The people on the "production" end of our economy barely make enough to support themselves as it stands. We'll probably end up just giving them the means to subsist, and providing them with some sort of mindless drivel work to occupy their time and give them a sense of belonging. In other words, we'll have many, many positions open for video store clerks.
I honestly don't think that running up 30 flights of stairs is for everyone. Walking might be acceptable, but I think that running is probably overdoing it. In fact, not only does it open up the possbility for a stress injury, but it opens up the possibility of falling down a flight of stairs.
Call me crazy, but if you're losing weight without exercising, then you're not really getting all the health benefits of "being in shape", you're just getting the health benefits of "not being fat". You're still not going to have a reasonable amount of energy or strength, which I think is a very positive result of including even a short exercise routine in your plan. Eating well is a good start, but even 15-30 minutes per day or every other day is fine to keep your body "fit".
Exercising does take a lot of time, but not in a "time-consuming" way. That is to say, getting in shape with exercise doesn't require a lot of time each day, it just requires that you put some time in consistently over long periods of time, say a month or two. And once you've done that, then the next six or twelve or twenty-four months come quite easily, since your body has adapted itself to work comfortably within a casual routine. And by then, it should even feel good!
I am *amazed* at this assertion. How could anybody possibly criticize Star Wars fans for stretching the material, and in the same breath claim that Star Trek/Babylon 5 fans "just don't think like that"? Have you been paying attention for the past three decades?!? Star Trek fans practically *INVENTED* the art of nitpicking! THINK!!!
I wouldn't say it's odd at all. I would say it's pretty common for good programmers to have a penchant for designing a system, from the foundation up to aesthetics. There's an undeniable beauty/elegance about having a system come together perfectly in its completion. Maybe that's even something that bad programmers tend to fall prey to, not being able to see the forest from the frees.
I'm a student myself, but an aspiring programmer. I could see myself as an architect, even if a mediocre one. For that matter, I figure I'd make a good mechanic, which (I suspect) would require an ability to get a handle on a complex group of components to arrive at conclusions. I don't think I'd be very happy just fixing other people's mistakes, but hey, that's kinda beside the point. The point, as I see it, is to understand an account for both levels of complexity, even if you prefer to spend your time at just one of them.
That's actually a fundamental problem with programming today. People are so concerned with the optimization and implementation details that they're not stepping back enough to try to design a sound system. Developing a reliable (read: crash-proof) system should really be more important than developing a speedy system. Hardware invariably gets faster, but buggy software will crash forever.
While I believe that the above statement is critical to the progress of computing as a whole (and to endearing it in the hearts of a justifiably wary public), I should probably qualify it. We obviously still need efficient algorithms that won't grow out of the realm of reality when faced with large data sets. But, as Djikstra argued, whenever these are applied they need to be provably correct. They should also more often than not be abstracted/modularized out of the minds of the programmers working at the levels above them. Most of the nasty pitfalls in large systems come from a tendency to make concessions to this rule.
Last I checked, many "Linux apps" are being developed by commercial organizations, meaning that the employees therein have to follow the common practices for writing readable code.
"Linux apps" (read: utilities) written by one guy who'll never have to worry about another person looking at the source probably don't have to be commented. Real software projects need proper documentation.
...that Microsoft made its gargantuan profits off of making PC's viable to the common user, and is now doing its best to limit the functionality of the common user's PC to that of a standard VCR.
Um, yeah... Gonna have to disagree with you there... For some reason I can't picture any actual human being tossing a tank off into the distance, but it looks pretty decent with the CG. The same sentiment goes for a lot of other scenes in the movie. Using an actor would either make him look ridiculously small for the feats he's performing, or make the miniaturized sets around him look equally silly (in the event they took that route).
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Uh... wouldn't they just create another account?
Perhaps stand in at their other character's funeral?
Probably got corrected by his secretary.
You and I must not be driving on the same planet.
The people on the "production" end of our economy barely make enough to support themselves as it stands. We'll probably end up just giving them the means to subsist, and providing them with some sort of mindless drivel work to occupy their time and give them a sense of belonging. In other words, we'll have many, many positions open for video store clerks.
I hope they're funnier than you have been in this discussion :(
Bad news for this guy. His ISP's going to demand that he commit hari kari now :~(
I hope you're not *just* getting "sick and tired" of it, because some people have been irritated about it for more than 20 years by now.
I honestly don't think that running up 30 flights of stairs is for everyone. Walking might be acceptable, but I think that running is probably overdoing it. In fact, not only does it open up the possbility for a stress injury, but it opens up the possibility of falling down a flight of stairs.
Call me crazy, but if you're losing weight without exercising, then you're not really getting all the health benefits of "being in shape", you're just getting the health benefits of "not being fat". You're still not going to have a reasonable amount of energy or strength, which I think is a very positive result of including even a short exercise routine in your plan. Eating well is a good start, but even 15-30 minutes per day or every other day is fine to keep your body "fit".
Exercising does take a lot of time, but not in a "time-consuming" way. That is to say, getting in shape with exercise doesn't require a lot of time each day, it just requires that you put some time in consistently over long periods of time, say a month or two. And once you've done that, then the next six or twelve or twenty-four months come quite easily, since your body has adapted itself to work comfortably within a casual routine. And by then, it should even feel good!
I am *amazed* at this assertion. How could anybody possibly criticize Star Wars fans for stretching the material, and in the same breath claim that Star Trek/Babylon 5 fans "just don't think like that"? Have you been paying attention for the past three decades?!? Star Trek fans practically *INVENTED* the art of nitpicking! THINK!!!
I would actually like to see that. Not so much the dogfight, but definitely the squid sex.
Actually I think it's because the movie would've sucked if the rebels got stamped out of existence in the span of two minutes
This post is definitely underrated!
I wouldn't say it's odd at all. I would say it's pretty common for good programmers to have a penchant for designing a system, from the foundation up to aesthetics. There's an undeniable beauty/elegance about having a system come together perfectly in its completion. Maybe that's even something that bad programmers tend to fall prey to, not being able to see the forest from the frees.
I'm a student myself, but an aspiring programmer. I could see myself as an architect, even if a mediocre one. For that matter, I figure I'd make a good mechanic, which (I suspect) would require an ability to get a handle on a complex group of components to arrive at conclusions. I don't think I'd be very happy just fixing other people's mistakes, but hey, that's kinda beside the point. The point, as I see it, is to understand an account for both levels of complexity, even if you prefer to spend your time at just one of them.
That's actually a fundamental problem with programming today. People are so concerned with the optimization and implementation details that they're not stepping back enough to try to design a sound system. Developing a reliable (read: crash-proof) system should really be more important than developing a speedy system. Hardware invariably gets faster, but buggy software will crash forever.
While I believe that the above statement is critical to the progress of computing as a whole (and to endearing it in the hearts of a justifiably wary public), I should probably qualify it. We obviously still need efficient algorithms that won't grow out of the realm of reality when faced with large data sets. But, as Djikstra argued, whenever these are applied they need to be provably correct. They should also more often than not be abstracted/modularized out of the minds of the programmers working at the levels above them. Most of the nasty pitfalls in large systems come from a tendency to make concessions to this rule.
Last I checked, many "Linux apps" are being developed by commercial organizations, meaning that the employees therein have to follow the common practices for writing readable code.
"Linux apps" (read: utilities) written by one guy who'll never have to worry about another person looking at the source probably don't have to be commented. Real software projects need proper documentation.
So you're saying that Middle Easterners are sociopaths?
Wow, what a noble (and curiously self-serving) definition of "pirate"!
I would actually venture to say that no more than 3% of the content of any of *my* Web sites has ever been read by anyone but me.
Yes, but I'm told that his two sons are even crazier than he is...
Perhaps it's the fact that Texas is itself overwhelming a brownish color.
...that Microsoft made its gargantuan profits off of making PC's viable to the common user, and is now doing its best to limit the functionality of the common user's PC to that of a standard VCR.
Do you mind if we get offended that you're demeaning gamers?
Just because everyone on /. is waiting for a special edition doesn't mean anyone else is.
Um, yeah... Gonna have to disagree with you there... For some reason I can't picture any actual human being tossing a tank off into the distance, but it looks pretty decent with the CG. The same sentiment goes for a lot of other scenes in the movie. Using an actor would either make him look ridiculously small for the feats he's performing, or make the miniaturized sets around him look equally silly (in the event they took that route).