To feed the jokester/troll, get real! If I'm going to spend time learning a language that has no shot at making me any money, it's going to be functional. F# and OCAML for me, thank you very much.
On a more serious note, we outsourced our website to a company that built it on Rails. We were going to host it internally but at the time Rails had a few issues running on a Windows server and we didn't want to invest in the time and money to get a Linux server running in our environment so we let them host it. Is running in a Windows environment still an issue for RoR? I like the language and I like the framework but until we can getting it running reliably (in a light-to-medium production capacity) in our MS-centric environment, it's not even an option. Until then, we build the lightweight stuff in.NET and the heavyweight stuff in Java.
A rep to keep up? They show Scrabble tournaments!!! I saw a dominoes tourney on there once. I've also seen darts and billiards. If you've seen any of those, you'd notice the coverage crews were anything but fanatic or even enthusiastic.
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"I mean, at the end the supervillain explains the whole scheme to the heroes before doing them in."
I thought it was interesting in context. Watchmen being a satire of then-current state of comic books, I thought it was great that the super villain explained everything but only after it was too late to stop him. As much as he doesn't want to be that pulp villain, he still is in many respects.
I don't think that the Watchmen stands up to the best literature out there, but it's still an interesting and well-written story IMHO.
"After about a microsecond, it had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to form. Three minutes later (yes, just three minutes) it had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to stick together."
Is it a literal microsecond or a figurative one? You always have to question measurements of time in creation stories. Did they really mean a minute? Maybe that minute was 4 years long...
Different colleges and universities have different policies for what is considered collaboration vs. cheating. Even if you're in a different major you may have different rules. The CS department at my university had strict rules for homework collaboration. We could meet and discuss the problems. We could write/type/whatever to a shared medium. We could not take that medium with us or copy it for later use. So we could draw on a blackboard as long as we erased it afterwards. We could write on a sheet of paper or type to a message board as long as the contents were destroyed at the end of our collaboration. The only persistent storage of notes allowed was correspondence directly with the professor or TA. Also, any information directly copied from an outside source had to be cited. Anything else was considered cheating. So we didn't have to explore the problem in isolation but we did have to actually answer the questions on our own. At my University, this would certainly be considered cheating.
Do you really think that mentioning whether or not you can use other spreadsheet apps to render 3D graphics is going to "level the playing field?" I somehow doubt that businesses around the world are going to make the switch from MS Office to OpenOffice because they now know that OpenOffice can render 3D graphics just as well as Excel can. OSS advocacy has its place but this is not it. This is just someone using an Office product to make something unorthodox and fun happen.
Most of the CS grads I graduated with have enough trouble navigating the toaster. They couldn't install an obscure OS if their life depended on it. That was not and should not be part of CS curriculum. Your second category is not Computer Science. Maybe computer engineering or CIS but not Computer Science. Yeah, some of us CS grads knew how to do that sort of thing but it was very much self-taught. We could all tell you a little bit about how the basic hardware worked, tell you a lot about how the OSes operate, and maybe throw together a micro C compiler for them though.
No, it's right side up. The athletes, movie stars, etc who make so much money all have one big thing in common: they get lots and lots of people to pay a little to watch them perform. If you can get millions of people to pay to watch you design the hardware, software, and networks, you can make millions, too.
"I think the general opinion is McCain will have a much harder time against Obama than Hillary."
Maybe, but I think the general opinion might be a bit off. This conservative is voting Hillary if comes down to the two. I will not support Republicans who are not conservatives. McCain will try to convince us that he's a conservative in the coming months but his voting record tells another story. The least I can do for Congressional conservatives is keep them from having to support a President whose ideas are contrary to their own. I'll vote 3rd Party before I vote Obama or McCain, but I have no qualms voting Hillary at this point. At least she'll reliably do whatever opinion polls tell her to.
"The political machine is starting to conspire against Obama from both sides."
No, the Republican political machine is conspiring against Democrats in general. If the delegate counts were reversed, the crossover Republicans would be voting Obama. A brokered convention is inevitable at this point as long as both candidates remain in the race. Neither candidate can get enough primary and caucus delegates to win outright and you can't count super delegates before they're seated at the convention since their pledges have no real bearing before that. The idea is that a brokered convention will be bad for the Democrats.
I think that plan might backfire though. There will be a whole lot of press surrounding a brokered convention given the rarity of it. If the Democrats can play it right, they'll come out ahead. Attempting to get the Democratic Party to hurt itself is playing not to lose. Republicans would be better off playing to win.
"And it isn't like they haven't screwed up plenty of shows before like this *cough*Futurama*cough*Firefly*cough* Personally I think the only thing they ever had going for them is that they'd air shows other networks wouldn't take a chance on, and the only reason they had their early hits of The Simpsons and Married With Children is because back then they were so starved for content they simply didn't have the capacity to screw up those shows."
And don't forget Arrested Development and Undeclared. That they couldn't get ratings with Arrested Development after winning so many awards is a massive failure on Fox's part but like the other shows, they greenlight something strange and then don't know what to do with it. Note that Firefly got a movie made, Futurama has one in the works, and most of the Arrested Development cast have been contacted about their schedules for a new movie project. Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks are dead as can be but Judd Apatow is one of the hottest people in Hollywood right now heavily using cast and style of humor from those shows. I'm kind of torn about Fox because no other network would've even given these shows a chance, but in my best GOB voice: Come on!
You're calling me a sheeple? They didn't take away my choice. I like most other people chose none of the above. Last I checked, they can never take away that option. At least I'm not acting like I am forced into supporting one or the other.
Why? Sony made a smart business move wooing their competitor's biggest supporter with money. Toshiba lost out but if WB was the only thing keeping them alive, then it wasn't like their planning was exactly stellar. They deserved to lose at that point. WB doesn't care one way or another as long as their content sells. They don't really have a horse in this race even though they've acted like it. They could easily abandon BluRay tomorrow. The only party that didn't get what they wanted out of this deal was relying on another company's non-binding agreement to keep their entire product line alive. If you're that upset about it, then feel free to release your content on some other format. The free market lets you do that.
I was over at Spaceball City the other day and a gallon of Schweppe's Air was $4! Spaceballs: The Air was even more expensive at $5. They had some cheap off brand air for $2.50 but you never know what you get with the generic stuff.
On Mars, there's just an outright tax on air that everyone pays. It's like 15% of your income but there are expemtions for midgets and girls with 3 hooters.
At least you could argue new automobiles are exclusively fuel injected now and have been for at least a decade. Most new boats sold today are still carbeurated. I'm pretty sure that's also the case with motorcycles and ATVs.
A man and his wife just married and were going into their new home. The man was carrying his wife over the threshold and said to her, "Honey, did you ever in your wildest dreams think I'd be carrying you over the threshold into a big new beautiful home?"
The wife responded, "I hate to break this to you, but you're not in my wildest dreams."
"All the people who shop at Circuit City, Best Buy etc instead of mom and pop shops caused this."
I'm glad every mom 'n pop electronics store I've ever had the misfortune of shopping in is gone. Piss poor service, piss poor hours, piss poor prices. Best Buy I'm not so fond of but Circuit City is a pretty decent store (at least in my area) when it comes to service and they're at least decent on prices. They also have an excellent return policy. Warranties are great but just taking something broken back and getting a new one (or a new something similar or just getting my money back) is far better. I've never been to a mom 'n pop electronics shop that would allow me to do that. Most of them were preying on the fact that you didn't want to drive all the way to the city (which when I was growing up was Dallas and later Atlanta) to buy something large from a department store and haul it all the way home.
"Sadly, her health care plan is irrelevant. The republicans hate her and have spent years saying her health care plan is horrible. There's no way they'd let her do anything one health care. Rationality isn't in play here. It's all about ego and revenge."
They'd have a lot less ammunition if her previous stab at universal health care wasn't horrible. Hillary's current proposed version of universal health care is a lot closer to Romney's current Massachusetts plan than it is to her previous fiasco. People think Hillarycare equates to not being able to chose your own doctor. That's not the case anymore but since it once was the case, she's going to have to fight that image and she has no one to blame but herself for that.
Revenge? For what? For helping deliver the Republican majority in 94 by very publicly championing an asinine health care package just before the mid-term elections? They ought to to be thanking her. She ought to be a hero to the Republicans.
Is Mitt Romney a socialist? His similar plan that was actually passed in the state of Massachusetts claims to be bringing down the cost of health care.
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To feed the jokester/troll, get real! If I'm going to spend time learning a language that has no shot at making me any money, it's going to be functional. F# and OCAML for me, thank you very much.
.NET and the heavyweight stuff in Java.
On a more serious note, we outsourced our website to a company that built it on Rails. We were going to host it internally but at the time Rails had a few issues running on a Windows server and we didn't want to invest in the time and money to get a Linux server running in our environment so we let them host it. Is running in a Windows environment still an issue for RoR? I like the language and I like the framework but until we can getting it running reliably (in a light-to-medium production capacity) in our MS-centric environment, it's not even an option. Until then, we build the lightweight stuff in
"ESPN has a rep to keep up"
A rep to keep up? They show Scrabble tournaments!!! I saw a dominoes tourney on there once. I've also seen darts and billiards. If you've seen any of those, you'd notice the coverage crews were anything but fanatic or even enthusiastic.
"I mean, at the end the supervillain explains the whole scheme to the heroes before doing them in."
I thought it was interesting in context. Watchmen being a satire of then-current state of comic books, I thought it was great that the super villain explained everything but only after it was too late to stop him. As much as he doesn't want to be that pulp villain, he still is in many respects.
I don't think that the Watchmen stands up to the best literature out there, but it's still an interesting and well-written story IMHO.
Or you could just go up a flight of stairs...
"After about a microsecond, it had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to form. Three minutes later (yes, just three minutes) it had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to stick together."
Is it a literal microsecond or a figurative one? You always have to question measurements of time in creation stories. Did they really mean a minute? Maybe that minute was 4 years long...
Different colleges and universities have different policies for what is considered collaboration vs. cheating. Even if you're in a different major you may have different rules. The CS department at my university had strict rules for homework collaboration. We could meet and discuss the problems. We could write/type/whatever to a shared medium. We could not take that medium with us or copy it for later use. So we could draw on a blackboard as long as we erased it afterwards. We could write on a sheet of paper or type to a message board as long as the contents were destroyed at the end of our collaboration. The only persistent storage of notes allowed was correspondence directly with the professor or TA. Also, any information directly copied from an outside source had to be cited. Anything else was considered cheating. So we didn't have to explore the problem in isolation but we did have to actually answer the questions on our own. At my University, this would certainly be considered cheating.
Do you really think that mentioning whether or not you can use other spreadsheet apps to render 3D graphics is going to "level the playing field?" I somehow doubt that businesses around the world are going to make the switch from MS Office to OpenOffice because they now know that OpenOffice can render 3D graphics just as well as Excel can. OSS advocacy has its place but this is not it. This is just someone using an Office product to make something unorthodox and fun happen.
Most of the CS grads I graduated with have enough trouble navigating the toaster. They couldn't install an obscure OS if their life depended on it. That was not and should not be part of CS curriculum. Your second category is not Computer Science. Maybe computer engineering or CIS but not Computer Science. Yeah, some of us CS grads knew how to do that sort of thing but it was very much self-taught. We could all tell you a little bit about how the basic hardware worked, tell you a lot about how the OSes operate, and maybe throw together a micro C compiler for them though.
No, it's right side up. The athletes, movie stars, etc who make so much money all have one big thing in common: they get lots and lots of people to pay a little to watch them perform. If you can get millions of people to pay to watch you design the hardware, software, and networks, you can make millions, too.
"I think the general opinion is McCain will have a much harder time against Obama than Hillary."
Maybe, but I think the general opinion might be a bit off. This conservative is voting Hillary if comes down to the two. I will not support Republicans who are not conservatives. McCain will try to convince us that he's a conservative in the coming months but his voting record tells another story. The least I can do for Congressional conservatives is keep them from having to support a President whose ideas are contrary to their own. I'll vote 3rd Party before I vote Obama or McCain, but I have no qualms voting Hillary at this point. At least she'll reliably do whatever opinion polls tell her to.
"The political machine is starting to conspire against Obama from both sides."
No, the Republican political machine is conspiring against Democrats in general. If the delegate counts were reversed, the crossover Republicans would be voting Obama. A brokered convention is inevitable at this point as long as both candidates remain in the race. Neither candidate can get enough primary and caucus delegates to win outright and you can't count super delegates before they're seated at the convention since their pledges have no real bearing before that. The idea is that a brokered convention will be bad for the Democrats.
I think that plan might backfire though. There will be a whole lot of press surrounding a brokered convention given the rarity of it. If the Democrats can play it right, they'll come out ahead. Attempting to get the Democratic Party to hurt itself is playing not to lose. Republicans would be better off playing to win.
"And it isn't like they haven't screwed up plenty of shows before like this *cough*Futurama*cough*Firefly*cough* Personally I think the only thing they ever had going for them is that they'd air shows other networks wouldn't take a chance on, and the only reason they had their early hits of The Simpsons and Married With Children is because back then they were so starved for content they simply didn't have the capacity to screw up those shows."
And don't forget Arrested Development and Undeclared. That they couldn't get ratings with Arrested Development after winning so many awards is a massive failure on Fox's part but like the other shows, they greenlight something strange and then don't know what to do with it. Note that Firefly got a movie made, Futurama has one in the works, and most of the Arrested Development cast have been contacted about their schedules for a new movie project. Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks are dead as can be but Judd Apatow is one of the hottest people in Hollywood right now heavily using cast and style of humor from those shows. I'm kind of torn about Fox because no other network would've even given these shows a chance, but in my best GOB voice: Come on!
"I also don't have a TV, as my PC does everything I need it to."
So you watch TV using your nuclear reactor of a computer? Yeah, that's going to help the load on the grid.
I thought Ralph Hinckley was the Greatest American?
You're calling me a sheeple? They didn't take away my choice. I like most other people chose none of the above. Last I checked, they can never take away that option. At least I'm not acting like I am forced into supporting one or the other.
Why? Sony made a smart business move wooing their competitor's biggest supporter with money. Toshiba lost out but if WB was the only thing keeping them alive, then it wasn't like their planning was exactly stellar. They deserved to lose at that point. WB doesn't care one way or another as long as their content sells. They don't really have a horse in this race even though they've acted like it. They could easily abandon BluRay tomorrow. The only party that didn't get what they wanted out of this deal was relying on another company's non-binding agreement to keep their entire product line alive. If you're that upset about it, then feel free to release your content on some other format. The free market lets you do that.
It depends on where you're at.
I was over at Spaceball City the other day and a gallon of Schweppe's Air was $4! Spaceballs: The Air was even more expensive at $5. They had some cheap off brand air for $2.50 but you never know what you get with the generic stuff.
On Mars, there's just an outright tax on air that everyone pays. It's like 15% of your income but there are expemtions for midgets and girls with 3 hooters.
I'll stick to countries where I don't have to worry about whether a religion is "approved" or not.
That's exactly what it is. I found a picture of it online if anyone is interested.
At least you could argue new automobiles are exclusively fuel injected now and have been for at least a decade. Most new boats sold today are still carbeurated. I'm pretty sure that's also the case with motorcycles and ATVs.
Reminds me of a joke:
A man and his wife just married and were going into their new home. The man was carrying his wife over the threshold and said to her, "Honey, did you ever in your wildest dreams think I'd be carrying you over the threshold into a big new beautiful home?"
The wife responded, "I hate to break this to you, but you're not in my wildest dreams."
"All the people who shop at Circuit City, Best Buy etc instead of mom and pop shops caused this."
I'm glad every mom 'n pop electronics store I've ever had the misfortune of shopping in is gone. Piss poor service, piss poor hours, piss poor prices. Best Buy I'm not so fond of but Circuit City is a pretty decent store (at least in my area) when it comes to service and they're at least decent on prices. They also have an excellent return policy. Warranties are great but just taking something broken back and getting a new one (or a new something similar or just getting my money back) is far better. I've never been to a mom 'n pop electronics shop that would allow me to do that. Most of them were preying on the fact that you didn't want to drive all the way to the city (which when I was growing up was Dallas and later Atlanta) to buy something large from a department store and haul it all the way home.
"Sadly, her health care plan is irrelevant. The republicans hate her and have spent years saying her health care plan is horrible. There's no way they'd let her do anything one health care. Rationality isn't in play here. It's all about ego and revenge."
They'd have a lot less ammunition if her previous stab at universal health care wasn't horrible. Hillary's current proposed version of universal health care is a lot closer to Romney's current Massachusetts plan than it is to her previous fiasco. People think Hillarycare equates to not being able to chose your own doctor. That's not the case anymore but since it once was the case, she's going to have to fight that image and she has no one to blame but herself for that.
Revenge? For what? For helping deliver the Republican majority in 94 by very publicly championing an asinine health care package just before the mid-term elections? They ought to to be thanking her. She ought to be a hero to the Republicans.
Is Mitt Romney a socialist? His similar plan that was actually passed in the state of Massachusetts claims to be bringing down the cost of health care.
FTW: Why is this a surprise? BASF followed the money straight into a Holocaust.