Because I had to look it up: Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid
Thanks dude. I'm sure heaps of us hear don't know what it is. When I first read about it in an Agatha Christie book from 1914 or something I was stunned that she'd mention such an uncommon drug without giving the proper name.
On the other hand, most of the clay tablets didn't preserve photographs or anything else other than something deemed "important". There is a lot of past that we cannot learn from clay tablets. The other issue is that not all clay tablets are readable at all! There are still clay tablets written in languages that we cannot translate, so this is similar to "digital documents can't be viewed without software". We simply cannot read them. So that's not a new problem. Therefore I don't agree with "The earlier media seem to have a kind of timeless longevity". Sure there's a bunch of squiggles carved into the clay but that doesn't help much if we cannot understand what the squiggles mean.
I agree that longevity issue is something that needs to be addressed somehow and I often thought about the same issue. Even with my personal data/information/photos I worry about longevity. It's a difficult problem.
Years ago when I first started reading slashdot, a story about Linux kernel release (even though they often weren't all that interesting) generated interesting discussions. I see just 2 comments here so far that are not stupid. The rest are bad attempts at trolling, or for some reason using the story to talk about systemd, or very bad attempts at humour (humour is better than the rest of the shit though... I like humour if it's actually funny). It seems that the real nerds have abandoned slashdot entirely:(
Prefixing the subroutine with it's name does not address the issue that the variables are global and therefore useless in making them any more useful for recursion (i.e. they're still useless). The [subroutine-name]_init variable is also useless for recursion. The only way you can do what the OP is suggesting (i.e. recursion when all variables are global) is to implement your own stack for every subroutine that needs to recursively call itself.
Well, the other thing to consider is that you don't have to publish the GPL source code at all: you need to make it available if somebody asks for it. Has anyone asked for it?
Quatrain I "An enormous and mighty ring is watched by the one who watches. Motes whirl at tremendous speeds, colliding and generating unimaginable amounts of energy. The eye that watches searches relentlessly for forbidden knowledge and becomes consumed by its fascination with the ring. Days, weeks and months pass and the motes continue hurling themselves towards each other in a battle that culminates in destruction."
Quatrain V "The fourth Antichrist engages in war upon Little Beach and the beach is swamped by the incoming tide. The influence and control that Little Beach has held is lost as another takes his place."
Quatrain III "The doors opened and the windows closed. A great wind blows against the windows causing them to buckle and bend; the pressure slowly builds and erodes away at the very foundations that support the windows."
We could start with the idea that Earth and humans aren't all that special first
I did not state or imply that either the Earth or humans are special.
... before moving on to this universe maybe not being the center of the multiverse.
What multiverse? If you read what I wrote, I said: "Who is to say that "our" universe it not the only universe?" and then asked that if there was only one universe (ours) then there is nothing to compare it against and, therefore, there is nothing to compare our universe with to classify our universe as special or not special.
If you are stating that a mutiverse is an established scientific theory or law then I must have missed the paper. As far as I know the multiverse hypothesis isn't even testable and therefore not science; it's more akin to blind faith or religion.
that there are lots of different type of bananas being eaten every day...we only get one type here in america....but if you go to the tropics you will see lots of different types of bananas, so I am sure there will be a replacement.
Most of the bananas in the tropics (i.e. Musa spp.) are full of seeds. The "edible" varieties of banana do not contain developed seeds, and this lack of developed seeds is what consumers want. That's why all the varieties of "edible banana" are cloned. I have eaten (well, tried to eat) species of banana that are full of seeds and they're not exactly palatable.
Is that a roundabout way of saying that some complete and utter moron has been feeding the antibiotic of last resort to pigs in order to boost his profit margins and the resulting resistant bacteria are now spreading to humans? I could be wrong about that of course since I am not a bacteriologist, so for what other reason would polymyxins resistance be widespread in Chinese pigs and now spreading to humans?
Essentially, yes.
China is one of the world's largest users and producers of colistin for agriculture and veterinary use.
Except that the antibiotic that Fenical and his team discovered is anthracimycin not anthramycin. Pretty big difference in those two even if they're spelt similarly. The article should have made sure they got the spelling correct.
Since when did whiskey have to be consumed if it wasn't refrigerated? I mean any excuse will do, but I think that example is taking things a little too far.
The US is the supreme country and if they bombed a hospital full of innocent people then you can be sure that there was a damn good reason. I suspect that there was probably a secret rocket base, terrorist enclave, or laboratory developing weapons of mass destruction secreted within the hospital. It's well known that terrorists use hospitals and other public places full of defenceless and innocents to deter retaliation by supremacist governments. That's why they build hospitals in those countries: to hide terrorists. It's quite obvious and they need to be eliminated whatever the cost.
The death and torture camps run by the US, which are full of Jews... err, Muslims, extract vital intel from these extremists and undesirables every single day. Do people really suggest that this intel should be ignored? The only obvious course of action is to destroy more civilian targets (which are, after all, probably full of Muslims anyway so no harm is really done). Peace and the oppression of terrorism is the highest priority so these costs are acceptable.
Wait... this is starting to sound a whole lot like another story I've read in my history books:(
Following your logic, there may be Taliban command centres in Afghanistan; and therefore it's ok to nuke the entire country.
Yes, I can see you have your finger on the pulse!
Would the better response not have been to send in a crack team of top US otters (or are they called seals? I always get confused) to eliminate the alleged command centre thus reducing off-target damage? You're saying that just bombing the shit out of a whole neighbourhood is better? I think you need to go masturbate and fire forth semen across your sacred flag again. Idiot.
As far as Windows goes I am happy to tolerate it for the games that I play that do not have a Linux port yet. So there is no way in hell I am upgrading to 8 or 10.
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Because I had to look it up: Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid
Thanks dude. I'm sure heaps of us hear don't know what it is. When I first read about it in an Agatha Christie book from 1914 or something I was stunned that she'd mention such an uncommon drug without giving the proper name.
The recording (from TFA) that I listened to was certainly not from 1951. The computer generated music from the start was but that's all.
She sounds like she's enjoying herself. and has a lovely voice. Who says woman are kept out of computing by men? They were some of the early pioneers.
They did mention her name... Nemone Metaxas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemone)
On the other hand, most of the clay tablets didn't preserve photographs or anything else other than something deemed "important". There is a lot of past that we cannot learn from clay tablets. The other issue is that not all clay tablets are readable at all! There are still clay tablets written in languages that we cannot translate, so this is similar to "digital documents can't be viewed without software". We simply cannot read them. So that's not a new problem. Therefore I don't agree with "The earlier media seem to have a kind of timeless longevity". Sure there's a bunch of squiggles carved into the clay but that doesn't help much if we cannot understand what the squiggles mean.
I agree that longevity issue is something that needs to be addressed somehow and I often thought about the same issue. Even with my personal data/information/photos I worry about longevity. It's a difficult problem.
Years ago when I first started reading slashdot, a story about Linux kernel release (even though they often weren't all that interesting) generated interesting discussions. I see just 2 comments here so far that are not stupid. The rest are bad attempts at trolling, or for some reason using the story to talk about systemd, or very bad attempts at humour (humour is better than the rest of the shit though... I like humour if it's actually funny). It seems that the real nerds have abandoned slashdot entirely :(
Prefixing the subroutine with it's name does not address the issue that the variables are global and therefore useless in making them any more useful for recursion (i.e. they're still useless). The [subroutine-name]_init variable is also useless for recursion. The only way you can do what the OP is suggesting (i.e. recursion when all variables are global) is to implement your own stack for every subroutine that needs to recursively call itself.
Well, the other thing to consider is that you don't have to publish the GPL source code at all: you need to make it available if somebody asks for it. Has anyone asked for it?
Quatrain I
"An enormous and mighty ring is watched by the one who watches. Motes whirl at tremendous speeds, colliding and generating unimaginable amounts of energy. The eye that watches searches relentlessly for forbidden knowledge and becomes consumed by its fascination with the ring. Days, weeks and months pass and the motes continue hurling themselves towards each other in a battle that culminates in destruction."
Quatrain V
"The fourth Antichrist engages in war upon Little Beach and the beach is swamped by the incoming tide. The influence and control that Little Beach has held is lost as another takes his place."
Quatrain III
"The doors opened and the windows closed. A great wind blows against the windows causing them to buckle and bend; the pressure slowly builds and erodes away at the very foundations that support the windows."
We could start with the idea that Earth and humans aren't all that special first
I did not state or imply that either the Earth or humans are special.
... before moving on to this universe maybe not being the center of the multiverse.
What multiverse? If you read what I wrote, I said: "Who is to say that "our" universe it not the only universe?" and then asked that if there was only one universe (ours) then there is nothing to compare it against and, therefore, there is nothing to compare our universe with to classify our universe as special or not special.
If you are stating that a mutiverse is an established scientific theory or law then I must have missed the paper. As far as I know the multiverse hypothesis isn't even testable and therefore not science; it's more akin to blind faith or religion.
Why would our universe be special? Who is to say that "our" universe it not the only universe? And, in that case, special compared to what?
Banana (plants) can, and do, sexually reproduce. They're just full of seeds and not particularly nice to eat.
that there are lots of different type of bananas being eaten every day...we only get one type here in america....but if you go to the tropics you will see lots of different types of bananas, so I am sure there will be a replacement.
Most of the bananas in the tropics (i.e. Musa spp.) are full of seeds. The "edible" varieties of banana do not contain developed seeds, and this lack of developed seeds is what consumers want. That's why all the varieties of "edible banana" are cloned. I have eaten (well, tried to eat) species of banana that are full of seeds and they're not exactly palatable.
Why is there an article as well, when the question has already been answered?
Is that a roundabout way of saying that some complete and utter moron has been feeding the antibiotic of last resort to pigs in order to boost his profit margins and the resulting resistant bacteria are now spreading to humans? I could be wrong about that of course since I am not a bacteriologist, so for what other reason would polymyxins resistance be widespread in Chinese pigs and now spreading to humans?
Essentially, yes.
China is one of the world's largest users and producers of colistin for agriculture and veterinary use.
(Source: TFA)
So does Linux!
Except that the antibiotic that Fenical and his team discovered is anthracimycin not anthramycin. Pretty big difference in those two even if they're spelt similarly. The article should have made sure they got the spelling correct.
Even then it's not exactly parse-able.
Not my fault! I saw the word "whiskey" and immediately drank all my supplies just in case.
Oh ffs. I read the summary incorrectly. Serves me right for drinking all my whiskey in fear that it would spoil.
Since when did whiskey have to be consumed if it wasn't refrigerated? I mean any excuse will do, but I think that example is taking things a little too far.
The US is the supreme country and if they bombed a hospital full of innocent people then you can be sure that there was a damn good reason. I suspect that there was probably a secret rocket base, terrorist enclave, or laboratory developing weapons of mass destruction secreted within the hospital. It's well known that terrorists use hospitals and other public places full of defenceless and innocents to deter retaliation by supremacist governments. That's why they build hospitals in those countries: to hide terrorists. It's quite obvious and they need to be eliminated whatever the cost.
The death and torture camps run by the US, which are full of Jews... err, Muslims, extract vital intel from these extremists and undesirables every single day. Do people really suggest that this intel should be ignored? The only obvious course of action is to destroy more civilian targets (which are, after all, probably full of Muslims anyway so no harm is really done). Peace and the oppression of terrorism is the highest priority so these costs are acceptable.
Wait... this is starting to sound a whole lot like another story I've read in my history books :(
Following your logic, there may be Taliban command centres in Afghanistan; and therefore it's ok to nuke the entire country.
Yes, I can see you have your finger on the pulse!
Would the better response not have been to send in a crack team of top US otters (or are they called seals? I always get confused) to eliminate the alleged command centre thus reducing off-target damage? You're saying that just bombing the shit out of a whole neighbourhood is better? I think you need to go masturbate and fire forth semen across your sacred flag again. Idiot.
The US is not at war. Therefore it's murder.
So, why should anyone expect China to?
In fact, if I was a Chinese government official I'd be laughing at anything the US suggests. Maybe I'd sign the pact just for a joke though.
As far as Windows goes I am happy to tolerate it for the games that I play that do not have a Linux port yet. So there is no way in hell I am upgrading to 8 or 10.
Using this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
I am fairly confident that those fuckers can't force something onto me I don't want (especially since I compiled it with TDM-gcc
C:\Users\Pyshcotria\Code> checkversion.exe
Windows10YoureFuckedOrGreater
C:\Users\Pyshcotria\Code>
Seems fine