The other end of that, though, is that in Perl you can write a one-off script in a few lines that you could spend days doing in another language. I grant you that it's difficult for others to go back and add to your code, but there are tons of situations I run across where that's never an issue.
Perl is perfect for situations where you need special purpose code done very quickly that you don't really intend to distribute, and is absolutely unsurpassed when it comes to string manipulation. That makes it an absolutely perfect tool for bioinformatics, which is my field. Just letting you know that there is at least one niche that Perl fits perfectly, even if it's not something you'd necessarily do.
I can't believe this was modded as insightful...seems like trolling to me. In the past I've made extensive use of Java, C, C++, and Perl, and guess which one I use every day? Perl. Saying that people who use Perl are ignorant of other languages is just asinine. Perl has a niche that it is very very useful in. It's equivalent to saying that people who use hammers are ignorant of screwdrivers; a smart programmer uses the tool that is appropriate for the job. If the author of the original comment is sticking to a particular language out of linguistic jingoism or the kind of intellectual snobbery displayed in his comment, he's picking languages for the wrong reasons.
What sucks is that I get the same plan on Cingular for $20 less and the unused anytime minutes roll over at the end of each month. Even that isn't all that great compared to some of the specials they've been running lately.
Is that occasionally there are headlines like this that I can read, re-read, and still have no clue what the article's actually about. I don't know what ANY of that stuff means.
First off, it mentions that there are some problems with the observations. Second, we have some enormous and indisputable global phenomena, such as the rapid disappearance of species, that can't have happened and then un-happened in the middle ages. We also have forests retreating up mountains to stay with the moisture and appropriate levels of heat. There's no evidence that this happened 1100-600 years ago. This one questionable contradictory observation does not a refutation make, and those who say it does are just reaching.
I tried beta 2 and it crashed every third or fourth time I opened Windows explorer. All in all it looked okay, but it was about as stable as Margo Kidder.
To be honest, I never got why so many people liked Lilo and Stitch. I thought the first thirty minutes were great, but after that it became 100% cookie cutter crap to me. Not trying to be inflammatory, I just thought that it was way overrated.
I dunno...I had never used Macs at all until about a year and a half ago, so I started working in OSX and OS 9 at the same time. I definitely prefer OS X. As a matter of fact, I haven't booted into OS 9 in six months. I think with a lot of Mac users the main problem is that OS X is an enormous change, not necessarily that it's bad per se.
"I'm simply giving my oppinion. I honestly don't see how a healthy marriage can include recieving sexual gratification from outside sources."
What are the outside sources? It's a husband and wife enjoying themselves together, not a threesome. Are you also against masturbation without pornography? Seems to violate the same terms. How about use of sex toys between man and wife? Don't see how it's any different. If those are your views, you're entitled to them and your sterile, boring sex life.
"My moral imperative, such as it is, comes from the fact that I think I know the truth, and that this is a discussion board. It comes from talking with people who have been abused, raped, and had marriages dammaged by unfaithfulness, even unfaithfulness of the eyes."
NONE of which has anything to do with pornography shared consensually between man and wife.
News flash...not all marriages are between Christians, and even Christians disagree on what god says. He's a notoriously unreliable source, and clearly says contradicting things to different people.
"You and your wife both enjoy/appreciate pronography. I'll have to admit that I have a fairly hard time seeing through your eyes, but such is life. "
If you could, you'd be so turned on right now....
"And I'm not suggesting that it isn't stimulating or gratifying; simply that it violates the emotional contract of marriage."
But that's a crock and a half. You're essentially saying that his marriage is invalid becuase it doesn't agree with your idea of what marriage should be. I'd say that an open sexual relationship where both partners actually feel gratified is far more fundamental to the success of a relationship than the approval of strangers such as yourself, or myself for that matter. Neither you nor I have any right to judge as illlegitimate something that holds their relationship together. As a matter of fact, my opinion would be that a relationship based on repressed emotions and desires is inherently less stable and emotionally fulfilling than one that is based on open communication, including but not limited to communication about and fulfillment of sexual desires. So if I were to apply your "my way is the only way" mentality, his relationship is far more legitimate as a marriage than yours, because it's honest. How's that feel?
Go looking for a Seasound SOlo with the expander. Seasound made some amazing hardware, but they unfortunately priced themselves out of business. Their stuff was way too expensive a few years ago, but since they've gone under you can get an excellent, pro-quality 8 track with 2 very nice preamps for something like $250, if you can find someone selling new old stock. This is a digital audio workstation, not a standalone. I switched to mine from an M-Audio Delta 88, and never regretted it. There are even new WDM drivers still being made for it on www.byteheaven.com. As of about 6 months ago, you could order them from www.sixtecycle.com, but Ihaven't checked recently. BTW, their page is frequently screwed up so you may have to call them. Great people though.
I've got about equivalent amounts of Java and Perl under my belt, but I use Perl literally 20-30 times more often. I haven't experienced any anti-scripting bias, what I've experienced more is people who only know "programming" languages asking me for help with scripting chunks of their research.
I should mention that what I do is pretty much bioinformatics.
This post (this one!) was the most -- and I mean the most!-- continuously self-interrupting (what?) post I think I've ever (ever!) seen. Difficult (almost impossible) to read.
Very well put. The only way I've found multiplayer online games to be at all enjoyable is if I play with a group of friends. When it's just us, great. When it's not, my friends can be trusted to:
a) behave themselves b) cooperate to bash the crap out of anyone who doesn't behave themselves
We played Ultima Online for a year, without a lot of the crap most people complain about.
I'm thinking this is one in a series of attempts to establish a set of de facto international laws and codes of conduct that will eventually blossom into a one world government!!!!
That was kind of my response. I'll grant that they're not all that attractive, but it's really not that important as far as MOO goes. It's like saying you don't want to play chess because the pieces are ugly.
The stellar converters were awesome. On very stressful days, I'd sometimes go around trying to destroy every planet in the galaxy by not quite killing off an enemy, letting him settle a new world, then vaporizing it. A guilty pleasure. I suppose I'm going to be up in front of a war crimes tribunal some day
I'm not sure if you deserve a medal or a short stay in prison for that, but you sure deserve something.
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I retract that...the page actually says "sci fi origami". In case anyone's confused, I'm talking about the last link in the article. I'm also half asleep.
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The other end of that, though, is that in Perl you can write a one-off script in a few lines that you could spend days doing in another language. I grant you that it's difficult for others to go back and add to your code, but there are tons of situations I run across where that's never an issue.
Perl is perfect for situations where you need special purpose code done very quickly that you don't really intend to distribute, and is absolutely unsurpassed when it comes to string manipulation. That makes it an absolutely perfect tool for bioinformatics, which is my field. Just letting you know that there is at least one niche that Perl fits perfectly, even if it's not something you'd necessarily do.
I can't believe this was modded as insightful...seems like trolling to me. In the past I've made extensive use of Java, C, C++, and Perl, and guess which one I use every day? Perl. Saying that people who use Perl are ignorant of other languages is just asinine. Perl has a niche that it is very very useful in. It's equivalent to saying that people who use hammers are ignorant of screwdrivers; a smart programmer uses the tool that is appropriate for the job. If the author of the original comment is sticking to a particular language out of linguistic jingoism or the kind of intellectual snobbery displayed in his comment, he's picking languages for the wrong reasons.
Plymouth University just did a study on this. Put monkeys in a room with typewriters and they simply make a mess [foxnews.com].
Yeah, that's how Fox News seems to me too.
If you can call THAT living. Ha!
Man, I must be even more pathetically bored than I thought.
What sucks is that I get the same plan on Cingular for $20 less and the unused anytime minutes roll over at the end of each month. Even that isn't all that great compared to some of the specials they've been running lately.
Is that occasionally there are headlines like this that I can read, re-read, and still have no clue what the article's actually about. I don't know what ANY of that stuff means.
First off, it mentions that there are some problems with the observations. Second, we have some enormous and indisputable global phenomena, such as the rapid disappearance of species, that can't have happened and then un-happened in the middle ages. We also have forests retreating up mountains to stay with the moisture and appropriate levels of heat. There's no evidence that this happened 1100-600 years ago. This one questionable contradictory observation does not a refutation make, and those who say it does are just reaching.
No mention of which titles will be affected, but Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G."
Goody, so it won't affect me at all.
I tried beta 2 and it crashed every third or fourth time I opened Windows explorer. All in all it looked okay, but it was about as stable as Margo Kidder.
To be honest, I never got why so many people liked Lilo and Stitch. I thought the first thirty minutes were great, but after that it became 100% cookie cutter crap to me. Not trying to be inflammatory, I just thought that it was way overrated.
I dunno...I had never used Macs at all until about a year and a half ago, so I started working in OSX and OS 9 at the same time. I definitely prefer OS X. As a matter of fact, I haven't booted into OS 9 in six months. I think with a lot of Mac users the main problem is that OS X is an enormous change, not necessarily that it's bad per se.
"I'm simply giving my oppinion. I honestly don't see how a healthy marriage can include recieving sexual gratification from outside sources."
What are the outside sources? It's a husband and wife enjoying themselves together, not a threesome. Are you also against masturbation without pornography? Seems to violate the same terms. How about use of sex toys between man and wife? Don't see how it's any different. If those are your views, you're entitled to them and your sterile, boring sex life.
"My moral imperative, such as it is, comes from the fact that I think I know the truth, and that this is a discussion board. It comes from talking with people who have been abused, raped, and had marriages dammaged by unfaithfulness, even unfaithfulness of the eyes."
NONE of which has anything to do with pornography shared consensually between man and wife.
News flash...not all marriages are between Christians, and even Christians disagree on what god says. He's a notoriously unreliable source, and clearly says contradicting things to different people.
"You and your wife both enjoy/appreciate pronography. I'll have to admit that I have a fairly hard time seeing through your eyes, but such is life. "
If you could, you'd be so turned on right now....
"And I'm not suggesting that it isn't stimulating or gratifying; simply that it violates the emotional contract of marriage."
But that's a crock and a half. You're essentially saying that his marriage is invalid becuase it doesn't agree with your idea of what marriage should be. I'd say that an open sexual relationship where both partners actually feel gratified is far more fundamental to the success of a relationship than the approval of strangers such as yourself, or myself for that matter. Neither you nor I have any right to judge as illlegitimate something that holds their relationship together. As a matter of fact, my opinion would be that a relationship based on repressed emotions and desires is inherently less stable and emotionally fulfilling than one that is based on open communication, including but not limited to communication about and fulfillment of sexual desires. So if I were to apply your "my way is the only way" mentality, his relationship is far more legitimate as a marriage than yours, because it's honest. How's that feel?
Go looking for a Seasound SOlo with the expander. Seasound made some amazing hardware, but they unfortunately priced themselves out of business. Their stuff was way too expensive a few years ago, but since they've gone under you can get an excellent, pro-quality 8 track with 2 very nice preamps for something like $250, if you can find someone selling new old stock. This is a digital audio workstation, not a standalone. I switched to mine from an M-Audio Delta 88, and never regretted it. There are even new WDM drivers still being made for it on www.byteheaven.com. As of about 6 months ago, you could order them from www.sixtecycle.com, but Ihaven't checked recently. BTW, their page is frequently screwed up so you may have to call them. Great people though.
I've got about equivalent amounts of Java and Perl under my belt, but I use Perl literally 20-30 times more often. I haven't experienced any anti-scripting bias, what I've experienced more is people who only know "programming" languages asking me for help with scripting chunks of their research.
I should mention that what I do is pretty much bioinformatics.
Study more math. It will be a LOT more important than you think.
This post (this one!) was the most -- and I mean the most!-- continuously self-interrupting (what?) post I think I've ever (ever!) seen. Difficult (almost impossible) to read.
Very well put. The only way I've found multiplayer online games to be at all enjoyable is if I play with a group of friends. When it's just us, great. When it's not, my friends can be trusted to:
a) behave themselves
b) cooperate to bash the crap out of anyone who doesn't behave themselves
We played Ultima Online for a year, without a lot of the crap most people complain about.
I'm thinking this is one in a series of attempts to establish a set of de facto international laws and codes of conduct that will eventually blossom into a one world government!!!!
Not really, but it's a fun theory.
Starflight was the first game I ever played on my first home PC. I loved that game!
That was kind of my response. I'll grant that they're not all that attractive, but it's really not that important as far as MOO goes. It's like saying you don't want to play chess because the pieces are ugly.
The stellar converters were awesome. On very stressful days, I'd sometimes go around trying to destroy every planet in the galaxy by not quite killing off an enemy, letting him settle a new world, then vaporizing it. A guilty pleasure. I suppose I'm going to be up in front of a war crimes tribunal some day
I'm not sure if you deserve a medal or a short stay in prison for that, but you sure deserve something.
I retract that...the page actually says "sci fi origami". In case anyone's confused, I'm talking about the last link in the article. I'm also half asleep.