-1. I easily carry dozens of volumes on my iPad: all searchable. Key when you're referencing programming books or website documentation slurped into epub.
Funny, the Pragmatic Programmers, Sitepoint, and O'Reilly seem to have no trouble generating technical books with lots of diagrams / code blocks / etc. in epub.
ePub can handle just about any formatting: it's HTML and CSS. Both Sitepoint and Pragmatic Programmers put out excellent epub technical books with many non-standard bits like code blocks and inline images: no formatting issues.
Until we've created another Earth-like environment that is *completely* independent of Earth for supplies, then we're just wasting time up there. We need to start sending the robots for research now, so we can send more to terraform for us. Once they (and other helpers such as synthetic or genetically engineered bacteria) have terraformed an off-planet living space for us (Mars is the likely candidate), *then* we'll get some of our fragile human bodies out into an off-site backup.
Seriously? This is a *great* time to learn to program! Turn him loose with a JavaScript library and a good JS book (they do exist!) and he'd be able to have cool animated web effects online for all of his friends to check out in a week.
It doesn't hurt that JavaScript is an effin' gorgeous prototype-based fully object oriented language either. Seriously! All the ugliness comes from dealing with the DOM, which the libraries (my favorite is jQuery) handle nicely.
Point #1: there's no such thing as "highly evolved". You and I (or the xenomorph) is no more highly evolved than an mold spore. We've all evolved in parallel to best fit into our respective environments, if we weren't then we'd be extinct.
Point #2: the xenomorph didn't evolve. It was a genetically engineered weapon ready to be dropped out of the bomb bays of the derelict alien spaceship, but something went wrong.
No, the user is the user. When *users* post to Twitter with a shiny GUI they don't even have to know that the Twitter API exists, what it is, what its methods are, etc.
Wow, you believe that midtown Manhattan is ready for post-portable-energy society? That dense urban living can survive? What are you going to eat? Asphalt?
"Oh no, my purchases will be used to serve up ads targeted to me!"
I say, great! I know I'd be a hell of a lot happier if Hulu, et al. showed me ads for upcoming videogames, cool new music albums, iPad accessories, and the latest from ThinkGeek. Then advertisement might actually mean something to me. It might actually inform me of a product that I'd like that I didn't know about. Nothing is forcing me to get out my credit card, ads are just information.
Bombard me with unwanted solicitations
You make it sound like combat. If you don't want, don't buy. The big deal, I fail to see it.
That's funny, if we send humans to Mars that could be all the time they have to spend. Robots just need sunlight, we humans need much more logistical support. Robots also just need one way tickets.
Just consider the logistics of getting humans to Mars and back again vs. the comparative ease of sending Spirit and Opportunity.
Now consider the expense of a manned mission to Mars, vs. more robots. For the cost of a human mission we could send thousands of disposable robots. Robots crawling all over Mars doing science and terraforming. Just imagine it! Think of the awesome amount of data we'd be streaming in.
Second for iTeleport. I've used it since it was called tunnel (iirc) on the iPod Touch and it's simply flawless. RowMote Pro is also excellent for controlling multimedia apps like front row and xbmc.
Wow. Ok. I'm a web developer by trade, so let's break this down from lowest hanging fruit on up:
JS: separating JS from HTML is supremely trivial. Rather than enclosing your JS in js code, call out to a source file: . If you doing funky old school coding like using onload, replace that with a good JavaScript library and events (jQuery is my preferred flavor, but they're all good.)
PHP: think of it like this: there are essentially two key actions your PHP is responsible for: getting data and building a display of that data. Some part of your PHP code is dealing with the retrieval or generation of information based on the current state, stick that PHP in its own class or classes and call over to it when needed. Write template PHP with your HTML, e.g. just loops, variable tests, and very simple code that is only related to the current HTML view.
I'm not sure what you meant by one-shot CSS classes or blocks, but that sounds like you are justifying the use of inline styling. Separating the presentation from the content isn't just a good idea, it can really make your life easier when you need to go back and change something. If you have a lot of unique states, think about using multiple classes to construct them. HTML elements can have more than one, which is very handy: e.g.
Don't speak for me! I have the Ultima Collection and periodically replay the gems. Exalt is also great for actually playing Ultima 7, although 5 is still my favorite.
You can put your DVDs in iTunes. It's actually kind nice to have a selection of movies/television to watch on a bus, even on the small screen of the iPod Touch. Lots of blu-ray movies even come with a digital version nowadays since you can't import blu-ray movies easily.
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-1. I easily carry dozens of volumes on my iPad: all searchable. Key when you're referencing programming books or website documentation slurped into epub.
Funny, the Pragmatic Programmers, Sitepoint, and O'Reilly seem to have no trouble generating technical books with lots of diagrams / code blocks / etc. in epub.
ePub can handle just about any formatting: it's HTML and CSS. Both Sitepoint and Pragmatic Programmers put out excellent epub technical books with many non-standard bits like code blocks and inline images: no formatting issues.
There is a solution, but since it involves nukes we'll never do it.
-1 Dumb Argument.
Until we've created another Earth-like environment that is *completely* independent of Earth for supplies, then we're just wasting time up there. We need to start sending the robots for research now, so we can send more to terraform for us. Once they (and other helpers such as synthetic or genetically engineered bacteria) have terraformed an off-planet living space for us (Mars is the likely candidate), *then* we'll get some of our fragile human bodies out into an off-site backup.
Seriously? This is a *great* time to learn to program! Turn him loose with a JavaScript library and a good JS book (they do exist!) and he'd be able to have cool animated web effects online for all of his friends to check out in a week.
It doesn't hurt that JavaScript is an effin' gorgeous prototype-based fully object oriented language either. Seriously! All the ugliness comes from dealing with the DOM, which the libraries (my favorite is jQuery) handle nicely.
Point #1: there's no such thing as "highly evolved". You and I (or the xenomorph) is no more highly evolved than an mold spore. We've all evolved in parallel to best fit into our respective environments, if we weren't then we'd be extinct.
Point #2: the xenomorph didn't evolve. It was a genetically engineered weapon ready to be dropped out of the bomb bays of the derelict alien spaceship, but something went wrong.
Pedantic. Yes.
That was one of the most epic posts I've read on /. in a long time. A long time.
Please say that you're writing somewhere else, your blog hasn't been updated since 2008!
No, the user is the user. When *users* post to Twitter with a shiny GUI they don't even have to know that the Twitter API exists, what it is, what its methods are, etc.
Wow, you believe that midtown Manhattan is ready for post-portable-energy society? That dense urban living can survive? What are you going to eat? Asphalt?
If you've posted information to Facebook, it's Facebook's information. You gave it to them.
No, I don't find that troubling at all.
"Oh no, my purchases will be used to serve up ads targeted to me!"
I say, great! I know I'd be a hell of a lot happier if Hulu, et al. showed me ads for upcoming videogames, cool new music albums, iPad accessories, and the latest from ThinkGeek. Then advertisement might actually mean something to me. It might actually inform me of a product that I'd like that I didn't know about. Nothing is forcing me to get out my credit card, ads are just information.
Bombard me with unwanted solicitations
You make it sound like combat. If you don't want, don't buy. The big deal, I fail to see it.
That's funny, if we send humans to Mars that could be all the time they have to spend. Robots just need sunlight, we humans need much more logistical support. Robots also just need one way tickets.
Just consider the logistics of getting humans to Mars and back again vs. the comparative ease of sending Spirit and Opportunity.
Now consider the expense of a manned mission to Mars, vs. more robots. For the cost of a human mission we could send thousands of disposable robots. Robots crawling all over Mars doing science and terraforming. Just imagine it! Think of the awesome amount of data we'd be streaming in.
Thank you!
Robot exploration, all the way. Think Spirit and Opportunity x 1000.
JMS admitted it more openly than that:
Where did the Starfury model Sheridan was looking at in the war room come from?
Actually, I think the Starfury model was an illegal one we confiscated.
Waste not, want not...
Less than four syllables.
Second for iTeleport. I've used it since it was called tunnel (iirc) on the iPod Touch and it's simply flawless. RowMote Pro is also excellent for controlling multimedia apps like front row and xbmc.
165 yuan is not cheap at all.
Wow. Ok. I'm a web developer by trade, so let's break this down from lowest hanging fruit on up:
JS: separating JS from HTML is supremely trivial. Rather than enclosing your JS in js code, call out to a source file: . If you doing funky old school coding like using onload, replace that with a good JavaScript library and events (jQuery is my preferred flavor, but they're all good.)
PHP: think of it like this: there are essentially two key actions your PHP is responsible for: getting data and building a display of that data. Some part of your PHP code is dealing with the retrieval or generation of information based on the current state, stick that PHP in its own class or classes and call over to it when needed. Write template PHP with your HTML, e.g. just loops, variable tests, and very simple code that is only related to the current HTML view.
I'm not sure what you meant by one-shot CSS classes or blocks, but that sounds like you are justifying the use of inline styling. Separating the presentation from the content isn't just a good idea, it can really make your life easier when you need to go back and change something. If you have a lot of unique states, think about using multiple classes to construct them. HTML elements can have more than one, which is very handy: e.g.
Back in the 80s, this was par for the course. Especially for Atari, Infocom, and Origin games.
Infocom was famous for the odd physical objects (called feelies) included with games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelie
The concept caught on, and all the good gaming companies were doing it:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Feelies
Actual comic books game with some Atari games:
http://www.tripoint.org/sq/ew/ewcover.html
Don't speak for me! I have the Ultima Collection and periodically replay the gems. Exalt is also great for actually playing Ultima 7, although 5 is still my favorite.
You can put your DVDs in iTunes. It's actually kind nice to have a selection of movies/television to watch on a bus, even on the small screen of the iPod Touch. Lots of blu-ray movies even come with a digital version nowadays since you can't import blu-ray movies easily.
Wow, you just convinced me to buy MK vs DC. Your second paragraph should've been ad copy.
(Ms. Hoover voice) I didn't know we could do that!