Did anyone say that it was "the only path"? I may have missed that comment.
Odd that you mention "logical fallacy" when talking about the mind, and then assume that meditation can work outside the bounds of the mind - from within which the meditating is being accomplished.
There are many, many potentials which require a spark to ignite the "important element". For you, perhaps that was your dedication to meditation, and perhaps that will get you as far in developing your Self and your Being as you can possibly get in this world. Congrats on having the opportunities, discipline, time, and teachers for that.
For the constitution to not apply to you, you need to leave the U.S.A. - politically if not physically: at the very least renounce your citizenship openly and formally to appropriate agents of the concerned parties.
Anything other than that is lying to yourself. Unless, of course, you are formally protesting the U.S. government (and all contained political bodies) and are thereby not being a hypocrit by elicitly taking advantage of the benefits of said nation-state of which you do not wish to be a part.
Otherwise blow it out your pie hole, uniformed gobstopper.
> I doubt these two candidates sincerity, I am suspicious of their motivation and I encourage their supporters to think very carefully before voting for them.
Um... you've witnessed every single Presidential candidate elected to office go against nearly every promise they made during their campaigns, and you are suspicious of some else's candidates?!
I think you need to check the basis for your assumptions.
No, in the end it is going to be you paying through the nose for shit service/coverage/device(s), changing as often as you can (or as you pay for to get out of previous contracts) with no ability to actually choose a carrier that meets your needs and can deliver the phone you want with the reliability you deserve.
1) Someone should make a phone THAT IS A PHONE and not have a fucking OS that can't timeslice quarters of a football game. It would be nice if it could handle an incoming and outgoing text at the same time without crashing, too. Oh, AND MAYBE A PHONECALL, Y'THINK?!
1b) And if the phone has a browser: THAT IT ACTUALLY BROWSES with mobile pages that come up in 5 seconds OR LESS!
2) Someone should make a carrier has plans WHICH COST HOW MUCH VALUE THEY PROVIDE rather than what all current US Carriers pull with disallowing or charging for just about everything under the sun.
3) Some government body should DISALLOW CONTRACTS by these companies, or at least have them cancellable without fees if the customer lodges a complaint against the company. Yes, I said it.
Whether it is Microsoft's inability to write anything coherent or touch on anything but the simplest tasks,
or IBM's inability to correctly identify or link to the types of information available on their website
or Apple's absurdities with documenting or not documenting anything of value, especially when they put out a new version of software or APIs...
Java-related firms, especially Spring Source and the JSF people are crap-tacular as well.
No, they've proven that no one knows how to document. Or if someone does, they're keeping it to themselves.
Just as with any other venture, these companies get away with as little cost as possible. "support" for developers or users are forums - and there are some good forums/moderators/admins/support people on them.
With software it is usually even worse: the comments about alpha-geek status are true for a couple different reasons. Linux is a great example of no documentation - that's a reason why the last decade has been spent making it user-usable. Because they didn't want to create a manual that is good for that single version (and would be what, 10,000 pages?).
Too many times when someone does document something - whether book, forum, blog, etc. - they don't give enough context: VERSION OF THE SOFTWARE is the most key part almost always missing. Date of posts is also very important yet rarely included. Larger context...
And it is always a balance of covering the generalities or covering the specifics: do you want to know how it works or how to use it?
I think video games set the pace: they gave up on including manuals (typically altogether) to let book publishers create and sell more products. In a way this makes a lot of sense, especially when the UI/game complexity began to outstrip the ability of a single person to aggregate and correlate all that data. And video games typically have simpler UIs and interact with less other systems than most software...
YMMV, but I'm looking for the Documentation's One True Solution. Anyone have it?
Javadocs are worthwhile as long as you include details that no one ever includes in Javadocs: every actual @precondition, @postcondition, @side_effect, all the runtime exception subclasses thrown (and when necessary, what they mean).... You know: everything that isn't generated automatically and that developers never note unless there is a bug report about it.
Your code still needs at least one main page of typical usage (Factory? Singleton? uses Spring/XML files? AOP? WHAT??), all the dependencies (JARs, APIs...) and hopefully all the interaction models and modes....
Short answer: you are incorrect, except for the extremely basic level of being a code monkey.
There is not(sic) such thing as a steep learning curve.
Only lousy documentation.
Lousy documentation (99.99% of what is out there) at best doesn't mitigate the original steep learning curve, at worst it makes the curve much, much steeper. Good documentation can alleviate some of a bad learning curve, but can't improve a product's design/usability.
If things were more accessible/logical to begin with then the documentation wouldn't come up as a factor at all: it would be superfluous or marketing material.
Does every one of your reviews give the 4 different possible values - in correct order - and then list what the reviewer gave the current game? Without that, having a word like 'Good' is so bland/overused as to be meaningless. Context matters, and stars give a much better, immediate view of that kind of rating.
Of course I hate that most places disallow zero-stars:p
Though my other, much tamer art project was removed by a distraught faculty member even though I had all the permits. Putting it up a second time (with the help of a facility person and friends) before class was over was a challenge!
I keep coming back to this quirky game because it starts with a space ship and from there you have the standard fare (trading, missions, fighting, mining, etc.), purchasable upgrades, treasure hunts,...
However it also includes a tactical fight/FPS hook, adventure text missions, a kind of arcade game, upgrading local command posts (though you can't fight enemy ones, and yes Pirate bases are my enemies), staving off alien invasions... Oh so much good stuff. When it decides to work correctly... Though about the worst DRM there is and the ever quirky: hey, something's for sale over there - why can't I purchase it or put it on layaway?
So I'm thinking the technology as a good start, not the storyline - it can be hard to judge a real threat until it's killed you though... Hmm, but combining that with some Star Trek:Online parts... hmm...
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the buckeyballs themselves are dark/undetectable matter. Instead that the whole invention of "dark matter" was a placeholder to explain all the extra mass that observations imply but instruments couldn't detect.
So if this is the first time scientists are detecting these buckey-structures in outer space, doesn't it seem logical that they 1) have mass, 2) weren't detected before, and therefore 3) could be a percent of the unknown matter ("dark" matter) that wasn't previously explainable?
Thanks for pointers to those programs (I'll try the free stylewriter soon) - I've wondered about programs like that ever since I tried my hand at sentence generators back in high school.
Have you tried these products and/or do you work in or have you benefited from that area of software development? (it's been too long - how do I PM you on slashdot??)
No, just like Santorum, those activists believe they can and need to force the rest of us to abide by their logic and beliefs whether or not we believe in them.
I don't want animals to have to suffer, and I know there are companies that use "humane" (how can that word even apply to animals?) ways to harvest meat - and I support them more than all the crap bulk animal farming shown in so many documentaries and educational films these days...
But how are the animal activists any different from the rabid Right in the US?
Any state that want sales taxes collected must provide a RESTful web service that, given the address/9-digit zip (for internet it is... shipping?), and a correct categorization of the product and cost(s), the service feeds back what the tax(es) are and a transaction #. It should be wrapped in a PGP/GPG private encryption as signature, etc. But if the states don't provide that then they aren't allowed to complain about any missing taxes.
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Did anyone say that it was "the only path"? I may have missed that comment.
Odd that you mention "logical fallacy" when talking about the mind, and then assume that meditation can work outside the bounds of the mind - from within which the meditating is being accomplished.
There are many, many potentials which require a spark to ignite the "important element". For you, perhaps that was your dedication to meditation, and perhaps that will get you as far in developing your Self and your Being as you can possibly get in this world. Congrats on having the opportunities, discipline, time, and teachers for that.
Not so for others.
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Twits.
For the constitution to not apply to you, you need to leave the U.S.A. - politically if not physically: at the very least renounce your citizenship openly and formally to appropriate agents of the concerned parties.
Anything other than that is lying to yourself. Unless, of course, you are formally protesting the U.S. government (and all contained political bodies) and are thereby not being a hypocrit by elicitly taking advantage of the benefits of said nation-state of which you do not wish to be a part.
Otherwise blow it out your pie hole, uniformed gobstopper.
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mod parent up!!
Certainly more informative
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> I doubt these two candidates sincerity, I am suspicious of their motivation and I encourage their supporters to think very carefully before voting for them.
Um... you've witnessed every single Presidential candidate elected to office go against nearly every promise they made during their campaigns, and you are suspicious of some else's candidates?!
I think you need to check the basis for your assumptions.
8-PP
I've put this out there before, but: http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Disclaimer: unaffiliated, just an interested visitor to the site.
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Hey, from here they certainly look the same to me since I'm in the opposite corner from Barak and Mitt being a single point away from each other:
http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
No, in the end it is going to be you paying through the nose for shit service/coverage/device(s), changing as often as you can (or as you pay for to get out of previous contracts) with no ability to actually choose a carrier that meets your needs and can deliver the phone you want with the reliability you deserve.
1) Someone should make a phone THAT IS A PHONE and not have a fucking OS that can't timeslice quarters of a football game. It would be nice if it could handle an incoming and outgoing text at the same time without crashing, too. Oh, AND MAYBE A PHONECALL, Y'THINK?!
1b) And if the phone has a browser: THAT IT ACTUALLY BROWSES with mobile pages that come up in 5 seconds OR LESS!
2) Someone should make a carrier has plans WHICH COST HOW MUCH VALUE THEY PROVIDE rather than what all current US Carriers pull with disallowing or charging for just about everything under the sun.
3) Some government body should DISALLOW CONTRACTS by these companies, or at least have them cancellable without fees if the customer lodges a complaint against the company. Yes, I said it.
Just... just fix the fucking system, PLEASE!
Whether it is Microsoft's inability to write anything coherent or touch on anything but the simplest tasks,
or IBM's inability to correctly identify or link to the types of information available on their website
or Apple's absurdities with documenting or not documenting anything of value, especially when they put out a new version of software or APIs...
Java-related firms, especially Spring Source and the JSF people are crap-tacular as well.
No, they've proven that no one knows how to document. Or if someone does, they're keeping it to themselves.
Just as with any other venture, these companies get away with as little cost as possible. "support" for developers or users are forums - and there are some good forums/moderators/admins/support people on them.
With software it is usually even worse: the comments about alpha-geek status are true for a couple different reasons. Linux is a great example of no documentation - that's a reason why the last decade has been spent making it user-usable. Because they didn't want to create a manual that is good for that single version (and would be what, 10,000 pages?).
Too many times when someone does document something - whether book, forum, blog, etc. - they don't give enough context: VERSION OF THE SOFTWARE is the most key part almost always missing. Date of posts is also very important yet rarely included. Larger context...
And it is always a balance of covering the generalities or covering the specifics: do you want to know how it works or how to use it?
I think video games set the pace: they gave up on including manuals (typically altogether) to let book publishers create and sell more products. In a way this makes a lot of sense, especially when the UI/game complexity began to outstrip the ability of a single person to aggregate and correlate all that data. And video games typically have simpler UIs and interact with less other systems than most software...
YMMV, but I'm looking for the Documentation's One True Solution. Anyone have it?
8-PP
Javadocs are worthwhile as long as you include details that no one ever includes in Javadocs: every actual @precondition, @postcondition, @side_effect, all the runtime exception subclasses thrown (and when necessary, what they mean).... You know: everything that isn't generated automatically and that developers never note unless there is a bug report about it.
Your code still needs at least one main page of typical usage (Factory? Singleton? uses Spring/XML files? AOP? WHAT??), all the dependencies (JARs, APIs...) and hopefully all the interaction models and modes....
Short answer: you are incorrect, except for the extremely basic level of being a code monkey.
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The UN takes their proposal and outlaws blasphemy.
That means that all religions MUST ACCEPT everything anyone else has to say: they cannot treat anything as blasphemy!
Please, can we vote this in today?!
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There is not(sic) such thing as a steep learning curve.
Only lousy documentation.
Lousy documentation (99.99% of what is out there) at best doesn't mitigate the original steep learning curve, at worst it makes the curve much, much steeper. Good documentation can alleviate some of a bad learning curve, but can't improve a product's design/usability.
If things were more accessible/logical to begin with then the documentation wouldn't come up as a factor at all: it would be superfluous or marketing material.
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I love your story! Mod points wouldn't be enough for your post 8)
I love your .sig too ;)
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True, 1+1=3
You just have to use very large values of 1.
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.stoning?
I do no think that word means what you think it means....
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Does every one of your reviews give the 4 different possible values - in correct order - and then list what the reviewer gave the current game? Without that, having a word like 'Good' is so bland/overused as to be meaningless. Context matters, and stars give a much better, immediate view of that kind of rating.
Of course I hate that most places disallow zero-stars :p
Though my other, much tamer art project was removed by a distraught faculty member even though I had all the permits. Putting it up a second time (with the help of a facility person and friends) before class was over was a challenge!
All hail the (now defunct) Fish Bowl!
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I keep coming back to this quirky game because it starts with a space ship and from there you have the standard fare (trading, missions, fighting, mining, etc.), purchasable upgrades, treasure hunts,...
However it also includes a tactical fight/FPS hook, adventure text missions, a kind of arcade game, upgrading local command posts (though you can't fight enemy ones, and yes Pirate bases are my enemies), staving off alien invasions... Oh so much good stuff. When it decides to work correctly... Though about the worst DRM there is and the ever quirky: hey, something's for sale over there - why can't I purchase it or put it on layaway?
So I'm thinking the technology as a good start, not the storyline - it can be hard to judge a real threat until it's killed you though... Hmm, but combining that with some Star Trek:Online parts... hmm...
8-PP
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the buckeyballs themselves are dark/undetectable matter. Instead that the whole invention of "dark matter" was a placeholder to explain all the extra mass that observations imply but instruments couldn't detect.
So if this is the first time scientists are detecting these buckey-structures in outer space, doesn't it seem logical that they 1) have mass, 2) weren't detected before, and therefore 3) could be a percent of the unknown matter ("dark" matter) that wasn't previously explainable?
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If they're only now finding these structures in space, could buckyballs be part of the missing "dark" matter?
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Thanks for pointers to those programs (I'll try the free stylewriter soon) - I've wondered about programs like that ever since I tried my hand at sentence generators back in high school.
Have you tried these products and/or do you work in or have you benefited from that area of software development? (it's been too long - how do I PM you on slashdot??)
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Thanks for posting - now... how much text do I have to include to get by the filters?
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No, just like Santorum, those activists believe they can and need to force the rest of us to abide by their logic and beliefs whether or not we believe in them.
I don't want animals to have to suffer, and I know there are companies that use "humane" (how can that word even apply to animals?) ways to harvest meat - and I support them more than all the crap bulk animal farming shown in so many documentaries and educational films these days...
But how are the animal activists any different from the rabid Right in the US?
8-PP
Any state that want sales taxes collected must provide a RESTful web service that, given the address/9-digit zip (for internet it is... shipping?), and a correct categorization of the product and cost(s), the service feeds back what the tax(es) are and a transaction #. It should be wrapped in a PGP/GPG private encryption as signature, etc. But if the states don't provide that then they aren't allowed to complain about any missing taxes.
There, solved.
Verizon anyone?