That's good then. Imagine what a downer it would be to fail at an attempt to commit suicide only to get dragged off to jail. Whoever thought up that law was clearly two sandwiches short of a picnic.
Until Artists wake up and realize that they don't have to go the Major Label route anymore, then will the industry change, because they won't have any slaves working for them anymore
Yes but for that to happen, there needs to be a viable alternative to going the major label route. If artists bypass that route, they're not going to gain popularity because few people will take them seriously.
If you and I conspire for you to commit suicide we've both committed a crime
(conspiracy to commit an offence carries max life imprisonment in UK).
I wasn't sure it was illegal to commit suicide here in the UK. It's just the notion that seems ridiculous. You'd be unlucky to get life for consipring to commit most offences, and life isn't life (is it 17 years or so?).
In the US one just calls the police and make erratic sudden movements when they arrive
It's so true - that's what comes from too much Fox on TV, gun culture and armed Police. Here the worst that could happen is you could get handcuffed or maybe beat up by some burly officer if you're unlucky.
Somewhere along the line, you will find yourself having to hack out code in a text editor, or use a less-than-top-of-the-line development environment
Nop, it's not happened to me yet. I must just be lucky. In the mean time, I'll count my blessings and keep using Doxygen and Javadoc.
at which point you will have to fall back on your own skills and not those of an auto-documentation program.
When it happens, I will concede that point. Until then, I think your reasoning flawed because it's not going to happen. It's like saying you might as well code in assembler intead of C because one day you might not have access to a C compiler and you'll be damn glad you learned assembler. Crazy:)
Java: vim, GNU make, javamake, javac, javadoc, IntelliJ IDEA.
No Java project is complete without using the Ant build tool and JUnit for unit tests:) There must be a reason why you choose these other build tools, but I'm not sure what.
Eclipse is great with the CDT plugin. Ant as a build tool is great - XML build files are nice. Not to mention, Ant integrates with JUnit which I use for Java unit testing. Oh, and Javadoc and Doxygen for source code documentation.
Software is a set of instructions executed by a processor
Did he mention a CPU? I don't think so. The JRE is also a processor - a virtual machine that processes bytecode instructions. The other script interpreters you mentioned are also processors - they process scripts:)
Interpreted code runs in an interpreter, sometimes called a virtual machine. Data doesn't run anywhere because it's not software. Music data is music data.
I really, honestly, would rather have 1 single, lonely, friendless coder who can rock my socks and doesn't mind working late because he *likes his work* instead of a whole team of guys who're just there for the paycheque and don't feel passionate about their work and spend most of their time thinking about their (boy/girl)friend/wife/kids/friends/hobbies/car/etc instead of the code in front of them.
I hope I never work for someone with that attitude! My family is far more important than my job, and always will be. I pity those for whom work comes before everything else, for their lives will surely be less fulfilling. Work is something which you do to earn a living. Work to live, don't live to work.
And that person that you hire who enjoys working overtime and has no life outside of work will alienate others in your company because he is a miserable git. Why else would he have no friends and no life? A healthy life outside of works makes people more productive inside work. Happy and fulfilled staff are happy and productive workers.
I bet you think there is a little genie in there doing all the work
You're wrong, sorry to disappoint.
I've got a little surprise for you the technical "gubbins" (I use that word as well;-) HAS NO BREARING on the sound quality of a phone call.
What makes you think I don't know that already? Your arrogance is amusing.
The comes down to the audio codec used (which is crap but efficient), the quality of the microphone/speaker (which is not really size related and is now fairly standard) and how the nework is set up.
It's the audio codec in this case.
Your phones Java VM isn't what's making the calls sound poor!
No shit!
My point was that phone companies should get the phone part right before cramming the phone with other gubbins. Never once did I suggest these gubbins were causing the poor sound quality.
I'm with you. My phone has an FM radio, camera, GPRS, xhtml browser, infra red, bluetooth and Java. Yet I never use this stuff and when I actually want to make a call, the sound quality is crap! I wish phone manufacturers would get the phone bit right before cramming in all the other gubbins.
Yeah, I guess you *can* write ASP in javascript, but nobody does.
Sure they do. I used to write ASP primarliy in Javascript - it sucks a lot less than VBScript. And I know 2 other people that used to regularly. I have also written ASP in PerlScript. I'm not sure you're gonna win many hearts and minds round here advocating VBs verbose syntax, most people think it sucks.
And if you're writing ASP (I mean "you" in the "one" sense of the word) you should be able to write and understand ASP written in Javascript.
What makes you so sure? There are 240 million people in the US and 65 million in the UK. How many in the world? And how many people using using desktops? Must be close to a billion, if not more.
It is useful to be able to have a way for moderators who know more to come along and mod something back down because it really isn't as good as its current mod bonus claims.
It's also a pain to have a way for moderators who know less to come along and mod something. Given the number of tolls, children and other fuckwits around, the latter is quite a common phenomenon. The mod system really bows to the group mentality - whether it works or not depends on the kind of peole using it.
Indeed. Remember the "fastest PC in the world" campaign that got banned because it was BS? It's that kind of elitist lie that gets the Mac fanboys foaming at the mouth.
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That's good then. Imagine what a downer it would be to fail at an attempt to commit suicide only to get dragged off to jail. Whoever thought up that law was clearly two sandwiches short of a picnic.
Get some professional help for that anger problem.
Oh, sorry, I forgot about the strong gay culture here. And the number of people too young and too socially inept, but mainly the first point :)
See, it works.
What do you use then? Make a suggestion instead of slagging off Eclipse and CDT.
Eclipse is great with the CDT plugin. Ant as a build tool is great - XML build files are nice. Not to mention, Ant integrates with JUnit which I use for Java unit testing. Oh, and Javadoc and Doxygen for source code documentation.
Interpreted code runs in an interpreter, sometimes called a virtual machine. Data doesn't run anywhere because it's not software. Music data is music data.
And that person that you hire who enjoys working overtime and has no life outside of work will alienate others in your company because he is a miserable git. Why else would he have no friends and no life? A healthy life outside of works makes people more productive inside work. Happy and fulfilled staff are happy and productive workers.
It's OK - I thought you were being condescending, but it seems you were tongue in cheek. No offence taken :)
I'm with you. My phone has an FM radio, camera, GPRS, xhtml browser, infra red, bluetooth and Java. Yet I never use this stuff and when I actually want to make a call, the sound quality is crap! I wish phone manufacturers would get the phone bit right before cramming in all the other gubbins.
FWIW, I started in VB That explains a lot.
Web tutorials that treat it as dumbed-down variant of C or Java, ignorant of its many Lisp-like qualities.
Like dynamic scoping, closures and prototypical inheritance? Javascript rocks.
Yeah, I guess you *can* write ASP in javascript, but nobody does.
Sure they do. I used to write ASP primarliy in Javascript - it sucks a lot less than VBScript. And I know 2 other people that used to regularly. I have also written ASP in PerlScript. I'm not sure you're gonna win many hearts and minds round here advocating VBs verbose syntax, most people think it sucks.
And if you're writing ASP (I mean "you" in the "one" sense of the word) you should be able to write and understand ASP written in Javascript.
OK so there are roughly six and a half billion people in the world. Sounds reasonable that there could be a billion people using desktops, no?
What makes you so sure? There are 240 million people in the US and 65 million in the UK. How many in the world? And how many people using using desktops? Must be close to a billion, if not more.
It is useful to be able to have a way for moderators who know more to come along and mod something back down because it really isn't as good as its current mod bonus claims.
It's also a pain to have a way for moderators who know less to come along and mod something. Given the number of tolls, children and other fuckwits around, the latter is quite a common phenomenon. The mod system really bows to the group mentality - whether it works or not depends on the kind of peole using it.
and apples marketing is just full of shit
Indeed. Remember the "fastest PC in the world" campaign that got banned because it was BS? It's that kind of elitist lie that gets the Mac fanboys foaming at the mouth.
it's just that the market share of Linux on the desktop is tiny (2%)
2% is tiny? Consider how many billions of desktop users there are.