I'm looking at a typical jsp right now. Its an awful demoralizing conflation of xml, css, jstl, html, and javascript-- all in one file. As developer, it sucks to work with and it is a major hassle to create a nice user experience with this trash y stuff.
There is a handy little pattern in web applications these days called "model-view-controller," aka MVC. Google it and you'll see that the problem you mention above is the fault of the coders and not the fault of the programming language.
If the guy was 39 when the article was written...and he was 22 in 1981...let's see...17 years after 1981 was...1998...making this article SEVEN YEARS OLD. I believe this represents a new editorial low.
I am the only one who's totally pissed off that not only is there a MICROSOFT ad on this article (probably appearing on others, but this one especially) but it HONKS A HORN AT FULL VOLUME? What is wrong with SlashDot?
The other government agencies would have to BUY services from Accuweather. Kind of like how our military now has to BUY services from mercenaries (aka "civilian contractors") after we've already paid for their training.
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I guess your post didn't get modded up for a reason, but I have to refute a few points...
Why in hell do health, energy, mana etc. regenerate while you're running for your life? This goes along with the equality of speed hilarity above: you can batter someone down to an inch of their life, chase them for 30 seconds and have them turn suddenly and engage at full life and mana. Ridiculous; there's no strategy to achieve attrition dominance because everyone regenerates virtually at will. God help you if they get away enough to eat something and down a few potions (which they will always have handy because you can't loot their corpse).
None of this is correct. Health and mana/energy do not regenerate while you are in combat. Just because you are running away does not mean you are out of the woods - you are in combat until both characters have abandoned the fight. You have to get pretty far from most mobs before this happens. Also, you cannot use more than one health potion at a time. There is a countdown timer that prevents you from using the second potion. There are also countdown timers on several healing effect items, in particular any type of bandage. Food, you say? You have to sit down to eat. You're not allowed to eat while in combat, either. If you're sitting down and you get attacked, guess what? You stop eating and you stop gaining health. Makes sense to me.
Personally I am very interested to see the endgame content - I plan on being there for it, as do all my friends and co-workers who have the game. We enjoy duels, since they are done in a gentlemanly way - and we're looking forward to leveling up enough to participate in faction raids. There is SO much potential that we haven't even tapped yet...
I didn't start watching Amazing Race until 9:45pm last night. By 11:30 I had seen both Amazing Race and Jon Stewart -- without watching a single commercial. That's 45 minutes of my life to do productive things (or surf Slashdot).
Or you could have not watched either show and saved the other 1 hour and 45 minutes of your life to do productive things that actually enrich your life, like reading a book or spending time with your family...I like the Daily Show as much as the next guy but let's face it, it's just "entertainment," and "reality tv" is really pretty useless - unless you're an advertiser.
Perhaps you've heard of a little thing called money? Or maybe like me you're optimistic that politicians think about more than just money...is that what makes me a Democrat? Hmmmm...
"last but not least AlienWare will send a tech to your door who knows the whole setup inside out"
How does trash like this get moderated up? Anyone who has had trouble with their AlienWare knows that their tech support is TERRIBLE. Might be worth it for the kickass case, though...
Additionally, most of the counties in his district are either officially impoverished or on the verge of it. Maybe he should spend more time representing the concerns of his impoverished constituency in Congress.
That is the responsibility of their state representatives and local government, not their federal representatives. Anyway, which counties are you talking about? Roanoke? Botetourt? Franklin? I wouldn't exactly call those counties "impoverished."
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that you can know either the position or velocity of a subatomic particle, but not both. Further refined, the better you estimate velocity, the worse your estimate of position and vice versa.
Schroedinger's Cat, however, illustrates the wavefunction of a quantum particle...the cat is either alive or dead, but you can't know which until you check. Whether you look or not doesn't influence the cat's mortality rate. You can say that it's the measurement (opening the box) that causes the cat to live or die, but the cat already was in that state when you checked. That is the essential problem raised by this thought experiment.
Check this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%F6dinger%27s_c at
and note that the word "uncertainty" does not appear. Of course, it might appear on the page, and it might not...you won't know until you click on it.;)
So your analogy holds between the webserver and the cat, but the uncertainty principle is not involved. That is what I'm trying to clarify.
(BTW, this is a stupid argument. Clearly we are both bored at work.)
Sorry but this guy wants Microsoft to produce Macs, it's too obvious, he's not credible.
Actually, it sounds to me like he wants Microsoft to make computing more convenient. It just so happens that Apple has ALWAYS had this in mind and beat them to the punch. A Mac works like you want it to, like you expect it to, and most importantly, WHEN you want it to. It costs a little more, but not many Mac users will complain about that. You get what you pay for.
If by "doing things 'right,'" you mean basically owning the entire operating system and business application suite market and not improving your products because there are not really any alternatives, then I guess you are correct.
Also, you could be correct if your definition of "right" is screwing everyone else. Otherwise, get your head out of your ass. You sound like a guest on Fox News for Pete's sake.
I worked tech support in college too...the worst was at parties at my fraternity house when drunk freshmen girls would come up to me, "HEY! You're the guy that fixed my computer!" Obviously I could then talk to them, but I was always "that computer guy." (BTW this was around 10 years ago, when being a tech *REALLY* meant you were a dork.)
Not really sure where I was going with that or how this is even on topic, now that I think about it...more coffee...must have more coffee...
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There is a handy little pattern in web applications these days called "model-view-controller," aka MVC. Google it and you'll see that the problem you mention above is the fault of the coders and not the fault of the programming language.
I'm not sure why you think
a) this is a good idea to do in PHP, and
b) this can't be done in Java.
And, for a program which took us six months to develop in PHP, it would have taken at least fifty percent longer with Java.
And now it will take you at least two hundred percent as much time to maintain.
If the guy was 39 when the article was written...and he was 22 in 1981...let's see...17 years after 1981 was...1998...making this article SEVEN YEARS OLD. I believe this represents a new editorial low.
Coleman
I am the only one who's totally pissed off that not only is there a MICROSOFT ad on this article (probably appearing on others, but this one especially) but it HONKS A HORN AT FULL VOLUME? What is wrong with SlashDot?
Coleman
PS It scared the crap out of me.
No no no no no.
The other government agencies would have to BUY services from Accuweather. Kind of like how our military now has to BUY services from mercenaries (aka "civilian contractors") after we've already paid for their training.
Gee, that sure sounds relevant to me...
I guess your post didn't get modded up for a reason, but I have to refute a few points...
Why in hell do health, energy, mana etc. regenerate while you're running for your life? This goes along with the equality of speed hilarity above: you can batter someone down to an inch of their life, chase them for 30 seconds and have them turn suddenly and engage at full life and mana. Ridiculous; there's no strategy to achieve attrition dominance because everyone regenerates virtually at will. God help you if they get away enough to eat something and down a few potions (which they will always have handy because you can't loot their corpse).
None of this is correct. Health and mana/energy do not regenerate while you are in combat. Just because you are running away does not mean you are out of the woods - you are in combat until both characters have abandoned the fight. You have to get pretty far from most mobs before this happens. Also, you cannot use more than one health potion at a time. There is a countdown timer that prevents you from using the second potion. There are also countdown timers on several healing effect items, in particular any type of bandage. Food, you say? You have to sit down to eat. You're not allowed to eat while in combat, either. If you're sitting down and you get attacked, guess what? You stop eating and you stop gaining health. Makes sense to me.
Personally I am very interested to see the endgame content - I plan on being there for it, as do all my friends and co-workers who have the game. We enjoy duels, since they are done in a gentlemanly way - and we're looking forward to leveling up enough to participate in faction raids. There is SO much potential that we haven't even tapped yet...
Don't forget the part where Sauron tells Frodo that he has survived all of Frodo's predecessors and will surely survive him.
Or you could have not watched either show and saved the other 1 hour and 45 minutes of your life to do productive things that actually enrich your life, like reading a book or spending time with your family...I like the Daily Show as much as the next guy but let's face it, it's just "entertainment," and "reality tv" is really pretty useless - unless you're an advertiser.
Let me guess...David Brin will be voting for Ralph Nader. Has anyone else noticed that these grapes are sour?
I guess not...dang. Go ahead, mod my sorry ass down.
Wow...did it actually happen?
I don't understand why he changed his mind...
Perhaps you've heard of a little thing called money? Or maybe like me you're optimistic that politicians think about more than just money...is that what makes me a Democrat? Hmmmm...
jcomeau_ictx, or Salvatore Wise? Considering the accessibility of Justin's site, I think we can all guess who submitted this...
"last but not least AlienWare will send a tech to your door who knows the whole setup inside out"
How does trash like this get moderated up? Anyone who has had trouble with their AlienWare knows that their tech support is TERRIBLE. Might be worth it for the kickass case, though...
Additionally, most of the counties in his district are either officially impoverished or on the verge of it. Maybe he should spend more time representing the concerns of his impoverished constituency in Congress.
That is the responsibility of their state representatives and local government, not their federal representatives. Anyway, which counties are you talking about? Roanoke? Botetourt? Franklin? I wouldn't exactly call those counties "impoverished."
...is not part of the "Hall of Fame." It's embarrassing if you ask me.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that you can know either the position or velocity of a subatomic particle, but not both. Further refined, the better you estimate velocity, the worse your estimate of position and vice versa.
c at
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Schroedinger's Cat, however, illustrates the wavefunction of a quantum particle...the cat is either alive or dead, but you can't know which until you check. Whether you look or not doesn't influence the cat's mortality rate. You can say that it's the measurement (opening the box) that causes the cat to live or die, but the cat already was in that state when you checked. That is the essential problem raised by this thought experiment.
Check this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%F6dinger%27s_
and note that the word "uncertainty" does not appear. Of course, it might appear on the page, and it might not...you won't know until you click on it.
So your analogy holds between the webserver and the cat, but the uncertainty principle is not involved. That is what I'm trying to clarify.
(BTW, this is a stupid argument. Clearly we are both bored at work.)
Schroedinger's Cat is not an illustration of the uncertainty principle, nor is your example.
Sorry but this guy wants Microsoft to produce Macs, it's too obvious, he's not credible.
Actually, it sounds to me like he wants Microsoft to make computing more convenient. It just so happens that Apple has ALWAYS had this in mind and beat them to the punch. A Mac works like you want it to, like you expect it to, and most importantly, WHEN you want it to. It costs a little more, but not many Mac users will complain about that. You get what you pay for.
If by "doing things 'right,'" you mean basically owning the entire operating system and business application suite market and not improving your products because there are not really any alternatives, then I guess you are correct.
Also, you could be correct if your definition of "right" is screwing everyone else. Otherwise, get your head out of your ass. You sound like a guest on Fox News for Pete's sake.
Mod this up; it's important to know this when viewing BFC.
I worked tech support in college too...the worst was at parties at my fraternity house when drunk freshmen girls would come up to me, "HEY! You're the guy that fixed my computer!" Obviously I could then talk to them, but I was always "that computer guy." (BTW this was around 10 years ago, when being a tech *REALLY* meant you were a dork.)
Not really sure where I was going with that or how this is even on topic, now that I think about it...more coffee...must have more coffee...
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