I don't consider PHP a well built tool. 7 years of php and I still have to look up every string function because I can't remember or guess the order of arguments. Do you know how often string functions are used? Very often.
Anyway I'm moving on to Ruby. I'm tired of looking things up. And another thing every 16 yr old looking for a summer job has PHP on his resume. If I can get my company to switch to Oracle I'll be set for life. Let me break down salary prediction for in a couple years:
I agree that the only way this move makes sense is if oracle has an upgrade path in mind.
I'm working for a company that is profitable but uses free-MySQL because there wasn't much money 10 years ago as a start-up. Now we can afford to go to oracle and it might make sense to do it. I'm sure there's lots of companies like mine. If MySQL goes under, we have the cash, we probably won't go with Postgres. Plus let's face it guys, experience with Oracle gets you better jobs then experience with MySQL so I would have no problem making a recommendation to upgrade to Oracle.
Let the parents decide what is too violent and what isn't and be done with the whole thing. If parents cared then we would not be in this whole entire mess.
That's what this bill does. It let's the parents decide. If they want their kids playing these games, they can buy them. It doesn't keep consenting adults from enjoying any of these things so what's the problem?
Obstruction of justice is a separate issue. For example, you could walk up to a cop and tell him that you have a eight inch cock, and even though you're a mere four inches, a crime would not have been committed even though a lie had been told.
Since when is it illegal to lie to cops? Everybody lies to cops, that's part of their job, getting the truth. If he hadn't been read his rights yet the court shouldn't be able to hold it against him.
Yes, but unlike religious dogma, scientific theories are meant to be falsifiable.
Really? how do you go about falsifying spontaneous generation/abiogenesis/whatever you want to call it? An ID camper could say that until a scientist creates life in a lab their theory will not be considered science and be equally correct.
I've never heard someone describe the adaptation of eyes from photosensitive spots as 'easy'. The problem is that you have to imagine a scenario where there is a linear progression of mutations in which the end product is an eye and each successive mutation is beneficial enough to be passed on. Then after imagining this scenario you have to believe that this is how it actually played out, instead of being dead-ended somewhere along the way where there was no possible single mutation that would be beneficial in itself, and also progressed toward complex eyes.
Personally I find it about a billion times easier to believe that a linear series of mutations could bring an organism toward being completely resistant to radiation.
Well, at least they'll start with something that resembles science. I'm just glad that I misread the headline initially and the Pentagon is not asking scientologists for creenplays. I was dreading a Battlefield Earth II.
but who is going to fly it back? best solution IMO is to send robots to start terraforming and maybe build an elevator to earth. since, we've got robots wandering around on mars already.
McDonalds food that causes you to loose weight and reduces your cholesterol.
I was believing your predictions about flying cars, jet packs, nanobots and money trees up to that. That's so over the top you just can't miss the sarcasm...
They just need to make a burger that is completely undigestable and people will poop them out whole without absorbing any calories. It seems like they're getting close already.
*sigh* Rockstar is already admitting that the scenes in question were already in the game. They were disabled. The accusation is that the code that enabled them was leaked to modders, and that the whole thing was planned to circumvent an AO rating. This is the subject of the investigation.
They'll probably just get a fine and be told not to do it again. I would like to think that it would amount to bad press in the gaming community since it's their dirty marketing tricks that are bringing gaming under fire. But from what I've seen gamers are rallying to support them instead.
Absolutely right. It's not Hillary's job, it's not the government's job, it's the parent's job.
Parents make decisions based in part on the ESRB's rating. If a game company is suspected of deceiving the ESRB and (thereby parents) then it's the role of gov't to step in and investigate.
The investigation is to determine whether rockstar deliberately tried to deceive parents and ESRB by leaking a sexually explicit mod that would have gotten an AO rating (and kept it off walmart's shelves) had it released with the game.
If it turns out they did it, then they deserve to get burned for it. Personally I think they did it.
You're right. A fitting punishment would be to make the guy perform good deeds to atone for his actions. Like becoming a living organ donor or something. A couple kidneys should've done it.
Uh, wrong. The onus of proof is not upon me since I am not prosecuting them, but as a consumer and a parent I have the right to make up my own mind who to trust. And I do not trust these guys.
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Sure, and the brilliant part is, they take a shot at their biggest competitor, and get a charitable donation write-off for doing it.
just put a little windex on it.
I don't consider PHP a well built tool. 7 years of php and I still have to look up every string function because I can't remember or guess the order of arguments. Do you know how often string functions are used? Very often.
Anyway I'm moving on to Ruby. I'm tired of looking things up. And another thing every 16 yr old looking for a summer job has PHP on his resume. If I can get my company to switch to Oracle I'll be set for life. Let me break down salary prediction for in a couple years:
Php/Mysql experience ->35-50k
(Java|Ruby)/Oracle experience ->60-90k
I agree that the only way this move makes sense is if oracle has an upgrade path in mind.
I'm working for a company that is profitable but uses free-MySQL because there wasn't much money 10 years ago as a start-up. Now we can afford to go to oracle and it might make sense to do it. I'm sure there's lots of companies like mine. If MySQL goes under, we have the cash, we probably won't go with Postgres. Plus let's face it guys, experience with Oracle gets you better jobs then experience with MySQL so I would have no problem making a recommendation to upgrade to Oracle.
Where did you read that he lost a child and blames videogames? If that's the case, it kind of takes some of the heat off him.
Let the parents decide what is too violent and what isn't and be done with the whole thing. If parents cared then we would not be in this whole entire mess.
That's what this bill does. It let's the parents decide. If they want their kids playing these games, they can buy them. It doesn't keep consenting adults from enjoying any of these things so what's the problem?
Obstruction of justice is a separate issue. For example, you could walk up to a cop and tell him that you have a eight inch cock, and even though you're a mere four inches, a crime would not have been committed even though a lie had been told.
Since when is it illegal to lie to cops? Everybody lies to cops, that's part of their job, getting the truth. If he hadn't been read his rights yet the court shouldn't be able to hold it against him.
because the average MS Word user can barely figure out how to open a file.
just hide that shovel after your out of ideas because steve ballmer is coming to f***ing bury you.
Yes, but unlike religious dogma, scientific theories are meant to be falsifiable.
// just saying
Really? how do you go about falsifying spontaneous generation/abiogenesis/whatever you want to call it? An ID camper could say that until a scientist creates life in a lab their theory will not be considered science and be equally correct.
/ not an ID camper
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals,
I'm a vegetarian because I *hate* plants.
I've never heard someone describe the adaptation of eyes from photosensitive spots as 'easy'. The problem is that you have to imagine a scenario where there is a linear progression of mutations in which the end product is an eye and each successive mutation is beneficial enough to be passed on. Then after imagining this scenario you have to believe that this is how it actually played out, instead of being dead-ended somewhere along the way where there was no possible single mutation that would be beneficial in itself, and also progressed toward complex eyes.
Personally I find it about a billion times easier to believe that a linear series of mutations could bring an organism toward being completely resistant to radiation.
Well, at least they'll start with something that resembles science. I'm just glad that I misread the headline initially and the Pentagon is not asking scientologists for creenplays. I was dreading a Battlefield Earth II.
but who is going to fly it back? best solution IMO is to send robots to start terraforming and maybe build an elevator to earth. since, we've got robots wandering around on mars already.
information is sad at the implication that it mighht not want to be free.
McDonalds food that causes you to loose weight and reduces your cholesterol.
I was believing your predictions about flying cars, jet packs, nanobots and money trees up to that. That's so over the top you just can't miss the sarcasm...
They just need to make a burger that is completely undigestable and people will poop them out whole without absorbing any calories. It seems like they're getting close already.
*sigh*
Rockstar is already admitting that the scenes in question were already in the game. They were disabled. The accusation is that the code that enabled them was leaked to modders, and that the whole thing was planned to circumvent an AO rating. This is the subject of the investigation.
They'll probably just get a fine and be told not to do it again. I would like to think that it would amount to bad press in the gaming community since it's their dirty marketing tricks that are bringing gaming under fire. But from what I've seen gamers are rallying to support them instead.
Absolutely right. It's not Hillary's job, it's not the government's job, it's the parent's job.
Parents make decisions based in part on the ESRB's rating. If a game company is suspected of deceiving the ESRB and (thereby parents) then it's the role of gov't to step in and investigate.
The investigation is to determine whether rockstar deliberately tried to deceive parents and ESRB by leaking a sexually explicit mod that would have gotten an AO rating (and kept it off walmart's shelves) had it released with the game.
If it turns out they did it, then they deserve to get burned for it. Personally I think they did it.
You're right. A fitting punishment would be to make the guy perform good deeds to atone for his actions. Like becoming a living organ donor or something. A couple kidneys should've done it.
I'd say MSN is looking pretty strong, their results are usually as good as google's and the ranking usually makes more sense at least to me.
Please keep in mind that rockstar games is a corporation and ESRB is a consumer advocacy group.
Nobody is evil here, but someone clearly has something at stake.
Uh, wrong. The onus of proof is not upon me since I am not prosecuting them, but as a consumer and a parent I have the right to make up my own mind who to trust. And I do not trust these guys.