Granted, javascript gets dissed cause its client side and the clients don't always agree on how things should work. Make it a server side content delivery lang and then we'll talk.
No, No, and dear God No. Fox pro deserved to die. It never deserved to live. MS would have done everyone a favor by not releasing any updates for it. In fact, that was there plan. They wanted some technology that was inside fox pro, which they then added to SQL Server. But FoxPro was terrible. After the popular outcry of people who didn't want to move to something better like oracle, or Sql Server, they decided to continue developing it. Several times they would poll the user base to see if they wanted to make it better by dropping its crappier parts. Every freaking time they responded that they liked the terrible parts, so MS did everything it could to make it modern, but still compatible with dbase III. VB + access was always better than foxpro. Moderate as you will, but I will not have someone fawn over foxpro here, unchallenged. And yes, I did a very happy dance the day I heard MS had End of Lifed the beast.
As we all learned from Jurrasic Park, DNA is a hard thing to control.
No, I didn't learn my genetics form Jurassic Park. I learned it from my professors in the Biology Department. But that was mostly because even after watching all three films, Steven Spielberg refused to give me a diploma or a refund.
In this analogy, the Game itself is not the art, but the medium. The sequence of actions you perform within a game may be art. In the same sense that the rumble in the jungle might be considered art, but boxing in its self cannot be.
I read Cmdr Taco's rant an hour before lunch today and all I could think about was wanting to eat tacos. He should get an endorsement deal with Taco Bell. The other ads on slashdot don't really hit home. I've never clicked on them, but if there was an add for savings from taco bell or some kind of food, I'd be much more likely to. Think about it, all nerds have to eat. And just about all nerds want to eat quickly to resume what with the coding and such. He could even endorse a line of Taco accessories. Think of a taco stand that would hold the taco for you allowing you to continue surfing the web, playing games, while enjoying a wonderful seasoned taco. It should be adjustable for burritos, and have wireless connectivity to award karma points and/or increase mod point probability for use. While I'm at it, it should also reward Bill, Shooter of Bull a penny per use (and / or free taco depending on the current hunger/bank account ratio) for devising the plan.
Good point. I agree they shouldn't have exonerated Cisco, but you have to keep in mind the Denial of service angle. You can very well destroy all wireless network activity with enough noise at the right frequency. There really is no defense for that.
I must admit I've worked on a few. One was 1 mill with all of the options. It was originally written in HP basic in the late seventies. It had been written by an engineer who had a basic grasp of writing code. He didn't like to have code that wasn't used a couple of times. So to support that noble goal, there was a liberal usage of goto's. Apparently it did things that no one else knew how to do, so it was worth it to the engineering depts of some large companies.
I removed the goto's one summer and turned it into a simple vb project.
So, yeah when there is no competition, it doesn't make much sense to update code thats difficult to update.
While there is nothing immoral in the pictures, but part of the sin lies in the objectification or women. If you're still objectifying them, its still wrong.
Half flame, half interesting? Well I apologize if it sounded like a flame. I don't like monopolies of any sort. Its not your fault, nor is it Comcast's fault unnecessarily. The cable industry grew up having monopolies for specific areas, and they are products of that business environment. I optimistically look forward to a future, where that is not the case.
Your company just got a huge helping dose of bad publicity from an influential market sector, all because you were too lazy to update a simple webpage. Granted, as of now there isn't much choice when it comes to choosing an isp or cable company, just as ten years ago there wasn't much of a choice other than AOL. Well, time and technology change fast, don't be too surprised when we have a choice we'll head for the exits in droves. Right now, I'm actively looking at a place to live that will allow me to use a decent ISP other than Comcast, because of your insane policies.
true enough. We should just come up with a new word that means the old thing. Hack is a type of saw, and I can see some 'hacks' that could be accomplished by it. However, much cooler 'hacks' could be made with a chain saw. So I now consider myself to be a chainer. Then there would be no confusion when talking about unorthodox modifications to subprocess prior to termination, or colloquially, After the children have been forked, you have to chain them before you kill them. Duh.
# 3 doesn't make much sense. If Europe actually puts together a working system, there will be, as you pointed out a large amount of red tape and argument about the running of it. Shutting it down, would take everyone involved cooperating together, which as you pointed out is unlikely and time consuming.
Might be talking about stoned monkey B we had it going around the school lab. We used f-prot for dos to get rid of it but every now and then someone would use a disk that had it and it would be back on every computer.
BeOs had no support for a multi user environment. People complain about the hardware support, but BeOs 5 PE supported all of the hardware I had Including a tv tuner that win 98 really didn't support very well. Much better support than I could find from Linux at the time ( circa 1999-2000 ). Again lack of software was a downer. I didn't have the gobe office suite, so I still had to use windows for office 97. I loved net surf browser and its haiku error messages. It made its lack of support for html fun.
Thats a good list, but I would add a third. 3) Failure to define the problem space/ failure to refactor
If you are using the agile programming approach in a haphazard way, or even if you are using a waterfall in a rapidly changing, unpredictable area of problems. You design your code to do what it needs to do in the most efficient way possible to do what needs to be done now, without worrying about what might happen in six months.
Sometimes six months later the basic assumptions you made turn upside down and you have to make it work NOW. so you write complicated ugly code to make it work, and plan on refactoring it later. Then later never happens, because it doesn't need to be changed because it just works.
I did and thats why I go a C in English, because, ironically, my English teacher wouldn't accept the English spellings of words that my cheap o spell checker changed the USA spellings to ( color to colour, tire to tyre, meter to metre, ect).
Yeah, I keep it exclusive. You've got to complete a 3 page off line application with supporting letters written by two friends already accepted. Got to keep the riff raff out you know.
It was funny the first time I made it when the iphone was still just a rumor. But you're right, its so lame now. I'd much rather here a thousand " In soviet Russia phone, I's You" jokes than another iphone shuffle joke. Its dead, like all of the people in korea that still use email. Give it a rest slashdot, beating it to death won't make this one any funnier.
By teaching them through our own personal behavior, and teaching them morality. We can't expect everyone to be perfect or even good, but that doesn't mean that they or we should stop trying. And when we screw up, we have to admit it and try to improve rather than just justifying it by blaming everyone else, or pointing out examples of other people who have done similar things. In other words we must take responsibility for our own actions, as well as holding other people responsible for theirs.
just my $.02 , but I have the feeling its worth a lot more than that. Like almost a dollar or so, depending on the exchange rate.
was connecting at 300 baud to a modem by making funny nosies on the phone to it. I sang a sweet melody that reminded it of its birth place in Taiwan and it opened its 300 baud bosom unto me. After the transmission of data, we smoked American cigarettes that reminded us of cowboys and liquid metal. And I knew that day, that I was a boy no longer, but a Man.
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Granted, javascript gets dissed cause its client side and the clients don't always agree on how things should work. Make it a server side content delivery lang and then we'll talk.
No, No, and dear God No. Fox pro deserved to die. It never deserved to live. MS would have done everyone a favor by not releasing any updates for it. In fact, that was there plan. They wanted some technology that was inside fox pro, which they then added to SQL Server. But FoxPro was terrible. After the popular outcry of people who didn't want to move to something better like oracle, or Sql Server, they decided to continue developing it. Several times they would poll the user base to see if they wanted to make it better by dropping its crappier parts. Every freaking time they responded that they liked the terrible parts, so MS did everything it could to make it modern, but still compatible with dbase III. VB + access was always better than foxpro. Moderate as you will, but I will not have someone fawn over foxpro here, unchallenged. And yes, I did a very happy dance the day I heard MS had End of Lifed the beast.
As we all learned from Jurrasic Park, DNA is a hard thing to control.
No, I didn't learn my genetics form Jurassic Park. I learned it from my professors in the Biology Department. But that was mostly because even after watching all three films, Steven Spielberg refused to give me a diploma or a refund.
In this analogy, the Game itself is not the art, but the medium. The sequence of actions you perform within a game may be art. In the same sense that the rumble in the jungle might be considered art, but boxing in its self cannot be.
I read Cmdr Taco's rant an hour before lunch today and all I could think about was wanting to eat tacos. He should get an endorsement deal with Taco Bell. The other ads on slashdot don't really hit home. I've never clicked on them, but if there was an add for savings from taco bell or some kind of food, I'd be much more likely to. Think about it, all nerds have to eat. And just about all nerds want to eat quickly to resume what with the coding and such. He could even endorse a line of Taco accessories. Think of a taco stand that would hold the taco for you allowing you to continue surfing the web, playing games, while enjoying a wonderful seasoned taco. It should be adjustable for burritos, and have wireless connectivity to award karma points and /or increase mod point probability for use. While I'm at it, it should also reward Bill, Shooter of Bull a penny per use (and / or free taco depending on the current hunger/bank account ratio) for devising the plan.
Good point. I agree they shouldn't have exonerated Cisco, but you have to keep in mind the Denial of service angle. You can very well destroy all wireless network activity with enough noise at the right frequency. There really is no defense for that.
free will, def:
The ability to question the existence of the soul and doubt free will.
I must admit I've worked on a few. One was 1 mill with all of the options. It was originally written in HP basic in the late seventies. It had been written by an engineer who had a basic grasp of writing code. He didn't like to have code that wasn't used a couple of times. So to support that noble goal, there was a liberal usage of goto's. Apparently it did things that no one else knew how to do, so it was worth it to the engineering depts of some large companies.
I removed the goto's one summer and turned it into a simple vb project.
So, yeah when there is no competition, it doesn't make much sense to update code thats difficult to update.
Its not that they aren't objects, but there also more than objects. You know, endowed with a soul and free will.
While there is nothing immoral in the pictures, but part of the sin lies in the objectification or women. If you're still objectifying them, its still wrong.
brought to you by the local morality guide.
Half flame, half interesting? Well I apologize if it sounded like a flame. I don't like monopolies of any sort. Its not your fault, nor is it Comcast's fault unnecessarily. The cable industry grew up having monopolies for specific areas, and they are products of that business environment. I optimistically look forward to a future, where that is not the case.
Your company just got a huge helping dose of bad publicity from an influential market sector, all because you were too lazy to update a simple webpage. Granted, as of now there isn't much choice when it comes to choosing an isp or cable company, just as ten years ago there wasn't much of a choice other than AOL. Well, time and technology change fast, don't be too surprised when we have a choice we'll head for the exits in droves. Right now, I'm actively looking at a place to live that will allow me to use a decent ISP other than Comcast, because of your insane policies.
true enough. We should just come up with a new word that means the old thing. Hack is a type of saw, and I can see some 'hacks' that could be accomplished by it. However, much cooler 'hacks' could be made with a chain saw. So I now consider myself to be a chainer. Then there would be no confusion when talking about unorthodox modifications to subprocess prior to termination, or colloquially, After the children have been forked, you have to chain them before you kill them. Duh.
# 3 doesn't make much sense. If Europe actually puts together a working system, there will be, as you pointed out a large amount of red tape and argument about the running of it. Shutting it down, would take everyone involved cooperating together, which as you pointed out is unlikely and time consuming.
Might be talking about stoned monkey B we had it going around the school lab. We used f-prot for dos to get rid of it but every now and then someone would use a disk that had it and it would be back on every computer.
BeOs had no support for a multi user environment. People complain about the hardware support, but BeOs 5 PE supported all of the hardware I had Including a tv tuner that win 98 really didn't support very well. Much better support than I could find from Linux at the time ( circa 1999-2000 ). Again lack of software was a downer. I didn't have the gobe office suite, so I still had to use windows for office 97. I loved net surf browser and its haiku error messages. It made its lack of support for html fun.
Thats a good list, but I would add a third.
3) Failure to define the problem space/ failure to refactor
If you are using the agile programming approach in a haphazard way, or even if you are using a waterfall in a rapidly changing, unpredictable area of problems. You design your code to do what it needs to do in the most efficient way possible to do what needs to be done now, without worrying about what might happen in six months.
Sometimes six months later the basic assumptions you made turn upside down and you have to make it work NOW. so you write complicated ugly code to make it work, and plan on refactoring it later. Then later never happens, because it doesn't need to be changed because it just works.
* We trust our spell checkers to check properly
I did and thats why I go a C in English, because, ironically, my English teacher wouldn't accept the English spellings of words that my cheap o spell checker changed the USA spellings to ( color to colour, tire to tyre, meter to metre, ect).
Yeah, I keep it exclusive. You've got to complete a 3 page off line application with supporting letters written by two friends already accepted. Got to keep the riff raff out you know.
It was funny the first time I made it when the iphone was still just a rumor. But you're right, its so lame now. I'd much rather here a thousand " In soviet Russia phone, I's You" jokes than another iphone shuffle joke. Its dead, like all of the people in korea that still use email. Give it a rest slashdot, beating it to death won't make this one any funnier.
How do we prepare our youth for their adult lives
By teaching them through our own personal behavior, and teaching them morality. We can't expect everyone to be perfect or even good, but that doesn't mean that they or we should stop trying. And when we screw up, we have to admit it and try to improve rather than just justifying it by blaming everyone else, or pointing out examples of other people who have done similar things. In other words we must take responsibility for our own actions, as well as holding other people responsible for theirs.
just my $.02 , but I have the feeling its worth a lot more than that. Like almost a dollar or so, depending on the exchange rate.
No, I'm cool, I can do the fandango.
Well, yes you are young. Perhaps a better definition for you would go thusly:
If it takes Chuck Norris a round house kick to destroy, instead of a simple side kick, then its a mainframe.
He does have kind words about open bsd. ... Sometimes.
was connecting at 300 baud to a modem by making funny nosies on the phone to it. I sang a sweet melody that reminded it of its birth place in Taiwan and it opened its 300 baud bosom unto me. After the transmission of data, we smoked American cigarettes that reminded us of cowboys and liquid metal. And I knew that day, that I was a boy no longer, but a Man.