Well, there's also old-school Fortran. But let's be realistic-- when someone says that whitespace is not syntactically significant, they mean that it is not significant for anything but lexing.
It may seem silly to you, but it makes it easier for a parent who wants to teach their child that foul language is uncouth and a sign of an under developed intellect to purchase music that won't undermine their instruction.
But should WalMart be complicit in that kind of abuse?:-P
Teaching kids that swearing is uncouth is perfectly reasonable. But teaching kids that swearing is a sign of an underdeveloped intellect is just asinine; it's also a pet peeve of mine.
If only that big dragon could have a gay affair with the other dragons and then stop breathing fire because it pollutes the atmosphere and kills the polar bears. He could stay home and make a peace quilt to give to the enemy troops and write op-ed pieces about his feelings.
Does that sound more fun?
Actually, that sounds hilarious. Parody has its place, too.
See Steam; Steam sucks, but if you wanted Half Life 2, you needed Steam... so everyone has Steam.
I don't; in fact, Steam is the reason I didn't buy HalfLife 2, even though I think HalfLife is one of the greatest FPSes ever made. I wonder how many there are like me?
It's a reference to Judges 12. Basically, that word was used as a test to see what dialect you spoke, to determine if you were really one of the enemy. Since there's no longer anyone (that I know of, anyway) who speaks a language that is almost, but not quite, Hebrew, it wouldn't make sense to do it today.
But there you have no access controls. He wants something that supports access control but lets the user log in with OpenID or otherwise authenticate without a separate account.
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Different versions of Office (at least when they're a couple versions apart) also do this with binary files.
It's what happens when your data files are a nearly-straight dump of your bizarre in-memory data structures-- maintaining compatibility while changing the code at all is extremely difficult.
Also, some places charge extra for using credit cards because of the high transaction costs and the fact that some people will do a chargeback against them, even when they don't have a good reason to.
I've seen this too, but I'm pretty sure it's against their merchant agreement. If this were made known to the credit card company, it's very possible they could lose their account.
I'm 23, and while I had a couple of teachers make half-hearted attempts to teach phonics or grammar, it wasn't enough to make it helpful-- just enough to be annoying. Unless you're going to teach something resembling a complete system, it strikes me as somewhat futile. (For the record, the teacher who taught us English in first grade did focus on word endings to good effect. The teachers rotated classes for certain subjects.)
When grammar was taught that way, was it really English grammar, or was it that half-breed, Latin-ized stuff the 19th century grammarians liked so much? I love the English language, and I also love to boldly split my infinitives.
This is like the whole tomato-as-fruit-or-vegetable thing. It's not necessary for social categories to match scientific ones precisely.
Thus tomatoes are a vegetable and humans are not animals, even though tomatoes are in the same biological branch as fruit and people are in the same branch as animals.
Representative republic is JUST A FORM OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.
There's a lot of overlap there, but a republic can include a number of checks against the will of the people, while a true democracy doesn't pretty much by definition.
One nutter starts shooting then half the dorm draws guns and start blazing away unsure as to who the original shooter is and start shooting each other. Cop snipers arrive and see a whole bunch of people running around with their guns blazing. Who should they shoot at?
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Nah, he builds his own Microwave from Scratch, of course.
Well, there's also old-school Fortran. But let's be realistic-- when someone says that whitespace is not syntactically significant, they mean that it is not significant for anything but lexing.
That's the major reason I didn't buy it; apparently there aren't many like me.
But should WalMart be complicit in that kind of abuse? :-P
Teaching kids that swearing is uncouth is perfectly reasonable. But teaching kids that swearing is a sign of an underdeveloped intellect is just asinine; it's also a pet peeve of mine.
Actually, that sounds hilarious. Parody has its place, too.
I don't; in fact, Steam is the reason I didn't buy HalfLife 2, even though I think HalfLife is one of the greatest FPSes ever made. I wonder how many there are like me?
It's a reference to Judges 12. Basically, that word was used as a test to see what dialect you spoke, to determine if you were really one of the enemy. Since there's no longer anyone (that I know of, anyway) who speaks a language that is almost, but not quite, Hebrew, it wouldn't make sense to do it today.
I don't know why so many people seem to think that putting all your eggs in one basket is at all wise.
But there you have no access controls. He wants something that supports access control but lets the user log in with OpenID or otherwise authenticate without a separate account.
Different versions of Office (at least when they're a couple versions apart) also do this with binary files.
It's what happens when your data files are a nearly-straight dump of your bizarre in-memory data structures-- maintaining compatibility while changing the code at all is extremely difficult.
Well, I'm not 11, but at 23 that reminds me a bit of the halls in junior high school. But yes, in such excess it does get distracting.
I've seen this too, but I'm pretty sure it's against their merchant agreement. If this were made known to the credit card company, it's very possible they could lose their account.
Does that mean you were the one to mention the grammar Nazis? :-P
The mind boggles.
Has any of these actually been enforced on a serious candidate within the last few decades?
I was with you until that point. Umm... you are talking about U.S. states, right?
I'm 23, and while I had a couple of teachers make half-hearted attempts to teach phonics or grammar, it wasn't enough to make it helpful-- just enough to be annoying. Unless you're going to teach something resembling a complete system, it strikes me as somewhat futile. (For the record, the teacher who taught us English in first grade did focus on word endings to good effect. The teachers rotated classes for certain subjects.)
When grammar was taught that way, was it really English grammar, or was it that half-breed, Latin-ized stuff the 19th century grammarians liked so much? I love the English language, and I also love to boldly split my infinitives.
Didn't they use it early on? I seem to remember hearing something along the lines of, "Available on VHS and DVD disk!"
Can you really see Bush lobbying vigorously to get Real ID duplicated in Australia?
Some obnoxious laws get imposed other parts of the world. This one-- why?
This is like the whole tomato-as-fruit-or-vegetable thing. It's not necessary for social categories to match scientific ones precisely.
Thus tomatoes are a vegetable and humans are not animals, even though tomatoes are in the same biological branch as fruit and people are in the same branch as animals.
That's what distros are for-- to make those sorts of decisions.
There's a lot of overlap there, but a republic can include a number of checks against the will of the people, while a true democracy doesn't pretty much by definition.
Yes.
This line should open every horror movie made until Diablo III. Even if it does cost them the NC-17 rating.
It happens more often than you may think: Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog
Has this ever actually happened?