the special effects however, primitive as they were, told the story just fine. instead of an hour's worth of special effects with conversations cut-and-pasted in between, older movies have to focus on telling a story, with special effects being just another tool. i like it better that way.
the fact that word has stupid misfeatures and bugs in it and is insecure doesn't mean it's still a better editor for the common user. i could go the rest of my life using vi in a terminal but my mom or my boss couldn't. word has features that people take for granted that open source editors do not have, simple as that. open source gui editors right now are still the electric cars in a mostly gasoline-powered world. yes, they're more efficient and most people could do everything they do in a 5-ton SUV in one, but that doesn't mean people will prefer them.
nice to hear this:) it's not the language that matters, but that the project is scoped correctly, the interfaces are planned out and implemented correctly. why should the server and client have to be the same language? as long as they can speak to each other it's a benefit to use each language for its strengths. a big project like this can be stronger if done properly in multiple languages, though sadly often it's worse. my employer has a similiar but lower-scale project going on now but of course they've chosen the wrong tools for the job and the wrong people to do it. *sigh*
in american universities professors and booksellers conspire to require new editions of books every year or two, and these books costs usually around $50-60 each, larger books will go for $80-100 or more. the professors often get a kickback from the booksellers for every dollar they bring in, and of course they also get paid if they are the author (they often are)
many students spend >$350 per semester in order to rent the "proper" edition of a book that has not had any significant changes made to it in years, if ever. after 3 months the students "sell" the books back to the bookstore for around 1/4 what they paid, so the books can be put on the shelf for next semester, assuming there isn't a new edition required for the class.
people tolerate it because "college is important" and you "learn valuable life skills".
never let it enter your mind corporations do things out of the kindness of their shareholder's collective hearts. IBM does what they do to protect their own interests. don't forget they're on the business end of a $5 billion lawsuit; a rediculous snowball's-chance-in-hell one to be sure, but if they manage to lose it heads will roll.
her fingers are awful big... couldn't the money for this single gargantuan thumbreader be used for a better purpose, like many smaller thumbreaders to perhaps track people *at the statue of liberty*?
fear works. all the terrorists have to do is manage to blow up one high-level target every couple of years and then just sit back as the West smothers itself in its own security blanket.
agreed, the more i work with php the more i dislike its interface. there is no standardization of function names, as illustrated in strtoupper() and str_split(). nor are arguments in a standard order, such as in_array(needle, haystack) and strpos(haystack, needle). some functions are horribly named, see the aformentioned strtoupper(). and there's just something about having several hundred (maybe thousand?!) functions in the same namespace. every other popular scripting language i know has the concept of modules, allowing subsets of functions to be imported and used when necessary... there's pear, but it's certainly secondary to php itself and not nearly as widely used within php as perl is within cpan.
now don't get me wrong, i'm not bashing php. i use php all the time and it is a pretty straightforward tool and quite easy to pick up. the inevitable problem with trying to reform a language is that you need to "break" it in order to fix it
I like to think that the GNU project (and FreeDOS for that matter) would still have found a way to make free operating systems, even if they had to not base them at all whatsoever on any existing ones.
check out the mozilla-firefox-bin and mozilla-thunderbird-bin binary packages, just download and extract. i'll update these during work if there's a new version and then before i go home start compiling the real thing, then unmerge the bin in the morning.
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the special effects however, primitive as they were, told the story just fine. instead of an hour's worth of special effects with conversations cut-and-pasted in between, older movies have to focus on telling a story, with special effects being just another tool. i like it better that way.
how good could something be if people just give it away? ;)
the fact that word has stupid misfeatures and bugs in it and is insecure doesn't mean it's still a better editor for the common user. i could go the rest of my life using vi in a terminal but my mom or my boss couldn't. word has features that people take for granted that open source editors do not have, simple as that. open source gui editors right now are still the electric cars in a mostly gasoline-powered world. yes, they're more efficient and most people could do everything they do in a 5-ton SUV in one, but that doesn't mean people will prefer them.
nice to hear this :) it's not the language that matters, but that the project is scoped correctly, the interfaces are planned out and implemented correctly. why should the server and client have to be the same language? as long as they can speak to each other it's a benefit to use each language for its strengths. a big project like this can be stronger if done properly in multiple languages, though sadly often it's worse. my employer has a similiar but lower-scale project going on now but of course they've chosen the wrong tools for the job and the wrong people to do it. *sigh*
many students spend >$350 per semester in order to rent the "proper" edition of a book that has not had any significant changes made to it in years, if ever. after 3 months the students "sell" the books back to the bookstore for around 1/4 what they paid, so the books can be put on the shelf for next semester, assuming there isn't a new edition required for the class.
people tolerate it because "college is important" and you "learn valuable life skills".
he could shit in a bucket and hopeless sw geeks would fight each other for it
never let it enter your mind corporations do things out of the kindness of their shareholder's collective hearts. IBM does what they do to protect their own interests. don't forget they're on the business end of a $5 billion lawsuit; a rediculous snowball's-chance-in-hell one to be sure, but if they manage to lose it heads will roll.
In the extended, enhanced version of "Passion" Jesus actually tries to crucify the Romans first.
did you send them via UDP? perhaps your first attempt hasn't made it yet.
it's not his url, slashcode breaks up long strings to prevent the page from getting stretched horizontally
...he'd put on his solar seatbelt and charged the solar airbags
her fingers are awful big... couldn't the money for this single gargantuan thumbreader be used for a better purpose, like many smaller thumbreaders to perhaps track people *at the statue of liberty*?
a site about handtops predicts a bright future for handtops? it's almost like a news site for nerds pushing an anti-Microsoft agenda!
fear works. all the terrorists have to do is manage to blow up one high-level target every couple of years and then just sit back as the West smothers itself in its own security blanket.
now don't get me wrong, i'm not bashing php. i use php all the time and it is a pretty straightforward tool and quite easy to pick up. the inevitable problem with trying to reform a language is that you need to "break" it in order to fix it
it's obvious that the blackhat people tampered with the results of the poll concerning the tamperability of polls
i just ate a 50cm submersible for breakfast, i thin i'll pass.
ok, he may not be richer than gates but his coffee table shaped like a Ying-Yang is to die for.
everyone's got an SUV these days.
doubleclick obviously isn't using the DDOSBlock extension for Firefox.
who do i turn to now when my dna breaks?
rm -rf mlkpr0n[0-4].png works fine already. of course, that only works for single digit numbers whereas the new ranges work for {0...1000} and {a...z}
great post! if i had mod points you'd get them.
GNU has one, it's called HURD
check out the mozilla-firefox-bin and mozilla-thunderbird-bin binary packages, just download and extract. i'll update these during work if there's a new version and then before i go home start compiling the real thing, then unmerge the bin in the morning.