Each tablet contains the active ingredient: 50mg caffeine
Sorry, you didn't know pro plus contains caffeine? Either you live in a cave or they don't sell pro plus where you live. I presume the latter.
Pro plus have been around for ages in the UK (that's Britain to you). Frankly, I'll stick to tea.
Manufacterers like kodak and hp don't have a lot of experience in camera design and that's why they're so cheap compared to a good nikon or canon digital SLR with much much better lenses.
That's a great point. It takes experience to make good digital cameras. I owned an HP camera and it ranked pretty poorly compared to my current camera, a Casio QV-R40, which is an excellent little camera. Casio are probably more synonymous with calculators than cameras, but an interesting piece of trivia is that they were one of the first to introduce consumer cameras in the mid 90s with their QV-10.
The criminalization of marijuana.. and the maintenance of the criminal status of cannabis.. principally the United States, profiting enormously, directly and indirectly, from the "War on Drugs" while callously inflicting, directly and indirectly, major harm upon their citizens..
Do I see a pattern emerging between the war on drugs and the war on copyright infringement?
XUL is not an API in the same way that Qt and GTK (I infer that these are examples of "others") are. Rather, it's a standard for describing UI with XML.
So, if you have a requirement that you might need to port your application another platform at some point, XUL might not be a bad choice.
The separation that needs to be there is between PHP code that affects layout, and PHP code that does stuff like writing to databases, processing forms, etc.
Here, here.
I would agree that PHP needs some standard way of separating presentation code/html from code. Both JSP and ASP.NET do a good job of providing a standard mechanism to acheive this.
The existence of Smarty shows the need and willingness of developers to use this kind of tool. However, skipping over the important point of whether Smarty actually constitues a "template engine" or merely a hack, I wouldn't be too hasty to use Smarty with all the other templating engines springing up and the chance that there may well be a standard replacement for it that renders Smarty code obsolete.
That's fair enough, but PHP will probably never have the breadth and depth of modules available as you can find on CPAN. Perl is more mature and doubtless has more disciples. For "enterprise development" (whatever that means) (although JSP/servlets and.NET would probably be more suitable than scripting languages), given the choice between PHP and mod_perl, I would go the Perl route simply because it is more mature, and has an aura of stability and security.
And what is it with all those PHP developers who seem to think a "class" is another term for "static function library"?
Well, what would you expect from a procedural programmer? Incidentatally, these are also the kind of developers that would shun OO as unneccessary and illogical without taking the time to understand it.
Being both British and familiar with that particular expression, I would say that's likely.
Those OO'ing, XP'ing sw engrs are welcome to it.
I've been OO'ing for some time now and TBH I'm slowly becoming more than a little indifferent to it all. JWZ had it right when he described the software industry as a sick, navel-gazing mess and quit. I don't do XP, but I work around those who do. I can safely say the whole XP model breaks to pieces when there is no client involved!
anyone who thinks their next pet is going to change that, is a clod
Agreed. Although that's not what you were implying orginally, which was that OO developers are clods! I would say that if you're designing a large system and not using OO then you're a clod, simply because OO takes the pain out of creating modular software and leads to more manageable code when used well.
I'm not sure I'd agree with calling OO developers clods. Designing good, reusable OO software is hard, and you need the experience to appreciate why. That sort of attitude is proabably more than a little partonising to good OO engineers, especially coming from a student.
I don't know, dynamic content switching looks like the best bet.
That's what Microsoft do for MSDN. You'll only see the tree menu in IE.
Personally, I prefer the single compliant page approach. I'm not sure what you want to do that can't be done this way, but one can get most things to work in the popular modern browsers without alteration. By popular browsers, I mean: IE, mozilla variants, opera, konqueror, galleon, safari.
Will the recent acceptance by such reputable companies open the possibility to Universities that not all P2P distribution is inherently bad?
That's an interesting question. Another question springs to mind - do Universities want students to waste their resources by downloading games with bittorrent?
C++ is perfectly portable if you don't use platform dependent libraries. You seem to be blaming the language because people develop platform dependent stuff for it! If your goal is to port stuff to another platform then obviously you start off with that in mind.
There's plenty of platform dependent Java code out there, or stuff that doesn't port properly.
I was under the impression that the siesta was orginally a Spanish thing and that Mexicans have "adopted" a lot of Spanish culture eg. the language, music, siestas etc.
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Each tablet contains the active ingredient: 50mg caffeine
Sorry, you didn't know pro plus contains caffeine? Either you live in a cave or they don't sell pro plus where you live. I presume the latter.
Pro plus have been around for ages in the UK (that's Britain to you). Frankly, I'll stick to tea.
if you have windows, type, "format C:"
Why yes, I have windows. I even have doors too. I typed "format C:" like you said but I just got a message saying "the page cannot be displayed".
here's a link gpgpu.org
you can do that by typing <a href="http://gpgpu.org">gpgpu.org</a>
Java is too many different things, it gets confusing. Java is a desktop, A VM, and a programing language
Not to mention an enormous class library and a security model>
disclaimer: I use Java and like it a lot
Almost like your Dad buying a Harley
Man, I feel sorry for you. Cool dads ride a GSXR-750.
6. Add 20%
I usually find 100% - 200% to be more realistic. I suppose that depends on how thorough and accurate your estimate is.
One thing that can be handy during estmiating is a risk register eg. factor X could go tits-up and cost me Y amount of time to resolve.
Manufacterers like kodak and hp don't have a lot of experience in camera design and that's why they're so cheap compared to a good nikon or canon digital SLR with much much better lenses.
That's a great point. It takes experience to make good digital cameras. I owned an HP camera and it ranked pretty poorly compared to my current camera, a Casio QV-R40, which is an excellent little camera. Casio are probably more synonymous with calculators than cameras, but an interesting piece of trivia is that they were one of the first to introduce consumer cameras in the mid 90s with their QV-10.
Bad analogy. No one's time, effort, or resources were expended producing the air you breathe.
/me says with tongue wedged firmly in cheek
I'm not sure that God would agree with that.
On the subject of the ongoing drugs war.
.. and the maintenance of the criminal status of cannabis .. principally the United States, profiting enormously, directly and indirectly, from the "War on Drugs" while callously inflicting, directly and indirectly, major harm upon their citizens ..
The criminalization of marijuana
Do I see a pattern emerging between the war on drugs and the war on copyright infringement?
XUL is not an API in the same way that Qt and GTK (I infer that these are examples of "others") are. Rather, it's a standard for describing UI with XML. So, if you have a requirement that you might need to port your application another platform at some point, XUL might not be a bad choice.
The disk is mounted inside a 1 x 0.8 x 0.8cm cartridge..
Am I missing the point here or do we really have a disk smaller than a dice?
Dear Mr Moderator, Simply because my view is different from yours does not make my post flamebait.
The separation that needs to be there is between PHP code that affects layout, and PHP code that does stuff like writing to databases, processing forms, etc.
Here, here.
I would agree that PHP needs some standard way of separating presentation code/html from code. Both JSP and ASP.NET do a good job of providing a standard mechanism to acheive this.
The existence of Smarty shows the need and willingness of developers to use this kind of tool. However, skipping over the important point of whether Smarty actually constitues a "template engine" or merely a hack, I wouldn't be too hasty to use Smarty with all the other templating engines springing up and the chance that there may well be a standard replacement for it that renders Smarty code obsolete.
That's fair enough, but PHP will probably never have the breadth and depth of modules available as you can find on CPAN. Perl is more mature and doubtless has more disciples. For "enterprise development" (whatever that means) (although JSP/servlets and .NET would probably be more suitable than scripting languages), given the choice between PHP and mod_perl, I would go the Perl route simply because it is more mature, and has an aura of stability and security.
And what is it with all those PHP developers who seem to think a "class" is another term for "static function library"?
Well, what would you expect from a procedural programmer? Incidentatally, these are also the kind of developers that would shun OO as unneccessary and illogical without taking the time to understand it.
I think it's a Britishism
Being both British and familiar with that particular expression, I would say that's likely.
Those OO'ing, XP'ing sw engrs are welcome to it.
I've been OO'ing for some time now and TBH I'm slowly becoming more than a little indifferent to it all. JWZ had it right when he described the software industry as a sick, navel-gazing mess and quit. I don't do XP, but I work around those who do. I can safely say the whole XP model breaks to pieces when there is no client involved!
Best of luck with your PHd
I am also a 15 year professional ..
Point taken
anyone who thinks their next pet is going to change that, is a clod
Agreed. Although that's not what you were implying orginally, which was that OO developers are clods! I would say that if you're designing a large system and not using OO then you're a clod, simply because OO takes the pain out of creating modular software and leads to more manageable code when used well.
don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs
My grandmother with a PHd - just imagine!
I'm not sure I'd agree with calling OO developers clods. Designing good, reusable OO software is hard, and you need the experience to appreciate why. That sort of attitude is proabably more than a little partonising to good OO engineers, especially coming from a student.
I don't know, dynamic content switching looks like the best bet.
That's what Microsoft do for MSDN. You'll only see the tree menu in IE.
Personally, I prefer the single compliant page approach. I'm not sure what you want to do that can't be done this way, but one can get most things to work in the popular modern browsers without alteration. By popular browsers, I mean: IE, mozilla variants, opera, konqueror, galleon, safari.
Will the recent acceptance by such reputable companies open the possibility to Universities that not all P2P distribution is inherently bad?
That's an interesting question. Another question springs to mind - do Universities want students to waste their resources by downloading games with bittorrent?
There was a programming language called B. Anyone still use that?
C++ is perfectly portable if you don't use platform dependent libraries. You seem to be blaming the language because people develop platform dependent stuff for it! If your goal is to port stuff to another platform then obviously you start off with that in mind.
There's plenty of platform dependent Java code out there, or stuff that doesn't port properly.
Moving overseas for employment is horrendously complicated if you are attempting to immigrate.
Imagine what it's like for Indians moving to the US. Just imagine.
You're complaining that it's tough being a citizen of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Don't you think that's just a bit short sighted?
All so billionaires and millionaires can have a tiny bit more money
Ahh, the american dream. So near and yet so far away!
I was under the impression that the siesta was orginally a Spanish thing and that Mexicans have "adopted" a lot of Spanish culture eg. the language, music, siestas etc.