My guess is most (where "most" == more than half) of the non-drinkers in the study are former drinkers that drank so much they became teetotalers to save their marriages/jobs/lives/etc. At that point, though, your body is already screwed. Sure, you might buy yourself another decade or two, but the damage is done (as evidenced with the higher mortality rate).
When's the last time you saw a java ("it's going to change the way we use the internet") applet.
Applets? Aw, that's cute. No, normally when people talk about Java they have more enterprise-y things in mind. J2EE, JMS, Hibernate, etc.
You can't use it without a license on smartphones (ask Oracle)
Yeah, not too many companies running their businesses on smartphones.
Or you can write something in c and actually have something that people will use because it's a lot faster at runtime than java.
Faster? You really don't get it at all. Software execution speed only matters to 0.01% of the population. For most businesses, the bottleneck is(are) the database(s). Now why on earth would anyone spend money to make their applications faster when it's the data access that's killing performance?
That's like buying a faster CPU to edit music when you're running on 5,000 rpm hard drives. Get your priorities straight.
Java classes need a runtime - written in c - to INTERPRET them.
Java classes need a runtime, but that runtime could be any language. It just-so-happens to be C because an ANSI C compiler is the one thing you can pretty-much count on existing for every computer out there. But every implementation is different. Why would I want to limit my target audience?
Get a real language, get some vitamin c/c++. Too much java is bad for the blood pressure.
So, you're one of those guys that enjoys reinventing the wheel for every platform they do a release on. That's cool, I can understand and respect that. Me, I just want to make things that work on the most platforms as possible with the least amount of effort as possible.
all you need is another $500,000 on promotion to differentiate yourself from the flood of other crappy garage band recordings
And all you will have proven is that you can spend a lot of money. Notice there's still no correlation with actual quality.
Advertising, making a name for yourself, and actually seeing any returns (financial or otherwise) from your distribution is still very difficult.
"Making a name for yourself," basically all boils down to write good music. If you write good music, advertising is free. If you write good music, people will pay you to play it for them! If you write good music, people will even pay you to write more!
Street cameras, airports, and government buildings might have your picture, but they don't have your identity; that is, they don't have a name to correlate the face to. If you can't match the face to the name, you don't have identity.
So, in our efficient, modern world, I think there is no room for two spaces after a period. In the opinion of this particular copyeditor, this is a good thing.
Efficiency has nothing to do with it. In fact, efficiency is a complete red-herring, since presumably in our efficient, modern world we could simply write software to be intelligent enough to automatically add a space between sentences when it detects a period-space-word starting with a capital letter.
The reason you add two spaces is because the additional space aids your eyes in determining individual sentences. If you only use a single space to delineate words and sentences, all paragraphs merge into a jumble. Two spaces gives the eyes an additional visual cue, and thus is far easier to parse.
and it's from quite a credible source
An appeal to authority is less argumentatively valid than an appeal to reason. The Chicago Manual of Style gives no reason except some hand-waiving about our "efficient, modern world," which is a huge, steaming pile of bunkum.
Frankly, your ignorance needs to be eliminated. Read that AE911 site. It's CHOCK FULL of science, facts, math, and irrefutable evidence concerning that day and it's events.
See? This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. You don't know one single thing about my opinions about 9/11. You just assumed, like a fucking idiot , that I think all of the conspiracy theories are bunk. On what basis do you make that claim? Because I'm trying to fucking help your sorry ass.
I don't believe the official 9/11 story, either. It looks far too much like a controlled demolition for my liking. But understand, there's stuff I can provebased on evidence, and stuff I believebased on reason. And if you expect anyone to listen to your stupid ass, you better get on fucking board and realize you're ostracizing and alienating people that fucking support you.
Sorry for being so harsh, but if you keep going down this path you are going to quickly find that no one will take you seriously.
Yeah, he also didn't mention not reading the KKK's report. Because there's no point: an obviously biased source cannot be trusted, even if they're right 10% of the time.
Bullshit. If you had any proof you'd be a best-selling author and you'd be featured on so many talk shows you wouldn't have time to comment on slashdot.
No, what you have are theories. Like tons of other people.
The problem is, plenty of the stuff you mention has real proof. But when you start mixing in 9/11 shit you come off like a nut-job. So anyone reading what you've written will discount everything you wrote, even the stuff that's actually verifiable.
The technical term for this is shooting yourself in the foot. Like I said: you're not doing anyone any favors. Stick to the provable stuff, it's more than powerful enough.
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My guess is most (where "most" == more than half) of the non-drinkers in the study are former drinkers that drank so much they became teetotalers to save their marriages/jobs/lives/etc. At that point, though, your body is already screwed. Sure, you might buy yourself another decade or two, but the damage is done (as evidenced with the higher mortality rate).
Motorola, Samsung, LG, HTC, Apple, even Microsoft would disagree with you.
None of those companies run their businesses on smart phones. Not one.
Additionally, map-reduce renders relational databases obsolete, as well as removing the bottleneck.
Wow, and all this time I was treating you like you actually knew a thing or two. Get off the internet and read a book or twenty.
When's the last time you saw a java ("it's going to change the way we use the internet") applet.
Applets? Aw, that's cute. No, normally when people talk about Java they have more enterprise-y things in mind. J2EE, JMS, Hibernate, etc.
You can't use it without a license on smartphones (ask Oracle)
Yeah, not too many companies running their businesses on smartphones.
Or you can write something in c and actually have something that people will use because it's a lot faster at runtime than java.
Faster? You really don't get it at all. Software execution speed only matters to 0.01% of the population. For most businesses, the bottleneck is(are) the database(s). Now why on earth would anyone spend money to make their applications faster when it's the data access that's killing performance?
That's like buying a faster CPU to edit music when you're running on 5,000 rpm hard drives. Get your priorities straight.
Java classes need a runtime - written in c - to INTERPRET them.
Java classes need a runtime, but that runtime could be any language. It just-so-happens to be C because an ANSI C compiler is the one thing you can pretty-much count on existing for every computer out there. But every implementation is different. Why would I want to limit my target audience?
Get a real language, get some vitamin c/c++. Too much java is bad for the blood pressure.
So, you're one of those guys that enjoys reinventing the wheel for every platform they do a release on. That's cool, I can understand and respect that. Me, I just want to make things that work on the most platforms as possible with the least amount of effort as possible.
You seem to forget that everything runs on c/c++ - even Java. No c? No Java.
And you seem to forget that Java executables are completely platform independent, and the compiler itself (Sun's, at least) is written in Java.
BUT THANKS FOR PLAYING!
I know I'm going to steer clear of Java from now on. .Net and Mono seem much safer than Java at this point.
You, sir, are a crackhead.
then devs can say goodbye forever to Java, and good riddance
Right, because most of the world's apps are nothing more complex than blogs powered by PHP and MySQL.
Oh wait, that's just the companies that don't make any money.
I use Facebook all the time. [...] Is this another one of those "I use it, therefore I assume everybody uses it" kind of things?
Face...what?
Acting like you're too old school to give a crap about anything used by the social networking folks is now hip.
Cool! Old-fogey is the new hip! I knew it would loop around eventually! Now get off my goddamned lawn.
all you need is another $500,000 on promotion to differentiate yourself from the flood of other crappy garage band recordings
And all you will have proven is that you can spend a lot of money. Notice there's still no correlation with actual quality.
Advertising, making a name for yourself, and actually seeing any returns (financial or otherwise) from your distribution is still very difficult.
"Making a name for yourself," basically all boils down to write good music. If you write good music, advertising is free. If you write good music, people will pay you to play it for them! If you write good music, people will even pay you to write more!
I do sometimes wonder...
Speaking as a former sysop of a THG dist site and member of iCE, you can wonder no longer: it was.
I would gladly give up my high speed internet and go back to 9600 baud if it meant we could be free from all these goddamned fucking idiots.
Street cameras, airports, and government buildings might have your picture, but they don't have your identity; that is, they don't have a name to correlate the face to. If you can't match the face to the name, you don't have identity.
Wow.
I know! Fallacies of defective induction are pretty amazing! I would suggest you check 'em out but you're apparently already a master.
after a period that ends a sentence
Yes, you're absolutely correct--I overlooked abbreviations which would naturally only take a single space.
Not safe for lunch.
I've been an editor (copy editor, proofreader, senior editor, etc.) for 10 years now.
That is not an argument. Or rather, it is an exceedingly poor argument. Much like, my penis is larger than yours, therefor I am correct.
Try using reason next time.
For example: two spaces are easier to visually parse than one. That's testable, verifiable, and reproducible.
So, in our efficient, modern world, I think there is no room for two spaces after a period. In the opinion of this particular copyeditor, this is a good thing.
Efficiency has nothing to do with it. In fact, efficiency is a complete red-herring, since presumably in our efficient, modern world we could simply write software to be intelligent enough to automatically add a space between sentences when it detects a period-space-word starting with a capital letter.
The reason you add two spaces is because the additional space aids your eyes in determining individual sentences. If you only use a single space to delineate words and sentences, all paragraphs merge into a jumble. Two spaces gives the eyes an additional visual cue, and thus is far easier to parse.
and it's from quite a credible source
An appeal to authority is less argumentatively valid than an appeal to reason. The Chicago Manual of Style gives no reason except some hand-waiving about our "efficient, modern world," which is a huge, steaming pile of bunkum.
Old people resist change, news at 11.
Yeah, and young people don't read their history. Next thing you know you'll be sporting Wayfarers and sacrificing civil liberties to fight Commies.
And... "News at 11?" Haven't you heard of the internet?
Actually I was thinking ineligible for copyright meant that the subsequent copyright allowances (fair use) were not applicable.
except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law
Ah, so we're good, then.
Assuming the seal was designed by the FBI itself, it's ineligible for copyright as a work of the federal government.
Huh? I was under the impression that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was part of the federal government.
Frankly, your ignorance needs to be eliminated. Read that AE911 site. It's CHOCK FULL of science, facts, math, and irrefutable evidence concerning that day and it's events.
See? This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. You don't know one single thing about my opinions about 9/11. You just assumed, like a fucking idiot , that I think all of the conspiracy theories are bunk. On what basis do you make that claim? Because I'm trying to fucking help your sorry ass.
I don't believe the official 9/11 story, either. It looks far too much like a controlled demolition for my liking. But understand, there's stuff I can prove based on evidence, and stuff I believe based on reason. And if you expect anyone to listen to your stupid ass, you better get on fucking board and realize you're ostracizing and alienating people that fucking support you.
Sorry for being so harsh, but if you keep going down this path you are going to quickly find that no one will take you seriously.
Yeah, he also didn't mention not reading the KKK's report. Because there's no point: an obviously biased source cannot be trusted, even if they're right 10% of the time.
+1 Pentagon Papers
The hypocrisy is fucking insulting.
Bullshit. If you had any proof you'd be a best-selling author and you'd be featured on so many talk shows you wouldn't have time to comment on slashdot.
No, what you have are theories. Like tons of other people.
The problem is, plenty of the stuff you mention has real proof. But when you start mixing in 9/11 shit you come off like a nut-job. So anyone reading what you've written will discount everything you wrote, even the stuff that's actually verifiable.
The technical term for this is shooting yourself in the foot. Like I said: you're not doing anyone any favors. Stick to the provable stuff, it's more than powerful enough.