Altough he didn't walked in the moon in his Apollo mission, his death made me think if there will be a time when, as before, no living person had actually went to some other world. With no moon mission schedulled by any nation capable of it, and the ageing of Apollo astronauts (it's almost 4 decades since the landings after all), it seems possible that in some point in the future we will have no moon walkers among us.
Kind of sad. Reminds me that, for some decades, civilians (rich civilians, of course), could cross the north atlantic in less than for hours, and now, well, only the military can do it that fast.
By that time there was already Delphi, which wraps most Windows API in a beautiful, well organized OO library called the VCL, and generates single-file executables (no DLL Hell) with C-like speed.
I use Delphi since then, already did dozens of small and medium apps with it, and, altough sometimes necessary, it's pretty rare to use direct Windows API calls. AFAIK, one of today's most famous application made with Delphi is the Win32 client for Skype, but many shareware and corporate apps uses it too.
Dr. Nash: I find you very attractive. Your assertiveness tells me that you feel the same way about me. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse. But all I really want to do is have sex with you as soon as possible.
Go to Borland download page and get the free Delphi Personal. I work with many languages (C#, Objective-C, 4D, sometimes Java), but Delphi is the most productive and fun to use, by a wide margin. As a plus, you can generate apps for both win32 and the.NET framework, with the same language.
Yes, I work in a big media group and was lucky to be on a premiere tuesday. I will try not spoil anything, but I can tell you this:
- WATCH Clone Wars before, or you won't understand many things. General Grievous, for example, is not "introduced", he's not considered a "new" character.
- What I did like most was the focus on how a society, democracy, can fall. Somewhat of a "larger view" of the things. Remember "The Fall of the Roman Empire"?
- The most dark and adult movie of the 6. Actually, there's a moment so terribe that can be only suggested, but not showed.
- Good Plot, but I wasn't totally convinced why Anakim turned to the Dark side - I mean, he could be in a somewhat "gray" side, but this is just me, watch and draw your conclusions.
- Great action, maybe the best of the 6. Opening sequence is AWSOME.
- Speeches are bad, but there are some good ones ( you can find at least 2 explicit political references, one from the Emperror, other from Vader). The one I liked more was Amidala's conclusion when in Senate
- Actors fine, Samuel Jackson very good.
- Oh, and Jar-Jar doesn't open his mouth.
All said, it would be unfair to compare this one with the latest 2 - forget about them. This one brought back the magic of good old Star Wars, but in a more adult way. Have fun!
First, I have to say I'm a big fan of Delphi. I've done dozens of projects with it in the last 10 years.
Yes, I do use C++/Objective-C (when I have to program in OS-X with the Cocoa framework), and C# and Java. The productive gap I fell between the two first C-like languages is that, in Delphi, the work is done in a tenth of the time, specially for GUI and Database-enabled apps. When compared with Java and C# I would say that the time spent is twice or three times lower in Delphi.
Of course, the fact that I develop mostly in Delphi makes easier to me to be productive in this language. But I have a friend who went to work in a full-Java environment, being good at it to the point of being a lecturer, and he agree that the Java world is still way behind when it comes to RAD.
Having said all of this, many windows applications are built in Delphi. Here's a list of only the most famous.
Delphi is generally considered the best tool for development in Windows. Simply put, its strengths are:
Complete OO language, including real properties that were now copied by C# (actually, chief architect of Delphi-1 and 2, Anders Heijlsberg, is doing the same role in MS for C#).
Easy to use IDE.
Targets Win32,.NET (and Linux if you use Kylix, which was somewhat abandoned by Borland).
A complete and mature framework, the VCL, with thousands of free components available on the web.
Compiled code (when in Win32), which generates executables comparable in speed to those in C++.
So why isn't it more widely used? I would say that one thing is because of Borland is a tiny company when compared to MS or Sun. The other is that it is a proprietary tool. And the third, generally the most commented, is that Borland maybe didn't know how to sell it properly.
I think we agreed in the most of the subject, and desagreed in the few. I have no doubt foreign media distort news form Brazil, since it tends to report only accidents and bad news. Mostly not with intent, altough, as our agriculture grows, obviously you will see more reaction against that. Even you, who seems to be pretty well-informed, implied that sugar cane was beign grown in Amazonia (thinking that ALL Brazil is Amazonia is a stereotype we really don't like). BTW, it's the same media who bought WMDs claims as true whithout any solid evidence, and now refuses to see how wrong they were.
I know you were not specifically slamming my country (not that I think it's wrong, I do it everytime myself, there's too much wrong stuff here), but many times concern with 3rd countries affairs is actually imperialism in disguise. I almost can't believe that a U.S. citizen can be more concerned about rain forest preservation than it is about its fossil based economy, and the fact that U.S. alone throws 25% of all atmospheric garbage.
Anyway, good to know you actually try to do your part, pretty much as I try to do mine.
Sure, AC, we can continue... at least until/. decides to close this news' discussion:-)
"try to do your part and stop"
Yes, I do. I go to my job walking, not driving - I even moved to be able to do that. I am a vegetarian mostly because 1 Kg of grains needs 1/10th of the area that 1 Kg of meat needs to be produced. If everybody did the same as I do, world would be much better.
I don't get your argument. You think that the poorest countries should be "better", which, in many senses, means "poorer"? I mean, you really think a farmer located in an older rain forest location should stop growing food that guarantees only his own survival *before* asking soccer moms not to drive a 3-ton fuel-insatiable SUV? Do you see any logic in this? People has to *starve* before developed countries decide to low it's fossil-based economy?
I agree, destroying rain forest does no good at all to the planet - it only make matters worse. And it's done by outlaws, since Brazil has surprisingly modern environmental laws, but has no money to enforce them. But, if you think that the government with its pretty little resources should give priority to the rain forest, which, as you should know, is HUGE, instead of given children food (and, dear AC, many Brazilians don't know *if* they are going to eat anything in a given day), you simply don't have a clue about what is life in a 3rd world country.
It's not an excuse, dear coward. It's our sovereign right. At least the same right U.S. has to throw 25% of world atmospheric pollution having only about 3-4% of the population, filling the air of the whole world with toxics without any regard. If other countries throwed CO in the atmosphere at the same levels, air would be un-breadable. Next to that, Amazonia is not even a problem.
Until the world act environmentally as a whole, which I do want to happen, I don't recognize any international concern about Amazonia. Maybe, someday, U.S. and others invade us, using a WMD claim or a better lie for that, and then Amazonia become a U.S. state. Until that, it's our problem. Want to help? Help to put a more environmental-friendly government in your country (specially if this country is U.S. - since if in China, which also didn't signed Kyoto, you couldn't do much anyway). I'm all for international agreements on climate, an all against colonialism in an environmentalist disguise.
Just to put a common misconception apart, Brazil isn't only rain forest. Sugar cane isn't cultivated in rain forest locations, only in northeast and southeast - much of it in my own state, Sao Paulo, which, if you try to look in a map, is far from Amazonia.
As a Brazilian, I do not like the idea of the rain forest being destroyed - it's a terrible loss, and that's why I voted many times in the green party. Anyway, part of it is still our country, and, if we decide to burn it all, it's only our problem. At least, until the biggest pollution makers in the world, U.S., China, etc., decide that all have to share responsibilities about the global environment and try to reduce their fossil pollution. It's too easy live in a rich, high pollutive country, and point fingers against a poor country trying to develop.
Having said this, I totally agree, rain forest destruction is a terrible problem. But not nearly as terrible as fossil fuel pollution.
That's because your country was making alcohol from corn, and not from sugarcane. My country, Brazil, has a climate which facilitates the growing of sugarcane, and therefore cheaper sugar and alcohol production.
Government invested in a big plan for cars in late 70s / early 80s, which was successful for some years, but, when oil prices fell, that program was cancelled (altough alcohol-fueled cars continued to be produced, in small numbers, all this time ).
Now that oil prices rise again, cars with motors, called "FlexPower", which work with both gasoline and alcohol interchangeably ( and even with any mix of these combustibles ) are again selling very well. And they cost pretty much the same as cars with traditional, single fuel motors.
1- "The other thing is that sea is actually getting saltier every year so the sea wasn't as salty back then"
True, but, on the other hand, sea fishes cannot live in rivers, so... Btw, sea didn't become saltier in thousands, but in millions of years. Salt concentration wasn't, by any practical purpose, lower some thousands years ago. Discovery Channel, too.
2- "And yes you do get ocean fossils on mountains but what are now mountains were once the bottom of the ocean"
Same problem, totally out of the time scale. You don't see modern sea animals in Grand Canyon.
I have two very naive questions about a global flooding happening few thousands yrs ago:
1- If it really happened, wouldn't all river fishes be dead, since they cannot live in sea ?
2- Wouldn't we expect to find amazing evidences like whales, dolphins and sharks skeletons in the most unusual places, from the animals trapped in some valley when the water came back to the normal levels ?
I know what you mean, enginnering students love these machines... I can remember my days of college when I was alone with my HP, I gentily touch its keys making it sweetly whisper the "beep" function and obeying my most secret calculation desires... Hot stuff, dude.
AFAIK, no other american government killed +30,000 of his own people for political reasons (not even Cuba). If you know somebody else who did, please tell me.
and maybe Chileans were better off under Pinochet.
And possibily the U.S. would be better with another president than GW, but that is not an argument to overthrow democracy.
Thankfully the end of Pinochet's regime occured relatively peacefully
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Altough he didn't walked in the moon in his Apollo mission, his death made me think if there will be a time when, as before, no living person had actually went to some other world. With no moon mission schedulled by any nation capable of it, and the ageing of Apollo astronauts (it's almost 4 decades since the landings after all), it seems possible that in some point in the future we will have no moon walkers among us.
Kind of sad. Reminds me that, for some decades, civilians (rich civilians, of course), could cross the north atlantic in less than for hours, and now, well, only the military can do it that fast.
By that time there was already Delphi, which wraps most Windows API in a beautiful, well organized OO library called the VCL, and generates single-file executables (no DLL Hell) with C-like speed.
I use Delphi since then, already did dozens of small and medium apps with it, and, altough sometimes necessary, it's pretty rare to use direct Windows API calls. AFAIK, one of today's most famous application made with Delphi is the Win32 client for Skype, but many shareware and corporate apps uses it too.
It's called basement. It's usually pretty inexpensive.
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Dr. Nash: I find you very attractive. Your assertiveness tells me that you feel the same way about me. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse. But all I really want to do is have sex with you as soon as possible.
welcome our new road warriors overlords...
Go to Borland download page and get the free Delphi Personal. I work with many languages (C#, Objective-C, 4D, sometimes Java), but Delphi is the most productive and fun to use, by a wide margin. As a plus, you can generate apps for both win32 and the .NET framework, with the same language.
Have fun in your return to coding!
AFAIK, you can watch them here
http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/
Yes, I work in a big media group and was lucky to be on a premiere tuesday. I will try not spoil anything, but I can tell you this:
- WATCH Clone Wars before, or you won't understand many things. General Grievous, for example, is not "introduced", he's not considered a "new" character.
- What I did like most was the focus on how a society, democracy, can fall. Somewhat of a "larger view" of the things. Remember "The Fall of the Roman Empire"?
- The most dark and adult movie of the 6. Actually, there's a moment so terribe that can be only suggested, but not showed.
- Good Plot, but I wasn't totally convinced why Anakim turned to the Dark side - I mean, he could be in a somewhat "gray" side, but this is just me, watch and draw your conclusions.
- Great action, maybe the best of the 6. Opening sequence is AWSOME.
- Speeches are bad, but there are some good ones ( you can find at least 2 explicit political references, one from the Emperror, other from Vader). The one I liked more was Amidala's conclusion when in Senate
- Actors fine, Samuel Jackson very good.
- Oh, and Jar-Jar doesn't open his mouth.
All said, it would be unfair to compare this one with the latest 2 - forget about them. This one brought back the magic of good old Star Wars, but in a more adult way. Have fun!
Yes, I do use C++/Objective-C (when I have to program in OS-X with the Cocoa framework), and C# and Java. The productive gap I fell between the two first C-like languages is that, in Delphi, the work is done in a tenth of the time, specially for GUI and Database-enabled apps. When compared with Java and C# I would say that the time spent is twice or three times lower in Delphi.
Of course, the fact that I develop mostly in Delphi makes easier to me to be productive in this language. But I have a friend who went to work in a full-Java environment, being good at it to the point of being a lecturer, and he agree that the Java world is still way behind when it comes to RAD.
Having said all of this, many windows applications are built in Delphi. Here's a list of only the most famous.
Delphi is generally considered the best tool for development in Windows. Simply put, its strengths are:
- Complete OO language, including real properties that were now copied by C# (actually, chief architect of Delphi-1 and 2, Anders Heijlsberg, is doing the same role in MS for C#).
- Easy to use IDE.
- Targets Win32,
.NET (and Linux if you use Kylix, which was somewhat abandoned by Borland).
- A complete and mature framework, the VCL, with thousands of free components available on the web.
- Compiled code (when in Win32), which generates executables comparable in speed to those in C++.
So why isn't it more widely used? I would say that one thing is because of Borland is a tiny company when compared to MS or Sun. The other is that it is a proprietary tool. And the third, generally the most commented, is that Borland maybe didn't know how to sell it properly....if he can manage to get a patent for the "one-click launch button". There's prior art for that!
The way I see it there are lies, damned lies, and Moore "documentaries".
Funny, knowing what we know now, I think that there are lies, damned lies, and WMD claims.
Hi, imimplaya, welcome to /. :-)
I think we agreed in the most of the subject, and desagreed in the few. I have no doubt foreign media distort news form Brazil, since it tends to report only accidents and bad news. Mostly not with intent, altough, as our agriculture grows, obviously you will see more reaction against that. Even you, who seems to be pretty well-informed, implied that sugar cane was beign grown in Amazonia (thinking that ALL Brazil is Amazonia is a stereotype we really don't like). BTW, it's the same media who bought WMDs claims as true whithout any solid evidence, and now refuses to see how wrong they were.
I know you were not specifically slamming my country (not that I think it's wrong, I do it everytime myself, there's too much wrong stuff here), but many times concern with 3rd countries affairs is actually imperialism in disguise. I almost can't believe that a U.S. citizen can be more concerned about rain forest preservation than it is about its fossil based economy, and the fact that U.S. alone throws 25% of all atmospheric garbage.
Anyway, good to know you actually try to do your part, pretty much as I try to do mine.
Regards
Sure, AC, we can continue... at least until /. decides to close this news' discussion :-)
"try to do your part and stop"
Yes, I do. I go to my job walking, not driving - I even moved to be able to do that. I am a vegetarian mostly because 1 Kg of grains needs 1/10th of the area that 1 Kg of meat needs to be produced. If everybody did the same as I do, world would be much better.
I don't get your argument. You think that the poorest countries should be "better", which, in many senses, means "poorer"? I mean, you really think a farmer located in an older rain forest location should stop growing food that guarantees only his own survival *before* asking soccer moms not to drive a 3-ton fuel-insatiable SUV? Do you see any logic in this? People has to *starve* before developed countries decide to low it's fossil-based economy?
I agree, destroying rain forest does no good at all to the planet - it only make matters worse. And it's done by outlaws, since Brazil has surprisingly modern environmental laws, but has no money to enforce them. But, if you think that the government with its pretty little resources should give priority to the rain forest, which, as you should know, is HUGE, instead of given children food (and, dear AC, many Brazilians don't know *if* they are going to eat anything in a given day), you simply don't have a clue about what is life in a 3rd world country.
It's not an excuse, dear coward. It's our sovereign right. At least the same right U.S. has to throw 25% of world atmospheric pollution having only about 3-4% of the population, filling the air of the whole world with toxics without any regard. If other countries throwed CO in the atmosphere at the same levels, air would be un-breadable. Next to that, Amazonia is not even a problem.
Until the world act environmentally as a whole, which I do want to happen, I don't recognize any international concern about Amazonia. Maybe, someday, U.S. and others invade us, using a WMD claim or a better lie for that, and then Amazonia become a U.S. state. Until that, it's our problem. Want to help? Help to put a more environmental-friendly government in your country (specially if this country is U.S. - since if in China, which also didn't signed Kyoto, you couldn't do much anyway). I'm all for international agreements on climate, an all against colonialism in an environmentalist disguise.
Just to put a common misconception apart, Brazil isn't only rain forest. Sugar cane isn't cultivated in rain forest locations, only in northeast and southeast - much of it in my own state, Sao Paulo, which, if you try to look in a map, is far from Amazonia.
As a Brazilian, I do not like the idea of the rain forest being destroyed - it's a terrible loss, and that's why I voted many times in the green party. Anyway, part of it is still our country, and, if we decide to burn it all, it's only our problem. At least, until the biggest pollution makers in the world, U.S., China, etc., decide that all have to share responsibilities about the global environment and try to reduce their fossil pollution. It's too easy live in a rich, high pollutive country, and point fingers against a poor country trying to develop.
Having said this, I totally agree, rain forest destruction is a terrible problem. But not nearly as terrible as fossil fuel pollution.
That's because your country was making alcohol from corn, and not from sugarcane. My country, Brazil, has a climate which facilitates the growing of sugarcane, and therefore cheaper sugar and alcohol production.
Government invested in a big plan for cars in late 70s / early 80s, which was successful for some years, but, when oil prices fell, that program was cancelled (altough alcohol-fueled cars continued to be produced, in small numbers, all this time ).
Now that oil prices rise again, cars with motors, called "FlexPower", which work with both gasoline and alcohol interchangeably ( and even with any mix of these combustibles ) are again selling very well. And they cost pretty much the same as cars with traditional, single fuel motors.
1- "The other thing is that sea is actually getting saltier every year so the sea wasn't as salty back then"
True, but, on the other hand, sea fishes cannot live in rivers, so... Btw, sea didn't become saltier in thousands, but in millions of years. Salt concentration wasn't, by any practical purpose, lower some thousands years ago. Discovery Channel, too.
2- "And yes you do get ocean fossils on mountains but what are now mountains were once the bottom of the ocean"
Same problem, totally out of the time scale. You don't see modern sea animals in Grand Canyon.
I have two very naive questions about a global flooding happening few thousands yrs ago :
1- If it really happened, wouldn't all river fishes be dead, since they cannot live in sea ?
2- Wouldn't we expect to find amazing evidences like whales, dolphins and sharks skeletons in the most unusual places, from the animals trapped in some valley when the water came back to the normal levels ?
Just my 2 cents...
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Willie: ''...I have crippling arthritis in my index fingers. I got it in 1979 from Space Invaders.''
Wiggum: ''That was a very addictive video game.''
Willie: ''Video game?''
"And what is that reason, exactly? " It's classified.
"I have a HP 48GX and love it"
... I can remember my days of college when I was alone with my HP, I gentily touch its keys making it sweetly whisper the "beep" function and obeying my most secret calculation desires... Hot stuff, dude.
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I know what you mean, enginnering students love these machines
Jokes apart, if you happen to use OS X, there's a pretty good emulator available for download in
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_scienc
Official numbers are suspicious, since Pinochet still has imunnity in his country, but the majoity of sources I heard of speaks in 30,000
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http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1998/week08
http://www.thenewpress.com/newbooks/condor.htm
http://www.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/382_13.html
AFAIK, no other american government killed +30,000 of his own people for political reasons (not even Cuba). If you know somebody else who did, please tell me.
and maybe Chileans were better off under Pinochet.
And possibily the U.S. would be better with another president than GW, but that is not an argument to overthrow democracy.
Thankfully the end of Pinochet's regime occured relatively peacefully
Agree on this.
Allende was democratically elected, in an election far less suspitious than what happened in Florida.
There was an U.S. sponsored coup after, and then the most brutal regimem of the 20th century in americas took power.