No, not really. Nuclear(and to a lesser extent bio and modern chem) weapons have drastically altered how a large-scale war would be fought. There was no such thing as "precision" bombing in WWII because there really were no comparatively super-high value targets. If you hit the ball bearing factory instead of the tank factory you were aiming for, the end result to the enemy would not be all that different. Now the goal is to eliminate a very small # of sites with pinpoint precision as quickly as possible. And since you will not have time to set up a base, you pretty much have to launch from carriers if your enemy is not in range. This basically means a small number of highly-capable aircraft on carriers
First you actually have to go out and define the task to the point that someone who has little to no knowledge of your organization can actually do it, then you have to create the ad and most importantly WAIT for someone who has the right skills to come and accept it and then go through all the work of actually confirming the answer since you really have no trust relationship with the person who answered it, you are sort of going blind....
So not only does it not really save any time or money, you put your entire project at risk waiting for the answer. As the adage goes, time is money and if you are trying to save a few bucks using this model then you arent very smart with either.
Most languages allow you to use multiple lines to define literals(some even allow multi-line statements), so maybe he just used a line per character? Something like:
#include
int main(int argc, char** args) {
char *msg=
"T"
"h"
"i"
"s"
" "
"i"
"s"
" "
"a"
"n"
"n"
"o"
"y"
"i"
"n"
"g" ;
printf("%s\n",msg);
return 0;
}
Theres 29 lines right there, and it didnt take a lot of time to code or debug:P
His whole insinuation is wrong, does he not realize that Americans do in fact live abroad? As such, even if we accept their position that they don't do any spying on domestic communications(which is hard to swallow to start with), I can guarantee that a lot of US citizens' communications still get caught in their net. Especially considering that Americans living abroad are much more likely to contact the US from abroad than basically anyone else, I am sure people like me who live overseas trip all sorts of traps.....
But then again, top Republicans have called us "traitors" in the past, I guess they have no problem shitting all over our rights since we left the "land of the free".
Actually all use of venom outside of hunting for food is a bit of a self-destructive behavior, venom requires massive amounts of energy to produce and frequently expending it for purposes other than consuming more energy is bound to be an evolutionary dead end, which is why most venomous animals also have plenty of ways of indicating they are poisonous(rattles on rattlesnakes, bright colors etc). Its much cheaper to warn than to actually use the venom....
For the termites, this energy expenditure explains why its old ones and why they kill themselves, from the colony's point of view its probably much cheaper to create a new young termite than it is to risk feeding the older one only to have it die from some other cause.
Yup, its amazing how people center their whole identity around how much money they have, they wont even associate with people who make less than them.... Thats why I am still glad I quit my soulless high-paying job and went with something a lot more honest at a lower(though by no means low) wage. I just HATED dealing with rich people, the rods up their butt have rods up their butts.
Those were the most famous customers of the Concorde, and the thing that everyone remembers years later, but there is no way they could have survived for as long as they did if those were the only customers(esp. since they were competing against private jets). How many CEOs and actors/acresses make trans-atlantic journeys on an average day? MAYBE a dozen, and thats a generous estimate. The bulk of the Concordes customers were the same as those that fly business class on normal carriers, and increases in productivity while flying, and communications that often obviated the need to fly, shrunk the Concordes base to the point that it could no longer survive.
You cannot help but wonder if the advent of the powerful laptop also helped to expedite the end if the Concorde, starting in the late 90s laptops were powerful enough that you could actually do some serious work(and/or play) on a plane, especially in business class where you had room and an outlet. All of a sudden the few hours you saved by taking the Concorde became comparatively less valuable.
This kind of "well its expensive and we depend on it, so lets just rubber stamp operating extensions" is the exact same kind of thinking that caused Fukushima. Fukushima was originally slated to retire in March of 2011(Obligatory Simpsons, "it was just one month away from retirement!"), but was rubber stamped in early 2011 and licensed to operate another 10 years...cept for obviously it didnt quite last that long.
Now granted the tsunami still probably would have still created a situation at Fukushima as even if it was slated to stop generating power in March 2011, it would still have been a while before they reached cold shutdown, but they would have been in the process of shutting it down AND they wouldnt have hesitated when it came to pouring sea water on the reactors, as they were due to be de-commissioned anyway.
Actually they are pretty much selling their OS as a loss-leader. Lion and Mountain Lion, while certainly not very expensive to develop, probably ended up costing Apple more than they collect from users for the upgrades. However the difference is very, very minimal.
They should give you an option to give more weight the later a review came out. I just find myself generally distrustful of 0-day reviews because they usually mean:
a)The reviewer didnt actually spend enough time with the game to give it a meaningful review and/or
b) the reviewer had access to the game early, which of course raises questions about objectivity.....
The best reviews IMO are those that come out at least a week after the games release....
"We believe the Web is the platform. Ideally, the technology pioneered or refined in the Boot to Gecko project will make its way into all mobile browsers, so that enhanced Web applications can be great regardless of operating system or device...... This is not going to be yet another platform for developers to code for. The project is extending what developers can do with the Web, especially in the context of mobile devices, and to do so in a way that leads to interoperable standards.
The web may be the standard, but the "web" does not necessarily imply HTML(5). HTML5 is merely the V part of the MVC model, many applications that run on iOS, Android, and the web use "the web" on all those devices(basically using JSON over HTTP as the controller) even if they don't use a single line of HTML. What the mobile HTML5 evangelists have yet to prove is that writing HTML 5 for every device out there is easier, faster, and better than writing a native view for the two main platforms. They keep on saying that HTML5 can be "universal", but really have yet to prove it in any non-trivial sense.
Is Google totally unaware of the fact that drug cartels existed WELL before the internet was ever created? If Google actually is able to shut them off from technology, they will simply go back to their old ways, and will probably be more violent than before. The thing about technology that Google doesnt seem to grasp here is that it doesnt really enable people to do things they couldnt do before, it just makes it a lot easier. With technology buyers and sellers can efficiently contact each other and make deals without having to go to a dangerous area and try to find a deal, which leaves them exposed to theft and especially violence.....
In fact the rise of technology probably is a contributor to the plummeting violent crime rate in the US. Drug dealers no longer have "turf wars" to try to control the places where drugs are sold, clients no longer have to worry about getting killed for a couple of 20s. Everything is arranged online. Google takes that away, and we can go back to what we had during the 80s and 90s....Yup, that sounds wonderful Google....
Come on, you made this list and didnt include George Costanza's accidental discovery of just leaving your car parked in the parking lot 24/7? Your boss will always think you are at work
First and foremost, stop reading things in my post that are not there. I did not ONCE mention the Democrats, not once. My post wasnt intended to praise their policies per se, but rather praise the policies of countries like Germany who have kept the disease relatively under control. Democratic support for these various policies varies considerably, but unlike Republicans there arent very many Democrats that are downright hostile towards policies that have been EMPIRICALLY PROVEN to reduce HIV rates. That is solely the domain of the radical right in the US.
Theres conservatism, and then there being a Republican, you don't have to be the latter to be the former. The problem isnt conservatism per se(though like any ideology it can become problematic when you ignore any empirical data that contradicts your ideology), but the Christian facism of the modern Republican party is not conservatism, its facism pure and simple. Whatever tax plan or economic ideas they have dont really matter in light of the fact that they are trying to force Americans to adopt Christianity against their will.
Um, since when did denigrating Republican policies automatically constitute an endorsement of the Democrats, I must have missed that meeting. Your little libertarian pseudo-intellectual rant is cute, for a 3rd grader, but guess what, in countries where the government has even less power HIV rates are higher, Germany's very highly developed public health system and government sponsored campaigns to distribute condoms and clean needles are a big part of why the HIV rate is so low. So yeah, those pesky facts and logic getting in the way again.
And your shithead reasoning that giving money is the same as helping is why you are a Republican, i.e. a shithead. Money if spent on the wrong things can not only be useless, it can be harmful. But then again, arguing facts and logic with a Republican won't do any good, shitheads will be shitheads.
The HIV rate in the US is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the country. The HIV infection rate is massive compared to pretty much every other rich country on the planet, for instance in Germany there are about 3,000 new cases per year, and considering Germanys population is roughly 1/4 of the USs, we can see that the US rate is over 3x as high as Germanys per capita. Why the huge disparity? Probably has something to do with the fact that in the US there are a large # of people who secretly want "sinners" to get infected as punishment for their "deviancy", we call these people Republicans.
We can see it in the massive farce that is "abstinence only" education, turns out kids are having sex anyway and since they cannot get, or do not have access to condoms(and have been told that they fail most of the time anyway) they are going about it without them. Results? Highest STDs and teen pregnancy rates in the rich world.
And lets not forget our hardon for "justice" that results in a massive # of people(mostly men) in prison at any given time, where, surprise surprise, HIV runs rampant. And perhaps related refusal to admit that people are going to shoot up, and if they do they should have clean needles ends up in a lot of drug users contracting HIV(a very large % of those infected with HIV in the US are also infected with hep-C, indicating that needle-born HIV infections in the US are much more common than other first-world countries)
And of course lets not forget the massive amount of homophobia that basically ensures a large # of homosexuals will be ostracized from their family and community, and thus have a very low level of self-worth. This translates into many gays engaging in self-destructive behavior in the US, including but not limited to risky sex.
Congrats Republicans, largets HIV infection in the rich world, you worked hard to get to this point, might as well celebrate.
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No, not really. Nuclear(and to a lesser extent bio and modern chem) weapons have drastically altered how a large-scale war would be fought. There was no such thing as "precision" bombing in WWII because there really were no comparatively super-high value targets. If you hit the ball bearing factory instead of the tank factory you were aiming for, the end result to the enemy would not be all that different. Now the goal is to eliminate a very small # of sites with pinpoint precision as quickly as possible. And since you will not have time to set up a base, you pretty much have to launch from carriers if your enemy is not in range. This basically means a small number of highly-capable aircraft on carriers
First you actually have to go out and define the task to the point that someone who has little to no knowledge of your organization can actually do it, then you have to create the ad and most importantly WAIT for someone who has the right skills to come and accept it and then go through all the work of actually confirming the answer since you really have no trust relationship with the person who answered it, you are sort of going blind....
So not only does it not really save any time or money, you put your entire project at risk waiting for the answer. As the adage goes, time is money and if you are trying to save a few bucks using this model then you arent very smart with either.
Most languages allow you to use multiple lines to define literals(some even allow multi-line statements), so maybe he just used a line per character? Something like:
;
:P
#include
int main(int argc, char** args) {
char *msg= "T"
"h"
"i"
"s"
" "
"i"
"s"
" "
"a"
"n"
"n"
"o"
"y"
"i"
"n"
"g"
printf("%s\n",msg);
return 0;
}
Theres 29 lines right there, and it didnt take a lot of time to code or debug
I personally prefer a trap that would spring when the item was stuffed down someones pants, keep the people from breeding :P
His whole insinuation is wrong, does he not realize that Americans do in fact live abroad? As such, even if we accept their position that they don't do any spying on domestic communications(which is hard to swallow to start with), I can guarantee that a lot of US citizens' communications still get caught in their net. Especially considering that Americans living abroad are much more likely to contact the US from abroad than basically anyone else, I am sure people like me who live overseas trip all sorts of traps.....
But then again, top Republicans have called us "traitors" in the past, I guess they have no problem shitting all over our rights since we left the "land of the free".
Actually all use of venom outside of hunting for food is a bit of a self-destructive behavior, venom requires massive amounts of energy to produce and frequently expending it for purposes other than consuming more energy is bound to be an evolutionary dead end, which is why most venomous animals also have plenty of ways of indicating they are poisonous(rattles on rattlesnakes, bright colors etc). Its much cheaper to warn than to actually use the venom....
For the termites, this energy expenditure explains why its old ones and why they kill themselves, from the colony's point of view its probably much cheaper to create a new young termite than it is to risk feeding the older one only to have it die from some other cause.
Yup, its amazing how people center their whole identity around how much money they have, they wont even associate with people who make less than them.... Thats why I am still glad I quit my soulless high-paying job and went with something a lot more honest at a lower(though by no means low) wage. I just HATED dealing with rich people, the rods up their butt have rods up their butts.
Those were the most famous customers of the Concorde, and the thing that everyone remembers years later, but there is no way they could have survived for as long as they did if those were the only customers(esp. since they were competing against private jets). How many CEOs and actors/acresses make trans-atlantic journeys on an average day? MAYBE a dozen, and thats a generous estimate. The bulk of the Concordes customers were the same as those that fly business class on normal carriers, and increases in productivity while flying, and communications that often obviated the need to fly, shrunk the Concordes base to the point that it could no longer survive.
You cannot help but wonder if the advent of the powerful laptop also helped to expedite the end if the Concorde, starting in the late 90s laptops were powerful enough that you could actually do some serious work(and/or play) on a plane, especially in business class where you had room and an outlet. All of a sudden the few hours you saved by taking the Concorde became comparatively less valuable.
This kind of "well its expensive and we depend on it, so lets just rubber stamp operating extensions" is the exact same kind of thinking that caused Fukushima. Fukushima was originally slated to retire in March of 2011(Obligatory Simpsons, "it was just one month away from retirement!"), but was rubber stamped in early 2011 and licensed to operate another 10 years...cept for obviously it didnt quite last that long.
Now granted the tsunami still probably would have still created a situation at Fukushima as even if it was slated to stop generating power in March 2011, it would still have been a while before they reached cold shutdown, but they would have been in the process of shutting it down AND they wouldnt have hesitated when it came to pouring sea water on the reactors, as they were due to be de-commissioned anyway.
Like Cain from kung-fu, if Cain were a fat, balding old white man.
Actually they are pretty much selling their OS as a loss-leader. Lion and Mountain Lion, while certainly not very expensive to develop, probably ended up costing Apple more than they collect from users for the upgrades. However the difference is very, very minimal.
They should give you an option to give more weight the later a review came out. I just find myself generally distrustful of 0-day reviews because they usually mean:
a)The reviewer didnt actually spend enough time with the game to give it a meaningful review and/or
b) the reviewer had access to the game early, which of course raises questions about objectivity.....
The best reviews IMO are those that come out at least a week after the games release....
"We believe the Web is the platform. Ideally, the technology pioneered or refined in the Boot to Gecko project will make its way into all mobile browsers, so that enhanced Web applications can be great regardless of operating system or device...... This is not going to be yet another platform for developers to code for. The project is extending what developers can do with the Web, especially in the context of mobile devices, and to do so in a way that leads to interoperable standards.
The web may be the standard, but the "web" does not necessarily imply HTML(5). HTML5 is merely the V part of the MVC model, many applications that run on iOS, Android, and the web use "the web" on all those devices(basically using JSON over HTTP as the controller) even if they don't use a single line of HTML. What the mobile HTML5 evangelists have yet to prove is that writing HTML 5 for every device out there is easier, faster, and better than writing a native view for the two main platforms. They keep on saying that HTML5 can be "universal", but really have yet to prove it in any non-trivial sense.
The man is a veritable profit
:P
Actually he seems to dislike that particular motive
Is Google totally unaware of the fact that drug cartels existed WELL before the internet was ever created? If Google actually is able to shut them off from technology, they will simply go back to their old ways, and will probably be more violent than before. The thing about technology that Google doesnt seem to grasp here is that it doesnt really enable people to do things they couldnt do before, it just makes it a lot easier. With technology buyers and sellers can efficiently contact each other and make deals without having to go to a dangerous area and try to find a deal, which leaves them exposed to theft and especially violence.....
In fact the rise of technology probably is a contributor to the plummeting violent crime rate in the US. Drug dealers no longer have "turf wars" to try to control the places where drugs are sold, clients no longer have to worry about getting killed for a couple of 20s. Everything is arranged online. Google takes that away, and we can go back to what we had during the 80s and 90s....Yup, that sounds wonderful Google....
But the seller guarantees satisfaction, isnt that piece of mind about your book on flies worth 2.8 mil?
And the dumb ones write "naked cowboy Neal pics!!!" on the drive.
What a moron, EVERYONE knows that the only real way to dry cell phones is to put them in the toaster.
Come on, you made this list and didnt include George Costanza's accidental discovery of just leaving your car parked in the parking lot 24/7? Your boss will always think you are at work
First and foremost, stop reading things in my post that are not there. I did not ONCE mention the Democrats, not once. My post wasnt intended to praise their policies per se, but rather praise the policies of countries like Germany who have kept the disease relatively under control. Democratic support for these various policies varies considerably, but unlike Republicans there arent very many Democrats that are downright hostile towards policies that have been EMPIRICALLY PROVEN to reduce HIV rates. That is solely the domain of the radical right in the US.
Theres conservatism, and then there being a Republican, you don't have to be the latter to be the former. The problem isnt conservatism per se(though like any ideology it can become problematic when you ignore any empirical data that contradicts your ideology), but the Christian facism of the modern Republican party is not conservatism, its facism pure and simple. Whatever tax plan or economic ideas they have dont really matter in light of the fact that they are trying to force Americans to adopt Christianity against their will.
Um, since when did denigrating Republican policies automatically constitute an endorsement of the Democrats, I must have missed that meeting. Your little libertarian pseudo-intellectual rant is cute, for a 3rd grader, but guess what, in countries where the government has even less power HIV rates are higher, Germany's very highly developed public health system and government sponsored campaigns to distribute condoms and clean needles are a big part of why the HIV rate is so low. So yeah, those pesky facts and logic getting in the way again.
And your shithead reasoning that giving money is the same as helping is why you are a Republican, i.e. a shithead. Money if spent on the wrong things can not only be useless, it can be harmful. But then again, arguing facts and logic with a Republican won't do any good, shitheads will be shitheads.
The HIV rate in the US is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the country. The HIV infection rate is massive compared to pretty much every other rich country on the planet, for instance in Germany there are about 3,000 new cases per year, and considering Germanys population is roughly 1/4 of the USs, we can see that the US rate is over 3x as high as Germanys per capita. Why the huge disparity? Probably has something to do with the fact that in the US there are a large # of people who secretly want "sinners" to get infected as punishment for their "deviancy", we call these people Republicans.
We can see it in the massive farce that is "abstinence only" education, turns out kids are having sex anyway and since they cannot get, or do not have access to condoms(and have been told that they fail most of the time anyway) they are going about it without them. Results? Highest STDs and teen pregnancy rates in the rich world.
And lets not forget our hardon for "justice" that results in a massive # of people(mostly men) in prison at any given time, where, surprise surprise, HIV runs rampant. And perhaps related refusal to admit that people are going to shoot up, and if they do they should have clean needles ends up in a lot of drug users contracting HIV(a very large % of those infected with HIV in the US are also infected with hep-C, indicating that needle-born HIV infections in the US are much more common than other first-world countries)
And of course lets not forget the massive amount of homophobia that basically ensures a large # of homosexuals will be ostracized from their family and community, and thus have a very low level of self-worth. This translates into many gays engaging in self-destructive behavior in the US, including but not limited to risky sex.
Congrats Republicans, largets HIV infection in the rich world, you worked hard to get to this point, might as well celebrate.
Your sed is broken, just point that out. Also, you are overwriting all facts with sedded chuck norris jokes....