When I see references like this, I am reminded of Airplane! (which predates Police Squad by 2 years). Of course both feature Leslie Nielsen, so there you go.
"Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
It's one thing to demand a clean and healthy neighborhood, which is generally good for everyone, residents and visitors alike, but the moment you start dictating to me what color I can paint my house or what kinds of decorations I put on my lawn (assuming for the moment that we're talking about actual lawn ornaments and not toilets and such), or anything else that's pure style and not some kind of safety issue, you've crossed the line.
Put it this way (car analogy time): Your neighbor owns some total rattletrap, shitbox, junker of a car, but he keeps it in safe, roadworthy condition and uses it as his daily driver. You wouldn't presume to tell him to garage it because of its appearance, would you?
Just because it is within legal limits doesn't make it right to get that loud. There are a lot of things in this world that are "legal" but still wrong. Making a ton of noise for no reason, that bothers everyone but a small core of enthusiasts is one of those things.
it's sad that the officer threatened arrest, but I can't say I blame him for harrassing your friend. Why? Because there's no legitimate reason for ridiculously loud exhausts outside of a race track or similar environment, unless your exhaust happens to be damaged and you're en-route to get it fixed or some other equally-improbably corner case. The rest of us just don't want to hear the noise. Get off my lawn, etc.
So then just call it a spaceship. It would still be in keeping with ST canon, if that really matters (Kirk did occasionally use the phrase "United Spaceship Enterprise").
In the case of Commodore, there was something of an upgrade path by way of their 128, 256, and 512k RAM Expansion Modules. Those showed up in the mid 1980's if memory serves, and have since been surpassed by much larger devices as the cost of RAM has dropped.
I dunno, having used 2.8rc1 for a while now, I have to say: I HATE that popover text entry thing, because it blocks the image I'm editing (and no, switching to the "editor" mode doesn't do any good).
Furthermore, I can't say I like the slider widgets either, but that's more a matter of them not matching my overall desktop theme.
I believe in G*d (though I'm not particularly religious), but at the same time I think that Santorum is just plain insane and should never hold any public office, let alone that of the President. I absolutely insist on a strict, wide separation between religion and politics. Nevertheless, I have to stand up for his right to believe what he wants, so if prayer is part of how he gets through a decision, fine, as long as that decision is also rational (as unlikely as that is in his case).
Besides, there's nothing stopping those seeking public office from refusing to comment on their religious leanings. I'm sure there are a few congresspeople who declared themselves to be atheist.. didn't stop them from getting elected did it?
Because its more fun to futz around with objects in a video game than to plod through the workflow necessary to get from an idea to a completed circuit board populated with the aforementioned logic devices, I/O ports, etc?
Ah, where are my modpoints when I need them the most. This has to be the best comment I've read on Slashdot in years. The world needs a whole lot more who think this way.
Bull - until maybe 5 years ago, the most common ending hook in a movie trailer or ad, often both spoken and written on the screen at the same time, was "Own it on Blu-Ray or DVD today!" (or on a specific date). They told me, flat out and in no uncertain terms, that it was mine once I paid for it. Now of course, trailers/ads tend to favor less committal wording like "Get it..." or "Buy it..." to (unsuccessfully) try to weasel their way out of the idea.
The advertisers are clearly asking me to find a reputable retailer and buy a copy of the movie, presumably on some piece of physical media, and with perpetual rights to view it. They are telling me it's mine by virtue of paying for and walking out of the store with it. I bought it, therefore I own it. It is my private, irrevocable property from the moment I buy it. It is mine, and it will remain my property until my dying day (assuming I don't do away with the disc or lose it). That will never change.
The same will hold true for every movie I buy in the future as well - I own whatever (copies of the) movies I buy as surely as I own the home theater setup they'll be used with.
The advertisers avoid using phrases like "License it.." or "Buy a license..." or anything similar because they know the general public won't stand for anything less than full and unambiguous ownership.
Our civilisations use 2 for computers, because a simple representation between "signal" and "no signal" is the easiest to implement.
This isn't quite right. In any kind of storage, the values are explicitly two signal values, not "signal" and "no signal". In a communication link between two components, the two states are usually Ground and +V, or a positive and a negative voltage (as in RS232). Add to that some communication links which use Tri-State logic, wherein a third, high impedance state (usually denoted "floating" or "Hi-Z") is used to indicate "no signal". Such buses use this third state to allow multiple components to share a common conductor.
Think whatever you want about the left-or-right nature of the bill, but your description of socialism is dead wrong. What you're describing is statism or communism (depending on your particular definition and example implementation). Socialism is merely government redistribution of tax money for various public programs. National parks, roads, Social Security, Medicare, your unemployment insurance, fire departments, police, public school, all draw from taxes at some level, and all of these are arguably necessary in some manner for a strong nation and a healthy populace.
The last thing this country needs is cutbacks in our social programs.
It also depends on previous skills : if you know other programming languages, it's not that hard to learn a new one, because the concepts are familiar.
Dead wrong in my case. Sometimes, languages which should be at least similar, are so wildly different that none of your skills can transfer over. The platform one will be using the language with is equally important, to the point that changing from one architecture to another, while keeping the same language, can still require a whole new way of thinking.
My first language was BASIC, on two different platforms, neither of which was particularly similar in the way their implementations and environments worked. I moved to assembly language some years after changing to the second platform in question, but the skills required to write in that language far exceeded what I needed for BASIC. Ditto when I started learning C later in college. Same thing happened again when I started learning bash scripting, and yet again when I started learning Verilog recently, despite them both bearing some similarity to C.
Each language is/was different enough from the previous one to present a significant obstacle to learning it.
Some years ago, my cousin had a dog, I forget what breed, who would smile (along with the aforementioned body language) expressly to show affection, particularly when my cousin returned home from work or any moderately-long errand. She would often combine that with generally hyperactive behavior if we'd call out such things as "daddy's home!". We always ascribed this behavior to a head injury she sustained before my cousin got her.
Couldn't this technology be used to augment the work being done to study those faster-than-light neutrinos? I realize they're hard to detect because of their weakly-interacting nature, of course, but couldn't one construct a similar experiment with both light and neutrinos and watch the two propagate?
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When I see references like this, I am reminded of Airplane! (which predates Police Squad by 2 years). Of course both feature Leslie Nielsen, so there you go.
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
"Cyber" virus? Seriously?
*groans*
A million!? That's unfair!
It's one thing to demand a clean and healthy neighborhood, which is generally good for everyone, residents and visitors alike, but the moment you start dictating to me what color I can paint my house or what kinds of decorations I put on my lawn (assuming for the moment that we're talking about actual lawn ornaments and not toilets and such), or anything else that's pure style and not some kind of safety issue, you've crossed the line.
Put it this way (car analogy time): Your neighbor owns some total rattletrap, shitbox, junker of a car, but he keeps it in safe, roadworthy condition and uses it as his daily driver. You wouldn't presume to tell him to garage it because of its appearance, would you?
Just because it is within legal limits doesn't make it right to get that loud. There are a lot of things in this world that are "legal" but still wrong. Making a ton of noise for no reason, that bothers everyone but a small core of enthusiasts is one of those things.
it's sad that the officer threatened arrest, but I can't say I blame him for harrassing your friend. Why? Because there's no legitimate reason for ridiculously loud exhausts outside of a race track or similar environment, unless your exhaust happens to be damaged and you're en-route to get it fixed or some other equally-improbably corner case. The rest of us just don't want to hear the noise. Get off my lawn, etc.
So then just call it a spaceship. It would still be in keeping with ST canon, if that really matters (Kirk did occasionally use the phrase "United Spaceship Enterprise").
In the case of Commodore, there was something of an upgrade path by way of their 128, 256, and 512k RAM Expansion Modules. Those showed up in the mid 1980's if memory serves, and have since been surpassed by much larger devices as the cost of RAM has dropped.
I dunno, having used 2.8rc1 for a while now, I have to say: I HATE that popover text entry thing, because it blocks the image I'm editing (and no, switching to the "editor" mode doesn't do any good).
Furthermore, I can't say I like the slider widgets either, but that's more a matter of them not matching my overall desktop theme.
So it's quasi-evil? It's the margarine of evil?
Perhaps, but the plumage must be lovely :-)
I believe in G*d (though I'm not particularly religious), but at the same time I think that Santorum is just plain insane and should never hold any public office, let alone that of the President. I absolutely insist on a strict, wide separation between religion and politics. Nevertheless, I have to stand up for his right to believe what he wants, so if prayer is part of how he gets through a decision, fine, as long as that decision is also rational (as unlikely as that is in his case).
Besides, there's nothing stopping those seeking public office from refusing to comment on their religious leanings. I'm sure there are a few congresspeople who declared themselves to be atheist.. didn't stop them from getting elected did it?
Because its more fun to futz around with objects in a video game than to plod through the workflow necessary to get from an idea to a completed circuit board populated with the aforementioned logic devices, I/O ports, etc?
No, sorry. That's the kind of thing an idiot would put on his luggage.
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Ah, where are my modpoints when I need them the most. This has to be the best comment I've read on Slashdot in years. The world needs a whole lot more who think this way.
Bull - until maybe 5 years ago, the most common ending hook in a movie trailer or ad, often both spoken and written on the screen at the same time, was "Own it on Blu-Ray or DVD today!" (or on a specific date). They told me, flat out and in no uncertain terms, that it was mine once I paid for it. Now of course, trailers/ads tend to favor less committal wording like "Get it..." or "Buy it..." to (unsuccessfully) try to weasel their way out of the idea.
The advertisers are clearly asking me to find a reputable retailer and buy a copy of the movie, presumably on some piece of physical media, and with perpetual rights to view it. They are telling me it's mine by virtue of paying for and walking out of the store with it. I bought it, therefore I own it. It is my private, irrevocable property from the moment I buy it. It is mine, and it will remain my property until my dying day (assuming I don't do away with the disc or lose it). That will never change.
The same will hold true for every movie I buy in the future as well - I own whatever (copies of the) movies I buy as surely as I own the home theater setup they'll be used with.
The advertisers avoid using phrases like "License it.." or "Buy a license..." or anything similar because they know the general public won't stand for anything less than full and unambiguous ownership.
This isn't quite right. In any kind of storage, the values are explicitly two signal values, not "signal" and "no signal". In a communication link between two components, the two states are usually Ground and +V, or a positive and a negative voltage (as in RS232). Add to that some communication links which use Tri-State logic, wherein a third, high impedance state (usually denoted "floating" or "Hi-Z") is used to indicate "no signal". Such buses use this third state to allow multiple components to share a common conductor.
My little site is also blacked out: http://digitalaudioconcepts.com/
They have since put up a doodle: a black bar covering their usual logo.
Important note: read the last eight lines of that poem in Rodney Dangerfield's voice (as in Back to School).
Think whatever you want about the left-or-right nature of the bill, but your description of socialism is dead wrong. What you're describing is statism or communism (depending on your particular definition and example implementation). Socialism is merely government redistribution of tax money for various public programs. National parks, roads, Social Security, Medicare, your unemployment insurance, fire departments, police, public school, all draw from taxes at some level, and all of these are arguably necessary in some manner for a strong nation and a healthy populace.
The last thing this country needs is cutbacks in our social programs.
They can if you're coding on certain models of [Timex/]Sinclair 8-bit machines. :-)
Dead wrong in my case. Sometimes, languages which should be at least similar, are so wildly different that none of your skills can transfer over. The platform one will be using the language with is equally important, to the point that changing from one architecture to another, while keeping the same language, can still require a whole new way of thinking.
My first language was BASIC, on two different platforms, neither of which was particularly similar in the way their implementations and environments worked. I moved to assembly language some years after changing to the second platform in question, but the skills required to write in that language far exceeded what I needed for BASIC. Ditto when I started learning C later in college. Same thing happened again when I started learning bash scripting, and yet again when I started learning Verilog recently, despite them both bearing some similarity to C.
Each language is/was different enough from the previous one to present a significant obstacle to learning it.
Here's an even better one (IMnsHO):
Some years ago, my cousin had a dog, I forget what breed, who would smile (along with the aforementioned body language) expressly to show affection, particularly when my cousin returned home from work or any moderately-long errand. She would often combine that with generally hyperactive behavior if we'd call out such things as "daddy's home!". We always ascribed this behavior to a head injury she sustained before my cousin got her.
Couldn't this technology be used to augment the work being done to study those faster-than-light neutrinos? I realize they're hard to detect because of their weakly-interacting nature, of course, but couldn't one construct a similar experiment with both light and neutrinos and watch the two propagate?