Of all the days that Google should have a custom search page today would be it. They've had it for people a lot more obscure than Turing who is ultimately responsible for any of them having jobs. Just sayin!
X men 2 was absolutely perfect. Sure the hardcore comic book readers had some gripes about imperfections in the stories (like where Jason 143 came from) but here is a movie that had the budget to "Lucas" but decided instead to put those FX dollars to good use. The CG was flawless and not overbearing.
On the other hand, the Matrix 2 and 3 were absolute garbage. I couldn't stand watching either one and the last one was almost a personal insult it was so bad.
What about Kill Bill? That was also an awesome movie (moving away from Sci-Fi..sorta)...
Um. If you think other os's are going to be able to get into this go get yourself a toshiba laptop and you'll see what windows-only interface to the BIOS means. Sure you can run linux on it except that powermanagement is ++ difficult. I'm really disappointed by this.
What was his argument again? Reading the whole thing into memory is too slow? Ok, agreed, hence SAX.
When you're a perl programmer everthing is a regular expression. Look Perl was the first language I learned. I'm all for perl it's wonderful, poetic and fun. And it handles XML perfectly. Are you telling me that using relational databases is easier than XML? That you can just sit down and start doing it without reading some books or at least a couple online tutorials? That's nonsense.
The benefits of XML outweigh it's shortcomings IMHO. Especially Schema validation. I love knowing the fact that I don't have to rewrite the same goddamn code to make sure my input is sane! I make a schema for it and voila. Yes the schema spec is big. But have you read the full SQL spec? Of course not. You use a nice little subset and get your work done. Same with the schema spec. I use about 4 tags for 90% of the documents I need to create.
So let's summarize XML in a couple rules (there is one caveat, see below):
1. Every element is in between angle brackets
2. Close every tag you open in the reverse order (like a stack but this is far too complicated a subject for people programming, there are NO stacks in computers....right).
Does anyone force you to use XML? Of course not. That's a weak argument but it's true. XML gives you the choice to not reinvent a structured data format.
I'm not a programming guru by anyone's hallucination. I've been working with XML for a while now (3 years) and it's been terrific. Yes you have to learn some stuff and yes some of the API's are a bit terse but show me something that isn't. What I've come to realize is that if you want to move forward you do have to change. Programmers bitch and whine about how end users don't want to change their UI. Well this sounds like programmars that don't want to move their brains a little and stop seeing things as regular expressions and start seeing them as XML. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel everytime you need to parse a document and move up an abstraction. And it strikes me as odd that one of the cocreators doesn't seem to "get it". The whole point of making a standardized format is so that you can abstract the parsing, transformation and validation functionality.
Just my 2 cents CAD.
Andrew
Well I've got an internship at Sun Microsystems...
Actually everyone I know has an internship and they're all in CS. Companies like Qualcomm, IBM, Microsoft, man the list goes on and on. Oh yeah. I forgot I go to an "inferior" Canadian university. Sorry.
U of Waterloo
BTW in Canada intership's are called COOPs.
Cheers,
Andrew
NS 4.x is an abomination. It should outlawed. But it also illustrates the point in an extreme case. The standards are there, but most have not even implemented all of the features LET ALONE got the bugs worked out.
While I completely agree that mozilla is very good with standards, esp w3c standards, it still has a way to go. This might be flame bait but have you ever tried to make a website that uses pure css2 layout that looks the same in opera, mozilla and ie (latest versions). It's almost impossible. Yes a lot of that is due to the fact that IE's standards compliance in CSS2 is abismal to say the least but still Mozilla is getting stuff wrong as well.
I wish the W3C would put out a reference implementation so that the browsers could hammer out these stupid little differences.
Uhh... look at one of the old sun keyboards. They have all those extra buttons you want. Copy/Paste and the like. Of course the entire keyboard/mouse input thing is stupid but that's what caught on for some god-unknown reason...
... that hasn't changed in 6 years is "Pathetic". I'm sorry, but if you're telling me that the difference in the UI for win95 and winxp (which I currently use) is that fantastic, then let me get you some glasses.
No need for a command line? True, but that's only if all your doing is the point-and-click tasks that we all love. Sure I'm a "geek" but I still need a good shell and command line utilities to really get the most out of my computer, and as soon as I have the time to back up this laptop I'm going to the non-pathetic Desktop.
grrr
It was for me. I realized that anything I needed to do on a daily basis was free (as in beer AND sometimes speech) and just started replacing things that I might have warezed with the free available versions. That and the fact that I don't have any time to play around with warez'd software.
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Of all the days that Google should have a custom search page today would be it. They've had it for people a lot more obscure than Turing who is ultimately responsible for any of them having jobs. Just sayin!
X men 2 was absolutely perfect. Sure the hardcore comic book readers had some gripes about imperfections in the stories (like where Jason 143 came from) but here is a movie that had the budget to "Lucas" but decided instead to put those FX dollars to good use. The CG was flawless and not overbearing.
On the other hand, the Matrix 2 and 3 were absolute garbage. I couldn't stand watching either one and the last one was almost a personal insult it was so bad.
What about Kill Bill? That was also an awesome movie (moving away from Sci-Fi..sorta)...
Um. If you think other os's are going to be able to get into this go get yourself a toshiba laptop and you'll see what windows-only interface to the BIOS means.
Sure you can run linux on it except that powermanagement is ++ difficult. I'm really disappointed by this.
What was his argument again? Reading the whole thing into memory is too slow? Ok, agreed, hence SAX. When you're a perl programmer everthing is a regular expression. Look Perl was the first language I learned. I'm all for perl it's wonderful, poetic and fun. And it handles XML perfectly. Are you telling me that using relational databases is easier than XML? That you can just sit down and start doing it without reading some books or at least a couple online tutorials? That's nonsense. The benefits of XML outweigh it's shortcomings IMHO. Especially Schema validation. I love knowing the fact that I don't have to rewrite the same goddamn code to make sure my input is sane! I make a schema for it and voila. Yes the schema spec is big. But have you read the full SQL spec? Of course not. You use a nice little subset and get your work done. Same with the schema spec. I use about 4 tags for 90% of the documents I need to create. So let's summarize XML in a couple rules (there is one caveat, see below): 1. Every element is in between angle brackets 2. Close every tag you open in the reverse order (like a stack but this is far too complicated a subject for people programming, there are NO stacks in computers....right). Does anyone force you to use XML? Of course not. That's a weak argument but it's true. XML gives you the choice to not reinvent a structured data format. I'm not a programming guru by anyone's hallucination. I've been working with XML for a while now (3 years) and it's been terrific. Yes you have to learn some stuff and yes some of the API's are a bit terse but show me something that isn't. What I've come to realize is that if you want to move forward you do have to change. Programmers bitch and whine about how end users don't want to change their UI. Well this sounds like programmars that don't want to move their brains a little and stop seeing things as regular expressions and start seeing them as XML. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel everytime you need to parse a document and move up an abstraction. And it strikes me as odd that one of the cocreators doesn't seem to "get it". The whole point of making a standardized format is so that you can abstract the parsing, transformation and validation functionality. Just my 2 cents CAD. Andrew
Well I've got an internship at Sun Microsystems... Actually everyone I know has an internship and they're all in CS. Companies like Qualcomm, IBM, Microsoft, man the list goes on and on. Oh yeah. I forgot I go to an "inferior" Canadian university. Sorry. U of Waterloo BTW in Canada intership's are called COOPs. Cheers, Andrew
I've only heard bad things about amaya.
NS 4.x is an abomination. It should outlawed. But it also illustrates the point in an extreme case. The standards are there, but most have not even implemented all of the features LET ALONE got the bugs worked out.
While I completely agree that mozilla is very good with standards, esp w3c standards, it still has a way to go. This might be flame bait but have you ever tried to make a website that uses pure css2 layout that looks the same in opera, mozilla and ie (latest versions). It's almost impossible. Yes a lot of that is due to the fact that IE's standards compliance in CSS2 is abismal to say the least but still Mozilla is getting stuff wrong as well. I wish the W3C would put out a reference implementation so that the browsers could hammer out these stupid little differences.
Uhh... look at one of the old sun keyboards. They have all those extra buttons you want. Copy/Paste and the like. Of course the entire keyboard/mouse input thing is stupid but that's what caught on for some god-unknown reason...
Nice. But I'd think that a better ad would be one where it shows the other side of the purple room window: a 30-story drop.
"They have a way out, alright, but if you survive the drop you'll be in the hospital so long the paint in the room will have already dried"
... that hasn't changed in 6 years is "Pathetic". I'm sorry, but if you're telling me that the difference in the UI for win95 and winxp (which I currently use) is that fantastic, then let me get you some glasses. No need for a command line? True, but that's only if all your doing is the point-and-click tasks that we all love. Sure I'm a "geek" but I still need a good shell and command line utilities to really get the most out of my computer, and as soon as I have the time to back up this laptop I'm going to the non-pathetic Desktop. grrr
It was for me. I realized that anything I needed to do on a daily basis was free (as in beer AND sometimes speech) and just started replacing things that I might have warezed with the free available versions. That and the fact that I don't have any time to play around with warez'd software.
So you mean two large brass spheres