interesting question: what about he baggage in the cargo hold? wont that get in the way of the purty view?
That was my thought too, and I'm surprised I had to read this far down to find a comment on it. I'm sure they don't plan to put the luggage above the passengers, so it does seem a pretty tough problem. Unless TFS is wrong and they're only planning to make the sides transparent.
They scanned my iris in Houston airport back in 2005. At least, that's my understanding of why I had to take off my glasses and look a camera in the eye at very close range - and I think iris scanning is more advanced as a biometric than retina scanning. So I'm bemused as to what's new.
This seems to be fairly widespread. I've known a Russian who wouldn't lift a finger in the house - he had a wife and a daughter, so why should he have to do anything? - but would cheerfully barbeque shish kebabs. Where I live, in Spain, cooking paella (which should be done over a wood fire) is man's work, even if the man needs his wife to prompt him. I wonder whether there are any industrialised cultures where outdoor cooking over wood or charcoal isn't considered a masculine activity.
The only way that Cuba could have done better would have been if the Americans hadn't instituted a 50 year blockade.
Or if the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed. For ideological reasons the USSR bought sugar from Cuba at well above the market price, and its fall had serious effects on the economy.
If you actually KNEW the story that you're opining about, you'd know that Moses received the tablets before they reached Israel.
The first Biblical reference I can find to the Hebrew people (as opposed to Jacob) as "Israel" is before they've even left Egypt. In Exodus 3:16, Yahweh tells Moses to assemble "the elders of Israel". The promised land is referred to in Exodus as "the land of Canaan". The land acquired the name from the people at a later stage.
They were wandering in the desert.
Not really. They were taking a circuitous route to pass via Horeb. The wandering begins later, as punishment for heeding the negative report of the spies.
There was no palace, there was no temple.
That's why both copies went into the tabernacle, as I said. To be precise, they went into the ark of the covenant[1] and the ark went into the tabernacle[2].
They had just fled Egypt, where the king was considered a God. The Israelites didn't believe that. God was God and the King was the King.
I'm not aware of any explicit statement of theocracy[3] in the Pentateuch, although some theologians see palatial influences in the design of the tabernacle. It is, however, quite clear that the concept of Yahweh as king existed later.[4]
Full disclosure, I do not subscribe to any of the Abrahamic religions; however I do know and understand their beliefs.
FWIW I'm a Christian who studied a bit of undergraduate theology (in particular with respect to the Pentateuch and Paul - that's how the timetables worked out) on the side while getting a degree in compsci.
[1] Exodus 40:20 - cf 31:18, 32:15, 34:29 for evidence that it's referring to the tablets; Deuteronomy 10:5
[2] Exodus 26:34, 40:21
[3] A word, incidentally, coined by a Jew to describe Mosaic law.
I don't get it. Why is a site which appears to be about news relating to Christianity the right site for a debate on the appropriateness or otherwise of using "ironically"?
Ironically*, the two tablets of the Decalogue may well have each been a full copy, although not strictly backups. Standard practice with treaties was that one copy went in the king's palace and another in his god's temple. Since Israel was a theocracy, the king and the god were the same, and hence both copies went into the tabernacle.
* Sorry, can't resist the opportunity to start a flame war:)
4? Hah. I have a method in my personal code library to work around a bug in the standard Java libraries which I reported to Sun in 2002. It's marked as "Accepted, bug" but low priority. (4759386, for anyone who doesn't believe me).
Logged in this morning to see 15 replies, but yours is by far the best point. I can't recall whether we went over any speed bumps the time I went to hospital in an ambulance: what I do remember is the roundabout. But I can well believe that they could be uncomfortable.
I'm curious about "5-10 miles an hour", though. Where I learnt to drive the correct speed for the bumps was 20-25. You could almost take them in 3rd gear. (In fact, I did take one in 3rd gear in my driving test without any discomfort, but at the speed I was going 2nd would have been better).
The heap sort actually has intermediate structure. If you watch carefully you can see that it has two phases, the first much shorter than the second. However, the structure isn't as visibly obvious as for merge sort.
If it had showed quicksort (I can't understand why it didn't) then you'd have seen some intermediate structure there too.
I also noticed that the selection sort wasn't as good as it could be. It's more efficient to select the largest and the smallest unsorted values on each pass - you halve the number of passes, and on each pass you do 50% more work, so overall it's a 25% improvement.
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How many people in a playground wear bifocals?! (Teachers don't count.)
Is it talking about buying books or games? In the UK food shopping online is quite popular, and the major supermarkets have their own delivery vans.
interesting question: what about he baggage in the cargo hold? wont that get in the way of the purty view?
That was my thought too, and I'm surprised I had to read this far down to find a comment on it. I'm sure they don't plan to put the luggage above the passengers, so it does seem a pretty tough problem. Unless TFS is wrong and they're only planning to make the sides transparent.
Some measuring cups have the marks next to the handle on one side only. A good soup ladle has a tiny spout. I'll pass on the rulers and notebooks.
They scanned my iris in Houston airport back in 2005. At least, that's my understanding of why I had to take off my glasses and look a camera in the eye at very close range - and I think iris scanning is more advanced as a biometric than retina scanning. So I'm bemused as to what's new.
My youngest brother was nicknamed "boff" at school in the 90s.
Barbequing was not considered "cooking".
This seems to be fairly widespread. I've known a Russian who wouldn't lift a finger in the house - he had a wife and a daughter, so why should he have to do anything? - but would cheerfully barbeque shish kebabs. Where I live, in Spain, cooking paella (which should be done over a wood fire) is man's work, even if the man needs his wife to prompt him. I wonder whether there are any industrialised cultures where outdoor cooking over wood or charcoal isn't considered a masculine activity.
If you want to cook food in log time you should use an open fire.
This and this do a reasonable job of explaining. The key phrases respectively, and they express the same thing, are
Don't ask for the information you need to do the work; ask the object that has the information to do the work for you.
and
Tell, Don't Ask
That isn't encapsulation. It's just wrapping some sugar round a non-encapsulated design.
If Ryanair scraps the flight attendants it loses the ability to try to sell stuff to a captive audience. That's not going to happen.
The only way that Cuba could have done better would have been if the Americans hadn't instituted a 50 year blockade.
Or if the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed. For ideological reasons the USSR bought sugar from Cuba at well above the market price, and its fall had serious effects on the economy.
If you actually KNEW the story that you're opining about, you'd know that Moses received the tablets before they reached Israel.
The first Biblical reference I can find to the Hebrew people (as opposed to Jacob) as "Israel" is before they've even left Egypt. In Exodus 3:16, Yahweh tells Moses to assemble "the elders of Israel". The promised land is referred to in Exodus as "the land of Canaan". The land acquired the name from the people at a later stage.
They were wandering in the desert.
Not really. They were taking a circuitous route to pass via Horeb. The wandering begins later, as punishment for heeding the negative report of the spies.
There was no palace, there was no temple.
That's why both copies went into the tabernacle, as I said. To be precise, they went into the ark of the covenant[1] and the ark went into the tabernacle[2].
They had just fled Egypt, where the king was considered a God. The Israelites didn't believe that. God was God and the King was the King.
I'm not aware of any explicit statement of theocracy[3] in the Pentateuch, although some theologians see palatial influences in the design of the tabernacle. It is, however, quite clear that the concept of Yahweh as king existed later.[4]
Full disclosure, I do not subscribe to any of the Abrahamic religions; however I do know and understand their beliefs.
FWIW I'm a Christian who studied a bit of undergraduate theology (in particular with respect to the Pentateuch and Paul - that's how the timetables worked out) on the side while getting a degree in compsci.
[1] Exodus 40:20 - cf 31:18, 32:15, 34:29 for evidence that it's referring to the tablets; Deuteronomy 10:5
[2] Exodus 26:34, 40:21
[3] A word, incidentally, coined by a Jew to describe Mosaic law.
[4] Judges 8:23, 1 Samuel 8:17
I don't get it. Why is a site which appears to be about news relating to Christianity the right site for a debate on the appropriateness or otherwise of using "ironically"?
Israel didn't have a human king until about 400 to 500 years later.
What I want to know is whether Bradley W. Lewis will still consider IQpierce a good friend when he sees his download overconsumption charge.
Ironically*, the two tablets of the Decalogue may well have each been a full copy, although not strictly backups. Standard practice with treaties was that one copy went in the king's palace and another in his god's temple. Since Israel was a theocracy, the king and the god were the same, and hence both copies went into the tabernacle.
* Sorry, can't resist the opportunity to start a flame war :)
Waiters/waitresses are allowed to be paid below minimum wage in places that allow tips, at least here in Minnesota MN, USA.
It seems to me that the waitress should be mad at your legislative body.
4? Hah. I have a method in my personal code library to work around a bug in the standard Java libraries which I reported to Sun in 2002. It's marked as "Accepted, bug" but low priority. (4759386, for anyone who doesn't believe me).
Dead man's switch.
Firebug. Right-click the comments div, "Inspect element", and delete it.
Logged in this morning to see 15 replies, but yours is by far the best point. I can't recall whether we went over any speed bumps the time I went to hospital in an ambulance: what I do remember is the roundabout. But I can well believe that they could be uncomfortable.
I'm curious about "5-10 miles an hour", though. Where I learnt to drive the correct speed for the bumps was 20-25. You could almost take them in 3rd gear. (In fact, I did take one in 3rd gear in my driving test without any discomfort, but at the speed I was going 2nd would have been better).
Speed bumps may be more effective than radar traps.
The heap sort actually has intermediate structure. If you watch carefully you can see that it has two phases, the first much shorter than the second. However, the structure isn't as visibly obvious as for merge sort.
If it had showed quicksort (I can't understand why it didn't) then you'd have seen some intermediate structure there too.
I also noticed that the selection sort wasn't as good as it could be. It's more efficient to select the largest and the smallest unsorted values on each pass - you halve the number of passes, and on each pass you do 50% more work, so overall it's a 25% improvement.
And PRNs for pseudorandom numbers. Good point.