If not, then how do you know nobody is intercepting your communication, making your self signed certificate as useless as having no encryption at all.
It's because I don't give a fuck if someone sees my ridiculously banal "communication" with some model railroading site or the data that goes back and forth while I research shit like piano hinges or crosscut saw blades.
For more sensitive stuff, no, but for crap like that I just can't be bothered to give a fuck.
You originally wrote, "There is nothing fundamentally different from spoken languages in programming languages."
That statement is simply incorrect. Ask linguistics professors if there is anything fundamentally different from spoken languages and programming languages, and they'll say "yes". So will nearly every Comp Sci student and teacher.
It may sound cool to claim that there is nothing fundamentally different between them, but it's simply not so.
Anyway, cheers, and thanks for keeping things civil. It's nice to be able to disagree with someone without either party dropping down into insult mode, lol.:)
"Oracle's attorney says her client missed a crucial detail in the trial, adding that this detail could change everything. ArsTechnica reports"
Yeah, well, unless I'm misreading this whole thing, that sounds like a screwup by Oracle or their attorneys and not something Google can be held accountable for.
"Your Honor, we fucked up, so errr, we need a do-over, yeah, that's the ticket!"
Both are contextual, just in computer languages you are more aware of managing the context,
No, computer languages are not contextual. In any given computer language a function does only what it's been designed to do, which is why you cannot use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a database, or use it to strip periods from a string.
Computer languages wouldn't work if they were contextual, that is, if the meaning or output of a function provided irregular or arbitrary output. Human language, however, works just fine in a contextual mode.
Again, if you're correct, prove it by using imagecreatetruecolor() to strip periods from a string.
No, you misrepresented me by misquoting me, as you've admitted several times now.
You attributed things to me I never said, and we both know it. Like claiming I said "only". Apparently you forgot that in your haste to try and muddy the waters.:)
When you create new code for a function, you tell the computer to rerun the compiler and linker and with natural language you do effectively the same thing.
Sure, and now every bit of code previously written to use that function fails. Not so with a human language because human language is contextual. Computer code is not.
Again, show me how to use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a database, or how to use it to strip periods from a string. You can't, because that's not what it does. You can do that with a human language but not with a programming language.
But I can use the word "bad" (for example) in lots of different ways and the different meanings will almost always be recognized.
No, in natural languages when the meaning changes it is the exact same thing
Right, but that's not true of programming languages. You can't take a function meant to do one thing and use it to do something completely different. If you disagree, please show me how you can use the two PHP functions below to do what I'm asking:
1) Use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a mySQL database.
2) Use strtolower() to write to a text file.
In a human language you can change the meaning or usage of the word, but you cannot do that with a programming language. You'll never be able to use the imagecreatetruecolor() function to connect to a mySQL database, because that's not what it does.
It's merely that I don't know how to get any function to do those things.
No, it's that those functions don't do those things and never will.
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I do know how to write a routine called strtolower() to write a text file
Yes, you can create a function to do anything you want and name it anything you want, but that's not what we're talking about. This is about using a pre-existing function to do something that doesn't do, like using the strtolower() function to write a text file.
That's how programming languages are different than spoken languages- the former has a very strictly defined meanings that don't change, while the latter has meanings that can and do change.
Thanks for simplifying it down to a level of stupidity.
No thanks needed, as I wrote it with you in mind.;)
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Why is your home invasion more important than someone else's life?
You can always find another loser to pester to death online, but no one can replace my fully-framed crayon drawing of John Wayne! Once that's stolen it's gone forever! Good god, man, have you no sense of proportion?
Somehow you seem to think you know the meaning of what I wrote better than I did.
It would appear so.
And you'd be wrong.
Otherwise, What I think what you meant by, "I certainly can't tell what was in your head when I wrote it" is "You're right, I was caught lying and misrepresenting what you said."
Thanks for admitting to that you lied and misquoted me.
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If not, then how do you know nobody is intercepting your communication, making your self signed certificate as useless as having no encryption at all.
It's because I don't give a fuck if someone sees my ridiculously banal "communication" with some model railroading site or the data that goes back and forth while I research shit like piano hinges or crosscut saw blades.
For more sensitive stuff, no, but for crap like that I just can't be bothered to give a fuck.
You originally wrote, "There is nothing fundamentally different from spoken languages in programming languages."
That statement is simply incorrect. Ask linguistics professors if there is anything fundamentally different from spoken languages and programming languages, and they'll say "yes". So will nearly every Comp Sci student and teacher.
It may sound cool to claim that there is nothing fundamentally different between them, but it's simply not so.
Anyway, cheers, and thanks for keeping things civil. It's nice to be able to disagree with someone without either party dropping down into insult mode, lol. :)
Make a best guess.
Was your point that I should invest in firefighters? Become a firefighter? Date a firefighter?
Or was your point that you were jealous that I've made a shitload of dough with PHP and you haven't?
I claimed you *meant* only. You see, words mean things.
Ahhh, so you admit to misquoting me...now we're making progress.
This one is smaller, and a few bucks cheaper:
Odoria 1:12 Violin
Approx.Size: 0.78"(L) x0.5"(W) x2.7"(H)
even if they were going after Java ME's market, there's nothing wrong with going after someone else's market.
Oh My God, how dare you suggest such an un-American, anti-competitive thing like going after someone else's market! Is nothing sacred?
Some big company needs to sue you ASAP for such blasphemy!!
"Oracle's attorney says her client missed a crucial detail in the trial, adding that this detail could change everything. ArsTechnica reports"
Yeah, well, unless I'm misreading this whole thing, that sounds like a screwup by Oracle or their attorneys and not something Google can be held accountable for.
"Your Honor, we fucked up, so errr, we need a do-over, yeah, that's the ticket!"
Fire Fighter: "Fires create a lot of havoc for some people, but I love them. Fires have made me boatloads of money and paid for my house. Burn on!"
And....what's your point?
Both are contextual, just in computer languages you are more aware of managing the context,
No, computer languages are not contextual. In any given computer language a function does only what it's been designed to do, which is why you cannot use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a database, or use it to strip periods from a string.
Computer languages wouldn't work if they were contextual, that is, if the meaning or output of a function provided irregular or arbitrary output. Human language, however, works just fine in a contextual mode.
Again, if you're correct, prove it by using imagecreatetruecolor() to strip periods from a string.
No, you misrepresented me by misquoting me, as you've admitted several times now.
You attributed things to me I never said, and we both know it. Like claiming I said "only". Apparently you forgot that in your haste to try and muddy the waters. :)
And I have no sympathy for the next cop who gets shot by someone whose cash he was about to seize.
Same here. When police break the law, they're no longer the police- they're gang members with uniforms.
I have no sympathy for idiots transporting large sums of cash. You're just an idiot if you do this.
So we should avoid doing things that are perfectly legal just because the police are crooked?
We should all try to make sure to live our lives under their boots in a way that appeases them the most?
Fuck you.
When you create new code for a function, you tell the computer to rerun the compiler and linker and with natural language you do effectively the same thing.
Sure, and now every bit of code previously written to use that function fails. Not so with a human language because human language is contextual. Computer code is not.
Again, show me how to use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a database, or how to use it to strip periods from a string. You can't, because that's not what it does. You can do that with a human language but not with a programming language.
But I can use the word "bad" (for example) in lots of different ways and the different meanings will almost always be recognized.
No, in natural languages when the meaning changes it is the exact same thing
Right, but that's not true of programming languages. You can't take a function meant to do one thing and use it to do something completely different. If you disagree, please show me how you can use the two PHP functions below to do what I'm asking:
1) Use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a mySQL database.
2) Use strtolower() to write to a text file.
In a human language you can change the meaning or usage of the word, but you cannot do that with a programming language. You'll never be able to use the imagecreatetruecolor() function to connect to a mySQL database, because that's not what it does.
You deliberately distorted the meaning of what I said by misquoting me, and you know it.
Try again, serviscope_minor.
"It then prompts users for administrative rights..."
Why would you give admin rights to something you didn't explicitly download?
I bet you use PowerPoint and animations, too.
I would if it was appropriate.
It's merely that I don't know how to get any function to do those things.
No, it's that those functions don't do those things and never will.
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I do know how to write a routine called strtolower() to write a text file
Yes, you can create a function to do anything you want and name it anything you want, but that's not what we're talking about. This is about using a pre-existing function to do something that doesn't do, like using the strtolower() function to write a text file.
That's how programming languages are different than spoken languages- the former has a very strictly defined meanings that don't change, while the latter has meanings that can and do change.
Thanks for simplifying it down to a level of stupidity.
No thanks needed, as I wrote it with you in mind. ;)
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Why is your home invasion more important than someone else's life?
You can always find another loser to pester to death online, but no one can replace my fully-framed crayon drawing of John Wayne! Once that's stolen it's gone forever! Good god, man, have you no sense of proportion?
I'm still waiting for your example of how to use imagecreatetruecolor() to connect to a mySQL database, and use strtolower() to write a text file.
Or is it that those functions can't be used for those things?
I can tell what the words you wrote actually mean.
Apparently not, as you've shown before and are showing now. You deliberately distorted the meaning of what I said, and you know it.
Try again, serviscope_minor.
I find your lack of faith disturbing. ;)
Lol, fair enough, except that there really are people who would argue that "2+2=4" is a matter of faith.
Kent Hovind and his flat-headed son Eric are two examples that come to mind.
It takes faith to believe that 2 + 2 is 4.
Damn, I honestly can't tell if you're you're just goofing or if you're really that stupid.
Somehow you seem to think you know the meaning of what I wrote better than I did.
It would appear so.
And you'd be wrong.
Otherwise, What I think what you meant by, "I certainly can't tell what was in your head when I wrote it" is "You're right, I was caught lying and misrepresenting what you said."
Thanks for admitting to that you lied and misquoted me.
That makes holding back the tide with a teaspoon look doable, in contrast. . . .
Standby for the creation of the Metropolitan Teaspoon Brigade, outfitted with the latest tactical tide-fighting teaspoons that money can buy!