Has there ever been a movie that's been "as good" as the book?
Many of Hitchcock's best films are based on trashy novels or dull short stories which nobody even remembers (e.g. Robert Bloch's Psycho or Daphne du Maurier's The Birds).
The splitting of Boromir's horn maybe wasn't shown, but it is clearly visible split in two when he dies. Also, more may be made of this if we see or hear about Faramir discovering his body in The Two Towers.
...people want XP - they want their PC to feel more secure.
I don't know how my PC feels, but I feel more secure running Linux
Some of the default settings [on Linux] make it all too easy to destroy the existing contents of your hard disk.
What does this refer to? Where is root access a default setting? Or does he just mean that there's no recycle bin?
Perhaps Linux shouldn't be regarded as an operating system at all, but more as a sophisticated multi-player game with a large number of enthusiastic players.
I have learnt a lot of good practices from
one or two of Spolsky's articles, and for that I was prepared to put up with his cocky know-all attitude and routine rubbishing of every software company except the ones he has stock in, but lately he is full of tendentious statements like
In 1993, Microsoft Excel 5.0 took up about $36 worth of hard drive space. In 2000, Microsoft Excel 2000 takes up about $1.03 in hard drive space. All adjusted for inflation. So stop whining about how bloated it is.
So the space it takes on the hard drive is the only cost of bloatware? Try downloading IE 6 on a dialup connection and then check your phone bill.
Yes, be standards complient. Be 100% standards complient hopefully. But just remember that it has nothing to do with how complient the others are.
Yes, but better-than-any-competition is intended as a pragmatic compromise; if the goal was 100% compliancy or even a near approximation, it would be as unattainable as Zeno's Tortoise. As Eich says later on:
Some people believe that most standards-compliance bugs should be fixed for anything that deserves the 1.0 brand. That's ok, but the number of milestones needed to fix such a long list is hard to guess, but probably quite large at the current fix rate.
After that it takes two bytes to encode a character, possibly more when you get to "big" characters.
UTF-8 takes:
1 byte from 0 to 0x7f
2 bytes from 0x80 to 0x7ff
3 bytes from 0x800 to 0xffff
4 bytes from 0x10000 to 0x1fffff
That's why it's only popular in Europe and the Middle East. Characters in scripts from India, South-East Asia and the native American languages take up more space in UTF-8 than in UTF-16.
if you count languages that are maybe not Perl directly, but have taken parts of Perl... You know, they've borrowed regular expressions or other parts of Perl.
I think regular expressions go back just a little bit further than Perl...
This got garbled in transmission (euphemism for: I pressed Submit instead of Preview). What I meant to write was this:
I don't find this solution very convincing. It should at least make sense, don't you think? What is the treetop of side wind romance?
For some reason, everybody seems to ignore or discount to what Poe himself wrote about this cipher:
It is unnecessary to trouble yourself with the cipher printed in our Dec. number--it is insoluble for the reason that it is merely type in
pi
or something near it. Being absent from the office for a short time, I did not see a proof and the compositors have made a complete medley. It has not even a remote resemblance to the MS.
pi here has nothing to do with the circumference of circles, BTW. It's a printer's term meaning A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
I don't find this solution very convincing. It should at least make sense, don't you think? What is the treetop of side wind romance?
For some reason, eveyrbody seems to ignore or discount to what Poe himself wrote about this cipher:
pi here has nothing to do with the circumference of circles, BTW. It's a printer's term meaning A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
It is unnecessary to trouble yourself with the cipher printed in our Dec. number--it is insoluble for the reason that it is merely type in pi
or something near it. Being absent from the office for a short time, I did not see a proof and the compositors have made a complete medley. It has not even a remote resemblance to the MS.
It's strange that just this morning I was thinking about Alec Guinness, and remembering an interview with him on Parkinson shortly after the first Star Wart movie came out.
I'm aware of all the statistical explanations, that millions of people are thinking about millions of other people every day, and millions of people die every day, so a coincidence like this isn't really so stunning, but it's still spooky when it happens to you.
All of us owe MSFT a measure of appreciation for creating an "operating system" which allows almost anyone with interest to become semi-literate in computer operation. This gift is world-wide and has aided the US in becoming the leading nation is technology.
I'm sure that was written tongue in cheek, but MS has accepted it at face value and posted it on the site.
Re:Correlate to Clarke's Law...
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"Any being wielding sufficently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a god"
...as long as your concept of "god" is hopelessly naive and anthropomorphic.
The Bible doesn't say "bats are birds", it just includes bats in a list of creatures that fly. It doesn't say "grasshoppers have four legs" it says they "walk on four" -- an idiomatic expression for "crawl"
It's always easy to find "inaccuracies" in the Bible by
Taking things out of context.
Making category mistakes, e.g. reading myth as history or practically-oriented dietary rules as biology.
and most of all... Reading it in translation.
I have read serious statements like "I lost my faith because the Bible says is equal to 3". Some people have obviously never heard of round numbers.
In Pythagorean tuning, which is based on perfect fifths, D flat is lower than C sharp by about a quarter of an equal-tempered semitone (23 cents).
In mean-tone and other systems based on perfect major thirds, D flat is higher by over 0.4 of a semitone.
Of course, in the case of a singer or any instrument that permits fine control of pitch in real time (i.e. almost anything except a keyboard instrument), either one will vary according to context. Any musician with good ears will make the necessary changes almost unconsciously so that the ensemble sounds in tune.
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Sounds like a necessary but insufficient condition to me.
It's a picture of the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games.
The splitting of Boromir's horn maybe wasn't shown, but it is clearly visible split in two when he dies. Also, more may be made of this if we see or hear about Faramir discovering his body in The Two Towers.
I don't know how my PC feels, but I feel more secure running Linux
What does this refer to? Where is root access a default setting? Or does he just mean that there's no recycle bin?
You get out of it what you put in.
... and neither does Joel Spolsky. My point exactly.
Yes, I am aware of that, but there are still a few billion in the rest of the world for whom that isn't true.
I have learnt a lot of good practices from one or two of Spolsky's articles, and for that I was prepared to put up with his cocky know-all attitude and routine rubbishing of every software company except the ones he has stock in, but lately he is full of tendentious statements like
So the space it takes on the hard drive is the only cost of bloatware? Try downloading IE 6 on a dialup connection and then check your phone bill.
No, it was "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes".
"We want this event to help remind the world that New York still represents strength and determination" - Bill Gates
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson
Surely "Ah, shit!" is the obvious choice for an undo command?
Yes, but better-than-any-competition is intended as a pragmatic compromise; if the goal was 100% compliancy or even a near approximation, it would be as unattainable as Zeno's Tortoise. As Eich says later on:
UTF-8 takes:
That's why it's only popular in Europe and the Middle East. Characters in scripts from India, South-East Asia and the native American languages take up more space in UTF-8 than in UTF-16.
"If I haven't paid, why are you arguing?"
Leonard F Wheat = Deft anal whore
I think regular expressions go back just a little bit further than Perl...
This got garbled in transmission (euphemism for: I pressed Submit instead of Preview). What I meant to write was this:
I don't find this solution very convincing. It should at least make sense, don't you think? What is the treetop of side wind romance?
For some reason, everybody seems to ignore or discount to what Poe himself wrote about this cipher:
pi here has nothing to do with the circumference of circles, BTW. It's a printer's term meaning A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
I don't find this solution very convincing. It should at least make sense, don't you think? What is the treetop of side wind romance?
For some reason, eveyrbody seems to ignore or discount to what Poe himself wrote about this cipher:
I'm aware of all the statistical explanations, that millions of people are thinking about millions of other people every day, and millions of people die every day, so a coincidence like this isn't really so stunning, but it's still spooky when it happens to you.
And what about this one:
I'm sure that was written tongue in cheek, but MS has accepted it at face value and posted it on the site.The Bible doesn't say "bats are birds", it just includes bats in a list of creatures that fly. It doesn't say "grasshoppers have four legs" it says they "walk on four" -- an idiomatic expression for "crawl"
It's always easy to find "inaccuracies" in the Bible by
I have read serious statements like "I lost my faith because the Bible says is equal to 3". Some people have obviously never heard of round numbers.
It should have been called Object Oriented Multi-Platform Advertising Hype.
Then we could all sing:
In Pythagorean tuning, which is based on perfect fifths, D flat is lower than C sharp by about a quarter of an equal-tempered semitone (23 cents).
In mean-tone and other systems based on perfect major thirds, D flat is higher by over 0.4 of a semitone.
Of course, in the case of a singer or any instrument that permits fine control of pitch in real time (i.e. almost anything except a keyboard instrument), either one will vary according to context. Any musician with good ears will make the necessary changes almost unconsciously so that the ensemble sounds in tune.