This view that viewing something somehow metaphysically harms or otherwise affects the subject of the image is outright absurd.
Suppose that we decide to base punishment, or any action for that matter, on such "harm-at-a-distance". Keep in mind that we're not basing punishment on the ascertainable *effect* that the pornography has had on on the subject, we are basing it on a completely separate act in a completely context: the act of someone viewing the image, which the subject may not have any knowledge of.
And what if we later find out that the subject has been dead for years? What happened, then? Did the viewing of the image cause harm to a dead person? The person's soul? Or do we, on the other hand, determine that because the person was dead, it turns out no "harm waves" were "emitted" by the viewing waves? So the harm waves actually know whether the subject is alive or dead, happy or sad, offended or unconcerned?
No, you are probably not going to get a job writing in either of these languages, but learning them may indeed help you get a job, as they are both conceptually deep, and their influences are broader than many realize: JavaScript borrows heavily from Lisp, and Ruby and Objective C from Smalltalk. Even Python and Perl have some Lisp concepts in them. In fact it seems that every new dynamic language to come out in the last twenty years owes something to these two languages. They are like the Greek and Latin of programming languages.
was when I heard him give a talk on OS/2 and how it was the future of Microsoft. This was at the University of Washington, and obviously sometime between late 1987 and 1988. A very narrow slice of history indeed.
So the price is $100 and proof that you are part of a large government organization. The price of the second element Is variable, and is a combination of time, money, effort, and circumstance.
In my comment I was just making the point that I am one of those poor people - ZOMG, I could die any day from an earthquake or radiation poisoning!!! - that the parent poster thinks people should not make jokes in front of.
More radioactive rabid robot monkey jokes, please.
Bah. I live in Japan, was born here, and will probably die here; hopefully from old age, perhaps from radiation or from earthquakes, who knows?
But hey, monkeys are funny. They are also fascinating.
And I love stupid Planet of the Apes jokes. Even stupid Godzilla and radiation jokes don't bother me. They probably don't bother the researchers either, and they sure as hell don't bother the monkeys. After all, they're monkeys! And get your stinking paws off me you damned dirty apes!
Though I haven't even read the magazine once in the past two decades, I have a beach/bath towel with the GamePro logo on it, which I received as a giveaway at the June 1989 Consumer Electronics Show, which would make it right when the mag started. I was doing graphic design/advertising at my first job then, and there might be an ad I worked on in the very first issue.
The towel is still in excellent condition - not a tear and little wear. I'll be sure to use it after this evening's shower.
A lot of the advanced features you see in popular "cool, cutting-edge" languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, filter/map/reduce, continuations - were pioneered by Lisp. If you know Lisp, and you look at such languages, it's obvious that the creators also knew Lisp, and when they needed their language to do something that it couldn't otherwise do, they adapted something from Lisp. Interestingly, many such features were not, or could not be, or have been only with great difficulty, adapted to older languages like C/C++. It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.
The same thing to a lesser degree can be said about Smalltalk. Lisp and Smalltalk's influence is not so much in being used directly to create applications, but in creating other languages.
A lot of the "cool, cutting-edge" features you see in popular modern languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, and filter/map/reduce - come straight from Lisp. Even the very idea of XML is just a variation on the list structure of Lisp. It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.
You know, I think The Onion needs to update their classic article about the man who doesn't own a TV with a new one about the Area Man who constantly mentions that there is absolutely nothing on iTunes that meets his oh-so-eclectic musical tastes. (As well as the Area Man who constantly mentions that he's not on Facebook and franky doesn't understand what's so interesting about it.)
On the other hand, Latin is an immensely useful language if you are planning a major in any romance language. Latin Italian but knowing Latin gets you Italian at an 80% discount, Spanish at 70% and French at 60% . Its learning 4 languages for the price of 2.
I see it the other way. Studying a handful of Romance languages (in my case, Portuguese, French, and Spanish) gets you all the Latin-root vocabulary that is supposedly so useful in English, while you don't have to deal with the rest of Latin (i.e., the complex grammar) which of no practical use, and you get living languages that you can actually use to communicate with people.
Thank you so much, on behalf of myself and every geek here on Slashdot who could not bear the shame of not being able to answer those test problems, and at the same time had an unquenchable thirst to know the answers, wishing only that someone would reveal them to us so that one more crucial intellectual void might be filled.
Just make sure you do it at a soup kitchen in an area where you'll never go or be recognized again. Last thing you want is a bunch of winos hounding you down yelling "Give us more of those lotto tickets!"
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Probably not.
"I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same."
1996: Slackware? -> Yggdrasil -> Slackware -> TurboLinux -> Slackware/Ubuntu.
Still Slacking After All These Years.
The Calendar and Newsstand apps icons are dynamic, they ought to make Maps like that too.
This view that viewing something somehow metaphysically harms or otherwise affects the subject of the image is outright absurd.
Suppose that we decide to base punishment, or any action for that matter, on such "harm-at-a-distance". Keep in mind that we're not basing punishment on the ascertainable *effect* that the pornography has had on on the subject, we are basing it on a completely separate act in a completely context: the act of someone viewing the image, which the subject may not have any knowledge of.
And what if we later find out that the subject has been dead for years? What happened, then? Did the viewing of the image cause harm to a dead person? The person's soul? Or do we, on the other hand, determine that because the person was dead, it turns out no "harm waves" were "emitted" by the viewing waves? So the harm waves actually know whether the subject is alive or dead, happy or sad, offended or unconcerned?
Classic, even.
You say you want to "code for personal reasons", which I take to mean because you find programming enjoyable and want to write programs for fun.
Then I would absolutely recommend Lisp and Smalltalk. For Lisp, you can get started with Lisp In A Box and Peter Siebels' "Practical Common Lisp". For Smalltalk, try Squeak accompanied by Squeak by Example. It's all free.
No, you are probably not going to get a job writing in either of these languages, but learning them may indeed help you get a job, as they are both conceptually deep, and their influences are broader than many realize: JavaScript borrows heavily from Lisp, and Ruby and Objective C from Smalltalk. Even Python and Perl have some Lisp concepts in them. In fact it seems that every new dynamic language to come out in the last twenty years owes something to these two languages. They are like the Greek and Latin of programming languages.
was when I heard him give a talk on OS/2 and how it was the future of Microsoft. This was at the University of Washington, and obviously sometime between late 1987 and 1988. A very narrow slice of history indeed.
So the price is $100 and proof that you are part of a large government organization. The price of the second element Is variable, and is a combination of time, money, effort, and circumstance.
Mid-forties; nowhere near old age.
In my comment I was just making the point that I am one of those poor people - ZOMG, I could die any day from an earthquake or radiation poisoning!!! - that the parent poster thinks people should not make jokes in front of.
More radioactive rabid robot monkey jokes, please.
Bah. I live in Japan, was born here, and will probably die here; hopefully from old age, perhaps from radiation or from earthquakes, who knows?
But hey, monkeys are funny. They are also fascinating.
And I love stupid Planet of the Apes jokes. Even stupid Godzilla and radiation jokes don't bother me. They probably don't bother the researchers either, and they sure as hell don't bother the monkeys. After all, they're monkeys! And get your stinking paws off me you damned dirty apes!
Though I haven't even read the magazine once in the past two decades, I have a beach/bath towel with the GamePro logo on it, which I received as a giveaway at the June 1989 Consumer Electronics Show, which would make it right when the mag started. I was doing graphic design/advertising at my first job then, and there might be an ad I worked on in the very first issue.
The towel is still in excellent condition - not a tear and little wear. I'll be sure to use it after this evening's shower.
It's a monument at the entrance to a national park. See some pictures here:
http://chinaart.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2006-08-27
Not everything is a military or scientific structure.
Surprisingly enough, it says "Danghe Reservoir".
A lot of the advanced features you see in popular "cool, cutting-edge" languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, filter/map/reduce, continuations - were pioneered by Lisp. If you know Lisp, and you look at such languages, it's obvious that the creators also knew Lisp, and when they needed their language to do something that it couldn't otherwise do, they adapted something from Lisp. Interestingly, many such features were not, or could not be, or have been only with great difficulty, adapted to older languages like C/C++.
It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.
The same thing to a lesser degree can be said about Smalltalk. Lisp and Smalltalk's influence is not so much in being used directly to create applications, but in creating other languages.
No need to bother with strings or side effects. This is all you need:
'world-says-goodbye
(re-posting what I just posted anonymously)
A lot of the "cool, cutting-edge" features you see in popular modern languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, and filter/map/reduce - come straight from Lisp. Even the very idea of XML is just a variation on the list structure of Lisp. It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.
Here are some great science sites that I, and many of my fellow countrymen, can recommend.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php
You know, I think The Onion needs to update their classic article about the man who doesn't own a TV with a new one about the Area Man who constantly mentions that there is absolutely nothing on iTunes that meets his oh-so-eclectic musical tastes. (As well as the Area Man who constantly mentions that he's not on Facebook and franky doesn't understand what's so interesting about it.)
Not so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Nationality_Rule
I've built high-speed trains to Zhengzhou, Wuhou, and North Shenyang, and by gum it put them on the map!
On the other hand, Latin is an immensely useful language if you are planning a major in any romance language. Latin Italian but knowing Latin gets you Italian at an 80% discount, Spanish at 70% and French at 60% . Its learning 4 languages for the price of 2.
I see it the other way. Studying a handful of Romance languages (in my case, Portuguese, French, and Spanish) gets you all the Latin-root vocabulary that is supposedly so useful in English, while you don't have to deal with the rest of Latin (i.e., the complex grammar) which of no practical use, and you get living languages that you can actually use to communicate with people.
Thank you so much, on behalf of myself and every geek here on Slashdot who could not bear the shame of not being able to answer those test problems, and at the same time had an unquenchable thirst to know the answers, wishing only that someone would reveal them to us so that one more crucial intellectual void might be filled.
Neither is Italian==Greek or Sanskrit or classical Arabic. Does the parent post imply in any way that Dante wrote in Latin?
Just make sure you do it at a soup kitchen in an area where you'll never go or be recognized again. Last thing you want is a bunch of winos hounding you down yelling "Give us more of those lotto tickets!"