You're right. My point was that "freedom without restraint is no freedom at all" is incorrect. Restraint is necessary to preserve freedom in the long run.
First of all, you should be careful about using results from the Language Shootout in general, because they often don't know what they're measuring. For example, for quite a while, Haskell scored much higher on the benchmark because the tests were written in such a way that results were computed but then never used; and Haskell compiler is surprisingly good at figuring that out, so it discarded the whole computation part as well.
That's called "lazy evaluation", and it is a language feature. It's the C program's fault for unnecessarily computing values it is never going to use, instead of computing them when demanded.
So a Terminator could just jump back, spend 15 years building a time machine, do the research they needed, and then jump forward/backward again to whatever time they needed to in order to complete their mission.
Why would it bother jumping forward? It can sit in a storage bin and wait for Armageddon like the rest of us.
Inflame 1340, "to set on fire with passion," fig. use of L. inflammare "to set on fire, kindle," from in- "in" + flammare "to flame," from flamma "flame" (see flame). Literal sense of "to cause to burn" first recorded in Eng. 1382. Inflammable "able to be set alight" is from 1605. Inflammatory "tending to rouse passions or anger" is from 1711. Inflammation "redness or swelling in a body part" is from 1533.
For a few months, I had the vehicle warranty scammers calling me on my PREPAID mobile phone. That's actually abated somewhat. Funny, because I don't live in the US much and I don't own a car.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. They made my pre-paid phone a lot less useful.
What's immoral or unethical about selling by phone? You might as well say television advertisements are immoral and unethical. Or even door to door sales.
Inflammable and flammable obviously have the same Latin root, but via different routes. Something that is "inflammable" is something that can be "inflamed", such as a rash, flammable liquids, tempers, and so on. Being flammable merely means that it burns.
Second virtually every culture in the world has a record of a flood circa 8000 BC, from the Jews to the Eqyptians the Iraqis, Indians, and Chinese. Apparently *something* happened that year... perhaps a side effect of the melting ice flows after the previous glaciation. Again I guess I shouldn't be surprised you didn't know this.
Proof please. It's called pre-history for a reason.
But yeah, you couldn't use "Singer's" lock stitch mechanism in any other device without his approval. That essentially meant you couldn't make lock stitch, since it was impractical to do using a different mechanism to move the bobbin through the loop.
DVI died the day pdflatex became available. DVI was Knuth's device independent document format for TeX. I think it found some other uses, but PDFs are better all around.
How about just get rid of PDFs in general? I mean, how many times have you opened up a page and said to yourself "Sweet, it's a PDF, now I can...".
All the time.
I can't even think of a good example of something you can do with a PDF that you can't do with a properly designed web page or an RTF document.
Embed graphics that scale with the text. Embed fonts. Make book quality printings. You know, things people want to do with documents, portably, without changing how the document looks.
I dunno. I think that many fans of wireless mice would do just fine with a corded one if they just took some time to set the cord run nicely. There's not that much improvement from a wireless one that would overcome all the problems it brings along.
Find me a mouse with a 15ft cord to use with my TV-sized iMac, and I might consider it. I probably won't though.
It is a nice mouse, but it is too fragile for non-desk use. I say this after repairing mine, cannibalizing regular Mighty Mouse parts for it, and having it break again.
Sorry, this is silly. TNT is far more energetic by weight than coal. A ton of coal is far less energetic than a ton of TNT. Ergo, a megaton of coal is less energetic than a megaton bomb.
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Those concepts have bled together in those languages.
Yeah... because it's an artificial distinction related to the misuse of "variables" in procedural languages like C.
You're right. My point was that "freedom without restraint is no freedom at all" is incorrect. Restraint is necessary to preserve freedom in the long run.
Sophistry. I demand proof.
Here's a happy challenge:
YAML parser, C versus Haskell. No parser generators.
This is a small challenge... I'll post mine once you post yours. Mine will be around 200 lines.
First of all, you should be careful about using results from the Language Shootout in general, because they often don't know what they're measuring. For example, for quite a while, Haskell scored much higher on the benchmark because the tests were written in such a way that results were computed but then never used; and Haskell compiler is surprisingly good at figuring that out, so it discarded the whole computation part as well.
That's called "lazy evaluation", and it is a language feature. It's the C program's fault for unnecessarily computing values it is never going to use, instead of computing them when demanded.
Why would you spoil a movie you knew they were interested in?
So a Terminator could just jump back, spend 15 years building a time machine, do the research they needed, and then jump forward/backward again to whatever time they needed to in order to complete their mission.
Why would it bother jumping forward? It can sit in a storage bin and wait for Armageddon like the rest of us.
Inflame
1340, "to set on fire with passion," fig. use of L. inflammare "to set on fire, kindle," from in- "in" + flammare "to flame," from flamma "flame" (see flame). Literal sense of "to cause to burn" first recorded in Eng. 1382. Inflammable "able to be set alight" is from 1605. Inflammatory "tending to rouse passions or anger" is from 1711. Inflammation "redness or swelling in a body part" is from 1533.
For a few months, I had the vehicle warranty scammers calling me on my PREPAID mobile phone. That's actually abated somewhat. Funny, because I don't live in the US much and I don't own a car.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. They made my pre-paid phone a lot less useful.
What's immoral or unethical about selling by phone? You might as well say television advertisements are immoral and unethical. Or even door to door sales.
Inflammable and flammable obviously have the same Latin root, but via different routes. Something that is "inflammable" is something that can be "inflamed", such as a rash, flammable liquids, tempers, and so on. Being flammable merely means that it burns.
I suggest you hit the dictionary, because "paranoia" does not necessarily imply delusional thoughts, let alone a mental illness.
Second virtually every culture in the world has a record of a flood circa 8000 BC, from the Jews to the Eqyptians the Iraqis, Indians, and Chinese. Apparently *something* happened that year... perhaps a side effect of the melting ice flows after the previous glaciation. Again I guess I shouldn't be surprised you didn't know this.
Proof please. It's called pre-history for a reason.
How good could Waterworld be? It only cost 100 million. That's like half as good!
That's so truthy!
Why would Microsoft PAY to not have this happen? Everybody who wants the RC will get it, in time. And now they have free publicity too.
I am not MS-head, but from what I gather, the MSDN works just fine under normal load.
His point is that you have no evidence to back up your assertions regarding his character or motives. Ergo, you are talking shit.
A "real man" doesn't care what you think, let alone do what you say.
Still, he got trolled. You both lost this round.
URL?
I don't think people got your joke.
But yeah, you couldn't use "Singer's" lock stitch mechanism in any other device without his approval. That essentially meant you couldn't make lock stitch, since it was impractical to do using a different mechanism to move the bobbin through the loop.
That was until Elias Howe sued, anyway.
DVI died the day pdflatex became available. DVI was Knuth's device independent document format for TeX. I think it found some other uses, but PDFs are better all around.
How about just get rid of PDFs in general? I mean, how many times have you opened up a page and said to yourself "Sweet, it's a PDF, now I can...".
All the time.
I can't even think of a good example of something you can do with a PDF that you can't do with a properly designed web page or an RTF document.
Embed graphics that scale with the text. Embed fonts. Make book quality printings. You know, things people want to do with documents, portably, without changing how the document looks.
I dunno. I think that many fans of wireless mice would do just fine with a corded one if they just took some time to set the cord run nicely. There's not that much improvement from a wireless one that would overcome all the problems it brings along.
Find me a mouse with a 15ft cord to use with my TV-sized iMac, and I might consider it. I probably won't though.
It is a nice mouse, but it is too fragile for non-desk use. I say this after repairing mine, cannibalizing regular Mighty Mouse parts for it, and having it break again.
I got a v470 to replace it, and I like it.
Sorry, this is silly. TNT is far more energetic by weight than coal. A ton of coal is far less energetic than a ton of TNT. Ergo, a megaton of coal is less energetic than a megaton bomb.
Mindlessly pounding out code makes you a bad programmer. Watching your hands work make you a bad typist.