Comment Re:Yeah... (Score 1) 285
Yeah, sure, go after Intel instead.
Yeah, sure, go after Intel instead.
...by following the man-made precepts of an imaginary deity who promises to send all peoples who don't follow it to certain doom.
It's possible to get people to help others without lying to them.
Probably not. They won't recognize it.
What I don't get-- and maybe you can explain this to me-- is if Christians aren't under the Mosaic Law (and I'm not so sure they aren't, Jesus made it clear he wasn't abolishing the law at all), then what moral code *are* they under? If the Mosaic Law, uttered by God Himself, isn't reflective of His Most Excellent Moral Code, then what is?
We like our weeks symmetrical.
...we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh, not make us see truth.
I wasn't aware there was a difference.
That's it! He meant "open means incomplete"!
This. It kills me that Christian radio stations have commercials for *plastic surgery* and *investment classes*-- investment classes taught by preachers, no less!-- and Christians themselves don't catch the hypocrisy.
Does anyone else find the phrasing "X, anyone?" REALLY REALLY annoying? It sounds like a smarmy game show host. "Hint hint, wink wink," that sort of thing.
I normally pronounce "oil" as "oy-yul," making it that much harder.
And who the hell thinks the extended cut of "Terminator 2" was any good?
If they want a steady clock, they should be using CLOCK_MONOTONIC on the system.
If they're parsing date/times, they should be using their system libraries, which already account for leap seconds.
Really, I don't know what Oracle was trying to do here.
Even stranger is that leap seconds are already implemented in most system libraries. If programmers were less eager to roll their own solutions to already-solved problems, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
We got a kick out of the networked "Microsoft Hover" game: http://www.johnlamansky.com/blog/the-legend-of-microsoft-hover/
One of the "species" definitions that biologists fall back on when running into this difficulty is whether two individuals can mate and produce offspring. This makes "species" refer to broader groups than usual (since we like to separate species by shape or functionality) but gives clear lines when one species has separated into two, for example, human beings with their 46 chromosomes and monkeys with the original 48.
Working with either definition confirms evolution, but you can use the more conservative one if you're having trouble.
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
