When I lived over in Kalamazoo (Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo), it was the other way around. The local NBC affiliate demanded that the cable company pay to carry their signal, and eventually NBC was dropped. I don't know how that worked out in the end...
Don't forget that the Vikings found America first Columbus didn't know about America, and neither did anyone else he knew, which was the same position Leif Erikson was in. The people crossing the Bering land bridge discovered America, but beyond that, if you include the Vikings, you also have to include COlumbus.
I've got an alarm clock (from Radio Shack) that does that. I bought it because it was the only one I could find that would let me move the alarm time backwards without going 11 hours and 59 minutes forward, but someone apparently thought that providing enough buttons to support all the features would be too confusing.
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That's definitely closer, although VB was the new COBOL first.
a book (That's like an analog webpage, for the neuronauts among us) Books are just as digital as webpages, with the possible exception of illustrations.
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The purpose of Java is to have an object oriented version of Pascal for teaching freshmen some simple concepts. The real world doesn't use it very much.
I was using an object oriented version of Pascal (Turbo Pascal 7) before Java existed. My high school didn't teach the Object Pascal features, but they were there.
Java is being used heavily, but more for information systems work than software you'd buy at a store.
No, I think I just assumed you were using "neutral" in the same sense as the talk.origins link (i.e., not objectively better or worse), rather than the more practical suited-to-the-environment sense.
there's nothing to disprove <etc., stock argument for strong atheism> Yeah, maybe. If you're actually trying to *convince* someone about evolution, though, arguing for strong atheism is going to be counterproductive.
no, most mutations are "neutral". You've apparently made the same argument too many times to notice that I was talking about something different. I didn't say positive or negative, I said dead end. If a mutation appears in an environment where it's detrimental to the survival of the creature and the creature dies without reproducing, that was a dead end, whether it would be beneficial in another environment or not.
the general idea that all life on earth arose through a progression of self-replicating chemical systems due to the preservation of random mutations over billions of years, is most certainly a fact.
Um, no. While I do lean that way, saying that it's a fact that the mutations are random is basically the same as saying that science has disproved God. It is a fact that most of the mutations are dead ends and weeded out by natural selection, but that's not quite the same thing.
Many believe Word and Acrobat are out to entrap users
How is Acrobat trapping anyone? The Acrobat spec is published and available for free on Adobe's own web site. I'm working on a program for my senior project class that writes Acrobat files directly from a Java program.
Of the languages I'm reasonably familiar with, C and its descendents, XSLT and Postscript are case sensitive. VB, Pascal, SQL, Fortran, x86 assembly language and Sparc assembly language are not. Lisp is sometimes. I think I have a wide enough range to say it's fairly even.
Case insensitivity doesn't mean you can't still multicapitalize. Unless your IDE automatically forces references to the declared case (VB6 does this), you can MultiCapitalize for readability even if the original designer didn't think to. If Java was like this, I could ignore the stupid namingConvention of leaving the first letter of a class member in lower case.
If you find yourself in a repetitive slew of non-technical (read: sales and marketing) meetings
Now, "repetetive slew" might be a bit much, but if you do programming in the same area for a few years (billing, in my case), you're likely to get to a point where you know more about even the non-technical details of a problem than any of the users. These days, I'm annoyed when meetings about new billing features *don't* include me, because that means I'm probably going to get a spec with serious flaws.
If each instruction executes when its inputs are available, rather than in any specified order, and passes outputs to the next instruction, rather than to a specific register, it seems like such a system would be best for function programming. Is there any truth to that?
I saw that movie in an on campus theater, at a university, with an audience of hundreds and hundreds of engineers and scientists. That scene received a standing ovation, hoots, screams, cries of joy, thrown popcorn, and other jubilation that drowned out the movie for the next 5 minutes.
I remember a similar scene for Jurassic Park, when the lawyer was eaten off the toilet.
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When I lived over in Kalamazoo (Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo), it was the other way around. The local NBC affiliate demanded that the cable company pay to carry their signal, and eventually NBC was dropped. I don't know how that worked out in the end...
In case you hadn't noticed, Slashdot does that automatically for every link.
Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says, "What is this, some kind of a joke?"
I thought this was hilarious. I repeated it to two of my coworkers and got blank looks.
Don't forget that the Vikings found America first
Columbus didn't know about America, and neither did anyone else he knew, which was the same position Leif Erikson was in. The people crossing the Bering land bridge discovered America, but beyond that, if you include the Vikings, you also have to include COlumbus.
Yes, application modes are a big no-no.
Now Word is just like vi.
I've got an alarm clock (from Radio Shack) that does that. I bought it because it was the only one I could find that would let me move the alarm time backwards without going 11 hours and 59 minutes forward, but someone apparently thought that providing enough buttons to support all the features would be too confusing.
That's definitely closer, although VB was the new COBOL first.
a book (That's like an analog webpage, for the neuronauts among us)
Books are just as digital as webpages, with the possible exception of illustrations.
The purpose of Java is to have an object oriented version of Pascal for teaching freshmen some simple concepts. The real world doesn't use it very much.
I was using an object oriented version of Pascal (Turbo Pascal 7) before Java existed. My high school didn't teach the Object Pascal features, but they were there.
Java is being used heavily, but more for information systems work than software you'd buy at a store.
No, I think I just assumed you were using "neutral" in the same sense as the talk.origins link (i.e., not objectively better or worse), rather than the more practical suited-to-the-environment sense.
there's nothing to disprove <etc., stock argument for strong atheism>
Yeah, maybe. If you're actually trying to *convince* someone about evolution, though, arguing for strong atheism is going to be counterproductive.
no, most mutations are "neutral".
You've apparently made the same argument too many times to notice that I was talking about something different. I didn't say positive or negative, I said dead end. If a mutation appears in an environment where it's detrimental to the survival of the creature and the creature dies without reproducing, that was a dead end, whether it would be beneficial in another environment or not.
the general idea that all life on earth arose through a progression of self-replicating chemical systems due to the preservation of random mutations over billions of years, is most certainly a fact.
Um, no. While I do lean that way, saying that it's a fact that the mutations are random is basically the same as saying that science has disproved God. It is a fact that most of the mutations are dead ends and weeded out by natural selection, but that's not quite the same thing.
Should we reprint and remove or rewrite politically uncorrect sequences and dialog from Anne Frank, Huck Finn, and Uncle Tom's cabin?
As long as the original is still available, sure.
Or has our society reached the point where the only demographic it's socially acceptable to publicly mock are the Christians?
No, it's generally acceptable to mock anyone for beliefs, whether those are religious or not.
Many believe Word and Acrobat are out to entrap users
How is Acrobat trapping anyone? The Acrobat spec is published and available for free on Adobe's own web site. I'm working on a program for my senior project class that writes Acrobat files directly from a Java program.
Of the languages I'm reasonably familiar with, C and its descendents, XSLT and Postscript are case sensitive. VB, Pascal, SQL, Fortran, x86 assembly language and Sparc assembly language are not. Lisp is sometimes. I think I have a wide enough range to say it's fairly even.
Because it's a bad convention. Case is too subtle to be putting meaning into it.
How about I use capitalisation!
gah, it's case insensitive
Case insensitivity doesn't mean you can't still multicapitalize. Unless your IDE automatically forces references to the declared case (VB6 does this), you can MultiCapitalize for readability even if the original designer didn't think to. If Java was like this, I could ignore the stupid namingConvention of leaving the first letter of a class member in lower case.
Yeah, isn't it great!
If you find yourself in a repetitive slew of non-technical (read: sales and marketing) meetings
Now, "repetetive slew" might be a bit much, but if you do programming in the same area for a few years (billing, in my case), you're likely to get to a point where you know more about even the non-technical details of a problem than any of the users. These days, I'm annoyed when meetings about new billing features *don't* include me, because that means I'm probably going to get a spec with serious flaws.
I think calling "typo" might be more appropriate. It looked like it was supposed to be "there are no more offices in America."
If each instruction executes when its inputs are available, rather than in any specified order, and passes outputs to the next instruction, rather than to a specific register, it seems like such a system would be best for function programming. Is there any truth to that?
I wish they had done that in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I wanted to see the de-gnoming scene.
Every one of us might not know that something is rotten in the state of Denmark -- that's a Hamlet reference
MacBeth, isn't it?
I saw that movie in an on campus theater, at a university, with an audience of hundreds and hundreds of engineers and scientists. That scene received a standing ovation, hoots, screams, cries of joy, thrown popcorn, and other jubilation that drowned out the movie for the next 5 minutes.
I remember a similar scene for Jurassic Park, when the lawyer was eaten off the toilet.
Whatever happened to 'k' for 1000 and 'K' for 1024?