Also, Brakes and Tires are functionally identical between a BMW and a Tesla, and, on the Model S
Sort of. The tires, yes. The brakes are functionally identical, but should wear much more slowly on the Model S thanks to regenerative braking. How much less depends on driving style, obviously.
I have also seen/heard of circumstances where "doing the minimum to keep the thing working" is allowed but actually improving the code is not because improving the code counts as "new work" and comes from a different budget than maintenance. Seems stupid but that's how some shops operate.
"The minimum to keep the thing working" nearly always implies improving the code. All developers need to realize this and stop this silly false dichotomy between "maintenance" and "refactoring".
IMO, developers know there isn't a difference but management does not.
Does management review the diffs?
There are obvious differences between Christianity and Islam that make Christianity able to coexist with a modern secular state while Islam is showing all over the world that it can't.
This is only because Christianity has changed. Christianity as it was during the era of the crusades, and for hundreds of years after them, not only could not coexist with a secular government, it couldn't even coexist with an ostensibly Christian government which espoused a slightly different form of Christianity.
Note that I'm not bashing Christianity here... I am a Christian. But let's not whitewash the history of Christianity.
can you imagine the Pope leading a frenzied crowd in the St. Peters square in chants of "death to infidels"
Well, historically, the Pope doesn't lead chants. Instead he just issues orders to root out and forcibly "convert" infidels via torture, to save their souls. Of course, popes haven't done that for centuries because it has become unacceptable to Christians.
That said, what would really make it tough for them is a lack of opposition. Their tactics tend to be very self defeating when the larger powers don't overreact and get drawn into conflict with them.
Not from any evidence I've ever seen. No larger power had given them any attention for the past year, and their numbers, financial resources, and power swelled unchecked; they only become a greater threat with time.
That's only because they're riding the wave created by previous overreactions and conficts, and the (reasonable from their perspective -- and probably correct) that if they keep at it they'll get the reaction that will justify their existence.
Wouldn't you like to know, apk?
yield to a hateful culture where we judge people by arbitrary qualities of the clothing they wear is an awful feeling
All cultures do that. Try being the guy at a t-shirt and sandals development shop who likes to wear a suit or even business casual. Personally, I like the t-shirt and sandals approach, but don't make the mistake of thinking you're not judged for your conformity there.
Does a uniform count as military equipment?
From what I was told, no. But a web belt does, and so does a rifle.
That doesn't make what you said any less incorrect.
How is blinding someone with a laser worse than killing or maiming them with a bullet?
Welcome to international rules of war. They're chock full of semi-absurdities like this. One of my favorite is the fact that the M2
I say "semi-absurdities" because with all of these rules you can construct situations where they do make a difference and make war more "humane" (to the degree that makes sense). But you can also always construct common scenarios where they're absurd.
I addressed it squarely. Advertisers don't get information from Google, but don't complain (much) because Google is so effective at targeting. Apple, apparently, isn't, and so advertisers feel like they're not able to get adequate value.
You also completely ignored my point that if you want to know what advertisers see you can go look for yourself.
Deutsch sounds like a popularized Heidegger; why not just study the original?
Better, study both. Deutsch does add some new ideas.
And here is where the pot stats calling the kettle black. You're projecting your particular approach across others.
Completely different situation. Had the other poster said there existed people who believed what he was saying, I'd have had to agree. But he didn't, he imputed those beliefs to me, specifically.
Where is this clear human need to believe in something? Because every culture has had it's God or Gods?
Among other things.
I'm not an anthropologist or a psychologist, so I'm not really equipped to explain it in detail, but ask one. Or do some searches. My first search got this top hit: http://www.apa.org/monitor/201.... I'm sure with a little more effort you could find the studies that appear to demonstrate that the need to believe is pretty deeply wired into our basic cognitive structure.
Give it a couple hundred more years and religion will be a thing of past.
If cognitive psychologists have it right, that's not true. Unless we find something else to replace it. I offered (at length) a possible option in another post on this story: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
