And it's difficult to notice and register that that is wrong. Particularly when the options USB sticks usually give are worthless or wrong. My iPod Touch says "Camera connected" when I plug it in, and gives me options for:
* Microsoft Office Document Scanning
* Microsoft Office Publisher
* Microsoft Office Publisher
* Microsoft Office Word
* Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard
* Photoshop
* Photoshop
No, I didn't make any mistakes with that list. So I'm probably not going to notice one other slightly strange option.
I had a friend who was followed home from the bank and murdered along with her mother after someone behind her in line saw her withdrawing $2000 for her first car.. Just sayin'.
Yeah Python definitely isn't an object-oriented language, and its object-oriented programming is sketchy at best. But its simplicity makes it excellent for novices, particular for the 11-14 year old demographic who needn't concern themselves with things like pointers and types. In such a situation, we are not preparing them to become professional software engineers or computer scientists, but rather attempting to foster an interest in programming as a hobby. These kids aren't even in high school yet, or if they are, they're just beginning. They can build programming skill without being taught the advanced concepts. Then they can self-teach or take classes as they get older and become more mature. Then at the beginning of their formal computer science education, it will still be easy to start teaching them about memory and like, because they will come in with a fresh slate as far as formal education goes. They will have background knowledge, but they will likely be able to separate that and view it as background knowledge, and treat what they are learning as new or "correct", rather than as contradicting or complicating their existing knowledge.
Realize that this is an option, not a requirement. It's not as if you'll call 911 and they'll demand that you provide photos or video. But if it's relevant to the situation, and you did managed to get a picture (for instance, as someone said above, taking pictures of a fire), they are now equipped to receive that picture. Or say you just witnessed a robbery in progress and you got a picture of the getaway car as it was leaving, you can now send that to them. And of course this is also available for non-emergency lines, where it will probably see more use as the situations are not time-critical.
Or maybe just animal science. Think of it as the zoological equivalent of agriculture. If you can distinguish between botany and agriculture, you can distinguish between zoology and animal science.
The only reason this is even remotely an issue is because 64-bit computing isn't yet as prevalent as it needs to be. Considering Kingston RAM is available at prices as low as $36 for a 2GB DDR2 667 stick, even Joe User could easily afford 4GB of RAM. Unfortunately, Joe User doesn't have that much, because he's still using a 32-bit OS. I think that Microsoft's decision to support a 32-bit version of Windows 7 is a mistake; they need to use their position as the OS leader to push us into the 64-bit era. Oh well, it will happen eventually.
But 300GB of RAM isn't significant at all with 4GB. 7.5%, which is nothing. Sure, it's more than needs to be used, but we're going to have to accept larger memory use as more memory becomes available, just as we've accepted having our executables far larger and slower than they could be, simply for the sake of making them easier to write. We have huge hard drives and lightning quick processors, so programs have become bloated and slower, but no one has complained, because they still don't take up a significant amount of hard drive space, and they most often run as fast as we can use them. They could reduce the memory usage, but that would come at the expense of extra features, since there is obviously a limited amount of developer time available.
Besides, I believe those numbers are for virtual memory, which is basically a useless statistic to measure. Chrome is claiming 136MB of virtual memory, but only 83MB of actual memory use. And that's not bad at all.
The creator of that work CAN do whatever he wants with his work, that's right. I'm just voicing my opinion on what I would like for him to do with it.:)
I don't have a problem with property rights. I just want to be able to give whatever rights I feel like with property that I created. It's great that GPL developers want to contribute to the community, but they're not really. They're contributing to a very closed community. Only other developers who use the GPL can use GPLed code.
The GPL itself isn't a problem. I'm fine with you putting whatever restrictions on your code you feel like. Just don't kid yourself into thinking you're helping the "community" any more than you would with a more permissive license.
I'm just not sure I understand the logic behind "I wrote this piece of code. You're using it alongside your code. Therefore I get to dictate not only what you do with my code, but also with yours. And I do this because I don't want my code to become unavailable". There's two stupid statements there. First the clear one that you get to decide what I'm allowed to do with the code I wrote, because I'm using it with some of yours. And also the idea that if I weren't to make your code available, that no one could go up a level and get it straight from you. It's not as if the creation of a derivative work causes the original to disappear.
You have it backward. Those areas don't wear out because they're written to less often; they're written to less often because they're more worn out. The healthier sections are used for more active data.
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And it got me to thinking: What's the perfect combination of these outside factors that helps each developer succeed beyond expectations?
Answer: Low expectations.
Except that the original post said "I never heard", not "I have never heard". So the correct response is, in fact, "I did".
If only we had one of those..
Would it be alright to whine about MySQL not dying? All these other comments have raised my hopes, and now you crush them. :(
And it's difficult to notice and register that that is wrong. Particularly when the options USB sticks usually give are worthless or wrong. My iPod Touch says "Camera connected" when I plug it in, and gives me options for: * Microsoft Office Document Scanning * Microsoft Office Publisher * Microsoft Office Publisher * Microsoft Office Word * Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard * Photoshop * Photoshop No, I didn't make any mistakes with that list. So I'm probably not going to notice one other slightly strange option.
I had a friend who was followed home from the bank and murdered along with her mother after someone behind her in line saw her withdrawing $2000 for her first car.. Just sayin'.
Yeah Python definitely isn't an object-oriented language, and its object-oriented programming is sketchy at best. But its simplicity makes it excellent for novices, particular for the 11-14 year old demographic who needn't concern themselves with things like pointers and types. In such a situation, we are not preparing them to become professional software engineers or computer scientists, but rather attempting to foster an interest in programming as a hobby. These kids aren't even in high school yet, or if they are, they're just beginning. They can build programming skill without being taught the advanced concepts. Then they can self-teach or take classes as they get older and become more mature. Then at the beginning of their formal computer science education, it will still be easy to start teaching them about memory and like, because they will come in with a fresh slate as far as formal education goes. They will have background knowledge, but they will likely be able to separate that and view it as background knowledge, and treat what they are learning as new or "correct", rather than as contradicting or complicating their existing knowledge.
Maybe he's stellar, but if that's the case then you probably pay him more than he's saving you. :)
Dreams are fantasy. Television is fantasy. Reality is not. See the connection now?
Realize that this is an option, not a requirement. It's not as if you'll call 911 and they'll demand that you provide photos or video. But if it's relevant to the situation, and you did managed to get a picture (for instance, as someone said above, taking pictures of a fire), they are now equipped to receive that picture. Or say you just witnessed a robbery in progress and you got a picture of the getaway car as it was leaving, you can now send that to them. And of course this is also available for non-emergency lines, where it will probably see more use as the situations are not time-critical.
How do you expect Steve Jobs to pay an $85k bill? His salary's only a dollar a year!
Or maybe just animal science. Think of it as the zoological equivalent of agriculture. If you can distinguish between botany and agriculture, you can distinguish between zoology and animal science.
The only reason this is even remotely an issue is because 64-bit computing isn't yet as prevalent as it needs to be. Considering Kingston RAM is available at prices as low as $36 for a 2GB DDR2 667 stick, even Joe User could easily afford 4GB of RAM. Unfortunately, Joe User doesn't have that much, because he's still using a 32-bit OS. I think that Microsoft's decision to support a 32-bit version of Windows 7 is a mistake; they need to use their position as the OS leader to push us into the 64-bit era. Oh well, it will happen eventually. But 300GB of RAM isn't significant at all with 4GB. 7.5%, which is nothing. Sure, it's more than needs to be used, but we're going to have to accept larger memory use as more memory becomes available, just as we've accepted having our executables far larger and slower than they could be, simply for the sake of making them easier to write. We have huge hard drives and lightning quick processors, so programs have become bloated and slower, but no one has complained, because they still don't take up a significant amount of hard drive space, and they most often run as fast as we can use them. They could reduce the memory usage, but that would come at the expense of extra features, since there is obviously a limited amount of developer time available. Besides, I believe those numbers are for virtual memory, which is basically a useless statistic to measure. Chrome is claiming 136MB of virtual memory, but only 83MB of actual memory use. And that's not bad at all.
Actually, there's just bad censorship.
Those people are called "Java programmers".
Hah my phone already has a screen.
It's only relevant and targeted malware.
How can you trust any group with BS right there in its name?
Oh that'll never work.
The creator of that work CAN do whatever he wants with his work, that's right. I'm just voicing my opinion on what I would like for him to do with it. :)
I don't have a problem with property rights. I just want to be able to give whatever rights I feel like with property that I created. It's great that GPL developers want to contribute to the community, but they're not really. They're contributing to a very closed community. Only other developers who use the GPL can use GPLed code. The GPL itself isn't a problem. I'm fine with you putting whatever restrictions on your code you feel like. Just don't kid yourself into thinking you're helping the "community" any more than you would with a more permissive license.
I'm just not sure I understand the logic behind "I wrote this piece of code. You're using it alongside your code. Therefore I get to dictate not only what you do with my code, but also with yours. And I do this because I don't want my code to become unavailable". There's two stupid statements there. First the clear one that you get to decide what I'm allowed to do with the code I wrote, because I'm using it with some of yours. And also the idea that if I weren't to make your code available, that no one could go up a level and get it straight from you. It's not as if the creation of a derivative work causes the original to disappear.
I had a car with the plate 666-NOW. Wish I'd gotten pictures of it before I sold it..
He said geographical data. I don't think even the US government is going to lie about WHERE a country is.
You have it backward. Those areas don't wear out because they're written to less often; they're written to less often because they're more worn out. The healthier sections are used for more active data.