It was the last day of school for the summer, that warm day in 1993. My friends and I were excited--our parents were carting us off to the mall. We had to make a choice... Jurassic Park... or... Super Mario Bros.. We choose Mario Brothers. I'll never forget it, because afterwards all but two of my friends killed themselves over the decision (OK not really, but we ALL wanted to). I still have nightmares about it.
Bitching about the "SPIRIT" of the GPL, LGPL, whatever, are retarded. Seriously. Look, if the developers wanted to be dicks about it they could have (and should have) released their KHTML shit under a license that explicitly stated their desires.
SPIRIT schmirit.
Their behavior boils down to "Wah, I offered my friend a lollipop and he took it."
The stock market is not about revenue. It is about expected revenue.
And the (theoretical) stock price is the present value of dividends on said stock into perpetuity. So, just knowing the growth rate of revenues doesn't really tell us a whole lot unless we know how much of that they return as dividends to the stock holder. This is why it was baffling that, in years past, Microsoft's stock was priced so high--they used to not pay dividends, thereby making their theoretical stock price $0.
Because A) Not everyone who uses a library frequently has the $$$ to plop down on a book, even temporarily. One of the benefits of libraries is that the books are for everyone and not just us rich snobs who go to barnes and nobles every day. B) Sane people will not appreciate the library holding their dough unless they credit a decent amount of interest. Sure, it's only for a few weeks, but that money can add up fast (see: Office Space, Superman, etc).
* Syntax (bad): Lack of a requirement to declare vars before use. I really would like the ability to require that all vars are explicitly declared before being assigned to. it would help coding reliability.
To me, this would sort of be a waste of time - I mean, how do you suggest that would work? Something like:
var name
name = 'Bob';
? Python is dynamically typed, so declaring "name" gives us no further information about the variable "name" other than the fact it exists (which is pretty well obvious just by looking at the assignment). I sort of see where you're coming from, but I don't think this sits well in a dynamically typed language - which is why you don't see it in PHP, Ruby or Perl. You can do something like:
my $var;
Even if it was simply "var myvar" type declaration, it would end the problem of reading through someone else's code, seeing a strange variable name and having to scroll back up through the function to see if it is new or not.. VB is the same way, if you don't use "Option Explicit" (I hate VB with a passion), and it becomes very tedious to even maintain your own code. At least to people like me and grandparent who are used to coding in C and it's kin.
What a fantastic idea! Perhaps we shouldn't make any effert to deter crime! After all, we are INSURED!! Rob my house? Go right ahead! I have a shiny new homeowner's policy--no sweat! Murder my wife? PLEASE DO! This 500k life insurance policy is just swell.
Perhaps YOUR country should consider what effect people LIKE YOU have on YOUR society.
An IPod takes $10,000 to fill up, but you get the songs forever.
How much will it take to guarantee you get Napster songs forever? Assuming they stay open for all time, assuming their price remains constant (HAHAH) and assuming a 2% savings account, you will need to deposit $5,994 to pay $9.99 a month forever.
I just canceled my account today, after (and this has been grating in my mind for sometime now) a young member of my guild asked a player who was level 60: "Wow, XxX, what is it like to be level 60?" To which he replied: "It's pretty cool. I just started a new undead toon." Granted this has nothing to do with gold farming--but I seriously don't see how there was a market for such things.
Compared to DAOC, at least, there is NOTHING to do in WoW after you reach the pinnacle. In other MMORPGs, you could buy a house, fight enemy realms for something tangible, etc. In WoW, you either continually raid the same dungeon or start a new toon. "But you can raid towns!" Sure, what's the fucking point? There is no penalty for death and no reward for taking over a town (for 5 minutes before the NPCs respawn).
"But the honor system will change this!" The honor system as currently outlined sucks ass. I don't have time to play forty-hours a week just to have the best items just so I can kill more players just so I can get more honor just so I can get better items.
Don't even get me started on the social aspect of the game--it just doesn't exist. There is no situation where concerted group effort is required as all fucktards can easily succeed in the grouping game.
I think Apple could come up with a better name than "iHome"; that is retarded in the strictest short-yellow bus sense possible. Now if you excuse me, I have to go type some things up in iWork while listening to my iPod which is powered by iTunes. iRule.
The number of technological civilizations in the galaxy we can communicate with is equal to the product of the probabilites/numbers on the other side of the equal sign.
Nonsense. This would be like saying you can predict the number of times a coin will come up heads by multiplying it by 1/2 (the probability); you have a good indicator of how many you can "expect," but that by itself is meaningless. (e.g., you still need to know the variance to make any reasonable claims)
The Drake Equation is the "Expected Number" of intelligent civilizations we could expect to "talk to" given infinite universes.
Ergo, the number of civilizations we can "talk to" is really a random variable and to even pretend to know any of the probabilities is, to me, stretching it.
If she ordered less than $50 worth of smokes at a time. When crossing the border from Canada to Detroit, they taxed you then and there if you had more than two cartons of cigarettes (from the duty-free shop) with you.
When did I say that? I said "if the rest of the world cares about it so much and cannot converse the US otherwise, the logical next step would be force." Nowhere did I say either course of action, or the Kyoto treaty for that matter, were right or wrong. Morality is not an issue here.
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There is a link on their website for the entire pdf.
It was the last day of school for the summer, that warm day in 1993. My friends and I were excited--our parents were carting us off to the mall. We had to make a choice... Jurassic Park... or... Super Mario Bros.. We choose Mario Brothers. I'll never forget it, because afterwards all but two of my friends killed themselves over the decision (OK not really, but we ALL wanted to). I still have nightmares about it.
Efficiencies of scale for manufacturing... sure.. But for service?? (which when you come down to it is what government is) Are you frackin nuts?
hmmmm batter. tasty TW Pancakes.
Bitching about the "SPIRIT" of the GPL, LGPL, whatever, are retarded. Seriously. Look, if the developers wanted to be dicks about it they could have (and should have) released their KHTML shit under a license that explicitly stated their desires.
SPIRIT schmirit.
Their behavior boils down to "Wah, I offered my friend a lollipop and he took it."
And the (theoretical) stock price is the present value of dividends on said stock into perpetuity. So, just knowing the growth rate of revenues doesn't really tell us a whole lot unless we know how much of that they return as dividends to the stock holder. This is why it was baffling that, in years past, Microsoft's stock was priced so high--they used to not pay dividends, thereby making their theoretical stock price $0.
Because A) Not everyone who uses a library frequently has the $$$ to plop down on a book, even temporarily. One of the benefits of libraries is that the books are for everyone and not just us rich snobs who go to barnes and nobles every day. B) Sane people will not appreciate the library holding their dough unless they credit a decent amount of interest. Sure, it's only for a few weeks, but that money can add up fast (see: Office Space, Superman, etc).
Use the spice, Luke. The spice is with you.
I really don't need to know about a 13 year old's testes.
Leave me out of this.
What a fantastic idea! Perhaps we shouldn't make any effert to deter crime! After all, we are INSURED!! Rob my house? Go right ahead! I have a shiny new homeowner's policy--no sweat! Murder my wife? PLEASE DO! This 500k life insurance policy is just swell.
Perhaps YOUR country should consider what effect people LIKE YOU have on YOUR society.
An IPod takes $10,000 to fill up, but you get the songs forever.
How much will it take to guarantee you get Napster songs forever? Assuming they stay open for all time, assuming their price remains constant (HAHAH) and assuming a 2% savings account, you will need to deposit $5,994 to pay $9.99 a month forever.
I just canceled my account today, after (and this has been grating in my mind for sometime now) a young member of my guild asked a player who was level 60: "Wow, XxX, what is it like to be level 60?" To which he replied: "It's pretty cool. I just started a new undead toon." Granted this has nothing to do with gold farming--but I seriously don't see how there was a market for such things.
Compared to DAOC, at least, there is NOTHING to do in WoW after you reach the pinnacle. In other MMORPGs, you could buy a house, fight enemy realms for something tangible, etc. In WoW, you either continually raid the same dungeon or start a new toon. "But you can raid towns!" Sure, what's the fucking point? There is no penalty for death and no reward for taking over a town (for 5 minutes before the NPCs respawn).
"But the honor system will change this!" The honor system as currently outlined sucks ass. I don't have time to play forty-hours a week just to have the best items just so I can kill more players just so I can get more honor just so I can get better items.
Don't even get me started on the social aspect of the game--it just doesn't exist. There is no situation where concerted group effort is required as all fucktards can easily succeed in the grouping game.
If your dog died due to neglect YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR THE REST OF YOUR DOG'S POTENTIAL LIFE!!!!!!!!
What follows now is so random words meant to foil the genius of commander taco.
This is actually true but only if you enumerated every single prime up to your largest:
/runs away
2*3 - 1 = 5
2*3*5 - 1 = 29
2*3*5*7 - 1 = 209 = 11*19
haha just kidding.
5 > (5+n)*x
:-)
5/x > (5+n) (x != 0)
(5/x) - 5 > n (x != 0)
n (5/x) - 5
Since you didn't say n had to be positive....
I think Apple could come up with a better name than "iHome"; that is retarded in the strictest short-yellow bus sense possible. Now if you excuse me, I have to go type some things up in iWork while listening to my iPod which is powered by iTunes. iRule.
"Beat to death my speech you have. Die you will. Liked it better when Matrix references mainstream were. Alone you will leave me now." - Yoda
(I'm just his spokesperson)
Why do you have such bias against slowness? Better not take that attitude to your honeymoon bed or the Missus will be very depressed.
The number of technological civilizations in the galaxy we can communicate with is equal to the product of the probabilites/numbers on the other side of the equal sign.
Nonsense. This would be like saying you can predict the number of times a coin will come up heads by multiplying it by 1/2 (the probability); you have a good indicator of how many you can "expect," but that by itself is meaningless. (e.g., you still need to know the variance to make any reasonable claims)
The Drake Equation is the "Expected Number" of intelligent civilizations we could expect to "talk to" given infinite universes.
Ergo, the number of civilizations we can "talk to" is really a random variable and to even pretend to know any of the probabilities is, to me, stretching it.
If she ordered less than $50 worth of smokes at a time. When crossing the border from Canada to Detroit, they taxed you then and there if you had more than two cartons of cigarettes (from the duty-free shop) with you.
To be fair, there always must be a "WAV" step; you just don't see it in action using method described for the link.
When did I say that? I said "if the rest of the world cares about it so much and cannot converse the US otherwise, the logical next step would be force." Nowhere did I say either course of action, or the Kyoto treaty for that matter, were right or wrong. Morality is not an issue here.
What? Your question makes no sense. I think you meant to ask "What would the rest the US reaction be if Kyoto was Pro-US and anti-Everyone Else?"