Two concrete reasons why Flex is better than Silverlight:
1 - The reference SDK implementation is open source. (Adobe sells a closed-source Flex IDE, but it's not required to make Flex apps.)
2 - Flash is fully supported on Windows, Mac and Linux. By "fully supported", I mean that I can count on having the latest version of the runtime for my platform, and I don't have to depend on some third-party reverse-engineered port that always lags behind the official version.
Won't work. This thing has to face the sun directly. Which means that it has to be a fixed installation, and it won't work when it's cloudy.
The article briefly mentions some other group at MIT that's developing a concentrator that works with diffuse light - so presumably that would take care of both those problems.
The extra $ is for the software. Mac OS Server comes with a lot of stuff that's not available elsewhere. Whether or not you need that stuff is a separate question (most people don't).
They'll probably be disbarred, and effectively banned for life from working anywhere in public service. They won't commit "similar crimes" because they won't have the opportunity.
Of course they do. The Wall Street Journal is a temple of supply-side economics. According to them, the government can't do anything right, except cut capital gains taxes. I would have been very surprised if they'd had anything good to say about this bill.
No, just kill the misbehaving program. Since this program is the only object that holds references to the mistakenly created objects, they are now eligible for garbage collection, and will be removed by the OS. (I'm just speculating here, I've no idea how they do it; this just seems like the most logical solution.)
Contrast that with a traditional OS. Let's say you have a program that goes apeshit and starts creating files until you run out of disk space. Most of us have seen this happen at least once. If you stop the program, and even if you delete it, the files still remain. And there's no explicit connection between a file and the program that created it, so it can be difficult or impossible to tell which files were created by the program.
I really doubt that this was part of any larger plan. More likely, the developers were just being lazy. A non-configurable program is easier to write than a configurable one.
No, it's not the same thing at all. The OS X system update daemon (which is responsible for updating the OS and a few applications that came with the OS) can be disabled by the user, and the user has the option of refusing individual updates. The default behavior is to download the updates automatically, but prompt the user before installing them. The Google updater, on the other hand, gives the user no control whatsoever.
Many European countries have laws banning political speech that advocates fascism or the overthrow of democracy. The US doesn't have such laws, but still has laws dealing with libel, restrictions on "adult" content, and gems like the DMCA.
You seem to be saying that any attempt to restrict free speech leads to dictatorship. But in practice, there has never been a country with 100% unrestricted free speech. So where does that leave us?
Recovery implies you're only going to see the payouts of this one bill.
Because that's exactly what will be happening. This website will only show the breakdown for the spending authorized by one specific bill, not for the whole federal government.
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I read. Do you?
Not me, I just look at the pictures.
So does Hamlet!
Two concrete reasons why Flex is better than Silverlight:
1 - The reference SDK implementation is open source. (Adobe sells a closed-source Flex IDE, but it's not required to make Flex apps.)
2 - Flash is fully supported on Windows, Mac and Linux. By "fully supported", I mean that I can count on having the latest version of the runtime for my platform, and I don't have to depend on some third-party reverse-engineered port that always lags behind the official version.
Hell, this guy's not the worst. At least he admits up-front he doesn't know much.
I know nothing of web programing
And yet, you still decided that your opinions on this subject are worth sharing with the world. I love slashdot.
Why does that make it "too complex"? Finding the sun is not a particularly hard engineering problem.
A science reporter at a magazine published by MIT? Yeah, I guess it is asking too much.
My first thought was, why are they using a PV cell in the first place, instead of using the heat to drive a turbine?
Won't work. This thing has to face the sun directly. Which means that it has to be a fixed installation, and it won't work when it's cloudy.
The article briefly mentions some other group at MIT that's developing a concentrator that works with diffuse light - so presumably that would take care of both those problems.
The extra $ is for the software. Mac OS Server comes with a lot of stuff that's not available elsewhere. Whether or not you need that stuff is a separate question (most people don't).
He's overloaded an operator for the car class. That bit of code was omitted for the sake of clarity.
likely to perform similar crimes in the future
They'll probably be disbarred, and effectively banned for life from working anywhere in public service. They won't commit "similar crimes" because they won't have the opportunity.
Here's one: http://www.indivohealth.org/
The west has largely lost the concept of "shame" and so now individuals are capable of doing anything for their own personal benefit.
Like adding poison to powdered milk?
I argue that it's not possible to be grammatically perfect
You don't say.
Of course they do. The Wall Street Journal is a temple of supply-side economics. According to them, the government can't do anything right, except cut capital gains taxes. I would have been very surprised if they'd had anything good to say about this bill.
No, just kill the misbehaving program. Since this program is the only object that holds references to the mistakenly created objects, they are now eligible for garbage collection, and will be removed by the OS. (I'm just speculating here, I've no idea how they do it; this just seems like the most logical solution.)
Contrast that with a traditional OS. Let's say you have a program that goes apeshit and starts creating files until you run out of disk space. Most of us have seen this happen at least once. If you stop the program, and even if you delete it, the files still remain. And there's no explicit connection between a file and the program that created it, so it can be difficult or impossible to tell which files were created by the program.
I really doubt that this was part of any larger plan. More likely, the developers were just being lazy. A non-configurable program is easier to write than a configurable one.
Well, it uses some sort of HTML engine to display the iTunes Store. If it doesn't use WebKit, then what does it use?
No, it's not the same thing at all. The OS X system update daemon (which is responsible for updating the OS and a few applications that came with the OS) can be disabled by the user, and the user has the option of refusing individual updates. The default behavior is to download the updates automatically, but prompt the user before installing them. The Google updater, on the other hand, gives the user no control whatsoever.
pajamasmedia.com - weren't these the guys that hired Joe the Plumber as a war correspondent?
Apparently, there's at least one guy out there who managed to make a profit from this little fuckup. Not a big profit, mind you, but still.
http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1233442634.shtml
Many European countries have laws banning political speech that advocates fascism or the overthrow of democracy. The US doesn't have such laws, but still has laws dealing with libel, restrictions on "adult" content, and gems like the DMCA.
You seem to be saying that any attempt to restrict free speech leads to dictatorship. But in practice, there has never been a country with 100% unrestricted free speech. So where does that leave us?
Recovery implies you're only going to see the payouts of this one bill.
Because that's exactly what will be happening. This website will only show the breakdown for the spending authorized by one specific bill, not for the whole federal government.
And you have to be very good to get something on TV.
Good Lord, man. Have you ever watched TV in your entire life?