Yes, but if a country suspects that there have been irregularities they can call schenanigans.
Imagine this: The country of Lithuanistan is a voting member of ISO. United Megacorp has a smaller standards body like ECMA put a standard they cooked up on the ISO fast-track process. Everything proceeds as expected and the Lithuanistanian national body votes YES on the standard, even though most Lithuanistanian techies are very sceptical about it. A week after the vote, though, someone from UniMeg leaks documents that show that the entire Lithuanistanian NB had been bought off by UniMeg and they didn't vote because the standard hat merit but because they liked their new cars.
Lithuanistan is pissed. They want a chance to stop the standardization process (or at least freeze it for further investigation), now that they can prove it has been tampered with. However, all votes have already been cast. This appeals process is what they'd use: If you have doubt that the standardization process went as it should you can appeal before the standard becomes final.
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right thar
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a land called Persia
In west Philistia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all throwin' some discus outside of the school
When a couple of guys that were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom cried war
And said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Persia"
I begged and pleaded with her the other day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kissin' and she gave me my ticket
I put my saber on and said "I might as well kick it"
First class, yo this is bad,
Drinking red potions out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of Persia livin' like,
Hmm this might be alright
I whistled for a chariot and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I'd say that this chariot was rare
But I thought "Now forget it, yo home to Persi-air"
I pulled up to a palace 'bout seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby "Yo, home smell you later"
Looked at my kingdom I was finally thar
To sit on my throne as the prince of Persia
Give me an LED that is as useful for lighting an entire room as a halogen bulb and I'll agree. Currently, LEDs are too dim, too expensive and they have a too narrow light cone.
1. Deprecate
2. Have the compiler/interpreter issue a warning (can be disabled in config but is enabled by default)
3. Have the compiler/interpreter issue an error (like above)
4. Completely remove from language spec
That way you can gradually accustom people to the fact that the feature is going to disappear. Steps 1 and 2 should usually be executed at once.
PHP has a distinct advantage over its direct competitory: A great documentation. You can enter http://php.net/levenshtein into your browser and you get a nice page with that function's signature, behavior, examples and (sometimes extremely helpful) user comments. Basic concepts of the language and the like also get close attention in the documentation. Apart from a few "this needs to be written" pages for the most exotic/new functions, PHP's documentation is extremely useful even in the offline version without user comments.
When I tried to get friendly with Python (which failed for various reasons) I was appalled at the state of the Python documentation. There usually are three different documentation bodies that might contain what you want to know, the bodies are not always organized in an intuitive way, finding what you need isn't trivial and once you have found it you usually just have a description of what it does with little in the way of code examples etc.
The Python documentation is certainly useful, but it can't approach that of PHP, which allows you to instantly work with whatever you're looking for (and if you don't know what you're looking for, the search function and extensive linking between similar functions allows you to quickly identify it).
I think a good bit of PHP's popularity comes from the fact that the documentation makes it easy to understand and properly use functions/classes in short time, even if you never used them before. I know that it's ugly, but PHP is my shell scripting language of choice because I can quickly implement just about everything I need, whether I have done that task in PHP before or not. It's essentially what VB is for GUI development: Ugly but very design-time efficient.
Haskell is now the de-jour of forums and blogs around the world.
Ugh. Haskell has to be one of the ugliest languages I've ever seen. Not only are the indentation rules fairly unpredictable, it also pretends it's a functional language and then happily tramples all over its paradigm to include actions with side-effects as data types.
It's powerful, no doubt, but incredibly ugly. Then again, the same could be said (potentially) of Perl and Perl used to be very big.
Actually, Slashdot goes a lot further. Regardless of the encoding used, HTML entities should be properly handled by the browser - so when I type ☺ the browser should display a smiling face regardless of how theye characters are encoded. Since HTML entities already are written in ASCII, compatibility between Latin-1 and UTF-8 s not a problem.
Slashdot, however, actively filters out most HTML entities. I've been told this was to avoid certain site-breaking characters, but it would be easy to whitelist a whole range of characters, for example most of the BMP.
These restrictions are entirely because the Slashdot admins want them. Period.
Yes, but an HS diploma can be the equivalent of any German school diploma. They went the safe route and didn't assume that all American students picked the hard courses, so it's considered to be equivalent to the middle-tier one as long as you don't prove otherwise.
Unfortunately that's true. We like to pat ourselves on the back about how great and rational we are, but as soon as an emotionally charged topic is mentioned we show that we really are just bald monkeys with a knack for engineering.
Somebody should tell them that a mental illness cannot be fixed with a ban...
It's not even a mental illness unless you want to characterize all paraphilias as mental illnesses. We can treat it like something similar (and offer self-help groups, counseling etc.) but we do need to acknowledge that it's not a mental illness - just a state that happens to be at odds with common morals. It can't be healed but we can try to help the affected to control themselves.
We need to stop mischaracterizing things like this; that only leads to trouble for people who have enough of that already.
If there is no actual child involved is the law merely protecting against the possibility of offenders committing future crimes against real children?
Could we please get rid of the notion that people require media to develop unpopular views/needs/stances? It's not like Victor Vanilla browses the internet until someone trolls him with a child porn shock image and he immediately turns into Roger Rapist who desperately needs to rape little children.
We can't (yet?) predict whether someone will develop a paraphilia and we can't do anything about it. People just end up having different tastes for different (and often non-obvious) reasons. Whether or not poonography catering to a particular taste is available does not decide whether or not someone develops that taste; it can only be one of many influences.
Banning CP so hard that even mentioning it carries a mandatory prison sentence will still do nothing to "solve" paedophilia. It will only further cloud up the water and force the affected further into obscurity and violence.
What we need is an objective discussion of the issue. We need to view it as a controllable problem like alcoholism or an addiction. It's manageable, but only if we behave like mature, civilized human beings and treat issues like this with a bit of distance.
"Clean" child porn might allow paedophiles to blow off steam instead of waiting until the pent up sexual frustration makes them abduct, rape and kill some little girl. We don't really know, which is why we need scientific evaluation. And that is not possible while idiots with shotguns/the media are running around shouting: "I NEED TO KILLS Y'ALL OR IT MIGHT BE MY DAUGHTER!!1"
I think prohibition, the War on Drugs(TM) and similar endeavours have shown just how well complete demonization of an issue work towards safely controlling said issue.
Just to show how good a HS diploma is: My US American nephew wants to come to Germany in a few years; if he gets HS diploma that counts as a secondary school level I certificate (unless maybe he attends all the advanced courses and says pretty please). Which is enough to become a car technician but not enough to attend a university - for that he'd have to get an Abitur, which means another two years of school. If he goes straight for the Abitur he just has to do twelve years of school in total.
Over here a HS diploma is a bit like a Bachelor degree - it's nice, but if you actually want to do anything interesting you have to invest a few more years to get something more useful.
Actually, they included rounded corners and JavaScript, which allowed them to add gratuitous AJAX. The result is KDE 4.1 2.0 Beta. Since it's not entirely done yet and they're still testing they released a beta version, KDE 4.1 2.0 Beta Beta.
I tend to disconnect external drives when I'm not using them. No point in keeping them powered all the time - even in standby mode their energy consumption is nonzero.
I would assume that the lens is sealed. When you use a tiny bit of water as a high-precision lens you don't really want it to come in contact with the outside world.
So is everything when a voltage spike hits your computer while you're burning your TB-BR. No medium will protect you from a voltage spike that occurs during backup.
In case you assume that a hard drive always is built into the PC: The 90s are over and so is that moniker. FireWire S800 is already four times faster than this disc and not very expensive. And even though I haven't yet seen an eSATA compatible PC in the wild, there are external enclosures that support it. There really is no reason why a backup HDD should be connected internally.
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Actually, as someone else has pointed out, he did update - on LiveJournal.
Apple software for Windows is shit. Always has been. Apple spends all the polishing time on its own platform.
Yes, but if a country suspects that there have been irregularities they can call schenanigans.
Imagine this: The country of Lithuanistan is a voting member of ISO. United Megacorp has a smaller standards body like ECMA put a standard they cooked up on the ISO fast-track process. Everything proceeds as expected and the Lithuanistanian national body votes YES on the standard, even though most Lithuanistanian techies are very sceptical about it. A week after the vote, though, someone from UniMeg leaks documents that show that the entire Lithuanistanian NB had been bought off by UniMeg and they didn't vote because the standard hat merit but because they liked their new cars.
Lithuanistan is pissed. They want a chance to stop the standardization process (or at least freeze it for further investigation), now that they can prove it has been tampered with. However, all votes have already been cast. This appeals process is what they'd use: If you have doubt that the standardization process went as it should you can appeal before the standard becomes final.
I just misread that as "GTA VIII - R'lyeh". Now that would be one awesome game.
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right thar
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a land called Persia
In west Philistia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all throwin' some discus outside of the school
When a couple of guys that were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom cried war
And said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Persia"
I begged and pleaded with her the other day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kissin' and she gave me my ticket
I put my saber on and said "I might as well kick it"
First class, yo this is bad,
Drinking red potions out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of Persia livin' like,
Hmm this might be alright
I whistled for a chariot and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I'd say that this chariot was rare
But I thought "Now forget it, yo home to Persi-air"
I pulled up to a palace 'bout seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby "Yo, home smell you later"
Looked at my kingdom I was finally thar
To sit on my throne as the prince of Persia
How about Tomb Raider 4, Harry Potter and X-Com: Enforcer?
*ducks, runs and throws up in his mouth*
Give me an LED that is as useful for lighting an entire room as a halogen bulb and I'll agree. Currently, LEDs are too dim, too expensive and they have a too narrow light cone.
1. Deprecate
2. Have the compiler/interpreter issue a warning (can be disabled in config but is enabled by default)
3. Have the compiler/interpreter issue an error (like above)
4. Completely remove from language spec
That way you can gradually accustom people to the fact that the feature is going to disappear. Steps 1 and 2 should usually be executed at once.
PHP has a distinct advantage over its direct competitory: A great documentation. You can enter http://php.net/levenshtein into your browser and you get a nice page with that function's signature, behavior, examples and (sometimes extremely helpful) user comments. Basic concepts of the language and the like also get close attention in the documentation. Apart from a few "this needs to be written" pages for the most exotic/new functions, PHP's documentation is extremely useful even in the offline version without user comments.
When I tried to get friendly with Python (which failed for various reasons) I was appalled at the state of the Python documentation. There usually are three different documentation bodies that might contain what you want to know, the bodies are not always organized in an intuitive way, finding what you need isn't trivial and once you have found it you usually just have a description of what it does with little in the way of code examples etc.
The Python documentation is certainly useful, but it can't approach that of PHP, which allows you to instantly work with whatever you're looking for (and if you don't know what you're looking for, the search function and extensive linking between similar functions allows you to quickly identify it).
I think a good bit of PHP's popularity comes from the fact that the documentation makes it easy to understand and properly use functions/classes in short time, even if you never used them before. I know that it's ugly, but PHP is my shell scripting language of choice because I can quickly implement just about everything I need, whether I have done that task in PHP before or not. It's essentially what VB is for GUI development: Ugly but very design-time efficient.
It's powerful, no doubt, but incredibly ugly. Then again, the same could be said (potentially) of Perl and Perl used to be very big.
Actually, Slashdot goes a lot further. Regardless of the encoding used, HTML entities should be properly handled by the browser - so when I type ☺ the browser should display a smiling face regardless of how theye characters are encoded. Since HTML entities already are written in ASCII, compatibility between Latin-1 and UTF-8 s not a problem.
Slashdot, however, actively filters out most HTML entities. I've been told this was to avoid certain site-breaking characters, but it would be easy to whitelist a whole range of characters, for example most of the BMP.
These restrictions are entirely because the Slashdot admins want them. Period.
Yes, but an HS diploma can be the equivalent of any German school diploma. They went the safe route and didn't assume that all American students picked the hard courses, so it's considered to be equivalent to the middle-tier one as long as you don't prove otherwise.
Unfortunately that's true. We like to pat ourselves on the back about how great and rational we are, but as soon as an emotionally charged topic is mentioned we show that we really are just bald monkeys with a knack for engineering.
We need to stop mischaracterizing things like this; that only leads to trouble for people who have enough of that already.
We can't (yet?) predict whether someone will develop a paraphilia and we can't do anything about it. People just end up having different tastes for different (and often non-obvious) reasons. Whether or not poonography catering to a particular taste is available does not decide whether or not someone develops that taste; it can only be one of many influences.
Banning CP so hard that even mentioning it carries a mandatory prison sentence will still do nothing to "solve" paedophilia. It will only further cloud up the water and force the affected further into obscurity and violence.
What we need is an objective discussion of the issue. We need to view it as a controllable problem like alcoholism or an addiction. It's manageable, but only if we behave like mature, civilized human beings and treat issues like this with a bit of distance.
"Clean" child porn might allow paedophiles to blow off steam instead of waiting until the pent up sexual frustration makes them abduct, rape and kill some little girl. We don't really know, which is why we need scientific evaluation. And that is not possible while idiots with shotguns/the media are running around shouting: "I NEED TO KILLS Y'ALL OR IT MIGHT BE MY DAUGHTER!!1"
I think prohibition, the War on Drugs(TM) and similar endeavours have shown just how well complete demonization of an issue work towards safely controlling said issue.
My point is not that High Schools are crap. My point is that a High School degree doesn't say much about how smart someone is.
Just to show how good a HS diploma is: My US American nephew wants to come to Germany in a few years; if he gets HS diploma that counts as a secondary school level I certificate (unless maybe he attends all the advanced courses and says pretty please). Which is enough to become a car technician but not enough to attend a university - for that he'd have to get an Abitur, which means another two years of school. If he goes straight for the Abitur he just has to do twelve years of school in total.
Over here a HS diploma is a bit like a Bachelor degree - it's nice, but if you actually want to do anything interesting you have to invest a few more years to get something more useful.
Actually, they included rounded corners and JavaScript, which allowed them to add gratuitous AJAX. The result is KDE 4.1 2.0 Beta. Since it's not entirely done yet and they're still testing they released a beta version, KDE 4.1 2.0 Beta Beta.
Actually, KDE 4.1 is what the average user considers to be "KDE 4". 4.0 was mainly the technical basis on which the actual GUI would be built.
I tend to disconnect external drives when I'm not using them. No point in keeping them powered all the time - even in standby mode their energy consumption is nonzero.
I would assume that the lens is sealed. When you use a tiny bit of water as a high-precision lens you don't really want it to come in contact with the outside world.
So is everything when a voltage spike hits your computer while you're burning your TB-BR. No medium will protect you from a voltage spike that occurs during backup.
In case you assume that a hard drive always is built into the PC: The 90s are over and so is that moniker. FireWire S800 is already four times faster than this disc and not very expensive. And even though I haven't yet seen an eSATA compatible PC in the wild, there are external enclosures that support it. There really is no reason why a backup HDD should be connected internally.
Compare "Adobe" and "la daube". Very similar.
Music
Blues
Euphemism
Excretion
I don't really it sounds like that...
Wikipedia seems to have a pretty strong opinion on transhumanism, as evidenced by the shortest path between intelligence and stupidity:
Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Transhumanism
Stupidity