The pile of rubbish that was X-Men 3.
X3 was one of the most cynically produced films I have ever seen in a effort to get the PG-13/12A rating. It's an incredibly violent movie with lots and lots of death. How many people does Wolverine stab in the chest/stomach? The answer is lots, but because we didn't see any blood that is somehow OK. I was actually offended by the efforts the film went to to make the rating.
Also, it should have been an R/18 just to protect young children from the dialogue alone.
I assume you are taking the piss, the iPhone has been marketed to death on it's functionality and extra features. I'm looking at a full page add on the back of the Guardian where it's pointing out the dozens of options and features it has. I don't even think making calls is mentioned.
A "phone that makes phone calls" is a £25 Pay-As-You-Go Nokia 1200, not a £240,000,000 240,000,000 month contract iPhone.
I think the battery life increase comes from the change of graphics chip/integration. On current netbooks the Intel graphics are the major power draw, something like twice to three times the processor. With the integration of the new chipset that will take a serious chunk out of the Wattage.
And if you can convince a retailer to take a $12 pice of silver for a $50 dollar debt then more power to you
(Seriously, the curretn spot price of Silver is around $12 and ounce, a Liberty Dollar is 1 ounce of silver yet it has a stamped value of $50 and they sell them from their website at $33.)
Even at it's highest recent point silver was only $21 an ounce (and only then for a microscopically short time) compared to the Supposed $50 value they expect merchants to take them at.
The entire selling structure for the liberty dollars smacks of a pyramid scam.
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Three Doctors and none of them recommended physical therapy? What is this? The middle of the 20th century.
That you weren't referred to a physiotherapist is shocking in this day and age.
Lots.
The advantage the Flash Player has over Javascript, CSS and DHTML is the when I code something for the Flash Player I know what my 1 single target platform is. When I code for the browser I'm coding for x number of subtly incompatible targets. Yes, libraries can abstract away that to a degree but not wit the ease of (the admittedly closed source) Flpash Player. Plus the player has lots of bells and whistles that frankly are really nice to use.
More and more I realise the problem with Wikipedia (and it's most certainley just Wikipedia, I love c2.com as a source of info) is the lack of authorship coupled with NPOV.
They very fact that a work on a page has no attributed author makes the whole page superficially seem like a single text. But it's clear from a reading that a Wikipedia pages is made up of multiple authors, often saying contradictory things. If the Authorship was there on the page then NPOV wouldn't be a problem, an editor could have their POV at it would be known and verifiable.
The lack of discussion on a Wikipedia page, having it shunted to a obscure tab, is a criminal mis-use of the strengths of wiki. Discussion, refactored into information that evolves into discussion, that is the natural cycle of wiki.
I'm not reaching back 300 years for this, just 30 to the 1979 devolution vote. A successful devolution would have been followed by rapid move towards independence once there was the realisation that Thatcher was spunking the Oil money on making people unemployed.
Yeah, if we hadn't been magnanimously sharing it with the rest of the UK Scotland would have a stonking great big capital projects fund ready to cushion the blow due to the end of oil.
As it is, we're going be screwbarred.
Even funnier is that on occasions the Government has taken back control of a few franchises due to them failing to meet the service agreements signed. In all cases the government run service has had higher punctuality and customer satisfaction ratings on a lower budget.
Naturally the franchises were offered back to private corporations as quickly as possible because running a successful train service is apparently not the business of government.
There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're a company saying you're selling $20 dollar's worth of goods at a time but are only selling $15 then you're going to get done for fraud.
You mean the Libery Dollar where they sold you $15 of Silver for $20? And planned to remint all $20 dollar coins (sorry medallions) as $50 coins once the spot price of silver hit $17 an ounce.
Now that's how to do inflation.
any and all people who post variations upon a theme of "I could buy a full size laptop for that $100 dollars more"?
The point is it's small you retards. Small is a selling point. Saying you could buy something bigger is worse that useless as a comment.
Actually, to be fair it's a not a totally useless because, the phrase marks you out as a fucking moron who doesn't fucking understand the first thing about fucking anything and I can now safely fucking ignore you in the future.
Dude, (modern) C++ is what happens when you design by committee. Ada is what happens when a small technical group is convened to come up with a general purpose language.
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I think that any strongly typed language with lots of compile time and link time checks would be about as good (e.g., Java).
Java, all the verbosity of Ada without any of the benefits. I can't work out how Java managed to make programmers type so many characters without achieving anything.
Java's compile time checking is decent but seriously weak when compared to Ada. I've always liked the Ada compiler pointing out my spelling mistakes:-)
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I'm actually quite fond of Ada as a language.
Yes, it's a very verbose language but unlike, say Java or C#, the verbosity gives you a lot of stuff.
It gives you good threading.
It gives you a very good encapsulation.
It gives you a very nice parameter system for procedures/functions
That's a point, it seperates between procedures and functions.
It gives very, very, very good typing. Very good typing. It's very good. I like it. It's what I want when I'm doing strong, static typing rather than the wishy-washy getting in the way mess that many other main-stream languages. When I use a type I want it to mean something.
It's a good language to teach students about programming in my opinion.
Except that the fight scene ends with... Neo running away.
The whole purpose of that fight was for the Wakowski's to demostrate that they had the tech to make a computer model that almost resembles Keanu Reeves and make it move fairly relistically. The fight itself totally lacks dramatic tension.
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The pile of rubbish that was X-Men 3. X3 was one of the most cynically produced films I have ever seen in a effort to get the PG-13/12A rating. It's an incredibly violent movie with lots and lots of death. How many people does Wolverine stab in the chest/stomach? The answer is lots, but because we didn't see any blood that is somehow OK. I was actually offended by the efforts the film went to to make the rating. Also, it should have been an R/18 just to protect young children from the dialogue alone.
A "phone that makes phone calls" is a £25 Pay-As-You-Go Nokia 1200, not a £240,000,000 240,000,000 month contract iPhone.
I think the battery life increase comes from the change of graphics chip/integration. On current netbooks the Intel graphics are the major power draw, something like twice to three times the processor. With the integration of the new chipset that will take a serious chunk out of the Wattage.
And if you can convince a retailer to take a $12 pice of silver for a $50 dollar debt then more power to you
(Seriously, the curretn spot price of Silver is around $12 and ounce, a Liberty Dollar is 1 ounce of silver yet it has a stamped value of $50 and they sell them from their website at $33.)
Even at it's highest recent point silver was only $21 an ounce (and only then for a microscopically short time) compared to the Supposed $50 value they expect merchants to take them at.
The entire selling structure for the liberty dollars smacks of a pyramid scam.
Three Doctors and none of them recommended physical therapy? What is this? The middle of the 20th century.
That you weren't referred to a physiotherapist is shocking in this day and age.
Lots. The advantage the Flash Player has over Javascript, CSS and DHTML is the when I code something for the Flash Player I know what my 1 single target platform is. When I code for the browser I'm coding for x number of subtly incompatible targets. Yes, libraries can abstract away that to a degree but not wit the ease of (the admittedly closed source) Flpash Player. Plus the player has lots of bells and whistles that frankly are really nice to use.
More and more I realise the problem with Wikipedia (and it's most certainley just Wikipedia, I love c2.com as a source of info) is the lack of authorship coupled with NPOV. They very fact that a work on a page has no attributed author makes the whole page superficially seem like a single text. But it's clear from a reading that a Wikipedia pages is made up of multiple authors, often saying contradictory things. If the Authorship was there on the page then NPOV wouldn't be a problem, an editor could have their POV at it would be known and verifiable. The lack of discussion on a Wikipedia page, having it shunted to a obscure tab, is a criminal mis-use of the strengths of wiki. Discussion, refactored into information that evolves into discussion, that is the natural cycle of wiki.
Do companies think that the market in China is big enough to justify giving them the source code?
If they give away the crown jewels they might be surprised how swiftly China starts supplying itself.
I'm not reaching back 300 years for this, just 30 to the 1979 devolution vote. A successful devolution would have been followed by rapid move towards independence once there was the realisation that Thatcher was spunking the Oil money on making people unemployed.
Yeah, if we hadn't been magnanimously sharing it with the rest of the UK Scotland would have a stonking great big capital projects fund ready to cushion the blow due to the end of oil. As it is, we're going be screwbarred.
Awesome, good for them. It's so much easier when you don't actually have to fund anything yourself.
You won't mind us shutting off the oil then? No matter how you slice it Scotland is still in credit.
Youtube foo-barred the sound. The original video is obviously a lot better. Also the actress they mocapped has big teeth and funny lips.
Even funnier is that on occasions the Government has taken back control of a few franchises due to them failing to meet the service agreements signed. In all cases the government run service has had higher punctuality and customer satisfaction ratings on a lower budget. Naturally the franchises were offered back to private corporations as quickly as possible because running a successful train service is apparently not the business of government.
Someone needs to define the GP language and fitness function. I'm sorry to say that it's turtles all the way down on this one.
The written rules can be copyrighted (like any written work) but the rule concepts are not copyrightable.
There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're a company saying you're selling $20 dollar's worth of goods at a time but are only selling $15 then you're going to get done for fraud.
You mean the Libery Dollar where they sold you $15 of Silver for $20? And planned to remint all $20 dollar coins (sorry medallions) as $50 coins once the spot price of silver hit $17 an ounce. Now that's how to do inflation.
Hint this may have been due to the Liberty Dollar people charging $20 for $15 worth of silver.
A language analysis that slams Python for using indentation to delimit blocks. Oooooh, how 20th century.
any and all people who post variations upon a theme of "I could buy a full size laptop for that $100 dollars more"?
The point is it's small you retards. Small is a selling point. Saying you could buy something bigger is worse that useless as a comment.
Actually, to be fair it's a not a totally useless because, the phrase marks you out as a fucking moron who doesn't fucking understand the first thing about fucking anything and I can now safely fucking ignore you in the future.
Dude, (modern) C++ is what happens when you design by committee. Ada is what happens when a small technical group is convened to come up with a general purpose language.
I think that any strongly typed language with lots of compile time and link time checks would be about as good (e.g., Java). Java, all the verbosity of Ada without any of the benefits. I can't work out how Java managed to make programmers type so many characters without achieving anything. Java's compile time checking is decent but seriously weak when compared to Ada. I've always liked the Ada compiler pointing out my spelling mistakes :-)
I'm actually quite fond of Ada as a language. Yes, it's a very verbose language but unlike, say Java or C#, the verbosity gives you a lot of stuff. It gives you good threading. It gives you a very good encapsulation. It gives you a very nice parameter system for procedures/functions That's a point, it seperates between procedures and functions. It gives very, very, very good typing. Very good typing. It's very good. I like it. It's what I want when I'm doing strong, static typing rather than the wishy-washy getting in the way mess that many other main-stream languages. When I use a type I want it to mean something. It's a good language to teach students about programming in my opinion.
I so hate failing to log in before commenting. The pro-Flex post parenting this was brought to you by the letter F. And me.
Except that the fight scene ends with... Neo running away. The whole purpose of that fight was for the Wakowski's to demostrate that they had the tech to make a computer model that almost resembles Keanu Reeves and make it move fairly relistically. The fight itself totally lacks dramatic tension.