I went to my GP, I said "I want this, that and t'other to treat my condition". Being as he's only a GP, and doesn't have the first clue about my condition or it's treatment, he checked with a specialist to see whether that was an acceptable drug cocktail, they said yes, and he wrote the prescription exactly as I requested it.
I couldn't care less about 3rd party development. What I care about is whether I can develop for it.
I use a PDA as a prosthetic memory. As such, I need to be able to write my own programs for it to fill my own needs. I don't care whether I can distribute them or not.
Of course, when the day comes when you can only build things ohut of mud and sticks because you no longer have the chemical feed stocks to manufacture anything more modern, you'll rue the day you were so shortsighted as to waste fossil fuels on energy when other alternatives were available...
Only if you assume the user is a leacher that'll disappear as soon as the file is complete. Otherwise, it's optimising for increased availability, which can only be a good thing, since it'll become a seed sooner.
Nearly everything is targetted toward Monta Vista, these days. Being fair on them, it's because they were one of the few embedded Linux distributions that managed to put together something with all the neccessary patches to be actually capable of performing well in an embedded scenario.
Making them miserable and making them optimally useful are mutually exclusive options. Society chooses the former, hence why you'll never see Hans Reiser put to work making a file system if he goes down.
My point, since you seem to need this explaining to you, is that the purpose of prisons is emotional punishment. As such, considerations of how a prisoner could be useful to society go out the window, to be replaced with only-just-legal methods of making his life a living hell.
The interests of society trump the interests of the individual. It is not in the interest of society to exact revenge. If they're irretrievable, then by all means kill them. Otherwise, why should the rest of us pay for replacing your sorrow with a perverted warm and fuzzy feeling, when we could instead get some value for our taxes?
That would presume that the function of prison is to rehabilitate people into useful members society, rather than to exact emotionally driven revenge through punishment.
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This is why high fidelity ear plugs were created.
Good to know that every time I go clubbing, I balance out the cells that get blown away by dancing!
We're at war with terrorists. We've always been at war with terrorists.
The Party is never wrong.
Big Blair is always watching you.
They don't have to be better than big turbines, they just have to be better than the battery they replace. *shrug*
I went to my GP, I said "I want this, that and t'other to treat my condition". Being as he's only a GP, and doesn't have the first clue about my condition or it's treatment, he checked with a specialist to see whether that was an acceptable drug cocktail, they said yes, and he wrote the prescription exactly as I requested it.
Um, I do?
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Anyone who thinks doctors are infalliable just doesn't have a rare enough medical condition.
Why would I want to play Hi-Def DVD on my ethernet chipset? It has even worse support for HD output than Vista!
But they do make you +5, Funny.
Half a grapefruit and black coffee.
There's Chemicals in the grapefruit that cause the caffeine to work better.
I couldn't care less about 3rd party development. What I care about is whether I can develop for it.
I use a PDA as a prosthetic memory. As such, I need to be able to write my own programs for it to fill my own needs. I don't care whether I can distribute them or not.
Of course, when the day comes when you can only build things ohut of mud and sticks because you no longer have the chemical feed stocks to manufacture anything more modern, you'll rue the day you were so shortsighted as to waste fossil fuels on energy when other alternatives were available...
Only if you assume the user is a leacher that'll disappear as soon as the file is complete. Otherwise, it's optimising for increased availability, which can only be a good thing, since it'll become a seed sooner.
If you bothered to RTFA, you'd realise selfish!=bad.
Welcome to the Real World of Embedded.
Nearly everything is targetted toward Monta Vista, these days. Being fair on them, it's because they were one of the few embedded Linux distributions that managed to put together something with all the neccessary patches to be actually capable of performing well in an embedded scenario.
Dunno about over there, but in the UK, most prices end with 99 pence.
Making them miserable and making them optimally useful are mutually exclusive options. Society chooses the former, hence why you'll never see Hans Reiser put to work making a file system if he goes down.
My point, since you seem to need this explaining to you, is that the purpose of prisons is emotional punishment. As such, considerations of how a prisoner could be useful to society go out the window, to be replaced with only-just-legal methods of making his life a living hell.
One would imagine the object model and API would stay the same, and just the actual visualisation would change.
The interests of society trump the interests of the individual. It is not in the interest of society to exact revenge. If they're irretrievable, then by all means kill them. Otherwise, why should the rest of us pay for replacing your sorrow with a perverted warm and fuzzy feeling, when we could instead get some value for our taxes?
That would presume that the function of prison is to rehabilitate people into useful members society, rather than to exact emotionally driven revenge through punishment.
I thought Mistress AdaCompiler delivered stern spankings for the use of any naughty words?
I must be getting confused - I thought Lithium Polymer was better than Lithium Ion?
Or, giving them their full name, are they not referring to Lithium Ion Polymer batteries?
Hmm, I can eaily turn my head to look at my back pocket, but then I'm European.
Did they update her so she's as big as the average American?
Ah, the wonderful Land Of The Fee.
When do they remodel the blindfold on the statue of justice so it's slipped and she can wink and look suggestively at her back pocket?
So what you're saying is that those that don't get caught have a history of not getting caught?