No, that would just be suicide. And, Islamic extremists do just that, ie., put on a uniform and fight as soldiers, when the situation calls for it. As it is now, that is not an option for them.
Hmmm... and in Afghanistan, we arrested even soldiers and called them illegal combatants and jailed them illegally. Funny, that.
And dying for a cause has always been upheld as being extremely honourable here in America, and other Western nations. Why the double-standard when it comes to people who we deem our enemies?
Riiiight... and let Israel annex their land, bit by bit, while the US, UK, etc., steal their natural resources, after invading countries under false pretense...
We are only adding fuel to the fire. A fire which we largely started too. And we continue to label those fighting back as radicals, instead of trying to understand.
And your theory is ridiculous, fucking ridiculous. If it were not for our support of Israel and our constant meddling in the mid-east, we wouldn't even be on their radar. Imagining that they want to bring about nuclear disaster is exceptionally telling about how well you try to understand their motivation.
You're calling their methods cowardly? These people are willing to give their very lives, and you call them cowards?
Perhaps their methods are counterproductive, granted, but they are not cowardly. Our methods for fighting them, OTOH, surely reek of cowardice... not to mention hypocrisy, ignorance, stupidity...
You're telling people not to waste their time, yet, Python has a fucking HUGE community, and is far more popular than Perl is today, or so it seems to me, as a Perl developer. Several million people worldwide don't think they're wasting their time, and indeed have produced a pretty large base of quality code.
I've been writing Perl and C for... 8 years now I suppose, and really, they're far from ideal languages. C is... well, it's C. Perl has some major problems. I love Perl. It's my bread and butter, but I don't want to use it forever.
I don't particularly like Python or Ruby myself. They're reasonably good languages, but neither takes a pragmatic enough approach for me. But, to each his own, and if you're actually serious about telling people to ignore them... well, what can I say to that? "Get bent" is about the nicest thing one can say to that nonsense =P
Not to mention that, many, many kids are actually seriously injured / killed playing football and other contact sports.
I've seen a fair share of blood, (relatively mild) permanent injury, and even near deaths playing hockey myself. I've even got myself into a number of brawls.
It's ridiculous to pretend that sports aren't violent. Indeed, the violence is part of the fun.
Indeed. And if it's anything like every other media-related piece of software or hardware Microsoft has ever developed, it's going to be annoying as all hell to use and highly prone to failure.
OTOH... That's excluding their Xbox division. I don't have a 360, but I hear they're not bad:) *cough*except for the games*cough*
They don't need to make a law to declare war its one of the powers defined on their character sheet.
Uh, what? Congress has not used that power, as they have NOT DECLARED WAR. Congress has authorized the use of military force and given the president certain latitude, which the president keeps abusing.
Well, a significant number of politicians, lawyers, and rights advocates disagree with your assessment. So, perhaps you'd like to back that up with something a little concrete, ie., point out WHAT part of which law makes it legal?
Of course, the Constitution isn't a popular document these days, so it's pointless to discuss whether it's Constitutional or not/sarcasm
Yeah, it's true that other presidents have taken extreme measures during times of war... But THIS IS NOT A WAR. This is no more a war than the war on drugs is a war. This is a war like McCarthy's crusade against Communism was a war, ie., it's not, it's illegal, and this president is not acting on behalf of the people, but rather for his own personal agenda.
And... damnit, if this were RL I'd seriously want to punch you in the nose. Were you fucking asleep when it was revealed that these powers were being sought long before 9/11? Grrrr! Thanks for helping this administration throw the entire country in the toilet... even more than it already was.
Speaking of Canada... Please get that fascist Bush-wannabe OUT of public office, so I can again consider Canada to be a progressive nation, a place that I could move to if the U.S. continues to slide into... this shit.
Well I thought it would be understood in the context of what I was replying to. And for the record, all languages have problems, mostly very serious. And I'm not even a "language bigot." There's no denying it, no matter what languages you know and love.
And for the love of Dog, it is not an acronym! Stop saying PERL! Perl is the language, and perl is the interpreter. From perlfaq1.:)
Anyone with a reasonable amount of experience with Perl would know not to call it "PERL," so I find your post highly dubious. OTOH, your citicism is entirely aesthetic in nature, so maybe that's fair enough. But, that's hardly an argument worth paying any attention from a practical/logical point of view.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said you should use/not use PHP, or Perl for that matter.
What I DID say, however, is that anyone who disparages Perl, while at the same time using PHP, doesn't have any idea what they're talking about.
It has NOTHING to do with elitism, and everything to do with using tools properly. Most PHP devs don't know what they're doing, but that doesn't mean there aren't competent devs using PHP too.
This moron is defending PHP, which was spawned FROM Perl, borrowing the worst parts of the language, and ditching everything decent, like, LEXICALLY SCOPED VARIABLES, Unicode support, standard naming conventions for builtin functions, etc.
Someone who has "skipped Perl entirely" while using PHP, certainly needs to check their head.
Re:Doom, Quake, & Wolfenstein 3D?
on
Romero's New Gig
·
· Score: 1
Uhm, erm... Touché!:)
Although, Quake 2 and Doom 3 aren't so bad. In fact, I think Doom 3 is terribly underrated by a lot of people. It's actually quite an immersive game.
But OTOH, id has concentrated on making game engines, not games. So even discounting Quake 2, which was mediocre, and Doom 3, which was too little too late, it's not quite comparing apples to apples. At least id has done a lot of good, useful work. There's a whole slew of fantastic games that were developed using id's engines.
Doom, Quake, & Wolfenstein 3D were made by id, not Romero. Romero was part of the team that made those games. Considering that Romero has been unable to produce anything worthwhile in the DECADE since he left id, despite the vast resources that were just handed to him to do as he pleased, I think it's a fair bet that Romero had NOTHING to do, at all, in any way, with the success of the games in question.
Daikatana sold only because of hype, and sales virtually stopped after everyone heard how horrible it was. Some of the people who bought it afterwards did so: just to see how horrible it was, as a gag gift, and other embarrassing reasons.
In the way that John Romero "contributes" to game development... "Wouldn't it be cool if..." John Romero stopped making games? Fuck yes it would.
Industry resources are stretched thin enough as it is. There's no room for wanna-be rockstars and prima donnas like Romero.
Is marriage truly a religious institution? I'm rather skeptical of that, as marriage is a concept older than any of the current popular religions. So, if marriage is truly a religious construct, and not _just_ social, then anyone practicing marriage and one of the current major religions is committing sacrilege. Except... marriage is written about in said major religions, so, they must have adopted tenets of older religions. Which means religion is a farce.
What say you?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs
on
Gangs on the Internet
·
· Score: 1
Maybe you should attack his argument instead of attacking him directly? You know, prove him wrong? Yeah, I didn't think so. Put up or shut up.
Slashdot Mirror
No, that would just be suicide. And, Islamic extremists do just that, ie., put on a uniform and fight as soldiers, when the situation calls for it. As it is now, that is not an option for them.
Hmmm... and in Afghanistan, we arrested even soldiers and called them illegal combatants and jailed them illegally. Funny, that.
And dying for a cause has always been upheld as being extremely honourable here in America, and other Western nations. Why the double-standard when it comes to people who we deem our enemies?
Riiiight... and let Israel annex their land, bit by bit, while the US, UK, etc., steal their natural resources, after invading countries under false pretense...
We are only adding fuel to the fire. A fire which we largely started too. And we continue to label those fighting back as radicals, instead of trying to understand.
And your theory is ridiculous, fucking ridiculous. If it were not for our support of Israel and our constant meddling in the mid-east, we wouldn't even be on their radar. Imagining that they want to bring about nuclear disaster is exceptionally telling about how well you try to understand their motivation.
You're calling their methods cowardly? These people are willing to give their very lives, and you call them cowards? Perhaps their methods are counterproductive, granted, but they are not cowardly. Our methods for fighting them, OTOH, surely reek of cowardice... not to mention hypocrisy, ignorance, stupidity...
Jesus man, you really are a stupid asshole. Stop digging yourself such a huge fucking hole and STFU already.
Hahaha, good post man :) Touché!
A predictable slashdot response.
Them's fightin' words. Watch your back.
You're telling people not to waste their time, yet, Python has a fucking HUGE community, and is far more popular than Perl is today, or so it seems to me, as a Perl developer. Several million people worldwide don't think they're wasting their time, and indeed have produced a pretty large base of quality code.
I've been writing Perl and C for... 8 years now I suppose, and really, they're far from ideal languages. C is... well, it's C. Perl has some major problems. I love Perl. It's my bread and butter, but I don't want to use it forever.
I don't particularly like Python or Ruby myself. They're reasonably good languages, but neither takes a pragmatic enough approach for me. But, to each his own, and if you're actually serious about telling people to ignore them... well, what can I say to that? "Get bent" is about the nicest thing one can say to that nonsense =P
Well, I don't like PHP either... but seriously, get bent =P
Seriously, who are YOU to tell people what to do with their time?
That post was genius! :)
Seriously, very well put.
Not to mention that, many, many kids are actually seriously injured / killed playing football and other contact sports. I've seen a fair share of blood, (relatively mild) permanent injury, and even near deaths playing hockey myself. I've even got myself into a number of brawls. It's ridiculous to pretend that sports aren't violent. Indeed, the violence is part of the fun.
Indeed. And if it's anything like every other media-related piece of software or hardware Microsoft has ever developed, it's going to be annoying as all hell to use and highly prone to failure.
:) *cough*except for the games*cough*
OTOH... That's excluding their Xbox division. I don't have a 360, but I hear they're not bad
You deserve to die a painful death.
Claiming the country is "at war" does not constitute a formal declaration of war by any stretch whatsoever.
They don't need to make a law to declare war its one of the powers defined on their character sheet.
Uh, what? Congress has not used that power, as they have NOT DECLARED WAR. Congress has authorized the use of military force and given the president certain latitude, which the president keeps abusing.
Well, a significant number of politicians, lawyers, and rights advocates disagree with your assessment. So, perhaps you'd like to back that up with something a little concrete, ie., point out WHAT part of which law makes it legal?
/sarcasm
Of course, the Constitution isn't a popular document these days, so it's pointless to discuss whether it's Constitutional or not
Yeah, it's true that other presidents have taken extreme measures during times of war... But THIS IS NOT A WAR. This is no more a war than the war on drugs is a war. This is a war like McCarthy's crusade against Communism was a war, ie., it's not, it's illegal, and this president is not acting on behalf of the people, but rather for his own personal agenda.
And... damnit, if this were RL I'd seriously want to punch you in the nose. Were you fucking asleep when it was revealed that these powers were being sought long before 9/11? Grrrr! Thanks for helping this administration throw the entire country in the toilet... even more than it already was.
Speaking of Canada... Please get that fascist Bush-wannabe OUT of public office, so I can again consider Canada to be a progressive nation, a place that I could move to if the U.S. continues to slide into... this shit.
Harper Watch: http://bushwatch.org/harperletters.htm
There is seriously something very frightening about that man.
Well I thought it would be understood in the context of what I was replying to. And for the record, all languages have problems, mostly very serious. And I'm not even a "language bigot." There's no denying it, no matter what languages you know and love.
:)
And for the love of Dog, it is not an acronym! Stop saying PERL! Perl is the language, and perl is the interpreter. From perlfaq1.
Cheers.
Anyone with a reasonable amount of experience with Perl would know not to call it "PERL," so I find your post highly dubious. OTOH, your citicism is entirely aesthetic in nature, so maybe that's fair enough. But, that's hardly an argument worth paying any attention from a practical/logical point of view.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said you should use/not use PHP, or Perl for that matter.
What I DID say, however, is that anyone who disparages Perl, while at the same time using PHP, doesn't have any idea what they're talking about.
It has NOTHING to do with elitism, and everything to do with using tools properly. Most PHP devs don't know what they're doing, but that doesn't mean there aren't competent devs using PHP too.
This moron is defending PHP, which was spawned FROM Perl, borrowing the worst parts of the language, and ditching everything decent, like, LEXICALLY SCOPED VARIABLES, Unicode support, standard naming conventions for builtin functions, etc.
Someone who has "skipped Perl entirely" while using PHP, certainly needs to check their head.
For any doubters:
http://tnx.nl/php
http://czth.net/pH/PHPSucks
PHP - training wheels without the bike indeed.
Although, Quake 2 and Doom 3 aren't so bad. In fact, I think Doom 3 is terribly underrated by a lot of people. It's actually quite an immersive game.
But OTOH, id has concentrated on making game engines, not games. So even discounting Quake 2, which was mediocre, and Doom 3, which was too little too late, it's not quite comparing apples to apples. At least id has done a lot of good, useful work. There's a whole slew of fantastic games that were developed using id's engines.
Still, a fair point.
Cheers!
Doom, Quake, & Wolfenstein 3D were made by id, not Romero. Romero was part of the team that made those games. Considering that Romero has been unable to produce anything worthwhile in the DECADE since he left id, despite the vast resources that were just handed to him to do as he pleased, I think it's a fair bet that Romero had NOTHING to do, at all, in any way, with the success of the games in question.
Daikatana sold only because of hype, and sales virtually stopped after everyone heard how horrible it was. Some of the people who bought it afterwards did so: just to see how horrible it was, as a gag gift, and other embarrassing reasons.
In the way that John Romero "contributes" to game development... "Wouldn't it be cool if..." John Romero stopped making games? Fuck yes it would.
Industry resources are stretched thin enough as it is. There's no room for wanna-be rockstars and prima donnas like Romero.
What say you?