Love the stickers. They divide the sane from the idiots. I find anyone keeping the stickers being a free billboard and thus an idiot. They however find me an idiot for bothering at all. I however have a Mac that came with none.
There already is a colour hack. It requires you to sneak into your sister's bedroom and to nick a few of her nail varnishes. You now have the luxury of brushing any colour you like on any button you want. Soon you will lovingly nickname your controller spotted dick.
Let the varnish dry and voila, you're the coolest kid on the block.
PS: Finding sex toys during your quest is perfectly normal. Admire your sis' liberated state! Let religion rest for a bit.
Picture java with multiple inheritance, operator overloading (java already overloads all the math operators, so why can't we?), naked structs and enums (we can manage our own "primitives", honest!), and a pre-procesor. A "better c++".
Coming from Perl where you had to grow your own OO, multiple inheritance has been the thing I missed. Not too much, but still missed it. Time passed, my brain grew a bit older and I realised to my horror that some application programmers simply never will grasp the practical side of inheritance -let alone multiple inheritance- but will arrive in influential positions. In a way it's a blessing that specifically to these idiots multiple inheritance isn't available.
Then came the shifting away from inheritance and towards interfaces and delegation. My only objection to delegation is that when you have large amounts of methods the code bloats and you get into maintenance hell.
I can do without overloading operators, enums and structs. Sure, I'd like -for instance- a Perl-like pattern matching. But I'm perfectly OK with writing a bit of extra code which will be intelligible by mortals.
The spooky thing is that I and many others almost have surrendered to a technology that does 80% of what's desired.
Java is dying. This does not mean that fewer people are using it - the decline will be long
Sure. And I've been in the dying status since birth.
It's no longer the "cool kid on the block." It's become boring.
And thanks god for that. Indeed, 10-15 years ago you were considered almost eccentric for using it but nowadays no longer.
I'm in the business of integrating systems and my clients are large institutions with architecture teams that mostly pose restrictions on what you're allowed to do and what not. (Restrictions people might find silly are almost always there for a reason.)
I almost always can use Java and Tomcat to do the job. Almost any API you can think of is around and I don't need to take into consideration the platform I'm running. I always can meet the architectural restrictions. I also can hand over a Java system to a maintenance team and move on. There are loads of Java programmers and they come relatively cheap.
From my applicative and/or utilitarian point of view there's very little that beats this.
Perl -NOTE, I'm a Perl author on CPAN- is OK for slightly complex system stuff but I'd never ever build a system again where I'd have to provide modules from CPAN. OS update will break some code eventually. Migrating to another OS is a nightmare. Sure I get paid for doing these kinds of things but there's more interesting work around. And, if you think Java is old, you'll think Perl has already snuffed it.
C++ is excellent if you intend on never to migrate to a different platform. For my purposes it is hell.
The "newer" kids on the block will not be considered by most of my customers.
You might argue that this converges to undesired and dangerous monoculture but it's too easy criticism. Successful languages depend on businesses willing to use it. One day something truly revolutionary will come along, businesses will start using it and I'll move to it. Don't forget that in the 80ies and mid 90ies the alternatives were fewer than today. Back then we were heading away from COBOL towards C -I mourn the poor beggars that had to implement business applications in C- and now we're heading away from COBOL towards Java.
Lad, you're completely bonkers. The statement you made clearly shows you haven't got the slightest idea how much Java code there is inside corporate data centres. I've been told COBOL is dead since 20 years and it's still alive and kickin'.
Hardly any language truly dies. For instance, C was considered for business applications and got dumped for that purpose. It's still very much alive.Java will be there longer than you hold for possible.
How exactly do you put something into public domain legally, such that you can legally protect them to be in public domain?
If you mean to say that the public domain means "no strings attached" then you could do by simply forfeiting all rights to the piece of work. That implies you own the rights to the work.
I like the GPL in that it tries to eliminate parasitic misuse of "public domain" software. Software in absolute public domain could be taken, altered minimally and be resold as one's own, or very near to that anyway.
To me, producing software under a license that allows parasitism causes devaluation to software. The producer is not likely to be compensated for the work. Hell, the free-loader probably won't even appreciate the software he's getting for free as in beer.
Use it for assertiveness. Carry it around and when some idiot starts nagging you, throw it onto him/her, cause a mini-eclipse and speak the utterly cool words "Talk to the dish 'cause the universe ain't listenin'." Wiggle your head and impress your buddies.
They should sue bimbook.com. Not because of the book thing but because it confounds people by cleansing and thus diluting their filthy business. I for one was looking for OK bimbos but didn't get any there.
IMHO, this is the kind of inventive tinkering that should be pushed forward in today's schools.
What?! And raise another generation of techies to be pushed around by mediocre managers' sneers? I say leave these things to people that can't help themselves. Like us on/.
Luckily my kids have no true feeling with tech and/or IT. One trap I fell in which they won't. I hope that whatever they'll do, they'll do well.
And while they are pimping it up, they should consider disguising the horrific body work too. Maybe provide a cover with a picture of a nicer looking car. Any truck would do. The Prius probably has the most hateful body work on the planet. Even a Trabant looks appealing when compared with a Prius.
DISCLAIMER: I sometimes go to remote places and I take my son with me. But I always assess the risk, I'll always be prepared with food and for bad weather and I will always have my options ready for leaving the operation.
A higher frequency of people paying for being rescued means a growing economy and possibly lower prices on the whole. Good for the mountain people I'd say.
But by God, I think couldn't stand the embarrassment of being rescued for frivolity on my part. I mean, what example would I set for my son? Son, as long as you have money it's OK to be an idiot.
The possibly huge amounts of money changing hands would be a lesser issue.
As a non-US-er I had never heard of Jack Horkheimer. I just Youtubed a few episodes and I must say that his enthusiasm is/was truly infectious. I'd understand people feeling a sad kind of loss.
They should should have use a suitable car like this one for instance. I guarantee pictures can be taken at eye level and even lower if necessary. And I bet it's a hell of a lot quicker than the car used so far. I own one.
I've been on the online scene since the Fidonet era, circa the 1980's, and I'm still trying to learn new online slangs all the time.
Why would you? Is it as if the online world is the only one that you belong to and that hence you feel the need to be up-to-date all the time? I myself find new lingo highly interesting and will research when involved. But I shy away from conforming to or even using slang that, to me, portrays the speaker as being too lazy to use proper words and grammar, while still craving the urge to interact with people with an urge to remain "hip".
It's my umbilicus that's the centre of the (my) universe. But you won't see me patenting this. Just bragging. What a bunch of sorry pussies there in the town of Frauenkirchen. One of the places I will not visit. I will however go back to Vieanna as it is one of the truly beautiful world cities.
We forget most things we think are normal day to day. My take on this is to put up awkward -or slightly embarrassing- situations which you later remember fondly. For instance, my mother in law has Alzheimer's and I have huge difficulties in making conversation with her. Two months ago my wife told me to "say something" to the mother in law. I resolved to ask her whether she voted on the past government elections. If my wife's looks could have killed me I would have died then on the spot. A bit of water under the bridge later and we now fondly remember this occasion more often than any other occasion with her.
What I'm trying to say is to concentrate more on memories inside you and to limit -technological- remembrances. Do a few funny, weird, wacky but loving things with your wife and daughters. Chances are the genuine feeling will resonate a long time. IMHO it's the small odd things you remember best and these are accentuated through unusual situations. Of course you should keep events tasteful and not overdo/overact on the occasions.
I wish you a most enjoyable company of your wife and daughters.
Buy yourself a DVD box of Jeeves and Wooster (with Fry and Laury) and I guarantee you the picture quality will not be the best you've ever had -although not too shabby- and unless you don't have a sense of humour you will actually like the eloquent wit.
CORRECT:
The FBI has a backlog of missing person DNA to run in the DNA labs.
The FBI is increasing the amount of manpower assigned to copyright.
If they have a big backlog in the DNA labs, but they're increasing the manpower assigned to copyright "crimes", then that looks to me like they're prioritizing copyright over missing persons. If missing persons were a higher priority, they would devote more resources to their backlogged DNA labs, so that they wouldn't be backlogged any more, and they wouldn't devote any more resources to copyright.
So it looks like the summary is correct after all.
If you'd apply your logic (which is that higher priority tasks should always get resources until satisfied) to CPU scheduling you'd have mostly starving processes. The fact that some a has lower priority (say FBI copyright) does not mean that it does not deserve some resources (admittedly I don't know how many resources FBI copyright is getting exactly.)
Yes people needs fat, however we are saturated in fatty foods.
Oops, I forgot the bulk of/. readers are from the US where anything is either good or bad... As I write, fat seems to be out and anything light is good. This perhaps will change in a decade or to. We need natural, healthy fats. Like olive oil or rapeseed oil for instance. And no, you shouldn't take too much fat. Try cooking meet with less fat and have vegetable with fat instead.
I like my food and during my study I've worked in good restaurants as a cook.
Move away from "Making kids eat vegetables". Instead, produce good vegetable dishes your kids will like and want!
If you want your kids to eats food you should stop trying to shove it down their throats. Appetite starts with an enjoyable atmosphere and with food that smells and looks good. And ultimately the food has to taste. So, make an effort and have enjoyable meals with your family. Cooking is one of the basic tasks of mums and dads and it should not be taken lightly. Better still, be proud of your cooking and try and improve on it every day.
Adding a bit of healthy fat -kids and adults need these- to vegetables, seasoning them properly and tasting before dishing mostly does the trick. Try savoy spinach with olive oil, seasoned with anchovies, capers and chilly. Or fried egg plant. Or green beans with olive oil, garlic and salt. Those are welcome breaks from the eternal creamed spinach you buy frozen.
Once your cooking improves you'll have kids liking vegetables better and less arguments at the diner table.
For instance, how GUI-savvy do you think "experienced" users are? You'll find that most do not really care.
Ever tried explaining cut/copy/paste/delete to several? Did they get that triple-click mostly means "select line"? Did they get that quadruple-click sometimes means "select all"? And that Ctrl-A or Apple-A almost always means "select all"? Did they get the concept of pasting plain text (without style attributes)? Did they notice themselves the differences in behaviour between Windows, AWT, QT, Gnome and X? Did they ever bitch about Windows programs that seem to cut off the last new line when pasting, although they definitively had selected it? Were they easily capable of coping with tables and successfully copy contents from text to spreadsheet programs and vice-versa? Did they ever bitch about Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C being a valid ASCII characters which are hijacked by Bill and his desperadoes? Were they capable to search for TABs in a GUI program?
Really basic stuff that makes you much quicker and sometimes indeed more effective if you know it. A true techy will have spotted all of this pretty soon and an application level surfer will not give a toss about this and come with eloquent -but stlll lame- excuses as to why he/she would not need knowledge in this this level of detail.
Learning to program for Non-Techie is easy. You have to let someone pay for your learning. That is, join a bank and be prepared to learn anything they need. You'll get to know COBOL very well as the all cracks are turning into pensioners, nobody does COBOL for fun and hence a lack of COBOL application programmers will be there.
You also will make a very decent salary as anything related to mainframes usually pays well.
Once you feel comfortable at programming, you move on to some other language you think you like.
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Love the stickers. They divide the sane from the idiots. I find anyone keeping the stickers being a free billboard and thus an idiot. They however find me an idiot for bothering at all. I however have a Mac that came with none.
There already is a colour hack. It requires you to sneak into your sister's bedroom and to nick a few of her nail varnishes. You now have the luxury of brushing any colour you like on any button you want. Soon you will lovingly nickname your controller spotted dick.
Let the varnish dry and voila, you're the coolest kid on the block.
PS: Finding sex toys during your quest is perfectly normal. Admire your sis' liberated state! Let religion rest for a bit.
Picture java with multiple inheritance, operator overloading (java already overloads all the math operators, so why can't we?), naked structs and enums (we can manage our own "primitives", honest!), and a pre-procesor. A "better c++".
Coming from Perl where you had to grow your own OO, multiple inheritance has been the thing I missed. Not too much, but still missed it. Time passed, my brain grew a bit older and I realised to my horror that some application programmers simply never will grasp the practical side of inheritance -let alone multiple inheritance- but will arrive in influential positions. In a way it's a blessing that specifically to these idiots multiple inheritance isn't available.
Then came the shifting away from inheritance and towards interfaces and delegation. My only objection to delegation is that when you have large amounts of methods the code bloats and you get into maintenance hell.
I can do without overloading operators, enums and structs. Sure, I'd like -for instance- a Perl-like pattern matching. But I'm perfectly OK with writing a bit of extra code which will be intelligible by mortals.
The spooky thing is that I and many others almost have surrendered to a technology that does 80% of what's desired.
Java is dying. This does not mean that fewer people are using it - the decline will be long
Sure. And I've been in the dying status since birth.
It's no longer the "cool kid on the block." It's become boring.
And thanks god for that. Indeed, 10-15 years ago you were considered almost eccentric for using it but nowadays no longer.
I'm in the business of integrating systems and my clients are large institutions with architecture teams that mostly pose restrictions on what you're allowed to do and what not. (Restrictions people might find silly are almost always there for a reason.)
I almost always can use Java and Tomcat to do the job. Almost any API you can think of is around and I don't need to take into consideration the platform I'm running. I always can meet the architectural restrictions. I also can hand over a Java system to a maintenance team and move on. There are loads of Java programmers and they come relatively cheap.
From my applicative and/or utilitarian point of view there's very little that beats this.
Perl -NOTE, I'm a Perl author on CPAN- is OK for slightly complex system stuff but I'd never ever build a system again where I'd have to provide modules from CPAN. OS update will break some code eventually. Migrating to another OS is a nightmare. Sure I get paid for doing these kinds of things but there's more interesting work around. And, if you think Java is old, you'll think Perl has already snuffed it.
C++ is excellent if you intend on never to migrate to a different platform. For my purposes it is hell.
The "newer" kids on the block will not be considered by most of my customers.
You might argue that this converges to undesired and dangerous monoculture but it's too easy criticism. Successful languages depend on businesses willing to use it. One day something truly revolutionary will come along, businesses will start using it and I'll move to it. Don't forget that in the 80ies and mid 90ies the alternatives were fewer than today. Back then we were heading away from COBOL towards C -I mourn the poor beggars that had to implement business applications in C- and now we're heading away from COBOL towards Java.
Java's dying anyway.
Lad, you're completely bonkers. The statement you made clearly shows you haven't got the slightest idea how much Java code there is inside corporate data centres. I've been told COBOL is dead since 20 years and it's still alive and kickin'.
Hardly any language truly dies. For instance, C was considered for business applications and got dumped for that purpose. It's still very much alive.Java will be there longer than you hold for possible.
How exactly do you put something into public domain legally, such that you can legally protect them to be in public domain?
If you mean to say that the public domain means "no strings attached" then you could do by simply forfeiting all rights to the piece of work. That implies you own the rights to the work.
I like the GPL in that it tries to eliminate parasitic misuse of "public domain" software. Software in absolute public domain could be taken, altered minimally and be resold as one's own, or very near to that anyway.
To me, producing software under a license that allows parasitism causes devaluation to software. The producer is not likely to be compensated for the work. Hell, the free-loader probably won't even appreciate the software he's getting for free as in beer.
Use it for assertiveness. Carry it around and when some idiot starts nagging you, throw it onto him/her, cause a mini-eclipse and speak the utterly cool words "Talk to the dish 'cause the universe ain't listenin'." Wiggle your head and impress your buddies.
They should sue bimbook.com. Not because of the book thing but because it confounds people by cleansing and thus diluting their filthy business. I for one was looking for OK bimbos but didn't get any there.
IMHO, this is the kind of inventive tinkering that should be pushed forward in today's schools.
What?! And raise another generation of techies to be pushed around by mediocre managers' sneers? I say leave these things to people that can't help themselves. Like us on /.
Luckily my kids have no true feeling with tech and/or IT. One trap I fell in which they won't. I hope that whatever they'll do, they'll do well.
And while they are pimping it up, they should consider disguising the horrific body work too. Maybe provide a cover with a picture of a nicer looking car. Any truck would do. The Prius probably has the most hateful body work on the planet. Even a Trabant looks appealing when compared with a Prius.
DISCLAIMER: I sometimes go to remote places and I take my son with me. But I always assess the risk, I'll always be prepared with food and for bad weather and I will always have my options ready for leaving the operation.
A higher frequency of people paying for being rescued means a growing economy and possibly lower prices on the whole. Good for the mountain people I'd say.
But by God, I think couldn't stand the embarrassment of being rescued for frivolity on my part. I mean, what example would I set for my son? Son, as long as you have money it's OK to be an idiot.
The possibly huge amounts of money changing hands would be a lesser issue.
As a non-US-er I had never heard of Jack Horkheimer. I just Youtubed a few episodes and I must say that his enthusiasm is/was truly infectious. I'd understand people feeling a sad kind of loss.
They should should have use a suitable car like this one for instance. I guarantee pictures can be taken at eye level and even lower if necessary. And I bet it's a hell of a lot quicker than the car used so far. I own one.
I've been on the online scene since the Fidonet era, circa the 1980's, and I'm still trying to learn new online slangs all the time.
Why would you? Is it as if the online world is the only one that you belong to and that hence you feel the need to be up-to-date all the time? I myself find new lingo highly interesting and will research when involved. But I shy away from conforming to or even using slang that, to me, portrays the speaker as being too lazy to use proper words and grammar, while still craving the urge to interact with people with an urge to remain "hip".
It's my umbilicus that's the centre of the (my) universe. But you won't see me patenting this. Just bragging. What a bunch of sorry pussies there in the town of Frauenkirchen. One of the places I will not visit. I will however go back to Vieanna as it is one of the truly beautiful world cities.
We forget most things we think are normal day to day. My take on this is to put up awkward -or slightly embarrassing- situations which you later remember fondly. For instance, my mother in law has Alzheimer's and I have huge difficulties in making conversation with her. Two months ago my wife told me to "say something" to the mother in law. I resolved to ask her whether she voted on the past government elections. If my wife's looks could have killed me I would have died then on the spot. A bit of water under the bridge later and we now fondly remember this occasion more often than any other occasion with her.
What I'm trying to say is to concentrate more on memories inside you and to limit -technological- remembrances. Do a few funny, weird, wacky but loving things with your wife and daughters. Chances are the genuine feeling will resonate a long time. IMHO it's the small odd things you remember best and these are accentuated through unusual situations. Of course you should keep events tasteful and not overdo/overact on the occasions.
I wish you a most enjoyable company of your wife and daughters.
When you are in that special mood that bears fine, sensual and subliminal massages, you might be directed to this museum in Amsterdam.
Buy yourself a DVD box of Jeeves and Wooster (with Fry and Laury) and I guarantee you the picture quality will not be the best you've ever had -although not too shabby- and unless you don't have a sense of humour you will actually like the eloquent wit.
If you're having it, you know that it's really not that special after all. Honestly, sex is the second most overrated thing in our cultural landscape.
Sex is like oxygen. When you're not getting it, nothing else matters. When you are getting plenty of it, you don't pay attention to it.
Your analogy has a flaw in that if you'd have as much oxygen as you'd like to have sex, you'd die.
CORRECT: The FBI has a backlog of missing person DNA to run in the DNA labs. The FBI is increasing the amount of manpower assigned to copyright.
If they have a big backlog in the DNA labs, but they're increasing the manpower assigned to copyright "crimes", then that looks to me like they're prioritizing copyright over missing persons. If missing persons were a higher priority, they would devote more resources to their backlogged DNA labs, so that they wouldn't be backlogged any more, and they wouldn't devote any more resources to copyright.
So it looks like the summary is correct after all.
If you'd apply your logic (which is that higher priority tasks should always get resources until satisfied) to CPU scheduling you'd have mostly starving processes. The fact that some a has lower priority (say FBI copyright) does not mean that it does not deserve some resources (admittedly I don't know how many resources FBI copyright is getting exactly.)
Yes people needs fat, however we are saturated in fatty foods.
Oops, I forgot the bulk of /. readers are from the US where anything is either good or bad... As I write, fat seems to be out and anything light is good. This perhaps will change in a decade or to. We need natural, healthy fats. Like olive oil or rapeseed oil for instance. And no, you shouldn't take too much fat. Try cooking meet with less fat and have vegetable with fat instead.
I like my food and during my study I've worked in good restaurants as a cook.
Move away from "Making kids eat vegetables". Instead, produce good vegetable dishes your kids will like and want!
If you want your kids to eats food you should stop trying to shove it down their throats. Appetite starts with an enjoyable atmosphere and with food that smells and looks good. And ultimately the food has to taste. So, make an effort and have enjoyable meals with your family. Cooking is one of the basic tasks of mums and dads and it should not be taken lightly. Better still, be proud of your cooking and try and improve on it every day.
Adding a bit of healthy fat -kids and adults need these- to vegetables, seasoning them properly and tasting before dishing mostly does the trick. Try savoy spinach with olive oil, seasoned with anchovies, capers and chilly. Or fried egg plant. Or green beans with olive oil, garlic and salt. Those are welcome breaks from the eternal creamed spinach you buy frozen.
Once your cooking improves you'll have kids liking vegetables better and less arguments at the diner table.
Enjoy!
For instance, how GUI-savvy do you think "experienced" users are? You'll find that most do not really care.
Ever tried explaining cut/copy/paste/delete to several? Did they get that triple-click mostly means "select line"? Did they get that quadruple-click sometimes means "select all"? And that Ctrl-A or Apple-A almost always means "select all"? Did they get the concept of pasting plain text (without style attributes)? Did they notice themselves the differences in behaviour between Windows, AWT, QT, Gnome and X? Did they ever bitch about Windows programs that seem to cut off the last new line when pasting, although they definitively had selected it? Were they easily capable of coping with tables and successfully copy contents from text to spreadsheet programs and vice-versa? Did they ever bitch about Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C being a valid ASCII characters which are hijacked by Bill and his desperadoes? Were they capable to search for TABs in a GUI program?
Really basic stuff that makes you much quicker and sometimes indeed more effective if you know it. A true techy will have spotted all of this pretty soon and an application level surfer will not give a toss about this and come with eloquent -but stlll lame- excuses as to why he/she would not need knowledge in this this level of detail.
Learning to program for Non-Techie is easy. You have to let someone pay for your learning. That is, join a bank and be prepared to learn anything they need. You'll get to know COBOL very well as the all cracks are turning into pensioners, nobody does COBOL for fun and hence a lack of COBOL application programmers will be there.
You also will make a very decent salary as anything related to mainframes usually pays well.
Once you feel comfortable at programming, you move on to some other language you think you like.
As a programmer you need to stop whining. There will be people making money out of your code or using your code.
If money making is your goal you should quit programming and go into a money making job. And possibly die early of boredom or nervous maladies.
Do what you do best, don't whine but also don't be a fool.