The article makes an interesting conjecture from an observed correlation. It's not the finger of God writing on the wall. You may stop burning the heretics anytime you wish.
As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"
One of the beauties of English is its elasticity. Without a single authority governing its rules, English is truly a democratic, utilitarian language, and it becomes what it needs to be to fit the situation. It's a kludgey, ad hoc mess, yes, and its inconsistencies are truly maddening. And yet when another language needs to borrow a word for a new use, English is ready to provide it. We loot and barter vocabulary easily, stealing words from France and trading them over to China because we don't give two shits about the cultural sanctity of language. We are the Swiss army knife of linguistics.
To take that away; to smooth out the inconsistencies and impose a logical order on it would be to rob English of its greatest use to other languages; to be the unstable alpha branch, readily accepting commits from whoever ares to contribute, and letting the best features rise to the top for adoption by other, more stable branches.
According to Apple, iOS users are more virile, and have love-making stamina for hours. According the Microsoft, Windows Phone users are endowed with the power of invisibility, which is why they are so elusive.
The "outdated business model" I speak of is having gaming as a gated resource. You had to be at the mall or the movie theater, you had to have quarters on hand for every round, and you had to share your machines. God help you if you wanted to play the popular games; the line was a mile long. Home gaming was inevitable; that it so thoroughly wrecked arcade gaming is a testament to the fact that the arcade model for gaming was survived on consumer captivity alone; as soon as consumers had an economical home option, they took it.
Did they, really? You have shit like Xbox 360, which you are FORCED to pay a perpetual subscription fee in order to use at all, and isn't the PS4 just as bad? Now, tell me again how you're saving money?
No one forces me to do anything. There are a number of subscription-based services out there, for a multitude of media*, and I use only the ones that have value for me. The rest I can do without.
*Not just gaming, so this whole line of thought is actually a non sequitur; the death of arcades did not lead inexorably to XBox Live, sub-based PC gaming did
I for one, am very thankful for the money I saved having an NES and not having to pump endless quarters into my local arcade, and I am most especially thankful that I never had to wait in line for my favorite game. It is not Nintendo's responsibility (or mine as a consumer) to protect someone else's outdated business model. Arcades lost, and consumers won.
It was VERY avant garde as far as Disney is concerned, and very dark as well. I mean, Ernest Borgnine died horrifically, as a robot with spinning blades eviscerates him as he feebly tries to shield his body with a book. As a child, that scene disturbed me because it was tense and the character was impotent to save himself in the face of impending doom. Ernest Borgnine was a consummate actor ("Merlin's Mystical Shop of Wonders" aside) and he really conveyed the sheer terror of his character effectively to 5-year-old me. This is a classic movie and you must see it.
That one reason alone is why I detest Foundation and Earth and the prequels. It's like all the work and struggles of the two trilogies were meaningless, and the genius of Seldon was reduced to a parlor trick.
The STL was a special case. I will never understand why it took so long for the big vendors to stop using wonky, novel, non-compliant implementations of the STL. The worst offenders where VC++ and IBM's VisualAge, neither of which even bothered to get the string class right. The closest I could get to compliance before I started Linux development was using SGI's implementation on a Borland compiler.
In all my years as a Windows C++ dev, I was never allowed to use the STL because the chances of hidden library changes affecting otherwise dormant code was too great. Old code should be low-risk, and you have to choose your libraries accordingly.
That falls under the "complainer is a dumbass who has idiotic indentation practices" case. Using a bad text editor that can't indent properly is a dumb thing to be doing.
I am getting the impression that you have not done a lot of programming.
I wouldn't bet the farm on specialized Microsoft libraries, but.NET itself is 15 years old now, and has a track record of its own apart form other failed or mothballed MS initiatives.
That's a non sequitur. I comment only that the large pool of hobbyists who dabble in Python are not a qualification of the language's acceptability to a professional developer.
If you can call an amateur with a point-and-shoot camera a "photographer", and use that as a metric for valuation, then the Nikon CoolPix is clearly the best camera on the market.
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The article makes an interesting conjecture from an observed correlation. It's not the finger of God writing on the wall. You may stop burning the heretics anytime you wish.
Has the employee been watching Office Space on repeat? He's about to leave.
As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"
One of the beauties of English is its elasticity. Without a single authority governing its rules, English is truly a democratic, utilitarian language, and it becomes what it needs to be to fit the situation. It's a kludgey, ad hoc mess, yes, and its inconsistencies are truly maddening. And yet when another language needs to borrow a word for a new use, English is ready to provide it. We loot and barter vocabulary easily, stealing words from France and trading them over to China because we don't give two shits about the cultural sanctity of language. We are the Swiss army knife of linguistics.
To take that away; to smooth out the inconsistencies and impose a logical order on it would be to rob English of its greatest use to other languages; to be the unstable alpha branch, readily accepting commits from whoever ares to contribute, and letting the best features rise to the top for adoption by other, more stable branches.
According to Apple, iOS users are more virile, and have love-making stamina for hours.
According the Microsoft, Windows Phone users are endowed with the power of invisibility, which is why they are so elusive.
The "outdated business model" I speak of is having gaming as a gated resource. You had to be at the mall or the movie theater, you had to have quarters on hand for every round, and you had to share your machines. God help you if you wanted to play the popular games; the line was a mile long. Home gaming was inevitable; that it so thoroughly wrecked arcade gaming is a testament to the fact that the arcade model for gaming was survived on consumer captivity alone; as soon as consumers had an economical home option, they took it.
Did they, really? You have shit like Xbox 360, which you are FORCED to pay a perpetual subscription fee in order to use at all, and isn't the PS4 just as bad? Now, tell me again how you're saving money?
No one forces me to do anything. There are a number of subscription-based services out there, for a multitude of media*, and I use only the ones that have value for me. The rest I can do without.
*Not just gaming, so this whole line of thought is actually a non sequitur; the death of arcades did not lead inexorably to XBox Live, sub-based PC gaming did
I for one, am very thankful for the money I saved having an NES and not having to pump endless quarters into my local arcade, and I am most especially thankful that I never had to wait in line for my favorite game. It is not Nintendo's responsibility (or mine as a consumer) to protect someone else's outdated business model. Arcades lost, and consumers won.
It also leads to rampant, self-diagnosing webochondria. I will admit, I am an offender in this respect.
LOL Slashdot is telling us things we either don't give a shit about, or are already well aware of.
Duuude... you live in the fuuuuuture???
Thank you, I knew I misrembered that.
It was VERY avant garde as far as Disney is concerned, and very dark as well. I mean, Ernest Borgnine died horrifically, as a robot with spinning blades eviscerates him as he feebly tries to shield his body with a book. As a child, that scene disturbed me because it was tense and the character was impotent to save himself in the face of impending doom. Ernest Borgnine was a consummate actor ("Merlin's Mystical Shop of Wonders" aside) and he really conveyed the sheer terror of his character effectively to 5-year-old me. This is a classic movie and you must see it.
No no, this post needs to go in the Weyland-Yutani/LV-426 thread. Much more topical.
I'll take April Fool's seven days a week plus holidays over one more Bennett Haselton or Nerval's Lobster post.
That one reason alone is why I detest Foundation and Earth and the prequels. It's like all the work and struggles of the two trilogies were meaningless, and the genius of Seldon was reduced to a parlor trick.
BAHAHAHA! YES! Finally, a victim!!!
Thanks for letting us know.
I think that's all that needs to be said.
The STL was a special case. I will never understand why it took so long for the big vendors to stop using wonky, novel, non-compliant implementations of the STL. The worst offenders where VC++ and IBM's VisualAge, neither of which even bothered to get the string class right. The closest I could get to compliance before I started Linux development was using SGI's implementation on a Borland compiler.
In all my years as a Windows C++ dev, I was never allowed to use the STL because the chances of hidden library changes affecting otherwise dormant code was too great. Old code should be low-risk, and you have to choose your libraries accordingly.
That falls under the "complainer is a dumbass who has idiotic indentation practices" case. Using a bad text editor that can't indent properly is a dumb thing to be doing.
I am getting the impression that you have not done a lot of programming.
I wouldn't bet the farm on specialized Microsoft libraries, but .NET itself is 15 years old now, and has a track record of its own apart form other failed or mothballed MS initiatives.
That's a non sequitur. I comment only that the large pool of hobbyists who dabble in Python are not a qualification of the language's acceptability to a professional developer.
You've got a problem with properly indented code? Do you prefer every line of code to be left aligned?
That's a weak defense of an old-fashioned workaround for ambiguous closure.
tons more developers
If you can call an amateur with a point-and-shoot camera a "photographer", and use that as a metric for valuation, then the Nikon CoolPix is clearly the best camera on the market.