No I don't believe that college is only for getting a job but why should people have to do stuff like read Joyce that are unrelated to a job or life? I must not have phrased myself properly. Unfortunately I'm not that good at communicating through words.
As I said if you want to read it fine but if you don't then you are cheating for a class you don't want nor need. Why would you not read it if you want to? I do know that even though thinking has to be done by students if you don't want to take the class you most likely won't "think" anyways. I know when I had to do stuff I didn't want I just "got it done" without learning much. When I wanted to do it I paid attention.
I saw a related quote a while ago. It's says something like, "Even the most interesting book can be made boring by having the teacher assign it to homework." If you want to read it you will if you don't assigning it won't help, at least not for many people.
About "right" and "write" I made a mistake. Nobody is perfect. At least I don't write in l337 speak. Considering that was one of two mistakes, that I know of, before spell-checking I think I did really well.
Maybe I don't understand but why would someone take a class where they had to right a paper on Joyce? What purpose would the paper have? How would it help them later in life? If I can read a complicated book and write down what other people through history have said how will that help me with organic chemistry? If the degree has makes that class of "skill" useful but people are cheating anyways maybe that a problem with the system that makes grades more important than learning.
I still use 4.7 because it is the only good browser that works on 95. All others are slow or crash or don't work well with me for some other reason. Yes it has some problems but IMO it has the least of all I tried. On 98 or XP maybe not but on 95 it is true. And I've tried IE, Firefox, Opera, NS6 and Mozilla. That's the good thing about an old program. They generally have less of a footprint and their less options make it run better in some cases. I even use Notepad for some things, but not all, for a similar reason. Since the only problem, beyond rare crashes that [b]every[/b] program has, is inperfect CSS I use it. It is stable, does mostly what I want, and comes up quickly. Basically any problems others have had with 4.7 I have had with all other browsers. In fact I am using it right now.
For an offtopic, except for the word weasel, but funny comment it's a sad state of affairs with/. that gets it at least a +4.
Oh well. I'm going to visit my bestest friend TV.
At least it's a Simpsons comment. You can't go wrong with those. with 300 episodes allows a comment for everything.
I've always wondered why they measure it in meteors per hour. Why not seconds per meteor? I would rather know on average how long til the next one. Hopefully it will be clear here. Western NY does seem to have clouds though. At least I got to the Venus' transit clearly.
Such as the keys on his keyboards. I am wondering what kind of data he has that he wants all that. Unless it is free or he is testing it. I have all kinds of weird data, though most harmless, on my PC. AFAIK noone has hacked or virused is away.
The problem with reviews isn't that they are opinions but that they seem to be facts. Many reviewers and critics make it look like a movie or game or book really is bad rather than they just think it's bad. I personally don't look at reviews because the opinions are so ubiquitous that I the "facts" become meaning less. If I like it I like it. What others think is irrelevant.
Many countries often say screw you. Unfortunately they are the countries that have limited personal rights like Iran. I doubt Iran is going overboard to comply with US copyright and other laws. I wish there was a magical country that had good IP and person freedoms. But that doesn't exist now. Well actually Antarctica doesn't have bad either but it also has limited food and luxuries of most kinds. You stand a better chance of reversing the laws of thermodynamics than getting a good country. I do agree that a major country won't do it though. Unless you are the king of England and we don't know it.
I just saw the cost of the Sears Tower to be over 150 million. In other words the solar panels would be 25% of the total cost. It could be efficient but it still makes you think or at least me.
First I'll give you a hint. Never hire me and if you see me at a company you can fire me without legal recourse from me. I actually gave up a job because of stupid, IMO, conventions.
Let's say you bosses say I want indents to be 70 spaces. would you find that reasonable? What if there was no chance of you changing their opinion, would you quit or enforce in anyways or just ignore it? That's the problem with conventions, they do help with consistency but if they are incompatible with someone that person, perhaps the best coder ever, can't work there.
I guess the best way is to use some sort of IDE or something modern that allows the person to change it to their liking. Similar to the "indents are x spaces" in many editors. Only they would see it "wrongly" but it would be better to them. How it is stored in CVS or what the compiler sees would then become irrelevant.
About you "voting room." What if out of 100 coders 90 want 1 style and 10 another? Should the 10 get screwed for the "good of the team." Democracy doesn't work for everything.
As the others said anti-photons are indistinguishable form regular types but even if they weren't the anti-photons would only annihilate photons, not the mass in our eyes.
... 3 billionths of a Joule.
...3000 kJ/s ... 7 thousandths of a kilo of gas per second
Isn't that the same is 1 nanojoule, 1 mJ/s, and 1 gram per sec of gasoline? What good is the Metric system if you don't combine thousandths of kilograms to get grams?
I don't have a boring game per se but some RPG's can be interesting. In FF1, for example, much of the game was level building. Just walking around killing for XP. in FF2/4 though that isn't needed at all. Now the rest of FF1 was good so I don't think of it as too boring but many games almost try to have stuff like that. Basically unavoidable situations that are virtually identical to a thousand others make for a boring game. Really early games such as those for Atari were often like that because they couldn't put in much.
Don't worry. In my eyes they are all winners. It's like the person playing with his gun and accidently shoots himself. But he misses and survives so can't be a "Darwin Award" recipient. You either make it closed to 1984 or you don't.
This is so offtopic but I think of James Earl Jones as the white Wilford Brimly and vice versa. Others may not though. I really don't know why either. In your case does those two act similarly or have similary characters in movies?
Actually Gates is the Edison of software. Many things Edison patented were only partly from Edison himself and mostly from his workers. Same with Gates and MS employees. And just like Edison Gates did do a few things himself though most was from his company/research lab.
Has anyone noticed that the site actually prevents non win98/nt/xp/me/ie4 from viewing it. It doesn't just not work it actually is prevented. It smells like discrimination to me. OF course/.ers won't think so because they acn change. But then/.ers are wrong and stupid.
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It is informative in that I didn't know that but it isn't in that most people use them as synonyms. Hence, I.E.?, they are the same. What they meant in Latin is irrelevant. How people use them is important. Anytime a grammarian "complains" about incorrect usage they should first see if a large enough, perhaps a millions people, use it wrongly. If they do then wrong becomes right. If ironic originally dealt with unexpectedness but people don't know that then it really does mean unluckelyness. In a living language words can come and go within a few years even.
That's not that strange. Many TV shows have ads at 10, 20 and so forth minutes past the hour. I can't remember the number of times I am watching the news and then there is an ad. So I switch since I don't want to watch ads. Ach, ads on all news channels. I guess I will switch to a sitcom 'til their ad comes and all sitcoms have ads. Then back to news. I doubt people in offices want to go from classical to rock to rap to pop then back to Bach after each couple of songs though.
I once heard that if you are thirsty and you have a chance to drink your own urine don't drink it. Supposedly urine is worse than no water at all. Can anyone corroborate this or prove it false?
I didn't read the article, that's assumed, but other posters said that it is really a filter that can change urine or dirty water into fresh. So it looks like this who story is only a about a "cloth" that works as a good filter. No one is really drinking urine.
It does remind me of Dune, the movie, not the book, about the suit where it extracted urine and sweat to allow 100% water output to become drinkable. This is kind of like that.
It's kind of off topic but in third grade my teacher tried to get the class off the generic words "run" and "said." Those do have more emotion than news would like but do you want fifty copies of "said" in each article or a variety of words?
Actually a better analogy would be if someone found a way to use attach an ordinary pencil to a semi to make it a full-auto. Illegalizing pencils would obviously still be wrong to do. The act of moding the gun or using or owning it might be wrong but the owning of the pencil is not. Plus the modchips can be used for "good" to allow people to play their own non-copyrighted games.
I don't ever have to worry about that problem. I just have one name, Paul. There are no shortened or lengthened versions. No nicknames. No other pronunciations or spellings. Just one. It's actually odd because since I never had any other versions I can't really relate to people responding to both Jim and James for example.
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No I don't believe that college is only for getting a job but why should people have to do stuff like read Joyce that are unrelated to a job or life? I must not have phrased myself properly. Unfortunately I'm not that good at communicating through words.
As I said if you want to read it fine but if you don't then you are cheating for a class you don't want nor need. Why would you not read it if you want to? I do know that even though thinking has to be done by students if you don't want to take the class you most likely won't "think" anyways. I know when I had to do stuff I didn't want I just "got it done" without learning much. When I wanted to do it I paid attention.
I saw a related quote a while ago. It's says something like, "Even the most interesting book can be made boring by having the teacher assign it to homework." If you want to read it you will if you don't assigning it won't help, at least not for many people.
About "right" and "write" I made a mistake. Nobody is perfect. At least I don't write in l337 speak.
Considering that was one of two mistakes, that I know of, before spell-checking I think I did really well.
Maybe I don't understand but why would someone take a class where they had to right a paper on Joyce? What purpose would the paper have? How would it help them later in life? If I can read a complicated book and write down what other people through history have said how will that help me with organic chemistry? If the degree has makes that class of "skill" useful but people are cheating anyways maybe that a problem with the system that makes grades more important than learning.
I still use 4.7 because it is the only good browser that works on 95. All others are slow or crash or don't work well with me for some other reason. Yes it has some problems but IMO it has the least of all I tried. On 98 or XP maybe not but on 95 it is true. And I've tried IE, Firefox, Opera, NS6 and Mozilla. That's the good thing about an old program. They generally have less of a footprint and their less options make it run better in some cases. I even use Notepad for some things, but not all, for a similar reason. Since the only problem, beyond rare crashes that [b]every[/b] program has, is inperfect CSS I use it. It is stable, does mostly what I want, and comes up quickly. Basically any problems others have had with 4.7 I have had with all other browsers. In fact I am using it right now.
For an offtopic, except for the word weasel, but funny comment it's a sad state of affairs with /. that gets it at least a +4.
Oh well. I'm going to visit my bestest friend TV.
At least it's a Simpsons comment. You can't go wrong with those. with 300 episodes allows a comment for everything.
I've always wondered why they measure it in meteors per hour. Why not seconds per meteor? I would rather know on average how long til the next one.
Hopefully it will be clear here. Western NY does seem to have clouds though. At least I got to the Venus' transit clearly.
Such as the keys on his keyboards. I am wondering what kind of data he has that he wants all that. Unless it is free or he is testing it. I have all kinds of weird data, though most harmless, on my PC. AFAIK noone has hacked or virused is away.
The problem with reviews isn't that they are opinions but that they seem to be facts. Many reviewers and critics make it look like a movie or game or book really is bad rather than they just think it's bad. I personally don't look at reviews because the opinions are so ubiquitous that I the "facts" become meaning less. If I like it I like it. What others think is irrelevant.
Many countries often say screw you. Unfortunately they are the countries that have limited personal rights like Iran. I doubt Iran is going overboard to comply with US copyright and other laws. I wish there was a magical country that had good IP and person freedoms. But that doesn't exist now. Well actually Antarctica doesn't have bad either but it also has limited food and luxuries of most kinds. You stand a better chance of reversing the laws of thermodynamics than getting a good country. I do agree that a major country won't do it though. Unless you are the king of England and we don't know it.
I just saw the cost of the Sears Tower to be over 150 million. In other words the solar panels would be 25% of the total cost. It could be efficient but it still makes you think or at least me.
First I'll give you a hint. Never hire me and if you see me at a company you can fire me without legal recourse from me. I actually gave up a job because of stupid, IMO, conventions.
Let's say you bosses say I want indents to be 70 spaces. would you find that reasonable? What if there was no chance of you changing their opinion, would you quit or enforce in anyways or just ignore it? That's the problem with conventions, they do help with consistency but if they are incompatible with someone that person, perhaps the best coder ever, can't work there.
I guess the best way is to use some sort of IDE or something modern that allows the person to change it to their liking. Similar to the "indents are x spaces" in many editors. Only they would see it "wrongly" but it would be better to them. How it is stored in CVS or what the compiler sees would then become irrelevant.
About you "voting room." What if out of 100 coders 90 want 1 style and 10 another? Should the 10 get screwed for the "good of the team." Democracy doesn't work for everything.
As the others said anti-photons are indistinguishable form regular types but even if they weren't the anti-photons would only annihilate photons, not the mass in our eyes.
I don't have a boring game per se but some RPG's can be interesting. In FF1, for example, much of the game was level building. Just walking around killing for XP. in FF2/4 though that isn't needed at all. Now the rest of FF1 was good so I don't think of it as too boring but many games almost try to have stuff like that.
Basically unavoidable situations that are virtually identical to a thousand others make for a boring game. Really early games such as those for Atari were often like that because they couldn't put in much.
I thought Congress was actually thinking of bills that would prevent gun makers from being sued for that reason. Exactly opposite of the P2P fiasco.
Don't worry. In my eyes they are all winners. It's like the person playing with his gun and accidently shoots himself. But he misses and survives so can't be a "Darwin Award" recipient. You either make it closed to 1984 or you don't.
This is so offtopic but I think of James Earl Jones as the white Wilford Brimly and vice versa. Others may not though. I really don't know why either. In your case does those two act similarly or have similary characters in movies?
Actually Gates is the Edison of software. Many things Edison patented were only partly from Edison himself and mostly from his workers. Same with Gates and MS employees. And just like Edison Gates did do a few things himself though most was from his company/research lab.
Has anyone noticed that the site actually prevents non win98/nt/xp/me/ie4 from viewing it. It doesn't just not work it actually is prevented. It smells like discrimination to me. OF course /.ers won't think so because they acn change. But then /.ers are wrong and stupid.
Hint mod this down so I don't have excelent karma and get more mod points.
It is informative in that I didn't know that but it isn't in that most people use them as synonyms. Hence, I.E.?, they are the same. What they meant in Latin is irrelevant. How people use them is important. Anytime a grammarian "complains" about incorrect usage they should first see if a large enough, perhaps a millions people, use it wrongly. If they do then wrong becomes right. If ironic originally dealt with unexpectedness but people don't know that then it really does mean unluckelyness. In a living language words can come and go within a few years even.
That's not that strange. Many TV shows have ads at 10, 20 and so forth minutes past the hour. I can't remember the number of times I am watching the news and then there is an ad. So I switch since I don't want to watch ads. Ach, ads on all news channels. I guess I will switch to a sitcom 'til their ad comes and all sitcoms have ads. Then back to news. I doubt people in offices want to go from classical to rock to rap to pop then back to Bach after each couple of songs though.
I once heard that if you are thirsty and you have a chance to drink your own urine don't drink it. Supposedly urine is worse than no water at all. Can anyone corroborate this or prove it false? I didn't read the article, that's assumed, but other posters said that it is really a filter that can change urine or dirty water into fresh. So it looks like this who story is only a about a "cloth" that works as a good filter. No one is really drinking urine. It does remind me of Dune, the movie, not the book, about the suit where it extracted urine and sweat to allow 100% water output to become drinkable. This is kind of like that.
It's kind of off topic but in third grade my teacher tried to get the class off the generic words "run" and "said." Those do have more emotion than news would like but do you want fifty copies of "said" in each article or a variety of words?
Actually a better analogy would be if someone found a way to use attach an ordinary pencil to a semi to make it a full-auto. Illegalizing pencils would obviously still be wrong to do. The act of moding the gun or using or owning it might be wrong but the owning of the pencil is not. Plus the modchips can be used for "good" to allow people to play their own non-copyrighted games.
I don't ever have to worry about that problem. I just have one name, Paul. There are no shortened or lengthened versions. No nicknames. No other pronunciations or spellings. Just one. It's actually odd because since I never had any other versions I can't really relate to people responding to both Jim and James for example.
Maybe I'm outmoded but why does everyone think tabs are better then tasks? I use different tasks for each session instead of tabs and it works fine.