"Natwest (which is retarded because it checks your UA string and tells me Firefox is not supported, so i had to switch my UA code)"
Don't worry - after having been PMSL for about 5 years at the irony of having to switch to IE for "secure" internet banking, I was pleasantly surprised a few months ago that Natwest quietly began supporting Firefox.
Now if only Microsoft would make Explorer address bar honour their Set Program Access & Defaults settings and launch firefox instead of iexplore.exe....
I'm very interested in this (throway) comment - how do you mean that the protocol is crap but the design is good? Surely if the protocol is crap, the design of the protocol is crap? Or do you mean that overall the seperation of client/server is good, but the network protocol is too chatty and thus crap? or what?
why do people keep saying that games are near photrealistic? They're clearly not!! not even oblivion which probably cant be fully rendered on 95% of current systems looks very convincing. To be honest I wouldn't even say it approached the final fantasy film in terms of photorealism (and final fantasy wouldn't fool many people).
When you look at screenshots of unreleased games they always show the most favourable ones. People were making a fuss about Gotham City Racing or whatever it was on Xbox 360. Saying it was photorealistic. Yeah it looked nice, but photorealistic - far from it! There were some nice graphics but the crowds were no better than any other game!
Hollywood, with all its vast resources, can just about make photorealistic effects most of the time. so some poxy little £200-300 console or graphics card doesn't stand a chance!
Now all F1 teams will be racing cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason at all, the car will crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repaint the lines on the track, they will have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn will cause the car to shut down and refuse to restart, and the team would have to reinstall the engine.
4. When the car dies on the track for no reason, you should just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Only one driver can ever drive the car, unless the team buys 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then add more seats.
6. Apple will soon launch a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but will run on only five per cent of F1 tracks.
7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights will be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.
8. New seats will force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag and automatic fire suppressant will say 'Are you sure?' before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason, the cars will lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab the gearshifter.
11. Microsoft will require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps, even though they neither need them nor want them on F1 tracks. Trying to delete this option will immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more.
12. Every time Microsoft introduce a new model, drivers will have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls will operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
2)Niece calls aunt in Dearborn for 5 minutes using neighbor's cell phone
3)Proud aunt calls all of her friends and extended family in US/Canada
4)FBI agent from Detroit digs out auntie's file....adds entry
5) Auntie's Son at U of M attends Arab Heritage meeting in student union...add that to his file
6)Cross reference Auntie and Son's files and calling patterns
7)Find both called cousin in Italy
8) Cousin in Italy was previously arrested at anti-WTO meeting (what greater enemy to the USA than that!?)
9)Scoop up cousin and fly him of to Egypt as a "person of interest"
10) Question cousin about his ties to Al Quaeda...specifically his second cousin's neighbor
11) Despite 48 sleepless hours of interrogation, a sound beating, exposure to cold, being stripped and humiliated this "terrorist" claims to have never been to Pakistan and has never met his second cousin's neighbor
12) Fly cousin to Afganistan and leave him to rot for 6 months
"I work no more than 1 mile from the last IRA attempt, as far as I can see it did us a lot more good than harm, but that's another matter."
As in Manchester city centre? A lot of people would say that blowing up the Arndale with 0 loss of life was a crime FOR rather than against humanity...:P
Not only is it a one way treaty but, there is not even a provision for an English judge to see the evidence let alone assess the quality of it. The effect of this is that every single one of us is now subject to US courts and therefore US law, without ever having to step foot in the USA. The UK is no longer a sovereign territory.
"Computer science is fundamentally an engineering discipline"
Computer science is fundamentally concerned with proofs and provability, graph theory with some discrete maths thrown in for good measure.
I'd say computer science is more closely related to mathematics than to engineering. As Djikstra said, "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes".
3. Are you really that concerned with upgrading your kernel again? It's not a status symbol afterall.
4. I'm still running 2.4.x because I have no need to run 2.6.x (I use it strictly as a console machine) Linux supplication 2.4.32 #4 Tue Jan 3 18:35:16 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
But yet you've bothered to compile the latest 2.4.x release?! Do you see still running 2.4 as some kind of inverted status symbol?:)
Having said that, they still don't have as good SW RAID support in 2.6 as they did in 2.4 (in the most recent 2.6 I've tried, dmraid/lilo don't allow you to boot from a proprietary HighPoint SW RAID-0 disc, whereas this was perfectly achievable in 2.4 - so instead of dual booting, I am forced to use a bootable usb flash drive to get into linux!!).
My evidence for what? I'm asking for your evidence that meat is an essential part of a healthy diet.
Just because you can survive without [meat], cutting out meat completely from your diet is not a healthy option for most people.
Thats not evidence, that's a statement which you've basically made up. To be authoritative you need to cite some evidence.
Millions of people are hugely obese, some of them are even quite healthy - does that mean that being hugely obese is good for you?
Of course it doesn't. How does this prove that human beings require meat as part of a healthy diet? All you have done is invert my previous line of argument. Allow me to invert a statement of yours: Just because you survive with meat as a part of your diet, including meat in your diet is not a healthy option for most people. Like your statement, this proves nothing whatsoever!!
To disprove the proposition "All humans require meat as part of a healthy diet" all I have to do is show one healthy human being who doesn't eat meat.
To back up your statement you need to show that every single human who doesn't eat meat is unhealthy. Or come up with some form of evidence for your proposition.
What exactly do non-meat eaters miss out on in their diet and how does that make them healthy?
Just fyi look at your teeth. They are omnivore teeth. Now smart people think 'That must mean I should eat meat and vegetation and that not eating one will be bad' while stupid people think 'Killing Animals is wrong even though it happens constantly in the wild and we are designed to eat plants and animals.'
but look at your gut - carnivores like cats have very short intestines compared to their size, whereas herbivores like rabbits have very long intestines compared to their size. (This is likely because meat as it is digested gives off some nasties which your body needs to excrete asap, whereas this isn't the case in a plant matter diet).
Have a look at the length of a human's intestines - you'll find they're relatively long compared to our size indicating that a plant matter diet has been the dominant factor affecting the evolution of our intestines.
Genius level individuals would look at all the anatomical evidence and conclude that humans are perfectly capable of eating both plant matter and meat. Furthermore they would look at the millions of healthy individuals in places like e.g. India who eat completely meat free diets and are 100% healthy and conclude that meat isn't an absolute requirement in people's diets. The same genius level individuals would look at western diets, note that all the problems with heart disease, obesity, cancer etc only seem to occur in those countries that eat a large amount of meat in their diet - particularly red meat - and conclude that eating the quantity of meat consumed in the western (read US) diet causes huge amounts of ill-health.
Claiming that meat is a required part of the human diet is just wishful thinking and indicative of parroting opinions received from others without the application of any form of critical thinking.
FACT: humans are healthier eating a mostly plant matter diet.
What are you on about getting stuck!! why didnt you just use almsivi intervention or divine intervention to go to nearest temple? then you're sorted! never stuck again!!
I have to admit I never finished the game cos I just lost track of all the quests. started playing it again recently with the expansion so you get a proper questlog though I dont trust that its imported all my quests into it correctly though!!
"Oddly? As a submitter you ought to at least RTF you link to. Mr. Cohen gives rational reasons why he thinks it is a bad idea to try obfuscate BitTorrent traffic, namely that it is unlikely to avoid traffic shaping, just because you use encryption."
it was an anonymous submitter. In the article utorrent basically admits that they've done hardly any testing whatsoever.
I reckon this is a transparent attempt to garner a critical mass of support for this protocol, using this artificial controversy to get links on blogs and what have you.
Its not a matter of YRO, its a matter of "lets get my poorly thought out, incompatible extensions to the bittorrent protocol out there, before anybody else has time to think of a better solution".
If robustness is an issue, then you need to look into two stage construction or a similar method. This is required for two reasons - firstly C++ class construction simply does not support the situation where either malloc operations fail or exceptions are thrown in the constructor (as the class has not been constructed, there is no destructor created, thus all malloc'd memory is instantly leaked).
Two stage construction places all code that requires memory allocation into a 2nd stage constructor function so that no memory is lost if the constructor fails.
(In addition two stage construction allows constructors to be inherited which provides an advantage in some situations).
There is plenty of information on google concerning this technique.
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"Natwest (which is retarded because it checks your UA string and tells me Firefox is not supported, so i had to switch my UA code)"
Don't worry - after having been PMSL for about 5 years at the irony of having to switch to IE for "secure" internet banking, I was pleasantly surprised a few months ago that Natwest quietly began supporting Firefox.
Now if only Microsoft would make Explorer address bar honour their Set Program Access & Defaults settings and launch firefox instead of iexplore.exe....
"X11 (protocol is crap but design is good)"
I'm very interested in this (throway) comment - how do you mean that the protocol is crap but the design is good? Surely if the protocol is crap, the design of the protocol is crap? Or do you mean that overall the seperation of client/server is good, but the network protocol is too chatty and thus crap? or what?
"Now graphics are pretty close to photorealistic"
why do people keep saying that games are near photrealistic? They're clearly not!! not even oblivion which probably cant be fully rendered on 95% of current systems looks very convincing. To be honest I wouldn't even say it approached the final fantasy film in terms of photorealism (and final fantasy wouldn't fool many people).
When you look at screenshots of unreleased games they always show the most favourable ones. People were making a fuss about Gotham City Racing or whatever it was on Xbox 360. Saying it was photorealistic. Yeah it looked nice, but photorealistic - far from it! There were some nice graphics but the crowds were no better than any other game!
Hollywood, with all its vast resources, can just about make photorealistic effects most of the time. so some poxy little £200-300 console or graphics card doesn't stand a chance!
"doesn't really make sense to me, if i was going to spam i certainly wouldn't do it from my home computer.."
:)
Yes I agree - if I was ever going to spam I'd probably try and send it from YOUR home computer...perhaps by emailing you some trojan...
Get it? You came so close but you didn't quite make the leap!
Now all F1 teams will be racing cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason at all, the car will crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repaint the lines on the track, they will have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn will cause the car to shut down and refuse to restart, and the team would have to reinstall the engine.
4. When the car dies on the track for no reason, you should just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Only one driver can ever drive the car, unless the team buys 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then add more seats.
6. Apple will soon launch a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but will run on only five per cent of F1 tracks.
7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights will be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.
8. New seats will force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag and automatic fire suppressant will say 'Are you sure?' before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason, the cars will lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab the gearshifter.
11. Microsoft will require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps, even though they neither need them nor want them on F1 tracks. Trying to delete this option will immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more.
12. Every time Microsoft introduce a new model, drivers will have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls will operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
...its not a name its a sound effect!
Yes but now News Corp has bought it they've realised that Complete Morons are their target audience and they've had to pull the clause.
1) Niece in Pakistan...has first son
2)Niece calls aunt in Dearborn for 5 minutes using neighbor's cell phone
3)Proud aunt calls all of her friends and extended family in US/Canada
4)FBI agent from Detroit digs out auntie's file....adds entry
5) Auntie's Son at U of M attends Arab Heritage meeting in student union...add that to his file
6)Cross reference Auntie and Son's files and calling patterns
7)Find both called cousin in Italy
8) Cousin in Italy was previously arrested at anti-WTO meeting (what greater enemy to the USA than that!?)
9)Scoop up cousin and fly him of to Egypt as a "person of interest"
10) Question cousin about his ties to Al Quaeda...specifically his second cousin's neighbor
11) Despite 48 sleepless hours of interrogation, a sound beating, exposure to cold, being stripped and humiliated this "terrorist" claims to have never been to Pakistan and has never met his second cousin's neighbor
12) Fly cousin to Afganistan and leave him to rot for 6 months
13) Drop him off in the countryside of Bulgaria
14) Profit.
sorry
I use coLinux ever since my lilo info got corrupted as its easier to use coLinux than boot off a cd and fix my mbr!!
(so I agree with what you're saying)
"I work no more than 1 mile from the last IRA attempt, as far as I can see it did us a lot more good than harm, but that's another matter."
As in Manchester city centre? A lot of people would say that blowing up the Arndale with 0 loss of life was a crime FOR rather than against humanity...:P
I have never once seen Web 2.0 acknowledged as a trademark. Web 2.0 is in common use to describe a certain style of website.
Ergo they have already lost any right to use this trademark.
Exactly the same problem occurs with subst'd drives:
subst the usb drive's letter to a local directory before inserting the usb drive, then insert the drive. one masks the other.
Not only is it a one way treaty but, there is not even a provision for an English judge to see the evidence let alone assess the quality of it. The effect of this is that every single one of us is now subject to US courts and therefore US law, without ever having to step foot in the USA. The UK is no longer a sovereign territory.
This is serious.
"Computer science is fundamentally an engineering discipline"
Computer science is fundamentally concerned with proofs and provability, graph theory with some discrete maths thrown in for good measure.
I'd say computer science is more closely related to mathematics than to engineering. As Djikstra said, "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes".
3. Are you really that concerned with upgrading your kernel again? It's not a status symbol afterall.
:)
4. I'm still running 2.4.x because I have no need to run 2.6.x (I use it strictly as a console machine) Linux supplication 2.4.32 #4 Tue Jan 3 18:35:16 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
But yet you've bothered to compile the latest 2.4.x release?! Do you see still running 2.4 as some kind of inverted status symbol?
Having said that, they still don't have as good SW RAID support in 2.6 as they did in 2.4 (in the most recent 2.6 I've tried, dmraid/lilo don't allow you to boot from a proprietary HighPoint SW RAID-0 disc, whereas this was perfectly achievable in 2.4 - so instead of dual booting, I am forced to use a bootable usb flash drive to get into linux!!).
My evidence for what?
I'm asking for your evidence that meat is an essential part of a healthy diet.
Just because you can survive without [meat], cutting out meat completely from your diet is not a healthy option for most people.
Thats not evidence, that's a statement which you've basically made up. To be authoritative you need to cite some evidence.
Millions of people are hugely obese, some of them are even quite healthy - does that mean that being hugely obese is good for you?
Of course it doesn't. How does this prove that human beings require meat as part of a healthy diet? All you have done is invert my previous line of argument. Allow me to invert a statement of yours: Just because you survive with meat as a part of your diet, including meat in your diet is not a healthy option for most people. Like your statement, this proves nothing whatsoever!!
To disprove the proposition "All humans require meat as part of a healthy diet" all I have to do is show one healthy human being who doesn't eat meat.
To back up your statement you need to show that every single human who doesn't eat meat is unhealthy. Or come up with some form of evidence for your proposition.
What exactly do non-meat eaters miss out on in their diet and how does that make them healthy?
Just fyi look at your teeth. They are omnivore teeth. Now smart people think 'That must mean I should eat meat and vegetation and that not eating one will be bad' while stupid people think 'Killing Animals is wrong even though it happens constantly in the wild and we are designed to eat plants and animals.'
but look at your gut - carnivores like cats have very short intestines compared to their size, whereas herbivores like rabbits have very long intestines compared to their size. (This is likely because meat as it is digested gives off some nasties which your body needs to excrete asap, whereas this isn't the case in a plant matter diet).
Have a look at the length of a human's intestines - you'll find they're relatively long compared to our size indicating that a plant matter diet has been the dominant factor affecting the evolution of our intestines.
Genius level individuals would look at all the anatomical evidence and conclude that humans are perfectly capable of eating both plant matter and meat. Furthermore they would look at the millions of healthy individuals in places like e.g. India who eat completely meat free diets and are 100% healthy and conclude that meat isn't an absolute requirement in people's diets.
The same genius level individuals would look at western diets, note that all the problems with heart disease, obesity, cancer etc only seem to occur in those countries that eat a large amount of meat in their diet - particularly red meat - and conclude that eating the quantity of meat consumed in the western (read US) diet causes huge amounts of ill-health.
Claiming that meat is a required part of the human diet is just wishful thinking and indicative of parroting opinions received from others without the application of any form of critical thinking.
FACT: humans are healthier eating a mostly plant matter diet.
"Pure bullshit. Meat is an essential part of a healthy human diet (the exercise part is true)."
Where's your evidence? I call bullshit. Millions of people across the world do not eat meat.
What are you on about getting stuck!! why didnt you just use almsivi intervention or divine intervention to go to nearest temple? then you're sorted! never stuck again!!
I have to admit I never finished the game cos I just lost track of all the quests. started playing it again recently with the expansion so you get a proper questlog though I dont trust that its imported all my quests into it correctly though!!
no more than mohammed - he also repeated the words god spoke to him to those who wrote down the verses.
"That's beacuse the Koran is the word of God, whereas the Bible comes through intermediaries."
The bible is considered to be the word of god too!! Certainly some of the old testament was spoken directly to moses from god.
The same god as the koran too, according to islam anyway.
"Oddly? As a submitter you ought to at least RTF you link to. Mr. Cohen gives rational reasons why he thinks it is a bad idea to try obfuscate BitTorrent traffic, namely that it is unlikely to avoid traffic shaping, just because you use encryption."
it was an anonymous submitter. In the article utorrent basically admits that they've done hardly any testing whatsoever.
I reckon this is a transparent attempt to garner a critical mass of support for this protocol, using this artificial controversy to get links on blogs and what have you.
Its not a matter of YRO, its a matter of "lets get my poorly thought out, incompatible extensions to the bittorrent protocol out there, before anybody else has time to think of a better solution".
If robustness is an issue, then you need to look into two stage construction or a similar method. This is required for two reasons - firstly C++ class construction simply does not support the situation where either malloc operations fail or exceptions are thrown in the constructor (as the class has not been constructed, there is no destructor created, thus all malloc'd memory is instantly leaked).
Two stage construction places all code that requires memory allocation into a 2nd stage constructor function so that no memory is lost if the constructor fails.
(In addition two stage construction allows constructors to be inherited which provides an advantage in some situations).
There is plenty of information on google concerning this technique.
George W. Bush = End of World/Oblivion
End of Discussion