I've been modded down countless times for expressing or at least addressing unpopular views.
So have I, but I've never let it stop me because I have karma to burn. I get modded up so often that the occasional negative mod is irrelevant to me. Hell, within the last week I've gotten modded +5 Informative simply for pointing out something that was in the article's summary, and as long as that keeps happening, I'm going to continue speaking my mind here and let the mods fall where they may.
I'm on the fence about this. For the VAST majority of uses of gcc, you are going to want to include stdlib and friends, and for the other uses, there's a flag to disable it.
If gcc needed to be as samll and compact as possible, that would be a good way to handle this. However, that's not true, and I see no reason it shouldn't check to see if libc is needed and link it in if, and only if it's going to be used, just as it does with every other library.
The criminal "profession" has an intelligence bias. Most intelligent people who contemplate crime realize the profit isn't much better than working a day job if you want to do it in a way that there is a very minimal chance of getting caught.
Tell that to Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello or Meyer Lansky. I'm sure they'd be interested to know that running Organized Crime isn't as profitable as an honest job would have been.
Going to go check my spam folder now... maybe it's got less crap in it now.
My spam folder's had much less in it for about a week now. I don't know how much of this was caused by bringing down this one botnet, but it must have had some effect, all of it good.
I'm not fat, but I am involved in SF fandom. Believe me, some of them are very, very fat. And, I must say, they joke about it instead of getting offended if you mention it.
Who cares, as long as both roads are in the same county? The point of the GPS isn't to keep track of exactly where the taxi is at all times, it's to make sure the passenger isn't being charged the suburban rate while they're inside New York.
The only likely custom part is a casing to fit someone's ear.
I use behind the ear hearing aids, just like mentioned in the original question. The main body is standardized, not custom fit. The part that goes into the ear is also standard, and the audiologist just picks the size needed and connects it to the main body. Nothing need be custom made.
Inside the ear hearing aids are, of course, different, and I have friends who use them. You start off by having a mold made of your ear and the inner part of the case is made from that mold. Aside from that, it's all standardized, just like the ones I use.
Interesting. My health plan paid for both of my hearing aids, with no copay. And, when I lost one of them after about two years, I received a new, better pair, again with no copay. Of course, my "health plan" is my VA benefits, and my hearing loss is service connected.
That people are so quick to blame pharmaceuticals for everything that may happen post vaccination.
The parents in this case are suffering from the logical fallacy post hoc, ergo propter hoc, or, "after this, therefor because of this." That is, they believe that the fact that their child developed autism after being vaccinated is proof that the vaccine was the cause of the autism. This makes as much sense as saying that if you get hungry for breakfast after sunrise, the Sun's rising must have caused you to get hungry.
Remember, this is Wirth we're talking about. He's the guy who made a fetish out of top-down programming while designing a language that's intended to be written and compiled bottom up! The guy's never been anything but a quiche-eating hypocrite in my book.
But it is a weapon: a weapon of Cultural Mass Destruction. As long as young Iranians want to have it and the mullahs don't want them to, your music is a weapon pointed straight at the heart of the current regime. If people in Iran want it, send it!
We spent years preparing for a war that was plainly just never going to happen with the USSR, because the fucking idiots in charge on both sides were so afraid that the other one was planning to come after them.
Written with 20/20 hindsight. I lived through that era and I can assure you that it wasn't that clear at the time. There were many points (e.g., during the Cuban Missile Crisis) when it looked like somebody was going to push The Button any day now. In one sense, MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) worked: the Soviets were just as afraid that we were going to attack them as we were of a Soviet attack with the result that both sides did what they could to keep tensions below the flash-point.
Subsidization is handing out money for nothing to non-profitable enterprises
Subsidies can also be handed out to start-ups that aren't profitable yet but are doing something that's considered desirable, in the hope that they will become profitable later.
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So have I, but I've never let it stop me because I have karma to burn. I get modded up so often that the occasional negative mod is irrelevant to me. Hell, within the last week I've gotten modded +5 Informative simply for pointing out something that was in the article's summary, and as long as that keeps happening, I'm going to continue speaking my mind here and let the mods fall where they may.
If gcc needed to be as samll and compact as possible, that would be a good way to handle this. However, that's not true, and I see no reason it shouldn't check to see if libc is needed and link it in if, and only if it's going to be used, just as it does with every other library.
As a slashdotter, you should be in favor of bleeding edge technology.
True, but that's no excuse for a compiler/linker to bring in a library that's not needed.
Just because her machine has that much RAM available doesn't mean the program has to use it.
Tell that to Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello or Meyer Lansky. I'm sure they'd be interested to know that running Organized Crime isn't as profitable as an honest job would have been.
My spam folder's had much less in it for about a week now. I don't know how much of this was caused by bringing down this one botnet, but it must have had some effect, all of it good.
This is Slashdot, in case you hadn't noticed. Only on Slashdot is pointing out the trivially obvious considered "Informative."
I'm not fat, but I am involved in SF fandom. Believe me, some of them are very, very fat. And, I must say, they joke about it instead of getting offended if you mention it.
And then again, there's SF fandom, where XL is considered medium. Says a lot about how fat some of them are, doesn't it?
Who cares, as long as both roads are in the same county? The point of the GPS isn't to keep track of exactly where the taxi is at all times, it's to make sure the passenger isn't being charged the suburban rate while they're inside New York.
I use behind the ear hearing aids, just like mentioned in the original question. The main body is standardized, not custom fit. The part that goes into the ear is also standard, and the audiologist just picks the size needed and connects it to the main body. Nothing need be custom made.
Inside the ear hearing aids are, of course, different, and I have friends who use them. You start off by having a mold made of your ear and the inner part of the case is made from that mold. Aside from that, it's all standardized, just like the ones I use.
Interesting. My health plan paid for both of my hearing aids, with no copay. And, when I lost one of them after about two years, I received a new, better pair, again with no copay. Of course, my "health plan" is my VA benefits, and my hearing loss is service connected.
The parents in this case are suffering from the logical fallacy post hoc, ergo propter hoc, or, "after this, therefor because of this." That is, they believe that the fact that their child developed autism after being vaccinated is proof that the vaccine was the cause of the autism. This makes as much sense as saying that if you get hungry for breakfast after sunrise, the Sun's rising must have caused you to get hungry.
Look: we all know that the TSA's job isn't security as such, it's security theater.
Except, of course, for all those conspiracies the tinfoil-hat brigade is certain they're covering up.
In which case, of course, you only have one hand free.
Remember, this is Wirth we're talking about. He's the guy who made a fetish out of top-down programming while designing a language that's intended to be written and compiled bottom up! The guy's never been anything but a quiche-eating hypocrite in my book.
No, but you must admit it was an obvious possibility under the circumstances.
This leads me to ask who wrote the descriptions of the various browsers.
But it is a weapon: a weapon of Cultural Mass Destruction. As long as young Iranians want to have it and the mullahs don't want them to, your music is a weapon pointed straight at the heart of the current regime. If people in Iran want it, send it!
Written with 20/20 hindsight. I lived through that era and I can assure you that it wasn't that clear at the time. There were many points (e.g., during the Cuban Missile Crisis) when it looked like somebody was going to push The Button any day now. In one sense, MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) worked: the Soviets were just as afraid that we were going to attack them as we were of a Soviet attack with the result that both sides did what they could to keep tensions below the flash-point.
I'm not doubting you, but your challenge would be far more impressive if you'd have given your own sources.
Subsidies can also be handed out to start-ups that aren't profitable yet but are doing something that's considered desirable, in the hope that they will become profitable later.
California got into this trouble under the Democrats, and they still control the State Legislature.