I did aa psychology module in the first year of my degree, and they said that Freuds work was pretty much disproved. Certainly that it wasn't applied by any decent psychologists.
The SUV is good in terms of vehicle size. Being of the genus 'lankyus pratus', I'd certainly prefer one, if only for the legroom. It's just the fuel requirement that's the killer, and that won't change any time soon, not soon enough to prevent the deatho of that class of car.
I wouldn't be surprised if in a few decades, once energy efficient engines are common and cheap, they make a comeback.
My answer would be "Yes, if I wanted a feel-good reinforcement of an identical personal choice, or if I knew and understood you or your work habits fairly well to put your choice in some meaningful context. But I don't on both counts. So no."
I see your point, and with some other kinds of software I may well try to provide a decent set of justifications, rather then just saying its good.
Never with text editors though, at least not any more, I have yet to get into a conversation about them where it hasn't devolved into a complex and repetitive argument about the merits of the various alternatives (7 years of university, I have had my fill of Emacs vs Vi. For the record, I prefer Vi). Then there's the other camp who won't work outside the safety net of a full IDE.
Even among my current associates my choice of Notepad++ provokes comment. I do find it puzzling, even after all this time, that a simple thing like a text editor can be so divisive.
'The One True Editor' is reminiscent of Plato's concept of the perfect bed[1], no single editor can be all editors to all men, but they all represent some aspect of the theoretical perfect editor.
Ooh, interesting. It used to be true. I have a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 pro, courtesy of Microsoft, I had assumed the same restriction applied. I shall look this up.
If you don't have a.emacs file then you kind of missed the point with Emacs.
Why bother though? In the last decade there have been wonderful advances in application user interface design which appear to have passed Emacs by. The days of having to roll your own config files for a text editor are long gone.
I won't deny that it isn't a fantastically capable editor, no doubt being developed by some seriously talented programmers, but I do state that the interface is a big pile of donkey doings.
Seriously, though, I don't doubt your sincerity, but whenever I read something along the lines of "It works great!", I wonder why it is the endorsement never includes its limitations, or what should be a requisite qualifier of "It works, but only for the limited manner in which I need it to work."
Is a Slashdot post the place for a blow by blow account of the reasons for Notepad++ being good? I could go on for ages, I've become quite a fan.
Its well designed, easy to use, and has the features I personally need. I don't like the way it defaults to *.txt extensions on saving new files, but I suspect this is just my not knowing what setting to change. Plus I rarely use it to create new files, which may explain why I've not sorted this yet. On the plus side, its code indentation feature rocks.
I'd have thought also that "It works, but only for the limited manner in which I need it to work."
I wonder, then, how come Microsoft still manages to sell gazillions of copies of Visual Studio, even when they also give away "express" editions of their products too.
Developer lock in. You get to use their (admittedly good) IDE to develop your product for free, but you can't go on and sell it unless you then buy the full version of the software.
Also the free versions lack some rather nice functionality, and all the Microsoft press books I've read do make a point of mentioning this.
I can't see emacs vs vi being a big workplace issue, since both are free. I can see an issue arising if the company pay for an IDE and their developers won't use it, thats all about getting value for the money spent.
Vi and Emacs are not IDEs, they don't have non compatible project files, its all just text. I don't think they would be a real problem.
Having been forced to use Emacs at Uni, I'd have thought it would positively promote commercial editors....
Actually I find that I use Notepad++ these days, it does enough of what Emacs does to please, but does it in a simpler fashion, I don't have to remember 5^10*24 keypress combinations.
Aside from that, I'd have thought it was Visual Studio that's killing the market myself, it has free versions, has the industry standard languages, and always implements the most recent windows technology.
I think this whole things laughable. Its just the same old 'them versus us' thing, only this time its the pro game people trying to perpetuate the argument.
Next up, some psycho kid will go on a rampage and try to get his sentence reduced by claiming it was all because of the games he played, and then it'll be the anti game peoples turn.
Anyway, Earth, in its aspect as a living system, can survive the impact of a gigantic Asteroid and destruction of almost all Plant and Animal life, repopulating back to previous levels within a few tens of millions of years.
That the biomass is booming is simply an example of the very same mechanisms at work.
All species go extinct, all of them, that includes us. The greatest likelihood is that the Voyager probe will outlast the species that created it.
There is some small chance that we will make it to the stars and survive, but this will spark a new round of evolution. Result? Extinction of the current form of Homo Sapiens.
My only consolation is that this includes the french:)
My son's pc is on an old Singer Sewing Table, complete with the forged Iron foot pump affair that used to run the sewing machine.
At the moment all he does is operate the flywheel while he plays (a little noisy, but better for his legs then just sitting static for ages). I want to set it up with a generator so we can use it to power something, or store the charge in a battery.
Not perhaps the most efficient means of power generation, but a teensy bit cool.
it would be useful if the laptop had been stolen and you weren't there as well. Otherwise the only secure system is to not have a laptop in the first place.
Maybe, SP3 appears to have been responsible for screwing up my machine, causing it to crash constantly within a day of being installed. I re-installed and just got the updates singly from windows update. It might just be that my machine is four years old however, I'm not definitely sure it was SP3, it was just the timing that makes it seem that way.
A weakly typed language, when presented with something that doesn't "fit" will try various methods to make it fit, and this has serious security implications
Um, what? I'm not sure you actually know what is is of which you speak, kind sir.
Sounds like you just don't like weak typing. Weak typing just means the compiler or interpreter handles types for you, they're actually still held in the proper variable type, it's just that you don't have to do the assigning yourself.
Sure a bad compiler/interpreter wouldn't handle this right, but then that's just bad coding, and almost certainly wouldn't get widely used anyway.
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I did aa psychology module in the first year of my degree, and they said that Freuds work was pretty much disproved. Certainly that it wasn't applied by any decent psychologists.
As for trick cyclists, well I wouldn't know.
The SUV is good in terms of vehicle size. Being of the genus 'lankyus pratus', I'd certainly prefer one, if only for the legroom. It's just the fuel requirement that's the killer, and that won't change any time soon, not soon enough to prevent the deatho of that class of car.
I wouldn't be surprised if in a few decades, once energy efficient engines are common and cheap, they make a comeback.
oh well, it was a nice thought while it lasted..
My answer would be "Yes, if I wanted a feel-good reinforcement of an identical personal choice, or if I knew and understood you or your work habits fairly well to put your choice in some meaningful context. But I don't on both counts. So no."
I see your point, and with some other kinds of software I may well try to provide a decent set of justifications, rather then just saying its good.
Never with text editors though, at least not any more, I have yet to get into a conversation about them where it hasn't devolved into a complex and repetitive argument about the merits of the various alternatives (7 years of university, I have had my fill of Emacs vs Vi. For the record, I prefer Vi). Then there's the other camp who won't work outside the safety net of a full IDE.
Even among my current associates my choice of Notepad++ provokes comment. I do find it puzzling, even after all this time, that a simple thing like a text editor can be so divisive.
'The One True Editor' is reminiscent of Plato's concept of the perfect bed[1], no single editor can be all editors to all men, but they all represent some aspect of the theoretical perfect editor.
[1] Plato, "Politeia", page 5, 360 B.C
Ooh, interesting. It used to be true. I have a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 pro, courtesy of Microsoft, I had assumed the same restriction applied. I shall look this up.
If you don't have a .emacs file then you kind of missed the point with Emacs.
Why bother though? In the last decade there have been wonderful advances in application user interface design which appear to have passed Emacs by. The days of having to roll your own config files for a text editor are long gone.
I won't deny that it isn't a fantastically capable editor, no doubt being developed by some seriously talented programmers, but I do state that the interface is a big pile of donkey doings.
Seriously, though, I don't doubt your sincerity, but whenever I read something along the lines of "It works great!", I wonder why it is the endorsement never includes its limitations, or what should be a requisite qualifier of "It works, but only for the limited manner in which I need it to work."
Is a Slashdot post the place for a blow by blow account of the reasons for Notepad++ being good? I could go on for ages, I've become quite a fan.
Its well designed, easy to use, and has the features I personally need. I don't like the way it defaults to *.txt extensions on saving new files, but I suspect this is just my not knowing what setting to change. Plus I rarely use it to create new files, which may explain why I've not sorted this yet. On the plus side, its code indentation feature rocks.
I'd have thought also that
"It works, but only for the limited manner in which I need it to work."
is all the justification anyone would need.
I wonder, then, how come Microsoft still manages to sell gazillions of copies of Visual Studio, even when they also give away "express" editions of their products too.
Developer lock in. You get to use their (admittedly good) IDE to develop your product for free, but you can't go on and sell it unless you then buy the full version of the software.
Also the free versions lack some rather nice functionality, and all the Microsoft press books I've read do make a point of mentioning this.
I can't see emacs vs vi being a big workplace issue, since both are free. I can see an issue arising if the company pay for an IDE and their developers won't use it, thats all about getting value for the money spent.
Vi and Emacs are not IDEs, they don't have non compatible project files, its all just text. I don't think they would be a real problem.
Having been forced to use Emacs at Uni, I'd have thought it would positively promote commercial editors....
Actually I find that I use Notepad++ these days, it does enough of what Emacs does to please, but does it in a simpler fashion, I don't have to remember 5^10*24 keypress combinations.
Aside from that, I'd have thought it was Visual Studio that's killing the market myself, it has free versions, has the industry standard languages, and always implements the most recent windows technology.
Read the article? What are you, sick?
I think this whole things laughable. Its just the same old 'them versus us' thing, only this time its the pro game people trying to perpetuate the argument.
Next up, some psycho kid will go on a rampage and try to get his sentence reduced by claiming it was all because of the games he played, and then it'll be the anti game peoples turn.
Sigh......
Cut off over 6 million paying customers?
No way that's ever going to happen. No industry in its right mind would destroy itself to satisfy the needs of another.
Book? Hell, by this logic, cave painting was a mistake.
What level of catatastrophe has to befall us before you'll consider the case "proven?"
If he's like most people, it will have to cause noticeable damage within a few miles of his house.
Anything else is 'someone elses problem'
The arctic ice pack is melting and that will ultimately change the earth's albedo in a bad way
What I find fascinating is that when the Poles froze first time round *that* was a climate changing catastrophe for the species then living as well.
How do you go from biomass regeneration to WWIII?
:)
Anyway, Earth, in its aspect as a living system, can survive the impact of a gigantic Asteroid and destruction of almost all Plant and Animal life, repopulating back to previous levels within a few tens of millions of years.
That the biomass is booming is simply an example of the very same mechanisms at work.
All species go extinct, all of them, that includes us. The greatest likelihood is that the Voyager probe will outlast the species that created it.
There is some small chance that we will make it to the stars and survive, but this will spark a new round of evolution. Result? Extinction of the current form of Homo Sapiens.
My only consolation is that this includes the french
They started out wanting too, but failed. Now they know they can't.
They don't need to either.
Ah yes, of course, because they already dominate the worlds home computer market, how silly of me.
Oh wait...
Apple will never drop the price of the iPhone to the point where it can beat out the competition to become the standard phone people use.
Same as every other product they've launched.
My son's pc is on an old Singer Sewing Table, complete with the forged Iron foot pump affair that used to run the sewing machine.
At the moment all he does is operate the flywheel while he plays (a little noisy, but better for his legs then just sitting static for ages). I want to set it up with a generator so we can use it to power something, or store the charge in a battery.
Not perhaps the most efficient means of power generation, but a teensy bit cool.
it would be useful if the laptop had been stolen and you weren't there as well. Otherwise the only secure system is to not have a laptop in the first place.
Maybe, SP3 appears to have been responsible for screwing up my machine, causing it to crash constantly within a day of being installed.
I re-installed and just got the updates singly from windows update. It might just be that my machine is four years old however, I'm not definitely sure it was SP3, it was just the timing that makes it seem that way.
It would render a mmorg that ran its world distributed across the users computers illegal as well.
Not that I know about anyone that's working on such a thing [koff] as far as you know [/koff]
A weakly typed language, when presented with something that doesn't "fit" will try various methods to make it fit, and this has serious security implications
Um, what? I'm not sure you actually know what is is of which you speak, kind sir.
Sounds like you just don't like weak typing. Weak typing just means the compiler or interpreter handles types for you, they're actually still held in the proper variable type, it's just that you don't have to do the assigning yourself.
Sure a bad compiler/interpreter wouldn't handle this right, but then that's just bad coding, and almost certainly wouldn't get widely used anyway.
most useful /. link ever....