Betting on sports is a stupid move. Any form of gambling, be it lottery tickets, horse racing, cock fighting and the Stock Market--they are all equally foolish. Each of these forms of gambling exist to funnel money to the house. Anyone who is foolish enough to buy stocks, bet on football games, buy lottery tickets or step foot in a casino is a stupid fool who deserves to walk away penniless. What kind of foolish idiot walks into a casino in Las Vegas expecting to make money? I guess it's the same sort of dunderhead that forks over money on sports betting or who stands in line at a Quickie-Mart buying $10 worth of lottery tickets. Idiots all. The only part of this statement that is really controversial is including the Stock Market. Well, if you put your money in the stock market in the last 9 years, you would have done better keeping it in cash under your mattress.
You're sounding rather defensive. No, my reason for pointing it out is because it is so atypical in our society. Television is so ubiquitous that many people cannot fathom a life without hours a day sitting in front of the TV. Your brain is less active while watching TV than it is while you're sleeping.
My reason for point it out is to insert the idea into the heads of some of you. Of course, those of you that plan your lives around your favorite shows won't listen. Yet, I'm pretty sure that those of you who are avid TV watchers will never accomplish much in life. Go ahead and be a "consumer" dude. Leave it to others like me to create the content that you will consume.
Eh, why should I care about the opinion of someone who hides behind Anonymous Coward.
You're so sure of your opinions that in advance you hide your identity.
Most hobbies are not money makers and are not really serious. I have been a serious writer for years and I also work in Manhattan for a big company, doing important work every day.
If you think that makes me an asshole--that's your opinion.
Little child,
What you read was a typewritten original draft. I assure you that a final, publishable version would go through many rewrites. My novel has been through 22 and it looks nothing like that original, typewritten item you found. I would not have said it was close to publication unless I already had an agent who was excited about my book.
Turn it around. How much of our society is devoted to praising and consuming TV. How many times have you heard "American Idol" mentioned off TV? The amount of attention paid to TV is absurd. Once you quit watching it, your entire life is changed. Attention span, time, everything. Try it for a month.
I stopped watching TV in 8th grade. I have never owned one. I have read thousands of book. I have a thriller novel set in St. Petersburg Russia that is very close to publication. Friend, there are so many sources of inspiration in this world. One does not need to work inside the hothouse world of gaming to get inspiration. Thank you for making me laugh.
In general, I have found most games to be dull. I stopped watching TV in the 8th grade for the same reason. The most interesting of all? Write your own books.
Well--full disclosure on my part. I have not really used any of the MS tools since 1998 when I switched to Java. I used VisualStudio a lot and even VB6. I just found it maddening to have a single resource. If you lucked out and the MSDN author was competent then great. But often, the person who wrote the one and only resource on this subject--in MSDN--couldn't explain their way out of a paper bag. When you get in the Java world, you always find competing resources. Eerily echoing the current health care debate, it's nice to have competition. I hated MS because--when you went.NET, for example--you had no other vendor to choose from.
The Swiss will find themselves up a creek with Microsoft and they will regret this decision. I so recall the days of fighting to understand the one and only explanation of some process that I had found on MSDN. That was only choice so I had to just grok it there. When I moved over to the Java world eons ago, I found every issue or question had dozens of answers and so no problem was unsolvable. The Swiss are entering a special circle of hell called: Sole Vendor...
We know what this is--and nobody wants to admit it because they like the space tourism. The streaks on Venus are from some ill-mannered time or space travelers who dumped their bilge into the upper atmosphere of Venus. It's just a mess and it's going to leave a pretty permanent stain on Venus. It's going to wreak hell on the Venusian Tourism Industry, for sure.
This is the dark side of our government running its alien/time traveler tourism program. No body ever plans for what to do with the trash.
The most important thing is to give them a mix of technologies so they don't get this slice that isn't useful. If you teach Java, then Teach Hibernate, Spring and all the other associated technologies...
We're all entitled to our opinions. I liked that movie. And I do believe another movie character-Sgt Hulka from Stripes--had the best response to you:
"Lighten up, Francis!"
By coincidence, last weekend I saw TRON in its entirety on YouTube. I must confess that it's a great movie. Obviously, technically, nobody knew what the hell they were talking about and it shows. Still, it was a great, prophetic movie. Well worth catching in 10 parts, each 10 minutes long...
If the intention is not to put the student through a 'rite of passage'--meaning the agonies of being a C/C++ developer, then I would recommend Java. It's a real language that has a future and huge growth potential. Though I know that's a huge topic now, I have at least done my part by making available, for free, without any ads, ad links or any other such commercial nonsense.
Remember RealAudio? In the late 90's they owned internet audio? But then when you installed their player it took total control of your machine and basically was just a bad application? Well, they're gone now, basically. Microsoft is a similar case. They screwed with people so much that a bunch of competitors appeared. I used to code on MS platforms but I stopped and switched to Java a long time ago.
The reason people beat up on Microsoft is because Microsoft--the company--is a bastard. So, in this age, don't ever be evil or you will be remembered forever for it. That's what's happening here. You're blaming the messengers.
"I don't suppose they were doing anything like that--" because we've already established that the coders were idiots incapable of coding in C/C++.
Remember that old saying? "Java is 'C' without the Guns and Knives".
Good! Let all those people with their gas guzzlers get just totally hosed by this green green. Let all those oil grubbers in Texas switch to wind. Let their greed be useful for a change. Go ahead and tear up those roads--and never re-build them. No human is going to be saying here: "Our problem was--we didn't build enough roads."
What a Joy it is seeing a Green Boom. I have no problem with people getting excited over some form of energy that does not harm that much--except the birds and they were already toast when the world heated up if we don't switch to wind.
Creativity is the only thing that should be rewarded exorbitantly.
Creativity. What the hell is that? The ability to make things that did not exist already. In the software business, it's called innovation. In the artistic fields, it's called authorship.
Linked is a slippery word. It implies causation. Correlated is more like it, meaning that we judge many people with schizophrenia as being also creative at the same time. What kind of creativity?
It could be as simple as this: persons with the diagnosis of schizophrenia choose to cope by creating.
Therefore, it does not imply that you must have schizophrenia to be creative. Creative people see new combinations, new possibilities, what-if mixtures that can change the world.
Creative people see a device such as the iPhone and come up with the killer app. Their idea was there for any other person to see but they did not.
So, creativity is not necessarily linked to schizophrenia. Instead, by coincidence, schizophrenic people are often creative.
Bill! Nice try, man. Like we didn't see that coming. In order to see the great man's lectures I have to install--WTF? Silverlight? What's that? Some.NET crap that's going to clog up my machine with a bunch of vampire processes? Not on your life. Bill--take it from moi--if you want to do a good deed, drop those vids of Feynman on Google Video.
This is another reason why the C and C++ languages should be reserved for a few, high profile uses such as making compilers. These languages should not be used for any general purpose language other than ones like C and C++ that allow you to royally shoot yourself in the foot with bad pointer arithmetic. What a doozy of an error all thanks to the "freedom" given the developer in the language. Surely, C and C++ are among the most powerful options available--but only for select applications. Do you drive a Formula One race car through Midtown Manhattan? I don't think so. You restrict them to racetracks. Thus too with C & C++.
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Betting on sports is a stupid move. Any form of gambling, be it lottery tickets, horse racing, cock fighting and the Stock Market--they are all equally foolish. Each of these forms of gambling exist to funnel money to the house. Anyone who is foolish enough to buy stocks, bet on football games, buy lottery tickets or step foot in a casino is a stupid fool who deserves to walk away penniless. What kind of foolish idiot walks into a casino in Las Vegas expecting to make money? I guess it's the same sort of dunderhead that forks over money on sports betting or who stands in line at a Quickie-Mart buying $10 worth of lottery tickets. Idiots all. The only part of this statement that is really controversial is including the Stock Market. Well, if you put your money in the stock market in the last 9 years, you would have done better keeping it in cash under your mattress.
You are correct. The Pentagon gets over 50% of the entire federal budget.
You're sounding rather defensive. No, my reason for pointing it out is because it is so atypical in our society. Television is so ubiquitous that many people cannot fathom a life without hours a day sitting in front of the TV. Your brain is less active while watching TV than it is while you're sleeping.
My reason for point it out is to insert the idea into the heads of some of you. Of course, those of you that plan your lives around your favorite shows won't listen. Yet, I'm pretty sure that those of you who are avid TV watchers will never accomplish much in life. Go ahead and be a "consumer" dude. Leave it to others like me to create the content that you will consume.
Eh, why should I care about the opinion of someone who hides behind Anonymous Coward. You're so sure of your opinions that in advance you hide your identity.
Most hobbies are not money makers and are not really serious. I have been a serious writer for years and I also work in Manhattan for a big company, doing important work every day. If you think that makes me an asshole--that's your opinion.
Little child, What you read was a typewritten original draft. I assure you that a final, publishable version would go through many rewrites. My novel has been through 22 and it looks nothing like that original, typewritten item you found. I would not have said it was close to publication unless I already had an agent who was excited about my book.
Turn it around. How much of our society is devoted to praising and consuming TV. How many times have you heard "American Idol" mentioned off TV? The amount of attention paid to TV is absurd. Once you quit watching it, your entire life is changed. Attention span, time, everything. Try it for a month.
I stopped watching TV in 8th grade. I have never owned one. I have read thousands of book. I have a thriller novel set in St. Petersburg Russia that is very close to publication. Friend, there are so many sources of inspiration in this world. One does not need to work inside the hothouse world of gaming to get inspiration. Thank you for making me laugh.
In general, I have found most games to be dull. I stopped watching TV in the 8th grade for the same reason. The most interesting of all? Write your own books.
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Well--full disclosure on my part. I have not really used any of the MS tools since 1998 when I switched to Java. I used VisualStudio a lot and even VB6. I just found it maddening to have a single resource. If you lucked out and the MSDN author was competent then great. But often, the person who wrote the one and only resource on this subject--in MSDN--couldn't explain their way out of a paper bag. When you get in the Java world, you always find competing resources. Eerily echoing the current health care debate, it's nice to have competition. I hated MS because--when you went .NET, for example--you had no other vendor to choose from.
The Swiss will find themselves up a creek with Microsoft and they will regret this decision. I so recall the days of fighting to understand the one and only explanation of some process that I had found on MSDN. That was only choice so I had to just grok it there. When I moved over to the Java world eons ago, I found every issue or question had dozens of answers and so no problem was unsolvable. The Swiss are entering a special circle of hell called: Sole Vendor...
We know what this is--and nobody wants to admit it because they like the space tourism. The streaks on Venus are from some ill-mannered time or space travelers who dumped their bilge into the upper atmosphere of Venus. It's just a mess and it's going to leave a pretty permanent stain on Venus. It's going to wreak hell on the Venusian Tourism Industry, for sure. This is the dark side of our government running its alien/time traveler tourism program. No body ever plans for what to do with the trash.
The most important thing is to give them a mix of technologies so they don't get this slice that isn't useful. If you teach Java, then Teach Hibernate, Spring and all the other associated technologies...
We're all entitled to our opinions. I liked that movie. And I do believe another movie character-Sgt Hulka from Stripes--had the best response to you: "Lighten up, Francis!"
No, like any youtube video, you see it in parts. Part 1 is 10 minutes, Part 2 is 10 minutes, etc.
By coincidence, last weekend I saw TRON in its entirety on YouTube. I must confess that it's a great movie. Obviously, technically, nobody knew what the hell they were talking about and it shows. Still, it was a great, prophetic movie. Well worth catching in 10 parts, each 10 minutes long...
If the intention is not to put the student through a 'rite of passage'--meaning the agonies of being a C/C++ developer, then I would recommend Java. It's a real language that has a future and huge growth potential. Though I know that's a huge topic now, I have at least done my part by making available, for free, without any ads, ad links or any other such commercial nonsense.
It's just Two Semesters of College-Level Java for Free
Remember RealAudio? In the late 90's they owned internet audio? But then when you installed their player it took total control of your machine and basically was just a bad application? Well, they're gone now, basically. Microsoft is a similar case. They screwed with people so much that a bunch of competitors appeared. I used to code on MS platforms but I stopped and switched to Java a long time ago. The reason people beat up on Microsoft is because Microsoft--the company--is a bastard. So, in this age, don't ever be evil or you will be remembered forever for it. That's what's happening here. You're blaming the messengers.
"I don't suppose they were doing anything like that--" because we've already established that the coders were idiots incapable of coding in C/C++.
Remember that old saying? "Java is 'C' without the Guns and Knives".
Good! Let all those people with their gas guzzlers get just totally hosed by this green green. Let all those oil grubbers in Texas switch to wind. Let their greed be useful for a change. Go ahead and tear up those roads--and never re-build them. No human is going to be saying here: "Our problem was--we didn't build enough roads."
What a Joy it is seeing a Green Boom. I have no problem with people getting excited over some form of energy that does not harm that much--except the birds and they were already toast when the world heated up if we don't switch to wind.
Creativity is the only thing that should be rewarded exorbitantly. Creativity. What the hell is that? The ability to make things that did not exist already. In the software business, it's called innovation. In the artistic fields, it's called authorship.
Linked is a slippery word. It implies causation. Correlated is more like it, meaning that we judge many people with schizophrenia as being also creative at the same time. What kind of creativity?
It could be as simple as this: persons with the diagnosis of schizophrenia choose to cope by creating.
Therefore, it does not imply that you must have schizophrenia to be creative. Creative people see new combinations, new possibilities, what-if mixtures that can change the world.
Creative people see a device such as the iPhone and come up with the killer app. Their idea was there for any other person to see but they did not.
So, creativity is not necessarily linked to schizophrenia. Instead, by coincidence, schizophrenic people are often creative.
Bill! Nice try, man. Like we didn't see that coming. In order to see the great man's lectures I have to install--WTF? Silverlight? What's that? Some .NET crap that's going to clog up my machine with a bunch of vampire processes? Not on your life. Bill--take it from moi--if you want to do a good deed, drop those vids of Feynman on Google Video.
This is another reason why the C and C++ languages should be reserved for a few, high profile uses such as making compilers. These languages should not be used for any general purpose language other than ones like C and C++ that allow you to royally shoot yourself in the foot with bad pointer arithmetic. What a doozy of an error all thanks to the "freedom" given the developer in the language. Surely, C and C++ are among the most powerful options available--but only for select applications. Do you drive a Formula One race car through Midtown Manhattan? I don't think so. You restrict them to racetracks. Thus too with C & C++.
I never said I disbelieved in the Apollo moon landings. I believe they happened exactly as described.