You use Lua for your in-game scripting of your computer games. Can you fit your Perl/Python/Ruby interpreter in 150 kilobytes? I didn't think so. Can you get it under a MIT license? I don't think you can.
Should you use it for your online web application backend, or your system administration scripts? Probably not.
I saw the condensed version (due to my preferences) and clicking it just said "Nothing to see here; move along." It would have been funny if it had stayed like that....
In an Ideal programming environment, you will have a maaaaassive collection of unit tests, such that you can tell if your cleaning-up-the-code actually broke the code you cleaned, or not. And if that's the case, the real question is whether the time spent cleaning would be better fixed elsewhere. Often it might be. Sometimes it's worthwhile, though. If nothing else, it can be good for morale. (It feels good to turn a 50-line abomination into a neat little 4-liner.)
The big Tolkein book, outside of the Lord of the Rings, is The Silmarillion. It's basically, like, the Elf-Bible. It's got some funky creation myth from before the dawn of time which occupies the front, and then proceeds to chronicle history thenceforth. It's... very dense, in some places - sort of like the regular Bible, except perhaps more so. The main Lord of the Rings characters also appear in it, because the entire Lord of the Rings saga forms the last chapter of the book. (it's covered in like, what, ten pages?)
There's also some spiffy appendixes, I believe; place-names and things like that.
There are a few other short stories floating around, which others can tell you of better than I. I think there's one or two either involving Tom Bombadil, Farmer Maggot, or both.
I like Linux. And I like girls. And I like girls who use Linux. (I know several, one of whom is also incidentally the most amazing person in the world, though mostly for other reasons.)
Presumably some of these trillion pages have a karma greater than or equal to epsilon.
The scummiest part of it all is that some of the pages in question will be on domains that someone let expire and someone else immediately snatched up. They get their PageRank from the sites that linked to the formerly legitimate domain. And if that was your domain name, and you only let it expire accidentally, well, sucks to be you.:(
When a black hole forms, the matter trapped within the event horizon has (for all intents and purposes) left our universe.
No, I don't think so. The matter is still there warping space with its gravity. The inability to get it back out is an entropy problem, not a conservation-of-mass-and-energy problem.
The intense bursts of radiation observed from the vicinity of black holes (especially those forming as a result of supernovae) are generally the result of some pretty extreme interactions just before the matter enters the black hole, as this matter is subject to extreme heating and compression and such - enough, even, to perform fusion on some pretty tough stuff and get metals as heavy as uranium.
Don't be silly. Star Trek still has plenty of religion:
New Age mysticism: Oddly enough, while Christianity has apparently been wiped out, popular New Age ideas such as transcendental meditation, seances, tribal superstitions, pseudoscientific quasi-religions and Eastern spirituality are all acceptable in the Federation. This would seem rather contradictory until you ask yourself what kinds of spirituality are popular today in Hollywood. Apparently they don't believe that God made Man in his own image, but they do believe that Hollywood should remake mankind in its image.
This spiffy essay sets out to demonstrate that "the writers and producers of Star Trek are promoting the values and ideals of communism........ (If you think communism is wonderful, I guess that means you'll love this aspect of Star Trek. If you think it's terrible, I guess this means you'll hate this aspect of Star Trek.)" The site has a number of other spiffy essays on sci-fi and other issues in Star Trek as well.....
It's still pretty rude (or worse) for the newspaper in question to do something like this, whether it's a violation of some sort of intrinsic civil liberty / constitutional right / etc or otherwise. Therein lies the rub. Not everything has to be some sort of civil liberties violation or against the law for it to be the Wrong Thing to Do.
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So, um, exactly how far does that $65 million go after subtracting out the computers for every student... and all those Vista licenses? =)
The fact that functions are objects is cool but I have many complaints about JavaScript. The implementation of object orientation as a hash table with a dot notation is a far cry from object orientation.
What difference does that make to you as a programmer, practically? Any dynamically interpreted language already uses a hash of some sort for runtime resolution of values in symbol table. Is this somehow less valid because it isn't precomputed? I guess you lose some of your type-safety-ness and are allowed to assign meaningless values to stupidly named properties - it doesn't enforce as strict a discipline or anything - but hey, it's a scripting language, and this isn't a limitation on its object-orientation. So what object-orienting features exactly are you looking for that JavaScript doesn't provide? You can still assign methods to an object's prototype for classical inheritance, as well as assigning methods directly for some sort of aggregation or multiple inheritance. Something like Prototype/MooTools will even provide you with some syntactic sugar to define classes in a more traditional looking way. The one thing I could see you complaining about is data hiding and private variables - okay, those are a little trickier (and involve setting an object's functions that use these private variables in the constructor at runtime; this page describes the practice...)
You could come up with a fine case for type safety issues, but I'm just not seeing your Far Cry from Object Orientation here.
Poor JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. But it's really kind of neat. The browser environment isn't too hot, but aside from that and a few stupid quirks (string concatenation / addition issues, especially) it's a neat little programming language where functions are actually first-class objects; you can do some pretty nifty inheritance things with this, building objects' behavior by aggregation...
Of course, you'll need a decent library like MooTools or Prototype or such if you want to keep your programming sane, and especially if you want to do good stuff in a web browser (they abstract away an enormous swath of the IE vs Mozilla-type vs Opera/etc compatibility issues).
CGI scripts are nice and easy to code, but for heaven's sake, use PHP or Python.
Python I'm cool with, but I've worked with PHP for several years, both good and bad, and have come to the conclusion that, with apologies to the Grinch: PHP is an abominable junk-heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable... mangled up in tangled up knots!
Or to the present. Governments have been corrupt for as long as it's been around; it's usually just a question of "how much". I think most Republicans were well aware of government corruption in the Years Gone By, especially when Congress was mostly Democrat - indeed, it's one of the reasons why the Republicans were the Party of Small Government. But with the past 6 years or so, it seems that Democrats have opened their eyes to see corruption while the Republicans have become the oblivious ones (or complicit ones, on a case by case basis).
When you get down to it, if I have to name the nation's most Corrupt Administration off the top of my head, I'd say Andrew Jackson. Good old "To the victor belong the spoils" Jackson. Good old "Trail of tears" Jackson. Mr. "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" Jackson. Good old "man-of-the-people" Jackson. Good old man-of-the-people Bush is at least trying to work something positive in Iraq (though one can easily question its effectiveness) - what was Jackson doing with the Indian Removal business? That's far more criminal than the Iraq war ever was or will be. And if you wanted me to name the President that did the most to restrict civil liberties during his term in office, that's easy. Abraham Lincoln, yo. Writ of habeus what now? That's right. And the Great Emancipator walked all over freedom of speech and such, too.
This is entirely natural in a truly competitive economy.
If GE is the only light bulb company and the only one coming up with advances like this (which doesn't seem like that much of a stretch, given what I see of lightbulbs), it's not really a "truly competitive economy", is it?
Please calm yourself, and recognize that to strike back with violent energy, lashing out at the mention of religion, it's not really that much better than the attempted transgressions of those whom you accuse. There are so many people out there on Slashdot and such who will say things to the effect that religion ought to be banned, or religious is the root of all evil, and this and that and the other thing. Don't pretend you're not trying to shape the world with rhetoric like that, too. Maybe you don't have the political muscle to enforce your will, but if that's your angle, you're at least as bad as they are.
In any event. You overgeneralize. Do not let the loudest of the midwestern fundamentalist Protestants turn you against all the religion in the world, or even all Christianity. There is more out there. Yes, they all want to change the world a little and yes, many of them will vote on certain issues at least in part because of their religion. But you'll usually find that religious law isn't really that widely supported, at least on this continent.
And if you go on lashing out at all people with a religion as "shared delusions", well, it really won't get you very far except with people who were already going to listen to you anyway. That sort of partisan rhetoric is useless save to call together your supporters to do battle with the foe. (And they complained "there is no war against religion".) Show your enemy a little respect. Name-calling and such drags you down and cheapens your words. It brings out the worst in both you and your opponents, turning the debate from the sphere of the rational to that of the emotional. Politics makes little enough sense as it is. This doesn't help.
You can actually ask a question on Amazon's service for free, as well. Amazon is the group "paying" for the answers. I suppose they hope to gain from it by people recommending books and other things they sell (they have a field where you can recommend Amazon products along with the answers).
The idea of TV licensing has always troubled me, and radio licenses doubly so. There's a saying here in the US that derives from an early Supreme Court case, and it says "the power to tax is the power to destroy". Now, think about that for a moment. Are you comfortable giving the government power to destroy television and/or radio communications? After seeing a few Holocaust-type films where people secretly listen to the BBC broadcasts on shortwave while their nation is occupied by the Axis during World War II, you might begin to get the notion that this freedom sort of freedom is a good thing. Why should it ever be a crime to listen to someone else's over-the-air broadcasts?
(Especially if they're intended for general public distribution and not, say, intercepting cell phone conversations and such... and, of course, actually broadcasting, of course, is a whole 'nother kettle o' fish...)
Wake Forest University's got an Institute for Regenerative Medicine in their medical school. I have a friend (just a pre-med undergraduate) who might get to do some research there this summer and is really excited about the possibility. It's neat stuff.
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Should you use it for your online web application backend, or your system administration scripts? Probably not.
I saw the condensed version (due to my preferences) and clicking it just said "Nothing to see here; move along." It would have been funny if it had stayed like that....
In an Ideal programming environment, you will have a maaaaassive collection of unit tests, such that you can tell if your cleaning-up-the-code actually broke the code you cleaned, or not. And if that's the case, the real question is whether the time spent cleaning would be better fixed elsewhere. Often it might be. Sometimes it's worthwhile, though. If nothing else, it can be good for morale. (It feels good to turn a 50-line abomination into a neat little 4-liner.)
Unfortunately, these stamps will come too late for use on your April 15 income tax return. Perhaps if you've filed for an extension, however...
There's also some spiffy appendixes, I believe; place-names and things like that.
There are a few other short stories floating around, which others can tell you of better than I. I think there's one or two either involving Tom Bombadil, Farmer Maggot, or both.
Squant? Instead of octarine?!?
But those ads were just, um, well, stupid.
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The scummiest part of it all is that some of the pages in question will be on domains that someone let expire and someone else immediately snatched up. They get their PageRank from the sites that linked to the formerly legitimate domain. And if that was your domain name, and you only let it expire accidentally, well, sucks to be you. :(
The intense bursts of radiation observed from the vicinity of black holes (especially those forming as a result of supernovae) are generally the result of some pretty extreme interactions just before the matter enters the black hole, as this matter is subject to extreme heating and compression and such - enough, even, to perform fusion on some pretty tough stuff and get metals as heavy as uranium.
It's still pretty rude (or worse) for the newspaper in question to do something like this, whether it's a violation of some sort of intrinsic civil liberty / constitutional right / etc or otherwise. Therein lies the rub. Not everything has to be some sort of civil liberties violation or against the law for it to be the Wrong Thing to Do.
So, um, exactly how far does that $65 million go after subtracting out the computers for every student... and all those Vista licenses? =)
You could come up with a fine case for type safety issues, but I'm just not seeing your Far Cry from Object Orientation here.
Of course, you'll need a decent library like MooTools or Prototype or such if you want to keep your programming sane, and especially if you want to do good stuff in a web browser (they abstract away an enormous swath of the IE vs Mozilla-type vs Opera/etc compatibility issues).
If there were no Voltaire, it would be necessary for God to create him. :)
When you get down to it, if I have to name the nation's most Corrupt Administration off the top of my head, I'd say Andrew Jackson. Good old "To the victor belong the spoils" Jackson. Good old "Trail of tears" Jackson. Mr. "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" Jackson. Good old "man-of-the-people" Jackson. Good old man-of-the-people Bush is at least trying to work something positive in Iraq (though one can easily question its effectiveness) - what was Jackson doing with the Indian Removal business? That's far more criminal than the Iraq war ever was or will be. And if you wanted me to name the President that did the most to restrict civil liberties during his term in office, that's easy. Abraham Lincoln, yo. Writ of habeus what now? That's right. And the Great Emancipator walked all over freedom of speech and such, too.
In any event. You overgeneralize. Do not let the loudest of the midwestern fundamentalist Protestants turn you against all the religion in the world, or even all Christianity. There is more out there. Yes, they all want to change the world a little and yes, many of them will vote on certain issues at least in part because of their religion. But you'll usually find that religious law isn't really that widely supported, at least on this continent.
And if you go on lashing out at all people with a religion as "shared delusions", well, it really won't get you very far except with people who were already going to listen to you anyway. That sort of partisan rhetoric is useless save to call together your supporters to do battle with the foe. (And they complained "there is no war against religion".) Show your enemy a little respect. Name-calling and such drags you down and cheapens your words. It brings out the worst in both you and your opponents, turning the debate from the sphere of the rational to that of the emotional. Politics makes little enough sense as it is. This doesn't help.
You can actually ask a question on Amazon's service for free, as well. Amazon is the group "paying" for the answers. I suppose they hope to gain from it by people recommending books and other things they sell (they have a field where you can recommend Amazon products along with the answers).
(Especially if they're intended for general public distribution and not, say, intercepting cell phone conversations and such... and, of course, actually broadcasting, of course, is a whole 'nother kettle o' fish...)
Wake Forest University's got an Institute for Regenerative Medicine in their medical school. I have a friend (just a pre-med undergraduate) who might get to do some research there this summer and is really excited about the possibility. It's neat stuff.
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