No, you shouldn't, unless you are materially involved in the criminal activity.
We've all lived in areas at one time or another, or known people who partake in illegal activities, but we don't in general rat them out unless compelled to.
Nor do we like being around those who partake some amount of enjoyment in pointing out every civil, criminal and other misdeeds that others may be doing. "I heard this moaning going on. They MUST have been having sex in their house. What about the children?" obviously ignoring that sounds came from a Sr Citizen home, well after visiting hours, etc.
Every bar probably has its share of illicit activities that are planned or carried out in it. They're dark, usually noisy, and full of people who are disinterested in what other people may be doing as they are in what they might be there for.
This isn't the same as a bartender serving an obviously drunk person one more drink for the road (obvious == can barely stand on own two feet, can barely speak legibly, etc), who later drives into a minivan killing a family of 8 'good, Christian people'. See? there is that materially involved in a criminal activity.
Yet the bartender is expected to intervene at some point, and is legally supported if they do.
If you or I get involved in a criminal activity, it's likely that at the very least we will be facing some sort of civil lawsuit, as in, even though it is at some level or another our duty to get involved to stop criminal activity, there is little to no coverage or support by the legal system for people to do this, because at some level it acknowledges how weak, ineffective and powerless the police can be at times, whether through their own negligence or pure happenstance.
If it had been anyone other than Jeffrey Dahmer that got killed in prison the way he did, there would probably be a wrongful death civil lawsuit against the prison, the governor, the guards, etc, even if it happens eventually to Charls Manson. And the suit would either settle out of court or the litigants would actually win in open court.
And yet, if they try and "do something about it", they are even MORE open for all sorts of nasty legal things.
All it takes is for someone to hold a press conference and say, "this place 'racially profiles' its customers, wrongfully assumes that ALL people who 'appear' to be [fill in the blank] are up to no good, and deserves no patronage. Why the city lets them hold onto their business license should be investigated".
Yes, I support that guy in the Bronx who wired his backdoor after getting robbed some N>1 times, and some dork got stuck on it and electrocuted. The store owner should at least been able to sue the NYPD for not offering enough police coverage for an obviously recurring criminal site.
How many merchants are willing to put up with that kind of risk unless they are pretty well established and connected?
I went to Disneyland last week, and had completely forgotten that the Southern Baptists had been boycotting it for over 8 years until sometime this week they gave up on it, but I'm sure they declared 'victory' over the whole issue, etc. Had I remembered, perhaps I would have worn a button or something scoffing the SBC.
What next, pub owners held liable in Ireland because they let IRA bomb plotters meet during happy hour? The London Underground Authority held liable because it is so trivially easy to leave a backpack filled with about 5 kilos of plastic explosives (or a bunch of repackaged M80 firecrackers) and ball bearings behind, yet SOMEONE must be found at fault?
This is a pretty lame argument against Orkut, etc. Who is to say that the "criminals" using the cell phones in other countries are actually who they say they are, even though the phones have to be "registered"? If it is trivial to buy fake visas and other credentials, it is probably not that hard to come by falsely registered cell phones or phones registered to non-existant people or entities (especially if they've been hacked outside of the country where the crime has been facilitated).
What if the phones had been cleverly hacked in Brazil to be from Brazilian government accounts?
Cuba has a pretty low (petty) crime rate. Why? Because of the ever-present fear of oneself being turned into the internal security aparatus or police, where tattling on your neighbor is pretty common (and a good way to earn a few pesetos). But not too many people from Cuba or who have been in Cuba say that things are particularly free there, as in, open exchange of words, associations, etc.
It's too bad, really. A few people acting madly have such a huge effect on everyone else. Car-jacking and road rage cause everyone to just cave in and let things happen which in the past would have been dealt with and de-escalated.
In SoCal, it's OK to completely follow 10 other cars through a red light to turn left, because getting in an altercation is perceived to greatly increase the risk of pissing off the offender to the point where he does a u-turn, follows you down, and beats the shit out of you basically for the hell of it.
We Americans like to talk about the "tyranny of the majority", but more or less it has really turned into the "tyranny of the minority" (and, no, I'm not referring to the puritanicals ranting against 'the gay minority wagging the dog' [sic]) in so many facets, not the least is if you happen to stop someone from robbing a store, and happen to cause intense physical pain to the creep, and perhaps a few broken bones in the process, you get sued by the perp, and the perp wins.
So in some arenas the courts enforce this tyranny as well.
I'd say that Britain won against the IRA, as far as getting them to stop their terrorism. N. Ireland is still pretty much a British territory, and the IRA has been declawed, both militarily and politically.
but Israel has sort of capitulated w.r.t. Gaza Strip & Sinai Peninsula, but the numbers were certainly against them in Gaza if it were to come down to a vote. At least there is some semblance of moderate sanity trying to finally prevail in Palestinian politics. Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah are getting kind of desperate.
But this will all be small cookies if China finally decides to get seriously physical about Taiwan.
life saving medications take some 25+ years of TESTING
No, maybe 5 years at best to pass FDA clinical trials, even less (only phase I, which is basically, what is to determine the LD-50 of the drug) if its deemed a "critical" treatment.
So the cops in the US should start using "IED"s for crowd control instead?
Terrorists DO use large crowds as weapons. That is the whole point. Blowing up an IED in the middle of bumfuck Iowa will attract 0 attention. Blowing up an M80 in an airport at 6am on monday morning, now THAT will attract ungodly amounts of attention.
Whether it harms, maims, mutilates or kills anybody is just a happy coincidence. The REAL effect is to cause fear, uncertainty and doubt in the collective population, and a large crowd certainly is a part of that equation.
Unit will still be in engine compartment, right next to the heater core, just like the AC cold exchanger is right now. Except rather than having to run the AC compressor, you just have a beefier alternator, which will probably weigh a couple of pounds less than current alternator+ac compressor. Plus, the hotter air from the hot side has to go somewhere, and the engine compartment is the most convenient place for this, as the fan is already there pushing air through the engine compartment when the car is not moving.
Oh, and instant warm (not hot) air in the winter, too.
Don't need to flip the peltiers to reverse the effect, just reverse the polarity going through them (like my two thermoelectric coolers do...).
You think so? The little peltier-cooled (or heated) coolers have not put Coleman, Igloo, et al. out of business, especially since they make their own.
So, if it can scale well enough, and Delphi, et al can source enough of them from China, and the HP loss from the increased alternator load is less than the HP loss from running the AC compressor for about the same BTU output, then it'll fly.
Besides, I'd much rather deal with replacing an alternator than an AC compressor, and in 5-10 years, some really BIG, high capacity peltier chips will start being available at junk yards...
Genera, unless I'm mistaken, was based on Zetalisp (LispMachine Lisp) with an object system named "Flavors", a message-passing system with mix-ins loosely based on Smalltalk. The GUI was written with this system, and the GUI itself was interesting because its introspective abilities closely mirrored that of the underlying language. The elements of the GUI were all objects that could be manipulated, selected, inspected. Even graphical and text output on the screen could be categorized into classes and later manipulated as objects. This became the basis for CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager).
If only Ruby had a GUI written in it, then everything above would apply to it.
Cane sugar in the US is expensive because...well... it just plain costs more to grow, subsidies not withstanding, in the US than it does in the Caribbean (i.e., Cuba) or Phillipines.
Artificial US cane sugar prices also explain movement of candy manufacturing plants to Canada, which are not afraid of the big bad wolf and import cane sugar from the Caribbean.
They should make students read "Player Piano", by Kurt Vonnegut.
Capitalism? Only on eBay, auctions and garage sales. Otherwise, might as well call it corporate socialism. Govment makes more and more policies that are solely for benefit (or punishment) of industries or enterprises. That people might be involved is paid at best lip service.
might as well throw in David Gerrold to the list, too. Larry Niven. Maybe even Jerry Pournelle.
If anyone has gotten the "alien invasion" right, it's Gerrold. Anyone who disputes this obviously has not seen Mother Nature in action (i.e., kudzu, himilayan blackberry, thistles, morning glory/bindweed, reed canary grass, et many al) when it comes to "alien" species slowly, then quickly, overwhelming an area in the span of about 1-3 years.
It starts out slow. there's a few here, a few there. We'll pull them out. OK. Next year, there's a few more. OK, maybe some Roundup or Crossbow. Ahhh shit. Get out the tractor.
Well, that is the store's perorogative, not the manufacturer's. The store controls its shelves.
Property rights? Only if you're a corporation, and it's still relative.
Kind of reminds me of the Very Old Days, when the Nobles thought they had a right to sweep into the village, and abscond with any hot lass they wanted to, for a night or forever. If they were nice, they negotiated a "fair" price with her father.
As hard as it was to accept at the time, the more I think of it, the more Bovine was right. Without secure real property rights for people, all the rest of the Bill of Rights and Constitution is just words on paper.
And, why is the Supreme Court making judgements based on case law, instead of simply looking at a given case and deciding whether it fits under the Constitution or not? It's essentially abrogated its authority to lesser bodies, which is not so good.
Oh well. Perhaps in Seattle, San Fran or Portland we'll start seeing some Mugabe-esque squatter revolts now. After all, 10000 squatters has GOT to be a bigger "public good" than another McMansion.
The premise of the existing Internet was benign cooperation. The previous/. story on the 12 minute Windows heist clearly demonstrates that that model is no longer valid.
Actually, it is. What is the average time that a non-Windows computer can last hooked up to the internet before it is compromised?
The problem isn't the Internet per se, it's Windows (and naive computer neousers). Frankly, if more of those people got fed up with AOL, or whatever, and just gave up on it, things would probably be oh so slightly better.
yes... well 2 shuttles with crew have died so far. Well, one Apollo burned on the launch pad. There were...8 Apollo launches? So, our glorious Apollo had a failure rate higher than the space shuttle.
How many 747's have crashed/been crashed, yet we still fly them today.
The shuttle system is a reagan remnant Actually, the idea for the shuttle started floating around Nixon's era. The extra mission capabilities were added later, which compromised the design, of course. But this has been beaten to death in other fora.
note the soviet's tried to come up with a copy, they never really could get it to work, and it cost so freaking much they stopped trying, and they are arguably better at space than we are
Hmm... the big advantage of the Buran is that it could self-dock and self-land. Sure, the self-land program wasn't well optimized, but it worked. The self-dock program works pretty dang good, most of the time.
Of course, I do realize that the autodock program for the Soyuz capsules recently was overridden and flown into the IIS manually...
You wouldn't ask jet pilots to patrol the skies in p-51 mustangs because we already had some
Well, actually...during the Korean War, at least one MiG-15 was shot down by a P-51. We *were* routinely sending up pilots in P-51's while we also had jets (F-84, P-80) available. The F-8F Bearcat might also have gotten a MiG. Both planes had a small performance window where they could possibly get a MiG-15 in a compromising position.
why are we sending our astronauts up in vehicles that are unable to perform their real requirements, and are also designed for size and looks over safety and functionality
Well, the real requirements for the Space Shuttle are either a) overly optimistic b) unrealistic. Size and looks? Well, someone came along and said, "the Space Shuttle has to be able to launch and retrieve a satellite this [stretches arms] big". 'This big' is about the size of the Hubble SST, which is rumored to be also about the size of the KH-11 series and Lacrosse spy satellites...
The SR-71 was made in a similar vein with the only difference being it actually worked, check out combat ready ratings on B-1's sometime.
No, the SR-71 was made by a bit of a crack group of developers who were pretty much left alone by the military oversight masters, so its goals were not changed willy-nilly. OK, so it went from a Mach 3 interceptor (A-12) to a Mach 3 spy plane (SR-71), but that was due to the fact that ICBMs sort of took the manned bomber role out of the equation.
It is a side effect that the A-12/SR-71 is probably one of the most bitchin' airplanes ever made. The MiG-25 is also up there.
Also, would you rather have 1 big ship that can be launched twice every year or 10 small ships that can be launched monthly with the same overall benefit?
I would like both, but if I had to choose, it would be to go with the big ship. Why? Well, unless I really needed to make 10 launches a year, it likely makes more sense strictly from the cost-to-launch side to queue them all up to be launched by the heavy lifter. But there is always more to that story...
Which is why the "MX" missile was a big deal. Instead of 3 MIRV warheads, it had 10. Replace all the Minuteman III's with MXs, and we have more than tripled our attack capability.
As far as orbit possibilities... Well, we're constrained by our geography. Arianne's launch site in French Guianna is just inherently more flexible than either Cape Canaveral or Vandenberg AFB. They don't have those pesky down-range, litigious civilians to worry about, either.
C# rips off from Delphi/Object Pascal as much as it does from Java...
Gee, I wonder...didn't Microsoft seriously poach hard on Anders Heilsberg (sp) and a couple of other key Delphi developers, to the point that Borland sued MS for unfair competition?
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The.Net Framework documentation sucks to use, about like Oracle documentation.
The information is there, but because the.Net Framework is so ambitious, it really has gone past the ability of the tech writers (or developers) to really get the whole thing, and provide code examples in a meaningful fashion.
MS' documentation has arguably gone downhill over the last 10 years or so. They have focused more on the tool (new help engine vs Winhelp4) and the file format, and not the quality of what is in the CHM files.
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Have you tried loading your VS projects into SharpDevelop?
The MS dependency is not on C#, but on VisualStudio.
Yes, it does MVC to the point where you don't have to think about it. It helps to understand MVC conceptually to grok the way Rails does things by convention, but other than that...
ActiveRecord in Rails is based on...Fowler's ActiveRecord pattern, and it is implemented using SingleTableInheritance pattern for the data persistence side of things, too (but it would be nice if one could get it to do multiple table inheritance as well just as easily).
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Well, in that case, a "for loop" or "if...then...else" are 'patterns' as well.
The idea behind good patterns is to reduce common coding occurances into a generic pattern. Sort of a meta code reuse scheme.
Rather than focusing on rewriting a stack or queue from scratch, you just use something called a stack or queue (more generically, a "list") that functionally does the operations, i.e., push, pop, swap, count associated with what you want to use. You don't care if it's implemented as an array, a linked list of arrays, a hash table, etc. (and if you did, it could be the way you might want to implement it is not as good of a way to implement it in that particular instance).
SQL is in some sense a design pattern. Instead of everybody writing the same CRUD database code (like Foxpro programmers, and finding a zillion different implementations of the same thing), because always having to write loops over recordsets is a whole lot cooler than just "select * from blah, and anyone who relies on that SQL abomination crutch is weak-minded!", well, I think has seriously missed the boat. Same with patterns.
At the end of the day, all I really care is that I can store and retrieve data in an organized and flexible fashion without much effort, that is in and of itself very tolerant of design changes, and I don't have to worry about whether it's implented as a balanced B-Tree, a sorted binary tree, a red-black tree, a flat file, etc.
I can implment, say, an Observer pattern (i.e., grab some code off of a website) for a certain chunk of my code, and then I have a lot less to implement if I need to provide it for other classes of objects.
Patterns seem to allow the programmer to think conceptually about more abstract things. They are not supposed to be the end, but just a means to an end. No one *has* to use patterns.
But, like lists, some coding concepts just seem to happen more often than not, and, like writing a function library, on a more generic level we have 'patterns', and having a basic conceptual/pseudo-code 'pattern' to think about helps one think of other things faster, rather than fleshing out the details right now before I can go on, and having to massively redo it if the plan changes.
Object-oriented programming is a bit of a pattern in and of itself as well compared to procedural programming, which is a pattern for assembly programming, etc.
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This actually *IS* probably a good book in general for C#. Most of the other C# books really are Visual Studio.Net expositions, and are really not so helpful for using SharpDevelop, the C# plugin for Eclipse, etc.
It's disappointing that the C# Programmer's Reference, by O'Reilly, still doesn't pay any homage at all to other coding environments. If I wanted a VS.Net reference, I'd buy one. I just want a C# reference, to which it is, for about 3/4 of the book.
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then you should be held liable
No, you shouldn't, unless you are materially involved in the criminal activity.
We've all lived in areas at one time or another, or known people who partake in illegal activities, but we don't in general rat them out unless compelled to.
Nor do we like being around those who partake some amount of enjoyment in pointing out every civil, criminal and other misdeeds that others may be doing. "I heard this moaning going on. They MUST have been having sex in their house. What about the children?" obviously ignoring that sounds came from a Sr Citizen home, well after visiting hours, etc.
Every bar probably has its share of illicit activities that are planned or carried out in it. They're dark, usually noisy, and full of people who are disinterested in what other people may be doing as they are in what they might be there for.
This isn't the same as a bartender serving an obviously drunk person one more drink for the road (obvious == can barely stand on own two feet, can barely speak legibly, etc), who later drives into a minivan killing a family of 8 'good, Christian people'. See? there is that materially involved in a criminal activity.
Yet the bartender is expected to intervene at some point, and is legally supported if they do.
If you or I get involved in a criminal activity, it's likely that at the very least we will be facing some sort of civil lawsuit, as in, even though it is at some level or another our duty to get involved to stop criminal activity, there is little to no coverage or support by the legal system for people to do this, because at some level it acknowledges how weak, ineffective and powerless the police can be at times, whether through their own negligence or pure happenstance.
If it had been anyone other than Jeffrey Dahmer that got killed in prison the way he did, there would probably be a wrongful death civil lawsuit against the prison, the governor, the guards, etc, even if it happens eventually to Charls Manson. And the suit would either settle out of court or the litigants would actually win in open court.
And yet, if they try and "do something about it", they are even MORE open for all sorts of nasty legal things.
All it takes is for someone to hold a press conference and say, "this place 'racially profiles' its customers, wrongfully assumes that ALL people who 'appear' to be [fill in the blank] are up to no good, and deserves no patronage. Why the city lets them hold onto their business license should be investigated".
Yes, I support that guy in the Bronx who wired his backdoor after getting robbed some N>1 times, and some dork got stuck on it and electrocuted. The store owner should at least been able to sue the NYPD for not offering enough police coverage for an obviously recurring criminal site.
How many merchants are willing to put up with that kind of risk unless they are pretty well established and connected?
I went to Disneyland last week, and had completely forgotten that the Southern Baptists had been boycotting it for over 8 years until sometime this week they gave up on it, but I'm sure they declared 'victory' over the whole issue, etc. Had I remembered, perhaps I would have worn a button or something scoffing the SBC.
What next, pub owners held liable in Ireland because they let IRA bomb plotters meet during happy hour? The London Underground Authority held liable because it is so trivially easy to leave a backpack filled with about 5 kilos of plastic explosives (or a bunch of repackaged M80 firecrackers) and ball bearings behind, yet SOMEONE must be found at fault?
This is a pretty lame argument against Orkut, etc. Who is to say that the "criminals" using the cell phones in other countries are actually who they say they are, even though the phones have to be "registered"? If it is trivial to buy fake visas and other credentials, it is probably not that hard to come by falsely registered cell phones or phones registered to non-existant people or entities (especially if they've been hacked outside of the country where the crime has been facilitated).
What if the phones had been cleverly hacked in Brazil to be from Brazilian government accounts?
Cuba has a pretty low (petty) crime rate. Why? Because of the ever-present fear of oneself being turned into the internal security aparatus or police, where tattling on your neighbor is pretty common (and a good way to earn a few pesetos). But not too many people from Cuba or who have been in Cuba say that things are particularly free there, as in, open exchange of words, associations, etc.
It's too bad, really. A few people acting madly have such a huge effect on everyone else. Car-jacking and road rage cause everyone to just cave in and let things happen which in the past would have been dealt with and de-escalated.
In SoCal, it's OK to completely follow 10 other cars through a red light to turn left, because getting in an altercation is perceived to greatly increase the risk of pissing off the offender to the point where he does a u-turn, follows you down, and beats the shit out of you basically for the hell of it.
We Americans like to talk about the "tyranny of the majority", but more or less it has really turned into the "tyranny of the minority" (and, no, I'm not referring to the puritanicals ranting against 'the gay minority wagging the dog' [sic]) in so many facets, not the least is if you happen to stop someone from robbing a store, and happen to cause intense physical pain to the creep, and perhaps a few broken bones in the process, you get sued by the perp, and the perp wins.
So in some arenas the courts enforce this tyranny as well.
Oh well.
I'd say that Britain won against the IRA, as far as getting them to stop their terrorism. N. Ireland is still pretty much a British territory, and the IRA has been declawed, both militarily and politically.
but Israel has sort of capitulated w.r.t. Gaza Strip & Sinai Peninsula, but the numbers were certainly against them in Gaza if it were to come down to a vote. At least there is some semblance of moderate sanity trying to finally prevail in Palestinian politics. Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah are getting kind of desperate.
But this will all be small cookies if China finally decides to get seriously physical about Taiwan.
life saving medications take some 25+ years of TESTING
No, maybe 5 years at best to pass FDA clinical trials, even less (only phase I, which is basically, what is to determine the LD-50 of the drug) if its deemed a "critical" treatment.
So the cops in the US should start using "IED"s for crowd control instead?
Terrorists DO use large crowds as weapons. That is the whole point. Blowing up an IED in the middle of bumfuck Iowa will attract 0 attention. Blowing up an M80 in an airport at 6am on monday morning, now THAT will attract ungodly amounts of attention.
Whether it harms, maims, mutilates or kills anybody is just a happy coincidence. The REAL effect is to cause fear, uncertainty and doubt in the collective population, and a large crowd certainly is a part of that equation.
Unit will still be in engine compartment, right next to the heater core, just like the AC cold exchanger is right now. Except rather than having to run the AC compressor, you just have a beefier alternator, which will probably weigh a couple of pounds less than current alternator+ac compressor. Plus, the hotter air from the hot side has to go somewhere, and the engine compartment is the most convenient place for this, as the fan is already there pushing air through the engine compartment when the car is not moving.
Oh, and instant warm (not hot) air in the winter, too.
Don't need to flip the peltiers to reverse the effect, just reverse the polarity going through them (like my two thermoelectric coolers do...).
You think so? The little peltier-cooled (or heated) coolers have not put Coleman, Igloo, et al. out of business, especially since they make their own.
So, if it can scale well enough, and Delphi, et al can source enough of them from China, and the HP loss from the increased alternator load is less than the HP loss from running the AC compressor for about the same BTU output, then it'll fly.
Besides, I'd much rather deal with replacing an alternator than an AC compressor, and in 5-10 years, some really BIG, high capacity peltier chips will start being available at junk yards...
Genera, unless I'm mistaken, was based on Zetalisp (LispMachine Lisp) with an object system named "Flavors", a message-passing system with mix-ins loosely based on Smalltalk. The GUI was written with this system, and the GUI itself was interesting because its introspective abilities closely mirrored that of the underlying language. The elements of the GUI were all objects that could be manipulated, selected, inspected. Even graphical and text output on the screen could be categorized into classes and later manipulated as objects. This became the basis for CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager).
If only Ruby had a GUI written in it, then everything above would apply to it.
Now I can overclock my car's OBD-II computer.
e talks about will be called the LisaPod.
Why not just the Pink Lady?
Cane sugar in the US is expensive because...well... it just plain costs more to grow, subsidies not withstanding, in the US than it does in the Caribbean (i.e., Cuba) or Phillipines.
Artificial US cane sugar prices also explain movement of candy manufacturing plants to Canada, which are not afraid of the big bad wolf and import cane sugar from the Caribbean.
I want to see a pair made from a couple of old 1 Farad electrolytic capacitors.
Wow... Look at THOSE big cans!
No, i think he's saying that copyright modifications should not be retroactively applied.
That is only fair. Sale prices at the store typically are not retroactively applied...
They should make students read "Player Piano", by Kurt Vonnegut.
Capitalism? Only on eBay, auctions and garage sales. Otherwise, might as well call it corporate socialism. Govment makes more and more policies that are solely for benefit (or punishment) of industries or enterprises. That people might be involved is paid at best lip service.
might as well throw in David Gerrold to the list, too. Larry Niven. Maybe even Jerry Pournelle.
If anyone has gotten the "alien invasion" right, it's Gerrold. Anyone who disputes this obviously has not seen Mother Nature in action (i.e., kudzu, himilayan blackberry, thistles, morning glory/bindweed, reed canary grass, et many al) when it comes to "alien" species slowly, then quickly, overwhelming an area in the span of about 1-3 years.
It starts out slow. there's a few here, a few there. We'll pull them out. OK. Next year, there's a few more. OK, maybe some Roundup or Crossbow. Ahhh shit. Get out the tractor.
Well, that is the store's perorogative, not the manufacturer's. The store controls its shelves.
Property rights? Only if you're a corporation, and it's still relative.
Kind of reminds me of the Very Old Days, when the Nobles thought they had a right to sweep into the village, and abscond with any hot lass they wanted to, for a night or forever. If they were nice, they negotiated a "fair" price with her father.
As hard as it was to accept at the time, the more I think of it, the more Bovine was right. Without secure real property rights for people, all the rest of the Bill of Rights and Constitution is just words on paper.
And, why is the Supreme Court making judgements based on case law, instead of simply looking at a given case and deciding whether it fits under the Constitution or not? It's essentially abrogated its authority to lesser bodies, which is not so good.
Oh well. Perhaps in Seattle, San Fran or Portland we'll start seeing some Mugabe-esque squatter revolts now. After all, 10000 squatters has GOT to be a bigger "public good" than another McMansion.
The premise of the existing Internet was benign cooperation. The previous /. story on the 12 minute Windows heist clearly demonstrates that that model is no longer valid.
Actually, it is. What is the average time that a non-Windows computer can last hooked up to the internet before it is compromised?
The problem isn't the Internet per se, it's Windows (and naive computer neousers). Frankly, if more of those people got fed up with AOL, or whatever, and just gave up on it, things would probably be oh so slightly better.
Sure, it's sort of elitist. So be it.
Sometimes I do enjoying pounding sand.
yes... well 2 shuttles with crew have died so far.
Well, one Apollo burned on the launch pad. There were...8 Apollo launches? So, our glorious Apollo had a failure rate higher than the space shuttle.
How many 747's have crashed/been crashed, yet we still fly them today.
The shuttle system is a reagan remnant
Actually, the idea for the shuttle started floating around Nixon's era. The extra mission capabilities were added later, which compromised the design, of course. But this has been beaten to death in other fora.
note the soviet's tried to come up with a copy, they never really could get it to work, and it cost so freaking much they stopped trying, and they are arguably better at space than we are
Hmm... the big advantage of the Buran is that it could self-dock and self-land. Sure, the self-land program wasn't well optimized, but it worked. The self-dock program works pretty dang good, most of the time.
Of course, I do realize that the autodock program for the Soyuz capsules recently was overridden and flown into the IIS manually...
You wouldn't ask jet pilots to patrol the skies in p-51 mustangs because we already had some
Well, actually...during the Korean War, at least one MiG-15 was shot down by a P-51. We *were* routinely sending up pilots in P-51's while we also had jets (F-84, P-80) available. The F-8F Bearcat might also have gotten a MiG. Both planes had a small performance window where they could possibly get a MiG-15 in a compromising position.
why are we sending our astronauts up in vehicles that are unable to perform their real requirements, and are also designed for size and looks over safety and functionality
Well, the real requirements for the Space Shuttle are either a) overly optimistic b) unrealistic. Size and looks? Well, someone came along and said, "the Space Shuttle has to be able to launch and retrieve a satellite this [stretches arms] big". 'This big' is about the size of the Hubble SST, which is rumored to be also about the size of the KH-11 series and Lacrosse spy satellites...
The SR-71 was made in a similar vein with the only difference being it actually worked, check out combat ready ratings on B-1's sometime.
No, the SR-71 was made by a bit of a crack group of developers who were pretty much left alone by the military oversight masters, so its goals were not changed willy-nilly. OK, so it went from a Mach 3 interceptor (A-12) to a Mach 3 spy plane (SR-71), but that was due to the fact that ICBMs sort of took the manned bomber role out of the equation.
It is a side effect that the A-12/SR-71 is probably one of the most bitchin' airplanes ever made. The MiG-25 is also up there.
Also, would you rather have 1 big ship that can be launched twice every year or 10 small ships that can be launched monthly with the same overall benefit?
I would like both, but if I had to choose, it would be to go with the big ship. Why? Well, unless I really needed to make 10 launches a year, it likely makes more sense strictly from the cost-to-launch side to queue them all up to be launched by the heavy lifter. But there is always more to that story...
Which is why the "MX" missile was a big deal. Instead of 3 MIRV warheads, it had 10. Replace all the Minuteman III's with MXs, and we have more than tripled our attack capability.
As far as orbit possibilities... Well, we're constrained by our geography. Arianne's launch site in French Guianna is just inherently more flexible than either Cape Canaveral or Vandenberg AFB. They don't have those pesky down-range, litigious civilians to worry about, either.
C# is directly from Java
C# rips off from Delphi/Object Pascal as much as it does from Java...
Gee, I wonder...didn't Microsoft seriously poach hard on Anders Heilsberg (sp) and a couple of other key Delphi developers, to the point that Borland sued MS for unfair competition?
The .Net Framework documentation sucks to use, about like Oracle documentation.
.Net Framework is so ambitious, it really has gone past the ability of the tech writers (or developers) to really get the whole thing, and provide code examples in a meaningful fashion.
The information is there, but because the
MS' documentation has arguably gone downhill over the last 10 years or so. They have focused more on the tool (new help engine vs Winhelp4) and the file format, and not the quality of what is in the CHM files.
Have you tried loading your VS projects into SharpDevelop?
The MS dependency is not on C#, but on VisualStudio.
Yes, it does MVC to the point where you don't have to think about it. It helps to understand MVC conceptually to grok the way Rails does things by convention, but other than that...
ActiveRecord in Rails is based on...Fowler's ActiveRecord pattern, and it is implemented using SingleTableInheritance pattern for the data persistence side of things, too (but it would be nice if one could get it to do multiple table inheritance as well just as easily).
Well, in that case, a "for loop" or "if...then...else" are 'patterns' as well.
The idea behind good patterns is to reduce common coding occurances into a generic pattern. Sort of a meta code reuse scheme.
Rather than focusing on rewriting a stack or queue from scratch, you just use something called a stack or queue (more generically, a "list") that functionally does the operations, i.e., push, pop, swap, count associated with what you want to use. You don't care if it's implemented as an array, a linked list of arrays, a hash table, etc. (and if you did, it could be the way you might want to implement it is not as good of a way to implement it in that particular instance).
SQL is in some sense a design pattern. Instead of everybody writing the same CRUD database code (like Foxpro programmers, and finding a zillion different implementations of the same thing), because always having to write loops over recordsets is a whole lot cooler than just "select * from blah, and anyone who relies on that SQL abomination crutch is weak-minded!", well, I think has seriously missed the boat. Same with patterns.
At the end of the day, all I really care is that I can store and retrieve data in an organized and flexible fashion without much effort, that is in and of itself very tolerant of design changes, and I don't have to worry about whether it's implented as a balanced B-Tree, a sorted binary tree, a red-black tree, a flat file, etc.
I can implment, say, an Observer pattern (i.e., grab some code off of a website) for a certain chunk of my code, and then I have a lot less to implement if I need to provide it for other classes of objects.
Patterns seem to allow the programmer to think conceptually about more abstract things. They are not supposed to be the end, but just a means to an end. No one *has* to use patterns.
But, like lists, some coding concepts just seem to happen more often than not, and, like writing a function library, on a more generic level we have 'patterns', and having a basic conceptual/pseudo-code 'pattern' to think about helps one think of other things faster, rather than fleshing out the details right now before I can go on, and having to massively redo it if the plan changes.
Object-oriented programming is a bit of a pattern in and of itself as well compared to procedural programming, which is a pattern for assembly programming, etc.
This actually *IS* probably a good book in general for C#. Most of the other C# books really are Visual Studio .Net expositions, and are really not so helpful for using SharpDevelop, the C# plugin for Eclipse, etc.
It's disappointing that the C# Programmer's Reference, by O'Reilly, still doesn't pay any homage at all to other coding environments. If I wanted a VS.Net reference, I'd buy one. I just want a C# reference, to which it is, for about 3/4 of the book.