No problem. He just need to wait until a reply gets modded up +5 Informative. That's a sure way to guarantee that anything posted on Slashdot will be accurate, with correct precision, and not be filled with crackpot theories, right?
Does the Red Cross symbol even meet the standard for originality? It's been used for a long time by military organizations to denote an on-battlefield hospital, and international treaty prevents the attacking of anything near a white flag with a red cross on it.
I think if they really go to court over it, J+J might stand a chance of losing that trademark, IMHO.
Hate to burst your bubble (because I basically agree with the spirit of your post), but Pascal supports gotos, at the very least all Borland Pascal compilers, Microsoft QuickPascal, FreePascal and gpc all support gotos.
In Python (or Java), you'd do a try...for...break...finally instead of a goto, which is like a restricted goto, but, fortunately, can't be used for arbitrary gotos.
And, yes, another programming language designed since the 1970s supports a GOTO, although it's not a traditional goto, it can cause the same sort of spaghetti code: Perl.:)
What's beautiful code? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I think all instances of goto are ugly. But, then again, I grew up in the days when every kid with a BASIC interpreter thought he was a 'programmer'. I remember horrible, horrrible spaghetti code that used lots and lots of GOTOs. Hell, i even wrote a bunch of code like that. *shudder*
While I do think that the OPs example isn't spaghetti code, the appearance of goto makes me want to wretch.
"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." -- forgot who said it.
You bring up a valid point. This could be an interesting market experiment. How much are people really willing to pay? Unfortunately, due to the MAFIAA's history of price-fixing, we couldn't truly know before. But now we can.
Wicca is a specific religion, and no I've not confused with a broader category of neopaganism. Like I said, above, I'm a initiate of the 2nd Degree in the Georgian Tradition of Wicca. Georgians are a bit more eclectic than Gardnerians or Alexandrians, what I can I say?
No, you're right, sort of. All Gods are viewed as aspects of the God, and all Goddesses are viewed as aspects of the Goddess. However, I personally tend to be more hard-polytheistic, and this is actually acceptable in my tradition.
Isn't it already possible to include proprietary tags in (X)HTML documents, then just use CSS to determine how they are presented (i.e. block level vs inline, positioning, color, etc.)?
Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone that! I was trying to keep it a secret!
P.S. Can Hinduism be disqualified from the religion contest by having thousands of entrants or are we Hindus playing it safe by believing in so many of them?
Not any more than we Wiccans, who believe in all of those thousands of entrants and the ones in every other world culture along with them.;)
You could substitue any nations currency in the world with "U.S. Dollar" and be correct about it no longer being truly backed by gold, and I suppose the rest of your point. On the other hand... the FED has stopped releasing Money Supply figures... hmmm go figure.
And they've been holding interest rates steady, despite the obvious need to lower them to juice up the economy.
Pay attention, people! I believe that the U.S. economy is currently collapsing under its own weight. This collapse should be completed within the next 4 years. This is going to make the Great Depression look like a temporary market correction.
And Linden dollars aren't backed by debt, either? 'Cause if they weren't, why would someone start a bank?
Yes, debt is a commodity of sorts, I suppose. But debt, like Linden dollars, is still virtual, right? If not, post a link to a picture of debt. Point is, there's no physical commodity backing dollars at all. It used to be back by gold, but it's not anymore.
Right. But what would happen if the U.S. dollar no longer had sufficiently high demand? As in, the government printed too much or currency, or everyone said, 'fsck this, U.S. dollars aren't worth nothin' in my book!' Again, it's not backed by another commodity. It used to be backed by gold, but is no longer. BTW, Linden dollars are also of similar 'limited supply', even if they're only virtual. (If you disagree with this, remember that there isn't enough U.S. currency on the planet to cover all of the outstanding U.S. dollars, because that money, too, is virtual!)
No, no. What they're saying is that banks like this (not just Ginko, there are others like it) will have an effect on the economy of the game. Think about it. If there were real banks doing this what effect would it have on the economy? Think 1930s America, because that's almost exactly what happened.
The most interesting part of the article to me, though was this tidbit:
Because the Linden dollar has no commodity backing, he says, the Second Life economy is in danger of crashing when provoked by any sufficient shock.
Now, s/Linden dollar/U.S. dollar/ and s/Second Life/U.S./ and the sentence would still be correct. Go ahead, try it. Read it again. Because the U.S. dollar has no commodity backing...
For the vast majority of new hardware that gets released, do you have any idea how much work has to go into drivers for Linux?
The answer is zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Why? Does the latest 20GB USB pen drive need to have new drivers written for it? No, not if it supports the USB storage device standard. How different are the Epson C84 and the C88? (Hint: not very.) Were new drivers needed to support SATA 2? (Hint: no, the existing SATA 1 worked fine for most chipsets). How many different new gigabit NIC chipsets are there? (Hint: There's Intel's, Broadcom's, VIA's and maybe a couple others and that's about it.)
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No problem. He just need to wait until a reply gets modded up +5 Informative. That's a sure way to guarantee that anything posted on Slashdot will be accurate, with correct precision, and not be filled with crackpot theories, right?
Ewwwww.....
Does the Red Cross symbol even meet the standard for originality? It's been used for a long time by military organizations to denote an on-battlefield hospital, and international treaty prevents the attacking of anything near a white flag with a red cross on it.
I think if they really go to court over it, J+J might stand a chance of losing that trademark, IMHO.
But IANAL.
Hate to burst your bubble (because I basically agree with the spirit of your post), but Pascal supports gotos, at the very least all Borland Pascal compilers, Microsoft QuickPascal, FreePascal and gpc all support gotos.
:)
In Python (or Java), you'd do a try...for...break...finally instead of a goto, which is like a restricted goto, but, fortunately, can't be used for arbitrary gotos.
And, yes, another programming language designed since the 1970s supports a GOTO, although it's not a traditional goto, it can cause the same sort of spaghetti code: Perl.
What's beautiful code? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I think all instances of goto are ugly. But, then again, I grew up in the days when every kid with a BASIC interpreter thought he was a 'programmer'. I remember horrible, horrrible spaghetti code that used lots and lots of GOTOs. Hell, i even wrote a bunch of code like that. *shudder*
While I do think that the OPs example isn't spaghetti code, the appearance of goto makes me want to wretch.
There's a name for that garbage? Well, color me stupid. Learn something new every day.
oops. Need a j++ after 'inner loop'
IOW, for those that need visuals:
i=0;
while (not condition that makes me want to bail) {
j=0;
while (not condition that makes want to bail) {
inner loop
}
outer loop
i++
}
Um, ahem. You might want to take a look at a while { } loop instead
And to think if he posted it on Slashdot, he might've actually gotten a +5 Funny! ;)
"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." -- forgot who said it.
You bring up a valid point. This could be an interesting market experiment. How much are people really willing to pay? Unfortunately, due to the MAFIAA's history of price-fixing, we couldn't truly know before. But now we can.
Wicca is a specific religion, and no I've not confused with a broader category of neopaganism. Like I said, above, I'm a initiate of the 2nd Degree in the Georgian Tradition of Wicca. Georgians are a bit more eclectic than Gardnerians or Alexandrians, what I can I say?
No, you're right, sort of. All Gods are viewed as aspects of the God, and all Goddesses are viewed as aspects of the Goddess. However, I personally tend to be more hard-polytheistic, and this is actually acceptable in my tradition.
Nope. Guess again. I believe it to be started in the 1950s.
Self-proclaimed? I'm a 2nd degree Georgian. My high-priest proclaimed me Wiccan.
If you have faith in the U.S. government, it's certainly misplaced.
Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone that! I was trying to keep it a secret!
Seriously, what's wrong with XHTML and CSS?
Not any more than we Wiccans, who believe in all of those thousands of entrants and the ones in every other world culture along with them.
And they've been holding interest rates steady, despite the obvious need to lower them to juice up the economy.
Pay attention, people! I believe that the U.S. economy is currently collapsing under its own weight. This collapse should be completed within the next 4 years. This is going to make the Great Depression look like a temporary market correction.
And Linden dollars aren't backed by debt, either? 'Cause if they weren't, why would someone start a bank?
Yes, debt is a commodity of sorts, I suppose. But debt, like Linden dollars, is still virtual, right? If not, post a link to a picture of debt. Point is, there's no physical commodity backing dollars at all. It used to be back by gold, but it's not anymore.
Right. But what would happen if the U.S. dollar no longer had sufficiently high demand? As in, the government printed too much or currency, or everyone said, 'fsck this, U.S. dollars aren't worth nothin' in my book!' Again, it's not backed by another commodity. It used to be backed by gold, but is no longer. BTW, Linden dollars are also of similar 'limited supply', even if they're only virtual. (If you disagree with this, remember that there isn't enough U.S. currency on the planet to cover all of the outstanding U.S. dollars, because that money, too, is virtual!)
The most interesting part of the article to me, though was this tidbit:
Now, s/Linden dollar/U.S. dollar/ and s/Second Life/U.S./ and the sentence would still be correct. Go ahead, try it. Read it again. Because the U.S. dollar has no commodity backing...
As if those Canadians and Mexicans were even human! Sheesh!
For the vast majority of new hardware that gets released, do you have any idea how much work has to go into drivers for Linux?
The answer is zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Why? Does the latest 20GB USB pen drive need to have new drivers written for it? No, not if it supports the USB storage device standard. How different are the Epson C84 and the C88? (Hint: not very.) Were new drivers needed to support SATA 2? (Hint: no, the existing SATA 1 worked fine for most chipsets). How many different new gigabit NIC chipsets are there? (Hint: There's Intel's, Broadcom's, VIA's and maybe a couple others and that's about it.)