Oh please - 90% of the people who use Excel don't even know how to SPELL macro or template. It's called 'laziness' and 'ignorance' - people buy a computer with MS Office installed, and that's what they use because that's what it came with. Most couldn't tell you the difference between hardware and software if you held a gun to their heads. Fortunately, for the most part, these people can be easily identified by their email addresses.:)
Hey, don't blame the bacteria - it was born that way! If it was born as a virus in a bacteria's body, you have NO RIGHT to superimpose your 'value system' on it. Get your laws of the bacteria's body!
Look, it may be _technically_ legal, but it's pretty obvious to anyone with a functioning brain that they're using the name Lindows as a takeoff of someone else's product to gain name recognition. It may be legal, but it's no more ethical than some of the shit that MS has tried to pull in the past (or will pull in the future). Lindows doesn't have the moral high ground on this one, despite any win they may make in their legal battle.
Since when has that ever stopped anyone from blaming America for anything it's involved in (or _not_ been involved in)? We're the universal bad guy, no matter what we do.
Don't worry, though, we can take it. Everyone still gets all their good movies from us.:)
Hmm, too similar. I like, "The International Space Barge of DOOM." (Yes, all caps for 'doom'.)
Either that or H.M.S. Bounty.
Maybe "Deep Space 0"? No, wait, "Nostromo". Yeah, that's the ticket.
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I owe a lot to Perl. I used to love Perl. Back when I was working at a dot-com during the Bubble, I spent two years doing nothing but Perl on FreeBSD. It paid for my car and a trip to Europe. But more importantly it got me used to scripting languages. After learning Perl, it was a small step to Python. Since I learned Python, I've never looked back at Perl. I'd be amazed if Perl hadn't evolved once it got off past version 4, but I really doubt if it can do anything that Python can't. They are both in the same _niche_, but Python has one thing that Perl doesn't: Python is more fun. When everything else is said and done, enjoying your time at work is a huge advantage.
Life is too short to waste on Perl. Stick to Python have fun.:)
Obligatory disclaimer to the _morons_ who are about to bitch at me, this is a _joke_. See the smiley face above? Laugh or move on.
That assumes that linguists don't know what's 'wrong' each each natural language that could be 'fixed,' which is hardly the case. There are _numerous_ artificial languages in existence, almost all of them unsuccessful. Only Esperanto and Interlingua have much of a following. (No, I don't count Klingon as successful:)
The problem isn't in creating an easy to use, expressive language. The problem is in getting people to learn and use it. While it may be tragic from a cultural history perspective to lose a language, it won't have any effect on linguistic development.
This holds true for languages whether spoken, written, or computed.
I'd say finding the nuclear weapon to be the harder task than finding the aircraft to drop it with. If you can do the former, the latter is the easy part.
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Only a toon could cook up that lame brain idea.
And the name of it, geez. It's like something out of a bad sci-fi story.
Not that it wouldn't work, mind, I'm just sayin'...
Oh please - 90% of the people who use Excel don't even know how to SPELL macro or template. It's called 'laziness' and 'ignorance' - people buy a computer with MS Office installed, and that's what they use because that's what it came with. Most couldn't tell you the difference between hardware and software if you held a gun to their heads. Fortunately, for the most part, these people can be easily identified by their email addresses. :)
Perhaps they'll publish an 'Art of Computer Programming...For Dummies' someday. :)
Hey, don't blame the bacteria - it was born that way! If it was born as a virus in a bacteria's body, you have NO RIGHT to superimpose your 'value system' on it. Get your laws of the bacteria's body!
Damn right-wingers...
After the lameness that is sure to be Episode 3, there will be MUCH whine. :)
'Practical' and 'C++'...something's not right there. :)
Insightful?
Did somebody select the wrong option in the drop-down or something?
Heh, funny. If I wasn't in this conversation, I'd give you a +1 Funny. :)
Indeed. Without stuff like Gigli, you wouldn't know a good movie from bad. Now you have an example. :)
Keep in mind that as bad as Gigli was, it's still ten times better than 99% of the movies that come out of India or Iran.
Well, definitely don't name it Babylon 4.
Maybe Babylon 0..."our last, best hope for a publicity stunt disguised as science."
Look, it may be _technically_ legal, but it's pretty obvious to anyone with a functioning brain that they're using the name Lindows as a takeoff of someone else's product to gain name recognition. It may be legal, but it's no more ethical than some of the shit that MS has tried to pull in the past (or will pull in the future). Lindows doesn't have the moral high ground on this one, despite any win they may make in their legal battle.
Since when has that ever stopped anyone from blaming America for anything it's involved in (or _not_ been involved in)? We're the universal bad guy, no matter what we do.
:)
Don't worry, though, we can take it. Everyone still gets all their good movies from us.
Hmm, too similar. I like, "The International Space Barge of DOOM." (Yes, all caps for 'doom'.)
Either that or H.M.S. Bounty.
Maybe "Deep Space 0"? No, wait, "Nostromo". Yeah, that's the ticket.
I owe a lot to Perl. I used to love Perl. Back when I was working at a dot-com during the Bubble, I spent two years doing nothing but Perl on FreeBSD. It paid for my car and a trip to Europe. But more importantly it got me used to scripting languages. After learning Perl, it was a small step to Python. Since I learned Python, I've never looked back at Perl. I'd be amazed if Perl hadn't evolved once it got off past version 4, but I really doubt if it can do anything that Python can't. They are both in the same _niche_, but Python has one thing that Perl doesn't: Python is more fun. When everything else is said and done, enjoying your time at work is a huge advantage.
:)
Life is too short to waste on Perl. Stick to Python have fun.
Obligatory disclaimer to the _morons_ who are about to bitch at me, this is a _joke_. See the smiley face above? Laugh or move on.
How about 'lin-WeWereFrickinStupidToThinkWeWouldGetAwayWithT hatInTheFirstPlace.com'?
Evil Rejects Evil.
Fascinating.
I'd say, as a 'useful' language, they're not at all successful. Less so even than Klingon, which is really saying something.
Esperanto, and _maybe_ Interlingua, actually have native speakers. That's a pretty good measure of success in the real world, as far as I'm concerned.
That assumes that linguists don't know what's 'wrong' each each natural language that could be 'fixed,' which is hardly the case. There are _numerous_ artificial languages in existence, almost all of them unsuccessful. Only Esperanto and Interlingua have much of a following. (No, I don't count Klingon as successful :)
The problem isn't in creating an easy to use, expressive language. The problem is in getting people to learn and use it. While it may be tragic from a cultural history perspective to lose a language, it won't have any effect on linguistic development.
This holds true for languages whether spoken, written, or computed.
IMO, anyway.
I'd say finding the nuclear weapon to be the harder task than finding the aircraft to drop it with. If you can do the former, the latter is the easy part.
True, it's a much better aircraft than a Harrier. It just doesn't have VTOL capability. I'd take the Hornet.
Well, hell, so is any Hydrogen atom, if you have the means.
Mind you, Slashdottings CAN be nasty.
> 100 dollars for a performance graphics card
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Heh. $100. Performance graphics card. Funny.
You obviously missed my smiley face at the end of that sentence.
So don't try for a transparent background in Flash, go ahead and mix object & embed tags, and use JavaScript for flash detection.
These problems are about a zillion times easier to work around than trying to code extensive css & javascript issues across browsers.