Yes. Is that so bad? Geez, as humans we're supposed to be curious. Yes, read about Scientology. Talk to one. Call Tom Cruise. Learn the history and current practices, rituals, requirements and tenents. Then make a decision. This applies to anything including Nazi's, operating systems, red-heads & "I can't believe it's not butter!(tm)". You're not allowed to say you're bored until you know everything. Get back to me when you're done.
It's a framework, written in Ruby, that makes it trivial to set up basic to semi-advanced websites.
Instead of coding for days, trying to capture the logic, structure and rules of a database so you can "web" it, RoR has a code-generator that reads the database and creates all the accessor objects and views. Then you can extend these views using Ruby, which is an awesomely succinct language.
With Ruby, I can read in a text file and print out all the lines that contain a match to a regular expression with only four lines.
BTW, Ruby is an interpreted language. By itself, Ruby competes well with Python and Perl, but when combined with Rails, it really shines for agile development of web apps.
See also: Ajax on Rails. This uses the asynchronous capability of the web to make web apps operate like real apps. Google Maps uses it, for example.
The rocket carried it's own oxygen in compressed tanks. It combined the two and ignited them to produce the thrust. Please, do a little more reading. I know it's easier to just spout off your first objection, but come on, raise yourself above that level.
There is a direct, 1:1 correlation. Just go into any Tim Horton's restaurant and you'll see hockey memorabilia and "ads" for their kid's hockey camp (Timbit's Hockey).
Because if they happened near here, you'd only know about it for about a billionth of a second before you became a collection of random photons.
This probably happened to some planet of intelligent beings at one point, but we'll never know.
TIPPS? Isn't that the pre-authorized chequing system I use to pay my municipal property taxes?
oh, wait, that's just TIPP: Tax Installment Payment Plan
my bad.
Name names. Blow the whistle. Do something about it. Risk your grades. Risk the acceptance of your classmates. If you don't stand up for what you believe in, you deserve to live in the world as it's thrust upon you.
If not now, when will you speak out? When she says the world is flat?
Want me to put my money where my mouth is? Give me her name, school, class and watch things happen.
It's my bandwidth, bought and paid for (on a monthly basis).
Since your ISP wants to be competitive with other ISP's, they accept money/favors/sex from ad factories like GATOR. This money subsidises your monthly bandwidth costs.
If you want to pay double or triple, you can probably find another ISP who won't do this.
PS: If you find one, post it on Slashdot and send me a personal message.
I'm a Canadian and, a couple of years ago, I worked for a company in Virginia as a Delphi Developer. I worked for just under a year.
To get an H1B, I first researched it, then educated my employer's HR dept.
They had been advertising the position for about 6 months, but couldn't find any US Delphi Developers willing to move to the rural location (Orange, VA).
I had them write a letter, stating my position, salary and breakdown of my duties. When I got to US customs at the airport in Canada, the customs agent gave me a enough hassle that I missed my flight. I stayed at a hotel, got the employer to re-word the letter and fax it to me. I presented the new letter to the customs agent, who hummed and hawed for a bit, then let me through.
I had my new bride (Canadian) with me. She had no visa and so couldn't work. After a year, she went stir crazy (rural, can't work, doesn't know anyone) and we moved back to Canada.
Would I have stayed for double the salary? Yes...but only because I could then afford to fly back to Canada every 2 months.
The moral of the story is...don't do it for the money.
However, because US companies are so scared that an exiting employee will sue them, they offered me 1 months salary if I signed a waver. I did. Thanks to this (and the exchange rate) I landed back in Canada, up about $2,000. I was lucky enough to find a job in Canada before I left the US, so I got to "keep" the $2K, instead of spending it on living expenses.
Have the booster rocket (see parent) just bring Sedna into orbit around Mars. Then, mine the ice on Sedna and deposit on Mars. No dangerous impact ejecta...Mars gets water (life-sustaining)...and a moon (earth-like tides)
Bullwinkle: This time FOR SURE!
Rocky: Now here's something you'll REALLY like.
Let's send a probe, with a booster engine to Sedna. With enough time/fuel/thrust, we could condense it's orbit so that it crashed into Mars! Since Sedna is probably ice and rock (let's get the details first), the ice would be melted by the impact temperatures, thereby increasing the mass of Mars (more earth-like gravity), AND providing it with water. I shall call my idea: TerraForming!
Now, where's that phone number for the galactic pantents office....
PS: See any holes in my theory? Don't critisize ME, fix THEM.
Even though I'm a Canuck, I'd have to agree with the parent. The Canadian troops were led by British intelligence and British superior officers. Basically, we were the 'match' in their 'hands'.
Not to say the Yanks shouldn't still watch their collective asses.
<joke>Celine Dion is a Bomb!</joke> <truth>Shania Twain is THE Bomb!</truth>
It seems that we're trying to win the spam war by fighting less. If you want to beat the spam army, you have to fulfill your "homeland" duties AND fight the battle.
When this fight is worth expending our valuable time and effort, we'll make time for it.
The thing about this enemy is that they're smart enough to only bother us a little, but not enough to evoke an organized, concerted backlash. Some get hurt more than others, so they're more vocal. However, most are not bothered enough to do anything by moderately increase their defenses.
It's like stealing 1 cent from everyone on earth. This has little effect on the vast majority of the population, but the perpetrator gets very rich. Would you fight a war over a penny? Not unless you're willing to die for the principle of the matter.
Think "easier than VB, as OO compliant as C++,.NET version just released, massive libraries of sophisticated snap-in components & a linux-esque developer community".
Like doing it the hard way? You can embed assembler code into your Delphi (Pascal) code.
PS: It's not a Microsoft product and Borland also has it's own (read: better) C++ compiler, C++ Builder.
PPS: It's also the language-of-choice for hackers and hacker-busters.
Excuse me while I continue to work myself into a frenzy offline....
I could give a H-E-double-hockey-sticks about TV. Don't watch. Unless forced.
Your "poison gas/explosive metal" sig line blew my mind. I actually had to look this up. I love this @#$%! Do it again! Blow my mind! (This comment is sarcasm-free.)
Maybe XP is a great tool. And maybe go-it-alone programmers are great workers.
How about, when selecting a methodology, we include the personalities and abilities of the available team members in the problem domain.
So, in some cases, XP may be the right way to go. But in others it's only good if you fire some of your most competent people (or at least disclude them from the project).
In other cases, the iterative XP process may make the customer too jumpy, regardless of the quality of the end product. I've seen users get a "Alpha" version of an app and whine that menu choice XYZ is always disabled, and consequently to app is useless, even after you told them that XYZ is on the "under construction" list. As the manager who approved the app, you look bad in the eyes of your employees. Unfortunately, not everyone is patient, attentive, trusting and insightful.
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Yes. Is that so bad? Geez, as humans we're supposed to be curious. Yes, read about Scientology. Talk to one. Call Tom Cruise. Learn the history and current practices, rituals, requirements and tenents. Then make a decision. This applies to anything including Nazi's, operating systems, red-heads & "I can't believe it's not butter!(tm)". You're not allowed to say you're bored until you know everything. Get back to me when you're done.
WWI was Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm.
WWII was Japan(Pacific) AND Hitler(Europe & Africa[Rommel])
Instead of coding for days, trying to capture the logic, structure and rules of a database so you can "web" it, RoR has a code-generator that reads the database and creates all the accessor objects and views. Then you can extend these views using Ruby, which is an awesomely succinct language.
With Ruby, I can read in a text file and print out all the lines that contain a match to a regular expression with only four lines.
BTW, Ruby is an interpreted language. By itself, Ruby competes well with Python and Perl, but when combined with Rails, it really shines for agile development of web apps.
See also: Ajax on Rails. This uses the asynchronous capability of the web to make web apps operate like real apps. Google Maps uses it, for example.
The rocket carried it's own oxygen in compressed tanks. It combined the two and ignited them to produce the thrust. Please, do a little more reading. I know it's easier to just spout off your first objection, but come on, raise yourself above that level.
There is a direct, 1:1 correlation. Just go into any Tim Horton's restaurant and you'll see hockey memorabilia and "ads" for their kid's hockey camp (Timbit's Hockey).
DAMMIT!!!!
first post...?
Amen. In fact, I really should send that guy some money.
http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/
Read. Understand.
Because if they happened near here, you'd only know about it for about a billionth of a second before you became a collection of random photons. This probably happened to some planet of intelligent beings at one point, but we'll never know.
TIPPS? Isn't that the pre-authorized chequing system I use to pay my municipal property taxes? oh, wait, that's just TIPP: Tax Installment Payment Plan my bad.
The article's chart is more current. It shows 2 more versions of Delphi, for instance.
Name names. Blow the whistle. Do something about it. Risk your grades. Risk the acceptance of your classmates. If you don't stand up for what you believe in, you deserve to live in the world as it's thrust upon you.
If not now, when will you speak out? When she says the world is flat?
Want me to put my money where my mouth is? Give me her name, school, class and watch things happen.
Yes, I would rather pay for my news/information!
At least then they only have me to be accountable to, instead of their corporate supporters. And I can also just pay for the news I want.
I'd love to see a newspaper that costs $2.00 but was ad-free.
Some industries have it, (eg. Nickle's Oil Weekly) so why not the general public?
It's my bandwidth, bought and paid for (on a monthly basis).
Since your ISP wants to be competitive with other ISP's, they accept money/favors/sex from ad factories like GATOR. This money subsidises your monthly bandwidth costs.
If you want to pay double or triple, you can probably find another ISP who won't do this.
PS: If you find one, post it on Slashdot and send me a personal message.
I'm a Canadian and, a couple of years ago, I worked for a company in Virginia as a Delphi Developer. I worked for just under a year.
To get an H1B, I first researched it, then educated my employer's HR dept.
They had been advertising the position for about 6 months, but couldn't find any US Delphi Developers willing to move to the rural location (Orange, VA).
I had them write a letter, stating my position, salary and breakdown of my duties. When I got to US customs at the airport in Canada, the customs agent gave me a enough hassle that I missed my flight. I stayed at a hotel, got the employer to re-word the letter and fax it to me. I presented the new letter to the customs agent, who hummed and hawed for a bit, then let me through.
I had my new bride (Canadian) with me. She had no visa and so couldn't work. After a year, she went stir crazy (rural, can't work, doesn't know anyone) and we moved back to Canada.
Would I have stayed for double the salary? Yes...but only because I could then afford to fly back to Canada every 2 months.
The moral of the story is...don't do it for the money.
However, because US companies are so scared that an exiting employee will sue them, they offered me 1 months salary if I signed a waver. I did. Thanks to this (and the exchange rate) I landed back in Canada, up about $2,000. I was lucky enough to find a job in Canada before I left the US, so I got to "keep" the $2K, instead of spending it on living expenses.
The brain-waves keep coming!
Have the booster rocket (see parent) just bring Sedna into orbit around Mars. Then, mine the ice on Sedna and deposit on Mars. No dangerous impact ejecta...Mars gets water (life-sustaining)...and a moon (earth-like tides)
Bullwinkle: This time FOR SURE!
Rocky: Now here's something you'll REALLY like.
IDEA! (probably a bad one!)
Let's send a probe, with a booster engine to Sedna. With enough time/fuel/thrust, we could condense it's orbit so that it crashed into Mars! Since Sedna is probably ice and rock (let's get the details first), the ice would be melted by the impact temperatures, thereby increasing the mass of Mars (more earth-like gravity), AND providing it with water. I shall call my idea: TerraForming!
Now, where's that phone number for the galactic pantents office....
PS: See any holes in my theory? Don't critisize ME, fix THEM.
Even though I'm a Canuck, I'd have to agree with the parent.
The Canadian troops were led by British intelligence and British superior officers. Basically, we were the 'match' in their 'hands'.
Not to say the Yanks shouldn't still watch their collective asses.
<joke>Celine Dion is a Bomb!</joke>
<truth>Shania Twain is THE Bomb!</truth>
It seems that we're trying to win the spam war by fighting less. If you want to beat the spam army, you have to fulfill your "homeland" duties AND fight the battle.
When this fight is worth expending our valuable time and effort, we'll make time for it.
The thing about this enemy is that they're smart enough to only bother us a little, but not enough to evoke an organized, concerted backlash. Some get hurt more than others, so they're more vocal. However, most are not bothered enough to do anything by moderately increase their defenses.
It's like stealing 1 cent from everyone on earth. This has little effect on the vast majority of the population, but the perpetrator gets very rich. Would you fight a war over a penny? Not unless you're willing to die for the principle of the matter.
Think "easier than VB, as OO compliant as C++, .NET version just released, massive libraries of sophisticated snap-in components & a linux-esque developer community".
Like doing it the hard way? You can embed assembler code into your Delphi (Pascal) code.
PS: It's not a Microsoft product and Borland also has it's own (read: better) C++ compiler, C++ Builder.
PPS: It's also the language-of-choice for hackers and hacker-busters.
Excuse me while I continue to work myself into a frenzy offline....
Your "poison gas/explosive metal" sig line blew my mind. I actually had to look this up. I love this @#$%! Do it again! Blow my mind! (This comment is sarcasm-free.)
Maybe XP is a great tool. And maybe go-it-alone programmers are great workers. How about, when selecting a methodology, we include the personalities and abilities of the available team members in the problem domain. So, in some cases, XP may be the right way to go. But in others it's only good if you fire some of your most competent people (or at least disclude them from the project). In other cases, the iterative XP process may make the customer too jumpy, regardless of the quality of the end product. I've seen users get a "Alpha" version of an app and whine that menu choice XYZ is always disabled, and consequently to app is useless, even after you told them that XYZ is on the "under construction" list. As the manager who approved the app, you look bad in the eyes of your employees. Unfortunately, not everyone is patient, attentive, trusting and insightful.