True, but your program is pretty trivial if it never needs to dynamically allocate a memory resource.
Not at all. Embedded applications often have maximum sizes that they allow for strings, buffers, and caches, and they set aside this space in advance, so they never have to do dynamic allocation.
It may then suit a government to actually prolong a war to stay in power. It turns out that waging war is one thing that democracies actually don't cope very well with.
Sure, but look at it from the network's perspective. If they are going to hire an analyst, they are going to hire an insider, someone with contacts, someone who is successful and in the business. Any John Q. Historian could come to a conclusion, but who is the viewer going to believe, him or a buddy of Gen. Petraeus?
Should we even care about small time dreamers anymore? Should the entire process of patent reform have to grind to a halt in order to allow "Joe Inventor", if he exists or indeed ever existed, to still play the patent lottery game? $300,000 dollars per patent seems just fine by me.
Yes, there are still useful patents and techniques put out by the little guys and lone inventors, especially ones that can be used in the third world. Here a two I found from a quick Google search, and I remember another one that involves a special buried clay pot.
I did find it amusing that the first uses are hoped to cause "fewer injuries when soldiers need to lift heavy weights or move objects around repeatedly". Not much of a combat objective!
Well, the first versions are likely to be tethered to a generator. So, yeah, they'll stay in the supply depot.
To me there are just two good viable language designs: Low-level (C/C++) and scripting languages (Lua, Perl, etc.). The mid-level languages are the worst of both worlds (compiled and slow).
Don't forget the high-level compiled languages, like Scheme, Dylan, and Haskell, that most people haven't heard of.
Actually, I think he's saying "D323643 is in the public domain. If my connector is closer to D323643 than it is to the five current patents you sent me, then I'm not infringing against the five, I'm infringing -- by which I obviously mean not infringing -- on a public domain design. Send me claims from when D323643 was valid; that will help me prove the similarity."
Imagine you're running a marathon, and one group of people get a 300 year head start. Now we let the rest of the people start running and we try to call it a fair race? It's not enough that we're all running, the people who were held back need an opportunity to catch up.
That's a fine analogy, but what makes blacks special? You know another group that doesn't have the same head start as the leaders? The poor. Another group? The poorly educated. A third group? The fresh-off-the-boats. All those people are disadvantaged in comparison to the leading group. Why don't they get affirmative action?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? A lot, right? And since God is all that and a bag of chips, he ought to do better than the angels. So that's why it is the "god particle."
So...you don't think there's any chance that a mental condition leading to suicidal tendencies could be genetic?
Not any more. Read the next paragraph after the one you quoted:
"Genetic or congenital structural defect in the brain," like literal bad wiring, is not what comes to mind. You say that's the most common type, okay, I'll believe you. News to me.
Hey, I figure there are other reasons to commit suicide than mental illness, and I listed three of them.
But you want to focus on the mental illness angle. Well that's fine by me. I don't know what the fuck mental illness is. I don't have it and I've never known anyone who did, so here's what I know about mental illness: either it's poor psychological development, like a sociopath, or it's a chemical imbalance.
"Genetic or congenital structural defect in the brain," like literal bad wiring, is not what comes to mind. You say that's the most common type, okay, I'll believe you. News to me. Yeah, I don't see much that can be done about that other than the afflicted person convincing themselves each day that life is worth living, and friends are good for that.
But the rest of your post is full of bile and venom. "You've just demonstrated your complete lack of knowledge when it comes to these issues?" No, I was looking at other things than mental illness, but you didn't see that. The emo suicide, the self-euthanasia, and the guy who knows he's worth more money dead than alive -- they are all fully sane and are fully in control of their actions (though the emo kid is stupid).
My "apparent disdain for Psychiatry" in not, in fact, disdain. Psychiatry is fine, I've got no problems with it. They do good work. But some of them are quacks that think every problem can be solved by a prescription, treating the symptoms not the cause. They prescribe ritalin or seratonin or what-all else when they could have used a better solution. That's who I was excluding when I talked about "here's some happy chemicals." The "bigotrous words in which I've framed it?" Are you saying you think any better of that?
So fuck off. You've got blinders on, assuming I was talking about what I wasn't, and insulting me in the bargain. I don't need your sympathy or condescension, your false judgements about my "wretched condition of unkindness." You're the one being unkind and judgmental here. At worst, I'm being uninformed.
Therefore, their perspective is that the solution to every problem is with more laws (bigger government).
True. All they have is a hammer, so every problem is a nail. This is why the citizen-legislators of the U.S.'s early days was a great idea. Unfortunately -- at legislating -- a specialized legislator is more effective than a citizen-legislator, so the latter died off.
I don't think suicide is ever a choice.... It's a last ditch attempt to stop excruciating mental pain. What suicidal people need is someone who cares about them, who can offer hope and a path to redemption.
It isn't normal to prefer death to another day of life. It seems to me that people who attempt suicide do so because a) they don't know how to make or keep friends, b) they are subject to chronic unendurable pain of some kind, c) they actually have a chemical imbalance in the brain (and I'm not talking about "you're unhappy, here's some more happy chemicals, that'll fix it"), or d) they don't see any future for their family -- but they have life insurance.
For a), they need friends. But if they had friends whom they valued, they wouldn't be in situation a) to begin with. Since they could always have changed the pattern of behavior that led them to that situation, and they still can, I have limited sympathy for them.
For b), c), and d), friends won't help. The best help for b) and d) is some good advice on suicide techniques, and the best help for c) is a doctor. Now, granted, for c) they might not be able to get a doctor until they actually make the attempt. That's where friends can come in handy: to help get a doctor and to help pick up the pieces.
I don't understand the concept of "martyrdom." There must be something more there that I'm not getting, because as far as I can tell, martyrdom is like reverse Schadenfreude: you kind of enjoy feeling miserable. I don't see how that can progress to the point of blowing yourself up, since you'll have no chance to enjoy being a dead man, and you'll know this.
I have heard that if you have absolutely no avenue for finding a woman, perhaps because of a noticeable gender imbalance, you're more likely to be a suicide bomber. Basically, if blowing yourself up will make you famous, you take one for the team. In genetically deterministic terms, if you can't spread your own genes, you at least hope your brother gets some sympathy/halo-effect nookie.
But how is this news? So it's getting closer to release... it was closer to release yesterday than it was the day before, too.
Well, if it weren't for that pesky NDA, we could learn about the Death Knight rev. 1 or new lands or whether WotLK is teh roxxorz or teh suxxorz. But, alas, as we are all law-abiding citizens here on Slashdot (ahem), we must wait with 'bated breath.
(And yes, it is 'bated breath, not baited breath. I have abated my breathing, not eaten nightcrawlers.)
"If such questions are unlawful when posed face-to-face or by telephone, they don't magically become lawful when asked electronically online," Kozinski wrote. "The Communications Decency Act was not meant to create a lawless no man's land on the Internet."
Seems fair enough when put in that light. Unless you're looking for a hot black chick as a roommate, for example, and are prevented from finding one using the services of a website which is subject to a set or rules similar to what a landlord has to abide by.
The Fair Housing Act does not apply to a property owner or renter who isn't in the business of renting out properties. However, if he is in that business, it is illegal for him for print discriminatory criteria in his listing, or to deny a rental on those criteria. But since roommates.com isn't a property owner, that section doesn't apply.
However, there is section 805, which says any property broker can't "discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction." This says to me that if a guy renting out a room has specified certain criteria (like being a hot black chick), the web-site itself can't automatically filter out white dudes, but the guy renting out the room certainly can if he isn't subject to the act.
That seems reasonable and fair. To roommates.com, I suggest dividing hits on a listing into two groups for the guy renting: the group which meets his criteria, and the group which doesn't. This would seem to be within both the spirit and letter of the act.
That is freaky! Great way to give a kid nightmares, though... Oh yes, it is wonderful how this thing makes saving money a traumatic experience. We all save far too much money anyway, and this is a great solution for kick-starting the ol' economy!:-/
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True, but your program is pretty trivial if it never needs to dynamically allocate a memory resource.
Not at all. Embedded applications often have maximum sizes that they allow for strings, buffers, and caches, and they set aside this space in advance, so they never have to do dynamic allocation.
I bet you have also calculated the thrust to weight ration of a TIE fighter.
Approximately 3000:1.
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/tie.html#propulsion
http://www.stardestroyer.net/mrwong/wiki/index.php/Acceleration
"Do we have to? I mean, they're monks. I'm sure their God will let them out
or at least give them more shoes to eat."
"Fat chance! You can't count on God for jack. He pretty much told me so himself. Now come on. If we don't save those monks no one will!"
It may then suit a government to actually prolong a war to stay in power. It turns out that waging war is one thing that democracies actually don't cope very well with.
Yeah. Haven't you ever played Civ 2?
Sure, but look at it from the network's perspective. If they are going to hire an analyst, they are going to hire an insider, someone with contacts, someone who is successful and in the business. Any John Q. Historian could come to a conclusion, but who is the viewer going to believe, him or a buddy of Gen. Petraeus?
Any German lawyers want to chime in here?
:)
Where's Schleswig-Holstein Country Lawyer when you need him?
Should we even care about small time dreamers anymore? Should the entire process of patent reform have to grind to a halt in order to allow "Joe Inventor", if he exists or indeed ever existed, to still play the patent lottery game? $300,000 dollars per patent seems just fine by me.
Yes, there are still useful patents and techniques put out by the little guys and lone inventors, especially ones that can be used in the third world. Here a two I found from a quick Google search, and I remember another one that involves a special buried clay pot.
http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/dewey.html
http://www.acfnewsource.org/science/3rd_world_invention.html
I did find it amusing that the first uses are hoped to cause "fewer injuries when soldiers need to lift heavy weights or move objects around repeatedly". Not much of a combat objective!
Well, the first versions are likely to be tethered to a generator. So, yeah, they'll stay in the supply depot.
To me there are just two good viable language designs: Low-level (C/C++) and scripting languages (Lua, Perl, etc.). The mid-level languages are the worst of both worlds (compiled and slow).
Don't forget the high-level compiled languages, like Scheme, Dylan, and Haskell, that most people haven't heard of.
Actually, I think he's saying "D323643 is in the public domain. If my connector is closer to D323643 than it is to the five current patents you sent me, then I'm not infringing against the five, I'm infringing -- by which I obviously mean not infringing -- on a public domain design. Send me claims from when D323643 was valid; that will help me prove the similarity."
Imagine you're running a marathon, and one group of people get a 300 year head start. Now we let the rest of the people start running and we try to call it a fair race? It's not enough that we're all running, the people who were held back need an opportunity to catch up.
That's a fine analogy, but what makes blacks special? You know another group that doesn't have the same head start as the leaders? The poor. Another group? The poorly educated. A third group? The fresh-off-the-boats. All those people are disadvantaged in comparison to the leading group. Why don't they get affirmative action?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? A lot, right? And since God is all that and a bag of chips, he ought to do better than the angels. So that's why it is the "god particle."
So...you don't think there's any chance that a mental condition leading to suicidal tendencies could be genetic?
Not any more. Read the next paragraph after the one you quoted:
"Genetic or congenital structural defect in the brain," like literal bad wiring, is not what comes to mind. You say that's the most common type, okay, I'll believe you. News to me.
Hey, I figure there are other reasons to commit suicide than mental illness, and I listed three of them.
But you want to focus on the mental illness angle. Well that's fine by me. I don't know what the fuck mental illness is. I don't have it and I've never known anyone who did, so here's what I know about mental illness: either it's poor psychological development, like a sociopath, or it's a chemical imbalance.
"Genetic or congenital structural defect in the brain," like literal bad wiring, is not what comes to mind. You say that's the most common type, okay, I'll believe you. News to me. Yeah, I don't see much that can be done about that other than the afflicted person convincing themselves each day that life is worth living, and friends are good for that.
But the rest of your post is full of bile and venom. "You've just demonstrated your complete lack of knowledge when it comes to these issues?" No, I was looking at other things than mental illness, but you didn't see that. The emo suicide, the self-euthanasia, and the guy who knows he's worth more money dead than alive -- they are all fully sane and are fully in control of their actions (though the emo kid is stupid).
My "apparent disdain for Psychiatry" in not, in fact, disdain. Psychiatry is fine, I've got no problems with it. They do good work. But some of them are quacks that think every problem can be solved by a prescription, treating the symptoms not the cause. They prescribe ritalin or seratonin or what-all else when they could have used a better solution. That's who I was excluding when I talked about "here's some happy chemicals." The "bigotrous words in which I've framed it?" Are you saying you think any better of that?
So fuck off. You've got blinders on, assuming I was talking about what I wasn't, and insulting me in the bargain. I don't need your sympathy or condescension, your false judgements about my "wretched condition of unkindness." You're the one being unkind and judgmental here. At worst, I'm being uninformed.
You know, that makes a lot of sense. I bet you're right.
Humans are, fundamentally, abysmally unsuited to survival in space.
I object to this statement in the strongest possible way! Humans must be suited to survive in space!
Therefore, their perspective is that the solution to every problem is with more laws (bigger government).
True. All they have is a hammer, so every problem is a nail. This is why the citizen-legislators of the U.S.'s early days was a great idea. Unfortunately -- at legislating -- a specialized legislator is more effective than a citizen-legislator, so the latter died off.
I don't think suicide is ever a choice. ... It's a last ditch attempt to stop excruciating mental pain. What suicidal people need is someone who cares about them, who can offer hope and a path to redemption.
It isn't normal to prefer death to another day of life. It seems to me that people who attempt suicide do so because a) they don't know how to make or keep friends, b) they are subject to chronic unendurable pain of some kind, c) they actually have a chemical imbalance in the brain (and I'm not talking about "you're unhappy, here's some more happy chemicals, that'll fix it"), or d) they don't see any future for their family -- but they have life insurance.
For a), they need friends. But if they had friends whom they valued, they wouldn't be in situation a) to begin with. Since they could always have changed the pattern of behavior that led them to that situation, and they still can, I have limited sympathy for them.
For b), c), and d), friends won't help. The best help for b) and d) is some good advice on suicide techniques, and the best help for c) is a doctor. Now, granted, for c) they might not be able to get a doctor until they actually make the attempt. That's where friends can come in handy: to help get a doctor and to help pick up the pieces.
I don't understand the concept of "martyrdom." There must be something more there that I'm not getting, because as far as I can tell, martyrdom is like reverse Schadenfreude: you kind of enjoy feeling miserable. I don't see how that can progress to the point of blowing yourself up, since you'll have no chance to enjoy being a dead man, and you'll know this.
I have heard that if you have absolutely no avenue for finding a woman, perhaps because of a noticeable gender imbalance, you're more likely to be a suicide bomber. Basically, if blowing yourself up will make you famous, you take one for the team. In genetically deterministic terms, if you can't spread your own genes, you at least hope your brother gets some sympathy/halo-effect nookie.
It makes me wonder how dogs deal. I suppose since they sniff ass on a regular basis, it mustn't bother them much.
I didn't expect them to take the phrase "the network is the computer" quite so literally.
But how is this news? So it's getting closer to release... it was closer to release yesterday than it was the day before, too.
Well, if it weren't for that pesky NDA, we could learn about the Death Knight rev. 1 or new lands or whether WotLK is teh roxxorz or teh suxxorz. But, alas, as we are all law-abiding citizens here on Slashdot (ahem), we must wait with 'bated breath.
(And yes, it is 'bated breath, not baited breath. I have abated my breathing, not eaten nightcrawlers.)
...and by "automatically filter out," I mean hide the listing from white dudes.
The Fair Housing Act does not apply to a property owner or renter who isn't in the business of renting out properties. However, if he is in that business, it is illegal for him for print discriminatory criteria in his listing, or to deny a rental on those criteria. But since roommates.com isn't a property owner, that section doesn't apply.
However, there is section 805, which says any property broker can't "discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction." This says to me that if a guy renting out a room has specified certain criteria (like being a hot black chick), the web-site itself can't automatically filter out white dudes, but the guy renting out the room certainly can if he isn't subject to the act.
That seems reasonable and fair. To roommates.com, I suggest dividing hits on a listing into two groups for the guy renting: the group which meets his criteria, and the group which doesn't. This would seem to be within both the spirit and letter of the act.
That is freaky! Great way to give a kid nightmares, though... :-/
Oh yes, it is wonderful how this thing makes saving money a traumatic experience. We all save far too much money anyway, and this is a great solution for kick-starting the ol' economy!