Theories trying to handwave dark matter seem to pop up about once a month these days
Can you blame them? We found a bunch of stuff that doesn't fit our model for how the universe works so instead of invalidating our model we just assume that there is something invisible influencing our numbers. I won't pretend like I know what is really going on but blaming some undetectable third-party when your model fails feels like grasping at straws to me.
But seeing people on Slashdot mindlessly say "Apple is teh suxor" is about as intelligent as saying it about Microsoft or Linux without having used them
If the latest Prius came pre-installed with an irremovable mousetrap at crotch level in the drivers seat I probably wouldn't bother giving it a test drive. You could go on all day about how smooth the ride is or how the mousetrap helps hold you in so you don't fall out, but none of that matters because I don't want a car that caches my balls in a mousetrap every time I drive it.
I think you are mistaken. The only thing that police could accomplish by intentionally trying to intimidate a reporter without being explicit enough to threaten him is to make the story that much jucier. Do you really believe that the officer brought a gas can and someone in civilian clothes along to go intimidate a reporter? He was likely giving someone who had run out of gas a ride and the reporter chose to interperet the encounter as some sort of nebulous conspiracy to get some publicity for the story.
A DDOS is several different computers trying to access a website at the same time. It is not illegal for a single computer to try and access a public website so your analogy fails. If your point of view was correct then people who were eating at a restaurant that fills to capacity could be arrested for "bringing down" said restaurant.
I've never understood this argument. Poor programmers can write unmaintainable code in any language, including C. If we judged the maintainability of each language on the worst examples we could find they would all be terrible.
Return codes are great until your function needs to return something useful instead. Now you have to allocate a pointer and pass it into your function and everything gets much less intuitive and elegant.
I download binary packages for my rolling release distro, Arch, from kernel.org. Even if the kernel source has not been compromised a binary package certainly could be.
Could this be Samsung's way of hedging its bets against Google closing Android now that it is buying Motorola? Cyanogen Mod doesn't rely on any of the Google code that isn't open source so it could be forked to cut Google out all together if need be.
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#!/bin/bash
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done
I think the point was to generate press coverage. Greenpeace's greatest cause is self-promotion.
Theories trying to handwave dark matter seem to pop up about once a month these days
Can you blame them? We found a bunch of stuff that doesn't fit our model for how the universe works so instead of invalidating our model we just assume that there is something invisible influencing our numbers. I won't pretend like I know what is really going on but blaming some undetectable third-party when your model fails feels like grasping at straws to me.
If you want to swap anecdotes firefox runs great on my atom based EEE 1000 netbook.
But seeing people on Slashdot mindlessly say "Apple is teh suxor" is about as intelligent as saying it about Microsoft or Linux without having used them
If the latest Prius came pre-installed with an irremovable mousetrap at crotch level in the drivers seat I probably wouldn't bother giving it a test drive. You could go on all day about how smooth the ride is or how the mousetrap helps hold you in so you don't fall out, but none of that matters because I don't want a car that caches my balls in a mousetrap every time I drive it.
I hear noun verbs them adverbly.
You should be careful with extrapolation...
though I wouldn't chose it for ... reconciling a fiscal year's worth of journal entries
You might be surprised how often java is used to do just that.
I think you are mistaken. The only thing that police could accomplish by intentionally trying to intimidate a reporter without being explicit enough to threaten him is to make the story that much jucier. Do you really believe that the officer brought a gas can and someone in civilian clothes along to go intimidate a reporter? He was likely giving someone who had run out of gas a ride and the reporter chose to interperet the encounter as some sort of nebulous conspiracy to get some publicity for the story.
What sort of thing? Cops driving around? What part of those two paragraphs is supposed to be so sinister?
Ha ha Han Solo
A good speech therapist could probably help you with that stammer.
Three men were killed this morning when a high-five over extended battery life resulted in a devastating explosion. More at 11:00.
A DDOS is several different computers trying to access a website at the same time. It is not illegal for a single computer to try and access a public website so your analogy fails. If your point of view was correct then people who were eating at a restaurant that fills to capacity could be arrested for "bringing down" said restaurant.
I've never really bought into the whole Karma concept, but things like this make you wonder.
Self-similar, potentially infinite and never repeating? Sounds like the physical equivalent of a fractal to me.
I shot him a furtive glance?
I've never understood this argument. Poor programmers can write unmaintainable code in any language, including C. If we judged the maintainability of each language on the worst examples we could find they would all be terrible.
Return codes are great until your function needs to return something useful instead. Now you have to allocate a pointer and pass it into your function and everything gets much less intuitive and elegant.
Unless of course your using a kernel.org mirror to download your distribution's packages ala http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/
I download binary packages for my rolling release distro, Arch, from kernel.org. Even if the kernel source has not been compromised a binary package certainly could be.
Easy, just press ctrl-alt-insert-backspace in emacs and type vi into the dialog.
A two button mouse will be included as well.
They can just have their oldest babysit someone else's kids to pay for the babysitter they need for their younger kids. It's economic stimulus!
It's only a matter of time now before Dogfish Head releases something fermented with this yeast. I vote for Legacy Lager as a name.
Could this be Samsung's way of hedging its bets against Google closing Android now that it is buying Motorola? Cyanogen Mod doesn't rely on any of the Google code that isn't open source so it could be forked to cut Google out all together if need be.