That one survived for more than 1000 years. So yes, I think it's reasonable to assume that a company can survive, or at the very least, can ensure the safety of uhm... yourself. Just ensure that a legally binding contract ensures that you'll be kept for X amount of time. It's happened before. Guinness has a lease on its brewery for several thousand years. A contract like this can ensure that buyers of the company you originally signed up with will keep you going.
However, I agree with most everything else you said. I'm just saying... your second point is invalid.
Taking your breath away is an emotional response to some art. Other art can make you feel sad, depressed, angry, happy, giddy, naughty, indifferent, enlightened, etc.
Art is kind of like a custom communication protocol. It conveys a message from creator to consumer.
"Oh look, dogs playing poker, that's cute!" "Why thank you, I did intend it to look cute. This was in my head and I wanted to explain it to you, thank you for understanding what I was trying to say."
See how that works and why you're oh so wrong?
Video games are similar. But with video games, there are several different aspects to the art, level design, story writing, music, even gameplay, that are usually spearheaded by a select few, and developed by many. The junior developers could be regarded as tools, much a kin to a paintbrush, that are used to create a tangible representation of the imagination of the story director.
Your idea that art has to make the consumer feel "breathless" is certainly a bizarre and strange opinion.
While the telcos are exaggerating the scenario with too many people using up too much bandwidth, that doesn't mean it can't / won't happen. The telco's should be laying down new cables, but that infrastructure exists in their country only. At some point, that country will saturate the bandwidth of the undersea cables.
So yeah, this is part of the overall picture for better speeds.
America funded Iraq's war against Iran and now America is at Iran's borders.
Soviets tried to take over Afghanistan, and are now acting aggressively again.
Pakistan is nuclear armed and Sunni while Iran is Shia. Iran got to see what happens when the two clash in Iraq.
Israel is nuclear armed and has openly expressed their desire to unilaterally attack Iran.
Geez, I can't for a second think why they would want to build nuclear weapons. I think the Iranians are smart enough to understand the real purpose for nukes: deterrence. And with those four points above, I think Iran has a lot to deter.
Sanctions won't do anything, and military action will only make other countries in the region think that maybe Iran had a point all along and they should get some deterrence of their own.
Just as an interesting thought: you could consider the complex rhythms of keyboard shortcuts to be a programming language on its own.
You could be amazed at how much you can do before reaching for the mouse, just through the keyboard shortcuts of most major GUI applications. Windows Vista made this even easier with their little "Search for application" in the start menu:
Super -> "Editplus" -> Tab -> Enter -> Alt-D -> "P" -> "P" -> Enter -> Start coding in PHP with proper syntax highlighting -> Ctrl-S -> "filename.php" -> Enter
In Windows, I have created a php script file using my personal favorite windows editor without once reaching for my mouse.
But yes, this isn't creating a layout, but you can effectively create a box and manipulate it in 3D Studio Max without reaching for the mouse. In the Hammer map editor for the Source game engine, manipulation of objects is not necessarily 100% mouse free, but you can greatly limit the use of the mouse with keyboard shortcuts.
Numerous examples exist of applications that are as keyboard centric as they are mouse centric across all operating systems.
Every company I've worked for has knowingly released software despite KNOWING there are bugs. That's just the nature of the business. Get every single major bug fixed, bring low priority bugs down to a minimum and release. Open source or not, this is how it works. Sometimes the new features of a new version is more important than making sure a particular button in the UI is properly translated in the different languages you support. It's still a bug, and it was KNOWINGLY SHIPPED with that bug, but it wasn't worth the effort.
Sue happy lawyers will one day know what it's like when I litigate my foot up their ass.
No it's not. It's a big drain on business. That's why alcohol was legalized again, it brought in more money for more people and businesses then prohibiting it.
#1) It can happen anywhere, but it should never happen in an age-restricted venue. You should be completely free of guilt because you should assume that anyone in an age-restricted venue is an "adult". That is simply not the case.
#2) The bar didn't serve the minor, you paid for it, the bar served you and then you passed it on to a minor, and in this scenario, you did so for free.
I'll support this decision when the laws concerning kids change.
Here are two dangerous scenarios, both of which take place in an age-restricted venue.
#1) You go home with the cute girl. You don't worry about this person's age since the legal age of the venue is 18 (Quebec), 19 (rest of Canada), or 21 (USA). Well, turns out you were wrong, and now you're a branded sex offender for life. Your only recourse is to sue the bar to oblivion for not doing its job filtering out the kids, forcing the bar to start being more strict, including scanning IDs.
#2) You just got paid, feeling generous, go out to a bar, vibe is good and everyone is having a fun time. Your table of friends somehow merges with another table of strangers and everyone is getting along. So, you buy shots of vodka for everyone in celebration of such a great night. Only then, the police do a spot check on the bar, find out you bought alcohol for a minor, and get thrown in jail. Your only recourse is to sue the bar to oblivion for not doing its job filtering out the kids, forcing the bar to start being more strict, including scanning IDs.
When you're in an age restricted venue, that does not allow you to be innocent when you do something that somehow "violates" a minor that's also in the same venue. When the laws that facilitate this "guilt" change, then maybe I'll care a little more about the "privacy implications" of a bouncer being able to truly verify the age of an incoming customer.
The Source engine is a great engine and the results frankly impress me a lot more than Unreal engine. Bioshock was an incredible game, but the look and feel of HL2 and it's subsequent episodes/tech demos were far more impressive visually.
Not only that, but the Source engine is painfully easy to mod and is supported by a company that goes out of its way to encourage third party developers to use it.
Frankly I'm disappointed that Source was not mentioned here.
Until Adobe and Steinberg and Native Instruments and EA and Valve and id Software and M-Audio and Boss and Tascam and Alesis and Mackie and Blizzard all start to support Linux development, Linux will never be a viable alternative.
Linux is a great OS for basic stuff. That's why it makes a lot of gains in netbooks, because that's a computer for simple stuff. Beyond that, where are the games? the multimedia production? driver support?
Let me be clear, this is not the fault of Linux, this is the fault of third parties. But until those third parties see a valid reason for porting their software and hardware drivers to work with Linux, it can't ever be a fully viable alternative to Windows.
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Well actually that's what the SPL extension aims to achieve.
The backslash name separator looks awful to me, although I've always found PHP code kind of garish with all the dollar signs and curly braces. Although it's at least readable compared to some perl I've seen!
Looking at the "what's new" list I see the cool new feature of php archives..phar files are zips or tarballs that can be included all at once in your program. Seeing that brings up something I've always struggled with in PHP. When should one use "include," "include_once," "require," or "require_once?" Seems like include normally just inserts the included file into the current source code as if it was there to begin with, no? I guess in the past without namespaces that's probably what most people needed most of the time. And after converting my development wholesale to python with it's inherent namespaces (which are really just singleton objects bound to a local name), it seems like PHP's system is a bit convoluted.
In a nicely made OOP application, you should never have to explicitly use require/include and instead use a class autoloader.
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__construct() is a magic method, just like __get(), __set(), __destruct(), __isset(), __toString(), so on and so forth. Magic methods are called without the programmer having to call them, under specific circumstances. In the case of __construct(), it's called when an object is instantiated. '__' defines a magic method and was chosen back in the day because PHP didn't have protected/private members and so the common practice was to prefix private/protected members with one underscore.
PHP was a solution to Perl, so -> is what Perl uses so that's what PHP uses.
The function naming is not so much an issue either. But what is frustrating is argument order. That's something that really needs to be revamped, backwards compatibility be damned.
I wouldn't hold Pidgin up to the same pedestal as Apache... I use XFCE as my preferred desktop, and went as far as to install parts of KDE so that I could use Kopete over Pidgin. On a Netbook... Pidgin sucks *that* much. Seriously. Try using some of the alternatives, and you'll see how badly designed its interface is, and how limited its features really are.
how many features do you need? I think that's WHY I like Pidgin. It has nothing that I personally would consider fluff.
But it's always fun to try something new so what alternatives would you recommend?
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Symbian is an open source OS
iPhone is pretty open after jail breaking it
So no, Windows Mobile is not the lesser evil.
Watch Tron and realize you're asking for trouble
The Hudson Bay Company lasted that long. 339 years and still going actually.
But there are many other companies that have existed for much longer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi
That one survived for more than 1000 years. So yes, I think it's reasonable to assume that a company can survive, or at the very least, can ensure the safety of uhm... yourself. Just ensure that a legally binding contract ensures that you'll be kept for X amount of time. It's happened before. Guinness has a lease on its brewery for several thousand years. A contract like this can ensure that buyers of the company you originally signed up with will keep you going.
However, I agree with most everything else you said. I'm just saying... your second point is invalid.
That is very wrong.
Taking your breath away is an emotional response to some art. Other art can make you feel sad, depressed, angry, happy, giddy, naughty, indifferent, enlightened, etc.
Art is kind of like a custom communication protocol. It conveys a message from creator to consumer.
"Oh look, dogs playing poker, that's cute!"
"Why thank you, I did intend it to look cute. This was in my head and I wanted to explain it to you, thank you for understanding what I was trying to say."
See how that works and why you're oh so wrong?
Video games are similar. But with video games, there are several different aspects to the art, level design, story writing, music, even gameplay, that are usually spearheaded by a select few, and developed by many. The junior developers could be regarded as tools, much a kin to a paintbrush, that are used to create a tangible representation of the imagination of the story director.
Your idea that art has to make the consumer feel "breathless" is certainly a bizarre and strange opinion.
Wow, I wasn't aware there was such an extensive transcontinental cable system in 1901: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png
While the telcos are exaggerating the scenario with too many people using up too much bandwidth, that doesn't mean it can't / won't happen. The telco's should be laying down new cables, but that infrastructure exists in their country only. At some point, that country will saturate the bandwidth of the undersea cables.
So yeah, this is part of the overall picture for better speeds.
America funded Iraq's war against Iran and now America is at Iran's borders.
Soviets tried to take over Afghanistan, and are now acting aggressively again.
Pakistan is nuclear armed and Sunni while Iran is Shia. Iran got to see what happens when the two clash in Iraq.
Israel is nuclear armed and has openly expressed their desire to unilaterally attack Iran.
Geez, I can't for a second think why they would want to build nuclear weapons. I think the Iranians are smart enough to understand the real purpose for nukes: deterrence. And with those four points above, I think Iran has a lot to deter.
Sanctions won't do anything, and military action will only make other countries in the region think that maybe Iran had a point all along and they should get some deterrence of their own.
So you know, good luck with all of that...
Just as an interesting thought: you could consider the complex rhythms of keyboard shortcuts to be a programming language on its own.
You could be amazed at how much you can do before reaching for the mouse, just through the keyboard shortcuts of most major GUI applications. Windows Vista made this even easier with their little "Search for application" in the start menu:
Super -> "Editplus" -> Tab -> Enter -> Alt-D -> "P" -> "P" -> Enter -> Start coding in PHP with proper syntax highlighting -> Ctrl-S -> "filename.php" -> Enter
In Windows, I have created a php script file using my personal favorite windows editor without once reaching for my mouse.
But yes, this isn't creating a layout, but you can effectively create a box and manipulate it in 3D Studio Max without reaching for the mouse. In the Hammer map editor for the Source game engine, manipulation of objects is not necessarily 100% mouse free, but you can greatly limit the use of the mouse with keyboard shortcuts.
Numerous examples exist of applications that are as keyboard centric as they are mouse centric across all operating systems.
10% off (10 days left) all pharmaceutical products (bombs), including viagra (dirty bomb) to help make your lover scream with pleasure (explode).
10 days left till dirty bombs explode! EVERYBODY PANIC
I've never owned a mac, but was thinking of getting a macbook in the future. Are OSX upgrades free?
Every company I've worked for has knowingly released software despite KNOWING there are bugs. That's just the nature of the business. Get every single major bug fixed, bring low priority bugs down to a minimum and release. Open source or not, this is how it works. Sometimes the new features of a new version is more important than making sure a particular button in the UI is properly translated in the different languages you support. It's still a bug, and it was KNOWINGLY SHIPPED with that bug, but it wasn't worth the effort.
Sue happy lawyers will one day know what it's like when I litigate my foot up their ass.
I feel super cool with angel dust, I don't think I'll switch.
No it's not. It's a big drain on business. That's why alcohol was legalized again, it brought in more money for more people and businesses then prohibiting it.
APAFIA
#1) It can happen anywhere, but it should never happen in an age-restricted venue. You should be completely free of guilt because you should assume that anyone in an age-restricted venue is an "adult". That is simply not the case.
#2) The bar didn't serve the minor, you paid for it, the bar served you and then you passed it on to a minor, and in this scenario, you did so for free.
I'll support this decision when the laws concerning kids change.
Here are two dangerous scenarios, both of which take place in an age-restricted venue.
#1) You go home with the cute girl. You don't worry about this person's age since the legal age of the venue is 18 (Quebec), 19 (rest of Canada), or 21 (USA). Well, turns out you were wrong, and now you're a branded sex offender for life. Your only recourse is to sue the bar to oblivion for not doing its job filtering out the kids, forcing the bar to start being more strict, including scanning IDs.
#2) You just got paid, feeling generous, go out to a bar, vibe is good and everyone is having a fun time. Your table of friends somehow merges with another table of strangers and everyone is getting along. So, you buy shots of vodka for everyone in celebration of such a great night. Only then, the police do a spot check on the bar, find out you bought alcohol for a minor, and get thrown in jail. Your only recourse is to sue the bar to oblivion for not doing its job filtering out the kids, forcing the bar to start being more strict, including scanning IDs.
When you're in an age restricted venue, that does not allow you to be innocent when you do something that somehow "violates" a minor that's also in the same venue. When the laws that facilitate this "guilt" change, then maybe I'll care a little more about the "privacy implications" of a bouncer being able to truly verify the age of an incoming customer.
send up a noah ark-esque mission to the nearest solar system and back.
yeah, enough people are trying to alright. It's already slashdotted.
...if it helps continue the death of IE6
The Source engine is a great engine and the results frankly impress me a lot more than Unreal engine. Bioshock was an incredible game, but the look and feel of HL2 and it's subsequent episodes/tech demos were far more impressive visually.
Not only that, but the Source engine is painfully easy to mod and is supported by a company that goes out of its way to encourage third party developers to use it.
Frankly I'm disappointed that Source was not mentioned here.
Until Adobe and Steinberg and Native Instruments and EA and Valve and id Software and M-Audio and Boss and Tascam and Alesis and Mackie and Blizzard all start to support Linux development, Linux will never be a viable alternative.
Linux is a great OS for basic stuff. That's why it makes a lot of gains in netbooks, because that's a computer for simple stuff. Beyond that, where are the games? the multimedia production? driver support?
Let me be clear, this is not the fault of Linux, this is the fault of third parties. But until those third parties see a valid reason for porting their software and hardware drivers to work with Linux, it can't ever be a fully viable alternative to Windows.
Well actually that's what the SPL extension aims to achieve.
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/intro.spl-types.php
If you want a stronger typed language, this is your solution.
The backslash name separator looks awful to me, although I've always found PHP code kind of garish with all the dollar signs and curly braces. Although it's at least readable compared to some perl I've seen!
Looking at the "what's new" list I see the cool new feature of php archives. .phar files are zips or tarballs that can be included all at once in your program. Seeing that brings up something I've always struggled with in PHP. When should one use "include," "include_once," "require," or "require_once?" Seems like include normally just inserts the included file into the current source code as if it was there to begin with, no? I guess in the past without namespaces that's probably what most people needed most of the time. And after converting my development wholesale to python with it's inherent namespaces (which are really just singleton objects bound to a local name), it seems like PHP's system is a bit convoluted.
In a nicely made OOP application, you should never have to explicitly use require/include and instead use a class autoloader.
__construct() is a magic method, just like __get(), __set(), __destruct(), __isset(), __toString(), so on and so forth. Magic methods are called without the programmer having to call them, under specific circumstances. In the case of __construct(), it's called when an object is instantiated. '__' defines a magic method and was chosen back in the day because PHP didn't have protected/private members and so the common practice was to prefix private/protected members with one underscore.
PHP was a solution to Perl, so -> is what Perl uses so that's what PHP uses.
The function naming is not so much an issue either. But what is frustrating is argument order. That's something that really needs to be revamped, backwards compatibility be damned.
I wouldn't hold Pidgin up to the same pedestal as Apache... I use XFCE as my preferred desktop, and went as far as to install parts of KDE so that I could use Kopete over Pidgin. On a Netbook... Pidgin sucks *that* much. Seriously. Try using some of the alternatives, and you'll see how badly designed its interface is, and how limited its features really are.
how many features do you need? I think that's WHY I like Pidgin. It has nothing that I personally would consider fluff.
But it's always fun to try something new so what alternatives would you recommend?