Once you know Python, and understand some of the GUI toolkits, it's far more productive than C/C++ with similar toolkits.
The only accurate generalization about programming is that all generalizations are wrong. Python may be more productive than C/C++ for some kinds of application, but certainly not for all of them. C/C++ is not as "forgiving" as Python, but for some applications, that's EXACTLY what you want!
Because Bush, like any politician, is a liar. You can tell he lies because his lips move. As such, he is no different from Kerry, Edwards, Dean, Clarke, etc, etc, etc.
My entire peeve against the liberal half of the US political apparatus is that they act as if their candidate's lies are more moral than the other conservative half's.
I agree with you. I have no problems with someone providing services for that 5%. I am not defending the FCC. I guess I wasn't clear enough.
If you read the original post, it stated "Therefore, Mariposa, CA is stuck with a country music station." The implication, at least from my reading, is that something is wrong with Mariposa having a country music station. Please note that the quote does NOT say "stuck with only a country music station".
I realize that McDonald's is a corporation, and as such, all right thinking Slashdot posters must hate them with spittle-spewing passion, but doesn't the lady in question have any fault in the matter, no matter how small?
I have heard so many variations of this story I don't know what to believe. But the common thread is that the lady in question placed a relatively flimsy container of hot liquid in her lap. The flimsiness of the container or exact temperature of the liquid is beside the point.
Until orbital launches are cheap enough, throwing nuclear waste into the Sun is going to cause more pollution than it eliminates! Perhaps in ten or twenty years we might be at that point.
In the meantime, we already have a solution. Vitrify, encase, and dump the waste into deep ocean trenches. It will get "recycled" into the mantle, never to be seen again for more than a million years.
Since before the war started, the probability was high that Saddam moved those weapons elsewhere. Several generals were arguing to move the timetable up, before they were removed. It's like the cops phoning up the pushers to say they'll be over in two hours to search for drugs, then not finding any when they get there.
We *KNOW* Saddam had WMD. He never provided proof that he had destroyed them. Inspections were little more than pre-arranged guided tours. So the only logical conclusion is that he probably still had them. But we gave him enough time to move them. My guess is that he moved them instead of using them, because he wasn't expecting the US to "finish" the job, they it failed to do the last time.
No, the deer is already dead. Because you shot it. I've helped with clean and butcher deer, and let me tell you for a fact that the hunters don't bring them in alive!
I do know that some people prefer to hunt deer with bow and arrow, but I've never heard of anyone hunting deer with just a knife, sneaking up on them so silently they can cut their throat...
Sigh. Of course not. However, placing a paper cup of hot coffee in your lap is analogous. If you cannot understand why, then I suggest you try it sometime. In a moving automobile.
That's not actually possible. For starters, *just this week* a new study was published that finds a whole slew of new risks to smoking.
Smoking will KILL you! We've known that for a century. Who gives a rat's ass about emphysema when you already KNOW about lung cancer?!?!
"Oh oh poor me! If only the tobacco industry had told me my teeth would turn green I would never have started smoking! So now I'm going to claim my victimhood and sue them!"
Cigarette ads tell them that young, vibrant, healthy people smoke, and look cool doing it, and feel great about themselves.
Advertisements do not cause people to start smoking. That is a myth started by ideologues. I know why I started smoking, and I know why I continued smoking. It was not because I was a unthinking skinnerian pigeon unslaved to the advertisements of Big Tobacco.
People smoke because of peer pressure, not because of advertisements. We thought smoking was cool because our cool friends smoked. We didn't give a rat's ass about the Marlboro Man, it was the chicks haning off our older brother's and cousin's arms that told us smoking was cool. The fantasy of advertisements has NOTHING on the reality of peer pressure. That's why the argument that Joe Camel makes kids smoke is so utterly assinine. If Joe Camel turns kids into smokers, then violent video games turns kids into sociopaths.
This is false. From my own recent experience in quitting, I can attest to this. While it certainly was difficult to quit, and while I still crave a smoke three months later, the withdrawal symptoms were very mild, amounting to only a moderate increase in my "nervousness" and "testiness". But go look at someone undergoing heroine, cocaine or even alchohol withdrawal. No comparison.
Having successfully quit smoking, I can only conclude that those statements about nicotine being more addictive than heroine are false, designed by certain parties to or their own political goals.
Granted, I'm not very active in the dating scene. But I would like to see the law that defines this. It's just too unimaginable for me that the law defines rape based on "he said, she said". Millions of couples drink moderate amounts of alcohol before sex and never end up on opposite sides in the criminal courts.
Get with the program! Hate is what makes the world revolve. It's the lubricant of civilization. Take politics for example. Without hate, then people might actually have to think before they vote. And we certainly can't have that!
Yup, hate is what divides us, and keeps us a controllable populace.
If that had happened in this case, you would have a very good point. But it didn't. Let me give you an analogy.
Suppose she went to McDonald's to buy ammunition. She asked for some 22 caliber rounds. She loaded one into her revolver and played russion roulette. Unfortunately she lost, and she fired a 32 caliber round causing $20,000 in medical costs. Is it McDonald's fault for selling her larger rounds than she asked for? Or her fault for playing russian roulette?
The reason why this cause has entered into the public consciousness the way it has, is because it's stupid and foolhardy to place a paper cup of hot coffee in your lap. It's the *lap* that's the problem here.
If she had taken a sip of coffee, burned her lips and dropped the cup in her lap in surprise and reflex, no one would condemning her. Yes, McDonald's is partly or even mostly at fault. But the "victim" still must take the responsibility for stupidly placing the cup in her lap.
I am an ex-smoker. As in "I no longer smoke". Neither do I receive any funds from any tobacco companies. In short, I have no reason to defend the tobacco industry. This being Slashdot, I find it necessary to state this.
With that out of the way, your argument is severly flawed. I knew smoking was harmful to me the day I started. I knew it was addictive. I knew it was deadly. There has been full disclosure of the dangers of cigarettes, right on the cigarette packs themselves, for several decades.
Smokers have to take responsibility for their own smoking. They cannot blame anyone else. This recent argument that tobacco advertisements can absolve people of their free will is bullshit.
No I won't. That is not a valid excuse and I won't accept it. This isn't a beta release. It isn't a release candidate. It isn't a "technology preview".
There is no excuse for shody.0 software, because that.0 is a declaration that the software is ready for the prime time. If it isn't, don't release it. Otherwise it is a lie.
I think it's because so many of these admins are coming from the Windows world. A Unix admin that can't use the command line is like an mechanic that doesn't know how to use a wrench.
I must disagree. It's certainly not difficult for someone used to the problem domain, but I'm not being hired for the problem domain of mathematics. I'm being hired as a programmer.
Untwist your panties! This isn't about Homeland Security or the PATRIOT Act or Ashcroft or any of your other "Bush is sooo evil" conspiracies. This is normal everyday US fear-induced authortarianism that's been around for quite a few decades. And this attitude is hardly limited to the US. Imagining this scenario happening in enlightened Europe or Asia is easy to do. Of course I'll be modded down by the last sentence, but I don't care anymore.
I'll give you an extremely accurate analogy, but one that doesn't involve your hated demons in the Bush administration. Instead, imagine during the peace and civil-rights loving Clinton administration, sometime after the Oklahoma City bombing, a landlord doing some routine inspection of a house. The landlord discovers in the garage sections of iron pipe, a bag of nails, a can of diesel fuel, and a bag of lawn fertilizer. OMG the renter is going to build a bomb! Call the police! Call the FBI! Call Janet Reno!
Before we can hire you to write UI widgets in Java, please derive the quadratic theorem. NOT! For some jobs this makes sense. For others it's nothing more than a thinly veiled elitism.
I was taught how to derive the quadratic theorem in my freshman year in high school. Unfortunately, it was only a one hour lecture, and the knowledge was never, ever used again in the subsequent twenty five years. I don't think I could pass your test. But fortunately, I don't have any bosses stupid enough to make it a job requirement.
Where the hell does the Senate get off telling Google how to run their email service?
It's the government. We, the ordinary people, have given them total and complete power. We have only ourselves to blame.
We're too busy arguing whether to give Bush or Kerry this total and complete power, to consider whether the nature of this power should be in the hands of government to begin with. We have created a system where we vote for the lesser of two tyrants. We have only ourselves to blame.
We vote for candidates who promise to impose power upon those we dislike. We elect politicians on the basis of whose going to gather more power unto the government. We elect them so we can "stick it" to someone else. We have only ourselves to blame.
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Any female who can collect large amounts of sperm on demand should not be called a "lady".
Once you know Python, and understand some of the GUI toolkits, it's far more productive than C/C++ with similar toolkits.
The only accurate generalization about programming is that all generalizations are wrong. Python may be more productive than C/C++ for some kinds of application, but certainly not for all of them. C/C++ is not as "forgiving" as Python, but for some applications, that's EXACTLY what you want!
From his attitude, my suspicion isn't that he's being downsized, but that he's being fired.
Because Bush, like any politician, is a liar. You can tell he lies because his lips move. As such, he is no different from Kerry, Edwards, Dean, Clarke, etc, etc, etc.
My entire peeve against the liberal half of the US political apparatus is that they act as if their candidate's lies are more moral than the other conservative half's.
I agree with you. I have no problems with someone providing services for that 5%. I am not defending the FCC. I guess I wasn't clear enough.
If you read the original post, it stated "Therefore, Mariposa, CA is stuck with a country music station." The implication, at least from my reading, is that something is wrong with Mariposa having a country music station. Please note that the quote does NOT say "stuck with only a country music station".
I realize that McDonald's is a corporation, and as such, all right thinking Slashdot posters must hate them with spittle-spewing passion, but doesn't the lady in question have any fault in the matter, no matter how small?
I have heard so many variations of this story I don't know what to believe. But the common thread is that the lady in question placed a relatively flimsy container of hot liquid in her lap. The flimsiness of the container or exact temperature of the liquid is beside the point.
Until orbital launches are cheap enough, throwing nuclear waste into the Sun is going to cause more pollution than it eliminates! Perhaps in ten or twenty years we might be at that point.
In the meantime, we already have a solution. Vitrify, encase, and dump the waste into deep ocean trenches. It will get "recycled" into the mantle, never to be seen again for more than a million years.
Since before the war started, the probability was high that Saddam moved those weapons elsewhere. Several generals were arguing to move the timetable up, before they were removed. It's like the cops phoning up the pushers to say they'll be over in two hours to search for drugs, then not finding any when they get there.
We *KNOW* Saddam had WMD. He never provided proof that he had destroyed them. Inspections were little more than pre-arranged guided tours. So the only logical conclusion is that he probably still had them. But we gave him enough time to move them. My guess is that he moved them instead of using them, because he wasn't expecting the US to "finish" the job, they it failed to do the last time.
and the animal is dead soon after.
No, the deer is already dead. Because you shot it. I've helped with clean and butcher deer, and let me tell you for a fact that the hunters don't bring them in alive!
I do know that some people prefer to hunt deer with bow and arrow, but I've never heard of anyone hunting deer with just a knife, sneaking up on them so silently they can cut their throat...
Sigh. Of course not. However, placing a paper cup of hot coffee in your lap is analogous. If you cannot understand why, then I suggest you try it sometime. In a moving automobile.
That's not actually possible. For starters, *just this week* a new study was published that finds a whole slew of new risks to smoking.
Smoking will KILL you! We've known that for a century. Who gives a rat's ass about emphysema when you already KNOW about lung cancer?!?!
"Oh oh poor me! If only the tobacco industry had told me my teeth would turn green I would never have started smoking! So now I'm going to claim my victimhood and sue them!"
Cigarette ads tell them that young, vibrant, healthy people smoke, and look cool doing it, and feel great about themselves.
Advertisements do not cause people to start smoking. That is a myth started by ideologues. I know why I started smoking, and I know why I continued smoking. It was not because I was a unthinking skinnerian pigeon unslaved to the advertisements of Big Tobacco.
People smoke because of peer pressure, not because of advertisements. We thought smoking was cool because our cool friends smoked. We didn't give a rat's ass about the Marlboro Man, it was the chicks haning off our older brother's and cousin's arms that told us smoking was cool. The fantasy of advertisements has NOTHING on the reality of peer pressure. That's why the argument that Joe Camel makes kids smoke is so utterly assinine. If Joe Camel turns kids into smokers, then violent video games turns kids into sociopaths.
harder to quit, I've heard, than most any drug
This is false. From my own recent experience in quitting, I can attest to this. While it certainly was difficult to quit, and while I still crave a smoke three months later, the withdrawal symptoms were very mild, amounting to only a moderate increase in my "nervousness" and "testiness". But go look at someone undergoing heroine, cocaine or even alchohol withdrawal. No comparison.
Having successfully quit smoking, I can only conclude that those statements about nicotine being more addictive than heroine are false, designed by certain parties to or their own political goals.
Granted, I'm not very active in the dating scene. But I would like to see the law that defines this. It's just too unimaginable for me that the law defines rape based on "he said, she said". Millions of couples drink moderate amounts of alcohol before sex and never end up on opposite sides in the criminal courts.
Hate isn't really my thing.
Get with the program! Hate is what makes the world revolve. It's the lubricant of civilization. Take politics for example. Without hate, then people might actually have to think before they vote. And we certainly can't have that!
Yup, hate is what divides us, and keeps us a controllable populace.
While my libertarian ideals deplores the FCC's handling of the radio spectrum, I do have to take issue with one thing...
When 95% of Mariposa listens to country music, what's the problem with having a country music station?
some would just collapse based on the heat
If that had happened in this case, you would have a very good point. But it didn't. Let me give you an analogy.
Suppose she went to McDonald's to buy ammunition. She asked for some 22 caliber rounds. She loaded one into her revolver and played russion roulette. Unfortunately she lost, and she fired a 32 caliber round causing $20,000 in medical costs. Is it McDonald's fault for selling her larger rounds than she asked for? Or her fault for playing russian roulette?
The reason why this cause has entered into the public consciousness the way it has, is because it's stupid and foolhardy to place a paper cup of hot coffee in your lap. It's the *lap* that's the problem here.
If she had taken a sip of coffee, burned her lips and dropped the cup in her lap in surprise and reflex, no one would condemning her. Yes, McDonald's is partly or even mostly at fault. But the "victim" still must take the responsibility for stupidly placing the cup in her lap.
I am an ex-smoker. As in "I no longer smoke". Neither do I receive any funds from any tobacco companies. In short, I have no reason to defend the tobacco industry. This being Slashdot, I find it necessary to state this.
With that out of the way, your argument is severly flawed. I knew smoking was harmful to me the day I started. I knew it was addictive. I knew it was deadly. There has been full disclosure of the dangers of cigarettes, right on the cigarette packs themselves, for several decades.
Smokers have to take responsibility for their own smoking. They cannot blame anyone else. This recent argument that tobacco advertisements can absolve people of their free will is bullshit.
then, technically, she raped you.
I see the feminists have thoroughly brainwashed you into believing this bullshit. Do not confuse seduction with rape.
It's a .0 release, so give it a break.
.0 software, because that .0 is a declaration that the software is ready for the prime time. If it isn't, don't release it. Otherwise it is a lie.
No I won't. That is not a valid excuse and I won't accept it. This isn't a beta release. It isn't a release candidate. It isn't a "technology preview".
There is no excuse for shody
I think it's because so many of these admins are coming from the Windows world. A Unix admin that can't use the command line is like an mechanic that doesn't know how to use a wrench.
It's not a hard problem, either.
I must disagree. It's certainly not difficult for someone used to the problem domain, but I'm not being hired for the problem domain of mathematics. I'm being hired as a programmer.
Untwist your panties! This isn't about Homeland Security or the PATRIOT Act or Ashcroft or any of your other "Bush is sooo evil" conspiracies. This is normal everyday US fear-induced authortarianism that's been around for quite a few decades. And this attitude is hardly limited to the US. Imagining this scenario happening in enlightened Europe or Asia is easy to do. Of course I'll be modded down by the last sentence, but I don't care anymore.
I'll give you an extremely accurate analogy, but one that doesn't involve your hated demons in the Bush administration. Instead, imagine during the peace and civil-rights loving Clinton administration, sometime after the Oklahoma City bombing, a landlord doing some routine inspection of a house. The landlord discovers in the garage sections of iron pipe, a bag of nails, a can of diesel fuel, and a bag of lawn fertilizer. OMG the renter is going to build a bomb! Call the police! Call the FBI! Call Janet Reno!
Before we can hire you to write UI widgets in Java, please derive the quadratic theorem. NOT! For some jobs this makes sense. For others it's nothing more than a thinly veiled elitism.
I was taught how to derive the quadratic theorem in my freshman year in high school. Unfortunately, it was only a one hour lecture, and the knowledge was never, ever used again in the subsequent twenty five years. I don't think I could pass your test. But fortunately, I don't have any bosses stupid enough to make it a job requirement.
Where the hell does the Senate get off telling Google how to run their email service?
It's the government. We, the ordinary people, have given them total and complete power. We have only ourselves to blame.
We're too busy arguing whether to give Bush or Kerry this total and complete power, to consider whether the nature of this power should be in the hands of government to begin with. We have created a system where we vote for the lesser of two tyrants. We have only ourselves to blame.
We vote for candidates who promise to impose power upon those we dislike. We elect politicians on the basis of whose going to gather more power unto the government. We elect them so we can "stick it" to someone else. We have only ourselves to blame.
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