NIST, those not-so-standard standards people, want to give up the hunk of metal they've been calling a kilogram, even though it never weighs the same twice.
I think they would want to give it up because it never weighs the same twice.
"In a lengthy statemenet, the judge said the recording industry had shown the likelihood to win a trial, while the defendants had failed to prove it had substantial non-infriging uses."
And if you had bothered to read my question, you would have noticed that I was referring to the claim of "language independence" and not "OS independence".
From the article: "It [c#] provides operating system independence (which Java provides), but it also provides language independence, which Java can't provide."
Okay, I'm not a programmer. Can anyone explain to me how something can be both a "language" and "language independent" at the same time? Seriously, I'm not trolling here, I really want to know what this means.
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I see that Dictionary.com notes that this definition comes from the Jargon File, which, although useful, is not really an authoritative reference.
Sorry.
when is herbert and everyone since finally going to realize
Sorry to inform you, but Herbert's dead. So probably never.
But Ix. I want to see Ix.
Me too. But given the utter crappiness of the first mini-series, they'll get it wrong.
...is about 2mph above the speed I average driving my car here in Seattle, home of some of the worst traffic in the country.
During the day, driving from downtown Seattle to downtown Redmond (~7 miles) will take you about 45 minutes. That's an average of about 9 mph.
Boycott the MPAA fascists! Fight for your rights! Don't give these freedom-hating bastards any more of your money! Don't give in to --- OOH! CANDY!
I'm thinking it's getting near time for me to expatriate to a free country.
Where?
Or something stronger that can be folded up
Like, for instance, a portable keyboard?
God I wish I had an account
Yeah... too bad getting an account is so difficult. Why can't they make it simpler? Like a link to click, or something? Jeez.
Steve Albini said it first.
Do you suppose CNN probably had something, oh, I don't know, more important to concentrate on?
NIST, those not-so-standard standards people, want to give up the hunk of metal they've been calling a kilogram, even though it never weighs the same twice.
I think they would want to give it up because it never weighs the same twice.
someone mod this up. funny.
Did they try and fail, or did they fail to try?
They tried and died.
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mod this up! Funny!
is here.
"In a lengthy statemenet, the judge said the recording industry had shown the likelihood to win a trial, while the defendants had failed to prove it had substantial non-infriging uses."
with a chapter coming out only once a month, nobody's going to be continuously interested in the book.
I don't know about that. The Green Mile was quite a success, wasn't it?
I love my Camaro! It goes great with my mullet and pubescent mustache.
We can geneticaly engineer mice to have skin like the face of a teenager, and hook them up to an oil harvesting machine....
Instead of pouring sugar into a gas tank, vandals could use Clearasil!
Grr! Jet Ski BAAAAAD!
Metallica rehearses?
Oh, ok. Thanks.
And if you had bothered to read my question, you would have noticed that I was referring to the claim of "language independence" and not "OS independence".
But thanks for being such a jerk.
From the article: "It [c#] provides operating system independence (which Java provides), but it also provides language independence, which Java can't provide."
Okay, I'm not a programmer. Can anyone explain to me how something can be both a "language" and "language independent" at the same time? Seriously, I'm not trolling here, I really want to know what this means.