Well, the shows they have that pull in steady viewers, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Sanctuary...are not "Dramas", they are Science-Fiction stories. They focus on a "sci-fi" problem and a solution for it. The characters reaction to the problem, drives the human interest.
Caprica and SGU decided to take a different approach. They made the characters the central part of the story. The robots and spaceships are just there to make them mad at each other. That's not science-fiction, that's afternoon-soap-opera crap.
I think you got it backwards. Characters being the central part of the story and robots and spaceships just serving as background and mood-setters are the hallmark of good Science Fiction. The other way around you get afternoon-space-opera crap.
Now try doing the same thing in C. First, C has no bit type, so you'd need to get the byte corresponding to the flags field and then mask it to get the SYN flag.
Technically, C has bit fields although in practice they are best avoided due to the alignment and ordering being implementation defined.
My company took the opposite stance: there is no distinction between sick and vacation days; they are all personal days. The only caveat is calling in sick on more than four different instances within a twelve month period is strongly discouraged. The wording is "grounds for termination," but I suspect that is a soft rule.
Option #1: Next time you're feeling unwell, do come to the office and do your best to look very sick. Cough and sneeze as much as possible (forget to cover your mouth when near management or HR. If anybody complains, say that unless the current policy is revoked, you just cannot afford to take chances. Punctuate by vomiting on their shoes.
Option #2: send your resume out and try to find a more reasonable employer.
You apparently missed the sarcasm, they also killed 30 of our sailors during the six day war
You're referring to the >a href=https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident>USS Liberty incident, are you not? While tragic and regrettable, let me point out that you've been much more efficient than the Israelis killing your own troops (not to mention Brits, Canadians and your other allies).
But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
One part not wanting to have sex anymore. By Swedish law, you are then required to stop, and not doing so is considered rape (but often with mitigating circumstances).
Assuming this goes to court, both parties agree that the sex started as consensual. The girl says she asked him to stop at some point, the guy says she never did. What is the standard of evidence?
The BDSM communities have respected this for a long time, and know the value of having a safe word that must never be violated. For non-BSDM, that word is "stop".
The only way to fix things is to: 1) make corporate lobbying illegal and put all politicians' dealings in the open, and 2) perform an evidence-based reform of copyright law to restore it to a reasonable length and scope.
In other news, the council of sheep reached the conclusion that the best way of fixing things is a mandatory muzzle on all wolves. The only remaining problem is implementation.
Seizure is a legal principle where no human being is accused of a crime. Instead, the government files a complaint against the property itself, and then finds it guilty of crime. The constitution only grants human rights to humans, so the theory is that all those constitutional protections don't apply.
Can I use the same procedure to file a civil lawsuit against government property?
Typical fines dished out recently by the courts in Sweden... Murder: 75000kr (£6825) Rape of a 14 year old girl: 50000kr (£4550) Pirate Bay fine for aiding Copyright infringment: 46000000kr (£4.1 million)
So now you know the relative value of human life in the corporatist society.
I personally would prefer we just stop using grammar. If the intention is clear then does it really matter?
"If the intention is clear" is the imperative part.
We Slashdot readers are a diverse bunch. Some of us have worse command of the English language than others and the cues that good grammar provides help us understand the intention better (or quicker).
English is my third language. When I read a grammatically malformed post, I often have to pause and "re-parse" it to make sure that I understood it correctly -- sort of like reading non-idiomatic code in the programming language of your choice. I do get your meaning but it may take more time.
In short, using good grammar is just polite, like saying "please" and "thank you".
PS, The above applies tenfold for splitting a sentence between the subject and the comment body. If I had a bullet for every person that does that...
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I'll call your Firefly and raise you one Farscape.
I think you got it backwards. Characters being the central part of the story and robots and spaceships just serving as background and mood-setters are the hallmark of good Science Fiction. The other way around you get afternoon-space-opera crap.
You are absolutely correct. I can even suggest how tightening up spending can easily save them over $40M/year.
If?
And you can't pass it on without my permission!
Here ya go
Technically, C has bit fields although in practice they are best avoided due to the alignment and ordering being implementation defined.
It should have been a Geometry Prize.
What's next? Afghanistan to host a Women's Rights convention?
Option #1: Next time you're feeling unwell, do come to the office and do your best to look very sick. Cough and sneeze as much as possible (forget to cover your mouth when near management or HR. If anybody complains, say that unless the current policy is revoked, you just cannot afford to take chances. Punctuate by vomiting on their shoes.
Option #2: send your resume out and try to find a more reasonable employer.
PS, what's with the tiny input box on "idle"?
Concise and to the point.
You're referring to the >a href=https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident>USS Liberty incident, are you not?
While tragic and regrettable, let me point out that you've been much more efficient than the Israelis killing your own troops (not to mention Brits, Canadians and your other allies).
Smart governments learned that lessons and now spend quite a bit of effort to keep their people from becoming determined.
But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Found any lately?
That would require acting in a very un-sheeplike manner.
Assuming this goes to court, both parties agree that the sex started as consensual. The girl says she asked him to stop at some point, the guy says she never did. What is the standard of evidence?
And in BDSM communitites, the word is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
Repeatedly.
Because the DHS cannot handle the workload?
In other news, the council of sheep reached the conclusion that the best way of fixing things is a mandatory muzzle on all wolves.
The only remaining problem is implementation.
Can I use the same procedure to file a civil lawsuit against government property?
So now you know the relative value of human life in the corporatist society.
Why the fuck do you need $100 million to make a movie???
Phuck oph yourselph.
"If the intention is clear" is the imperative part.
We Slashdot readers are a diverse bunch. Some of us have worse command of the English language than others and the cues that good grammar provides help us understand the intention better (or quicker).
English is my third language. When I read a grammatically malformed post, I often have to pause and "re-parse" it to make sure that I understood it correctly -- sort of like reading non-idiomatic code in the programming language of your choice. I do get your meaning but it may take more time.
In short, using good grammar is just polite, like saying "please" and "thank you".
PS,
The above applies tenfold for splitting a sentence between the subject and the comment body. If I had a bullet for every person that does that...