I recently read Clean Code. The author has been coding for years and it shows. It has lots of little things that will help in your daily coding to produce a more professional product. If you follow the practices in this book you will actually be able to come back to old code a month or a year later and understand what you wrote.
This sounds more like a comic book than science. Does any of this "theory" have any facts behind it? Or is it like my theory that the marshmallow man is really the creator of it all? I know they put a lot of fancy math with it, but remeber math is just a language. It tries to express what is there, but it doesn't have to. I can write a story of truth(non-fiction) with English, or I can write a story of fiction with English. The same can be said for math. We clearly have the latter here.
Here is more than one thing wrong with Social Security:
1. People are responsible to provide for themselves. Shocking, to most, there was a time before social security and people managed to live through it.
2. The government taking from me is NOT the same as me giving to someone on my own free will.
3. The system was doomed from the start because it was not initialized properly. People one day woke up and found themselves receiving money from the government. If the social security was a forced savings account that benefited the person putting money in, then it would be better, but this is flat out socialism.
The governments job is simple: to restrain evil. Its job is not to provide for retirement. Providing for one's own retirement is a person's individual responsibility, like wiping your butt after you go the bathroom or chewing your food before swallowing. If we continue on this trend I am sure we will have official government butt wipers and food chewers. I tell me ONE THING wrong with having your butt wiped or your food chewed? The problem is not in providing for someone when they retire, it is in the government being the one to provide.
I know this may come as a shock to the slashdot crowd, but MS is a business. A business is about one thing making money. It takes a lot of resources to provide updates for all of these illegal copies of the software. Resources cost money. I am not a MS fan boy. My first Mac was a plus. I know MS software is full of bugs, but no one forces people to buy it. I know there are economic incentives to buying it in package deal, but it is not forcing because you can't overcome the incentives. There are plenty of viable options besides MS. We shouldn't support stealing something just because we don't like it. That is a weapon that could easily be turned on us. How many flames are on this site for people who steal open source software? Guy who tried to rip off the open source 86 Mac emulator is one that comes to mind. People need to be consistent in their viewpoints, or they will come back to bite you.
This would be great for a keyboard class. When the keyboard app runs it could turn off the keys so the kids couldn't look down. I know it would be a bit pricey, but maybe in a couple of years the price will come down.
How does this qualify as an article? They basically got all of Apple's competitors and gave them a chance to rip on the iPod and put a plug in for their own product. This "article" was lacking any sort of real content and was just a bunch of buzzwords.
It is going to take a lot more then fancy market-speak to beat Apple. They sound like a bunch of winy little kids. No fair Apple is bigger and can spend more then we can. This is business the strong survive. If it takes a billion in adds to win and Apple can put that out then more power to them.
If you plug in a phone to any phone jack, even a disconnected one, then you will still be able to dial 911. This is why there is a 911 fee on everyone's phone bill (cell/or land line). It is to provide the 911 service even without phone service.
Maybe this is a sign that apple is moving to fast. They are expanding in every direction (new os, new apps, new features in every app, new hardware). It will be difficult for Apple to keep the quality high as the volume keeps increasing.
The article can be summed up to say that MS software doesn't have a higher number of bugs, just a higher install base. If Firefox had just as high of an install base then it would have an equal amount of bugs.
This is just not the case. You can't say that the bugs are purely based on the number of people taking a swing at it. It defends buggy software. Most of the "bugs" are render problems, mentioned at the end of the article. If designers used standards then things would render fine.
Apple is not trying to beat MS Office. They are trying to round out their product line. Think about it you buy a $500 computer and then have to spend $300, or whatever MS Office cost. It is not a coincidence that they released this and bundle it with the Mac Mini. They are just providing a normal person a way to write normal documents. If you need all the features that office provides then buy office. I am glad that not ever product does everything. I really like the UI of iWork. I have used Keynote and my presentations always put PowerPoint to shame, but again that is not the point. The point is to provide the HOME user with the tools he/she needs to get normal work done. Keynote is great for making a slide show with some text of your vacation to a far away land. I know you could also use iPhoto, but Keynote lets you put in some text.
The reason it imports and exports word is so that you can share stuff with your friends.
This is such a dumb argument. Let's think of it with some different values for the variables. I am a citizen of country xxx. In my country it is legal to murder. I am going to country yyy. I want to murder in yyy where murder is illegal. To use the logic of the parent, how dare yyy not let me do what I could do in xxx.
Sometimes you have to run something out to the logical end before it makes sense. Yeah I am not for censorship, but I am for following the law. If you don't like something then get the law changed or in this case don't visit the other country.
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I recently read Clean Code. The author has been coding for years and it shows. It has lots of little things that will help in your daily coding to produce a more professional product. If you follow the practices in this book you will actually be able to come back to old code a month or a year later and understand what you wrote.
This sounds more like a comic book than science. Does any of this "theory" have any facts behind it? Or is it like my theory that the marshmallow man is really the creator of it all? I know they put a lot of fancy math with it, but remeber math is just a language. It tries to express what is there, but it doesn't have to. I can write a story of truth(non-fiction) with English, or I can write a story of fiction with English. The same can be said for math. We clearly have the latter here.
Here is more than one thing wrong with Social Security:
1. People are responsible to provide for themselves. Shocking, to most, there was a time before social security and people managed to live through it.
2. The government taking from me is NOT the same as me giving to someone on my own free will.
3. The system was doomed from the start because it was not initialized properly. People one day woke up and found themselves receiving money from the government. If the social security was a forced savings account that benefited the person putting money in, then it would be better, but this is flat out socialism.
The governments job is simple: to restrain evil. Its job is not to provide for retirement. Providing for one's own retirement is a person's individual responsibility, like wiping your butt after you go the bathroom or chewing your food before swallowing. If we continue on this trend I am sure we will have official government butt wipers and food chewers. I tell me ONE THING wrong with having your butt wiped or your food chewed? The problem is not in providing for someone when they retire, it is in the government being the one to provide.
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time.
I forgot to turn on the inner monolog.
I know this may come as a shock to the slashdot crowd, but MS is a business. A business is about one thing making money. It takes a lot of resources to provide updates for all of these illegal copies of the software. Resources cost money. I am not a MS fan boy. My first Mac was a plus. I know MS software is full of bugs, but no one forces people to buy it. I know there are economic incentives to buying it in package deal, but it is not forcing because you can't overcome the incentives. There are plenty of viable options besides MS. We shouldn't support stealing something just because we don't like it. That is a weapon that could easily be turned on us. How many flames are on this site for people who steal open source software? Guy who tried to rip off the open source 86 Mac emulator is one that comes to mind. People need to be consistent in their viewpoints, or they will come back to bite you.
This would be great for a keyboard class. When the keyboard app runs it could turn off the keys so the kids couldn't look down. I know it would be a bit pricey, but maybe in a couple of years the price will come down.
How does this qualify as an article? They basically got all of Apple's competitors and gave them a chance to rip on the iPod and put a plug in for their own product. This "article" was lacking any sort of real content and was just a bunch of buzzwords.
It is going to take a lot more then fancy market-speak to beat Apple. They sound like a bunch of winy little kids. No fair Apple is bigger and can spend more then we can. This is business the strong survive. If it takes a billion in adds to win and Apple can put that out then more power to them.
Using this logic TVs/radios that allow you to change the channel during a commercial are going to drive TV/radio stations out of business.
when the batteries go boom.
If you plug in a phone to any phone jack, even a disconnected one, then you will still be able to dial 911. This is why there is a 911 fee on everyone's phone bill (cell/or land line). It is to provide the 911 service even without phone service.
Maybe this is a sign that apple is moving to fast. They are expanding in every direction (new os, new apps, new features in every app, new hardware). It will be difficult for Apple to keep the quality high as the volume keeps increasing.
If there was truth in advertising.
The article can be summed up to say that MS software doesn't have a higher number of bugs, just a higher install base. If Firefox had just as high of an install base then it would have an equal amount of bugs.
This is just not the case. You can't say that the bugs are purely based on the number of people taking a swing at it. It defends buggy software. Most of the "bugs" are render problems, mentioned at the end of the article. If designers used standards then things would render fine.
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With the level of activism that is going on with this court this can't be good.
How many times did Motorola hurt or delay Apple by delaying the PPC chips they were making? This is definitely the pot calling the kettle black.
It will not be released until March.
Everyone is sue crazy.
Apple is not trying to beat MS Office. They are trying to round out their product line. Think about it you buy a $500 computer and then have to spend $300, or whatever MS Office cost. It is not a coincidence that they released this and bundle it with the Mac Mini. They are just providing a normal person a way to write normal documents. If you need all the features that office provides then buy office. I am glad that not ever product does everything. I really like the UI of iWork. I have used Keynote and my presentations always put PowerPoint to shame, but again that is not the point. The point is to provide the HOME user with the tools he/she needs to get normal work done. Keynote is great for making a slide show with some text of your vacation to a far away land. I know you could also use iPhoto, but Keynote lets you put in some text.
The reason it imports and exports word is so that you can share stuff with your friends.
Just my 2 cents.
This is such a dumb argument. Let's think of it with some different values for the variables. I am a citizen of country xxx. In my country it is legal to murder. I am going to country yyy. I want to murder in yyy where murder is illegal. To use the logic of the parent, how dare yyy not let me do what I could do in xxx.
Sometimes you have to run something out to the logical end before it makes sense. Yeah I am not for censorship, but I am for following the law. If you don't like something then get the law changed or in this case don't visit the other country.
evil laser?
I liked PHP 4 way better. 5 is too much like Java. If I wanted java I would use java.
Slashdot is so bias. Never is there anything saying that bush did anything right.