fewer the word you were needing to use is 'fewer'. ".., the less programmers you have who are.." should read ".., the fewer programmers you have who are..". The general rule is, if you can count it/them, the correct word is 'fewer', not 'less'.
Your anecdote gives a good idea of what it's like to quit 'cold turkey'. I congratulate you that you had the fortitude to accomplish that. Many smokers have tried multiple times to quit 'cold turkey' as well as programs involving both physical and emotional aids, with little or no success. The federal and state governments see this as a source of revenue, and refuse to recognize their failure to help a large part of their citizenry. Words are cheap, and actions speak much more loudly. Shame on them!
It amazes me that nobody has mentioned how editing impacts this topic. A nicely hand written document may be impressive, but how many of us can actually finish a lengthy document in cursive without wishing we had said something a little differently? A hand-written letter to a friend is infinitely more personal than one from a printer, but here again we may have mis-spelled words and/or grammatical constructs that we may wish we had caught before laying our pen to the paper. The point I'm making is that even for those times when, for whatever reason, we want to produce a hand-written document, it would behoove us to use a word processor or text editor initially for the sake of checking our spelling and editing for proper grammar and context. Print it out or read it directly from the screen, transcribing in long hand to the paper.
Swift Fuel, eh? The only fuel I know of that replaces gasoline directly and without requiring modification to the automobile is Butanol. Is that what "Swift Fuel" really is?
Come ooooon people. This is just the RIAA sounding off typically 'Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing' as usual. How are they ever going to know that you have several thousand ripped tracks on your hard drive? It's all quite simple. Just don't put your ripped MP3s in an internet-shared directory. The RIAA doesn't hire psychics that spy on you. Chill!
There seems to be system requirements that they're not telling us about. I'm using FF with IE Tab and my Windows Media Player is version 10, yet the site still tells me I don't pass the media player requirement and gives me the option to download and install it. Maybe they have a customized version of Windows Media Player 10? Whatever, there are just too many hoops to jump through here IMO.
This is all very interesting, but there are many problems to overcome before the average citizen can see a hydrogen fueled vehicle in their driveway. The reality of the situation is that we need a replacement for gasoline NOW, not forty or fifty years from now. We need a replacement that requires little or no change to the current infrastructure. That replacement is Butanol (look it up if you don't believe it), and could be available wide scale in very short order if the powers-that-be would get their heads out of their asses.
Best advice yet AFAIC. Worked for me just about the same as what you experienced. Starting at what you need to know and working backwards from there until you're at a place of comfort and ability and then working forward to obtain the knowledge and skills you need, is definitely the way to go.
In a humongous all-encompassing mathematical hypertext, start at what you need to know and work backwards until you find the place where you're comfortable and know what you're doing. Work forward diligently from there.
I see! Well now, that sounds very promising indeed! Thanks for clarifying all that for me. I'm really excited about this and know it will be tremendously successful. It may take a while, but it's certainly a good start.
If there is anything we have learned over the past 100 years, it's that we are dang poor at accurately predicting the future. My advice: Give it a rest and expend your energies on something productive.
Most tasks, other than system-wide tasks, are inherently serial in nature. It's the way we think. How many parallel flow charts have you ever seen? Probably very few, if any. Think of all the major computer applications. How many of them deal with anything in other than a serial manner? Probably very few, if any. Distributed tasks are generally the same algorithm being run on multiple processing units, each being basically a serial process. Add to this the fact that nearly all of us have been programming in serial mode all of our programming lives, then hell yes, parallel programming is just too difficult. It's basically unnatural. We only have one brain.
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Thanks for the extensive report. VERY interesting.
Good grief. Insightful? It's a joke folks!
Fewer. Fewer. Fewer. Fewer. If it can be counted, the word is 'fewer', not 'less'.
Well, duhhhh. Isn't this what Microsoft does for a living? Haven't they been doing this since the beginning? What's the story here?
You didn't return a paper for the misuse of less/fewer?
More idiocy from Minnesota. The wrestler governor, the comedian senator, now this. Geez! There seems to be no hope for these people.
Thanks for not taking offense.
fewer .." ..".
the word you were needing to use is 'fewer'.
".., the less programmers you have who are
should read
".., the fewer programmers you have who are
The general rule is, if you can count it/them, the correct word is 'fewer', not 'less'.
Sorry. It's just a fetish and pet peeve with me.
Interesting. Good to know we have so many climate experts here in Slashdot. Not that it means anything. WAKE UP people!
"IF APPLICABLE" is the gotcha there.
Your anecdote gives a good idea of what it's like to quit 'cold turkey'. I congratulate you that you had the fortitude to accomplish that. Many smokers have tried multiple times to quit 'cold turkey' as well as programs involving both physical and emotional aids, with little or no success. The federal and state governments see this as a source of revenue, and refuse to recognize their failure to help a large part of their citizenry. Words are cheap, and actions speak much more loudly. Shame on them!
It amazes me that nobody has mentioned how editing impacts this topic. A nicely hand written document may be impressive, but how many of us can actually finish a lengthy document in cursive without wishing we had said something a little differently? A hand-written letter to a friend is infinitely more personal than one from a printer, but here again we may have mis-spelled words and/or grammatical constructs that we may wish we had caught before laying our pen to the paper. The point I'm making is that even for those times when, for whatever reason, we want to produce a hand-written document, it would behoove us to use a word processor or text editor initially for the sake of checking our spelling and editing for proper grammar and context. Print it out or read it directly from the screen, transcribing in long hand to the paper.
Swift Fuel, eh? The only fuel I know of that replaces gasoline directly and without requiring modification to the automobile is Butanol. Is that what "Swift Fuel" really is?
Come ooooon people. This is just the RIAA sounding off typically 'Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing' as usual. How are they ever going to know that you have several thousand ripped tracks on your hard drive? It's all quite simple. Just don't put your ripped MP3s in an internet-shared directory. The RIAA doesn't hire psychics that spy on you. Chill!
There seems to be system requirements that they're not telling us about. I'm using FF with IE Tab and my Windows Media Player is version 10, yet the site still tells me I don't pass the media player requirement and gives me the option to download and install it. Maybe they have a customized version of Windows Media Player 10? Whatever, there are just too many hoops to jump through here IMO.
This is all very interesting, but there are many problems to overcome before the average citizen can see a hydrogen fueled vehicle in their driveway. The reality of the situation is that we need a replacement for gasoline NOW, not forty or fifty years from now. We need a replacement that requires little or no change to the current infrastructure. That replacement is Butanol (look it up if you don't believe it), and could be available wide scale in very short order if the powers-that-be would get their heads out of their asses.
Best advice yet AFAIC. Worked for me just about the same as what you experienced. Starting at what you need to know and working backwards from there until you're at a place of comfort and ability and then working forward to obtain the knowledge and skills you need, is definitely the way to go.
In a humongous all-encompassing mathematical hypertext, start at what you need to know and work backwards until you find the place where you're comfortable and know what you're doing. Work forward diligently from there.
How did this get modded up to 5,Insightful when it's clearly supposed to be funny?
Ah yes, the ole ubiquitous water problem. Can't live with it, can't live without it.
I see! Well now, that sounds very promising indeed! Thanks for clarifying all that for me. I'm really excited about this and know it will be tremendously successful. It may take a while, but it's certainly a good start.
How is this going to be different than the Internet Public Library? http://www.ipl.org/
Not to point out the obvious, but the Internet changed everything, huh.
If there is anything we have learned over the past 100 years, it's that we are dang poor at accurately predicting the future. My advice: Give it a rest and expend your energies on something productive.
Most tasks, other than system-wide tasks, are inherently serial in nature. It's the way we think. How many parallel flow charts have you ever seen? Probably very few, if any. Think of all the major computer applications. How many of them deal with anything in other than a serial manner? Probably very few, if any. Distributed tasks are generally the same algorithm being run on multiple processing units, each being basically a serial process. Add to this the fact that nearly all of us have been programming in serial mode all of our programming lives, then hell yes, parallel programming is just too difficult. It's basically unnatural. We only have one brain.