For one, I was not a CS major. I was a chemistry major. But a programming class was required. My classmates and myself all felt that learning C/C++ would be more beneficial to us in the long term. The cirriculum required FORTRAN, since that was a "sience programming language".
The refused to budge. I took FORTRAN. I have never used FORTRAN. It was so much like BASIC on my old C64 I wanted to cry. I learned NOTHING (or, at least that's how it felt).
The next year, the cirriculum was changed to C/C++. I was rather pissed.
I am by no means a good programmer. I'm not even a crappy programmer. I do almost no coding. But, every time I look around, I feel that had I learned C I'd have been better off.
I've played with Perl, I've played with Python. I've not played much with Java. But even with just playing, it has felt more useful than what I had gotten out of FORTRAN.
I was most definitely not supporting censorship of any form. I am supporting active parenting, in which parents use their judgement to determine whether or not something is suitable for their child's audience. I don't want words to be silenced, but I want to act as a buffer for excesses that come my child's way until the time that my child is old enough to understand what they are hearing.
I think that statement pretty much ruined your argument. You had me right up until that point. You don't force children to hear something that they probably should not. It is a matter of maturity. A parent should be prepared to explain such things, but not to the point of forcing it upon a child. That's just plain stupid.
well, I was trying to refer to common expressions like "cest al vie", "que sera, sera", and crap like that. stuff that most people know. however, everyone comepletely took what I said out of context.
nowhere did I say I was fluent in those languages... but people tend to know various expressions from other languages. Thus, I specifically said the word 'expressions'. If you want to flame me, go ahead, but at least havea clue first.
...ok, so now Nevada is making some nice on-line gambling. If it is not legal to gamble in the state you are in, even though it is on line, how the hell does this work?
oh well... I've got more important things to concern myself with...
yeah, but there are by far more effective and simpler ways to do that then to modify the DNA... you just nuke the DNA with cross-linkers - instant cell death. Works on cancer, works on healthy cells, too. And the compounds have been around for quite a while. Ever hear of mustard gas? That little nasty is one of the basis for the whole antineoplastic field.
I think one of the more fundamental problems is that no matter how well we "map" our DNA, we still have very little idea exactly how it does what it does. There are huge gaps in what we think we know. Why do cells differentiate? We still don't know. So, yeah, you could try to make a "DNA bomb", but I doubt that it'll work as expected.
Now, if it could render the game to make me play more like James Bond in The Living Daylights, well, then there'd be all those dancing naked chicks just like in the opening credits, and I'd be distracted as to get killed even more than I already do in Quake.
Writing needs to be open source??? Yeah, right! I think that kind of underminds the purpose of most authors - if you have a creative vision, then it is your creative vision - not anyone else's. If you so choose to share that vision with the world, so be it, I think that's great.
Perhaps you mean to "open" the publishing schemes, but there is no way in hell that writing should be "open" - that's not quite the way to write a coherent story.
On the other hand, nice troll. Look, you even got us to respond...
As am I not a "rabid FSFer", but I do have the misfortune of working in a patent landmine, I agree wholeheartedly.
But since HP is the one putting this on, perhaps he's not trying to beat them with the stick, but prod them along. Hopefully, he'll have a carrot in his back pocket just in case...
Personally, I'd like to see some patents open up... maybe not on the bleeding edge stuff, but at least on some well-established technologies. Opening them up could lead to further developments without the legal hassle of patenthood.
Oh, well, enough rambling for now...
"dragging along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag and my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball and my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel"
What's wrong with dragging around your tenor sax? I've had the urge to suddenly start playing Auteumn Leaves many a times during Unreal... it just seems so fitting after blowing away your best friend with the sniper rifle.
I'm not so sure that we know the universe had a beginning. I think that is based on assumptions, especially pertaining to physics - thinking that we know the definition of things. We can only define what we can observe, and who's to say that we've seen the whole picture yet? People get too tied to their textbooks because it is comfortable - but it does little to advance what we know.
Why does something have to begin and end, both in terms of time and space? Why can't something just be? This is one of the problems with some of science - it doesn't deal well with that concept.
It seems that some executives destroy company after company after company.
Sadly, this is very true. There seem to be quite a few individuals who run amock, going to a company, "reorganizing" it, changing the "infrastructure", and watching the whole thing self-destruct. It is definitely true among smaller companies. The real problem is that most of this happens through very legal channels, so there is little that can be done about it.
It gets quite frustrating when the higher-ups become almost untouchable to the point that their failures are overlooked as they take the next job. Really makes me wonder.
no... that could be even worse - a side effect of ritalin is hyperactivity - if you are not already hyperactive. Giving a kid who doesn't need ritalin is just evil - they bounce around about 100x more than usual.
Valium is good... some of the antipsychotics/antischiztophrenics may work better as they work by slowing brain activity.
I point this out merely for the entertainment value... I have the misfortune of knowing who he responded to...
I, however, agree with you. Maybe I am a bit "unaware" of the reality of economics, but I was always taught about supply and demand, but I don't how anyone would want such a restrictive, specialized PC. It just doesn't seem realistic.
If the governement were to "force us to use them", well, that would be bad. Bad for us, bad for the government that would have to deal with the huge outrage it would incur.
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The refused to budge. I took FORTRAN. I have never used FORTRAN. It was so much like BASIC on my old C64 I wanted to cry. I learned NOTHING (or, at least that's how it felt).
The next year, the cirriculum was changed to C/C++. I was rather pissed.
I am by no means a good programmer. I'm not even a crappy programmer. I do almost no coding. But, every time I look around, I feel that had I learned C I'd have been better off.
I've played with Perl, I've played with Python. I've not played much with Java. But even with just playing, it has felt more useful than what I had gotten out of FORTRAN.
cest la guerre
oh well... I've got more important things to concern myself with...
This is pretty funny, and cool. Now they need to get a fourth up there to play euchre.
WHAT??
How did what you post make any sense at all???
Writing needs to be open source??? Yeah, right! I think that kind of underminds the purpose of most authors - if you have a creative vision, then it is your creative vision - not anyone else's. If you so choose to share that vision with the world, so be it, I think that's great.
Perhaps you mean to "open" the publishing schemes, but there is no way in hell that writing should be "open" - that's not quite the way to write a coherent story.
On the other hand, nice troll. Look, you even got us to respond...
But since HP is the one putting this on, perhaps he's not trying to beat them with the stick, but prod them along. Hopefully, he'll have a carrot in his back pocket just in case...
Personally, I'd like to see some patents open up... maybe not on the bleeding edge stuff, but at least on some well-established technologies. Opening them up could lead to further developments without the legal hassle of patenthood. Oh, well, enough rambling for now...
What's wrong with dragging around your tenor sax? I've had the urge to suddenly start playing Auteumn Leaves many a times during Unreal... it just seems so fitting after blowing away your best friend with the sniper rifle.
Sadly, this is very true. There seem to be quite a few individuals who run amock, going to a company, "reorganizing" it, changing the "infrastructure", and watching the whole thing self-destruct. It is definitely true among smaller companies. The real problem is that most of this happens through very legal channels, so there is little that can be done about it.
It gets quite frustrating when the higher-ups become almost untouchable to the point that their failures are overlooked as they take the next job. Really makes me wonder.
Valium is good... some of the antipsychotics/antischiztophrenics may work better as they work by slowing brain activity.
Roger Dean, Mouse and Kelly, the whole Hipgnosis team... its really kinda sad to see an artform pushed aside like that.
Its giving me the creeps...
I point this out merely for the entertainment value... I have the misfortune of knowing who he responded to...
I, however, agree with you. Maybe I am a bit "unaware" of the reality of economics, but I was always taught about supply and demand, but I don't how anyone would want such a restrictive, specialized PC. It just doesn't seem realistic.
If the governement were to "force us to use them", well, that would be bad. Bad for us, bad for the government that would have to deal with the huge outrage it would incur.