You say that, but for me, (and probably many people) I just wouldn't want to put that much time into one thing. Yes, I enjoy my job, it could be better, but I enjoy it. However, I don't want to spend any more time doing it - there's enough other things in my life that just can't be part of a job - playing with my family, reading, even just vegging out.
There's nothing I'd really want to do for more than 9:00 - 5:30.
>> Now the terrorists have won! > As a matter of fact, they have... [terrorism] is a about destroying a lifestyle and beliefs..
No it's not. As far as I can tell, the aims of terrorists are:
a) To change the foreign policy of their target state b) To take revenge for the previous foreign policy actions of the target state
The whole 'they hate us because of our freedom / they want to destroy our way of life' red herring is just a way of dehumanising them, and an attempt to make their motives seem so alien to us that we fail to object to any methods used to counteract them.
On a related note, the oft-used phrase 'The terroists have already won' is also seldom true. The destruction of a building or an airliner may be a victory for them, but it does not in general get them any closer to their eventual aim: foreign policy change. The destruction of our freedom at home doesn't further their aims in any way, and I doubt that they celebrate it at all.
I think we can take it as read that when he says he can do WTF he likes with it, he's ruling out activities that break the law. He's also not allowed to stick it into a spud cannon and shoot it at his Congressman, but there's no real need to point that out.
a) The operation will be done on a modern PC rather than a less powerful, embedded platform. b) The operation will only have to be done once. c) The operation will only have to appear quick to a human.
Take, for example a game being written on a Sony PSP. You've got a 222Mhz processor, and to keep a steady 30fps, you need to get all your processing for a frame over in 33ms. Perhaps you've got some to sort some data once per frame for each of the fifty AI agents in the scene, and you're only prepared to spend 1ms / frame to do it. Suddenly you've only got 44,000 cycles to do the sort in. The choice of algorithm (even if each list you sort is pretty small) is going to be very important.
There are many other situations where you need to sort even quite a short list in a very short amount of time, normally because you will have to sort that list many times a second.
I can see that Flickr might be unwilling to do such a thing. As one of the other posters mentioned, it's quite easy to accidentally flag your work with the wrong license, and people do change their minds on such things. If a history was provided, any photos that had ever been CC licensed would end up being fair game, as anybody could just look through the history and claim that they had downloaded it when it was CC licensed.
They don't know that it won't work, and they have to give it a try. Perhaps there's some deal they can make that doesn't involve Berezovsky. Certainly it's in the best interests of both countries not to get into a big diplomatic tizzy about it. The question is whether the Russians believe that the British politicians really can't do anything sending Berezovsky.
The UK may have to hand over a scummy billionaire who profited immensely off of the rush to privatize Russia, which would be cool: two scumbags busted for the price of one.
Actually, the courts have already ruled that Boris Berezovsky cannot be returned to Russia, so even if there was the political will to return him, it seems unlikely that they could do anything about it.
As a major force in the worldwide economy, the US would resist bills that look like play monopoly money.
I doubt many other countries in the world would have any problems with coloured money, as most other countries have coloured money already. I understand the Monopoly link that exists in the US psyche, but it'll make little difference to everybody else.
Companies that have a real need for lots of domains will have the resources to pay the higher rates for them, but it will become uneconomic for squatters to buy every domain they can think of just so they can screw over someone who could actually do something useful with it.
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You just need to know enough vi to install Some Other Editor.
On a side note, don't you just love those British 3-prong plugs? Just be careful not to step on one in the middle of the night barefoot!:-)
Yes, they do hurt to step on, but I do like the design, apart from their size. If they were about 2/3rds of their current size, they'd be great.
One aspect I really like about them is that the ground terminal is longer than the other two, which is used to slide a shutter in the socket out of the way to allow the live and neutral pins to plug in to the socket. This makes it difficult to poke things into the socket, which is great if you have small children.
a) America's population is approximately 5x that of England. While I do REALIXE this is not directly relevant to the "per capita" crime rate, it is relevant in that it is my observation that the more people one packs into an area, the greater the opportunities for social friction leading to violence.
America's population may be five times the size of the UK's, but it occupies forty times the space. The population density of the UK is eight times as high as the US.
b) America has a far more diverse mix of conflicting cultures than England has. As a simplistic example...when I listen to the BBC over the Net (which is a GREAT service, by the by), It is almost impossible to tell WHAT the race of the speaker is. England's school system does such a job of training to a sandard voice that it eliminates that variation almost completely. America does NOTHING to force folks to a common voice, so there is a tendency towards citizens placing their identity of origin ABOVE that of their identity as an American citizen. "CHinese-American" is a common label; "American-Chinese" is not.
That's really not true. There is a large variety of regional accents in the UK, just as there is in the US. This 'standard voice' you speak of really doesn't exist. What you're probably talking about is 'received pronunciation', which was the standard way of speaking for the upper-middle classes, and still exists to an extent today. However, it's not taught in any way in shcools and people just pick it up from their parents, although it's normally tempered with local regional accent as well. The US is similar in this regard.
As for cultures, the UK has inhabitants from most of the rest of the former British Empire; from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. However, most non-local cultural diversity tends to be found in urban areas rather than rural. Urban areas account for about (IIRC) 80% of the population.
c) America is a FAR younger culture than England...and youth is almost always more fiery than maturity. It's possible that's true with people, but I'm not sure you can apply that to countries.
Assembly is like a sharp scalpel. Yes you can hurt yourself if you're unskilled, inexperienced or sloppy. C++ is like those scissors with rounded ends for kids. Totally inefficent but safe for beginners.
Now, I agree the 'inneficient' comparison isn't valid, but the rest is. C# (and to a lesser extent, Java) is not so much about being easier as they are about being more productive to use. Now, I agree with Joel that you do need programmers who can happily code in C++, but there's no reason why you should neccesarily use it for your project, especially if it results in the project being completed more quickly, or with less people.
Well, that's all very well saying that some people shouldn't have kids, but they go ahead and do so anyway. Tut-tutting the parents won't help the children at all.
You're right, it's not the government's responsibility to raise people's kids, but I think that in a civilised society, the government does have some responsibilities towards its most vulnerable citizens, the children themselves.
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Just how tall are you?
UK iTunes customers currently pay 79p per track. That's the equivalent of around $1.50.
You say that, but for me, (and probably many people) I just wouldn't want to put that much time into one thing. Yes, I enjoy my job, it could be better, but I enjoy it. However, I don't want to spend any more time doing it - there's enough other things in my life that just can't be part of a job - playing with my family, reading, even just vegging out.
There's nothing I'd really want to do for more than 9:00 - 5:30.
>> Now the terrorists have won!
> As a matter of fact, they have... [terrorism] is a about destroying a lifestyle and beliefs..
No it's not. As far as I can tell, the aims of terrorists are:
a) To change the foreign policy of their target state
b) To take revenge for the previous foreign policy actions of the target state
The whole 'they hate us because of our freedom / they want to destroy our way of life' red herring is just a way of dehumanising them, and an attempt to make their motives seem so alien to us that we fail to object to any methods used to counteract them.
On a related note, the oft-used phrase 'The terroists have already won' is also seldom true. The destruction of a building or an airliner may be a victory for them, but it does not in general get them any closer to their eventual aim: foreign policy change. The destruction of our freedom at home doesn't further their aims in any way, and I doubt that they celebrate it at all.
To be fair, with Steam you can go into 'Offline Mode', which locks the games to that PC until you choose to log in again.
I think we can take it as read that when he says he can do WTF he likes with it, he's ruling out activities that break the law. He's also not allowed to stick it into a spud cannon and shoot it at his Congressman, but there's no real need to point that out.
You're assuming that:
a) The operation will be done on a modern PC rather than a less powerful, embedded platform.
b) The operation will only have to be done once.
c) The operation will only have to appear quick to a human.
Take, for example a game being written on a Sony PSP. You've got a 222Mhz processor, and to keep a steady 30fps, you need to get all your processing for a frame over in 33ms. Perhaps you've got some to sort some data once per frame for each of the fifty AI agents in the scene, and you're only prepared to spend 1ms / frame to do it. Suddenly you've only got 44,000 cycles to do the sort in. The choice of algorithm (even if each list you sort is pretty small) is going to be very important.
There are many other situations where you need to sort even quite a short list in a very short amount of time, normally because you will have to sort that list many times a second.
I can see that Flickr might be unwilling to do such a thing. As one of the other posters mentioned, it's quite easy to accidentally flag your work with the wrong license, and people do change their minds on such things. If a history was provided, any photos that had ever been CC licensed would end up being fair game, as anybody could just look through the history and claim that they had downloaded it when it was CC licensed.
They don't know that it won't work, and they have to give it a try. Perhaps there's some deal they can make that doesn't involve Berezovsky. Certainly it's in the best interests of both countries not to get into a big diplomatic tizzy about it. The question is whether the Russians believe that the British politicians really can't do anything sending Berezovsky.
The UK may have to hand over a scummy billionaire who profited immensely off of the rush to privatize Russia, which would be cool: two scumbags busted for the price of one.
Actually, the courts have already ruled that Boris Berezovsky cannot be returned to Russia, so even if there was the political will to return him, it seems unlikely that they could do anything about it.
As a major force in the worldwide economy, the US would resist bills that look like play monopoly money.
I doubt many other countries in the world would have any problems with coloured money, as most other countries have coloured money already. I understand the Monopoly link that exists in the US psyche, but it'll make little difference to everybody else.
Nobody is gonna laugh at you!
Companies that have a real need for lots of domains will have the resources to pay the higher rates for them, but it will become uneconomic for squatters to buy every domain they can think of just so they can screw over someone who could actually do something useful with it.
You just need to know enough vi to install Some Other Editor.
On a side note, don't you just love those British 3-prong plugs? Just be careful not to step on one in the middle of the night barefoot! :-)
Yes, they do hurt to step on, but I do like the design, apart from their size. If they were about 2/3rds of their current size, they'd be great.
One aspect I really like about them is that the ground terminal is longer than the other two, which is used to slide a shutter in the socket out of the way to allow the live and neutral pins to plug in to the socket. This makes it difficult to poke things into the socket, which is great if you have small children.
True, but it doesn't excite marketing as much :-P
I agree, but calling it threeaxesandthreedimensions doesn't get you a snappy palindromic name.
The six axes I think refers to being able to sense acceleration in each axis plus rotation around each axis.
It's not clear to me which side you're talking about here...
a) America's population is approximately 5x that of England. While I do REALIXE this is not directly relevant to the "per capita" crime rate, it is relevant in that it is my observation that the more people one packs into an area, the greater the opportunities for social friction leading to violence.
America's population may be five times the size of the UK's, but it occupies forty times the space. The population density of the UK is eight times as high as the US.
b) America has a far more diverse mix of conflicting cultures than England has. As a simplistic example...when I listen to the BBC over the Net (which is a GREAT service, by the by), It is almost impossible to tell WHAT the race of the speaker is. England's school system does such a job of training to a sandard voice that it eliminates that variation almost completely. America does NOTHING to force folks to a common voice, so there is a tendency towards citizens placing their identity of origin ABOVE that of their identity as an American citizen. "CHinese-American" is a common label; "American-Chinese" is not.
That's really not true. There is a large variety of regional accents in the UK, just as there is in the US. This 'standard voice' you speak of really doesn't exist. What you're probably talking about is 'received pronunciation', which was the standard way of speaking for the upper-middle classes, and still exists to an extent today. However, it's not taught in any way in shcools and people just pick it up from their parents, although it's normally tempered with local regional accent as well. The US is similar in this regard.
As for cultures, the UK has inhabitants from most of the rest of the former British Empire; from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. However, most non-local cultural diversity tends to be found in urban areas rather than rural. Urban areas account for about (IIRC) 80% of the population.
c) America is a FAR younger culture than England...and youth is almost always more fiery than maturity.
It's possible that's true with people, but I'm not sure you can apply that to countries.
There is a very simple PHP-based server that I came across a while ago, although it's pretty much a minimal implementation.
Irritatingly, I can't find it now, though...
Assembly is like a sharp scalpel. Yes you can hurt yourself if you're unskilled, inexperienced or sloppy.
C++ is like those scissors with rounded ends for kids. Totally inefficent but safe for beginners.
Now, I agree the 'inneficient' comparison isn't valid, but the rest is. C# (and to a lesser extent, Java) is not so much about being easier as they are about being more productive to use. Now, I agree with Joel that you do need programmers who can happily code in C++, but there's no reason why you should neccesarily use it for your project, especially if it results in the project being completed more quickly, or with less people.
Well in America, that's what we believe.
I don't really think you're qualified to speak for all Americans, although your beliefs may be more common there than is some other countries.
Well, I disagree with you on that, but I guess one's opinions on the matter are axiomatic.
Well, that's all very well saying that some people shouldn't have kids, but they go ahead and do so anyway. Tut-tutting the parents won't help the children at all.
You're right, it's not the government's responsibility to raise people's kids, but I think that in a civilised society, the government does have some responsibilities towards its most vulnerable citizens, the children themselves.