Posts by jwenting

Few times I've been to Taco Bell (admittedly the last time was in 2004, which is the last time I was in a country where they exist), the service was prompt, the place was clean, the food was decent (way too much fat, otherwise it was nice).
And yes, they used beef, or something that tasted so much like beef it may as well have been because making something that's not beef to taste so much like beef is bound to be more expensive than actual beef.

you can't, period. The storage media is just that, storage.
Unless the player device has a way to execute specific code stored in specific places and do something with the result of that execution, it will never be executed.
If your selected player has such a system, its technical documentation is where you'd have to look. And it would be non-standard, different between brands and even models.
And then you'd still need to find a burner that allows to burn at the specific track locations the player expects to find that code.

The user should not enter 1 digit at a time, but always an entire combination.
Check the combination entered against the combination stored, et voila.

hmm, Google more likely provides that statement not "for transparency" but to protest them having to comply with the law.
They've for years been fighting intellectual property law in relation to their services (mostly Google Books and Youtube), and this is just one way they do it.

well, we could always go back to the good old days of the 1940s and use "undesirables", was all the rage back then in Germany, Japan, and yes the USA as well.

Mind, not my idea of a good idea, but the "animal rights" people are all in favour of killing humans by the billions so they no doubt think it a bloody good idea (then again, they also are opposed to any form of healthcare for anyone but themselves).

I agree that children can be unplanned but sometimes they are unplanned, not because of carelessness but because of ignorance (when proper sex-ed is not taught)

we never had sex ed when I was a kid, yet nobody got pregnant. There were no teen pregnancies in my school, and similarly when I was in university none of the students got pregnant (or ended up with a pregnant girlfriend afaik).
We also didn't have ready access to cheap condoms.

We just didn't go around and shag every bit of female flesh we saw...

ignorance is no excuse here, carelessness and an attitude that "the government will take care of me no matter what happens" are the culprits.
Not going to talk about moral decline, that's nonsense (every generation complains about the moral decline of the one that comes after them, this has been recorded for thousands of years).
No, it's a symptom of the entitlement generation, the "I'm not responsible for my own acts, whatever they may be" generation.

Deceptikon is right, breast feeding is almost always an option. And if not, if there really is a medical necessity, alternatives are available (like handpumps for a mother to milk her own breasts, then use the milk to feed the baby, those are cheap and can be rented or borrowed).
Artificial solutions are only needed in case the mother can't produce milk (or not enough) which is a medical emergency, and not subject to restrictions on …

forget about it.
But read the file format specifications, see if there's a defined API for it that can give you the data you need, then find a way to enforce the restrictions.
And THEN try to ensure that it's secure so people can't just hack their way around it (which is where you'd best start forgetting about it, as a beginner).

uh, I think you're missing quite a bit in there. Like an actual question, and details about it...

Most are, but some are not. Videos of actual rape and child porn are not filmed with the concent of all participants. IMO such films should fall in the same category as murder.

There's videos where rape is played by actors, ditto with children (typically "teens" played by nominal adults, usually Asians because of their typically smaller stature).

Same really as similar things in non-R rated productions.
Remember the furor when "the blue lagoon" was released? Adult actors were made to look like teens by careful positioning of props to make them look smaller, and by specific applications of camera angle, makeup, hairstyle (for some scenes children were used, but only those that weren't "steamy").

Art? No. But the adult entertainment industry are experts at catering to as many kinks and fetishes as they can without breaking the law. There's good money in it after all.

Given enough time and skill, and usually money (to invest in tools, documentation, training, coffee, mountain dew, and pizza), yes.

I'm all for freedom of speech, expression, etc.. However, there are things that cross this line.

And someone else draws the line at you saying something he doesn't like, say he doesn't like you saying that he's a corrupt, power mad, fraudster who's attempting to turn the country you live in into a dictatorship.
Are you still for having someone say what you're allowed to say and what not?

nothing urgent about it.
Just create a new String each time, showing just the already guessed letter.

what education you want to get will depend on what job you want to do.
And don't take a very narrow "programming" curiculum, learn something about what you're programming so you have knowledge about what you're working on, makes you a lot more valuable to your future employers.

mind that the "review" you link to is part of the corporate blog of a competitor to the company. Not exactly a reliable source of unbiassed information :)

As to the worth of "online certificates", what with the overwhelming flood of fraudulent institutions selling them to read anything and everything without any testing related to the subject matter that value is effectively zero.

wth are people still trying to use turbo C when that product is going on 35 years old (older than they are almost certainly), hasn't been supported for over 25 of those, and was created for an operating system and hardware architecture they've at most only read about or seen in a museum trip?
Yet if they don't get a new iPhone every few months they start complaining that they have such seriously outdated stuff...

and oh, learn English, learn C, and start by trying to do your own homework.

wth are people still trying to use turbo C when that product is going on 35 years old (older than they are almost certainly), hasn't been supported for over 25 of those, and was created for an operating system and hardware architecture they've at most only read about or seen in a museum trip?
Yet if they don't get a new iPhone every few months they start complaining that they have such seriously outdated stuff...

far better to adopt an existing product that's proven to be secure, reliable, and performant.
Especially as you lack the experience...

stopped reading when I noticed the entire thing was a single massive method...
Were I the teacher here I'd give it minimum marks just because of that.

google for "freelance programming", there are several sites where you can bid on jobs. Or try some temp agencies where you get paid only if they assign you to a job (which probably will require an interview with the prospective client).

of course without the necessary credentials, he's never going to get hired that way or any other...

He wants to get a job requiring a university level education with a high school level education, and without the practical experience to compensate for that lack.
That can only end in tears. Tears for whomever he tricks into hiring him by supplying false credentials or bluffing his way past a hiring manager with no clue about what she's vetting candidates on, and tears for himself as well.

Once you start shutting down websites because someone doesn't like them, very quickly the entire web is shut down.
There's a lot of people who think "freedom of expression" should not include that freedom for everyone who thinks differently from themselves.

ban the accounts and lock the thread?

not. They're flat text files, contain no font or any other layout information.

Even with video conferencing, nothing beats being face to face, two people sitting behind a screen together looking at a problem.

Your employer notices a customer requirement to have on site consultants, you're shoved into that role for lack of anyone else to handle the job.
It's their decision to thus reduce the amount of time you can spend at your home base on the core product, instead spending time with the customers where no doubt those customers pay for that time, yielding a profit for your employer.
If it turns out not to be profitable, they'll end that program or reduce it in scope.
If it it profitable but cuts into the core release cycle too much, they may hire someone else either to replace you in the core team or for the consultancy work.

learn Java...

Without that you're never going to do it.
Then learn about controlling cameras, network protocols, etc, etc, etc.

There's millions of unemployed IT people with degrees and experience willing to take on jobs well below their education/experience in order to have an income.
And you think that just because you've read a few books and made a facebook page for yourself you can outcompete all of them on the labour market?

That attitude alone is a good reason you are not going to get hired, you're delusional.

While indeed you don't need a degree to get a job in some industries, you do effectively need one to get a job in this industry.
It's no different from applying to a job as a medical doctor and claiming that you can do the job because you know how to apply a bandaid when you've cut a finger in the kitchen.

Islam is myth, or rather the belief system behind it is, making its adherents believers in myths.
The toxic, aggressive, way in which they behave themselves towards everyone else is sadly not a myth at all.

the documentation for a deprecated method or class will often tell you why it was deprecated and what the suggested alternatives are.
If not, you're on your own and have to rely on your experience and knowledge of the language and API to figure it out for yourself.

well, it may help him get a job for a few weeks until he gets fired for incompetence. Which might yield him a paycheck of unearned wages for that period, at the expense of qualified people who now end up not only unemployed and poorer but suspect of being unqualified as well.

don't worry, there will be no Christians and Jews left in Syria after the Islamists win, they'll all have been killed or forcibly converted to islam at gunpoint and then killed.

seems you didn't get the message: we're not your project idea generator, use your brain for that.

In our experience, 90%+ of kids coming here asking us to give them their ideas then come back to ask us to implement those ideas for them.

without you telling us what the errors are, nobody's going to be able to help you.

why that loop to check your string? Just use the reverse() method from StringBuilder and check whether the result is equal to the original.

IMO you should never blindly just ignore any warning. If you're not sure of why you get it, what the risks are of ignoring it and find those acceptable, and there's a solution, fix your code rather than ignoring the warning.

Deprecated methods are deprecated for a reason, they often are unreliable or have dangerous side effects.
So don't use them unless there is no other way (and there just about always is another way).
In fact sometimes (and especially outside the core Java APIs provided by Oracle) deprecated methods have been changed upon deprecation to do nothing at all, or to just log a warning and terminate, forcing users to replace calls to them.

Same reason Europe is supporting them, they think/hope that showing themselves good little dhimmis will stop AQ turn them into the next target.
Idle hope of course, they just show themselves to be even more spineless and even easier targets than they already are.

we're still waiting for an automated project idea generator...

in fact the AQ/Taliban couldn't care less about the people. We have seen time and again how they treat their conquered subjects, which is not at all nice.
And in this case those conquered subjects are even worse off, being members of a different islamic sect to the AQ/Taliban core, and in part being not muslims at all but Christians.

and your question? Just dumping something here that's clearly your homework assigment and expecting us to complete it for you is not going to help.
It's also clearly not allowed.

he's even stated explicitly you should do it yourself.
And you were so lazy and stupid you posted even that line verbatim, didn't even bother to read your assignment before you posted it here.

Now, the only thing you missed is stating it is "very urgent"...

There are several schools of thought about that, Jeff.
Mathematically, 1 is indeed a prime number as such are defined as any number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. The number 1 of course meets both criteria.

what about a basic course in using a search engine? Would help you much more than being dripfed things to "study" every few hours here (which is way too little time to gain any knowledge about any concept).

actually, WMDs and components were found in Iraq but nowhere near the quantities or battle readiness levels previously suspected.
Classic intelligence failure, nothing nefarious about it.

As to Syria, guess where Saddam shipped a lot of his stuff when things started heating up in 2002?

And there's no indication who used that Sarin there, only that it was used. With a strong suspicion that it was in fact the AQ linked "rebels" that are the culprit.

For any potential future employer what you know as a rank rookie is far less important than that you show enthousiasm and an ability and willingness to learn and do basically anything.

You're not expected to know anything yet, and will most likely spend the first several months at least learning skills, getting coffee for team mates, and analysing bug reports.

In the short time frame of a graduation project, forget about writing your own game engine from scratch, especially if you're doing it solo rather than as part of a large and experienced team, and especially as you apparently don't even know the programming language you want to use yet.
Choose something a lot less ambitious, and using an existing engine would be that.
Of course you'd need to include a detailed analysis of various engines and the criteria you used to arrive at which to use for your implementation as part of your thesis. Anything less would (or at least should, if you have a decent teacher grading you) lead to serious deductions on your final score, no matter how good your implementation will turn out to be (in fact that implementation is or should be the least of the items scored on).

Given your initial question, you should probably give up trying to write any malware removal software as if you'd have even the most rudimentary knowledge about such you'd have known Java is not an appropriate choice to implement it.

You can't know and should not care about the actual amount of memory used. It's not guaranteed anywhere to be any specific amount, and different JVMs can implement things differently, so assuming a specific number is extremely dangerous.

Memory will indeed be allocated with that statement, just enough to instantiate the ArrayList instance with its default settings. See above as to why you shouldn't bother trying to think about how much exactly that is.

the standard way to spam people is to buy a botnet and use that. And we're not here to help you harass people with spam and/or do other illegal things.

depends on the contract, but you do indeed pay more for the phone if you get it as part of a contract than when you buy it outright.
Which is hardly surprising. You're effectively buying the phone on credit...

no need to mortgage your phone to a contract, just buy one that's not locked and put your existing SIM card in it...

used to ride a bike 20-30km a day, hike 5-10km a day, swim several hours a week.
Then I got into an accident that destroyed my knees...

I'm an oldfashioned guy, from way before there was a StringBuilder :)

unless your assignment explicitly states you can't use something, you can use it.
Your teacher may not like to see solutions that differ from what he had in mind, but any decent teacher will accept them if they're valid solutions (and especially if they're more efficient than what he had in mind).