And here I thought nerds were the type of people who would support the seeking of knowledge and the establishment of data.:-/
Knowledge, yes. Data, no. Data is something you'll lose if you don't have backup. Knowledge is information you can use to obtain more knowledge or useful things. We don't need research to tell us what we already know, we need research to tell us new things.
The problem isn't the scientific validity of the test; the problem is the idea that an emigrant's nationality should factor into whether they should be allowed residency.
Why is that a problem, exactly?
Let me tell you a story about that: Hungary has had a lot of bloody wars and occupations in the past. By 1740, Transylvania had nowhere near the population it should have had. What's the solution to keep the economy going? Immigrants, of course! Just one problem: they brought their family, their language, and their priests. This is where it lead. Yes, Romania got a bigger chunk of Hungary after WW1 than Hungary is today. They didn't even win the war: they surrendered in 1916 when we marched into Bucharest.
you'd be better off increasing the size of the battery.
Or reducing the hunger of your phone. My $15 Nokia lasts 2-3 weeks per recharge if I'm not using it for conversations. I have another phone I use regularly, this one just sits on my desk all day long, functioning mostly as a clock and a paperweight.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman who competed in a radio stations contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroners office said Saturday.
One more anecdote to reinforce my point: Once upon a time, I had a real programmer teaching me C. He did not let students pass who couldn't solve a small problem (like removing the next-to-last element of a singly-linked list) using only pen and paper. Every lecture, the first thing we did was to turn our computers off, and do one of these problems. Then he did the same at the blackboard.
Guess what: we learned more from that than the rest of the lectures and the books combined. If the basic learning process is missing, technology doesn't give it back.
It doesn't matter whether it's true. The important thing in this anecdote is that it highlights the different thought processes concerning new technology, and doing that, it's believable enough to sustain itself decades after it's been proven false.
Western cultures have this tendency to automatically assume that new technology will be better, and spend money on it before realizing the obvious shortcomings. Here, it's the fact that books are not read-only, even if they have little extra storage capacity, and many students rely on that.
I'm sort of curious what the point is of comparing an alpha to a release candidate. Additionally it's a minor update versus a major update. Throwing in an older release makes it all the more pointless as I'm not seeing anywhere in the summary that they disabled debugging.
Most sat navs now have a feature that disables the interface if the car is moving. A quick Google search will turn up many forum posts describing how to disable this feature, on the grounds that it prevents a passenger from operating it too.
Being in control of your whole car is considered a good thing, even while driving. I was told people who have a driver's licence are qualified to operate a car.
With a statement like that, I'd have to wonder how long you had actually been programming.
Should you use singletons? What is the "best" development process? Is test-first the best thing ever or the spawn of satan?
While I would generally agree, StackOverflow is the place for immediate questions you have problems with, not general bullshit. That's why it's popular.
Here's an example from the front page: "In Perl, how can I concisely check if a $variable is defined and contains a non zero length string?"
A single MSDN subscription is $1,199 for the first YEAR, $799 for every YEAR after that. Running a site on StackExchange can be a thousand dollars a MONTH.
That said, a StackExchange site likely serves more than one person.
StackOverflow is simply the best forum software I have ever used for a site oriented around questions and answers (for general discussion I do not think it would work as well, for instance it could not replace Slashdot).
In programming, the correctness of an answer is easily definable and verifiable. Stack Overflow is designed to let that one best answer float to the top, and it's perfect for its purpose.
But if you were to ask "when should my 8 year old kid go to bed?", the answers aren't that clear anymore.
I have a feeling that demographic doesn't really strike a lasting profit, however. Nintendo is slowly falling and has been for a few months - could the Wii's marketing be wearing off?
That's the problem with good games: if the player won't get bored with them, they won't buy a new one. Perhaps we should start paying attention to Open Source games, like Freespace 2 and Warzone 2100.
OTOH, accusation is sometimes enough to warrant corrective action. Which while it might be inconvenient, should not be so harmful that it can't be resolved afterwards, should the accused in fact be innocent.
How about "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty"?
And can you please tell me what's so bad about copyright infringement that warrants taking away our freedom?
Yep. They are actually zero-compressed files, but still inside multi-archived files. But the subtitle files are as separate.
This is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. Why the hell would you want to keep an already compressed file format in a zero-compressed multi-archive?
I can understand if you want to seed your torrent, but in that case that's not the video player you're having trouble with. Why don't you ask for a torrent client that automatically decompresses them when the download is complete?
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And here I thought nerds were the type of people who would support the seeking of knowledge and the establishment of data. :-/
Knowledge, yes. Data, no. Data is something you'll lose if you don't have backup. Knowledge is information you can use to obtain more knowledge or useful things. We don't need research to tell us what we already know, we need research to tell us new things.
The problem isn't the scientific validity of the test; the problem is the idea that an emigrant's nationality should factor into whether they should be allowed residency.
Why is that a problem, exactly?
Let me tell you a story about that: Hungary has had a lot of bloody wars and occupations in the past. By 1740, Transylvania had nowhere near the population it should have had. What's the solution to keep the economy going? Immigrants, of course! Just one problem: they brought their family, their language, and their priests. This is where it lead. Yes, Romania got a bigger chunk of Hungary after WW1 than Hungary is today. They didn't even win the war: they surrendered in 1916 when we marched into Bucharest.
They just want SCIENCE to take away all that awful guilt.
The population of London is expected to drop below 50% English by 2012. Would you want to let that happen with your own capital?
you'd be better off increasing the size of the battery.
Or reducing the hunger of your phone. My $15 Nokia lasts 2-3 weeks per recharge if I'm not using it for conversations. I have another phone I use regularly, this one just sits on my desk all day long, functioning mostly as a clock and a paperweight.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman who competed in a radio stations contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroners office said Saturday.
It is proven that milk(excessive) will kill you.
So does water and oxygen in excessive amounts.
But did you have someone experienced show you his own thought process immediately afterwards? That was the valuable part of the lecture.
I'll get off your lawn now.
Can someone explain the significance of this development?
The same as fixing a 33 year old bug.
One more anecdote to reinforce my point: Once upon a time, I had a real programmer teaching me C. He did not let students pass who couldn't solve a small problem (like removing the next-to-last element of a singly-linked list) using only pen and paper. Every lecture, the first thing we did was to turn our computers off, and do one of these problems. Then he did the same at the blackboard.
Guess what: we learned more from that than the rest of the lectures and the books combined. If the basic learning process is missing, technology doesn't give it back.
It doesn't matter whether it's true. The important thing in this anecdote is that it highlights the different thought processes concerning new technology, and doing that, it's believable enough to sustain itself decades after it's been proven false.
Western cultures have this tendency to automatically assume that new technology will be better, and spend money on it before realizing the obvious shortcomings. Here, it's the fact that books are not read-only, even if they have little extra storage capacity, and many students rely on that.
Yes, timothy.
I'm sort of curious what the point is of comparing an alpha to a release candidate. Additionally it's a minor update versus a major update. Throwing in an older release makes it all the more pointless as I'm not seeing anywhere in the summary that they disabled debugging.
They left out almost all distros, too.
...once I'm done compiling.
Most sat navs now have a feature that disables the interface if the car is moving. A quick Google search will turn up many forum posts describing how to disable this feature, on the grounds that it prevents a passenger from operating it too.
Being in control of your whole car is considered a good thing, even while driving. I was told people who have a driver's licence are qualified to operate a car.
Uh, how many states can no bits exist in? I would've said 1, myself.
Return type void is always the same.
If what are you talking about black people, then say "black people". If you want to use the word "African" then Egyptians are included by necessity.
Tell that to those who call themselves African American.
With a statement like that, I'd have to wonder how long you had actually been programming.
Should you use singletons? What is the "best" development process? Is test-first the best thing ever or the spawn of satan?
While I would generally agree, StackOverflow is the place for immediate questions you have problems with, not general bullshit. That's why it's popular.
Here's an example from the front page: "In Perl, how can I concisely check if a $variable is defined and contains a non zero length string?"
A single MSDN subscription is $1,199 for the first YEAR, $799 for every YEAR after that. Running a site on StackExchange can be a thousand dollars a MONTH.
That said, a StackExchange site likely serves more than one person.
StackOverflow is simply the best forum software I have ever used for a site oriented around questions and answers (for general discussion I do not think it would work as well, for instance it could not replace Slashdot).
In programming, the correctness of an answer is easily definable and verifiable. Stack Overflow is designed to let that one best answer float to the top, and it's perfect for its purpose.
But if you were to ask "when should my 8 year old kid go to bed?", the answers aren't that clear anymore.
Famous last words.
I would much rather the government got income through 'sin' taxes than through the income tax.
Except they do both. You know, in the land of freedom, adults over 18, etc.
causing an angry babylonian god to appear and wipe out over half the industry?
Please tell me the more about that god. I want to build an altar to him/her. Does he/she do Myspace and Facebook too?
I have a feeling that demographic doesn't really strike a lasting profit, however. Nintendo is slowly falling and has been for a few months - could the Wii's marketing be wearing off?
That's the problem with good games: if the player won't get bored with them, they won't buy a new one. Perhaps we should start paying attention to Open Source games, like Freespace 2 and Warzone 2100.
OTOH, accusation is sometimes enough to warrant corrective action. Which while it might be inconvenient, should not be so harmful that it can't be resolved afterwards, should the accused in fact be innocent.
How about "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty"?
And can you please tell me what's so bad about copyright infringement that warrants taking away our freedom?
Yep. They are actually zero-compressed files, but still inside multi-archived files. But the subtitle files are as separate.
This is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. Why the hell would you want to keep an already compressed file format in a zero-compressed multi-archive?
I can understand if you want to seed your torrent, but in that case that's not the video player you're having trouble with. Why don't you ask for a torrent client that automatically decompresses them when the download is complete?