If you believe that the ability for one to defend himself against predators, persons, and governments from doing him harm is really a mental disorder, perhaps the United States is not the country for you.
I'm inclined to think the "core is spectacular, outside core is broken" is by design. If not, I think it will be a trend regardless.
Which is part of the reason our group is going to be sticking with 3.5. The rest of the reason being like Windows Vista, what we have now works just fine.
It's been our groups experience over the years, that D&D is pretty clearly designed up to level 12, and not much further. It'll be interesting to see is 4.0 "fixes" that.
I own damn near every 3.5 book there is. I haven't looked too much into the "new version" but I have no intention to replace the books I own. If the "new version" is mostly moot, as far as system changes, then I'll continue to buy their books.
Given that the system is fairly hashed out, I don't see much reason to change.
I've been waiting forever for them to come out with something like this. I'm sure they'd be required to hand over any data if the men who ride in black helicopters come asking, so it's a good thing there's TrueCrypt:D
Now if PostgreSQL could just fix their temp table + stored procedure shit I'd be happy. Temp tables cannot be effectively created in stored procedures, if you want to pull this feat off you have to wrap SQL queries in an EXECUTE. Suffice to say if you do any extensive work with temp tables in stored procedures, it's a nightmare.
I haven't looked back at PG in the past few months, but I doubt it's been changed.
I can only speak with regard to Spring, as that's what I've used for the past two years. I'll give you that it has a moderately vicious learning curve, to use well. However, the vast majority of your configuration can be boilerplate stuff. I haven't worked much with JavaServer Faces, but I gave them up because it reminded me too much of ASP - using postbacks and JavaScript for every god damn thing in the world.
I would also recommend against using Hibernate, ACEGI, and the various template languages if you can get along with JPA, JAAS, and JSP. ACEGI has got to be the most complicated, inelegant mess I've ever tried to work with. I think they've really sacrificed simplicity for flexibility.
Spring as a whole is pretty damn good. Some of their features I'd never use, and seem excessive. I've been thinking about doing a series of articles to describe how to get a 3 tier web project up and going with Spring and JPA without going insane. Some things work really well under a 3 tier Java EE + Spring + JPA [+ JAAS] setup. Some things do not.
Having developed primarily in Perl, PHP, and Java for several years each now I feel confident saying Java is well suited for large systems that you expect to grow. For a smaller system in which I don't anticipate much change in scope, I would recommend using PHP. Perl is my baby for 100% console applications or if I'm doing a lot of pattern matching and whatnot. If it's going to be a constantly running daemon that needs to be zippy, I'm going Java.
Personally, I don't care about C or C++. The systems I work on do not need these extremes of speed, it makes more sense for me to complete the code significantly faster and get it into production. The speed differences in modern JVMs are to the point where my time is more valuable than the hardware to make up the difference. I think those languages are still good, just not well suited for the types of applications I work on.
Now, if they can pen a deal with Pandora so you can find music you like that would be spectacular. You could stream all kinds of music at random (based on preference) for free, but with a nifty "buy it" button.
Oye vey dude, my relatively cheap electric drill has a torque setting. With an electric screwdriver I imagine it's pretty easy to get a feel for the torque on the screw, not to mention any settings it might have.
I've stripped more threads by hand than I have with an electric, even then I can probably count them on one hand.
As far as I know, this isn't something that happens often. A judge looked at the law, the facts, etc, and said "Hey, that just doesn't make sense." My most sincere thanks to the judge.
If a business treats you with the same concern as they do a laptop computer, don't work there in the first place, or leave.
I don't mind working overtime if something needs to get done occasionally, or if I'm really in the zone. However, I'm not going to work myself to death every single week; people who do are either masochists, or they don't know any better.
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Anyway, it will probably, eventually, become the new standard. Only if the greater public buys into it. To me, HD is much like Vista, but better. The previous version is plenty good, the new version is suppose to be better, but you won't be able to tell unless you have new and expensive hardware. I, and many people like me, will go out and spend thousands of dollars just to get the latest and greatest when what I have works quite well.
I suppose my disinclination to "upgrade" to HD is about like others disinclination to "upgrade" to Vista.
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I really don't care for the HD craze, I still buy plain old DVDs. Am I really in the minority?
Gmail does (just tested it) redirect to an HTTP connection after login. As another post up the thread mentioned, you can use the Customize Google Firefox addon to run HTTPS full time.
The link to the blizzard PR and subsequent definition of what a "subscriber" is, were not in the original article. Notice the UPDATE section. Summaries can be, and often are misleading; as anyone who frequents here can pretty easily say.
I think I've done my due diligence by reading TFA, and then posting my observation - pre-update.
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When you said "Give up". If the kid is going to have access to the internet, he'll have access to pr0n, period.
Any sufficiently motivated teen will circumvent even the best system. You can try to fight human nature, but in the end you will lose.
I'd put my money on the kid ending up even more depraved as a result of such a tight parental grip.
If you believe that the ability for one to defend himself against predators, persons, and governments from doing him harm is really a mental disorder, perhaps the United States is not the country for you.
Now, if only the supported the second amendment, I'd be ridiculously happy with them. At least they're not supporting gun control.
Card carrying member of both the ACLU and NRA.
I'm inclined to think the "core is spectacular, outside core is broken" is by design. If not, I think it will be a trend regardless.
Which is part of the reason our group is going to be sticking with 3.5. The rest of the reason being like Windows Vista, what we have now works just fine.
It's been our groups experience over the years, that D&D is pretty clearly designed up to level 12, and not much further. It'll be interesting to see is 4.0 "fixes" that.
I own damn near every 3.5 book there is. I haven't looked too much into the "new version" but I have no intention to replace the books I own. If the "new version" is mostly moot, as far as system changes, then I'll continue to buy their books.
Given that the system is fairly hashed out, I don't see much reason to change.
RAM, NIC, HDD, XHTML, CSS, XML, PNG, JPEG, BSD, et cetera ad nauseum.
Seriously, do these acronyms mean anything to anyone?
In case you may have never considered it, people actually involved with these technologies may actually know what they mean and do.
Sorry, what was I saying?
Ah hell, looks like I've spoken too soon. It appears to only be extra storage for existing services :-\
I've been waiting forever for them to come out with something like this. I'm sure they'd be required to hand over any data if the men who ride in black helicopters come asking, so it's a good thing there's TrueCrypt :D
Now if PostgreSQL could just fix their temp table + stored procedure shit I'd be happy. Temp tables cannot be effectively created in stored procedures, if you want to pull this feat off you have to wrap SQL queries in an EXECUTE. Suffice to say if you do any extensive work with temp tables in stored procedures, it's a nightmare.
I haven't looked back at PG in the past few months, but I doubt it's been changed.
I can only speak with regard to Spring, as that's what I've used for the past two years. I'll give you that it has a moderately vicious learning curve, to use well. However, the vast majority of your configuration can be boilerplate stuff. I haven't worked much with JavaServer Faces, but I gave them up because it reminded me too much of ASP - using postbacks and JavaScript for every god damn thing in the world.
I would also recommend against using Hibernate, ACEGI, and the various template languages if you can get along with JPA, JAAS, and JSP. ACEGI has got to be the most complicated, inelegant mess I've ever tried to work with. I think they've really sacrificed simplicity for flexibility.
Spring as a whole is pretty damn good. Some of their features I'd never use, and seem excessive. I've been thinking about doing a series of articles to describe how to get a 3 tier web project up and going with Spring and JPA without going insane. Some things work really well under a 3 tier Java EE + Spring + JPA [+ JAAS] setup. Some things do not.
Having developed primarily in Perl, PHP, and Java for several years each now I feel confident saying Java is well suited for large systems that you expect to grow. For a smaller system in which I don't anticipate much change in scope, I would recommend using PHP. Perl is my baby for 100% console applications or if I'm doing a lot of pattern matching and whatnot. If it's going to be a constantly running daemon that needs to be zippy, I'm going Java.
Personally, I don't care about C or C++. The systems I work on do not need these extremes of speed, it makes more sense for me to complete the code significantly faster and get it into production. The speed differences in modern JVMs are to the point where my time is more valuable than the hardware to make up the difference. I think those languages are still good, just not well suited for the types of applications I work on.
Now, if they can pen a deal with Pandora so you can find music you like that would be spectacular. You could stream all kinds of music at random (based on preference) for free, but with a nifty "buy it" button.
Now if only he didn't issue an update every single god damned day, it'd be great!
Oye vey dude, my relatively cheap electric drill has a torque setting. With an electric screwdriver I imagine it's pretty easy to get a feel for the torque on the screw, not to mention any settings it might have.
I've stripped more threads by hand than I have with an electric, even then I can probably count them on one hand.
As far as I know, this isn't something that happens often. A judge looked at the law, the facts, etc, and said "Hey, that just doesn't make sense." My most sincere thanks to the judge.
If a business treats you with the same concern as they do a laptop computer, don't work there in the first place, or leave.
I don't mind working overtime if something needs to get done occasionally, or if I'm really in the zone. However, I'm not going to work myself to death every single week; people who do are either masochists, or they don't know any better.
You're thinking of:
Whorecraft - Swords, Sorcery and Sex
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Am I the only one who just doesn't care about HD? (Score:3, Interesting). by bigtangringo (800328) on Tuesday July 31, @05:34PM (#20063407)
hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/31/192
Anyway, it will probably, eventually, become the new standard. Only if the greater public buys into it. To me, HD is much like Vista, but better. The previous version is plenty good, the new version is suppose to be better, but you won't be able to tell unless you have new and expensive hardware. I, and many people like me, will go out and spend thousands of dollars just to get the latest and greatest when what I have works quite well.
I suppose my disinclination to "upgrade" to HD is about like others disinclination to "upgrade" to Vista.
I really don't care for the HD craze, I still buy plain old DVDs. Am I really in the minority?
New datacenters don't get Halon, they get FM200. It costs significantly more, but it won't kill you.
Gmail does (just tested it) redirect to an HTTP connection after login. As another post up the thread mentioned, you can use the Customize Google Firefox addon to run HTTPS full time.
The link to the blizzard PR and subsequent definition of what a "subscriber" is, were not in the original article. Notice the UPDATE section. Summaries can be, and often are misleading; as anyone who frequents here can pretty easily say.
I think I've done my due diligence by reading TFA, and then posting my observation - pre-update.
Perhaps you could quote the part of the article which defines that for me.
I haven't given Blizzard a dime in several months now. I'd imagine they're still counting the folks who used to play, but no longer do.