Don't worry. If there's one thing our government is really good at, it's taking the best, most carefully thought out plans and turning them into a complete disaster when it comes to implementation.
If there's a second thing our government is really good at, it's debating the best, most carefully thought out plans until the next election, then completely forgetting about the whole thing.
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The problem begins right after all of that. Stereotypes aren't necessarily "bad" when they can be demonstrated statistically. The real problem is when people make the leap from "greater than 50% of example-race is something" to "100% of example-race is something" without even considering that there may be exceptions or, even worse, not believing an exception when they actually encounter one. You may (emphasis on may) be able to show statistically that Latino women as a group are more aggressive or confrontational than white women, but anyone smarter than a rock should be able to acknowledge and accept any exceptions.
Just look at the code it generates: it's terrible.
Unless you're talking about the machine code, I think you may be confused about what XmlHTTPRequest (a.k.a. Ajax) actually is. It's simply an object that lets you send an HTTP request back to the server and read the response as an XML document. It doesn't generate any code (other than the aforementioned machine code), the programmer does. As with a post above that mentions people using the term "Ajax" to refer to DHTML, it's important to keep straight what everything actually is and does.
As for it not being the right way, I've found it to be exactly the right way to send a request to the server and get some XML back. I will agree that for a lot of other stuff that a lot of other people are using it for, it's not the right thing to do, regardless of it being the "right way". But that's not the fault of the tool, it's the fault of the person using the tool. "Give a person a hammer, and they'll think everything is a nail." XmlHTTPRequest is a very good hammer, you just have to recognize that not everything is a nail.
Anyone who thinks MTV is the same as it was when it started obviously wasn't alive (or paying attention) when it started. Considering how often MTV plays music videos these days, how many 14-year-olds even know that MTV supposedly stands for "Music TeleVision"? Unlike Myspace and the other hundred sites just like it, the telephone doesn't really have a viable alternative for real-time voice communication, other than perhaps eventually PC voice software. Likewise, shopping malls don't have many alternatives for 15-year-old girls to visit 20 different clothing stores in one afternoon .
Well, Lieberman leading Lamont 49-41 means the Republican candidate (which almost nobody, including Republican leaders, is even acknowlegding exists) is getting at most 10% of the vote. I'd say that's a pretty strong Democrat state.
(paraphrased) "All it takes to be a good president is to be willing to get a hummer now and then. And I think I'm just the man for the job." - Lewis Black
Nope, which is why they can freeze your account and keep all your money for any (or no) reason at any time. If Paypal were registered as a bank, they'd have to follow all the regulations, which might cut into their profits.
The problem with that idea, though, is that in order for the fake company to sue the real company, wouldn't the small company actually have to have the patent in question? Maybe that was the poster's idea, that you can't get sued by two different comanies for the same patent infringement, since that would require both of those comanies having a patent on the same thing. Not that I would put it past the USPTO to manage to screw up like that, but it would certainly create a pretty big legal mess.
Actually, if they waited aq while before filing suit, I don't think it's even technically legal. Similarly, they didn't file suit against any of the other X million media players that do the same thing (Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc.). In theory, if you make no attempt to defend your intellectual property, you automatically lose your claim to it.
I still hero worship John von Neumann. Who else could do so much work in computing, mathematics, and physics, all after getting drunk off his ass until 4:00 a.m.?
I can't speak for your specific model of phone, but I can use Bluetooth to send files, including mp3's, to my Samsung D407. Samsung even has a free Windows program that lets you do some useful phone management (contact list, etc.) over Bluetooth.
I haven't had any major trouble with Comcast in my area, only the television channel cutting out for a few seconds once in a while. I still refuse to deal with Verizon. I had Verizon DSL for a few months one summer. When I moved in and set up my computers, I couldn't figure out why nobody could get to my web server, until people mentioned that Verizon tends to block ports, such as 80. I called their tech support twice, and both times they assured me that they don't block any ports. Unless I can get a written guarantee that no ports will be blocked, I don't care how fast Verizon's fiber is.
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I guess none of them were girls jumping on trampolines. I definitely liked The Man Show's selection of trampoline-related clips better.
The difference is in burden of proof. In a criminal case, the defendant must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In a civil case, the defendant only has to be proven likely (I can't remember if there's some more precise amount above "50%" likely) to be guilty.
I was just thinking that more popular domains put more load on the root servers. Of course, I highly doubt that google.com puts $1 million worth of load on the root servers, but I could see maybe $500 per year. Not that the pricing will actually be based on anything real and measurable like root server load.
I also wonder if we'll see the converse good thing about this idea. If popular domain names like google.biz are worth millions of dollars, does that mean I can get someworthlessdomainname.biz for $1 per year, since practically giving it away is the only way anyone would ever take it?
There's a big difference between classifying existing objects and setting units of measurement. In particular, units of measurement are set more or less arbitrarily. There's no reason that a "meter" couldn't be 3 times longer than it is now. For example, the unit "foot" is the length it is because that's how long the foot of the person (I think a king) was. If that foot had only been 11 (modern) inches long, either the unit "foot" would only be 11 inches, or the "inch" would be shorter so that there are still 12 inches in a foot.
Classifying celestial bodies is a lot more difficult, because there's a very broad, fine-grained spectrum of such bodies. There are very few ways to classify celestial bodies that wouldn't involve some arbitrary distinction, such as body diameter, orbit diameter, or just because they've always been called something.
Because too many Americans (51% would be the obvious joke) either a) would rather be told what to think than actually have to think for themselves, or b) are too afraid of hypothetical terrorists and not thinking of the children to go against what they're told.
And funny you should mention the Bush administration delaying elections because of a (potential) terrorist attack. They actually planned exactly that in 2004. It was a very scary moment for me, and not because of the terrorist attack part.
Well, to be fair, that's more or less how the numbers on rotary phones were arranged. I'm not saying it's a good idea for a cell phone, but maybe that's what they were thinking about when they made that decision.
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Don't worry. If there's one thing our government is really good at, it's taking the best, most carefully thought out plans and turning them into a complete disaster when it comes to implementation.
If there's a second thing our government is really good at, it's debating the best, most carefully thought out plans until the next election, then completely forgetting about the whole thing.
The problem begins right after all of that. Stereotypes aren't necessarily "bad" when they can be demonstrated statistically. The real problem is when people make the leap from "greater than 50% of example-race is something" to "100% of example-race is something" without even considering that there may be exceptions or, even worse, not believing an exception when they actually encounter one. You may (emphasis on may) be able to show statistically that Latino women as a group are more aggressive or confrontational than white women, but anyone smarter than a rock should be able to acknowledge and accept any exceptions.
Anyone who thinks MTV is the same as it was when it started obviously wasn't alive (or paying attention) when it started. Considering how often MTV plays music videos these days, how many 14-year-olds even know that MTV supposedly stands for "Music TeleVision"? Unlike Myspace and the other hundred sites just like it, the telephone doesn't really have a viable alternative for real-time voice communication, other than perhaps eventually PC voice software. Likewise, shopping malls don't have many alternatives for 15-year-old girls to visit 20 different clothing stores in one afternoon .
Well, Lieberman leading Lamont 49-41 means the Republican candidate (which almost nobody, including Republican leaders, is even acknowlegding exists) is getting at most 10% of the vote. I'd say that's a pretty strong Democrat state.
(paraphrased) "All it takes to be a good president is to be willing to get a hummer now and then. And I think I'm just the man for the job." - Lewis Black
I believe 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are the addresses for a major public DNS server, but I've completely blanked on the name.
Nope, which is why they can freeze your account and keep all your money for any (or no) reason at any time. If Paypal were registered as a bank, they'd have to follow all the regulations, which might cut into their profits.
The problem with that idea, though, is that in order for the fake company to sue the real company, wouldn't the small company actually have to have the patent in question? Maybe that was the poster's idea, that you can't get sued by two different comanies for the same patent infringement, since that would require both of those comanies having a patent on the same thing. Not that I would put it past the USPTO to manage to screw up like that, but it would certainly create a pretty big legal mess.
Actually, if they waited aq while before filing suit, I don't think it's even technically legal. Similarly, they didn't file suit against any of the other X million media players that do the same thing (Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc.). In theory, if you make no attempt to defend your intellectual property, you automatically lose your claim to it.
I still hero worship John von Neumann. Who else could do so much work in computing, mathematics, and physics, all after getting drunk off his ass until 4:00 a.m.?
I can't speak for your specific model of phone, but I can use Bluetooth to send files, including mp3's, to my Samsung D407. Samsung even has a free Windows program that lets you do some useful phone management (contact list, etc.) over Bluetooth.
Except that dragging around components is neither asynchronous nor related to XML.
I haven't had any major trouble with Comcast in my area, only the television channel cutting out for a few seconds once in a while. I still refuse to deal with Verizon. I had Verizon DSL for a few months one summer. When I moved in and set up my computers, I couldn't figure out why nobody could get to my web server, until people mentioned that Verizon tends to block ports, such as 80. I called their tech support twice, and both times they assured me that they don't block any ports. Unless I can get a written guarantee that no ports will be blocked, I don't care how fast Verizon's fiber is.
I guess none of them were girls jumping on trampolines. I definitely liked The Man Show's selection of trampoline-related clips better.
The difference is in burden of proof. In a criminal case, the defendant must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In a civil case, the defendant only has to be proven likely (I can't remember if there's some more precise amount above "50%" likely) to be guilty.
I was just thinking that more popular domains put more load on the root servers. Of course, I highly doubt that google.com puts $1 million worth of load on the root servers, but I could see maybe $500 per year. Not that the pricing will actually be based on anything real and measurable like root server load. I also wonder if we'll see the converse good thing about this idea. If popular domain names like google.biz are worth millions of dollars, does that mean I can get someworthlessdomainname.biz for $1 per year, since practically giving it away is the only way anyone would ever take it?
There's a big difference between classifying existing objects and setting units of measurement. In particular, units of measurement are set more or less arbitrarily. There's no reason that a "meter" couldn't be 3 times longer than it is now. For example, the unit "foot" is the length it is because that's how long the foot of the person (I think a king) was. If that foot had only been 11 (modern) inches long, either the unit "foot" would only be 11 inches, or the "inch" would be shorter so that there are still 12 inches in a foot. Classifying celestial bodies is a lot more difficult, because there's a very broad, fine-grained spectrum of such bodies. There are very few ways to classify celestial bodies that wouldn't involve some arbitrary distinction, such as body diameter, orbit diameter, or just because they've always been called something.
Because too many Americans (51% would be the obvious joke) either a) would rather be told what to think than actually have to think for themselves, or b) are too afraid of hypothetical terrorists and not thinking of the children to go against what they're told. And funny you should mention the Bush administration delaying elections because of a (potential) terrorist attack. They actually planned exactly that in 2004. It was a very scary moment for me, and not because of the terrorist attack part.
The official recommendation of PETA, however, is definitely to split hares.
Well, to be fair, that's more or less how the numbers on rotary phones were arranged. I'm not saying it's a good idea for a cell phone, but maybe that's what they were thinking about when they made that decision.
I haven't been mauled by any lions recently. It must be those anti-feline laws that are protecting me from otherwise-certain disembowelment.