well, didn't you know that due to the lack of zero, the Roman empire collapsed because there was no way to indicate correct termination of C programs ?
And sea programs without termination is bound to be ported and shipped elsewhere, which is an amazing fleet. But i don't see how that is a problem.
If I'm walking out the door, and someone coming in catches the door after I walk out, am I going to stop, turn around, go back in the building, stop the person on the way to the stairs, force him to follow me back to the badge reader, and wait to make sure his badge is accepted by the reader? No.
That's why we have a revolving door with a weight sensor. If a second person enters, the door goes backwwards and pushes you out.
Post: A mechanical device from 150BC was found in a shipwreck. Upon examination with X-Rays, the device appeared to be a revolutionary computer used to calculate lunar cycles. This device "is technically more complex than any known for at least a millennium afterward."
Translation: Some crank ex-programmer was gearing up for a raise with the loony idea of cyclic checks, and was ready to ship the classy object in C when it began to wreack havoc and the whole thing sunk. A new developer tried to insert a byte to handle the Y1K bug.
Religionists says there was great flood. Scientists decry it saying that the idea of a flood is ridiculous. Because, it couldn't be anything less than a meteor.
IOW, they both agree on the fact that there was a catastrophic event, but argue religously about how it happened.
Who cares about Uranium, when we can have supermagnets!
Read the page, see the bait:
Two of these magnets close together can create an almost unbelievable magnetic field that can be very dangerous. Of all the unique items we offer for sale, we consider these items the most dangerous of all. Our normal packing & shipping personnel refuse to package these magnets - our engineers have to do it. This is no joke and we cannot stress it strongly enough - that you must be extremely careful - and know what you're doing with these magnets.
They even say "beware" elswhere. It must be good.
Can you even resist?
Luckily therse things cost money, or noone would care about the Flying Spaghetti Monster anymore. The Flying Magnetatorus would rule supreme.
"And if you will look out your left window, you will see Bob, my arch nemesis flying his plane. I will now send in two squadrons and get him back for yesterday."
The "slouch" position revealed a reduction in spinal disk height, signifying a high rate of wear and tear on the lowest two spinal levels. Across all measurements, the researchers concluded that the 135-degree position fared the best.
Um, ok....
"This may be all that is necessary to prevent back pain, rather than trying to cure pain that has occurred over the long term due to bad postures," he added. "Employers could also reduce problems by providing their staff with more appropriate seating, thereby saving on the cost of lost work hours."
IOW, they proved what they thought and used it to make conclusions not proven. What utter rubbish.
They also did not take into account how people sat before this study. Sitting up stright is uncomfortable at first, but in general becomes very comfortable, and keeps the person more alert. Playing piano in any position other that straight up will cuase hand or back pain, and people with chronic back pain need to sit up stright to feel comfortable.
Any why is this limited to gadgets? Everything is like this. Try to get a solid board game. Connect Four won't last more than a couple games.
In a capitalistic society people try to give less for more, it's the rule of business when you don't care about the customer. When short term goals outweigh longevity, and a national memory that ahrdly lasts more than a year or two, who can blame them?
The answer is to start caring, and it won't start in the business world.
Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer
/me cries. It's not that he is ignorant. It's that it got posted on slashdot.
For those who skipped Computer Science, a "computer" in the CS world, is something that has input, uses input to process something, and output. A cell phone is a computer, albeit not a PC. A PC is the "computer" we all know and use. A cell phone is a specialized computer.
It is not amazing that the cell phone can get video from youtube, that has always been possible. That it is provided as a service and there is guaranteed bandwith for it, however, is something of note. Not technological as much as the nerd factor.
Yes you can. They just need to be thought out, figured out where applicable, and conflicting axioms must each be known in their place.
Thou shalt not bear false witness, sayeth God. But would you then turn Anne Frank over to the authorities when the Gestapo comes knocking? Thou shalt keep the Sabbath. A hungry baby knows nothing of why you won't buy milk on Saturday.
There's another moral about keeping life, which in general is considered to have more importance then other axioms, thus, if just about any other moral conflicts with it, keeping life takes precedence.
I do not wish to actively support something I believe to be an exploitation of human beings.
Unfortunately for the logic based sector of society, they lack basic skills in value judgements.
Value judgements have three outcomes (unlike logic's two), they are "greater than", "less than", and "equal to".
Assign a weight to you're self-appointed moral. Call that x. Now, assign a value to having a job. Call that y.
1) x > y 2) x < y 3) x = y
1) If x > y, quit. Pure and simple. 2) If x < y, deal with it. We can't have everything. 3) If x = y, keep the status quo. Don't accept a new job of this, but keep any current ones.
With practice these jusdgements become easier (and more refined), and so does assigning values. But, unlike logic, these are not objective facts agreed upon by all logical people, these are subjective values that change by the person. And rightly so.
Oh yeah, let me be the first to welcome your to the real world. It takes a little trying, but i think you'll like it here. You've made a good first step.
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Read all comments on this story as +1, instead of +5.
Personally, i prefer the Bible's account, which makes the straw man's argument.
"We finally got a judge that was smarter than a racoon."
I am a racoon, you insensitive clod!
well, didn't you know that due to the lack of zero, the Roman empire collapsed because there was no way to indicate correct termination of C programs ?
And sea programs without termination is bound to be ported and shipped elsewhere, which is an amazing fleet. But i don't see how that is a problem.
If I'm walking out the door, and someone coming in catches the door after I walk out, am I going to stop, turn around, go back in the building, stop the person on the way to the stairs, force him to follow me back to the badge reader, and wait to make sure his badge is accepted by the reader? No.
That's why we have a revolving door with a weight sensor. If a second person enters, the door goes backwwards and pushes you out.
You payed $1000 for a MySpace friend? Sheesh, you can have me for only $19.95.
Post: A mechanical device from 150BC was found in a shipwreck. Upon examination with X-Rays, the device appeared to be a revolutionary computer used to calculate lunar cycles. This device "is technically more complex than any known for at least a millennium afterward."
Translation: Some crank ex-programmer was gearing up for a raise with the loony idea of cyclic checks, and was ready to ship the classy object in C when it began to wreack havoc and the whole thing sunk. A new developer tried to insert a byte to handle the Y1K bug.
Religionists says there was great flood.
Scientists decry it saying that the idea of a flood is ridiculous. Because, it couldn't be anything less than a meteor.
IOW, they both agree on the fact that there was a catastrophic event, but argue religously about how it happened.
Hey, i like the sound of that.
seperate
Shouldn't someone add a spellchecker to slashdot?
Read the page, see the bait:
They even say "beware" elswhere. It must be good.
Can you even resist?
Luckily therse things cost money, or noone would care about the Flying Spaghetti Monster anymore. The Flying Magnetatorus would rule supreme.
I can only imagine two pilots going for a duel.
"And if you will look out your left window, you will see Bob, my arch nemesis flying his plane. I will now send in two squadrons and get him back for yesterday."
Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.
Imagine that!
I don't even see why it went to court in the first place.
Exactly, you insensitive clod!
Thanx. Someone had to make the obligatory comment.
"Captain, the Quantum Vortex Core has crashed!"
"What are my options?"
"After selling, about two million."
"OK, take the helm, and beam, me down. I'm cashing in."
The "slouch" position revealed a reduction in spinal disk height, signifying a high rate of wear and tear on the lowest two spinal levels. Across all measurements, the researchers concluded that the 135-degree position fared the best.
Um, ok....
"This may be all that is necessary to prevent back pain, rather than trying to cure pain that has occurred over the long term due to bad postures," he added. "Employers could also reduce problems by providing their staff with more appropriate seating, thereby saving on the cost of lost work hours."
IOW, they proved what they thought and used it to make conclusions not proven. What utter rubbish.
They also did not take into account how people sat before this study. Sitting up stright is uncomfortable at first, but in general becomes very comfortable, and keeps the person more alert. Playing piano in any position other that straight up will cuase hand or back pain, and people with chronic back pain need to sit up stright to feel comfortable.
What utter rubbish.
Oh my, how major? I can't take this news sitting down!
Any why is this limited to gadgets? Everything is like this. Try to get a solid board game. Connect Four won't last more than a couple games.
In a capitalistic society people try to give less for more, it's the rule of business when you don't care about the customer. When short term goals outweigh longevity, and a national memory that ahrdly lasts more than a year or two, who can blame them?
The answer is to start caring, and it won't start in the business world.
Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer
/me cries. It's not that he is ignorant. It's that it got posted on slashdot.
For those who skipped Computer Science, a "computer" in the CS world, is something that has input, uses input to process something, and output. A cell phone is a computer, albeit not a PC. A PC is the "computer" we all know and use. A cell phone is a specialized computer.
It is not amazing that the cell phone can get video from youtube, that has always been possible. That it is provided as a service and there is guaranteed bandwith for it, however, is something of note. Not technological as much as the nerd factor.
OK, i feel like an idiot now. The setting is a Sybase setting: ANSINULL.
Thanx for the heads up.
You can't live by axioms alone.
Yes you can. They just need to be thought out, figured out where applicable, and conflicting axioms must each be known in their place.
Thou shalt not bear false witness, sayeth God. But would you then turn Anne Frank over to the authorities when the Gestapo comes knocking? Thou shalt keep the Sabbath. A hungry baby knows nothing of why you won't buy milk on Saturday.
There's another moral about keeping life, which in general is considered to have more importance then other axioms, thus, if just about any other moral conflicts with it, keeping life takes precedence.
I do not wish to actively support something I believe to be an exploitation of human beings.
Unfortunately for the logic based sector of society, they lack basic skills in value judgements.
Value judgements have three outcomes (unlike logic's two), they are "greater than", "less than", and "equal to".
Assign a weight to you're self-appointed moral. Call that x. Now, assign a value to having a job. Call that y.
1) x > y
2) x < y
3) x = y
1) If x > y, quit. Pure and simple.
2) If x < y, deal with it. We can't have everything.
3) If x = y, keep the status quo. Don't accept a new job of this, but keep any current ones.
With practice these jusdgements become easier (and more refined), and so does assigning values. But, unlike logic, these are not objective facts agreed upon by all logical people, these are subjective values that change by the person. And rightly so.
Oh yeah, let me be the first to welcome your to the real world. It takes a little trying, but i think you'll like it here. You've made a good first step.
Obviously far, far less than 90% of the world's goods are transported globally in the first place.
So, they lied when they said shipping and handling? Sheesh!
ike treating the empty string as NULL.
You do realize that's a setting that can be changed, don't you?