That entirely depends, a lot of parents nowadays abuse the tv to get their children to sit still and be quiet and thus reduce the amount of effort they would otherwise need to expend on parenting. This usually results in the children spending most of their time at home either in bed or in front of the television.
Using television in such a way and for these reasons is, without a doubt, bad parenting and is most probably what the other poster was referring to.
Same shit in Belgium; except the thing on hard drives is already in effect.
First thing I do with every cd I buy (omg, someone still actually buys cds!) is rip them onto my hard drive, so I get to pay extra for my legal music because I get taxed on the digital media player and the hard drive... Not to mention that SABAM (our local version of the RIAA mafia) gets money when I backup any of my personal data to some optical medium, and I sure as hell don't think I owe them any money for my vacation photographs...
And they somehow manage to think this is justified?
Pirate Bay not being in the US might also have something to do with the unhealthy amount of influence certain lobbying groups have in the US compared to the rest of the world. And the legal system in general favoring groups with big wads of cash to throw at it.
The funniest thing is that it is no longer true. And hasn't been true since the 1.5 release. Java is no slower than, say,.Net (iirc it's even way faster).
I have no idea why this bullshit keeps coming up every time someone mentions Java.
French is a descendant of the Latin language.
"Libre" is, like it or not, a French.word. While "liber" is indeed Latin and while both may be related and look similar they are not the same. I think it's "libertad" in Spanish and probably something pretty similar in Italian as well.
Because there were no drivers for XP 64bit for a lot of things that were important to end users (soundcards and motherboard components requiring custom drivers come to mind).
Also end user 64bit systems were still relatively new when XP was released and a lot of applications supposedly wouldn't run on XP64 (which I think didn't have the compatibility modes of Vista, not entirely sure, been a while), so the amount of software that would run on it was rather limited.
And of course last but definately not least, 64bit systems weren't marketed as much as they were leading up to Vista's release..
Why would I want to use this over Last.fm which doesn't lock me into an application, is accessible from my webbrowser and has plugins for about every media player around?
It arguably doesn't provide competition to Facebook aiming at a different audience altogether, but to me, judging from the article, it seems to be swimming in much the same waters as Apple's Ping.
There still being a flower means there will be no seeds (yet) though.
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The fact that you're used to reading Algol style languages has nothing to do with Lisp being harder to read.
For me an ugly language is a language that's hard to read (and thus maintain) and hard to write. Personally I think Lisp is easier to both read and write than most other languages out there. Lisp doesn't 'force' less conventions on you, it employ different conventions and uses a very different syntax to express them. The fact that you don't know them or fail to understand them doesn't mean they're there.
Indentation of code in Lisp is very important and tremendously increases readability, and unlike in a lot of other languages, there's only one indentation style and people actually adhere to it (and given Lisp's structure it's easy for an editor to perfectly reindent huge portions of code at once should indentation get messed up one way or the other)
Lisp might be a textual representation of an AST but it certainly isn't any harder to read or write than any other language, and it definitely isn't more verbose. If my attempts to learn (Common) Lisp have shown anything it's that Lisp code tends to be a lot shorter than the same code in most other languages I know and at the same time a lot more expressive and thus clearer and easier to understand.
Hmm, probably because your knowledge of Dutch, French and German is a bit below what's needed to read local Belgian news?
As such I suspect the only things you might find are international matters, but those will probably mention Brussels as their source as that's where most international organizations are seated, might want to have a look at http://www.brusselspost.com/ for some international news from Belgium, I don't know any English source for local news from Belgium though.
As a sidenote: the claim is not 1 million dollars/day but 1 million euros/day...
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That entirely depends, a lot of parents nowadays abuse the tv to get their children to sit still and be quiet and thus reduce the amount of effort they would otherwise need to expend on parenting. This usually results in the children spending most of their time at home either in bed or in front of the television. Using television in such a way and for these reasons is, without a doubt, bad parenting and is most probably what the other poster was referring to.
So did ID Software, and we all know what we got "when it was done".
Same shit in Belgium; except the thing on hard drives is already in effect. First thing I do with every cd I buy (omg, someone still actually buys cds!) is rip them onto my hard drive, so I get to pay extra for my legal music because I get taxed on the digital media player and the hard drive... Not to mention that SABAM (our local version of the RIAA mafia) gets money when I backup any of my personal data to some optical medium, and I sure as hell don't think I owe them any money for my vacation photographs... And they somehow manage to think this is justified?
Pirate Bay not being in the US might also have something to do with the unhealthy amount of influence certain lobbying groups have in the US compared to the rest of the world. And the legal system in general favoring groups with big wads of cash to throw at it.
The funniest thing is that it is no longer true. And hasn't been true since the 1.5 release. Java is no slower than, say, .Net (iirc it's even way faster).
I have no idea why this bullshit keeps coming up every time someone mentions Java.
And crash all the time? Hire better developers.
Your support contract must suck, I've always had my stuff repaired the day after reporting the issue even my personal laptops.
Now maybe that's just been luck but I often get the impression people are bashing Dell, well, just to bash Dell.
French is a descendant of the Latin language. "Libre" is, like it or not, a French.word. While "liber" is indeed Latin and while both may be related and look similar they are not the same. I think it's "libertad" in Spanish and probably something pretty similar in Italian as well.
Just wanted to point out that it was the French that helped the US become an independent nation to start with.
Because there were no drivers for XP 64bit for a lot of things that were important to end users (soundcards and motherboard components requiring custom drivers come to mind).
Also end user 64bit systems were still relatively new when XP was released and a lot of applications supposedly wouldn't run on XP64 (which I think didn't have the compatibility modes of Vista, not entirely sure, been a while), so the amount of software that would run on it was rather limited.
And of course last but definately not least, 64bit systems weren't marketed as much as they were leading up to Vista's release..
And most importantly, Blizzard allows you to turn it off without hassle at all,
Why would I want to use this over Last.fm which doesn't lock me into an application, is accessible from my webbrowser and has plugins for about every media player around?
It arguably doesn't provide competition to Facebook aiming at a different audience altogether, but to me, judging from the article, it seems to be swimming in much the same waters as Apple's Ping.
There still being a flower means there will be no seeds (yet) though.
The fact that you're used to reading Algol style languages has nothing to do with Lisp being harder to read.
For me an ugly language is a language that's hard to read (and thus maintain) and hard to write. Personally I think Lisp is easier to both read and write than most other languages out there. Lisp doesn't 'force' less conventions on you, it employ different conventions and uses a very different syntax to express them. The fact that you don't know them or fail to understand them doesn't mean they're there.
Indentation of code in Lisp is very important and tremendously increases readability, and unlike in a lot of other languages, there's only one indentation style and people actually adhere to it (and given Lisp's structure it's easy for an editor to perfectly reindent huge portions of code at once should indentation get messed up one way or the other)
Lisp might be a textual representation of an AST but it certainly isn't any harder to read or write than any other language, and it definitely isn't more verbose. If my attempts to learn (Common) Lisp have shown anything it's that Lisp code tends to be a lot shorter than the same code in most other languages I know and at the same time a lot more expressive and thus clearer and easier to understand.
Hmm, probably because your knowledge of Dutch, French and German is a bit below what's needed to read local Belgian news?
As such I suspect the only things you might find are international matters, but those will probably mention Brussels as their source as that's where most international organizations are seated, might want to have a look at http://www.brusselspost.com/ for some international news from Belgium, I don't know any English source for local news from Belgium though.
As a sidenote: the claim is not 1 million dollars/day but 1 million euros/day...