Why don't you try reading the aforementioned Wikipedia article and some of the references at the end of it? Note that the references include Pubmed links.
There are rules. Well, mostly. The rules for rec.arts.startrek.* from way back when seem to apply just as well today: if you saw it on the screen, large or small, it's 'canon' -- officially part of the Trek Universe.
Any discrepancies in on-screen material are just blown off as a YATIs -- Yet Another Trek Inconsistency. It's not like a movie and television project that has spanned almost 40 years, 5 television series, about a dozen movies and has had literally hundreds of writers can possibly keep everything consistent. Get over it.
one of the joys of my days is coming here... and trying to understand the complex world of internet technology and of course the high browed humor here. Which at times takes a rhodes scholar to understand.
The technology or the humor? The humor is simple: just put yourself in the mindset of 14-year-old boy with a fixation on science, technology, and, of course, unattainable women. Once you understand that, people will stop saying things like "you must be new here", which was, honestly, what I was originally going to say.;)
That's why I try, as much as possible, to get API and language reference documentation in a format for offline viewing other than HTML -- if I'm looking up the parameters of, say, a GtkSpinBox callback or the methods of a PyGTK gtk.Assistant object, and I look in a web browser I'm always tempted to load a new tab to someplace like Slashdot.:/
There is always a big reflex of people crying 'psuedo-science' around here whenever they hear about magenetism, especially in relationship to health.
Yeah, magnetic and weak-current electrical stimulation of the brain is definitely cutting-neuroscience and these effects on the brain have been studied for years.
Well, first off, you speak as if Python and.NET are mutually exclusive. They are not. IronPython allows you to do.NET coding but write your code in Python.
But in response to your earlier question -- what's wrong with being Microsoft-specific? Well, you just ensured that your code won't run on a Mac or on a Unix server or workstation. If that's okay for your projects, then there's nothing wrong with being Windows-sepcific.
OTOH, it's possible to write applications in a portable way and still run on Windows.
With Python, for instance, you can have a truly multiplatform application -- whether we're talking desktop GUI code, Web-based or server code or some combination of those. Multiplatform Python GUI applications, whether you use GTK2 or wxWidgets, have the native look-and-feel of the platform, even on Windows and Mac OS X.
And, if you need it, the full Win32 API is, of course, available to Python applications.
*shrug*
But, if you don't need to support other platforms for your projects, then being Microsoft-specific isn't such a bad thing. But it does lock you into a single platform -- and that means being at the mercy of a single-vendor solution.
Yeah...I know. I've done (and once in a while continue to do) some C programming, but these days most of my code is in Python, a language, which, as you mention, pointers are also meaningless.
I was joking... mostly..Net mostly sucks because while it's not entirely Microsoft-specific, at this point it may as well be.
Also, hire washed up has-beens for some infomercials: just like synthetic hormone replacements got Suzanne Sommers, you could maybe go dig up Catherine Bach or somebody like that, saying how she managed to make herself look and feel 20 years younger just by drinking some fresh lava everyday.
Flight control computers don't use general purpose OSes like Windows or Linux or OS X. Typically they either write the code on the bare metal of the box or they might have some RTOS like WindRiver VxWorks or QNX. These are single purpose computers. It's not like the pilot's going to be playing Solitaire or Minesweeper on the Flight Console.
To think that the DMCA defenders would actually change their minds over this is ridiculous. T
Is it? John McCain is one the DMCA's staunchest defenders and has been even more so since courting the current U.S. Olympic Chair Throwing Gold Medalist Steve Ballmer to be on his cabinet.
True, but it's still 14 out of 51 violations, which is 27% of the overall violations. And these 246 cases may prove to be an inadequate sample. I suggest that actual number of violations may actually be *higher*. I have first-hand knowledge of several H1Bs making less than the prevailing wage. In one case, an Oracle DBA and developer here on an H1B was making less than $40k a year. That's just outright egregious considering the amount of knowlege and training are necessary to do the job.
No, no, no. Not union -- GUILD. These are different.
One of the medieval guilds has survived, albeit in a different form than originally. The stone mason's guild, although you might know them better as the Freemasons.
Besides, if he's a developer, he wouldn't be in same guild as the admins. He might, instead, end up in the same union with VB.Net MCSD Windows developers who don't know what a pointer looks like. *shudder* Wait, that's rather worse, isn't it?
Nothing stopping USA IT workers from working for the same wage, or finding another profession.
Bullshit, dumb fuck.
You try supporting a family on the piddly bullshit you pay your H1Bs. You only want to pay people at the lowest wage so YOU can take home a bigger paycheck.
I told you guys the solution already: All IT folk should form into medieval-style guilds. Then, when any employers pull this shit, we get to dump boiling oil on the CEOs.
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Uhm, how, exactly, mods, is this post off-topic?
Star Trek has been one of Paramount's top cash cows for a long time. And they're gonna milk that cow for ever dollar it's worth.
Why don't you try reading the aforementioned Wikipedia article and some of the references at the end of it? Note that the references include Pubmed links.
Bah.
There are rules. Well, mostly. The rules for rec.arts.startrek.* from way back when seem to apply just as well today: if you saw it on the screen, large or small, it's 'canon' -- officially part of the Trek Universe.
Any discrepancies in on-screen material are just blown off as a YATIs -- Yet Another Trek Inconsistency. It's not like a movie and television project that has spanned almost 40 years, 5 television series, about a dozen movies and has had literally hundreds of writers can possibly keep everything consistent. Get over it.
I dunno. Does Netcraft confirm it?
one of the joys of my days is coming here ... and trying to understand the complex world of internet technology and of course the high browed humor here. Which at times takes a rhodes scholar to understand.
The technology or the humor? The humor is simple: just put yourself in the mindset of 14-year-old boy with a fixation on science, technology, and, of course, unattainable women. Once you understand that, people will stop saying things like "you must be new here", which was, honestly, what I was originally going to say. ;)
Your extreme level of geniosity causes me true amazification.
That's why I try, as much as possible, to get API and language reference documentation in a format for offline viewing other than HTML -- if I'm looking up the parameters of, say, a GtkSpinBox callback or the methods of a PyGTK gtk.Assistant object, and I look in a web browser I'm always tempted to load a new tab to someplace like Slashdot. :/
We were all waiting for NT 3.11 for Workgroups. I'm still waiting....
There is always a big reflex of people crying 'psuedo-science' around here whenever they hear about magenetism, especially in relationship to health.
Yeah, magnetic and weak-current electrical stimulation of the brain is definitely cutting-neuroscience and these effects on the brain have been studied for years.
The lesson here: don't judge a book by its cover.
What if I guess it correctly? What if I happened to have worked at the same place? ;) Okay, just tell me, do they have a /8 that begins with 19? ;)
Well, first off, you speak as if Python and .NET are mutually exclusive. They are not. IronPython allows you to do .NET coding but write your code in Python.
But in response to your earlier question -- what's wrong with being Microsoft-specific? Well, you just ensured that your code won't run on a Mac or on a Unix server or workstation. If that's okay for your projects, then there's nothing wrong with being Windows-sepcific.
OTOH, it's possible to write applications in a portable way and still run on Windows.
With Python, for instance, you can have a truly multiplatform application -- whether we're talking desktop GUI code, Web-based or server code or some combination of those. Multiplatform Python GUI applications, whether you use GTK2 or wxWidgets, have the native look-and-feel of the platform, even on Windows and Mac OS X.
And, if you need it, the full Win32 API is, of course, available to Python applications.
*shrug*
But, if you don't need to support other platforms for your projects, then being Microsoft-specific isn't such a bad thing. But it does lock you into a single platform -- and that means being at the mercy of a single-vendor solution.
Yeah...I know. I've done (and once in a while continue to do) some C programming, but these days most of my code is in Python, a language, which, as you mention, pointers are also meaningless.
I was joking ... mostly. .Net mostly sucks because while it's not entirely Microsoft-specific, at this point it may as well be.
Also, hire washed up has-beens for some infomercials: just like synthetic hormone replacements got Suzanne Sommers, you could maybe go dig up Catherine Bach or somebody like that, saying how she managed to make herself look and feel 20 years younger just by drinking some fresh lava everyday.
Flight control computers don't use general purpose OSes like Windows or Linux or OS X. Typically they either write the code on the bare metal of the box or they might have some RTOS like WindRiver VxWorks or QNX. These are single purpose computers. It's not like the pilot's going to be playing Solitaire or Minesweeper on the Flight Console.
To think that the DMCA defenders would actually change their minds over this is ridiculous. T
Is it? John McCain is one the DMCA's staunchest defenders and has been even more so since courting the current U.S. Olympic Chair Throwing Gold Medalist Steve Ballmer to be on his cabinet.
Oh, noes!! How do you know that calculator's ROM wasn't tampered with? Pencil and paper? What if they alter your brain?
(Reductio ad absurdum)
True, but it's still 14 out of 51 violations, which is 27% of the overall violations. And these 246 cases may prove to be an inadequate sample. I suggest that actual number of violations may actually be *higher*. I have first-hand knowledge of several H1Bs making less than the prevailing wage. In one case, an Oracle DBA and developer here on an H1B was making less than $40k a year. That's just outright egregious considering the amount of knowlege and training are necessary to do the job.
No, no, no. Not union -- GUILD. These are different.
One of the medieval guilds has survived, albeit in a different form than originally. The stone mason's guild, although you might know them better as the Freemasons.
Besides, if he's a developer, he wouldn't be in same guild as the admins. He might, instead, end up in the same union with VB.Net MCSD Windows developers who don't know what a pointer looks like. *shudder* Wait, that's rather worse, isn't it?
Nothing stopping USA IT workers from working for the same wage, or finding another profession.
Bullshit, dumb fuck.
You try supporting a family on the piddly bullshit you pay your H1Bs. You only want to pay people at the lowest wage so YOU can take home a bigger paycheck.
Bingo.
Mod parent up. Hit 'em where it counts -- in the pocketbook. You can kick 'em in the testicles, too. It might make you feel better.
I told you guys the solution already: All IT folk should form into medieval-style guilds. Then, when any employers pull this shit, we get to dump boiling oil on the CEOs.
Because speech != beer?
That depends entirely on how much beer you've had. Trust me.
It's not safe to just assume they will be running a standard downloaded version from CPAN.
Why not? Make that a requirement. Then you can compare the MD5 sums on the binaries and libraries with those on the CPAN site.
Write the software in an interpreted language. Then the source code can be inspected and the 'executable' can be guarnteed to match.
Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua -- take your pick. All can run with the GTK toolkit.
The hardware can easily be physically inspected.