Or do you not write code for a living? My money is on "no".
You'd be wrong.
As to Python being "better" than Perl - it depends on what you want. Is English cleaner than other languages? No, yet everyone speaks English if they want to get things done, pretty much.
If you have to read 6 books and 200 columns to learn a language, then the language is a fucking mess, and should be abandoned to the scrapheap of history.
Took me a lot more than that to learn English as a small child (Go Dogs Go!) or French, German, and Latin later on.
Are you saying we should be speaking grunts and clicks instead? Or should we just use binary and nod our heads and shake them?
It's a poor programmer who blames his lack of skill with using tools on the tools themselves.
While I tend to prefer the camel series, it's not unusual to crack open a perl book and try to find a chapter that actually tells you how to do something - and then find that it's nigh unreadable.
So, given that it's based on fairly readable columns, this would still be a useful book.
Now if I can just figure out why the warnings spit out when I refer to a hash table result as the input to a hash table, saying it's an uninitialized value when, in fact, that value has been initialized, then I might be able to run things thru Perl with the -w flag more often.
I see some issues here. How many politicians "game the system", yet have never played D&D? Ted Kennedy probably never played, but he's one of the masters, you have to be if you can drive drunk, drown a girl and not lose your licence and face a few year's hard time like he should have. The same goes for car salespeople. Lawyers.
Who is this Ted Kennedy? Is he someone in the Bush White House? Yeah, I can see how if he's one of them he'd be of questionable moral and ethical character.
Me and a bunch of friends were some of the original game add-on designers at SFU for AD&D (heck, I've still got stuff that Gary Gygax signed, and a bunch of the original versions of the books), and I ended up holding a SECRET clearance in the Canadian Armed Forces.
I suggest that this stunt will result in a 1D4 roll for self-inflicted damage to the Isreali Army, as RPG players are frequently better able to compartmentalize information learned with a higher classification and only release that which is appropriate, as well as how to deal with semi-conflicting rules sets to preserve the intention of security.
But, hey, what do I know - I was only Acting Security Officer for the whole Pacific Region...
Is Blogger an instance of class Journalist?
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It's more likely that certain bloggers are members of the class Journalist, but many are not.
Thus, even though many journalists aren't bloggers, and many bloggers aren't journalists, there are some journalists who are bloggers - but may or may not practice journalism in their blogs, and some bloggers who may practice journalism in their blogs.
For example, let's say that I had been a journalist at one time (true, in my days at SFU and Capilano College), but never maintained a blog then (even though I was on the Net). Just because I posted some stuff on an online journal and contributed news to a friend's blog, doens't mean that I'm a journalist now. More of a news distributor, or perhaps a columnist or opinion writer, really. But not entitled to be considered an active journalist.
This doesn't preclude some bloggers from being journalists in every sense of the word - there is no size requirement on the number of staff for a media outlet. But professionalism is something sorely lacking, even if one had a journalism degree.
He'd say bloggin is more like posting screeds on the town bulletin board and hanging a pencil by a string next to them with lots of blank pages to write in.
Blogging can be journalism, but it almost never is. Just because you print out 20 copies of your fanzine and give them to your friends at school doesn't make you an editor or publisher. I base that on my publishing magazines which are stored in the Library of Congress, of course.
Seriously, though, the advantage of continual renewal and open source is that people can check in and out when they have time and/or energy, and yet the system always has sufficient resources to handle the continual attacks.
It's almost as bad as the media recording market share of desktops by sales price or net profit, instead of by boxen or instances of OS. Linux will never win those battles, because it's too darned inexpensive in comparison, yet the magazines and their websites only care about the potential advertising revenue, so they focus on who has the bucks to pay for ads.
Exactly, you lived there during an age in which you were more busy playing video games or getting drunk than participating in politics.
Strange, I seem to remember I was very active in politics, designed role-playing games, and had actively served in the Canadian Armed Forces (Army) for seven years... but, I guess you must know more about my life than I do.
First, Canadians have the Electronic Privacy Act, as well as constitutional protections against a lot of the ideas in the article.
Second, there's no link to the bill, and anyone can say anything they want in a newspaper or opinion piece, because Canadians have something so sorely missing in the USA, aka Freedom of the Press [caveat - unless it's an article disparaging a certain person who owns most of their newspapers].
Third, while Canucks may tend not to fuss once something becomes law, they DEFINITELY do not just roll over when a government tries to impose things on them. The first use of the railways and machine guns was to put down the Riel rebellion. And they have had way more protests - and successful ones - than we have here in the USA.
But, hey, what do I know, I only lived there from the age of 13 to 29...
I recall the Wifi band is somewhere around 2.4GHz, which also happens to be the band absorbed by water. You know... like in your microwave oven... wave absorption heats the water, hence the "cooking".
Radiation is the square of the distance from the emitter. More likely the barrista will get cooked than a customer with less exposure, unless they put the 802.11s devices outside the coffee area, or embed them in the fake wood supports for the coffee place.
You act as if humans were made of 98 percent water... don't you trust the FDA and FCC...
After all, this new standard will solve all our problems and stay around so long that it's worth paying $500 extra for something that will cost $0 extra in just 18 months...
seriously, I'm way more interested in shelling out for a 1 Gigabyte external HD ($89) for a laptop than for this.
I heard they were going to use Open Office, but realized it would sound kind of silly if they had to redact something under the Official Imperial Secrets Act (or whatever Homeland Insecurity "law" that is).
Just think about it: "Today, the Department of Homeland Insecurity released two of the Open Office pages that had been decided to be Uber Secret Condition Chartreuse Level on grounds it made Emperor Nero look silly."
It's only here in the third-world nation of the USA that it's a problem.
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As I said, just because I know why a warning is kicked out doesn't mean it's not incredibly annoying.
replace -w with the use strict; use warnings; combo (or add even use diagnostics;)
If you disagree with the Perl warnings: print to see what happens, or better: use Data::Dumper; and do a print Dumper $var;
I know why it gives that warning, but it's just annoying. My point is that, by definition, it isn't undefined, it's just a poor warning.
I'm assuming Bean Town's WiFi will be called Bean Net, or maybe Bean WiFi.
Givin that, won't it be great fun to read about the latest gang cruising around in their warganging initiation?
Or do you not write code for a living? My money is on "no".
You'd be wrong.
As to Python being "better" than Perl - it depends on what you want. Is English cleaner than other languages? No, yet everyone speaks English if they want to get things done, pretty much.
If you have to read 6 books and 200 columns to learn a language, then the language is a fucking mess, and should be abandoned to the scrapheap of history.
Took me a lot more than that to learn English as a small child (Go Dogs Go!) or French, German, and Latin later on.
Are you saying we should be speaking grunts and clicks instead? Or should we just use binary and nod our heads and shake them?
It's a poor programmer who blames his lack of skill with using tools on the tools themselves.
While I tend to prefer the camel series, it's not unusual to crack open a perl book and try to find a chapter that actually tells you how to do something - and then find that it's nigh unreadable.
So, given that it's based on fairly readable columns, this would still be a useful book.
Now if I can just figure out why the warnings spit out when I refer to a hash table result as the input to a hash table, saying it's an uninitialized value when, in fact, that value has been initialized, then I might be able to run things thru Perl with the -w flag more often.
After all, if they can just not admit people who hack their admissions web pages, the problem doesn't exist, right?
... couldn't be that they should just fix the code, could it?
Right?
Um, how come Zaphod Beeblebrox just graduated from Harvard
The same applies to the French firm.
I see some issues here. How many politicians "game the system", yet have never played D&D? Ted Kennedy probably never played, but he's one of the masters, you have to be if you can drive drunk, drown a girl and not lose your licence and face a few year's hard time like he should have. The same goes for car salespeople. Lawyers.
Who is this Ted Kennedy? Is he someone in the Bush White House? Yeah, I can see how if he's one of them he'd be of questionable moral and ethical character.
Me and a bunch of friends were some of the original game add-on designers at SFU for AD&D (heck, I've still got stuff that Gary Gygax signed, and a bunch of the original versions of the books), and I ended up holding a SECRET clearance in the Canadian Armed Forces.
...
I suggest that this stunt will result in a 1D4 roll for self-inflicted damage to the Isreali Army, as RPG players are frequently better able to compartmentalize information learned with a higher classification and only release that which is appropriate, as well as how to deal with semi-conflicting rules sets to preserve the intention of security.
But, hey, what do I know - I was only Acting Security Officer for the whole Pacific Region
It's more likely that certain bloggers are members of the class Journalist, but many are not.
Thus, even though many journalists aren't bloggers, and many bloggers aren't journalists, there are some journalists who are bloggers - but may or may not practice journalism in their blogs, and some bloggers who may practice journalism in their blogs.
For example, let's say that I had been a journalist at one time (true, in my days at SFU and Capilano College), but never maintained a blog then (even though I was on the Net). Just because I posted some stuff on an online journal and contributed news to a friend's blog, doens't mean that I'm a journalist now. More of a news distributor, or perhaps a columnist or opinion writer, really. But not entitled to be considered an active journalist.
This doesn't preclude some bloggers from being journalists in every sense of the word - there is no size requirement on the number of staff for a media outlet. But professionalism is something sorely lacking, even if one had a journalism degree.
doesn't make them the press.
Just as saying Iraq had WMD didn't mean there ever were any. In point of fact, there weren't.
The White House could say Mars was made of Red Cheese, but it would still just be a rusty planet, lacking cheese.
He'd say bloggin is more like posting screeds on the town bulletin board and hanging a pencil by a string next to them with lots of blank pages to write in.
Blogging can be journalism, but it almost never is. Just because you print out 20 copies of your fanzine and give them to your friends at school doesn't make you an editor or publisher. I base that on my publishing magazines which are stored in the Library of Congress, of course.
makes your process run at ring 0.
Seriously, though, the advantage of continual renewal and open source is that people can check in and out when they have time and/or energy, and yet the system always has sufficient resources to handle the continual attacks.
It's almost as bad as the media recording market share of desktops by sales price or net profit, instead of by boxen or instances of OS. Linux will never win those battles, because it's too darned inexpensive in comparison, yet the magazines and their websites only care about the potential advertising revenue, so they focus on who has the bucks to pay for ads.
For god's sake, I still see Clippy and Bob jokes here--five years after they stopped being either funny or applicable.
Clippy never died. He just got less annoying. I use the MSFT Office Professional and have the World instead of Clippy and have it on quiet mode.
But it's still there.
And Clippy's still annoying. I don't think he's trying to kill off Linux, but I wouldn't put it past the little b.gg.r.
doesn't make them enemies.
Just very very very hostile.
after all, they might have to code at home.
Exactly, you lived there during an age in which you were more busy playing video games or getting drunk than participating in politics.
... but, I guess you must know more about my life than I do.
Strange, I seem to remember I was very active in politics, designed role-playing games, and had actively served in the Canadian Armed Forces (Army) for seven years
Canada has the Internet?? Weird, eh
Yeah, they use it to hew wood, eh?
Want to buy some? Oops, sorry, you can't, the US won't let you.
First, Canadians have the Electronic Privacy Act, as well as constitutional protections against a lot of the ideas in the article.
...
Second, there's no link to the bill, and anyone can say anything they want in a newspaper or opinion piece, because Canadians have something so sorely missing in the USA, aka Freedom of the Press [caveat - unless it's an article disparaging a certain person who owns most of their newspapers].
Third, while Canucks may tend not to fuss once something becomes law, they DEFINITELY do not just roll over when a government tries to impose things on them. The first use of the railways and machine guns was to put down the Riel rebellion. And they have had way more protests - and successful ones - than we have here in the USA.
But, hey, what do I know, I only lived there from the age of 13 to 29
I recall the Wifi band is somewhere around 2.4GHz, which also happens to be the band absorbed by water. You know... like in your microwave oven... wave absorption heats the water, hence the "cooking".
... don't you trust the FDA and FCC ...
Radiation is the square of the distance from the emitter. More likely the barrista will get cooked than a customer with less exposure, unless they put the 802.11s devices outside the coffee area, or embed them in the fake wood supports for the coffee place.
You act as if humans were made of 98 percent water
After all, this new standard will solve all our problems and stay around so long that it's worth paying $500 extra for something that will cost $0 extra in just 18 months ...
seriously, I'm way more interested in shelling out for a 1 Gigabyte external HD ($89) for a laptop than for this.
But not the Dixie Chicks.
Well, of course not.
I heard they were going to use Open Office, but realized it would sound kind of silly if they had to redact something under the Official Imperial Secrets Act (or whatever Homeland Insecurity "law" that is).
Just think about it: "Today, the Department of Homeland Insecurity released two of the Open Office pages that had been decided to be Uber Secret Condition Chartreuse Level on grounds it made Emperor Nero look silly."
is that most of the Homeland Insecurity guys like Country music instead.
Provided you live in Japan, China, or the EU.
It's only here in the third-world nation of the USA that it's a problem.
Just think of all the fab bubonic plaque carrier tattoos you can adorn your Sim with, while learning useful skills like Retch and Die and Group Infection Hug.