I've never had a burned disc go bad due to age. I have burned CDs from the 90s that have seen several USB drives come and die. Those flash drives are in a landfill somewhere. Those CDs are in my closet, perfectly readable.
You seem to be seeking a level of clarity and uniqueness of character sequences that is simply not available in the English language.
It seems to me spaces are a thing in English, and the help differentiate "the rapist" from "therapist".
No, they're not going to change it for you.
Who isn't going to change what for me?
No, it doesn't matter how long you blather on about how you can't comprehend that there is ambiguity in the language.
???
Ambiguities are not incorrect, you're simply expected to be able to figure them out in order to make use of the words.
Are you one of those Russian bots Rachel Maddow warned me about?
And regarding software, if ignoring whitespace speeds up or slows down a search depends on the specific search, including all the technologies used. The answer goes both ways, depending on the actual details. If you're claiming it goes one way or the other outside of a specific use case and implementation, then you're just full of shit.
An exact string comparison must compare each character in the strings until a mismatch is found or until both strings are exhausted.
Any manipulation of the strings, including ignoring spaces live in a loop, takes extra time. About the only optimization you can do is use the length of the strings and, if different, return and never bother comparing the characters. This of course requires you to know or computer the length of the strings AND be looking for an exact match or have the query term be longer than the search body. Most searches are a "contains" or "starts with" operation. MS SQL server will apply a default collation (such as case insensitivity and accent insensitivity), but they sure as fuck don't ignore spaces by default, because spaces have fucking meaning. (The only exception I know of is MS SQL matching against trailing spaces when a column is char instead of varchar.)
Is this a joke? I'm all for double spacing after periods, but if you don't know that HTML collapses whitespace you're a clown or you're pretending to be one.
Which is why you "ignore whitespace" and code it as an option wherever it's needed. If anything, it actually makes searching FASTER, because an exact-whitespace match takes longer to find.
When you then put in Unicode, other languages, non-breaking spaces, paragraph marks, and you're working on human-entered data, you're really onto a loser from the start if you have coded anything on a byte-for-byte matching process.
Also, your system works against you in more ways than one. Someone creates an entry with one space. Someone else doesn't see it so they create it with two. Now you have two entirely different entries with different data referring to different database rows, but both "look" identical.
Ignore whitespace, and the problem solves itself.
Ignoring white space is absurd. The rapist vs. therapist. Expertsexchange vs. expert sex change.
Further, ignoring white space doesn't speed up a search, it slows it down. An exact match is always the fastest. The only way ignoring whitespace is faster is if you pre compute a copy of the dataset with all whitespace removed. Even then, I suspect the act of stripping whitespace from the search query will take longer than any benefit you get.
What you seem to be arguing for is collating / collapsing whitespace. That's a whole different thing from ignoring it.
Many cyclists are assholes, future Darwins, but you can't just run them over.
Yet. I'm working on getting new legislation on the ballot in CA that would allow drivers and pedestrians to hunt and kill bicycle riders who break the law (or wear Lycra).
I've seen plenty of videos. The street is very well lit in all of them except Uber's video.
Interestingly, the camera facing the human "driver" is crisp and clear, using your standard "night vision" mode. The Uber video is either doctored or doctored.
Try watching a CNC machine with you hand hovering over the e-stop button, see how long you last. I guarantee you, it won't be an 8 hour shift of alert watching.
I'd probably go 12 hours or more. I love watching those things work.
How about they engineer a giant, styrofoam sleeve for the rocket?
Make 2 long pieces of curved styrofoam, with a little hole for the fueling port. Slap em on the fuel tank. Fuel up. Load the crew and do pre launch checks. Pull off the styrofoam. Launch.
I bet a simple insulator gets close enough to whatever small percentage you get from fueling while crewed for them to not want to take the additional risk. Hell, the rocket koozie might even be better.
Scalping is only a problem for buyers, not for sellers.
If that were true, the problem could be solved by Ticketmaster auctioning off all tickets instead of selling them for a decent price. They'd make a lot more money.
Ticketmaster already does that. Before tickets go up for sale, Ticketmaster "sells" them to third party auction sites. The biggest one being ticketsnow.com . Then those sites sell off the tickets however they feel like. Auctions or just super expensive straight sales. Anything that gets unsold is returned to the Ticketmaster pool. Ticketmaster then bangs the drums and announces that more tickets to that hot event will be available on a specific date.
Then the repeat the process. Why do you think Ticketmaster lets you check a box to be emailed if more tickets become available? The venue isn't adding seating capacity, and every ticket sold to actual people comes with a "NO RETURNS, NO TAKE BACKS, FUCK YOU" policy.
The kicker in all of this? Who do you think actually owns ticketsnow.com ?
There are legitimate uses for caller ID spoofing (customer support returning a call from any station with the one main national number, for example). I use Caller ID spoofing myself for both personal and business calls (Google Voice and multiline SIP phone system).
That's not a legitimate use for spoofing Caller ID.
I like Lawrence of Arabia just fine. I mean, it's got an actual story for one, and it looks amazing. When you strip away all the film snob bullshit it stands head and shoulders above the crap that is 2001. I can't tell you the last time I sat and watched it, and I don't know that I ever will again, but it's got my approval.
As for Tropic Thunder, that movie has the opposite problem. The first half is total suck. The phony previews at the very beginning are good, but they should've cut off 20-30 minutes from the front half and given us more time in the jungle after shit went down or just more psycho Tom Cruise. Ben Stiller being a retarded, sad sack of shit gets enough play in the second half. - we don't need 3 barrels of it in the first half to set up the plot.
I never said it was an adaptation of the book. Clarke and Kubrick worked alongside each other on that shit.
The book was being written at the same time the film was being made. Ultimately Clarke was the one writing both. Kubrick's movie is based on Clarke's writing, and that writing was also the basis of the book which released after the movie, I believe. Clarke continued the series (and it's all awful), Kubrick did not.
"Professional" means "you get paid to do this", and nothing else. He's not an math prof, so he's an amateur.
No, "professional" means you're a member of a government-regulated "profession". A lawyer who isn't practicing is still a professional. As is an electrician, a doctor, an engineer (the one that drives a train engine), a contractor, a pilot, etc.
Things that aren't professionals include professors, software "engineers", most other engineers (they're weakly and not universally regulated), and athletes.
In my State, professors are not a regulated profession; even to work at a State University requires only to convince the person responsible for hiring to hire you. There is no license required, and there is also no license that is even available.
Contrast K-12 teachers, who are licensed professionals.
By your argument, my State has professional boxers and MMA fighters, movie stuntpeople, and exotic dancers, but the "professional" basketball team only has amateurs as players.
Bartenders are professionals to you, as are lawyers, but not computer programmers!
I never said anything about amateurs, but otherwise you're correct with the rest.
If a bar owner, for example, serves someone too much alcohol or serves alcohol to a minor, they have legal culpability as a licensed professional. (I'm not aware of how it is in your state, but as far as I know individual bartenders don't need a license of their own, it's on the establishment. Though the individual bartender can still be in trouble if shit goes down.)
The same as when a lawyer fucks up. Or a doctor. Or a dentist.
But when a programmer fucks up and gets someone killed? Or cheats on emissions tests? Tell me, who at Uber or VW has been tried and convicted of professional malpractice?
You may not LIKE the idea that jobs you consider to be lowly or trivial or beneath you are "professions" and other things you like are not, but it's the simple fucking truth of the matter. Professional is not the opposite of amateur. A professional is someone in a profession. A profession is a regulated trade.
It's not a mistake, it's an understanding of the word, its origin, and its use. I didn't conflate anything, go look it up. The word isn't just about saying something, it's about attesting to it.
Try looking up the word and its use throughout history? Try looking up laws in your area regulating various professions? See which professions are regulated and which aren't? Almost universally in the western world, medicine and law are regulated professions. Being a "software engineer" or a professor at a school are not.
But where do you come from where the engineers (not the train driving ones) are weakly regulated!? Is it in Florida where that bridge collapsed?
I'm not aware of any regulatory bodies overseeing the "software engineers" and their work, for example.
Similarly for other engineers. The only group of engineers I can think of that is regulated to any actual efficacy are civil engineers, due to their involvement in public roads and structures. Mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, etc. usually don't have any state-wide regulation outside of what applies to their trade in general, as far as I know. An "electrical engineer" in CA is still going to be bound to the same union, governed by the same rules, etc. as an "electrician" in CA.
The title "engineer" in most instances is puff, but most egregiously so in the software world where hardly any rigor (such as would be expected of an engineer) exists.
Too bad the movie sucks. It's one of the most overrated movies of all time. It's slow, boring, and non-sensical.
It's a Kubric film, so if you turn up the volume you can hear him softly masturbating throughout each long, drawn out scene. It's based on Clarke's work, so you may as well turn it off half way through and make up your own ending. You'll get a better result than Clarke, and you'll get it much sooner.
Oh, look! Here come the zealots to tell me how I'm too stupid to "get" it, how the scenes at the end make sense if you take acid while lobotomizing yourself, and how the grand imagery and fairly accurate depictions of space somehow make a turd into a diamond. Nope, sorry.
Hey Kubrick! Are you ever gonna get around to writing the second half of Full Metal Jacket? I like what I saw, but the projectionist swapped in a different film halfway through. Strangely, this mistake has been repeated on every video/DVD/etc. release I've seen so far. If you need some help finishing, maybe give John Kricfalusi a call, he's known for timely work!
It's in the word itself. Professing is all about declaring something publicly and that being recognized officially.
It comes from profiteri which is to declare, testify, attest, etc. publicly and openly. Later, the word "profess" got tied up taking vows in the Church, and then similarly adopted for people taking oaths to become members of various trade guilds.
Ultimately, you can't be a professional unless what you do is openly attested to and officially recognized. In today's world, that's being regulated, licensed, etc. by the government. You probably already think of law and medicine as "professions" distinct from other jobs, but they certainly aren't the only highly-regulated professions out there.
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Are you blind or you just can't read English?
He's a liberal, so both.
I've never had a burned disc go bad due to age.
I have burned CDs from the 90s that have seen several USB drives come and die. Those flash drives are in a landfill somewhere. Those CDs are in my closet, perfectly readable.
You seem to be seeking a level of clarity and uniqueness of character sequences that is simply not available in the English language.
It seems to me spaces are a thing in English, and the help differentiate "the rapist" from "therapist".
No, they're not going to change it for you.
Who isn't going to change what for me?
No, it doesn't matter how long you blather on about how you can't comprehend that there is ambiguity in the language.
???
Ambiguities are not incorrect, you're simply expected to be able to figure them out in order to make use of the words.
Are you one of those Russian bots Rachel Maddow warned me about?
And regarding software, if ignoring whitespace speeds up or slows down a search depends on the specific search, including all the technologies used. The answer goes both ways, depending on the actual details. If you're claiming it goes one way or the other outside of a specific use case and implementation, then you're just full of shit.
An exact string comparison must compare each character in the strings until a mismatch is found or until both strings are exhausted.
Any manipulation of the strings, including ignoring spaces live in a loop, takes extra time. About the only optimization you can do is use the length of the strings and, if different, return and never bother comparing the characters. This of course requires you to know or computer the length of the strings AND be looking for an exact match or have the query term be longer than the search body. Most searches are a "contains" or "starts with" operation. MS SQL server will apply a default collation (such as case insensitivity and accent insensitivity), but they sure as fuck don't ignore spaces by default, because spaces have fucking meaning. (The only exception I know of is MS SQL matching against trailing spaces when a column is char instead of varchar.)
Is this a joke? I'm all for double spacing after periods, but if you don't know that HTML collapses whitespace you're a clown or you're pretending to be one.
Because you have humans using the system.
Which is why you "ignore whitespace" and code it as an option wherever it's needed. If anything, it actually makes searching FASTER, because an exact-whitespace match takes longer to find.
When you then put in Unicode, other languages, non-breaking spaces, paragraph marks, and you're working on human-entered data, you're really onto a loser from the start if you have coded anything on a byte-for-byte matching process.
Also, your system works against you in more ways than one. Someone creates an entry with one space. Someone else doesn't see it so they create it with two. Now you have two entirely different entries with different data referring to different database rows, but both "look" identical.
Ignore whitespace, and the problem solves itself.
Ignoring white space is absurd.
The rapist vs. therapist.
Expertsexchange vs. expert sex change.
Further, ignoring white space doesn't speed up a search, it slows it down. An exact match is always the fastest. The only way ignoring whitespace is faster is if you pre compute a copy of the dataset with all whitespace removed. Even then, I suspect the act of stripping whitespace from the search query will take longer than any benefit you get.
What you seem to be arguing for is collating / collapsing whitespace. That's a whole different thing from ignoring it.
The name just came to me - MagicLeap.
It's just like that VR vaproware from a couple of years ago. I bet they get at least $10,000,000,000 of additional investments out of this stunt.
Many cyclists are assholes, future Darwins, but you can't just run them over.
Yet. I'm working on getting new legislation on the ballot in CA that would allow drivers and pedestrians to hunt and kill bicycle riders who break the law (or wear Lycra).
I've seen plenty of videos. The street is very well lit in all of them except Uber's video.
Interestingly, the camera facing the human "driver" is crisp and clear, using your standard "night vision" mode.
The Uber video is either doctored or doctored.
Try watching a CNC machine with you hand hovering over the e-stop button, see how long you last. I guarantee you, it won't be an 8 hour shift of alert watching.
I'd probably go 12 hours or more. I love watching those things work.
How about they engineer a giant, styrofoam sleeve for the rocket?
Make 2 long pieces of curved styrofoam, with a little hole for the fueling port.
Slap em on the fuel tank.
Fuel up.
Load the crew and do pre launch checks.
Pull off the styrofoam.
Launch.
I bet a simple insulator gets close enough to whatever small percentage you get from fueling while crewed for them to not want to take the additional risk. Hell, the rocket koozie might even be better.
Bill Clinton was caught lying. Under oath. He was even impeached for it.
Yet he remained in office.
Scalping is only a problem for buyers, not for sellers.
If that were true, the problem could be solved by Ticketmaster auctioning off all tickets instead of selling them for a decent price. They'd make a lot more money.
Ticketmaster already does that. Before tickets go up for sale, Ticketmaster "sells" them to third party auction sites. The biggest one being ticketsnow.com .
Then those sites sell off the tickets however they feel like. Auctions or just super expensive straight sales.
Anything that gets unsold is returned to the Ticketmaster pool. Ticketmaster then bangs the drums and announces that more tickets to that hot event will be available on a specific date.
Then the repeat the process. Why do you think Ticketmaster lets you check a box to be emailed if more tickets become available? The venue isn't adding seating capacity, and every ticket sold to actual people comes with a "NO RETURNS, NO TAKE BACKS, FUCK YOU" policy.
The kicker in all of this? Who do you think actually owns ticketsnow.com ?
Is it an expected call, an immediate family member, or someone currently caring for an immediate family member?
Yes: Answer it
No: Reject it
If it was from work I'll listen to the voice mail.
There are legitimate uses for caller ID spoofing (customer support returning a call from any station with the one main national number, for example). I use Caller ID spoofing myself for both personal and business calls (Google Voice and multiline SIP phone system).
That's not a legitimate use for spoofing Caller ID.
I like Lawrence of Arabia just fine. I mean, it's got an actual story for one, and it looks amazing. When you strip away all the film snob bullshit it stands head and shoulders above the crap that is 2001.
I can't tell you the last time I sat and watched it, and I don't know that I ever will again, but it's got my approval.
As for Tropic Thunder, that movie has the opposite problem. The first half is total suck. The phony previews at the very beginning are good, but they should've cut off 20-30 minutes from the front half and given us more time in the jungle after shit went down or just more psycho Tom Cruise. Ben Stiller being a retarded, sad sack of shit gets enough play in the second half. - we don't need 3 barrels of it in the first half to set up the plot.
I never said it was an adaptation of the book. Clarke and Kubrick worked alongside each other on that shit.
The book was being written at the same time the film was being made. Ultimately Clarke was the one writing both. Kubrick's movie is based on Clarke's writing, and that writing was also the basis of the book which released after the movie, I believe. Clarke continued the series (and it's all awful), Kubrick did not.
"Professional" means "you get paid to do this", and nothing else. He's not an math prof, so he's an amateur.
No, "professional" means you're a member of a government-regulated "profession". A lawyer who isn't practicing is still a professional.
As is an electrician, a doctor, an engineer (the one that drives a train engine), a contractor, a pilot, etc.
Things that aren't professionals include professors, software "engineers", most other engineers (they're weakly and not universally regulated), and athletes.
In my State, professors are not a regulated profession; even to work at a State University requires only to convince the person responsible for hiring to hire you. There is no license required, and there is also no license that is even available.
Contrast K-12 teachers, who are licensed professionals.
By your argument, my State has professional boxers and MMA fighters, movie stuntpeople, and exotic dancers, but the "professional" basketball team only has amateurs as players.
Bartenders are professionals to you, as are lawyers, but not computer programmers!
I never said anything about amateurs, but otherwise you're correct with the rest.
If a bar owner, for example, serves someone too much alcohol or serves alcohol to a minor, they have legal culpability as a licensed professional. (I'm not aware of how it is in your state, but as far as I know individual bartenders don't need a license of their own, it's on the establishment. Though the individual bartender can still be in trouble if shit goes down.)
The same as when a lawyer fucks up. Or a doctor. Or a dentist.
But when a programmer fucks up and gets someone killed? Or cheats on emissions tests?
Tell me, who at Uber or VW has been tried and convicted of professional malpractice?
You may not LIKE the idea that jobs you consider to be lowly or trivial or beneath you are "professions" and other things you like are not, but it's the simple fucking truth of the matter. Professional is not the opposite of amateur. A professional is someone in a profession. A profession is a regulated trade.
Except that's literally the definition, but ok.
It's not a mistake, it's an understanding of the word, its origin, and its use.
I didn't conflate anything, go look it up. The word isn't just about saying something, it's about attesting to it.
Try looking up the word and its use throughout history?
Try looking up laws in your area regulating various professions?
See which professions are regulated and which aren't? Almost universally in the western world, medicine and law are regulated professions. Being a "software engineer" or a professor at a school are not.
But where do you come from where the engineers (not the train driving ones) are weakly regulated!? Is it in Florida where that bridge collapsed?
I'm not aware of any regulatory bodies overseeing the "software engineers" and their work, for example.
Similarly for other engineers. The only group of engineers I can think of that is regulated to any actual efficacy are civil engineers, due to their involvement in public roads and structures. Mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, etc. usually don't have any state-wide regulation outside of what applies to their trade in general, as far as I know. An "electrical engineer" in CA is still going to be bound to the same union, governed by the same rules, etc. as an "electrician" in CA.
The title "engineer" in most instances is puff, but most egregiously so in the software world where hardly any rigor (such as would be expected of an engineer) exists.
Clarke and Kubrick worked together closely on this shit. It's nearly a joint project between them.
Too bad the movie sucks. It's one of the most overrated movies of all time. It's slow, boring, and non-sensical.
It's a Kubric film, so if you turn up the volume you can hear him softly masturbating throughout each long, drawn out scene.
It's based on Clarke's work, so you may as well turn it off half way through and make up your own ending. You'll get a better result than Clarke, and you'll get it much sooner.
Oh, look! Here come the zealots to tell me how I'm too stupid to "get" it, how the scenes at the end make sense if you take acid while lobotomizing yourself, and how the grand imagery and fairly accurate depictions of space somehow make a turd into a diamond. Nope, sorry.
Hey Kubrick! Are you ever gonna get around to writing the second half of Full Metal Jacket? I like what I saw, but the projectionist swapped in a different film halfway through. Strangely, this mistake has been repeated on every video/DVD/etc. release I've seen so far. If you need some help finishing, maybe give John Kricfalusi a call, he's known for timely work!
It's in the word itself. Professing is all about declaring something publicly and that being recognized officially.
It comes from profiteri which is to declare, testify, attest, etc. publicly and openly. Later, the word "profess" got tied up taking vows in the Church, and then similarly adopted for people taking oaths to become members of various trade guilds.
Ultimately, you can't be a professional unless what you do is openly attested to and officially recognized. In today's world, that's being regulated, licensed, etc. by the government. You probably already think of law and medicine as "professions" distinct from other jobs, but they certainly aren't the only highly-regulated professions out there.