Yeah, but. Atheism leads to nihilism, at least in my thoughts. Without the stability afforded by the idea of a meaning to life, why not just go on a Natural Born Killers-style rampage? Given that I will just
be shut off and become usless
what is the difference between a good poem and the blood of a few thousand innocents on my hands? People behave as if they believe life has some meaning, for all they may categorically deny any meaning.
The what, not the why. I daresay science won't ever come up with an answer to that gnawing existential question. But science will certainly frame it in increasing detail...
We owe this to Noah Webster, I'm told, an example of someone in the right place at the right time using their power (in this case, publishing a dictionary) in an arbitrary way that triggers endless pettifoggery. The good news is that this is merely English. In the IT case, we have similar wrongheaded undertakings from Mr. Somebody that cost folks a lot of money. Stroustrup will be similarly vilified regardless of what he does with the Standard; you'd think that a merger/cleanup with C would be a Good Thing, but listen to the howls drifting back in time from that possible future...
I've got a 6035. Downloaded the 3D brochure ware (nice job). The sizes are close, 117mm tall for this thing. It's form factor bears similarity to the 6035, with the camera lense on the back. Looks like the stylus stows starboard on this new one. Does this bode well for the stylus loss statistics, or do they figure you just buy a gizmo pen that doubles as stylus? It remains to be seen whether you get much use out of the camera. Cases for these things are problematic. I throw mine in a HP 48GX case, which works well enough. Haven't heard of much difficulty with the flip, but I'm having strong thoughts of a Handspring Treo nonetheless. As with laptops, there may be no single right answer to the ultimate gadget question.
It just creates useless typing overhead. After all, there's nothing wrong with the liberal use of using-directives when there aren't any name ambiguities, and why tell people to always manually resolve names even when there is no name collision to resolve?
Not to start a flamewar here, Herb, but this idea seems to help in a similar way a decent variable naming convention helps. Additional information, embedded in the code, (with the resulting maintenance hassles) has the potential to save a lot of time during maintenance and when you have a new hire.
The reply might be that such meta-information belongs in a design document. Fair enough, yet you've merely re-located a requirement, not obviated it.
I guess with an infinite budget we could just hire an army of gurus who sneeze, emitting code that compiles on any platform with nary a warning...:)
Had mine about a year. Still waiting for an OS update so I can call off the jog dial without locking the contacts so that Chapura can't synchronize with Outleak2000. Price for an extra charging stand/data cable is outrageous. Using a serial-to-USB converter. Oddly, I had occasion to give my first unit away, then buy a newer converter. Now I can't seem to see the phone as a wireless modem. This is probably some Registry key fiasco. Guess I shouldn't badmouth Mr. Softy so much. But the punch line is your dual band remark--I stood there in the Verizon store off Little River Turnpike in Arlington, VA, and my German friend called me from her GSM phone. My phone rang, all right, but could I return the call? Sorry... I'm also enamored of the engineering on the Treo; the simple flip-up cover seems more durable than the PDQ flip. As soon as the current contract is up, I'm doing Treo...
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I hope that DB's start to support the most current standard and fast. That way, writing abstracted DB code in any language will become *extremely* easy.
And does your technical argument run afoul of the business model? Being able to port anything to Insert_DB_Here might or might not provide any ROI.
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Bad? Why not write
SELECT COUNT * FROM ( ByzantineSubqueryString ); or SELECT * FROM ViewICreatedToEncapsulateAFewThings;
As with many tools, I'm arguing that * has its place.
Now, if this billow of vaporware could abstract the various standards into some type of.vxd, the idea of having my cellular phone pass through the fire to Baal-Redmond might become attractive. The only thing less intuitive than these conflicting cellular phone standards is the dizzying array of pricing schemes. Wanted: phone/PDA gadget that _works_ regardless of where I am.
The on-line key filter is finer than the stand-alone.
It makes sense that the company might tolerate some extra-license playing if they think it might turn into a customer acquisition on-line.
I guess. Who needs games, anyway, when/. beckons?
Got the Kyocera as well.
The Treo appears to be engineered more effectively, in terms of the
upcoming color unit,
keyboard option,
smaller form factor,
removal of buttons from cover/flip portion.
For those who publicly admit to using M$ products, Kyocera's Chapura interface for Outleak manages to lock the contacts list if accessed via the jog dial.
You can dial someone from the contacts list once, but then you have to do a soft reset before it will synchronize.
Does anyone know of a site that summarizes the cel standards and their areas of implementation, along with providers? Sure would be nice to buy a phone/PDA that is useful both here and abroad.
Those are PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INTERFACES. There is nowhere to "HIDE" windows-only hooks. If you can have your MONO class library take CallX with four arguments of int just like the MS Windows version of the class, then you have CROSS PLATFORM capability. If Microsoft changes the class interface, then you change your corresponding class interface.
Honestly! It's all Object Oriented; there is NOWHERE to hide anything from anyone! Implementation is another issue, but by virtue of the platform itself all the interfaces have to be public and accessible, which means they can be easily emulated.
This is how you use Linux to advertise 'Doze. Get everyone to buy in at the API level, only to discover that, magically, for reasons buried deep in the implementation, stuff just kinda runs faster on 'Doze.
The counter argument is that the Open Source community can take the same APIs and implement them more efficiently elsewhere.
Thus, if you're Mr. Softy, you have to innovate at a higher frequency than the OS community.
Will history discover that the MS tortise can beat the OS hare, given a sufficient lead?
Your targeting is excellent./. articles boil down to:
a) MS sucks
b) See me new gadget
c) oh, yeah: technical stuff
What can be done to stem the tide of crapflooding?
Now that is an interesting thought; having some kind of wearable computer that can do image processing and inject the signal back into the optic nerve.
Not only would you be able to play your favorite games with your eyes closed, but you could have an internal HUD for all that PIM stuff.
The ghoulish cyborg possibilities are endless.
Prediction: society shuns all such gimmickry, prefering to employ technology to correct flaws, not augment people.
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Atheism leads to nihilism, at least in my thoughts.
Without the stability afforded by the idea of a meaning to life, why not just go on a Natural Born Killers-style rampage? Given that I will just
what is the difference between a good poem and the blood of a few thousand innocents on my hands? People behave as if they believe life has some meaning, for all they may categorically deny any meaning.
Thus, these atheistic arguments make me yawn.
Your concern is expressed in the term 'theodicy'. Best answer I can give is:
Hold your question for the face-to-face, and in the meantime, irritate God not.
The what, not the why.
I daresay science won't ever come up with an answer to that gnawing existential question.
But science will certainly frame it in increasing detail...
We owe this to Noah Webster, I'm told, an example of someone in the right place at the right time using their power (in this case, publishing a dictionary) in an arbitrary way that triggers endless pettifoggery.
The good news is that this is merely English. In the IT case, we have similar wrongheaded undertakings from Mr. Somebody that cost folks a lot of money.
Stroustrup will be similarly vilified regardless of what he does with the Standard; you'd think that a merger/cleanup with C would be a Good Thing, but listen to the howls drifting back in time from that possible future...
Curious why they haven't gone to 2.0.x for httpd...
I've got a 6035. Downloaded the 3D brochure ware (nice job). The sizes are close, 117mm tall for this thing.
It's form factor bears similarity to the 6035, with the camera lense on the back.
Looks like the stylus stows starboard on this new one. Does this bode well for the stylus loss statistics, or do they figure you just buy a gizmo pen that doubles as stylus?
It remains to be seen whether you get much use out of the camera.
Cases for these things are problematic. I throw mine in a HP 48GX case, which works well enough. Haven't heard of much difficulty with the flip, but I'm having strong thoughts of a Handspring Treo nonetheless.
As with laptops, there may be no single right answer to the ultimate gadget question.
We care not a fig for the Newton.
Reminds me of Steven Wright (looks at hitchiker in passenger seat)
"I want to try something I saw in a cartoon once, but I think I can do it..."
Not to start a flamewar here, Herb, but this idea seems to help in a similar way a decent variable naming convention helps. Additional information, embedded in the code, (with the resulting maintenance hassles) has the potential to save a lot of time during maintenance and when you have a new hire.
The reply might be that such meta-information belongs in a design document. Fair enough, yet you've merely re-located a requirement, not obviated it.
I guess with an infinite budget we could just hire an army of gurus who sneeze, emitting code that compiles on any platform with nary a warning...
Had mine about a year.
Still waiting for an OS update so I can call off the jog dial without locking the contacts so that Chapura can't synchronize with Outleak2000.
Price for an extra charging stand/data cable is outrageous.
Using a serial-to-USB converter. Oddly, I had occasion to give my first unit away, then buy a newer converter. Now I can't seem to see the phone as a wireless modem. This is probably some Registry key fiasco. Guess I shouldn't badmouth Mr. Softy so much.
But the punch line is your dual band remark--I stood there in the Verizon store off Little River Turnpike in Arlington, VA, and my German friend called me from her GSM phone. My phone rang, all right, but could I return the call? Sorry...
I'm also enamored of the engineering on the Treo; the simple flip-up cover seems more durable than the PDQ flip.
As soon as the current contract is up, I'm doing Treo...
Had I mod points, I'd bump you up based on the .sig alone. <><
-1 Off Topic
I hope that DB's start to support the most current standard and fast. That way, writing abstracted DB code in any language will become *extremely* easy.
And does your technical argument run afoul of the business model? Being able to port anything to Insert_DB_Here might or might not provide any ROI.
Bad? Why not write
SELECT COUNT * FROM ( ByzantineSubqueryString );
or
SELECT * FROM ViewICreatedToEncapsulateAFewThings;
As with many tools, I'm arguing that * has its place.
Now, if this billow of vaporware could abstract the various standards into some type of .vxd,
the idea of having my cellular phone pass through the fire to Baal-Redmond might become attractive.
The only thing less intuitive than these conflicting cellular phone standards
is the dizzying array of pricing schemes.
Wanted: phone/PDA gadget that _works_ regardless of where I am.
The on-line key filter is finer than the stand-alone. /. beckons?
It makes sense that the company might tolerate some extra-license playing if they think it might turn into a customer acquisition on-line.
I guess. Who needs games, anyway, when
Got the Kyocera as well.
The Treo appears to be engineered more effectively, in terms of the
upcoming color unit,
keyboard option,
smaller form factor,
removal of buttons from cover/flip portion.
For those who publicly admit to using M$ products, Kyocera's Chapura interface for Outleak manages to lock the contacts list if accessed via the jog dial.
You can dial someone from the contacts list once, but then you have to do a soft reset before it will synchronize.
Does anyone know of a site that summarizes the cel standards and their areas of implementation, along with providers? Sure would be nice to buy a phone/PDA that is useful both here and abroad.
Those are PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INTERFACES. There is nowhere to "HIDE" windows-only hooks. If you can have your MONO class library take CallX with four arguments of int just like the MS Windows version of the class, then you have CROSS PLATFORM capability. If Microsoft changes the class interface, then you change your corresponding class interface.
Honestly! It's all Object Oriented; there is NOWHERE to hide anything from anyone! Implementation is another issue, but by virtue of the platform itself all the interfaces have to be public and accessible, which means they can be easily emulated.
This is how you use Linux to advertise 'Doze. Get everyone to buy in at the API level, only to discover that, magically, for reasons buried deep in the implementation, stuff just kinda runs faster on 'Doze.
The counter argument is that the Open Source community can take the same APIs and implement them more efficiently elsewhere.
Thus, if you're Mr. Softy, you have to innovate at a higher frequency than the OS community.
Will history discover that the MS tortise can beat the OS hare, given a sufficient lead?
"Do you ever dance with the Devil by the pale moonlight? I ask that of all my victims..."--Jack Nicholson, the Joker, Batman.
.Net might not be a collosal bait-and-switch. Time will tell.
Not to be too cynical;
Ah, so.
I can't remember hearing about many *new* security holes in win2K recently.
I posit that they'll emerge when Mr. Softy needs to start forcing people into an XP migration, in order to meet earnings targets.
The cynicism will continue until Mr. Softy evokes some other response to his business practices.
It's that classic 'art' vs. 'engineering' argument. Truly, no discipline rode the fault line more closely...
Steven Wright famously dialed 411 and discovered his were located behind the couch...
Your targeting is excellent. /. articles boil down to:
a) MS sucks
b) See me new gadget
c) oh, yeah: technical stuff
What can be done to stem the tide of crapflooding?
I will own no other type of calculator.
Now that is an interesting thought; having some kind of wearable computer that can do image processing and inject the signal back into the optic nerve.
Not only would you be able to play your favorite games with your eyes closed, but you could have an internal HUD for all that PIM stuff.
The ghoulish cyborg possibilities are endless.
Prediction: society shuns all such gimmickry, prefering to employ technology to correct flaws, not augment people.