What really bothered me in the movie is the scene where the agents make Neo's mouth disappear.
I mean, if they can excert that kind of control over the human residents of the matrix, why don't they do it more often? Why limit it to a one time acare tactic?
Then you had either a poor C++ compiler or some poor C++ code.
I participated in a conversion of an embedded product to C++.
First, we just compiled the C code as C++ (using the same compiler). The C++ option added a constant (I think it was ~2KB) size overhead and zero runtime overhead during the normal execution (there were several milliseconds added during startup and shutdown).
When we rewrote the program to take advantage of C++ features it ended up slightly smaller and measurably faster as well as more maintainable.
The philosophy of C++ is "you don't pay for features that you don't use". If it didn't work in your case, it was a quality of implementation issue.
Of course, it helps to know the cost of C++ features so you can make an informed decision whether using them is feasible.
Inheritance: no cost. Virtual function call: one level of indirection, same as using a pointer to function in C and usually less than a series of if/else statements or a switch. Passing objects by value: same as passing structures by value in C. Etc...
Two things give C++ a bad name: 1. Exposure to substandard C++ compilers. 2. C programmers that think that they are good C++ programmers.
> Does it even matter to you that human beings evolved from agrarian populations? That much of our metabolic machinery is shared at the molecular level with herbivore species? How much evidence do you need to see that we are, in fact, "designed for" carbohydrate digestion?
The facts disagree with your assertions.
According to a variety of sources (Google is your friend!), the agricultural revolution only happened about 10K years ago - not a lot of time on an evolutionary scale. Prior to that, out hominid ancestors were hunters/gatheres for some 2M years (during which meat was a significant part of their diet).
> One thing I liked in Cowboy Bebop was the sad ending. No happy ending, no hollywood crap, good japanese drama
The problem with "Hollywood crap" is not happy endings. There are movies in which the happy endings come naturally and are quite enjoyable (e.g., The Princess Bride, Ladyhawke and Groundhog Day). The problem is with movies in which the situation goes from bad to worse up until the last 3 minutes and then some deus ex machina miraculously manages to set everything right. The happy ending feels bolted on and the viewer feels cheated.
> It's a clear prior restraint on freedom of speech, so I would expect the ACLU to get involved, never mind the EFF!
In fact, this type of thing has already been ruled unconstitutional in New York at least, thanks to the New York Attorney General:
About a year ago, Eliot Spitzer in New York sued Network Associates for telling people they weren't allowed to write a review of their products without Network Associates approving it first. Now, a New York judge has told Network Associates that they have to remove that language from the packaging of their products and the website, and can't do anything that would bar people from writing reviews of their software products
> Please explain how performing abortions is violating the hypocratic oath, including but not limited to a treatise on whether or not a foetus is considered a patient, at what stage a foetus is considered a patient, and whether the pregnant woman or the foetus is to be considered the patient.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.
Modern physicians use heavily modified versions of the text.
> Nonsense, in most enterprise environments your big smart Windows clients are completely blocked if "the server" or "the network" is down. You can't login, can't use outlook, can't access your documents etc etc etc.
I currently suffer from "collateral damage" stemming from the SARS paranoia (have to stay at home because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time).
The company delivered my Win2K machine so I can still work at home but MIS asked me not to connect it to the internet.
Guess what, the domain profile is cached so I can everything except accessing remote files.
So yea, no email and no updates to the source control repository but I can still do >90% of what I need to.
> These means that we look 20 and 30 years into the future so that we can guarantee that we have the capability to [...] carry out our national policies
> The point of copyright, the very reason for it's existence, and it's only useful function, is to expand the public domain. It does this by offering a limited monopoly in return for the release of works.
The USA has taken the lead in the incarceration rate. It's prison population rate was between 686 (in 2001) and 702 (in 2000) prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, according to various sources.
Also see here and some additional info here. I wonder what were the rates for 2002 and what they are today.
> The United States is not the freedom loving country that alot of people take us for. We jail a higher percentage of our population than any other country. Including China, Iraq, Iran, or North Korea.
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> In Canada you can ask to be removed from the calling list of the company that contacts you, and by law they have to [...]
I never ask to be removed from the list, as those lists are usually ad-hoc and being removed from one does not preclude your number from being (automatically?) put on others.
Instead, I ask whether the telemarketing organization has a do-not-call list and ask to be put on it.
For extra incentive, you may ask the caller to repeat his/her name and the name of his/her supervisor, inform them that any further calls from their organization will be considered harrassment and their names will be on the lawsuit. Then mention that the conversation was recorded.
Slashdot Mirror
Here are some news stroies (Google is your friend):
* Palast, BBC journalist, says war is profit-maker for Bush allies
* Post-war carve-up to benefit CDMA standard, record industry
* Journalist says media is biased on war
I encourage you to check out Greg Palast's site. He is the BBC reporter that the original article mentions and the author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Interesting read.
What really bothered me in the movie is the scene where the agents make Neo's mouth disappear.
I mean, if they can excert that kind of control over the human residents of the matrix, why don't they do it more often? Why limit it to a one time acare tactic?
The article also ignores that inconsistency.
Then you had either a poor C++ compiler or some poor C++ code.
I participated in a conversion of an embedded product to C++.
First, we just compiled the C code as C++ (using the same compiler). The C++ option added a constant (I think it was ~2KB) size overhead and zero runtime overhead during the normal execution (there were several milliseconds added during startup and shutdown).
When we rewrote the program to take advantage of C++ features it ended up slightly smaller and measurably faster as well as more maintainable.
The philosophy of C++ is "you don't pay for features that you don't use". If it didn't work in your case, it was a quality of implementation issue.
Of course, it helps to know the cost of C++ features so you can make an informed decision whether using them is feasible.
Inheritance: no cost.
Virtual function call: one level of indirection, same as using a pointer to function in C and usually less than a series of if/else statements or a switch.
Passing objects by value: same as passing structures by value in C.
Etc...
Two things give C++ a bad name:
1. Exposure to substandard C++ compilers.
2. C programmers that think that they are good C++ programmers.
> Possession of tools for picking a lock is a crime in most places
Fortunately, possession of a tool that may be used to commit rape is not illegal yet.
(Not a troll, just an observation that criminalizing posession is, er, counter-productive.)
> Does it even matter to you that human beings evolved from agrarian populations? That much of our metabolic machinery is shared at the molecular level with herbivore species? How much evidence do you need to see that we are, in fact, "designed for" carbohydrate digestion?
The facts disagree with your assertions.
According to a variety of sources (Google is your friend!), the agricultural revolution only happened about 10K years ago - not a lot of time on an evolutionary scale. Prior to that, out hominid ancestors were hunters/gatheres for some 2M years (during which meat was a significant part of their diet).
> One thing I liked in Cowboy Bebop was the sad ending. No happy ending, no hollywood crap, good japanese drama
The problem with "Hollywood crap" is not happy endings. There are movies in which the happy endings come naturally and are quite enjoyable (e.g., The Princess Bride, Ladyhawke and Groundhog Day). The problem is with movies in which the situation goes from bad to worse up until the last 3 minutes and then some deus ex machina miraculously manages to set everything right. The happy ending feels bolted on and the viewer feels cheated.
In fact, this type of thing has already been ruled unconstitutional in New York at least, thanks to the New York Attorney General: So when can we challenge these?
> Looking at history, America has violent responses in two major causes: mass attacks on civilians/non-combatants, and threats to national security.
Not true.
> Personally, I believe Iraq *does* have chemical weapons.
Of course they do.
The original Hippocratic oath contained the following paragraph:Modern physicians use heavily modified versions of the text.
> Nonsense, in most enterprise environments your big smart Windows clients are completely blocked if "the server" or "the network" is down. You can't login, can't use outlook, can't access your documents etc etc etc.
I currently suffer from "collateral damage" stemming from the SARS paranoia (have to stay at home because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time).
The company delivered my Win2K machine so I can still work at home but MIS asked me not to connect it to the internet.
Guess what, the domain profile is cached so I can everything except accessing remote files.
So yea, no email and no updates to the source control repository but I can still do >90% of what I need to.
> These means that we look 20 and 30 years into the future so that we can guarantee that we have the capability to [...] carry out our national policies
... worldwide.
> The point of copyright, the very reason for it's existence, and it's only useful function, is to expand the public domain. It does this by offering a limited monopoly in return for the release of works.
That's patent, not copyright.
> I can't figure out for the life of me how what they did could be construed to be terrorism.
Allow me to clarify.
Terrorism, n:
Any activity that the US goverment does not like for any reason whatsoever.
Unbelievable.
The USA has taken the lead in the incarceration rate.
It's prison population rate was between 686 (in 2001) and 702 (in 2000) prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, according to various sources.
Also see here and some additional info here.
I wonder what were the rates for 2002 and what they are today.
> The United States is not the freedom loving country that alot of people take us for. We jail a higher percentage of our population than any other country. Including China, Iraq, Iran, or North Korea.
Link please.
> Has to be Kentucky Fried Movie
In that case, you'll love Top secret.
It also talks about robbed-bit signalling, which is in-band.
>> It is a 64Kbps channel
>
> Yes it is.
>
>> 8kb are used for signaling
>
> Absolutely not true.
No, he's right.
Check here for an explanation.
> Whenever I need a program/tool, the first places I look are TinyApps (very small software for Windows), and Tucows.
I suggest you also look at Pricelessware.
"The Pricelessware List reflects the programs favored by members of the newsgroup alt.comp.freeware ; it is not an exhaustive list of the best available Freeware. Most of the listings are well-known programs, but there are some hard-to-find goodies to be discovered."
> Give me a break!
OK.
> They operate with complete dissregard for human life and they need to be stopped.
Like this?
Or, since American citizens are closer to your heart, maybe this will interest you more.
Read parent.
One man's -1 Troll is another's +1 Insightful.
> They see our support of Israel, a country that is doing some truely horiffic things
Like, trying to survive.
Google treats parentheses the same way as it treats most other special characters - it ignores them.
The Google "OR" operator has precedence over the implied "and". There is no way to represent the boolean expression "(A and B) or C" on Google.
Try this query on Google: (platipus psoriasis) OR byzantium.
The number of hits should be a hint.
Please do your homework before calling somebody else "lazy".
No regexp but you did hit on an interesting Google feature:
.
The "OR" operator works inside quoted expressions
Therefore, the following queries work:
- "how to confuse OR annoy a cat"
- "how to confuse | annoy a cat"
> In Canada you can ask to be removed from the calling list of the company that contacts you, and by law they have to [...]
I never ask to be removed from the list, as those lists are usually ad-hoc and being removed from one does not preclude your number from being (automatically?) put on others.
Instead, I ask whether the telemarketing organization has a do-not-call list and ask to be put on it.
For extra incentive, you may ask the caller to repeat his/her name and the name of his/her supervisor, inform them that any further calls from their organization will be considered harrassment and their names will be on the lawsuit. Then mention that the conversation was recorded.