Your criticism is completely irrelevant to the language feature. That the language (and runtime) allow for live updates does not mean that enforces (or encourages) live *edits*!
It's a truly ridiculous approach to life, though. Risk exists. Manage it. Choose paths that bring happiness, not paths that have zero risk, which is a chimerae anyway. You have chances of getting infections just breathing. Sex is part of a happy life for many. Managing the risk is responsible.
The comparison *is* ridiculous anyway. STDs can be a bummer, they can even bring a long steady decline over many years, which is no fun. They don't splatter your brains across the wall. It's a scare tactic to equate them, which is standard MO for churchies when it comes to sex. Don't masturbate or you'll GO BLIND! Don't have sex or YOU WILL DIE!
These kinds of messages aren't effective because people know they're lies, and then they stop listening to the warnings at all.
Wait wait, having sex is equivalent to firing a gun at your head?
It sure looked like you were trying to communicate, and had worthwhile things to say but at some point you have become so frothy that no one could possibly take you seriously.
Somewhere in your phrasing I got lost. If gays don't want to be eugenically eliminated then they must have chosen it intentionally?
Of course whenever I hear someone start a paragraph with "gays want" or "women want" or "blacks want" I figure the speaker is about to put their foot in it by speaking for some group they have no authority to speak for, and by lumping them together like so much gray paste.
Nitpick: Public Domain is a poor choice if you care about the international environment. In a majority of the world the Public Domain status is not legally recognized. The modern version of the BSD license, due to its simplicity and pervasiveness of copyright law in some form, works pretty much everywhere.
It depends what you mean by respect. A basic level of respect should be afforded to all, but what the top of this thread is talking about is some kind of deferential level of respect, which is meaningless unless earned.
Checking skype with strings isn't going to get you very far because the program is encrypted and decrypts itself to memory block by block (and only the current block). This behavior (among other tricks) is why I personally do not trust skype at all. However, stracing should allow you to see what files it happens to open on your run.
I do not believe Skype to be especially malicious, although I may be incorrect. I do believe their approach to transparency (ie. avoiding it at all costs) to be sufficient to not trust it.
Uh, you are railing against the phrasing. The fact is the scientist did not mean what you think she meant. The phrasing validly can be seen to mean (in context) what you think it should say. In short, you are nitpicking the phrasing while believing you are complaining about the content.
If you buy this song, you run the risk that it somehow ends up on the filesharing networks with your name written all over it
'Somehow'? How, exactly? By you uploading it to a filesharing network, perhaps? There is no other way (and no, there do not exist Russian botnet gangs trying to compromise your machine in order to copy your Britney MP3s). So, even if I were to accept the *technical* argument that the only means for file distribution is via filesharing networks (which is wrong on its face), there is the obvious assumption of agency. The files know who their owner is and will refuse to be copied or duplicated by other agents?
Your presumption that it *must* be "you" who duplicates them is obviously farcical. Anyone can copy files.
Most modern version control tools allow *more graceful* development on a *seperate system*. The idea is not to create a branch on a central server, but elsewhere.
That said, subversion does not support this type of thing, although the other tools do to a larger or smaller degree. (Perforce very much smaller; git, bitkeeper very much larger.)
It's a kind of silly observation though since essentially none of those tools were available at the time.
The obvious counterargument is the Vikings came to this juncture by historically being in a situation where their needs were not all met. Farming in viking country was relatively difficult, due to terrain and soil makeup, and there were nearby lands who did not have these problems and so were more bountiful, but had vastly inferior seamanship.
That the people continued in their relatively combative ways after gaining success is not terribly surprising.
All the same it is easy to believe that with the boundaries set to the entire universe, the possibility of a lifeform which has come to follow a path that involves fighting without need is easy to accept.
The roshambo programmers understand these issues, and their software is designed specifically to handle that. If you play with iocaine powder or whatnot for a longer amount of time, eg 1000 rounds or so, you will probably find that you lose consistently.
The pattern matching algorithms used don't produce very strong results in the short timeframe, apparently.
If I needed to run a world-facing CVS implementation, yes. The original CVS and current gnu CVS do not impress me from design to implementation. When I needed to set up CVS for remote developer access, I required developers to go through a signup process which involved setting up an SSH key for each, by which they accessed CVS. I had every faith that CVS was a leaky, dangerous server, easily exploited, and we were a moderate target.
However, I must echo the sentiments above. CVS is problematic partially because its design is so old it stems from an age when internet security was not on the radar. But its age comes with all kinds of other problems too. That anyone who needs a secure publically-accessible versioning control system would seek to reimplement CVS instead of cooperating with one of the healthy active growing version control systems...
I have written maybe 30 to 50 programs in python. They adhere to the 80 columns without much problem. There HAVE been some times where I have had trouble with this limit, but upon reconsideration I was trying to make some kind of ugly kludge to just get-it-working-already.
Blissfully it's a flexible language and there's usually some less awful kludge that comes readily, and reads readily.
Now, C# by contrast, I can't manage to do the simplest things in 80 columns without piles of temporary variables. Ugh, what a travesty. Java is almost as bad.
Then take the comment not directed at you, but at the whole thread? The point stands that mere froth does not a religion make, and there is a corrolary that religion does not require froth, although that one is much harder to convince people of.
They are related. The lack of interest in the outside world culturally (isolationism) sustains the political climate necessary to interfere unilaterally with it ("imperialism"). I quote imperialism in the sense that USA politics do not want to run the world in the classic sense of empire, they just want to be able to interfere with any foreign power they feel like. Again, these two are related, but not quite the same.
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Your criticism is completely irrelevant to the language feature. That the language (and runtime) allow for live updates does not mean that enforces (or encourages) live *edits*!
It's a truly ridiculous approach to life, though. Risk exists. Manage it. Choose paths that bring happiness, not paths that have zero risk, which is a chimerae anyway. You have chances of getting infections just breathing. Sex is part of a happy life for many. Managing the risk is responsible.
The comparison *is* ridiculous anyway. STDs can be a bummer, they can even bring a long steady decline over many years, which is no fun. They don't splatter your brains across the wall. It's a scare tactic to equate them, which is standard MO for churchies when it comes to sex. Don't masturbate or you'll GO BLIND! Don't have sex or YOU WILL DIE!
These kinds of messages aren't effective because people know they're lies, and then they stop listening to the warnings at all.
Wait wait, having sex is equivalent to firing a gun at your head?
It sure looked like you were trying to communicate, and had worthwhile things to say but at some point you have become so frothy that no one could possibly take you seriously.
Somewhere in your phrasing I got lost. If gays don't want to be eugenically eliminated then they must have chosen it intentionally?
Of course whenever I hear someone start a paragraph with "gays want" or "women want" or "blacks want" I figure the speaker is about to put their foot in it by speaking for some group they have no authority to speak for, and by lumping them together like so much gray paste.
Amusingly, in my personal settings "Funny" is larger markdown than "Troll", so you just downgraded it (subjectively).
(The background to this is that the collective slashdot sense of humour underwhelms me significantly.)
Nitpick: Public Domain is a poor choice if you care about the international environment. In a majority of the world the Public Domain status is not legally recognized. The modern version of the BSD license, due to its simplicity and pervasiveness of copyright law in some form, works pretty much everywhere.
It depends what you mean by respect. A basic level of respect should be afforded to all, but what the top of this thread is talking about is some kind of deferential level of respect, which is meaningless unless earned.
Checking skype with strings isn't going to get you very far because the program is encrypted and decrypts itself to memory block by block (and only the current block). This behavior (among other tricks) is why I personally do not trust skype at all. However, stracing should allow you to see what files it happens to open on your run.
I do not believe Skype to be especially malicious, although I may be incorrect. I do believe their approach to transparency (ie. avoiding it at all costs) to be sufficient to not trust it.
Let me summarize your assertion:
"If attributes do not have numerical quantifications, then they cannot be compared at all."
I hope you can spot the error.
Uh, you are railing against the phrasing. The fact is the scientist did not mean what you think she meant. The phrasing validly can be seen to mean (in context) what you think it should say. In short, you are nitpicking the phrasing while believing you are complaining about the content.
-1 Boring.
How is this different from the situation in the United States, for example?
Your presumption that it *must* be "you" who duplicates them is obviously farcical. Anyone can copy files.
Most modern version control tools allow *more graceful* development on a *seperate system*. The idea is not to create a branch on a central server, but elsewhere.
That said, subversion does not support this type of thing, although the other tools do to a larger or smaller degree. (Perforce very much smaller; git, bitkeeper very much larger.)
It's a kind of silly observation though since essentially none of those tools were available at the time.
Rumplestiltskin!
The obvious counterargument is the Vikings came to this juncture by historically being in a situation where their needs were not all met. Farming in viking country was relatively difficult, due to terrain and soil makeup, and there were nearby lands who did not have these problems and so were more bountiful, but had vastly inferior seamanship.
That the people continued in their relatively combative ways after gaining success is not terribly surprising.
All the same it is easy to believe that with the boundaries set to the entire universe, the possibility of a lifeform which has come to follow a path that involves fighting without need is easy to accept.
-1 Wrong.
The entire storyline of Ico doesn't work without the enemy.
In the dos game programming era, it was typical that the video control code was a majority of the program.
The roshambo programmers understand these issues, and their software is designed specifically to handle that. If you play with iocaine powder or whatnot for a longer amount of time, eg 1000 rounds or so, you will probably find that you lose consistently.
The pattern matching algorithms used don't produce very strong results in the short timeframe, apparently.
If I needed to run a world-facing CVS implementation, yes. The original CVS and current gnu CVS do not impress me from design to implementation. When I needed to set up CVS for remote developer access, I required developers to go through a signup process which involved setting up an SSH key for each, by which they accessed CVS. I had every faith that CVS was a leaky, dangerous server, easily exploited, and we were a moderate target.
However, I must echo the sentiments above. CVS is problematic partially because its design is so old it stems from an age when internet security was not on the radar. But its age comes with all kinds of other problems too. That anyone who needs a secure publically-accessible versioning control system would seek to reimplement CVS instead of cooperating with one of the healthy active growing version control systems...
Hmm, I guess I will not take the cheap shot.
Oh no David Hasslehoff.
I have written maybe 30 to 50 programs in python. They adhere to the 80 columns without much problem. There HAVE been some times where I have had trouble with this limit, but upon reconsideration I was trying to make some kind of ugly kludge to just get-it-working-already.
Blissfully it's a flexible language and there's usually some less awful kludge that comes readily, and reads readily.
Now, C# by contrast, I can't manage to do the simplest things in 80 columns without piles of temporary variables. Ugh, what a travesty. Java is almost as bad.
That might work--if you can make a plausible effort to create a business around it. Also, there is the little problem that mac.com already exists.
Odd. My wowhead-specific address hasn't gathered any spam.. yet.
Maybe it's because we use greylisting.
Then take the comment not directed at you, but at the whole thread? The point stands that mere froth does not a religion make, and there is a corrolary that religion does not require froth, although that one is much harder to convince people of.
They are related. The lack of interest in the outside world culturally (isolationism) sustains the political climate necessary to interfere unilaterally with it ("imperialism"). I quote imperialism in the sense that USA politics do not want to run the world in the classic sense of empire, they just want to be able to interfere with any foreign power they feel like. Again, these two are related, but not quite the same.