The author is not talking about verbosity in bytes. He's talking about verbosity in code points. Talked about in this way, a thirty character variable name is no more verbose than a single character variable name.
I don't think it is about the "wrong reasons" as much as you think. There is a very strong psychological association between "nakedness" and "lack of privacy". The reason people don't want to be seen naked isn't just, or even mostly, about sex. It is because when people are dressed, they are hiding all those embarrassing flaws that they don't want others to see. It isn't just about "they might see my naughty bits". It's also "they will see my spare tire". The analogy to privacy in the contents of your purse or your bank account is direct.
The thing that people forget about privacy is that *everyone* has something to hide. Not because we are doing anything illegal, but for purely psychological reasons, be it the love-letter from a long-lost ex, the sex toy or the Harry Potter slash fic, there are tons of things that people want to keep secret for purely personal reasons, and *this* is why the right to privacy is so important.
Just an FYI: If you ever deal with a non-ASCII encoding, like UTF-8, you can't rely on strings being exactly one byte per character. strcpy allows for that. memcpy doesn't.
My suggestion is that if you ever meet any of those authors you admire, you ask them what they think of PK Dick's work.
No movie has even remotely done justice to his work, even Bladerunner, and no one has attempted to film any of his truly great novels. (Ubik, Martian Timeslip, The Three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Man in the High Castle, etc.) With the exception of A Scanner Darkly and, to a lesser extent, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the PK Dick works that have been filmed are the forgettable ones, usually the pulp short stories he did in the fifties, and not even remotely his best work.
Not true. The other novel thing about Duke was the interactivity of the environment. I remember things like jumping up on the pool table, hearing a "clack-clack" and noticing that all the balls had moved. I remember discovering that I could shoot out the musak-spewing speakers in the supermarket.
It also had novel weapons, like the shrink-ray, and items, like the "holo-duke" or the jet-pack. Plus, at a time when Doom gave you similar looking level after similar looking level, Duke 3d actually had levels that were different and original.
There are a lot of good, novel things about the original Duke. It was the first FPS in which "fun" was given preference to "hottest graphics"
This is not entirely true. Either side can reject a juror for no reason, but they have a limited number of such vetos. I know...I was once the last person picked for a jury and after the verdict was read, one of the lawyers told me point blank that he'd have rejected me as a juror if he'd had any vetos left.
I believe he's talking about using a second boot drive. Basically, if you boot off of drive B, and that drive does not mount drive A, booting off of drive A will show no evidence that drive B even exists.
Of course, you'd have to make sure to use drive A often enough that it looked like an in-use drive. That'd be a major pain in the ass.
I'd kill for something 1/4" thick that could display an entire page of the average technical manual legibly even in direct sun and that had a battery life of over eight hours.
This is exactly right. I've owned an eReader for about a year but have never bought a book from their store, nor am I likely to. I've found plenty to read on it, though, and Calibre will happily convert lots of different formats to the native one so that things look nice on the reader.
Speaking as someone in the trenches during Y2K, having to do that again really doesn't worry me. For most of us, it was just another task, and for some COBOL programmers, it let them make a shitload extra on contracting fees.
There are lots of courses that can be taken that have relatively few negative effects. Things like telling people to stay home for seven days when they might have been exposed, and getting *everybody* to wash their hands. Those things are reasonable, and have relatively little negative impact.
On the other hand, lots of overhyped news reports with 20 point type describing the coming pandemic is *not* what we should be doing.
I don't entirely understand the complaint. The suspend button on the PSP works great. When I played the PSP God of War, I never actually quit the game. I just suspended it with the power button whenever I needed to. I played it mostly on a long airplane trip and on my daily train commute.
What this means is that after the bidding war that will ensue when Apple's contract with AT&T runs out, Apple will end up getting the bulk of the profits.
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One suspects I'd have found that bug pretty rapidly.
If you can point me at a language that guarantees bug-free programs, I'd like to see it.
Exactly. As an example:
for item in list:
print list
for(object o in list) {
Item item = (Item) o;
System.Out.Println(item);
}
for(std::list<Item*> it=list.begin();it!=list.end();it++) {
cout << (*it)->name << "\n";
}
Three languages. Same identifiers. Big difference in both verbosity and readability.
The author is not talking about verbosity in bytes. He's talking about verbosity in code points. Talked about in this way, a thirty character variable name is no more verbose than a single character variable name.
I don't think it is about the "wrong reasons" as much as you think. There is a very strong psychological association between "nakedness" and "lack of privacy". The reason people don't want to be seen naked isn't just, or even mostly, about sex. It is because when people are dressed, they are hiding all those embarrassing flaws that they don't want others to see. It isn't just about "they might see my naughty bits". It's also "they will see my spare tire". The analogy to privacy in the contents of your purse or your bank account is direct.
The thing that people forget about privacy is that *everyone* has something to hide. Not because we are doing anything illegal, but for purely psychological reasons, be it the love-letter from a long-lost ex, the sex toy or the Harry Potter slash fic, there are tons of things that people want to keep secret for purely personal reasons, and *this* is why the right to privacy is so important.
Just an FYI: If you ever deal with a non-ASCII encoding, like UTF-8, you can't rely on strings being exactly one byte per character. strcpy allows for that. memcpy doesn't.
I gather you never deal with non-ASCII strings.
Have you ever read any PK Dick novels?
My suggestion is that if you ever meet any of those authors you admire, you ask them what they think of PK Dick's work.
No movie has even remotely done justice to his work, even Bladerunner, and no one has attempted to film any of his truly great novels. (Ubik, Martian Timeslip, The Three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Man in the High Castle, etc.) With the exception of A Scanner Darkly and, to a lesser extent, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the PK Dick works that have been filmed are the forgettable ones, usually the pulp short stories he did in the fifties, and not even remotely his best work.
The female characters (one, in particular) looking ridiculously made up is also a hint.
Not true. The other novel thing about Duke was the interactivity of the environment. I remember things like jumping up on the pool table, hearing a "clack-clack" and noticing that all the balls had moved. I remember discovering that I could shoot out the musak-spewing speakers in the supermarket.
It also had novel weapons, like the shrink-ray, and items, like the "holo-duke" or the jet-pack. Plus, at a time when Doom gave you similar looking level after similar looking level, Duke 3d actually had levels that were different and original.
There are a lot of good, novel things about the original Duke. It was the first FPS in which "fun" was given preference to "hottest graphics"
You want "Most Noble".
Gee, I wonder why PC game sales are dropping.
More like 100x.
This is not entirely true. Either side can reject a juror for no reason, but they have a limited number of such vetos. I know...I was once the last person picked for a jury and after the verdict was read, one of the lawyers told me point blank that he'd have rejected me as a juror if he'd had any vetos left.
I believe he's talking about using a second boot drive. Basically, if you boot off of drive B, and that drive does not mount drive A, booting off of drive A will show no evidence that drive B even exists.
Of course, you'd have to make sure to use drive A often enough that it looked like an in-use drive. That'd be a major pain in the ass.
I'd kill for something 1/4" thick that could display an entire page of the average technical manual legibly even in direct sun and that had a battery life of over eight hours.
Which tablet PC is like that?
The local water district does it as well. My wife and I once ran into a thousand goats while hiking in the protected watershed in the East Bay.
This is exactly right. I've owned an eReader for about a year but have never bought a book from their store, nor am I likely to. I've found plenty to read on it, though, and Calibre will happily convert lots of different formats to the native one so that things look nice on the reader.
To read in full sunlight.
Speaking as someone in the trenches during Y2K, having to do that again really doesn't worry me. For most of us, it was just another task, and for some COBOL programmers, it let them make a shitload extra on contracting fees.
There are lots of courses that can be taken that have relatively few negative effects. Things like telling people to stay home for seven days when they might have been exposed, and getting *everybody* to wash their hands. Those things are reasonable, and have relatively little negative impact.
On the other hand, lots of overhyped news reports with 20 point type describing the coming pandemic is *not* what we should be doing.
Eat all the bacon sushi you want and you won't die of swine flu.
The intestinal worms will make you *want* to die, though.
I don't entirely understand the complaint. The suspend button on the PSP works great. When I played the PSP God of War, I never actually quit the game. I just suspended it with the power button whenever I needed to. I played it mostly on a long airplane trip and on my daily train commute.
What this means is that after the bidding war that will ensue when Apple's contract with AT&T runs out, Apple will end up getting the bulk of the profits.
I certainly don't let the kid pick the actual song. That takes care of 90% of it right there.