Not just a stack, a queue as well. Of course, if you look at them right, they're two sides of the same coin because they both make you deal with events or data in an ordered manner.
Back when I was actually doing programming, I spent several years working with Dan Alderson, at JPL. His data structure of choice was always the linked list, either one way or two, depending on what was needed at the time. Yes, it's an abstraction layer, but it's a very useful one when you don't know how many items you're going to be working with from one run to another and it's not exactly hard to add to your toolkit.
I'm only guessing, here, but it sounds like the main use for this is during crash testing of new designs. That way you can see just what happened deep inside of the car's body without having to cut your way in. And, while you're at it, you can also investigate what condition those parts that you'd otherwise have to cut are in, which just might tell you something important. I doubt that something like this would ever become part of routine accident investigation, both because of the cost of using it and because in most cases you don't need that detailed an examination.
What I'd like to know is, if the British really do believe that "the state is our servant," why do they make such a big deal about being subjects of the Crown, and not citizens?
I would agree with you except for one thing: Nixon resigned when he learned that he had only 15 votes in the Senate if it came to an impeachment hearing, less than half of the 34 he would have needed to remain in office, and that means that most of his own party would have voted to acquit him.
The president has said he won't so much as discuss anything until he gets exactly the bill he wants, with only his changes to Obamacare...
So what you're saying is, the entire shutdown is his decision and his responsibility. I hope everybody who voted for him remembers this when the 2014 elections come around.
When I moderate, I browse at -1 so that I can see everything, including posts that may have been unfairly modded down that far. Yes, I realize that most people who moderate don't, but I do see the occasional case where something good has been unfairly moderated because the moderator didn't agree with the post.
When I have mod points, I look for posts that haven't been moderated at all. I figure that once a post's been modded up, there are lots of people who will mod it up further, if appropriate (or just from the herd instinct) so I save my points for posts that haven't been noticed before.
Ever since Taco left and Dice took over Slashdot has been trying to increase its readership by modernizing.
That might be what they think they're doing, but all they're accomplishing is making Slashdot's corpse look like every other website out there that has comments. The new version is ugly, utterly unusable unless you turn all of those pointless images off and there's no threading of comments. Hell, even the Disqus widget that some comic strip sites use to manage comments handles threading correctly. I don't know what Dice thinks it's going to accomplish with this New! Shiny! Improved! layout, but if Slashdot survives this, I'll be very surprised, and if it's still worth reading, it will be a miracle.
This is one case where I do agree with him, probably because I think I know what he was thinking when he said this: it's not just one technology, or even one set of technologies that's the problem. It's the fact that this set of gadgets can be combined to make something that can be used for invasive surveillance of whoever some government agency thinks needs watching combined with what appears to be a pervasive attitude in those agencies that they have the right to snoop on anybody, any time, any place for whatever reason they want without any substantive oversight.
Flood? Hurricane? Earthquake? Tornados? You must be kidding.
Yes, earthquakes. No matter where you go, it's earthquake country, at least on a long enough time scale. Remember, the Northridge Earthquake of 1994 was on a previously unknown fault, so the fact that there's no record of earthquakes in the area doesn't mean as much as you'd like it to.
No, it's not. I agree with you. However, if she had thought to cover her webcam when she wasn't using it, this wouldn't have happened. Do I cover mine? No, because if anybody tried this with me, I'd laugh at them because nobody's going to be that interested in my 64-year-old body and more importantly, my desktop doesn't have a webcam. (My laptop does, but that doesn't get used at home, and I doubt that this little skript kiddie knows enough to hack into Linux.) If anything at all good comes out of this it will be because teens (boys and girls both) learn that things like this not only can, but will happen to them if they don't take a few simple precautions, such as taping over the webcam when it's not in use.
Either that, or she was constantly getting stuck in meetings and was too busy moaning to pay attention to something as unimportant as signing her name.
More likely, whoever set this up was an investment banker and didn't understand that the delay caused by the time it took the signal to get from DC to Chicago was enough to be measured. It's obvious to people like us, but then again, we've made the effort to learn science, and all investment bankers are interested in knowing about is manipulating money.
Are you suggesting that Dianne Feinstein is actually a dick girl? If so, it would explain a lot about her, and why the liberals here in California love her so much.
I've said this here before, but it's worth repeating: regardless of whether or not AGW is true or not, it's probably not a good idea for us to be running an open-ended experiment of dumping as much carbon dioxide as we can into the atmosphere just to see what happens.
In the 1982 version of Annie, Annie and Daddy Warbucks land an autogyro on the White House lawn. And, Doc Savage and his friends often used them, especially at night because they were so quiet, and could land on roofs and take off again.
How is that? I find the opposite to be true. I think the serious bugs that I've seen over the years tended to be at the data structures and algorithms level, i.e. core CS topics.
Those are all important CS topics, but they're not IT topics. IT isn't about finding and patching bugs, it's abut setting up and administering LANSand server farms, setting up and updating desktops for users and other practical skills. (Not that finding bugs isn't practical, it is, but it's a job for your developers and program maintenance staff, not for IT.) The skills you learn studying CS rarely if ever translate into what you're going to be doing in IT.
Suggesting that they'd lost all immunity wasn't my intention. The point I was making is that measles can be a lot more serious than most people realize, with what happened in Hawaii being a rather extreme example.
Yes. It's the same disease that killed almost a fifth of Hawaii's population because they'd never encountered it before and had no immunity. It can be really, really nasty in cases like that and I'm almost surprised that more haven't died yet in this outbreak.
I'm sure that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle will thank you for remembering that quote from Oath of Fealty. Considering that it was published about 32 years ago, the basic politics and attitudes of the FROMATES still ring true.
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As in many other things, Shakespeare got it right: " It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing."
That was my first thought, too. My second was, "People still use Windows?"
We just don't know if and when we will achieve it.
Sure we do. We're about twenty years away from a practical, economically viable fusion reactor, just as we've been for the last forty years.
Not just a stack, a queue as well. Of course, if you look at them right, they're two sides of the same coin because they both make you deal with events or data in an ordered manner.
Back when I was actually doing programming, I spent several years working with Dan Alderson, at JPL. His data structure of choice was always the linked list, either one way or two, depending on what was needed at the time. Yes, it's an abstraction layer, but it's a very useful one when you don't know how many items you're going to be working with from one run to another and it's not exactly hard to add to your toolkit.
I'm only guessing, here, but it sounds like the main use for this is during crash testing of new designs. That way you can see just what happened deep inside of the car's body without having to cut your way in. And, while you're at it, you can also investigate what condition those parts that you'd otherwise have to cut are in, which just might tell you something important. I doubt that something like this would ever become part of routine accident investigation, both because of the cost of using it and because in most cases you don't need that detailed an examination.
What I'd like to know is, if the British really do believe that "the state is our servant," why do they make such a big deal about being subjects of the Crown, and not citizens?
They're probably waiting until they get the tentacles working correctly.
I would agree with you except for one thing: Nixon resigned when he learned that he had only 15 votes in the Senate if it came to an impeachment hearing, less than half of the 34 he would have needed to remain in office, and that means that most of his own party would have voted to acquit him.
The president has said he won't so much as discuss anything until he gets exactly the bill he wants, with only his changes to Obamacare...
So what you're saying is, the entire shutdown is his decision and his responsibility. I hope everybody who voted for him remembers this when the 2014 elections come around.
When I moderate, I browse at -1 so that I can see everything, including posts that may have been unfairly modded down that far. Yes, I realize that most people who moderate don't, but I do see the occasional case where something good has been unfairly moderated because the moderator didn't agree with the post.
When I have mod points, I look for posts that haven't been moderated at all. I figure that once a post's been modded up, there are lots of people who will mod it up further, if appropriate (or just from the herd instinct) so I save my points for posts that haven't been noticed before.
Ever since Taco left and Dice took over Slashdot has been trying to increase its readership by modernizing.
That might be what they think they're doing, but all they're accomplishing is making Slashdot's corpse look like every other website out there that has comments. The new version is ugly, utterly unusable unless you turn all of those pointless images off and there's no threading of comments. Hell, even the Disqus widget that some comic strip sites use to manage comments handles threading correctly. I don't know what Dice thinks it's going to accomplish with this New! Shiny! Improved! layout, but if Slashdot survives this, I'll be very surprised, and if it's still worth reading, it will be a miracle.
This is one case where I do agree with him, probably because I think I know what he was thinking when he said this: it's not just one technology, or even one set of technologies that's the problem. It's the fact that this set of gadgets can be combined to make something that can be used for invasive surveillance of whoever some government agency thinks needs watching combined with what appears to be a pervasive attitude in those agencies that they have the right to snoop on anybody, any time, any place for whatever reason they want without any substantive oversight.
Flood? Hurricane? Earthquake? Tornados? You must be kidding.
Yes, earthquakes. No matter where you go, it's earthquake country, at least on a long enough time scale. Remember, the Northridge Earthquake of 1994 was on a previously unknown fault, so the fact that there's no record of earthquakes in the area doesn't mean as much as you'd like it to.
No, it's not. I agree with you. However, if she had thought to cover her webcam when she wasn't using it, this wouldn't have happened. Do I cover mine? No, because if anybody tried this with me, I'd laugh at them because nobody's going to be that interested in my 64-year-old body and more importantly, my desktop doesn't have a webcam. (My laptop does, but that doesn't get used at home, and I doubt that this little skript kiddie knows enough to hack into Linux.) If anything at all good comes out of this it will be because teens (boys and girls both) learn that things like this not only can, but will happen to them if they don't take a few simple precautions, such as taping over the webcam when it's not in use.
because Miss Swindle was stuck in meetings.
Either that, or she was constantly getting stuck in meetings and was too busy moaning to pay attention to something as unimportant as signing her name.
More likely, whoever set this up was an investment banker and didn't understand that the delay caused by the time it took the signal to get from DC to Chicago was enough to be measured. It's obvious to people like us, but then again, we've made the effort to learn science, and all investment bankers are interested in knowing about is manipulating money.
...if you can fit it in with Feinsteins' prick!
Are you suggesting that Dianne Feinstein is actually a dick girl? If so, it would explain a lot about her, and why the liberals here in California love her so much.
I've said this here before, but it's worth repeating: regardless of whether or not AGW is true or not, it's probably not a good idea for us to be running an open-ended experiment of dumping as much carbon dioxide as we can into the atmosphere just to see what happens.
In the 1982 version of Annie, Annie and Daddy Warbucks land an autogyro on the White House lawn. And, Doc Savage and his friends often used them, especially at night because they were so quiet, and could land on roofs and take off again.
How is that? I find the opposite to be true. I think the serious bugs that I've seen over the years tended to be at the data structures and algorithms level, i.e. core CS topics.
Those are all important CS topics, but they're not IT topics. IT isn't about finding and patching bugs, it's abut setting up and administering LANSand server farms, setting up and updating desktops for users and other practical skills. (Not that finding bugs isn't practical, it is, but it's a job for your developers and program maintenance staff, not for IT.) The skills you learn studying CS rarely if ever translate into what you're going to be doing in IT.
Suggesting that they'd lost all immunity wasn't my intention. The point I was making is that measles can be a lot more serious than most people realize, with what happened in Hawaii being a rather extreme example.
OK, you know it's measles we're talking about?
Yes. It's the same disease that killed almost a fifth of Hawaii's population because they'd never encountered it before and had no immunity. It can be really, really nasty in cases like that and I'm almost surprised that more haven't died yet in this outbreak.
I'm sure that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle will thank you for remembering that quote from Oath of Fealty. Considering that it was published about 32 years ago, the basic politics and attitudes of the FROMATES still ring true.
What I want to know is, who is Bill and how much does he charge for those services. Come to think of it, what "services" is he providing?