...objectively the story/dialogue in the OT wasn't all that much better than any in 1-3.
I do enjoy all the Star Wars episodes I've seen (although I liked some more than others), but don't you think it's a little early to talk about the quality of episodes 1--3?
"Mega" still plagues us today. Last wednesday, I was watching a nice episode of Scrapheap Challenge. When the commercials came, suddenly I was bombarded by an extemely loud noise and the title, "Junkyard Mega Wars".
I hope so too. I just want the original versions with the usual low-key touching up, like taking out nasty static and trying to remove the lines around the leg of the giant killing animal in Jabba's palace.
If I wanted Sarlak (sp?) to suddenly have a friggin beak sticking out, I'd ask for it! And don't get me started on the new, this time highly nauseating, singing scene in Jabba's pad with the closeup of the singer's protruding mouth.
Fortunately, all Klingon warships are equipped with tripolar nondeterministic subspace acid reflux capacitance nihilisti-coils. They'll just self destruct and BLOW UP VGER!!!!!
What turned me off Java was not the fact that it had large libraries, but the way the libraries seemed bolted on. I realize that having clear separation between the libraries and the language syntax is a good idea technically, but programming languages are for people. System.out.println() is perfectly understandable, but a convenience function would be nice---or even a "print" statement.
As libraries get big (as they certainly have in Java), it gets harder to find what you're looking for in them. A big problem in language design is making big libraries convenient and intuitive. Java looks like it hasn't tried all that hard.
Jess looks like a layer of abstraction, and abstraction is generally a Good Thing. For example, HTML templating systems are often more pleasant than a bunch of perl scripts with the page hard coded. Hey, if it lets you take complex logic out of Java, I'd say it's good.
Thing is, the RIAA liked it when everything had to be purchased in fluffed-up overpriced batches. It guaranteed them a steady stream of income. They didn't want anything to happen to the status quo. Fortunately, something did happen. Napster became popular, and online music filesharing was unleashed upon the world. The RIAA got Napster shut down, and a swarm of hardier replacements appeared out of the ether. Now some for-pay online music services are stepping into the sun, and we're seeing a change. People are willing to pay for something reasonably priced and convenient. Result: iTunes is making good money legally, and the concept is catching on.
I think that we'll soon have a choice: free with hassles (you don't pay a thing for The Dark Side of the Moon over IRC, but you have to jump through some hoops to get it), or convenient outlets for shelling out your money in smaller quantities in exchange for music. Which will you pick?
While I'm not going to come out for or against eugenics, I'd like to point out that it doesn't necessarily involve killing anyone. Imagine a situation where reproduction is legally limited to one child a person (so a couple could have two children). If someone wins the Nobel prize, restrictions could perhaps be relaxed. If someone molests children, they could lose further reproduction rights. I'm not saying we should do this, though. I mean, if Darl McBride manages to somehow come out of the SCO thing with millions of dollars, I imagine he could bribe someone to let him pass on his genes in spades. Who would want that?
Honeypot or not, look at robots.txt. It's creepy: just about every entry is an Iraq-related page, and there are a lot of entries. If they wanted to just have a few honeypots, that shouldn't involve that many entries, or so many with the common theme of Iraq.
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How much was really written in Ada? I'd guess that Java has had more written in it, though I could be wrong. Java got spewed all over the place, so I think it'll have some staying power, although I do think it was overhyped.
I expect more hype coming to Python, especially once it gets some EJB-like "Twisted" framework. Or Erlang with its enterprise-quality EJB-like OTP framework.
I like the twisted framework; it's practically another language on top of Python. I've recently discovered another worthy language, O'Caml. It has some really neat idioms, and the native code compilation ability is nice. Unfortunately, it lacks much in the way of EJB type stuff. Still, I'm sure that an EJB-like system could be done well in O'Caml. Those languages are where I'd like to see more hype drifting, for one main reason: simplicity. They're more lightweight, and they carry less of the C/C++ baggage.
Yes, if the drive as actually destroyed then it's the drive maker's fault. No data should be able to harm a CD-ROM drive. I think that LG should be getting busy soon with making sure this doesn't happen in the future.
As for Mandrake, I'm sure that the updates are a good thing, unless they're stupid bugs that should have been fixed before release.
You didn't quote the sig you were responding to (not everybody enables sigs) and you then linked to a page that caused my crappy institutionally-mandated Internet Explorer browser to pop up two popup ads! They stole several seconds of my life, and I want it back!
But I dont understand. What is this strange emotion you humans call "Love"?
A subconscious socializing instinctive urge. Shut up about it. Robots shouldn't care, you should be what you are and not try to be humans. You'll just end up doing things you'll regret and annoy everyone around you.
That can be harder than the threaded way, though. If I read the twisted HOWTOs correctly (I've been using twisted for a few months) you have to have functions that don't block, ever. So let's say that you want an HTTP client. You have to handle events in such a way that your event handler finishes fast, which can mean storing a lot of state in your class. Sure, it's definitely manageable, but take a look at the "defer" module: necessary complexity.
OTOH, you're right about select() being fastest, and abstraction helps a lot.
Now, core classes for general education it is a complete nightmare. Two to three quarter turn over time on most of them. Six months and its obsolete? English? Mathematics? Comon...
I had to buy an English textbook this year. The funny thing was, it was essentially unchanged from the last edition except that the ordering of the sections was changed around and new "pre-reading journal entry" paragraphs were added before the example essays. For this, people pay higher prices. Sure, the professor, as he explained about this, professed to dislike the situation, but what could he do? He can't count on availability of the cheaper old edition, and the new edition has been munged so much that supporting both editions would be a big pain (he makes a lot of use of the textbook). How much does english really change from one year to the next? Sure, the OED may add "phat" to the list of words, but rearranging the page numbers and token efforts at adding something to the content don't really justify a new edition, in my opinion.
Make a clear javascript that doesn't have lots of escapes (it's not too hard; I did it) and hope that spambots realize that evaluating javascript isn't worth it if only a few people use this method. That said, you're right; it's not hard to deal with javascript obfuscation.
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I do enjoy all the Star Wars episodes I've seen (although I liked some more than others), but don't you think it's a little early to talk about the quality of episodes 1--3?
*shudder*, *gasp*
I hate to tell you this, but Adult Swim is still edited, and they'll be showing these at 8:00 Eastern and Pacific. Sorry.
Ah, yes. Better to slashdot cartoon network than your usenet servers.
If I wanted Sarlak (sp?) to suddenly have a friggin beak sticking out, I'd ask for it! And don't get me started on the new, this time highly nauseating, singing scene in Jabba's pad with the closeup of the singer's protruding mouth.
Relevantly, take a look at the NeXT logo.
Attention MSDN (and others): please get your act together!
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I never did like that movie....
As libraries get big (as they certainly have in Java), it gets harder to find what you're looking for in them. A big problem in language design is making big libraries convenient and intuitive. Java looks like it hasn't tried all that hard.
Jess looks like a layer of abstraction, and abstraction is generally a Good Thing. For example, HTML templating systems are often more pleasant than a bunch of perl scripts with the page hard coded. Hey, if it lets you take complex logic out of Java, I'd say it's good.
I think that we'll soon have a choice: free with hassles (you don't pay a thing for The Dark Side of the Moon over IRC, but you have to jump through some hoops to get it), or convenient outlets for shelling out your money in smaller quantities in exchange for music. Which will you pick?
While I'm not going to come out for or against eugenics, I'd like to point out that it doesn't necessarily involve killing anyone. Imagine a situation where reproduction is legally limited to one child a person (so a couple could have two children). If someone wins the Nobel prize, restrictions could perhaps be relaxed. If someone molests children, they could lose further reproduction rights. I'm not saying we should do this, though. I mean, if Darl McBride manages to somehow come out of the SCO thing with millions of dollars, I imagine he could bribe someone to let him pass on his genes in spades. Who would want that?
So, oh non-me entity, why do you think whitehouse.gov is now excluding spiders from a bunch of pages having to do with Iraq?
Honeypot or not, look at robots.txt. It's creepy: just about every entry is an Iraq-related page, and there are a lot of entries. If they wanted to just have a few honeypots, that shouldn't involve that many entries, or so many with the common theme of Iraq.
I expect more hype coming to Python, especially once it gets some EJB-like "Twisted" framework. Or Erlang with its enterprise-quality EJB-like OTP framework.
I like the twisted framework; it's practically another language on top of Python. I've recently discovered another worthy language, O'Caml. It has some really neat idioms, and the native code compilation ability is nice. Unfortunately, it lacks much in the way of EJB type stuff. Still, I'm sure that an EJB-like system could be done well in O'Caml. Those languages are where I'd like to see more hype drifting, for one main reason: simplicity. They're more lightweight, and they carry less of the C/C++ baggage.
As for Mandrake, I'm sure that the updates are a good thing, unless they're stupid bugs that should have been fixed before release.
You didn't quote the sig you were responding to (not everybody enables sigs) and you then linked to a page that caused my crappy institutionally-mandated Internet Explorer browser to pop up two popup ads! They stole several seconds of my life, and I want it back!
Then they'll need another manual to teach people how to use the help system....
A subconscious socializing instinctive urge. Shut up about it. Robots shouldn't care, you should be what you are and not try to be humans. You'll just end up doing things you'll regret and annoy everyone around you.
Hear hear.
OTOH, you're right about select() being fastest, and abstraction helps a lot.
Well, it doesn't crash very easily. (grin)
Now, if individuals in the US begin commonly importing from the UK, hopefully the stores will lower their estimate of what the market will bear.
I had to buy an English textbook this year. The funny thing was, it was essentially unchanged from the last edition except that the ordering of the sections was changed around and new "pre-reading journal entry" paragraphs were added before the example essays. For this, people pay higher prices. Sure, the professor, as he explained about this, professed to dislike the situation, but what could he do? He can't count on availability of the cheaper old edition, and the new edition has been munged so much that supporting both editions would be a big pain (he makes a lot of use of the textbook). How much does english really change from one year to the next? Sure, the OED may add "phat" to the list of words, but rearranging the page numbers and token efforts at adding something to the content don't really justify a new edition, in my opinion.
Grrrrr.
Make a clear javascript that doesn't have lots of escapes (it's not too hard; I did it) and hope that spambots realize that evaluating javascript isn't worth it if only a few people use this method. That said, you're right; it's not hard to deal with javascript obfuscation.