I don't like the "raise IM window" because if you're typing something when a new message comes, it's too easy to send a reply message that you're not meaning. I prefer the "flashing on the task bar" option, and really hate the fact that in 1.5 it doesn't work for chat rooms. Has that changed in 2.0?
That's right, in the words of the great Stephen Colbert, "Fox News is the only network that shows both sides of the story - the President's side, and the Vice President's side."
Futhermore, you shouldn't be programming to concrete implementations like Vector, ArrayList or HashMap anyway. You should be programming to interfaces like List or Map so that implementation differences don't matter.
Implementation differences do matter when it comes to performance. If you're using a large List for random access, it better be an ArrayList. If somewhere down the line the code creating the list changes it to a LinkedList, you want your code to fail to compile/run because you'll need to change it to avoid performance issues.
Scott Adams did an experiment on his blog in which he asked the readers for stock advice and came up with a small portfolio based on the results. The portfolio did pretty well at first, before plummeting.
you're just a glorified PR puppet whose job is to get quotes on the back of a game box to drive traffic to your site.
Yup, I'm sure plenty of publishers put quotes from a site/magazine that gave the game a 15% score on the back of the box. I guess it just depends where you work.
I stand corrected. Still, I doubt the reason alcoholism is considered such a huge problem has too much to do with the relatively few people (compared to the total number of alcoholics) who die from withdrawal.
Why would anyone have to put up with bad vision or looking ugly when for the equivalent of a quarter they could have their genetic code modified to be anything they want to be? Hell, there could easily be mandatory genetic engineering prior to births. Barring apocalyptic level events, 100,000 years in the future technology won't resemble anything from today.
Chess is solvable, isn't it? That means that a powerful enough computer (or one that can reference a moves table created by a powerful enough computer) would be unbeatable, doesn't it?
Seriously, how stupid must a convicted sex offender be to put any accurate info into their MySpace profile?
Also, something struck me as curious from the article:
That's because much of what happens on MySpace unfolds outside public view. The computer crime unit has erected bait profiles registered to fake underage teens, but so far the tactic has netted only one arrest. Proactively scouring MySpace pages is futile: The smarter sexual predators stick to private messages, and diligently prune their public comment boards of any posts from young friends that hint at what's happening behind the scenes.
Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator has been FAR more successful. I'm guessing this is because they have an actress (or is it more than one?) who looks underage using a webcam to talk to the perps. Can't the cops learn from this? It can't be the budget, it's for the children!
I wonder how they could be sure of the number if they count illegal immigrants - I mean we only have a guesstimate figure for how many of them are in the country anyway. The number could easily be off by a couple mil.
Personally, I turn off my computer when I'm not using it. If I shut down from windows I still see the keyboard lights and the mouse laser is still active though - I have to manually use the power switch to turn them off.
there is also the widely held philosophy among certain physics camps that time is a human constructed concept and doesn't necessarily exist w/o perception by an observer. to quote(and para-phrase): "Time affords us a frame of reference by which we measure change." - author's name forgotten(sorry).
Wait, how can you have change without time? Change isn't merely measured by time, it's defined by it.
thusly, the philosophy is held that, without an observer, time is meaningless as the universe has no need of tracking and measuring itself.
I think I recall reading a theory in Brian Greene'sFabric of Cosmos that the entirety of space-time is static and every moment is fixed at it's location, which would beg the question of why the states of "successive" moments are so much alike. In fact it could be that all the moments are completely different and our memories don't mean squat - they're merely part of the moment without being caused by anything.
And how do you play those games if your internet connection goes down? Or you're between providers? One appeal of single-player games used to be that as long as your computer was functioning you could play them.
Isn't it accepted by most cosmologists that time came into existance with the Big Bang? Kind of makes it hard for a cause-effect relationship, doesn't it?
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I don't like the "raise IM window" because if you're typing something when a new message comes, it's too easy to send a reply message that you're not meaning. I prefer the "flashing on the task bar" option, and really hate the fact that in 1.5 it doesn't work for chat rooms. Has that changed in 2.0?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of the company and was then confused by the summary....
Nah, it would take Brian Boitano to save the day ('cause that's what Brian Boitano'd do.)
That's right, in the words of the great Stephen Colbert, "Fox News is the only network that shows both sides of the story - the President's side, and the Vice President's side."
Nothing like having sextuplets for... well, sex.
Sixtuplets, you mean?
Futhermore, you shouldn't be programming to concrete implementations like Vector, ArrayList or HashMap anyway. You should be programming to interfaces like List or Map so that implementation differences don't matter.
Implementation differences do matter when it comes to performance. If you're using a large List for random access, it better be an ArrayList. If somewhere down the line the code creating the list changes it to a LinkedList, you want your code to fail to compile/run because you'll need to change it to avoid performance issues.
If you haven't seen this credit card prank yet, you should get a kick out of it.
Scott Adams did an experiment on his blog in which he asked the readers for stock advice and came up with a small portfolio based on the results. The portfolio did pretty well at first, before plummeting.
you're just a glorified PR puppet whose job is to get quotes on the back of a game box to drive traffic to your site. Yup, I'm sure plenty of publishers put quotes from a site/magazine that gave the game a 15% score on the back of the box. I guess it just depends where you work.
I stand corrected. Still, I doubt the reason alcoholism is considered such a huge problem has too much to do with the relatively few people (compared to the total number of alcoholics) who die from withdrawal.
Alcohol doesn't "create fatal dependencies in your body" either.
Would it be so bad to be a cavern troll with 3 eyes and 7 arms? People might use genetic engineering to do that.
Why would anyone have to put up with bad vision or looking ugly when for the equivalent of a quarter they could have their genetic code modified to be anything they want to be? Hell, there could easily be mandatory genetic engineering prior to births. Barring apocalyptic level events, 100,000 years in the future technology won't resemble anything from today.
You forgot the part about the smart people settling a few planets and having intimate relations with robots.
A Warcraft rip-off (same way Lord of the Rings ripped off Dungeons and Dragons).
Chess is solvable, isn't it? That means that a powerful enough computer (or one that can reference a moves table created by a powerful enough computer) would be unbeatable, doesn't it?
Nah, they'll make it up with volume.
Seriously, how stupid must a convicted sex offender be to put any accurate info into their MySpace profile?
Also, something struck me as curious from the article:
That's because much of what happens on MySpace unfolds outside public view. The computer crime unit has erected bait profiles registered to fake underage teens, but so far the tactic has netted only one arrest. Proactively scouring MySpace pages is futile: The smarter sexual predators stick to private messages, and diligently prune their public comment boards of any posts from young friends that hint at what's happening behind the scenes.
Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator has been FAR more successful. I'm guessing this is because they have an actress (or is it more than one?) who looks underage using a webcam to talk to the perps. Can't the cops learn from this? It can't be the budget, it's for the children!
No, I'm pretty sure it's "Reality Might Cause Atheism"
I wonder how they could be sure of the number if they count illegal immigrants - I mean we only have a guesstimate figure for how many of them are in the country anyway. The number could easily be off by a couple mil.
Personally, I turn off my computer when I'm not using it. If I shut down from windows I still see the keyboard lights and the mouse laser is still active though - I have to manually use the power switch to turn them off.
there is also the widely held philosophy among certain physics camps that time is a human constructed concept and doesn't necessarily exist w/o perception by an observer. to quote(and para-phrase): "Time affords us a frame of reference by which we measure change." - author's name forgotten(sorry).
Wait, how can you have change without time? Change isn't merely measured by time, it's defined by it.
thusly, the philosophy is held that, without an observer, time is meaningless as the universe has no need of tracking and measuring itself.
I think I recall reading a theory in Brian Greene's Fabric of Cosmos that the entirety of space-time is static and every moment is fixed at it's location, which would beg the question of why the states of "successive" moments are so much alike. In fact it could be that all the moments are completely different and our memories don't mean squat - they're merely part of the moment without being caused by anything.
My mistake, thanks for the info.
And how do you play those games if your internet connection goes down? Or you're between providers? One appeal of single-player games used to be that as long as your computer was functioning you could play them.
Isn't it accepted by most cosmologists that time came into existance with the Big Bang? Kind of makes it hard for a cause-effect relationship, doesn't it?