I believe that there are, sometimes, very simple, black and white issues. Abortion would be one of them. Is that mass of cells alive, or is it not? If it's alive, we have a responsibility to protect that life. Is it not alive? Then we can do what we want.
Almost every reasonable person would agree that mass of cells is certainly alive. Left unchecked, it will definitely be born just like any other baby, barring unfortunate events that are normally considered "tragedies", such as birth defects or stillbirth. Most people know this, but they want to have the option of killing that life when it becomes inconvenient, embarrassing, or otherwise less-than-ideal. They wrap this desire under the disingenuous label of "choice", and start talking about grey areas.
I agree that "choice" as used by liberals is incorrect. Most anti-abortionists accept women have all sorts of choices, such as whether to get a tattoo, or what to wear, or what to think. However (with some exceptions) we generally don't accept that people have the choice of killing people.
I don't think the debate should be based around "choice" - it should be based around whether we think that mass of cells is worthy of being called a person. For the first trimester I don't think it matters. Others such as yourself disagree.
For the last trimester I don't like the concept of abortion, except if it is to save the mother's life. I don't know about the middle bit.
If you minimise the DVD playing window, or just any quicktime movie into the dock, it continues to play (all little and cute!), and always has had that behaviour.
Microsoft are working on allowing you to shut your computer down and have programs -continue- to run by migrating to another computer. Quite a nice idea really.
I still program in Ada, and like the if/elsif/else/end if (what? - you have to type "else" in C++!!!), loop/end loop syntax. Having a loop with loop/end loop and an "exit when boolcondition;" is pretty neat.
I've seen lots of people who do...
while (..) { ... .. }//while
which to me seems not much different to "end loop".
The single character {, } certainly makes it easier to see where control structures end at a glance so that's a Good Thing (tm).
I find that my fingers can type begin/end quicker than {} (no shift key), but I suspect it's just a matter of habit. When I switch from Java to Ada, or Ada to Java, I often get the comment symbols wrong (-- vs//). Most of the typing issues are pretty much irrelavent once you've done a small amount of programming in a language (IMHO).
"The Microsoft team sold their Word editor, a complicated product with over 110,000 lines of code to the general communitiy. Without the editor, it is very likely that the AdTI project would not have succeeded. The Microsoft team only asked that the book be called Microsoft Word/Samizdat, a very simple request for helping to make him famous. But Ken Brown silently, but deliberately let the naming idea die."
The old guard is slowly receding with China's new president (though obviously Jiang is still a big figure lurking in the shadows) and fresh blood in the Congress.
but only if the idiots who managed the Arrianne 5 project require you to use software from another rocket (Arianne 4) without testing the code on a static work bench.
"I estimate that this will cause another 3 weeks of delay for this product. If you like I can finish off working on what we have so that you can start using the software and we can get some feedback on real usage. We can implement these new features after that"
If the bonnet of the car was sealed, you could design it so that
it deformed in a more predictable manner.
The current situation has 2 hinge points at the back, and one locking mechanism at the front. I'ld be inclined to think that that'ld be harder to design as a safe crumple zone.
I believe that Mercs use the roof to help send some of the
stress of an accident to the back of the car. A lesson in what
can be achieved by careful design?
"But that doesn't mean we can't still live on it, just in protected chambers on the surface."
Actually -under- the surface. You need to do that to protect you from the nasty radiation from the Sun. A couple of meters of soil above you will work wonders, as well as providing you a nice layer of insulation.
so your point is a restatement of the argument in favor of the hybrids NOT in favor of "true" 64-bit computing
All I was saying is that 64bit computing is good for some applications because of its large memory addressing capability, whether it comes from a hybrid architecture, or a "true" architecture - whatever that may be.
Power & PowerPC chips are part of a design family that encompasses 32 and 64 bit chips so are they hybrid? Itanium can run 32bit x86 code, so is it hybrid? Does it really matter?
Maybe -you- should ring -them- every now and them to talk about the viruses that they aren't having. Nothing like reminding people just how lucky they are.
The problem, when push comes to shove, is that for "enterprise" customers, 64-bit CPUs are still a solution in search of a problem.
64 bit CPUs are really good at addressing -lots- of memory, allowing some databases to become memory resident. For some applications this would be a very big win.
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Yeah, cutting edge technology. Like knowing to use Metric throughout...
Almost every reasonable person would agree that mass of cells is certainly alive. Left unchecked, it will definitely be born just like any other baby, barring unfortunate events that are normally considered "tragedies", such as birth defects or stillbirth. Most people know this, but they want to have the option of killing that life when it becomes inconvenient, embarrassing, or otherwise less-than-ideal. They wrap this desire under the disingenuous label of "choice", and start talking about grey areas.
I agree that "choice" as used by liberals is incorrect. Most anti-abortionists accept women have all sorts of choices, such as whether to get a tattoo, or what to wear, or what to think. However (with some exceptions) we generally don't accept that people have the choice of killing people.
I don't think the debate should be based around "choice" - it should be based around whether we think that mass of cells is worthy of being called a person. For the first trimester I don't think it matters. Others such as yourself disagree.
For the last trimester I don't like the concept of abortion, except if it is to save the mother's life. I don't know about the middle bit.
If you minimise the DVD playing window, or just any quicktime movie into the dock, it continues to play (all little and cute!), and always has had that behaviour.
Microsoft are working on allowing you to shut your computer down and have programs -continue- to run by migrating to another computer. Quite a nice idea really.
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Same goes for RTSP (real time streaming protocol?) for broadcasting I believe.
Not half as strangely as when I pull my 8" floppy discs from the mid 80's...
Hmmmm. Spyware.
So in Communist China, TV will watch you?
I've seen lots of people who do...
which to me seems not much different to "end loop".The single character {, } certainly makes it easier to see where control structures end at a glance so that's a Good Thing (tm).
I find that my fingers can type begin/end quicker than {} (no shift key), but I suspect it's just a matter of habit. When I switch from Java to Ada, or Ada to Java, I often get the comment symbols wrong (-- vs //). Most of the typing issues are pretty much irrelavent once you've done a small amount of programming in a language (IMHO).
You can have security without screws. Apple tower cases have provision for a padlock that prevents easy access to the internals.
Shame Ken Brown, shame!
That must be a receeding heir line...
Unbelievable but true.
(*cough* *cough* *cough*)
sigh...
"Wheel" - that's always something that has bugged me. Why is that group called "Wheel"???
I think instead of a rating of "Funny" slashdot needs a rating of "Sad but true".
"I estimate that this will cause another 3 weeks of delay for this product. If you like I can finish off working on what we have so that you can start using the software and we can get some feedback on real usage. We can implement these new features after that"
My parents were too cheap to get me a proper haircut - my mum would do it.
I still look back at my school photos and -shudder-.
The current situation has 2 hinge points at the back, and one locking mechanism at the front. I'ld be inclined to think that that'ld be harder to design as a safe crumple zone.
I believe that Mercs use the roof to help send some of the stress of an accident to the back of the car. A lesson in what can be achieved by careful design?
Actually -under- the surface. You need to do that to protect you from the nasty radiation from the Sun. A couple of meters of soil above you will work wonders, as well as providing you a nice layer of insulation.
Once you get past all the ice of course :-)
All I was saying is that 64bit computing is good for some applications because of its large memory addressing capability, whether it comes from a hybrid architecture, or a "true" architecture - whatever that may be.
Power & PowerPC chips are part of a design family that encompasses 32 and 64 bit chips so are they hybrid? Itanium can run 32bit x86 code, so is it hybrid? Does it really matter?
Maybe -you- should ring -them- every now and them to talk about the viruses that they aren't having. Nothing like reminding people just how lucky they are.
64 bit CPUs are really good at addressing -lots- of memory, allowing some databases to become memory resident. For some applications this would be a very big win.