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Is 4GB considered too little under Windows these days?
Rather, more publicity of exactly this sort, is desirable, to make it clear that this type of thing is (1) nonsensical, and (2) (more importantly from fire-your-ass-from-google point of view), unacceptable.
Another contributor is poor transportation infrastructure, which limits peoples' flexibility, creating more pressure on housing near train lines and stations, etc.
It also has some extra support for lists, which is handy for many of the sorts of things that it gets used for, and can handle images to some extent too.
[The one thing I wish it did was some sort of background version control, so when I accidentally delete something important I can get it back...]
I was wondering if it was basically the same thing with nice animations...
In any case, thanks! I don't need to watch the video now, as you've very clearly explained it in only four lines of text!
"Getting used to" [something] has a pejorative sense, but it also just means "becoming familiar with," and really understanding something is, in a way, simply being so familiar with it that reasoning about it is second nature... at some point, things just sort of start to make sense...
So it doesn't seem to be just an artifact of polling behavior.
This means that using alcohol like you mention, as an occasional social lubricant, is a very viable strategy for many people. Once somebody starts smoking though, most of them can't just stop at will, they're probably doomed to spending all their breaks standing outside in the carpark, every day...
This attribute basically makes it very difficult for people to adopt a "well it's their choice, I'll let them dig their own grave" attitude in regard to smoking.
If they want to use it purely to irritate Zuckerberg, that's their business.
It also reduces peoples' trust in Wikileaks and the veracity of the information they release.
Wikileaks' reputation as a (mostly) "impartial" actor was one of their greatest assets, and they seem to be throwing that away simply to sate Assange's desire for revenge...
For everything else, not so much.
[Nose in Mandarin: bí or bízi...]
Also what does this imply about non-apple toolsets? If I decide I want to try out gcc 6 on my mac, could I then not run programs compiled with it?
The PNG format has lots of variations and optional bits that would be quite annoying if you needed to handle them all yourself. I'm referring to the many various flags, options, and little helper functions in libpng that make handling all these format variations quite painless for the user of libpng.
[Some libraries, e.g. libtiff, provide mechanisms to abstract out the low-level details, but still expect the application to explicitly handle many format variations, and this is quite annoying.]
libpng is hardly perfect; it's old, and that certainly shows in various ways (e.g. the use of setjmp). But to call it the "worst API ever" is just wrong.
Some other image libraries are hard because they force you to write many code-paths to handle various different cases, but libpng provides many different helpers that make it pretty simple.
You don't even need recipes to get good results quickly, just being able to saute some garlic in olive oil and chop vegetables to add to it (just buy whatever looks delicious in the market) can make your pasta a bazillion times better...
Practice makes perfect (but getting started is pretty easy too)... :]
I don't disagree with this, but I think if GdT had directed, he would also have had a lot of influence over the script and general direction the movie went in. He's not just a hired gun.
Sadly, we'll never know for sure... TT
Whether or not it would have worked, who knows, but it almost certainly would have been something far, far, better than the thinly-veiled amusement-park ride that the Hobbit movie ended up turning into under Jackson's tutelage.
[Yeah there are lots of "what ifs" in the world, but for a while, a GdT Hobbit actually seemed like it was going to happen...]
I think the general public can be swayed by ethical arguments, but the threshold is pretty high, and an appeal to the financial well-being of companies almost certainly doesn't make the cut.
[Note that despite the enormous amount of money and effort that has been spent in an attempt to demonize copying of music/movies, the public still doesn't care a whit about those arguments, and copying is still generally considered a perfectly reasonable thing to do as long as you don't get caught.]
If you asked them why, they were decent enough to provide some sort of reasoned argument based on the actual copyright law to explain this policy, so I don't think they were just being jerks.
[This was in the UK, so I dunno if the laws were worse or better than in the U.S.]
In the end, it's far more important (in terms of safety, as well as for other social goals that cycling promotes) to get people on bikes than it is to micromanage the way they do it.
It's worth nothing that helmet usage is extremely low in pretty much all the great cycling nations (Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, etc), all of which have cycling mode-share orders of magnitude greater than any place in the U.S.
[In Japan it is becoming increasingly common to see very young kids wearing bicycle helmets, especially when they're seated on their parent's bike, but they seem to stop wearing them sometime in their grade-school years.]
Helmet laws make the general public less likely to cycle, and as many would then drive instead, thus have an overall negative effect on public health.
The main negative effect of helmet laws that I've seen cited is that they reduce the popularity of cycling as a transportation mode, and that can have extremely negative effects on public health (due to increased driving, reduced physical activity, and indirectly as a general damper on pro-cycling sentiment and infrastructure changes).
[I think Australia's helmet law is one of the main examples people talk about.]