I think you meant "You're all MORONS!". "Your" is the possessive form of "you" (e.g. your grammar is horrible) whereas "you're" is a contraction of "you are". Finally, more than one exclamation point is unnecessary; the first one conveys your meaning quite clearly, especially when preceded by a word in all caps. Thank you for the entertainment, though.
That's the outflow of an inherent problem with allowing operators to be overloaded. People will inevitable make them do different things on different types, making it impossible to know what an operator does without knowing something about the types of the arguments.
Bad programmers will fuck up in any language. Pruning features from a language won't stop this. It will only hamstring good programmers.
One of the main things I like (that Quicken used to do back in the DOS days when it was an okay program) is show you a nice overview on your main page -- balance on every account, plus NET WORTH.
FYI, it still does this, at least as of version 2005 (Deluxe).
Corporations are created to insulate individuals from the consequences of their actions
I realize that opinions like this are popular on slashdot, but they're based on ignorance, not fact. A coporation exists to limit the financial liability of the stockholders to the amount of the money that they invested in the company. This allows the corporation to raise capital by selling shares privately or publically. Think about it; who would buy shares of Google if they could be personally named in every lawsuit filed against Google?
Individuals are liable only if they 1) participate in the action that is the basis of the suit or criminal charges (e.g. the staff programmer who writes the routine to illegally deposit fractions of a cent in his boss's account) or is an officer of the corporation. The janitors at Enron were not charged with anything, but Jeffrey Skilling got 185 years.
Up until this point, anti-semitism as we know it did not exist.
As a matter of fact, it did. By the time the Crusades got going, Muslims had invaded Spain and forced the Jews to either convert or be killed. They did the same to the Christians.
Your statement, even if assumed factually correct, does not demonstrate antisemitism (a bias against Jews specifically), but rather a determination to convert all nonmuslims at the point of a sword. These are two different things.
I would have rather been 5'10" 200lbs at 12 with a 5 o-clock shadow than at 20, would have made Jr. High and High school so much easier.
No, it wouldn't. I'm 6'9", 273lbs, started early on puberty (and sex) and growing up still wasn't easy, despite being the tallest, broadest boy in the class. Extra points for the first to dig up a snide remark about being tall I haven't heard a gazillion times before. It's not about size.
Really? How many times did you get your ass kicked because you were unusually large?
I apologize if my meaning here is coming off that I think grammar doesn't matter. That isn't quite true- I think that it doesn't really matter that much ON SLASHDOT. Because we are an informal place. A glorified melting of a mailing list, a blog, some emails, a bulletin board etc. All stirred up together.
I get the feeling that you consider correct grammar and spelling to be a formality - something to be observed on appropriate occasions and ignored on others. The problem is that grammar and spelling are not formalities. They're tools to communicate effectively. It's not the difference between greeting someone with "Yo! Wassup?" and "Hello, how are you?". It's the difference between conversing in an overly soft voice and speaking clearly. The former may still result in your being understood, but at the cost of more effort and annoyance on the part of the listeners.
The potential for transporting goods seems like its best use, although I don't think the trucking industry/lobby is going to like it very much.
Too bad. Either they can a) suck it up and adapt, or b) build a fleet of their own and compete.
You forgot c) lobby Congress and various regulatory agencies to pass or modify laws or regulations in an effort to hamper or even torpedo the new competition and thus protect the trucking companies' businesses.
I'll give you that you need root to set the date and time, but your system should do that for you with NTP, so it's not that you don't need root for that, but that you shouldn't have to do it...
Even if he needs to set the clock to a specific date/time repeatedly to reproduce a time-linked error? That's happened to me a few times.
What's the alternative to a CAL arrangement? The vendor could charge a flat rate per server or even per company, but that rate would be a lot higher than a per-seat license in order to keep the revenue the same. Should companies that only have five employees using an application pay as much as a company with 500?
Also, CALs actually make sense if the license fees include support. Generally speaking, more users results in more support calls.
Personally, I suspect that Wikipedia's method is a somewhat viable way to shuffle out the stupids, as true statements will be less likely to be edited than untrue statements, so gradually over time Wikipedia will tend to be more and more likely to contain true statements.
Replace the phrase "true statements" with the phrase "statements generally accepted by the public" and you would be correct. That's part of the problem. Everyone raise your hand if you can think of at least one scientific theory, historical event, etc. that is misunderstood or disbelieved by the public. Wikipedia will tend toward widely held beliefs, which may or may not be true.
I don't mind buying Chinese manufactured goods, unless they are made by, for example, prisoners who are being used as slave labor.
I'm curious - does "made by prisoners" appear on product labels where you shop? If not, how do you know whether a product manufactured in China was made by folks working in a factory for a decent wage vs. a prisoner?
Is this the new deal? When do we stand up and boycott these companies in an effective way? Is it even possible anymore? Do enough people care?
Boycotting worked with companies doing business in South Africa in the 80s. If it hits a critical mass, it should work again. They key is public awareness. If you want to raise awareness you can either volunteer for an activist group or just make it a point to discuss the topic with people you know.
And no matter how good Lee is, he isn't worth this. There is another agenda here
You're right. The issue isn't this one employee, but all future hiring. Google's strategy is to hire the best people that they can find. Many of those people are likely working for someone else already. If Google were to be sued every time they hired someone away from a competitor (and they have new competitors every day as the move into new markets), they'd have a much harder time staying in business. Their best bet is to aggressively fight such suits to hold back the tide of precedent while also lobbying Congress and various state legislatures to pass laws giving freedom to work priority over protection of IP.
Frozen water takes up more space than liquid water.
True.
The artic is made up of ice with no land (as opposed to the antartic).
There are glaciers in both North America and northern Asia. Greenland has quite a lot of terrestrial ice, for example.
Now it is known that most of the ice exists below sea level.
If the ice melts, the global water level will go down.
Please, prove me Wrong.
OK. Ice floating in water displaces an amount of water equal to its mass, not its volume. Stick a bunch of ice cubes in a glass, then add some water. Use a non-permanent marker to mark the water level. Wait until the ice melts and check the water level. It will be the same (assuming no significant evaporation).
You're also missing the effect of the melting of terrestrial glaciers, which will most certainly increase the amount of water in the ocean.
The fact that the seas are salt water and the glaciers (both terrestrial and aquatic) are fresh water will have some impact, but it won't be to lower the ocean levels when the glaciers melt.
From the article, it didn't look like the lawyer is seeking to collect money, but rather statements from people that they would be willing to pay a license fee if asked to do so. I don't know Australian law (perhaps someone who does can chime in) but it is possible that it requires proof of value in order to pursue claims of trademark infringement. The aforementioned letters might be sufficient proof of value that a court would allow pursuit of such claims by the owner (Linus) or his agents. Another possibility is that the law doesn't require such proof but that assertion of lack of value is a common defense to trademark infringement.
Note that I'm just speculating. The batch job will be done in a minute, so I don't have time to spelunk through Australian trademark law.:)
The lexer ambiguity where a<b<c>> and a<b<c> > meant entirely different things is fixed, saving as many as one keystroke.
Nice strawman. The real reason is to prevent newbies from having to figure out why "a<b<c>>" gives them a weird error message when logically it should do exactly what it says. The parser should make my life easier by allowing me to write code logically and not requiring me to work around its stupid limitations.
Let me just stick to evolution here. We as a species have been unable to cause evolution to happen.
Ever heard of canis familiaris? How about felis domesticus? These are two species whose environments changed through human action and who have adapted to those environmental changes.
We cannot make a more advanced life form from a less advanced life form via mutation and natural selection
"Advanced" is a problematic word here. I don't know what you mean by it, but evolution is a process, not a goal. It simply means that those individuals that are better adapted to their environment than others are more likely (note: not guaranteed) to pass those traits on to the next generation. Those traits may favor increased complexity (one possible definition of "advanced") or not. They may favor more extreme attibutes (another possible definition of advanced) (e.g. slow metabolic processes in sloths or fast ones in humming birds) or not.
1) requirements are agreed on, seem reasonable enough, but then detailed specifications are drawn up and client keeps pushing to add more things to specs until you have a 120 page document that will take 2 years to deliver. If, however, you tell the client it will now take 2 years vs. the 5 months you said when you were looking at a 2 page requirements document,
This is the first mistake. Estimates and deadlines should never be based on a requirements document. That document only tells you what problem you're going to solve, not how you're going to solve it. Any estimate at this point in the process is pulled out of one's ass and worth what you would expect. It should never be given to the client.
they will cancel the project, and if they weren't paying for the requirements phase, forget about collecting any money for them (why you should always get paid for all phases of project planning).
Requirements (and design) documents should always be considered a separate deliverable. That way when some percentage of your clients decide to cancel the project upon really seeing the scope for the first time, you won't have to eat the cost. This happened to me just last year. I got paid for the requirements doc, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Since you can't do this, the client will eventually get upset, even though it's their own fault.
Can't do what, tell them the truth? That's compounding the first mistake. Don't lie to your clients in order to milk them for money when you know the project is doomed. That's unethical and your reputation will suffer accordingly.
2) Project is delivered very early in prototype form, only to have the client say they want 50 more features that they forgot to describe in the requirements process, but they refuse to pay more, and refuse to acknowledge that the time frame must be pushed out to accomodate their new requests.
I'd try to go over the head of the project manager first. If I couldn't do that, I'd look at my contract and consider my options, including termination of the contract. My contracts always have termination clauses that allow for this. I'd rather terminate the relationship and find something else than screw a client and myself by continuing the project under false pretenses.
Does anyone actually know of any more useful groups?
You have to look more carefully these days and wade some with a big killfile, but useful groups are still out there. It really depends what you want. Unmoderated groups on social topics tend to attract more net.kooks, flame artists and trolls. Technical groups still get spammed but the signal to noise ratio is frequently higher. Well moderated groups are helping to keep Usenet useful IMO, but then I'm a moderator of one, so I'm biased.:)
Can you imagine how quickly the client software would get hacked, and how crappy the movie resulting from nothing but single-frame porn shots would be, especially to photosensitive epileptics?
Because nothing adds insult to injury like having everyone staring at your grand mal seizure while you have a raging erection.
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Your all MORONS!!!
I think you meant "You're all MORONS!". "Your" is the possessive form of "you" (e.g. your grammar is horrible) whereas "you're" is a contraction of "you are". Finally, more than one exclamation point is unnecessary; the first one conveys your meaning quite clearly, especially when preceded by a word in all caps. Thank you for the entertainment, though.
Many animals are faster in the short haul but humans can out run any creature on earth in the long haul.
Except some canids. Wolves, for example, are phenomenal distance runners. See wikipedia as a starting point.
Bad programmers will fuck up in any language. Pruning features from a language won't stop this. It will only hamstring good programmers.
I realize that opinions like this are popular on slashdot, but they're based on ignorance, not fact. A coporation exists to limit the financial liability of the stockholders to the amount of the money that they invested in the company. This allows the corporation to raise capital by selling shares privately or publically. Think about it; who would buy shares of Google if they could be personally named in every lawsuit filed against Google?
Individuals are liable only if they 1) participate in the action that is the basis of the suit or criminal charges (e.g. the staff programmer who writes the routine to illegally deposit fractions of a cent in his boss's account) or is an officer of the corporation. The janitors at Enron were not charged with anything, but Jeffrey Skilling got 185 years.
No, it wouldn't. I'm 6'9", 273lbs, started early on puberty (and sex) and growing up still wasn't easy, despite being the tallest, broadest boy in the class. Extra points for the first to dig up a snide remark about being tall I haven't heard a gazillion times before. It's not about size.
Really? How many times did you get your ass kicked because you were unusually large?I apologize if my meaning here is coming off that I think grammar doesn't matter. That isn't quite true- I think that it doesn't really matter that much ON SLASHDOT. Because we are an informal place. A glorified melting of a mailing list, a blog, some emails, a bulletin board etc. All stirred up together.
I get the feeling that you consider correct grammar and spelling to be a formality - something to be observed on appropriate occasions and ignored on others. The problem is that grammar and spelling are not formalities. They're tools to communicate effectively. It's not the difference between greeting someone with "Yo! Wassup?" and "Hello, how are you?". It's the difference between conversing in an overly soft voice and speaking clearly. The former may still result in your being understood, but at the cost of more effort and annoyance on the part of the listeners.
You forgot c) lobby Congress and various regulatory agencies to pass or modify laws or regulations in an effort to hamper or even torpedo the new competition and thus protect the trucking companies' businesses.
I'll give you that you need root to set the date and time, but your system should do that for you with NTP, so it's not that you don't need root for that, but that you shouldn't have to do it...
Even if he needs to set the clock to a specific date/time repeatedly to reproduce a time-linked error? That's happened to me a few times.
What's the alternative to a CAL arrangement? The vendor could charge a flat rate per server or even per company, but that rate would be a lot higher than a per-seat license in order to keep the revenue the same. Should companies that only have five employees using an application pay as much as a company with 500?
Also, CALs actually make sense if the license fees include support. Generally speaking, more users results in more support calls.
Personally, I suspect that Wikipedia's method is a somewhat viable way to shuffle out the stupids, as true statements will be less likely to be edited than untrue statements, so gradually over time Wikipedia will tend to be more and more likely to contain true statements.
Replace the phrase "true statements" with the phrase "statements generally accepted by the public" and you would be correct. That's part of the problem. Everyone raise your hand if you can think of at least one scientific theory, historical event, etc. that is misunderstood or disbelieved by the public. Wikipedia will tend toward widely held beliefs, which may or may not be true.
I'm curious - does "made by prisoners" appear on product labels where you shop? If not, how do you know whether a product manufactured in China was made by folks working in a factory for a decent wage vs. a prisoner?
Boycotting worked with companies doing business in South Africa in the 80s. If it hits a critical mass, it should work again. They key is public awareness. If you want to raise awareness you can either volunteer for an activist group or just make it a point to discuss the topic with people you know.
I can see how people might morally equivocate the two.
definition of "equivocate"
That's an interesting use of the word. Was it intentional or did you mean "equate"?
You're right. The issue isn't this one employee, but all future hiring. Google's strategy is to hire the best people that they can find. Many of those people are likely working for someone else already. If Google were to be sued every time they hired someone away from a competitor (and they have new competitors every day as the move into new markets), they'd have a much harder time staying in business. Their best bet is to aggressively fight such suits to hold back the tide of precedent while also lobbying Congress and various state legislatures to pass laws giving freedom to work priority over protection of IP.
Frozen water takes up more space than liquid water.
True.
The artic is made up of ice with no land (as opposed to the antartic).
There are glaciers in both North America and northern Asia. Greenland has quite a lot of terrestrial ice, for example.
Now it is known that most of the ice exists below sea level.
If the ice melts, the global water level will go down.
Please, prove me Wrong.
OK. Ice floating in water displaces an amount of water equal to its mass, not its volume. Stick a bunch of ice cubes in a glass, then add some water. Use a non-permanent marker to mark the water level. Wait until the ice melts and check the water level. It will be the same (assuming no significant evaporation).
You're also missing the effect of the melting of terrestrial glaciers, which will most certainly increase the amount of water in the ocean.
The fact that the seas are salt water and the glaciers (both terrestrial and aquatic) are fresh water will have some impact, but it won't be to lower the ocean levels when the glaciers melt.
From the article, it didn't look like the lawyer is seeking to collect money, but rather statements from people that they would be willing to pay a license fee if asked to do so. I don't know Australian law (perhaps someone who does can chime in) but it is possible that it requires proof of value in order to pursue claims of trademark infringement. The aforementioned letters might be sufficient proof of value that a court would allow pursuit of such claims by the owner (Linus) or his agents. Another possibility is that the law doesn't require such proof but that assertion of lack of value is a common defense to trademark infringement.
Note that I'm just speculating. The batch job will be done in a minute, so I don't have time to spelunk through Australian trademark law. :)
Nice strawman. The real reason is to prevent newbies from having to figure out why "a<b<c>>" gives them a weird error message when logically it should do exactly what it says. The parser should make my life easier by allowing me to write code logically and not requiring me to work around its stupid limitations.
Better yet, they could track down and eliminate slashdot posters who don't know the difference between the plural and possessive.
Ever heard of canis familiaris? How about felis domesticus? These are two species whose environments changed through human action and who have adapted to those environmental changes.
We cannot make a more advanced life form from a less advanced life form via mutation and natural selection"Advanced" is a problematic word here. I don't know what you mean by it, but evolution is a process, not a goal. It simply means that those individuals that are better adapted to their environment than others are more likely (note: not guaranteed) to pass those traits on to the next generation. Those traits may favor increased complexity (one possible definition of "advanced") or not. They may favor more extreme attibutes (another possible definition of advanced) (e.g. slow metabolic processes in sloths or fast ones in humming birds) or not.
This is the first mistake. Estimates and deadlines should never be based on a requirements document. That document only tells you what problem you're going to solve, not how you're going to solve it. Any estimate at this point in the process is pulled out of one's ass and worth what you would expect. It should never be given to the client.
they will cancel the project, and if they weren't paying for the requirements phase, forget about collecting any money for them (why you should always get paid for all phases of project planning).Requirements (and design) documents should always be considered a separate deliverable. That way when some percentage of your clients decide to cancel the project upon really seeing the scope for the first time, you won't have to eat the cost. This happened to me just last year. I got paid for the requirements doc, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Since you can't do this, the client will eventually get upset, even though it's their own fault.Can't do what, tell them the truth? That's compounding the first mistake. Don't lie to your clients in order to milk them for money when you know the project is doomed. That's unethical and your reputation will suffer accordingly.
2) Project is delivered very early in prototype form, only to have the client say they want 50 more features that they forgot to describe in the requirements process, but they refuse to pay more, and refuse to acknowledge that the time frame must be pushed out to accomodate their new requests.I'd try to go over the head of the project manager first. If I couldn't do that, I'd look at my contract and consider my options, including termination of the contract. My contracts always have termination clauses that allow for this. I'd rather terminate the relationship and find something else than screw a client and myself by continuing the project under false pretenses.
You have to look more carefully these days and wade some with a big killfile, but useful groups are still out there. It really depends what you want. Unmoderated groups on social topics tend to attract more net.kooks, flame artists and trolls. Technical groups still get spammed but the signal to noise ratio is frequently higher. Well moderated groups are helping to keep Usenet useful IMO, but then I'm a moderator of one, so I'm biased. :)
Can you imagine how quickly the client software would get hacked, and how crappy the movie resulting from nothing but single-frame porn shots would be, especially to photosensitive epileptics? Because nothing adds insult to injury like having everyone staring at your grand mal seizure while you have a raging erection.
I do a lot in VB and that is not because I like the language, but because it has such a good IDE (read intellisense) Thanks. I needed a good laugh.