I found it more time consuming to learn Java and C# because the libraries go on forever (though the basics are still pretty much the same as in any other OO language).
You don't need to memorize those libraries, though. Knowing the core language is enough to get started; the libraries can be searched as needed, which is simple enough since the documentation is available in electronic format and standard HTML for that (at least for Java, dunno about C#).
The real fun, if you ask my honest opinion, is learning things about C++ by reading Stroustrup's book which is both rather long (you could beat people to death with the hard cover) and also very in-depth. A few friends have decided that it makes the most sense after one has attained a Master's degree in CS.
Unfortunately, I've never received formal education - or any kind of education besides reverse-engineering source - related to IT, so I know almost nothing of CS. Heck, I don't even know how to use a debugger:(. So I guess I'd not make much sense out of it.
Nice try on getting him to hack on a driver, though. Somehow, however, I don't think he's ready for that just yet:P
The "hacking" in this case consists of finding out the new names and syntaxes for the functions and preprocessor directives which has been changed. Not exactly l33t stuff:).
If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back.
If someone punches me in the face, they propably cause a significant amount of damage and a sense of detachment due to my brains getting rattled around inside my skull. This state isn't exactly conductive for calm, rational judgement of appropriate response, but rather an instinctive self-protective one. In other words, if someone punches me in the face, and I happen to be holding a crowbar for whatever reason, I most likely will beat them to death with it.
You can't act like a ruffian and expect to be treated like a lady.
No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?
If someone pulls a knife on me, he's propably standing right next to me, so throwing a grenade at him might not be such a good idea regardless of any consideration of ethics.
Mod parent up past the max. This is the only response such a stupid article deserves. Bandwidth doesn't magically exist free for wireless providers.
Actually, you are wrong. It does. After all, nothing stops two neighboring wireless networks from exchanging packets directly, without going through the backbone, or relaying each others packets towards third parties. Naturally this is slower in the latency sense than going through the backbone, but that doesn't really matter for BitTorrent, streaming media, or other high bandwidth consumers.
At some point we need to get rid of this silly notation of Internet Service Providers and simply let any device act as a wireless router for any other, forming a worldwide mesh. Then again, this would be a nightmare for the control freaks who want to keep exact logs of who does what online, so it might take some time to happen.
The grandparent isn't talking about HTML/CSS concerns. That would be silly. I'm assuming that his document management system uses ActiveX controls or some Microsoft proprietary features to improve the interface. They could also be doing SSO to IIS which can be difficult with a non-MS browser.
This raises the question of why use a browser at all, instead of a custom frontend application.
Think of how much deeper the understanding of Objects, ER diagrams,... will be for those students who started with Java.
Actually, I'm of the opinion that to really understand the point of objects, you first need to make do without them. After all, knowing that the Answer is 42 doesn't do you much good if you don't know what the Question is. In the same vein, you really need to try to debug a 10,000 line BASIC program to really appreciate procedural programming.
C is extremely easy to pick up, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, it will take a while to get *good* at it, but getting started is pretty easy. Grab a copy of K&R C, read it, and play a bit. That's how I learned most of it when our projects were in it.
Or grap a copy of Nethack sources and make a variant. That's how I learned it. Or just try to get NVIDIA's proprietary driver working with the newest stable Linux kernel in a machine which has GeForce 2 MX (which isn't supported by newer driver versions anymore) - low budget is the mother of invention;).
If the financial sector had seriously believed that the Northern Rock going down would have taken any other bank down, they could easily have bailed it out with private sector money. They chose not to: therefore the risk to them was not significant.
Or perhaps any particular private actor was hoping that someone else would take action with their money. The private sector is not, after all, a singular entity capable of making decision rational from the point of view of the economy as a whole. It is composed of individual actors who are calculating their own risk vs. reward; besides, 24 billion pounds is a lot of money, so it could be that no single private sector entity simply had that much, and, like said before, they don't neccessarily cooperate and pool their money for common good - they have the government for that.
Besides, consider this: If a bank goes under, and people lose their money, mine will come out of my account and go into my purse and stay there. Not because of panic, but because it is simply impossible for me to keep myself aware of the financial situation of a bank - especially since the leadership would likely try to cover up any financial problems - and I can't afford to lose a significant portion of my savings, so the rational response is to not take the risk. Other wage-earners will likely react in the same way; the end result is, of course, a run on every bank and a huge financial risk.
It doesn't really matter whether the professional money handlers think there's a risk; what matters is whether Joe Average, who has no economic training and can't keep an eye on his bank since he only has a limited amount of time per day, thinks that the bank is worth the trust this requires; and the only way it can be is if the government guarantees that he can get his money even if the bank collapses. Personal responsibility is all nice and good, but if everyone plays defensively, economy is going to collapse.
Can we fit this into the Drake Equation somehow? "Percentage of worlds with intelligent life that develop catgirls".
Not really in any significant way, since intelligent life develops catgirls by definition. Just look at ancient Egypt: they had a cat-headed goddess, held cats to be sacred, mummified them... The Sphinx is nothing but an early attempt to iron out the concept of a catgirl. Or look at Japan: they lost a war, got nuked and occupied, lost their empire, yet their culture not only survived but is taking the world by a storm. Why ? Catgirls.
Playing other games while in the midst of my addiction (and it was, admittedly, an addiction) made me feel like I was wasting my time...after all, playing God of War wasn't gonna put the ore in my backpack:-)
Now all you have to do is transfer that attitude towards real-world earthly possessions and you're a good little capitalist:). I wonder if WoW, Eve Online or something similar could be used to teach kids discipline and distrust ?
....hum let's see...the one area of ice caps that is showing massive amounts of melting, is sort right over the volcano......
And has been for 2000 years, according to the summary. Why would it only begin melting in modern times, if the volcano is the cause ?
...President Bush's fault!
Nah, but spreading lies - about climate change, about Iraq, and who knows what else - for personal gain sure is.
It's January and there isn't any snow on the ground; in fact it's raining water. It's been like this year after year lately. A decade ago it would be midwinter by now, with the temperature of -20 degree Celcius and snow covering everything in a beautiful white sheet. Instead we have endless rain and mud, year after year after year. And the monkey you call president has the gall to argue the change isn't real.
In the original version of Star Control II for PC you could sell shuttles despite not having any. When the number got below 0, you got a whole fleet of them (normally the limit was 6 or 7 - can't recall the exact number anymore).
If I'm in the unfortunate situation of having to explain something that happens every two months, I can try and use bimonthly, but it will immediately be followed by the question: Which definition of 'bimonthly' are you using? The smart one, or the one introduced into the language by idiots?
You could, of course, say "twice per month" or "once per two months" in the first place and thus avoid the confusion. Now, admittedly, these constructs are hideous abominations and should partyvanned, and perhaps even gendowned, to remove them from the sight of humanity. On the other hand, the price of using a living language is that people use it for actual communication, rather than for displaying their awesome level of sophistication, so they sometimes change it to better suit their needs, or just for lolz. Perhaps you should simply speak in Latin from now on ?
But remember, these/b/-tards will one day be in the same position as you are now, frothing at the gall the younger generation has in daring to change the language ! And they, too, will be considered lunatics and ignored, besides an occasional sarcastic reply such as this one. Still, you might pause the final infinite loop you have entered to laugh at them for a moment, just like they laughed at you.
The only reason the usage of that phrase ever changed is because large numbers of ignorant people started using it incorrectly, and now we're left without an unambiguous, concise way of accusing someone of assuming what they are pretending to prove.
Try "circular reasoning". Besides, you do realize that "begging the question" is merely a translation of the latin phrase "petitio principii" ? Finally, you could simply say: "You are assuming what you are pretending to prove."
Really, this whole thing is utterly ridiculous, and begs the question, in both meanings of the phrase, of just why the meaning "circular reasoning" should be the correct one; after all, if mere common usage is not sufficient to make that usage correct, then what is the correctness of that usage based on ?
Landmines, on the other hand, would seem to fall into the same category as handguns, as the victim more often than not has no idea that his opponent is armed, or that he's even in danger. I fail to see a reason for those to exist.
Try living right next to Stalinist/Soviet/Putinist Russia for a while and the idea of putting booby traps between them and you starts getting a certain appeal.
Even if I did leave my doors and windows unlocked anyone that entered without my person would be doing so illegally and subject to my wrath.
True, because entering someone's home without the owner's explicit permission is not part of expected procedure. A more appropriate analogue would be to leave the doors to a shop unlocked during normal business hours and complaining that the people who step inside are trespassing; this correctly captures the idea that the whole purpose of a DNS server is to answer incoming queries.
I find this incredibly irritating. The specifics of the term "hybrid" are not elaborated upon and the continual use of the term"human-animal hybrid" allows for people to develop the notion that scientists out there are actually creating some monster chimeric creature.
I hear you. It is disgusting that people badmouth these scientist who are in reality working hard to create human-cat hybrids to star in live action versions of japanese anime shows.
Actually, Earth and Sun orbit a common center of mass. Saying "Earth orbits the Sun" is an approximation of this system, useful because the Sun is far more massive than Earth, so the point is much closer to it. The same is true for any two masses; in fact it is impossible for mass A to orbit mass B without mass B also orbiting mass A.
All available evidence says it does, and some stupid old book written by ignorant stone-age people says it doesn't.
Since writing originated around the same time Bronze Age began, I'd say that any stone-aged people who wrote books would be amazingly advanced ones;).
Even the fundamentalist Christian Creation supporters believe in heliocentrism these days.
Based on all available evidence, heliocentrism - the idea that Sun is the center of the Universe - is false. In fact it appears that the Universe doesn't have a center, at least not one which would itself be part of it; the center of a 4D ball isn't in the 3D space of its surface.
Coming to think of it, there's not that much difference between these two places and times, so I wonder if it could simply be human nature to do nasty things to others with whatever excuse happens to be conveniently available ? Nah, can't be, it's all because of religion, and once atheists take power and kill or imprison every religious person the world will be a paradise. Not that you can call it that without getting killed, thought.
His right to speak? Or the right of an organization to choose speakers who don't mock everything they stand for?
From what I understand, it was the organization which called him there in the first place. And now that he has respected the demand of the protesters to not go there after all despite the invitation, they are complaining that this makes him look good and them bad.
"HEY ! You can't give in to our demands ! It makes us look bad !"
Specifically, all I know is that Catholics have said that man shouldn't interfere with the procreation process, and so shouldn't wear condoms. I don't see how you can possibly show that to be irrational scientifically or logically, unless you are going to argue from the Bible itself.
Sure you can. All it takes is point out that, since procreation naturally only occurs as a result of sex, and since whether or not you have sex is entirely in your control (excepting getting raped), it is impossible to not interfere with the process - the decision to abstain will halt the process in its tracks, while the decision to have (unprotected) sex will almost certainly start it. You can't avoid interfering with procreation any more than you can avoid interfering with your own eating habits. It is irrational to forbid you from interfering with a process you can't avoid interfering with.
Besides, the Catholic Church itself is interfering with the process all the time, with each and every position it has regarding sex, including the very condom ban.
It's like if I told you that, the faster you go, the shorter (horizontally) you get. Lots of people still have a hard time wrapping their head around that one little side effect of Relativity theory.
Relativity is simple. The basic idea is: if you move fast enough, something has to give, and space and time give before the laws of physics.
As a nice side effect, learning this basic idea might end up directly benefiting the person in question, if they draw the conclusion that perhaps the laws of physics won't bend for their l33t driving skills either;).
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You don't need to memorize those libraries, though. Knowing the core language is enough to get started; the libraries can be searched as needed, which is simple enough since the documentation is available in electronic format and standard HTML for that (at least for Java, dunno about C#).
Unfortunately, I've never received formal education - or any kind of education besides reverse-engineering source - related to IT, so I know almost nothing of CS. Heck, I don't even know how to use a debugger :(. So I guess I'd not make much sense out of it.
The "hacking" in this case consists of finding out the new names and syntaxes for the functions and preprocessor directives which has been changed. Not exactly l33t stuff :).
If someone punches me in the face, they propably cause a significant amount of damage and a sense of detachment due to my brains getting rattled around inside my skull. This state isn't exactly conductive for calm, rational judgement of appropriate response, but rather an instinctive self-protective one. In other words, if someone punches me in the face, and I happen to be holding a crowbar for whatever reason, I most likely will beat them to death with it.
You can't act like a ruffian and expect to be treated like a lady.
If someone pulls a knife on me, he's propably standing right next to me, so throwing a grenade at him might not be such a good idea regardless of any consideration of ethics.
Actually, you are wrong. It does. After all, nothing stops two neighboring wireless networks from exchanging packets directly, without going through the backbone, or relaying each others packets towards third parties. Naturally this is slower in the latency sense than going through the backbone, but that doesn't really matter for BitTorrent, streaming media, or other high bandwidth consumers.
At some point we need to get rid of this silly notation of Internet Service Providers and simply let any device act as a wireless router for any other, forming a worldwide mesh. Then again, this would be a nightmare for the control freaks who want to keep exact logs of who does what online, so it might take some time to happen.
This raises the question of why use a browser at all, instead of a custom frontend application.
No, that won't work; it will choke on people with exotic characters in their names. You want:
find ${SOMEPATH} -type f -print0 | xargs --null -r -n 1 grep -i ${PATTERN} --Actually, I'm of the opinion that to really understand the point of objects, you first need to make do without them. After all, knowing that the Answer is 42 doesn't do you much good if you don't know what the Question is. In the same vein, you really need to try to debug a 10,000 line BASIC program to really appreciate procedural programming.
Or grap a copy of Nethack sources and make a variant. That's how I learned it. Or just try to get NVIDIA's proprietary driver working with the newest stable Linux kernel in a machine which has GeForce 2 MX (which isn't supported by newer driver versions anymore) - low budget is the mother of invention ;).
Or perhaps any particular private actor was hoping that someone else would take action with their money. The private sector is not, after all, a singular entity capable of making decision rational from the point of view of the economy as a whole. It is composed of individual actors who are calculating their own risk vs. reward; besides, 24 billion pounds is a lot of money, so it could be that no single private sector entity simply had that much, and, like said before, they don't neccessarily cooperate and pool their money for common good - they have the government for that.
Besides, consider this: If a bank goes under, and people lose their money, mine will come out of my account and go into my purse and stay there. Not because of panic, but because it is simply impossible for me to keep myself aware of the financial situation of a bank - especially since the leadership would likely try to cover up any financial problems - and I can't afford to lose a significant portion of my savings, so the rational response is to not take the risk. Other wage-earners will likely react in the same way; the end result is, of course, a run on every bank and a huge financial risk.
It doesn't really matter whether the professional money handlers think there's a risk; what matters is whether Joe Average, who has no economic training and can't keep an eye on his bank since he only has a limited amount of time per day, thinks that the bank is worth the trust this requires; and the only way it can be is if the government guarantees that he can get his money even if the bank collapses. Personal responsibility is all nice and good, but if everyone plays defensively, economy is going to collapse.
Not really in any significant way, since intelligent life develops catgirls by definition. Just look at ancient Egypt: they had a cat-headed goddess, held cats to be sacred, mummified them... The Sphinx is nothing but an early attempt to iron out the concept of a catgirl. Or look at Japan: they lost a war, got nuked and occupied, lost their empire, yet their culture not only survived but is taking the world by a storm. Why ? Catgirls.
Now all you have to do is transfer that attitude towards real-world earthly possessions and you're a good little capitalist :). I wonder if WoW, Eve Online or something similar could be used to teach kids discipline and distrust ?
Yes, but using it will automatically turn your alignment into Evil.
And has been for 2000 years, according to the summary. Why would it only begin melting in modern times, if the volcano is the cause ?
Nah, but spreading lies - about climate change, about Iraq, and who knows what else - for personal gain sure is.
It's January and there isn't any snow on the ground; in fact it's raining water. It's been like this year after year lately. A decade ago it would be midwinter by now, with the temperature of -20 degree Celcius and snow covering everything in a beautiful white sheet. Instead we have endless rain and mud, year after year after year. And the monkey you call president has the gall to argue the change isn't real.
And Americans wonder why they are hated.
In the original version of Star Control II for PC you could sell shuttles despite not having any. When the number got below 0, you got a whole fleet of them (normally the limit was 6 or 7 - can't recall the exact number anymore).
What third parties exist in the US besides libertarians ?
You could, of course, say "twice per month" or "once per two months" in the first place and thus avoid the confusion. Now, admittedly, these constructs are hideous abominations and should partyvanned, and perhaps even gendowned, to remove them from the sight of humanity. On the other hand, the price of using a living language is that people use it for actual communication, rather than for displaying their awesome level of sophistication, so they sometimes change it to better suit their needs, or just for lolz. Perhaps you should simply speak in Latin from now on ?
But remember, these /b/-tards will one day be in the same position as you are now, frothing at the gall the younger generation has in daring to change the language ! And they, too, will be considered lunatics and ignored, besides an occasional sarcastic reply such as this one. Still, you might pause the final infinite loop you have entered to laugh at them for a moment, just like they laughed at you.
LOL 0wn3d.
Try "circular reasoning". Besides, you do realize that "begging the question" is merely a translation of the latin phrase "petitio principii" ? Finally, you could simply say: "You are assuming what you are pretending to prove."
Really, this whole thing is utterly ridiculous, and begs the question, in both meanings of the phrase, of just why the meaning "circular reasoning" should be the correct one; after all, if mere common usage is not sufficient to make that usage correct, then what is the correctness of that usage based on ?
Try living right next to Stalinist/Soviet/Putinist Russia for a while and the idea of putting booby traps between them and you starts getting a certain appeal.
True, because entering someone's home without the owner's explicit permission is not part of expected procedure. A more appropriate analogue would be to leave the doors to a shop unlocked during normal business hours and complaining that the people who step inside are trespassing; this correctly captures the idea that the whole purpose of a DNS server is to answer incoming queries.
I hear you. It is disgusting that people badmouth these scientist who are in reality working hard to create human-cat hybrids to star in live action versions of japanese anime shows.
Actually, Earth and Sun orbit a common center of mass. Saying "Earth orbits the Sun" is an approximation of this system, useful because the Sun is far more massive than Earth, so the point is much closer to it. The same is true for any two masses; in fact it is impossible for mass A to orbit mass B without mass B also orbiting mass A.
Since writing originated around the same time Bronze Age began, I'd say that any stone-aged people who wrote books would be amazingly advanced ones ;).
Based on all available evidence, heliocentrism - the idea that Sun is the center of the Universe - is false. In fact it appears that the Universe doesn't have a center, at least not one which would itself be part of it; the center of a 4D ball isn't in the 3D space of its surface.
Galileo was put under house arrest, not killed.
In Soviet Russia the Party dismisses you !
And, to stay on topic:
In Medieval Vatican the Pope dismembers you !
Coming to think of it, there's not that much difference between these two places and times, so I wonder if it could simply be human nature to do nasty things to others with whatever excuse happens to be conveniently available ? Nah, can't be, it's all because of religion, and once atheists take power and kill or imprison every religious person the world will be a paradise. Not that you can call it that without getting killed, thought.
From what I understand, it was the organization which called him there in the first place. And now that he has respected the demand of the protesters to not go there after all despite the invitation, they are complaining that this makes him look good and them bad.
"HEY ! You can't give in to our demands ! It makes us look bad !"
Sure you can. All it takes is point out that, since procreation naturally only occurs as a result of sex, and since whether or not you have sex is entirely in your control (excepting getting raped), it is impossible to not interfere with the process - the decision to abstain will halt the process in its tracks, while the decision to have (unprotected) sex will almost certainly start it. You can't avoid interfering with procreation any more than you can avoid interfering with your own eating habits. It is irrational to forbid you from interfering with a process you can't avoid interfering with.
Besides, the Catholic Church itself is interfering with the process all the time, with each and every position it has regarding sex, including the very condom ban.
Relativity is simple. The basic idea is: if you move fast enough, something has to give, and space and time give before the laws of physics.
As a nice side effect, learning this basic idea might end up directly benefiting the person in question, if they draw the conclusion that perhaps the laws of physics won't bend for their l33t driving skills either ;).