I hadn't been to a movie in ages when I went to see Star Wars III. There were 4 people in the theatre, 2 of which were perfect patrons (me and the person I was with). The other two spent the entire f'ing movie getting cell calls and running in and out of the theatre.
Oh, and the film broke in the middle and we had an "intermission" of 10 minutes.
The entire experience just reinforced what I already knew: movie theatres suck!
For instance, a modular framework that I'm using for a game server that lets you reload every line of code in the entire program without losing state or dropping a single client connection. Generally the user never realizes anything happened.
Users of (Common) Lisp have been doing this for 20+ years. It is the hallmark of a dynamic language. I find it really funny that your world view is so small that you think Perl invented this.
Extreme conciseness has a dark side: it makes the code much more difficult to understand.
Back to the original question: I hate Perl because: if I don't use it for a little while (couple of months), I can't program in it without cracking a book. I program in a LOT of other languages, ocassionally, and I don't have this problem with any of them.
You and the grandparent are using the word "anarchy" wrong (which means "absence of any form of political authority; political disorder and confusion."). The word you are looking for is "chaos", which is what happens when all hell breaks loose, and that would be the best description of what happened.
You are forgetting one thing: other expenses. GEICO spends a buttload of money on advertising. I can't watch a show on TV in the states without seeing one of their f'ing commercials. I don't see commercials for very many other insurers. How many more claims could they cover if they scaled back the ads? I'd bet a LOT.
I just checked the latest issue of CR. The 530i has the worst possible repair history rating... equal to the E320. There was a Jaguar in the same issue which also had the worst possible rating.
The original post is looking more correct all the time, wouldn't you say?
You replied to someone that named MB and BMW, and you called him a troll.
Secondly, get yourself the latest car issue of Consumer Reports. Look at the repair rating for MB. It's the worst possible rating you can have. I'd say your Dad's SLK is one of the rare ones. In the same issue, you'll see that BMW, while it has a better repair history than MB, still sucks.
I own a MB E420 ('97) and you are definitely the troll. Yes, it's a nice car. Yes, it drives nice. However, it breaks a lot, and when it breaks it is very expensive to fix. My Dad owned an E55. It was in the shop more than not. They (MB USA) even flew an engineer/mechanic in to fix some of the problems. He finally go so sick of the unsolved problems (exessive tire wear), which MB could not fix, he traded it in for a Lexus, which has never had one single problem since he got it (2 years ago).
I think the horrible build quality is a recent thing (of the last 8 years).
Also, grandparent is 100%: people buy these cards for the prestige. I hope to cash in on this when I sell mine.
And I suppose you think that the current situation in Iraq has nothing to do with our behavior in 1980? What are you, like, 12?
I chose the example of the Shaw of Iran because it was a dramatic example of a lapse of judgement on the part of the US government, one that has a direct bearing on the current situation in the Middle East (and why we are so hated there).
But, if you want to use the Germans as an example, I'll go with that.
To make the German comparison fair, it would mean that Hitler would have to not have been defeated and his or a successor government still in power.
Now, if that was the case, would you (Jewish or not) say you hate Germany (as a stand in for the German government)? Very likely you would.
Now, understand that this is precisely the same situation we are in Over There. We did lots of bad shit and people don't like us for it. It's not *other* people that did it, it is the same US government that did it.
Ironically, I just ran across this post which speaks directly to the root causes of terrorism. If the US hadn't been meddling in the Middle East--support of the brutal Shaw of Iran, for example.
To drive this point home even more: we were told by Intel that to do our own code generation was not recommended. They recommended that we use their C compiler backend. For us, this was not an option, and we never did the port.
Exactly right. I had a dispute in the $100-$200 range with an alarm monitoring company that was sent to collection (because of their error, not mine). I sent a very precise and detailed letter, via certified mail. The operative phrase you must use is that "you dispute the debt". I never heard another word.
The really annoying thing was that they inflated the debt greatly (by a factor of 4x). I wonder what percentage of people cave and pay...
Someone else's loss (via theft) is your gain, right?
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It's an open standard... I'd like some of what you are smoking. C# is not an open standard. It's a "closed standard" (which means it is no standard). Microsoft and only Microsoft control it. They did not give control to a standards body, nor did they submit the spec to a standards body to "approve" it.
Microsoft can change anything they want in C#, and bet they will.
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When you run the executable, you get to choose the components, which are:
o DivX 6.0
o DivX EKG
o DivX Pro 6 Month Trial
o Generic MPEG-4 Playback
o DivX YV12 Pass-Through
o DivX Media Playback Support
o DivX Player
First, Citi is the only CC company that has virtual #'s (in the US, that I know of). Virtual #'s are generated on their website and can be used once. This is an invaluable security feature.
Second, given the above, you need only worry about Citi themselves leaking your information. Yes, it appears it might have happened. The tapes might be lost in one of their buildings, too.
99.9999% of all CC fraud happens outside your CC company. If you use virtual CC #'s, then you are safe 99.9999% of the time. That seems pretty good to me.
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I predict an upturn in ebay sales of this item...
I hadn't been to a movie in ages when I went to see Star Wars III. There were 4 people in the theatre, 2 of which were perfect patrons (me and the person I was with). The other two spent the entire f'ing movie getting cell calls and running in and out of the theatre.
Oh, and the film broke in the middle and we had an "intermission" of 10 minutes.
The entire experience just reinforced what I already knew: movie theatres suck!
In Perl it's not nearly as easy to do dynamic redefinition as it is in Lisp. Perhaps I'm wrong. Enlighten me.
Users of (Common) Lisp have been doing this for 20+ years. It is the hallmark of a dynamic language. I find it really funny that your world view is so small that you think Perl invented this.
Extreme conciseness has a dark side: it makes the code much more difficult to understand.
Back to the original question: I hate Perl because: if I don't use it for a little while (couple of months), I can't program in it without cracking a book. I program in a LOT of other languages, ocassionally, and I don't have this problem with any of them.
You and the grandparent are using the word "anarchy" wrong (which means "absence of any form of political authority; political disorder and confusion."). The word you are looking for is "chaos", which is what happens when all hell breaks loose, and that would be the best description of what happened.
You are forgetting one thing: other expenses. GEICO spends a buttload of money on advertising. I can't watch a show on TV in the states without seeing one of their f'ing commercials. I don't see commercials for very many other insurers. How many more claims could they cover if they scaled back the ads? I'd bet a LOT.
It is Tivo that has the Comcast deal, not DirecTV.
I just checked the latest issue of CR. The 530i has the worst possible repair history rating... equal to the E320. There was a Jaguar in the same issue which also had the worst possible rating.
The original post is looking more correct all the time, wouldn't you say?
You replied to someone that named MB and BMW, and you called him a troll.
Secondly, get yourself the latest car issue of Consumer Reports. Look at the repair rating for MB. It's the worst possible rating you can have. I'd say your Dad's SLK is one of the rare ones. In the same issue, you'll see that BMW, while it has a better repair history than MB, still sucks.
Not anymore... appears (mostly) toast now.
I own a MB E420 ('97) and you are definitely the troll. Yes, it's a nice car. Yes, it drives nice. However, it breaks a lot, and when it breaks it is very expensive to fix. My Dad owned an E55. It was in the shop more than not. They (MB USA) even flew an engineer/mechanic in to fix some of the problems. He finally go so sick of the unsolved problems (exessive tire wear), which MB could not fix, he traded it in for a Lexus, which has never had one single problem since he got it (2 years ago).
I think the horrible build quality is a recent thing (of the last 8 years).
Also, grandparent is 100%: people buy these cards for the prestige. I hope to cash in on this when I sell mine.
And I suppose you think that the current situation in Iraq has nothing to do with our behavior in 1980? What are you, like, 12?
I chose the example of the Shaw of Iran because it was a dramatic example of a lapse of judgement on the part of the US government, one that has a direct bearing on the current situation in the Middle East (and why we are so hated there).
But, if you want to use the Germans as an example, I'll go with that.
To make the German comparison fair, it would mean that Hitler would have to not have been defeated and his or a successor government still in power.
Now, if that was the case, would you (Jewish or not) say you hate Germany (as a stand in for the German government)? Very likely you would.
Now, understand that this is precisely the same situation we are in Over There. We did lots of bad shit and people don't like us for it. It's not *other* people that did it, it is the same US government that did it.
Get it now?
ack, left out the word "supported" before "the Shaw of Iran"...
We the Shaw of Iran, who brutalized his own people for decades. Is this the moral and ethical principle to which you refer?
Ironically, I just ran across this post which speaks directly to the root causes of terrorism. If the US hadn't been meddling in the Middle East--support of the brutal Shaw of Iran, for example.
These are not the root causes, but they are reasons terrorism is possible. It is simple to drive an ice pick into my eye. Is that a cause? No.
autoruns is invaluable to cleaning the crap that programs install and have set to run when you login/boot.
More Shoes, his latest article.
To drive this point home even more: we were told by Intel that to do our own code generation was not recommended. They recommended that we use their C compiler backend. For us, this was not an option, and we never did the port.
Exactly right. I had a dispute in the $100-$200 range with an alarm monitoring company that was sent to collection (because of their error, not mine). I sent a very precise and detailed letter, via certified mail. The operative phrase you must use is that "you dispute the debt". I never heard another word.
The really annoying thing was that they inflated the debt greatly (by a factor of 4x). I wonder what percentage of people cave and pay...
Someone else's loss (via theft) is your gain, right?
Microsoft can change anything they want in C#, and bet they will.
When you run the executable, you get to choose the components, which are:
o DivX 6.0
o DivX EKG
o DivX Pro 6 Month Trial
o Generic MPEG-4 Playback
o DivX YV12 Pass-Through
o DivX Media Playback Support
o DivX Player
What's EKG? YV12 Pass-Through?
This is kinda dumb.
First, Citi is the only CC company that has virtual #'s (in the US, that I know of). Virtual #'s are generated on their website and can be used once. This is an invaluable security feature.
Second, given the above, you need only worry about Citi themselves leaking your information. Yes, it appears it might have happened. The tapes might be lost in one of their buildings, too.
99.9999% of all CC fraud happens outside your CC company. If you use virtual CC #'s, then you are safe 99.9999% of the time. That seems pretty good to me.