It's not a privilege, it's an inalienable right. It's granted to you by your existance. It can only be taken away by due process or your own abdication of it.
Makes it a rather alienable right, rather than an unalienable one. An inalienable right is one that cannot be taken away.
It's too bad you missed all the symbolism (much overt, far more oblique). The entire series is allegory; in fact, it's about the most theological set of books this side of C.S. Lewis.
Given that, it's rather amusing that you are outraged at, and want to kill, a character who is clearly a Christ figure, for not living up to your expectations of what a saviour/hero should be. Kind of what happened to Him, too.
Actually, if a 15-year-old girl had, and was interested in, pictures of a 15-year-old boy in a sexual position, I'd say that she was pretty normal. If she was 35, I would be concerned.
A bit optimistic, that. I spent seven years there, have a Japanese wife, and classify myself as intermediate.
I had a roommate who had taken Japanese classes in university. While living in Japan, he studied about 5 hours a day for two years, and managed to pass the Level 1 proficiency exam (i.e. fluent, though nowhere near perfect) at the end of it.
I was perplexed by the first word in your post, until I sounded it out and realized that you were making a feeble attempt at the French interrogative pronoun "Quoi."
Hint: trying to sound more intelligent than you are only makes the deficiency more obvious.
Here in Kingston, Ontario, There are two major one-way streets used to get in and out of downtown. These have timed lights so that if you go at 50 kph, you can usually go through about 8 green lights in a row, which is most of the length of the road.
The other good thing about Kingston is that almost every other light is demand-timed, so if no one is waiting at a light, that direction never turns green.
Well, I use www.calabashmusic.com for my music. Granted, they specialize in ethnic/world music (African, South American, Caribbean, Asian, with some European folk), which may not be for everyone, but they have a great system. They also focus on independent artists, people who are trying to make it big, people you won't hear anywhere else.
You can listen to clips, then add songs to your download locker. These are UNENCUMBERED MP3s, and you can go back to your locker to re-download them whenever you want. You can't get much fairer or more convenient than that!
The price is $0.99 per song, but as they explain it, 50% goes to the artist, 25% to promoting this music on the web (www.afropop.org), and the rest to the business.
Ah yes, but then I moved on to the Transactor. It appealed to the programmer geeks, with lots of assembly code and explanation of neat little tricks (like extending BASIC by trapping the interpreter's error call).
They also published the "Commodore Inner Space Anthology," which was a gold mine of information, not only about the C64, but the VIC-20, the PET, and other Commodore machines.
Are you joking? Do you know how much power a large factory uses? An aluminum smelter, for example, uses as much electricity as a city of a million people!
Also, a single nuclear reactor unit (like the CANDU ones we have here in Ontario) makes as much electricity as something like 40,000 typical windmills.
If the U.S. were to run its cars on ethanol, they would have to plant cornfields covering an area GREATER than the entire U.S.!
Those sources of renewable energy are good, but they simply aren't sufficient.
I have to say, though, that the Mach 3 (haven't tried the Turbo) is far and away the best razor I have ever used.
I've tried any number of other razors, used an electric, even had straight-razor shaves in Japanese barbershops, and nothing comes close. It's simply smoother, closer and more comfortable than anything else, and causes far less damage to my face.
I resent the fact that they are gouging me on the blades, but a single blade lasts me for a month or more, and it's simply worth it to me.
I would say, rather, that Rising Sun is a BAD novel. Maybe not in terms of plot, but the characters are barely two-dimensional, let alone three-dimensional. It is also very alarmist about the "yellow peril," not far short of depicting Japanese as faceless, buck-toothed automatons. I was decidedly unimpressed.
Still, although price-fixing may be officially "not encouraged" (not the same as "discouraged"), it is rampant and often abetted by a government that relies heavily on the financial support of big business.
There IS competition in many sectors of the economy, often cutthroat, but larger industries tend to have the political muscle to protect their interests at the expense of their customers -- and domestic customers are almost invariably the first and hardest hit.
When I worked at a Japanese software company, several programmers who could read English well told me that they preferred English manuals, even though they took an extra effort, because they were clear and precise.
Interbase (or Firebird in its open source incarnation) is also an excellent alternative. It runs on all kinds of hardware and OSs, is stable, and has a good feature set.
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You could go with Delphi. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many VB programmers are switching to Delphi rather than to VB.Net.
Visually, there are lots of similarities with VB, but with more power. You can go under the hood and get as low-level as you want, short of device drivers (where at least a small part must be written in C/C++).
As a bonus, data-aware controls actually work! (even MS recommends not using them in production VB code.)
There is a version (C++ Builder) that uses C++ instead of Pascal as the basic language, and another package, Kylix, that can compile Delphi/C++B source code to run on Linux.
Borland also hosts a fantastic developer community (especially newsgroups), and most components, even commercial ones, have source available. Look at Torry's for thousands of components/tools/apps.
That's just the kind of uninformed badmouthing that we don't need, here in SE Ontario (I'm in Kingston, 45 minutes east of Belleville, or BelleVegas as we sometimes call it).
When I got up this morning, it was a balmy -23 degrees (-9 Fahrenheit to the unwashed) and my nostrils would stick closed when I breathed in.
I think you've got it a bit wrong. From version 3 to 6, Delphi included QuickReports, a piece of software that was roundly criticized for bugginess, but it WAS a report writer. Version 7 uses Rave Reports, a huge improvement from what I've heard.
I use Delphi 5 Pro at work, and it really is a joy. I don't think that it is lacking anything that D4 Pro had; it was the standard/personal versions that were gutted of database connectivity. D3 Standard, IIRC, also lacked Internet components.
I must agree that I don't like the current attitude of targeting the high-priced customers and ignoring independent developers and small shops.
is the price! These are slim volumes (186 pages in the book under discussion, 265 in my Extreme Programming Installed) but they carry a hefty price tag.
I end up buying only one or two, because I can't justify the cost (to myself or my company) of the whole series when I haven't made a commitment yet.
Also, what kind of overlap is there in the books? I looked through the XP For Web Programming sample pages at Amazon, and it looked like the same content as my book.
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Or $24.50 from www.bookpool.com, which is almost always better than other online bookstores, although I'm not sure how it does once shipping is factored in.
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It's not a privilege, it's an inalienable right. It's granted to you by your existance. It can only be taken away by due process or your own abdication of it.
Makes it a rather alienable right, rather than an unalienable one. An inalienable right is one that cannot be taken away.
It's too bad you missed all the symbolism (much overt, far more oblique). The entire series is allegory; in fact, it's about the most theological set of books this side of C.S. Lewis.
Given that, it's rather amusing that you are outraged at, and want to kill, a character who is clearly a Christ figure, for not living up to your expectations of what a saviour/hero should be. Kind of what happened to Him, too.
David: "It's such a fine line between stupid an'..." .and clever."
Derek: " . .
How true.
Actually, if a 15-year-old girl had, and was interested in, pictures of a 15-year-old boy in a sexual position, I'd say that she was pretty normal. If she was 35, I would be concerned.
Did you have some other point?
A bit optimistic, that. I spent seven years there, have a Japanese wife, and classify myself as intermediate.
I had a roommate who had taken Japanese classes in university. While living in Japan, he studied about 5 hours a day for two years, and managed to pass the Level 1 proficiency exam (i.e. fluent, though nowhere near perfect) at the end of it.
Fastest I've ever seen.
Were you hoarding hordes of people as they whored?
I was perplexed by the first word in your post, until I sounded it out and realized that you were making a feeble attempt at the French interrogative pronoun "Quoi."
Hint: trying to sound more intelligent than you are only makes the deficiency more obvious.
Here in Kingston, Ontario, There are two major one-way streets used to get in and out of downtown. These have timed lights so that if you go at 50 kph, you can usually go through about 8 green lights in a row, which is most of the length of the road.
The other good thing about Kingston is that almost every other light is demand-timed, so if no one is waiting at a light, that direction never turns green.
Well, I use www.calabashmusic.com for my music. Granted, they specialize in ethnic/world music (African, South American, Caribbean, Asian, with some European folk), which may not be for everyone, but they have a great system. They also focus on independent artists, people who are trying to make it big, people you won't hear anywhere else.
You can listen to clips, then add songs to your download locker. These are UNENCUMBERED MP3s, and you can go back to your locker to re-download them whenever you want. You can't get much fairer or more convenient than that!
The price is $0.99 per song, but as they explain it, 50% goes to the artist, 25% to promoting this music on the web (www.afropop.org), and the rest to the business.
My recommendations: Alpha Yaya Diallo, Chiwoniso, and Henri Dikongue are absolutely amazing!
Ah yes, but then I moved on to the Transactor. It appealed to the programmer geeks, with lots of assembly code and explanation of neat little tricks (like extending BASIC by trapping the interpreter's error call).
They also published the "Commodore Inner Space Anthology," which was a gold mine of information, not only about the C64, but the VIC-20, the PET, and other Commodore machines.
Or maybe he was talking about an Apple store, as in a store that sold Apples in Norfolk, rather than an Apple Store.
Maybe you should think before you flame.
Ummmm, don't you mean Hari Seldon?
Wasn't Camus French? That would explain his poor understanding of how to use apostrophe's in English.
I think you mean "These people called Romans, they go the 'house." Romanes eunt domus
Are you joking? Do you know how much power a large factory uses? An aluminum smelter, for example, uses as much electricity as a city of a million people!
Also, a single nuclear reactor unit (like the CANDU ones we have here in Ontario) makes as much electricity as something like 40,000 typical windmills.
If the U.S. were to run its cars on ethanol, they would have to plant cornfields covering an area GREATER than the entire U.S.!
Those sources of renewable energy are good, but they simply aren't sufficient.
I have to say, though, that the Mach 3 (haven't tried the Turbo) is far and away the best razor I have ever used.
I've tried any number of other razors, used an electric, even had straight-razor shaves in Japanese barbershops, and nothing comes close. It's simply smoother, closer and more comfortable than anything else, and causes far less damage to my face.
I resent the fact that they are gouging me on the blades, but a single blade lasts me for a month or more, and it's simply worth it to me.
I would say, rather, that Rising Sun is a BAD novel. Maybe not in terms of plot, but the characters are barely two-dimensional, let alone three-dimensional. It is also very alarmist about the "yellow peril," not far short of depicting Japanese as faceless, buck-toothed automatons. I was decidedly unimpressed.
Still, although price-fixing may be officially "not encouraged" (not the same as "discouraged"), it is rampant and often abetted by a government that relies heavily on the financial support of big business.
There IS competition in many sectors of the economy, often cutthroat, but larger industries tend to have the political muscle to protect their interests at the expense of their customers -- and domestic customers are almost invariably the first and hardest hit.
When I worked at a Japanese software company, several programmers who could read English well told me that they preferred English manuals, even though they took an extra effort, because they were clear and precise.
Interbase (or Firebird in its open source incarnation) is also an excellent alternative. It runs on all kinds of hardware and OSs, is stable, and has a good feature set.
You could go with Delphi. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many VB programmers are switching to Delphi rather than to VB.Net.
Visually, there are lots of similarities with VB, but with more power. You can go under the hood and get as low-level as you want, short of device drivers (where at least a small part must be written in C/C++).
As a bonus, data-aware controls actually work! (even MS recommends not using them in production VB code.)
There is a version (C++ Builder) that uses C++ instead of Pascal as the basic language, and another package, Kylix, that can compile Delphi/C++B source code to run on Linux.
Borland also hosts a fantastic developer community (especially newsgroups), and most components, even commercial ones, have source available. Look at Torry's for thousands of components/tools/apps.
That's just the kind of uninformed badmouthing that we don't need, here in SE Ontario (I'm in Kingston, 45 minutes east of Belleville, or BelleVegas as we sometimes call it).
When I got up this morning, it was a balmy -23 degrees (-9 Fahrenheit to the unwashed) and my nostrils would stick closed when I breathed in.
Caribbean? Pah!
I think you've got it a bit wrong. From version 3 to 6, Delphi included QuickReports, a piece of software that was roundly criticized for bugginess, but it WAS a report writer. Version 7 uses Rave Reports, a huge improvement from what I've heard.
I use Delphi 5 Pro at work, and it really is a joy. I don't think that it is lacking anything that D4 Pro had; it was the standard/personal versions that were gutted of database connectivity. D3 Standard, IIRC, also lacked Internet components.
I must agree that I don't like the current attitude of targeting the high-priced customers and ignoring independent developers and small shops.
is the price! These are slim volumes (186 pages in the book under discussion, 265 in my Extreme Programming Installed) but they carry a hefty price tag.
I end up buying only one or two, because I can't justify the cost (to myself or my company) of the whole series when I haven't made a commitment yet.
Also, what kind of overlap is there in the books? I looked through the XP For Web Programming sample pages at Amazon, and it looked like the same content as my book.
That's right, they have to pay first!
Or $24.50 from www.bookpool.com, which is almost always better than other online bookstores, although I'm not sure how it does once shipping is factored in.