The problem with doing at least some of this stuff from home is that it's more involved than just paying a bill. For instance, when you buy concert tickets over the net, you might still have to wait for the tickets to arrive per mail. The same is true for train tickets. That said, you can buy train tickets over the net which are delivered to you electronically as a PDF, which you print out yourself. That's really neat. OTOH these tickets are tied to a single person, unlike those you buy at a vending machine.
Nigger is not an analogous example. Gay has three word meanings that are vastly different, nigger has just one meaning with various connotations, most of them negative. If parts of my social circle -- which is all that matters with respects to my own language usage -- consistently used nigger to refer to something unrelated like, say, read a book, then yeah, I'd probably use it. I don't see that coming, though, and nigger really isn't even part of my active vocabulary.
Welcome to the world of language change. In other news, apparently people use jackass when they're not talking about male donkeys and we were outraged to find out that people still are using the fundamental metaphor "time as space" to cloud their speech and consequently their judgement.
People are doing it, no doubt. Whether a significant portion of environmentalists - whatever that word exactly means - does it is a different story. And of course, it has no relevance at all to the points of the more practically minded environmentalists, who are looking for sustainable development because, you know, anything less is obviously insane.
Spotlight. I have the JavaDocs for my company's entire application setup to be searchable through Spotlight, as well as the J2EE JavaDocs and others. Finding documentation involves the following: Ctrl-Space first few characters of class name. The end.
That sounds cumbersome.;) Good IDEs -- and Java IDEs like Eclipse and Intellij IDEA are just the cutting edge in terms of IDE power -- make access to the documentation very easy right there in the application where you need it. In fact that's why I think Java makes a good beginners language: a decent Java SDK which includes the API JavaDocs used in a good IDE makes Java discoverable. That is, you don't have to know more than very basic syntax to be able to program fairly effectively, just by using the autocompletion and the readily available class and method documentation.
Suffice it to say, Windows can be a fairly productive environment for development, in spite of Visual Studiu. External tools help (a lot), and some of them are just required to make it bearable: Sysinternals Process Explorer, ALL the basic Unix commands (making your shell criticism moot), the list goes on. Of course, your point is still well taken, and if somebody has a suggestion for a really good implementation of QuickSilver for Win32, I'm all ears.
They do have access. It's very basic, but if it's good enough for this one guy in this thread to make a living doing Linux support for five years, it's probably good enough to edit source files and run GCC. Not that I'm saying they should have to do it themselves, just saying that getting started is not impossible.
That's true, but it's fairly natural and probably all right. Most people, that is those few that chose to work on any such issues focus on just one and take it "too serious", that is concentrate on it to the detriment of other issues. Take the animal rights guys for example. Or even the so-called anti globalisation people.
The cool thing is that when lots of people concentrate on things that are important to them, most things get covered and most things get covered fairly deeply. Sure I don't want to contemplate a world where everyone is an RMS, but a few of them are a very good thing.
There's a reason programming and shell script languages look like they are. Well there are multiple reasons, of course. But one problem with a sort of natural command language like that is that it tends to be ambigous at times. I'm too lazy to come with examples at the moment, but still. The only way I can imagine this working at the sort of complexity you describe is when there's an explicit confirmation listing the changes the command entails. If you've seen the confirmation of a complex refactoring command in Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA et al, that's what I mean.
We might just have a different definition of what constitutes reasonable cooling.;) If my CPU did not heat up to more than 60C under load, I'd reduce cooling to make the whole system more silent. Having it running at 30C as some do is sort of a waste in my eyes; it's very unlikely that one of my components (with the possible exception of HDs) will die from thermal stress before it's obsolete. That said, there still might be something wrong, maybe the thermal paste I used was too old or maybe the heat sink just sucks (actually, the heat sink definitely sucks). But that's all irrelevant, I'm gonna get me a new computer later this week. Here's hoping it will run cooler, or rather, more silent.
60C isn't particularly hot for a modern CPU. My XP 1800+ gets that hot - with active cooling. The system should still run stable at those temperatures...
250,000 USD - value of a beautiful house 010,000 USD - value of the land 260,000 USD - sum, total value
000,000 USD - value of a house ruined by rabbits (how? I don't know) 010,000 USD - value of the land, same as before -32,000 USD - cost to demolish house ruined by rabbits -22,000 USD - new sum, total value
These are the things to keep in mind. These are not just academic exercises. We're not analyzing the media on Mars or in the eighteenth century or something like that. We're dealing with real human beings who are suffering and dying and being tortured and starving because of policies that we are involved in, we as citizens of democratic societies are directly involved in and are responsible for, and what the media are doing is ensuring that we do not act on our responsibilities, and that the interests of power are served, not the needs of the suffering people, and not even the needs of the American people who would be horrified if they realized the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way they are allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system. -- Famous American (so-called) Dissident, 1993
Anything is sufficient for non-gamers, and any graphics chipset -- shared memory or not -- released in the recent past is powerful enough to accelerate the most part of what OS X and Windows can load off. Hell, my old subnotebook's pathetic on-board Intel video was powerful enough to run WOW.
I don't know what applies here, but there you go: 1. There might not be licenses for unlimited redistribution; in other words, you can't distribute the software the license covers under the GPL. 2. It might not actually be illegal for the end-user to download the software -- downloading it for your own usage might be all right, redistribution not.
What a prick. You can't distinguish between social-democratic capitalism and socialism, you make criticism that doesn't fit either, you draw an insanse and wrong picture about the UK and essentially all European countries -- like it's all gloom and depression here, right, we're all on the verge of killing ourselves (hint: it's just your wives family) -- and a similarly rose-colored picture of the US. Bah.
If your cell phone is your mp3 player, that's one less gadget you have to bring along. And keep in mind that 3G charges won't always be as high as they are now; and of course they already are cheaper in other countries. Not that I disagree, I don't see multimedia cell phones killing the iPod any time soon either.
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The problem with doing at least some of this stuff from home is that it's more involved than just paying a bill. For instance, when you buy concert tickets over the net, you might still have to wait for the tickets to arrive per mail. The same is true for train tickets. That said, you can buy train tickets over the net which are delivered to you electronically as a PDF, which you print out yourself. That's really neat. OTOH these tickets are tied to a single person, unlike those you buy at a vending machine.
I believe you can also generate them by holding down the "shift" key while typing a letter.
WOW THAT JUST MADE MY DAY!!
Nigger is not an analogous example. Gay has three word meanings that are vastly different, nigger has just one meaning with various connotations, most of them negative. If parts of my social circle -- which is all that matters with respects to my own language usage -- consistently used nigger to refer to something unrelated like, say, read a book, then yeah, I'd probably use it. I don't see that coming, though, and nigger really isn't even part of my active vocabulary.
Welcome to the world of language change. In other news, apparently people use jackass when they're not talking about male donkeys and we were outraged to find out that people still are using the fundamental metaphor "time as space" to cloud their speech and consequently their judgement.
Ah, the beauty of both different systems of measurement and digit seperation in one go. ;)
People are doing it, no doubt. Whether a significant portion of environmentalists - whatever that word exactly means - does it is a different story. And of course, it has no relevance at all to the points of the more practically minded environmentalists, who are looking for sustainable development because, you know, anything less is obviously insane.
Spotlight. I have the JavaDocs for my company's entire application setup to be searchable through Spotlight, as well as the J2EE JavaDocs and others. Finding documentation involves the following: Ctrl-Space first few characters of class name. The end.
;) Good IDEs -- and Java IDEs like Eclipse and Intellij IDEA are just the cutting edge in terms of IDE power -- make access to the documentation very easy right there in the application where you need it. In fact that's why I think Java makes a good beginners language: a decent Java SDK which includes the API JavaDocs used in a good IDE makes Java discoverable. That is, you don't have to know more than very basic syntax to be able to program fairly effectively, just by using the autocompletion and the readily available class and method documentation.
That sounds cumbersome.
Suffice it to say, Windows can be a fairly productive environment for development, in spite of Visual Studiu. External tools help (a lot), and some of them are just required to make it bearable: Sysinternals Process Explorer, ALL the basic Unix commands (making your shell criticism moot), the list goes on. Of course, your point is still well taken, and if somebody has a suggestion for a really good implementation of QuickSilver for Win32, I'm all ears.
exclusivise (?, make exclusive)
;)
Exclude, preclude, prevent?
Hope you're not the content guy, too.
They do have access. It's very basic, but if it's good enough for this one guy in this thread to make a living doing Linux support for five years, it's probably good enough to edit source files and run GCC. Not that I'm saying they should have to do it themselves, just saying that getting started is not impossible.
That's true, but it's fairly natural and probably all right. Most people, that is those few that chose to work on any such issues focus on just one and take it "too serious", that is concentrate on it to the detriment of other issues. Take the animal rights guys for example. Or even the so-called anti globalisation people.
The cool thing is that when lots of people concentrate on things that are important to them, most things get covered and most things get covered fairly deeply. Sure I don't want to contemplate a world where everyone is an RMS, but a few of them are a very good thing.
There's a reason programming and shell script languages look like they are. Well there are multiple reasons, of course. But one problem with a sort of natural command language like that is that it tends to be ambigous at times. I'm too lazy to come with examples at the moment, but still. The only way I can imagine this working at the sort of complexity you describe is when there's an explicit confirmation listing the changes the command entails. If you've seen the confirmation of a complex refactoring command in Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA et al, that's what I mean.
From what I can tell, you can always go back to previous stages. Certainly you can once you have "beaten" the game and are essentially omnipotent.
We might just have a different definition of what constitutes reasonable cooling. ;) If my CPU did not heat up to more than 60C under load, I'd reduce cooling to make the whole system more silent. Having it running at 30C as some do is sort of a waste in my eyes; it's very unlikely that one of my components (with the possible exception of HDs) will die from thermal stress before it's obsolete. That said, there still might be something wrong, maybe the thermal paste I used was too old or maybe the heat sink just sucks (actually, the heat sink definitely sucks). But that's all irrelevant, I'm gonna get me a new computer later this week. Here's hoping it will run cooler, or rather, more silent.
60C isn't particularly hot for a modern CPU. My XP 1800+ gets that hot - with active cooling. The system should still run stable at those temperatures...
Obligatory: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! ;)
250,000 USD - value of a beautiful house
010,000 USD - value of the land
260,000 USD - sum, total value
000,000 USD - value of a house ruined by rabbits (how? I don't know)
010,000 USD - value of the land, same as before
-32,000 USD - cost to demolish house ruined by rabbits
-22,000 USD - new sum, total value
Anything is sufficient for non-gamers, and any graphics chipset -- shared memory or not -- released in the recent past is powerful enough to accelerate the most part of what OS X and Windows can load off. Hell, my old subnotebook's pathetic on-board Intel video was powerful enough to run WOW.
It's not possible. And it's great that you work in such a manly field with Real Engineers, as you keep reminding us.
I don't know what applies here, but there you go: 1. There might not be licenses for unlimited redistribution; in other words, you can't distribute the software the license covers under the GPL. 2. It might not actually be illegal for the end-user to download the software -- downloading it for your own usage might be all right, redistribution not.
Yes, it does. Didn't you get the memo?
Cool. Now I just need an Intel mac! ;) Thanks for the link.
What a prick. You can't distinguish between social-democratic capitalism and socialism, you make criticism that doesn't fit either, you draw an insanse and wrong picture about the UK and essentially all European countries -- like it's all gloom and depression here, right, we're all on the verge of killing ourselves (hint: it's just your wives family) -- and a similarly rose-colored picture of the US. Bah.
If your cell phone is your mp3 player, that's one less gadget you have to bring along. And keep in mind that 3G charges won't always be as high as they are now; and of course they already are cheaper in other countries. Not that I disagree, I don't see multimedia cell phones killing the iPod any time soon either.
VMWare is good, but I'm waiting for Wine to be ported to OS X86...