Are you colorblind (not capping on you if you are! You just got some bad genes. Blame your parents.:-D) or using your own stylesheet, perhaps? The sponsored links I see have a light blue background, almost identical to the way Google does it.
In fact, it looks like Ask has virtually copied Google's UI, right down to the bug that I sometimes come across in Safari when I click a link it takes me back to the search engine's home page. One thing I think Ask has that Google doesn't that I like is the "narrow your search" options, which they've apparently integrated from their old Teoma site (which was quite nice, too).
I hear what you're saying about the adblocking, but for me it's the general principle that an advertiser, not content with taking up your desktop space with their ads, also feels entitled to use as much of your CPU and RAM as they see fit. Sure I can block them (and do block at home), but the sheer arrogance that they're entitled to so much of your computing resources is what chaps my ass.
Meat is evolutionarily preferred, because any adverse health effects from it are put off until most us are long past our child-bearing/raising years. Meat is a very efficient protein source for those animals with the ability to process it.
Evolution isn't about living long... it's just about living enough to procreate. From this perspective, once you quit punching out kids, what happens to you is largely irrelevant.
With that said, although I differ from you in that enjoy vegetables as well, I love a good slab of prime rib run through a warm room. If I've been brainwashed to like that, well than hip-hip-hooray for brainwashing. And if it kills me sooner than eating nothing that casts a shadow, then at least that's that much less time I have to hear holier-art-than-thou neo-Puritans bitching about what I eat.
"Two years ago, I took the job of Internet Marketing Manager"
"the current site has not been updated in over 8 years"
We could debate the state of the art in web site development 8 years ago and ask whether or not your system is similarly aged, but I think it is fairly clear from the context above that saying "you did not write it correctly" is perhaps a bit unfair.
Stuff like that makes me glad that I paid for most of my own college education.
I still help the parents when I can, though, but I have a Mac at work, and run Linux at home, and unless my dad asks me for help on how to best defend against a Zergling rush, I'm not much use to him on Winders.
Heck, most of it doesn't even happen in Texas. It's just that the Johnson Space Center is the home for manned spaceflight, so it gets all the attention.
And I won't have him using that sissy baby "OO" stuff, either. He'll start where his old man did, on IBM/360 systems, writing assembler on punch-cards writing drivers for DASD systems.
And he'll like it if he knows what's good for him.
I gave a sizable amount of money to help people who lost in Hurricane Katrina (not approaching the magnitude of Gates' charitable giving of course) but that doesn't make me an expert in disaster relief.
"A lot of good comments have already been made here, but I'm surprised nobody has commented yet on something that seems obvious: if you're going to hack into a system, you have to know a little bit about the system first."
You're 100% right, but there will emerge from 1 to 3 dominant vendors of backend RFID systems, and they will be deployed in many places, many people will have knowledge of these systems, and help to learn about their underlying architecture will likely be found right on the vendor's website, or only a couple Google searches away. Like every other system out there, there will be a few weird custom jobs, but most of it will be off-the-shelf software that thousands of organizations use.
Today's theoretical often winds up being tomorrow's practical.
I thought the point of Asimov's stories was that they always obeyed the laws, but not necessarily in ways humans would. Most stories in "I, Robot" show that these seemingly excellent and fault-tolerant laws could have unexpected and sometimes dangerous consequences of their own, and that the real-world is too complicated to ever be dealt with only hard and fast rules.
You're right though, I never understood why people took Asimov's laws as a great thing to use as a reference for robot behavior when the same author who created them proceeds to point out their flaws for an entire book's worth of short stories.
I think where newspapers will still have an edge is in local mid size markets, where circulation is 100,000 or less, as long as their primary focus is on local news. Many smaller papers are getting fairly technically sophisticated.
I know I was pleasantly surprised when I started working for one a couple months ago.
North and south have nothing to do with magnetic fields, but rather with the spin of the planet.
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Because if we talk about just in terms of "fun" it shows that we're reviewing mere games. Didn't you get the memo? Games aren't supposed to be fun anymore. They're high art now, like cinemahr.
But if it has been about two gay Space Marines and their relationship while they were also fighting off the Bug-Eyed Monsters invading from 60 Ophiuchi B, I would've totally been there.
"I am worried that one of the first questions in emergency care is "How are you going to pay?"
I've not come to praise our healthcare system, because I believe it's screwed beyond belief, but this doesn't happen. We were in a bad car accident last June, and they air evaced my wife, she got treated at an emergency room in trendy, yuppie, expensive Scottsdale, Arizona, subsequently released, and was never once asked about how she would pay.
The three illegal immigrants driving drunk in the car with the stolen plate also got airlifted to the same place and presumably got treated there, too. I don't know what happened to them, and you'll have to forgive me if I currently find it hard to care about their situation. I guarantee you they didn't have health coverage of any kind, but I know that my wife's airlift alone was just shy of 11,000 bucks.
Now, I'm sure that if I didn't contact them with my (fortunately very good) healthcare coverage information they eventually would've come knocking, but no matter how it's done, we will pay for healthcare, be it taxes, insurance premiums, bills or combinations of all three. But they don't ask even close to upfront in a (real) emergency. I imagine if you go to the emergency room with a headache or "my foot hurts" then it's possibly different, but in that case I say GOOD! A little bit of pain is not an emergency, and anyone who does that is putting a load on system that's designed to treat emergent, life-threatening problems for a triviality.
You're right, that the language itself is not the only thing that matters. Extra libraries to work with makes life much more pleasant.
But what's under the hood of that do_something_with_file_data? In this fairly trivial example, there's not much difference between a do_something_with_file_data in C versus Perl.
Nice code examples deleted 'cause of/. stupid lameness filters inserting random spaces, even when I had spaces nearby. GRRRR! Suffice to say both were functionally equivalent and of about the same length: about 8 lines for reasonably readable code that output reasonable, though not strictly standards-compliant, HTML.
For more complicated web work, however, I would still maintain that there are better languages than C (and Perl for that matter) to be doing the work. I'm not for a moment suggesting that I can replace what would take me a year in C with a day's work in Python (excepting the library issues), but I think that the so-called "scripting languages" are faster to develop many types of applications even without the library advantages they have.
Execution speed arguments are less a function of the language itself than a function of those environments the languages themselves typically operate in. There are python, perl and Java compilers and I'm sure somebody has made a C interpreter for some strange reason. Most applications do not need to be as efficient as possible by virtue of the fact that a lot of them sit in an idle state most of the time anyway. There are notable exceptions (scientific computing, games, etc.), but there you're going to be writing as close to the hardware as you dare and maybe even C is too much of a luxury and you'll have to write assembly.
I agree that a language choice, given appropriate and featurewise compatible libraries existing for the task at hand, isn't usually going to make a many orders of magnitude difference in development speed. I do still contend however that appropriate languages to the task at hand can save you a decent slice of project time. My gut instinct would be to say the average would be around 20 to 30. Not massive, but noticeable on the bottom line. Sometimes that choice will even be C. And some things still need the raw power of C. Not bagging on C at all, here! It was the fifth language* I learned, after TRS-80 Extended Color Basic, 6809 Assembly IBM 360 Assembly, and Pascal. Of those five, it's the only one I still use at all, much less remember, and I still love hacking on it.
I will concede that my gut is not (perhaps) as accurate as a study, but my only point was to say I will still trust my experience over a random stranger on Slashdot waving "studies" around without any reference to what they're referring to.
Will you provide references to these studies? I'm a much better C programmer than a Perl programmer (with fifteen years to seven years ratio of working in them regularly), but I guarantee you that if you ask me for a web application using CGI and say I can write it in C or Perl, I'm going to write it in Perl, I'm going to deliver it sooner, and it will have fewer bugs when I do.
Of course, if I have free reign to do it they way I'd like to, I'd do it in either PHP or mod_python, and deliver it even sooner, and I only have a couple years with PHP and about five with python. Maybe I'm a mediocre C programmer and a freakin' awesome Python programmer, but I've gotten too many compliments on the readability and reliability of my C code over the years to think that's the case. I would generally rate myself as a very good programmer but not a great programmer. These four languages all have their strengths and weaknesses and they work better or worse for different things.
I acknowledge that my experiences are merely anecdotal, but my personal and observational experience still trumps a vague "most studies" claim.
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Are you colorblind (not capping on you if you are! You just got some bad genes. Blame your parents. :-D) or using your own stylesheet, perhaps? The sponsored links I see have a light blue background, almost identical to the way Google does it.
In fact, it looks like Ask has virtually copied Google's UI, right down to the bug that I sometimes come across in Safari when I click a link it takes me back to the search engine's home page. One thing I think Ask has that Google doesn't that I like is the "narrow your search" options, which they've apparently integrated from their old Teoma site (which was quite nice, too).
I hear what you're saying about the adblocking, but for me it's the general principle that an advertiser, not content with taking up your desktop space with their ads, also feels entitled to use as much of your CPU and RAM as they see fit. Sure I can block them (and do block at home), but the sheer arrogance that they're entitled to so much of your computing resources is what chaps my ass.
Meat is evolutionarily preferred, because any adverse health effects from it are put off until most us are long past our child-bearing/raising years. Meat is a very efficient protein source for those animals with the ability to process it.
Evolution isn't about living long... it's just about living enough to procreate. From this perspective, once you quit punching out kids, what happens to you is largely irrelevant.
With that said, although I differ from you in that enjoy vegetables as well, I love a good slab of prime rib run through a warm room. If I've been brainwashed to like that, well than hip-hip-hooray for brainwashing. And if it kills me sooner than eating nothing that casts a shadow, then at least that's that much less time I have to hear holier-art-than-thou neo-Puritans bitching about what I eat.
"Life isn't about making money."
You're right. It's about making a shitload of money!
I would naturally blame the BBC.
Or maybe Charlotte Church's aunt. It depends. What's the current phase of the moon and the market price for wheat futures?
"Two years ago, I took the job of Internet Marketing Manager"
"the current site has not been updated in over 8 years"
We could debate the state of the art in web site development 8 years ago and ask whether or not your system is similarly aged, but I think it is fairly clear from the context above that saying "you did not write it correctly" is perhaps a bit unfair.
Your overthruster's for shit! We're lost!
Stuff like that makes me glad that I paid for most of my own college education.
I still help the parents when I can, though, but I have a Mac at work, and run Linux at home, and unless my dad asks me for help on how to best defend against a Zergling rush, I'm not much use to him on Winders.
Heck, most of it doesn't even happen in Texas. It's just that the Johnson Space Center is the home for manned spaceflight, so it gets all the attention.
And I won't have him using that sissy baby "OO" stuff, either. He'll start where his old man did, on IBM/360 systems, writing assembler on punch-cards writing drivers for DASD systems.
And he'll like it if he knows what's good for him.
Shit, I came this close to spewing soda out my nose.
For those who don't see the connection: linky linky
I gave a sizable amount of money to help people who lost in Hurricane Katrina (not approaching the magnitude of Gates' charitable giving of course) but that doesn't make me an expert in disaster relief.
"A lot of good comments have already been made here, but I'm surprised nobody has commented yet on something that seems obvious: if you're going to hack into a system, you have to know a little bit about the system first."
You're 100% right, but there will emerge from 1 to 3 dominant vendors of backend RFID systems, and they will be deployed in many places, many people will have knowledge of these systems, and help to learn about their underlying architecture will likely be found right on the vendor's website, or only a couple Google searches away. Like every other system out there, there will be a few weird custom jobs, but most of it will be off-the-shelf software that thousands of organizations use.
Today's theoretical often winds up being tomorrow's practical.
I thought the point of Asimov's stories was that they always obeyed the laws, but not necessarily in ways humans would. Most stories in "I, Robot" show that these seemingly excellent and fault-tolerant laws could have unexpected and sometimes dangerous consequences of their own, and that the real-world is too complicated to ever be dealt with only hard and fast rules.
You're right though, I never understood why people took Asimov's laws as a great thing to use as a reference for robot behavior when the same author who created them proceeds to point out their flaws for an entire book's worth of short stories.
I think where newspapers will still have an edge is in local mid size markets, where circulation is 100,000 or less, as long as their primary focus is on local news. Many smaller papers are getting fairly technically sophisticated.
I know I was pleasantly surprised when I started working for one a couple months ago.
I'd be more than willing to sell you some real-estate there...
North and south have nothing to do with magnetic fields, but rather with the spin of the planet.
Because if we talk about just in terms of "fun" it shows that we're reviewing mere games. Didn't you get the memo? Games aren't supposed to be fun anymore. They're high art now, like cinemahr.
Well, okay, then. You did your penance. :-)
But if it has been about two gay Space Marines and their relationship while they were also fighting off the Bug-Eyed Monsters invading from 60 Ophiuchi B, I would've totally been there.
"Under 2 got in free."
If you took someone under the age of two to a feature length movie, then I hate you.
Damn, you're already on my friends list and I'm fresh out of mod points.
How the hell do I recognize the excellence of this post now?
"I am worried that one of the first questions in emergency care is "How are you going to pay?"
I've not come to praise our healthcare system, because I believe it's screwed beyond belief, but this doesn't happen. We were in a bad car accident last June, and they air evaced my wife, she got treated at an emergency room in trendy, yuppie, expensive Scottsdale, Arizona, subsequently released, and was never once asked about how she would pay.
The three illegal immigrants driving drunk in the car with the stolen plate also got airlifted to the same place and presumably got treated there, too. I don't know what happened to them, and you'll have to forgive me if I currently find it hard to care about their situation. I guarantee you they didn't have health coverage of any kind, but I know that my wife's airlift alone was just shy of 11,000 bucks.
Now, I'm sure that if I didn't contact them with my (fortunately very good) healthcare coverage information they eventually would've come knocking, but no matter how it's done, we will pay for healthcare, be it taxes, insurance premiums, bills or combinations of all three. But they don't ask even close to upfront in a (real) emergency. I imagine if you go to the emergency room with a headache or "my foot hurts" then it's possibly different, but in that case I say GOOD! A little bit of pain is not an emergency, and anyone who does that is putting a load on system that's designed to treat emergent, life-threatening problems for a triviality.
You're right, that the language itself is not the only thing that matters. Extra libraries to work with makes life much more pleasant.
But what's under the hood of that do_something_with_file_data? In this fairly trivial example, there's not much difference between a do_something_with_file_data in C versus Perl.
Nice code examples deleted 'cause of /. stupid lameness filters inserting random spaces, even when I had spaces nearby. GRRRR! Suffice to say both were functionally equivalent and of about the same length: about 8 lines for reasonably readable code that output reasonable, though not strictly standards-compliant, HTML.
For more complicated web work, however, I would still maintain that there are better languages than C (and Perl for that matter) to be doing the work. I'm not for a moment suggesting that I can replace what would take me a year in C with a day's work in Python (excepting the library issues), but I think that the so-called "scripting languages" are faster to develop many types of applications even without the library advantages they have.
Execution speed arguments are less a function of the language itself than a function of those environments the languages themselves typically operate in. There are python, perl and Java compilers and I'm sure somebody has made a C interpreter for some strange reason. Most applications do not need to be as efficient as possible by virtue of the fact that a lot of them sit in an idle state most of the time anyway. There are notable exceptions (scientific computing, games, etc.), but there you're going to be writing as close to the hardware as you dare and maybe even C is too much of a luxury and you'll have to write assembly.
I agree that a language choice, given appropriate and featurewise compatible libraries existing for the task at hand, isn't usually going to make a many orders of magnitude difference in development speed. I do still contend however that appropriate languages to the task at hand can save you a decent slice of project time. My gut instinct would be to say the average would be around 20 to 30. Not massive, but noticeable on the bottom line. Sometimes that choice will even be C. And some things still need the raw power of C. Not bagging on C at all, here! It was the fifth language* I learned, after TRS-80 Extended Color Basic, 6809 Assembly IBM 360 Assembly, and Pascal. Of those five, it's the only one I still use at all, much less remember, and I still love hacking on it.
I will concede that my gut is not (perhaps) as accurate as a study, but my only point was to say I will still trust my experience over a random stranger on Slashdot waving "studies" around without any reference to what they're referring to.
*- FORTH was sixth. I've forgotten it, too.
Will you provide references to these studies? I'm a much better C programmer than a Perl programmer (with fifteen years to seven years ratio of working in them regularly), but I guarantee you that if you ask me for a web application using CGI and say I can write it in C or Perl, I'm going to write it in Perl, I'm going to deliver it sooner, and it will have fewer bugs when I do.
Of course, if I have free reign to do it they way I'd like to, I'd do it in either PHP or mod_python, and deliver it even sooner, and I only have a couple years with PHP and about five with python. Maybe I'm a mediocre C programmer and a freakin' awesome Python programmer, but I've gotten too many compliments on the readability and reliability of my C code over the years to think that's the case. I would generally rate myself as a very good programmer but not a great programmer. These four languages all have their strengths and weaknesses and they work better or worse for different things.
I acknowledge that my experiences are merely anecdotal, but my personal and observational experience still trumps a vague "most studies" claim.