You can make a list of selectors use the same style, e.g.:
h1, a, hr { color:blue }
I'm not sure what your example means, though. Do you have a class or div called blue? That seems like a misleading choice of variable names. Sort of like creating a typedef of float called Int.
Yes, I find programming articles sprinkled with allusions to "Star Trek" or "Dr. Who" to be a much greater sign of maturity than mere contemporary references.
Not meaning to sound arrogant or anything, but I've always bitched about how retarded *my* generation was. The Love Boat, Dallas and Dynasty were the big TV shows back then, and I thought everyone was a nimrod for watching them. When Miami Vice came on I couldn't believe people thought it was actually cool to stay IN on a Friday night and watch TV.
And people older than I was couldn't make change in their heads; everyone seems to need a calculator or a cash register nowadays to figure that out.
To this day, people my age or older will say "Where the hell did you learn that?" if I drop a fact that we were all taught in 4th frickin' grade, like who wrote the Declaration of Independence or the order of the planets.
So yeah, I see today's generation and say they're retarded. But every generation is, just in it's own special way.
Besides, I still think it's good idea for people to learn assembly.
So...anybody who trims the crust off of their own bread is doing an illegal sandwich mod?
And to think, David Carradine does this in Kill Bill, v. 2. I wouldn't have gone to see that movie if I knew it had a scene that displayed such contempt for the law!
When a network exec decides to cancel a show, at least that's *his* business he's ruining.
When the FCC decides to wield their axe, though, that's the government sticking their nose into someone else's business.
It's like saying a pro basketball player who gets fat and sluggish has somehow betrayed the fans worse than a referee on graft who deliberately penalizes him for no reason.
I still contend (and I'm saying this from the point of view of someone who likes IF, by the way) that these are not choices you're describing; more like options or contingency plans. A choice, by necessity, means some things are going to be excluded (and, as the old saw goes, a work of art is judged as much by what's left out as by what's put in).
Moreover, even the best IF suffers from the inability to do any and every plausible action, and likely will for a long, long time. You can go up to the clerk, but if you don't have the money, but you can't buy the watch until you find the fifty dollars stashed in Uncle Jeb's mattress. You can't pawn off an old Stratocaster you used to play, because the author did not conceive of you playing it, and besides, there are no music stores or pawn shops in the vicinity. And you can't look them up in the Yellow Pages, because you don't need to use the phone in this game, so you don't have a phone book. Static fiction foregoes that illusion of real-world flexibility and instead focuses on the choices that make for the best story.
I wonder if any of the tradtional 'printed page' literary organizations will ever embrace I.F. as a legitmate form of literature, be it prose, poetry or just 'other'? Perhaps a Pulitzer for 'Best work of Interactive Fiction?
Probably not. The whole point of celebrating an artist is to commend the choices he/she made. The whole point of IF is to give choices to the player. Granted, there's still a lot of decisions when you write a game, but not to the degree that pre-written fiction has
That's not to say that games don't have their snooty prestige points. Chess is probably the best example of this.
Answer? Nothing about computers is 'intuitive' it's all learned behaviour.
Okay, there's not intuitive and there's really not intuitive.
It's one thing to have an icon that has no prior cultural associations with it, and say "that's the eject button." It's another thing to have an icon artistically rendered to look like the thing where you throw rotting food and soiled diapers and say "that's what you do to save your company's precious data."
So yes, nothing but the nipple is an intuitive interface, but it's still a design error to go against the habits of learned object recognition.
The fact that now the icon automagically changes is just a kludge for backwards compatibility. Is it small? Yes. Is it still wrong? Also yes.
I'm always amused that they call these games (and books, and movies) "mature" when they offer a pretty peurile outlook on things. Blow stuff up, shoot people, it doesn't matter if they shoot back 'cause you're indestructible. Or at least, you can respawn. Sounds more like a thirteen-year-old mentality than an adult one.
A real adult game would end when you get shot, and as a further measure short-circuit the console so you can't use it again. That would give the kiddiez a realistic message about how fun killing and dying is.
Oh, who am I kidding? I like violent movies as much as the next guy. Granted, I think they're appealing to something that never quite grew up with the rest of me. But even the ones I like don't celebrate violence the way something like GTA does.
Ah, never mind me. I've just gonna crawl off and mutter to myself about all the whippersnappers out there...
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Learning Python by Mark Lutz worked for me. It's a quick survey of the basic syntax, and common operations. There's a chapter or two on Object Oriented Programming, but it's not as daunting as it sounds, at least in Python. Another winner from O'Rielly (as opposed to, say, Learning XML, but that's a discussion for another day...)
I write software that doesn't contain errors, every day, on systems which deal with far more data than the average MS app.
I find this hard to believe. Are you saying that you write software that is as complex as the usual MS app, and that it contains no errors whatsoever and has never had to be debugged? It seems like everyone from Knuth on down has written bugs in software when working on an application of non-trivial complexity, so I'm a little skeptical if that's your claim.
And the amount of data that an app processes is not the only measure of a program's complexity: does your program interoperate with a dozen others in a standard cut-and-paste manner; does it hide the complexity of operation from the end user so he or she can point and click and get things done; does it use an API so that software writers outside of your company can can write apps that interact with it; does your software run on multiple different hardware platforms; do you add new features to it when marketing surveys show people want it?
I'm not saying that all of those criteria are necessarily the best or most desirable (e.g., sometimes you want software that's only usable by industry professionals), but those are the constraints that Microsoft operates within, and they all increase the complexity of even the simplest-seeming of applications.
How long is it going to be before some big mainstream press picks these recursive stories up...
A recursive story? Isn't that a story about a story about a story about...
I was a little bothered by how they've rendered Peter Parker as an angst ridden, navel-gazer.
Umm...Peter Parker's been angst-ridden since he first showed up in Amazing Fantasy #15. It's Batman who went from fluff to haunted figure some time in the early seventies, when DC tried to imitate Marvel's style. Either that, or someone realized that, although Spider-Man is so called because he has spider powers, there never was a reason for Bruce Wayne to fight crime dressed as a bat, unless there was something a little...off about him.
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Yes, I find programming articles sprinkled with allusions to "Star Trek" or "Dr. Who" to be a much greater sign of maturity than mere contemporary references.
That's funny...I usually like it better when my Palm outlasts my laptop. The other way around just gets too frustrating.
They'll probably just name it something silly with a "G", like "aggregator" or someth... um... oh.
Oddly enought, I found out the answer to that last night (and I wasn't even asking about that particular problem):
dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.mbr bs=512 count=1
Got that from this site. So take their word for it, not mine.
Not meaning to sound arrogant or anything, but I've always bitched about how retarded *my* generation was. The Love Boat, Dallas and Dynasty were the big TV shows back then, and I thought everyone was a nimrod for watching them. When Miami Vice came on I couldn't believe people thought it was actually cool to stay IN on a Friday night and watch TV.
And people older than I was couldn't make change in their heads; everyone seems to need a calculator or a cash register nowadays to figure that out.
To this day, people my age or older will say "Where the hell did you learn that?" if I drop a fact that we were all taught in 4th frickin' grade, like who wrote the Declaration of Independence or the order of the planets.
So yeah, I see today's generation and say they're retarded. But every generation is, just in it's own special way.
Besides, I still think it's good idea for people to learn assembly.
I just use the Open~ project to make backups whenever I edit a file.
And to think, David Carradine does this in Kill Bill, v. 2. I wouldn't have gone to see that movie if I knew it had a scene that displayed such contempt for the law!
When the FCC decides to wield their axe, though, that's the government sticking their nose into someone else's business.
It's like saying a pro basketball player who gets fat and sluggish has somehow betrayed the fans worse than a referee on graft who deliberately penalizes him for no reason.
Moreover, even the best IF suffers from the inability to do any and every plausible action, and likely will for a long, long time. You can go up to the clerk, but if you don't have the money, but you can't buy the watch until you find the fifty dollars stashed in Uncle Jeb's mattress. You can't pawn off an old Stratocaster you used to play, because the author did not conceive of you playing it, and besides, there are no music stores or pawn shops in the vicinity. And you can't look them up in the Yellow Pages, because you don't need to use the phone in this game, so you don't have a phone book. Static fiction foregoes that illusion of real-world flexibility and instead focuses on the choices that make for the best story.
Probably not. The whole point of celebrating an artist is to commend the choices he/she made. The whole point of IF is to give choices to the player. Granted, there's still a lot of decisions when you write a game, but not to the degree that pre-written fiction has
That's not to say that games don't have their snooty prestige points. Chess is probably the best example of this.
Oops. That's www.tads.org.
You should check out The end result has got a much more flexible syntax than Z-code interpreters, and writing the code should be pretty familiar to C++ -style coders. You can even use the Pascal-style assignment operator if you like, with a compilation switch. If you like that kind of thing.
Okay, there's not intuitive and there's really not intuitive.
It's one thing to have an icon that has no prior cultural associations with it, and say "that's the eject button." It's another thing to have an icon artistically rendered to look like the thing where you throw rotting food and soiled diapers and say "that's what you do to save your company's precious data."
So yes, nothing but the nipple is an intuitive interface, but it's still a design error to go against the habits of learned object recognition.
The fact that now the icon automagically changes is just a kludge for backwards compatibility. Is it small? Yes. Is it still wrong? Also yes.
A real adult game would end when you get shot, and as a further measure short-circuit the console so you can't use it again. That would give the kiddiez a realistic message about how fun killing and dying is.
Oh, who am I kidding? I like violent movies as much as the next guy. Granted, I think they're appealing to something that never quite grew up with the rest of me. But even the ones I like don't celebrate violence the way something like GTA does.
Ah, never mind me. I've just gonna crawl off and mutter to myself about all the whippersnappers out there...
while (is_clueless($poster)) {
get_learning($poster, 'Iraq', 'Nazi Germany');
}
Maybe he's trying to pronounce it like Cartman.
Learning Python by Mark Lutz worked for me. It's a quick survey of the basic syntax, and common operations. There's a chapter or two on Object Oriented Programming, but it's not as daunting as it sounds, at least in Python. Another winner from O'Rielly (as opposed to, say, Learning XML, but that's a discussion for another day...)
WE'RE WATCHING YOU - doesnt sound as scary, especially if they really dont know what they are seeing.
Somehow, that argument doesn't sound right to me:
WE'RE LITIGATING AGAINST YOU - doesnt sound as scary, especially if they really dont know what they are litigating.
WE'RE SHOOTING YOU - doesnt sound as scary, especially if they really dont know what they are shooting.
I write software that doesn't contain errors, every day, on systems which deal with far more data than the average MS app.
I find this hard to believe. Are you saying that you write software that is as complex as the usual MS app, and that it contains no errors whatsoever and has never had to be debugged? It seems like everyone from Knuth on down has written bugs in software when working on an application of non-trivial complexity, so I'm a little skeptical if that's your claim.
And the amount of data that an app processes is not the only measure of a program's complexity: does your program interoperate with a dozen others in a standard cut-and-paste manner; does it hide the complexity of operation from the end user so he or she can point and click and get things done; does it use an API so that software writers outside of your company can can write apps that interact with it; does your software run on multiple different hardware platforms; do you add new features to it when marketing surveys show people want it?
I'm not saying that all of those criteria are necessarily the best or most desirable (e.g., sometimes you want software that's only usable by industry professionals), but those are the constraints that Microsoft operates within, and they all increase the complexity of even the simplest-seeming of applications.
"However, as he's not dropping the current lawsuits, there's no good reason to believe him on this change in strategy."
That should read, "However, as it's Darl McBride, there's no good reason to believe him at all."
How long is it going to be before some big mainstream press picks these recursive stories up...
A recursive story? Isn't that a story about a story about a story about...
Umm...Peter Parker's been angst-ridden since he first showed up in Amazing Fantasy #15. It's Batman who went from fluff to haunted figure some time in the early seventies, when DC tried to imitate Marvel's style. Either that, or someone realized that, although Spider-Man is so called because he has spider powers, there never was a reason for Bruce Wayne to fight crime dressed as a bat, unless there was something a little...off about him.
I don't play games of chance; I prefer to have complete control over all of the variables in any situation where money is on the line.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to admin this NT server bank.