That reminds me of a business teacher that I once had. She told the class that any business with the word "cyber" in it would simply fail - which I found ridiculous.
...especially since I had just left a company who used that word in their business name and was a multi-million dollar e-commerce company.
"Or maybe you're just being pedantic about the definition of "upgrade"?"
Yes I am. I see an upgrade as getting something better than what you already have. A few new 'features', an unintuitive UI change, and a plethora of bugs in a new version of a lame OS is not an upgrade, but merely a change.
"Or going from IE6 to IE11 isn't an upgrade, but just a change?"
Correct. Going from IE6 to Firefox, for example, is an upgrade.
I don't really consider changing from one version of Windows to another an "upgrade"; but rather just changing Windows versions.
By comparison, operating systems such as Linux actually evolve over time, and upgrading to a newer version could be properly considered an upgrade, imho.
...then the American symbol called the "Statue of Liberty" is just a meaningless piece of rock....
Unless of course you take the symbolic conspiratorial second meaning which is that America is actually run by the Illuminati (the torch) and it's citizens are slaves in ignorance who falsely believe that they have liberty and justice for all.
And as a fringe benefit she won't need an additional tin-foil hat to block out the government's mind control beams if she decides to pursue independent conspiracy theory investigation.
Okay, maybe two words depending on how you look at it.:)
Seriously, though, this is pretty amazing!
It's nice to hear about a baby's life being saved - as opposed to all of the gloom and doom fear mongering in the mainstream media.
# Comments help you understand other people's code, regardless of the language
# - unless the source that you are looking at was written by a coding mime...
#... in which case the code should be sent to/dev/null for clarification.
It will be nice to see what "bells and whistles" Perl 6 has added.
I can code in several different languages and, while Perl is by far my favorite, I have to say that it was by far the most difficult language to learn on my own. The reason was because the syntax just seemed too cryptic. By contrast, I learned to code in Assembly when I was 14 by reading a book on the subject and trial and error.
In order to get my head around Perl I took a 1 week crash course which really demystified the language. I have now found Perl to be the most useful and versatile language that I have ever used - especially for system administration tasks. It is also great for writing spiders, parsing text, communicating with system resources and interacting with databases. Of course, each programming language is a different tool for getting certain jobs done. Perl is akin to a swiss army knife.
What's also wonderful about Perl is that it is native to Linux and also available on Windows (I use Strawberry Perl at work to monitor hardware as i'm forced to use a Windows Desktop).
I know that a lot of younger coders will scoff at Perl (usually out of ignorance) whilst touting the superiority of VB or Java (which is laughable). To each their own.
It's really nice to see that Perl is still being actively maintained and has a new release coming out. I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm salivating over this one:)
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It ain't no incorrect grammar.
It is division by zero.
"I abhor and reject all terms including "cyber""
...especially since I had just left a company who used that word in their business name and was a multi-million dollar e-commerce company.
That reminds me of a business teacher that I once had. She told the class that any business with the word "cyber" in it would simply fail - which I found ridiculous.
Agreed.
It's like saying "We have no chips in the vending machine".
You cannot "have none" - but you can "not have any".
"We do not have any chips in the vending machine" would be correct.
Electric cars are sooooo quiet!
Perfect for discreetly driving out the farms for some good ol' fashioned cow tipping.
"Going from IE6 to Lynx is an upgrade."
:)
Yes! And using Lynx you can see webpages as the search engines do. Lynx is a great SEO tool!
"Is that easy enough for you?"
I don't get it.
"Professional advice time" I was being facetious and I did state that it was my humble opinion. You seemed to have missed that part.
Comedic advice time:
1. Pull the stick out of your ass.
2. Smile. (Your face won't crack)
3. Go to # 1
"It used to be that to find new forms of life, all you had to do was take a walk in the woods."
True if looking for leprechauns; but not mermaids.
I still haven't found the leprechaun, let alone caught him. But I did find a box of lucky charms once.
"Or maybe you're just being pedantic about the definition of "upgrade"?"
Yes I am. I see an upgrade as getting something better than what you already have. A few new 'features', an unintuitive UI change, and a plethora of bugs in a new version of a lame OS is not an upgrade, but merely a change.
"Or going from IE6 to IE11 isn't an upgrade, but just a change?"
Correct. Going from IE6 to Firefox, for example, is an upgrade.
"...a free upgrade for anyone with Windows 7..."
I don't really consider changing from one version of Windows to another an "upgrade"; but rather just changing Windows versions.
By comparison, operating systems such as Linux actually evolve over time, and upgrading to a newer version could be properly considered an upgrade, imho.
Correction: "...then the American symbol called the "Statue of Liberty" is just a meaningless piece of iron and copper."
...then the American symbol called the "Statue of Liberty" is just a meaningless piece of rock....
Unless of course you take the symbolic conspiratorial second meaning which is that America is actually run by the Illuminati (the torch) and it's citizens are slaves in ignorance who falsely believe that they have liberty and justice for all.
The latter seems to make more sense these days.
Compared to the cost of your organs on the black market.
Wars kill many, many more people each year than the flu, polio, etc.
"an episode featuring a terrorist plot to fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center."
George Bush "Nobody in our administration could have envisioned using planes as missiles and flying them into buildings"
But Hollywood did...
Is it kosher?
Warning: This 'seaweed bacon' article is clickbait. It actually tastes like chicken.
I wonder if this is a foreshadowing of the UK becoming the first to implement mandatory ID chip implants?
And as a fringe benefit she won't need an additional tin-foil hat to block out the government's mind control beams if she decides to pursue independent conspiracy theory investigation.
Megamind!
:)
Okay, maybe two words depending on how you look at it.
Seriously, though, this is pretty amazing!
It's nice to hear about a baby's life being saved - as opposed to all of the gloom and doom fear mongering in the mainstream media.
To embrace Linux :)
Don't tell Monsanto!
Welcome our new robot overlords!
# Comments help you understand other people's code, regardless of the language ... in which case the code should be sent to /dev/null for clarification.
# - unless the source that you are looking at was written by a coding mime...
#
It will be nice to see what "bells and whistles" Perl 6 has added.
:)
I can code in several different languages and, while Perl is by far my favorite, I have to say that it was by far the most difficult language to learn on my own. The reason was because the syntax just seemed too cryptic. By contrast, I learned to code in Assembly when I was 14 by reading a book on the subject and trial and error.
In order to get my head around Perl I took a 1 week crash course which really demystified the language. I have now found Perl to be the most useful and versatile language that I have ever used - especially for system administration tasks. It is also great for writing spiders, parsing text, communicating with system resources and interacting with databases. Of course, each programming language is a different tool for getting certain jobs done. Perl is akin to a swiss army knife.
What's also wonderful about Perl is that it is native to Linux and also available on Windows (I use Strawberry Perl at work to monitor hardware as i'm forced to use a Windows Desktop).
I know that a lot of younger coders will scoff at Perl (usually out of ignorance) whilst touting the superiority of VB or Java (which is laughable). To each their own.
It's really nice to see that Perl is still being actively maintained and has a new release coming out. I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm salivating over this one