Why do nearly all world class sprinters come from certain West African tribes? Why do nearly all world class long distance runners come from certain East African tribes? Is it just possible that there are unusual genes in play?
Also, do you not think the term "freak" might be applicable to the top 0.00001% of a population in any attribute, including speed, strength, and obesity?
I've seen reports (3+ years ago) on simulations using a pretty simple model - people want to move away from the fire but still have some concept of personal space due to crushing being painful - which gave very similar results. Doesn't necessarily mean your hypothesis is wrong, but it certainly makes me wary of complex psychological theories.
For various reasons, this does not necessarily happen promptly.
Quite right. I once went to the airport for a flight that was still listed as "On time" even though the airport that the plane was coming from had been closed by snow and the plane was stuck there. Of course, I only found that part out later.
I'm sure they wouldn't disagree that it is in their best interest to make the information as widely available as possible. However, you'll note that it says that Schoenfeld enters the data manually.
There is a simple solution here, which I'm sure everyone on Slashdot has already spotted. OTOH paying a lawyer vast sums of money to sue people is easier than paying a programmer moderate sums to add a formatted text download to their website.
The real news here is that, since isolated kernel hackers are apparently a myth, for safety reasons they should all be grounded*. That certainly explains why they spend all their time in their parents' basements.
Anywhere else ask them for a number you can call them back on, explaining that you need to get them off the line so that you can phone for an ambulance for the debt collector who's bleeding to death on your doorstep.
In the UK you have the right under the Data Protection Act to require them to correct inaccurate data they hold about you. If they fail so to do then you should report them to the Data Protection Commissioner.
I may not have expressed myself particularly clearly. The question was: why mention Quake rather than, say, multi-tasking Firefox, OpenOffice and mpg123?
I don't get it: why is running Quake an impressive feat? That's pretty much the epitome of a program which doesn't need to be multitasked with anything else.
Google came to an agreement with a guild that does not represent most writers to hand over EXCLUSIVE online rights to themselves even if the author didn't agree to it.
But surely the Guild doesn't have any rights to hand over? A quick look through the chapter headings of US copyright law doesn't indicate any provision for licensing bodies. Is this actually a case of a class action settlement being forcibly applied to anyone who doesn't opt out?
Sorry, are you saying that it's incorrect to use the noun phrase "United States of America"? "USA" is unambiguous: "America" is not. That's my point.
But again, you seem to have modified your statement. It was "that's ambiguous" (which it is not) and is now "someone that doesn't know the language may be confused"
I call troll. You're making up quotes and attributing them to me. The only person who's used the word "confused" is you: the word I used was "misinterpret". By definition a word cannot be ambiguous unless there is more than one possible interpretation, and to choose the incorrect one is to misinterpret it.
As such, the only people claiming confusion are those that understand what's being said and are just lying when they say there is confusion.
You're assuming that everyone who speaks English speaks the same English as you. The majority of English-speakers are non-native speakers, and some of them may not appreciate those subtleties. In an international forum, "America" and "American" are ambiguous.
To illustrate: even among native Spanish-speakers speaking in Spanish, "América" and "americano" are ambiguous. Some use them in reference to the USA; others in reference to the continent(s), using "Estados Unidos" (EEUU) and "estadounidense" in reference to the USA. Now take an English-speaking forum with some native Spanish-speakers: how certain are you that a post is by a native English-speaker? How certain are you that a native Spanish-speaker won't misinterpret a post by a native English-speaker?
This is Slashdot. Next week there'll be a front-page story with someone's journal post of how to make a step-up transformer in order to use the UK version.
Ah, my comment just down the page didn't take into account that you want to use the full Java standard libraries. However, it still seems to me that you're projecting deficiences of the Java language onto the Java VM to some extent. You write:
Since interface is actually just one, on JVM level we're stuck with a single compareTo(Object)
It's more complicated than that. If Foo implements Comparable then Foo.class will contain methods
public int compareTo(Bar bar) {...} public int compareTo(Object obj) {return compareTo((Bar)bar);}
The latter is a Miranda method or synthetic method generated by the compiler. There's nothing to stop the Scala compiler from making synthetic methods along the lines of
public int compareTo(Object obj) {
if (obj instanceof Bar) return compareTo((Bar)obj;
return compareTo((Baz)obj); }
The main complication here would be that you still couldn't have
This probably would be doable with a custom classloader which automatically injected either synthetic methods with different names or synthetic methods with an extra java.lang.reflect.Type argument. Or if you really want to get ugly you could have a small Scala runtime which used ThreadLocal to pass the extra arguments along without changing the actual method signatures.
The third of your listed limitations is semi-bogus: you can't check generic type information with instanceof, but java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces gives you the information you need if you're prepared to write a method to process it.
I can't help feeling that the first two can be worked around too if you're prepared to be more creative with your Miranda methods than javac.
Or b) if you import into the UK for distribution. If you're using a stock p2p client I assume that you don't have geoip restrictions and you're automatically seeding anything you download.
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Why do nearly all world class sprinters come from certain West African tribes? Why do nearly all world class long distance runners come from certain East African tribes? Is it just possible that there are unusual genes in play?
Also, do you not think the term "freak" might be applicable to the top 0.00001% of a population in any attribute, including speed, strength, and obesity?
I've seen reports (3+ years ago) on simulations using a pretty simple model - people want to move away from the fire but still have some concept of personal space due to crushing being painful - which gave very similar results. Doesn't necessarily mean your hypothesis is wrong, but it certainly makes me wary of complex psychological theories.
Google Shaun T's Insanity workout. Guaranteed you cannot do it without 10 breaks.
Since the first hit shows that it comes on 11 DVDs, I'll believe you.
For various reasons, this does not necessarily happen promptly.
Quite right. I once went to the airport for a flight that was still listed as "On time" even though the airport that the plane was coming from had been closed by snow and the plane was stuck there. Of course, I only found that part out later.
I'm sure they wouldn't disagree that it is in their best interest to make the information as widely available as possible. However, you'll note that it says that Schoenfeld enters the data manually.
There is a simple solution here, which I'm sure everyone on Slashdot has already spotted. OTOH paying a lawyer vast sums of money to sue people is easier than paying a programmer moderate sums to add a formatted text download to their website.
The English class system is extremely complex, but it's largely a question of attitudes (and to a lesser extent tastes) rather than money.
The real news here is that, since isolated kernel hackers are apparently a myth, for safety reasons they should all be grounded*. That certainly explains why they spend all their time in their parents' basements.
* We wouldn't want them shocking anyone.
people still use mpg123?!
Probably about as many as still use Quake. I was trying to pick a generic music player; maybe I should have picked VLC or mplayer instead.
How do they determine whether or not bittorrent downloads are "illegal"?
Simple: if EMI, Sony, Universal or Warner claim you're downloading illegally, Eircom believes them.
note: this only applies if you are in the USA
Anywhere else ask them for a number you can call them back on, explaining that you need to get them off the line so that you can phone for an ambulance for the debt collector who's bleeding to death on your doorstep.
Three words: Learn to count.
In the UK you have the right under the Data Protection Act to require them to correct inaccurate data they hold about you. If they fail so to do then you should report them to the Data Protection Commissioner.
I may not have expressed myself particularly clearly. The question was: why mention Quake rather than, say, multi-tasking Firefox, OpenOffice and mpg123?
From the perspective of someone in a country which doesn't have class actions, it nearly always looks like a serious abuse of process.
I don't get it: why is running Quake an impressive feat? That's pretty much the epitome of a program which doesn't need to be multitasked with anything else.
Google came to an agreement with a guild that does not represent most writers to hand over EXCLUSIVE online rights to themselves even if the author didn't agree to it.
But surely the Guild doesn't have any rights to hand over? A quick look through the chapter headings of US copyright law doesn't indicate any provision for licensing bodies. Is this actually a case of a class action settlement being forcibly applied to anyone who doesn't opt out?
"An American" in English has one and only one meaning. Someone from the USA. There is no other English meaning.
Princeton seem to disagree.
It's not my job to use the wrong words
Sorry, are you saying that it's incorrect to use the noun phrase "United States of America"? "USA" is unambiguous: "America" is not. That's my point.
But again, you seem to have modified your statement. It was "that's ambiguous" (which it is not) and is now "someone that doesn't know the language may be confused"
I call troll. You're making up quotes and attributing them to me. The only person who's used the word "confused" is you: the word I used was "misinterpret". By definition a word cannot be ambiguous unless there is more than one possible interpretation, and to choose the incorrect one is to misinterpret it.
As such, the only people claiming confusion are those that understand what's being said and are just lying when they say there is confusion.
You're assuming that everyone who speaks English speaks the same English as you. The majority of English-speakers are non-native speakers, and some of them may not appreciate those subtleties. In an international forum, "America" and "American" are ambiguous.
To illustrate: even among native Spanish-speakers speaking in Spanish, "América" and "americano" are ambiguous. Some use them in reference to the USA; others in reference to the continent(s), using "Estados Unidos" (EEUU) and "estadounidense" in reference to the USA. Now take an English-speaking forum with some native Spanish-speakers: how certain are you that a post is by a native English-speaker? How certain are you that a native Spanish-speaker won't misinterpret a post by a native English-speaker?
This is Slashdot. Next week there'll be a front-page story with someone's journal post of how to make a step-up transformer in order to use the UK version.
A politician campaigning for a contested seat can be sure that the other candidates will jump on any public breach of the law.
Ah, my comment just down the page didn't take into account that you want to use the full Java standard libraries. However, it still seems to me that you're projecting deficiences of the Java language onto the Java VM to some extent. You write:
Since interface is actually just one, on JVM level we're stuck with a single compareTo(Object)
It's more complicated than that. If Foo implements Comparable then Foo.class will contain methods
The latter is a Miranda method or synthetic method generated by the compiler. There's nothing to stop the Scala compiler from making synthetic methods along the lines of
The main complication here would be that you still couldn't have
This probably would be doable with a custom classloader which automatically injected either synthetic methods with different names or synthetic methods with an extra java.lang.reflect.Type argument. Or if you really want to get ugly you could have a small Scala runtime which used ThreadLocal to pass the extra arguments along without changing the actual method signatures.
It's clearly not really a unique mindset. Odd, certainly.
The third of your listed limitations is semi-bogus: you can't check generic type information with instanceof, but java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces gives you the information you need if you're prepared to write a method to process it.
I can't help feeling that the first two can be worked around too if you're prepared to be more creative with your Miranda methods than javac.
Precisely, but if you're using a p2p client which then seeds it to other people you are also importing it for public, non-domestic use.
Or b) if you import into the UK for distribution. If you're using a stock p2p client I assume that you don't have geoip restrictions and you're automatically seeding anything you download.