Maybe because the year of the Linux desktop has arrived (NetBooks & phones), and the other OS is offered by a more poisonous snake. Now that valid competition exists, and MicroSoft doesn't look so evil any more, we can consider it a valid alternative.
Like others have said, you are confused about JS. It is a beautiful language that has been cursed by the browser. The only features I'd like to add would be (explicit) multi-threading, and typing beyond var. JS is a truly object oriented language that offers dynamic scoping and functions as first class objects. I understand there are some command-line interpreters that actually allow those, but I've only used it in the browser. If any of those languages you mentioned had made their introduction via the browser, you'd hate them equally or more so.
Hate to burst your bubble, but you'd find memory leaks in JS too. Your just not running it long enough to see the craptacular job the GC does, and most "JavaScript programmers" (frequently programmers from other languages coding in JS) don't explicitly deallocate their memory. (Yes, JS does allow for explicit deletion). As a result, the GC count doesn't get decremented correctly, and leaks spring forth. Just try to run a JS program for a few days that's actually doing something besides sitting there and watch the memory creep. AS could probably be better than it is, if the coders would actually delete their objects explicitly rather than expecting the system to know they are done with it. Though, I suspect most ActionScript isn't actually coded, but auto generated in the worst possible way; much like people using Word to create HTML.
I think you are partially right. I'm not sure they would have done well with a Palm purchase. However, they seem to want to cram the Windows OS into everywhere with as few changes as possible. This is like taking a C++ or Java mindset programmer and having them write JavaScript. You get a crappy product that barely does what it is suppose to. Instead, they need to embrace the disadvantages of the platform and turn them into advantages. I think Apple and Palm understood this, and changed the way the interface works from actions best done by a mouse, to a new type of action that can be done with fingers not constantly in contact with the screen.
I know Palm's Hail-Mary pass to stay in the game with the Pre using the WebOS failed, but it was their cheap hardware that killed them. The Palm needed 4x the RAM, a better case, and a touch screen that doesn't break every 3 months. Plus, who knows what they were thinking by not putting in a microSD slot; did it really add that much to the cost of the $500 hardware?
I wish I could mod you +6. Your comment was one of the most informative comments I've seen. I can now click on low score comments without having to go to a separate page, then hitting the back button to be put at the top of the page wondering where I was at. I just figured it was the/. way to further discourage reading idle topics.
I think you missed the point. He's saying there is not a need for more dating sites. I was reading the other day that there is one for Apple fans. Why do we need a dating site that caters to Apple fans? Couldn't one just list it in the "looking for" box of plentyofish, Yahoo! Singles, Craigs List, or any one of the many other dating sites that already exist? When I was looking through the dating sites, I would have preferred fewer sites so I know where to look rather than having to register for 20 sites.
Same thing with social networks. If I want to join one to keep up with someone, I don't want to have to register with 20 different flavors of social network sites. With regards to the news sites, it would be awesome if they all used the same login; didn't requirement to use different password rules or pick a new id because I can't remember my old password or someone else has my id.
The point of the article wasn't to say these sites shouldn't exist, but there are just simply too many doing the same thing, and we don't need any more of X type.
I don't fully agree with the opinion I'm about to present, but one of your statements just seems wrong.
How would this research pay for itself in the long run? These are generally older people that are afflicted with the disease. The types of people that are either done with their working careers or nearly so, and contribute little or nothing to the tax base. In fact, they either are drawing or are soon to draw on the social programs like Social Security and Medicare. By reducing the number of geriatric deaths, we increase the economic burden of these programs, thereby making us pay even more for the research. Wouldn't it make more economic sense to require the elderly to go down to an office in order to collect their Social Security and Medicare benefits, and if they forget to do so, pocket the change? (No, they could not collect multiple times.)
Now, I in no way would really want to back the stance of the last question, nor want to avoid researching a cure. I just think either I'm missing something, or your statement is wrong.
However for the rest of your comments, a community college tends to only offer the first 2 years of education, not 4 year degrees. Also, if I took my alma-mater, Boise State University, they are currently $2650 per semester. A simple extrapolation of 10% increase per year (which is only slightly higher than the realized increase), 4 years would put a student at $24.5K for tuition. I don't think books would quite take up the whole $5.5K. So yes, $30K would pay for a college education not including room, pizza, and beer.
I think you need to substitute the two nerds with two college girls. Then one of them is held hostage by the mad scientist. So, the other one had to run back for help from her sorority sisters. Some of whom are chemistry or physics majors with a fascination for big guns and fast cars.
I see from other comments you are getting flamed, but modded well. I read all that you wrote on this subject, and I'm glad to see the jury was not filled with a bunch of ignorant people. Thank you for your insight into the jury room, I found it enlightening. One of your comments even implied why his bail was set so extreme. I think you are correct in that most of us knew very little of the real facts, and could only go on what information was publicly available.
I find it a shame though, that someone like Terry Childs will get 5 years in prison for this type of crime while others who commit far more serious crimes get little or no jail time.
My point was kind of to mock a couple of groups. First, those that believe we have a free market system. Second, to mock those that think everything is unicorns and leprechauns in a truly free market system.
I believe that monopolies are the end result in a truly free market system. One player will dominate the market place through one means or another. Once they have that monopoly, they will force their will on others, and squeeze out any possibility of another player rising. Furthermore, even if that were not the case, not everyone has the means, ability, or resources to actually start up a business. Yet, some people just think that a truly free market will just make room for the best ideas even for those without the resources.
I've been a programmer/software engineer for mumbly-mumbly years myself. I don't really hate computers at all. I still enjoy going home and plopping down in front of one; sometimes to play games, and other times to write out a fun project. However, I sometimes get tired of the same ole stuff at work, and I really hate when a family member wants me to fix their virus problem, but those aren't the fault of the computer. I imagine I'd be just as tired of any other profession after mumbly-mumbly years of doing the same thing, but it isn't the fault of the tool.
You are always welcome to create your own drive and sell it in the market place without FAT. In this free market, if you make a better product, then you should be able to wipe out the rest of the market or at least be able to compete to a level of profitability. So far, the market has cried loudly that FAT is the best of the best having nearly crushed all the competition. Furthermore, in a truly free economy, monopolies should be allowed to exist as long as they provide the best product for the best price. The minute a monopoly no longer creates the best product for the best price, a competitor will rise up and take that dominance away. Thus, clearly, the free market system has indicated there is either limited use for the ext2 file system, or no one has tried.</sarcasm>
You probably haven't sat on a jury yet. Most people on the jury are not Mr. Childs' intellectual peers, they are his citizen peers. A person is suppose to be innocent until proven guilty, but too many folks from the general population tend to believe "if there's smoke there's fire; he must be guilty if he's charged for something." Sure it is the job of the defending lawyer to try to filter as many of those as possible out of the pool, but the DA's job is to fill the pool with as many of those as possible. Then we've got jury members who don't know jack about the technical details or the law, so they just go with their gut instinct on the people on the stand and the lawyers. Which lawyer did a better job of saying stuff? Hell, some members even go by what the lawyers wore.
No, sadly, our American justice system claims to be a fair system, and perhaps it is compared to others, but it is really a tyranny of ignorance and money. Mr. Childs likely doesn't have the money to really fight this (since he couldn't afford the $5M bail), so it boils down to his luck of a jury pool. Considering what I've read of his luck, that isn't much luck at all. Guilty or not, he could be serving time. Many other folks are rotting in jail without ever having committed the crime they are "guilty of" because the person's "peers" believed they were.
I hope that Childs will be found innocent of all charges, and he can fight back against the city. I just don't believe that facts are enough.
When do we need Java? I uninstalled it from my "new" computer about 2 years ago. I only notice it's absence when I'm at another machine and it asks me to update the JVM.
HR departments tend to not know anything other than what the department manager hands them. The department manager asking for 10 years experience probably read about Objective-C on ZDNet (or worse Forbes) and thought he should get on the band wagon. HR, however, will likely trash resumes containing "Cocoa" as it doesn't match the words handed to them by the department manager.
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I don't know; it might be fun to see a reconfigured R2D2 launch Lucas & young Mark Hamill into the stratosphere. Perhaps, C3P0 will join the dark side, have his arm rebuilt as a laser cannon which fires at Anikan Skywalker whenever he does something stupid.
I might consider watching those variants; otherwise, Star Wars is a franchise I have long stopped supporting.
Is this where someone is suppose to say, "Soylent Green is people!" Or, are we to believe that it would be more ecologically friendly if we consumed Soylent Green? I'm sure that would leave someone to comment about eating the neighbor's.... I'm at work, so I won't say it, nor the accompanying joke.
It might be more memorable and fun to visit Nevada (in the counties it is legal). This is just sad to pay money to play games with "girls" that you don't even know if they are.
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Maybe because the year of the Linux desktop has arrived (NetBooks & phones), and the other OS is offered by a more poisonous snake. Now that valid competition exists, and MicroSoft doesn't look so evil any more, we can consider it a valid alternative.
Like others have said, you are confused about JS. It is a beautiful language that has been cursed by the browser. The only features I'd like to add would be (explicit) multi-threading, and typing beyond var. JS is a truly object oriented language that offers dynamic scoping and functions as first class objects. I understand there are some command-line interpreters that actually allow those, but I've only used it in the browser. If any of those languages you mentioned had made their introduction via the browser, you'd hate them equally or more so.
Hate to burst your bubble, but you'd find memory leaks in JS too. Your just not running it long enough to see the craptacular job the GC does, and most "JavaScript programmers" (frequently programmers from other languages coding in JS) don't explicitly deallocate their memory. (Yes, JS does allow for explicit deletion). As a result, the GC count doesn't get decremented correctly, and leaks spring forth. Just try to run a JS program for a few days that's actually doing something besides sitting there and watch the memory creep. AS could probably be better than it is, if the coders would actually delete their objects explicitly rather than expecting the system to know they are done with it. Though, I suspect most ActionScript isn't actually coded, but auto generated in the worst possible way; much like people using Word to create HTML.
I think you are partially right. I'm not sure they would have done well with a Palm purchase. However, they seem to want to cram the Windows OS into everywhere with as few changes as possible. This is like taking a C++ or Java mindset programmer and having them write JavaScript. You get a crappy product that barely does what it is suppose to. Instead, they need to embrace the disadvantages of the platform and turn them into advantages. I think Apple and Palm understood this, and changed the way the interface works from actions best done by a mouse, to a new type of action that can be done with fingers not constantly in contact with the screen.
I know Palm's Hail-Mary pass to stay in the game with the Pre using the WebOS failed, but it was their cheap hardware that killed them. The Palm needed 4x the RAM, a better case, and a touch screen that doesn't break every 3 months. Plus, who knows what they were thinking by not putting in a microSD slot; did it really add that much to the cost of the $500 hardware?
It reminds me of the Non-Sequitur comic this week.
I wish I could mod you +6. Your comment was one of the most informative comments I've seen. I can now click on low score comments without having to go to a separate page, then hitting the back button to be put at the top of the page wondering where I was at. I just figured it was the /. way to further discourage reading idle topics.
I think you missed the point. He's saying there is not a need for more dating sites. I was reading the other day that there is one for Apple fans. Why do we need a dating site that caters to Apple fans? Couldn't one just list it in the "looking for" box of plentyofish, Yahoo! Singles, Craigs List, or any one of the many other dating sites that already exist? When I was looking through the dating sites, I would have preferred fewer sites so I know where to look rather than having to register for 20 sites.
Same thing with social networks. If I want to join one to keep up with someone, I don't want to have to register with 20 different flavors of social network sites. With regards to the news sites, it would be awesome if they all used the same login; didn't requirement to use different password rules or pick a new id because I can't remember my old password or someone else has my id.
The point of the article wasn't to say these sites shouldn't exist, but there are just simply too many doing the same thing, and we don't need any more of X type.
Why am I reminded of the multi-attributed quote: If you remember the sixties, you weren't really there?
I don't fully agree with the opinion I'm about to present, but one of your statements just seems wrong.
How would this research pay for itself in the long run? These are generally older people that are afflicted with the disease. The types of people that are either done with their working careers or nearly so, and contribute little or nothing to the tax base. In fact, they either are drawing or are soon to draw on the social programs like Social Security and Medicare. By reducing the number of geriatric deaths, we increase the economic burden of these programs, thereby making us pay even more for the research. Wouldn't it make more economic sense to require the elderly to go down to an office in order to collect their Social Security and Medicare benefits, and if they forget to do so, pocket the change? (No, they could not collect multiple times.)
Now, I in no way would really want to back the stance of the last question, nor want to avoid researching a cure. I just think either I'm missing something, or your statement is wrong.
He probably did mean per semester.
However for the rest of your comments, a community college tends to only offer the first 2 years of education, not 4 year degrees. Also, if I took my alma-mater, Boise State University, they are currently $2650 per semester. A simple extrapolation of 10% increase per year (which is only slightly higher than the realized increase), 4 years would put a student at $24.5K for tuition. I don't think books would quite take up the whole $5.5K. So yes, $30K would pay for a college education not including room, pizza, and beer.
I think you need to substitute the two nerds with two college girls. Then one of them is held hostage by the mad scientist. So, the other one had to run back for help from her sorority sisters. Some of whom are chemistry or physics majors with a fascination for big guns and fast cars.
I see from other comments you are getting flamed, but modded well. I read all that you wrote on this subject, and I'm glad to see the jury was not filled with a bunch of ignorant people. Thank you for your insight into the jury room, I found it enlightening. One of your comments even implied why his bail was set so extreme. I think you are correct in that most of us knew very little of the real facts, and could only go on what information was publicly available.
I find it a shame though, that someone like Terry Childs will get 5 years in prison for this type of crime while others who commit far more serious crimes get little or no jail time.
Corporations are sneaky critters. They'd probably use Hollywood Accounting. It's best to go after their gross revenues than net profits.
Funny. A++++++. Would read again.
My point was kind of to mock a couple of groups. First, those that believe we have a free market system. Second, to mock those that think everything is unicorns and leprechauns in a truly free market system.
I believe that monopolies are the end result in a truly free market system. One player will dominate the market place through one means or another. Once they have that monopoly, they will force their will on others, and squeeze out any possibility of another player rising. Furthermore, even if that were not the case, not everyone has the means, ability, or resources to actually start up a business. Yet, some people just think that a truly free market will just make room for the best ideas even for those without the resources.
I've been a programmer/software engineer for mumbly-mumbly years myself. I don't really hate computers at all. I still enjoy going home and plopping down in front of one; sometimes to play games, and other times to write out a fun project. However, I sometimes get tired of the same ole stuff at work, and I really hate when a family member wants me to fix their virus problem, but those aren't the fault of the computer. I imagine I'd be just as tired of any other profession after mumbly-mumbly years of doing the same thing, but it isn't the fault of the tool.
You are always welcome to create your own drive and sell it in the market place without FAT. In this free market, if you make a better product, then you should be able to wipe out the rest of the market or at least be able to compete to a level of profitability. So far, the market has cried loudly that FAT is the best of the best having nearly crushed all the competition. Furthermore, in a truly free economy, monopolies should be allowed to exist as long as they provide the best product for the best price. The minute a monopoly no longer creates the best product for the best price, a competitor will rise up and take that dominance away. Thus, clearly, the free market system has indicated there is either limited use for the ext2 file system, or no one has tried.</sarcasm>
You probably haven't sat on a jury yet. Most people on the jury are not Mr. Childs' intellectual peers, they are his citizen peers. A person is suppose to be innocent until proven guilty, but too many folks from the general population tend to believe "if there's smoke there's fire; he must be guilty if he's charged for something." Sure it is the job of the defending lawyer to try to filter as many of those as possible out of the pool, but the DA's job is to fill the pool with as many of those as possible. Then we've got jury members who don't know jack about the technical details or the law, so they just go with their gut instinct on the people on the stand and the lawyers. Which lawyer did a better job of saying stuff? Hell, some members even go by what the lawyers wore.
No, sadly, our American justice system claims to be a fair system, and perhaps it is compared to others, but it is really a tyranny of ignorance and money. Mr. Childs likely doesn't have the money to really fight this (since he couldn't afford the $5M bail), so it boils down to his luck of a jury pool. Considering what I've read of his luck, that isn't much luck at all. Guilty or not, he could be serving time. Many other folks are rotting in jail without ever having committed the crime they are "guilty of" because the person's "peers" believed they were.
I hope that Childs will be found innocent of all charges, and he can fight back against the city. I just don't believe that facts are enough.
I'm not sure why, but I first read your last word as Mormons.
When do we need Java? I uninstalled it from my "new" computer about 2 years ago. I only notice it's absence when I'm at another machine and it asks me to update the JVM.
HR departments tend to not know anything other than what the department manager hands them. The department manager asking for 10 years experience probably read about Objective-C on ZDNet (or worse Forbes) and thought he should get on the band wagon. HR, however, will likely trash resumes containing "Cocoa" as it doesn't match the words handed to them by the department manager.
LOLZ++++++++. Would read again.
I don't know; it might be fun to see a reconfigured R2D2 launch Lucas & young Mark Hamill into the stratosphere. Perhaps, C3P0 will join the dark side, have his arm rebuilt as a laser cannon which fires at Anikan Skywalker whenever he does something stupid.
I might consider watching those variants; otherwise, Star Wars is a franchise I have long stopped supporting.
Is this where someone is suppose to say, "Soylent Green is people!" Or, are we to believe that it would be more ecologically friendly if we consumed Soylent Green? I'm sure that would leave someone to comment about eating the neighbor's .... I'm at work, so I won't say it, nor the accompanying joke.
It might be more memorable and fun to visit Nevada (in the counties it is legal). This is just sad to pay money to play games with "girls" that you don't even know if they are.