Comment Re:Prices are what the market will bear (Score 1) 259
Also, you wouldn't torrent a BMW.
FTFY
Also, you wouldn't torrent a BMW.
FTFY
And Boeing provides the friends list.
They probably already have 2) down pat if they're doing their jobs properly. Remember, all that happened here was a DDoS - there were no gaping holes found in the defences of the websites. Anonymous just happened to have more resources than the Government websites did and thus managed to make the sites unresponsive for a couple of hours.
But of course you already know this since you're the kind of discerning Slashdotter who reads linked articles and has at least a basic understanding of the topics on which they comment, right?
...one might wonder why Google has to push their own social network instead of working on open protocols for sharing.
Could it be because they tried working on open protocols for sharing and it didn't work? Hate to reign in the $MEGACORP bashing here, but Google really HAVE tried in this area - G+ looks like a last-ditch attempt to gain some traction amongst the big players in "social".
If you read the actual patent it becomes even clearer they stole the idea from that engadget comment.
Because "stealing" is the only logical explanation for two people coming up with similar ideas at different times, right?
You have your shifter built into the door? How quaint!
Because of how much more efficient it is to break into an organisation's database of contact hashes, hope like hell the contact hashes are unsalted and then run each of them through your rainbow tables just to get a single email address than it is to write a web crawler in 10 lines of Python which finds emails based on a regex. Your approach is great if you're trying to phish gullible Sony customers but not so great for anything else.
At the risk of implying a consideration of the long term effect or *shudder* morality into capitalist economics, it is cheaper to have a local manufacturing base than rely completely on some rights-ignoring nation half way across the world.
Uh-huh. Because the rest of the world is local to $YOUR_COUNTRY, and it's cheaper to produce electronics in $YOUR_COUNTRY because Anonymous Coward says so. Convincing.
We're still waiting for them to point-out the specific clause. No-one else seems to be affected by it.
Except all of the electronics manufacturers who are doing their production in $OTHER_COUNTRY and also seem unable to justify producing their electronics in $YOUR_COUNTRY.
...with just a slight altercation...
This is the real problem with Python, the amount of violence.
Welp, that looks horrible. Here's a pastebin of my original post: http://pastebin.com/uuj5Awpv
Oh my. Udacity is certainly *not* the best way to learn Python. They tend to try and keep it simple, but often this is to the detriment of readability. Here's an example from CS373 (most of the example code is like this):
if x2 >= 0 and x2 =0 and y2
Which could have been written like this:
if 0
Or another example:
next = open.pop()
x = next[1]
y = next[2]
g = next[0]
Which could just as easily be:
g, x, y = open.pop()
Hell, even
for i in range(len(delta)):
x2 = x + delta[i][0]
y2 = y + delta[i][1]
is nicer as
for dx, dy in delta:
x2 = x + dx
y2 = y + dy
And your example
if(a > 0) { return a + 1; } else { return a -1; }
==
return a + 1 if a > 0 else a -1
Udacity's approach is great for teaching theory, bad for teaching Python. If you want to write idiomatic Python, do some research on iterators, generators, functools, list unpacking, etc. Sorry if the code samples here screw up, but
You can get the Red Ring Edition for under $20 second-hand, I'm told.
How about we just stop playing world police? I don't want to send our youngsters out there to die in another shithole just because of overly paranoid people in government.
The millions of people screaming "KONY2012!!!!" at the top of their lungs disagree with you.
America is going to be the world police as long as Americans keep demanding it be. If you don't like it, become a history teacher.
Expel her.
Every time an older version of a living project is forked because somebody claims that the old code is "better" for some reason which nobody can quite explain, a kitten dies. Gnome 3 has resulted in the deaths of thousands of kittens already, so before you:
Ask yourself if you want to be responsible for the death of a/several kitten(s). If the answer is no, then DON'T DO IT.
Of course, if you think that you can get FF4+ feature parity using the FF 3.x/Gecko 1.x codebase WITHOUT increasing memory usage, then be my guest - kill a kitten. I dare you.
(I'm not talking to parent here, who I assume was being sarcastic, but rather to anybody who thinks forking is a good idea)
Variables don't; constants aren't.