I'd just like to point out that prefixing every instance variable with "this." is a commonly recommended practice. It's one of the things mentioned in "The Elements of Java Style".
Hungarian Notation, on the other hand, is a piece of idiotic crap used by C programmers to make up for a brain-dead type system. It's completely unnecessary in Java.
I'm amused when game developers manage to sneak one by the censor.
For example, I'm playing "Golden Sun" on Game Boy Advance, and the teenage female character just got some "armor" which consists of a Geisha-type robe. One of her attacks is to open the robe, reducing the enemy's chance to attack by distracting him. He gets surrounded by little heart symbols. So now I have a teenage girl who distracts giant gorillas by sexually arousing them... Oh yeah, that's an "E for everyone" game all right.
Also, when playing "Ape Escape 2", all the monkeys have names. I laughed when I found one called "Spank"... That was probably the UK translator's doing, though.
From my point of view, the way the list works is that if anyone I don't know calls me trying to sell me stuff, I no longer have to feel the slightest bit of guilt about being as malicious and abusive towards them as I can possibly be via a phone line.
Earth & Beyond sounds like exactly the sort of game I'd like to play.
Except I'd have to buy Windows to do it. Oh well.
Anyway... if a game is set up to reward killing other people, which is the ultimate in asshole behavior, then it seems a bit strange to complain that all the other players are assholes. Now, if the players in a cooperative game were mean-spirited and rude, that would be worthy of discussion.
Yes, there's nothing funny about Uranus. let's forget the childish humor and take a serious, scholarly look at Uranus. To many people it's just a giant cloud of gas where the sun doesn't shine, but those of us who are enthusiastic about Uranus know that it has many secrets.
Surprising as it may seem, we don't have all that many photographs of Uranus. Yes, the Pioneers sent back pictures of Uranus, lots of them. But there are very few images that are high enough resolution and quality to show the faint rings around Uranus. Perhaps the excitement around these new moons will give us the excuse we need to take another long, hard look at Uranus.
Even if you have no idea how to find Uranus, you can still appreciate its unusual configuration. Scientists still don't understand why Uranus is tilted sideways. Also, while we know what's near the surface, we still aren't sure of the exact chemical mixture deep inside Uranus. Are the moons stable, or are they spiraling into Uranus?
With so much to learn, we must hope that NASA will probe the depths of Uranus soon. Yes, there are many technical issues that will need to be resolved, and problems to be faced--but we put men on the moon, and I'm sure that given sufficient motivation, NASA's engineers can lick Uranus too.
Oh, and yes, the size comparisons are silly, but can you think of a more sensible unit of size than San Francisco for an object in the vicinity of Uranus?
As it is now, even the people who are not popular with the media moguls get to be heard because they can spend money, and the media are forced to sell them ads.
You're full of it. Adbusters have repeatedly had their ads refused by major media corporations, even though they were prepared to pay the going rate. The media said they would not run the ads for any price. So even if you have money, the current system doesn't necessarily give you a voice.
Copyright law gives them control over distribution and price BY DEFINITION. No one is forcing you to buy their over priced product. At the same time, a high price does not give you the right to pirate.
It's not a matter of price. I only wish to buy music on CD. If the record company won't sell it on CD, or in some format I can burn to a regular audio CD, then I won't buy it--I'll copy it instead and make my own CD.
I have no moral problem with making something that a company won't sell me. If they change their mind and start selling it, I get rid of my copy and buy a legit one.
(Yes, really. I had a bootleg copy of "Warp" by New Musik. Finally, Sony Japan released it on CD, so I ordered an import copy.)
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And what exactly is a "distinct race"? It sure as hell isn't a genetic difference.
There was also a study of sado-masochistic bestial necrophilia by jockeys, but it turned out the researcher was just flogging a dead horse.
I'd just like to point out that prefixing every instance variable with "this." is a commonly recommended practice. It's one of the things mentioned in "The Elements of Java Style".
Hungarian Notation, on the other hand, is a piece of idiotic crap used by C programmers to make up for a brain-dead type system. It's completely unnecessary in Java.
I'm amused when game developers manage to sneak one by the censor.
For example, I'm playing "Golden Sun" on Game Boy Advance, and the teenage female character just got some "armor" which consists of a Geisha-type robe. One of her attacks is to open the robe, reducing the enemy's chance to attack by distracting him. He gets surrounded by little heart symbols. So now I have a teenage girl who distracts giant gorillas by sexually arousing them... Oh yeah, that's an "E for everyone" game all right.
Also, when playing "Ape Escape 2", all the monkeys have names. I laughed when I found one called "Spank"... That was probably the UK translator's doing, though.
From my point of view, the way the list works is that if anyone I don't know calls me trying to sell me stuff, I no longer have to feel the slightest bit of guilt about being as malicious and abusive towards them as I can possibly be via a phone line.
Yeah, and I bet the one bad company's name is going to start with an 'N'.
It's a shame, I prefered many aspects of SYSV design to BSD... but now, there's no way I'd ever build anything on SYSV.
Interesting. I've been learning J2EE this year, and I concluded pretty early on that Entity Beans seemed like a massive waste of time, a good way to increase complexity with very little gain over just encapsulating the SQL. Glad to hear I wasn't missing some fundamental benefit of entity beans.
Cut it out, Bjarne.
Earth & Beyond sounds like exactly the sort of game I'd like to play.
Except I'd have to buy Windows to do it. Oh well.
Anyway... if a game is set up to reward killing other people, which is the ultimate in asshole behavior, then it seems a bit strange to complain that all the other players are assholes. Now, if the players in a cooperative game were mean-spirited and rude, that would be worthy of discussion.
I haven't even tried Diablo online, because everything I heard suggested that it was full of bored teenagers wanting to kill other players.
It's not bad as a single-player graphical Nethack, though...
Only if you have a different prefered tab size to other people, and try to share code with them.
A9, or 37x52mm as it's also known.
Darl McBride to start a search engine called Foolscap.
Yes, there's nothing funny about Uranus. let's forget the childish humor and take a serious, scholarly look at Uranus. To many people it's just a giant cloud of gas where the sun doesn't shine, but those of us who are enthusiastic about Uranus know that it has many secrets.
Surprising as it may seem, we don't have all that many photographs of Uranus. Yes, the Pioneers sent back pictures of Uranus, lots of them. But there are very few images that are high enough resolution and quality to show the faint rings around Uranus. Perhaps the excitement around these new moons will give us the excuse we need to take another long, hard look at Uranus.
Even if you have no idea how to find Uranus, you can still appreciate its unusual configuration. Scientists still don't understand why Uranus is tilted sideways. Also, while we know what's near the surface, we still aren't sure of the exact chemical mixture deep inside Uranus. Are the moons stable, or are they spiraling into Uranus?
With so much to learn, we must hope that NASA will probe the depths of Uranus soon. Yes, there are many technical issues that will need to be resolved, and problems to be faced--but we put men on the moon, and I'm sure that given sufficient motivation, NASA's engineers can lick Uranus too.
Oh, and yes, the size comparisons are silly, but can you think of a more sensible unit of size than San Francisco for an object in the vicinity of Uranus?
I downloaded the "incredibly easy, conceptually simple" description in the PDF file.
Now I remember why I switched to computer science. *sigh*
Ah, so *you're* the other Colin Baker fan.
Interesting that even the BBC miss Michael Jayston from the list of Doctors in that article.
I'm not taking anything. Everyone who had the music before has the music afterwards.
I'd buy a second 16C if HP started making them again, so I could have one for the office and one for home.
You're full of it. Adbusters have repeatedly had their ads refused by major media corporations, even though they were prepared to pay the going rate. The media said they would not run the ads for any price. So even if you have money, the current system doesn't necessarily give you a voice.
My copy was a completely unprotected regular CD. (USA.)
It's not a matter of price. I only wish to buy music on CD. If the record company won't sell it on CD, or in some format I can burn to a regular audio CD, then I won't buy it--I'll copy it instead and make my own CD.
I have no moral problem with making something that a company won't sell me. If they change their mind and start selling it, I get rid of my copy and buy a legit one.
(Yes, really. I had a bootleg copy of "Warp" by New Musik. Finally, Sony Japan released it on CD, so I ordered an import copy.)
Yeah, I bet those are primo quality archival DVD-Rs that'll still read fine in ten years.
Yes, but RedHat makes creating a non-root user part of the install process, as do most other sensible distributions.
Both of those sound exactly like the kind of research projects done at major Universities around the world.