It appears that MoldySpore is apologizing for a lousy movie that he liked because of the nostalgia that it stirred in him for the original. Those not afflicted with nostalgia dismiss the movie for what it is: an Avatar-like 3D craptacular with neat effects and forgettable plot/characters/music.
If Gawker had any sense, they'd hire professional programmers to design their system instead of letting it grow organically from what the "programming guy" originally came up with. Their comment system is THE WORST ever implemented.
True dat. Take Steve Jobs, for instance. He's always been greedier even than Bill Gates, he just didn't have the business acumen part until the third generation (the Windows-compatible one) came out. Once he stumbled into the fact that he can't sell computers, Apple flourished.
So many people have posted that what you need to succeed against Microsoft is simply greed. I think Jack Tramiel is evidence that this is not true. Greed != Business Acumen.
The naming convention behind SCSI was originally intending on it to be pronounced Sexy (secsi).
That was more of Steve Jobs BS. Everyone else called it "scuzzy". Steve Jobs' tremendous ego thought he could make it pronounced "sexy".
Everyone knows that W translated into Hebrew is 6 (actually the V is substituted as W doesn't exist) so whenever they go to a web site, they are paying homage to the number of the beast 666. (www).
Since W is double-vee in most languages that use the character wouldn't www == 666666?
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it fucks up the excellent "Don't mix content with presentation" principle.
And who's principle is that? Do we all have to adhere to it because someone declared it so? Computer languages are for humans to understand. I'll force my compilers and editors to deal with tabs if it makes the code easier to read and maintain, thank you very much.
I'll adhere to the principle "code needs to be maintainable, and not just by the person who originally wrote it." A much more practical maxim.
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Why would anyone want to be able to glance at a page of code and see where it's unbalanced? Obviously, you've never worked on a large project with multiple contributors.
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I disagree that it fundamentally changes the way you approach programming any more than any other well defined, structured language like Python, with Python having the added benefit of relevance.
Obscenity is defined by local standards. This can be at federal, state, county or local level.
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I'm with Junta on this one. If you're going to learn a first language, make it one that will grow with your knowledge. When I started out, it was with LOGO and BASIC. The LOGO stuff was pretty much mental masturbation, as it were. Yes, some of the concepts were transferrable to more modern, practical languages, but so were the concepts in BASIC.
For a beginner, I'd recommend Python. It's a powerful language, freely available on just about every platform imaginable, with tons of support and it will take a user all the way from "hello, world" to mobile phone apps, to web services, to World of Warcraft.
Google's free-for-all Marketplace is a real risk to Android's long term success because it sets up Android phones to become the must-see destination for viruses, mal-ware, and other shady operations.
Yes, because Microsoft's free-for-all software development policies has really threatened it's long term success. All the viruses, mal-ware, and other shady operations are causing people to abandon the OS and move to other competing OSes. Oh wait, that's a complete crock. My bad. I guess free-for-all access to software isn't a threat to long term success, rather, it's a key to long term success. Hmm, go figure. It flies in the face of Apple-apologist common sense. Well distort my reality!
I'd say it's one authoritarian regime, sharing with another authoritarian regime.
No real difference, both governments are using it to illicitly spy on you.
Yeah, because those constitutionally mandated warrants that the US government uses are one of the most egregious abuses of power ever devised. No real difference at all.
It works fine on the Droid X. The only thing I really use it for is watching videos.
I actually use my Droid as a GPS now when travelling--something I never did on my iPhone due to poor signal and no free turn-by-turn directions.
I learned how useless the iPhone 3G was for navigation overland when I tried to use it to guide me through a snowstorm in the mountains. Before I went on my trip, I checked the coverage map on AT&T's site and was assured that the entire path had 3G coverage. Not so. Most of the time I had no cell service at all, and when I did get it, it was 2G and couldn't download the maps fast enough for the speed I was driving (which wasn't fast, because there was a blizzard blowing at the time). I will NEVER go back to AT&T. Verizon coverage rocks.
My primary web browsing device is my netbook--though if I didn't have it, I would likely use my Droid more regularly at home.
I gave my netbook to my Mom a few months back because I wasn't using it any more. The phone is always in my pocket and always on. I can whip it out and look something up lickety split. With the larger screen on the Droid X it rocks. I do miss the hardware keyboard on the Droid, but I wouldn't trade it for that screen. The keyboard on the Droid 2 is even better than the one on the Droid (which I never had a problem with).
As I went got devices with larger more pleasant to use screens, I found I was using the web more and more. I switched to the leaked version of Froyo a month back and the availability of Flash video cranked up my usage another notch.
I think the Droid was a huge step up from the iPhone 3GS in that 3G data service is constant now, and the screen resolution & high pixel density was a joy compared to the 3GS. With the Droid, my phone became my primary web browsing device, and that's continued now with the Droid X.
Be careful. The more capable phone you have, the more data you may use... I had an iPhone 3G, then a 3GS and I used roughly 300Mb/month. When I got my Droid I went up to ~450Mb average. Now that I've got a Droid X, I'm up to 650Mb this month...
What's the surprise? Cell providers have been doing this for years. I have to have a 450 minute per month plan to even get a data plan, and I rarely go over two hours in a month.
Give me a 120 min talk time/500Mb Data/250 SMS plan for $40!
OK, high school kids: freedom of speech does NOT mean freedom from responsibility for the consequences of that speech.Making threats is not protected speech.
And the gaming industry still does. How many FPS's are there? They all copied Doom. How many RTS's? They all copied Dune 2. How many fighters? They all copied Karate Champ. People hate on Zynga because they're honest about what they do and they spend more money and effort on marketing.
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What the hell, what's NOT a human? A rabbit? A cockroach?
An unborn human, apparently.
It appears that MoldySpore is apologizing for a lousy movie that he liked because of the nostalgia that it stirred in him for the original. Those not afflicted with nostalgia dismiss the movie for what it is: an Avatar-like 3D craptacular with neat effects and forgettable plot/characters/music.
... where all the computers are free and none of them work quite right.
If Gawker had any sense, they'd hire professional programmers to design their system instead of letting it grow organically from what the "programming guy" originally came up with. Their comment system is THE WORST ever implemented.
Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Crazy Ivan!
True dat. Take Steve Jobs, for instance. He's always been greedier even than Bill Gates, he just didn't have the business acumen part until the third generation (the Windows-compatible one) came out. Once he stumbled into the fact that he can't sell computers, Apple flourished.
Seriously, $140k/year would barely cover my Magic:The Gathering bill.
So many people have posted that what you need to succeed against Microsoft is simply greed. I think Jack Tramiel is evidence that this is not true. Greed != Business Acumen.
The naming convention behind SCSI was originally intending on it to be pronounced Sexy (secsi).
That was more of Steve Jobs BS. Everyone else called it "scuzzy". Steve Jobs' tremendous ego thought he could make it pronounced "sexy".
Everyone knows that W translated into Hebrew is 6 (actually the V is substituted as W doesn't exist) so whenever they go to a web site, they are paying homage to the number of the beast 666. (www).
Since W is double-vee in most languages that use the character wouldn't www == 666666?
Satan has never carried a trident
It's not a trident, it's a pitchfork.
it fucks up the excellent "Don't mix content with presentation" principle.
And who's principle is that? Do we all have to adhere to it because someone declared it so? Computer languages are for humans to understand. I'll force my compilers and editors to deal with tabs if it makes the code easier to read and maintain, thank you very much.
I'll adhere to the principle "code needs to be maintainable, and not just by the person who originally wrote it." A much more practical maxim.
Why would anyone want to be able to glance at a page of code and see where it's unbalanced? Obviously, you've never worked on a large project with multiple contributors.
I disagree that it fundamentally changes the way you approach programming any more than any other well defined, structured language like Python, with Python having the added benefit of relevance.
Obscenity is defined by local standards. This can be at federal, state, county or local level.
I'm with Junta on this one. If you're going to learn a first language, make it one that will grow with your knowledge. When I started out, it was with LOGO and BASIC. The LOGO stuff was pretty much mental masturbation, as it were. Yes, some of the concepts were transferrable to more modern, practical languages, but so were the concepts in BASIC.
For a beginner, I'd recommend Python. It's a powerful language, freely available on just about every platform imaginable, with tons of support and it will take a user all the way from "hello, world" to mobile phone apps, to web services, to World of Warcraft.
A phone has real potential to cost an end users hundreds or thousands of dollars with calls to 900 numbers.
They are not exactly the same thing...
So FUD is the reason we need walled gardens?
Google's free-for-all Marketplace is a real risk to Android's long term success because it sets up Android phones to become the must-see destination for viruses, mal-ware, and other shady operations.
Yes, because Microsoft's free-for-all software development policies has really threatened it's long term success. All the viruses, mal-ware, and other shady operations are causing people to abandon the OS and move to other competing OSes. Oh wait, that's a complete crock. My bad. I guess free-for-all access to software isn't a threat to long term success, rather, it's a key to long term success. Hmm, go figure. It flies in the face of Apple-apologist common sense. Well distort my reality!
I'd say it's one authoritarian regime, sharing with another authoritarian regime.
No real difference, both governments are using it to illicitly spy on you.
Yeah, because those constitutionally mandated warrants that the US government uses are one of the most egregious abuses of power ever devised. No real difference at all.
Flash on my Droid just isn't worth it.
It works fine on the Droid X. The only thing I really use it for is watching videos.
I actually use my Droid as a GPS now when travelling--something I never did on my iPhone due to poor signal and no free turn-by-turn directions.
I learned how useless the iPhone 3G was for navigation overland when I tried to use it to guide me through a snowstorm in the mountains. Before I went on my trip, I checked the coverage map on AT&T's site and was assured that the entire path had 3G coverage. Not so. Most of the time I had no cell service at all, and when I did get it, it was 2G and couldn't download the maps fast enough for the speed I was driving (which wasn't fast, because there was a blizzard blowing at the time). I will NEVER go back to AT&T. Verizon coverage rocks.
My primary web browsing device is my netbook--though if I didn't have it, I would likely use my Droid more regularly at home.
I gave my netbook to my Mom a few months back because I wasn't using it any more. The phone is always in my pocket and always on. I can whip it out and look something up lickety split. With the larger screen on the Droid X it rocks. I do miss the hardware keyboard on the Droid, but I wouldn't trade it for that screen. The keyboard on the Droid 2 is even better than the one on the Droid (which I never had a problem with).
As I went got devices with larger more pleasant to use screens, I found I was using the web more and more. I switched to the leaked version of Froyo a month back and the availability of Flash video cranked up my usage another notch.
I think the Droid was a huge step up from the iPhone 3GS in that 3G data service is constant now, and the screen resolution & high pixel density was a joy compared to the 3GS. With the Droid, my phone became my primary web browsing device, and that's continued now with the Droid X.
Be careful. The more capable phone you have, the more data you may use... I had an iPhone 3G, then a 3GS and I used roughly 300Mb/month. When I got my Droid I went up to ~450Mb average. Now that I've got a Droid X, I'm up to 650Mb this month...
What's the surprise? Cell providers have been doing this for years. I have to have a 450 minute per month plan to even get a data plan, and I rarely go over two hours in a month.
Give me a 120 min talk time/500Mb Data/250 SMS plan for $40!
Felgercarb! Go smurf yourself you drek-eating, mother-fracking nimnul!
OK, high school kids: freedom of speech does NOT mean freedom from responsibility for the consequences of that speech.Making threats is not protected speech.
And the gaming industry still does. How many FPS's are there? They all copied Doom. How many RTS's? They all copied Dune 2. How many fighters? They all copied Karate Champ. People hate on Zynga because they're honest about what they do and they spend more money and effort on marketing.