I'm all for fixing vaguely anteceded pronouns, but this is a bad example. Otherwise you'd have to say that it means, "...Williams confronted Williams with inconsistencies in Williams' story at Williams' parents' home."
The "him" in "confronted him" already establishes that "he" and variants refer to the student ('cause it doesn't say "himself").
To get to the topic, I'm not sure how much I trust any safety features they might embed in the car to prevent someone from finding a really wide open piece of tarmac and actually playing while driving.
The safety feature is that this is a drive-by-wire system, there are no controller ports, and the steering wheel and stuff either controls the car (if it's on) or the game (if the car's off). It can't control two things at once. If you're controlling the car, there isn't a controller for the video game - and if you're controlling the video game, the gear's in park, the engine's off, and the parking brake is set.
The only way you might be able to play while the car was in motion is if someone was pushing the car from behind.
In high school, I spent a lot of time learning how to boost the word count of an essay with the bare minimum of actual content.
Boost the word count!? You obviously didn't apply to enough colleges.:-) Here I am, hoping that 600 words is "approximately 500." Maybe if they've got their professors reading essays they'll remember that they didn't say how many sig figs was "approximately".
So bring on the expert system AIs for Customer Service quickly please!!
He said expert systems. He didn't say replace customer service with text-to-speech ELIZAs. Give that guy a rough idea of how HTTP is supposed to work in training (which can be as simple as "client says GET webpage.html, server either says 200 OK and prints the page, or says 404 Not Found and prints an error page"), and when the customer says "telnet to your server", he can easily pull up a description of what Telnet is, an AI-influenced description of what he would need it for (by tracking the conversation): e.g., he'd need to know what port 80 means, but probably not what local echo means. Once he's connected, the system shows what the web page is supposed to return. If the customer says it's something different, the expert system has a link to the appropriate RFC, which he can check and either refute the customer or file a real problem report.
Most front-line customer service workers would never encounter telnet in their life. So we can't make knowing it a job requirement - but they have to know telnet if they're ever asked. So we give them an AI that they can use to learn stuff on the spot. It's a lot more helpful than making up stories or transferring calls all the time.
First a Russian minister resigned abruptly a day or two ago, saying the country is no longer free...and now this guy resigns? Is anyone else reminded of Atlas Shrugged?
when the US gets all flustered about a possible terrorist attack... my GPS gets bad accuracy or is turned off for a little while
Thanks to American capitalism, this is unlikely to happen. During the Persian Gulf War, the Armed Forces had trouble getting enough military GPS receivers - but soldiers could easily buy commercial GPS receivers through the normal channels. So the US ironically opened up the military signal to commercial use for some time during the war.
In the event of a protracted attack, the US will probably turn off GPS in a panic, then realize that there's plenty of systems like commercial jets that neet GPS to identify their location accurately, and turn it back on quickly.
In clearer words: Yes, it's still illegal to copy [almost all] ISOs, but since Microsoft knew how heavily the original Xbox was cracked, if they made a way for the Xbox 360 to boot from a DVD-R, then they don't have anyone to blame if people use this to hack the Xbox.
The dog was still wrong for eating your food, but that's what dogs do, so you should have "played hide the salami" (as Howard Dean would put it). The crackers were still wrong for trading warez, but that's what crackers do, so you should've put some copy protection.
You and the OP are probably using different m's. His equation (E = m c^2) is correct at all energies if m is the inertial mass. Your equation is correct if m is the rest mass.
Yeah, well inertial/relativistic mass is simply energy in different units via E=mc^2, so you may as well call it energy use mass to refer to rest mass.
1989? Hm, wasn't that before STL? Boost? Templates? The latest version of iostream? wchar_t? Leaving off the.h? Before people started using C++ in operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.)? When there were still active 16-bit computers?
And if indeed those features were present in the language standards, it's not like too many compilers supported them in 1989. I know modern compilers that struggle with them, and compilers from just 5 years ago that don't support some of those features.
If your memory of C++ reminds you of C, I respectfully ask you to look at it again.
Raise your hand if you do not have Windows installed at home or at work. (If you have it installed but don't use it, it still maintains MS's market monopoly.)
Bonus points if the OS you run is a free-market personal choice, and not because you work for a Linux company or something.
Why bother RTFA? The post title is Ruby Off the Rails. Which means Ruby without Ruby on Rails. So why did you even take the effort to copy-and-paste a post completely about Ruby on Rails?
Jesus, Hitler, and Bush walk into a bar^W^W^W^W aren't the only pages protected: the summary says they're the "first" pages, if you didn't notice. The current list is more or less [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Sprotected]] (except for a couple of non-article pages that just include the template to show what it looks like).
Interesting additions: He-Man, John Kerry, Sound Forge, etc.
Articles like "George Bush" and "Hitler" are precisely the articles which need this protection THE LEAST!! Those articles must be on like a thousand users watchlists, there's no way vandalism even lasts a few minutes there. It is small obscure articles that aren't watched by anyone hardly that have vandalism last for months and need this kind of protection most!
Well, do you want the admins and other users - real humans - to spend their time reverting [[George W. Bush]], or to spend their effort looking through pages like [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]] to see if the article sounds valid or not? The Bush article is well done already; it doesn't need much editing, so it's safe to semi-protect it. (Indeed, you could argue that it should be protected permanently, except when some new story develops.) On the other hand, Seigenthaler is a rather obscure topic - not many people knew about him before the controversy. So shouldn't we encourage edits there, and have sentient people watching for the occasional vandal?
I'm a coder and I can't imagine why Wikipedia would want to semi-protect select articles, and not *all* articles. (Bitflag vs Micromanagement)
Because I first learned about the Wiki concept when I made an anonymous edit to Wikipedia correcting a typo. There needs to be a way that people can figure out how it works without signing up first. A signup process is a powerful deterrent.
IMDb doesn't know this, for example. Clicking so much as "yes" or "no" on "Did this comment help you?" -- or even "Read more comments" -- brings you to a page where they ask you for your social security number, your mother's maiden name, the ID of your current NSA file, etc. Who wants to sign up?
\christian \\also wishes christians would stfu about the xmas vs christmas debate \\\wonders if people who don't believe in xmas think that the chi-rho is a version of Windows
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I'm all for fixing vaguely anteceded pronouns, but this is a bad example. Otherwise you'd have to say that it means, "...Williams confronted Williams with inconsistencies in Williams' story at Williams' parents' home."
The "him" in "confronted him" already establishes that "he" and variants refer to the student ('cause it doesn't say "himself").
The mods have effected off-topic ratings on your post. I hope that this effect will not affect your affect.
To get to the topic, I'm not sure how much I trust any safety features they might embed in the car to prevent someone from finding a really wide open piece of tarmac and actually playing while driving.
The safety feature is that this is a drive-by-wire system, there are no controller ports, and the steering wheel and stuff either controls the car (if it's on) or the game (if the car's off). It can't control two things at once. If you're controlling the car, there isn't a controller for the video game - and if you're controlling the video game, the gear's in park, the engine's off, and the parking brake is set.
The only way you might be able to play while the car was in motion is if someone was pushing the car from behind.
Whose on first?
In high school, I spent a lot of time learning how to boost the word count of an essay with the bare minimum of actual content.
:-) Here I am, hoping that 600 words is "approximately 500." Maybe if they've got their professors reading essays they'll remember that they didn't say how many sig figs was "approximately".
Boost the word count!? You obviously didn't apply to enough colleges.
Long Integer? This is Microsoft we're talkng about! You're looking for a DWORD.
DWORD dwIntellectuallyAbsentPosts = (DWORD)-1;
So bring on the expert system AIs for Customer Service quickly please!!
He said expert systems. He didn't say replace customer service with text-to-speech ELIZAs. Give that guy a rough idea of how HTTP is supposed to work in training (which can be as simple as "client says GET webpage.html, server either says 200 OK and prints the page, or says 404 Not Found and prints an error page"), and when the customer says "telnet to your server", he can easily pull up a description of what Telnet is, an AI-influenced description of what he would need it for (by tracking the conversation): e.g., he'd need to know what port 80 means, but probably not what local echo means. Once he's connected, the system shows what the web page is supposed to return. If the customer says it's something different, the expert system has a link to the appropriate RFC, which he can check and either refute the customer or file a real problem report.
Most front-line customer service workers would never encounter telnet in their life. So we can't make knowing it a job requirement - but they have to know telnet if they're ever asked. So we give them an AI that they can use to learn stuff on the spot. It's a lot more helpful than making up stories or transferring calls all the time.
First a Russian minister resigned abruptly a day or two ago, saying the country is no longer free...and now this guy resigns? Is anyone else reminded of Atlas Shrugged?
when the US gets all flustered about a possible terrorist attack ... my GPS gets bad accuracy or is turned off for a little while
Thanks to American capitalism, this is unlikely to happen. During the Persian Gulf War, the Armed Forces had trouble getting enough military GPS receivers - but soldiers could easily buy commercial GPS receivers through the normal channels. So the US ironically opened up the military signal to commercial use for some time during the war.
In the event of a protracted attack, the US will probably turn off GPS in a panic, then realize that there's plenty of systems like commercial jets that neet GPS to identify their location accurately, and turn it back on quickly.
In clearer words: Yes, it's still illegal to copy [almost all] ISOs, but since Microsoft knew how heavily the original Xbox was cracked, if they made a way for the Xbox 360 to boot from a DVD-R, then they don't have anyone to blame if people use this to hack the Xbox.
The dog was still wrong for eating your food, but that's what dogs do, so you should have "played hide the salami" (as Howard Dean would put it). The crackers were still wrong for trading warez, but that's what crackers do, so you should've put some copy protection.
You and the OP are probably using different m's. His equation (E = m c^2) is correct at all energies if m is the inertial mass. Your equation is correct if m is the rest mass.
Yeah, well inertial/relativistic mass is simply energy in different units via E=mc^2, so you may as well call it energy use mass to refer to rest mass.
Otherwise you'd have to say photons have mass.
I gave up on C++ in 1989
.h? Before people started using C++ in operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.)? When there were still active 16-bit computers?
1989? Hm, wasn't that before STL? Boost? Templates? The latest version of iostream? wchar_t? Leaving off the
And if indeed those features were present in the language standards, it's not like too many compilers supported them in 1989. I know modern compilers that struggle with them, and compilers from just 5 years ago that don't support some of those features.
If your memory of C++ reminds you of C, I respectfully ask you to look at it again.
Raise your hand if you do not have Windows installed at home or at work. (If you have it installed but don't use it, it still maintains MS's market monopoly.)
Bonus points if the OS you run is a free-market personal choice, and not because you work for a Linux company or something.
Typical. The one place where the copyright industry seems to be acting the way people would like, and it's Poland.
Quick! Let's partition them!
it's just the editors loosing capitalization
Heh. You know what they say about the pot calling the ketle black.
Before I even consider Ruby: is it faster and less memory hungry than Java.
Yes on both counts. It's faster for you to write programs, and requires less of a learning curve.
they can't be arsed to rtfa, nor can I...
Why bother RTFA? The post title is Ruby Off the Rails. Which means Ruby without Ruby on Rails. So why did you even take the effort to copy-and-paste a post completely about Ruby on Rails?
Jesus, Hitler, and Bush walk into a bar^W^W^W^W aren't the only pages protected: the summary says they're the "first" pages, if you didn't notice. The current list is more or less [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Sprotected]] (except for a couple of non-article pages that just include the template to show what it looks like).
Interesting additions: He-Man, John Kerry, Sound Forge, etc.
Articles like "George Bush" and "Hitler" are precisely the articles which need this protection THE LEAST!! Those articles must be on like a thousand users watchlists, there's no way vandalism even lasts a few minutes there. It is small obscure articles that aren't watched by anyone hardly that have vandalism last for months and need this kind of protection most!
Well, do you want the admins and other users - real humans - to spend their time reverting [[George W. Bush]], or to spend their effort looking through pages like [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]] to see if the article sounds valid or not? The Bush article is well done already; it doesn't need much editing, so it's safe to semi-protect it. (Indeed, you could argue that it should be protected permanently, except when some new story develops.) On the other hand, Seigenthaler is a rather obscure topic - not many people knew about him before the controversy. So shouldn't we encourage edits there, and have sentient people watching for the occasional vandal?
I'm a coder and I can't imagine why Wikipedia would want to semi-protect select articles, and not *all* articles. (Bitflag vs Micromanagement)
Because I first learned about the Wiki concept when I made an anonymous edit to Wikipedia correcting a typo. There needs to be a way that people can figure out how it works without signing up first. A signup process is a powerful deterrent.
IMDb doesn't know this, for example. Clicking so much as "yes" or "no" on "Did this comment help you?" -- or even "Read more comments" -- brings you to a page where they ask you for your social security number, your mother's maiden name, the ID of your current NSA file, etc. Who wants to sign up?
there's no mention of this in the bible
Ever heard of "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands?"
If you're going to be a Bible troll, at least get your facts straight.
http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?Andrew%20Wiles
You're not the Andrew Wiles of Fermat's Last Theorem fame, are you?
The world needs you more in pointless giant proofs than in getting 5, Funnies on Slashdot.
\christian
\\also wishes christians would stfu about the xmas vs christmas debate
\\\wonders if people who don't believe in xmas think that the chi-rho is a version of Windows
>Then I would pick whatever is used for french fry machines.
CIS majors don't deal with embedded microprocessor programming.
That's brilliant. You completely defeated the insult. Well done.
If this is the case, am I addicted to food?
Yes, you are. So what? Addictions aren't always bad.