Thank you for posting your example and explanation. I'm learning a great deal. I found it much easier to read the narrow common. As you've pointed out, some find it perfectly horrible. A difference in learning styles which you have kindly expanded upon.
I had thought that there were three styles on that axis: visual, auditory, and kinetic. Thank you for pointing out the tactile and spatial.
How do other axes (axises?) work in here? Some people need to be given the theory before they can work examples. I can't even begin to grasp a theory until I have a concrete example of just what the heck the theorist is babbling about.
Then there's the left-brain right-brain thing. I seem to have a lot of right-brain going for me, and I tend to concur with those who suggest that my brain is sucking in stuff from the lines above and below. ADD certainly doesn't help here. Maybe it is related.
And finally there's Meyers-Briggs and the other one that breaks people into Feeling/Analyzing/Doing/and Managing or something like that.
I have been hoping to supplement my IT income by tutoring, and I think it helps to understand how a variety of people think, perceive, and learn.
Alright, so let me see if I have this straight: If some other country tries to fire a missle at the United States, and we want to deprive them of accurate positioning, the United States would have to blow up a bunch of cell towers in the United States. Right?
A good deed never seems to go unpunished. Morris tried to make people aware of the lax security on the internet. So maybe he botched the timing constant. They nailed him good for all his best intentions.
I'm as much an MS hater as anyone else, but still, "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence", or something like that, anyways
No, sorry, but the Registry deserves as special "Malice and incompetence" category.
As you should been aware, Febuary is language deteriation month. Especially when your talking about nucular subsiderarys. Saying "Janurary' in Febuary makes sense in that regards.
In my experience Azureus (and presumably other BT clients) will only open about 10 new connections per second, which should be much less than the threshold for a worm detector.
...and then the newer stealth worms will moderate to only about 10 new connections per second, and sneak in under the radar.
You are, as you say, a programmer. Probably a professional. Not an aspiring amateur.
Having a robust language built in is one thing. Downloading 150MB of Express Edition at dial-up speeds, and jumping through several procedural hoops is another thing entirely. Downloading 120MB of Java with NetBeans over dial-up is yet another experience. Installing Cygwin is no picnic over dial-up either. Then, to have any languages, you must download further modules. Not exactly straight forward. I must have missed a Cygwin module someplace, because emacs won't respond properly to a Ctl-X, Ctl-C. I have to kill the whole Cygwin process from the task manager. But yes, using vi and perl, I can whip up a file analyzer in no time.
I'm certainly not saying it is impossible. I've had good luck with ActiveState Perl. Downloads fast, installs, and runs with no hiccups. I'm the sort who can do, and has done, great things. But I have to do it in very small steps. Otherwise what I do isn't repeatable, and my experience won't transfer to other people. I've run into so many problems with tools that install (wave of the hand) real easy.
And of course I find that things work quite well under verious Linux distros. But the big box stores still don't stock PCs with Linux pre-installed. So it's hardly a right-out-of-the-box solution.
I still contend that Microsoft has deliberately made programming difficult for the novice.
As for the programming interface, they have bragged about redoing the API with every new Windows release. Are OLE and COM still relevant? How much has been deprecated with.NET? Not that I've ever been exposed to any of that under VB. But it does seem like Microsoft is trying to see what I can do with their tools, rather than me seeing how I can do what it is that I'm trying to do.
The fact that all 3 movies seriously overestimated the rate of progress in technology can be excused by the fact that no one could have anticipated Microsoft slapping a parking brake on the industry for the past ~30 years.
I'd blame MS for many things, but not _that_. The fact is, noone really knows how to make a computer think, and that's that.
Microsoft has done at least a couple of things to slow progress.
1. Take the ball and run. They keep shifting the operating system behaviors and the programming interface. Everyone's playing catch-up, with no time to stabilize anything worth while.
2. Poison the well. They let text-based programming die. QBasic won't support long file names. Microsoft-sanctioned languages are generally either expensive, or they tend to induce brain damage. They've done their level best to kill off the amateur programmer.
Doesn't SCO or somebody have it locked up with: "A Method for Doing Stuff with Things" and "A Method for Doing Stuff with Things Involving a Computing Device"?
"Don't forget the neckbraces that explode when you go beyond the perimeter. We have those today in the form of shopping carts with wheels that lock if you take them outside the parking lot."
My dogs would tell you that a closer example might be the shock collar that each wears around their necks that remind them of the perimiter of our yard...
NO! I want shopping carts which explode when people take them out of the lot! Heh.
Playing with the gene knobs is surely not what we, humble creations of the Intelligent Designer, are allowed to do.
"In a general way, man's evolutionary destiny is in his own hands, and scientific intelligence must sooner or later supersede the random functioning of uncontrolled natural selection and chance survival."-the Urantia Book p. 734.
So, you see, I not only believe in evolution and intelligent design, I also believe that God wants us to "Play with the gene knobs".
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Come on, there are an infinite number of ways to hold your tounge and squint.
On the other hand, there are not an infinite number of ways to spell "tongue".
Yes, but 'e was clearly spelling "tounge", then, wasn't 'e?
Praline: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge.
Man: Housinge???
Praline: Yes, it was spelt that way on the van. I'm very observant.
If we can put a two-legged laser firing robot on the moon, why can't you take out the garbage when you're supposed to?
Naw, naw! I wuz cunfiuzing it with Rite Wunce. Iem gledd thay ficksed it.
See? Nauw itz Rite Egen.
"overfilled twinkie" comes to mind...
I was thinking more like:
Uh, Houston, why do you keep calling us "Pinto"?
Thank you for posting your example and explanation. I'm learning a great deal. I found it much easier to read the narrow common. As you've pointed out, some find it perfectly horrible. A difference in learning styles which you have kindly expanded upon.
I had thought that there were three styles on that axis: visual, auditory, and kinetic. Thank you for pointing out the tactile and spatial.
How do other axes (axises?) work in here? Some people need to be given the theory before they can work examples. I can't even begin to grasp a theory until I have a concrete example of just what the heck the theorist is babbling about.
Then there's the left-brain right-brain thing. I seem to have a lot of right-brain going for me, and I tend to concur with those who suggest that my brain is sucking in stuff from the lines above and below. ADD certainly doesn't help here. Maybe it is related.
And finally there's Meyers-Briggs and the other one that breaks people into Feeling/Analyzing/Doing/and Managing or something like that.
I have been hoping to supplement my IT income by tutoring, and I think it helps to understand how a variety of people think, perceive, and learn.
Alright, so let me see if I have this straight: If some other country tries to fire a missle at the United States, and we want to deprive them of accurate positioning, the United States would have to blow up a bunch of cell towers in the United States. Right?
A good deed never seems to go unpunished. Morris tried to make people aware of the lax security on the internet. So maybe he botched the timing constant. They nailed him good for all his best intentions.
Time for another Windows vs. Linux Total Cost of Ownership Study.
I'm as much an MS hater as anyone else, but still, "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence", or something like that, anyways
No, sorry, but the Registry deserves as special "Malice and incompetence" category.
Trees are very powerful at breaking up concrete and other human building materials.
They've even been known to kill a congressman or two.
I'm waiting for the Xbox 360 Elite eXtreme.
I'm waiting for the Xbox 370.
As you should been aware, Febuary is language deteriation month. Especially when your talking about nucular subsiderarys. Saying "Janurary' in Febuary makes sense in that regards.
In my experience Azureus (and presumably other BT clients) will only open about 10 new connections per second, which should be much less than the threshold for a worm detector.
...and then the newer stealth worms will moderate to only about 10 new connections per second, and sneak in under the radar.
But is 10cm really a useful size? I'm sure most Americans and most British people over the age of 50 aren't going to have any idea.
10cm would be ...oh, roughly the size of one of those (IMHO way too fucking common) 100mm cigarrettes, wouldn't it?
And a kg would be about what a liter of soda pop weighs. And a liter of soda pop would be about... oh, maybe a liter.
30 rulers lined end to end, or a garbage truck?
Something like "a 1/4 mile" is much better in my opinion.
Now that is one big-assed garbage truck!
The original IBM PC clocked at 4.7 MHz.
Now they can go 4.7 GHz.
About frickin' time.
You are, as you say, a programmer. Probably a professional. Not an aspiring amateur.
Having a robust language built in is one thing. Downloading 150MB of Express Edition at dial-up speeds, and jumping through several procedural hoops is another thing entirely. Downloading 120MB of Java with NetBeans over dial-up is yet another experience. Installing Cygwin is no picnic over dial-up either. Then, to have any languages, you must download further modules. Not exactly straight forward. I must have missed a Cygwin module someplace, because emacs won't respond properly to a Ctl-X, Ctl-C. I have to kill the whole Cygwin process from the task manager. But yes, using vi and perl, I can whip up a file analyzer in no time.
I'm certainly not saying it is impossible. I've had good luck with ActiveState Perl. Downloads fast, installs, and runs with no hiccups. I'm the sort who can do, and has done, great things. But I have to do it in very small steps. Otherwise what I do isn't repeatable, and my experience won't transfer to other people. I've run into so many problems with tools that install (wave of the hand) real easy.
And of course I find that things work quite well under verious Linux distros. But the big box stores still don't stock PCs with Linux pre-installed. So it's hardly a right-out-of-the-box solution.
I still contend that Microsoft has deliberately made programming difficult for the novice.
As for the programming interface, they have bragged about redoing the API with every new Windows release. Are OLE and COM still relevant? How much has been deprecated with .NET? Not that I've ever been exposed to any of that under VB. But it does seem like Microsoft is trying to see what I can do with their tools, rather than me seeing how I can do what it is that I'm trying to do.
The fact that all 3 movies seriously overestimated the rate of progress in technology can be excused by the fact that no one could have anticipated Microsoft slapping a parking brake on the industry for the past ~30 years.
I'd blame MS for many things, but not _that_. The fact is, noone really knows how to make a computer think, and that's that.
Microsoft has done at least a couple of things to slow progress.
1. Take the ball and run. They keep shifting the operating system behaviors and the programming interface. Everyone's playing catch-up, with no time to stabilize anything worth while.
2. Poison the well. They let text-based programming die. QBasic won't support long file names. Microsoft-sanctioned languages are generally either expensive, or they tend to induce brain damage. They've done their level best to kill off the amateur programmer.
Brains. Right. Just what some bot-master will want to send his zombies after.
No, this means that the internet is far older than we thought.
And, therefore, Al Gore is far older than we thought.
Doesn't SCO or somebody have it locked up with:
"A Method for Doing Stuff with Things" and
"A Method for Doing Stuff with Things Involving a Computing Device"?
I fully expect Intel to make a 2-1/2 core CPU called the Dual-Core-3 and a 3 core called the Dual-Core-4.
"Don't forget the neckbraces that explode when you go beyond the perimeter. We have those today in the form of shopping carts with wheels that lock if you take them outside the parking lot."
My dogs would tell you that a closer example might be the shock collar that each wears around their necks that remind them of the perimiter of our yard...
NO! I want shopping carts which explode when people take them out of the lot! Heh.
Playing with the gene knobs is surely not what we, humble creations of the Intelligent Designer, are allowed to do.
"In a general way, man's evolutionary destiny is in his own hands, and scientific intelligence must sooner or later supersede the random functioning of uncontrolled natural selection and chance survival."-the Urantia Book p. 734.
So, you see, I not only believe in evolution and intelligent design, I also believe that God wants us to "Play with the gene knobs".
Hehe. Weird, huh?
I think you mean "Deep Space Nine".
No! Mine! All mine! Deep Space all MINE!
Mine, mine, mine, mine, MINE!