Also, someone should post a list of keyboards without the numpad column. It should be an attachment.
Microsoft recently came out with their 'SideWinder X6' gaming keyboard - with detachable numpad - you can even move it to the left side if you're one of those kind of weirdos.
Steaming HD is good, I'll admit, but I prefer baked or pan-fried. It's not as healthy as steamed, but it tastes so much better. Basted with some chipotle sauce, and it's da bomb.
Add some common stuff from CSS2 and 3 and I'd be relatively happy with it:
border-radius multiple background images border images good opacity support (on a par with FF, so I can specify background opacity and not force the same opacity on child objects). CSS3 columns
There are some selector issues people want that would be great, too.
At the least, turn on some things that would allow js/css libraries to overcome the shortcomings they KNOW they're gonna leave in there. At least make a way for others to work around the limitations.
But, all those things would be *useful* and good for developers, so we know what's gonna happen, don't we?
Python - mature, OOP, fast (for an interpreted language), lots of modules out there they can extend with, lots of documentation, very regular. Multi platform.
D - the true successor to C for the modern age. C with nice and COMMON SENSE features added, compiles natively. Free compiler available. Multi platform.
JavaScript - Usefulness - this is all over the Web, obviously, is OOPish, and well-documented. The problem is inconsistencies in implementation will most likely drive them away from computers forever, so perhaps jQuery? Multi platform.
Whilst we're on the topic, I have actually seen both the original from the 50s and the John Carpenter version, and do yourself a favour - if you ever get curious about the 50s version, don't. Seriously, just don't. A perfect example of, "What has been seen cannot be UNseen."
Instead, go on a John Carpenter binge and watch 'Prince of Darkness' and 'Big Trouble in Little China,' and save yourself a lot of grief while being vastly entertained.
Then you choose your platform, and go with whatever version of BASIC runs on the 8-bit platform of choice: Apple ][, C64, Atari 800, TRS-80 or Coco, whatever.
Once you've mastered that, just jump to the future and go with 64-bit asm and contribute to Menuet OS.
Eliminate, what, 800,000 people or so arrested each year for marijuana-related offenses, thus reducing the costs assocated in processing & housing them.
Fewer lawyers to deal with the now-reasonable amount of court action. Obvious benefit.
Prisons are no longer overcrowded, thus no longer requiring more prisons to be built, thus saving money.
Prisons are no longer overcrowded, no longer requiring people to be released early who shouldn't be.
Fewer law enforcement personnel needed to conduct now-reasonable-size 'war on (other) drugs', thus saving tax money.
Tax money from now-legal marijuana sales (budget is balanced, free healthcare and a Wii for all).
Less alcohol abuse now that Marijuana is legal, fewer drunk-driving accidents (Marijuana is less-impairing than alcohol), thus saving thousands of lives per year.
Nothing standing in the way of Hemp production except the Cotton industry (who would be the biggest beneficiaries of switching over appropriate products to Hemp, go figure). More Hemp can now be grown with less water and pesticides than the Cotton crops replaced, thus saving money and the environment. Still can't get high off of Hemp, which isn't the same as Marijuana, dumbasses learn this the hardway by trying to smoke it to avoid the 'sin taxes' of the now-legal Marijuana.
Snack food industry profits increase 25-fold in the first 9 months after legalization of Marijuana. Frito-Lay stock is up 5200%. Combination packs of Cheetos and a Joint second biggest-selling item in history of United States. Taco Bell stock up 9200%. Biggest-selling item in history of U.S. is the 'Fatties and a Skinny' combo from Taco Bell, consisting of 3 bean burritos and a joint.
Following the success of legal marijuana nationwide, prostition becomes legal 5 years later, after the next round of elections. Las Vegas becomes bigger than ever, while Reno disincorporates as noone is willing to travel there anymore. Legalization of gamling comes in on the hells of legalized prostitution, and the Native American tribes expand their casino experience into the rest of the country, but come up against the Italian Mafia, and a new Mob War ensues, leaving Chicago and New York littered with the scalped bodies of Italian Mafia members everywhere, within their circled Cadillacs and SUVs.
Oh yeah, taxes off sales of marijuana accessories pay for new space program which gets humanity off Earth just in time to avoid being wiped out by asteroid the size of Texas.
No, how about we let it be decided at the STATE LEVEL? Let the individual states decide their own drug laws, not the federal government.
A common argument for many things, which wouldn't solve a damn thing. Let's examine:
If you have some states where something is legal and others where it's not, people will travel to where what they want is legal, and probably bring it back home, if it's a product (rather than a service, like prostituion in parts of Nevada). This effectively negates the whatever-it-is being illegal in neighboring state(s).
This also wipes out any tax benefits said state-where-whatever-it-is-is-illegal may have enjoyed previously.
Increase in resource consumption for travel = bad for environment
Conflicts possible for people who live in one state and work in another, one state whatever is illegal, the other is legal. This is pointless.
Increases law enforcement procedures for interstate commerce and travel; the man now has to check shipments between states where he didn't before. Not efficient at all, thus profit of interstate commerce goes down.
This effectively splits the country into smaller countries, which kind of defeats the purpose of us being one nation.
I do not understand why people keep bringing up this argument
Crappy & lazy programmers are the ones who bring up this argument. We've all had to rewrite the kind of code these people produce, right? When these people create HTML, they they things like use table-based layout and don't bother to close their bold tags at the end of cells, because "well, it works in IE, so why bother?"
Isn't CSS 3 not officially out yet? I think that's why mozilla and webkit have weird ways to do it.
I believe border-radius has been in the CSS3 spec since the working draft from 2002. Should be time to standardize on 'border-radius' instead of 'moz-border-radius' or at least alias it to -moz-border-radius or something. As it is, one has to use -moz-border-radius and repeat with -webkit-border-radius to get it working in both, plus they each do individual corner specifications differently. Very irritating, but not as irritating as browsers that don't support the functionality at all.
As I mentioned in another posting regarding Opera 10 alpha:
No border-radius? *sniff*
Is it specified in some stupid way like Mozilla & Webkit do it?
Still no replies, so I dunno...that's not promising. I wants me some border-radius, multiple background image, and border image support! (among other things) A small subset of the major CSS3 features would go a LONG way.
Good god, man, only suckers with corporate accounts have to shop at CDW.
Yeah, but when you buy enough from their lame selection of their overpriced stuff, they send you 'free' tins of cookies! We just got our yearly allotment of cookies at work. Yum. Totally worth spending tens of thousands of dollars more than we should so we get 'free' tins of cookies worth probably $15 each. (that's per tin, not per cookie:)
IE8, as outlined by MS in various MSDN locations, is a browser that will compete on features very well with Firefox v1.5. FF3, and especially the upcoming 3.1, completely obliterates it in standards support, features, and speed. IE8 - as it is currently planned - is completely pointless. MS should delay 8 until they've had time to add the important CSS3 that is missing, and add a turbo-charged js engine. If IE8 is released as intended, it will merely be yet another roadblock for web developers to easily implement useful features. Hell, FF has had border-radius since, what, 2.0? Even WebKit has border-radius! (the obsolete version used in Chrome seems incomplete to that in Safari, though I haven't fully investigated this yet).
The only deadline they need to meet next year is the release of Windows 7. Keep adding the features we NEED to IE8 until it would impact Win7. Artificial deadlines for IE are completely ridiculous.
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Also, someone should post a list of keyboards without the numpad column. It should be an attachment.
Microsoft recently came out with their 'SideWinder X6' gaming keyboard - with detachable numpad - you can even move it to the left side if you're one of those kind of weirdos.
PCMCIA! (People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms)
Well...maybe some of us can.
Oh yeah, TANSTAAFL!
Oh, dear. So who certifies the certifiers?
The Watchmen.
Steaming HD is good, I'll admit, but I prefer baked or pan-fried. It's not as healthy as steamed, but it tastes so much better. Basted with some chipotle sauce, and it's da bomb.
Have you seen an AppleTV running Boxee?
The problem with that setup is all the frakkin' daggits. I hate daggits.
Add some common stuff from CSS2 and 3 and I'd be relatively happy with it:
border-radius
multiple background images
border images
good opacity support (on a par with FF, so I can specify background opacity and not force the same opacity on child objects).
CSS3 columns
There are some selector issues people want that would be great, too.
At the least, turn on some things that would allow js/css libraries to overcome the shortcomings they KNOW they're gonna leave in there. At least make a way for others to work around the limitations.
But, all those things would be *useful* and good for developers, so we know what's gonna happen, don't we?
does that make D 'Jews for Jesus'? :)
That's what you get for being Canadian. :)
It'll still probably be noticeably inferior to FireWire 400 (IEEE1394a) when hooking up external HDs, etc.
My verdict: Meh.
Python - mature, OOP, fast (for an interpreted language), lots of modules out there they can extend with, lots of documentation, very regular. Multi platform.
D - the true successor to C for the modern age. C with nice and COMMON SENSE features added, compiles natively. Free compiler available. Multi platform.
JavaScript - Usefulness - this is all over the Web, obviously, is OOPish, and well-documented. The problem is inconsistencies in implementation will most likely drive them away from computers forever, so perhaps jQuery? Multi platform.
Whilst we're on the topic, I have actually seen both the original from the 50s and the John Carpenter version, and do yourself a favour - if you ever get curious about the 50s version, don't. Seriously, just don't. A perfect example of, "What has been seen cannot be UNseen."
Instead, go on a John Carpenter binge and watch 'Prince of Darkness' and 'Big Trouble in Little China,' and save yourself a lot of grief while being vastly entertained.
Don't take in stray sled dogs from nearby camps. Shoot them before they can get close to your camp, then burn the bodies. I'm just sayin'...
Start with LOGO. Turtle graphics all the way!
Then you choose your platform, and go with whatever version of BASIC runs on the 8-bit platform of choice: Apple ][, C64, Atari 800, TRS-80 or Coco, whatever.
Once you've mastered that, just jump to the future and go with 64-bit asm and contribute to Menuet OS .
Legal marijuana:
Eliminate, what, 800,000 people or so arrested each year for marijuana-related offenses, thus reducing the costs assocated in processing & housing them.
Fewer lawyers to deal with the now-reasonable amount of court action. Obvious benefit.
Prisons are no longer overcrowded, thus no longer requiring more prisons to be built, thus saving money.
Prisons are no longer overcrowded, no longer requiring people to be released early who shouldn't be.
Fewer law enforcement personnel needed to conduct now-reasonable-size 'war on (other) drugs', thus saving tax money.
Tax money from now-legal marijuana sales (budget is balanced, free healthcare and a Wii for all).
Less alcohol abuse now that Marijuana is legal, fewer drunk-driving accidents (Marijuana is less-impairing than alcohol), thus saving thousands of lives per year.
Nothing standing in the way of Hemp production except the Cotton industry (who would be the biggest beneficiaries of switching over appropriate products to Hemp, go figure). More Hemp can now be grown with less water and pesticides than the Cotton crops replaced, thus saving money and the environment. Still can't get high off of Hemp, which isn't the same as Marijuana, dumbasses learn this the hardway by trying to smoke it to avoid the 'sin taxes' of the now-legal Marijuana.
Snack food industry profits increase 25-fold in the first 9 months after legalization of Marijuana. Frito-Lay stock is up 5200%. Combination packs of Cheetos and a Joint second biggest-selling item in history of United States. Taco Bell stock up 9200%. Biggest-selling item in history of U.S. is the 'Fatties and a Skinny' combo from Taco Bell, consisting of 3 bean burritos and a joint.
Following the success of legal marijuana nationwide, prostition becomes legal 5 years later, after the next round of elections. Las Vegas becomes bigger than ever, while Reno disincorporates as noone is willing to travel there anymore. Legalization of gamling comes in on the hells of legalized prostitution, and the Native American tribes expand their casino experience into the rest of the country, but come up against the Italian Mafia, and a new Mob War ensues, leaving Chicago and New York littered with the scalped bodies of Italian Mafia members everywhere, within their circled Cadillacs and SUVs.
Oh yeah, taxes off sales of marijuana accessories pay for new space program which gets humanity off Earth just in time to avoid being wiped out by asteroid the size of Texas.
No, how about we let it be decided at the STATE LEVEL? Let the individual states decide their own drug laws, not the federal government.
A common argument for many things, which wouldn't solve a damn thing. Let's examine:
If you have some states where something is legal and others where it's not, people will travel to where what they want is legal, and probably bring it back home, if it's a product (rather than a service, like prostituion in parts of Nevada). This effectively negates the whatever-it-is being illegal in neighboring state(s).
This also wipes out any tax benefits said state-where-whatever-it-is-is-illegal may have enjoyed previously.
Increase in resource consumption for travel = bad for environment
Conflicts possible for people who live in one state and work in another, one state whatever is illegal, the other is legal. This is pointless.
Increases law enforcement procedures for interstate commerce and travel; the man now has to check shipments between states where he didn't before. Not efficient at all, thus profit of interstate commerce goes down.
This effectively splits the country into smaller countries, which kind of defeats the purpose of us being one nation.
I'm just sayin'.
I do not understand why people keep bringing up this argument
Crappy & lazy programmers are the ones who bring up this argument. We've all had to rewrite the kind of code these people produce, right? When these people create HTML, they they things like use table-based layout and don't bother to close their bold tags at the end of cells, because "well, it works in IE, so why bother?"
Just ignore them.
Isn't CSS 3 not officially out yet? I think that's why mozilla and webkit have weird ways to do it.
I believe border-radius has been in the CSS3 spec since the working draft from 2002. Should be time to standardize on 'border-radius' instead of 'moz-border-radius' or at least alias it to -moz-border-radius or something. As it is, one has to use -moz-border-radius and repeat with -webkit-border-radius to get it working in both, plus they each do individual corner specifications differently. Very irritating, but not as irritating as browsers that don't support the functionality at all.
As I mentioned in another posting regarding Opera 10 alpha:
No border-radius? *sniff*
Is it specified in some stupid way like Mozilla & Webkit do it?
Still no replies, so I dunno...that's not promising. I wants me some border-radius, multiple background image, and border image support! (among other things) A small subset of the major CSS3 features would go a LONG way.
No border-radius? *sniff*
Is it specified in some stupid way like Mozilla & Webkit do it?
I want the domain 'domain.tld' so badly...*sigh*
Am I the only one who had a Tron flashback and read that as 'deresolution'?
When the answer to a question is, "form a committee," you've got the wrong question.
I don't see what the big deal is. You guys have never seen someone doing a word search puzzle before?
And the answer to today's word jumble is: "NORMANDY"
Good god, man, only suckers with corporate accounts have to shop at CDW.
Yeah, but when you buy enough from their lame selection of their overpriced stuff, they send you 'free' tins of cookies! We just got our yearly allotment of cookies at work. Yum. Totally worth spending tens of thousands of dollars more than we should so we get 'free' tins of cookies worth probably $15 each. (that's per tin, not per cookie :)
IE8, as outlined by MS in various MSDN locations, is a browser that will compete on features very well with Firefox v1.5. FF3, and especially the upcoming 3.1, completely obliterates it in standards support, features, and speed. IE8 - as it is currently planned - is completely pointless. MS should delay 8 until they've had time to add the important CSS3 that is missing, and add a turbo-charged js engine. If IE8 is released as intended, it will merely be yet another roadblock for web developers to easily implement useful features. Hell, FF has had border-radius since, what, 2.0? Even WebKit has border-radius! (the obsolete version used in Chrome seems incomplete to that in Safari, though I haven't fully investigated this yet).
The only deadline they need to meet next year is the release of Windows 7. Keep adding the features we NEED to IE8 until it would impact Win7. Artificial deadlines for IE are completely ridiculous.