Heh, no. Dean Lum was elected, as most judges are in WA.
My mistake, I obviously don't know much about state politics. I retract all of my previous statements on the matter. That said, if he is an elected official this is hardly an issue at all. Just don't vote for him next time.
I see where you are coming from now, but I just don't agree with you. Judges are human, and they can make bad judgement calls. The issue is that they aren't currently elected, but rather they are appointed, which takes away alot of their accountability. I don't know if there is a clear solution to this problem. I don't really think judges should be elected officials, because democracy is mob rule, and mob rule is terribly unjust.
Ultimately a judge is supposed to uphold justice, not necessarily any one particular law (some laws are contridicary). Laws are certainly not always just (it used to be illegal for women to drive at night), so it isn't fair to call a judge an activist for simply ruling against the will of the mob's partisan elected officials, or the mod directly, because that is part of a judge's job. It is part of the separation of powers. They aren't just there to ensure the law is enforced, but also as an oversight for the law makers.
I am as against judicial activism as anyone, but this is not activism, it's the job description.
So you only oppose "judicial activism" when they rule against your position? I don't believe judicial activism exists. It is a term coined by the Republican majority to attack the rulings supporting the separation of church and state, the right to choose, marriage for all, and any constitutional right that the Bush administration wants to suspend during "the war on terror."
Much as I oppose the amendments to state constitutions banning gay marriage, I feel this is the proper way to deal with the issue. Judges are supposed to uphold the constitution, and when they do that, it isn't activism, it's their job.
I'm not trying to belittle the idea of an extremely high level programing language. When I said serious programming, I had in mind a programmer who writes code daily. It seems to me that the closer to natural language a programming language becomes, the more typing there will be required to express the same thing. If you are familiar with programming, what benefit is there to a more "natural" language?
By the way, I program in all three of the languages you mentioned (not that "assembly" is really a language, so much as a class of languages), and they are all useful for different tasks. I would never suggest that Java isn't a quality language simply because it is easier to use. I just don't think natural language would be easier to use in programming, just easier to learn.
Natural language isn't precise enough for serious programming. I personally wouldn't enjoy typing so much for no added benefit. It seems like this sort of thing only has value amongst people who are learning to programming. Why would a mainstream language like Java or C# cater to this bunch?
the fact that a greater percentage of all people voted, leaving the relative percentage of young people the same as last time.
Well I think the issue was that P.Diddy said "Vote or Die," and he didn't specify that he was talking to young voters. Everyone felt they had to turn out to the polls or a psuedo-hardcore rapper was going to kill them. Hence the rise in voting percentages across the board.
Dunno, but vanishingly close to 100% of the web
pages created with them are such utter crap, they need to be rewritten
from scratch just to get them to scale to a resolution other than the
one the designer was using.
How would you know that? I'm sure you only notice the ones that are done poorly. Did it ever occur to you that some of the websites you don't think are crap were constructed using a GUI tool?
I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that everyone who uses it knows
what they're doing.
I don't either.
A text editor with a
handful of macros is much more efficient.
I just disagree on this. For a standard web page, I think a GUI tool for laying out tables is far quicker than using a text editor (particularly if you have to make changes to an existing table). To be fair I haven't done web development professionally in five years. The only stuff I do now is for my own personal websites. For my own sites I do all of my web work in vim, because GUI tools don't lend themselves well to php development. So, even though I see the value in a tool like Dreamweaver, I don't actually use it anymore (But I highly recommend it to anyone who already knows HTML).
I can see why you prefer FrontPage.
FrontPage is completely worthless.
I'd just like to apologize if you have taken any of my statements personally. I can certainly see where you are coming from, but I am just trying to dispel the idea that the only people who use GUI HTML tools are people who don't know/are too lazy to learn HTML. This simply isn't the case.
because as soon as you want
to make a nontrivial change, you have to redo the whole thing from scratch.
Maybe you don't know what you are doing. I have a clear idea of how what I do in Dreamweaver will affect the source. Even if it does do something I dont like it takes very little work in the source to remedy it. It certainly doesn't mean that I have to redo the whole thing from scratch.
If it costs you time, don't use it. For the rest of us who know what we are doing, we are going to keep using it. Remeber one thing: HTML is super easy, and doing it by hand does not make you hardcore. I can "code" HTML in my sleep.
Oh, that's right--it's not something that I want to spend an hour a week on for the next year.
I have a little bit of inside information for you: HTML is not the kind of thing that would take an hour a week for an entire year to learn. Unless you aren't very swift (my appologies if you are), I would think you could learn enough HTML to do what you seem to want to do in between 1-2 hours.
I don't create lots of websites. If I did, I'd learn HTML. Rather, I would like to throw up the odd one or two page "here's my pics" sites, but I don't want to have to fuss with tables every time. I just want to spend an hour at it.
Sounds like you could get by just fine with the webpage editor that comes with Mozilla for something like that.
Having said all that, I completely agree that something that would rival Dreamweaver would be great to see in OSS. It isn't a tool for amatures to avoid learning HTML. It is a tool designed for professionals to save time. And Dreamweaver does a great job at it.
I guess maybe it is because we don't have a firewall that throttles our bandwidth. It could also be because the link was posted on slashdot (so there were many people trying to download it). That was the one and only time I have ever used BitTorrent.
To be clear it was 1000kB/s (as in bytes not bits). It really wasn't that amazing, considering normal downloads from a single source come in at between 100kB/s and 500kB/s (it seems that the limitation is always on the end of the sender).
I usually peak at like 9 kb's (I'm on a T1 or T3)
I don't know if you meant bits or bytes, but either way that is close to the speed you would get out of a dial-up connection. How big is your university? If you are really all on a single T1, because if you are it is no wonder that your connection sucks. If it was only you using the connection the best you could do is around 187kB/s.
Eventually it will, but that is quite a ways off for high performance graphics. Cooling alone is reason enough to put the GPU on its own free standing card.
Most hard core MMO players probably spend less than folks who play many different games.
And they probably spend more on games than people who don't play games. What is your point? You don't have to justify the cost to anyone. If you enjoy it, it is worth it to you. I occasionally like to drop $100-$150 on a nice meal. Who cares if other people pay less for something they may like more?
In response to the parent of the parent poster. If Blizzard thinks they can get that price, then they should charge that price. The first poster obviously wants to play the game or they wouldn't be complaining about the price.
For the record, I doubt I would ever enjoy any game enough to pay a subscription to play it. I won't be buying this one.
Ok, why does everyone always have to do the same thing? Why are these "the next big thing?" The next big what?
Seriously though, it is like everyone is just waiting for someone else to tell them what to do in life. Hey buddy you should start a "photoblog," because everyone else is.
By the way, the term "blog" is so irritating. Is anyone else annoyed when they hear this term used? When I hear it I cringe just like when I used to hear "the information super-highway."
She didn't threaten him! What's to investigate? I didn't threaten him either, should they investigate me also? You know, just to make sure I don't decide to kill Bush.
She didn't threaten him! She hopes he dies. There is a difference.
On a side not, anyone that says that it is OK to take out any president cause you don't agree with his views/policy/action? Well, that aint Democracy its assanation politics.
Bush wasn't democratically elected. By the way, I don't think it is okay to kill Bush. That doesn't mean the entire world wouldn't be better off if he were gone. I for one strongly oppose the assassination of Bush.
Basically, if the SS actually knocks on my door, we're in a sad state here in these United States.
My guess is they already knocked on your door, and compelled you to post this follow up message to dissuade the millions waiting to pounce on GWB next week at 2:45pm.
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Heh, no. Dean Lum was elected, as most judges are in WA.
My mistake, I obviously don't know much about state politics. I retract all of my previous statements on the matter. That said, if he is an elected official this is hardly an issue at all. Just don't vote for him next time.
This is judicial activism.
I see where you are coming from now, but I just don't agree with you. Judges are human, and they can make bad judgement calls. The issue is that they aren't currently elected, but rather they are appointed, which takes away alot of their accountability. I don't know if there is a clear solution to this problem. I don't really think judges should be elected officials, because democracy is mob rule, and mob rule is terribly unjust.
Ultimately a judge is supposed to uphold justice, not necessarily any one particular law (some laws are contridicary). Laws are certainly not always just (it used to be illegal for women to drive at night), so it isn't fair to call a judge an activist for simply ruling against the will of the mob's partisan elected officials, or the mod directly, because that is part of a judge's job. It is part of the separation of powers. They aren't just there to ensure the law is enforced, but also as an oversight for the law makers.
I don't believe you exist.
I have no official position on this issue.
I am as against judicial activism as anyone, but this is not activism, it's the job description.
So you only oppose "judicial activism" when they rule against your position? I don't believe judicial activism exists. It is a term coined by the Republican majority to attack the rulings supporting the separation of church and state, the right to choose, marriage for all, and any constitutional right that the Bush administration wants to suspend during "the war on terror."
Much as I oppose the amendments to state constitutions banning gay marriage, I feel this is the proper way to deal with the issue. Judges are supposed to uphold the constitution, and when they do that, it isn't activism, it's their job.
the results in favor of the Chinese governor
The current governor wasn't up for re-election.
Why would they name a low point a dome? It would make sense that the highest point would be the coldest.
I'm not trying to belittle the idea of an extremely high level programing language. When I said serious programming, I had in mind a programmer who writes code daily. It seems to me that the closer to natural language a programming language becomes, the more typing there will be required to express the same thing. If you are familiar with programming, what benefit is there to a more "natural" language?
By the way, I program in all three of the languages you mentioned (not that "assembly" is really a language, so much as a class of languages), and they are all useful for different tasks. I would never suggest that Java isn't a quality language simply because it is easier to use. I just don't think natural language would be easier to use in programming, just easier to learn.
Natural language isn't precise enough for serious programming. I personally wouldn't enjoy typing so much for no added benefit. It seems like this sort of thing only has value amongst people who are learning to programming. Why would a mainstream language like Java or C# cater to this bunch?
Please tell me that you at least caught the reference to MacGyver?
the fact that a greater percentage of all people voted, leaving the relative percentage of young people the same as last time.
Well I think the issue was that P.Diddy said "Vote or Die," and he didn't specify that he was talking to young voters. Everyone felt they had to turn out to the polls or a psuedo-hardcore rapper was going to kill them. Hence the rise in voting percentages across the board.
Dunno, but vanishingly close to 100% of the web pages created with them are such utter crap, they need to be rewritten from scratch just to get them to scale to a resolution other than the one the designer was using.
How would you know that? I'm sure you only notice the ones that are done poorly. Did it ever occur to you that some of the websites you don't think are crap were constructed using a GUI tool?
I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that everyone who uses it knows what they're doing.
I don't either.
A text editor with a handful of macros is much more efficient.
I just disagree on this. For a standard web page, I think a GUI tool for laying out tables is far quicker than using a text editor (particularly if you have to make changes to an existing table). To be fair I haven't done web development professionally in five years. The only stuff I do now is for my own personal websites. For my own sites I do all of my web work in vim, because GUI tools don't lend themselves well to php development. So, even though I see the value in a tool like Dreamweaver, I don't actually use it anymore (But I highly recommend it to anyone who already knows HTML).
I can see why you prefer FrontPage.
FrontPage is completely worthless.
I'd just like to apologize if you have taken any of my statements personally. I can certainly see where you are coming from, but I am just trying to dispel the idea that the only people who use GUI HTML tools are people who don't know/are too lazy to learn HTML. This simply isn't the case.
because as soon as you want to make a nontrivial change, you have to redo the whole thing from scratch.
Maybe you don't know what you are doing. I have a clear idea of how what I do in Dreamweaver will affect the source. Even if it does do something I dont like it takes very little work in the source to remedy it. It certainly doesn't mean that I have to redo the whole thing from scratch.
If it costs you time, don't use it. For the rest of us who know what we are doing, we are going to keep using it. Remeber one thing: HTML is super easy, and doing it by hand does not make you hardcore. I can "code" HTML in my sleep.
If your co-workers are stuck with Excel it wont matter what program you are using. They wont be able to deal with the extra rows.
Oh, that's right--it's not something that I want to spend an hour a week on for the next year.
I have a little bit of inside information for you: HTML is not the kind of thing that would take an hour a week for an entire year to learn. Unless you aren't very swift (my appologies if you are), I would think you could learn enough HTML to do what you seem to want to do in between 1-2 hours.
I don't create lots of websites. If I did, I'd learn HTML. Rather, I would like to throw up the odd one or two page "here's my pics" sites, but I don't want to have to fuss with tables every time. I just want to spend an hour at it.
Sounds like you could get by just fine with the webpage editor that comes with Mozilla for something like that.
Having said all that, I completely agree that something that would rival Dreamweaver would be great to see in OSS. It isn't a tool for amatures to avoid learning HTML. It is a tool designed for professionals to save time. And Dreamweaver does a great job at it.
But the real question we should be asking is: Will any of the four parts cease to suck?
I guess maybe it is because we don't have a firewall that throttles our bandwidth. It could also be because the link was posted on slashdot (so there were many people trying to download it). That was the one and only time I have ever used BitTorrent.
To be clear it was 1000kB/s (as in bytes not bits). It really wasn't that amazing, considering normal downloads from a single source come in at between 100kB/s and 500kB/s (it seems that the limitation is always on the end of the sender).
I usually peak at like 9 kb's (I'm on a T1 or T3)
I don't know if you meant bits or bytes, but either way that is close to the speed you would get out of a dial-up connection. How big is your university? If you are really all on a single T1, because if you are it is no wonder that your connection sucks. If it was only you using the connection the best you could do is around 187kB/s.
Eventually it will, but that is quite a ways off for high performance graphics. Cooling alone is reason enough to put the GPU on its own free standing card.
Most hard core MMO players probably spend less than folks who play many different games.
And they probably spend more on games than people who don't play games. What is your point? You don't have to justify the cost to anyone. If you enjoy it, it is worth it to you. I occasionally like to drop $100-$150 on a nice meal. Who cares if other people pay less for something they may like more?
In response to the parent of the parent poster. If Blizzard thinks they can get that price, then they should charge that price. The first poster obviously wants to play the game or they wouldn't be complaining about the price.
For the record, I doubt I would ever enjoy any game enough to pay a subscription to play it. I won't be buying this one.
did you ever pause to think that our President knows more about the economy than you do?
So, is that what he knows about? I was wondering if there was any knowledge lurking in that cavernous brain of his.
He won the electoral vote and the popular vote for a reason: people believe in his vision for the economy.
He won the election because some people believe in his vision for the economy, and a whole lot more people are terrified of homosexuals.
Sweet, I spoke too soon, by the time it was finished I crossed the 1000 KB/s mark.
Right now I'm up to 36 peers with 600 KB/s. I'm rather fond of the Internet2. Web browsing is unaffected.
Ok, why does everyone always have to do the same thing? Why are these "the next big thing?" The next big what?
Seriously though, it is like everyone is just waiting for someone else to tell them what to do in life. Hey buddy you should start a "photoblog," because everyone else is.
By the way, the term "blog" is so irritating. Is anyone else annoyed when they hear this term used? When I hear it I cringe just like when I used to hear "the information super-highway."
She didn't threaten him! What's to investigate? I didn't threaten him either, should they investigate me also? You know, just to make sure I don't decide to kill Bush.
She didn't threaten him! She hopes he dies. There is a difference.
On a side not, anyone that says that it is OK to take out any president cause you don't agree with his views/policy/action? Well, that aint Democracy its assanation politics.
Bush wasn't democratically elected. By the way, I don't think it is okay to kill Bush. That doesn't mean the entire world wouldn't be better off if he were gone. I for one strongly oppose the assassination of Bush.
Basically, if the SS actually knocks on my door, we're in a sad state here in these United States.
My guess is they already knocked on your door, and compelled you to post this follow up message to dissuade the millions waiting to pounce on GWB next week at 2:45pm.
I apologize. The journal was written by a woman not a man.