Which becomes even more significant when you consider that the number of people who play WoW in a month is about 70% of 14 million, so it wasn't really an unprecedently "gigantic userbase" to start with.
When you're an ideal manager, your job is to shield your employees from the bullshit from above as much as possible, so they can get their work done as well as possible.
Quoted for truthery.
In fact, as far as protecting them from upper management goes, if there's one thing the cinema has taught me it's that when you go over to the dark side killing your boss can redeem you and restore balance to the universe.
Age is irrelevant for trademark. What's relevant is whether the general public associate the mark with your brand / company. On this criterion his claim is invalid.
Why do you need to understand UNIX system calls to program for UNIX? Isn't part of the point of libraries that they wrap that kind of thing for you? And surely if knowing the language the OS was written is were necessary to program for it then no-one outside Microsoft would be able to develop for Windows.
If this is seriously a problem for you, you're bordering on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. And I'm not even kidding around; you actually care whether a blank line is tabbed or not?
Surely everyone who uses version control cares about editors playing with whitespace, because it makes it harder to read your diffs.
But why is a P2P component necessary? Git already allows distributed development, so the only scenario in which there's a real gain is when someone else on the same LAN as you has a checkout of the repository you want, but you didn't realise that. Is this likely?
Doesn't your constitution also have something to say about cruel and unusual punishment? Or is it okay for you to ignore the bits you don't like, but not for other people so to do?
Stuff gets shuffled. Back in the 50s there was a lot more focus on geometry: I did as much maths as was possible at school (2 A-levels and an AS) and I'm sure I didn't cover nearly as much geometry as my mother. In fact, I doubt I covered 10% of Euclid. On the other hand, she was surprised that group theory had moved into the A-level syllabus - she didn't encounter it before university - and the two "discrete mathematics" modules I took covered topics such as graph theory which were research material in the late 50s and early 60s. (Dijkstra's algorithm, by way of example, was invented in 1959 if Wikipedia can be believed).
Sorry, are you claiming that there's an entire separate copy of the JVM in there just to play that game? Because otherwise I fail to see why Java should be so much more bloated than an.exe. I've seen Java 5k game competitions - the entire game, including graphics and sound, had to fit in 5120 bytes.
The irony is that both governments are run by the same party (Democrats), and yet they still can't get along with one another.
That's not too surprising. Both major parties in the US are marriages of convenience between groups with wildly different views. The same can be said of the major parties in the UK, and probably in any effectively two-party or three-party state. In fact, given the frequency of party splits in countries with proportional representation it may well be true of any political party in the world with more than 100 members.
Wow. A grid-based system capable of colouring grids can be used to do pixel art? Clearly the term "enterprising" has changed in meaning, but leaving that aside I have to ask why this is in tech? It quite clearly belongs in idle.
That's fine if you want to model a generic American city, but it's less useful if you want to set your story in a specific city (although maybe the broad strokes can be done manually and then the detail fractally) or in a European city, which being so much older tend to have pockets of non-gridded streets where villages or minor towns have been swallowed up by expansion.
ISTM, anyway, that fractal generation of the models of the houses themselves would be far more valuable. Laying out roads is a relatively minor task compared with avoiding them all looking like carbon copies of each other.
1) Case sensitivity is optional. Besides which, I'd be strugging to think of much UNIX stuff that requires case sensitivity.
I once unpacked an open source project (a cluster analysis program from NASA) on an HFS drive and spent ages trying to get it to compile. The reason? Two header files whose names differed only in case. Would have been nice if tar had complained about that rather than simply extracting one over the other.
I don't think the GPL actually defines the term "link". Java and C# don't really link in the sense in which C does. In fact, I've long had the impression that when the GPL was framed Stallman was thinking only of C programming.
Do the students really need those textbooks anyway? I bought about 6 books during my undergrad career, but only because I had a GBP 100 book grant from my college. I only really used two textbooks, and one of them (Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest) was a gift from Microsoft.
English law, not British law. Scottish law is probably different. Just one of the many complications.
The American Revolution was a fair few years ago. Since then there have been at least 7 Acts of Parliament with the word "libel" or "defamation" in their title (plus the Slander of Women Act 1891), and who knows how many other relevant changes in statute and common law. In terms of criminal suits it seems that "justification" requires that the statement not only be true but also in the public benefit. It may be that this is also the case for civil suits, but I haven't been able to resolve this question in a couple of hours of investigation.
However, even if I was initially correct, threats of libel suits still work because a libel suit, unusually, places the burden of proof on the defendant. If the person in question is willing to commit perjury (vide Jeffery Archer vs Daily Star) then newspapers have to tread carefully.
IANAL, but from what I gather (and can find online) In a civil suit for libel under English law, truth is an absolute defence: however, it is not so in a criminal suit. I'm not sure what the necessary condition is for a criminal offence to be committed, but I've never heard of a case of criminal libel being tried.
His first point is the really funny one, because at least some versions of Vista also force you to download codecs - AIUI due to an EU anti-trust ruling.
Even the Hebrew torah changed in important ways about 2000 years ago, and there's plenty of analysis showing it changed from an original form to its form around the time of the Roman conquest in specific sections.
Can you cite any references for this off the top of your head? I'd be interested to read more.
And of course the original christian canon of over 400 different texts was reduced to the 4 in the "new testament" by a christian order about 1600 years ago.
Here you lose me completely. The NT has more than 4 texts. Are you claiming that there were originally 400 accounts of the life of Jesus? That sounds rather high.
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And about 1% have even heard of Home..
Which becomes even more significant when you consider that the number of people who play WoW in a month is about 70% of 14 million, so it wasn't really an unprecedently "gigantic userbase" to start with.
When you're an ideal manager, your job is to shield your employees from the bullshit from above as much as possible, so they can get their work done as well as possible.
Quoted for truthery.
In fact, as far as protecting them from upper management goes, if there's one thing the cinema has taught me it's that when you go over to the dark side killing your boss can redeem you and restore balance to the universe.
Age is irrelevant for trademark. What's relevant is whether the general public associate the mark with your brand / company. On this criterion his claim is invalid.
Why would I check in whitespace changes I didn't want the editor to make in the first place?
Why do you need to understand UNIX system calls to program for UNIX? Isn't part of the point of libraries that they wrap that kind of thing for you? And surely if knowing the language the OS was written is were necessary to program for it then no-one outside Microsoft would be able to develop for Windows.
If this is seriously a problem for you, you're bordering on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. And I'm not even kidding around; you actually care whether a blank line is tabbed or not?
Surely everyone who uses version control cares about editors playing with whitespace, because it makes it harder to read your diffs.
What is C other than a slightly higher level assembly language than nasm?
But why is a P2P component necessary? Git already allows distributed development, so the only scenario in which there's a real gain is when someone else on the same LAN as you has a checkout of the repository you want, but you didn't realise that. Is this likely?
Doesn't your constitution also have something to say about cruel and unusual punishment? Or is it okay for you to ignore the bits you don't like, but not for other people so to do?
Stuff gets shuffled. Back in the 50s there was a lot more focus on geometry: I did as much maths as was possible at school (2 A-levels and an AS) and I'm sure I didn't cover nearly as much geometry as my mother. In fact, I doubt I covered 10% of Euclid. On the other hand, she was surprised that group theory had moved into the A-level syllabus - she didn't encounter it before university - and the two "discrete mathematics" modules I took covered topics such as graph theory which were research material in the late 50s and early 60s. (Dijkstra's algorithm, by way of example, was invented in 1959 if Wikipedia can be believed).
6. They can afford to employ more teachers, so they have smaller class sizes.
Sorry, are you claiming that there's an entire separate copy of the JVM in there just to play that game? Because otherwise I fail to see why Java should be so much more bloated than an .exe. I've seen Java 5k game competitions - the entire game, including graphics and sound, had to fit in 5120 bytes.
What about the other 10%?
You want a subjunctive in the Spanish: puedo parar cuando quiera. It's hypothetical because I may never want to stop.
The irony is that both governments are run by the same party (Democrats), and yet they still can't get along with one another.
That's not too surprising. Both major parties in the US are marriages of convenience between groups with wildly different views. The same can be said of the major parties in the UK, and probably in any effectively two-party or three-party state. In fact, given the frequency of party splits in countries with proportional representation it may well be true of any political party in the world with more than 100 members.
Wow. A grid-based system capable of colouring grids can be used to do pixel art? Clearly the term "enterprising" has changed in meaning, but leaving that aside I have to ask why this is in tech? It quite clearly belongs in idle.
That's fine if you want to model a generic American city, but it's less useful if you want to set your story in a specific city (although maybe the broad strokes can be done manually and then the detail fractally) or in a European city, which being so much older tend to have pockets of non-gridded streets where villages or minor towns have been swallowed up by expansion.
ISTM, anyway, that fractal generation of the models of the houses themselves would be far more valuable. Laying out roads is a relatively minor task compared with avoiding them all looking like carbon copies of each other.
1) Case sensitivity is optional. Besides which, I'd be strugging to think of much UNIX stuff that requires case sensitivity.
I once unpacked an open source project (a cluster analysis program from NASA) on an HFS drive and spent ages trying to get it to compile. The reason? Two header files whose names differed only in case. Would have been nice if tar had complained about that rather than simply extracting one over the other.
I couldn't reproduce this. Which app?
I just reproduced it with Firefox and Finder. OS version 10.5.5.
I don't think the GPL actually defines the term "link". Java and C# don't really link in the sense in which C does. In fact, I've long had the impression that when the GPL was framed Stallman was thinking only of C programming.
Do the students really need those textbooks anyway? I bought about 6 books during my undergrad career, but only because I had a GBP 100 book grant from my college. I only really used two textbooks, and one of them (Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest) was a gift from Microsoft.
English law, not British law. Scottish law is probably different. Just one of the many complications.
The American Revolution was a fair few years ago. Since then there have been at least 7 Acts of Parliament with the word "libel" or "defamation" in their title (plus the Slander of Women Act 1891), and who knows how many other relevant changes in statute and common law. In terms of criminal suits it seems that "justification" requires that the statement not only be true but also in the public benefit. It may be that this is also the case for civil suits, but I haven't been able to resolve this question in a couple of hours of investigation.
However, even if I was initially correct, threats of libel suits still work because a libel suit, unusually, places the burden of proof on the defendant. If the person in question is willing to commit perjury (vide Jeffery Archer vs Daily Star) then newspapers have to tread carefully.
IANAL, but from what I gather (and can find online) In a civil suit for libel under English law, truth is an absolute defence: however, it is not so in a criminal suit. I'm not sure what the necessary condition is for a criminal offence to be committed, but I've never heard of a case of criminal libel being tried.
His first point is the really funny one, because at least some versions of Vista also force you to download codecs - AIUI due to an EU anti-trust ruling.
Even the Hebrew torah changed in important ways about 2000 years ago, and there's plenty of analysis showing it changed from an original form to its form around the time of the Roman conquest in specific sections.
Can you cite any references for this off the top of your head? I'd be interested to read more.
And of course the original christian canon of over 400 different texts was reduced to the 4 in the "new testament" by a christian order about 1600 years ago.
Here you lose me completely. The NT has more than 4 texts. Are you claiming that there were originally 400 accounts of the life of Jesus? That sounds rather high.