Kiwis talking straight....

A funny little flame war from the article i found on the web. People discussing the article from the BBC showing solar activity caused global warming to be nonsense (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7327393.stm)

jeff419

This is like the hundredth article from the BBC saying it's not the sun.
Hello?? The temperature of the planet changes throughout the year as the angle towards the sun changes, yet you don't think that a change in the Sun's activity might cause climate change.
That's why the polar ice caps are melting on Mars and Saturn too.

innocentbystander
The polar ice caps...
on Saturn.
Can I point and laugh, or would you rather just delete your post?

jeff419
Whatever. Other planets in our system are also heating up. That's the point.

innocentbystander
You just proved you have simply no idea what you're talking about, yet you continue the discussion.
Fascinating.
ESPECIALLY in light of the fact that the thing about Mars' ice caps melting being due to the sun has been debunked multiple times in this very thread.

jeff419

So it's the aliens on Mars driving SUVs doing it there?

innocentbystander
Wow. You present me with an interesting condundrum.
On one hand, you could merely be a troll.
On the other hand, you could, in fact, be so lazy as to not look in this very thread for the answers to the question you pose.
Either way, it reflects badly on you.
But then, since you never changed the Saturn thing, apparently you have little concern for your reputation.
Thus, you show a commendable lack of attachment to the material world.
Have you considered becoming a Zen Priest? I think it may be your calling.
In light of THAT idea, your current question makes so much more sense.
I am enlightened.

jeff419
I just have better stuff to do then educate someone suffering from a case of "invincible ignorance"

innocentbystander
And, in the end, just a troll. Not even a particularly clever one.
You disappoint me, sir.

working in software is so much fun;)

painful...

As you can see, software developers really are a more advanced species than other humans. 

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7. the space between the bubbles

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My colleague just swapped me this lovely Compaq Ipaq 3760 for my TV and DVD Player, as i'll shortly be off to New Zealand. Priority number one will be ensuring i don't lose it like i've lost the last two!

Came across this little tete a tete today on a tech mailing list where the topic was about when to use interfaces as an object orientied programming technique.

The guy:

I use them when I need a common API across dissimilar objects  - a little bit like getting drunk eg, take the following 2 classes..

public class hotChick

public class fatSlag

Obviously, 2 quite different classes... however if we get good & drunk we can make them implement the same interface eg:

public class hotChick : IShaggable

public class fatSlag  : IShaggable

When programming against the interface you dont want to care about the actual implementation - getting drunk has the same effect...  as long as the interface is the same you generally dont care...

public void myMethod(IShaggable myShag){

  myShag.ShagRotten();

... as if by magic the fatSlag class, with a 10 pint handicap, all of a sudden appears to have some of the same properties and methods as the hotChick class ;-)

And the response:

class SexistPig: ILonelyBastard
ILonelyBastard GuysName = new SexistPig();
ILonelyBastard.Shaggable = false;

Moral of the story.. don't treat women as objects (badoom)