Thank god the group is called "Partnership for a New American Economy". I'd hate to think they were sponsoring anything un-American, which obviously they could only do if they were being duplicitous about the name of the group. Politically-minded folk wouldn't do that, would they?

"Why are manhole covers round?"

So that they can maim and kill people as they roll downhill.

This type of technology will be the reason why geeks finally develop a genetic predisposition to be physically fit.

Doesn't this violate the terms of GPL? They're shipping binaries (for the bundle ad-ware) without providing the source.

Oh, I presume that you have data about how many parents claim allergies, and how many of those claims are baseless and unsupported by their doctor's direction? If so, please share this data with the rest of the world. I'm sure it will help advance the state of vaccination.

I don't think you've ever been to Japan.

#!/bin/bash

function getSedExtRegexArg()
{
        if isMacOsX
        then
                # All I want to do is echo '-E', but echo is too clever for that.
                printf '%s' '-E'
        else
                echo '-r'
        fi
}

function isMacOsX()
{
        [[ "$( uname )" == 'Darwin' ]]
}

function normalizePath()
{
        echo "${1}" | sed "$( getSedExtRegexArg )" \
                -e 's:[/][.][/]([.][/])*:/:g' \
                -e 's:[/][.]$:/:' -e 's:^[.][/]+::' -e 's:[/][/]+:/:g'
}

echo "/ is '$( normalizePath '/' )'"
echo "// is '$( normalizePath '//' )'"
echo "//root// is '$( normalizePath '//root//' )'"

I'm new to the area. Where can I buy the drugs that you're on?

I know more than one producer who uses plain old audio. Most music software has a "Render to audio file" feature that bypasses the audio subsystem completely. This removes one variable from the equation, and is thus preferred.

Google hyper-vacillates between creating new garbage that nobody wants, and retiring old garbage that people need.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2...

And yet, Google doesn't even offer a telephone number to call in the event of account-related problems, such as account lockouts, hackers, etc. Google's account "recovery" mechanism amounts to asking you to provide a bunch of details you either don't know or don't remember. If you fail to do that, Google's response is "try again, harder."

Is it worth trusting a company that has that type of customer support strategy? Want to pay Google $10 per month for 1 terabyte of Google Drive storage, and hope you'll never, ever need Google to intervene on your behalf, in response to a problem with your irreplaceable data? Want to take the same gamble with your domain names?

I will NEVER use Google to "manage" my most important assets.

Richard Garriott (of Ultima fame) is running an interesting challenge to port his very first RPG computer game, written in BASIC on a teletype connected to a PDP-11, into a web-friendly or Unity version. https://www.shroudoftheavatar....

In my 25 years of professional programming experience, I've noticed that most often, most programming problems are caused by improper implementations of the separation of unrelated concerns, and coupling of related concerns. Orthogonality is difficult to achieve in many programming exercises, especially regarding cross-cutting concerns, and sometimes the "right" way to code something is tedious and unusable, involving passing state down through several layers of method parameters.

It's more profitable to pay a civilian to build a drone than it is to pay a soldier to remain enlisted. Soldiers require expensive maintenance and upkeep, and don't have much money to put back into consumerism. Civilians are expected to maintain themselves, and put nearly all of their money back into consumerism.