As a mere hobbyist, I can tell you that this was true for me. I wanted to put things on the web. I fooled around with Javascript, got frustrated, bought the Camel one summer, paid $25 to get a web host with CGI, started writing scripts, and never looked back. I didn't make any money or get famous, but I have had a good time. I had to unlearn a lot of bad habits when I started developing programs on the Mac; even though I use Objective-C and Cocoa, I still had to hunker down and learn some C to figure out what was really happening. There were a few times when I cursed Perl for its simplicity and its hiding of details that screwed me up pretty well, but quite a number of things from C ended up seeming "idiomatic" because Perl was my first language, not despite that fact.
All in all, it was the ease of use that kept me going and enabled me to appreciate stricter things later on when I could understand why they're needed. Perl is a good first language for precisely all the reasons that someone might later object to: it's sloppy, but it's fun, and you sometimes need the latter to keep you going. Finally, and I know this isn't a feature of the language, but Perl Monks kicks ass.
Nice troll. It's not a monopoly, since it's opt-in. And, it's not anti-competitive; the government purchases all sorts of things all the time in markets where private entities make purchases, too.
Just so those who still don't understand why the bills were introduced: it was to protest the "back-door draft." Also, there are plans in place for a draft.
You're wrong on the healthcare thing. Whose Kool-Aid have you been drinking? I'm guessing the red kind. Kerry's healthcare plan is... get this... opt-in, and paid for by participants. Why is it going to be such a good deal? Because we're going to pool our purchasing power. Corporations do that all the time and make big savings; if that's supposed to be an inviolable right of a capitalist society, why can't ordinary Americans take advantage of it?
You're plainly wrong on the Iraq thing. You want to talk about flip-flopping? Look at the list of reasons this administration has given for going into Iraq in the way that we did. Every time one of these reasons (supposedly presented as the "real issue," the "main reason" to send Americans to die) collapsed, Bush would come out with a new one. The best you can say now is "Saddam was a bad man." No one disputes that. But there are plenty of bad guys around and we don't go unilaterally invading their countries and spending American lives to do it.
I'm sure you've heard many arguments before, but try this one on for size: which of the two "figureheads" is more likely to draft you or young people you know?
When you live in a state that's solid red or blue, it's much easier to vote for a third party, since your vote won't matter anyway.
It could matter for funding for that party's election efforts. If you support the libertarian party, or any other, then you should probably vote for it, no matter what the prevailing conditions.
That said, even if you're in a supposedly "locked" state, and you primarily support one of the major candidates, I think you should vote for your party's candidate in the presidential election; having a clear victory in the popular vote will I think be very important to the upcoming administration. That vote will "count," too.
Probably there was a collection of legends and tales that had been passed along in an oral tradition---which is just a fancy way of saying that lots of people liked those stories and wanted to hear them told. And at some point perhaps there was an especially well-liked storyteller who pulled a few such tales together and fashioned them into the what we now know as Beowulf. Maybe there was a king or other wealthy patron who then caused the tale to be written down by a scribe. But I doubt it was created at the behest of a king. It was created at the behest of lots and lots of intoxicated Frisians sitting around the fire wanting to hear a yarn.
This is effectively Gregory Nagy's (and others') account of how we came to have the epic poetry transmitted to us under the name of Homer. (One interesting phenomenon, of many, in all this, is that Homer treats this very theme in the Odyssey, where he has Odysseus "sing for his dinner.") One small difference is that "official" patronage was crucial for making the transition from an oral tradition to a written one: the Athenian "tyrant" Peisistratus commissioned a definitive written version to be assembled from various rhapsodes' performances. To this end, he provided funding for contests at which the poems were sung.
If you want to know more, check out Nagy's books "Poetry as Performance" or "The Best of the Achaeans."
It is, of course, but I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say you will never have to deal with it as code, the way you would with say, the nasty auto-generated Swing code of Netbeans or some such. If you double-click a.nib file, Interface Builder will be launched, giving you a direct, visual, and wholly intuitive (while still configurable and powerful) representation of the app's windows, menus, etc. In fact, what the objects you see on screen just are the actual objects your program will use.
On a side note, this came in handy when OS X's Terminal app didn't seem to give me the option to configure its appearance as I wanted; I just located its.nib file, opened it with IB, made and saved the changes I wanted, and voila!
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Fair enough. That is confusing.
All in all, it was the ease of use that kept me going and enabled me to appreciate stricter things later on when I could understand why they're needed. Perl is a good first language for precisely all the reasons that someone might later object to: it's sloppy, but it's fun, and you sometimes need the latter to keep you going. Finally, and I know this isn't a feature of the language, but Perl Monks kicks ass.
No, but it might have been a good idea. :-)
Given how much a fan of Alexander the Great Veidt was, maybe Colin Farrell should play him.
Bizarre as it may be, there are more women than men.
I'm holding my nose and casting my vote for emacs. Oh, wait. Which election were we discussing?
Nice troll. It's not a monopoly, since it's opt-in. And, it's not anti-competitive; the government purchases all sorts of things all the time in markets where private entities make purchases, too.
Just so those who still don't understand why the bills were introduced: it was to protest the "back-door draft." Also, there are plans in place for a draft.
That's simple. The agents hire film noir detectives to hunt down hackers like Trinity.
I would not call one of the 5 most read and quoted scientific magazines in the world a rag, but that is a purely personal opinion.
Some call it "irony." :-)
You're plainly wrong on the Iraq thing. You want to talk about flip-flopping? Look at the list of reasons this administration has given for going into Iraq in the way that we did. Every time one of these reasons (supposedly presented as the "real issue," the "main reason" to send Americans to die) collapsed, Bush would come out with a new one. The best you can say now is "Saddam was a bad man." No one disputes that. But there are plenty of bad guys around and we don't go unilaterally invading their countries and spending American lives to do it.
I'm sure you've heard many arguments before, but try this one on for size: which of the two "figureheads" is more likely to draft you or young people you know?
It could matter for funding for that party's election efforts. If you support the libertarian party, or any other, then you should probably vote for it, no matter what the prevailing conditions.
That said, even if you're in a supposedly "locked" state, and you primarily support one of the major candidates, I think you should vote for your party's candidate in the presidential election; having a clear victory in the popular vote will I think be very important to the upcoming administration. That vote will "count," too.
Last recorded was more like 100,000 dead. It was in a story in a little local British rag called the Lancet. Perhaps you've heard of it.
Of course not, silly! Since it's immaterial, it's totally sanitary!
As a professional philosopher, let me ask what talk shows these are that you are watching. Also, what are the phone numbers of their producers?
Bah! 255 bytes ought to be enough for anybody.
Ack! I finally get it.
I didn't realize that PDF was a full-featured composited windowing system.
This is effectively Gregory Nagy's (and others') account of how we came to have the epic poetry transmitted to us under the name of Homer. (One interesting phenomenon, of many, in all this, is that Homer treats this very theme in the Odyssey, where he has Odysseus "sing for his dinner.") One small difference is that "official" patronage was crucial for making the transition from an oral tradition to a written one: the Athenian "tyrant" Peisistratus commissioned a definitive written version to be assembled from various rhapsodes' performances. To this end, he provided funding for contests at which the poems were sung.
If you want to know more, check out Nagy's books "Poetry as Performance" or "The Best of the Achaeans."
Umm, Cocoa is not Smalltalk 80, and Quartz is not Postscript. And don't forget CoreAudio, which is truly awesome. Anyway, that's my $0.02.
this is OT, but at least a Kerry administration will have the revenue to pay for such spending.
On a side note, this came in handy when OS X's Terminal app didn't seem to give me the option to configure its appearance as I wanted; I just located its .nib file, opened it with IB, made and saved the changes I wanted, and voila!