That two sets A and B are both countably infinite doesn't necessarily mean that the probability of a random element from B being in A is undeterminable. To take a simple counterexample: the even integers are a countable subset of the integers, and the probability that a randomly selected integer is even is 50%.
That's a summary. The actual text in the Bill says "broadcasting service", which is why GPP quotes the definition of such. The text of the Act (which is what the Bill will become if passed) is what defines the law, not the interpretation put on it by the person who wrote the Slashdot summary.
Arrays.sort in Java uses mergesort rather than quicksort for objects because quicksort has one big downside: it's not stable. For primitives this doesn't matter, but for objects which might already be sorted on one field it could do in some use cases.
I wasn't very clear in GPP. The main problem isn't so much the sense of the translation as the quality of the Spanish. The spelling is terrible and the verb tenses appear to be random.
Facebook has a voting system for quality control, so it clearly demonstrates that even that isn't sufficient to get a halfway decent translation. I use Facebook in Spanish and the translations are often appalling.
According to TFS (no need to RTFA) Phorm is a "controversial advertising service" and a "company".
The Home Office is the office responsible for home affairs - I'm going to hazard a guess that it's the equivalent of the US Department of State, but I'm not sure because I've never seen a summary which mentioned the DoS explain what it is.
The relationship between them is complex, which is the whole point of the story. If you really care about details, RTFA.
Applets may not be great for much else, but they are great for games. I don't care about JavaFX per se but it was at least partly responsible for recent work to improve the Java2D graphics libraries, and a lot of Java games would benefit from further improvements there.
Huh? You said that you don't buy anything with aspartame and trans fats. I can see how that "sends a message with your dollar". I don't see how using a store card or talking to the cashier helps to strengthen that message at all.
I don't think not using a card makes you stand out. I was just using it as an example of some of the rather overly paranoid behavior.
Ah, ok. That was the impression I formed from the first two sentences of the third paragraph.
However the end of your post here makes me think we are not talking about the same type of card.
No, we are (more or less). Given my understanding that you were saying people without store cards stood out, I was trying to work out how you thought they could be identified - without which, it matters not a whit that they stand out.
I often see people go on about how they refuse to use discount cards and so on... WHY?!
I used to have club cards for the main supermarkets in the UK, but all the vouchers I got from them were trying to get me to try stuff I didn't buy. Why bother with a discount card if you don't get discounts out of it?
What better way to "vote with your dollar" then to send a nice "I am not buying this fucking garbage" message every time you check out?
What on Earth makes you think that using a club card sends a stronger message than simply not buying the stuff in the first place?
I'm rather puzzled by your suggestion that not using club cards makes you stand out, too. If I don't use a club card they don't know who I am, so what does it matter if I'm unusual? Or did it fail to cross your mind that some people find cash more convenient than paying for everything with credit cards?
You're missing my point: it's not a dichotomy of "if you play games then either you're a casual gamer or an addict". There's a spectrum, and you fall in the middle. At the very least you want three pigeonholes: casual, committed, and hard-core.
Someone who plays Minesweeper or Bejeweled for half an hour in their lunch break some days and occasionally has an evening playing Wii Tennis with friends is a casual player. Someone who intentionally invests time in a game to improve their ability is no longer playing casually but showing a level of commitment. Someone who self-identifies as a gamer, spends hours every day playing games, or aims to be recognised as an elite player of one game is hard-core, but not necessarily addicted.
If you "do a bit of research" into a game's economy then you're not a casual gamer. If you play 20 hours a week then you're not a casual gamer, and if you play the same game for 20 hours then you're probably also moving up into the "committed gamer" bracket.
Ankle injuries, maybe, but at least some cases of flat feet are due to genetics rather than environment. As an example, flat feet are one of the symptoms of Marfan's syndrome.
I believe Sun's implementation has about 2% third party closed source blobs, but there's a fork (Icedtea) which replaces them with open source implementations.
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That two sets A and B are both countably infinite doesn't necessarily mean that the probability of a random element from B being in A is undeterminable. To take a simple counterexample: the even integers are a countable subset of the integers, and the probability that a randomly selected integer is even is 50%.
He's not necessarily uneducated. He might just be an idiot.
Inconsistent terminology can hurt a field - just look what happened to postmodernism.
The death of the author (lexicographers excepted)?
Hacking into government computers is old hat. I'm more concerned that someone seems to have hacked /. and changed the front page to be an RSS feed.
That's a summary. The actual text in the Bill says "broadcasting service", which is why GPP quotes the definition of such. The text of the Act (which is what the Bill will become if passed) is what defines the law, not the interpretation put on it by the person who wrote the Slashdot summary.
The client knows precisely what she needs: to be seen to be doing something.
Of course the flying pig flu. Otherwise how would we know it was a flying pig in the first place?
Arrays.sort in Java uses mergesort rather than quicksort for objects because quicksort has one big downside: it's not stable. For primitives this doesn't matter, but for objects which might already be sorted on one field it could do in some use cases.
Wavefront OBJ?
Most of the time I think I've found a bug in a compiler it's because the compiler crashes. In that case, I'm right.
"Bankrupt" is a funny way of spelling "a great candidate for a bailout".
I wasn't very clear in GPP. The main problem isn't so much the sense of the translation as the quality of the Spanish. The spelling is terrible and the verb tenses appear to be random.
Facebook has a voting system for quality control, so it clearly demonstrates that even that isn't sufficient to get a halfway decent translation. I use Facebook in Spanish and the translations are often appalling.
According to TFS (no need to RTFA) Phorm is a "controversial advertising service" and a "company".
The Home Office is the office responsible for home affairs - I'm going to hazard a guess that it's the equivalent of the US Department of State, but I'm not sure because I've never seen a summary which mentioned the DoS explain what it is.
The relationship between them is complex, which is the whole point of the story. If you really care about details, RTFA.
Accuse me of plagiarism and I'll publish a book about that little matter involving you and a pawnbroker.
One really good Java game.
Applets may not be great for much else, but they are great for games. I don't care about JavaFX per se but it was at least partly responsible for recent work to improve the Java2D graphics libraries, and a lot of Java games would benefit from further improvements there.
Feel free to stop buying food.
Huh? You said that you don't buy anything with aspartame and trans fats. I can see how that "sends a message with your dollar". I don't see how using a store card or talking to the cashier helps to strengthen that message at all.
I don't think not using a card makes you stand out. I was just using it as an example of some of the rather overly paranoid behavior.
Ah, ok. That was the impression I formed from the first two sentences of the third paragraph.
However the end of your post here makes me think we are not talking about the same type of card.
No, we are (more or less). Given my understanding that you were saying people without store cards stood out, I was trying to work out how you thought they could be identified - without which, it matters not a whit that they stand out.
I often see people go on about how they refuse to use discount cards and so on... WHY?!
I used to have club cards for the main supermarkets in the UK, but all the vouchers I got from them were trying to get me to try stuff I didn't buy. Why bother with a discount card if you don't get discounts out of it?
What better way to "vote with your dollar" then to send a nice "I am not buying this fucking garbage" message every time you check out?
What on Earth makes you think that using a club card sends a stronger message than simply not buying the stuff in the first place?
I'm rather puzzled by your suggestion that not using club cards makes you stand out, too. If I don't use a club card they don't know who I am, so what does it matter if I'm unusual? Or did it fail to cross your mind that some people find cash more convenient than paying for everything with credit cards?
You're missing my point: it's not a dichotomy of "if you play games then either you're a casual gamer or an addict". There's a spectrum, and you fall in the middle. At the very least you want three pigeonholes: casual, committed, and hard-core.
Someone who plays Minesweeper or Bejeweled for half an hour in their lunch break some days and occasionally has an evening playing Wii Tennis with friends is a casual player. Someone who intentionally invests time in a game to improve their ability is no longer playing casually but showing a level of commitment. Someone who self-identifies as a gamer, spends hours every day playing games, or aims to be recognised as an elite player of one game is hard-core, but not necessarily addicted.
If you "do a bit of research" into a game's economy then you're not a casual gamer. If you play 20 hours a week then you're not a casual gamer, and if you play the same game for 20 hours then you're probably also moving up into the "committed gamer" bracket.
lawyers/judges are often memebers of many many organisations, it doesn't mean they have the same rabid bias of an apple fanboy of /.
Even so, they should avoid even the impression of impropriety.
Ankle injuries, maybe, but at least some cases of flat feet are due to genetics rather than environment. As an example, flat feet are one of the symptoms of Marfan's syndrome.
I believe Sun's implementation has about 2% third party closed source blobs, but there's a fork (Icedtea) which replaces them with open source implementations.
An overwhelming number of computers I've had exposure to since the 2nd grade have had Windows on them.
Stop making me feel old.