Fewer ridiculous syntax requirements? Stupid unnecessary crap like explicit line numbers?
Isn't Python that language where the whitespace/indentation affects the workings of the program code?
For a kid starting out to program, I don't at all think that BASIC is a bad idea. If nothing else it might light the fire inside a future hacker and encourage him or her to absorb as much as they can from 'puters. Why start with something that is any more complicated than it needs to be?
10 REM ** COOL PROGRAM ** 20 PRINT "I AM BORIS! I AM INVINCIBLE!" 30 GOTO 20
I noticed that as well. You can find the binary with OpenSSL on Apache's "archive" server, but I'm not going to download/install it until they fix what the problem is.
It looks like there was a problem with them and they were removed from their SVN repository:
Great, and then I burn through books of checks at four times the usual rate.
Exactly how does paying the cable company in installments inflict harm on them? They get the check for part of the bill, and they reduce that amount from the total amount owed. They get another check, and reduce the amount from the total amount owed. As long as all the checks get there before the due date, they don't care how many checks they get--they have a whole department of people that do nothing but process the checks received in the mail every day.
I've had good luck with Address Creation. I don't know what GoDaddy charges for domain registrations, but they're about $15 at Address Creation, which certainly doesn't break the bank. They only e-mail me when one of my domains is going to expire (and actually this year allowed me to glom four of them together so that I can renew them all at once from now on) and don't seem to have any obnoxious terms of use like what GoDaddy is accused of.
I bought a television from Best Buy several years ago and the junior assistant to the assistant of the assistant manager for the TV section started in with the hard sell for an extended warranty and I politely interrupted him and told him I never bought extended warranties. His reply was that he buys an extended warranty with everything.
"I once bought my dad a five-dollar phone and I got the extended warranty for it."
Now, I didn't realize you could buy an extended warranty for something that cheap, but it was his next comment that bothered me the most (and unfortunately sank in only after I had loaded up my non-warranted television and had driven away from the store):
"Only an idiot wouldn't buy a warranty for a new television."
Needless to say, I wrote their corporate office and bitched, and they sent back a letter riddled with typos that wasn't much of an apology.
It seems to me that most games--either for Mac OS or for Windows--are made by third-party vendors (yes, I realize that Microsoft has several game titles of their own). And it also seems to me that the reason there aren't lots of games for Macs is because there isn't that much demand for them. Think about it from a third-party vendor's point of view: Why get into the business of making games for a platform that only has 5% of the market (or however much Apple has at the moment) when there is most certainly more money to be made creating games (or other software) for Windows-based PCs?
Any more it takes a very large investment to create some of these complicated 3D games, and when there is little return, making that investment ends up being a bad business move.
And I can't speak for all Mac users, of course, but that's part of the reason I have multiple machines at home: Macs to do actual work on, and a Windows machine for playing games.:)
I actually pay an ISP every month, and use Eudora to send and receive mail.
And nobody censors me. And I don't have to worry about Google's "agenda."
I don't feel that Google "owes" me anything. (Besides, Yahoo has been giving away free e-mail accounts for quite some time--I never understood the fascination of gmail, whether or not it is searchable, etc....).
If you're a graphic designer or something with umpteen-thousand dollars in professional software, then I don't see you switching anytime soon, no matter how compelling the platform is.
Um, if you're a graphic designer, you're already using a Mac. I mean, right? Isn't that the last market Apple had left after they let the Pepsi guy lose the Education market to Dell?
I'm an Apple//e geek turned OS X and Linux user. Sure, I run SpyBot and AdAware on my kids' computer and troubleshoot PC goofiness for some folks at work, but I definitely dig the *nix end of things.
Funny, I thought people with blind faith sounded like idiots.
Especially those who claim to be such wonderful, generous, helpful-to-all folks like I was expected to be when I was raised.
That person may "sound like an idiot" and not be "one SMART DUDE" and have a "dumb mouth" but at least maybe he'll make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
I never for once said to remove religion from the world.
But I do indeed think that it is silly that people of one religion will kill people of another religion just because of religion.
And I think that the Israelis, no matter how badly they have been mistreated in the past, use the fact that they were persecuted as an excuse to murder Palestinians over and over and over again.
But whatever. "Believe" what you want.
Fair enough. Mind you, I think she was acting quite inappropriately, at best.
Claiming that the Israelis have never killed anyone is ridiculous, and that was the point I was trying to make. Not only have they completely persecuted Palestinians for years and years and years, they're dumb enough to get caught running over some girl with a bulldozer.
This is the most sensible comment that has been posted thus far.
When "the world" realizes that we're all just human beings, and can get over all of this religious sillyness, perhaps then we can evolve into a more mature and understanding society.
Until then we settle for "I'm going to blow you up because (this is what you believe) and (this is what I believe)."
It's interesting that so many religions think it is okay to kill people, well, just because they don't agree with some rules that are posted in some book...
And great for distributed.net that Mac users left! (I never messed with SETI but have been fond of distributed.net for several years now...) I totally kick systems' butts with my dual 2 GHz G5. Intel can't keep up at all. I just built an Athlon64 (3000) system at home and it runs about even with my several-year-old 733 MHz G4. Not even close the numbers that my G5 comes up with (dual or not--halve the G5 numbers and we still aren't close...)
And one Intel box (running Linux) at 1.6 GHz has brutal results and the other at 2.4 GHz still can't keep up with the old, old, old G4/733.
But at least there are more video games for the Windows platform....
"Golly, boss, M$ just bought out RedHat. I guess we'll be installing Windows Server 2003 on our Linux server now. Darn."
Would anyone out there want to learn Microsoft administration rather than just pick up another distribution of Linux? I know I wouldn't.
If anything, why wouldn't Microsoft just create their own Linux distribution and run it head-to-head against RedHat and try to put them out of business using their Explorer vs. Netscape business model...
They ruined it when they showed physical proof of aliens. That is, the ships under the Antarctic, etc.
Teasing everyone each week is what drove the show. Were there aliens? Or was it just weird coincidences? Conspiracy? Or paranoia? That could have been argued for a long time. Well, until they came out with the movie and showed a bunch of aliens on a UFO under the ice (of all places...).
My favorite is still the one with the three brothers and the mom under the bed. As Napolean Dynamite would say, "GR-OSS!"
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And for pete's sake, don't do it from home or work.
Go to the library. Or the local community college--the one near us has open labs throughout the building.
Fill out the web form and be as pissy as you want. And when Spammers R Us decide to get huffy, they can take up their problem with localcc.edu instead of you. And just exactly where are they going to go from there?
Heck, make up the information you provide, of course. For a required e-mail address you might try "info@atriks.com" or something like that. Just a suggestion...
Why use invisible proxy servers (whatever the heck those are) when you can just go use a publicly available computer to send nasty replies from! Go ahead, grab my IP address!
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Fewer ridiculous syntax requirements? Stupid unnecessary crap like explicit line numbers?
Isn't Python that language where the whitespace/indentation affects the workings of the program code?
For a kid starting out to program, I don't at all think that BASIC is a bad idea. If nothing else it might light the fire inside a future hacker and encourage him or her to absorb as much as they can from 'puters. Why start with something that is any more complicated than it needs to be?
10 REM ** COOL PROGRAM **
20 PRINT "I AM BORIS! I AM INVINCIBLE!"
30 GOTO 20
I noticed that as well. You can find the binary with OpenSSL on Apache's "archive" server, but I'm not going to download/install it until they fix what the problem is.
It looks like there was a problem with them and they were removed from their SVN repository:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/cvs/381813
So I went to download the new 2.2.15 win32 binary and it appears to have been taken down? http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ Or am I missing something?
I think this is actually her site:
http://www.sheboyganspirit.com/
(According to here, anyway: http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/city-sheboygan-v-reisinger)
G.--
Great, and then I burn through books of checks at four times the usual rate. Exactly how does paying the cable company in installments inflict harm on them? They get the check for part of the bill, and they reduce that amount from the total amount owed. They get another check, and reduce the amount from the total amount owed. As long as all the checks get there before the due date, they don't care how many checks they get--they have a whole department of people that do nothing but process the checks received in the mail every day.
I've had good luck with Address Creation. I don't know what GoDaddy charges for domain registrations, but they're about $15 at Address Creation, which certainly doesn't break the bank. They only e-mail me when one of my domains is going to expire (and actually this year allowed me to glom four of them together so that I can renew them all at once from now on) and don't seem to have any obnoxious terms of use like what GoDaddy is accused of.
Good luck!
Uh, without sounding trite... "Mod parent up."
Anymore, most people write "any more" as, well, "anymore."
"Anymore" became the more preferred version in the 20th century, and that was last century.
I bought a television from Best Buy several years ago and the junior assistant to the assistant of the assistant manager for the TV section started in with the hard sell for an extended warranty and I politely interrupted him and told him I never bought extended warranties. His reply was that he buys an extended warranty with everything.
"I once bought my dad a five-dollar phone and I got the extended warranty for it."
Now, I didn't realize you could buy an extended warranty for something that cheap, but it was his next comment that bothered me the most (and unfortunately sank in only after I had loaded up my non-warranted television and had driven away from the store):
"Only an idiot wouldn't buy a warranty for a new television."
Needless to say, I wrote their corporate office and bitched, and they sent back a letter riddled with typos that wasn't much of an apology.
I won't ever shop at Best Buy again.
Actually, they went to O'Hare.
I agree. Owning a PSP does not a geek make. Now if Paris had a PSP and then installed Linux on it, maybe I'd reconsider....
But how does it do running a distributed.net client?
It seems to me that most games--either for Mac OS or for Windows--are made by third-party vendors (yes, I realize that Microsoft has several game titles of their own). And it also seems to me that the reason there aren't lots of games for Macs is because there isn't that much demand for them. Think about it from a third-party vendor's point of view: Why get into the business of making games for a platform that only has 5% of the market (or however much Apple has at the moment) when there is most certainly more money to be made creating games (or other software) for Windows-based PCs?
:)
Any more it takes a very large investment to create some of these complicated 3D games, and when there is little return, making that investment ends up being a bad business move.
And I can't speak for all Mac users, of course, but that's part of the reason I have multiple machines at home: Macs to do actual work on, and a Windows machine for playing games.
Fax machines are SO 20th Century.
;)
Throw that thing away and start using e-mail to send PDF files instead.
G.--
I don't rely on Google mail.
I actually pay an ISP every month, and use Eudora to send and receive mail.
And nobody censors me. And I don't have to worry about Google's "agenda."
I don't feel that Google "owes" me anything. (Besides, Yahoo has been giving away free e-mail accounts for quite some time--I never understood the fascination of gmail, whether or not it is searchable, etc....).
G.--
Uh, aren't PowerPC processors made by Motorola? (Everything from the 601 to the 7455, I think--right?)
OS 9 might not run on an 680x0 machine, but I'm pretty sure it can run on machines with "Motorola processors."
G.--
If you're a graphic designer or something with umpteen-thousand dollars in professional software, then I don't see you switching anytime soon, no matter how compelling the platform is.
//e geek turned OS X and Linux user. Sure, I run SpyBot and AdAware on my kids' computer and troubleshoot PC goofiness for some folks at work, but I definitely dig the *nix end of things.
Um, if you're a graphic designer, you're already using a Mac. I mean, right? Isn't that the last market Apple had left after they let the Pepsi guy lose the Education market to Dell?
I'm an Apple
Funny, I thought people with blind faith sounded like idiots. Especially those who claim to be such wonderful, generous, helpful-to-all folks like I was expected to be when I was raised. That person may "sound like an idiot" and not be "one SMART DUDE" and have a "dumb mouth" but at least maybe he'll make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
I never for once said to remove religion from the world. But I do indeed think that it is silly that people of one religion will kill people of another religion just because of religion. And I think that the Israelis, no matter how badly they have been mistreated in the past, use the fact that they were persecuted as an excuse to murder Palestinians over and over and over again. But whatever. "Believe" what you want.
Fair enough. Mind you, I think she was acting quite inappropriately, at best. Claiming that the Israelis have never killed anyone is ridiculous, and that was the point I was trying to make. Not only have they completely persecuted Palestinians for years and years and years, they're dumb enough to get caught running over some girl with a bulldozer.
Well.. a Nazi war criminal and, well, Rachel Corrie....
l nice bulldozer...
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/invest.htm
At least people feel good about themselves when they go to bed, I guess.
This is the most sensible comment that has been posted thus far.
When "the world" realizes that we're all just human beings, and can get over all of this religious sillyness, perhaps then we can evolve into a more mature and understanding society.
Until then we settle for "I'm going to blow you up because (this is what you believe) and (this is what I believe)."
It's interesting that so many religions think it is okay to kill people, well, just because they don't agree with some rules that are posted in some book...
And great for distributed.net that Mac users left! (I never messed with SETI but have been fond of distributed.net for several years now...) I totally kick systems' butts with my dual 2 GHz G5. Intel can't keep up at all. I just built an Athlon64 (3000) system at home and it runs about even with my several-year-old 733 MHz G4. Not even close the numbers that my G5 comes up with (dual or not--halve the G5 numbers and we still aren't close...)
And one Intel box (running Linux) at 1.6 GHz has brutal results and the other at 2.4 GHz still can't keep up with the old, old, old G4/733.
But at least there are more video games for the Windows platform....
G.--
You're absolutely correct.
"Golly, boss, M$ just bought out RedHat. I guess we'll be installing Windows Server 2003 on our Linux server now. Darn."
Would anyone out there want to learn Microsoft administration rather than just pick up another distribution of Linux? I know I wouldn't.
If anything, why wouldn't Microsoft just create their own Linux distribution and run it head-to-head against RedHat and try to put them out of business using their Explorer vs. Netscape business model...
They ruined it when they showed physical proof of aliens. That is, the ships under the Antarctic, etc.
Teasing everyone each week is what drove the show. Were there aliens? Or was it just weird coincidences? Conspiracy? Or paranoia? That could have been argued for a long time. Well, until they came out with the movie and showed a bunch of aliens on a UFO under the ice (of all places...).
My favorite is still the one with the three brothers and the mom under the bed. As Napolean Dynamite would say, "GR-OSS!"
And for pete's sake, don't do it from home or work.
Go to the library. Or the local community college--the one near us has open labs throughout the building.
Fill out the web form and be as pissy as you want. And when Spammers R Us decide to get huffy, they can take up their problem with localcc.edu instead of you. And just exactly where are they going to go from there?
Heck, make up the information you provide, of course. For a required e-mail address you might try "info@atriks.com" or something like that. Just a suggestion...
Why use invisible proxy servers (whatever the heck those are) when you can just go use a publicly available computer to send nasty replies from! Go ahead, grab my IP address!