this is my favorite link to show to the Pythoon nutjobs that praise it for its RAD-iness and ease of use.
Came in late, but I hope you're just trolling and don't really believe this.
I translated the PHP "solutio" right above it to Python in just a few minutes (not having even used Python in the past 2 years!). To top it off, the PHP version DOESN'T EVEN WORK CORRECTLY. It's missing floating point/integer conversions and gives wrong digits after 314159... The python version, translated exactly, works just fine. I'm sure if I remembered more python tricks this could be condensed considerably:
import sys scale = 10000; maxarr = 2800; arrinit = 2000; carry = 0; arr = [] for i in range(maxarr+1): arr.append( arrinit ) for i in range(maxarr, 1, -14):
sum = 0
for j in range(i, 0, -1):
sum = (sum * j) + (scale * arr[j])
arr[j] = sum % ( (j*2)-1 )
sum = sum / ((j*2)-1)
sys.stdout.write("%04d" % (carry + (sum / scale)))
carry = sum % scale
Who's point is it that we minimally impact our planet? Who made us responsible for the entire planet? Isn't it only our responsability to ensure humankind continues for as long as possible?
Who made me responsible for the survival of the whole of humankind? Isn't my only responsibility to my own sweet self? As for the rest of you humans - I wouldn't cross the street to piss on your head if your hair was on fire.
I don't think you quite hit 'absurdum', rather you achieved reductio-ad-libertarianum. Allow me to give it a shot:
"Who made my head responsible for the suvival of my whole body? Isn't my only responsibility to my own brain? As for the rest of my body - if my heart wants to beat so badly, or my lungs want to breathe, they can figure out how to do it their own damned selves and stop relying on the hand-outs of my electrical signals!"
The moment someone whips out a dictionary and cites an irrelevant definition, rather than presenting an arguement, is the moment I know I'm dealing with a clueless idiot. When the follow up it up with sophmoric rhetorical questioning, I know they don't even rise to that level.
While I appreciate your attempt at intellectual conversation, you seem to miss where I pasted all the definitions there were and invited you to pick the one you thought was most relevant. Or perhaps you think that dictionaries in general are "irrelevant"?
You're welcome to try again, or we can leave it as is and I'll file this as an entertaining "I have no actual argument".
And that's precisely the problem. Like so many other terms related to computers, decades of marketspeak have rendered the term essentially meaningless.
And as you say, saying that this is so, does not make it so.
A role, from Dictionary.com:
1. also rôle A character or part played by a performer.
2. The characteristic and expected social behavior of an individual.
3. A function or position. See Synonyms at function.
4. Linguistics. The function of a word or construction, as in a sentence.
I think it's fair to assume we are all using the first definition here, but feel free to pick your favorite.
"A character or part played by a performer." Ok, what is a performer? One who performs. It does not say: "A character or part played by a performer in the presence of an audience."
Is an actor playing a role if they video tape themselves, alone in a room? Are they a playing a role if no-one ever sees that tape? The moment someone views the tape, has history changes and they have gone from not having played a role, to having played a role?
I highly doubt that lo these 25 years ago, Richard Garriot thought to himself "Even though this here Akalabeth was inspired by my love for RPGs I know it's not one, but what the hell, I want to sell it and get rich so I'll market it as an RPG! Mwhahahaha!!!"
While Time > Skill is something that is not usually true in the real world, a more realistic model is very hard to achieve.
In Real Life(tm) there are two kinds of abilities: ones where the "best" action is known and ones where it isn't.
In the first case, these abilities are either limited by physical attributes or not valued. Consider Tic-Tac-Toe. It's known how to achieve the highest possible skill level in that game so having that ability is not valued.
Consider sports. It's known how to make the best free throw in basketball. A robot could be built that makes that shot 100% of the time. The twist is that achieving that perfect motion is difficult because of physical limitation. So we value those who can perform it well.
In the second case, you have abilities where the "best" is not known. We don't know how to be a 100% perfect scientist. Or a 100% perfect artist. So we value those who push the limits and show us new "bests" because they are a rare commidity.
Now, in video games by their nature can only contain abilities with limits. We don't yet have the ability to code the unknown. So any ability you put into a game can and will be learned to its 100% limit (and probably automated by a bot at some point). Because of this the only two ways you can possibly give value to a ability in a game is via physical skill (the best twitcher wins in an FPS) or time.
Since the resource heavy nature of a MMO game makes physical challenges difficult, that leaves...
Oh, too bad. I'll go into the past and tell the Wachowski Brothers that their idea of a guy trapped in a virtual world will become an utter failure. It's too smart for the public.
And here, gentlepersons, is finally proof that time travel does indeed exist!
How else could we explain that given the above idea, what was delivered was a brainless wire-fu movie starring KEANU FUCKING REEVES.
To claim that there's a racist underpinning here is absurd. I mean, if they're Chinese, they're Chinese. Are we going to deny reality now for fear of offending someone? If it's established the majority of farmers are no longer from China, then it's time to drop the term. But while the majority of farmers are based in China the term is still justified.
As pointed out above, the problem with this is that the adjective maybe factually correctly, but it's inconsequential to the problem. The farmers are also human, have two hands and breathe oxygen, but would it make sense to describe them as two-handed, oxygen breathing, human Chinese farmers? Of course not. Because the problem is *farming*.
It doesn't matter *one bit* that they are from China, so why point it out unless you're hoping to play on racial feelings, one way or the other?
So why call it anything? Do I call my Toyota a Ford/Toyota after the father of the production line? I mean, without the modern production line, where would Toyota be? We should give Henry Ford the credit, right?
The more direct analogy would be the new Ford Escape hybrid that has Toyota engine in it. Calling the GNU system "Linux" is like calling that vehicle a Toyota just because it has a Toyota engine.
Take the engine out, and it's still a Ford Escape. Take the kernel out of a "Linux" operating system and it's a collection of mostly GNU tools. Since they're not all GNU tools, it can be argued that GNU isn't the best term for the Operating System as a whole, but it does have a plurality and "Linux" certainly isn't the right name.
However, I think the discussion has much less importance than is placed on it because people really don't use their Operating System (the collection of software the operates the system) much any more. What they use are the applications that are run by the OS, which we generally call a Distrobution.
So call the OS what you will, what people are using is Debian, Fedora, OS X, Windows XP, etc...
The OP did not say "Men are impeding the progress of women because they are men", he simply said "Men are impeding the progress of women" without ascribing a reason to that assertion.
I, as CEO of SuperCo, especially like it! This way, there will be nothing stopping me from buying up every competitor, paying my employees $1/hour, and saving money by switching all of my operations to cheap quick burning coal!
Don't like it? Start your own competitive business, let the market decide! Of course, no consumers can resist my Everyday Low Low Prices! long enough for you to stay in business. Oh, and did I mention that any employee (that is to say, everyone) will be fired immediately if they shop anywhere else? But that's your problem, eh?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to hire a few more police, er, security guards. You see, since I own all the land, I need a few people to make sure none of my employees are doing anything I don't like in their bedrooms that I'm kind enough to rent to them. Hey, if they don't like it, they can work somewhere els- er... move, er... go to Canada?
If he would have said it was a 3.00% decrease you would have been quite correct. However two consecutive 1.5% decreases is indeed a 3% decrease to one significant digit, which is all he included.
Except that the poster (as much as I can tell given the poor grammar), explicitly states he's looking for an option to download *and* pay, similar to iTunes. Such an option would be useless to people looking to download games for free.
That given, I do believe that there are no plans for any online game-delivery service for any of the major consoles, at least for the near future.
Too right on State of Emergency, but the Italian Job you mention was published by Eidos, not Rockstar. Rockstar's Italian Job (for PS1 published a year or so ago), was widely lauded as one of the best PS1 games ever.
Yes, I use Velocity as the central tempating engine for our in-house application server. What I really like about Velocity is that it forces seperation of presentation from code by completely disallowing arbitrary code inside of the template. You can still do everything you need to do with helper classes, which promotes great reusability and clean code.
In my opinion Velocity is the best Java-based templating system and the second-best over all (next to Zope's near perfect PageTemplates system).
Oddly enough it was 7 years ago this month when Linux 2.0 was first released onto the world. And just as Windows NT has had two major releases since then (2000 and XP), so has Linux (2.2 and 2.4).
Coincidence? Has anyone *really* seen Linus and Gates at the same place at the same time???
(Unrelated: when looking this up, I noticed that the last 1.2 series kernel was released in mid-1995. Was stable kernel development really halted for a year while 1.3/2.0 was worked on? If so, I sure like the new model better!)
I've never seen RMS "kick" Linus' efforts, either literally or figuratively. Linux created a great kernel and I don't know of anyone disputing that.
RMS' issue, as I understand it, is with the people who package a GNU distrobution with the Linux kernel and call the whole thing "Linux". I've never heard Linus say that he uses the "Linux Operating System", so I can't imagine RMS having a problem with him at all.
RMS has lead the creation (and indeed coded significant parts) of an entire operating system. The fact that it contains the Linux kernel does not change the fact that it's the GNU operating system.
If the next version of "Red Hat Linux" was named "Red Hat Apache", because Apache software forms an important part of many (but not all) installations, would that make sense to you?
Linux is a part of all GNU/Linux systems. GNU is the base of all GNU/Linux systems. No other project can lay claim to that distinction, giving GNU and Linux both the exclusive right to share the name of the operating system.
> So I guess I should call the OS on my Linux box. > GNU/XWindows/Apache/KDE/OpenOffice/Mozilla/LINUX?
Absolutely not.
There are GNU/Linux systems running without XWindows There are GNU/Linux systems running without Apache There are GNU/Linux systems running without KDE There are GNU/Linux systems running without OpenOffice There are GNU/Linux systems running without Mozilla
There are no GNU/Linux systems running without GNU software.
For the "in story" explanation, I think that's pretty much right. On top of that, I've read somewhere before that the old couple also represents Herbert himself and his wife. Supposedly the physical descriptions (including thier house) match. And if you re-read those sections with that in mind it takes on a whole new meaning. Basically, the author saying goodbye to his creation.
In the car market sellers are very well aware that a strong second hand market supports the price at first sale. This makes authors look stupid as well as greedy.
Actually, I think you may have things backwards here. Most authors realize the implications of what you are saying. It's just that they would rather not have a situation where new books cost $150 in order to account for the resale value. Would you?
Slashdot Mirror
Came in late, but I hope you're just trolling and don't really believe this.
I translated the PHP "solutio" right above it to Python in just a few minutes (not having even used Python in the past 2 years!). To top it off, the PHP version DOESN'T EVEN WORK CORRECTLY. It's missing floating point/integer conversions and gives wrong digits after 314159... The python version, translated exactly, works just fine. I'm sure if I remembered more python tricks this could be condensed considerably:
import sys
scale = 10000; maxarr = 2800; arrinit = 2000; carry = 0; arr = []
for i in range(maxarr+1): arr.append( arrinit )
for i in range(maxarr, 1, -14):
sum = 0
for j in range(i, 0, -1):
sum = (sum * j) + (scale * arr[j])
arr[j] = sum % ( (j*2)-1 )
sum = sum / ((j*2)-1)
sys.stdout.write("%04d" % (carry + (sum / scale)))
carry = sum % scale
I don't think you quite hit 'absurdum', rather you achieved reductio-ad-libertarianum. Allow me to give it a shot:
"Who made my head responsible for the suvival of my whole body? Isn't my only responsibility to my own brain? As for the rest of my body - if my heart wants to beat so badly, or my lungs want to breathe, they can figure out how to do it their own damned selves and stop relying on the hand-outs of my electrical signals!"
Come on people, it's been minutes and no-one has said the obvious yet:
In Soviet Cupertino, the LCD watches you!
While I appreciate your attempt at intellectual conversation, you seem to miss where I pasted all the definitions there were and invited you to pick the one you thought was most relevant. Or perhaps you think that dictionaries in general are "irrelevant"?
You're welcome to try again, or we can leave it as is and I'll file this as an entertaining "I have no actual argument".
And as you say, saying that this is so, does not make it so.
A role, from Dictionary.com:
1. also rôle A character or part played by a performer.
2. The characteristic and expected social behavior of an individual.
3. A function or position. See Synonyms at function.
4. Linguistics. The function of a word or construction, as in a sentence.
I think it's fair to assume we are all using the first definition here, but feel free to pick your favorite.
"A character or part played by a performer." Ok, what is a performer? One who performs. It does not say: "A character or part played by a performer in the presence of an audience."
Is an actor playing a role if they video tape themselves, alone in a room? Are they a playing a role if no-one ever sees that tape? The moment someone views the tape, has history changes and they have gone from not having played a role, to having played a role?
I highly doubt that lo these 25 years ago, Richard Garriot thought to himself "Even though this here Akalabeth was inspired by my love for RPGs I know it's not one, but what the hell, I want to sell it and get rich so I'll market it as an RPG! Mwhahahaha!!!"
Let's all say it together: "Slashdot and LSD just don't mix."
While Time > Skill is something that is not usually true in the real world, a more realistic model is very hard to achieve.
In Real Life(tm) there are two kinds of abilities: ones where the "best" action is known and ones where it isn't.
In the first case, these abilities are either limited by physical attributes or not valued. Consider Tic-Tac-Toe. It's known how to achieve the highest possible skill level in that game so having that ability is not valued.
Consider sports. It's known how to make the best free throw in basketball. A robot could be built that makes that shot 100% of the time. The twist is that achieving that perfect motion is difficult because of physical limitation. So we value those who can perform it well.
In the second case, you have abilities where the "best" is not known. We don't know how to be a 100% perfect scientist. Or a 100% perfect artist. So we value those who push the limits and show us new "bests" because they are a rare commidity.
Now, in video games by their nature can only contain abilities with limits. We don't yet have the ability to code the unknown. So any ability you put into a game can and will be learned to its 100% limit (and probably automated by a bot at some point). Because of this the only two ways you can possibly give value to a ability in a game is via physical skill (the best twitcher wins in an FPS) or time.
Since the resource heavy nature of a MMO game makes physical challenges difficult, that leaves...
Time > Skill
Oh, too bad. I'll go into the past and tell the Wachowski Brothers that their idea of a guy trapped in a virtual world will become an utter failure. It's too smart for the public.
And here, gentlepersons, is finally proof that time travel does indeed exist!
How else could we explain that given the above idea, what was delivered was a brainless wire-fu movie starring KEANU FUCKING REEVES.
Oh, for some mod points...
Come on, people! This is should be +5 Funny with a bullet! Best post in the thread!
As pointed out above, the problem with this is that the adjective maybe factually correctly, but it's inconsequential to the problem. The farmers are also human, have two hands and breathe oxygen, but would it make sense to describe them as two-handed, oxygen breathing, human Chinese farmers? Of course not. Because the problem is *farming*.
It doesn't matter *one bit* that they are from China, so why point it out unless you're hoping to play on racial feelings, one way or the other?
The more direct analogy would be the new Ford Escape hybrid that has Toyota engine in it. Calling the GNU system "Linux" is like calling that vehicle a Toyota just because it has a Toyota engine.
Take the engine out, and it's still a Ford Escape. Take the kernel out of a "Linux" operating system and it's a collection of mostly GNU tools. Since they're not all GNU tools, it can be argued that GNU isn't the best term for the Operating System as a whole, but it does have a plurality and "Linux" certainly isn't the right name.
However, I think the discussion has much less importance than is placed on it because people really don't use their Operating System (the collection of software the operates the system) much any more. What they use are the applications that are run by the OS, which we generally call a Distrobution.
So call the OS what you will, what people are using is Debian, Fedora, OS X, Windows XP, etc...
The OP did not say "Men are impeding the progress of women because they are men", he simply said "Men are impeding the progress of women" without ascribing a reason to that assertion.
Given that, your analogy is completely invalid.
Great idea!
I, as CEO of SuperCo, especially like it! This way, there will be nothing stopping me from buying up every competitor, paying my employees $1/hour, and saving money by switching all of my operations to cheap quick burning coal!
Don't like it? Start your own competitive business, let the market decide! Of course, no consumers can resist my Everyday Low Low Prices! long enough for you to stay in business. Oh, and did I mention that any employee (that is to say, everyone) will be fired immediately if they shop anywhere else? But that's your problem, eh?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to hire a few more police, er, security guards. You see, since I own all the land, I need a few people to make sure none of my employees are doing anything I don't like in their bedrooms that I'm kind enough to rent to them. Hey, if they don't like it, they can work somewhere els- er... move, er... go to Canada?
Think Libertarian! Think Freedom!
Sincerely,
CEO, SuperCo
If those kids learn english the way most english speakers learn foreign languages, those are probably the only words that kid knew!
Sorry, play again.
If he would have said it was a 3.00% decrease you would have been quite correct. However two consecutive 1.5% decreases is indeed a 3% decrease to one significant digit, which is all he included.
Except that the poster (as much as I can tell given the poor grammar), explicitly states he's looking for an option to download *and* pay, similar to iTunes. Such an option would be useless to people looking to download games for free.
That given, I do believe that there are no plans for any online game-delivery service for any of the major consoles, at least for the near future.
Too right on State of Emergency, but the Italian Job you mention was published by Eidos, not Rockstar. Rockstar's Italian Job (for PS1 published a year or so ago), was widely lauded as one of the best PS1 games ever.
The correct link
Yes, I use Velocity as the central tempating engine for our in-house application server. What I really like about Velocity is that it forces seperation of presentation from code by completely disallowing arbitrary code inside of the template. You can still do everything you need to do with helper classes, which promotes great reusability and clean code.
In my opinion Velocity is the best Java-based templating system and the second-best over all (next to Zope's near perfect PageTemplates system).
Oddly enough it was 7 years ago this month when Linux 2.0 was first released onto the world. And just as Windows NT has had two major releases since then (2000 and XP), so has Linux (2.2 and 2.4).
Coincidence? Has anyone *really* seen Linus and Gates at the same place at the same time???
(Unrelated: when looking this up, I noticed that the last 1.2 series kernel was released in mid-1995. Was stable kernel development really halted for a year while 1.3/2.0 was worked on? If so, I sure like the new model better!)
I've never seen RMS "kick" Linus' efforts, either literally or figuratively. Linux created a great kernel and I don't know of anyone disputing that.
RMS' issue, as I understand it, is with the people who package a GNU distrobution with the Linux kernel and call the whole thing "Linux". I've never heard Linus say that he uses the "Linux Operating System", so I can't imagine RMS having a problem with him at all.
RMS has lead the creation (and indeed coded significant parts) of an entire operating system. The fact that it contains the Linux kernel does not change the fact that it's the GNU operating system.
If the next version of "Red Hat Linux" was named "Red Hat Apache", because Apache software forms an important part of many (but not all) installations, would that make sense to you?
Linux is a part of all GNU/Linux systems. GNU is the base of all GNU/Linux systems. No other project can lay claim to that distinction, giving GNU and Linux both the exclusive right to share the name of the operating system.
> So I guess I should call the OS on my Linux box.
> GNU/XWindows/Apache/KDE/OpenOffice/Mozilla/LINUX?
Absolutely not.
There are GNU/Linux systems running without XWindows
There are GNU/Linux systems running without Apache
There are GNU/Linux systems running without KDE
There are GNU/Linux systems running without OpenOffice
There are GNU/Linux systems running without Mozilla
There are no GNU/Linux systems running without GNU software.
Free... Multiple free programming languages, includng BASIC... GUI Editors and debuggers... Copious documentation... Responsive community...
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
For the "in story" explanation, I think that's pretty much right. On top of that, I've read somewhere before that the old couple also represents Herbert himself and his wife. Supposedly the physical descriptions (including thier house) match. And if you re-read those sections with that in mind it takes on a whole new meaning. Basically, the author saying goodbye to his creation.
At the risk of someone beating me to the punch, I'd like to point out that the "a lot" of taxes that Microsoft pays is precisely zero.
Actually, I think you may have things backwards here. Most authors realize the implications of what you are saying. It's just that they would rather not have a situation where new books cost $150 in order to account for the resale value. Would you?