the number of people I told "don't point it at your face because its incredibly bright", that did exactly that is astounding.
Same with laser pointers. The number of people I tell "don't point it at windows or mirrors" who then do exactly that the instant you give it to them is astounding.
Microsoft formats are designed to be as hard to reverse engineer as possible and the way software licensing and forced upgrades is going nobody will be able to run today's Windows 100 years from now so it will be impossible to run today's Word on any combination of emulators.
This might be solved if we move everything to the cloud, but all those Word documents out there, 200 years from now? Not a chance.
futurists are already imagining the day when people can have a virtual conversation with holograms of their ancestors that draw on digital legacies to reflect how the dead would have responded
Not to mention all the mercury that's currently poisoning the sea, etc.
I love it when the greenies insist on Sea Salt because it's more 'organic' than the other stuff (which they seem to believe is made in one of the dreaded 'refineries' or something...)
Me? I want my salt to be as refined and inorganic as possible. Na and Cl in equal proportions, nothing more.
There, I've said it. It's obscuratist beyond all reason and results in incomprehensible code of the type that any professional programmer should be ashamed of.
Agree 100%.
Libraries are supposed to be understandable and easy to use. Boost just isn't. I don't know if the documentation or the design that's at fault but it always seemed totally opaque to me whenever I looked at it.
I could probably grok it if I invested enough time/effort, but what I get in return (eg. a reference counted pointer) never seemed worth that investment.
On mine you pull down the notification list and tap the WiFi icon.
OK, it's "swipe-tap", not just "tap" but it's not exactly a chore. I'm not sure I want a floating WiFi icon that's always on screen (which is the only way it could always be a single tap).
I have an S3 now and I'm planning on keeping it until it dies. I don't see the point in spending $600 every year on a new phone for incremental changes.
What about S2 owners? What's your advice for them?
Even so, there's wisdom in what he says. An hour of gym, plus commute time, plus time in the changing rooms, plus expenses (membership + special clothing) can be completely avoided just by skipping those mid-afternoon Oreos+Mountain Dew. It's also a lot easier to do and you can't fool yourself about "going to the gym=special food treat" (thus cancelling the gym).
You can't cheat math: Calories in minus calories used = weight gained (or lost).
Ask anybody who's lost a serious amount of weight how it's done and "suffering in a gym" will be a minor part of the answer (if it figures at all).
You aren't going to do jack in terms of serious cardio or muscular exertion unless your white-collar-knowledge-worker environment tolerates people who look like they think that 'data mining' is something you do with a pickaxe.
Speaking of which: Came here to say "Shovelglove"...
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Not as well as with a laser, no. And they don't fit in your pocket.
the number of people I told "don't point it at your face because its incredibly bright", that did exactly that is astounding.
Same with laser pointers. The number of people I tell "don't point it at windows or mirrors" who then do exactly that the instant you give it to them is astounding.
"police are quick to emphasize that the 4- to 5-foot-long aircraft aren’t the same as military drones."
Yet.
Math...how does that work?
Doom 2 was good. Doom 3? Not so much.
(Not unless your definition of a 'game' is just walking around looking at the detail in the graphics.)
It's more likely than you think.
Microsoft formats are designed to be as hard to reverse engineer as possible and the way software licensing and forced upgrades is going nobody will be able to run today's Windows 100 years from now so it will be impossible to run today's Word on any combination of emulators.
This might be solved if we move everything to the cloud, but all those Word documents out there, 200 years from now? Not a chance.
futurists are already imagining the day when people can have a virtual conversation with holograms of their ancestors that draw on digital legacies to reflect how the dead would have responded
"Like, whatever, dude".
If you're using malloc() instead of std::vector, std::string, etc. then you're doing it very very wrong.
RAII is what makes C++ robust, reliable and scalable, and you're fighting against that.
ps: new[] and delete[] are nearly as bad as malloc() (and are one of the few things that should be deprecated from the language IMHO).
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+several million modpoints for keeping it on topic.
The last Pyrenean ibex (also called a bucardo) died in 2000
...yet there's a media panic if the supply of Twinkies looks like it's in danger.
Priorities, people.
While I'd like to restore an extinct species, this sort of thing is outright irresponsible.
As irresponsible as wiping them out without thinking of the ramifications?
I was counting atoms, not weighing sacks.
Not to mention all the mercury that's currently poisoning the sea, etc.
I love it when the greenies insist on Sea Salt because it's more 'organic' than the other stuff (which they seem to believe is made in one of the dreaded 'refineries' or something...)
Me? I want my salt to be as refined and inorganic as possible. Na and Cl in equal proportions, nothing more.
There, I've said it. It's obscuratist beyond all reason and results in incomprehensible code of the type that any professional programmer should be ashamed of.
Agree 100%.
Libraries are supposed to be understandable and easy to use. Boost just isn't. I don't know if the documentation or the design that's at fault but it always seemed totally opaque to me whenever I looked at it.
I could probably grok it if I invested enough time/effort, but what I get in return (eg. a reference counted pointer) never seemed worth that investment.
YMMV.
On mine you pull down the notification list and tap the WiFi icon.
OK, it's "swipe-tap", not just "tap" but it's not exactly a chore. I'm not sure I want a floating WiFi icon that's always on screen (which is the only way it could always be a single tap).
(PS: This is Android 2.2...)
I have an S3 now and I'm planning on keeping it until it dies. I don't see the point in spending $600 every year on a new phone for incremental changes.
What about S2 owners? What's your advice for them?
Get a big fan.
Or generate some pink noise through your computer speakers.
Oh, wait, it's the arcfour key scheduling thing again.
This is an old arcfour weakness, not news. Everybody knows about it (and how to avoid it). The SSL people just never bothered to do it.
FTA: "Specifically, Bernstein showed serious cracks in TLS and SSL"
Seems it's not arcfour that's broken, its the specific combination of arcfour and TLS/SSL.
Yep. Gyms exist for one reason - to take your money.
For cardio, try, um walking. Go a place with trees and hills once a week and walk instead of pounding a treadmill in a filthy flu/fungus-ridden gym.
For strength, you can equip yourself for about $20, eg.: http://www.shovelglove.com/
If you're 300 pounds? It helps a lot.
300 pound people simply can't start hitting the track.
I bet you ate less, too.
Even so, there's wisdom in what he says. An hour of gym, plus commute time, plus time in the changing rooms, plus expenses (membership + special clothing) can be completely avoided just by skipping those mid-afternoon Oreos+Mountain Dew. It's also a lot easier to do and you can't fool yourself about "going to the gym=special food treat" (thus cancelling the gym).
You can't cheat math: Calories in minus calories used = weight gained (or lost).
Ask anybody who's lost a serious amount of weight how it's done and "suffering in a gym" will be a minor part of the answer (if it figures at all).
You aren't going to do jack in terms of serious cardio or muscular exertion unless your white-collar-knowledge-worker environment tolerates people who look like they think that 'data mining' is something you do with a pickaxe.
Speaking of which: Came here to say "Shovelglove"...
The single biggest difference to fuel consumption is between the seat and the steering wheel.