I've heard this exact same story EXCEPT the courts sided for the plaintiff, saying it is his property UNTIL it gets mixed in with other trash. How can one say that a lawn gnome is still your property, but objects in a plastic bag or aluminum can on your lawn are not?
I liked this technology when it came the first time around. Archie via email? Anyone? Yay! MIT reinvented Archie! Only with a thick client instead of a small one! Way to go!
So what if it scans webpages instead of FTP sites. It's not that big of a leap.
IE only webapps? Damn, I wish I had it that good. I am required to have to code for Netscape 4.x. Oh, how I love the 250+ CSS bugs it has! I cream over its almost complete lack of CSS2 support. I dream a little dream when I think about how its JavaScript cannot support try/catch, forcing me into C-style error handling. I fantasize about its crappy HTML DOM support, paltry event notification system, and inability to dynamically change content without having to reload the whole page.
So why can't I code for better standards supported browser like virtually every browser for Linux, Opera, and Mozilla? Because not enough market share has them.
When distributing webapps, the two dirty words are UPGRADE and DOWNLOAD. They don't want end users to do either of these. They don't want to pay to have a support center for users who mess this up. The webapp cannot use applets, plugins (not even Flash), signed scripts, ActiveX controls, etc. We can't ask them to upgrade to Netscape 7.x. It doesn't matter that Netscape itself doesn't support 4.x anymore. They just want to install the webapps on their servers and have everything else work. They don't want to distribute CDs to end users.
And the customers don't care if HTTP is stateless. They don't know anything about thin clients. Thick clients are the only thing they can relate to. Therefore, they fully expect the webapp to have every feature available to them in a desktop application. A logical attempt to prove to them otherwise will have them screaming bloody murder and threatening to take away their fat check. We cannot negotiate a firm contract beforehand, because not only would they not deal with us, they will tell all their friends at other companies we were "uncooperative" and blacklist us.
So please, pretty please, pretty please with a cherry on top, stop blaming the developers. I have a ton of gray hairs at age 27 from venting my spleen at salespeople and customers who don't understand that web publishing does not equal desktop publishing. I wish I could code for all the compliants following browsers. Netscape 4.x triples development time. I'm tired of explaining, "There's no such thing in HTML or CSS that says 'put this at the bottom of the browser window, or at the end of the document, whichever comes last'".
Stop blaming the web designers. Blame the businesses funding the web designers. They are stubborn when they read statistics that say IE has 90%+ of the market and Netscape 4.x has ~1%. They demand that the money they gave for you to build their website work with NON-STANDARDS COMPLIANT IE and bug-riddled Netscape 4.x. They don't even know what W3C or Mozilla is.
Web designers shouldn't have to do anything BUT follow the W3C standards, but the negative feedback loop of business and money prevents the standards from flourishing.
BitTorrent allows users to download a file from multiple different people. Instead of everyone nailing one server, users get the file from other users.
eDonkey does one better. Even if you only have parts of the file downloaded, you can immediately send parts of the file you do have to other users. And eDonkey has had a pretty good track record. I thought everyone and their mother knows about this, so why was this a Slashdot headline, especially when it's pretentious and untruthful?
In my real world experience, there is nothing OO can give you, that good coding practices don't.
Such a vacuous statement. OO will force you to be disciplined and will catch you when your discipline slips way more often than on non-OO projects. OO helps you write contracts that other parts of the code must follow. If this contract is broken, it will let you know at compile time.
Even if you think you are a hot shot and never slip in your discipline for a single second, can you say the same about your teammates? And when you do slip, how long does it take you to find that slip when not using OO? How much debugging code did you have to write to find what an OO compiler would have found for you?
The point of programming is to solve a problem once. Once! Further applications of that found solution will be automated by running that solution. Wouldn't it be nice if a programming paradigm solves the problem of finding contract violations for you? OO does this.
An example of using a non-OO oriented language to simulate OO concepts is GTK+. Now that is highly disciplined! GTK+ uses C instead of C++ because the problems they are trying to solve are too runtime in nature. Too much is unknown at compile-time so the compile-time safety of C++ would have only gotten in the way. However, just looking at GTK+ libraries is very scary because you can see how easy it is to break the contracts they are trying to establish. Finding such a violation is an arduous task.
I fail to understand how being forced to be more disciplined of a programmer is a benefit of moving away from OO! It's like arguing for reading Slashdot on a monitor that can only display one character because it forces you to remember a helluva lot more to be able to read a single line.
The constitution is not worth a damn if our freedom and liberty is taken away by external enemies. Personally, I like my freedom and liberty.
How can we have freedom and liberty if the protectors of freedom and liberty strip it away from us in the fight for those very things? It's like killing your mother to ensure no one else can kill her.
If freedom and liberty has to be seriously curtailed to maintain it, then it's not worth fighting for.
George Washington had trouble finding enough food to feed his army to fight the British. When he asked Congress for help, they suggested stealing food from local farmers. Washington declared that if he had to steal from his own countrymen, then there was no reason to even fight. America did not deserve to be founded on such horrible principles. He said this despite having dozens of defectors a day, being garrisoned during one of the coldest and harshest winters, and not having enough clothing for all his men.
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I think it has more to do with reduced blood flow starving the cells of oxygen.
This is exactly what I was thinking when reading the article. I was always taught that heart cells died in a heart attack due to lack of oxygen. That's why the article was very confusing on that point.
Can anyone with medical knowledge give us any insight? Perhaps oxygen-starved heart cells start a chain reaction to other cells in the area that are still oxygenated? Just a wild guess. A medical researcher must have had a good reason to make such a statement, but its true meaning is not clear. Can anyone clarify?
At a lot of universities, computer engineering is not much more than electrical engineer plus some computer science thrown in. The "pure" computer engineering classes will be some 4th year electives.
Not matter how much a purist might jump up and down and scream "That's not computer science! That definition is waaayy to simplistic!" this is simply not the way most universities treat it. And that's the kind of education you should expect. I'm sure there are some individual universities with some expert staff members who really make computer engineering seem like a whole world of its own, but this is the exception.
If EVERYTHING you own transmitted radio signals, we'd all probably die from cancer. Sure, radio is weak and has long wavelengths, but multiplied by EVERYTHING YOU OWN....that can't be good.
Or maybe we will all get the Black Shakes like in Johnny Mnemonic.
"I think it's fairly widely known that JFK slept around a bit, but the media didn't hitch onto that. I don't know why, but things may have been different back then."
JFK's personal life wasn't an issue because so much else was happening, like the Cuban Missle Crisis, spread of Communism, and various conflicts around the world.
It wasn't until Gary Hart tried to run for office that politicians' personal lives became juicy media topics. THIS was the turning point. News was slow; there was nothing else to report.
The inverse proves why the Wag the Dog technique works.
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I've heard this exact same story EXCEPT the courts sided for the plaintiff, saying it is his property UNTIL it gets mixed in with other trash. How can one say that a lawn gnome is still your property, but objects in a plastic bag or aluminum can on your lawn are not?
So what if you take a Body Mint to counteract the odor? Will it also neutralize the mental boosting?
But if you telecommuted, you wouldn't need and/or want to work in Silicon Valley.
I liked this technology when it came the first time around. Archie via email? Anyone? Yay! MIT reinvented Archie! Only with a thick client instead of a small one! Way to go!
So what if it scans webpages instead of FTP sites. It's not that big of a leap.
IE only webapps? Damn, I wish I had it that good. I am required to have to code for Netscape 4.x. Oh, how I love the 250+ CSS bugs it has! I cream over its almost complete lack of CSS2 support. I dream a little dream when I think about how its JavaScript cannot support try/catch, forcing me into C-style error handling. I fantasize about its crappy HTML DOM support, paltry event notification system, and inability to dynamically change content without having to reload the whole page.
So why can't I code for better standards supported browser like virtually every browser for Linux, Opera, and Mozilla? Because not enough market share has them.
When distributing webapps, the two dirty words are UPGRADE and DOWNLOAD. They don't want end users to do either of these. They don't want to pay to have a support center for users who mess this up. The webapp cannot use applets, plugins (not even Flash), signed scripts, ActiveX controls, etc. We can't ask them to upgrade to Netscape 7.x. It doesn't matter that Netscape itself doesn't support 4.x anymore. They just want to install the webapps on their servers and have everything else work. They don't want to distribute CDs to end users.
And the customers don't care if HTTP is stateless. They don't know anything about thin clients. Thick clients are the only thing they can relate to. Therefore, they fully expect the webapp to have every feature available to them in a desktop application. A logical attempt to prove to them otherwise will have them screaming bloody murder and threatening to take away their fat check. We cannot negotiate a firm contract beforehand, because not only would they not deal with us, they will tell all their friends at other companies we were "uncooperative" and blacklist us.
So please, pretty please, pretty please with a cherry on top, stop blaming the developers. I have a ton of gray hairs at age 27 from venting my spleen at salespeople and customers who don't understand that web publishing does not equal desktop publishing. I wish I could code for all the compliants following browsers. Netscape 4.x triples development time. I'm tired of explaining, "There's no such thing in HTML or CSS that says 'put this at the bottom of the browser window, or at the end of the document, whichever comes last'".
Starcraft is also the name of a van, so how can they claim IP rights over it?
We will be lobbing them anywhere we think a leader of anti-aircraft gun is. And yes, Iraq purposely places both next to civilian facilities.
America will lob 300 cruise missles a day at roughly $1M a pop. That's dedication!
Stop blaming the web designers. Blame the businesses funding the web designers. They are stubborn when they read statistics that say IE has 90%+ of the market and Netscape 4.x has ~1%. They demand that the money they gave for you to build their website work with NON-STANDARDS COMPLIANT IE and bug-riddled Netscape 4.x. They don't even know what W3C or Mozilla is.
Web designers shouldn't have to do anything BUT follow the W3C standards, but the negative feedback loop of business and money prevents the standards from flourishing.
BitTorrent allows users to download a file from multiple different people. Instead of everyone nailing one server, users get the file from other users.
eDonkey does one better. Even if you only have parts of the file downloaded, you can immediately send parts of the file you do have to other users. And eDonkey has had a pretty good track record. I thought everyone and their mother knows about this, so why was this a Slashdot headline, especially when it's pretentious and untruthful?
In my real world experience, there is nothing OO can give you, that good coding practices don't.
Such a vacuous statement. OO will force you to be disciplined and will catch you when your discipline slips way more often than on non-OO projects. OO helps you write contracts that other parts of the code must follow. If this contract is broken, it will let you know at compile time.
Even if you think you are a hot shot and never slip in your discipline for a single second, can you say the same about your teammates? And when you do slip, how long does it take you to find that slip when not using OO? How much debugging code did you have to write to find what an OO compiler would have found for you?
The point of programming is to solve a problem once. Once! Further applications of that found solution will be automated by running that solution. Wouldn't it be nice if a programming paradigm solves the problem of finding contract violations for you? OO does this.
An example of using a non-OO oriented language to simulate OO concepts is GTK+. Now that is highly disciplined! GTK+ uses C instead of C++ because the problems they are trying to solve are too runtime in nature. Too much is unknown at compile-time so the compile-time safety of C++ would have only gotten in the way. However, just looking at GTK+ libraries is very scary because you can see how easy it is to break the contracts they are trying to establish. Finding such a violation is an arduous task.
I fail to understand how being forced to be more disciplined of a programmer is a benefit of moving away from OO! It's like arguing for reading Slashdot on a monitor that can only display one character because it forces you to remember a helluva lot more to be able to read a single line.
The constitution is not worth a damn if our freedom and liberty is taken away by external enemies. Personally, I like my freedom and liberty.
How can we have freedom and liberty if the protectors of freedom and liberty strip it away from us in the fight for those very things? It's like killing your mother to ensure no one else can kill her.
If freedom and liberty has to be seriously curtailed to maintain it, then it's not worth fighting for.
George Washington had trouble finding enough food to feed his army to fight the British. When he asked Congress for help, they suggested stealing food from local farmers. Washington declared that if he had to steal from his own countrymen, then there was no reason to even fight. America did not deserve to be founded on such horrible principles. He said this despite having dozens of defectors a day, being garrisoned during one of the coldest and harshest winters, and not having enough clothing for all his men.
By downloading jEdit and plugins that will do project exploration, Java compilation, Java output console, CVS access, and error messages that allow you to jump to the offensive line of code -- all within their own dockable windows, you've got yourself a good and free IDE, mister!
I think it has more to do with reduced blood flow starving the cells of oxygen.
This is exactly what I was thinking when reading the article. I was always taught that heart cells died in a heart attack due to lack of oxygen. That's why the article was very confusing on that point.
Can anyone with medical knowledge give us any insight? Perhaps oxygen-starved heart cells start a chain reaction to other cells in the area that are still oxygenated? Just a wild guess. A medical researcher must have had a good reason to make such a statement, but its true meaning is not clear. Can anyone clarify?
At a lot of universities, computer engineering is not much more than electrical engineer plus some computer science thrown in. The "pure" computer engineering classes will be some 4th year electives. Not matter how much a purist might jump up and down and scream "That's not computer science! That definition is waaayy to simplistic!" this is simply not the way most universities treat it. And that's the kind of education you should expect. I'm sure there are some individual universities with some expert staff members who really make computer engineering seem like a whole world of its own, but this is the exception.
"I think it's fairly widely known that JFK slept around a bit, but the media didn't hitch onto that. I don't know why, but things may have been different back then." JFK's personal life wasn't an issue because so much else was happening, like the Cuban Missle Crisis, spread of Communism, and various conflicts around the world. It wasn't until Gary Hart tried to run for office that politicians' personal lives became juicy media topics. THIS was the turning point. News was slow; there was nothing else to report. The inverse proves why the Wag the Dog technique works.