This is the reason why there should be only one world government, one judicial system and one world economics.
Gods no. I have a trivial influence on the government of a nation of 270 million, or even a state of 5 million. I'd rather not see that diluted further.
Remember those medical marijuana bills in the U.S. that passed by an *astounding margin* (like 75-25, which is almost never seen, and beat school bonds) in Nevada, Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii, Oregon, and (I think) 3 more states? They were all in the West.
You forget one other, not in the West: Washington, D.C. The Powers That Be (the Federal Government) first refused even to let the referendum votes be counted, and then relented and merely prevented it from affecting the law. Note that residents of Washington, D.C. have absolutely no representation in Congress.
A government that rules over people who have no role in determining it is usually called a dictatorship. Here, we call it Congress.
I'm amused I got a five for a post in which I wrote absolutely none of the text. I guess that says something about the times when I do write something...
If the fast bus isn't exactly twice as fast as the two slower ones
Aren't they both synced by the same clock?
As for added latency (from another post), it would add one bit of latency (the time it takes one bit to be read in after the initial latency), which should be much less than the startup latency.
I don't know about you but, even as a Jewish man disguised by a WASPy last name, I wouldn't want to walk around the country seeing swastikas on everything even if they were designed to destroy neo-Nazi solidarity!
Don't you think that if you did, after a while it would lose its power as a Nazi-associated symbol? I don't think "Iron Cross" every time I see a + sign.
Then again, widespread use of the word "f---" hasn't made it less of a curse word, so perhaps not.
You can't just interleave memory to solve bandwidth problems...every type of memory does that. The only way to get higher bandwidth with SDRAM is to A) increase the speed, or B) use multiple memory buses going into the CPU (very costly pin wise).
Or you have a controller between the memory and CPU with two memory busses that combines the two (slower) busses into one (faster) bus for the CPU. That's feasible, isn't it?
When our ideals meet the real world, they flex. If we are strong enough, committed enough, "ideal" enough, then being human, we modify the world to suit us and our ideals.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw
I for one would like to see Amazon's domain returned to it's rightful owners.
The Amazon women were apparently mythical, and tales about them existed long before the river was named. South America doesn't have first dibs on that name.
Hogwash. I've never seen this feature of Photoshop or any other app, and the product I work on has tabbed modeless dialogs, and I was proposing making them detachable/connectable. (Especially since we have a separate modeless dialog that could be combined into the first, but we'd also leave it separate for folks who are used to that.) It's not innovative enough for them to have 20 years of exclusivity. I certainly never would have considered patenting it if we'd done it.
Why the hell is new implemented with exceptions? Is there any sane reason for doing tis?
Abnormal program termination in Mozilla: Access Violation (0x00000000)
Situations where the person does not check the return value of new (because they write it quickly, and then 99.8% of the time during their testing, it succeeds) abound.
And what should you do in a constructor if a new used to initialize a member pointer variable returns NULL? You have to restructure your entire object so it is either valid or invalid, and the users of your object must check its valid/invalid state before performing operations on it. This way lies increased complexity and decreased reliability.
Why the hell do references exist.
References make it quite clear that a NULL object is not allowed, whereas it is quite common for a function to allow a NULL or non-NULL pointer. While you can write code that dereferences a NULL pointer and assigns that to a reference, it is the responsibility of the programmer who does the dereference to check that the pointer wasn't NULL before doing so. In contrast, it isn't clear whose responsibility it is to check that a pointer argument isn't NULL, and that way lies many, many bugs. (See the above bold, for example.)
You can use new (std::nothrow) if you really want NULL returns on failure.
If you want freedom of speech online, and advertising is speech
In the US, at least, the Supreme Court has ruled that advertising is not protected by the first amendment. Thus we don't have tobacco or hard liquor ads on TV, etc.
Of course, we can argue all day about whether this is a good thing or not...
That's odd, I could have swore we had a budget surplus for the forseeable future....
Unfortunately, we also have the 'boomers starting to retire pretty soon. We also already have a substantial debt ($5.6 trillion) from those years where we had a deficit. And Congress is pushing an Estate Tax elimination bill which won't do a whole heck of a lot for that guy's first paycheck.
You know kiddie, one of these days you will got out of school, get a job, look at your first paycheck and notice 40% of it is going to the government, and you'll suddenly become enlightened as well.
Then maybe one day you'll look at the budget, look at what relatively trivial programs the Republicans propose to reduce spending on, compare it to what they want to spend much more on (defense, law enforcement), and realize that they're not proposing spending any less money.
But they'll cut your taxes -- and thus have to borrow lots of money.
And if you want to learn what wonderful "rights" and "freedoms" the "natural state" gives you, go to the bad part of any major metropolitan area
Actually, go anywhere. We *have* absolute freedom, which includes the freedom to set up governments, establish police forces, ignore poorer communities and leave them in lawlessness, etc.
In the end, the only "obstacles" to freedom are the ones we impose on ourselves.
It is, at its core, paternalistic like manditory seatbelt laws (you can't hurt anyone *else* because you don't wear *your* seatbelt).
Actually, wearing your seat belt helps keep you in control of your car during an accident. Since actions taken after the initial contact may reduce the severity of an accident -- including to other parties -- there is justification for seat belt laws on those grounds.
The same cannot be said for motorcycle helmet laws, and we could use the organ donors anyway...
My short argument for drug legalization goes as follows: Suppose drug enforcement was 100% effective. Do you think people would become temperate, or just drink alcohol instead? Given the number of deaths from drunk drivers and other accidents, the health effects of alcohol, and the relationship between alcohol and crime, I can't see this an improvement.
If the quoted text is correct, the book author needs a dictionary. Polygamy is gender-neutral. Polygyny refers specifically to a man having multiple wives, while polyandry is defined as a wife having multiple husbands. Polyamory also refers to love as opposed to marriage, and thus is really rather orthogonal to the other terms.
I suspect that CmdrTaco is tired of folks posting just to raise their Karma to the stratosphere. If the number doesn't seem to change (even if/.'s record does), it might make the game less interesting.
Displaying "Karma: 25+" would probably have the same effect.
His arguement that linux sucks is based on a number.
A number of the errors were labelled Linux 2.3. Others listed 2.3 and earlier kernels. Seems to me that number also includes errors in dev kernels -- do the Windows numbers include errors in Windows alphas and betas? If not, yet another strike...
With all this hacking, is it possible yet to grab the MPEG files the TIVO generates? Or are the drives unreadable on typical systems? Is anyone making a Linux hack to support the TIVO file system if it is not the norm?
You don't want one mechanism, you want many. You don't want one list, you want many. Moreover, censorship or no, you generally don't want the same sites for a five year old versus a 15 year old. If a 10 year old wants information about eyes, a JAMA report on the latest advances in cornea reattachment probably isn't what they want.
So ideally, what you want is many of these lists, created by organizations that at least some people trust. A parent giving their child internet permission could then select "Consumer's Union sites for 10 and under", "Jerry Falwell's favorites", or whatever lists appeal to *them.* But no one gets to choose for someone else's child.
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The only reason that Brittiny Spears can make money is because of technology, not copyright laws!
:-)
I'd like to disagree. I don't like to listen to Brittney, but I sure as hell like to watch her
Yes, but are you sure there isn't some technological enhancement (or two, to be more precise) involved?
This is the reason why there should be only one world government, one judicial system and one world economics.
Gods no. I have a trivial influence on the government of a nation of 270 million, or even a state of 5 million. I'd rather not see that diluted further.
Remember those medical marijuana bills in the U.S. that passed by an *astounding margin* (like 75-25, which is almost never seen, and beat school bonds) in Nevada, Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii, Oregon, and (I think) 3 more states? They were all in the West.
You forget one other, not in the West: Washington, D.C. The Powers That Be (the Federal Government) first refused even to let the referendum votes be counted, and then relented and merely prevented it from affecting the law. Note that residents of Washington, D.C. have absolutely no representation in Congress.
A government that rules over people who have no role in determining it is usually called a dictatorship. Here, we call it Congress.
I got your taxation wit
I'm amused I got a five for a post in which I wrote absolutely none of the text. I guess that says something about the times when I do write something...
If the fast bus isn't exactly twice as fast as the two slower ones
Aren't they both synced by the same clock?
As for added latency (from another post), it would add one bit of latency (the time it takes one bit to be read in after the initial latency), which should be much less than the startup latency.
I don't know about you but, even as a Jewish man disguised by a WASPy last name, I wouldn't want to walk around the country seeing swastikas on everything even if they were designed to destroy neo-Nazi solidarity!
Don't you think that if you did, after a while it would lose its power as a Nazi-associated symbol? I don't think "Iron Cross" every time I see a + sign.
Then again, widespread use of the word "f---" hasn't made it less of a curse word, so perhaps not.
You can't just interleave memory to solve bandwidth problems...every type of memory does that. The only way to get higher bandwidth with SDRAM is to A) increase the speed, or B) use multiple memory buses going into the CPU (very costly pin wise).
Or you have a controller between the memory and CPU with two memory busses that combines the two (slower) busses into one (faster) bus for the CPU. That's feasible, isn't it?
When our ideals meet the real world, they flex. If we are strong enough, committed enough, "ideal" enough, then being human, we modify the world to suit us and our ideals.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Am I the only one who feels physically ill when reading about this sort of thing?
I for one would like to see Amazon's domain returned to it's rightful owners.
The Amazon women were apparently mythical, and tales about them existed long before the river was named. South America doesn't have first dibs on that name.
Which is a pretty non-obvious thing to do.
Hogwash. I've never seen this feature of Photoshop or any other app, and the product I work on has tabbed modeless dialogs, and I was proposing making them detachable/connectable. (Especially since we have a separate modeless dialog that could be combined into the first, but we'd also leave it separate for folks who are used to that.) It's not innovative enough for them to have 20 years of exclusivity. I certainly never would have considered patenting it if we'd done it.
Why the hell is new implemented with exceptions? Is there any sane reason for doing tis?
Abnormal program termination in Mozilla: Access Violation (0x00000000)
Situations where the person does not check the return value of new (because they write it quickly, and then 99.8% of the time during their testing, it succeeds) abound.
And what should you do in a constructor if a new used to initialize a member pointer variable returns NULL? You have to restructure your entire object so it is either valid or invalid, and the users of your object must check its valid/invalid state before performing operations on it. This way lies increased complexity and decreased reliability.
Why the hell do references exist.
References make it quite clear that a NULL object is not allowed, whereas it is quite common for a function to allow a NULL or non-NULL pointer. While you can write code that dereferences a NULL pointer and assigns that to a reference, it is the responsibility of the programmer who does the dereference to check that the pointer wasn't NULL before doing so. In contrast, it isn't clear whose responsibility it is to check that a pointer argument isn't NULL, and that way lies many, many bugs. (See the above bold, for example.)
You can use new (std::nothrow) if you really want NULL returns on failure.
If you want freedom of speech online, and advertising is speech
In the US, at least, the Supreme Court has ruled that advertising is not protected by the first amendment. Thus we don't have tobacco or hard liquor ads on TV, etc.
Of course, we can argue all day about whether this is a good thing or not...
That's odd, I could have swore we had a budget surplus for the forseeable future....
Unfortunately, we also have the 'boomers starting to retire pretty soon. We also already have a substantial debt ($5.6 trillion) from those years where we had a deficit. And Congress is pushing an Estate Tax elimination bill which won't do a whole heck of a lot for that guy's first paycheck.
You know kiddie, one of these days you will got out of school, get a job, look at your first paycheck and notice 40% of it is going to the government, and you'll suddenly become enlightened as well.
Then maybe one day you'll look at the budget, look at what relatively trivial programs the Republicans propose to reduce spending on, compare it to what they want to spend much more on (defense, law enforcement), and realize that they're not proposing spending any less money.
But they'll cut your taxes -- and thus have to borrow lots of money.
And if you want to learn what wonderful "rights" and "freedoms" the "natural state" gives you, go to the bad part of any major metropolitan area
Actually, go anywhere. We *have* absolute freedom, which includes the freedom to set up governments, establish police forces, ignore poorer communities and leave them in lawlessness, etc.
In the end, the only "obstacles" to freedom are the ones we impose on ourselves.
It is, at its core, paternalistic like manditory seatbelt laws (you can't hurt anyone *else* because you don't wear *your* seatbelt).
Actually, wearing your seat belt helps keep you in control of your car during an accident. Since actions taken after the initial contact may reduce the severity of an accident -- including to other parties -- there is justification for seat belt laws on those grounds.
The same cannot be said for motorcycle helmet laws, and we could use the organ donors anyway...
My short argument for drug legalization goes as follows: Suppose drug enforcement was 100% effective. Do you think people would become temperate, or just drink alcohol instead? Given the number of deaths from drunk drivers and other accidents, the health effects of alcohol, and the relationship between alcohol and crime, I can't see this an improvement.
For the anal retentives among us...
If the quoted text is correct, the book author needs a dictionary. Polygamy is gender-neutral. Polygyny refers specifically to a man having multiple wives, while polyandry is defined as a wife having multiple husbands. Polyamory also refers to love as opposed to marriage, and thus is really rather orthogonal to the other terms.
I suspect that CmdrTaco is tired of folks posting just to raise their Karma to the stratosphere. If the number doesn't seem to change (even if /.'s record does), it might make the game less interesting.
Displaying "Karma: 25+" would probably have the same effect.
Does anyone that low still post? I've only ever seen a couple in the 3 digit range
And I'm damned proud of mine!
Hmm, perhaps I could sell it on ebay...
This may be a little offtopic, but I program a little bit but never in C++ (yet) therefore the meaning of the word 'enums' is strange to me.
enum is short for enumerated type, a type with a list of named possible values. For example:
enum DaysOfTheWeek { Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday };
If you define a variable of this enumerated type, you can't assign other numerical values to it (without forcing it via casts or other mechanisms.
Not a huge deal, but handy, and worthy of mention as a missing item.
His arguement that linux sucks is based on a number.
A number of the errors were labelled Linux 2.3. Others listed 2.3 and earlier kernels. Seems to me that number also includes errors in dev kernels -- do the Windows numbers include errors in Windows alphas and betas? If not, yet another strike...
With all this hacking, is it possible yet to grab the MPEG files the TIVO generates? Or are the drives unreadable on typical systems? Is anyone making a Linux hack to support the TIVO file system if it is not the norm?
You don't want one mechanism, you want many. You don't want one list, you want many. Moreover, censorship or no, you generally don't want the same sites for a five year old versus a 15 year old. If a 10 year old wants information about eyes, a JAMA report on the latest advances in cornea reattachment probably isn't what they want.
So ideally, what you want is many of these lists, created by organizations that at least some people trust. A parent giving their child internet permission could then select "Consumer's Union sites for 10 and under", "Jerry Falwell's favorites", or whatever lists appeal to *them.* But no one gets to choose for someone else's child.
Is the notion of OSS so alien to the Germans that they can't translate it??
No, during World War II, the OSS was the name of the U.S. special forces, so they're very sensitive about it.
I told you not to mention the war! I did once, but I think I got away with it.
"Well, you started it."
"We did not!"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland."