Move to the UK, where the age is 16 and Charlotte Church gets on the front pages of newspapers.
She's not my type though.
Anyway I thought in the USA you could marry someone when they are 13, or is that only if they are your cousin? Jerry Lee Lewis sparked controversy here about that some while ago.
Unfortunately here the extra longevity is theoretical only, since in London you would be hit by a white van or a mother in a SUV long before you reached normal life expectancy. Not that cyclists here wear helmets or have lights or obey traffic rules anyway. Our cycle lanes are a joke, about 0.8 metres wide, and sometimes only 5 metres long (!)
Maybe I've been spoiled by not having to do assembly for a couple of years, but now I am back doing it again I am thinking, "wow, I could code that so much faster in C or C++".
Of course, for C to be viable I would want 32 bit registers, more than 1 kilobyte of RAM, no bloody banking/segment registers (for ROM), more than one accumulator, a multiply instruction:-) in which case writing in assembler would be more fun anyway!
Everyone should know how to use it (just like everyone should know how to add and multiply without using a calculator) but it's nice that we don't always have to use it these days.
(like Detroit) have worse health care systems/infant mortality rates than Libya, for example (despite the US sanctions), yet still many USians connect to the internet.
Other third world countries no doubt have higher literacy rates than many 1st world countries. For example education is compulsory in Thailand (right next to Laos) until the age of 18.
My friends have a nice simple system that works for them - a pully system that lets them change TV channel while they are in bed. It's worked for years (decades?) without ever needing new batteries.
People who have been using the Internet for a while take it for granted and vastly overestimate the percentage of the population that's connected
When I visited the Discworld Convention recently, Terry Pratchett asked how many people in the room had received a Nigerian spam. Nearly every one of the hundreds of people in the room put their hand up! Maybe comic fantasy (or scifi) fans have higher expectactions of connectivity?
Teenagers don't pay money to 'text' each other on there cell phones here, instead they use ICQ and MSN for free.
What, do you never leave the house? The reason we text and telephone each other is because we have friends who don't all live in the same house, but who do socialise together, so we communicate over distance in order to meet up. Of course most messages are actually feeble excuses for being late to the pub, but some are things like "Im on the downstairs dancefloor left of the main stage" for when you get separated.
Also, publish examples, a lot of examples, and nice examples too
How about this, to distinguish yourself from every other tool vendor: publish examples that don't have bloody big bugs in them that cause you to lose a days work trying to track them down!
This means when you update the API, you should update the examples so that they work, they use the recommended API, and they are following general good coding practice. Don't fob off writing examples onto someone who
(a) doesn't know the api and
(b) couldn't code their way out of a paper bag anyway.
As for hormones, depends where you live, many places have banned them.
I'm sure the USA will continue to try to force the rest of the world to consume their hormone-added genetically-modified radiation-enhanced food... but milk is probably not economic to ship over long distances so europe should only have to worry about being forced to buy the meat in the short-term.
The argument being used is that USAians eat all this crap and it never did them any harm, so you euroguys should be forced to eat it too (or face economic sanctions). Apparently the French are not convinced by this argument, but I am sure that fois gras [yummy!] does not endear them to PETA.
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1 million dollars for a TV or radio campaign would be much better spent.
You want to give 1 million dollars to Valenti and associates??? At the very least, the print media are owned by a different set of moguls.
Move to the UK, where the age is 16 and Charlotte Church gets on the front pages of newspapers.
She's not my type though.
Anyway I thought in the USA you could marry someone when they are 13, or is that only if they are your cousin? Jerry Lee Lewis sparked controversy here about that some while ago.
Well, it's more fun than thinking.
Never bothered the US before. e.g.
(1) All the earth belongs to God. Voted.
(2) God can give any part of the earth to His chosen people. Voted.
(3) We are His chosen people. Voted.
Considering a lot of telephones in flats had coin slots in them (how did BT collect the money I wonder?) perhaps not such a strange question.
And if the mpaa/riaa/uspta/cia can't find the place on the map, they can't nuke it :-)
Well 65816, but near enough :-)
You meant to say they were a bunch of slave owners who didn't want to pay their taxes.
...on open-day!
Unfortunately here the extra longevity is theoretical only, since in London you would be hit by a white van or a mother in a SUV long before you reached normal life expectancy. Not that cyclists here wear helmets or have lights or obey traffic rules anyway. Our cycle lanes are a joke, about 0.8 metres wide, and sometimes only 5 metres long (!)
Of course, for C to be viable I would want 32 bit registers, more than 1 kilobyte of RAM, no bloody banking/segment registers (for ROM), more than one accumulator, a multiply instruction :-) in which case writing in assembler would be more fun anyway!
Everyone should know how to use it (just like everyone should know how to add and multiply without using a calculator) but it's nice that we don't always have to use it these days.
Isn't that the usual atire for the groom in a Hindu wedding? I think a white horse comes into the equation also.
Activision also deserves kudo's for keeping those programmers/designers from being forgotten.
Wasn't that why activision was founded? :-) because atari hid their designers away?
I note that Carol Shaw, the River Raid programmer, doesn't seem to want to mention that on her web site.
There are a few fans out there writing homebrew stuff for it still!
A real masochists' machine though, printing "HELLO" on the screen is an accomplishment :-)
Other third world countries no doubt have higher literacy rates than many 1st world countries. For example education is compulsory in Thailand (right next to Laos) until the age of 18.
My friends have a nice simple system that works for them - a pully system that lets them change TV channel while they are in bed. It's worked for years (decades?) without ever needing new batteries.
since it is just a rip-off of the CP/M API (extended somewhat over the years). I don't think Microsoft will want to push that point too hard.
You've obviously never seen Riverdance.
The main yet frivolous point of the post was to claim the two meanings of practising/practicing can conflict, as do the two meanings of professional.
This sort of conflict is often used in humourous radio programmes, which alas I don't get to listen to often.
might include scoping (i.e. putting warts on globals and statics) and reminding you something is a pointer (pData). But none of this lpsz crap...
When I visited the Discworld Convention recently, Terry Pratchett asked how many people in the room had received a Nigerian spam. Nearly every one of the hundreds of people in the room put their hand up! Maybe comic fantasy (or scifi) fans have higher expectactions of connectivity?
What, do you never leave the house? The reason we text and telephone each other is because we have friends who don't all live in the same house, but who do socialise together, so we communicate over distance in order to meet up. Of course most messages are actually feeble excuses for being late to the pub, but some are things like "Im on the downstairs dancefloor left of the main stage" for when you get separated.
You mean you still haven't figured out what to do yet? It's easy!
Also, publish examples, a lot of examples, and nice examples too
How about this, to distinguish yourself from every other tool vendor: publish examples that don't have bloody big bugs in them that cause you to lose a days work trying to track them down!
This means when you update the API, you should update the examples so that they work, they use the recommended API, and they are following general good coding practice. Don't fob off writing examples onto someone who
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I'm sure the USA will continue to try to force the rest of the world to consume their hormone-added genetically-modified radiation-enhanced food... but milk is probably not economic to ship over long distances so europe should only have to worry about being forced to buy the meat in the short-term.
The argument being used is that USAians eat all this crap and it never did them any harm, so you euroguys should be forced to eat it too (or face economic sanctions). Apparently the French are not convinced by this argument, but I am sure that fois gras [yummy!] does not endear them to PETA.