I can't believe that this language, which isn't all that old, doesn't have parameters which can be returned from a subroutine (without using globals).
The basics are terrible languages in which I have thankfully not programmed in some time. However, I don't think this is true. In QB there are functions which return something, and subroutines which do not.
An example (which may or may not run):
FUNCTION add (BYVAL x%, BYVAL y%) As Integer
add = x% + y%
END FUNCTION
Still, your son's school really needs to get with the times.
Even if you're doing a bulk you're still lifting. The grandparent is talking out his ass.
The above (parent) is not a bad routine but where are the legs? Without a good leg routine upper body work is worthless. Squats will leave you unbalenced.
Add in there:
Deadlifts Lunges Calf rasies
and it'd be a bit more balenced. If those exercises are all done in an upper/lower body split routine it'd be even better (shorter more intense workouts are best).
Meat packing actually is not a unionized industry, at least in the US. It's currently the most dangerous job in America. If meat packers were unionized and trained we wouldn't have to worry about things like e-coli.
I have done factory work... There is no comparision to IT jobs. You do backbreaking manual labour at a very high speed all day. You sleep. You never know when you'll be called in to work. It could be 12 am one day and 12 pm the next. The work itself is increadbly tedious, you can't talk to anyone because of the machine noise. Almost any job is better.
Anyone who makes a comparison to their well paid corperate gig has never had to work in these conditions.
Even the best computers in the world can't beat a human at chess. I consider that a great feat of human intelligence because it not only requires great computational skills, but cognitive and analytical skills. I could go into that for paragraphs, but I won't.
Errm... IBM built that computer about six years ago, Deep Blue. It beat a human - world champion Garry Kasparov in '97.
Oh, come on. Your suit doesn't get as dirty or smelly as other clothes because it's more expensive?
No, suits are roated daily so they have time to rest and air out. Suits don't really come into conact with skin (you've got a dress shirt, boxers, over the calf socks - it touches your thigh an knee a bit), and they're not worn all day.
As for three suits being acceptable... again, no, sorry
I conceed, with no casual Fridays, you're right on this point.
Good gravy, man, where do you shop?
Okay, okay. This is getting OT I was actually thinking in Canadian ($).I didn't really realize that. It's not just the exchange that makes things different either. Still...
A mid-quality suit to me would imply to me something like Hickey-Freeman or Zenga (Regualar Line). That's not how I dress but that's what most people would consider a GOOD suit. Higher end suits will have more hand work and more expensive fabrics and start around 2500(USD) If you can find a good tailor that charges $750, then good for you.
# ~$200 a month for dry cleaning
* ~$1500 for clothes (5 good suits, shoes, shirts, etc.)
I'm not going to comment on the rest but these figures are WAY off.
You do NOT clean a suit after every wearing. It should be cleaned maybe twice a year with daily wearing. You clean it if it smells bad or if it's stained. Ties are never cleaned.
Most cotton dress shirts should be laundered. Just like a t-shirt.
Dry-cleaning bill will be ~$0 a month.
Five suits is probably a little much. Three would be perfectly acceptable. But you're not getting five GOOD suits and shirts and shoes for $1500 either. Maybe two mid-priced suits if you're really lucky. 5 suits, 5 shirts, belt, shoes, and ties, would easily cost ~$6500 if you're buying moderate quality clothing. High-end stuff would be much more.
Only new people seem to use dselect. It is going to be replaced with aptitude which is much better but I expect most people won't use that either.
Every Debian user I know (myself included) upon installing a new system installs the minimum, logs in as root and types something like:
# apt-get install x-window-system task-c-dev vim
New users and reviewers never seem to clue into the fact that apt is a really fantastic package managemnet system and dselect is a really bad front end which should be avioded.
The installer that one of the reviews complained about admittedly isn't very good either. This is why it too is going to be replaced for the next stable release.
It's not that symlinks bother me... It just seems like sun wants to throw three or four in for every app or config file they ship (okay, I'm exagerating a bit but not much)./etc is especially bad for this.
I understand they're doing this for compatability but it still seems excessive. Sometimes, IMO, it's better to let a few applications break.
I do agree with you, though it would be wise to point out that in ME, 9x, etc all users were running as "Admin" anyway (because they just had full access to everything) - XP is no worse in this respect.
I don't really have any problem with commercial Unixes but saying that Solaris is better organized than distros like Debian or Slackware is crazy.
I've never seen anything that scattered things all over the place more than Solaris 8 does (not to mention the symlinks *everywhere*). It's a complete mess and certainly not near as nice as a lot of the free systems.
I'm posting this from M16 right now - it's really impressive. I think it's at the point where I can use it as my main browser. I haven't seen a bug yet.It's also faster than M15 and the UI appears to have had a major cleanup. I think Mozilla's going to go into beta really soon. It does still need work though... It's not as fast as Netscape in fact some things (like drawing new windows) seem a bit slow on my box). Minor annoyances though.
Slashdot Mirror
Still going strong.
The basics are terrible languages in which I have thankfully not programmed in some time. However, I don't think this is true. In QB there are functions which return something, and subroutines which do not.
An example (which may or may not run):
FUNCTION add (BYVAL x%, BYVAL y%) As Integer
add = x% + y%
END FUNCTION
Still, your son's school really needs to get with the times.
Even if you're doing a bulk you're still lifting. The grandparent is talking out his ass.
The above (parent) is not a bad routine but where are the legs? Without a good leg routine upper body work is worthless. Squats will leave you unbalenced.
Add in there:
Deadlifts
Lunges
Calf rasies
and it'd be a bit more balenced. If those exercises are all done in an upper/lower body split routine it'd be even better (shorter more intense workouts are best).
Meat packing actually is not a unionized industry, at least in the US. It's currently the most dangerous job in America. If meat packers were unionized and trained we wouldn't have to worry about things like e-coli.
I have done factory work... There is no comparision to IT jobs. You do backbreaking manual labour at a very high speed all day. You sleep. You never know when you'll be called in to work. It could be 12 am one day and 12 pm the next. The work itself is increadbly tedious, you can't talk to anyone because of the machine noise. Almost any job is better.
Anyone who makes a comparison to their well paid corperate gig has never had to work in these conditions.
If it was not travelling FTL it wouldn't be able to get from one solar system to another.
Even the best computers in the world can't beat a human at chess. I consider that a great feat of human intelligence because it not only requires great computational skills, but cognitive and analytical skills. I could go into that for paragraphs, but I won't.
Errm... IBM built that computer about six years ago, Deep Blue. It beat a human - world champion Garry Kasparov in '97.
See the website http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/
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I'm afraid the same goes for the human brain...
No, suits are roated daily so they have time to rest and air out. Suits don't really come into conact with skin (you've got a dress shirt, boxers, over the calf socks - it touches your thigh an knee a bit), and they're not worn all day.
As for three suits being acceptable... again, no, sorry
I conceed, with no casual Fridays, you're right on this point.
Good gravy, man, where do you shop?
Okay, okay. This is getting OT I was actually thinking in Canadian ($).I didn't really realize that. It's not just the exchange that makes things different either. Still...
A mid-quality suit to me would imply to me something like Hickey-Freeman or Zenga (Regualar Line). That's not how I dress but that's what most people would consider a GOOD suit. Higher end suits will have more hand work and more expensive fabrics and start around 2500(USD) If you can find a good tailor that charges $750, then good for you.
I'm not going to comment on the rest but these figures are WAY off.
You do NOT clean a suit after every wearing. It should be cleaned maybe twice a year with daily wearing. You clean it if it smells bad or if it's stained. Ties are never cleaned.
Most cotton dress shirts should be laundered. Just like a t-shirt.
Dry-cleaning bill will be ~$0 a month.
Five suits is probably a little much. Three would be perfectly acceptable. But you're not getting five GOOD suits and shirts and shoes for $1500 either. Maybe two mid-priced suits if you're really lucky. 5 suits, 5 shirts, belt, shoes, and ties, would easily cost ~$6500 if you're buying moderate quality clothing. High-end stuff would be much more.
Only new people seem to use dselect. It is going to be replaced with aptitude which is much better but I expect most people won't use that either.
Every Debian user I know (myself included) upon installing a new system installs the minimum, logs in as root and types something like:
# apt-get install x-window-system task-c-dev vim
New users and reviewers never seem to clue into the fact that apt is a really fantastic package managemnet system and dselect is a really bad front end which should be avioded.
The installer that one of the reviews complained about admittedly isn't very good either. This is why it too is going to be replaced for the next stable release.
The kernel is based on FreeBSD (on mach) but according to the NetBSD website Apple did use some of their userland stuff.
It's not that symlinks bother me... It just seems like sun wants to throw three or four in for every app or config file they ship (okay, I'm exagerating a bit but not much). /etc is especially bad for this.
I understand they're doing this for compatability but it still seems excessive. Sometimes, IMO, it's better to let a few applications break.
I do agree with you, though it would be wise to point out that in ME, 9x, etc all users were running as "Admin" anyway (because they just had full access to everything) - XP is no worse in this respect.
I don't really have any problem with commercial Unixes but saying that Solaris is better organized than distros like Debian or Slackware is crazy.
I've never seen anything that scattered things all over the place more than Solaris 8 does (not to mention the symlinks *everywhere*). It's a complete mess and certainly not near as nice as a lot of the free systems.
I'm posting this from M16 right now - it's really impressive. I think it's at the point where I can use it as my main browser. I haven't seen a bug yet.It's also faster than M15 and the UI appears to have had a major cleanup. I think Mozilla's going to go into beta really soon. It does still need work though... It's not as fast as Netscape in fact some things (like drawing new windows) seem a bit slow on my box). Minor annoyances though.