We should redesign medical equipment and phase out existing medical equipment because we don't want to explain the lack of helium balloons to children? I think your priorities are a little out of whack.
How about we use the helium for the MRIs, and teach children not to expect floating balloons. Balloon animals are a good alternative, if balloons need to be involved at all. I've got four young kids, and they're pretty easy to please.
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First, using the same data structures is fairly easy across multiple languages because the same object-oriented principles usually apply. Second, if you use web services to be consumed across your platforms, you don't need to duplicate business logic in more than one language (you can at least minimize it). Third, you're mentioning three mobile platforms that pretty much require an OO approach in their respective languages (C#, Java, and Objective-C), so why would you throw out the entire approach for the web?
Sure, but all that stuff can be forged. Of course, it would be ridiculous to forge that stuff, wouldn't it? In fact, it seems (to me) almost as ridiculous to falsely claim that one's sister has been sued as it would be to actively falsify evidence. Sure, I wouldn't put any money on that claim being true, but somebody getting stressed out about it to this extent seems kind of sad.
What evidence would you deem sufficient for claiming that one's sister had been sued by the RIAA?
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I can say that it's not just you. LOTS of people are wrong about this.
There are plenty of reasons, but one of the best ones is that "web development" isn't necessarily separate from other development. If you're using the same data structures and operations across multiple targets (web, desktop, mobile), OO is definitely a good idea.
In my defense, it's not technically "advice," because the cinema industry's pricing scheme, which is the subject of this thread, which enforces this "advice's" conditions, could only hurt your chances of getting laid if it were to be overturned.
Movies are popular attractions for dates*. You can take a date to a bad movie, and won't necessarily reflect poorly upon you. But if you take a date to a bad movie because happened to be cheaper than a putative good movie, you're just not getting laid**.
* A social activity with a potential or established romantic goals. ** Sexual intercourse.
You read the entire patent, and didn't see the method? That makes me think you stopped after the abstract. The description of what they're patenting is quite verbose.
If you want to take some nice pictures when you're out doing stuff, and don't want to make a big production of it, the Canon S95 is a great buy right now (less than $300 on Amazon). It's recently-discontinued, and replaced by the S100, but for the money it's really hard to beat. It's got a sensor that's a bit larger than most compact cameras, and has lots of manual control if you really want to learn about photography.
Will you get better pictures with a $500 DSLR? Yeah, no question. Will the DSLR be more responsive? Oh, yes. But if the size of the thing is an issue, you'll get great results with the S95. And you won't be out tons of dough, so you can get the DSLR when you need it.
I've got a Canon G12, which is a similar camera. A little bit longer zoom, a fantastic flip-out screen and a viewfinder, and some other goodies, but it is larger.
Now I want a DSLR, for better creative control, better low-light performance, and better action shots. But I won't ditch the G12. I don't always want to stand out as "that guy" with the bigass camera.
Anyway, check out the S95. Others have mentioned it, but I wanted to emphasize it. Back when I was learning about cameras, I wondered why anyone would pay $420 (as it was at the time) for 3.8x zoom and 10 megapixels when I could get 20x zoom and 14 megapixels for the same price. The thing with lots of zoom is, you need to reduce the sensor size to allow those long focal length lenses to be a reasonable size. I borrowed a Canon "superzoom" for a while, and was dismayed by the image quality. Putting fewer megapixels onto a larger sensor is way better. That, and they put an excellent bit of glass into the S95.
If accident rates for bee trucks are higher than rates in the general trucking industry (which I don't think is established in TFA), it could be because a small number of bees get into the cab during loading, and then emerge to startle the driver en route. Insect distractions are a significant cause of non-commercial auto accidents.
That's certainly my experience. I'm a fairly fast ten-key operator, and I actually went through most of my life without being consciously aware that phones and calculators had different numeric layouts.
I started to notice the difference when I worked in retail about fifteen years ago, and we had a credit card reader. Credit card readers, like ATMs, follow the phone layout (123 at the top). When a magnetic strip was worn, I had to enter the full credit card number into reader, and then part of the credit card number into the POS system, which used a standard computer keyboard. When a single context is split between the two formats, it does get annoying.
The most important programming book for me was Mapping the Commodore 64 by Shelon Leemon. I learned how a computer really worked under the hood. It made working with pointers later much easier. But most of all, it helped stoke the fire.
[Facebook] gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good"
One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you.
Well... at least everyone is looking out for my interests.
I suppose that within a few years, Pastafarianism, or the Church of the FSM, will gain earnest followers whose number will eventually overwhelm the ironic followers. Another ironic religion will need to be established, and fought for, to demonstrate how ridiculous the idea of a Flying Spaghetti Monster really is. The true believers will always chase out the ironic founders. This is what happened with Scientology, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. They all started out as jokes or games, and soon became deadly serious. The Church of the FSM thinks it's so clever, but it's just giving the Ouroboros of credulity more tail to devour. Or something like that.
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We should redesign medical equipment and phase out existing medical equipment because we don't want to explain the lack of helium balloons to children? I think your priorities are a little out of whack.
How about we use the helium for the MRIs, and teach children not to expect floating balloons. Balloon animals are a good alternative, if balloons need to be involved at all. I've got four young kids, and they're pretty easy to please.
...for those of us with evil twins.
First, using the same data structures is fairly easy across multiple languages because the same object-oriented principles usually apply. Second, if you use web services to be consumed across your platforms, you don't need to duplicate business logic in more than one language (you can at least minimize it). Third, you're mentioning three mobile platforms that pretty much require an OO approach in their respective languages (C#, Java, and Objective-C), so why would you throw out the entire approach for the web?
Sure, but all that stuff can be forged. Of course, it would be ridiculous to forge that stuff, wouldn't it? In fact, it seems (to me) almost as ridiculous to falsely claim that one's sister has been sued as it would be to actively falsify evidence. Sure, I wouldn't put any money on that claim being true, but somebody getting stressed out about it to this extent seems kind of sad.
What evidence would you deem sufficient for claiming that one's sister had been sued by the RIAA?
I can say that it's not just you. LOTS of people are wrong about this.
There are plenty of reasons, but one of the best ones is that "web development" isn't necessarily separate from other development. If you're using the same data structures and operations across multiple targets (web, desktop, mobile), OO is definitely a good idea.
In my defense, it's not technically "advice," because the cinema industry's pricing scheme, which is the subject of this thread, which enforces this "advice's" conditions, could only hurt your chances of getting laid if it were to be overturned.
Movies are popular attractions for dates*. You can take a date to a bad movie, and won't necessarily reflect poorly upon you. But if you take a date to a bad movie because happened to be cheaper than a putative good movie, you're just not getting laid**.
* A social activity with a potential or established romantic goals.
** Sexual intercourse.
You should stop coding, too, which would free up more time to do nothing. You'll soon get bored of doing nothing, but that's what TV is for, amiright?
You lost them at "locally."
You read the entire patent, and didn't see the method? That makes me think you stopped after the abstract. The description of what they're patenting is quite verbose.
Does open source software cost Jobs? I mean, he recently died, so my guess would be "no."
> On the other hand, it goes up to ridiculously slow f/5.9 at 120mm zoom, and I'm sure your "good glass" does do a lot better than f/5.9 at 120mm.
Just to clarify, the S95's lens goes to f/4.9 at full telephoto, which is 105mm, not 120mm.
If you want to take some nice pictures when you're out doing stuff, and don't want to make a big production of it, the Canon S95 is a great buy right now (less than $300 on Amazon). It's recently-discontinued, and replaced by the S100, but for the money it's really hard to beat. It's got a sensor that's a bit larger than most compact cameras, and has lots of manual control if you really want to learn about photography.
Will you get better pictures with a $500 DSLR? Yeah, no question. Will the DSLR be more responsive? Oh, yes. But if the size of the thing is an issue, you'll get great results with the S95. And you won't be out tons of dough, so you can get the DSLR when you need it.
I've got a Canon G12, which is a similar camera. A little bit longer zoom, a fantastic flip-out screen and a viewfinder, and some other goodies, but it is larger.
Now I want a DSLR, for better creative control, better low-light performance, and better action shots. But I won't ditch the G12. I don't always want to stand out as "that guy" with the bigass camera.
Anyway, check out the S95. Others have mentioned it, but I wanted to emphasize it. Back when I was learning about cameras, I wondered why anyone would pay $420 (as it was at the time) for 3.8x zoom and 10 megapixels when I could get 20x zoom and 14 megapixels for the same price. The thing with lots of zoom is, you need to reduce the sensor size to allow those long focal length lenses to be a reasonable size. I borrowed a Canon "superzoom" for a while, and was dismayed by the image quality. Putting fewer megapixels onto a larger sensor is way better. That, and they put an excellent bit of glass into the S95.
Pssst... yeah, you. We don't actually READ the articles.
If accident rates for bee trucks are higher than rates in the general trucking industry (which I don't think is established in TFA), it could be because a small number of bees get into the cab during loading, and then emerge to startle the driver en route. Insect distractions are a significant cause of non-commercial auto accidents.
...but I don't think I'd call it "music."
I wish I had mod points for you, sir.
That's certainly my experience. I'm a fairly fast ten-key operator, and I actually went through most of my life without being consciously aware that phones and calculators had different numeric layouts.
I started to notice the difference when I worked in retail about fifteen years ago, and we had a credit card reader. Credit card readers, like ATMs, follow the phone layout (123 at the top). When a magnetic strip was worn, I had to enter the full credit card number into reader, and then part of the credit card number into the POS system, which used a standard computer keyboard. When a single context is split between the two formats, it does get annoying.
The most important programming book for me was Mapping the Commodore 64 by Shelon Leemon. I learned how a computer really worked under the hood. It made working with pointers later much easier. But most of all, it helped stoke the fire.
Allow me to quote the only person to understand the issue:
If I recall, there's some as-yet-unclaimed reward for disproving this. www.timecube.com.
Well... at least everyone is looking out for my interests.
Why, aren't you just adorable!
"Where do you get that?"
It's a piece of information that I thoroughly made up in order to prove a point that doesn't really exist. Nice catch.
I suppose that within a few years, Pastafarianism, or the Church of the FSM, will gain earnest followers whose number will eventually overwhelm the ironic followers. Another ironic religion will need to be established, and fought for, to demonstrate how ridiculous the idea of a Flying Spaghetti Monster really is. The true believers will always chase out the ironic founders. This is what happened with Scientology, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. They all started out as jokes or games, and soon became deadly serious. The Church of the FSM thinks it's so clever, but it's just giving the Ouroboros of credulity more tail to devour. Or something like that.