The one thing that ruby provides over python would be unconstrained anonymous functions and a greater emphasis on flexibility for the developer. It also has better package management. Lastly, it has a cleaner designed feel.
And a ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Wait, I'll come in again.
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't we trying to REDUCE the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? Maybe it's better than burning plastic, but this seems backwards to me.
What they meant (but phrased poorly) was that by extracting the lignin from the wood, the CO2 is kept sequestered inside the lignin, rather than being allowed to escape back into the atmosphere (which is what would happen if the wood were burned or allowed to biodegrade)
As someone who's played it... No. No, it is not worth the $20 they charge for the game.
Well, I got about 12 hours of game play out of it and found it really enjoyable. Given that I am (sometimes) willing to spend $9 for 90 minutes of entertainment at a movie theater, $20 seemed like a good value to me.
Funny.. you do realize that your iPhone will end up costing you well into 3grand after a mere 2 years of service where it will ultimately be long outdated & replaced.
Well, as long as we're playing the "you do realize" game... you do realize that most of the people who might be considering a Kindle already have a cell phone and cell phone contract, and thus will be be paying monthly cell service fees whether they buy a Kindle, or not? If those people can read books on their cell phone at no additional cost, why should they pay $359 to do it on a separate device?
I could expect my computer to work like a magic elf that makes me snacks, but it wouldn't be realistic. [...] The whole benefit of computers is that they aren't bound to the limitations of mechanical devices.
Wait, the whole benefit of computers is that they don't have limitations, and yet it's not realistic to expect a computer not to lose the user's data when it's turned off? I think you need to make up your mind...
So, how do people "expect things to happen" when it comes to computers?
For years my grandmother had a post-it note pasted to the bottom of her computer monitor. On it was the following message, in large letters: SAVE!
The reason for that was because she would often type in a document, then turn off the computer. When she turned it back on later, she would be surprised to find out that her document was gone. The concept of persistent vs non-persistent state did not come easily to her, and one has to ask, why should she have to learn about RAM and hard drives and filesystems just to type up a letter? Why can't the system work the way she expected it to, which is to say the way most other machines in the modern world work? When I stop using my notepad, my bicycle or my television, I don't have to remember to press SAVE anywhere or risk losing my work. It's an awkward and unintuitive extra step, and in an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary.
The guy must be just another cracked out developer..
Perhaps so, but I'm still glad he's out there. One of these days, somebody is going to get next-generation OS design right, and then we'll all have (at least) a cool new toy to play with, or (at best) a new OS paradigm that blows all existing OS's out of the water.
I certainly don't want to be stuck using only OS designs from the 70's for the rest of my career...
Next, you're gonna ask "What if they aren't in front of a computer?"
They'll be in front of a computer, but that computer may not have Internet access. Lots of special-purpose stuff is deliberately kept disconnected from the Internet, since that's an easy way to provide security.
Well, if we're going to discuss grammar, you'll have to explain why you think "Goodness of music is a subjective issue" is not grammatically correct. AFAICT that sentence is grammatical.
5...4...3..2..1.. The only change we'll be seeing is the removal of our right to be able to defend ourselves. Say goodbye to your firearms, hello to more government intrusion into your life
Systems can be and have been designed to make getting a trojan running and useful a very, very difficult feat of social engineering or even impossible without hacking the machine in advance.
Interesting. How can this be done, other than by creating a "white list" of trusted apps and setting the OS to refuse to run any apps that doesn't have its checksum in the white list? (That approach might work for very locked-down proprietary platforms like the iPhone, but it isn't practical for a general purpose OS)
It would be cool to have firefox "mode" doing exactly this. Press an "online-banking" button and a new isolated firefox session would be started with all needed restrictions and settings.
That would indeed be quite useful. I'd put a button just like it into my JavaScript; clicking it would take you directly to my phishing site.
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All in all you have to understand pretty much everything about the Qt loop engine to do multithreaded Qt programming.
Not really, no. What you have to understand is that unless the Qt documentation explicitly says otherwise, the Qt GUI APIs are off-limits to your non-main threads. But most of the time your non-main threads are there to do non-GUI background tasks anyway, so that usually isn't as big a problem as you might think.
BTW, I like Python (and have almost given up on Perl 6), but the white space thing drives me crazy.
I suppose there is no reason someone couldn't write some SVN hooks that would automatically add curly braces to Python code as it was being checked out from the repository, and automatically remove them again (and correctly indent the text) as Python code was being checked back in. And, of course, update the Python interpreter with a flag to optionally require curly braces instead of indentation, as a way of delimiting blocks of text.
Given that, everybody could use their own favorite method of code formatting...
I'm lobbying to get a mandatory message printed on all cell phones, that reads: "WARNING: cell phone usage has been linked to the collapse of honeybee populations".
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The one thing that ruby provides over python would be unconstrained anonymous functions and a greater emphasis on flexibility for the developer. It also has better package management. Lastly, it has a cleaner designed feel.
And a ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Wait, I'll come in again.
I want a workaround for the second law of thermodynamcs on my desk by noon Friday.
Try the sun; it will work as a local stop-gap measure, for next few billion years anyway.
But based on the actual length of the hose, the range is more like 100 feet.
How is this "insightful"? The base unit is mobile, and travels with the operator. So yes, you can go farther than the length of the hose.
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't we trying to REDUCE the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? Maybe it's better than burning plastic, but this seems backwards to me.
What they meant (but phrased poorly) was that by extracting the lignin from the wood, the CO2 is kept sequestered inside the lignin, rather than being allowed to escape back into the atmosphere (which is what would happen if the wood were burned or allowed to biodegrade)
As someone who's played it... No. No, it is not worth the $20 they charge for the game.
Well, I got about 12 hours of game play out of it and found it really enjoyable. Given that I am (sometimes) willing to spend $9 for 90 minutes of entertainment at a movie theater, $20 seemed like a good value to me.
Mice are five times more afraid of it.
Funny.. you do realize that your iPhone will end up costing you well into 3grand after a mere 2 years of service where it will ultimately be long outdated & replaced.
Well, as long as we're playing the "you do realize" game... you do realize that most of the people who might be considering a Kindle already have a cell phone and cell phone contract, and thus will be be paying monthly cell service fees whether they buy a Kindle, or not? If those people can read books on their cell phone at no additional cost, why should they pay $359 to do it on a separate device?
I could expect my computer to work like a magic elf that makes me snacks, but it wouldn't be realistic. [...] The whole benefit of computers is that they aren't bound to the limitations of mechanical devices.
Wait, the whole benefit of computers is that they don't have limitations, and yet it's not realistic to expect a computer not to lose the user's data when it's turned off? I think you need to make up your mind...
So, how do people "expect things to happen" when it comes to computers?
For years my grandmother had a post-it note pasted to the bottom of her computer monitor. On it was the following message, in large letters: SAVE!
The reason for that was because she would often type in a document, then turn off the computer. When she turned it back on later, she would be surprised to find out that her document was gone. The concept of persistent vs non-persistent state did not come easily to her, and one has to ask, why should she have to learn about RAM and hard drives and filesystems just to type up a letter? Why can't the system work the way she expected it to, which is to say the way most other machines in the modern world work? When I stop using my notepad, my bicycle or my television, I don't have to remember to press SAVE anywhere or risk losing my work. It's an awkward and unintuitive extra step, and in an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary.
The guy must be just another cracked out developer..
Perhaps so, but I'm still glad he's out there. One of these days, somebody is going to get next-generation OS design right, and then we'll all have (at least) a cool new toy to play with, or (at best) a new OS paradigm that blows all existing OS's out of the water.
I certainly don't want to be stuck using only OS designs from the 70's for the rest of my career...
Next, you're gonna ask "What if they aren't in front of a computer?"
They'll be in front of a computer, but that computer may not have Internet access. Lots of special-purpose stuff is deliberately kept disconnected from the Internet, since that's an easy way to provide security.
Email sent to people without them first consenting to the process is spam, plain and simple. I don't care what it looks like.
I'm pretty sure that when you agree to work for a company, implicit in that agreement is that you give the company permission to send you email.
SENDING MORE SPAM TO ELIMINATE SPAM IS NOT ELIMINATING SPAM, DUMBASS.
Yep, that really drove your point home. You sound like a very grown up person.
Apparently, so is grammar.
Well, if we're going to discuss grammar, you'll have to explain why you think "Goodness of music is a subjective issue" is not grammatically correct. AFAICT that sentence is grammatical.
5...4...3..2..1.. The only change we'll be seeing is the removal of our right to be able to defend ourselves. Say goodbye to your firearms, hello to more government intrusion into your life
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Finally, change we can believe in!
Not to defend Obama on this particular issue, but here's a brief recap of what he's done since becoming president, 72 whole hours ago:
So do these things qualify as "change"? I'd say so. Certainly none of these things would have happened with a Republican still in the White House.
Systems can be and have been designed to make getting a trojan running and useful a very, very difficult feat of social engineering or even impossible without hacking the machine in advance.
Interesting. How can this be done, other than by creating a "white list" of trusted apps and setting the OS to refuse to run any apps that doesn't have its checksum in the white list? (That approach might work for very locked-down proprietary platforms like the iPhone, but it isn't practical for a general purpose OS)
The only problem I can see is if Microsoft copies it too well, that Apple's lawyers would be on them like ugly on a bulldog.
Wasn't the whole "look and feel" thing decided in Microsoft's favor, back in the 90's?
It would be cool to have firefox "mode" doing exactly this. Press an "online-banking" button and a new isolated firefox session would be started with all needed restrictions and settings.
That would indeed be quite useful. I'd put a button just like it into my JavaScript; clicking it would take you directly to my phishing site.
All in all you have to understand pretty much everything about the Qt loop engine to do multithreaded Qt programming.
Not really, no. What you have to understand is that unless the Qt documentation explicitly says otherwise, the Qt GUI APIs are off-limits to your non-main threads. But most of the time your non-main threads are there to do non-GUI background tasks anyway, so that usually isn't as big a problem as you might think.
BTW, I like Python (and have almost given up on Perl 6), but the white space thing drives me crazy.
I suppose there is no reason someone couldn't write some SVN hooks that would automatically add curly braces to Python code as it was being checked out from the repository, and automatically remove them again (and correctly indent the text) as Python code was being checked back in. And, of course, update the Python interpreter with a flag to optionally require curly braces instead of indentation, as a way of delimiting blocks of text.
Given that, everybody could use their own favorite method of code formatting...
I'm lobbying to get a mandatory message printed on all cell phones, that reads: "WARNING: cell phone usage has been linked to the collapse of honeybee populations".
But yeah, people aren't able to download an ISO and burn it to disc, then set their BIOS to boot from CD.
Shouldn't it be possible to wipe your disk while the normal OS is running? (something like 'sudo while 1 dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda' ?)
Run that for a few hours, and then pull the plug on the machine to make sure the (now hosed) OS doesn't try to write anything before shutdown... ?
When that happens, they'll just install Windows on their Mac. Virtualization software makes it pretty trivial to run both at once, even.
Tell that to someone living on $500 a month.
Is someone living on $500 a month "entitled" to watch television for free? If so, why?
RAID only saves you from disk failures. It doesn't work on OS/user failures.
Hell, it doesn't even save you from disk failures, if the disk failure is one of the side effects of the computer room burning down...