Think! 5 men in isolation will not have a lot of opertunities to catch a disease.
Right, nothing can go wrong with the human body in three years without a pathenogen. Yeah, and it's not like any of them could get a cancer due to a higher radiation environment.
Of course it has the potential for abuse. But if the band abuses the agreement, in the end they hurt themselves
Actually I was more worried about the other way around, ie this bit: he keeps all the proceeds of CD sales until the debt is paid off. Who says when the debt is paid off? In a dispute, possession is 9/10 of the cash. How many times have I heared musicians complain that the record label is witholding money that is really thiers, using some accounting malpractice.
I don't like pages of smallprint legalise, but if the deal is easy to explain in spoken words, it is also easy to write down in plain english and sign at the bottom. You don't have to get lawyers involved, just keep a record of the deal.
Admitedly I don't know the person you are talking about, so it seems what you are saying is that he's also staking his (immaculate) reputation on it.
I accept that there are some obese people with serious problems in this regard. I have great doubts though if the majority of overweight people are like this. I think it's a cop-out to avoid changing a pattern of behaviour that is good in the short term but bad over time.
Even then, there are a large number of things to do to encourage yourself to eat less. Note that none of them have anything to do with having the willpower to not raise the spoon to your mouth, or with weird food diets.
For instance, - If late at night, you can't resist a slice of chocolate cake that's in your fridge, then WHY WAS IT IN YOUR FRIDGE IN THE FIRST PLACE? If you don't buy it you can't eat it. - If your stomach is empty, drink a glass of water. If you have to eat, eat an apple. Or brown rice, or something low-calorie. - Blood sugar levels and the feeling of satiety lags eating. If you still feel hungry after eating a moderate portion, wait 20 minutes. - Eat three times a day, every day. No more, no less. Don't snack, don't alternate between binging and fasting.
NO KNOWN DIET WORKS... As it stands today, if you are fat and want to not be fat, the only scientifically proven method is a fat prison. A place where you are literally locked up and unable to eat.... eat what you will and be happy
Translation: I have, or have convinced myself that I have such poor self control that I that I will eat myself into a stupor unless I am physically restrained from doing so. I am unwilling to change myself. Furthermore I have convinced myself that all other overweight people are like this too. This defeatist attitude is my justification for my habits.
Results of selecting a result set: all matching rows must be found by the server, all their fields read off the table, packaged for transport by the server, transported across the lan (using bandwidth and time), unpacked by the client and presented in a dataset. Whereupon you look at their size and throw them away.
Results of issuing a "select count(*) from mytable where somecondition": All all matching rows must be found by the server, counted not processed, and only one value, yes *an integer* instead of potentially thousands of rows, is sent across the network, unpacked by the client. If you don't understand why this is a win, then give up and go home now.
Perhaps you need the detail too, but you didn't show that in your e.g. Learn your languages, use the right tool for the job.
Even in a SQL client utility it's always faster to get a count than the details.
I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already... I predict a similar fate for Java
A counterexample, a descendant language / language heavily influenced by Java is of course C#.net. IMHO Java will likely be seen as the time when garbage collected languages went mainstream.
So the moral of this story is, don't invade the country next door if you don't want to wind up getting the stuffing knocked out of you.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
I could blame ordinary American's for the actions of GWB, but I won't.
You are conflating the Iraqi people with the Saddam Regime. The USA owes Saddam nothing except a bullet to the back of the head to finally finish what they started 1991. The USA owes the ordinary Iraqis a lot for all the bombs that have fallen on them, for the lack of hospital care etc that they, not Saddam and his cronies, suffered during the 1990s.
You could at this stage start saying that the USA legally owes the USA citizens only and no one else. Well fine, but if you act as if your military might is the only important thing, don't be surprised if it's the only thing about your country that is respected.
Please stop your selective use of history to back up your ignorance. The FACT is that the USA has supported dictatorships in the past but it has also oppossed them. Ever hear of Castro, Mussolini?
Yeah. The point is, assuming you are the same coward as the other coward, that this "dictatorships must be destroyed, period" rhetoric is bilgewater. The USA attacked and invaded a particular dictaorship for particular ends that didn't have that much to do with the fact of dictatorship. It's a smokescreen.
As far as looking forward towards nuclear war
The point I was making, in between the dubious pleasure of flaming the uncomprehending, is that if you are now suddenly in the business of being global cop and removing dictatorships (tm), go right ahead. After fixing those nasty problems in Africa that you'ver never given a shit about (wrong colour, no oil or something), you will run into serious nuclear trouble in Asia. It's not a teneable worldview.
You sound as if the USA bears ultimate responsibility for the sufferring of the Iraqi people.
Countries are generally considered responisible for the bombs that they drop, yes. Also consider this: when Madeleine Albright was asked in 1996 about sanction againt Iraq, whether the "death of a half million children was worth the price", Albright's response was, 'That's a tough question, but yes we think the price is worth it.' By now that figure has risen to 1 million.
Legally the USA has responsibility to the citizens of the USA and no one, i repeat, no one else.
You have made that only too clear, the way you behave.
Dictatorships must be destroyed. (TM) (R) GWB et al.
Really? Well that certainly is a refreshing change, given the USA's long history of propping up dictators such as Noreiga when it is in their interest to do so, or even removing a democratically elected government in Chile and installing the dictator Pinoche. Oh didn't you know that? Wake up and stop parroting. I look forward to the USA removing Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, and then I look forward to the nuclear war you will have with North Korea and Mainland China, during which you will hopefully be obliterated.
Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online
Before Gulf war 1 Iraq wasn't that badly off. 2 episodes of having the stuffing knocked out of them by the USA, with a decade of brutal sanctions in-between have reduced them to poverty. I'd say that the USA owes the ordinary people of Iraq big time.
Is food, water, electricity, abcense of falling bombs and no armed bandits or looters more important? Well duh. But if and when you get past rebuilding those, the Internet is a marvelous communications mechanism. Communications aid free speech and democracy, or so I'm told.
Under the Patriot Act the executive branch can, at their own discretion, detain a person for an indefinate period of time. In fact, he doesn't even have to accuse them of any crimes or place them legally under arrest
Ah "detention without trial", an effective counter terrorism measure, was used extensively by the old Apartheid government in South Africa to control "terrorists", especially in the "temporary volatile period" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Well, that's what they said. This must be not as evil, must be different... somehow... please??
There is not any such thing as technology that is inherently Dangerous. Guns --designed to "kill"..
Rubbish. That's like saying that a razor-sharp, foot-long knife is as likely to cut you as a swivel chair. Some tools are (suprise, suprise) remarkably apt to a single purpose.
When used correctly allow an 80 year old woman to be safe in her home
What you mean to say that her gun is by design inherently dangerous to would-be burglars.
A common interpretation is that the chain of AIs would become more intelligent without bound, leading to a verticality... I've become more and more convinced that it is certain to happen.
And I think I have a good argument why it won't ever be vertical. See here. As always, I'd be interested to hear if you think I'm wrong.
Shirley, you must be joking. Yes the syntax is similar, but they differ greatly in their class libraries and important issues like memory management
I personally went from Delphi to Java (after having read 1 book on Java). Time to learn the syntax and OO model was days not weeks as it was so familiar.
As for learning about garbage collection, it's like learning to drive an automaticly geared car when all you know is a stick-shift. You don't have to learn to do anything new, just remember not to do some stuff that used to be important.
The rest of the time that I gave is to learn a sizable subset of the class library. Be honest, if you are anything like me and have been using a class library for a year or 2, you don't know it backwards - you know the general outlines and where to look up the details.
OK, maybe more if you are doing J2EE, stateless buzwordbeans or something, but that's domain-specific knowledge, not language-specific knowledge.
I've been programming in C/C++ for over 15 years, If I have a task, how much time should I spend learning a new language if that language is better suited for the task than a language I know?
Java and C# are based on a subset of C++. If you know C++ well, you should be going full steam in these languages within 2 weeks. If your task is long enough, it might be worth it.
Not only will we rebuild what we've destroyed (which if you've noticed, a strong effort is being made to keep this minimal), but we will upgrade them to modern technology. Power plants, water systems, industry, hospitals, roads... all of this means american jobs & products.
Ah yes, you gotta love this logic: "Iraq's oil wealth will not go to America, it will go to the people of Iraq. They have already decided to spend it on infrastructure, and the contracts have been awarded to American companies with close ties to the Bush Administration." Feh.
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Think! 5 men in isolation will not have a lot of opertunities to catch a disease.
Right, nothing can go wrong with the human body in three years without a pathenogen. Yeah, and it's not like any of them could get a cancer due to a higher radiation environment.
Oh wait...
Of course it has the potential for abuse. But if the band abuses the agreement, in the end they hurt themselves
Actually I was more worried about the other way around, ie this bit: he keeps all the proceeds of CD sales until the debt is paid off. Who says when the debt is paid off? In a dispute, possession is 9/10 of the cash. How many times have I heared musicians complain that the record label is witholding money that is really thiers, using some accounting malpractice.
I don't like pages of smallprint legalise, but if the deal is easy to explain in spoken words, it is also easy to write down in plain english and sign at the bottom. You don't have to get lawyers involved, just keep a record of the deal.
Admitedly I don't know the person you are talking about, so it seems what you are saying is that he's also staking his (immaculate) reputation on it.
I accept that there are some obese people with serious problems in this regard. I have great doubts though if the majority of overweight people are like this. I think it's a cop-out to avoid changing a pattern of behaviour that is good in the short term but bad over time.
Even then, there are a large number of things to do to encourage yourself to eat less. Note that none of them have anything to do with having the willpower to not raise the spoon to your mouth, or with weird food diets.
For instance,
- If late at night, you can't resist a slice of chocolate cake that's in your fridge, then WHY WAS IT IN YOUR FRIDGE IN THE FIRST PLACE? If you don't buy it you can't eat it.
- If your stomach is empty, drink a glass of water. If you have to eat, eat an apple. Or brown rice, or something low-calorie.
- Blood sugar levels and the feeling of satiety lags eating. If you still feel hungry after eating a moderate portion, wait 20 minutes.
- Eat three times a day, every day. No more, no less. Don't snack, don't alternate between binging and fasting.
His solution is this: No written contracts. Just handshakes
Oh, that's a brilliant idea guaranted to prevent disputes. Not.
NO KNOWN DIET WORKS ... As it stands today, if you are fat and want to not be fat, the only scientifically proven method is a fat prison. A place where you are literally locked up and unable to eat. ... eat what you will and be happy
Translation: I have, or have convinced myself that I have such poor self control that I that I will eat myself into a stupor unless I am physically restrained from doing so. I am unwilling to change myself. Furthermore I have convinced myself that all other overweight people are like this too. This defeatist attitude is my justification for my habits.
Go look up the SQL count(*) operator some time.
Results of selecting a result set: all matching rows must be found by the server, all their fields read off the table, packaged for transport by the server, transported across the lan (using bandwidth and time), unpacked by the client and presented in a dataset. Whereupon you look at their size and throw them away.
Results of issuing a "select count(*) from mytable where somecondition":
All all matching rows must be found by the server, counted not processed, and only one value, yes *an integer* instead of potentially thousands of rows, is sent across the network, unpacked by the client. If you don't understand why this is a win, then give up and go home now.
Perhaps you need the detail too, but you didn't show that in your e.g. Learn your languages, use the right tool for the job.
Even in a SQL client utility it's always faster to get a count than the details.
There's gotta be one good one in there.
IMHO that would be the Sigur Ros
I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already ... I predict a similar fate for Java
A counterexample, a descendant language / language heavily influenced by Java is of course C#.net.
IMHO Java will likely be seen as the time when garbage collected languages went mainstream.
You are a VB programmer, so it's only natural that you should do things the dumb quick, easy and grossly inefficient way.
// or however VB does this
That SQL is better off as
Errval=MyDatabase.SQL("Select count(*) from mytable where name='Andrew'")
Print MyDatabase.Rows[0].Colums[0].value
Trust me, it is less work for the server, less network trafic. You don't read a book cover do cover just to see how many pages it has, do you?
So the moral of this story is, don't invade the country next door if you don't want to wind up getting the stuffing knocked out of you.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
I could blame ordinary American's for the actions of GWB, but I won't.
You are conflating the Iraqi people with the Saddam Regime. The USA owes Saddam nothing except a bullet to the back of the head to finally finish what they started 1991. The USA owes the ordinary Iraqis a lot for all the bombs that have fallen on them, for the lack of hospital care etc that they, not Saddam and his cronies, suffered during the 1990s.
You could at this stage start saying that the USA legally owes the USA citizens only and no one else. Well fine, but if you act as if your military might is the only important thing, don't be surprised if it's the only thing about your country that is respected.
Please stop your selective use of history to back up your ignorance. The FACT is that the USA has supported dictatorships in the past but it has also oppossed them. Ever hear of Castro, Mussolini?
Yeah. The point is, assuming you are the same coward as the other coward, that this "dictatorships must be destroyed, period" rhetoric is bilgewater. The USA attacked and invaded a particular dictaorship for particular ends that didn't have that much to do with the fact of dictatorship. It's a smokescreen.
As far as looking forward towards nuclear war
The point I was making, in between the dubious pleasure of flaming the uncomprehending, is that if you are now suddenly in the business of being global cop and removing dictatorships (tm), go right ahead. After fixing those nasty problems in Africa that you'ver never given a shit about (wrong colour, no oil or something), you will run into serious nuclear trouble in Asia. It's not a teneable worldview.
You sound as if the USA bears ultimate responsibility for the sufferring of the Iraqi people.
Countries are generally considered responisible for the bombs that they drop, yes. Also consider this: when Madeleine Albright was asked in 1996 about sanction againt Iraq, whether the "death of a half million children was worth the price", Albright's response was, 'That's a tough question, but yes we think the price is worth it.' By now that figure has risen to 1 million.
Legally the USA has responsibility to the citizens of the USA and no one, i repeat, no one else.
You have made that only too clear, the way you behave.
Dictatorships must be destroyed. (TM) (R) GWB et al.
Really? Well that certainly is a refreshing change, given the USA's long history of propping up dictators such as Noreiga when it is in their interest to do so, or even removing a democratically elected government in Chile and installing the dictator Pinoche. Oh didn't you know that? Wake up and stop parroting. I look forward to the USA removing Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, and then I look forward to the nuclear war you will have with North Korea and Mainland China, during which you will hopefully be obliterated.
Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online
Before Gulf war 1 Iraq wasn't that badly off. 2 episodes of having the stuffing knocked out of them by the USA, with a decade of brutal sanctions in-between have reduced them to poverty. I'd say that the USA owes the ordinary people of Iraq big time.
Is food, water, electricity, abcense of falling bombs and no armed bandits or looters more important? Well duh. But if and when you get past rebuilding those, the Internet is a marvelous communications mechanism. Communications aid free speech and democracy, or so I'm told.
Under the Patriot Act the executive branch can, at their own discretion, detain a person for an indefinate period of time. In fact, he doesn't even have to accuse them of any crimes or place them legally under arrest
... somehow ... please??
Ah "detention without trial", an effective counter terrorism measure, was used extensively by the old Apartheid government in South Africa to control "terrorists", especially in the "temporary volatile period" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Well, that's what they said. This must be not as evil, must be different
Oddly enough, I've never been cut by any of my razor sharp foot long knives... They cut bread, meat, carrots, celery, etc... Never gotten a nick.
Well, I must be a klutz then.
Anything that makes the world less safe for would-be burglars is a good thing.
I never said otherwise. But you do seem to be admitting that a gun is inherently dangerous.
There is not any such thing as technology that is inherently Dangerous. Guns --designed to "kill"..
Rubbish. That's like saying that a razor-sharp, foot-long knife is as likely to cut you as a swivel chair. Some tools are (suprise, suprise) remarkably apt to a single purpose.
When used correctly allow an 80 year old woman to be safe in her home
What you mean to say that her gun is by design inherently dangerous to would-be burglars.
), and an easy way to fake the browser ID string (possible in Mozilla only if you're willing to manually edit config files).
n dex.html
Well nope, not only. there's a pluggin for Mozilla that puts the User Agent string as a dropdown on the toolbar: http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/help/i
A common interpretation is that the chain of AIs would become more intelligent without bound, leading to a verticality ... I've become more and more convinced that it is certain to happen.
And I think I have a good argument why it won't ever be vertical. See here. As always, I'd be interested to hear if you think I'm wrong.
Europeans have repeatedly made it clear that they don't really hate Americans, they hate the Bush administration..
Your current adminstration may be the worst, but you sure do have a habit of picking bad ones. I'd say I hate your entire corrupt political process.
Shirley, you must be joking. Yes the syntax is similar, but they differ greatly in their class libraries and important issues like memory management
I personally went from Delphi to Java (after having read 1 book on Java). Time to learn the syntax and OO model was days not weeks as it was so familiar.
As for learning about garbage collection, it's like learning to drive an automaticly geared car when all you know is a stick-shift. You don't have to learn to do anything new, just remember not to do some stuff that used to be important.
The rest of the time that I gave is to learn a sizable subset of the class library. Be honest, if you are anything like me and have been using a class library for a year or 2, you don't know it backwards - you know the general outlines and where to look up the details.
OK, maybe more if you are doing J2EE, stateless buzwordbeans or something, but that's domain-specific knowledge, not language-specific knowledge.
I've been programming in C/C++ for over 15 years, If I have a task, how much time should I spend learning a new language if that language is better suited for the task than a language I know?
Java and C# are based on a subset of C++. If you know C++ well, you should be going full steam in these languages within 2 weeks. If your task is long enough, it might be worth it.
C# having some of the advantages of Java, but not all. They deliberately did NOT make it fully type-safe, which is one of Java's strong points.
I have read up on but not used C#. I have not encountered this lack of type-safety. Can you be more specific, or give an example?
C (and C++) are terrible tools for software engineering. ... Some more suitable languages include Ada, Java, Modula-3, Sather, Scheme, and Smalltalk
.NET, with Microsoft's pet language C# having all the adavantages of Java in this respect.
Hence,
Not only will we rebuild what we've destroyed (which if you've noticed, a strong effort is being made to keep this minimal), but we will upgrade them to modern technology. Power plants, water systems, industry, hospitals, roads... all of this means american jobs & products.
Ah yes, you gotta love this logic: "Iraq's oil wealth will not go to America, it will go to the people of Iraq. They have already decided to spend it on infrastructure, and the contracts have been awarded to American companies with close ties to the Bush Administration." Feh.