My apologies: I misremembered the death toll of the Twin Towers by factor of 10.
However, I stand by the assertion that invading Afghanistan (not to mention Iraq, whose ruling party was as much an enemy of bin Laden as the U.S. was) was misguided and disproportionate. As you observe, people aren't keen on doing nothing when their fellow citizens are killed by the thousands, and the U.S. and its allies have easily killed twice as many civilians as the 11th Sept. terrorists killed.
You don't have to be terrified to take actions against terrorists. Just making the judgment that it is prudent to prevent mass slaughter of your fellow citizens is enough. Or maybe you could explain why it is a good idea to let your fellow citizens be killed by the thousands and do nothing?
Are you talking about hypotheticals or is this supposed to have any relevance to recent history? Because if the latter, I would like to know who these thousands are. It's true that more than a thousand U.S. citizens have died in Afghanistan, but that's the result of a misguided and disproportionate "action against terrorists" rather than of doing nothing.
Really? I did GCSE IT in the late 90s and I was unusual in actually doing some programming for the project. We didn't learn actual programming in the course, and most people just created some hyperlinked pages in an Archimedes multimedia package called Genesis. The handful of people who did CompSci A-level did do some programming.
It's not that simple. To take one high-profile example: Shaker Aamer was cleared for release by the executive branch, and his country of residence (the UK, which is hardly going to execute him - it doesn't have the death penalty) has been negotiating for his release to the UK for 6 years.
Dogs can hear higher frequencies than humans, but MP3 and FLAC have nothing specific to do with sampling frequencies. You can encode 44.1KHz or 96KHz into FLAC or MP3 if you are determined to do so.
Actually you would have to extend the MP3 spec first. The highest sampling frequency it supports is 48kHz.
There's ZERO chance you're going to invent a syntax for transmitting the results of medical tests using some fixed format, XML is really your only choice, and with dozens of providers integrated into that kind of system you really need definitions that are both independent of the implementation and easily extensible.
Your browser appears to have a misfunctioning spellchecker which has "corrected" HL7 into XML.
Sharia courts aren't a "legal system" as such in the UK: they're a form of binding arbitration which is an alternative to an actual trial if both parties agree to it, whereas the impression your post appears to give is that a non-Muslim could be helpless to avoid being tried under Sharia law.
You're making the mistake of taking the summary at face value. If you follow the link, the actual motion was "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time." It's rare for anything not to get a second reading: it's only the second stage of 11 (not counting royal assent).
No, Heisenberg bounds the product of the errors in the measurements of the two by means of a Schwartz inequality: i.e. if you measure one very precisely, you will get a big error in your measurement of the other one.
That would be the optimal parse approach. Of course, the well-known problem with optimal parsing is that sometimes a sub-optimal parse turns out to be better once you take into account the Huffman step. It could be that they're focussing on the feedback between those two steps.
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My apologies: I misremembered the death toll of the Twin Towers by factor of 10.
However, I stand by the assertion that invading Afghanistan (not to mention Iraq, whose ruling party was as much an enemy of bin Laden as the U.S. was) was misguided and disproportionate. As you observe, people aren't keen on doing nothing when their fellow citizens are killed by the thousands, and the U.S. and its allies have easily killed twice as many civilians as the 11th Sept. terrorists killed.
You've apparently never seen Wag the Dog. Hint: ask yourself what rhyme or reason there is to GP's last sentence.
Are you talking about hypotheticals or is this supposed to have any relevance to recent history? Because if the latter, I would like to know who these thousands are. It's true that more than a thousand U.S. citizens have died in Afghanistan, but that's the result of a misguided and disproportionate "action against terrorists" rather than of doing nothing.
Really? I did GCSE IT in the late 90s and I was unusual in actually doing some programming for the project. We didn't learn actual programming in the course, and most people just created some hyperlinked pages in an Archimedes multimedia package called Genesis. The handful of people who did CompSci A-level did do some programming.
It's not that simple. To take one high-profile example: Shaker Aamer was cleared for release by the executive branch, and his country of residence (the UK, which is hardly going to execute him - it doesn't have the death penalty) has been negotiating for his release to the UK for 6 years.
In the UK, the Queen still sends people telegrams on their 100th birthday.
Dogs can hear higher frequencies than humans, but MP3 and FLAC have nothing specific to do with sampling frequencies. You can encode 44.1KHz or 96KHz into FLAC or MP3 if you are determined to do so.
Actually you would have to extend the MP3 spec first. The highest sampling frequency it supports is 48kHz.
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb!
Who's Next? by Tom Lehrer.
display it all on the client as a pre-formatted page, with absolute coordinates
Funnily enough, that reminds me of some CSS Zen Garden entries. This one, for example, which requires the user stylesheet not to set any font sizes.
Or in other words: in an example of /. editing at its finest, it's not even necessary to read the article to see that the headline is plain wrong.
This is true, but it's not something to be encouraged.
There's ZERO chance you're going to invent a syntax for transmitting the results of medical tests using some fixed format, XML is really your only choice, and with dozens of providers integrated into that kind of system you really need definitions that are both independent of the implementation and easily extensible.
Your browser appears to have a misfunctioning spellchecker which has "corrected" HL7 into XML.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike? Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir were also PMs before Thatcher (and Eva Perón was President).
Sharia courts aren't a "legal system" as such in the UK: they're a form of binding arbitration which is an alternative to an actual trial if both parties agree to it, whereas the impression your post appears to give is that a non-Muslim could be helpless to avoid being tried under Sharia law.
The UK isn't the US. It doesn't do unrelated riders. That's a part of US legislative culture that we Brits have a hard time understanding.
It hasn't finished going through the Commons yet. That was only second reading.
What does that have to do with the price of fish?
You're making the mistake of taking the summary at face value. If you follow the link, the actual motion was "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time." It's rare for anything not to get a second reading: it's only the second stage of 11 (not counting royal assent).
Surely everyone who voted Lib Dem did? They certainly didn't expect the Lib Dems to win.
Hawking is a former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair is currently held by Michael Green.
You do realise that the practice of naming a chair after the sponsor goes back at least 400 years?
Are you excluding the popes who were actually from Spain from your definition of "Hispanic"?
No, Heisenberg bounds the product of the errors in the measurements of the two by means of a Schwartz inequality: i.e. if you measure one very precisely, you will get a big error in your measurement of the other one.
That would be the optimal parse approach. Of course, the well-known problem with optimal parsing is that sometimes a sub-optimal parse turns out to be better once you take into account the Huffman step. It could be that they're focussing on the feedback between those two steps.
Have now RTFA. Still don't know what it's doing, but I was amused by the statement
Zopfli is written in C for portability
There are an awful lot of variables which are typed as just int or unsigned and yet whose width appears to matter.