Parents who can't take the time out of their very important and busy schedule to find out what it is that their own kids are doing. Hey, let the TV and the PC be mom and dad, meanwhile we can have a life. And when they don't know real life from a video game, because they have had images of goatse implanted in their brains from the age of 5 and because every time you die you hit Continue, we'll go and blame someone else because we fucked up in bringing our kids up to be decent people. Of course those kids went guns a-blazin' into their school because they played Doom, why else? And now this guy too, the statements these parents make are pathetic - "Our 17-year-old son seemed to be obsessed with ritualistic killings, there was nothing, nothing we could do!".
HTML versus XML and the related set of schemas, including XHTML, can be compared to building with Lego versus real construction materials. HTML comes out of the realm of the old web where everyone and their uncle can be a so-called "web designer", a title anyone in the industry knows to actually refer to a graphic artist who draws buttons and banners. Coding in HTML revolves around nudging table cells by a few pixels this way or that way and hoping that all falls in place on that old piece of crap browser that half of the customers of your company are still using for some reason. HTML can be written by a 5-year-old. Some see this as an advantage, those who use it professionally can't see it as anything but a shame. I've known my fair share of web developers, being one myself, and the number of them who know anyhing about actual software development is probably less than one percent of the total.
XML, and all the web-related schemas and standards like XHTML, on the other hand, provide you with an ability to present very complex business domains over the internet. Anyone wno knows anything about programming will say that jumbling all your data, along with it's structure, along with it's presentation is a terrible way to write software. The new standards allow one to keep data separate (XML), structure separate (XHTML), and presentation separate (CSS). While it's admittedly more complex than the regular HTML it lets you do so much more with your data. Switch stylesheets and bam, your site looks completely different. Switch XSL stylesheets and you can serve the same data in completely different ways on a PC, a PDA, or a mobile phone.
Lastly I want to bring up that web clients are often used as front ends for company intranets and while it's going to be a while until web developers (and consumers!!!) will be able to enjoy the benefits of the move to XML on www those benefits can already be reaped in the controlled environment of your company intranet.
It's much more than a way to curb the piracy of valve games I would say. For one, it's a much improved way of actually finding games. Those who play now and can compare the current interface for searching for games with the one that originally shipped with half-life can attest to how much it has been improved. Furthermore, steam is a content delivery system that will make keeping your game up to date effortless. No more waiting for hours in a line on fileplanet to get the lastest patch or some maps or what have you. And more importantly it will let valve developers push bug fixes down in an expedited process. That means that when new games like half-life 2 come out and a zillion unanticipated bugs or exploits is discovered we won't have to be waiting for months on end for some massive patch to come down that will purport to fix them all.
Lastly, I am really hoping that when the new game launches steam will become a way to track and serve global stats. Games like half-life and counter-strike are very lacking in this area in that every time you leave a game you take nothing away with you. For this reason while I've played my fair share of CS I've also always been drawn to games like diablo 2 because for the time you spend playing you not only improve your skill but you also have something to come back to next time you fire up the game. If something akin to a ladder and some sort of persistent achievement rating was instituted in a game like half-life 2 or counter-strike I think that it would add a whole new level of enjoyment to the game.
if he ranked words in literary texts according to the number of times they appeared, a word's rank was roughly proportional to the inverse of the its frequency squared.
What you meant to say was that the rank is inversely proportional to the frequency squared ie. proportional to one divided by the frequency squared.
What you said was that it was proportional to the inverse of frequency squared ie. proportional to the square root of frequency.
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Parents who can't take the time out of their very important and busy schedule to find out what it is that their own kids are doing. Hey, let the TV and the PC be mom and dad, meanwhile we can have a life. And when they don't know real life from a video game, because they have had images of goatse implanted in their brains from the age of 5 and because every time you die you hit Continue, we'll go and blame someone else because we fucked up in bringing our kids up to be decent people. Of course those kids went guns a-blazin' into their school because they played Doom, why else? And now this guy too, the statements these parents make are pathetic - "Our 17-year-old son seemed to be obsessed with ritualistic killings, there was nothing, nothing we could do!".
HTML versus XML and the related set of schemas, including XHTML, can be compared to building with Lego versus real construction materials. HTML comes out of the realm of the old web where everyone and their uncle can be a so-called "web designer", a title anyone in the industry knows to actually refer to a graphic artist who draws buttons and banners. Coding in HTML revolves around nudging table cells by a few pixels this way or that way and hoping that all falls in place on that old piece of crap browser that half of the customers of your company are still using for some reason. HTML can be written by a 5-year-old. Some see this as an advantage, those who use it professionally can't see it as anything but a shame. I've known my fair share of web developers, being one myself, and the number of them who know anyhing about actual software development is probably less than one percent of the total.
XML, and all the web-related schemas and standards like XHTML, on the other hand, provide you with an ability to present very complex business domains over the internet. Anyone wno knows anything about programming will say that jumbling all your data, along with it's structure, along with it's presentation is a terrible way to write software. The new standards allow one to keep data separate (XML), structure separate (XHTML), and presentation separate (CSS). While it's admittedly more complex than the regular HTML it lets you do so much more with your data. Switch stylesheets and bam, your site looks completely different. Switch XSL stylesheets and you can serve the same data in completely different ways on a PC, a PDA, or a mobile phone.
Lastly I want to bring up that web clients are often used as front ends for company intranets and while it's going to be a while until web developers (and consumers!!!) will be able to enjoy the benefits of the move to XML on www those benefits can already be reaped in the controlled environment of your company intranet.
Botsalot does Harrogath?
for not relying on graphics by having original and imaginative art.
Lastly, I am really hoping that when the new game launches steam will become a way to track and serve global stats. Games like half-life and counter-strike are very lacking in this area in that every time you leave a game you take nothing away with you. For this reason while I've played my fair share of CS I've also always been drawn to games like diablo 2 because for the time you spend playing you not only improve your skill but you also have something to come back to next time you fire up the game. If something akin to a ladder and some sort of persistent achievement rating was instituted in a game like half-life 2 or counter-strike I think that it would add a whole new level of enjoyment to the game.
...that George Costanza reads slashdot.
if he ranked words in literary texts according to the number of times they appeared, a word's rank was roughly proportional to the inverse of the its frequency squared.
What you meant to say was that the rank is inversely proportional to the frequency squared ie. proportional to one divided by the frequency squared.
What you said was that it was proportional to the inverse of frequency squared ie. proportional to the square root of frequency.