Was the point you were trying to make that soldiers of other nationalities can't innovate? I wasn't the original poster, but American troops (especially sergents) have historically been given a bit more room for their own discretion than members of other armies.
Universities are not for teaching communication skills. That's what society is for. Sure, if the society normally communicates in the same language you need professionally. I've heard that India is moving that way, but it's still something the colleges need to work on for now.
A proprietary XML format that happens to be somewhat easier to read than a proprietary binary format is no less proprietary. Perhaps not in a legal sense, but it's a hell of a lot easier to reverse engineer.
Because Java has more *information* about what is going on at runtime than you do at compile time. Well, yes, but it doesn't always have that information in time to do anything about it.
Both in Java and classic VB, I've wished many times for a way to specify that I'm going to have half a million objects of the same class (I do a lot of batch programming), that should all be created and destroyed as a single unit.
When I'm done, I shut the machine down and turn off the power strip. Interested in why others don't, however.
Remote access. I'm pretty sure that's why we programmers don't have laptops at my office in the first place. Hard drive speed and the fact that we all have home computers are probably factors, as well.
I do turn my home computer off, but my wife doesn't. She likes to have every web page she checks often constantly loaded, and ready for her when she sits down to her computer. I prefer to close any programs I'm not currently using.
If we're all going to be getting exercise from this, I think a lot of people would be interested in increasing that by using heavier controllers. Also, I have to wonder if it's good for your elbows to be swinging your arms wildly for a long time with no real weight on them.
How about always behaving as if you are on public display?
That's what really bothers me about the story. People are reacting as if there's some sort of expectation of privacy, for what is fundamentally a performance. If someone was recording one-on-one instruction, that would be different.
Next thing you know, somebody will claim Henry Ford invented Mass Production I always thought the story sounded fishy, but I was a teenager before I was sure that Ford didn't invent the car.
She (Amy Acker) was in some of the earlier seasons of Wishbone, which was a very cool kids show that was unfortunately cancelled before my son was really old enough to appreciate it. I haven't managed to figure out if any of the episodes they have for sale include her.
And yes, I'm a big fan of both Fred and early Willow. As for later Willow, I never bought her and Tara as a couple. I actually thought Kennedy was a lot more plausible.
Computer stuff: Whichever of Bruce Eckel's "Thinking In..." books is appropriate for what you want to learn. Bruce McKinney's Hardcore Visual Basic is a very good book. Unfortunately, it's about Visual Basic. PostScript Language Reference O'Reilly's XSLT book The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL Tannenbaum's networking book The hopelessly outdated "Peter Norton's Guide to the IBM PC" is still interesting.
What's really stupid, though, is when designers give up and write a Web application that's only functional on Internet Explorer in Windows. At that point, it really seems like they should have written it as a desktop app using.Net. They would have picked up additional capabilities that aren't possible with HTML-based apps, plus they could have avoided some design headaches by laying out their UI using Visual Studio and related tools.
You'd still have to install it, which is what everyone was trying to avoid in moving toward web apps, in the first place.
If you're opposed to the Bill of Rights and would prefer the British system, just say so directly. If you're looking for actual rational of why the U.S. isn't that way, read The Federalist Papers (way before WW II), not just what a bunch of people on Slashdot have to say.
If a band can't fill an album with worthwile material, they're talentless hacks. You'll find that the one or two songs you think are good, are only appealing because of their novelty. Listen to better music and you won't have that problem.
I have a few albums where I like nearly every song. On the whole, I don't really listen to them as much as the less consistent albums, because none of the individual songs are as good as the standout songs on the less consistent albums. For a metal example, Biohazard's State of the World Address is nearly all good, but nothing on it compares to "Punishment", "Urban Discipline" or "Loss" from the older Urban Discipline album. For pop, The Black Eyed Peas new album is basically all good, but the half of Justin Timberlake's new album that's any good at all ("Future Sex Love Sounds", "Sexyback", "Love Stoned", "What Goes Around Comes Around" and "Losing My Way") blows it out of the water.
I think it probably comes from a willingness to take risks.
Where is a good lead guitarist? You might not like the overall style of the music much, but Dimebag Darrell from Pantera was a hell of a guitar player. Deep Purple is still around with Steve Morse playing for them, and they're quite good. Sonata Arctica is worth a listen, and they're definitely more recent than your cutoff. Avenged Sevenfold has a good lead player.
Actually, guitar leads in general have gotten a lot more fashionable again in the last couple of years. If you wrote off modern rock before 2003 or so, you might want to take another listen.
PL/SQL is quirky but less quirky than the alternatives. I don't think so. PL/SQL has a much wider range of features, and the basic language is decent, but the way it integrates with SQL itself is pretty quirky. You have to keep track of what functions are PL/SQL functions and what are just SQL functions, sometimes doing a hokey "Select blah() From Dual Into MyVar", it's a pain in the ass to keep field names and variable names from colliding, and it's difficult to work with data in sets because temp tables work strangely and the Index By Tables don't really have much in common with real tables.
I've really been appreciating Transact-SQL (Sybase and Microsoft) a lot more since I learned PL/SQL. Granted, procedural work is a lot more awkward than PL/SQL, the locking system isn't as good, there aren't nearly as many libraries, and now I miss "%TYPE" and especially "%ROWTYPE". However, it's just one language, and it feels like just one language; there's no major dividing line between SQL and T-SQL, and T-SQL works smoothly with temporary and permanent tables and table variables, together. I couldn't say whether I like T-SQL or PL/SQL better, but I'd definitely call T-SQL less quirky.
just to have the e-mail address satan@hell.com A guy I know online used to use Satan@Hell.org, and had to change it because a bunch of spammers were using it as their supposed from address. I expect much the same would happen with Hell.com.
JJ nipple even was at most a funny attempt of a declining star to draw some attention on a meaningless PR stunt instead of her artistic work
Take a look at the picture sometime. Her breast was being lifted strangely by what was left of her top, leading to a serious pancake effect. If that was intentional, don't you think they would've done something mroe flattering?
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"But then he could just cast an anti-anti love spell spell... spell"
Was the point you were trying to make that soldiers of other nationalities can't innovate?
I wasn't the original poster, but American troops (especially sergents) have historically been given a bit more room for their own discretion than members of other armies.
Universities are not for teaching communication skills. That's what society is for.
Sure, if the society normally communicates in the same language you need professionally. I've heard that India is moving that way, but it's still something the colleges need to work on for now.
A proprietary XML format that happens to be somewhat easier to read than a proprietary binary format is no less proprietary.
Perhaps not in a legal sense, but it's a hell of a lot easier to reverse engineer.
Because Java has more *information* about what is going on at runtime than you do at compile time.
Well, yes, but it doesn't always have that information in time to do anything about it.
Both in Java and classic VB, I've wished many times for a way to specify that I'm going to have half a million objects of the same class (I do a lot of batch programming), that should all be created and destroyed as a single unit.
When I'm done, I shut the machine down and turn off the power strip. Interested in why others don't, however.
Remote access. I'm pretty sure that's why we programmers don't have laptops at my office in the first place. Hard drive speed and the fact that we all have home computers are probably factors, as well.
I do turn my home computer off, but my wife doesn't. She likes to have every web page she checks often constantly loaded, and ready for her when she sits down to her computer. I prefer to close any programs I'm not currently using.
If we're all going to be getting exercise from this, I think a lot of people would be interested in increasing that by using heavier controllers. Also, I have to wonder if it's good for your elbows to be swinging your arms wildly for a long time with no real weight on them.
How about always behaving as if you are on public display?
That's what really bothers me about the story. People are reacting as if there's some sort of expectation of privacy, for what is fundamentally a performance. If someone was recording one-on-one instruction, that would be different.
Forget the boobies. I have to go with Lewis on this one: "How could you ever get tired of that ass staring up at you?"
Just so you know, she's an adult now and doing much harder pictures than when she was 16 and doing the Peachez16 site.
http://www.peachez18.com/
http://www.realpeachez.com/
Next thing you know, somebody will claim Henry Ford invented Mass Production
I always thought the story sounded fishy, but I was a teenager before I was sure that Ford didn't invent the car.
She (Amy Acker) was in some of the earlier seasons of Wishbone, which was a very cool kids show that was unfortunately cancelled before my son was really old enough to appreciate it. I haven't managed to figure out if any of the episodes they have for sale include her.
And yes, I'm a big fan of both Fred and early Willow. As for later Willow, I never bought her and Tara as a couple. I actually thought Kennedy was a lot more plausible.
Computer stuff:
Whichever of Bruce Eckel's "Thinking In..." books is appropriate for what you want to learn.
Bruce McKinney's Hardcore Visual Basic is a very good book. Unfortunately, it's about Visual Basic.
PostScript Language Reference
O'Reilly's XSLT book
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Tannenbaum's networking book
The hopelessly outdated "Peter Norton's Guide to the IBM PC" is still interesting.
What's really stupid, though, is when designers give up and write a Web application that's only functional on Internet Explorer in Windows. At that point, it really seems like they should have written it as a desktop app using .Net. They would have picked up additional capabilities that aren't possible with HTML-based apps, plus they could have avoided some design headaches by laying out their UI using Visual Studio and related tools.
You'd still have to install it, which is what everyone was trying to avoid in moving toward web apps, in the first place.
"Industry Standard Architecture" (the old 16-bit expansion cards that coexisted with PCI on new motherboards until around 1999) could be relevant.
After they sank the Lusitania (a US passenger ship)
A US passenger ship full of British troops.
If you're opposed to the Bill of Rights and would prefer the British system, just say so directly. If you're looking for actual rational of why the U.S. isn't that way, read The Federalist Papers (way before WW II), not just what a bunch of people on Slashdot have to say.
No. Justin Timberlake is not N'Synch (sp?). If anything, he sounds like old Michael Jackson.
If a band can't fill an album with worthwile material, they're talentless hacks. You'll find that the one or two songs you think are good, are only appealing because of their novelty. Listen to better music and you won't have that problem.
I have a few albums where I like nearly every song. On the whole, I don't really listen to them as much as the less consistent albums, because none of the individual songs are as good as the standout songs on the less consistent albums. For a metal example, Biohazard's State of the World Address is nearly all good, but nothing on it compares to "Punishment", "Urban Discipline" or "Loss" from the older Urban Discipline album. For pop, The Black Eyed Peas new album is basically all good, but the half of Justin Timberlake's new album that's any good at all ("Future Sex Love Sounds", "Sexyback", "Love Stoned", "What Goes Around Comes Around" and "Losing My Way") blows it out of the water.
I think it probably comes from a willingness to take risks.
Where is a good lead guitarist?
You might not like the overall style of the music much, but Dimebag Darrell from Pantera was a hell of a guitar player.
Deep Purple is still around with Steve Morse playing for them, and they're quite good.
Sonata Arctica is worth a listen, and they're definitely more recent than your cutoff.
Avenged Sevenfold has a good lead player.
Actually, guitar leads in general have gotten a lot more fashionable again in the last couple of years. If you wrote off modern rock before 2003 or so, you might want to take another listen.
What addresses were never used? You did catch that I said .Org and not .Com, right?
PL/SQL is quirky but less quirky than the alternatives.
I don't think so. PL/SQL has a much wider range of features, and the basic language is decent, but the way it integrates with SQL itself is pretty quirky. You have to keep track of what functions are PL/SQL functions and what are just SQL functions, sometimes doing a hokey "Select blah() From Dual Into MyVar", it's a pain in the ass to keep field names and variable names from colliding, and it's difficult to work with data in sets because temp tables work strangely and the Index By Tables don't really have much in common with real tables.
I've really been appreciating Transact-SQL (Sybase and Microsoft) a lot more since I learned PL/SQL. Granted, procedural work is a lot more awkward than PL/SQL, the locking system isn't as good, there aren't nearly as many libraries, and now I miss "%TYPE" and especially "%ROWTYPE". However, it's just one language, and it feels like just one language; there's no major dividing line between SQL and T-SQL, and T-SQL works smoothly with temporary and permanent tables and table variables, together. I couldn't say whether I like T-SQL or PL/SQL better, but I'd definitely call T-SQL less quirky.
just to have the e-mail address satan@hell.com
A guy I know online used to use Satan@Hell.org, and had to change it because a bunch of spammers were using it as their supposed from address. I expect much the same would happen with Hell.com.
JJ nipple even was at most a funny attempt of a declining star to draw some attention on a meaningless PR stunt instead of her artistic work
Take a look at the picture sometime. Her breast was being lifted strangely by what was left of her top, leading to a serious pancake effect. If that was intentional, don't you think they would've done something mroe flattering?
This wasn't the judge telling Jack the Dripper to...
"Jack the Dripper" is Kevorkian.