I think you may be missing my point. Sure,/. propagated the hearsay, but because many of the people we read about in these articles read and post here, we get to read what they have to say without being filetered by anyone.
I'm not saying this place doesn't have some serious faults, but having the subject of the news story in question participating in the discussion of it goes a long way in making those faults more tolerable. Now, there's no hearsay. You're hearing from Rasmus the man himself, not a news article about him.
""Good" and "bad" languages are highly subjective, not some kind of universal objective truth. If you like a language that clearly embraces any particular model of programming, PHPs kitchen-sink approach won't have much appeal."
You speak the truth. I believe that when we start talking about languages in this context, we should all be reading an implied "in my opinion" in front of it. That's why I poked gentle fun at his sig. This is all in the area of developer/design preferences.
Except for COBOL. That language objectively sucks.;-)
"Not really, it just piles new debatable stuff on top of the old crap. "
No argument there, but you just can't deprecate everything overnight either.
"Especially since the aforementioned model has been ripped straight from Java"
Yeah, I'd like to see PHP's object model more closely emulate Python's. But take that with a grain of salt: I'm one of those Python bigots.:-)
I think I can be a little more charitable towards PHP, because I started working in IT in an era where it was called DP, and I've seen the COBOL and RPG elephants. *shudder* PHP starts to look really good after you've worked with those eldritch horrors.:-)
Posts such as these is why I keep reading the 'Dot. It's not uncommon to wind up hearing things right from the horse's mouth, instead of hearsay of hearsay.
PHP5 is actually a halfway decent language... the problem is many web hosts don't have it installed yet and there's a huge body of legacy PHP code that doesn't take advantage of it.
But you'd probaby still hate it, since you're one of those Smalltalk bigots.:-)
Remember also that Doom 3 (as is the case with most (all?) the big games) was written by a team, and requires much more than software development talent: Programmers, writers, designers, artists, musicians and composers all contribute to the finished project, and a single person with top-flight talent in even two of these categories is unusual, much less in all of them. Beckham might be the best football player in the universe, but I think he'd have a hard time winning by himself against a full team of average talent 13 year olds.
"Just think how much faster I'll be able to play games and watch movies on my HDTV!"
Downloading 100 times faster than my 28.8 modem and having it only cost 10 bucks more a month than my dialup ISP + 2nd phone line was way more compelling in 1999 than shelling out thousands of dollars to get a two to threefold resolution improvement with HDTV+(Bluray/HDDVD) over what I have now. Ten bucks times twelve months times seven years doesn't add up to even a thousand dollars yet! Plus, it was an investment that gave back by letting me work from home more often, saving me gas, time driving, and a better overall quality of life.
Other than seeing a prettier picture (and it *is* pretty, I'll give you that), where's the compulsion/justification to spend this kind of money? I had a DVD player (a 5-disk changer, even!) and 5.1 Dolby Digital in 1998, so if I'm not an early adopter, I'm pretty darn close. Perhaps I am just insufficiently neophilic.
Yes, plus the Earth doesn't really like being anthropomorphized all that much, so if you won't stop for environmental science, stop for the sake of Earth's feelings.
Not a lawyer, but could someone explain to me how if my credit report has negative but false information it, the credit bureaus are not guilty of libel, slander, and/or defamation of character?
You're on to something here. I'm not so sure about the leet-speak portion, but animations in general.
In "Brain Age" for the DS, there's one test in there that shows a bunch of numbers in different colors, some are stationary, some pulse, and some slide. It then ask questions like "How many red numbers?"[1], "How many sliding numbers?", "How many 7s?" et cetera. Something like this could be adapted (along with the timeouts and IP resrictions you suggested). An AI would have to be much more complex to solve them, and it can take a human a few seconds to solve the tougher ones. Require two or three to register and then one or two for the first 5 to 10 posts.
[1] About 10% of males are color blind, so this perhaps is not so good. But, a good captcha system should have an alternate method of contacting a flesh and blood human for those with visual diabilities who can't see them, or for those with motor skill issues who can't complete a captcha in the time frame.
"That means that those countries will be reducing their emissions to 55% of their 1990 levels."
Or buying credits from other countries (usually less developed) to keep on pumping out carbon in excess of that.
I am not a climate change denier, and I'm pretty certain that the human race contributed more than our fair share to the problem, but it seems to me from my reading of treaty is mostly money will be shuffling around from big polluters to low polluters, without much actual change in the planetary greenhouse gas levels. I hope I'm wrong though. Time will tell.
Of course, there's something to be said for developing on a web server across the internet...you figure out pretty quickly when people do bonehead things like generate a 50MByte image to use as an icon with the width and height set, and it gives you a fair estimate of what your end-user experience might be. If it's painful to test, it might be painful to use.
You are confusing what finally pushed the levees to fail as the only possible thing that could have caused the levees to fail. Are you suggesting that without storm surge the levees could not fail under any circumstances, especially with what we know of the condition of the levee system in NOLA? Are you also suggesting that large amounts of rainfall will not affect the level of the water in the levee system? There's a bit of emipirical data to refute that, you know.:-)
I should have said "could've" instead of "would've", but there's more to the pressure on the levees than storm surge.
"His deliberate neglect has more or less wiped one whole American city right off the map."
I do not come to defend Bush, because I can't stand the guy, but The Corps of Engineers admit the failure was theirs. The levee system in and around New Orleans was in a sad state of disrepair prior to Katrina, and it could be argued that Katrina saved lives by busting up the levees when many were already evacuated.
Could you imagine the nightmare that would've ensued from a garden variety severe thunderstorm at high tide in the middle of the night causing a levee rupture? No warning, no news coverage, many people asleep... the death toll could've been 10x higher.
I've had good luck with Yahoo's geocoding services. At the time I mucked with this stuff, Google had not yet put up their geocoding service.
The big problem I have with Google maps is the API uses TeleAtlas in my area which is verging on 10 years out of date, but going to maps.google.com, my area is using NAVTEQ data, which is fairly current. It's possibly a licensing issue, but it's damned annoying to have whole major highways missing in my app.
"What I really want to know is who the fucker is who deliberately pees all over the toilet seat and floor at work. I know people might hate their job and feel frustration, but is there any reason to take it out on everybody else?"
I think I'll trade you for the fucker at my office that picks his nose and wipes the boogers all over the tiles above the urinal... Yecch.
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I think you may be missing my point. Sure, /. propagated the hearsay, but because many of the people we read about in these articles read and post here, we get to read what they have to say without being filetered by anyone.
I'm not saying this place doesn't have some serious faults, but having the subject of the news story in question participating in the discussion of it goes a long way in making those faults more tolerable. Now, there's no hearsay. You're hearing from Rasmus the man himself, not a news article about him.
""Good" and "bad" languages are highly subjective, not some kind of universal objective truth. If you like a language that clearly embraces any particular model of programming, PHPs kitchen-sink approach won't have much appeal."
You speak the truth. I believe that when we start talking about languages in this context, we should all be reading an implied "in my opinion" in front of it. That's why I poked gentle fun at his sig. This is all in the area of developer/design preferences.
Except for COBOL. That language objectively sucks. ;-)
"Not really, it just piles new debatable stuff on top of the old crap. "
No argument there, but you just can't deprecate everything overnight either.
"Especially since the aforementioned model has been ripped straight from Java"
Yeah, I'd like to see PHP's object model more closely emulate Python's. But take that with a grain of salt: I'm one of those Python bigots. :-)
I think I can be a little more charitable towards PHP, because I started working in IT in an era where it was called DP, and I've seen the COBOL and RPG elephants. *shudder* PHP starts to look really good after you've worked with those eldritch horrors. :-)
Posts such as these is why I keep reading the 'Dot. It's not uncommon to wind up hearing things right from the horse's mouth, instead of hearsay of hearsay.
PHP5 is actually a halfway decent language... the problem is many web hosts don't have it installed yet and there's a huge body of legacy PHP code that doesn't take advantage of it.
But you'd probaby still hate it, since you're one of those Smalltalk bigots. :-)
We only had ones because the zeros were too fat to fit through our tiny wires.
Remember also that Doom 3 (as is the case with most (all?) the big games) was written by a team, and requires much more than software development talent: Programmers, writers, designers, artists, musicians and composers all contribute to the finished project, and a single person with top-flight talent in even two of these categories is unusual, much less in all of them. Beckham might be the best football player in the universe, but I think he'd have a hard time winning by himself against a full team of average talent 13 year olds.
Another place where the analogy breaks down...
"Just think how much faster I'll be able to play games and watch movies on my HDTV!"
Downloading 100 times faster than my 28.8 modem and having it only cost 10 bucks more a month than my dialup ISP + 2nd phone line was way more compelling in 1999 than shelling out thousands of dollars to get a two to threefold resolution improvement with HDTV+(Bluray/HDDVD) over what I have now. Ten bucks times twelve months times seven years doesn't add up to even a thousand dollars yet! Plus, it was an investment that gave back by letting me work from home more often, saving me gas, time driving, and a better overall quality of life.
Other than seeing a prettier picture (and it *is* pretty, I'll give you that), where's the compulsion/justification to spend this kind of money? I had a DVD player (a 5-disk changer, even!) and 5.1 Dolby Digital in 1998, so if I'm not an early adopter, I'm pretty darn close. Perhaps I am just insufficiently neophilic.
Yes, plus the Earth doesn't really like being anthropomorphized all that much, so if you won't stop for environmental science, stop for the sake of Earth's feelings.
Not a lawyer, but could someone explain to me how if my credit report has negative but false information it, the credit bureaus are not guilty of libel, slander, and/or defamation of character?
Don't apologize! I'm right there with you.
Heil Grammar!
You're on to something here. I'm not so sure about the leet-speak portion, but animations in general.
In "Brain Age" for the DS, there's one test in there that shows a bunch of numbers in different colors, some are stationary, some pulse, and some slide. It then ask questions like "How many red numbers?"[1], "How many sliding numbers?", "How many 7s?" et cetera. Something like this could be adapted (along with the timeouts and IP resrictions you suggested). An AI would have to be much more complex to solve them, and it can take a human a few seconds to solve the tougher ones. Require two or three to register and then one or two for the first 5 to 10 posts.
[1] About 10% of males are color blind, so this perhaps is not so good. But, a good captcha system should have an alternate method of contacting a flesh and blood human for those with visual diabilities who can't see them, or for those with motor skill issues who can't complete a captcha in the time frame."That means that those countries will be reducing their emissions to 55% of their 1990 levels."
Or buying credits from other countries (usually less developed) to keep on pumping out carbon in excess of that.
I am not a climate change denier, and I'm pretty certain that the human race contributed more than our fair share to the problem, but it seems to me from my reading of treaty is mostly money will be shuffling around from big polluters to low polluters, without much actual change in the planetary greenhouse gas levels. I hope I'm wrong though. Time will tell.
It's a perfectly cromulent word!
Of course, there's something to be said for developing on a web server across the internet...you figure out pretty quickly when people do bonehead things like generate a 50MByte image to use as an icon with the width and height set, and it gives you a fair estimate of what your end-user experience might be. If it's painful to test, it might be painful to use.
Yes, and remember that the best way to accelerate your Vista-based system is 9.8 m/s^2!
You are confusing what finally pushed the levees to fail as the only possible thing that could have caused the levees to fail. Are you suggesting that without storm surge the levees could not fail under any circumstances, especially with what we know of the condition of the levee system in NOLA? Are you also suggesting that large amounts of rainfall will not affect the level of the water in the levee system? There's a bit of emipirical data to refute that, you know. :-)
I should have said "could've" instead of "would've", but there's more to the pressure on the levees than storm surge.
"His deliberate neglect has more or less wiped one whole American city right off the map."
I do not come to defend Bush, because I can't stand the guy, but The Corps of Engineers admit the failure was theirs. The levee system in and around New Orleans was in a sad state of disrepair prior to Katrina, and it could be argued that Katrina saved lives by busting up the levees when many were already evacuated.
Could you imagine the nightmare that would've ensued from a garden variety severe thunderstorm at high tide in the middle of the night causing a levee rupture? No warning, no news coverage, many people asleep... the death toll could've been 10x higher.
Anybody else notice there are ten companies on this list?
I've had good luck with Yahoo's geocoding services. At the time I mucked with this stuff, Google had not yet put up their geocoding service.
The big problem I have with Google maps is the API uses TeleAtlas in my area which is verging on 10 years out of date, but going to maps.google.com, my area is using NAVTEQ data, which is fairly current. It's possibly a licensing issue, but it's damned annoying to have whole major highways missing in my app.
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
"I could care less" is sarcasm... like after reading your post I thought to myself "Another /. language lawyer. Great." :-P
"What I really want to know is who the fucker is who deliberately pees all over the toilet seat and floor at work. I know people might hate their job and feel frustration, but is there any reason to take it out on everybody else?"
I think I'll trade you for the fucker at my office that picks his nose and wipes the boogers all over the tiles above the urinal... Yecch.
They could've called it "Snakes on a Sub" which not only would've made a catchy title, but sounds kinda tasty too.
"ESR is a traitor and should be excommunicated for this"
I don't think ESR is Catholic.
That's bloody brilliant, it is. :-)