They cost the price that they believe the market will bear enough to maximize their profit.

The QC-15 headphones I have sound OK. They are more quiet than anything else I've tried in the consumer market. But I still find it annoying they didn't come with a volume control. They must have saved $0.75 to leave that out.

They can not be standardized because any "Computer Engineer" without sufficient Electrical Engineering background is actually a Shit Engineer.

*sigh*

Fucking slashdot won't let me post this in a timely manner. We really need an edit function, or a better preview mode.

"linking the current pope" should read:

"linking the then-current pope", i.e. the Pope who stepped down, not the one who replaced him.

Actually, this is what did happen in the US. The church kept records of known child abusing priests, and did not report them to the police. The priests were simply moved to new locations, instead. This is why victims were later able to sue the church diocese, instead of just the priest. The church was guilty of hiding the crimes of the priests.

The same thing happened in the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and a whole host of other countries. This is not a US problem, it's a world problem. The timing of the last pope stepping down was quite interesting...a week after an HBO documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" was released for general consumption, linking both the current Pope and his soon-to-be-sainted predecisor directly to the pedophile coverups and worse. In fact, Pope John-Paul II covered for his good pedophile friend up until he died and passed the mantle on to Ratzinger. I wonder if they'll make St. Pedo, I mean John-Paul II, the patron saint of children and knock the other guy aside?

One thing is sure, mothers will still be carting their kids off to the churches, never mind the danger to their offspring. That, more than anything, illustrates the power of indoctrination and denial.

http://www.hbo.com/#/schedule/detail/Mea+Maxima+Culpa%3A+Silence+in+the+House+of+God/562415

We could certainly do with a lot less people going around saying Math is hard. That's defeatist thinking. Math is easy!

I think we need more good history teachers too. I mean, look at all the replies you got, and how none of them appeared to recognize your reference.
For those not in the know: Feynman caught a lot of flak for saying that math is easy. He qualified it by noting that it's easy compared to life. That's hard. And I agree.

But I think a sizable portion of our population cannot grok mathematics or hard sciences- they don't seem to be wired to do so. To me, that's strange. But some cannot twist their head into understanding that the order of factors are irrelevant, that you don't have to rotate a map, what an imaginary number is, or that time is not a global phenomenon. I think we just have to accept that many people won't be able to understand certain things that's intuitive to others, even if they can be taught well enough to pass tests.

And that would create a massive mess of dependencies in weirdest places, along with a burden of supporting software that can not even be built and tested while some other software is installed, thanks to name conflicts. No, after this kind of sabotage by the original developers, the code is for all practical purposes dead.

Gentoo actually supports old packages (or at least did for a long time), however dependencies and lack of active development make it at best suitable for transition. The problem is, there is nothing to move to in the first place, new versions of GNOME are not going to be usable for the foreseeable future.

stdio is part of standard libc, so you don't need to link in any libraries to use putc(string,stdout).
And half of stdlib are macros.

Last I checked, Jupiter was the same god as Zeus, the Greek pantheon being the basis for the Roman.
(And Minerva was the same goddess as Athena.)

No, COBOL names are limited to max 30 characters.. That's nothing compared to some of the java monstrosities I've seen.

And newer Fortran, like F90, has a limit of 31 characters, i.e. longer than COBOL.

Linux distributions had no choice -- GNOME 3 re-uses the names of components from GNOME 2, for its new, incompatible ones. Once GNOME 3 is installed, GNOME 2 can't run. MATE project basically renamed everything with randomly chosen names, just to make the thing run.

I could imagine a completely separate attitude sensor shutting the engine down, with a pitch angle too small to see but large enough to detect. The rockets really are meant to fire straight down, and even a small error might well trigger a closedown.

Unless, of course, somebody else had, for reasons that seemed excellent to them, decreed that this particular sub-assembly needed to be assembled upside down. At which point you need a careful worker to decide whether Up and Down mean assembly or launch orientation. This is wh nautical types use Port and Starboard instead of Left and Right for bits of the ship. Perhaps rocketeers need similar terms for nose and tail (Hot and Cold?).

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