Right...because nobody puts out web applications, right?
I didn't say that.
I merely stated that such tasks were relegated to people with next to no competence.
But they shouldn't be. That's why you have so many problems with SQL injection attacks, for example.
Now, aesthetics of a site should be left to artists, but if you want your code to run right and be reasonably secure, you really need a software engineer doing your PHP implementations.
Mostly because you're being hired to help fix problems, not cause more of them. Asking anything more than "can you recommend a good place to start" is not helping matters. In the future generations, the ability to execute cogent Google searches will be more important than actual experience.
On the other hand I had a copy of Wing Commander:Kilrathi Saga that played perfectly in Win95, barely in Windows XP, not at all in Windows Vista and now plays flawlessly in Win 7 (on the exact same hardware that it failed to run on in Vista). So...yeah, sometimes old games fail spectacularly on modern systems, and sometimes they die and get resurrected. There's no rhyme or reason to it, each game is highly individual.
What's funny is that statement actually parses logically:
If every statement is a lie then the statement that everything you say is a lie is false. Therefore there exists at least one statement such that the statement given is true. If we accept as true that everything you say is a lie then that is the example required.
Of course, this is either tautological (L v ~L) or contradictory (L ^ ~L) depending on how you look at it, but it is not strictly speaking logically invalid.
His ISP doesn't get a letter from the rights holder, they have a server jockey who noticed a lot of bandwidth being used by that account (up and down) which would be consistent with bittorrent or some other file sharing medium. Since bandwidth costs money and he's using a lot of it they send a notice warning him to cut it out. This under the guise of protecting a copyright. I bet you would get the same notice if you were sharing Linux ISO's.
Because there's a net benefit to society when a child grows up well adjusted, and that's much more likely to happen if they're well cared for during their formative years, particularly the first year of life. They're not getting paid for nothing, they're getting paid to get their child started off right. And while not everyone does so, there's an overall net gain.
Actually, in California a company cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. It's a bit of an expanded version of federal law. I think a case probably could be made that they're discriminating against heterosexuals with this policy, but given the current political atmosphere I doubt such a case would get off the ground.
Or the mental models we do produce are for ridiculous things like modeling trends in the World of Warcraft auction house, or more effective Twitter data mining, or optimizing Farmville output. It's simply amazing the brain power that can be invested in leisure activities today.
Myself, I like Sudoku puzzles, but I'm sure the mental effort involved there could be much better spent on something with real-world application. Sometimes the only difference between a slacker and a brilliant scientist is the degree to which their super complicated models are useful to the rest of humanity.
Tattoos that are cultural in nature would most likely get a pass. But then, they're not getting a pass because they're tattoos, but because they are required of all members of that nation.
At the lower levels, nothing is categorized. Every website is gotten to by a 32-bit address and some other information in an IP packet header. DNS is designed to make this more palatable for humans. Search engines just add another layer of abstraction on top of this. In a sense, Google is the logical next step in DNS technology. So, while I realize you are attempting to be satirical, what you say is much closer to literal truth than satire.
I downloaded Mozilla milestones between NN 4.5 and FF1.0. Milestone 13 added tabbed browsing and was a most welcome change from the very start. I haven't used an non-tabbed browser since 2000.
Nonense. If it weren't for us, many species (that probably deserve to) would probably have already went extinct.
Tell that to the Japanese Wolf, the Bali tiger, the North African Elephant and the hundreds of other species that went extinct due to mans' interference.
Those were the ones we didn't like/weren't tasty/were tasty but hard to raise/got in the way/ate us/weren't cute. Cows and chickens are doing great though!
Many modern flat screens come with a least a VGA input (conversely, many modern graphics cards come with an HDMI output).
If you really wanted to I'm sure you could play WoW at 1920x1080 on a 55" LED flatscreen. Or better, if you can convince your boss that it's a "reasonable accommodation" for nearsightedness, you might be able to get one on your desk at work =)
Agreed. EQ1 was hardcore. I took up WoW on the weekends when I was an EQ1 raider just to have a break. Moreover, WoW lets you get away with soloing, EQ1 didn't really leave that as a viable option. There were very few places (and very few classes even then) that could solo reasonably effectively and get rewarded for it. This led to boxing. Before I finally quit I was running 4 characters at once and raiding with my main character 4-5 nights a week for 5+ hours a night. The weekends were for gaining experience (the AA system is the devil in EQ) and otherwise supporting my main character. I'm glad to have done with all of it. I've been off of EQ for over a year now and free of a WoW addiction for eight months.
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Or the D.C. area sniper shootings (Malvo I think it was?)
I didn't say that. I merely stated that such tasks were relegated to people with next to no competence.
But they shouldn't be. That's why you have so many problems with SQL injection attacks, for example.
Now, aesthetics of a site should be left to artists, but if you want your code to run right and be reasonably secure, you really need a software engineer doing your PHP implementations.
Mostly because you're being hired to help fix problems, not cause more of them. Asking anything more than "can you recommend a good place to start" is not helping matters. In the future generations, the ability to execute cogent Google searches will be more important than actual experience.
On the other hand I had a copy of Wing Commander:Kilrathi Saga that played perfectly in Win95, barely in Windows XP, not at all in Windows Vista and now plays flawlessly in Win 7 (on the exact same hardware that it failed to run on in Vista). So...yeah, sometimes old games fail spectacularly on modern systems, and sometimes they die and get resurrected. There's no rhyme or reason to it, each game is highly individual.
All of this crap explodes soon so we can possibly return to an era of reason.
You say that as though we'd been in an era of reason at some point.
What's funny is that statement actually parses logically:
If every statement is a lie then the statement that everything you say is a lie is false. Therefore there exists at least one statement such that the statement given is true. If we accept as true that everything you say is a lie then that is the example required.
Of course, this is either tautological (L v ~L) or contradictory (L ^ ~L) depending on how you look at it, but it is not strictly speaking logically invalid.
His ISP doesn't get a letter from the rights holder, they have a server jockey who noticed a lot of bandwidth being used by that account (up and down) which would be consistent with bittorrent or some other file sharing medium. Since bandwidth costs money and he's using a lot of it they send a notice warning him to cut it out. This under the guise of protecting a copyright. I bet you would get the same notice if you were sharing Linux ISO's.
It's a hash for the coordinates of Hawaii?
You laugh, but names from a TV show used to be the server naming convention at one place I worked. Makes for interesting conversations:
"Uhura is down again and Kirk is acting up, Spock is still blocking incoming attacks."
"Alright, I'll bring up Scotty and RedShirt to take some of the overload. Promote Sulu to be in charge until we figure out what's wrong with Kirk."
Because there's a net benefit to society when a child grows up well adjusted, and that's much more likely to happen if they're well cared for during their formative years, particularly the first year of life. They're not getting paid for nothing, they're getting paid to get their child started off right. And while not everyone does so, there's an overall net gain.
Sexual preference is a protected class in California. They take it a few steps further than federal law.
Actually, in California a company cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. It's a bit of an expanded version of federal law. I think a case probably could be made that they're discriminating against heterosexuals with this policy, but given the current political atmosphere I doubt such a case would get off the ground.
Or the mental models we do produce are for ridiculous things like modeling trends in the World of Warcraft auction house, or more effective Twitter data mining, or optimizing Farmville output. It's simply amazing the brain power that can be invested in leisure activities today.
Myself, I like Sudoku puzzles, but I'm sure the mental effort involved there could be much better spent on something with real-world application. Sometimes the only difference between a slacker and a brilliant scientist is the degree to which their super complicated models are useful to the rest of humanity.
Umm...That's not relativity, that's wind resistance. Relativistic effects were the reason found for the anomaly of Mercury's orbit.
Tattoos that are cultural in nature would most likely get a pass. But then, they're not getting a pass because they're tattoos, but because they are required of all members of that nation.
At the lower levels, nothing is categorized. Every website is gotten to by a 32-bit address and some other information in an IP packet header. DNS is designed to make this more palatable for humans. Search engines just add another layer of abstraction on top of this. In a sense, Google is the logical next step in DNS technology. So, while I realize you are attempting to be satirical, what you say is much closer to literal truth than satire.
I downloaded Mozilla milestones between NN 4.5 and FF1.0. Milestone 13 added tabbed browsing and was a most welcome change from the very start. I haven't used an non-tabbed browser since 2000.
Well, there are Steampunk nerds after all. Methods used in the 1870's could potentially be helpful to their role-playing sessions.
Internet tough guy is tough.
Nonense. If it weren't for us, many species (that probably deserve to) would probably have already went extinct.
Tell that to the Japanese Wolf, the Bali tiger, the North African Elephant and the hundreds of other species that went extinct due to mans' interference.
Those were the ones we didn't like/weren't tasty/were tasty but hard to raise/got in the way/ate us/weren't cute. Cows and chickens are doing great though!
Many modern flat screens come with a least a VGA input (conversely, many modern graphics cards come with an HDMI output).
If you really wanted to I'm sure you could play WoW at 1920x1080 on a 55" LED flatscreen. Or better, if you can convince your boss that it's a "reasonable accommodation" for nearsightedness, you might be able to get one on your desk at work =)
Agreed. EQ1 was hardcore. I took up WoW on the weekends when I was an EQ1 raider just to have a break. Moreover, WoW lets you get away with soloing, EQ1 didn't really leave that as a viable option. There were very few places (and very few classes even then) that could solo reasonably effectively and get rewarded for it. This led to boxing. Before I finally quit I was running 4 characters at once and raiding with my main character 4-5 nights a week for 5+ hours a night. The weekends were for gaining experience (the AA system is the devil in EQ) and otherwise supporting my main character. I'm glad to have done with all of it. I've been off of EQ for over a year now and free of a WoW addiction for eight months.
WoW is to methadone as EQ is to heroin.
Instantaneous velocity = lim(distance/time) as time-->0
Or, more succinctly, ds/dt - the derivative of distance with respect to time.
I think they should put a tax on "editorials". It seems to me that 99% of news media is analyst blathering and 1% actual, factual, reporting.
One of these is cheaper and easier than the other.
1. Give everyone a dollar. 2. Take 50% from everyone who's lying, and give it to everyone who isn't. 3. Goto 2.
What do you end up with, after a few years?
A sociopath who understands how to game the system having all of the money?