Enter the lawyers. They can't use the "test for reactions" test because they're either subjective, or you'd need a prohibitive amount of equipment (and time testing) to make it purely objective. Otherwise the lawyers argue that the person wasn't impaired _enough_. There's also the flip side of that coin that being subjective also means that if the officer doesn't like the look of you, then your reactions weren't good enough. Plus the folks that will dispute every ticket (regardless of how egregious the infraction) they get under the mantra of "make them prove it! You have a right!" blah, blah blah.
Check out Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns. That CD sounds awesome listening to it all the way through. The songs have a thematic connection in the order that they're presented. Having said that, there's a couple tracks in there that are really good on their own. I haven't heard Mr. Tin complain that you can buy Baba Yetu on it's own.... (heck, it was in a video game as the theme song....)
Canada solved this too. People must have 4 consecutive hours available to vote. So if the polling stations are open from 7 AM to 8 PM, the employer could require the employee to leave at 4 PM (to allow for 4-8 PM), or arrive at 11 AM (to allow for 7-11 AM).
(Canada, and at least at the municipal level (I haven't worked provincial or federal) ) For the blind, illiterate, quadraplegic, or whatever other issues preventing a voter doing their own thing, there is a paper that can be signed to have a designated assistant help the voter.
Last time I went to the amusement park with the nieces we had an arrangement. The 4 adults formed a box. The kids were told that they may not leave the box. If the box could not be maintained, they must be within arms-reach of one of the adults. And they were told that the box didn't exist to stop them from going anywhere. You want to go to ride X, we'll go there. The box exists for your protection. We had no problems making this work. (And even to the point that when we arrived home, the niece wouldn't even go to her mother without permission)
You're proceeding from a faulty premise. You're assuming that you are seeing all of the traffic being sent to you. Back when I was maintaining the spam filter for our company, 95% of the incoming mail was simply dropped on the floor as being too spammy. The stuff that hits your spam folder is only the stuff that is "marginally" spammy.
Sorry, I've got a Boxee Box currently, and the firmware is lagging very behind. With the apparent inability to keep the box up to date, I am far less inclined to get another Boxee. Considering Roku and/or AppleTV. (Or any other suggestions other than a full multimedia PC)
Thought there was a case somewhere that said that the person needed to be able to give consent at all stages. This case had to do with causing the partner to become unconscious and then have sex with them. It was discussed beforehand. But the court ruled that since the subject had become unconscious, the person was unable to continue to give consent and thus was illegal.
What is "undefined" in C is often "a total disaster, waiting to attack you like Jack the Ripper" in C++.
You mean in C++ it is far more likely to notice the undefined behaviour? This is a _good_ thing. _Please_ blow up every time Undefined Behaviour is invoked. Undefined behaviour is bad. Just because your program didn't explode, doesn't mean your program works. Better to die than to silently screw up the program.
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And you do the same thing in C by returning a pointer to a local variable from a function. This is all standard variable lifetime management issues. (And as I recall, the default for lambdas is to take its parameters by value, so you explicitly chose to capture by reference to create the lifetime issue)
You didn't understand the beginning of my post. Having the developer watch is not the same as having the developer do the install. Read-only vs. read-write. I'm OK with dev being able to read-only. They can't "infect" production with their assumptions if they can't change anything. If they find something that needs adjusting then they should be adjusting their own environment to replicate the problem (or simulate it if necessary), construct the fix, then communicate the fix to those who should be doing changes to Test and Prod.
If Dev and Prod aren't the same for whatever reasons, then the powers-that-be have to understand the costs that are incurred by not having them the same. You save the $5k on using cheaper hardware in Dev, but cost them $50k in downtime because that difference causes a bug to be exposed in Prod. (Picking numbers out of thin air). And yep, sometimes that $5k savings does end up really being $5k in savings as the difference in hardware had no impact on the environment. It's something that needs to be considered.
(And yes, I'm very firmly on the development side of the fence, and my software gets installed into large production environments that I will never see, and in some cases am not legally allowed to see. Something about foreign nationals not allowed to touch or see any hardware that controls satellites...)
Getting a developer to see the installation process is not the same as having the developer do the install as a matter of course. One is a debugging process, the other is development. If Dev and Prod aren't identical, then their Configuration Management team has failed. They need to learn that Test (and to an extent Dev) are just as important as Prod.
Huh, another example of how almost any question that appears in a Slashdot title should be answered with "no".
No, the developers should not install the software themselves. Not in test, not in production. (Assuming a sufficiently large company that there are people other than the developer...) It shouldn't be that hard to install and get the software up and running. Should something happen to the developer (quit, fired, Hit By A Bus, whatever), who's gonna install it then? At a minimum, there's a bunch of missing documentation.
There's a difference in that example though. There is no standard that says "must be rectangular". The shape of the device shouldn't be specified in the standard. As a result, you can implement a gsm phone that is spherical, or cylindrical, or whatever shape may strike your fancy, as far as the standard is concerned. What happens outside of the standard is a whole different issue.
To answer the question. No. You want goodwill? _Undo_ the damage that was done first. Release the patent war chest to the public domain. Stop the corporate shell game. Behave well for the next 5 or 10 years. Then we can perhaps change our opinion.
Heh. Although for reference, Apple keyboards have had a control key since about 1986..... (25+ years...) perhaps earlier. The Apple IIc had a control key in 1984, the Macs got it a little later (1987 with the Mac Classic and LC?).
Wow. You're many years (about 7) out of date. The Mighty Mouse had right click. And as I recall, using a 3rd party multibutton mouse worked even earlier than that. Plus the alternate of Ctrl-Click is the equivalent.
IMHO, the Kindle is too small to read A4 pages. That was one of the driving reasons for me to get an iPad. Trying to read an A4 PDF on the Kindle drives me up the wall scrolling all over the page (or having to zoom out so far as to need a magnifying glass). However, if it's available as a real ebook... give me the Kindle anyday.
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Enter the lawyers. They can't use the "test for reactions" test because they're either subjective, or you'd need a prohibitive amount of equipment (and time testing) to make it purely objective. Otherwise the lawyers argue that the person wasn't impaired _enough_. There's also the flip side of that coin that being subjective also means that if the officer doesn't like the look of you, then your reactions weren't good enough. Plus the folks that will dispute every ticket (regardless of how egregious the infraction) they get under the mantra of "make them prove it! You have a right!" blah, blah blah.
Check out Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns. That CD sounds awesome listening to it all the way through. The songs have a thematic connection in the order that they're presented. Having said that, there's a couple tracks in there that are really good on their own. I haven't heard Mr. Tin complain that you can buy Baba Yetu on it's own.... (heck, it was in a video game as the theme song....)
Until this year, Mountain Dew was caffeine-free in Canada.....
Canada solved this too. People must have 4 consecutive hours available to vote. So if the polling stations are open from 7 AM to 8 PM, the employer could require the employee to leave at 4 PM (to allow for 4-8 PM), or arrive at 11 AM (to allow for 7-11 AM).
(Canada, and at least at the municipal level (I haven't worked provincial or federal) ) For the blind, illiterate, quadraplegic, or whatever other issues preventing a voter doing their own thing, there is a paper that can be signed to have a designated assistant help the voter.
Note that in some jurisdictions, the absentee ballots are not counted unless the race for that riding is closer than x%.
Last time I went to the amusement park with the nieces we had an arrangement. The 4 adults formed a box. The kids were told that they may not leave the box. If the box could not be maintained, they must be within arms-reach of one of the adults. And they were told that the box didn't exist to stop them from going anywhere. You want to go to ride X, we'll go there. The box exists for your protection. We had no problems making this work. (And even to the point that when we arrived home, the niece wouldn't even go to her mother without permission)
Car analogy: Somebody ships you a car. It arrives with a bent bumper. Instead of having the source shipping you a new car, you just unbend the bumper.
You're proceeding from a faulty premise. You're assuming that you are seeing all of the traffic being sent to you. Back when I was maintaining the spam filter for our company, 95% of the incoming mail was simply dropped on the floor as being too spammy. The stuff that hits your spam folder is only the stuff that is "marginally" spammy.
Sorry, I've got a Boxee Box currently, and the firmware is lagging very behind. With the apparent inability to keep the box up to date, I am far less inclined to get another Boxee. Considering Roku and/or AppleTV. (Or any other suggestions other than a full multimedia PC)
Thought there was a case somewhere that said that the person needed to be able to give consent at all stages. This case had to do with causing the partner to become unconscious and then have sex with them. It was discussed beforehand. But the court ruled that since the subject had become unconscious, the person was unable to continue to give consent and thus was illegal.
What is "undefined" in C is often "a total disaster, waiting to attack you like Jack the Ripper" in C++.
You mean in C++ it is far more likely to notice the undefined behaviour? This is a _good_ thing. _Please_ blow up every time Undefined Behaviour is invoked. Undefined behaviour is bad. Just because your program didn't explode, doesn't mean your program works. Better to die than to silently screw up the program.
[lambda example snipped]
And you do the same thing in C by returning a pointer to a local variable from a function. This is all standard variable lifetime management issues. (And as I recall, the default for lambdas is to take its parameters by value, so you explicitly chose to capture by reference to create the lifetime issue)
Slackware Redhat Debian Ubuntu Debian Plus dabble in a few others along the way.
You didn't understand the beginning of my post. Having the developer watch is not the same as having the developer do the install. Read-only vs. read-write. I'm OK with dev being able to read-only. They can't "infect" production with their assumptions if they can't change anything. If they find something that needs adjusting then they should be adjusting their own environment to replicate the problem (or simulate it if necessary), construct the fix, then communicate the fix to those who should be doing changes to Test and Prod. If Dev and Prod aren't the same for whatever reasons, then the powers-that-be have to understand the costs that are incurred by not having them the same. You save the $5k on using cheaper hardware in Dev, but cost them $50k in downtime because that difference causes a bug to be exposed in Prod. (Picking numbers out of thin air). And yep, sometimes that $5k savings does end up really being $5k in savings as the difference in hardware had no impact on the environment. It's something that needs to be considered. (And yes, I'm very firmly on the development side of the fence, and my software gets installed into large production environments that I will never see, and in some cases am not legally allowed to see. Something about foreign nationals not allowed to touch or see any hardware that controls satellites...)
Getting a developer to see the installation process is not the same as having the developer do the install as a matter of course. One is a debugging process, the other is development. If Dev and Prod aren't identical, then their Configuration Management team has failed. They need to learn that Test (and to an extent Dev) are just as important as Prod.
Huh, another example of how almost any question that appears in a Slashdot title should be answered with "no". No, the developers should not install the software themselves. Not in test, not in production. (Assuming a sufficiently large company that there are people other than the developer...) It shouldn't be that hard to install and get the software up and running. Should something happen to the developer (quit, fired, Hit By A Bus, whatever), who's gonna install it then? At a minimum, there's a bunch of missing documentation.
An RFID style passive tag that is actually part of the coffin might be good.
Hmm... probably not the coffin. That's under about 6 ft of dirt and enclosed in a cement box. RFID is pretty weak....
There's a difference in that example though. There is no standard that says "must be rectangular". The shape of the device shouldn't be specified in the standard. As a result, you can implement a gsm phone that is spherical, or cylindrical, or whatever shape may strike your fancy, as far as the standard is concerned. What happens outside of the standard is a whole different issue.
Forget Sodom. We still have a word for what they did. What the heck did they do in Gommorah that we don't even have a word for it anymore?
To answer the question. No. You want goodwill? _Undo_ the damage that was done first. Release the patent war chest to the public domain. Stop the corporate shell game. Behave well for the next 5 or 10 years. Then we can perhaps change our opinion.
Let's see.. Descent 3... Doom 3.... wonder which one you're referring to?
I can only think of one of my friends that has 2 TVs in their house, and I can think of a couple that have none.
Heh. Although for reference, Apple keyboards have had a control key since about 1986..... (25+ years...) perhaps earlier. The Apple IIc had a control key in 1984, the Macs got it a little later (1987 with the Mac Classic and LC?).
Wow. You're many years (about 7) out of date. The Mighty Mouse had right click. And as I recall, using a 3rd party multibutton mouse worked even earlier than that. Plus the alternate of Ctrl-Click is the equivalent.
IMHO, the Kindle is too small to read A4 pages. That was one of the driving reasons for me to get an iPad. Trying to read an A4 PDF on the Kindle drives me up the wall scrolling all over the page (or having to zoom out so far as to need a magnifying glass). However, if it's available as a real ebook... give me the Kindle anyday.