i think this is where a lot of php hatred comes from, especially those who whine about dynamic types. they just can't figure it out. i hear complaints about the string functions. yeah the names are inconsistent. get over it.
if that were the case i might want it halted too. the point of sustainable energy is to restore our harmony with nature, not to find different ways to disrupt it. in any case, there are better ways of harnessing renewable energy than fiddling with something as important as our geomag field (looking at you DARPA).
And dependence on other nations for oil is not a concern as long as access to supply is certain, he said.
but it's not. if it were we wouldn't need to exercise our fifth freedom to ensure our oil-consuming way of life. case closed, exxon douchebag. this is, of course, forgetting that oil supply is finite, while biomass/solar fuels are sustainable.
Tillerson blamed a public that is "illiterate" in science and math, a "lazy" press, and advocacy groups that "manufacture fear" for energy misconceptions
why would advocacy groups do that? is there a profit motive? is it a bigger profit motive than exxon's?
the reason why people don't understand this is they mistakenly believe working the genius bar is anything other than a low skilled job. that's the whole point of apple products -- any idiot can use them. the genius bar is there to serve those dumber than idiots. this, on the other hand, is what i call a high skill job: http://www.theonion.com/video/new-apple-friend-bar-gives-customers-someone-to-ta,17693/
isn't capitalism supposed to solve this? if there's a demand for an ADA-accessible whatever, won't the market fill that void? shouldn't someone (not necessarily disabled) be starting their own online streaming service with closed captioning? devil's advocate here, i'm not trying to marginalize the disabled. i just don't think we've been very consistent about what to mandate as accessible.
heads up on the walking dead: the title refers to the survivors, not the zombies. hence the show is about human drama in a zombie apocalypse. plenty of shit has happened. i could drop a few examples but it's spoilers for others. and what other zombie tv show have you seen that gets away with this much gore? they routinely burst heads open and hack bodies up in the walking dead. even the creators have expressed surprise that amc lets them get away with their graphic violence.
i admit i've read the books since they came out and there is plenty of fucked up shit happening in the story line that waiting for the rearranged-for-tv version is exciting enough. it seemed like forever before they got to the part where carl kills zombie-shane. i liked the book version better though, where carl kills the living shane.
easy? easier said than done. might as well get a separate phone just for junk apps, like we do with email addresses. but that costs extra unless you only use wifi. i'd probably recommend against using the same separate phone you keep for the mistresses/girlfriends you don't want your bottom bitch to know about.
So don't dismiss human agency, and abdicate responsibility for your ability to choose, just because it's a "product of nature"!
i never said anything of the kind. i'm sorry you took it that way. my point is that this responsibility was endowed to us by evolution, and is therefore not unnatural. any choices a human being makes, good or bad, are "natural." maybe your misunderstanding comes from an assumption that natural = good. this is not the case. in fact, Howard Bloom's excellent book, The Lucifer Principle illustrates the "evil" nature of nature in a very rational manner.
what do you think of bacteria or virii? are they good? bad? on the one hand they can cause death in humans (bad thing, right?), on the other hand in the big picture, they help keep our numbers in check. something has to, we share the top of the food chain with lions. what they do is natural, right or wrong, good or bad.
You said that polluted overpopulated cities are "just what happens" as a result of our DNA.
yes. we have evolved to make more complex choices than other animals, and in so doing, we have created all possible outcomes of those choices. some humans choose to conserve resources and respect the planet. others choose to pollute. most don't make a conscious choice at all (other choices may have dictated the choice to pollute), and fall somewhere in the middle. since things in nature prefer the path of the least resistance, and making good choices requires much resistance to the easy path, it is inevitable that humans will make bad choices. sometimes these bad choices will be to pollute. sometimes they will be to conserve. the current state we find ourselves in is a natural result of these choices. we don't have to make the choice to pollute, but we do. either choice would be natural.
when polluting people live together in cities, those cities pollute the earth. it's just what happens at the end of a long, complicated series of good and bad choices -- made possible by evolution's gift to us. all your notions of responsibility are still there. individuals are still accountable for what they do, and still make the choice. but all choices are natural. one of my favorite sayings is "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." sometimes the raindrop doesn't flood, but sometimes it does. what's natural is that it both does and doesn't, and the responsibility and consequences are still there. if we're talking about a person, the choice is still there even though the person will say they had no choice. but that's nothing more than poetic. a person will choose to save a life and tell you they felt they had no choice. and a person will take a life for the same reason. but the choice was always there, as well as the consequences.
"i live too far from work to take public transportation." well no, you choose to live too far from work, or you accepted a job too far from your home, or you haven't thought of alternatives to getting to work. "i had to accept that job, it was all i could find." well no, you could have chosen not to find work. i can show you examples of thousands of people who chose not to get a job and still live. you just decided that you don't want those alternatives. "i have to have electricity in my house, so burning coal is not my fault." yes, it is. nobody would burn coal for electricity if you refused to buy it; that is, if you, and a critical mass of other people, had the moral fortitude to refuse polluting technologies and suffer life the way humans have for thousands of years, then these inventions would get healthy, sustainable sources of fuel. but you don't care that much, and neither do i, and so we have pollution. convenience trumps all -- the path of least resistance.
"Oh [the current state of things] is just what happens because of our DNA" is a completely BS way to dismiss our agency.
just want to point out again that i've not dismissed agency. i've only said that
i've been working in flash for 12 years myself, 9 professionally. i know exactly what you're talking about. frameworks make debugging and introspection a lot easier though. i prefer flex, but there are lots of other ways to produce flash. a competitor product called Swish that no one seems to have heard about, and then there's OpenLaszlo of pandora radio fame. even php can create.swf files with the Ming extension (but that's really crude). despite its sometimes erratic behavior, i'd rather have the nice IDEs and deal with a buggy compiler than use the alternatives. i've gotten to know the compiler a bit, and i know what kinds of baby food it likes and what kinds it will spit up on me.
A few weeks ago, I foolishly setup a "Stay Off The Lawn" sign that a home security company sent me by mail. As someone who doesn't know much about home security, at the time, I thought nothing of it. "Why would a home security company want to hurt me?" Following this line of thought, I put up the sign without question.
How naive I was. Despite having what was supposedly the best "Stay Off The Lawn" sign out right then, a young whippersnapper stepped on my lawn and held my attention hostage. He was pretending to be a messenger from the National Security Agency telling me to buy some strange lawn sign I'd never heard of from a company I'd never heard of to remove this same young whippersnapper.
This immediately set alarm bells off in my head. "How could this happen? My 'Stay Off The Lawn' sign is supposed to be second to none!" Faced with this harsh reality, I decided to take my "Stay Off The Lawn" sign in for repair. They gladly accepted the job, told me it'd be fixed in a few days, and sent me off with a smile.
A few days later, they called me and told me to come pick up my sign. At the time, I noticed that they sounded like whimpering animals, but I concluded that it must just be stress from work. When I arrived, they, with tears in their eyes, told me that the young whippersnapper was so awful and merciless that they were unable to remove him. "Ah," I thought. "That must be why they sounded so frustrated and pathetic over the phone. Their failure must have truly ruined their pride as professionals." I later found out that two of them had committed suicide.
After returning home, I tried to fix it myself (despite the fact that even the professionals couldn't do it). After about a day or so, I was losing my very mind. I stopped going to work, stopped eating, was depressed, and I would very frequently throw my precious belongings across the room and break them; that is how bad this young whippersnapper was.
That's when it happened: I found GetOffMyFuckingLawn.com [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com]! I installed the "Trespassers Will Be Shot" sign from GetOffMyFuckingLawn.com [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com], faced it toward the street, and let it remove all the young whippersnappers! They were removed in precisely 2.892 seconds. Wow! Such a thing! I can't even believe this as such never before! GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com] is outstanding! Those young whippersnappers are running faster than ever! GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com] came through with flying colors where no one else could!
GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com] totally cleaned up my yard, and increased my property value! If you're having young whippersnapper problems, or even if you aren't having any obvious problems, I recommend that you use GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com]. As a cranky old vet, it did more for me that any so-called "professional." It'll even boost your firearm accuracy & aim-down-sight speed!
Now with LawnSentry! [http://www.wimp.com/lawngenius/]
html5 is no good for games? not surprised, it hasn't matured at all yet. and everyone who wasn't a flash developer was so quick to abandon it, right as it gained popularity for use as middleware in pc/console games.
to my knowledge there are no games being made with html5 that even approach the scope of these pc/console games using flash. and html5 is more inconsistent across platforms than javascript, almost as much as css. i thought we valued write-once-deploy-everywhere? html5 is a nice attempt, it's a nice thing to get started. but everyone jumped the flash ship wayyyy too quickly. only those who never worked in flash are scratching their heads at these html5 inadequacies. steve jobs was full of shit about flash. every point he made was either a misdirection, a warped fact, or outright lie.
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as an aside, the word "anand" or "ananda" means bliss in several hindi dialects.
A lot of people get stuck on their first language
i think this is where a lot of php hatred comes from, especially those who whine about dynamic types. they just can't figure it out. i hear complaints about the string functions. yeah the names are inconsistent. get over it.
no need. everyone on slashdot already has the nerd rage perk. strength is maxed.
electric light graffiti. brilliant. literally.
oh dude, you poor thing. play fallout 3 or fallout: new vegas. the other fallouts weren't as good, in just about everyone's opinion.
0 is a number and a boolean state. null is appropriate for non numerical arguments and prevents variables from being set with boolean/integer values.
if that were the case i might want it halted too. the point of sustainable energy is to restore our harmony with nature, not to find different ways to disrupt it. in any case, there are better ways of harnessing renewable energy than fiddling with something as important as our geomag field (looking at you DARPA).
And dependence on other nations for oil is not a concern as long as access to supply is certain, he said.
but it's not. if it were we wouldn't need to exercise our fifth freedom to ensure our oil-consuming way of life. case closed, exxon douchebag. this is, of course, forgetting that oil supply is finite, while biomass/solar fuels are sustainable.
Tillerson blamed a public that is "illiterate" in science and math, a "lazy" press, and advocacy groups that "manufacture fear" for energy misconceptions
why would advocacy groups do that? is there a profit motive? is it a bigger profit motive than exxon's?
the reason why people don't understand this is they mistakenly believe working the genius bar is anything other than a low skilled job. that's the whole point of apple products -- any idiot can use them. the genius bar is there to serve those dumber than idiots. this, on the other hand, is what i call a high skill job: http://www.theonion.com/video/new-apple-friend-bar-gives-customers-someone-to-ta,17693/
you'd have to be a fucking moron to think html5 was ever "write once run anywhere."
wrong. if you'd followed the link you'd know the 10.6 million is in dollars, not kronor.
isn't capitalism supposed to solve this? if there's a demand for an ADA-accessible whatever, won't the market fill that void? shouldn't someone (not necessarily disabled) be starting their own online streaming service with closed captioning? devil's advocate here, i'm not trying to marginalize the disabled. i just don't think we've been very consistent about what to mandate as accessible.
if this is about discrimination in any venue, then there are millions of porn sites and otherwise that are not ADA compliant.
heads up on the walking dead: the title refers to the survivors, not the zombies. hence the show is about human drama in a zombie apocalypse. plenty of shit has happened. i could drop a few examples but it's spoilers for others. and what other zombie tv show have you seen that gets away with this much gore? they routinely burst heads open and hack bodies up in the walking dead. even the creators have expressed surprise that amc lets them get away with their graphic violence.
i admit i've read the books since they came out and there is plenty of fucked up shit happening in the story line that waiting for the rearranged-for-tv version is exciting enough. it seemed like forever before they got to the part where carl kills zombie-shane. i liked the book version better though, where carl kills the living shane.
if they were, the headline would say Open Source Desktops Are Losing Competitiveness
easy? easier said than done. might as well get a separate phone just for junk apps, like we do with email addresses. but that costs extra unless you only use wifi. i'd probably recommend against using the same separate phone you keep for the mistresses/girlfriends you don't want your bottom bitch to know about.
anyone familiar with joe arpaio knows the gestapo is alive and well in arizona.
So don't dismiss human agency, and abdicate responsibility for your ability to choose, just because it's a "product of nature"!
i never said anything of the kind. i'm sorry you took it that way. my point is that this responsibility was endowed to us by evolution, and is therefore not unnatural. any choices a human being makes, good or bad, are "natural." maybe your misunderstanding comes from an assumption that natural = good. this is not the case. in fact, Howard Bloom's excellent book, The Lucifer Principle illustrates the "evil" nature of nature in a very rational manner.
what do you think of bacteria or virii? are they good? bad? on the one hand they can cause death in humans (bad thing, right?), on the other hand in the big picture, they help keep our numbers in check. something has to, we share the top of the food chain with lions. what they do is natural, right or wrong, good or bad.
You said that polluted overpopulated cities are "just what happens" as a result of our DNA.
yes. we have evolved to make more complex choices than other animals, and in so doing, we have created all possible outcomes of those choices. some humans choose to conserve resources and respect the planet. others choose to pollute. most don't make a conscious choice at all (other choices may have dictated the choice to pollute), and fall somewhere in the middle. since things in nature prefer the path of the least resistance, and making good choices requires much resistance to the easy path, it is inevitable that humans will make bad choices. sometimes these bad choices will be to pollute. sometimes they will be to conserve. the current state we find ourselves in is a natural result of these choices. we don't have to make the choice to pollute, but we do. either choice would be natural.
when polluting people live together in cities, those cities pollute the earth. it's just what happens at the end of a long, complicated series of good and bad choices -- made possible by evolution's gift to us. all your notions of responsibility are still there. individuals are still accountable for what they do, and still make the choice. but all choices are natural. one of my favorite sayings is "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." sometimes the raindrop doesn't flood, but sometimes it does. what's natural is that it both does and doesn't, and the responsibility and consequences are still there. if we're talking about a person, the choice is still there even though the person will say they had no choice. but that's nothing more than poetic. a person will choose to save a life and tell you they felt they had no choice. and a person will take a life for the same reason. but the choice was always there, as well as the consequences.
"i live too far from work to take public transportation." well no, you choose to live too far from work, or you accepted a job too far from your home, or you haven't thought of alternatives to getting to work. "i had to accept that job, it was all i could find." well no, you could have chosen not to find work. i can show you examples of thousands of people who chose not to get a job and still live. you just decided that you don't want those alternatives. "i have to have electricity in my house, so burning coal is not my fault." yes, it is. nobody would burn coal for electricity if you refused to buy it; that is, if you, and a critical mass of other people, had the moral fortitude to refuse polluting technologies and suffer life the way humans have for thousands of years, then these inventions would get healthy, sustainable sources of fuel. but you don't care that much, and neither do i, and so we have pollution. convenience trumps all -- the path of least resistance.
"Oh [the current state of things] is just what happens because of our DNA" is a completely BS way to dismiss our agency.
just want to point out again that i've not dismissed agency. i've only said that
i've been working in flash for 12 years myself, 9 professionally. i know exactly what you're talking about. frameworks make debugging and introspection a lot easier though. i prefer flex, but there are lots of other ways to produce flash. a competitor product called Swish that no one seems to have heard about, and then there's OpenLaszlo of pandora radio fame. even php can create .swf files with the Ming extension (but that's really crude). despite its sometimes erratic behavior, i'd rather have the nice IDEs and deal with a buggy compiler than use the alternatives. i've gotten to know the compiler a bit, and i know what kinds of baby food it likes and what kinds it will spit up on me.
too bad that's where all the talent went. japanese video games have sucked a fat one for the last 5 years at least
A few weeks ago, I foolishly setup a "Stay Off The Lawn" sign that a home security company sent me by mail. As someone who doesn't know much about home security, at the time, I thought nothing of it. "Why would a home security company want to hurt me?" Following this line of thought, I put up the sign without question.
How naive I was. Despite having what was supposedly the best "Stay Off The Lawn" sign out right then, a young whippersnapper stepped on my lawn and held my attention hostage. He was pretending to be a messenger from the National Security Agency telling me to buy some strange lawn sign I'd never heard of from a company I'd never heard of to remove this same young whippersnapper.
This immediately set alarm bells off in my head. "How could this happen? My 'Stay Off The Lawn' sign is supposed to be second to none!" Faced with this harsh reality, I decided to take my "Stay Off The Lawn" sign in for repair. They gladly accepted the job, told me it'd be fixed in a few days, and sent me off with a smile.
A few days later, they called me and told me to come pick up my sign. At the time, I noticed that they sounded like whimpering animals, but I concluded that it must just be stress from work. When I arrived, they, with tears in their eyes, told me that the young whippersnapper was so awful and merciless that they were unable to remove him. "Ah," I thought. "That must be why they sounded so frustrated and pathetic over the phone. Their failure must have truly ruined their pride as professionals." I later found out that two of them had committed suicide.
After returning home, I tried to fix it myself (despite the fact that even the professionals couldn't do it). After about a day or so, I was losing my very mind. I stopped going to work, stopped eating, was depressed, and I would very frequently throw my precious belongings across the room and break them; that is how bad this young whippersnapper was.
That's when it happened: I found GetOffMyFuckingLawn.com [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com]! I installed the "Trespassers Will Be Shot" sign from GetOffMyFuckingLawn.com [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com], faced it toward the street, and let it remove all the young whippersnappers! They were removed in precisely 2.892 seconds. Wow! Such a thing! I can't even believe this as such never before! GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com] is outstanding! Those young whippersnappers are running faster than ever! GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com] came through with flying colors where no one else could!
GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com] totally cleaned up my yard, and increased my property value! If you're having young whippersnapper problems, or even if you aren't having any obvious problems, I recommend that you use GetOffMyFuckingLawn [getoffmyfuckinglawn.com]. As a cranky old vet, it did more for me that any so-called "professional." It'll even boost your firearm accuracy & aim-down-sight speed!
Now with LawnSentry! [http://www.wimp.com/lawngenius/]
whoosh
html5 is no good for games? not surprised, it hasn't matured at all yet. and everyone who wasn't a flash developer was so quick to abandon it, right as it gained popularity for use as middleware in pc/console games.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/03/gameon.html
to my knowledge there are no games being made with html5 that even approach the scope of these pc/console games using flash. and html5 is more inconsistent across platforms than javascript, almost as much as css. i thought we valued write-once-deploy-everywhere? html5 is a nice attempt, it's a nice thing to get started. but everyone jumped the flash ship wayyyy too quickly. only those who never worked in flash are scratching their heads at these html5 inadequacies. steve jobs was full of shit about flash. every point he made was either a misdirection, a warped fact, or outright lie.
duh. that's how you get to be CEO: by not doing any work and taking credit for others' work. people rise to their highest level of incompetence.
yeah like cuz he's dead. it's weekend at bernie's over at google.