If you give your variables/functions meaningful names (ie: $StoredPrice instead of $st, savePrice() instead of sv()) then half of your reading problems is fixed already.
I'm truly tired of that laziness. Well written codes should need the minimum of comment. Oh...And by the way, tabulation and don't play the genius coder while trying to put as much as instructions per line. Split them wisely. Then everybody is happy, whatever the language is...It will be readable.
My main concern with Perl is the object oriented feature, for the rest, it works like a charm. The synthax isn't that hard, the problem is the lambda Perl coder bad habits IMHO (trying to be the most cryptic possible), it is purely cultural and it has nothing to do with the language as far as I know.
Etymologically speaking atheism means godless (in Greek: a (privative) theos).
etymologically speaking the word atheism/athos doesn't condemn the belief in a spirit (ie soul, ether, whatever) and thus spirituality.
But the modern meaning is a bit more extreme these days.
Living in Brussels and being a belgian, so western european. i don't know a single guy over here who thinks Ukraine is Eurasia.
Ukraine is european. Probably eastern european but as european as Brussels or Paris to me. The parent was right, the article is eu-centric.
The physical environment of most of Africa is incredibly hostile to civilization. As evidence, most of the Europeans who tried to settle there during the colonial period failed catastrophically. Crop yields simply are much lower in African soils then European ones.
I beg to differ, my grand father had to work in the Belgian Congo, mainly on agriculture goods. The production was simply astonishing.
Most colonial powers turned the local production into "mono-culture", Most countries were dedicated to a single production (cacao, coffee, etc). and that was the basis of the famine in the 70's and 80's. And also a cause of some debts because of the volatile nature of such products...But the African soil (sub-saharian at least) is far from being poor quite the contrary.
Using Greek mythology as the basis of a storyline is as old as rome (litteraly).
Anyway the star wars manicheism is far from the Greek mythology. It is more related to middle east and the religion of the book IMHO.
Besides if you like a soap of Greek mythology, battlestar galactica is what you need;-). Good isn't that good and bad isn't that bad...We are all puppets of the gods...That sounds more like Greek mythology to me.
Well, I was 8 when I first watched A New hope. I loved it. I watched it again few months ago...And Frankly I found the scenario a bit too simple. But my nephew simply loved it...So the real show for me was watching him:-).
Don't you feel that we are simply getting older and the star wars franchise isn't for us anymore? Kids seem to enjoy it as much as we did (IMHO).
As a 30's, I prefer is Battlestar Galactica II. I prefer six over the princess anyday;-)
I don't install cracked games for the simple reason that I do care about virus, trojans and all. My laptop is virus free for ages and I don't use anykind of antivirus. There are other measures (of course).
In my case I respect the law because I don't trust pirates. But well I'm not a saint either...Well known format like MP3 or AVI + divX codec are actively used because they don't represent anykind of threat so far.
If I was in the game industry and a marketing leader, I would certainly play heavily on that kind of fear
they could do more serious damage to Georgian communications infrastructure
from what I understood, Russia just bombed a relatively important Georgian port and they are actively bombing a georgian town centre close to the border. I feel like Russia forces in the area are already bombing as much as they can. The whole Russian army isn't concentrated in that part of the world.
Anyway it was truly foolish for the Georgian government to attack the rebel region if they knew that their army was no match for the Russian forces...If they didn't know, they should leave the office at once. You didn't need to be a expert to understand that.
The truth is that Russia is about to seize two ex Georgian territories for some good reasons (oppressed minorities) and somes bad ones (Russia is historically interested by southern territories near the black sea...It all started in the XIX, see the crimea war). The current Georgian state cannot do much against it. They should concentrate themselves on economic recovery (there were good signs lately), diplomacy (looking for support in the west was a good idea...But it takes time...Such a strategy requires decades of hard work and diplomatic skills) and building a better future for their citizens.
I had always some sympathy for Georgia, they used to be the last european bastion in front of invaders of all sort (mongols, muslims, etc.), I truly hope they'll get the leaders they deserve.
You don't expect any return on investment in a short/medium term...Or better you don't expect anykind of return at all.
You know it will waste large sum of money.
You are looking for fun.
What you need are fanatics investing all their energy in the project and leading the team. Like him. And then it could be a success IMHO. Cold blood/rationnal manager would have left this project already.
Well if you consider middle age inhabitants of cities like Antioch as Turkish...Well yes partly. The seljuq ('turkic' origin)
used to rule Antioch and the like before the second crusade (ie usually considered as the first crusade but there was a first wave of christian fanatics that was crushed by muslims...and wikipedia prefer to forget it.).
But most atrocities have been committed in Lebanon, Israel and it was under the rule of the fatamid (Egypt), IMHO.
Knights templar didn't exist prior to the crusade. The order was created after the invasion. They weren't the fanatics painted by Ridley Scott in his movie. They were responsible for most inter-cultural dialogue between Europeans and Arabs. They were good traders, they were amongst the first in Europe to use cheque (a kind of western union for pilgrims...They wouldn't have to carry large sum on their way and be targets for thieves).
Hospitallers on the other had a very bellicose fraction.
What knights templar learnt from arabs (old hellenistic books, astrology/astronomy, alchemy) etc. was as much as important for Europe than the mythical muslim Al Andalus in Spain. Wealth + knowledge, it was a grave threat for the vatican of that time.
Yes, funny isn't it. I read slashdot for years, I develop web services since...1997? I use firefox for...mmmh 3 years and I have never touched this allowed list. I never had to.
Now...Let's imagine what would be the reaction of the lambda user. They'll think that those uncrypted server are more secure than those crypted ones with a self signed key. And this "allow" or exception feature is a very dangerous security breach.
looks like I will have to switch to internet explorer to access self signed https extranet. There are various cases where you do not need any third party to prove your identity. Firefox 2.X was already quite annoying with this. Firefox 3 seems to be even more.
Well from what I remember crossposting was usually used to create conflicts between opposite groups.
It usually started like "serbs will kick your arse next time" on soc.culture.croatia or "Europeons are sissies and we americans are tired to defend your pathetic... whatever" on soc.culture.europe
And of course croats, europeans would react. Those messages will appear on soc.culture.serbia or soc.culture.america.
And then a thread of pompeous messages will appear and soon or later the word "Nazi", "WW II" will appear en masse.
It was so predictable, boring, "common USENET trolling" was far from being an art to me. The only interesting I've learnt from this is how world war II is present in most people mind all over the world.
Most flamewars were utterly boring too, the ones I remember are FYROM and Macedonia (thx to Greek nationalists who managed to post their insults wherever they could) or Cyprus (between turks and greeks), tamil tigers, pfff and countless of topics. Most of the time their discussion were mostly copying & pasting articles (they usually kept posting the same for months) from the web and then signing them with "greeks are fags" and then somebody would reply "you turks are gay" with another copy/paste article...So interesting really
I was an active user of a group: talk.politics.european-union or something and that's why I left USENET around 2002. I usually appreciated exchanging arguments with British eursceptics on that group (in a civil manner) but those trolls and nationalists were really an infection.
Well free may be important for private use, but when you do business and you truly depend on something...
For example, there is a an account manager responsible for a big account (like $20 millions/year)...Frankly $10, $30 or $100 per month...WTF.
$10 or $0 is almost the same in that case, what differs is the service per see. the SLA (Service Level Agreement). For $0 you can expect nothing.
the real issue is the psychological price. $499 or 499 eur +VAT sounds fair. $499 and $783 + VAT doesn't. Of course you base partly your price on facts (the actual costs of development, marketing, and all) but in the end, the question is so simple:
"What are they willing to pay?"
Feel like Adobe (and others) have discovered that such a price is the best (the balance between lost potential clients versus additional revenues)...Until now (remember Quark Xpress)
Living in the UK, I am royally pissed that Adobe ramp their charges up so much here. Thankfully I not forced by my job to buy their products, because I'm simply not willing to pay their extortionate prices.
Living in Belgium, I'm too. I postponed ordering the new FLASH CS3...Waiting for any project truly requiring it. They are crazy. Feel like they are becoming another Quark Xpress. Anyway we discovered that a lot of features we previously did in FLASH could be easily done in JS/CSS, not all...But quite a lot.
When we won't have the knowledge to understand any warnings. Linguistically modern English would not be intelligible, scientific knowledge of radiation would be insufficient and a means to communicate in a way that doesn't require immediate proximity to the very thing we're warning against mean those neo-cavement would be boned.
that's why universal signs suh as skulls and bones are used worldwide. A minority understands English.
Look at prehistoric drawings...You can easily understand that they have represented hunts,specific animals, etc. So basically it does means that more than 10K old drawing can be understood today.
They had the luck to discover oil and the wisdom to carefully manage the revenues... I heard Norwegian institutional funds are ones of the biggest investors in European stock markets such as Euronext Paris.
30% of income taxes(?), (almost?) free healthcare, no state budget deficit, effcient pensions funds and capitalism...I'm all for that form of communism any day.
Doesn't seem to me that you totally comprehend the historical meaning of socialism especially its.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
What you describe is a social-democracy.
A society that used to be considered as "temporary" by die hard socialist reformists. A social democracy doesn't want to abolish private property. It doesn't promote egalitarism (same revenues for everybody thus no inequality anymore).
What they want is to reditribute a part of the wealth to the poor and consider non regalian public services (health, etc.) as crucial.
I live in such a society I know what is like.
A socialist society means that private property doesn't exist. Everything has been "collectivised".
As far as I know private property is a right in Western Europe as well as in Australia.
There are socialist reformists (social democrats) in Western Europe and in Australia. Their historical goal was to transform the society into a socialist by peaceful and democratic actions. they did settle "public services" and they have nationalised huge part of the economy.
Most if not all parties have gradually deleted this part of their program (labour, PS, SPD, etc.). Now somes are even more 'liberal' (in the european definition) than conservative parties (compared British labour to CDU, German christian conservative...Quite surprising).
Capitalism isn't a way of organising a society per se, IMHO. This is merely the consequence of private property rights, rules of law, contracts and free market. If all these things are settled, then capitalism florishes naturally.
We are 4, we all use OpenOffice for our quotes, reports, and son (+/- 2 years). I have never witnessed anykind of incompatibility from OpenOffice to MS Office.
We use styles, automatic tables of content, and various stuffs. We aren't using advanced features, but we aren't basic users either.
On the other hand I have seen some (but not a lot most of the time minor) incompatibilities with documents coming from MS Office, mainly customs bullet points, tables, and styles.
Well I remember watching a documentary over the mondaneum (I'm belgian). Pre WWII he enjoyed a relatively popularity in Belgium and amongst the intelligentsia around the world. Besides the mondaneum I remember that he tried to create somekind of a 'universal city' where human knowledge would have been concentrated and archived.
He did try to settle it somewhere near Antwerp (If I remember well) but nobody truly wanted it. I think he tried to settle it somewhere in Switzerland but it didn't work either (or maybe just part of his project, I really don't know anymore).
During the occupation, Nazi (and/or collaborators) were truly concerned about his pacifism, the mondaneum was located in the cinqantenaire (a famous building in brussels).
I think (but it should be checked) that they did whatever they can to force him to leave. His real tragedy was when thugs came in and took all his archives, with no regards for their complex classification, loosing parts of it...Everything became unclassified and thus almost lost entirely too.
Then the remaining mundaneum archived have been moved to Mons. He did his best to revive his project and it never worked like before WWII.
Sad story.
Well I don't know in the states but here in Europe they usually give you price...and It means nothing. To get the price you must follow the little (*)
So the laptop of your dream is at Eur 499(*) and the real price is Eur 694.54. Then you compare the 'real' price with competitors and suddently Dell isn't that cheap...In fact, the price is almost same and in sometimes more expensive.
The real advantage (and I guess that is what you meant) are their discounts. There you can get sometimes good deal.
I develop in Mono. I have chosen OpenSUSE over other distibutions because it's Novell behind and I thought that Novell would be the best company to packaged correctly MonoDevelop, Mono and everything else.
The OpenSUSE installation lets you remove unwanted apps. But well I have never removed anything...Quite the contrary, You always needs specific tools.
Oh...And well you are going to develop pro applications right? So I wouldn't advice to take the last little distribution...Somes are maintained by one person mostly...If this person gets sick or is fed up by the maintenance...You are in trouble.
For pro the best thing is to wait until the distribution becomes mainstream (Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.)
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If you give your variables/functions meaningful names (ie: $StoredPrice instead of $st, savePrice() instead of sv()) then half of your reading problems is fixed already.
I'm truly tired of that laziness. Well written codes should need the minimum of comment. Oh...And by the way, tabulation and don't play the genius coder while trying to put as much as instructions per line. Split them wisely. Then everybody is happy, whatever the language is...It will be readable.
My main concern with Perl is the object oriented feature, for the rest, it works like a charm. The synthax isn't that hard, the problem is the lambda Perl coder bad habits IMHO (trying to be the most cryptic possible), it is purely cultural and it has nothing to do with the language as far as I know.
Etymologically speaking atheism means godless (in Greek: a (privative) theos). etymologically speaking the word atheism/athos doesn't condemn the belief in a spirit (ie soul, ether, whatever) and thus spirituality. But the modern meaning is a bit more extreme these days.
Living in Brussels and being a belgian, so western european. i don't know a single guy over here who thinks Ukraine is Eurasia. Ukraine is european. Probably eastern european but as european as Brussels or Paris to me. The parent was right, the article is eu-centric.
The physical environment of most of Africa is incredibly hostile to civilization. As evidence, most of the Europeans who tried to settle there during the colonial period failed catastrophically. Crop yields simply are much lower in African soils then European ones.
I beg to differ, my grand father had to work in the Belgian Congo, mainly on agriculture goods. The production was simply astonishing.
Most colonial powers turned the local production into "mono-culture", Most countries were dedicated to a single production (cacao, coffee, etc). and that was the basis of the famine in the 70's and 80's. And also a cause of some debts because of the volatile nature of such products...But the African soil (sub-saharian at least) is far from being poor quite the contrary.
Using Greek mythology as the basis of a storyline is as old as rome (litteraly).
Anyway the star wars manicheism is far from the Greek mythology. It is more related to middle east and the religion of the book IMHO.
Besides if you like a soap of Greek mythology, battlestar galactica is what you need ;-). Good isn't that good and bad isn't that bad...We are all puppets of the gods...That sounds more like Greek mythology to me.
Well, I was 8 when I first watched A New hope. I loved it. I watched it again few months ago...And Frankly I found the scenario a bit too simple. But my nephew simply loved it...So the real show for me was watching him :-).
Don't you feel that we are simply getting older and the star wars franchise isn't for us anymore? Kids seem to enjoy it as much as we did (IMHO).
As a 30's, I prefer is Battlestar Galactica II. I prefer six over the princess anyday ;-)
I don't install cracked games for the simple reason that I do care about virus, trojans and all. My laptop is virus free for ages and I don't use anykind of antivirus. There are other measures (of course).
In my case I respect the law because I don't trust pirates. But well I'm not a saint either...Well known format like MP3 or AVI + divX codec are actively used because they don't represent anykind of threat so far.
If I was in the game industry and a marketing leader, I would certainly play heavily on that kind of fear
they could do more serious damage to Georgian communications infrastructure
from what I understood, Russia just bombed a relatively important Georgian port and they are actively bombing a georgian town centre close to the border. I feel like Russia forces in the area are already bombing as much as they can. The whole Russian army isn't concentrated in that part of the world.
Anyway it was truly foolish for the Georgian government to attack the rebel region if they knew that their army was no match for the Russian forces...If they didn't know, they should leave the office at once. You didn't need to be a expert to understand that.
The truth is that Russia is about to seize two ex Georgian territories for some good reasons (oppressed minorities) and somes bad ones (Russia is historically interested by southern territories near the black sea...It all started in the XIX, see the crimea war). The current Georgian state cannot do much against it. They should concentrate themselves on economic recovery (there were good signs lately), diplomacy (looking for support in the west was a good idea...But it takes time...Such a strategy requires decades of hard work and diplomatic skills) and building a better future for their citizens.
I had always some sympathy for Georgia, they used to be the last european bastion in front of invaders of all sort (mongols, muslims, etc.), I truly hope they'll get the leaders they deserve.
What you need are fanatics investing all their energy in the project and leading the team. Like him. And then it could be a success IMHO. Cold blood/rationnal manager would have left this project already.
Well if you consider middle age inhabitants of cities like Antioch as Turkish...Well yes partly. The seljuq ('turkic' origin) used to rule Antioch and the like before the second crusade (ie usually considered as the first crusade but there was a first wave of christian fanatics that was crushed by muslims...and wikipedia prefer to forget it.).
But most atrocities have been committed in Lebanon, Israel and it was under the rule of the fatamid (Egypt), IMHO.
Knights templar didn't exist prior to the crusade. The order was created after the invasion. They weren't the fanatics painted by Ridley Scott in his movie. They were responsible for most inter-cultural dialogue between Europeans and Arabs. They were good traders, they were amongst the first in Europe to use cheque (a kind of western union for pilgrims...They wouldn't have to carry large sum on their way and be targets for thieves).
Hospitallers on the other had a very bellicose fraction.
What knights templar learnt from arabs (old hellenistic books, astrology/astronomy, alchemy) etc. was as much as important for Europe than the mythical muslim Al Andalus in Spain. Wealth + knowledge, it was a grave threat for the vatican of that time.
Yes, funny isn't it. I read slashdot for years, I develop web services since...1997? I use firefox for...mmmh 3 years and I have never touched this allowed list. I never had to.
Now...Let's imagine what would be the reaction of the lambda user. They'll think that those uncrypted server are more secure than those crypted ones with a self signed key. And this "allow" or exception feature is a very dangerous security breach.
looks like I will have to switch to internet explorer to access self signed https extranet. There are various cases where you do not need any third party to prove your identity. Firefox 2.X was already quite annoying with this. Firefox 3 seems to be even more.
Well from what I remember crossposting was usually used to create conflicts between opposite groups.
It usually started like "serbs will kick your arse next time" on soc.culture.croatia or "Europeons are sissies and we americans are tired to defend your pathetic... whatever" on soc.culture.europe
And of course croats, europeans would react. Those messages will appear on soc.culture.serbia or soc.culture.america.
And then a thread of pompeous messages will appear and soon or later the word "Nazi", "WW II" will appear en masse.
It was so predictable, boring, "common USENET trolling" was far from being an art to me. The only interesting I've learnt from this is how world war II is present in most people mind all over the world.
Most flamewars were utterly boring too, the ones I remember are FYROM and Macedonia (thx to Greek nationalists who managed to post their insults wherever they could) or Cyprus (between turks and greeks), tamil tigers, pfff and countless of topics. Most of the time their discussion were mostly copying & pasting articles (they usually kept posting the same for months) from the web and then signing them with "greeks are fags" and then somebody would reply "you turks are gay" with another copy/paste article...So interesting really
I was an active user of a group:
talk.politics.european-union or something and that's why I left USENET around 2002. I usually appreciated exchanging arguments with British eursceptics on that group (in a civil manner) but those trolls and nationalists were really an infection.
How do you undercut free?
Well free may be important for private use, but when you do business and you truly depend on something... For example, there is a an account manager responsible for a big account (like $20 millions/year)...Frankly $10, $30 or $100 per month...WTF. $10 or $0 is almost the same in that case, what differs is the service per see. the SLA (Service Level Agreement). For $0 you can expect nothing.
the real issue is the psychological price. $499 or 499 eur +VAT sounds fair. $499 and $783 + VAT doesn't. Of course you base partly your price on facts (the actual costs of development, marketing, and all) but in the end, the question is so simple: "What are they willing to pay?"
Feel like Adobe (and others) have discovered that such a price is the best (the balance between lost potential clients versus additional revenues)...Until now (remember Quark Xpress)
Living in the UK, I am royally pissed that Adobe ramp their charges up so much here. Thankfully I not forced by my job to buy their products, because I'm simply not willing to pay their extortionate prices.
Living in Belgium, I'm too. I postponed ordering the new FLASH CS3...Waiting for any project truly requiring it. They are crazy. Feel like they are becoming another Quark Xpress. Anyway we discovered that a lot of features we previously did in FLASH could be easily done in JS/CSS, not all...But quite a lot.
When we won't have the knowledge to understand any warnings. Linguistically modern English would not be intelligible, scientific knowledge of radiation would be insufficient and a means to communicate in a way that doesn't require immediate proximity to the very thing we're warning against mean those neo-cavement would be boned.
that's why universal signs suh as skulls and bones are used worldwide. A minority understands English.
Look at prehistoric drawings...You can easily understand that they have represented hunts,specific animals, etc. So basically it does means that more than 10K old drawing can be understood today.
They had the luck to discover oil and the wisdom to carefully manage the revenues ... I heard Norwegian institutional funds are ones of the biggest investors in European stock markets such as Euronext Paris.
30% of income taxes(?), (almost?) free healthcare, no state budget deficit, effcient pensions funds and capitalism...I'm all for that form of communism any day.
Doesn't seem to me that you totally comprehend the historical meaning of socialism especially its. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism What you describe is a social-democracy. A society that used to be considered as "temporary" by die hard socialist reformists. A social democracy doesn't want to abolish private property. It doesn't promote egalitarism (same revenues for everybody thus no inequality anymore). What they want is to reditribute a part of the wealth to the poor and consider non regalian public services (health, etc.) as crucial. I live in such a society I know what is like.
A socialist society means that private property doesn't exist. Everything has been "collectivised".
As far as I know private property is a right in Western Europe as well as in Australia.
There are socialist reformists (social democrats) in Western Europe and in Australia. Their historical goal was to transform the society into a socialist by peaceful and democratic actions. they did settle "public services" and they have nationalised huge part of the economy.
Most if not all parties have gradually deleted this part of their program (labour, PS, SPD, etc.). Now somes are even more 'liberal' (in the european definition) than conservative parties (compared British labour to CDU, German christian conservative...Quite surprising).
Capitalism isn't a way of organising a society per se, IMHO. This is merely the consequence of private property rights, rules of law, contracts and free market. If all these things are settled, then capitalism florishes naturally.
# But don't forget to identify user_agent first :-)
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: '."http://www.grisoft.com/");
We are 4, we all use OpenOffice for our quotes, reports, and son (+/- 2 years). I have never witnessed anykind of incompatibility from OpenOffice to MS Office.
We use styles, automatic tables of content, and various stuffs. We aren't using advanced features, but we aren't basic users either.
On the other hand I have seen some (but not a lot most of the time minor) incompatibilities with documents coming from MS Office, mainly customs bullet points, tables, and styles.
Well I remember watching a documentary over the mondaneum (I'm belgian). Pre WWII he enjoyed a relatively popularity in Belgium and amongst the intelligentsia around the world. Besides the mondaneum I remember that he tried to create somekind of a 'universal city' where human knowledge would have been concentrated and archived.
He did try to settle it somewhere near Antwerp (If I remember well) but nobody truly wanted it. I think he tried to settle it somewhere in Switzerland but it didn't work either (or maybe just part of his project, I really don't know anymore).
During the occupation, Nazi (and/or collaborators) were truly concerned about his pacifism, the mondaneum was located in the cinqantenaire (a famous building in brussels). I think (but it should be checked) that they did whatever they can to force him to leave. His real tragedy was when thugs came in and took all his archives, with no regards for their complex classification, loosing parts of it...Everything became unclassified and thus almost lost entirely too.
Then the remaining mundaneum archived have been moved to Mons. He did his best to revive his project and it never worked like before WWII.
Sad story.
Well I don't know in the states but here in Europe they usually give you price...and It means nothing. To get the price you must follow the little (*)
So the laptop of your dream is at Eur 499(*) and the real price is Eur 694.54. Then you compare the 'real' price with competitors and suddently Dell isn't that cheap...In fact, the price is almost same and in sometimes more expensive.
The real advantage (and I guess that is what you meant) are their discounts. There you can get sometimes good deal.
(*) around Eur 75 for shipment + 21% VAT taxesI develop in Mono. I have chosen OpenSUSE over other distibutions because it's Novell behind and I thought that Novell would be the best company to packaged correctly MonoDevelop, Mono and everything else.
The OpenSUSE installation lets you remove unwanted apps. But well I have never removed anything...Quite the contrary, You always needs specific tools.
Oh...And well you are going to develop pro applications right? So I wouldn't advice to take the last little distribution...Somes are maintained by one person mostly...If this person gets sick or is fed up by the maintenance...You are in trouble. For pro the best thing is to wait until the distribution becomes mainstream (Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.)