And it's really sad and frightening that their reaction to this is "Keep people from recording stuff" rather than "Stop shooting people for no reason."
Well, it's not like they intentionally shoot people for no reason. Every cop that shoots someone is sure he is justified in doing so. If it turns out he was wrong, though, police departments find that the public is not satisfied with a sincere apology for a mistake. They demand blood money and firings — more money and staff than police departments can afford to lose. If the police cannot avoid accidents (and they can't, that's why they're called "accidents"), and they cannot survive the fallout of accidents, they have little choice but to try and prevent people from recording situations where an accident is likely or even possible.
The best solution is for the public to ease up. These things happen. You might as well try to sue gravity when a mudslide buries your house.
And it seems to me that they could combine the proximity sensor input with the accelerometer and gyroscope inputs. When you hold the phone within a certain range of angles AND the proximity sensor reads X, then turn off the touchscreen.
No good if you want to talk on the phone while lying down on the couch. K.I.S.S.
These high school graduates will get much more "learn to be a good citizen" benefits from merely being encouraged to better themselves on their own time and to travel outside their little bubble and visit another continent.
No way. A high schooler will never, in their entire life, find a more concentrated collection of new-to-them ideas and interesting and different people than at a college campus. And if they want to better themselves on their own time, they will never have easier access to clubs and organizations to do just that. They can even find opportunities to visit other countries -- Peace Corps, Greenpeace, etc.
Now that you mention it, KVC/KVO is another one of ridiculous and wasteful (on end user's CPU & programmer's time) "features" of the Cocoa API. Passing simple numeric arguments of time critical functions (such as animation control) as ascii string objects (not just ascii strings, but malloced strings, which need to be parsed & converted into binary integer/float then free-ed) is utter idiocy. If you wish to get file properties, they return you malloced ascii dictionary of ascii name-value pairs, for size, time date,... (all in ascii pairs that need to be parsed back to binary values that your code needs). It's beyond stupid.
What? No. What you describe would indeed be stupid, but that's not what happens.
All string literals are shared compile-time constants. You can use @"color" in seven different places and they all refer to the exact same address. So you aren't interpreting ASCII strings, but simply doing a pointer comparison. The only time they need to be parsed is when they are part of a key path, like @"moulding.color", and there is a separate function for evaluating key paths so that the common case is easily optimized.
Furthermore, key values like 13.5 or 2010-May-23 are not stored or passed around in ASCII form, but wrapped in an NSValue object or a subclass, similar to Java's Integer objects.
By the way, passing parameters as key:value pairs just so that you can pass parameters out of order creates one hell of a readability mess for no real gain.
What are you referring to here? If you mean something like [UIColor colorWithRed: blue: green: alpha:], those parameters cannot be passed in any order other than the one given. For example, [UIColor colorWithBlue: green: red: alpha:] is not going to do anything except get you an error.
Actually, I would bet that mutations are not all that random. Sure, cosmic rays and quantum fluctuations are random, but I would expect an organism's genome to employ more or less error protection in different areas so that critical areas are less likely to mutate while areas that have needed to adapt fast in the past are more likely to mutate and may even be "intentionally" more susceptible to carcinogenic chemicals.
The terror bird predated the Moa and Haast's Eagle by eras (or epochs, not sure). It was around during the Cenozoic and wide-spread. Although moas were bigger, the terror birds were a tougher customer. Instead of wings, they apparently had short arms tipped with a claw that they used to spear and hold on to their prey, and a meat-cleaver of a beak.
The test didn't seem like it measured empathy so much as whether I self-identify as an empathetic person.
There was an interesting point in the article. They said that test is obviously subjective and easy to game, but they said that very few students bothered to do so. Their conclusion is that students these days don't care about looking empathetic as much as they used to. That seems like a pretty unarguable conclusion.
But the researchers went on to say that this tendency to not care how one appears shows that something is not right. I do not agree with that. Seems fine to me. Students are apparently less willing to lie in general, or less willing to BS, or at least less willing to lie on a survey, and I am okay with that.
If it is possible to desensitize folks from strong reactions to roaches using exposure to virtual roaches, why is it somehow absurd to suggest that people are desensitized from strong reactions to violence by exposure to violence in video games? Just asking this question usually gets me modded to hell and back (usually troll or flamebait) but I've yet to see a coherent argument supporting such an odd schism.
I haven't wanted to believe it, but yeah, more and more I have to think that videogame violence desensitizes people to actual violence.
But here's the thing: most videogame denouncers imply that if you are desensitized to violence, you are more likely to commit violence. I don't see that connection. In fact, I tend to think it is a good thing to be desensitized to violence, because if you are ever caught in the middle of a fight or a drive-by or something, you are less likely to panic into a useless puddle of cry.
There are a lot of things I'm not sensitive to. Doesn't mean I want to do those things. I've seen more goatse that I really need to, but I'm not about to go around showing off the ol' Holland Tunnel to everyone and their mother.
Honest question: why is "law" the only place that matters? Why can we not also bring "ethics" into the discussion? The law can take a while to catch up when the environment changes in a way the law-makers and precedent-seetters didn't anticipate.
Really? You want to try to justify a penalty for copyright infringement on ethical grounds? Good luck with that. It seems most people have dismissed those arguments already. The only moral qualms they seem to have about copyright infringement are based on the law, though they have practical concerns involving artists' incentives.
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Granted! The next girlfriend you have will now have worms. She was someone's ex, after all.
Sentry mode activated. Who's there?
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Are you still there?
There you are!
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Searching... Target lost.
Good night!
Sounds like you've never met a stupid nigger before.
Now that you mention it...I don't think I have. I have met plenty of stupid, but none of them have been black yet.
Well, it's not like they intentionally shoot people for no reason. Every cop that shoots someone is sure he is justified in doing so. If it turns out he was wrong, though, police departments find that the public is not satisfied with a sincere apology for a mistake. They demand blood money and firings — more money and staff than police departments can afford to lose. If the police cannot avoid accidents (and they can't, that's why they're called "accidents"), and they cannot survive the fallout of accidents, they have little choice but to try and prevent people from recording situations where an accident is likely or even possible.
The best solution is for the public to ease up. These things happen. You might as well try to sue gravity when a mudslide buries your house.
Its got a competely munted API thats really hard to find good documentation on
I don't know this word, "munted." Do you mean "munged," meaning jerry-rigged, slapdash, or badly improvised?
its a slut to debug,
I believe you mean "bitch." Sluts are more-or-less good things. Or, at least, not all bad.
And it seems to me that they could combine the proximity sensor input with the accelerometer and gyroscope inputs. When you hold the phone within a certain range of angles AND the proximity sensor reads X, then turn off the touchscreen.
No good if you want to talk on the phone while lying down on the couch. K.I.S.S.
No way. A high schooler will never, in their entire life, find a more concentrated collection of new-to-them ideas and interesting and different people than at a college campus. And if they want to better themselves on their own time, they will never have easier access to clubs and organizations to do just that. They can even find opportunities to visit other countries -- Peace Corps, Greenpeace, etc.
Believing any CEO's pronouncement is like believing a whore who tells you "you're the best".
Wait, wait...are you telling me she was lying? But she said she loved me!
I hope that isn't sarcasm, because each of those things did change everything, at the time. I mean, writing? OMFG win!
Indeed...In Soviet Slashdot memes take back you!
Me: Please take me back, baby! You know I didn't mean it!
Meme: *puts on sunglasses* YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH
Given how brightly colored those birds are, the hangover is going to be murder. And the screeching of the other lorikeets ain't gonna help.
He didn't say coffee. But you find someone who drinks enough coffee, I'm sure they can provide you enough caffeine through...other fluids.
Now, where's that cup of cyanide I just prepared? Can't wait to taste it. They told me it was good...
It adds a nice almond flavor to your coffee.
So that means its going to get a fair amount of the smug assholes at Starbucks then ... thats the best news I've had all day.
How could you possibly tell the difference?
What? No. What you describe would indeed be stupid, but that's not what happens.
All string literals are shared compile-time constants. You can use @"color" in seven different places and they all refer to the exact same address. So you aren't interpreting ASCII strings, but simply doing a pointer comparison. The only time they need to be parsed is when they are part of a key path, like @"moulding.color", and there is a separate function for evaluating key paths so that the common case is easily optimized.
Furthermore, key values like 13.5 or 2010-May-23 are not stored or passed around in ASCII form, but wrapped in an NSValue object or a subclass, similar to Java's Integer objects.
Well, we are still trying to make it successful. Come on by and help. :)
Unfortunately, the answer would probably be XML. Lots and lots of XML.
That should be an abbreviation.
"Hey, how are we going to serialize our data model?"
"Oh, probably easiest to use LALOX."
What are you referring to here? If you mean something like [UIColor colorWithRed: blue: green: alpha:], those parameters cannot be passed in any order other than the one given. For example, [UIColor colorWithBlue: green: red: alpha:] is not going to do anything except get you an error.
Actually, I would bet that mutations are not all that random. Sure, cosmic rays and quantum fluctuations are random, but I would expect an organism's genome to employ more or less error protection in different areas so that critical areas are less likely to mutate while areas that have needed to adapt fast in the past are more likely to mutate and may even be "intentionally" more susceptible to carcinogenic chemicals.
The terror bird predated the Moa and Haast's Eagle by eras (or epochs, not sure). It was around during the Cenozoic and wide-spread. Although moas were bigger, the terror birds were a tougher customer. Instead of wings, they apparently had short arms tipped with a claw that they used to spear and hold on to their prey, and a meat-cleaver of a beak.
There was an interesting point in the article. They said that test is obviously subjective and easy to game, but they said that very few students bothered to do so. Their conclusion is that students these days don't care about looking empathetic as much as they used to. That seems like a pretty unarguable conclusion.
But the researchers went on to say that this tendency to not care how one appears shows that something is not right. I do not agree with that. Seems fine to me. Students are apparently less willing to lie in general, or less willing to BS, or at least less willing to lie on a survey, and I am okay with that.
Still time to rent it out as a condom.
Finally, one that fits me!
I haven't wanted to believe it, but yeah, more and more I have to think that videogame violence desensitizes people to actual violence.
But here's the thing: most videogame denouncers imply that if you are desensitized to violence, you are more likely to commit violence. I don't see that connection. In fact, I tend to think it is a good thing to be desensitized to violence, because if you are ever caught in the middle of a fight or a drive-by or something, you are less likely to panic into a useless puddle of cry.
There are a lot of things I'm not sensitive to. Doesn't mean I want to do those things. I've seen more goatse that I really need to, but I'm not about to go around showing off the ol' Holland Tunnel to everyone and their mother.
Aaah, good times. Good times...
Really? You want to try to justify a penalty for copyright infringement on ethical grounds? Good luck with that. It seems most people have dismissed those arguments already. The only moral qualms they seem to have about copyright infringement are based on the law, though they have practical concerns involving artists' incentives.