I use bash for various things at home. I've never asked a question about it on SO or anything else, because I either know the answer or somebody else already asked it and GIMF.
I think his point was that there are two possible reasons no new questions are being asked. One is that nobody's using it. The other is that it's matured and everybody who's using it has gained a degree of competence such that they don't need to ask "how is babby formed" and/or the knowledge base has built up to the extent that any questions they do have are already answered.
Linux is getting crappier too. I have an Eee with a recent version of Kali on it; doesn't hibernate properly (did on the old version) and for some unknown reason goes through grub twice on boot. Tried several DEs and none of them allow me to change the colours, which might seem trivial but the pre-installed themes are either angry fruit salad or too low contrast to see properly. Oh, and editing the menus is fun, if you can get it to work at all.
Shit, this all worked with Gnome 2. It even worked in Win 95.
You must have the patience of a saint. If we did that for three days at least one person would be thrown over the side and another would jump voluntarily.
An example of this was the alternative vote in the UK. A concept so simple that a child could grasp it instantly, but somehow voters couldn't grasp it.
Well yes, if they had been able to grasp it they'd have clearly made the same choice as you, wouldn't they?
Slashdot Mirror
And if the people don't like what the government is doing they vote in a different one. Did you skip civics as well as economics?
I don't need to be psychic to work out where you're from...
Oh, the car. Being right next to a reservoir of combustible liquid is a total win when there's a huge flash of thermal radiation.
Well I suppose twice just about counts as periodic. The first time you change the password. The second time you install an actual physical switch.
It might be disturbing if this was the system to launch a retaliatory strike rather than a warning to take cover but nobody is dumb enough to think that.
But you wouldn't know whether there wasn't a nuclear war or there wasn't a tsunami.
Ever seen a fire alarm button? There's a reason it's one button and not 27.
Only 98.5 milion left! Per year that's barely 19 million. OMG communism!
Sounds like there's a business opportunity there:
"I might be able to salvage the case and maybe the power supply. Twenty bucks and a case of Bud? Sure, of course I can collect".
Are you talking about army tactics or Rugby Union?
People in a panic make mistakes. What would be the consequences if there really was an incoming missile and the "all clear" got sent out?
That assumption is not necessarily correct. It may indicate that it's a "being learned" language.
I use bash for various things at home. I've never asked a question about it on SO or anything else, because I either know the answer or somebody else already asked it and GIMF.
What&asshat(TM)manishsucksdonkeyballss so annoying is that it doesn&asshat(TM)manishsucksdonkeyballst put them back properly
I think his point was that there are two possible reasons no new questions are being asked. One is that nobody's using it. The other is that it's matured and everybody who's using it has gained a degree of competence such that they don't need to ask "how is babby formed" and/or the knowledge base has built up to the extent that any questions they do have are already answered.
I can see a major need for stripping aberrant apostrophes.
FTFY.
Maybe they found a gender-specific pronoun in one of the comments.
So what do they call herbal tea, i.e. tea that isn't actually tea?
Linux is getting crappier too. I have an Eee with a recent version of Kali on it; doesn't hibernate properly (did on the old version) and for some unknown reason goes through grub twice on boot. Tried several DEs and none of them allow me to change the colours, which might seem trivial but the pre-installed themes are either angry fruit salad or too low contrast to see properly. Oh, and editing the menus is fun, if you can get it to work at all.
Shit, this all worked with Gnome 2. It even worked in Win 95.
And they'll probably vote for him again.
You must have the patience of a saint. If we did that for three days at least one person would be thrown over the side and another would jump voluntarily.
Well yes, if they had been able to grasp it they'd have clearly made the same choice as you, wouldn't they?
Last I heard, it's still possible for California to bring in food from other places.
Except if it's employment or college admissions, right?
To be honest, it's quite impressive that it works at all.
People who can't pay go into debt, or can opt to have their head(s) cut off.
FTFY