I wouldn't look to the UK either. The pound has dropped 25% against the dollar over the past couple of years and that's even with the dollar having some nasty problems itself.
I wasn't conflating public and private debt, the "Extravagant lifestyle" was a reference to those wars, foreign bases and all sorts of other junk the government pays for which it shouldn't be. We can't afford a government this big and that's the extravagant part of it.
Powershell is interesting. I have dipped my toes in a little but there are several places which really make my head hurt but a few features that would be nice to see in a Unix scripting language. I think it has an interesting future ahead of it.
It doesn't have to be that way. I always try and write Perl to be readable rather than concise. Sure I might take 6 lines to do something that can be done in 1 and may use some other stuff that isn't particularly necessary but I'm writing to get the job done and for maintenance, not to show how clever I am.
Spaces are allowed characters in filenames and so should be expected. It is up to the script to be able to handle it. It's been a nasty kludge to avoid spaces and has led to lack of general education on the issue, development of better solutions and many many broken scripts.
That said, "c:\Documents and Settings" is just stupid.
But interpreted does not imply scripting. I would say that a script is a collection of command line bits and pieces with some logic to glue it all together. Consider that in bash, you would have "rm/logs/x" on a line by itself but in Perl, you would have to system() [or similar] the command.
On the other hand, if you want to talk about exploitative, the US is borrowing money to finance its extravagant lifestyle that will have to be paid back by people yet unborn.
Why wait for the government to do it for you? Why trade with other people for goods and services. Build a wall around your house and trade only with your immediate family. The ultimate in protectionism and you're welcome to it.
No, they won't. Either their $15 maglite will be sitting next to a $5 piece of Chinese junk and people will buy the Chinese Junk or their $10 piece of American junk will sit next to the $5 piece of Chinese Junk and people will buy the Chinese junk. The American Co will then go out of business and the Chinese Co will move in and be the major importer and seller of flashlights in the US.
To claim that the human mind is not governed by the laws of physics, that is, the laws which underlie nature, is to claim for the mind a supernatural property. That veers into superstition and mysticism.
Which is not to say that determinism is the way to go. But if the laws of physics as we understand them do not apply, that is a failure in our understanding of physics, not because the human mind is in someway outside of them.
This can apply to a well designed game but equally, it might be impossible to improve in a game because the skill you are trying to hone requires you to get to a point that you are prevented from by other players simply outclassing you. This can be especially so if you are coming to a game relatively late and the majority of players have developed a fairly reasonable level of competence or simply because you don't have the transferable skills that many hardcore gamers take for granted.
I speak as a n00b who recently bought the orange box where my last real gaming experience was Doom II.
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With kids, wired headsets is a feature, not a bug.
Heck, it can cause an accident just from sliding around and somehow ending between your feet and the brake.
Is that you, Toyota?
I wouldn't look to the UK either. The pound has dropped 25% against the dollar over the past couple of years and that's even with the dollar having some nasty problems itself.
Don't know if you'll read this but oh well...
I wasn't conflating public and private debt, the "Extravagant lifestyle" was a reference to those wars, foreign bases and all sorts of other junk the government pays for which it shouldn't be. We can't afford a government this big and that's the extravagant part of it.
Not easy to do at a dos prompt or in a .bat file
Moving from VB to Perl reduced the number of lines to 1
Fixed.
Powershell is interesting. I have dipped my toes in a little but there are several places which really make my head hurt but a few features that would be nice to see in a Unix scripting language. I think it has an interesting future ahead of it.
It doesn't have to be that way. I always try and write Perl to be readable rather than concise. Sure I might take 6 lines to do something that can be done in 1 and may use some other stuff that isn't particularly necessary but I'm writing to get the job done and for maintenance, not to show how clever I am.
Thankfully, we only get "thank you letter to Kathy.ppt" round these parts.
Should be "failure to develop better solutions"
Spaces are allowed characters in filenames and so should be expected. It is up to the script to be able to handle it. It's been a nasty kludge to avoid spaces and has led to lack of general education on the issue, development of better solutions and many many broken scripts.
That said, "c:\Documents and Settings" is just stupid.
But interpreted does not imply scripting. I would say that a script is a collection of command line bits and pieces with some logic to glue it all together. Consider that in bash, you would have "rm /logs/x" on a line by itself but in Perl, you would have to system() [or similar] the command.
The law school near you has a swimming pool?
No, but you get the 400 rather than the 0 you get when they go with MSSQL instead.
And $5 vouchers off of future Sony products (full MSRP only)
That Daubert's great. But why is his tie always bent up like that?
On the other hand, if you want to talk about exploitative, the US is borrowing money to finance its extravagant lifestyle that will have to be paid back by people yet unborn.
Why wait for the government to do it for you? Why trade with other people for goods and services. Build a wall around your house and trade only with your immediate family. The ultimate in protectionism and you're welcome to it.
No, they won't. Either their $15 maglite will be sitting next to a $5 piece of Chinese junk and people will buy the Chinese Junk or their $10 piece of American junk will sit next to the $5 piece of Chinese Junk and people will buy the Chinese junk. The American Co will then go out of business and the Chinese Co will move in and be the major importer and seller of flashlights in the US.
Or, more reasonably, you would think that the kind of people who tend to buy Apple would be demanding it.
Not for some of us though. Which could have potentially interesting psychological implications.
To claim that the human mind is not governed by the laws of physics, that is, the laws which underlie nature, is to claim for the mind a supernatural property. That veers into superstition and mysticism.
Which is not to say that determinism is the way to go. But if the laws of physics as we understand them do not apply, that is a failure in our understanding of physics, not because the human mind is in someway outside of them.
This can apply to a well designed game but equally, it might be impossible to improve in a game because the skill you are trying to hone requires you to get to a point that you are prevented from by other players simply outclassing you. This can be especially so if you are coming to a game relatively late and the majority of players have developed a fairly reasonable level of competence or simply because you don't have the transferable skills that many hardcore gamers take for granted.
I speak as a n00b who recently bought the orange box where my last real gaming experience was Doom II.
People, such as yourself, seem to forget that the regulations stem from past abuses that caused financial crisis.
Yes, "something had to be done", of course.
Never mind that it doesn't actually fix the problem so, sooner or later, "something has to be done" again. And again.
I think that was the plot to Superman III