This document assumes a working knowledge of Python.
Those of us who are unfamiliar with these {dynamic | scripting | kiddie | hack| toy} languages but curious about the classless way of working are not really helped by this document.
If you go to Suns Java site, they don't say "If you are not familiar with C++/Smalltalk, you might as well fuck off." Similarly Microsofts site for C# doesn't say "Go learn Java, and then find out about GOTO, and you might have a prayer of understanding this."
A good intro with no dependencies will help build momentum for your project.
In everyday things, we make statements based on our opinions, derived from what our senses tell us. For example:
"I do not believe there is life on Mars."
Now you cannot be 100% sure there isn't, because you've never been there. Even if you had been there, how do you know your senses were telling you the truth? You can never be 100% sure of anything like that. When we make a statement like the above, we give a conclusion based on the information available to us.
This is typical everyday reasoning. However, an agnostic will make an exception in the case of God, and say it is irrational to say he does not exist. Some religious people will say you may face damnation, so better safe than sorry.
If an atheist says they believe God does not exist, some agnostics label them extreme, and use phrases like "nearly violent rejection of religion".
I agree that is very wrong to lump agnostics and atheists (or humanists to be precise - many religions don't have a God) into the same category. In fact to see them as two variations of non-believers is a simplification. There is a facet of agnosticism which isn't focused on the existence of God. Rather it is saying "We are mortal. We cannot understand God. You cannot tell me that God wants this that or the other, and neither can your book".
I hope this is thing is free, as in gratis, available at no cost to homebrew programmers. Could be cool in that case, and help it take off, similar to the free SDKs you can get for.NET or Java. Or even better, Visual Studio.NET XNA Edition, just for games (no ASP, ADO etc.), for free.
On a seperate note, can we do something about the colour scheme for game articles? Even reverse video, popular on gaming sites, would be preferable to this.
"They could have just as easily been a covert operation perpetrated by a misguided government agency designed to stoke fear of WMD's in the U.S."
Morally misguided, yes, but very effective. Remember when your elected representatives had to leg it out of the building pronto? This was about the time they might have made civil rights based objections to some new legislation under discussion.
"glocalization"? No, no, a thousand times no!
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Need a Job? Move to India
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Also, this was the age of globalization, and the countries that succeed best at globalization are those that are best at
"glocalization" - taking the best global innovations, styles and practices and melding them with their own culture, so they don't feel overwhelmed. India has been naturally glocalizing for thousands of years.
Argh! Perhaps if they moved all the business jobs to India, the Indian replacements wouldn't try to things like that to the English language.
Well fine, lets all creatovate new words into the language. It does not matter how uglyscusting they sound, or whether a perfectly adequasufficient synonym already exists.
Ergonmically the Vic is useless, too wide to be a screw driver, to hard to open the blades. I managed to wreck the wirecutter part, and parts of the pliers are starting to rust.
I'm not saying you are wrong about the Leatherman, just that I was hoping they were better, and if not, I can save some serious $$$
(Slashdot eats Euro symbols. Take $$$ and divide by ~1.2 to get what I was really trying to express)
For starters, what cop is it modelled on, the one from the Village People? Not suprised that all it does is dance.
So is there are credit card reader for it to accept bribes? So many other optional extras could be made available - black people detection and elimination systems, patronizing voice intonation module, JINI network to allow a gang of them to whale on an unarmed suspect etc.
In the interests of providing a quality experience for our lurkers, you are required to confirm that the following obligatory jokes have been included. You cannot uninstall these jibes from a Slashdot Microsoft story.
a) The stripped down version just alternates between the startup screen and the blue screen. b) In Soviet Russia, WMP uninstalls the OS. c) Step 1: Violate anti-monolopy law. Step 2: Vest stock options. Increase market share to monopoly + 20% Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit. d) The stripped down version limits outbound bandwidth to 5Mbps, when 0wn3d and used as a zombie in a DDOS. e) Aren't Microsoft cool now that they have open sourced their best ever operating system? Like the way IBM aren't evil anymore...
A security hole has been found which may cause the American army to resort to canibalism. While the British are too polite to complain about being shot at, this defect might be enough to cause them to listen to the French.
We've known about this issue for several months, and the person who pointed out the defect will have their home raided and be sued shortly. To rectify the problem, please replace the previous no. 4 with the following:
4. A) Kill an enemy soldier, you eat deluxe rations. B) Kill a British soldier, no food until you accomplish A).
Please restart your war in Syria or Iran to allow these changes to take effect.
"Isn't this article just a nice way of saying that those in "Eastern" cultures can't think for themselves? That they're predisposed to follow orders, and are unsuitable participants in even a quasi-democratic system?
I'd imagine that some east-Asian Slashdotters might take issue with this."
"One could imagine, for instance, contact lenses with displays and miniature computers on them, so that you can experience a virtual tour of a new city as you walk around."
So while you are walking around in the city, you get to see what it looks like. Hmm... Pity you can't do that now.
"If a programmer who's only used Java gets into a C++ project, he'll fsck it up so fast it'll make your head spin."
Exactly. They'll fuck it up. Like a C++ programmer would, only it will take them slightly longer to learn how to shoot themselves in the foot. So don't use C++. Ever.:-)
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Those of us who are unfamiliar with these {dynamic | scripting | kiddie | hack| toy} languages but curious about the classless way of working are not really helped by this document.
If you go to Suns Java site, they don't say "If you are not familiar with C++/Smalltalk, you might as well fuck off."
Similarly Microsofts site for C# doesn't say "Go learn Java, and then find out about GOTO, and you might have a prayer of understanding this."
A good intro with no dependencies will help build momentum for your project.
In everyday things, we make statements based on our opinions, derived from what our senses tell us. For example:
"I do not believe there is life on Mars."
Now you cannot be 100% sure there isn't, because you've never been there. Even if you had been there, how do you know your senses were telling you the truth? You can never be 100% sure of anything like that. When we make a statement like the above, we give a conclusion based on the information available to us.
This is typical everyday reasoning. However, an agnostic will make an exception in the case of God, and say it is irrational to say he does not exist. Some religious people will say you may face damnation, so better safe than sorry.
If an atheist says they believe God does not exist, some agnostics label them extreme, and use phrases like "nearly violent rejection of religion".
I agree that is very wrong to lump agnostics and atheists (or humanists to be precise - many religions don't have a God) into the same category. In fact to see them as two variations of non-believers is a simplification. There is a facet of agnosticism which isn't focused on the existence of God. Rather it is saying "We are mortal. We cannot understand God. You cannot tell me that God wants this that or the other, and neither can your book".
If not, what does it stand for?
.NET or Java. Or even better, Visual Studio.NET XNA Edition, just for games (no ASP, ADO etc.), for free.
I hope this is thing is free, as in gratis, available at no cost to homebrew programmers. Could be cool in that case, and help it take off, similar to the free SDKs you can get for
On a seperate note, can we do something about the colour scheme for game articles? Even reverse video, popular on gaming sites, would be preferable to this.
Good Dog.
Morally misguided, yes, but very effective. Remember when your elected representatives had to leg it out of the building pronto? This was about the time they might have made civil rights based objections to some new legislation under discussion.
Argh! Perhaps if they moved all the business jobs to India, the Indian replacements wouldn't try to things like that to the English language.
Well fine, lets all creatovate new words into the language. It does not matter how uglyscusting they sound, or whether a perfectly adequasufficient synonym already exists.
...and was considering buying a Leatherman.
Ergonmically the Vic is useless, too wide to be a screw driver, to hard to open the blades. I managed to wreck the wirecutter part, and parts of the pliers are starting to rust.
I'm not saying you are wrong about the Leatherman, just that I was hoping they were better, and if not, I can save some serious $$$
(Slashdot eats Euro symbols. Take $$$ and divide by ~1.2 to get what I was really trying to express)For starters, what cop is it modelled on, the one from the Village People? Not suprised that all it does is dance.
So is there are credit card reader for it to accept bribes? So many other optional extras could be made available - black people detection and elimination systems, patronizing voice intonation module, JINI network to allow a gang of them to whale on an unarmed suspect etc.
*Idiomatic Irish variation on an Anglo Saxon word.
In the interests of providing a quality experience for our lurkers, you are required to confirm that the following obligatory jokes have been included.
You cannot uninstall these jibes from a Slashdot Microsoft story.
a) The stripped down version just alternates between the startup screen and the blue screen.
b) In Soviet Russia, WMP uninstalls the OS.
c)
Step 1: Violate anti-monolopy law.
Step 2: Vest stock options. Increase market share to monopoly + 20%
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit.
d) The stripped down version limits outbound bandwidth to 5Mbps, when 0wn3d and used as a zombie in a DDOS.
e) Aren't Microsoft cool now that they have open sourced their best ever operating system? Like the way IBM aren't evil anymore...
And if you are not myopic, you will think you are when you are looking at Casper the Friendly Ghost bustin' a move...
A security hole has been found which may cause the American army to resort to canibalism. While the British are too polite to complain about being shot at, this defect might be enough to cause them to listen to the French.
We've known about this issue for several months, and the person who pointed out the defect will have their home raided and be sued shortly. To rectify the problem, please replace the previous no. 4 with the following:
4. A) Kill an enemy soldier, you eat deluxe rations. B) Kill a British soldier, no food until you accomplish A).
Please restart your war in Syria or Iran to allow these changes to take effect.
1. "You eat when you find the weapons of mass distruction."
...
2. Give them half the rations they need, and then let them fight for it.
3. Food suppositories. Absorb nutrients rectally. Call them MRTSUYA - Meals Ready to Shove
4. A) Kill an enemy soldier, you eat. B) Kill a British soldier, no food until you accomplish A).
5. The soldiers get to vote on when they eat, but the votes are gathered electronically. Which is "secure", as we know.
1. O.k. tune up the 4th and 5th strings...
2. What the?
3. Goto 1.
4. Profit!!!
pseudocode compiler: Warning, unreachable code.
Is this a stereotype of us? I was not aware of it. Let's see:
...
...
Number of countries Ireland has invaded in the 1000 years:
Gimme a minute here, I'm looking it up...
Zero.
Number of countries USA has invaded sinces its inception:
Oh, crap. It'll take a while to write these up...
Oh, and I doubt the number of homicides in Northern Ireland every matched say N.Y.C or other big US cities.
Well, if you tell them to, they will.
Allah means "the God".
Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups, or in this case the grandmother on the fathers side of ignoring religions of millions of people in Asia.
Which OS has killed or resulted in the decline of more Unices: Windows or Linux?
What do they think will bring about this decline?
"Microsoft's response, of course, is that consumers should steer clear."
'Nuff said.
"I got sick of my friends' and relatives' asking me to help them configure their home computers. I installed SuSE for them ..."
So did they ever bother you again?
...without falling off. Headline: "Robot smarter than U.S. President - Scientists predict they will surpass humans within 100 years".
"One could imagine, for instance, contact lenses with displays and miniature computers on them, so that you can experience a virtual tour of a new city as you walk around."
So while you are walking around in the city, you get to see what it looks like. Hmm... Pity you can't do that now.
The nanobots harvest materials from around them to make more nanobots and then gather even more materials to make a ruler long enough...
"If a programmer who's only used Java gets into a C++ project, he'll fsck it up so fast it'll make your head spin."
:-)
Exactly. They'll fuck it up. Like a C++ programmer would, only it will take them slightly longer to learn how to shoot themselves in the foot. So don't use C++. Ever.