Didn't you hear? The Communists are now Democrats, the Democrats are now Republicans, and the Republicans are now Libertarians, and the Libertarians are shit out of luck.
Signing statements don't have the power of law. They are judgments on how the law should be enforced, which is the purpose of the executive branch.
FWIW, I don't believe Bush invented signing statements either, although I seem to recall that he brought them to the forefront with one that said "The law says this, but I take it to mean this" - with that latter, of course, being the opposite of the former. The executive branch has always had this power, and the ability to selectively enforce laws. GWB just made one statement that was really dumb, and got everyone's attention.
I understand the frustration on the "an Array is an Object", and I'll raise you one - there are no such things as associative arrays in Javascript.
I see it all the time in tutorials - well, check this out: If I say var foo['first'] = 'first value' what I've really said is "Of the object referenced by 'foo', update the property 'first' to contain the string 'first value'." Since an Array is an Object, this is what happens when you try to assign text indexes to an array!
After that, if you go back do a foo.length, it will return zero - because you've assigned a property, not an index.
Javascript is certainly different, but I don't feel it is broken. That's sort of like saying Python is broken because variables don't "contain" data, but reference it. Learning to do string manipulation in Python will make you want to pull your hair out until you go back and read the docs thoroughly.
You're basically arguing that since JS is not the language YOU want, its buggy.
JS has its oddities, to be sure, but it is not "buggy" - its just very different. It also suffers from the same thing as PHP -- its easy to get into, but hard to master - so you get hundreds of thousands of shitty developers out there, and a handful of good ones. The shitty ones give the language a bad name, while the good ones build things like Gmail.
Why is it the "smart kid" 's responsibility to help the rest of the class?
When they get a job, and there's no "smart kid" there helping them along, how does that work?
How about actually teaching the "smart kid" something, instead of drafting him as a supplementary teacher?
HTML and XML are co-standards, not competing standards.
There has been some talk about renaming XHTML2 to XHTML5 to emphasize this. XHTML is only needed if you're using another XML-based language on the page, and is very susceptible to errors.
HTML, on the other hand, is less prone to errors, and the page will at least render. It is also supposed to be served as text/html, whereas XHTML is to be served ONLY as application/xml as of XHTML1.1. If you have a XHTML1.0 Strict or XHTML1.1 page out there being served as HTML, you have basically served badly formed HTML4.
My linux machine has issues with Netgear routers, and I narrowed it down --- it doesn't conform to DHCP properly.
It gives me an IP, but won't connect. The following commands fix the issue for me:
I believe a link to where you can download the code is sufficient. You can also distribute via post, for that matter. Send PsyStar a self-addressed stamped envelope, and see if they send you the source.
The issue isn't (D) vs. (R), but ideas. The Democratic party of the 1960s isn't the Democratic party of today. I would have been proud to consider myself a Republican then, but today --- I refuse to identify myself as such.
That's becuase the "blue-staters" defined the terms. Some of us are still independent -- I consider myself an Objectivist before Republican, and certainly before my religion.
The only reason they can get away with the "wall-to-wall lawyer" bit is because of those government regulations you all talk about so fondly.
As for the stony heart part - you care so much about the "little guy" - but what about the person who's work product you are taking by force? Did you forget about him, or does he just not matter to you?
If you can't morally do it to your neighbor, the government cannot morally do it to everyone.
Regulations are counter-productive. If a single company treats its employees badly, they will leave and be replaced with below-par employees that can't hack it at a good company. If they collude, which is what you're suggesting, then the employees form a union and strike.
There is no entitlement to a specific wage - if you're willing to work for it, why should anyone stop you? The most valuable, productive employees will always be the best compensated.
Where I live, your choices are $20 / month for dial-up, or $40 / month for 512Kbs/128kbs DSL. Cable internet (or TV) is unavailable.
I use the connection at the coffee shop in town:)
.com originally meant "community", iirc. When the TLDs were established, no one thought of the internet as a commercial medium.
I think.net was "network provider" and.org was, obviously, organization.
Ubuntu is marginally less so, but still slow, especially once you start to load it up with equivalent functionality (to the degree that you can). Whoa there. Say WHAT?
What can't you do in Linux that you can do in Windows on a 1.0Ghz PC?
And, btw --- Ubuntu != Linux. Ubuntu = Linux for newbs. It has a windows installer, for god's sake! At least try PCLOS or something! Preferably Arch -- my 1.0Ghz Arch machine kicks many a faster machine's ass. It only bogs down when I try to play a game through WINE or something.
Yeah, so if I see a laptop sitting on the table at Starbucks, I can reasonably assume it is not someone's, right? I mean, there are no signs!
Also, I didn't say that this was trespassing. In most states, the owner of a representative thereof must be present, and the intruder must be asked to leave and refuse. Some states even require a law enforcement officer to be present to constitute trespass.
All I said was that they had no right to be there. They didn't. Is it criminal? Probably not. Is it dumb, and presumptous? Certainly.
We're seeing more and more VIA CPUs in Linux-based "low-end" laptops. I think this really bode well for Linux. If we establish a presence in these internet-as-an-appliance devices, we can use it as a staging point to move into the desktop market.
And then you have the ones like me. I work in HR, not IT, but more than half of my IMs are probably with the sysadmins talking about Linux news. If someone in my department needs support, they generally come to me first. I only forward them to PC Support if its something other than user error (which is rare).
Then again, by the same token, I keep PC Support in the loop on things. If there is a common issue, I'll call them up and tell them about it. If I need to install software (such as Apache, which I needed to install a while ago), I tell them. I'm also savvy enough to only have it turned on when I need it, so its not a real attack vector.
Powerusers can make your jobs easier if you let us. The trick is to tell know-it-alls from true powerusers, as they can look a lot alike from a distance. The ones that call and ask narrowly-defined questions are the ones you'er looking for.
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Didn't you hear? The Communists are now Democrats, the Democrats are now Republicans, and the Republicans are now Libertarians, and the Libertarians are shit out of luck.
Signing statements don't have the power of law. They are judgments on how the law should be enforced, which is the purpose of the executive branch. FWIW, I don't believe Bush invented signing statements either, although I seem to recall that he brought them to the forefront with one that said "The law says this, but I take it to mean this" - with that latter, of course, being the opposite of the former. The executive branch has always had this power, and the ability to selectively enforce laws. GWB just made one statement that was really dumb, and got everyone's attention.
So, what happens if lightning strikes over one of these plumes?
I understand the frustration on the "an Array is an Object", and I'll raise you one - there are no such things as associative arrays in Javascript.
I see it all the time in tutorials - well, check this out: If I say var foo['first'] = 'first value' what I've really said is "Of the object referenced by 'foo', update the property 'first' to contain the string 'first value'." Since an Array is an Object, this is what happens when you try to assign text indexes to an array!
After that, if you go back do a foo.length, it will return zero - because you've assigned a property, not an index.
Javascript is certainly different, but I don't feel it is broken. That's sort of like saying Python is broken because variables don't "contain" data, but reference it. Learning to do string manipulation in Python will make you want to pull your hair out until you go back and read the docs thoroughly.
You're basically arguing that since JS is not the language YOU want, its buggy. JS has its oddities, to be sure, but it is not "buggy" - its just very different. It also suffers from the same thing as PHP -- its easy to get into, but hard to master - so you get hundreds of thousands of shitty developers out there, and a handful of good ones. The shitty ones give the language a bad name, while the good ones build things like Gmail.
Why is it the "smart kid" 's responsibility to help the rest of the class? When they get a job, and there's no "smart kid" there helping them along, how does that work? How about actually teaching the "smart kid" something, instead of drafting him as a supplementary teacher?
Ack! *BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM* *reloading* *BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM* *throws gun at parent and runs away in fear*
Why doesn't Gnome allow configuration of everything, but it into config files, and leave them out of the GUI?
Ha! me too! I was worried about the Northwest coast residents for a sec...
HTML and XML are co-standards, not competing standards. There has been some talk about renaming XHTML2 to XHTML5 to emphasize this. XHTML is only needed if you're using another XML-based language on the page, and is very susceptible to errors. HTML, on the other hand, is less prone to errors, and the page will at least render. It is also supposed to be served as text/html, whereas XHTML is to be served ONLY as application/xml as of XHTML1.1. If you have a XHTML1.0 Strict or XHTML1.1 page out there being served as HTML, you have basically served badly formed HTML4.
What areas around the content? I use Awesome, you insensitive clod!
I'm running Archlinux, if that helps.
I believe a link to where you can download the code is sufficient. You can also distribute via post, for that matter. Send PsyStar a self-addressed stamped envelope, and see if they send you the source.
The issue isn't (D) vs. (R), but ideas. The Democratic party of the 1960s isn't the Democratic party of today. I would have been proud to consider myself a Republican then, but today --- I refuse to identify myself as such.
That's becuase the "blue-staters" defined the terms. Some of us are still independent -- I consider myself an Objectivist before Republican, and certainly before my religion.
Find that tooling, and I will buy it. It is extremely difficult these days to find a good, inexpensive M1 Carbine :(
The only reason they can get away with the "wall-to-wall lawyer" bit is because of those government regulations you all talk about so fondly. As for the stony heart part - you care so much about the "little guy" - but what about the person who's work product you are taking by force? Did you forget about him, or does he just not matter to you? If you can't morally do it to your neighbor, the government cannot morally do it to everyone.
Regulations are counter-productive. If a single company treats its employees badly, they will leave and be replaced with below-par employees that can't hack it at a good company. If they collude, which is what you're suggesting, then the employees form a union and strike. There is no entitlement to a specific wage - if you're willing to work for it, why should anyone stop you? The most valuable, productive employees will always be the best compensated.
Where I live, your choices are $20 / month for dial-up, or $40 / month for 512Kbs/128kbs DSL. Cable internet (or TV) is unavailable. I use the connection at the coffee shop in town :)
.com originally meant "community", iirc. When the TLDs were established, no one thought of the internet as a commercial medium. I think .net was "network provider" and .org was, obviously, organization.
Yeah, so if I see a laptop sitting on the table at Starbucks, I can reasonably assume it is not someone's, right? I mean, there are no signs! Also, I didn't say that this was trespassing. In most states, the owner of a representative thereof must be present, and the intruder must be asked to leave and refuse. Some states even require a law enforcement officer to be present to constitute trespass. All I said was that they had no right to be there. They didn't. Is it criminal? Probably not. Is it dumb, and presumptous? Certainly.
We're seeing more and more VIA CPUs in Linux-based "low-end" laptops. I think this really bode well for Linux. If we establish a presence in these internet-as-an-appliance devices, we can use it as a staging point to move into the desktop market.
They have no right to be on private property.
And then you have the ones like me. I work in HR, not IT, but more than half of my IMs are probably with the sysadmins talking about Linux news. If someone in my department needs support, they generally come to me first. I only forward them to PC Support if its something other than user error (which is rare). Then again, by the same token, I keep PC Support in the loop on things. If there is a common issue, I'll call them up and tell them about it. If I need to install software (such as Apache, which I needed to install a while ago), I tell them. I'm also savvy enough to only have it turned on when I need it, so its not a real attack vector. Powerusers can make your jobs easier if you let us. The trick is to tell know-it-alls from true powerusers, as they can look a lot alike from a distance. The ones that call and ask narrowly-defined questions are the ones you'er looking for.