Pink sheet, huh? Didn't know that. However, I kind of like the OPs definition of it meaning Pakistan. I can just see McBride out there with the rug merchants, vegetable stands, and knock-off arms dealers, hawking his shares to whomever passes by on the street.
142 pages of coding standards with 220 rules formatted as a typical DOD document with section numbering, headers, and footers, and change pages. Something I'm sure each team member read cover to cover.
I'd challenge any of the manager of the JSF C++ project to cite rule AV123 (or any other rule) without looking it up. Standards are a good thing but this is overkill to the n-th degree. It be interesting to survey the code generated from this project (assuming it was ever completed) to see how closely these rules were followed and how soon after the project began, deviations from it started to appear.
If, after a style is imposed, a developer willfully chooses not to follow said style, they should go look for other places to work. They're professionals in a business environment and their personal desires must sometimes be suppressed. Just as they can't code up whatever program suits their fancy, how they do their coding can be dictated by those who pay the salaries.
As far as a group hug approach to setting standards, its fine (necessary) to survey the troops for their ideas, but at some point, the person in charge must make the decision. Yes, people will be pissed that they may have to do things differently than they'd like but, see my first paragraph.
Over the last 10 years, I've owned a couple netgear and linksys wifi routers and they have all been the lowest maintenance devices in my home network. I can't recall ever having to kick-start one of this devices for misbehavior. They've all been left on 24/7 and are only restarted after power outages or when I accidentally kick the plug out of the wall socket.
Either you or I must be way out on the tails of the bell curve.
ID says that there are mechanisms in nature which appear to have intelligence behind their makeup. That intelligence may be from a creator, or it may be from some yet undiscovered cause
If you don't know yet, that's fine. As it stands to date, however, there have been no published papers in the normal scientific journals that have provided the merest whiff of the slightest proof of such a "creator". All we've seen so far is some mystical, Jedi-like handwaving about evolutionary theory not answering all the questions. No one is saying any different. Provide some documented evidence of your position that is measureable and testable that fits life on earth. I'll wait...
And if they are scientists are are ostracized, stripped of their tenure, or silenced in some other way.
Oh, please, do tell. Here, I'll start you out for the listing of all such scientists who've had such things happen to them, with appropriate references:
Do you even understand the concept of science and how it's done? Science is all about questioning. Biologists and other scientists are constantly questioning the tenets of evolution, performing research the either proves or disproves some aspect of the theory and then documenting their results for others to replicate, question or offer alternatives. What it isn't is deciding "Whoa, this is too complex, kind of like that pile of sand over there. I guess gawd musta done it!".
You want to teach ID, provide some testable measurements that offer a better fit to how life on earth came to be and offer it up to the scientific community for evaluation. Until then, ID is nothing more than the voodoo that you do so well and, as such, it belongs in a church where people blindly accept things without proof instead of a science class.
I've basically given up watching the broadcasts for exactly that reason. You only get 3 or 4 minutes of actual competition followed by a 15 minute sob story about some athlete having to deal with the deaths of her mother/father/sibling/uncle/pet goat after which they cut back to the studio where the talking head says where they'll be going to some time later but first these 10 minutes of commercials. And good luck getting any time for sports where the Americans are out of competition. Its simply not worth the frustrations anymore.
That and figuring out how to apply section numbering and section title formatting for the eleventy-millionth time because it is so non-intuitive and the MS help pages are next to worthless.
If you ask the people of North Korea whether their government is benevolent and is looking out for their best interests, I'm sure you would find that better than 85% would agree that it is. All the while, they're foraging in the woods for weeds and tree bark to eat as their Dear Leader cavorts with hookers back in one of his many palaces.
Living under such a totalitarian regime does have a tendency to affect your opinions.
You obviously don't understand the use of the word theory as it applies in the scientific domain. Go read a book on the scientific method and educate yourself and won't appear to be such a fool. The fact of the matter is that the theory of evolution is backed by mountains of evidence, is recognized as valid by biologists everywhere, and does provide the most accurate explanations of life available.
Bullshit! Provide some fucking evidence that could lead to actually proving that the evolutionary theory is false and don't fall back on the tired old responses creobots have trotted out before. They've all been debunked with extreme prejudice. Provide the evidence of your "creator". Simply waving your hand and intoning jedi-like "these aren't the theories you're looking for" just doesn't cut it.
kind of trouble we're in, this concept should clear up that confusion right away. Frankly, the mass of US citizens are morons, willing to park themselves in front of the TV to watch shit like this and, with mouths agape, say Thank sir, may I have another. This used to be the stuff of parody. Its now the reality.
What makes these idiots at comcast believe that this would be a welcome feature in any one's home? Have customers been calling their customer service lines in India begging, nay, demanding that their cable box have cameras that can watch them watching the TV?
More importantly, are there such people clamoring for this? Actually, that is a much, much scarier question. If such people do exist, I imagine they're the ones yelling that if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't mind bush's illegal spying. Now that I could make sense of.
I can only image that the bill submitter believes they'll enforce this law by following the tubes back from the wireless router to those dastardly stealers-of-other-people's-bandwidth. Shouldn't be a big problem.
It is impossible to understate the influence Clarke had on me growing up. He wrote realistic science in a fictional format that was accessible to a adolescent. 40 some year later, I continue to read his works and still am amazed at the quality and authenticity of his books. He was certainly a factor in my decision to become an engineer and to reinforce my love of all things sciencey. His book Imperial Earth, one of my favorites, introduced me to the pentomino puzzle which still continues to fascinate me. He is gone but his legacy will remain for a long, long time.
Given the herd mentality of people, any attempts to put some structure around the boarding process are doomed to failure. People, as individuals, may be smart but throw them together at an airline gate, they collectively become dumb as stumps. You can paint circles on the carpet outside the gate with the seat assignments stenciled in them and tell everyone to stand on the spot corresponding to their seat assignments and they'll still get it wrong. People will arrive late or children will be separated from their parent or some asshole will simply refuse to cooperate.
The other problem in boarding is carry-on luggage. This will always cause huge delays in boarding as people struggle to find space in the overhead bins and to cram their oversized suitcase into a space half the size. Eliminating carry-on would solve this but would cause mass insurrection.
Nope. I just don't think it is possible to organize efficient boarding given the current way the process works and given the nature of people. It sure would be nice though.
I can just hear the anti-Castro cold warriors crowing that their plans to remove him from power worked. So now what are the nut jobs in Miami going to bitch about?
Not true. We here in the SF Bay Area have overlapping coverage for the 1G AMPS, 2G TDMA Digital AMPS, 2.5G GSM and CDMA, and 3G Wideband CDMA. Not to mention the POTS wired telephone service. I'm sure thats true for other metropolitan areas as well. There is absolutely nothing technical to prevent multiple formats from operating simultaneously. In all likelihood, the providers of wireless service in any given area will maintain multiple formats as they upgrade. Afterall, they've already made the investment in the old equipment and that produces revenue as they bring the new one online.
The rapper that wrote the classic "fuck that bitch ho'" should be able to enjoy income from it 60 years from now as it plays on the oldies stations and in the elevators.
Backed by a study that says teens show more respect for copyrights when told of possible jail time for infringement
These are the same teens who are having unprotected sex, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, driving cars at unsafe speeds, and continuing to indulge in drugs. Maybe if we told them about the consequences of those behaviours, they'd stop doing them as well.
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Pink sheet, huh? Didn't know that. However, I kind of like the OPs definition of it meaning Pakistan. I can just see McBride out there with the rug merchants, vegetable stands, and knock-off arms dealers, hawking his shares to whomever passes by on the street.
142 pages of coding standards with 220 rules formatted as a typical DOD document with section numbering, headers, and footers, and change pages. Something I'm sure each team member read cover to cover.
I'd challenge any of the manager of the JSF C++ project to cite rule AV123 (or any other rule) without looking it up. Standards are a good thing but this is overkill to the n-th degree. It be interesting to survey the code generated from this project (assuming it was ever completed) to see how closely these rules were followed and how soon after the project began, deviations from it started to appear.
If, after a style is imposed, a developer willfully chooses not to follow said style, they should go look for other places to work. They're professionals in a business environment and their personal desires must sometimes be suppressed. Just as they can't code up whatever program suits their fancy, how they do their coding can be dictated by those who pay the salaries.
As far as a group hug approach to setting standards, its fine (necessary) to survey the troops for their ideas, but at some point, the person in charge must make the decision. Yes, people will be pissed that they may have to do things differently than they'd like but, see my first paragraph.
Over the last 10 years, I've owned a couple netgear and linksys wifi routers and they have all been the lowest maintenance devices in my home network. I can't recall ever having to kick-start one of this devices for misbehavior. They've all been left on 24/7 and are only restarted after power outages or when I accidentally kick the plug out of the wall socket.
Either you or I must be way out on the tails of the bell curve.
If you don't know yet, that's fine. As it stands to date, however, there have been no published papers in the normal scientific journals that have provided the merest whiff of the slightest proof of such a "creator". All we've seen so far is some mystical, Jedi-like handwaving about evolutionary theory not answering all the questions. No one is saying any different. Provide some documented evidence of your position that is measureable and testable that fits life on earth. I'll wait...
Oh, please, do tell. Here, I'll start you out for the listing of all such scientists who've had such things happen to them, with appropriate references:
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Do you even understand the concept of science and how it's done? Science is all about questioning. Biologists and other scientists are constantly questioning the tenets of evolution, performing research the either proves or disproves some aspect of the theory and then documenting their results for others to replicate, question or offer alternatives. What it isn't is deciding "Whoa, this is too complex, kind of like that pile of sand over there. I guess gawd musta done it!".
You want to teach ID, provide some testable measurements that offer a better fit to how life on earth came to be and offer it up to the scientific community for evaluation. Until then, ID is nothing more than the voodoo that you do so well and, as such, it belongs in a church where people blindly accept things without proof instead of a science class.
I've basically given up watching the broadcasts for exactly that reason. You only get 3 or 4 minutes of actual competition followed by a 15 minute sob story about some athlete having to deal with the deaths of her mother/father/sibling/uncle/pet goat after which they cut back to the studio where the talking head says where they'll be going to some time later but first these 10 minutes of commercials. And good luck getting any time for sports where the Americans are out of competition. Its simply not worth the frustrations anymore.
I haven't heard of them before. Are they new? You'd think they'd advertise to drum up business.
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That and figuring out how to apply section numbering and section title formatting for the eleventy-millionth time because it is so non-intuitive and the MS help pages are next to worthless.
If you ask the people of North Korea whether their government is benevolent and is looking out for their best interests, I'm sure you would find that better than 85% would agree that it is. All the while, they're foraging in the woods for weeds and tree bark to eat as their Dear Leader cavorts with hookers back in one of his many palaces.
Living under such a totalitarian regime does have a tendency to affect your opinions.
You obviously don't understand the use of the word theory as it applies in the scientific domain. Go read a book on the scientific method and educate yourself and won't appear to be such a fool. The fact of the matter is that the theory of evolution is backed by mountains of evidence, is recognized as valid by biologists everywhere, and does provide the most accurate explanations of life available.
Bullshit! Provide some fucking evidence that could lead to actually proving that the evolutionary theory is false and don't fall back on the tired old responses creobots have trotted out before. They've all been debunked with extreme prejudice. Provide the evidence of your "creator". Simply waving your hand and intoning jedi-like "these aren't the theories you're looking for" just doesn't cut it.
kind of trouble we're in, this concept should clear up that confusion right away. Frankly, the mass of US citizens are morons, willing to park themselves in front of the TV to watch shit like this and, with mouths agape, say Thank sir, may I have another. This used to be the stuff of parody. Its now the reality.
Scary.
Cue the Sound Machine and let the Party Posse magic begin!
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What makes these idiots at comcast believe that this would be a welcome feature in any one's home? Have customers been calling their customer service lines in India begging, nay, demanding that their cable box have cameras that can watch them watching the TV?
More importantly, are there such people clamoring for this? Actually, that is a much, much scarier question. If such people do exist, I imagine they're the ones yelling that if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't mind bush's illegal spying. Now that I could make sense of.
I can only image that the bill submitter believes they'll enforce this law by following the tubes back from the wireless router to those dastardly stealers-of-other-people's-bandwidth. Shouldn't be a big problem.
It is impossible to understate the influence Clarke had on me growing up. He wrote realistic science in a fictional format that was accessible to a adolescent. 40 some year later, I continue to read his works and still am amazed at the quality and authenticity of his books. He was certainly a factor in my decision to become an engineer and to reinforce my love of all things sciencey. His book Imperial Earth, one of my favorites, introduced me to the pentomino puzzle which still continues to fascinate me. He is gone but his legacy will remain for a long, long time.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Can I be the guy handling the cattle prod? Gotta keep the herd moving, you know.
Given the herd mentality of people, any attempts to put some structure around the boarding process are doomed to failure. People, as individuals, may be smart but throw them together at an airline gate, they collectively become dumb as stumps. You can paint circles on the carpet outside the gate with the seat assignments stenciled in them and tell everyone to stand on the spot corresponding to their seat assignments and they'll still get it wrong. People will arrive late or children will be separated from their parent or some asshole will simply refuse to cooperate.
The other problem in boarding is carry-on luggage. This will always cause huge delays in boarding as people struggle to find space in the overhead bins and to cram their oversized suitcase into a space half the size. Eliminating carry-on would solve this but would cause mass insurrection.
Nope. I just don't think it is possible to organize efficient boarding given the current way the process works and given the nature of people. It sure would be nice though.
I can just hear the anti-Castro cold warriors crowing that their plans to remove him from power worked. So now what are the nut jobs in Miami going to bitch about?
Not true. We here in the SF Bay Area have overlapping coverage for the 1G AMPS, 2G TDMA Digital AMPS, 2.5G GSM and CDMA, and 3G Wideband CDMA. Not to mention the POTS wired telephone service. I'm sure thats true for other metropolitan areas as well. There is absolutely nothing technical to prevent multiple formats from operating simultaneously. In all likelihood, the providers of wireless service in any given area will maintain multiple formats as they upgrade. Afterall, they've already made the investment in the old equipment and that produces revenue as they bring the new one online.
Second prize is two copies.
The rapper that wrote the classic "fuck that bitch ho'" should be able to enjoy income from it 60 years from now as it plays on the oldies stations and in the elevators.
These are the same teens who are having unprotected sex, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, driving cars at unsafe speeds, and continuing to indulge in drugs. Maybe if we told them about the consequences of those behaviours, they'd stop doing them as well.