You're not correct I'm afraid. I'm no expert, but there's no way that the second 'a' in abacus is pronounced the same as the 'a' in race. It's pronounced the same as the first 'a'.
I'd be pretty glad to be told the feature was a hack. I could make an informed decision about whether it was worth living with the hack until the next version was out, or whether I should go with a competitors product. I'd appreciate the company's honesty in this situation.
If, on the other hand, they assured me that a product had a certain feature, and it turned out that it didn't really work right, I'd sue them. I'd certainly never buy anything from them again.
When they say "always free to get started", I understand that to mean that the free version of the service will remain free, always. I admit that the sentence could be read either way.
It doesn't seem likely that Google would try to charge for it - it's just not very Google-like. I'm not drinking the "don't be evil" Kool-aid here, it's just that they are trying to lock people into their service, and charging for it isn't the way to do that.
Besides, have you seen how ridiculously cheap the prices are compared to the other players? If they did start charging, you'd hardly notice!
Google have stated that AppEngine will remain free. The only difference once it is out of beta is that you will be able to buy additional resources (storage, bandwidth, CPU time) from them.
The original free resources (including 500Mb storage) will remain free, regardless of whether you decide to purchase more.
In either language the two 'print' lines start out hard against the left margin, with no form of block delimiters around them.
In Java, after you insert the 'if' statement, you need to put braces around the two 'print' lines in order to indicate how much of the code the 'if' statement applies to.
In Python, after you insert the 'if' statement, you need to select the two 'print' lines and indent them, in order to indicate how much of the code the 'if' statement applies to.
If you start allowing kids to curse left, right and centre then the words entirely lose their appeal. What are you going to do when telling someone to go f*** themselves loses all its impact because everyone's shoving the word in every sentence they say? Your precious swear words start to look pretty useless then, don't they? The best thing you can do is maintain the status quo, try (and fail) to stop kids from swearing like we always have, and keep all the best words for ourselves. Fuckwad.
I've coded low level audio processing algorithms in C, C++ and assembly, and also experimented with coding them in Java and C#. The latter languages did surprisingly well, but they're nowhere near as fast. They're just not designed for that type of thing. It would be just as mad to use those languages for low level stuff as it would be trying to write a large GUI app in something like C++ these days. Every language has its uses, for most purposes you'd never need to go near C or assembly, but sometimes you just have to get as close to the metal as possible.
Having said all that, my experiences are anecdotal, I don't have any hard figures to back them up. Besides, I only mentioned it to get in the joke about pointer arithmetic.
But just for fun, here is a site showing C++ twice as fast as Java, and here's a seriously out of date one showing that Java used to be 10 times slower.
Indeed. Properly optimised C++ would be way more than ten times faster than the equivalent Java. Until you screwed up your pointer arithmetic and brought the whole thing crashing down.
Yeah, you can call semi-Godwin's Law on me for citing Communists, but tell me that I'm wrong.
What does Godwin's law have to do with it? Are you comparing a nominally communist government (which isn't actually all that communist at all) with a fascist regime (which didn't really fit the definition of fascism anyway?) Damn it man, you're worse than Hitler!
Just try to achive this with any modern Windows! Easy. In fact, I can go one better and offer you zero-tasking, thanks to the wonders of Windows Vista.
So, to sum up, it's either a thing or an object, and it's green, blue, ultra-violet or x-ray. Luckily astronomer Bill Keel leaps to the rescue with a more comprehensive explanation: "it's an unprecedented... thing."
if the first book was a Google Map, this one would be the Street View. So the first book was extremely useful and hugely comprehensive, while the second book is just a fun gimmick?
I met the Darling brothers, albeit very briefly, at a computer show back in the 80s. I was just a little kid trying to pitch a game I'd written for the Spectrum, with hopes of making it rich like those guys. The game was actually quite fun, but it was just a little strategy thing, hardly the sort of thing Codemasters would release. Worst of all, it was written in Basic (though I didn't tell them that!) Unsurprisingly, they didn't seem too impressed.
I have a bit of a history of trying to use Basic for entirely unsuitable tasks. I once made it onto a release in the Atari ST demo scene with a little thing I wrote with a friend in STOS Basic. Luckily I saw the error of my ways and learnt C and assembly language in the end... although it took an unhealthy obsession with OS development to finally persuade me.
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so, what's the difference between ledgible and artistic?
One of them is a word.
You're not correct I'm afraid. I'm no expert, but there's no way that the second 'a' in abacus is pronounced the same as the 'a' in race. It's pronounced the same as the first 'a'.
I'd be pretty glad to be told the feature was a hack. I could make an informed decision about whether it was worth living with the hack until the next version was out, or whether I should go with a competitors product. I'd appreciate the company's honesty in this situation.
If, on the other hand, they assured me that a product had a certain feature, and it turned out that it didn't really work right, I'd sue them. I'd certainly never buy anything from them again.
I find your schedule intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
When they say "always free to get started", I understand that to mean that the free version of the service will remain free, always. I admit that the sentence could be read either way.
It doesn't seem likely that Google would try to charge for it - it's just not very Google-like. I'm not drinking the "don't be evil" Kool-aid here, it's just that they are trying to lock people into their service, and charging for it isn't the way to do that.
Besides, have you seen how ridiculously cheap the prices are compared to the other players? If they did start charging, you'd hardly notice!
Google have stated that AppEngine will remain free. The only difference once it is out of beta is that you will be able to buy additional resources (storage, bandwidth, CPU time) from them.
The original free resources (including 500Mb storage) will remain free, regardless of whether you decide to purchase more.
Your example is irrelevant.
In either language the two 'print' lines start out hard against the left margin, with no form of block delimiters around them.
In Java, after you insert the 'if' statement, you need to put braces around the two 'print' lines in order to indicate how much of the code the 'if' statement applies to.
In Python, after you insert the 'if' statement, you need to select the two 'print' lines and indent them, in order to indicate how much of the code the 'if' statement applies to.
These actions are functionally identical.
In any other country there would be a real left wing
Er, I guess you've not noticed the UK recently then. :(
If you start allowing kids to curse left, right and centre then the words entirely lose their appeal. What are you going to do when telling someone to go f*** themselves loses all its impact because everyone's shoving the word in every sentence they say? Your precious swear words start to look pretty useless then, don't they? The best thing you can do is maintain the status quo, try (and fail) to stop kids from swearing like we always have, and keep all the best words for ourselves. Fuckwad.
What's offensive about Worse Than Failure?
I've coded low level audio processing algorithms in C, C++ and assembly, and also experimented with coding them in Java and C#. The latter languages did surprisingly well, but they're nowhere near as fast. They're just not designed for that type of thing. It would be just as mad to use those languages for low level stuff as it would be trying to write a large GUI app in something like C++ these days. Every language has its uses, for most purposes you'd never need to go near C or assembly, but sometimes you just have to get as close to the metal as possible.
Having said all that, my experiences are anecdotal, I don't have any hard figures to back them up. Besides, I only mentioned it to get in the joke about pointer arithmetic.
But just for fun, here is a site showing C++ twice as fast as Java, and here's a seriously out of date one showing that Java used to be 10 times slower.
So the submitter made summary, editor not check summary, summary not made much sense.
Indeed. Properly optimised C++ would be way more than ten times faster than the equivalent Java. Until you screwed up your pointer arithmetic and brought the whole thing crashing down.
No, that one's just old, you insensitive clod!
What does Godwin's law have to do with it? Are you comparing a nominally communist government (which isn't actually all that communist at all) with a fascist regime (which didn't really fit the definition of fascism anyway?) Damn it man, you're worse than Hitler!
So, to sum up, it's either a thing or an object, and it's green, blue, ultra-violet or x-ray. Luckily astronomer Bill Keel leaps to the rescue with a more comprehensive explanation: "it's an unprecedented... thing."
From the site's current robots.txt: -
User-agent: ia_archiverAllow:
Now that's irony. (Actually, is that irony? I'm always a bit worried I might get it wrong, since the whole Alanis Morissette thing.)
Yes you did.
So why use slashes for emphasis when you post /here/ then? Come on, this isn't 1980 anymore, you know.
I met the Darling brothers, albeit very briefly, at a computer show back in the 80s. I was just a little kid trying to pitch a game I'd written for the Spectrum, with hopes of making it rich like those guys. The game was actually quite fun, but it was just a little strategy thing, hardly the sort of thing Codemasters would release. Worst of all, it was written in Basic (though I didn't tell them that!) Unsurprisingly, they didn't seem too impressed.
I have a bit of a history of trying to use Basic for entirely unsuitable tasks. I once made it onto a release in the Atari ST demo scene with a little thing I wrote with a friend in STOS Basic. Luckily I saw the error of my ways and learnt C and assembly language in the end... although it took an unhealthy obsession with OS development to finally persuade me.
I imagine a piece of software called the "Software Automatic Mouth" sold really well, until everyone realised it was just a speech synthesiser.
That's ridiculous, the dupe isn't due for a couple of weeks yet.