(one of my favs is when people don't have the closing tag in a table. It displays fine in IE but it wouldn't display in Netscape because Netscape knew it was bad code)
I love that argument. You can't seriously think that netscape detects the broken html and makes a political decision not to show it! A missing could distort your page on IE. In netscape it would crash the browser. Obviously this shows that netscape was a superior product. One crashes, user gets pissed off with the browser, the other just goes on fine, user doesn't even know the html is bad. Yup, I can tell you which I'd rather be using.
I'd like to expand on this. A technique I use is this (yes, when I'm being paid I write ASP, when I'm not it's php).
I start with a function like this
function checkBarIsFooable(objBar)
'Check for condition a exit if true
'Check for condition b exit if true
'Get response data
'clean data
'compare with database
'fallback if apple = kwyjibo
end function
And then once I've got the (almost psuedo code) comments, I flesh it out, but with an extra indentation for code (one more than the comments) so it's easy to skim over the function and see how it does it's thing.
I try to have a comment every 5 to 15 lines of code. It's especially good when you're writing code to check permissions on certain object user relationships like I have been lately, give it a try - and if you have any better ideas I'm all ears!
Smash bros. That's all you need to know. On the surface it's a crappy game for kids, but a bunch of mates and a slab makes for a fun night on the nintendo.
the voodoo rush (a slightly slower voodoo1 with a vanilla 2d shipset), was succeeded by the banshee, the same sort of thing but using a voodoo2, only the banshee was even slower than it's equivalent 3d only v2 card than the rush compared with the voodoo 1
Yes I agree. Although flash can be (and often is) misused by "designers" the world over, it's a good product, made by a decent company. And it's good to see somebody in a position to bitchslap adobe, because frankly they're evil, greedy bastards, always have been.
No, because some people's need for communication devices (doctors, for example) far, far outweighs our right to a quiet theatre. I hate phones in theatres as much as you, but sometimes there are exceptions... Plus people like me like to have their phone on silent and vibrate so I at least have the option of leaving the cinema if I feel the call is important enough to me.
If you like. Although that attitude certainly makes you look like a dickhead who couldn't afford one. Personally I don't believe in luxury cars, the closest thing I'd ever get to a luxury car is a 300kw HSV.
Oh and here in australia, a 7 new series _is_ a lot of money for a car, like the kind that could buy you a ferrari, or a 911 turbo.
I'd say they definitely would (at least the trigger nuke) if hit by something that small and dense, travelling that fast. After all it's smashing a bunch of heavy stuff together really hard that creates the inital fission reaction in the first place.
If he owns a new 7 series bmw he sure as hell can afford (and will use) a cheaper car for moving the dog. You don't get that kind of money by ruining expensive property.
The best part about that is the mental picture of some dude reviewing one of bmw's most expensive cars, and deciding he should put his dog in the back on the leather... Not the kind of intellignce to which I'd trust my car buying decisions:)
I think he was referring to the fact that because it's computer controlled and unintuitive, you can't automatically just reef it on when you pull over like you've been doing for years, not that it's worse than a cable for doing handbrakies;-)
I'm not saying that the software isn't or shouldn't remain legal.
Not at school tho. I'll bet any money you like (and you wouldn't take that bet) that the teachers are downloading stuff they shouldn't be at work, and they're wasting your tax dollars (assuming you're from the US) to do it.
... because it's so illegal to use P2P applications. All those people on Usenet are doing illegal activity too...
Of course they're all using p2p to download their favourite indy bands, the ones the man holds down so we couldn't hear them if it weren't for kazaa, just like the rest of us.
`Benefit to mankind' is not a sufficient reason to murder. Self defense and punishment are the only two justifications for murder that I can agree with.
I see. So you're happy to kill a man because he broke a rule, but to take some stem cells, and use them to save lives, is cruel and terrible?
This is why it's still important to many biologists to be able to collect less-differentiated stem cells by murdering the owners.
I love slashdot. If a scientist takes a few hundred cells that COULD POSSIBLY have grown into a person, it's murder. But if I download the latest wu-tang cd on mp3, it's not depriving somebody of a sale.
Unfortunately, the temporal institutions that are the earthly manifestations of religion do not have access to God's bank account (must have slipped his mind). Therefore, they are bound by the same need to raise money to pay people with (administrators and the people who go out and do good works) as any other earthly organization. As they have a pretty unlimited mandate (make sure everyone on the planet is fed/clothed/etc, preferably while worshipping God), they are an unlimited sink for funds. As people are stingy bastards, they generally barely have enough money coming in to cover their infrastructure costs.
Except that the catholic church has massive stockpiles of money and precious artifacts / etc, and is (iirc) the richest organisation in the world.
Imagine if Joe Sixpack could just click "Get New Program" and type "Mozilla" in the box, and voila! Mozilla. If it were that easy, more people would do it.
In the US he quickly was, and was replaced by a bright orange (or something) version. The original coloured megatron (not the re-run from japan) is worth quite a bit these days.
Slashdot Mirror
(one of my favs is when people don't have the closing tag in a table. It displays fine in IE but it wouldn't display in Netscape because Netscape knew it was bad code)
I love that argument. You can't seriously think that netscape detects the broken html and makes a political decision not to show it! A missing could distort your page on IE. In netscape it would crash the browser. Obviously this shows that netscape was a superior product. One crashes, user gets pissed off with the browser, the other just goes on fine, user doesn't even know the html is bad. Yup, I can tell you which I'd rather be using.
I see... So, every program compiled on unix with fsf tools should be GNU/whatever? GNU/Emacs? (I know, i know) GNU/ls, GNU/chmod? GNU/X?
You can't go through time and space as quickly as possible. They're mutually exclusive ;-)
The quicker you go, the slower you go through time.
I'd like to expand on this. A technique I use is this (yes, when I'm being paid I write ASP, when I'm not it's php).
I start with a function like this
function checkBarIsFooable(objBar)
'Check for condition a exit if true
'Check for condition b exit if true
'Get response data
'clean data
'compare with database
'fallback if apple = kwyjibo
end function
And then once I've got the (almost psuedo code) comments, I flesh it out, but with an extra indentation for code (one more than the comments) so it's easy to skim over the function and see how it does it's thing.
I try to have a comment every 5 to 15 lines of code. It's especially good when you're writing code to check permissions on certain object user relationships like I have been lately, give it a try - and if you have any better ideas I'm all ears!
Smash bros. That's all you need to know. On the surface it's a crappy game for kids, but a bunch of mates and a slab makes for a fun night on the nintendo.
the voodoo rush (a slightly slower voodoo1 with a vanilla 2d shipset), was succeeded by the banshee, the same sort of thing but using a voodoo2, only the banshee was even slower than it's equivalent 3d only v2 card than the rush compared with the voodoo 1
Quiet yankie, us aussies get chips (unless we're at maccas), and i got half-pissed watching starwars in gold class this arvo.
:-)
Oh yeah yoda is... hmmm... tough
Wasn't that one of the vapourware features in office 2000? Converting the file format to XML?
Yes I agree. Although flash can be (and often is) misused by "designers" the world over, it's a good product, made by a decent company. And it's good to see somebody in a position to bitchslap adobe, because frankly they're evil, greedy bastards, always have been.
No, because some people's need for communication devices (doctors, for example) far, far outweighs our right to a quiet theatre. I hate phones in theatres as much as you, but sometimes there are exceptions... Plus people like me like to have their phone on silent and vibrate so I at least have the option of leaving the cinema if I feel the call is important enough to me.
You've GOT to be kidding. Television is a filthy bowl of swill as it is.
Then I assume you don't have a television, and hence none of this discussion affects you?
I thought so...
If you like. Although that attitude certainly makes you look like a dickhead who couldn't afford one. Personally I don't believe in luxury cars, the closest thing I'd ever get to a luxury car is a 300kw HSV.
Oh and here in australia, a 7 new series _is_ a lot of money for a car, like the kind that could buy you a ferrari, or a 911 turbo.
I'd say they definitely would (at least the trigger nuke) if hit by something that small and dense, travelling that fast. After all it's smashing a bunch of heavy stuff together really hard that creates the inital fission reaction in the first place.
If he owns a new 7 series bmw he sure as hell can afford (and will use) a cheaper car for moving the dog. You don't get that kind of money by ruining expensive property.
The best part about that is the mental picture of some dude reviewing one of bmw's most expensive cars, and deciding he should put his dog in the back on the leather... Not the kind of intellignce to which I'd trust my car buying decisions :)
I think he was referring to the fact that because it's computer controlled and unintuitive, you can't automatically just reef it on when you pull over like you've been doing for years, not that it's worse than a cable for doing handbrakies ;-)
I'm not saying that the software isn't or shouldn't remain legal.
Not at school tho. I'll bet any money you like (and you wouldn't take that bet) that the teachers are downloading stuff they shouldn't be at work, and they're wasting your tax dollars (assuming you're from the US) to do it.
The day after I got halflife I stayed in a server until I had accumulated over 1000 kills (had to take a break for dinner though).
Perhaps, but I'd say this makes you a geek, not a killer.
... because it's so illegal to use P2P applications. All those people on Usenet are doing illegal activity too...
Of course they're all using p2p to download their favourite indy bands, the ones the man holds down so we couldn't hear them if it weren't for kazaa, just like the rest of us.
Yes. What did that baby/embryo/fetus/whatever do to deserve the death penalty?
To deserve the death penalty? It's not a baby, it's not an even a fetus. It's no more a person than a collection of hairs from my armpit are a person.
`Benefit to mankind' is not a sufficient reason to murder. Self defense and punishment are the only two justifications for murder that I can agree with.
I see. So you're happy to kill a man because he broke a rule, but to take some stem cells, and use them to save lives, is cruel and terrible?
This is why it's still important to many biologists to be able to collect less-differentiated stem cells by murdering the owners.
I love slashdot. If a scientist takes a few hundred cells that COULD POSSIBLY have grown into a person, it's murder. But if I download the latest wu-tang cd on mp3, it's not depriving somebody of a sale.
Unfortunately, the temporal institutions that are the earthly manifestations of religion do not have access to God's bank account (must have slipped his mind). Therefore, they are bound by the same need to raise money to pay people with (administrators and the people who go out and do good works) as any other earthly organization. As they have a pretty unlimited mandate (make sure everyone on the planet is fed/clothed/etc, preferably while worshipping God), they are an unlimited sink for funds. As people are stingy bastards, they generally barely have enough money coming in to cover their infrastructure costs.
Except that the catholic church has massive stockpiles of money and precious artifacts / etc, and is (iirc) the richest organisation in the world.
Imagine if Joe Sixpack could just click "Get New Program" and type "Mozilla" in the box, and voila! Mozilla. If it were that easy, more people would do it.
They can. It's called a browser. And tucows.
Megatron should be banned.
In the US he quickly was, and was replaced by a bright orange (or something) version. The original coloured megatron (not the re-run from japan) is worth quite a bit these days.