If a few good uses of XUL can become widespread over the next six months or so, it has a good chance to take a hold before XAML can squash it
Eh, how many times already has Microsoft been second to market, but eventually squashed the competition by marketing? Off the top of my head I can think of Windows, Windows networking (WfW 3.11), IE, Excel and Word.
Why the heck not? You certainly can waste your way into a worse future. If you avoid doing that, have you conserved your way to a better future, or what?
My conclusion is that closed source code is by its nature ephemeral. The company owns it; nobody else gets a look in. Eventually the company stops caring about it and it evapooates. Open source, well most open source code is one guy's pet project, and if he loses interest it just gathers dust. But at least it does no in the open, where anyone can repurpose it some day if they see fit.
But he apparently misses the obvious converse, that the world media do a spectacularly bad job of informing the rest of the world what's going on in the U.S.
Does not follow. If I know nothing about Fred, that does not imply that Fred therefor knows nothing about me.
Now it may be true that the rest of the world knows nothing about the USA, but you'd have to offer evidence about it that my perception that The BBC, The Guardian et al give it plenty of quality airtime.
It also sounds nuts to me that they'd claim this is an entirely different species.... Granted, there's no direct evidence that this was possible
So, you wish to dismiss a theory as "nuts", while admiting that there is no evidence against it.
There are plenty of 4-foot-tall humans today.
You're saying that an archeologist couldn't tell the difference between a stunted or juvenine human and an adult 3-foot hominid? Or perhaps you think there is no difference. Read the article. The skeletal differences are the evidence for the theory that this is a different species. What's your qualification in that field?
That doesn't mean it's meaningless. In fact, if it was meaningless, nobody would bother to play it. Your actions in virtual worlds have weight, that's the point. That's why people get upset when they get jerked around in these games.
playing a character that should be treated a certain way within the context of the game
It depends - is that what you signed up for? If you signed up for abuse, then you are a sad cookie. If you got it unasked because some bright spark on the admin staff decided to be all "historically accurate" suddenly, then that's a lot more open to question.
If you ask someone often enough, they'll tell you what you want to hear
Overpromising will cease when the press stops chasing after every rumour, because they know their readers are interested. It would help if the game-buying public didn't pore over every preview and hint, and want more details.
But it can certainly be appropriate for libraries to have undefined behaviour given bad input
Well, that is arguable. All that means in a case like that is that the code that needs to be fixed with some extra checks is the client code to that library. It still needs a fix somewhere.
Re:handling malformed data is a pretty bad idea ..
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Bad markup shouldn't render.
It shouldn't crash the browser either.
If any input, even a pathological one, can crash my program, then I need to fix my program. Always.
No. I don't care how bad the input is, if my program reads the input and throws an access violation, then it is my job to fix my program, test the input more, assume less about it or whatever, until my program does something more sensible and less dangerous with the input - like giving up with an error message or even an assertion failure.
I repeat: code that crashes with a null pointer error is wrong. End of story.
An judge also ruled that fear of a murder attempt is not sufficient reason to search individuals at a public place because we will never eliminate all murder.
"An judge" is flawed grammar, you mean "A judge".
The rest of your analogy is also flawed. Searching everyone at the scene of a serious crime - go right ahead. Searching where there is supposedly evidence of intent to commit a crime - checks and balances are needed, e.g. a warrant.
Searching everyone at a political protest because of a "heightened state of alert" and an intentional climate of fear resulting from murders occurring on the 11th of Sept 2 years ago: big civil liberties problem.
As an author you have certainly grown. Snow Crash was good enough to put you on the map, but you've since left it far behind.
Now that the Baroque cycle is over, do you have any interest in writing futuristic sci-fi any more, or have you left the entire genre behind? Will there be any more novels from you that are anything like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age?
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here's the thing: C# and C++ is not a boxing match. C# and Java, maybe foes, but C++ and C#/Java are compilimentary technologoes, horses for courses if you will.
An unanticipated change in CO2 = "things are worse" ?
As far as warning of C02 emissions go, an unanticipated leap in CO2 = "things are worse", oh yes. Read the title, if nothing else.
And you can't spell
So I have a job and was called to a meeting before I had time to proofread, big deal.
And the 'some of us' comment, clearly Flamebait, its one of the cheapest ad hominem attacks that there is.
Grow some thicker skin, dude. I was thinking of people who study ecosystems full-time. No, I'm not one of them. A statement such as "the ecosystem is a bit more complex than any of us realize" is virtually meaningless, unless you know everyone.
Or just maybe it implies that the model of global warming is flawed?
Of course it implies that the model of global warming is flawed. And it indicates that things are probably worse than the doomsayers thought.
Perhaps the ecosystem is a bit more complex than any of us realize,
Some of us realise that it's very complex indeed.
and perhaps this is a natural phenomenon?
That's not what the evidence indicates. So there's no absolute prof yet, but hey, maybe that gun isn't loaded. Why not point it at your head, pull the trigger and see. But please, don't you take that risk with my future.
Yeah we have pointy teeth. We are able to eat meat. We can does not imply that we should. We're able to to lots of nasty stuff that's against the civilised conduct of the last few 100 years.
And yes, it is possible to substitute in things like beans and legumes... But please recognize that it is a substitution.
A is a substitute for B, and B is a substitute for A. *shrug*. Only in western countries are we so priveleged that we can decide to exclude whole classes of food from our diets for reasons of weight managment or conscience. Being vegan makes no more biological sense than being atkin.
I agree with you there. If I was starving in the wilderness, I'd eat meat before dying.
How about talking about the book specifically, rather than mono in general for a bit. I've been playing with mono a bit, and have a book called "Mono kick-start" that I don't find to be much use. Is this book better? How?
I've written enough code for my toy project that now I want to put a gui on it, rather than just "self-testing by Console.Write". Problem is, I now want to do some custom drawing and I don't know GTK at all. Will this book help me?
Where, if anywhere, can I find a good API/class library reference for using GTK in mono on win32?
small groups is that the small groups were able to coordinate their behavior better. This usually took years of training within a culture of discipline (like the Roman army).
Flash mobs don't have military disipline. I've been in a couple, and it was fun for the first 15 minutes, but an army it isn't.
Flash mobs may be a better way to organise demos, but the participants would still need resolve and dedication and maybe training beforehand. The army could then use the same communication too.
What exactly did they add in the extended editions? The first had an extra beginning (with Bilbo reading his book). Did that add anything to the story? No. Did it hurt the story? In my opinion, yes.
Well, I thought that the pacing of the DVD versions of FotR and T2T was better, less rushed and choppy. Your milage may vary.
If you want the full story, turn off the TV, go to your local library, and read the damn books.
Been there, done that several times. That's part of why I like the longer films.
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If a few good uses of XUL can become widespread over the next six months or so, it has a good chance to take a hold before XAML can squash it
Eh, how many times already has Microsoft been second to market, but eventually squashed the competition by marketing? Off the top of my head I can think of Windows, Windows networking (WfW 3.11), IE, Excel and Word.
I don't think you can stumble in to the development business with out knowing your going to be working insane hours more often than not.
Wrong. Insane hours as a normal state of affairs are a sign of a seriously broken development process.
You can not conserve your way to a better future.
Why the heck not? You certainly can waste your way into a worse future. If you avoid doing that, have you conserved your way to a better future, or what?
Been there, not quite as badly, but badly enough.
My conclusion is that closed source code is by its nature ephemeral. The company owns it; nobody else gets a look in. Eventually the company stops caring about it and it evapooates. Open source, well most open source code is one guy's pet project, and if he loses interest it just gathers dust. But at least it does no in the open, where anyone can repurpose it some day if they see fit.
We're well informed that about half of you voted for Bush last time, and about half of you plan to do it again. Why just don't know why.
But he apparently misses the obvious converse, that the world media do a spectacularly bad job of informing the rest of the world what's going on in the U.S.
Does not follow. If I know nothing about Fred, that does not imply that Fred therefor knows nothing about me.
Now it may be true that the rest of the world knows nothing about the USA, but you'd have to offer evidence about it that my perception that The BBC, The Guardian et al give it plenty of quality airtime.
I'm no expert on that, but a google for "determine age bones" turns up http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=45647 and http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/425/425lect17.htm and http://www.ilri.cgiar.org/InfoServ/Webpub/Fulldocs /Yakpro/SessionE9.htm.
Agreed that it would be harder for a new species, but there are things to go on - it's a lot more complex than "short, therefor child".
It also sounds nuts to me that they'd claim this is an entirely different species. ... Granted, there's no direct evidence that this was possible
So, you wish to dismiss a theory as "nuts", while admiting that there is no evidence against it.
There are plenty of 4-foot-tall humans today.
You're saying that an archeologist couldn't tell the difference between a stunted or juvenine human and an adult 3-foot hominid? Or perhaps you think there is no difference. Read the article. The skeletal differences are the evidence for the theory that this is a different species. What's your qualification in that field?
Let's be clear, RPG stands for Roll Playing Game.
That would be "Role playing game"
THAT'S NOT REAL.
That doesn't mean it's meaningless. In fact, if it was meaningless, nobody would bother to play it. Your actions in virtual worlds have weight, that's the point. That's why people get upset when they get jerked around in these games.
playing a character that should be treated a certain way within the context of the game
It depends - is that what you signed up for? If you signed up for abuse, then you are a sad cookie. If you got it unasked because some bright spark on the admin staff decided to be all "historically accurate" suddenly, then that's a lot more open to question.
On a trip to Mars, astronauts will have to drink recycled
Eh, most of the water knocking around planet earth has been knocking around for millions of years, and has been recycled more than a few times.
If you ask someone often enough, they'll tell you what you want to hear
Overpromising will cease when the press stops chasing after every rumour, because they know their readers are interested. It would help if the game-buying public didn't pore over every preview and hint, and want more details.
Fat chance.
But it can certainly be appropriate for libraries to have undefined behaviour given bad input
Well, that is arguable. All that means in a case like that is that the code that needs to be fixed with some extra checks is the client code to that library. It still needs a fix somewhere.
Bad markup shouldn't render.
It shouldn't crash the browser either.
If any input, even a pathological one, can crash my program, then I need to fix my program. Always.
No. I don't care how bad the input is, if my program reads the input and throws an access violation, then it is my job to fix my program, test the input more, assume less about it or whatever, until my program does something more sensible and less dangerous with the input - like giving up with an error message or even an assertion failure.
I repeat: code that crashes with a null pointer error is wrong. End of story.
An judge also ruled that fear of a murder attempt is not sufficient reason to search individuals at a public place because we will never eliminate all murder.
"An judge" is flawed grammar, you mean "A judge".
The rest of your analogy is also flawed. Searching everyone at the scene of a serious crime - go right ahead. Searching where there is supposedly evidence of intent to commit a crime - checks and balances are needed, e.g. a warrant.
Searching everyone at a political protest because of a "heightened state of alert" and an intentional climate of fear resulting from murders occurring on the 11th of Sept 2 years ago: big civil liberties problem.
As an author you have certainly grown. Snow Crash was good enough to put you on the map, but you've since left it far behind.
Now that the Baroque cycle is over, do you have any interest in writing futuristic sci-fi any more, or have you left the entire genre behind? Will there be any more novels from you that are anything like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age?
here's the thing: C# and C++ is not a boxing match. C# and Java, maybe foes, but C++ and C#/Java are compilimentary technologoes, horses for courses if you will.
political action taken on the basis of a young science is irresponsible ?
And political inaction on the basis of "well hey, it might not happen" is what exactly?
An unanticipated change in CO2 = "things are worse" ?
As far as warning of C02 emissions go, an unanticipated leap in CO2 = "things are worse", oh yes. Read the title, if nothing else.
And you can't spell
So I have a job and was called to a meeting before I had time to proofread, big deal.
And the 'some of us' comment, clearly Flamebait, its one of the cheapest ad hominem attacks that there is.
Grow some thicker skin, dude. I was thinking of people who study ecosystems full-time. No, I'm not one of them. A statement such as "the ecosystem is a bit more complex than any of us realize" is virtually meaningless, unless you know everyone.
And you're European. Welcome to my foe list.
If that's your criterion, grow up.
Or just maybe it implies that the model of global warming is flawed?
Of course it implies that the model of global warming is flawed. And it indicates that things are probably worse than the doomsayers thought.
Perhaps the ecosystem is a bit more complex than any of us realize,
Some of us realise that it's very complex indeed.
and perhaps this is a natural phenomenon?
That's not what the evidence indicates. So there's no absolute prof yet, but hey, maybe that gun isn't loaded. Why not point it at your head, pull the trigger and see. But please, don't you take that risk with my future.
If a Vm is prior art, then The pascal pc-code is an early one from the 1970s or so.
I have sharp pointy teeth for a reason.
... But please recognize that it is a substitution.
Yeah we have pointy teeth. We are able to eat meat. We can does not imply that we should. We're able to to lots of nasty stuff that's against the civilised conduct of the last few 100 years.
And yes, it is possible to substitute in things like beans and legumes
A is a substitute for B, and B is a substitute for A. *shrug*.
Only in western countries are we so priveleged that we can decide to exclude whole classes of food from our diets for reasons of weight managment or conscience. Being vegan makes no more biological sense than being atkin.
I agree with you there. If I was starving in the wilderness, I'd eat meat before dying.
Your soybeans may just be GM
Proably not, since I'm in the EU not the US.
How about talking about the book specifically, rather than mono in general for a bit. I've been playing with mono a bit, and have a book called "Mono kick-start" that I don't find to be much use. Is this book better? How?
I've written enough code for my toy project that now I want to put a gui on it, rather than just "self-testing by Console.Write". Problem is, I now want to do some custom drawing and I don't know GTK at all. Will this book help me?
Where, if anywhere, can I find a good API/class library reference for using GTK in mono on win32?
small groups is that the small groups were able to coordinate their behavior better. This usually took years of training within a culture of discipline (like the Roman army).
Flash mobs don't have military disipline. I've been in a couple, and it was fun for the first 15 minutes, but an army it isn't.
Flash mobs may be a better way to organise demos, but the participants would still need resolve and dedication and maybe training beforehand. The army could then use the same communication too.
What exactly did they add in the extended editions? The first had an extra beginning (with Bilbo reading his book). Did that add anything to the story? No. Did it hurt the story? In my opinion, yes.
Well, I thought that the pacing of the DVD versions of FotR and T2T was better, less rushed and choppy. Your milage may vary.
If you want the full story, turn off the TV, go to your local library, and read the damn books.
Been there, done that several times. That's part of why I like the longer films.