Well, if a newspaper reports something that you don't like, then I do not consider breaking ties with that newspaper as ethical.
You're saying that you've never decided to break ties with someone because they did something you didn't like? That's almost the only reason you do break ties with someone. Why should Google continue to associate with them if they don't like them?
Would it really have been that difficult to type six more letters? You went to all the trouble of typing up an entire comment saying nothing, and then you want to save on six keystrokes. You could have used a comma and periods instead of the useless ellipses and come out almost even.
You seem to have gotten the porn references mixed up. I think it would be much more probable for those in your "Everyone Else" category to be using playboy.com, and for either of the other groups to me reading manga.
No, they grow to match your lifestyle. If you're living comfortably on $1000/mo and get a new job making $2000/mo, your utility companies don't magically find out and start charging you more. Your car payment or insurance premium doesn't automatically go up. Your taxes do, but that's it. If you don't make any changes to your lifestyle, you are not paying more in expenses. In fact, with the extra money you can pay off debts sooner, which means you'll be paying less interest and therefore have even fewer expenses.
Because it looks stylish and doesn't have kiddie games. That makes it a success in Slashbot's eyes. (Shh, don't bring up worldwide sales or profit margins.)
When someone says "Java," it can refer to the language, which is written in a human language since it's just an abstract specification, or it can refer to the virtual machine that runs Java programs. That virtual machine has to be written in something, and I'd be very surprised if it was Java. It's probably C.
You can kind of "walk on wind" if you use Tingle. One of the items/abilities you can buy from him is walking on air for ten seconds, similar to the hover boots in Ocarina.
Let me get this straight: you're calling Ocarina of Time boring, even though you've never played it?
If you're going to try and insult someone based on their words, you should make an effort to understand those words first. The word appreciate is not synonymous with the word experience. I can experience something without apppreciating it, just as the person you quoted can play a game without liking it.
Try replacing appreciate with enjoy or like (which are closer to it in meaning) in the sentence you quoted and then see if it makes more sense. You'll notice that this can be done with many other words in sentences that you may find confusing: substitute the word you aren't sure about with a word similar in meaning that you do know well. Over time, you'll find that words become easier to grasp, and you'll make less of a fool of yourself in conversation.
You're being willfully obstinate. Perhaps you can't imagine modifying a proposal to fit: any proposal that doesn't meet 100% needs must be discarded entirely without discussion.
I haven't read any of the links posted in this discussion, but regardless I can see from the explanations that this system would work wonders if it got implemented. None of the lame exceptions you tried to give invalidate this system as something that could benefit millions of people.
It obviously could not completely replace roads or cars. That seems to be some kind of sticking point for you, but try to get past it. Think about the millions of commuters in medium to large cities. Every day they take the exact same route to work and home, carrying no more than a briefcase or laptop bag. This system would be perfect for them. Even most others who live in the city that are taking easy trips around the city could use it. People might still want to own cars for extended trips to other places, but they wouldn't need to use them as much as they do now.
This doesn't fail because of the 90% of the cars that have one driver. It fails because of the 10% with 4.
That's why other modes of transportation would still exist, just as now there are multiple modes of transportation. Get your head out of your ass. Your reasoning that "this system wouldn't perfectly suit every single person" leads to "this system is worthless" is just mind-boggling.
The real question is why did it upset you? If you actually got "pissed off" because something that you find boring was presented as newsworthy, you may need to look into anger management.
I swear, Slashdot is full of people getting upset over things that don't make one lick of difference to them. If your intent was merely to point out that you disagree with the editors about what is newsworthy, the discussion comments are the wrong place to do it. The other users can't help you, you're just adding to the noise.
If it's copyrighted then you shouldn't be able to have it at all, unless you have a license to have it
No, that isn't how copyright works. One of the exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder of a work is the right to perform or display the work publicly, which in this case is the website. Random Joe User can view (and make a copy of) the website, but he can't turn around and make it publicly available himself because he hasn't been granted that right.
Licensing only comes into play if the copyright holder wants to let other people distribute the work. In that case, the copyright holder can license the work to other parties for distribution.
Thanks for posting a well-reasoned reply. I've rarely seen one on this topic, especially on Slashdot. Here are my opinions on your points, although I admit they probably will not sway you on any of them.
I don't have an argument for weak typing other than it seems not to matter most of the time. I admit that strong typing can catch bugs, and Haskell's ultra-strong typing is rather comforting. I actually like having more operators because I think using similar looking operators for dissimilar operations is confusing; for example, using + for string concatenation has always rubbed me the wrong way.
I agree on this point, especially with regard to auto-doc and reflection.
I'm not sure what you mean about hashes not holding on to references or that references are not ref-counted properly. I've never experienced that, although that certainly doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I actually really like Perl's concept of references, probably because I learned to program with C and liked pointers. I do admit that references can be hard to understand for someone without a C background, though.
Although there is no concrete class definition, the best practice of keeping classes in separate modules takes most of your argument away, in my opinion. My biggest complaint with Perl classes is that there is no good way to create private methods.
This is mostly opinion and experience. I don't find it difficult to read most Perl, even if it isn't well written, and I've only been using Perl for a few years.
I don't deny that many people find Python cleaner or like it more. But statements that Perl isn't a sane choice for more than 5-liners bug me. I've built fairly complex systems using nice, maintainable Perl. You just need to be sensible, like with any programming language.
But Firefox allows you to blacklist sites for cookies, as well as set it to delete all cookies when you close the browser, to help you work through your paranoia.
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Well, if a newspaper reports something that you don't like, then I do not consider breaking ties with that newspaper as ethical.
You're saying that you've never decided to break ties with someone because they did something you didn't like? That's almost the only reason you do break ties with someone. Why should Google continue to associate with them if they don't like them?
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Would it really have been that difficult to type six more letters? You went to all the trouble of typing up an entire comment saying nothing, and then you want to save on six keystrokes. You could have used a comma and periods instead of the useless ellipses and come out almost even.
If only LoseNotLooseGuy had not abandoned us, this tragedy may have been averted.
Yeah, but then he can't get hella pissed. Remember, this is Slashdot. The (unwritten) motto is: Getting pissed for no reason since 1997.
Tell your mother not to get rid of her PS2. Problem solved.
So don't buy it at Best Buy?
You seem to have gotten the porn references mixed up. I think it would be much more probable for those in your "Everyone Else" category to be using playboy.com, and for either of the other groups to me reading manga.
I'm a Dapper Dan man.
Expenses always grow to match income
No, they grow to match your lifestyle. If you're living comfortably on $1000/mo and get a new job making $2000/mo, your utility companies don't magically find out and start charging you more. Your car payment or insurance premium doesn't automatically go up. Your taxes do, but that's it. If you don't make any changes to your lifestyle, you are not paying more in expenses. In fact, with the extra money you can pay off debts sooner, which means you'll be paying less interest and therefore have even fewer expenses.
That's only for software, because Microsoft is the big bully. But with the XBox, they're the underdog: they can do no wrong!
And you can have the best of both!
Because it looks stylish and doesn't have kiddie games. That makes it a success in Slashbot's eyes. (Shh, don't bring up worldwide sales or profit margins.)
Your goal for the week: Learn to recognize sarcasm.
When someone says "Java," it can refer to the language, which is written in a human language since it's just an abstract specification, or it can refer to the virtual machine that runs Java programs. That virtual machine has to be written in something, and I'd be very surprised if it was Java. It's probably C.
You can kind of "walk on wind" if you use Tingle. One of the items/abilities you can buy from him is walking on air for ten seconds, similar to the hover boots in Ocarina.
Let me get this straight: you're calling Ocarina of Time boring, even though you've never played it?
If you're going to try and insult someone based on their words, you should make an effort to understand those words first. The word appreciate is not synonymous with the word experience. I can experience something without apppreciating it, just as the person you quoted can play a game without liking it.
Try replacing appreciate with enjoy or like (which are closer to it in meaning) in the sentence you quoted and then see if it makes more sense. You'll notice that this can be done with many other words in sentences that you may find confusing: substitute the word you aren't sure about with a word similar in meaning that you do know well. Over time, you'll find that words become easier to grasp, and you'll make less of a fool of yourself in conversation.
Yes, everyone does masturbate. You can stop feeling guilty.
The reason that it was moderated down is because this troll shows up in every Perl story.
You're being willfully obstinate. Perhaps you can't imagine modifying a proposal to fit: any proposal that doesn't meet 100% needs must be discarded entirely without discussion.
I haven't read any of the links posted in this discussion, but regardless I can see from the explanations that this system would work wonders if it got implemented. None of the lame exceptions you tried to give invalidate this system as something that could benefit millions of people.
It obviously could not completely replace roads or cars. That seems to be some kind of sticking point for you, but try to get past it. Think about the millions of commuters in medium to large cities. Every day they take the exact same route to work and home, carrying no more than a briefcase or laptop bag. This system would be perfect for them. Even most others who live in the city that are taking easy trips around the city could use it. People might still want to own cars for extended trips to other places, but they wouldn't need to use them as much as they do now.
This doesn't fail because of the 90% of the cars that have one driver. It fails because of the 10% with 4.
That's why other modes of transportation would still exist, just as now there are multiple modes of transportation. Get your head out of your ass. Your reasoning that "this system wouldn't perfectly suit every single person" leads to "this system is worthless" is just mind-boggling.
The real question is why did it upset you? If you actually got "pissed off" because something that you find boring was presented as newsworthy, you may need to look into anger management.
I swear, Slashdot is full of people getting upset over things that don't make one lick of difference to them. If your intent was merely to point out that you disagree with the editors about what is newsworthy, the discussion comments are the wrong place to do it. The other users can't help you, you're just adding to the noise.
If it's copyrighted then you shouldn't be able to have it at all, unless you have a license to have it
No, that isn't how copyright works. One of the exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder of a work is the right to perform or display the work publicly, which in this case is the website. Random Joe User can view (and make a copy of) the website, but he can't turn around and make it publicly available himself because he hasn't been granted that right.
Licensing only comes into play if the copyright holder wants to let other people distribute the work. In that case, the copyright holder can license the work to other parties for distribution.
You can get a basic primer on copyright over at Wikipedia.
Fuck shutting up, I read Slashdot.
- I don't have an argument for weak typing other than it seems not to matter most of the time. I admit that strong typing can catch bugs, and Haskell's ultra-strong typing is rather comforting. I actually like having more operators because I think using similar looking operators for dissimilar operations is confusing; for example, using + for string concatenation has always rubbed me the wrong way.
- I agree on this point, especially with regard to auto-doc and reflection.
- I'm not sure what you mean about hashes not holding on to references or that references are not ref-counted properly. I've never experienced that, although that certainly doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I actually really like Perl's concept of references, probably because I learned to program with C and liked pointers. I do admit that references can be hard to understand for someone without a C background, though.
- Although there is no concrete class definition, the best practice of keeping classes in separate modules takes most of your argument away, in my opinion. My biggest complaint with Perl classes is that there is no good way to create private methods.
- This is mostly opinion and experience. I don't find it difficult to read most Perl, even if it isn't well written, and I've only been using Perl for a few years.
I don't deny that many people find Python cleaner or like it more. But statements that Perl isn't a sane choice for more than 5-liners bug me. I've built fairly complex systems using nice, maintainable Perl. You just need to be sensible, like with any programming language.Try this: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/goup
But Firefox allows you to blacklist sites for cookies, as well as set it to delete all cookies when you close the browser, to help you work through your paranoia.