> I work on a school campus that happens to have a gender-neutral restroom [...]
In a world where we acknowledge that gender is not binary and sexual preference doesn't care about your physical attributes, we must start to move towards a more sane system. This is the start of that system.
It is laughable that we've split men and women into open-plan facilites where you have to strut around naked in front of everybody, and it's OK to ogle someone as long as they share the same genitals as you. And now we get the inevitable problems because someone with different genitals wishes they had your genitals and now you need to either x-ray everyone before they enter a bathroom or basically allow a free-for-all....
It's just stupid, STUPID tradition that is blinding everyone to the fact that this could all be solved very easily and simply: Take the floorspace that 2 different bathrooms take up, knock that dividing wall out, and consolidate it into one huge one: Then have closed showers and properly closed toilet stalls (fucking CRAZY I know) where people can have their shit/shower with some actual privacy and can get dressed while they're at it without getting ogled by anyone at all.
I'm well aware that some older "gentlemen" would quite prefer to brush their teeth with their balls hanging out, but quite frankly I think we can all do with a lot less of that kinda thing. Hell, maybe I'll be able to attend a gym again one day without needing to pack my eye-bleech.
> but I think the speed is limited by how fast you can actually spin the cube faces.
I imagine the limits here are how fast you can turn your steppers against the friction combined with how fast you can turn the faces before he internal surfaces melt. It's possible that this cube doesn't melt simply because the operation only lasts a fraction of a second. Perhaps if this turn rate were sustained it'd fuse the internal surfaces. THAT experiment I want to see!
Yes, even though competition cubes are very fast and very easy to turn there is still friction. As an aside some pro cubers prefer to have a bit of a "scratchy" feel for tactile feedback... Humans are different to robots like that, we don't have perfect control.
Not even necessary, for a low-low price I can sell them a device that will 100% reverse any light suckage caused by said Solar Panels, or your money back! I guarantee that if my device is bought and run 24/7, any and all effects of the solar panels.... including the cancer they cause.... will be eliminated entirely.
On my linux machine I run the native steam client AND the windows steam client via wine (+PlayOnLinux). You'd be surprised how well Wine works these days.
To re-iterate others: You don't need to re-purchase your games to get Linux ports, you already have the game on steam regardless of platform. If you are in doubt, run linux steam from a live-cd and see for yourself.
Yep, I guess finally the year of linux on the desktop is here...
I'll admit I'm loathe to switch my gaming box to all-linux and deal with the fallout. But suddenly I feel like I have no real choice. It's Linux or bust now.:/
Wish I could return Windows 8 now on grounds of bait-and-switch.
Actually, it gets worse once you realise that you _are_ overweight and now have to taxi back, attach the walkway again, open the plane again, remove some people... find their baggage, remove that.... then taxi back to the scales....
I'll bet by that point even you would say: "Why don't they just weigh the passengers?!"
Weighing the passengers before they ever get close to the apron means it's one less thing you have to do once the plane is available. Remember that a lot of stuff , like check-ins, happen on purpose before the plane you're flying on arrives at the airport. Usually when the plane hits the ground the airline's #1 priority is getting the plane re-filled (in all senses) and back in the air... weighing would add significant time to that, and you can bet travellers would complain about the extra wait (pun intended) on the ground. Especially if an airport only had one set of the mammoth, hugely expensive scales you'd need to have.... and planes couldn't simply push back and head for a runway using the shortest path, they'd all have to go through (a) choke point(s).
One little problem with this: I bought a Samsung and it has been installing tons of unremovable bloatware ever since. The stuff was not all there at the start.
It's not like there was a sticker on the box saying "Comes with 50 mandatory apps, will install 50 more once you've paid" either. I'd read a ton of reviews and still had no idea about the extent of the iron-fist they take over your device.
And yes, there's no way I'm buying another Samsung ever again, so whether this changes anything is largely immaterial to me.
Does one really have to state the obvious? Snowden didn't "create" anything.
Companies don't find those entities untrustworthy because Snowden reported it, they find them untrustworthy because it turns out they are untrustworthy. If Snowden didn't report it they would've found it out eventually some other way.
Agreed, wish the millimetre wars could finally be over and the battery wars would begin. I long for the days where my phone didn't necessarily need to be charged every night. Where I could USE my phone without the fear of it's imminent demise. Add to that the bonus that this whole "bending" problem would be significantly reduced.
All I want to know for now is: How do I get to more stories? Because at the moment I can't get to the "next" page at all. Don't even know where to look.
Maybe related: tags are invisible for me, so maybe the buttons are too (FF36).
I think GP's point is that a property struggle on the moon could result in armed conflicts back on earth. Ofc the countries involved in that spat won't be tiny dirt-laden ones you can brute-force into submission as GP suggests.... The 7th fleet won't mean dick against China and/or Russia: in this case it would invoke mutually assured destruction.
If anything what you're looking at here would be a cold war, or some serious and protracted negotiations, some sanctions maybe... soft persuasion. I doubt any shots would get fired.
I wonder whether kids starting to PC game now even know that once-upon-a-time games worked decently out the box. Whether they ever contemplate the possibility of a game working on the first day...
Is that even something they've ever seen before? I've been to the BF forums and from what I saw the answer is "No". There are plenty of fanboys in there who defend EA/DICE in this regard. Since, you know: "We *all* know games always have problems at release".
I wasn't going to post in this thread because honestly I believe topics like this are lose-lose. But then I read this and.... logic like this not only illustrates that exact point, but it also burns my neurons: if geeks agree, they're agreeing to being rapists. If they don't agree, they're just defending their misogyny (and hence are rapists). Glad to see this isn't a witch-hunt...
In production software you don't always have the luxury of being able to switch to the latest and greatest in an instant.
In the case of C++(and others) as things change you have to update compilers, this often(read: always) means stricter requirements as the compilers improve (IOW: Newer compilers catch potential problems in your code better than older ones, and moan about it more). When you have a system of millions of lines of C++, this means you have to dedicate manpower (which you probably need somewhere else) to fixing all these "new" issues before you can upgrade all your compilers. This is good, but you can't always dedicate 100% of your time to it. Aside: For our stuff we turn warnings-as-errors on always, which maybe makes this task more difficult than it is for others, but we get to catch bad code a lot quicker.
My team only recently got to the point where all our stuff was in a state that we could start using the newer compilers and hence, standard. But we've been chomping at the bit to use C++11 for a long time. So yes, I do care. And yes, I think it's much better now.
Why do we care? For one, lambda's make our lives, and code readability, SO much better. Especially when using the std algorithms. We will definitely be utilising variadic templates in our shop as we tend to be template meta-programming heavy. We avoid re-work like a plague. Personally I'm glad to see the new initialiser lists because we also stress TDD and nothing sucks more than not being able to set up test data easily and have it be readable. Almost always requires some instrumentation first.
While I agree this person seems... misguided, I do see a point in this.
Currently we "rehabilitate" people by putting them in a cage with a whole bunch of other sociopaths for decades and expect them to emerge as productive members of society. In doing so, we already are cruel by removing a substantial part of their lives from them (and probably get them raped, psychologically and physically abused, etc). They can never get that time back, no matter how productive they emerge, no matter how sorry they are, no matter that they'll never do it again, or that they've already been punished by being completely removed from normal society for an extended period of time. That life "time" is gone forever.
I'd actually be behind a concept similar to this GIVEN that the drugs don't put them in a state of agony, paranoia, hallucination, etc. (you know, stuff normally associated with the drugs she's talking about). Or in the case of a virtual world: If the person could live in some kind of prison-like world, still study, interact with others (hopefully non-sociopaths), etc....
Basically serve out their sentence without losing that much of their actual life. Then maybe this is a more humane thing to do. It certainly helps in the case where someone receives "8 life sentences", to make that sentence more severe than just one. My only concern: Could you really rehabilitate someone who has done something so bad as to receive a punishment that harsh? A THOUSAND years?! Isn't part of the point to remove lost causes like that from society? What you're essentially doing in that case is shortening the time-frame that we are all safe from these people.
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> I work on a school campus that happens to have a gender-neutral restroom [...]
In a world where we acknowledge that gender is not binary and sexual preference doesn't care about your physical attributes, we must start to move towards a more sane system. This is the start of that system.
It is laughable that we've split men and women into open-plan facilites where you have to strut around naked in front of everybody, and it's OK to ogle someone as long as they share the same genitals as you. And now we get the inevitable problems because someone with different genitals wishes they had your genitals and now you need to either x-ray everyone before they enter a bathroom or basically allow a free-for-all....
It's just stupid, STUPID tradition that is blinding everyone to the fact that this could all be solved very easily and simply: Take the floorspace that 2 different bathrooms take up, knock that dividing wall out, and consolidate it into one huge one: Then have closed showers and properly closed toilet stalls (fucking CRAZY I know) where people can have their shit/shower with some actual privacy and can get dressed while they're at it without getting ogled by anyone at all.
I'm well aware that some older "gentlemen" would quite prefer to brush their teeth with their balls hanging out, but quite frankly I think we can all do with a lot less of that kinda thing. Hell, maybe I'll be able to attend a gym again one day without needing to pack my eye-bleech.
> but I think the speed is limited by how fast you can actually spin the cube faces.
I imagine the limits here are how fast you can turn your steppers against the friction combined with how fast you can turn the faces before he internal surfaces melt. It's possible that this cube doesn't melt simply because the operation only lasts a fraction of a second. Perhaps if this turn rate were sustained it'd fuse the internal surfaces. THAT experiment I want to see!
Yes, even though competition cubes are very fast and very easy to turn there is still friction. As an aside some pro cubers prefer to have a bit of a "scratchy" feel for tactile feedback... Humans are different to robots like that, we don't have perfect control.
Well, Forbes doesn't like AdBlock and just last week ON SLASHDOT it was reported that they'd served malware to those who did turn it off...
But what do the editors of /. care?
Not even necessary, for a low-low price I can sell them a device that will 100% reverse any light suckage caused by said Solar Panels, or your money back! I guarantee that if my device is bought and run 24/7, any and all effects of the solar panels.... including the cancer they cause.... will be eliminated entirely.
Is that a bargain or what?! Call me NC!
Then don't build the poles.
On my linux machine I run the native steam client AND the windows steam client via wine (+PlayOnLinux). You'd be surprised how well Wine works these days.
To re-iterate others: You don't need to re-purchase your games to get Linux ports, you already have the game on steam regardless of platform. If you are in doubt, run linux steam from a live-cd and see for yourself.
Yep, I guess finally the year of linux on the desktop is here...
I'll admit I'm loathe to switch my gaming box to all-linux and deal with the fallout. But suddenly I feel like I have no real choice. It's Linux or bust now. :/
Wish I could return Windows 8 now on grounds of bait-and-switch.
I can't watch this video in Firefox.
Actually, it gets worse once you realise that you _are_ overweight and now have to taxi back, attach the walkway again, open the plane again, remove some people... find their baggage, remove that.... then taxi back to the scales....
I'll bet by that point even you would say: "Why don't they just weigh the passengers?!"
Weighing the passengers before they ever get close to the apron means it's one less thing you have to do once the plane is available. Remember that a lot of stuff , like check-ins, happen on purpose before the plane you're flying on arrives at the airport. Usually when the plane hits the ground the airline's #1 priority is getting the plane re-filled (in all senses) and back in the air... weighing would add significant time to that, and you can bet travellers would complain about the extra wait (pun intended) on the ground. Especially if an airport only had one set of the mammoth, hugely expensive scales you'd need to have.... and planes couldn't simply push back and head for a runway using the shortest path, they'd all have to go through (a) choke point(s).
If the main consideration were money, you would think an open-source OS would win.
Reverse Streisand like a FOX!
One little problem with this: I bought a Samsung and it has been installing tons of unremovable bloatware ever since. The stuff was not all there at the start.
It's not like there was a sticker on the box saying "Comes with 50 mandatory apps, will install 50 more once you've paid" either. I'd read a ton of reviews and still had no idea about the extent of the iron-fist they take over your device.
And yes, there's no way I'm buying another Samsung ever again, so whether this changes anything is largely immaterial to me.
Does one really have to state the obvious? Snowden didn't "create" anything.
Companies don't find those entities untrustworthy because Snowden reported it, they find them untrustworthy because it turns out they are untrustworthy. If Snowden didn't report it they would've found it out eventually some other way.
Agreed, wish the millimetre wars could finally be over and the battery wars would begin. I long for the days where my phone didn't necessarily need to be charged every night. Where I could USE my phone without the fear of it's imminent demise. Add to that the bonus that this whole "bending" problem would be significantly reduced.
Sweet, thanks for the work and reply.
All I want to know for now is: How do I get to more stories? Because at the moment I can't get to the "next" page at all. Don't even know where to look.
Maybe related: tags are invisible for me, so maybe the buttons are too (FF36).
It takes a lot of desiccation.
I think GP's point is that a property struggle on the moon could result in armed conflicts back on earth. Ofc the countries involved in that spat won't be tiny dirt-laden ones you can brute-force into submission as GP suggests.... The 7th fleet won't mean dick against China and/or Russia: in this case it would invoke mutually assured destruction.
If anything what you're looking at here would be a cold war, or some serious and protracted negotiations, some sanctions maybe... soft persuasion. I doubt any shots would get fired.
A smooth talking charlatan surrounded by a load of suckers, that also exists.
The existence of the "prophet" muhammad is not in dispute. But we should still be free to critisize him.
I wonder whether kids starting to PC game now even know that once-upon-a-time games worked decently out the box. Whether they ever contemplate the possibility of a game working on the first day...
Is that even something they've ever seen before? I've been to the BF forums and from what I saw the answer is "No". There are plenty of fanboys in there who defend EA/DICE in this regard. Since, you know: "We *all* know games always have problems at release".
I wasn't going to post in this thread because honestly I believe topics like this are lose-lose. But then I read this and.... logic like this not only illustrates that exact point, but it also burns my neurons: if geeks agree, they're agreeing to being rapists. If they don't agree, they're just defending their misogyny (and hence are rapists). Glad to see this isn't a witch-hunt...
The burst was created en route about 6000 years ago: So actually it never happened.
(Please don't mod insightful)
In production software you don't always have the luxury of being able to switch to the latest and greatest in an instant.
In the case of C++(and others) as things change you have to update compilers, this often(read: always) means stricter requirements as the compilers improve (IOW: Newer compilers catch potential problems in your code better than older ones, and moan about it more). When you have a system of millions of lines of C++, this means you have to dedicate manpower (which you probably need somewhere else) to fixing all these "new" issues before you can upgrade all your compilers. This is good, but you can't always dedicate 100% of your time to it. Aside: For our stuff we turn warnings-as-errors on always, which maybe makes this task more difficult than it is for others, but we get to catch bad code a lot quicker.
My team only recently got to the point where all our stuff was in a state that we could start using the newer compilers and hence, standard. But we've been chomping at the bit to use C++11 for a long time. So yes, I do care. And yes, I think it's much better now.
Why do we care?
For one, lambda's make our lives, and code readability, SO much better. Especially when using the std algorithms.
We will definitely be utilising variadic templates in our shop as we tend to be template meta-programming heavy. We avoid re-work like a plague.
Personally I'm glad to see the new initialiser lists because we also stress TDD and nothing sucks more than not being able to set up test data easily and have it be readable. Almost always requires some instrumentation first.
While I agree this person seems... misguided, I do see a point in this.
Currently we "rehabilitate" people by putting them in a cage with a whole bunch of other sociopaths for decades and expect them to emerge as productive members of society. In doing so, we already are cruel by removing a substantial part of their lives from them (and probably get them raped, psychologically and physically abused, etc). They can never get that time back, no matter how productive they emerge, no matter how sorry they are, no matter that they'll never do it again, or that they've already been punished by being completely removed from normal society for an extended period of time. That life "time" is gone forever.
I'd actually be behind a concept similar to this GIVEN that the drugs don't put them in a state of agony, paranoia, hallucination, etc. (you know, stuff normally associated with the drugs she's talking about). Or in the case of a virtual world: If the person could live in some kind of prison-like world, still study, interact with others (hopefully non-sociopaths), etc....
Basically serve out their sentence without losing that much of their actual life. Then maybe this is a more humane thing to do. It certainly helps in the case where someone receives "8 life sentences", to make that sentence more severe than just one. My only concern: Could you really rehabilitate someone who has done something so bad as to receive a punishment that harsh? A THOUSAND years?! Isn't part of the point to remove lost causes like that from society? What you're essentially doing in that case is shortening the time-frame that we are all safe from these people.