To be fair he's asking for the "ultimate setup" to further his professional career, not asking for "the ultimate code" to make him a professional.
And not all of us grew up being comfortable with the pencil and paper approach y'know.
Sometimes in functional programing and rapid prototyping a person will want to think in typed code instead of the "plan plan plan and plan and then face the buys" approach, y'know.
besides, if you're going to be helpful at least name some pencils you personally found to be helpful for writing and paper that doesn't smell or smear or get lost.
I'm anything but a hardware girl, so I will add this to parent's advice: A pen or pencil that you are comfortable with paired with a notebook where pages are all bound together is good. Get something with lines as it sometimes encourages non-slanty and non-slacky writing you can't read anymore 3 days later.
maybe it doens't affect you if you don't have relatives or friends or co-workers who in turn know other people from the states. The infiltration of MS and AOL is really deep in the "real" world, y'know.
Just because
you don't happen to use something everyone's heard of doesn't mean it isn't important. Don't you remember the days of your youth when everything other people care about, you care about as well?
leaving the two companies approximately equal partners in the venture,
EQUAL!?
[/hyperventilates]
Does this means that most new computers will be shipped with not only Windows, Explorer, Windows Media, MSN, (etc) but now with AOL crap which is notorious for not being easilly gotten rid of?! GAAH!!!!
imagine if you will: the millions upon millions of MS users who are now ------[dramatic cadence] AOL USERS [Dun Dun DUN!]
I'm actually right in the middle of buying a couple domains for my company, and the red tape after red tape I have to go through to get a bloody.hk!!
Versus the usual 5 minutes to go through with buying a.com. And the coms are MUCH cheaper too, to boot.
And what are people going to remember better? ".com", this new-fangled shiny thing which everyone and their grandmothers are hearing about, or ".hk" which is hardly ever on TV or Newspapers (that most everyone reads).
And don't even get me started on second level domains...
I'm not sure what LJ uses for the "block robots/spiders" option, but google sure ain't respecting that. This is the first personal evidence I have of google indexing for the sake of indexing, and doing Google Justice (TM) in the name of not censoring material.
I only wonder just how useful blog search is. Most of the stuff out there is young people whining about their sad lives that their actual school buddies won't bother reading. There are some good ones out there, but c'mon. When everyone and their grandmothers are allows to blog, there's got to be a lot of trash out there.
Incidentally Google Blog Search seems to leave "private" "friends" and "grouped" blog messages well alone.
judging by the state of the pop music scene, I'd say we are getting closer to being able to make that wonderful song from Big Brother.
And sometimes musical tastes are habit formed anyway. IE: if you listen to a song you don't instantly hate often enough, perhaps because it sounds similar enough to others you keep hearing anyway, you grow to like it somewhat.
sure this sounds like a good thing for recognizing patterns and heck i'll even give it credit for being a possible new Grammar Checker...
But generating new, useful and meaningful content? I think not. For one thing, anything that it can learn from past text is not wholly new, and the material generated will still need *real* human beings to make sense of it, interpret the implications of the data, and decide what to do with it. How is that different from a million monkeys typing on a million type writers? You still need someone to read all those potential texts of Hamlet before you find one that's useful.
And as to meaningful, all I can say is that colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Stuff like this embarrasses me as a Chinese person. Only certain chinese swear words are strong enough to express my sentiments...
This is exactly like "chopping off your toes to avoid the sand worm". "Cutting off a chicken's head doesn't require a beef cleaver" : if they really wanted certain blogs cut off, just cut them off. But Noooo that'll displease the people, so we'll make them sort-of-round-about illegal instead.
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To be fair he's asking for the "ultimate setup" to further his professional career, not asking for "the ultimate code" to make him a professional.
And not all of us grew up being comfortable with the pencil and paper approach y'know.
Sometimes in functional programing and rapid prototyping a person will want to think in typed code instead of the "plan plan plan and plan and then face the buys" approach, y'know.
besides, if you're going to be helpful at least name some pencils you personally found to be helpful for writing and paper that doesn't smell or smear or get lost.
I'm anything but a hardware girl, so I will add this to parent's advice: A pen or pencil that you are comfortable with paired with a notebook where pages are all bound together is good. Get something with lines as it sometimes encourages non-slanty and non-slacky writing you can't read anymore 3 days later.
what are you talking about?! this is the beginning of a golden era! AOL CD's for everyone!!
Oh....wait. nevermind.
maybe it doens't affect you if you don't have relatives or friends or co-workers who in turn know other people from the states. The infiltration of MS and AOL is really deep in the "real" world, y'know.
Just because you don't happen to use something everyone's heard of doesn't mean it isn't important. Don't you remember the days of your youth when everything other people care about, you care about as well?
leaving the two companies approximately equal partners in the venture,
EQUAL!?
[/hyperventilates]
Does this means that most new computers will be shipped with not only Windows, Explorer, Windows Media, MSN, (etc) but now with AOL crap which is notorious for not being easilly gotten rid of?! GAAH!!!!
imagine if you will: the millions upon millions of MS users who are now ------[dramatic cadence] AOL USERS [Dun Dun DUN!]
EXACTLY!
I'm actually right in the middle of buying a couple domains for my company, and the red tape after red tape I have to go through to get a bloody .hk!!
Versus the usual 5 minutes to go through with buying a .com. And the coms are MUCH cheaper too, to boot.
And what are people going to remember better? ".com", this new-fangled shiny thing which everyone and their grandmothers are hearing about, or ".hk" which is hardly ever on TV or Newspapers (that most everyone reads).
And don't even get me started on second level domains...
I'm not sure what LJ uses for the "block robots/spiders" option, but google sure ain't respecting that. This is the first personal evidence I have of google indexing for the sake of indexing, and doing Google Justice (TM) in the name of not censoring material.
I only wonder just how useful blog search is. Most of the stuff out there is young people whining about their sad lives that their actual school buddies won't bother reading. There are some good ones out there, but c'mon. When everyone and their grandmothers are allows to blog, there's got to be a lot of trash out there.
Incidentally Google Blog Search seems to leave "private" "friends" and "grouped" blog messages well alone.
Google is our ally. Google has always been our ally.
Microsoft is the enemy. We have always been at war with Microsoft, and Google is our ally.
judging by the state of the pop music scene, I'd say we are getting closer to being able to make that wonderful song from Big Brother.
And sometimes musical tastes are habit formed anyway. IE: if you listen to a song you don't instantly hate often enough, perhaps because it sounds similar enough to others you keep hearing anyway, you grow to like it somewhat.
sure this sounds like a good thing for recognizing patterns and heck i'll even give it credit for being a possible new Grammar Checker... But generating new, useful and meaningful content? I think not. For one thing, anything that it can learn from past text is not wholly new, and the material generated will still need *real* human beings to make sense of it, interpret the implications of the data, and decide what to do with it. How is that different from a million monkeys typing on a million type writers? You still need someone to read all those potential texts of Hamlet before you find one that's useful. And as to meaningful, all I can say is that colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Stuff like this embarrasses me as a Chinese person. Only certain chinese swear words are strong enough to express my sentiments... This is exactly like "chopping off your toes to avoid the sand worm". "Cutting off a chicken's head doesn't require a beef cleaver" : if they really wanted certain blogs cut off, just cut them off. But Noooo that'll displease the people, so we'll make them sort-of-round-about illegal instead.