Mickey Mouse is a trademark. The character will never slide into the Public Domain so long as Disney is defending it.
Mickey Mouse cartoons, on the other hand, will never slide into the Public Domain so long as Disney keeps paying congress to extend the copyright length...
The problem is that even a 'lightweight' lander is still far far heavier than what we've been able to put down before and the authors don't think that our current methods (airbags, retrorockets, parachutes, etc) would work.
I see where you are coming from. These are simple rules and are really important to professional programmers. But at least in my experience, a lot of the kids just entering the field are comping out of their college comp sci programs with chiefly academic programing experience. They know how to knock out programs that solve very specific problems to meet to requirements of their course but which are never used again. Whether that's tragic or not, I don't know. But that is what I've seen in the past.
Personally, I don't think it's such a big problem. Nice, little articles like this one help and, honestly, most bright people get with the program once they see how the post-college world works. Those who don't tend to get converted the first time they have to deal with someone else's messy code.
People who are just starting their careers as programmers are allowed to read articles too. Just because something is aimed at a population less experienced than you doesn't mean that it's crap!
I'm not sure if it really called for a Slashdot entry, but I've been on a few projects with new coders where a quick read of something like this on their parts would have saved everyone a lot of grief.
The difference between a zeppelin and a blimp is that a zeppelin has a rigid structure while a blimp is just a large powered balloon. Since this has a aluminum skeleton holding the hot air envelope in shape then it is indeed a zeppelin, I guess.
I really doubt Mel Brooks paid for the The Producers move out of his own pocket. The studio that financed it might have taken a hit but chances are he came out just fine.
Not to mention the fact that even if they were the most brilliantly written and directed movies ever people would still be on here bitching about them!
Oh, just like how everyone is pissing and moaning over Spider-Man II and X-Men II. Except they're not. Because they didn't stink.
Yeah, but just because a person has a Hotmail address and a username doesn't mean they actually are who they say they are. For that matter, even if someone IS who they say they are, that doesn't mean they are trustworthy.
I'll agree totally with what you have to say about non-mainstream sources. When they work, if they work at all, it's because for every shill out there, there are a dozen real users who can provide an honest opinion.
I don't think objecting to the merging of the two words is pedantic at all. The popular habit of substituting comprise for compose (but why never the other way around?) removes from the language a perfectly good and useful word with the sole benifit of making the writer of the word feel smarter for using such a fancy word.
Furthermore, dictionaries can be dangerous things:
comprise ( P ) Pronunciation Key (km-prz) tr.v. comprised, comprising, comprises To consist of; be composed of: "The French got... French Equatorial Africa, comprising several territories" (Alex Shoumatoff). To include; contain: "The word 'politics'... comprises, in itself, a difficult study of no inconsiderable magnitude" (Charles Dickens). See Synonyms at include. Usage Problem. To compose; constitute: "Put together the slaughterhouses, the steel mills, the freight yards... that comprised the city" (Saul Bellow).
Are you disputing that Walt was frozen or that he tore through the cryo lab on a motorcycle? Perhaps you yourself could be frozen until modern science invents a 'sense of humor' transplant.
Even good knees can get thrashed by riding on a poorly adjusted bike. It's won't be a miracle cure, but if you went to a good bike shop and got professionally fitted you would probably see an improvement.
Shouldn't Slashdot's editors make at least a token effort to see if the pages they link to can stand the traffic they invariably direct to them? Is a quick email to a webmaster really such an astoundingly difficult task or is effectively DoSing every interesting small webpage on the Internet the goal?
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I wouldn't be so smug. They've also come up with plenty of studies that disproved common sense.
Don't mind the other comments. I got your post.
How the devil does equating using a single cell to clone an organ to slavery NOT count as trolling?
Mickey Mouse is a trademark. The character will never slide into the Public Domain so long as Disney is defending it.
Mickey Mouse cartoons, on the other hand, will never slide into the Public Domain so long as Disney keeps paying congress to extend the copyright length...
The problem is that even a 'lightweight' lander is still far far heavier than what we've been able to put down before and the authors don't think that our current methods (airbags, retrorockets, parachutes, etc) would work.
I see where you are coming from. These are simple rules and are really important to professional programmers. But at least in my experience, a lot of the kids just entering the field are comping out of their college comp sci programs with chiefly academic programing experience. They know how to knock out programs that solve very specific problems to meet to requirements of their course but which are never used again. Whether that's tragic or not, I don't know. But that is what I've seen in the past.
Personally, I don't think it's such a big problem. Nice, little articles like this one help and, honestly, most bright people get with the program once they see how the post-college world works. Those who don't tend to get converted the first time they have to deal with someone else's messy code.
People who are just starting their careers as programmers are allowed to read articles too. Just because something is aimed at a population less experienced than you doesn't mean that it's crap!
I'm not sure if it really called for a Slashdot entry, but I've been on a few projects with new coders where a quick read of something like this on their parts would have saved everyone a lot of grief.
They keep doing it long after it passes out of the zeitgeist...
The difference between a zeppelin and a blimp is that a zeppelin has a rigid structure while a blimp is just a large powered balloon. Since this has a aluminum skeleton holding the hot air envelope in shape then it is indeed a zeppelin, I guess.
Good reply!
There's nothing more annoying than a smug post containing a wrong answer - especially when it involves propagating an urban legend.
You would think in the post-Wikipedia world a person would at least try to check their facts before they make an ass of themselves.
The last date mentioned in the article was in June. Perhaps they cut off the end of the story?
Well, they could be a resurrected corpse, say. Or an android.
Don't be so closed minded.
I really doubt Mel Brooks paid for the The Producers move out of his own pocket. The studio that financed it might have taken a hit but chances are he came out just fine.
The plural of virus is viruses. Latin plurals are like power tools. You should only use them when you know what you're doing.
Not to mention the fact that even if they were the most brilliantly written and directed movies ever people would still be on here bitching about them!
Oh, just like how everyone is pissing and moaning over Spider-Man II and X-Men II. Except they're not. Because they didn't stink.
Yeah, but just because a person has a Hotmail address and a username doesn't mean they actually are who they say they are. For that matter, even if someone IS who they say they are, that doesn't mean they are trustworthy.
I'll agree totally with what you have to say about non-mainstream sources. When they work, if they work at all, it's because for every shill out there, there are a dozen real users who can provide an honest opinion.
Furthermore, dictionaries can be dangerous things:
comprise ( P ) Pronunciation Key (km-prz)
tr.v. comprised, comprising, comprises
To consist of; be composed of: "The French got... French Equatorial Africa, comprising several territories" (Alex Shoumatoff).
To include; contain: "The word 'politics'... comprises, in itself, a difficult study of no inconsiderable magnitude" (Charles Dickens). See Synonyms at include.
Usage Problem. To compose; constitute: "Put together the slaughterhouses, the steel mills, the freight yards... that comprised the city" (Saul Bellow).
Anyway, if the American Heritage Dictionary jumped off a bridge, would you follow?
Evil I can accept, but not knowing the difference between comprise and compose is unforgivable. They must be stopped!
Are you disputing that Walt was frozen or that he tore through the cryo lab on a motorcycle?
Perhaps you yourself could be frozen until modern science invents a 'sense of humor' transplant.
Even good knees can get thrashed by riding on a poorly adjusted bike. It's won't be a miracle cure, but if you went to a good bike shop and got professionally fitted you would probably see an improvement.
Shouldn't Slashdot's editors make at least a token effort to see if the pages they link to can stand the traffic they invariably direct to them?
Is a quick email to a webmaster really such an astoundingly difficult task or is effectively DoSing every interesting small webpage on the Internet the goal?
I've had enough of this anti-gay bias on Slashdot! You people just... oh wait...
Sorry...
So you would rather we all just follow your lead and propagate the meme that activists all have no sense of humor? Fine by me!