Easy answer: Cost. You're not understanding the other side if you think their goal is wanting more pollution, more shitty water, more shitty air, more shitty soil. There's a cost associated with being greener. If you offer me the choice between two products, one that's polluting, one that's green as grass, and the cost is the roughly the same, absolutely I'll choose the greener one. However, if I have to pay a 50% premium to save the environment, then I'm sorry, but given the economic state we're in, I'm probably going to choose the cheaper one. So here's your assignment: find ways to produce things, do things, etc, that are both greener AND cheaper. You do that, and the whole discussion becomes moot, because everyone will be on your side.
I'd push this even further. If I can't return AFTER I buy, I don't buy. Too often, the try before you buy amounts to a demo that amounts to a movie trailer - all the decent content compressed down into a few minutes. With just about every other product on the market, if you buy something and determine it's crap, you can just return it. If that happens with a game... well, sorry, but you're screwed. Game publishers need to institute return policies. Yes, some people will absolutely take advantage of them and return just about everything. On the flip side though, you're boosting sales numbers by quite a bit, a good number of those WON'T return the game as long as it's decent quality, and even if they do return it, you still got to hold onto their cash for a month or so (free loan) with virtually no cost.
Or could it be that they're not robots? They're human beings like everyone else. They need a break sometimes. There are diminishing returns when you work long hours over and over without a break. Congress is dumb enough. We don't need them making even dumber decisions because they're sleep deprived. Besides, the best kind of Congress is one that's on vacation. The fewer the new laws passed, the better this country runs.
I'm willing to improve myself and prove to a company why I'm worth more to them than an outsourced worker. If they don't see that value, I'll find someone who does. Jobs aren't a right. They're a contract between two willing parties. If you're not worth any more than an Indian worker, then why should an employer hire you?
1. When you declare the array, you pass the upper bound of the array, not the length. Take two seconds to read the language syntax, and it clearly states this. These are zero-based arrays, so the upper bound of an array of 5 elements would be 4. No, it's not the same as Java or C++, but that's because it's NOT Java or C++ style syntax. If you want that, use C#. As far as your claim of "something - 2" being all over the place, I've never once used anything like that, and I've also never seen it in use. There'd be no reason for it. Arrays are zero-based, just like most other common languages, so just like them, you'll still use "something - 1". Don't blame poor code on the language. Blame it on the poor programmer.
2. Once again, this is a problem with poor programmers, not the language. "And" and "Or" are the bitwise operators, equivalent to C#'s "&" and "|". "AndAlso" and "OrElse" are the logical operators, equivalent to "&&" and "||". I fail to see how the difference between "&" and "&&" is magically clearer than the difference between "And" and "AndAlso". If you can't remember the difference, than print up a cheat sheet.
By no means am I claiming VB.Net is perfect, because it definitely has some kludges, but at least pick legitimate ones.
Wait, so nerds can't care about politics? When did that happen? Dang, guess I'll have to stop voting now.
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That's the first thing I thought as well. C'mon, this is slashdot. If it says ATM in the title, we sure as heck better be talking about the network protocol. It's news for NERDS.
Here's where that doesn't quite work though. The record companies have been trying to pound it into our heads for years that we're not buying a song, we're buying a license to listen to that song. If that's the case, then we should ALREADY have the right to listen to a higher quality encoded version of the song. Yes, I'm well aware that the record companies will say that you only purchased a license to listen to that specific lower-quality encoding of the song, but let's be honest, that's pure crap. Quit re-selling us the same stuff we already purchased! If there's some huge cost associated with re-formatting the material, then fine, charge a nominal fee. But in this case, the files were most likely encoded at higher bit-rates long ago.
Where the hell are you getting this "it might mess with your unprotected media" crap. If your media is unprotected, you can use whatever media player you want to play it, and Vista won't care one little bit. If there's no DRM on the file, Vista DOES NOT MESS WITH IT. Period. End of story. Unless you have some evidence to the contrary, quit spreading this FUD.
Dell laptops will actually do this. However, you have to buy a docking station, and you're only going to get digital on one of the outputs. If you're willing to lay down cash for two 21" LCDs, the $100 or so for the dock isn't much. The docking stations (at least the one I have) support simultaneous output to one VGA screen and one DVI-D screen. The docking station is just plain nice to have if you use a Dell laptop for work anyway, so if you're looking for this setup, it's well worth the money.
Buy the Home Depot brand CFLs (Commercial Electric). Replaced just about every bulb in my house with them, and the color temperature is almost identical to a regular bulb. When I tried this a couple of years ago with harsher ones, my wife immediately noticed and complained till I changed them back. With the Home Depot ones, it took her a full week to notice, and only did because she was looking up to turn down the ceiling fan.
As a bonus, some Home Depot stores sell 6-packs of these for about $9.00, putting the average cost per bulb at only $1.50, MUCH cheaper than you can find them elsewhere.
Who said anything about a wireless card? Try buying a new laptop nowadays without integrated wireless. Go on. I dare you. I'm sure you can find one eventually, but it'll take you a while. No one wants to buy a seperate card just for wireless anymore. Things are moving exactly the way they moved with regular wired ethernet... everything integrated on the motherboard. True, it won't kill NICs completely, because people will always want to upgrade to the newer, better, and faster, and it's a good bit easier to install a card than it is to get a new motherboard. The NIC is, however, slowly getting less and less relevant.
Everyone copies everyone. Microsoft copies Apple copies Linux copies Microsoft copies... you get the picture. If they want to be successful, they really have no choice. Consumers see a great new feature in one OS, they're going to start whining that theirs doesn't have it. So whoever writes that OS has to grit their teeth, suck it up, and copy that feature. Or alternatively, they can find a way to implement the feature in a way that's so much better, that whoever introduced it first is forced to turn around and copy THEM.
Copying is great for the consumer because it means we'll pretty much all get those snazzy features sooner or later. And if we don't, we'll just move on to whatever's better at the moment. Hooray for copycats!
It's 2006. Not 2005. Paul's article was not written a week ago, it was written a YEAR ago. Since then, the IE7 team has done a lot of work to improve their compliance with standards. It's not going to change the fact that I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole, but that's because I just love Firefox way too much to ever use anything else.
Let's be fair here and not criticize IE7 based on a year-old article that's talking about beta 1. If you've got gripes with beta 3's problems (which it does indeed have), then by all means, gripe away.
"The FBI agent said the agency would not release any more information about the arrest, and that the information was sealed until Monday when Rambam is expected to make an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. I've got a call in to his attorney and will update this post if I hear anything new. The scuttlebutt here at the conference is that Rambam may have located someone who was in the FBI's witness protection program, but I have not been able to verify that rumor at all."
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They're probably just pissed that they didn't think of it first.
So they invented oars?
Easy answer: Cost. You're not understanding the other side if you think their goal is wanting more pollution, more shitty water, more shitty air, more shitty soil. There's a cost associated with being greener. If you offer me the choice between two products, one that's polluting, one that's green as grass, and the cost is the roughly the same, absolutely I'll choose the greener one. However, if I have to pay a 50% premium to save the environment, then I'm sorry, but given the economic state we're in, I'm probably going to choose the cheaper one. So here's your assignment: find ways to produce things, do things, etc, that are both greener AND cheaper. You do that, and the whole discussion becomes moot, because everyone will be on your side.
I'd push this even further. If I can't return AFTER I buy, I don't buy. Too often, the try before you buy amounts to a demo that amounts to a movie trailer - all the decent content compressed down into a few minutes. With just about every other product on the market, if you buy something and determine it's crap, you can just return it. If that happens with a game... well, sorry, but you're screwed. Game publishers need to institute return policies. Yes, some people will absolutely take advantage of them and return just about everything. On the flip side though, you're boosting sales numbers by quite a bit, a good number of those WON'T return the game as long as it's decent quality, and even if they do return it, you still got to hold onto their cash for a month or so (free loan) with virtually no cost.
There will also never be proof that the Easter Bunny does not exist.
Or could it be that they're not robots? They're human beings like everyone else. They need a break sometimes. There are diminishing returns when you work long hours over and over without a break. Congress is dumb enough. We don't need them making even dumber decisions because they're sleep deprived. Besides, the best kind of Congress is one that's on vacation. The fewer the new laws passed, the better this country runs.
Then become your own boss and hire the other guy.
I'm willing to improve myself and prove to a company why I'm worth more to them than an outsourced worker. If they don't see that value, I'll find someone who does. Jobs aren't a right. They're a contract between two willing parties. If you're not worth any more than an Indian worker, then why should an employer hire you?
1. When you declare the array, you pass the upper bound of the array, not the length. Take two seconds to read the language syntax, and it clearly states this. These are zero-based arrays, so the upper bound of an array of 5 elements would be 4. No, it's not the same as Java or C++, but that's because it's NOT Java or C++ style syntax. If you want that, use C#. As far as your claim of "something - 2" being all over the place, I've never once used anything like that, and I've also never seen it in use. There'd be no reason for it. Arrays are zero-based, just like most other common languages, so just like them, you'll still use "something - 1". Don't blame poor code on the language. Blame it on the poor programmer.
2. Once again, this is a problem with poor programmers, not the language. "And" and "Or" are the bitwise operators, equivalent to C#'s "&" and "|". "AndAlso" and "OrElse" are the logical operators, equivalent to "&&" and "||". I fail to see how the difference between "&" and "&&" is magically clearer than the difference between "And" and "AndAlso". If you can't remember the difference, than print up a cheat sheet.
By no means am I claiming VB.Net is perfect, because it definitely has some kludges, but at least pick legitimate ones.
I'm ambivalent.
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And let's face it, nothing will create an erection problem like a panty liner full of crumbs.
Wait, so nerds can't care about politics? When did that happen? Dang, guess I'll have to stop voting now.
That's the first thing I thought as well. C'mon, this is slashdot. If it says ATM in the title, we sure as heck better be talking about the network protocol. It's news for NERDS.
Now you've gone and pissed off the Librarian.
Folks, I'd keep a careful distance if I were you. Hell hath no fury like an enraged orangutan.
Here's where that doesn't quite work though. The record companies have been trying to pound it into our heads for years that we're not buying a song, we're buying a license to listen to that song. If that's the case, then we should ALREADY have the right to listen to a higher quality encoded version of the song. Yes, I'm well aware that the record companies will say that you only purchased a license to listen to that specific lower-quality encoding of the song, but let's be honest, that's pure crap. Quit re-selling us the same stuff we already purchased! If there's some huge cost associated with re-formatting the material, then fine, charge a nominal fee. But in this case, the files were most likely encoded at higher bit-rates long ago.
Start tagging stories with these insipid, pointless questions tacked on the end as "stupidquestion".
<sq>Will they finally get the point?</sq>
Where the hell are you getting this "it might mess with your unprotected media" crap. If your media is unprotected, you can use whatever media player you want to play it, and Vista won't care one little bit. If there's no DRM on the file, Vista DOES NOT MESS WITH IT. Period. End of story. Unless you have some evidence to the contrary, quit spreading this FUD.
Use VLC. No codecs to install. Plays just about any video format out there, and plays them well.
Dell laptops will actually do this. However, you have to buy a docking station, and you're only going to get digital on one of the outputs. If you're willing to lay down cash for two 21" LCDs, the $100 or so for the dock isn't much. The docking stations (at least the one I have) support simultaneous output to one VGA screen and one DVI-D screen. The docking station is just plain nice to have if you use a Dell laptop for work anyway, so if you're looking for this setup, it's well worth the money.
Buy the Home Depot brand CFLs (Commercial Electric). Replaced just about every bulb in my house with them, and the color temperature is almost identical to a regular bulb. When I tried this a couple of years ago with harsher ones, my wife immediately noticed and complained till I changed them back. With the Home Depot ones, it took her a full week to notice, and only did because she was looking up to turn down the ceiling fan.
As a bonus, some Home Depot stores sell 6-packs of these for about $9.00, putting the average cost per bulb at only $1.50, MUCH cheaper than you can find them elsewhere.
Who said anything about a wireless card? Try buying a new laptop nowadays without integrated wireless. Go on. I dare you. I'm sure you can find one eventually, but it'll take you a while. No one wants to buy a seperate card just for wireless anymore. Things are moving exactly the way they moved with regular wired ethernet... everything integrated on the motherboard. True, it won't kill NICs completely, because people will always want to upgrade to the newer, better, and faster, and it's a good bit easier to install a card than it is to get a new motherboard. The NIC is, however, slowly getting less and less relevant.
Everyone copies everyone. Microsoft copies Apple copies Linux copies Microsoft copies... you get the picture. If they want to be successful, they really have no choice. Consumers see a great new feature in one OS, they're going to start whining that theirs doesn't have it. So whoever writes that OS has to grit their teeth, suck it up, and copy that feature. Or alternatively, they can find a way to implement the feature in a way that's so much better, that whoever introduced it first is forced to turn around and copy THEM.
Copying is great for the consumer because it means we'll pretty much all get those snazzy features sooner or later. And if we don't, we'll just move on to whatever's better at the moment. Hooray for copycats!
It's 2006. Not 2005. Paul's article was not written a week ago, it was written a YEAR ago. Since then, the IE7 team has done a lot of work to improve their compliance with standards. It's not going to change the fact that I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole, but that's because I just love Firefox way too much to ever use anything else.
Let's be fair here and not criticize IE7 based on a year-old article that's talking about beta 1. If you've got gripes with beta 3's problems (which it does indeed have), then by all means, gripe away.
From BoingBoing:
"The FBI agent said the agency would not release any more information about the arrest, and that the information was sealed until Monday when Rambam is expected to make an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. I've got a call in to his attorney and will update this post if I hear anything new. The scuttlebutt here at the conference is that Rambam may have located someone who was in the FBI's witness protection program, but I have not been able to verify that rumor at all."