You can acquire bad habits in ANY language. Even C has "goto". Perhaps you have fallen for the fact that BASIC sounds...basic so you assume it's no good. (Have a look at the fantastic things FreeBASIC can do - it's got Free in it!)
I see no problem with starting off with
a$ = "HELLO WORLD" print a$
and working your way from there. We don't teach children grammar before they can spell. Although for a bright early teenager they can pick up the basics quite fast.
As a 24 year old Physicist earning next to nothing doing a PhD who surfs Slashdot all day and who started off as a programmer in primary school, all I can say to that is...at least I'm not in my mothers's basement. But that's only because there isn't one.
You seem to be confusing economic policies with social policies which I clearly stated on the last line of what I wrote.
The problem with Stalin's communism was that it was not socially left wing too, but authoritative. (The opposite of freedom) This is why communism has never been given a "fair go" and why simpletons believe communism is the greatest evil ever and can never work. Show me a failed state based on communism and democracy. (You are mistaken if you think these are incompatible) You can't find me such a state because it's never happened before and the closest things we have (Scandinavia, UK, Australia) are thriving in terms of indicators of social prosperity and equality. You just need to look at the social dysfunction of the US to realise their "free market" economic philosophy is flawed.
You've taken a multi-dimensional space of possibilities/ideas and projected it one-dimensionally. It's no wonder you miss the bigger picture.
Howard and Rudd are pandering to the religious right. The censorship in question is the type of "think of the children" mentality the religious want to impose on others. There is nothing progressive or liberal in censorship.
Howard was one of the most RIGHT WING Prime Ministers we have ever seen! It's almost as if you are living in reverse world where up is down and left is right. (Almost like you are down under or something)
Don't forget that in Australia our financial policies and social policies do not match onto the hardline USA system. (Our right wingers aren't small government and our left wingers aren't socialistic)
Socially our centre is right. Economically our centre is left. Confusing, isn't it?
Please. Labor shifted to the right with Rudd to ensure they could oust Howard who dragged the country right.
Suddenly "centre" became slightly-right and no one seemed to notice. Its simple to explain really - age creep. The population is getting older, which generally leads to conservative ideologies.
The only left party left are the Greens. Now if we could only get rid of the old hippie element in the Greens there would be a decent alternative.
Regulation also makes sure that people are actually buying Alcohol instead of Moonshine or something which will make you go blind.
This is the difference between drugs and alcohol. You really do not know what you are putting into your body with drugs because they are usually made by unscrupulous types. As a result you have people who get very ill by taking the wrong drug.
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You must be new here.
These tech stories are as wacky as those ads by Microsoft featuring Jerry Seinfeld.
Just in case
Like biting peoples arms?
Still, on the list of ways to kick the bucket, beats slipping in the shower any day.
Thank god for the recession, there might have been more people in that warehouse!
What are we going to do with the remaining dioxide?? You environmentalists never think about the consequences of your actions!
Would this raise antitrust issues?
You can acquire bad habits in ANY language. Even C has "goto". Perhaps you have fallen for the fact that BASIC sounds...basic so you assume it's no good. (Have a look at the fantastic things FreeBASIC can do - it's got Free in it!)
I see no problem with starting off with
a$ = "HELLO WORLD"
print a$
and working your way from there. We don't teach children grammar before they can spell. Although for a bright early teenager they can pick up the basics quite fast.
As a 24 year old Physicist earning next to nothing doing a PhD who surfs Slashdot all day and who started off as a programmer in primary school, all I can say to that is...at least I'm not in my mothers's basement. But that's only because there isn't one.
Late starter I see.
In BASIC there was an optional LET command which reads more intuitively.
10 LET sum = num1 + num2
So you were a script kiddie?
What's left to sell?
You seem to be confusing economic policies with social policies which I clearly stated on the last line of what I wrote.
The problem with Stalin's communism was that it was not socially left wing too, but authoritative. (The opposite of freedom) This is why communism has never been given a "fair go" and why simpletons believe communism is the greatest evil ever and can never work. Show me a failed state based on communism and democracy. (You are mistaken if you think these are incompatible) You can't find me such a state because it's never happened before and the closest things we have (Scandinavia, UK, Australia) are thriving in terms of indicators of social prosperity and equality. You just need to look at the social dysfunction of the US to realise their "free market" economic philosophy is flawed.
You've taken a multi-dimensional space of possibilities/ideas and projected it one-dimensionally. It's no wonder you miss the bigger picture.
You couldn't be any more wrong if you tried.
Howard and Rudd are pandering to the religious right. The censorship in question is the type of "think of the children" mentality the religious want to impose on others. There is nothing progressive or liberal in censorship.
Howard was one of the most RIGHT WING Prime Ministers we have ever seen! It's almost as if you are living in reverse world where up is down and left is right. (Almost like you are down under or something)
Don't forget that in Australia our financial policies and social policies do not match onto the hardline USA system. (Our right wingers aren't small government and our left wingers aren't socialistic)
Socially our centre is right. Economically our centre is left. Confusing, isn't it?
Please. Labor shifted to the right with Rudd to ensure they could oust Howard who dragged the country right.
Suddenly "centre" became slightly-right and no one seemed to notice. Its simple to explain really - age creep. The population is getting older, which generally leads to conservative ideologies.
The only left party left are the Greens. Now if we could only get rid of the old hippie element in the Greens there would be a decent alternative.
Can you imagine how far you could hit a ball on the moon!
Now I know where God got all that water from!
When Obama gives everyone $5000 its socialism.
When Bush gives everyone $5000 its a stimulus cheque.
Don't worry. We will bail out the scammers.
Regulation also makes sure that people are actually buying Alcohol instead of Moonshine or something which will make you go blind.
This is the difference between drugs and alcohol. You really do not know what you are putting into your body with drugs because they are usually made by unscrupulous types. As a result you have people who get very ill by taking the wrong drug.
I imagine that any kind of scientific exploration is viewed with distrust and quite a bit of fear.
American?
I think the largest ISP part is actually referring to the size of their balls as opposed to the number of customers.
Do you really think Family First (aka The Christian Party) will want to stop this "think of the children" legislation?