When food/energy isn't plentiful within the environment, for the length of time necessary for a smaller brain to evolve and dominate the population within that environment, and with no significant evolutonary pressures to maintain that brain size, sure.
Or he may be trying to 'crowd-source' government. By folding others' ideas into his own, he not only pleases more people (the marketing aspect), but could end up with ideas that are superior to anything he could think of on his own. Call it open source law, with Obama as Linus Torvalds.
that depends highly upon the type of business you own. Class C corporations are double taxed, class S is taxed once (pass through taxation-- basically income tax) and LLC's are given a choice. Sole proprietorships and partnerships are also taxed once, but don't recieve limited liability. I don't know how LLP's work.
Each of these businesses has different levels of liability, equity structure, etc... But that's a whole different can of worms.
Proper software design usually consumes more resources than improperly designed software. Take, for instance, polymorphism. It ncreases the maintainability of the software immensely, but at the cost of virtual table lookups--each time you call a method of a virtual method, the computer must execute a pointer lookup. Another example: exception handling. Not only are additional tests required to generate exceptions, but as that exception cascades down the call stack, each level of the stack must be checked for exception handlers and unwound. Programming for performance is generally less flexible and requires more asunptions-- this is simply not practical for an operating system as flexible as windows. One could bring up Linux as an alternative, but that has completely different operating constraints, not to mention design goals.
my tactic was to reload the game each time I died, including all of the big daddy fights. Needless to say, I ended up reloading the game a great deal before that worked out. The 1.1 patch of the PC version allows you to disable the chambers, as well.
If you play the game by your own rules, it can be a great deal of fun.:)
there's quite a bit that went into that design decision, I bet. Here's a few resins why it would be a bad idea to build locking into a delegate:
deadlocks. Thread A invokes a delegate, locking it. Thread b invokes a different delegate, locking it as well. Thread a attempts to invoke b, the thread encounters the implicit lock & sleeps. Thread b attempts to invoke a in the meantime. Oops.
overhead: locking is expensive. Do you want to deal with the overhead of a lock each time you invoke the delegate? Keep in mind that events, a central facet of.net development, are all implemented as delegates.
I don't even want to consider the ramifications of invoking an asynchronous function on an autolocking delegate...
Typically reasonable doubt works in the other direction--if there is reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty, they are innocent. Using 'reasonable doubt of innocence' requires less proof than even 'a preponderance of evidence'.
As an owner of anforst yen iPhone, I obviously won't agree with the majority of your post. That said, the general dearth of Bluetooth support pisses me off. The phone itself supports a rather rich set of Bluetooth protocol options but Apple doesn't support them client-side. For some forms of syncing (firmware updates and the like) I can understand why they opted out, but allow me to sync my mail, damn it!
Or if the user wants to mix and match source from projects with conflicting licenses. There was a big tiff in open-source circles a few years back because you couldn't mix BSD and GPL code--the 'advertising' clause was seen as an additional, and incompatible, restriction on the license.
From an ethical standpoint, I prefer the 'more free' BSD license, because it places only trivial limits on the potential of the code--give credit, and authors can't be sued if the code breaks.
I also prefer it from a practical perspective. Code that is folded into commercial/proprietary code bases can see more use, compared to GPL'd solutions. This means 'more eyes' on the problem, and, with adequate community support, often contributions as well.
Of course, my generosity may be abused. I say, "Let that rest on the conscience of others, I've got code to write."
Censorship is immeasurably more harmful. We cannot let the government get in the habit of prohibiting speech it doesn't like.
While I agree with your statement at large, the case in particular (profanity) seems like a petty fight to pick. I'm more concerned with the ramifications of consolidated media & advertising. Together, they make expressing political positions an agonizing affair.
American media culture possesses strong corporate and capitalization bias, which influences the selection of publications and broadcasts. Advertising competes with political advertisements, driving the costs of potential candidates up before they've entered the race. And, with the past primaries as an indicator, third parties (or non-favorite politicians) are not treated in an egalitarian nature.
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run-ons, ftw.
as an aside, Bean couldn't have sex with Petra... He never went through puberty.
Or he may be trying to 'crowd-source' government. By folding others' ideas into his own, he not only pleases more people (the marketing aspect), but could end up with ideas that are superior to anything he could think of on his own. Call it open source law, with Obama as Linus Torvalds.
we'll see how well it works...
for quite some time, that did occur, at least for the linq-to-collection functionality. Other languages call that functionality 'list comprehension'.
that depends highly upon the type of business you own. Class C corporations are double taxed, class S is taxed once (pass through taxation-- basically income tax) and LLC's are given a choice. Sole proprietorships and partnerships are also taxed once, but don't recieve limited liability. I don't know how LLP's work.
Each of these businesses has different levels of liability, equity structure, etc... But that's a whole different can of worms.
Proper software design usually consumes more resources than improperly designed software. Take, for instance, polymorphism. It ncreases the maintainability of the software immensely, but at the cost of virtual table lookups--each time you call a method of a virtual method, the computer must execute a pointer lookup. Another example: exception handling. Not only are additional tests required to generate exceptions, but as that exception cascades down the call stack, each level of the stack must be checked for exception handlers and unwound. Programming for performance is generally less flexible and requires more asunptions-- this is simply not practical for an operating system as flexible as windows. One could bring up Linux as an alternative, but that has completely different operating constraints, not to mention design goals.
If you play the game by your own rules, it can be a great deal of fun. :)
Condé Nast Portfolio mentions the SEC's contribution to the crisis as well, in October's issue. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the name of the article at this time.
I know this is a welcome addition for me, as my employer just decided to start investigating doing this on our own.
So those are the secret ingredients of Teflon... I should have guessed!
IBM uses the IBM JVM.
Really? What was the mistake?
Typically reasonable doubt works in the other direction--if there is reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty, they are innocent. Using 'reasonable doubt of innocence' requires less proof than even 'a preponderance of evidence'.
Try again, lawyer boy.
I hate to break it to you, but the Supreme Court hasn't been a judicial body since Marbury v. Madison, some 200 years ago.
A UniK, perhaps? *ducks*
As an owner of anforst yen iPhone, I obviously won't agree with the majority of your post. That said, the general dearth of Bluetooth support pisses me off. The phone itself supports a rather rich set of Bluetooth protocol options but Apple doesn't support them client-side. For some forms of syncing (firmware updates and the like) I can understand why they opted out, but allow me to sync my mail, damn it!
That said, be prepared to accept the consequences when participating in such an act.
I guess this isn't the best time to say I like XP then? (Not as much as OSX 5, but it's possible to like both...)
What about XmlHttpRequest?
I also prefer it from a practical perspective. Code that is folded into commercial/proprietary code bases can see more use, compared to GPL'd solutions. This means 'more eyes' on the problem, and, with adequate community support, often contributions as well.
Of course, my generosity may be abused. I say, "Let that rest on the conscience of others, I've got code to write."
No, irony is ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
Man, you just don't get the slashdot zeitgeist. Beating the proverbial dead horse is an essential part of the whole experience!
Disposing of the body? (I'm going to hell for saying that)
While I agree with your statement at large, the case in particular (profanity) seems like a petty fight to pick. I'm more concerned with the ramifications of consolidated media & advertising. Together, they make expressing political positions an agonizing affair.
American media culture possesses strong corporate and capitalization bias, which influences the selection of publications and broadcasts. Advertising competes with political advertisements, driving the costs of potential candidates up before they've entered the race. And, with the past primaries as an indicator, third parties (or non-favorite politicians) are not treated in an egalitarian nature.