It's hard to "outsmart" serious developers motivated by passion and ego-fulfillment. They can't _lose_ by not being profitable. They can lose only if nobody uses or cares about their software.
From my point of view, as a professional Java/Perl guy, it's kind of funny. I don't like the way J2EE is heading; servlets/jdbc/jsp is great, but EJBs (at least Entity beans) just seem to be poor bang for the buck. (Maybe JDO ? Dunno.) But for someone who wants to continue making a good living as a developer, the spectre of.NET becoming a big standard is a little alarming...you don't want to be in a position where you can't find work because your experience set isn't what the market wants. (despite the way that good developers have learned the patterns of solutions, with the implementations almost an afterthought)
I wish LOL wasn't so abused. Theoretically, it should mean "I am so amused, I actually made a noise" but I think it's been way watered-down, especially by people who use it to emphasize their own damn jokes, ala "You think you guys are gonna win the tourney? LOL!"...see, I don't think someone would actually laugh at that as they were writing. People use it to say "that's laughable" rather than "I'm actually laughing".
"HAHAHA" and "Heh!" kind of work, sort of.
Or a note like *audibly amused*.
I used to use:-D , 'Course AIM et al have decide that's a big cheesy smile, not a laugh. Those pricks.
(or better yet: "
is a line break. Put two of 'em between line breaks.")
"just like a programming language"...dude, there's a reason why programmers make the big bucks, and it's because most people aren't equipped to deal with things like programming languages.
For the intermediate newbie, who started get all anxious about specifics of layout, maybe XHTML can help. I don't want to explain case-sensitivity and those stupid ending slashes to a true newbie.
I have to laugh at the assertion "For a beginner, XHTML is easier to learn than HTML precisely because its rules are consistent"--what wishful thinking! XHTML is harder to learn because there are so many more rules. Newbies, even ones who manage to make some interesting content think HTML already has too many rules...
Can someone tell me, is <b> go and <a href="somelink">click me</a> now</b> illegal in XHTML? Does it need to be <b> go and </b><a href="somelink"><b>click me</b></a><b>now</b>
because A HREF tags aren't part of the valid contents of the bold tags?
It was a visceral glimpse into cyberspace, 2 years before Neuromancer.
I don't think it looked cheesy and cheap so much as other worldly. Blade Runner probably did the noir vibe better than Tron did cyberspace, but who wants to do a sequel to that...not would most things pale in comparison to that, but no company will pay for product placement, given the curse of the first....
Yes the acting was bad...I cringe everytime I hear the delivery of "The best programmer Encom ever had, and he ends up playing Space Cowboy in some back room" but it wasn't about the plot or the acting so much as the world...
All those other films you mentioned...all of them were lacking one important thing...deadly looking lowslung sleek black battletanks.
I do wonder about the height/angle thing, seems like most shots are at least at "head level" or higher.
It would be cool if it had both a video camera and a better quality still digitical camera mounted at about the same spot, that could get around some of the image quaity issues I imagine.
So this probably won't replace a human in the loop, but hell...people put those cheap disposables on the tables for the guests, I think the bot has at least the potential to supplement or replace that.
now if they could have one fly around ala a probedroid....that'd be kind of cool. Mount it on a little helicopter...and maybe have an optional base station so people could compose their own shots......hrrrm, if I had one of those at my wedding reception i don't think there would've been *any* dancing, just people lined up to play with the bot.
Look, when people perceive a choice between a more proactively monitoring government and a higher risk of themselves getting blow'd up, it's not surprising that they'll give a bit.
Even the difference between protected free speech and outright threats / persuasion to violence can be a blurry one. Should antiabortion groups feel free to publish websites with the names, addresses, family makeup, typical commuting hours, and bullet resistant building materials usage of abortion doctors and people who've received abortions? With a note saying "jeez, wouldn't it be *awful* if something happened to these folks?"
Frankly, I'm glad that cryptography for non-sales-transaction communication isn't ubiquitous. (In the ways in which I'm a scofflaw, I take a calculated risk, and kind of assume safety in numbers, sort of like speeding.) If PGP emails with bomb planting plans aren't lost in a sea of PGP emails of people just saying Hi, I wonder if we aren't better off.
I tend to make mistakes like that frequently: swapping it's for its. I know which is which but I don't always notice when I've made a mistake.
Depending on the mood I'm trying to express, sometimes I'll just use "yer" as an equally incorrect substitute for both "you're" and "your".
The number of typos has gone up for me in the past few years; I think it's either an early onset of decreasing mental capacity, or the way I taught myself to type much more quickly a few years back. I'm hoping it's the latter.
As someone who's 'website' evolved into an interactive weblog, I happily await the day when the term 'blog' falls into the same pit of disused linguistics as 'cyber', 'breaker, breaker, good buddy' and 'where's the beef'.
I dunno, it might be hear to say. 'Blogs seem to have a lot of support in the online youth culture, and that culture is really fond of shortcuts...on instant msg'ing, a lot of them speak a form of baby-L33T. Fewer numbers, more like artist-formerly-known-as song titles.
Screw you jack; I know something about this. Not everything, but enough to talk rationally.
Yes, of course you can get ridiculous in a desire to remove layers of abstraction, but that doesn't mean EJBs (especially Entity beans) might not be too slow and complex for their own good. Otherwise there wouldn't be so much talk about JDO.
"make it fully configurable" is part of the problem...sometimes you do get better turnaround doing a series of smaller, customized solutions to problems than making or utilizing some huge, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink platform. "But it's XML! Non-programmers can change the flow!" Frankly, for anything non-trivial you usually don't want non-programmers changing the flow.
What of that do you really need? It seems like there are some pretty easy ways of getting connection pooling and transactions (maybe not declared in XML files) without that. Even clustering is simple if you can get your firewall to route the same people to the same machine, and if not, you just have to be a little overhead.
Given that a "Hello World" session bean takes about 6 or 7 different files, it's hard to believe it's making life simpler.
EJBs (especially entity beans; session beans (especially stateless ones) are ok, though for 90% of uses regular java classes and static classes could do the same thing) seem to be the antiperl in some respects; it makes the easy jobs difficult and the difficult jobs impossible.
I'm not liking EJBs very much, and I think this post points to some of the reasons why...there's so much damn boiler plate code there, just to do the same simple tasks. (and making it worse, I have a general distrust of those fancy-shmansy editors that try to do all that bean stuff for you.) Approach someone else's code and you first have to figure out where to begin...naming conventions can help, but still.
EJBs (especially entity beans; session beans (especially stateless ones) are ok, though for 90% of uses regular java classes and static classes could do the same thing) seem to be the antiperl in some respects; it makes the easy jobs difficult and the difficult jobs impossible.
Actually, "game, set, match" is a better example of something people actually do say to try to claim victory in an argument, probably a better example than "checkmate".
I don't care about colloquialisms in general, and your use of "Nuff said" wasn't quite as bad as some...when used in a disagreement, it's usually an attempt to pre-emptively declare victory, as if the person has made such a persuasive argument that surely no one in their right mind could possibly disagree. Sort of like yelling "Checkmate" when the game might not even be half done. So it's not that the person using it is an idiot, but they generally have a bad attitude for productive discussion.
Do I sense some bitterness after having your innards strewn all over the wall in Q3/CS/TF/SOF.. (pick one)?
Assuming all l33t gamers are ~12 is a bit weak. I'm nearly 30 and I can't tell you how many times i've heard: "You f$$#$in kids are cheating" "I'm sure you've been playing since you got out of junior school at 3:15"
No we're not cheating, no were not 12 yrs old.
I'm not half as bitter as you sound!
But, you're sort of close...my senior year of college (96), my dorm just got wired, and all the underclassman had fresh new Pentiums and I still had my rugged old 486/66...I held my own in Duke Nuke 'Em 'til the level where I was underwater, then my framerate was about....5 frames a second maybe?
Sorry if you're bitter about being called a 12 year old...I freely proclaim my relative lack of skills...in particular, I shied away from most PC FPSs after DOOM, ('cept for some Quake) so I never learned how to use the mouse properly, and I know I'd be owned by any half-competent player. (But could probably do OK if we switched to, say, Dreamcast Quake III.)
And sure, it would be more irritating to be beaten by 12 year olds--I'm jealous of how much free time they have...but I wouldn't accuse my opponents of being any particular age. (Though if they talked a lot of 'L33T I might wonder about their mental age at least.)
Nuff said.
Anyone who signs off "Nuff said"...well, they say more about themselves than they do the discussion at hand.
pr0n and gamers have always driven the home market.
heh, pr0n drives about every new AV (or just V) technology.
Though I'd argue that pr0n is more dependent on bandwidth than CPU horsepower.
But, I'm still pretty happy doing all my gaming on home consoles. Why would I want to get my butt kicked by 12-yr-olds with nothing better to do than hone their skillz all day? Cluster some friend's around a 36" TV and have a grand old time, and a much more affordable upgrade schedule.
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It's hard to "outsmart" serious developers motivated by passion and ego-fulfillment. They can't _lose_ by not being profitable. They can lose only if nobody uses or cares about their software.
.NET becoming a big standard is a little alarming...you don't want to be in a position where you can't find work because your experience set isn't what the market wants. (despite the way that good developers have learned the patterns of solutions, with the implementations almost an afterthought)
From my point of view, as a professional Java/Perl guy, it's kind of funny. I don't like the way J2EE is heading; servlets/jdbc/jsp is great, but EJBs (at least Entity beans) just seem to be poor bang for the buck. (Maybe JDO ? Dunno.) But for someone who wants to continue making a good living as a developer, the spectre of
I wish LOL wasn't so abused. Theoretically, it should mean "I am so amused, I actually made a noise" but I think it's been way watered-down, especially by people who use it to emphasize their own damn jokes, ala "You think you guys are gonna win the tourney? LOL!"...see, I don't think someone would actually laugh at that as they were writing. People use it to say "that's laughable" rather than "I'm actually laughing".
:-D , 'Course AIM et al have decide that's a big cheesy smile, not a laugh. Those pricks.
"HAHAHA" and "Heh!" kind of work, sort of.
Or a note like *audibly amused*.
I used to use
bob1: "Put a
between your paragraphs."
bob2: "ok"
Later bob2 can learn the complexities.
(or better yet: "
is a line break. Put two of 'em between line breaks.")
"just like a programming language"...dude, there's a reason why programmers make the big bucks, and it's because most people aren't equipped to deal with things like programming languages.
For the intermediate newbie, who started get all anxious about specifics of layout, maybe XHTML can help. I don't want to explain case-sensitivity and those stupid ending slashes to a true newbie.
I have to laugh at the assertion "For a beginner, XHTML is easier to learn than HTML precisely because its rules are consistent"--what wishful thinking! XHTML is harder to learn because there are so many more rules. Newbies, even ones who manage to make some interesting content think HTML already has too many rules...
Can someone tell me, is
<b> go and <a href="somelink">click me</a> now</b>
illegal in XHTML? Does it need to be
<b> go and </b><a href="somelink"><b>click me</b></a><b>now</b>
because A HREF tags aren't part of the valid contents of the bold tags?
Anyone know how the anonymous transfer of a million dollars happens?
Especially these days, when big secretive money moves are watched more carefully.
A bunch of 50s in some briefcases?
Some kind of anonymous bank check?
Or does the University probably know, but part of the deal is that they don't tell anyone?
I think you really missed the whole Tron vibe.
It was a visceral glimpse into cyberspace, 2 years before Neuromancer.
I don't think it looked cheesy and cheap so much as other worldly. Blade Runner probably did the noir vibe better than Tron did cyberspace, but who wants to do a sequel to that...not would most things pale in comparison to that, but no company will pay for product placement, given the curse of the first....
Yes the acting was bad...I cringe everytime I hear the delivery of "The best programmer Encom ever had, and he ends up playing Space Cowboy in some back room" but it wasn't about the plot or the acting so much as the world...
All those other films you mentioned...all of them were lacking one important thing...deadly looking lowslung sleek black battletanks.
I do wonder about the height/angle thing, seems like most shots are at least at "head level" or higher.
...hrrrm, if I had one of those at my wedding reception i don't think there would've been *any* dancing, just people lined up to play with the bot.
It would be cool if it had both a video camera and a better quality still digitical camera mounted at about the same spot, that could get around some of the image quaity issues I imagine.
So this probably won't replace a human in the loop, but hell...people put those cheap disposables on the tables for the guests, I think the bot has at least the potential to supplement or replace that.
now if they could have one fly around ala a probedroid....that'd be kind of cool. Mount it on a little helicopter...and maybe have an optional base station so people could compose their own shots...
Look, when people perceive a choice between a more proactively monitoring government and a higher risk of themselves getting blow'd up, it's not surprising that they'll give a bit.
Even the difference between protected free speech and outright threats / persuasion to violence can be a blurry one. Should antiabortion groups feel free to publish websites with the names, addresses, family makeup, typical commuting hours, and bullet resistant building materials usage of abortion doctors and people who've received abortions? With a note saying "jeez, wouldn't it be *awful* if something happened to these folks?"
Frankly, I'm glad that cryptography for non-sales-transaction communication isn't ubiquitous. (In the ways in which I'm a scofflaw, I take a calculated risk, and kind of assume safety in numbers, sort of like speeding.) If PGP emails with bomb planting plans aren't lost in a sea of PGP emails of people just saying Hi, I wonder if we aren't better off.
I tend to make mistakes like that frequently: swapping it's for its. I know which is which but I don't always notice when I've made a mistake.
Depending on the mood I'm trying to express, sometimes I'll just use "yer" as an equally incorrect substitute for both "you're" and "your".
The number of typos has gone up for me in the past few years; I think it's either an early onset of decreasing mental capacity, or the way I taught myself to type much more quickly a few years back. I'm hoping it's the latter.
As someone who's 'website' evolved into an interactive weblog, I happily await the day when the term 'blog' falls into the same pit of disused linguistics as 'cyber', 'breaker, breaker, good buddy' and 'where's the beef'.
I dunno, it might be hear to say. 'Blogs seem to have a lot of support in the online youth culture, and that culture is really fond of shortcuts...on instant msg'ing, a lot of them speak a form of baby-L33T. Fewer numbers, more like artist-formerly-known-as song titles.
Stephenson meets Douglas Coupland, actually.
"fourbucks muffin". Heh.
Don't talk about things you know nothing about.
Screw you jack; I know something about this. Not everything, but enough to talk rationally.
Yes, of course you can get ridiculous in a desire to remove layers of abstraction, but that doesn't mean EJBs (especially Entity beans) might not be too slow and complex for their own good. Otherwise there wouldn't be so much talk about JDO.
"make it fully configurable" is part of the problem...sometimes you do get better turnaround doing a series of smaller, customized solutions to problems than making or utilizing some huge, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink platform. "But it's XML! Non-programmers can change the flow!" Frankly, for anything non-trivial you usually don't want non-programmers changing the flow.
What of that do you really need? It seems like there are some pretty easy ways of getting connection pooling and transactions (maybe not declared in XML files) without that. Even clustering is simple if you can get your firewall to route the same people to the same machine, and if not, you just have to be a little overhead.
Given that a "Hello World" session bean takes about 6 or 7 different files, it's hard to believe it's making life simpler.
On a related note, what do people think of EJBs?
EJBs (especially entity beans; session beans (especially stateless ones) are ok, though for 90% of uses regular java classes and static classes could do the same thing) seem to be the antiperl in some respects; it makes the easy jobs difficult and the difficult jobs impossible.
I'm not liking EJBs very much, and I think this post points to some of the reasons why...there's so much damn boiler plate code there, just to do the same simple tasks. (and making it worse, I have a general distrust of those fancy-shmansy editors that try to do all that bean stuff for you.) Approach someone else's code and you first have to figure out where to begin...naming conventions can help, but still.
EJBs (especially entity beans; session beans (especially stateless ones) are ok, though for 90% of uses regular java classes and static classes could do the same thing) seem to be the antiperl in some respects; it makes the easy jobs difficult and the difficult jobs impossible.
Slashdot Effect = San Andreas Fault?
It's interesting, I'm glad to see the article ties it in with other complex systems as well.
Actually, "game, set, match" is a better example of something people actually do say to try to claim victory in an argument, probably a better example than "checkmate".
I don't care about colloquialisms in general, and your use of "Nuff said" wasn't quite as bad as some...when used in a disagreement, it's usually an attempt to pre-emptively declare victory, as if the person has made such a persuasive argument that surely no one in their right mind could possibly disagree. Sort of like yelling "Checkmate" when the game might not even be half done. So it's not that the person using it is an idiot, but they generally have a bad attitude for productive discussion.
Well, I think some people have kept with AOL because they got accutomed to some of the custom content there, or the specific communities.
Hard to grow that though, with so much competing free stuff out there.
Do I sense some bitterness after having your innards strewn all over the wall in Q3/CS/TF/SOF.. (pick one)?
.5 frames a second maybe?
Assuming all l33t gamers are ~12 is a bit weak. I'm nearly 30 and I can't tell you how many times i've heard:
"You f$$#$in kids are cheating"
"I'm sure you've been playing since you got out of junior school at 3:15"
No we're not cheating, no were not 12 yrs old.
I'm not half as bitter as you sound!
But, you're sort of close...my senior year of college (96), my dorm just got wired, and all the underclassman had fresh new Pentiums and I still had my rugged old 486/66...I held my own in Duke Nuke 'Em 'til the level where I was underwater, then my framerate was about...
Sorry if you're bitter about being called a 12 year old...I freely proclaim my relative lack of skills...in particular, I shied away from most PC FPSs after DOOM, ('cept for some Quake) so I never learned how to use the mouse properly, and I know I'd be owned by any half-competent player. (But could probably do OK if we switched to, say, Dreamcast Quake III.)
And sure, it would be more irritating to be beaten by 12 year olds--I'm jealous of how much free time they have...but I wouldn't accuse my opponents of being any particular age. (Though if they talked a lot of 'L33T I might wonder about their mental age at least.)
Nuff said.
Anyone who signs off "Nuff said"...well, they say more about themselves than they do the discussion at hand.
You know, I have no idea why my previous comment has been mod'd up 3...
Anyway, come to think of it... it's not the speed of your machine OR the width of your pipe (err, bandwidth)...it's the size of your drive, baby.
pr0n and gamers have always driven the home market.
heh, pr0n drives about every new AV (or just V) technology.
Though I'd argue that pr0n is more dependent on bandwidth than CPU horsepower.
But, I'm still pretty happy doing all my gaming on home consoles. Why would I want to get my butt kicked by 12-yr-olds with nothing better to do than hone their skillz all day? Cluster some friend's around a 36" TV and have a grand old time, and a much more affordable upgrade schedule.
Learn to make a link, and to copy URLs without spaces...
anyway, I was going to post it as well: Ant City.
Well, given that XML tends to be a bit redundant, I guess it's only fitting...
My love of haiku
Was small as a cicada
And then got smaller.
--Mr. Blue