Sure, the idea that humans evolved some sort of mental 'Ah shit, that was really weird! Better attribute it to some vague unknown before I drive myself completely insane...' mechanism seems pretty plausible. Far more plausible than the various manifestations of said vague unknown we've come up with so far...
The key benefit to multiplayer gaming (that is, competitive multiplayer, not MMO*) is that people are better at creating continual challenge than AI, and will remain so for our lifetimes.
I don't find the umbrella idea to be too far fetched. Add to that the fact that they don't merely need to provide shade. Toss some photocells on the sunny side an use the power to help space endeavors (or reduce coal power plants back home). Such ideas have been around since photovoltaics.
As for "why don't people just drive less?!?" posts... what makes you think that will revert already done damage?
Still, I'm all for local teraforming; after all, we'll need the experience when we inevitably ruin Earth and the technological solution to future problems is martian colonization.
I can just see people getting the offer to buy Vista licenses in exchange for dropping the infringement claims. Certainly one way to build a userbase, and the sales pitch is oddly more palatable than the usual bullshit.
Except for English classes, I don't see how the language used is in any way material to the effective communication it conveys. If someone produces a formal Mathematical work in Spanish, German or Chinese, is it somehow less valid? While txtspk is an abomination, I think it is better for kids to learn than not learn. If using non-standard communication accomplishes that goal better than formal English, it should at least be entertained seriously.
No offense to PHDs involved, but wouldn't the eggs be very useful because of their inherent lack of symmetry, similarly to how water is useful because one side is very electro-negative? Depending on the properties of the contained metal, I imagine the eggs would produce very similar effects.
Sure, you've probably let your best chance slip by, but late college is still a chance. 30 even isn't terribly late. You'll still have about 30 years to advance, tread along or suffer through.
On reflection, I disagree. Kiefer was quite good as an anonymous voice in Phone Booth, which is similar to the calm malevolance needed for Raistlin. Add Kiefer's general raspy overtone and you've got the vocal parts for the character. I'm a little more skeptical of the Lawless choice though.
Do gmail, the calendar, local searching, satelite mapping, their ads and innumerable other good stuff need to be a market leader to be considered a success? With the hit or miss nature of pretty much every other single company in the world, isn't the fact that pretty much everything google puts out doesn't suck a sign that the process works well?
But wouldn't underground lines be more susceptable to flooding and/or earthquake failure? Also wouldn't it be a lot slower to fix any problems that do happen with those? It's very quick to throw up a new pole. I can't imagine that safely digging a new trench, or tracking down leaks underground is very fast.
Having power out for an extended period effects people more (and are harder to privately circumvent) than more, quicker outages.
That's like saying buffer overflows are a nasty unavoidable side effect of using C. They're exploits in the practical world, plain and simple. Caused by poor coding? Yes. Likely due to language difficiencies? Absolutely. Unavoidable? No, not really.
It might be a better controller than the standard for FPSes (what isn't?), but I'm highly skeptical that it will grant better control, enough controls, or the low energy requirements of the standard mouse and keyboard.
Seriously, if you have even a modicum of skill/experience, it should be easy to identify who else has better skill/experience and take their opinions on matters. Things that aren't fads will generally have everyone who is really good touting it (or at least not knocking it). Fads will generally have a few good people touting it, but most disregarding it or knocking it outright.
Good programmers won't knock or promote languages or technologies out of whim or fad or zealotry; they'll promote something they like and at least give grudging respect to good stuff they don't like.
Games and policies do not exist in a vacuum. Minors of any sort can view "Mature" content (and worse) freely on the internet. Content blockers don't and can never work. Minors regularly see "Mature" content on standard TV. Minors regularly see "Mature" content in theatres, where the ratings system is a complete joke. Minors regularly hear "Mature" content in music which has stickers for explicit lyrics (which only drives sales to minors).
Lawmakers would be better off spending the time and money on education, or counseling for troubled minors, or law enforcement targetting physical/sexual abuse of minors... something that isn't a guaranteed failure.
You are getting faster internet. You said yourself that going from 3mps to 768kps lowers the speed proportionately, thus the opposite is true. You are getting faster internet with the new 'faster' speeds, even if it isn't exactly the rate labelled on the service.
As for the label perhaps being false advertising, since when have you seen true advertising?
Preface: I've not actually written anything in VB.NET, VB6, or Java. At time of writing, I've also never had a professional development position.
Firstly, VB.NET is a large step up from VB6. Actually that's not true, VB.NET is a new language that vaguely looks like VB6 and before. Sure, it's not a little stupid to name the new after the old. Baring that change,.NET updates are 100% backwards compatible. In C# at least, the language updates have all been 100% backward compatible.
No, VB isn't terribly faster to develop in than Java; but Java isn't faster either. Does VB run faster than Java? no not really; but Java isn't faster either. Is VB free? Yeah, just like Java. Is VB code easy to maintain? Yeah, imbedded XML commenting, or you can go with any number of external code documentation tools. VB.NET uses any.NET compatible library and package, including the vast.NET library itself; one of the few that compares to Java's (for better or worse). VS2005 (which is free btw) is fantastic. Is Eclipse also fantastic? So I hear.
So Java offers you nothing. They're a 'push'.
Language details now. VB.NET is a different language. I personally don't care for the VB-ish syntax, but others do. Even with it, the common.NET stuff (foreach, delegates) are in there. Strings behave as.NET Strings, so just string.replace, or if you really need to, bust out the in library regexes to do it.
So as I said, there's no argument against it. Granted, there's very little argument for it either.
Modern VB (VB.NET) is pretty full featured and un-crappy. It, like other.NET languages compiles down to MSIL so should behave identically to anything else. The only real arguement is based around that; if say... VB.NET and C# perform identically, why not use C#? It (arguably) has more of a following, (arguably) has a cleaner syntax, and (arguably) has a more java/C-like syntax incase you happen across people with that background. Not terribly compelling in the face of momentum...
the eternal conflict between wanting to be a lazy bum and wanting to work hard.
Sorry, but this has never been a conflict let alone an eternal one. People and even other animals don't want to work hard, they want the rewards from working hard; preferably without all that work.
As a user, what's the most painful thing a virus could delete or steal? Delete: my files that aren't backed up recently (or for home users, ever). Steal: my CC and similar info, which is either in said files, web caches, or even email for some.
What's the common thread for all of those? Right, you as the non-admin user still have full privs over them.
There's a difference between letting an enemy step on you and holding a suprise back until it will do you the most good. Really, if Symantec wanted to give Microsoft the shaft, they'd hold it even longer until Vista was nearing release. Bargaining leverage.
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An iPhone the size of a Kindle? Umm... who doesn't want that?
Sure, the idea that humans evolved some sort of mental 'Ah shit, that was really weird! Better attribute it to some vague unknown before I drive myself completely insane...' mechanism seems pretty plausible. Far more plausible than the various manifestations of said vague unknown we've come up with so far...
Hopefully the debate will be more involved than the poster's insinuation that all the OS adds is a pretty UI...
Something to keep lego's and lincoln logs out of the plebians' mouths...
The key benefit to multiplayer gaming (that is, competitive multiplayer, not MMO*) is that people are better at creating continual challenge than AI, and will remain so for our lifetimes.
I don't find the umbrella idea to be too far fetched. Add to that the fact that they don't merely need to provide shade. Toss some photocells on the sunny side an use the power to help space endeavors (or reduce coal power plants back home). Such ideas have been around since photovoltaics.
As for "why don't people just drive less?!?" posts... what makes you think that will revert already done damage?
Still, I'm all for local teraforming; after all, we'll need the experience when we inevitably ruin Earth and the technological solution to future problems is martian colonization.
I can just see people getting the offer to buy Vista licenses in exchange for dropping the infringement claims. Certainly one way to build a userbase, and the sales pitch is oddly more palatable than the usual bullshit.
Except for English classes, I don't see how the language used is in any way material to the effective communication it conveys. If someone produces a formal Mathematical work in Spanish, German or Chinese, is it somehow less valid? While txtspk is an abomination, I think it is better for kids to learn than not learn. If using non-standard communication accomplishes that goal better than formal English, it should at least be entertained seriously.
kids will be allowed to use calculators in Science class!
No offense to PHDs involved, but wouldn't the eggs be very useful because of their inherent lack of symmetry, similarly to how water is useful because one side is very electro-negative? Depending on the properties of the contained metal, I imagine the eggs would produce very similar effects.
Sure, you've probably let your best chance slip by, but late college is still a chance. 30 even isn't terribly late. You'll still have about 30 years to advance, tread along or suffer through.
On reflection, I disagree. Kiefer was quite good as an anonymous voice in Phone Booth, which is similar to the calm malevolance needed for Raistlin. Add Kiefer's general raspy overtone and you've got the vocal parts for the character. I'm a little more skeptical of the Lawless choice though.
Do gmail, the calendar, local searching, satelite mapping, their ads and innumerable other good stuff need to be a market leader to be considered a success? With the hit or miss nature of pretty much every other single company in the world, isn't the fact that pretty much everything google puts out doesn't suck a sign that the process works well?
But wouldn't underground lines be more susceptable to flooding and/or earthquake failure? Also wouldn't it be a lot slower to fix any problems that do happen with those? It's very quick to throw up a new pole. I can't imagine that safely digging a new trench, or tracking down leaks underground is very fast.
Having power out for an extended period effects people more (and are harder to privately circumvent) than more, quicker outages.
That's like saying buffer overflows are a nasty unavoidable side effect of using C. They're exploits in the practical world, plain and simple. Caused by poor coding? Yes. Likely due to language difficiencies? Absolutely. Unavoidable? No, not really.
It might be a better controller than the standard for FPSes (what isn't?), but I'm highly skeptical that it will grant better control, enough controls, or the low energy requirements of the standard mouse and keyboard.
Seriously, if you have even a modicum of skill/experience, it should be easy to identify who else has better skill/experience and take their opinions on matters. Things that aren't fads will generally have everyone who is really good touting it (or at least not knocking it). Fads will generally have a few good people touting it, but most disregarding it or knocking it outright.
Good programmers won't knock or promote languages or technologies out of whim or fad or zealotry; they'll promote something they like and at least give grudging respect to good stuff they don't like.
Games and policies do not exist in a vacuum. Minors of any sort can view "Mature" content (and worse) freely on the internet. Content blockers don't and can never work. Minors regularly see "Mature" content on standard TV. Minors regularly see "Mature" content in theatres, where the ratings system is a complete joke. Minors regularly hear "Mature" content in music which has stickers for explicit lyrics (which only drives sales to minors).
Lawmakers would be better off spending the time and money on education, or counseling for troubled minors, or law enforcement targetting physical/sexual abuse of minors... something that isn't a guaranteed failure.
You are getting faster internet. You said yourself that going from 3mps to 768kps lowers the speed proportionately, thus the opposite is true. You are getting faster internet with the new 'faster' speeds, even if it isn't exactly the rate labelled on the service.
As for the label perhaps being false advertising, since when have you seen true advertising?
Preface: I've not actually written anything in VB.NET, VB6, or Java. At time of writing, I've also never had a professional development position.
.NET updates are 100% backwards compatible. In C# at least, the language updates have all been 100% backward compatible.
.NET compatible library and package, including the vast .NET library itself; one of the few that compares to Java's (for better or worse). VS2005 (which is free btw) is fantastic. Is Eclipse also fantastic? So I hear.
.NET stuff (foreach, delegates) are in there. Strings behave as .NET Strings, so just string.replace, or if you really need to, bust out the in library regexes to do it.
Firstly, VB.NET is a large step up from VB6. Actually that's not true, VB.NET is a new language that vaguely looks like VB6 and before. Sure, it's not a little stupid to name the new after the old. Baring that change,
No, VB isn't terribly faster to develop in than Java; but Java isn't faster either. Does VB run faster than Java? no not really; but Java isn't faster either. Is VB free? Yeah, just like Java. Is VB code easy to maintain? Yeah, imbedded XML commenting, or you can go with any number of external code documentation tools. VB.NET uses any
So Java offers you nothing. They're a 'push'.
Language details now. VB.NET is a different language. I personally don't care for the VB-ish syntax, but others do. Even with it, the common
So as I said, there's no argument against it. Granted, there's very little argument for it either.
Modern VB (VB.NET) is pretty full featured and un-crappy. It, like other .NET languages compiles down to MSIL so should behave identically to anything else. The only real arguement is based around that; if say... VB.NET and C# perform identically, why not use C#? It (arguably) has more of a following, (arguably) has a cleaner syntax, and (arguably) has a more java/C-like syntax incase you happen across people with that background. Not terribly compelling in the face of momentum...
Sorry, but this has never been a conflict let alone an eternal one. People and even other animals don't want to work hard, they want the rewards from working hard; preferably without all that work.
As a user, what's the most painful thing a virus could delete or steal? Delete: my files that aren't backed up recently (or for home users, ever). Steal: my CC and similar info, which is either in said files, web caches, or even email for some.
What's the common thread for all of those? Right, you as the non-admin user still have full privs over them.
Part of practical language experience [since you're not actually teaching programming] is learning to use a/the common IDE.
There's a difference between letting an enemy step on you and holding a suprise back until it will do you the most good. Really, if Symantec wanted to give Microsoft the shaft, they'd hold it even longer until Vista was nearing release. Bargaining leverage.