I'd assume (not having read TFA) that you'd still have to pay international charges to call from, say, Spain to the UK, but you'd pay local charges to call a Spanish phone from your Spanish mobile while in the UK.
I did read TFA and it is not clear, it seems to imply that there would be no international charges.
Does this mean that you could sign up for the cheapest tariff in Europe (eg SIM via mail order) and use it at the same cost in your own country? If so it will drastically increase competition. Also you would probably be better of for coverage than those using a phone from the same country, because you could roam to any of the networks!
No, I don't agree. And what does it have to do with making human-animal hybrids? And what would be wrong with that, anyway? I'd do that -- well, I don't have the knowledge to be able to, but I certainly wouldn't protest if someone else did it. Surely you can see the advantage of having a human head/brain and the body of a horse?
Is it wrong if the first thing that flashed through my mind was "porn industry would love it"?
I think that a lot of slashdotters are thinking of the advantage of doing it the other way round to GP's suggestion , like the body of a woman and the brain of a rabbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification stop calling the huge change taking place "global warming" that make it sounds like nice cozy sauna. The effects are much more complicated.
stop calling the huge change taking place "global warming" that make it sounds like nice cozy sauna. The effects are much more complicated.
Caps Lock is required for any shop floor industrial work. CNC lathes and CNC mills require Caps Lock. Fanuc CNC controls only use upper case ASCII characters. If lower case is used, even in a comment, the Fanuc controls will display error messages. (I lost a bet on this once.)
I am sure that it would not be beyond the wit of most programmers to write a parser so that any commands passed to the lathe device are changed to upper case.
I'm just glad that South Korea has learned lessons about winning the hearts and minds of the populace, and is not making itself look like an evil faceless inhuman foe to the people of the North.
The interviewee says that uploaders don't think that what they're doing should be illegal, not that they aren't aware of the legal ramifications or that education about the law would suddenly change everything.
As opposed to saying "don't see what they're doing as immoral."
As far as I can see "uploaders don't think that what they're doing should be illegal", and "uploaders don't see what they're doing as immoral" are exactly the same. I cant think of any circumstances where a reasonable person would think that the law should be immoral.
He had consensual sex with 2 women, who are now complaining he didn't use a condom, which is apparently illegal in Sweden, but it's hardy rape by most people's definition.
Actually, according to an editorial penned by Assange's lawyer last week, he started having sex with each woman with a condom on, with their consent. At some point, the condom either came off or broke. The women then withdrew consent, appealing to him to stop. Assange did not stop.
That certainly isn't in the referenced article - where do you find that she appealed to him to stop and he did not?
He gives one example of an attempt to avoid null pointer errors in Java next:
public String getFirstName(Person person) {
return person?.getName()?.getGivenName();
}
But is it a good idea to use null to mean "no value specified"? What would be better, and what are the tradeoffs? Storing 0 or ""? Storing a special (constant/static) instance object nullValue?
I think it is useful to collect the NULLs together to deal with at a higher level - a quick way to deal with a null person, name, or given name identically.
Scala has a type "None" that does mean no value specified. I haven't got my head over the trade-offs, pros and cons but it seems to work nicely in case statements.
Doesn't mistake number 2 contradict number 1? Or am I missing something?
The whole lot is full of contradictions:
4: Delegating too much to frameworks 8: Reinventing the wheel
9: Opening up too much to the user 10: Overdetermining the user experience
5: Trusting the client 6: Not trusting the client enough
I think that there is a meta-message, akin to Buddha's middle way. Don't take any rule to extremes.
Take your reality based @#$% and !@#$ off. DO NOT WANT. If you want to market to girls who want to play reality tv style games, go for it, but leave my games alone. I want to learn to fly like a fighter pilot on a realistic sim. I want to rescue the princess. I want to slog my way up a beach in a WWII where I kill nobody the only consequence if I fail is restarting the level. You take your Sims and Farmville and Pet simulator and @#$@ off.
Objectively there is no greater or lesser value in playing fighter pilots compared to playing at looking after a pet or a farm.
It is, and it includes pictures of mountain scenes, vintage computers, a dismantled laptop and all sorts of things that people thought I would like to see - and assumed that this is what "tag chris Q" meant.
Besides, since when did the average PC buyer, comparing two systems, take into account the OS performance and determine that a lower spec machine with a faster OS would be a net gain? For most users it's all about how many RAMs or gigglehurtz they get for their buck.
Very interesting point. Say ChromeOS did perform better on a lower spec machine then people appreciating it would be the most technical users, who would understand this and the least technical who wouldn't bother about GBs and GHz but just saw that it worked reasonably quickly.
The "middle" users would say "This has only 1GB of memory and a 1Ghz arm processor... it can't be as good as the 2GB 2.2Ghz Intel machine" and reject it. The question is where does the average user come - in the bottom or middle group?
The biggest reason I can think of for using an alternative DNS is independence from governments. Since Amazon clearly bows to US government pressure and removed wikileaks I see it as a failure on this front.
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What do the University of California E-coli research team and Microsoft have in common?
They are both full of shit programmers
I'd assume (not having read TFA) that you'd still have to pay international charges to call from, say, Spain to the UK, but you'd pay local charges to call a Spanish phone from your Spanish mobile while in the UK.
I did read TFA and it is not clear, it seems to imply that there would be no international charges.
Does this mean that you could sign up for the cheapest tariff in Europe (eg SIM via mail order) and use it at the same cost in your own country? If so it will drastically increase competition. Also you would probably be better of for coverage than those using a phone from the same country, because you could roam to any of the networks!
David Drake (and like a thousand other SF writers) beat you to it.
Don't tell me, he's half duck.
Bill Gates 3.0 ?
Is Bill Gates a Cyborg now?
No he managed to clone himself by having gay sex with a mouse.
Half my fortune? Okay, just let me file this bankruptcy claim...
I'm not quite that bad but if you define my fortune as
assets - mortgage
I would love someone to take half my fortune!
I'm still using CGA you insensitive clod
IN YOUR FACE LESBIANS :D
This conjures up a very interesting picture .... let me just think about it for a bit.
No, I don't agree. And what does it have to do with making human-animal hybrids? And what would be wrong with that, anyway? I'd do that -- well, I don't have the knowledge to be able to, but I certainly wouldn't protest if someone else did it. Surely you can see the advantage of having a human head/brain and the body of a horse?
Is it wrong if the first thing that flashed through my mind was "porn industry would love it"?
I think that a lot of slashdotters are thinking of the advantage of doing it the other way round to GP's suggestion , like the body of a woman and the brain of a rabbit.
I'd rather give money to fags than to wankers, given a choice.
You'll disappoint a lot of slashdotters here.
All the world needs is bloody gay mice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification stop calling the huge change taking place "global warming" that make it sounds like nice cozy sauna. The effects are much more complicated.
How about "Global Fuckage"?
That makes it sound like a nice cozy hot tub.
I type with one hand.
Too much information right there.
His boyfriend won't let him have the other hand back for a couple of minutes.
Caps Lock is required for any shop floor industrial work. CNC lathes and CNC mills require Caps Lock. Fanuc CNC controls only use upper case ASCII characters. If lower case is used, even in a comment, the Fanuc controls will display error messages. (I lost a bet on this once.)
I am sure that it would not be beyond the wit of most programmers to write a parser so that any commands passed to the lathe device are changed to upper case.
I'm just glad that South Korea has learned lessons about winning the hearts and minds of the populace, and is not making itself look like an evil faceless inhuman foe to the people of the North.
The interviewee says that uploaders don't think that what they're doing should be illegal, not that they aren't aware of the legal ramifications or that education about the law would suddenly change everything.
As opposed to saying "don't see what they're doing as immoral."
As far as I can see "uploaders don't think that what they're doing should be illegal", and "uploaders don't see what they're doing as immoral" are exactly the same. I cant think of any circumstances where a reasonable person would think that the law should be immoral.
He had consensual sex with 2 women, who are now complaining he didn't use a condom, which is apparently illegal in Sweden, but it's hardy rape by most people's definition.
Actually, according to an editorial penned by Assange's lawyer last week, he started having sex with each woman with a condom on, with their consent. At some point, the condom either came off or broke. The women then withdrew consent, appealing to him to stop. Assange did not stop.
That certainly isn't in the referenced article - where do you find that she appealed to him to stop and he did not?
He gives one example of an attempt to avoid null pointer errors in Java next:
public String getFirstName(Person person) { return person?.getName()?.getGivenName(); }
But is it a good idea to use null to mean "no value specified"? What would be better, and what are the tradeoffs? Storing 0 or ""? Storing a special (constant/static) instance object nullValue?
I think it is useful to collect the NULLs together to deal with at a higher level - a quick way to deal with a null person, name, or given name identically.
Scala has a type "None" that does mean no value specified. I haven't got my head over the trade-offs, pros and cons but it seems to work nicely in case statements.
I very rarely see programming mistakes.
Neither do the bad programmers!
Doesn't mistake number 2 contradict number 1? Or am I missing something?
The whole lot is full of contradictions:
4: Delegating too much to frameworks 8: Reinventing the wheel
9: Opening up too much to the user 10: Overdetermining the user experience
5: Trusting the client 6: Not trusting the client enough
I think that there is a meta-message, akin to Buddha's middle way. Don't take any rule to extremes.
Take your reality based @#$% and !@#$ off. DO NOT WANT. If you want to market to girls who want to play reality tv style games, go for it, but leave my games alone. I want to learn to fly like a fighter pilot on a realistic sim. I want to rescue the princess. I want to slog my way up a beach in a WWII where I kill nobody the only consequence if I fail is restarting the level. You take your Sims and Farmville and Pet simulator and @#$@ off.
Objectively there is no greater or lesser value in playing fighter pilots compared to playing at looking after a pet or a farm.
It is, and it includes pictures of mountain scenes, vintage computers, a dismantled laptop and all sorts of things that people thought I would like to see - and assumed that this is what "tag chris Q" meant.
Amazon keeps selling a book that teaches you how to make love to a child but takes down wikileaks?
Yes I think they should ban the Qur'an too
Besides, since when did the average PC buyer, comparing two systems, take into account the OS performance and determine that a lower spec machine with a faster OS would be a net gain? For most users it's all about how many RAMs or gigglehurtz they get for their buck.
Very interesting point. Say ChromeOS did perform better on a lower spec machine then people appreciating it would be the most technical users, who would understand this and the least technical who wouldn't bother about GBs and GHz but just saw that it worked reasonably quickly.
... it can't be as good as the 2GB 2.2Ghz Intel machine" and reject it. The question is where does the average user come - in the bottom or middle group?
The "middle" users would say "This has only 1GB of memory and a 1Ghz arm processor
The biggest reason I can think of for using an alternative DNS is independence from governments. Since Amazon clearly bows to US government pressure and removed wikileaks I see it as a failure on this front.