I read the first section of the article and I'm no closer to understanding Ruby on Rails than I was before. It promised a lot but delivered very little.
It's all about choosing the right language for the right job. 3D Java would be perfect for that 3D glacier screensaver I had in mind. You'd be able to watch it travel down the mountain and melt. Don't worry. Java is fast enough to still be realistic when you take global warming into account.
Hey, I read Talkonaut, and thought to msyelf must be a stupid new name for a podcaster. "We are the Talk-O-Nauts, today we will be interviewing my dog and his experience with neuticles. Do they lick the same?"
There is such a thing as a consumer boycott. You may have heard of them. Just don't go to any more movies, don't buy or rent any more DVD's, CD's, cancel your cable and/or satellite, and turn off your television, or rather don't turn it on. It doesn't get any easier. You don't have do a thing. Well, you do have do one thing. Let them know and especially their advertisers know why you are opting out.
Has the quality of Ericsson phones improved? Last I checked they were a piece of crap (2003). Sometimes phones get better like Nokia and sometimes they get worse like Motorola. I just looked at the pics the P990 is just as ugly as their other phones. I might consider it if it's better than the Treo, but then again it doesn't take a whole lot to be better than a Treo phone. I don't think any smartphone is ready for primetime. It'll be a few more years before a practical PDA/multimedia/phone is worth buying in the US. But this is from one technician's perspective. I've worked as a celllular and two way radio technician in the early 90's and as a data phone tech for a cellular carrier a year and a half ago.
Optimizing obscure little used code doesn't sound very optimal to me. Aren't their utilities that can tell you where the bottlenecks in your program code is? Wouldn't it better to write efficient code in the first place. Cleaning up someone elses mess really just doesn't sound fun in my book. Oh I can hardly wait until my alcoholic roommate powerpukes on the ceiling again. I've got this new long handled mop for optimal cleaning efficiency.
A soldier in the desert needs about 20 gallons of water a day,
Twenty gallons a day? I think not. That's a typo. They'd have to drink almost seven pints an hour over a 24 hour period.
This article seems more reasonable in saying they need 3 or 4 gallons a day. The article says two gallons of diesel produce 1 gallon of water chock full of sulfer, benzene, and soot. Yum! Why not just fit the soldiers with Dune style stillsuits? They can drink their recycled pee and sweat. Yum!
I'm shedding big crocodile tears over this one. Schools don't often prepare you for the world of work. You first job will teach you that. It's called the school of hard knocks. Company loyalty doesn't count for shit anymore. Being loyal to your co-workers worthy of it is another matter. During the dot-com bubble days (when the old rules no longer applied) if you stayed at a tech job for more than three years you were seen as unmarketable. That was a load of crap then. If you love what you do and can make a living at it then stick to it, but you don't need my advice for that. If you have a crappy job, do the best you can to make it bearable until you can get a better job.
Like it matters. Cthulhu will devour the faithful with as much gusto as he would the unbelievers. Oh well, It could be worse. You could receive a visit from the Fungi from Yuggoth and have your brain removed and put in a cannister and flown back to Pluto. Well, actually, you could be eaten by Nyarlathotep and then go insane. It takes a while to be digested.
Well there were only 3 "I for one welcome our new Amber Arachnid Overlords" posts. 4 if you coun't this one. Why it was only yesterday we had the Tool Using Gorilla Overlords and the Giant Squid Overlords. Someone suggested we have an Overlords Championship. And we can't leave out the Poison Dart Dolphin Overlords nor the Acetylene Lifeform Titan Overlords. It must be Overlord envy. I have yet to see one post welcoming our current Neocon Overlords. I mean they must really have their feelings hurt. When everyone else is welcoming a new overlord at least once a day. There couldn't be anyone more deserving of our sympathy than Scooter The Libby, Donald the Rumsfeld, Cheney The Dick, Turd Blossom Rove, and SpaceChimp Bush. Can you feel the love? I'm sure people must have as much love for them as they do for spiders.
I'd like to see a pluggable biodiesel electric hybrid. There are diesel cars that get better mileage than the Prius, like the VW Jetta. Diesel fuels are getting cleaner and when you use biodiesel it's way cleaner. Forget soy biodiesel; acre for acre it's the worst producer only 50 gallons. Go for rapeseed or mustard seed. Use the fuel produced to power the tractor, thus eliminating the petroleum energy subsidy. They produce almost 3x as much, 140 gals/acre. Or better yet, algae can produce 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre. Yes, algae! Then make them pluggable. You cannot plug the Prius or the Civic Hybrid into the grid to take advantage of that offpeak electricity. There are aftermarket kits. True, it's shifting the source of the pollution, but with nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, and coal. You aren't burning petroleum.
Clean diesel is the way to go. Deisel engines can even burn straight vegetable oil with minor modification. Of course, we can't power America on leftover McDonald's french fry grease, but any little bit will help. We can change our habits now. Or they will be changed for us later.
Remember Fight Club? How Brad Pitt's character stole liposuctioned fat and made soap out of it. Animal fat can be used to make biodiesel. America could solve its energy and obesity problems at the same time. Picture Bubba's Liposuction and Biodiesel Filling Station. We could all drive around on our fat asses.
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Is that good or bad?
I read the first section of the article and I'm no closer to understanding Ruby on Rails than I was before. It promised a lot but delivered very little.
How is this different that Western guns, warplanes, and bombs being sold to repressive regimes? To paraphrase Captain Renault in Casablanca :
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that Western software is being used in repressive regimes!"
"Your liscencing fees, sir."
"Thank you very much."
...download all the porno you can before the Internet collapses.
Clearly Google needs to create a smell search engine. Otherwise I don't see how Google was convinced that TimeWarner/AOL's shit don't stink.
It's all about choosing the right language for the right job. 3D Java would be perfect for that 3D glacier screensaver I had in mind. You'd be able to watch it travel down the mountain and melt. Don't worry. Java is fast enough to still be realistic when you take global warming into account.
I hear Peter Jackson found a whole town of them there.
Actually Ron Howard found them first.
Hey, I read Talkonaut, and thought to msyelf must be a stupid new name for a podcaster. "We are the Talk-O-Nauts, today we will be interviewing my dog and his experience with neuticles. Do they lick the same?"
There is such a thing as a consumer boycott. You may have heard of them. Just don't go to any more movies, don't buy or rent any more DVD's, CD's, cancel your cable and/or satellite, and turn off your television, or rather don't turn it on. It doesn't get any easier. You don't have do a thing. Well, you do have do one thing. Let them know and especially their advertisers know why you are opting out.
...lick their balls (real or neuticles)? Because they can. Likewise, slashdotters block ads because they can.
Has the quality of Ericsson phones improved? Last I checked they were a piece of crap (2003). Sometimes phones get better like Nokia and sometimes they get worse like Motorola. I just looked at the pics the P990 is just as ugly as their other phones. I might consider it if it's better than the Treo, but then again it doesn't take a whole lot to be better than a Treo phone. I don't think any smartphone is ready for primetime. It'll be a few more years before a practical PDA/multimedia/phone is worth buying in the US. But this is from one technician's perspective. I've worked as a celllular and two way radio technician in the early 90's and as a data phone tech for a cellular carrier a year and a half ago.
Cool. My original post gets modded off-topic and my reply to a reply gets modded troll. Woohoo!
The article was about optimizing development, not optimizing code.
You've obviously mistaken me for someone who actually read the article. Anyway, I don't see any difference between the two.
Optimizing obscure little used code doesn't sound very optimal to me. Aren't their utilities that can tell you where the bottlenecks in your program code is? Wouldn't it better to write efficient code in the first place. Cleaning up someone elses mess really just doesn't sound fun in my book. Oh I can hardly wait until my alcoholic roommate powerpukes on the ceiling again. I've got this new long handled mop for optimal cleaning efficiency.
A soldier in the desert needs about 20 gallons of water a day,
Twenty gallons a day? I think not. That's a typo. They'd have to drink almost seven pints an hour over a 24 hour period. This article seems more reasonable in saying they need 3 or 4 gallons a day. The article says two gallons of diesel produce 1 gallon of water chock full of sulfer, benzene, and soot. Yum! Why not just fit the soldiers with Dune style stillsuits? They can drink their recycled pee and sweat. Yum!
I'm shedding big crocodile tears over this one. Schools don't often prepare you for the world of work. You first job will teach you that. It's called the school of hard knocks. Company loyalty doesn't count for shit anymore. Being loyal to your co-workers worthy of it is another matter. During the dot-com bubble days (when the old rules no longer applied) if you stayed at a tech job for more than three years you were seen as unmarketable. That was a load of crap then. If you love what you do and can make a living at it then stick to it, but you don't need my advice for that. If you have a crappy job, do the best you can to make it bearable until you can get a better job.
"Kids, we're going to the happiest place on earth - Tijuana, Mexico!" 8F24
You forgot copulating. Oh wait, I forgot this is slashdot. Bending to the will of the one eyed purple helmeted warrior.
Like it matters. Cthulhu will devour the faithful with as much gusto as he would the unbelievers. Oh well, It could be worse. You could receive a visit from the Fungi from Yuggoth and have your brain removed and put in a cannister and flown back to Pluto. Well, actually, you could be eaten by Nyarlathotep and then go insane. It takes a while to be digested.
Well there were only 3 "I for one welcome our new Amber Arachnid Overlords" posts. 4 if you coun't this one. Why it was only yesterday we had the Tool Using Gorilla Overlords and the Giant Squid Overlords. Someone suggested we have an Overlords Championship. And we can't leave out the Poison Dart Dolphin Overlords nor the Acetylene Lifeform Titan Overlords. It must be Overlord envy. I have yet to see one post welcoming our current Neocon Overlords. I mean they must really have their feelings hurt. When everyone else is welcoming a new overlord at least once a day. There couldn't be anyone more deserving of our sympathy than Scooter The Libby, Donald the Rumsfeld, Cheney The Dick, Turd Blossom Rove, and SpaceChimp Bush. Can you feel the love? I'm sure people must have as much love for them as they do for spiders.
I think this is why Paul Allen invested so much money in SETI. Sounds like Steve was really pumped before coming out onto stage.
I'd like to see a pluggable biodiesel electric hybrid. There are diesel cars that get better mileage than the Prius, like the VW Jetta. Diesel fuels are getting cleaner and when you use biodiesel it's way cleaner. Forget soy biodiesel; acre for acre it's the worst producer only 50 gallons. Go for rapeseed or mustard seed. Use the fuel produced to power the tractor, thus eliminating the petroleum energy subsidy. They produce almost 3x as much, 140 gals/acre. Or better yet, algae can produce 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre. Yes, algae! Then make them pluggable. You cannot plug the Prius or the Civic Hybrid into the grid to take advantage of that offpeak electricity. There are aftermarket kits. True, it's shifting the source of the pollution, but with nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, and coal. You aren't burning petroleum.
Global peak oil is perhaps less than a decade away.
Clean diesel is the way to go. Deisel engines can even burn straight vegetable oil with minor modification. Of course, we can't power America on leftover McDonald's french fry grease, but any little bit will help. We can change our habits now. Or they will be changed for us later.Remember Fight Club? How Brad Pitt's character stole liposuctioned fat and made soap out of it. Animal fat can be used to make biodiesel. America could solve its energy and obesity problems at the same time. Picture Bubba's Liposuction and Biodiesel Filling Station. We could all drive around on our fat asses.
It's both!!
Duped my own fucking post. because I type 'of' when I shoulda typed 'or'.
It's both!!
You mean they actually enjoy it?