You need five keystrokes to write "begin", against only two for "{", and so on.
True. However, you need to consider the difficulty of those keystrokes. I've been touch-typing for over 15 years and I can tell you for certain, I'd much rather type b-e-g-i-n all day long rather than the sequence of hit and hold shift key on left side, stretch out on the right side to hit the ]/} key, then release shift key. Yeah, technically it's only two keystrokes, but they are more stressful than the combined five keystrokes for "begin".
but when you do a lot of professional coding, all that typing gets in the way
When you do a lot of professional coding, all that symbolic typing can start to hurt...;)
Take the asteroid/ring belt scene in Clones. Visually, it's a nice piece of eye candy, to be sure. But I was immediately struck by how flat and/or soulless it felt as compared to the ESB scene. There was no spacial impact, if you get my meaning.
The problem with the Clones ring belt scense was a sense of "been there, done that." If you've seen ESB, this is nothing new or exciting.
Also, you knew that neither of the participants was going to slam into an asteriod and die. Even if you had never seen a spoiler in your life, you still knew it deep down. At least ESB had TIE fighters crashing and Star Destroyers getting parts knocked off. Plus, the heroes could have been captured (which was the point after all), whereas the Clone chase was a kill-or-be-killed with two main characters.
It had nothing to do with the CGI, just with the stakes as presented in the sequence.
I don't care about the outcome. I'm mildly curious that you, being happy with the outcome, don't care whether or not secret, illegal patches to voting machines are in use. Thats ok by you, as long as the "right" candidate wins ?
I'm not saying that "secret, illegal patches" aren't bad. I'm just saying that the outcome of that election would've been skewed even with paper-and-pencil balloting--a conspiracy theory isn't needed to explain the outcome.
Hey, I'm a moderate Democrat (due to my social liberalism winning out over my fiscal conservatism) and really didn't want to see Purdue win, either. Truth be told, it was a "lesser of two evils" issue. There was no "right" candidate. However, anyone who paid attention to the majority of citizens of that state knew that they could have run a duck against Barnes and the duck would have won in a landslide!
People have been yelling "conspiracy" in the Georgia election ever since the results came in. Georgia had not had a Republican governor in over 125 years, so there MUST be some kind of fraud to be having one now.
Sorry, but Roy Barnes lost. The people couldn't stand him. He was an arrogant *bleep* who was methodically ruining the state. Most people didn't vote for Purdue, they voted AGAINST Barnes.
Heck, even my wife's self-proclaimed bleeding-heart-liberal parents voted for Purdue just to get rid of "King Roy." The idea was that while Purdue may be a Republican, he couldn't be as bad than the incumbent.
Yes, the balloting machines may have been flawed, but before anyone proclaims it would have changed the outcome, get to know the weasel that lost. He would have lost (and lost big) no matter what the system used.
is so redneck! I live in South Carolina and I can't stand that 'word'.
You don't have to replace it with "youse guys" either - most people miss the fact that the word "you" is perfectly acceptable as a 3rd person plural pronoun.
Actually, it's not that acceptable or there wouldn't be alternatives in pretty much every English dialect. Every other language has very distinct terms for singular and plural 3rd person pronouns; words like "y'all" have evolved into being due to this lack of variety in English.
In the same vein, I've always said that "ain't" should be considered appropriate grammar considering that there is no contraction for "am not" and "amn't" just looks and sounds goofier than "ain't". Of course, true *proper* grammar doesn't allow for contractions, at all, so I guess the point is moot.
Yeah, I'm off topic, but someone has to stand up for the Good Ol' Boys!
Where does Wal-Mart currently rent DVDs? I've been in many, many Wal-Mart stores up and down the east coast and I have never seen any that *rent* DVDs. Sell for less than one can rent at Blockbuster, sometimes, yes, but never actually rent...
- Speaking of which, ADV is completely missing a key genre of anime here, and it ought to be their most important for picking up new viewers -Sports.
They have "Princess Nine", a 26-episode baseball series. Granted, it's not as funny as Battle Athletes (from Pioneer), but it has a good story so far (I've watched the first 2 DVDs and am trying to find the time to sit down and watch the last four).
Of course, the article states that the cloud is only over downtown Athens to a radius of about 3 blocks. Not much good there, as downtown is a horrid place full of trouble-seeking high-school kids, drunk/drugged college students, and homeless people. The "main drag" reeks of petuli oil and cigarettes (not just tobacco!) and the side streets smell of worse things.
Most adults who actually live in Athens tend to avoid downtown. Based on this fact, a wireless network sponsored by UGA and the government translates into the government trying to appease the university at the expense of its own full-time residents (yet again!). Apparently, UGA can't even get it right as the all the computer/technology departments at UGA are on South Campus, which is much further away from downtown than the liberal arts-heavy North Campus. If they're trying to deploy this technology and actually have students that will use (and test) it, they started on the wrong end of campus!
Great idea, bad implementation plan. Very few of the full-time citizens will ever get any use out of this technology, yet they will be the ones stuck paying for it.
PS: Before anyone from Athens gets all high-and-mighty about the wonders of downtown, I lived 28 years in or near Athens, and I remember when downtown was the best place to go in Athens. Alas, the mall opened up across town and downtown was abandoned. What's there now is a shadow of what it once was.
Privacy arguments aside, I would love to see this type of technology replace the Neilson Ratings. I believe that if the television ratings were generated by Tivo users rather than a (so-called) random group of Neilson families, the quality of what survives on television would jump dramatically.
I mean, seriously, the people filling out those forms are not going to put down that they watched the Playboy Channel for 8 straight hours; they're going to put down "Friends," "ER," and "60 Minutes" because it's what's expected of them.
Tracking viewing habits with DVR/PVRs can only help push the networks out of churning out the same old garbage year after year.
I spent weeks trying to figure that one out as I had on my notes "Live with passion and be forever damned."
That was the most frustrating times ever in an CRPG. I didn't have the internet to look up the correct phrase and happened to run into someone who had beat it who gave me the proper phrase.
My simple solution to the threat of not being able to by "naked" machines: Build 'em yourself!
I always buy the parts and build the machine myself. Unless they start putting Windows on hard drives as they come off the assembly line, my machines will always start "naked."
What do people cling to C's hideous syntax when they write a new language? Not only is it, IMHO, a bad syntax choice...
Amen, brother! I have yet to fathom why anyone would want to use the hard-to-type curly braces for block notation where you can just use an "end" keyword at the end of blocks instead. An if-then-else-end construct saves 3 keystrokes (7 if using implict "THEN"s) over a readably-formatted if () {} else {}. Not to mention that typing the curly braces is more difficult and error-prone than typing "THEN", "ELSE", or "END." (Note: I'm including shift keys as keystrokes for the calculation.)
Now, one might say that 3 keystrokes are no big deal, but when this kind of construct is the most common in the hand-coded parts of a program, it adds up (your fingers notice the difference).
When I first read about C#, I thought "Great! A new language with new ideas!" But, upon reading the specs, it's the same old C-syntax garbage we've been fed for years. I'm surprised there hasn't been a good cross-platform compiled language yet that does away with the dreaded curly braces.
My wife gets furious with Win 98's instability, but refuses to switch to Linux because she can't play The Sims or EverQuest under Linux.
Can't say that I blame her. I had my machine dual-booting Win 98/Red Hat 6.0 for the longest time, but then realized that 99% of my off-line time was spent on Torment, Baldur's Gate, X-Wing Alliance, etc. It wasn't worth rebooting just to run Linux to web surf and even then, I had to boot back into Win 98 to play EverQuest.
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Behold, the power of the shell!
True. However, you need to consider the difficulty of those keystrokes. I've been touch-typing for over 15 years and I can tell you for certain, I'd much rather type b-e-g-i-n all day long rather than the sequence of hit and hold shift key on left side, stretch out on the right side to hit the ]/} key, then release shift key. Yeah, technically it's only two keystrokes, but they are more stressful than the combined five keystrokes for "begin".
but when you do a lot of professional coding, all that typing gets in the way
When you do a lot of professional coding, all that symbolic typing can start to hurt... ;)
The problem with the Clones ring belt scense was a sense of "been there, done that." If you've seen ESB, this is nothing new or exciting.
Also, you knew that neither of the participants was going to slam into an asteriod and die. Even if you had never seen a spoiler in your life, you still knew it deep down. At least ESB had TIE fighters crashing and Star Destroyers getting parts knocked off. Plus, the heroes could have been captured (which was the point after all), whereas the Clone chase was a kill-or-be-killed with two main characters.
It had nothing to do with the CGI, just with the stakes as presented in the sequence.
Decline, huh?
These people people obviously never talked to my wife.
*looks at the twin 6-foot high stacks of crates of paperbacks*
Imagine trying to scrape that frost off your windshield in the morning...
I'm not saying that "secret, illegal patches" aren't bad. I'm just saying that the outcome of that election would've been skewed even with paper-and-pencil balloting--a conspiracy theory isn't needed to explain the outcome.
Hey, I'm a moderate Democrat (due to my social liberalism winning out over my fiscal conservatism) and really didn't want to see Purdue win, either. Truth be told, it was a "lesser of two evils" issue. There was no "right" candidate. However, anyone who paid attention to the majority of citizens of that state knew that they could have run a duck against Barnes and the duck would have won in a landslide!
Sorry, but Roy Barnes lost. The people couldn't stand him. He was an arrogant *bleep* who was methodically ruining the state. Most people didn't vote for Purdue, they voted AGAINST Barnes.
Heck, even my wife's self-proclaimed bleeding-heart-liberal parents voted for Purdue just to get rid of "King Roy." The idea was that while Purdue may be a Republican, he couldn't be as bad than the incumbent.
Yes, the balloting machines may have been flawed, but before anyone proclaims it would have changed the outcome, get to know the weasel that lost. He would have lost (and lost big) no matter what the system used.
You don't have to replace it with "youse guys" either - most people miss the fact that the word "you" is perfectly acceptable as a 3rd person plural pronoun.
Actually, it's not that acceptable or there wouldn't be alternatives in pretty much every English dialect. Every other language has very distinct terms for singular and plural 3rd person pronouns; words like "y'all" have evolved into being due to this lack of variety in English.
In the same vein, I've always said that "ain't" should be considered appropriate grammar considering that there is no contraction for "am not" and "amn't" just looks and sounds goofier than "ain't". Of course, true *proper* grammar doesn't allow for contractions, at all, so I guess the point is moot.
Yeah, I'm off topic, but someone has to stand up for the Good Ol' Boys!
Isn't that the definition of Allen Iverson?
Where does Wal-Mart currently rent DVDs? I've been in many, many Wal-Mart stores up and down the east coast and I have never seen any that *rent* DVDs. Sell for less than one can rent at Blockbuster, sometimes, yes, but never actually rent...
- Speaking of which, ADV is completely missing a key genre of anime here, and it ought to be their most important for picking up new viewers -Sports.
They have "Princess Nine", a 26-episode baseball series. Granted, it's not as funny as Battle Athletes (from Pioneer), but it has a good story so far (I've watched the first 2 DVDs and am trying to find the time to sit down and watch the last four).
Most adults who actually live in Athens tend to avoid downtown. Based on this fact, a wireless network sponsored by UGA and the government translates into the government trying to appease the university at the expense of its own full-time residents (yet again!). Apparently, UGA can't even get it right as the all the computer/technology departments at UGA are on South Campus, which is much further away from downtown than the liberal arts-heavy North Campus. If they're trying to deploy this technology and actually have students that will use (and test) it, they started on the wrong end of campus!
Great idea, bad implementation plan. Very few of the full-time citizens will ever get any use out of this technology, yet they will be the ones stuck paying for it.
PS: Before anyone from Athens gets all high-and-mighty about the wonders of downtown, I lived 28 years in or near Athens, and I remember when downtown was the best place to go in Athens. Alas, the mall opened up across town and downtown was abandoned. What's there now is a shadow of what it once was.
I mean, seriously, the people filling out those forms are not going to put down that they watched the Playboy Channel for 8 straight hours; they're going to put down "Friends," "ER," and "60 Minutes" because it's what's expected of them.
Tracking viewing habits with DVR/PVRs can only help push the networks out of churning out the same old garbage year after year.
That was the most frustrating times ever in an CRPG. I didn't have the internet to look up the correct phrase and happened to run into someone who had beat it who gave me the proper phrase.
That phrase is now burned forever into my mind.
I always buy the parts and build the machine myself. Unless they start putting Windows on hard drives as they come off the assembly line, my machines will always start "naked."
Amen, brother! I have yet to fathom why anyone would want to use the hard-to-type curly braces for block notation where you can just use an "end" keyword at the end of blocks instead. An if-then-else-end construct saves 3 keystrokes (7 if using implict "THEN"s) over a readably-formatted if () {} else {}. Not to mention that typing the curly braces is more difficult and error-prone than typing "THEN", "ELSE", or "END." (Note: I'm including shift keys as keystrokes for the calculation.)
Now, one might say that 3 keystrokes are no big deal, but when this kind of construct is the most common in the hand-coded parts of a program, it adds up (your fingers notice the difference).
When I first read about C#, I thought "Great! A new language with new ideas!" But, upon reading the specs, it's the same old C-syntax garbage we've been fed for years. I'm surprised there hasn't been a good cross-platform compiled language yet that does away with the dreaded curly braces.
I, for one, would welcome it.
Apparently, only outside of the US. I was living near Atlanta during the Olympics in 1996 and it was a landslide of corporate sponsorship.
Note the Winter Olympics in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Now *that* was a class act!
Exactly!
My wife gets furious with Win 98's instability, but refuses to switch to Linux because she can't play The Sims or EverQuest under Linux.
Can't say that I blame her. I had my machine dual-booting Win 98/Red Hat 6.0 for the longest time, but then realized that 99% of my off-line time was spent on Torment, Baldur's Gate, X-Wing Alliance, etc. It wasn't worth rebooting just to run Linux to web surf and even then, I had to boot back into Win 98 to play EverQuest.
Solution: Goodbye Linux partition...