The only comments preceding yours are jokes based on bad horror movies or stories. At the time you posted this, there were no comments "foretelling doom".
Bullshit. Where I live, the starting pay for a cop is about 20% higher than the local median income, and within 10 years a cop can be making six figures. Additionally, if a cop retires after 10 years they continue to draw 25% of their salary, and at 15 years it's 50%, and after 20 years it's 100%. A guy who lives four houses down from me is a retired cop after 20 years and he pulls in about $110K on retirement. This is in a county where the median income is about $30K.
Our local police are probably better paid than some, maybe even than most, but nobody is hiring cops for a mere $16K salary.
If we slightly redefine "car", my car becomes an airplane. You can't really have a conversation if you insist on redefining everything. "Life" means something fairly specific. Again, the dictionary definition is pretty good, and rather clearly excludes viruses by implication:
The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
You aren't going to find "a pack of wild viruses running around on Mars" because viruses don't do any of those things (form packs, run around). They just lay there, inert: lifeless. You also won't find a virus that replicates by leveraging other viruses, because by definition other viruses don't have the ability to replicate.
Definitions are useful things. Words have meaning. You may disagree with the definition, but that doesn't make you right. I can appreciate an attempt to be clever or thoughtful, but these are basic questions, and maintaining a contrarian position is akin to beating your head against a wall.
I am, in fact, saying a Viper is easy to drive as fast as a Miata. Probably easier, because those limits are much farther away. When you're in a Viper and you approach a Miata's limits, you're maybe two thirds of the way towards the Viper's limits. That was the point I was trying to make.
I wasn't saying it's forgiving of mistakes, I was saying you have to push a lot harder before you're making a mistake which requires forgiveness.:)
I know it isn't navigating. The point is that by using an accepted feature of scripting -- navigation -- you can achieve exactly the same thing, so complaining about the ability to load text from a remote source is silly. After all, loading from remote sources is what browsers DO. It's the file writing and/or execution that should be the focus of the grandparent poster's ire.
One important aspect of residential privacy is protection of the unwilling listener.... [A] special benefit of the privacy all citizens enjoy within their own walls, which the State may legislate to protect, is an ability to avoid intrusions. Thus, we have repeatedly held that individuals are not required to welcome unwanted speech into their own homes and that the government may protect this freedom.
Wouldn't it be great to have that pre-recorded, to play back at the push of a button when some jerkoff calls you and interrupts dinner? Of course, it would have to be recorded in an officious Announcer's Voice...
Sadly, this list hasn't been updated since 1995, but at that time the Programming Language List stood at 2350 entries (be patient, it's a half-meg text file).
If it doesn't affect software engineering then it doesn't matter.
This may be difficult for you to comprehend, but alternative explanations exist:
* If it doesn't relate to software engineering, it doesn't belong on slashdot.
* If you aren't interested in software engineering, YOU don't belong on slashdot.
* If you were actually a Luddite, you wouldn't have a computer in front of you.
Ancient Athens in the fourth century BC had a population of only aroun 60 thousand... and yet the philosophy, science, mathematics, literature, and political thought that it produced overwhelmingly dwarfs (for instance) the suburbs of Atlanta...
This is a painfully stupid comment. Check back with me when (for instance) the suburbs of Atlanta have been around for 1,800 years. On second thought, make that 2,500 years. We'll need an extra thousand to separate the grains of wisdom from the chaff of three million people. On second thought -- like Athens -- that would be a population over time... there weren't just 60,000 people... there were 60,000 people for 1,800 years. That's a hell of a lot of people.
Consider yourself counted out.
Please check your slashdot login at the door.
Good luck with the olive thing.
You can get even more English-like than that if your condition is checking an object:
Do While Not SomeObject Is Nothing
. . .
Loop
I also kind of like the Do Loop Until syntax:
Do
. . .
Loop Until SomeObject Is Nothing
Of course, there's no telling whether any of this survived into VB.NET. (I kicked the VB habit. C# is much cleaner.)
IF this is true, the release of the source is the nail in the coffin for Microsoft.
Don't be stupid. Everyone knows that 90% or 98% or some-other-very-high-percentage of the world is using Windows. Only a tiny fraction will even hear about this and understand the potential -- and those people are most likely the same ones who are already inclined to distrust MS. (Or those who know what they're doing, and choose to trust MS anyway.)
It's like the exploding Firestone tires on Ford Explorers. For the most part, it really didn't stop people from buying Explorers.
The rage in software development has come full circle. Instead of trying to optimize things to see how efficient they can be written, it seems to be a goal to see how much overhead one can put into a given application before it actually starts to do something useful.
It couldn't be that current developers are simply more interested in finishing today's larger, more complex projects in a timely fashion, because memory, processing power, and disk space is known to be dirt cheap. Nah. Impossible.
Speaking as someone who spent many years writing assembly on machines with 1K to 4K of RAM on 4- and 8-bit CPUs that rarely exceeded 1MHz, I can easily punch two gaping holes in your rose-colored-glasses perspective on The Good Old Days. Optimization was done because it was necessary, and rarely because people enjoyed it. And even people (like me) who enjoyed it will admit that the best optimizations -- often the only ones worth doing -- throughly obfuscated the code in ways that would give a modern-day programmer siezures.
I still have a lot of respect for clever optimizations, but these days optimizations generally relate to performance. The only place I've found any serious need to worry about memory usage is database storage or 3D programming, and again, neither of those are often usefully related to my experience with cramming as much compute power into as little memory as possible.
This scientific theory you mentioned, tell me, does it have anything to do with this definition of life I keep hearing about?
No. He was responding to your statement about the "essense" [sic] of the struggle against entropy. To wit, your statement is not a scientific theory. He was not advancing any particular theory of his own.
You stated, "So life could exist anywhere in any imaginable form," and that sort of unqualified blanket statement is probably true simply due to the unbounded nature of what you're saying. However, the real question -- the interesting question -- is the probability of life appearing at any specific location under specific conditions. And that was the point of the original parent post.
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Wow, and I thought I lived in a poor part of the country.
That's because slashdot doesn't have a "Kind of Funny, But Maybe You're Not Joking, In Which Case Your Post Sucks" moderation option.
The only comments preceding yours are jokes based on bad horror movies or stories. At the time you posted this, there were no comments "foretelling doom".
Bullshit. Where I live, the starting pay for a cop is about 20% higher than the local median income, and within 10 years a cop can be making six figures. Additionally, if a cop retires after 10 years they continue to draw 25% of their salary, and at 15 years it's 50%, and after 20 years it's 100%. A guy who lives four houses down from me is a retired cop after 20 years and he pulls in about $110K on retirement. This is in a county where the median income is about $30K.
Our local police are probably better paid than some, maybe even than most, but nobody is hiring cops for a mere $16K salary.
The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
You aren't going to find "a pack of wild viruses running around on Mars" because viruses don't do any of those things (form packs, run around). They just lay there, inert: lifeless. You also won't find a virus that replicates by leveraging other viruses, because by definition other viruses don't have the ability to replicate.
Definitions are useful things. Words have meaning. You may disagree with the definition, but that doesn't make you right. I can appreciate an attempt to be clever or thoughtful, but these are basic questions, and maintaining a contrarian position is akin to beating your head against a wall.
This sums it up rather well.
I wasn't saying it's forgiving of mistakes, I was saying you have to push a lot harder before you're making a mistake which requires forgiveness. :)
I know it isn't navigating. The point is that by using an accepted feature of scripting -- navigation -- you can achieve exactly the same thing, so complaining about the ability to load text from a remote source is silly. After all, loading from remote sources is what browsers DO. It's the file writing and/or execution that should be the focus of the grandparent poster's ire.
You got screwed by the Flamebait mod. Hopefully it'll be outweighed by a few Insightfuls...
You're right, but it DID get them a hell of a lot of free publicity...
Two words that should NEVER be placed in close proximity.
Wouldn't it be great to have that pre-recorded, to play back at the push of a button when some jerkoff calls you and interrupts dinner? Of course, it would have to be recorded in an officious Announcer's Voice...
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/lang-list.txt
Bzzzt.
.NET is not a language.
Which makes your post a troll after all.
The word is "repudiated", not "reputated".
MENSA called; they want their card back.
This may be difficult for you to comprehend, but alternative explanations exist:
* If it doesn't relate to software engineering, it doesn't belong on slashdot.
* If you aren't interested in software engineering, YOU don't belong on slashdot.
* If you were actually a Luddite, you wouldn't have a computer in front of you.
Ancient Athens in the fourth century BC had a population of only aroun 60 thousand ... and yet the philosophy, science, mathematics, literature, and political thought that it produced overwhelmingly dwarfs (for instance) the suburbs of Atlanta...
This is a painfully stupid comment. Check back with me when (for instance) the suburbs of Atlanta have been around for 1,800 years. On second thought, make that 2,500 years. We'll need an extra thousand to separate the grains of wisdom from the chaff of three million people. On second thought -- like Athens -- that would be a population over time... there weren't just 60,000 people... there were 60,000 people for 1,800 years. That's a hell of a lot of people.
Consider yourself counted out.
Please check your slashdot login at the door.
Good luck with the olive thing.
In English, that word is "impoverished".
Damned HTML formatting. :)
You can get even more English-like than that if your condition is checking an object: Do While Not SomeObject Is Nothing . . . Loop I also kind of like the Do Loop Until syntax: Do . . . Loop Until SomeObject Is Nothing Of course, there's no telling whether any of this survived into VB.NET. (I kicked the VB habit. C# is much cleaner.)
Don't be stupid. Everyone knows that 90% or 98% or some-other-very-high-percentage of the world is using Windows. Only a tiny fraction will even hear about this and understand the potential -- and those people are most likely the same ones who are already inclined to distrust MS. (Or those who know what they're doing, and choose to trust MS anyway.)
It's like the exploding Firestone tires on Ford Explorers. For the most part, it really didn't stop people from buying Explorers.
It couldn't be that current developers are simply more interested in finishing today's larger, more complex projects in a timely fashion, because memory, processing power, and disk space is known to be dirt cheap. Nah. Impossible.
Speaking as someone who spent many years writing assembly on machines with 1K to 4K of RAM on 4- and 8-bit CPUs that rarely exceeded 1MHz, I can easily punch two gaping holes in your rose-colored-glasses perspective on The Good Old Days. Optimization was done because it was necessary, and rarely because people enjoyed it. And even people (like me) who enjoyed it will admit that the best optimizations -- often the only ones worth doing -- throughly obfuscated the code in ways that would give a modern-day programmer siezures.
I still have a lot of respect for clever optimizations, but these days optimizations generally relate to performance. The only place I've found any serious need to worry about memory usage is database storage or 3D programming, and again, neither of those are often usefully related to my experience with cramming as much compute power into as little memory as possible.
Whoa there, Penguin! It was MS that insisted IE was integrated. It was the DOJ & SIGs who insisted it was not.
Yeah, it's practically impossible to get news about Earth these days.
No.
This scientific theory you mentioned, tell me, does it have anything to do with this definition of life I keep hearing about?
No. He was responding to your statement about the "essense" [sic] of the struggle against entropy. To wit, your statement is not a scientific theory. He was not advancing any particular theory of his own.
You stated, "So life could exist anywhere in any imaginable form," and that sort of unqualified blanket statement is probably true simply due to the unbounded nature of what you're saying. However, the real question -- the interesting question -- is the probability of life appearing at any specific location under specific conditions. And that was the point of the original parent post.
Almost, but not quite...