It's true that the Pro level with the new Core 2 is a bigger step up from the MacBook than it was before this change, I don't agree that the MacBook is not a perfectly reasonable machine for non-graphics work. This summer I bought the smallest MacBook and maxed the Ram at 2GB and it works like a charm. I do middle-tier web development and I run Tomcat, MySql, Eclipse, Firefox, Opera, and Safari (and iTunes) simultaneously. Anyway, don't get lost in the nomenclature. A "pro" can be very happy with the non-Pro MacBook.
Are there any popular (and valuable) web sites out there that aren't "trivial to duplicate"? It's not like you need an advanced degree in particle physics to make an online auction site, or a search engine, or an online bookstore, or a collection of vanity web pages. It's all about the mindshare.
That may be true, but Alaska (home of those rugged pioneers and individualists) is by far the worst of the Red welfare states. The Economist happened to have a article on it just his month: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =7830279
Agreed, but one of the most common errors is driving too fast for the conditions or your skill level. In my experience, most teenagers (most people in general) have a unrealistic view of their own prowess behind the wheel.
This may totally wrong, but I vaguely remember a rock band, when describing where the advance on their albumn went, claiming that they paid for their video out of the advance money; and that this was standard industry practice. In other words, the artist pays for the video out of the money that the label advances them for their albumn.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
I decided to reply to this one because I think it's important for those of us who actually care about our country and the Constitution to realize that there are a lot of people who believe the parent's logic. It's basically a "think of the children" argument balanced against a "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" mindset. It's a very, very scary argument for our country but I think a lot of Fox viewers believe this and no amount of parroting the Franklin quote or modding down anonymous postings will get them to change their mind.
So the question on the table to the people who belive in the Constitution is this: how do we convince the people who are this afraid of terrorists that a totalitarian state is not the solution to terrorism?
If AT&T and Verizon are NOT on that bandwagon then it's very probable that that wagon is traveling in the right direction or the band is playing the correct tune or whatever stretched metaphore is correct in this context.
Was there a reason that XML wasn't chosen as the format for CSS? There's a million parsers for it and it's heirarchical so that it would be logical to handle the nested selectors, classes, and identifiers.
It's hard for me to remember back to 1994 but it seems that XML would have been an option even at that early date.
Question 2:
Did you ever think of dividing CSS into two aspects.
1. CSS-Presentation that would have focused on the font, color, backgrounds, border, text, and other "display" aspects of CSS 2. CSS-Layout that would have focused on the layout, margins, padding, and position aspects of CSS.
Claiming that a change of government or style of government destroys a country and creates a completely new one is naive in the extreme.
The flip side of your argument is the specious claim that since Native Americans lived here 20,000 years ago the United States is 20,000 years old. Countries are defined by political borders and borders are established, negotiated, and fought over by governments. Do you think that Japan post-WWII is the same country as pre-WWII? Or Italy? Is the UK the same country pre and post Magna Charta? How about pre and post the War of the Roses? How old is Russia? Does it date back to Ghengis Khan, to Peter the Great, to Lenin, or to Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev? How about China? Is it the same country as it was before Mao? Can valid arguments can be made for all of these opinions?
I think the grand parent makes a valid point. The U.S. is an "old" country in many respects and suffers, somewhat, from being stuck in it's ways. There's still an interesting bias in the history books (or at least there was when I was in school) in the U.S. that we're the young underdog against the established European powers. This mindset persists along side a bias that the U.S. is the sole superpower and guiding light of the world. The human mind is increadibly powerful in it's ability to maintain two contridictory opinions at one time.
I try not to get all of my rules of living from science fiction books, but I think _The Diamond Age_ (Stephenson) made a good point when it took the stand that hipocrisy is not the worst of all sins. The point was that taking a stand and failing to live up to it is better than not taking a stand at all.
Obviously, this requires constant examination. Someone who continues to expouse a principal yet do something else (c.f. Republican congress and fiscal responsibility) needs to be called out on their actions, but I'm willing to give Google a little bit of leeway... this time.
I don't have any mod points, but the parent does not deserve to be modded into oblivion.
Wired gains from their action because their writers and editors (a lot of them anyway) are American citizens who care about this country and don't want to see corporations whitewash this scandal.
neo-con - if only half the people who used the term knew what it means
Oh, I used to love pop quizes:
Define neo-con. A) The "new" con. Replaced the old con which consited of budget policy scribbled on napkins at expensive D.C. restaraunts. The new con consists of budget policy scribbled in crayon on napkins at expensive D.C. restaraunts owned by Jack Abramhoff. B) The new "convicts". Replaced the old convicts who simply bought weapons from Iran to sell to terrorists. The new convicts buy expensive weapons from defense contractors -- who kick back tremendous sums of money -- and invade Iraq to find non-existing weapons while threatening to invade Iran for attempting to develop new weapons and ignoring North Korea for having existing weapons. C) "Neo" con. Drug addled policy wonk who took the Red pill and live in a fantasy world. They dream of having sex with Carrie Moss, but instead have to bone skanky whores provided by defence contractors. D) All of the above.
As a Java programmer and I'm interested in trying it. I mostly code java and, though I'm getting to be a fan of JavaScript for nifty client side stuff, I'm realizing that there is nothing I'd rather do less than try and figure out browser incompatibilities (I have enough problem with that with CSS).
On the other hand, one problem with new technologies that require a change to the build process is integrating it with your existing process and environment. Here we've got a "compiler" of sorts sitting between the javac and the deployment build steps (if I'm understanding what's going on).
So... does anyone know if the jar files are deployed to a Maven repository anywhere? Any good maven plug-ins for working with this?
Any chance someone could serve this up on a silver platter for me?;-)
Because... the point of raising and lowering the prime rate is to "heat up" or "slow down" the economy. Simplisticly, lower rates equals more investment, more jobs, more inflation and higher rates equals less investment, less jobs, and lower inflation. There should be representatives on that board who are looking out for the working people of America and not just the bank's bottom line. Maybe it would be better for Americans to have a 2% unemployment rate rather than a 5% rate? Let's put some people on the board who will at least ask that question.
What it really boils down to is to try and pull the country away from the nanny state conservatives (also known as "cheap labor conservatives"). Asthe economy and laws of the country are being managed (as inexact a science as that is) we should start looking to see if we can include the interests of more Americans than only the CEOs of Haliburton and their ilk.
I've worked within a union within the State government (at a University no less). Despite my knee-jerk liberalism, I'm not sure I would voluntarly join a union again. In my anecdotal experience, the union didn't appear to save jobs when the State budget tightened and seemed to protect employees that probably should have been let go. On the other hand, I'll be enjoying my weekends, health insurance, overtime pay, paid holidays, and other benefits that were brought to us by unions whether or not I join one myself.
Anyway, more to the point, the issue shouldn't be a "Rush told me unions are bad" or, even, "unions will save our jobs". The cheap labor conservatives (e.g. the nanny state conservatives) love arguments like this since it pretty much distracts everyone from the fundamental point: the U.S. economy balance of power is tilting so far in the direction of the corporate entities that by the time we're done argueing about unions it will be too late.
I'm not sure about banning multi-national corporations because it would be pointless as long as all world corporations were similarly limited including pseudo-governmental corporations (e.g. from China, Dubai, Russia). How about a much smaller step: bring in 33% of the Federal Reserve Board's voting membership from labor organizations instead of from banks? At least in one aspect of the economy middle class American's interests could be represented.
You have a gun. You are a potential threat. The theory of pre-emptive strikes indicates that I should remove that threat; preferrably when your back is turned. I don't see how that makes anyone more polite.
I never lost a job, but I lost a lot of good grades to -- at various times -- SimCity, Civilization, X-Com, Total Annhilation, and Master of Orion. The crack changes but the addiction stays the same.
We need a pure economics solution to the problem of oil prices. The price of gasoline needs to stop being subsidized. Currently the price of gasoline subsidized explicitly though kickbacks to oil companies (like this year's 5% "repatriation" tax rate, royalty payments below market values, business excemptions for huge vehicals like Hummers, CAFE exemptions for huge vehicals, the strategic oil reserve, and the 1000 other ways that lobbiests have bribed special favors from the Congress. It is also subsidized implicitly because no one is forced to pay for the pollution caused by the production, refining, and burning of fossile fuels. Sure, people should be allowed to buy Hummers to enhance their perceived genetalia size (it's a free country and I challenge anyone who says we should ban those choices) but I shouldn't be forced to subsidize those welfare queens. Make them pay the actual costs of their decisions.
A study by the International Center for Technology Assessment showed that unsubsidized conventional gasoline would cost $15 a gallon at the pump. I'm not sure I believe that, it seems a bit high, but there is no question that the real cost of gasoline is far higher than what we pay. Anyone who wants that situation to remain unchanged is just another welfare baby sucking on the public's teat.
It seems like the proper use of the title of "software engineer" has been argued in the letters section of Dr. Dobbs for only about 20 years, but here's how I got the title.
Boss: What do you want on your business card? Me (with 2 years of experience): Senior Software Engineer. Boss: Ok.
Looking back with a few more years of experience under my belt it seems a bit humorous; especially if I ever go back to look at the code I was writing at that time.
Slashdot Mirror
It's true that the Pro level with the new Core 2 is a bigger step up from the MacBook than it was before this change, I don't agree that the MacBook is not a perfectly reasonable machine for non-graphics work. This summer I bought the smallest MacBook and maxed the Ram at 2GB and it works like a charm. I do middle-tier web development and I run Tomcat, MySql, Eclipse, Firefox, Opera, and Safari (and iTunes) simultaneously. Anyway, don't get lost in the nomenclature. A "pro" can be very happy with the non-Pro MacBook.
Are there any popular (and valuable) web sites out there that aren't "trivial to duplicate"? It's not like you need an advanced degree in particle physics to make an online auction site, or a search engine, or an online bookstore, or a collection of vanity web pages. It's all about the mindshare.
That may be true, but Alaska (home of those rugged pioneers and individualists) is by far the worst of the Red welfare states. The Economist happened to have a article on it just his month: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =7830279
...90% of accidents are due to human error.
Agreed, but one of the most common errors is driving too fast for the conditions or your skill level. In my experience, most teenagers (most people in general) have a unrealistic view of their own prowess behind the wheel.
I figured I'd give this a shot on Opera 9 on a MacBook OS X 10.4. It launched in "standard" mode (not "html" mode) and seems to work just fine.
GMail may not have worked in Opera a year or two ago, but it works fine now.
This may totally wrong, but I vaguely remember a rock band, when describing where the advance on their albumn went, claiming that they paid for their video out of the advance money; and that this was standard industry practice. In other words, the artist pays for the video out of the money that the label advances them for their albumn.
Can anyone confirm or deny?
Yes ( http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top -ten-military-spending-countries-map.html ) but, on the other hand, they spend about as much every year as the U.S. spends in 5 weeks. This works out to about half the per-capita military expenditures; $1000 / person / year in the U.S. versus $500 / person / year in France.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
I decided to reply to this one because I think it's important for those of us who actually care about our country and the Constitution to realize that there are a lot of people who believe the parent's logic. It's basically a "think of the children" argument balanced against a "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" mindset. It's a very, very scary argument for our country but I think a lot of Fox viewers believe this and no amount of parroting the Franklin quote or modding down anonymous postings will get them to change their mind.
So the question on the table to the people who belive in the Constitution is this: how do we convince the people who are this afraid of terrorists that a totalitarian state is not the solution to terrorism?
If AT&T and Verizon are NOT on that bandwagon then it's very probable that that wagon is traveling in the right direction or the band is playing the correct tune or whatever stretched metaphore is correct in this context.
I've never been a fan of the / contraction except occasionally when used with "and" and "or" (i.e. and/or).
New correction (including capitalization):
How many years does it take to learn the proper use of "your" and "you're"?
or even:
How many years of learning does it take to properly use "your" and "you're"?
Question 1:
Was there a reason that XML wasn't chosen as the format for CSS? There's a million parsers for it and it's heirarchical so that it would be logical to handle the nested selectors, classes, and identifiers.
It's hard for me to remember back to 1994 but it seems that XML would have been an option even at that early date.
Question 2:
Did you ever think of dividing CSS into two aspects.
1. CSS-Presentation that would have focused on the font, color, backgrounds, border, text, and other "display" aspects of CSS
2. CSS-Layout that would have focused on the layout, margins, padding, and position aspects of CSS.
The flip side of your argument is the specious claim that since Native Americans lived here 20,000 years ago the United States is 20,000 years old. Countries are defined by political borders and borders are established, negotiated, and fought over by governments. Do you think that Japan post-WWII is the same country as pre-WWII? Or Italy? Is the UK the same country pre and post Magna Charta? How about pre and post the War of the Roses? How old is Russia? Does it date back to Ghengis Khan, to Peter the Great, to Lenin, or to Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev? How about China? Is it the same country as it was before Mao? Can valid arguments can be made for all of these opinions?
I think the grand parent makes a valid point. The U.S. is an "old" country in many respects and suffers, somewhat, from being stuck in it's ways. There's still an interesting bias in the history books (or at least there was when I was in school) in the U.S. that we're the young underdog against the established European powers. This mindset persists along side a bias that the U.S. is the sole superpower and guiding light of the world. The human mind is increadibly powerful in it's ability to maintain two contridictory opinions at one time.
I try not to get all of my rules of living from science fiction books, but I think _The Diamond Age_ (Stephenson) made a good point when it took the stand that hipocrisy is not the worst of all sins. The point was that taking a stand and failing to live up to it is better than not taking a stand at all.
Obviously, this requires constant examination. Someone who continues to expouse a principal yet do something else (c.f. Republican congress and fiscal responsibility) needs to be called out on their actions, but I'm willing to give Google a little bit of leeway... this time.
I don't have any mod points, but the parent does not deserve to be modded into oblivion.
Wired gains from their action because their writers and editors (a lot of them anyway) are American citizens who care about this country and don't want to see corporations whitewash this scandal.
Oh, I used to love pop quizes:
Define neo-con.
A) The "new" con. Replaced the old con which consited of budget policy scribbled on napkins at expensive D.C. restaraunts. The new con consists of budget policy scribbled in crayon on napkins at expensive D.C. restaraunts owned by Jack Abramhoff.
B) The new "convicts". Replaced the old convicts who simply bought weapons from Iran to sell to terrorists. The new convicts buy expensive weapons from defense contractors -- who kick back tremendous sums of money -- and invade Iraq to find non-existing weapons while threatening to invade Iran for attempting to develop new weapons and ignoring North Korea for having existing weapons.
C) "Neo" con. Drug addled policy wonk who took the Red pill and live in a fantasy world. They dream of having sex with Carrie Moss, but instead have to bone skanky whores provided by defence contractors.
D) All of the above.
As a Java programmer and I'm interested in trying it. I mostly code java and, though I'm getting to be a fan of JavaScript for nifty client side stuff, I'm realizing that there is nothing I'd rather do less than try and figure out browser incompatibilities (I have enough problem with that with CSS).
;-)
On the other hand, one problem with new technologies that require a change to the build process is integrating it with your existing process and environment. Here we've got a "compiler" of sorts sitting between the javac and the deployment build steps (if I'm understanding what's going on).
So... does anyone know if the jar files are deployed to a Maven repository anywhere? Any good maven plug-ins for working with this?
Any chance someone could serve this up on a silver platter for me?
Because... the point of raising and lowering the prime rate is to "heat up" or "slow down" the economy. Simplisticly, lower rates equals more investment, more jobs, more inflation and higher rates equals less investment, less jobs, and lower inflation. There should be representatives on that board who are looking out for the working people of America and not just the bank's bottom line. Maybe it would be better for Americans to have a 2% unemployment rate rather than a 5% rate? Let's put some people on the board who will at least ask that question.
What it really boils down to is to try and pull the country away from the nanny state conservatives (also known as "cheap labor conservatives"). Asthe economy and laws of the country are being managed (as inexact a science as that is) we should start looking to see if we can include the interests of more Americans than only the CEOs of Haliburton and their ilk.
I've worked within a union within the State government (at a University no less). Despite my knee-jerk liberalism, I'm not sure I would voluntarly join a union again. In my anecdotal experience, the union didn't appear to save jobs when the State budget tightened and seemed to protect employees that probably should have been let go. On the other hand, I'll be enjoying my weekends, health insurance, overtime pay, paid holidays, and other benefits that were brought to us by unions whether or not I join one myself.
Anyway, more to the point, the issue shouldn't be a "Rush told me unions are bad" or, even, "unions will save our jobs". The cheap labor conservatives (e.g. the nanny state conservatives) love arguments like this since it pretty much distracts everyone from the fundamental point: the U.S. economy balance of power is tilting so far in the direction of the corporate entities that by the time we're done argueing about unions it will be too late.
I'm not sure about banning multi-national corporations because it would be pointless as long as all world corporations were similarly limited including pseudo-governmental corporations (e.g. from China, Dubai, Russia). How about a much smaller step: bring in 33% of the Federal Reserve Board's voting membership from labor organizations instead of from banks? At least in one aspect of the economy middle class American's interests could be represented.
You have a gun. You are a potential threat. The theory of pre-emptive strikes indicates that I should remove that threat; preferrably when your back is turned. I don't see how that makes anyone more polite.
I, for one, welcome our new NSA overlords!
Oh, wait a minute, that wasn't funny. Kinda creepy, in fact.
I never lost a job, but I lost a lot of good grades to -- at various times -- SimCity, Civilization, X-Com, Total Annhilation, and Master of Orion. The crack changes but the addiction stays the same.
We need a pure economics solution to the problem of oil prices. The price of gasoline needs to stop being subsidized. Currently the price of gasoline subsidized explicitly though kickbacks to oil companies (like this year's 5% "repatriation" tax rate, royalty payments below market values, business excemptions for huge vehicals like Hummers, CAFE exemptions for huge vehicals, the strategic oil reserve, and the 1000 other ways that lobbiests have bribed special favors from the Congress. It is also subsidized implicitly because no one is forced to pay for the pollution caused by the production, refining, and burning of fossile fuels. Sure, people should be allowed to buy Hummers to enhance their perceived genetalia size (it's a free country and I challenge anyone who says we should ban those choices) but I shouldn't be forced to subsidize those welfare queens. Make them pay the actual costs of their decisions.
A study by the International Center for Technology Assessment showed that unsubsidized conventional gasoline would cost $15 a gallon at the pump. I'm not sure I believe that, it seems a bit high, but there is no question that the real cost of gasoline is far higher than what we pay. Anyone who wants that situation to remain unchanged is just another welfare baby sucking on the public's teat.
There must have been a "force field" over the 'n' key. No military intelligence here.
Warning Label on Tank:
Do not play frisbee, football, or baseball near the talk.
Thank you,
The Management
It seems like the proper use of the title of "software engineer" has been argued in the letters section of Dr. Dobbs for only about 20 years, but here's how I got the title.
Boss: What do you want on your business card?
Me (with 2 years of experience): Senior Software Engineer.
Boss: Ok.
Looking back with a few more years of experience under my belt it seems a bit humorous; especially if I ever go back to look at the code I was writing at that time.