Ha! She'd be watching Judge Judy in a single-wide somewhere in tornado alley with five kids from six different fathers, drawing SSI (and flies) and smoking a carton of camels a day.
"A media server (which will take up more than a book shelf's worth of space)"
Huh? What, are you running one of those IBM T-Rexes or something? My media server takes up less space than all of the CDs I took out of their cases, ripped, and put in one of those CD Albums. Heck, your "media server" could be a USB hard drive that takes up as much space as a half-dozen CDs.
Your point about it being good to have the CDs around is one I agree with, but not because of proof of legal possession. With CDs, you don't have to make backups, plus liner notes are cool to have. I like to read the band's notes, credits, etc. You can learn a lot from those. The digital booklets you get from some albums on iTunes are ok, but not quite the same.
I agree with you and another poster that it's nice to buy something tangible as opposed to...well, files. If the album contains mostly all good songs, I'll gladly buy the CD (and if you know where to look, you can find new CDs cheaper than the downloads.) Trouble is, how many bands these days put out entire CDs worth of good songs? Only a few I can think of. Which is one reason why iTunes is such a good thing.
Ha, you saw the same thing I did. It was the beards, man. The beards. THE BEARDS, I TELL YOU!!!
I also laughed at the one guy "you're like walkin down the street man, and you're like, dodgin cell phone signals!" Dodging cell phone signals, huh? As if!
except that the barrier to space exploration is much higher than the barrier to floating on the ocean. Any moron crazy enough to try could string together some logs and sail about anywhere (not saying it's wise or advisable...merely possible.) You cannot say the same thing about space exploration.
"Many are making a killing off the non-killing part." Most players in the "war industry" are just suckling at the teat of the US taxpayers. I have a friend who works for a government contractor. Evidently, the DOD will not pay for a project without adequate research. Sounds reasonable, right? Well, there are a lot of companies that do endless R&D (on our dime, that is) with little intention of developing a product. It's a gravy train, and if you want a sure thing get on it. GP is right. Military waste isn't legendary for nothing. The military-industrial complex doesn't create wealth. Not at all to diminish the ARPANET and the fine folks who developed it, but I think inventions/discoveries of that magnitude are historical inevitabilities.
If space exploration remains just another front for some possible war / muscle flexing contest, man won't make it out of the solar system. If someone were interested in space exploration for the purpose of learning and expanding our reach (as opposed to winning pissing contests with other nations) then the very first step in that direction is not more space exploration. It is learning how to get along with each other, because cooperation is the only way we'd be able to do it. For now, we are so stupid and backwards and we'll never get anywhere but vaporized if we follow our present course.
ironically, the reason Hawking can to say that is that mankind tends to put short term economics before the big picture. If we put long term survival and sustainability ahead of short term profit, we wouldn't have to look to space for long term survival.
That book is very light on theory, though. But it will get you building things. A good site for very basic electronic theory is http://allaboutcircuits.com./
Parent discusses music related electronics. The original question didn't mention music related anything, but if by chance you ARE interested...http://funwithtubes.net/ is great. Just finished building my first vacuum tube guitar amp, and it sounds GREAT. I had no idea how to do this stuff, just did a lot of reading and learning. The two sites I linked above were tremendous resources. And I got more, so if anyone is interested I'll provide them.
It's about reducing your footprint. If a town generates as much electricity (in an environmentally friendly fashion) as they consume, then their electricity usage footprint is zero. Doesn't matter who uses the actual electricity generated via wind. It's that much less the Callaway nuclear plant, or worse still, some coal plant has to generate.
Maybe the summary overstates it a bit if you want to be anal-retentive, but this is an interesting story nonetheless. And we all know that being anal retentive just leaves you full of crap.
Stop right here. The rest of this discussion is a mobius strip of really bad jokes using titles of the few Peter Gabriel hits as gags. There are literally more than 50 Shock the Monkey jokes in here.
Don't say you weren't warned before continuing on in this discussion. Run while you can!
I use AJAX all the time. Firebug is an essential tool for me. It is probably one of my most important web dev tools. You can see all server requests. Even if you don't do AJAX, that is useful. Also, the inspect option on Firebug allows you to make CSS changes without committing to the server. Without Firebug, I'd never be able to have the same insight into my pages.
YSlow is worthless for me. Where I work, I do web development on the intranet. I do not configure the servers, and don't really even have the ability to do so. On the other end, any stuff I might do on the internet will most likely be hosted by some hosting company. Many of the things that YSlow flags are server config items, not *code* items. Sure, that has its place, but if you are a web developer (not a SA) then YSlow gives you a bunch of useless info, then a low grade if your servers are configured a certain way. Ironically, it comes from Yahoo, the masters of the bloated web page. Come to think of it, I should probably get around to uninstalling it instead of just leaving it disabled.
"and since then have moved into an operations role" Operations is dead end, at least where I work. I do web development, but we are nestled within operations. We have an amazing shrinking budget and things like promotions are nigh impossible. Getting a piece of software is nearly impossible if it costs any real money. Why? We are in operations. Operations is a commodity and an expense, or at least is viewed as such by upper management.
"Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news." Meh. Changing text on a page seldom involves much markup. It's not like you are designing a layout, after all. Just adding, removing, or changing text. Maybe a <p> tag here and there. Not a big deal.
Plus, consider the fact that markup isn't new to newspaper folks. Markup has been used by newspapers for ages for formatting text for the printer. Markup is part of the vernacular for newspaper folks.
If you do any web development, then you have templates and so on to make your job easier. I'd bet these guys just pull a template, insert content, and add paragraphs and headers as needed. No time at all.
Depends. Coding something like C# is a bummer when you have to include all the crap the IDE writes for you. The IDE is actually very good, let it do it's thing with writing all of the class instantiation for forms and whatnot. Write your application logic and leave that crap to the IDE.
As for web code, IMO you are a poser if you use an IDE for anything than syntax highlighting while you write code by hand. I have never seen an IDE that writes clean code. And often said code is not cross browser, and if it is, then it's done in the ugliest possible way. Sure, many folks wall say that it doesn't matter. Those folks are called "consultants", you know, the guys who claim they can do anything and then proceed to kludge together crap and then leave others to support it. Don't be one of those. Code written by an IDE is practically unmaintainable, and is written in such a way that minor browser changes can break it. I am talking about stuff like user-agent string sniffing and the like. Utter crap, and it sounds like you know how to do it the right way anyway.
I write web pages with lots of javascript and ajax, valid html and xhtml, and written with php or coldfusion or a little ASP (not proud of coldfusion, but alas...) I don't use an IDE for any of it, and would actually be hindered by using one. I'd rather learn a programming language, and not some IDE. I use jEdit as my "IDE", so I have all kinds of powerful text manipulation tools and my knowledge of the language. And it works great!
Of course, some IDE jockey will reply to this with venom. But I guarantee I understand how my program works better than said IDE jockey, and that pays dividends if there are ever problems or changes that need to be made which are beyond the scope of an IDE. If you are a professional, you can code by hand.
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Don't thank me. I do it for the people!
"Britney would be soccer-mom with 3 kids"
Ha! She'd be watching Judge Judy in a single-wide somewhere in tornado alley with five kids from six different fathers, drawing SSI (and flies) and smoking a carton of camels a day.
Soccer mom! As if!
"A media server (which will take up more than a book shelf's worth of space)"
Huh? What, are you running one of those IBM T-Rexes or something? My media server takes up less space than all of the CDs I took out of their cases, ripped, and put in one of those CD Albums. Heck, your "media server" could be a USB hard drive that takes up as much space as a half-dozen CDs.
Your point about it being good to have the CDs around is one I agree with, but not because of proof of legal possession. With CDs, you don't have to make backups, plus liner notes are cool to have. I like to read the band's notes, credits, etc. You can learn a lot from those. The digital booklets you get from some albums on iTunes are ok, but not quite the same.
I agree with you and another poster that it's nice to buy something tangible as opposed to...well, files. If the album contains mostly all good songs, I'll gladly buy the CD (and if you know where to look, you can find new CDs cheaper than the downloads.) Trouble is, how many bands these days put out entire CDs worth of good songs? Only a few I can think of. Which is one reason why iTunes is such a good thing.
And where you have banana scientists, you are sure to find banana protectors!
Ha, you saw the same thing I did. It was the beards, man. The beards. THE BEARDS, I TELL YOU!!!
I also laughed at the one guy "you're like walkin down the street man, and you're like, dodgin cell phone signals!" Dodging cell phone signals, huh? As if!
Fixed that for you.
Can you fly now, too?
The worst part about eating vegetables is what to do with the wheelchairs afterward.
I am just aghast at the fact that it took this far in the discussion for someone to mention IE as the worst piece of shi...er...I mean software ever.
except that the barrier to space exploration is much higher than the barrier to floating on the ocean. Any moron crazy enough to try could string together some logs and sail about anywhere (not saying it's wise or advisable...merely possible.) You cannot say the same thing about space exploration.
"Many are making a killing off the non-killing part."
Most players in the "war industry" are just suckling at the teat of the US taxpayers. I have a friend who works for a government contractor. Evidently, the DOD will not pay for a project without adequate research. Sounds reasonable, right? Well, there are a lot of companies that do endless R&D (on our dime, that is) with little intention of developing a product. It's a gravy train, and if you want a sure thing get on it. GP is right. Military waste isn't legendary for nothing. The military-industrial complex doesn't create wealth. Not at all to diminish the ARPANET and the fine folks who developed it, but I think inventions/discoveries of that magnitude are historical inevitabilities.
If space exploration remains just another front for some possible war / muscle flexing contest, man won't make it out of the solar system. If someone were interested in space exploration for the purpose of learning and expanding our reach (as opposed to winning pissing contests with other nations) then the very first step in that direction is not more space exploration. It is learning how to get along with each other, because cooperation is the only way we'd be able to do it. For now, we are so stupid and backwards and we'll never get anywhere but vaporized if we follow our present course.
ironically, the reason Hawking can to say that is that mankind tends to put short term economics before the big picture. If we put long term survival and sustainability ahead of short term profit, we wouldn't have to look to space for long term survival.
dangit, that link is bad, I put a . at the end of it. You'll figure it out, though, as the rest is correct. Sorry for being a retard this AM.
+1 on EPfM.
That book is very light on theory, though. But it will get you building things. A good site for very basic electronic theory is http://allaboutcircuits.com./
Parent discusses music related electronics. The original question didn't mention music related anything, but if by chance you ARE interested...http://funwithtubes.net/ is great. Just finished building my first vacuum tube guitar amp, and it sounds GREAT. I had no idea how to do this stuff, just did a lot of reading and learning. The two sites I linked above were tremendous resources. And I got more, so if anyone is interested I'll provide them.
It's about reducing your footprint. If a town generates as much electricity (in an environmentally friendly fashion) as they consume, then their electricity usage footprint is zero. Doesn't matter who uses the actual electricity generated via wind. It's that much less the Callaway nuclear plant, or worse still, some coal plant has to generate.
Maybe the summary overstates it a bit if you want to be anal-retentive, but this is an interesting story nonetheless. And we all know that being anal retentive just leaves you full of crap.
Stop right here. The rest of this discussion is a mobius strip of really bad jokes using titles of the few Peter Gabriel hits as gags. There are literally more than 50 Shock the Monkey jokes in here.
Don't say you weren't warned before continuing on in this discussion. Run while you can!
Yes...so let him stay! Why on earth are a bunch of linux geeks trying to *fix* MSFT?
I use AJAX all the time. Firebug is an essential tool for me. It is probably one of my most important web dev tools. You can see all server requests. Even if you don't do AJAX, that is useful. Also, the inspect option on Firebug allows you to make CSS changes without committing to the server. Without Firebug, I'd never be able to have the same insight into my pages.
YSlow is worthless for me. Where I work, I do web development on the intranet. I do not configure the servers, and don't really even have the ability to do so. On the other end, any stuff I might do on the internet will most likely be hosted by some hosting company. Many of the things that YSlow flags are server config items, not *code* items. Sure, that has its place, but if you are a web developer (not a SA) then YSlow gives you a bunch of useless info, then a low grade if your servers are configured a certain way. Ironically, it comes from Yahoo, the masters of the bloated web page. Come to think of it, I should probably get around to uninstalling it instead of just leaving it disabled.
"and since then have moved into an operations role"
Operations is dead end, at least where I work. I do web development, but we are nestled within operations. We have an amazing shrinking budget and things like promotions are nigh impossible. Getting a piece of software is nearly impossible if it costs any real money. Why? We are in operations. Operations is a commodity and an expense, or at least is viewed as such by upper management.
It was internet cleanup day. The white house, unfortunately, forgot to disconnect their network from the internet.
"Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news."
Meh. Changing text on a page seldom involves much markup. It's not like you are designing a layout, after all. Just adding, removing, or changing text. Maybe a <p> tag here and there. Not a big deal.
Plus, consider the fact that markup isn't new to newspaper folks. Markup has been used by newspapers for ages for formatting text for the printer. Markup is part of the vernacular for newspaper folks.
If you do any web development, then you have templates and so on to make your job easier. I'd bet these guys just pull a template, insert content, and add paragraphs and headers as needed. No time at all.
Dreamweaver loses...again.
Depends. Coding something like C# is a bummer when you have to include all the crap the IDE writes for you. The IDE is actually very good, let it do it's thing with writing all of the class instantiation for forms and whatnot. Write your application logic and leave that crap to the IDE.
As for web code, IMO you are a poser if you use an IDE for anything than syntax highlighting while you write code by hand. I have never seen an IDE that writes clean code. And often said code is not cross browser, and if it is, then it's done in the ugliest possible way. Sure, many folks wall say that it doesn't matter. Those folks are called "consultants", you know, the guys who claim they can do anything and then proceed to kludge together crap and then leave others to support it. Don't be one of those. Code written by an IDE is practically unmaintainable, and is written in such a way that minor browser changes can break it. I am talking about stuff like user-agent string sniffing and the like. Utter crap, and it sounds like you know how to do it the right way anyway.
I write web pages with lots of javascript and ajax, valid html and xhtml, and written with php or coldfusion or a little ASP (not proud of coldfusion, but alas...) I don't use an IDE for any of it, and would actually be hindered by using one. I'd rather learn a programming language, and not some IDE. I use jEdit as my "IDE", so I have all kinds of powerful text manipulation tools and my knowledge of the language. And it works great!
Of course, some IDE jockey will reply to this with venom. But I guarantee I understand how my program works better than said IDE jockey, and that pays dividends if there are ever problems or changes that need to be made which are beyond the scope of an IDE. If you are a professional, you can code by hand.
hey, go easy on him! At least he took a stab at it!
heh, good thing you didn't spoon with him!