Why is it, then, that the two Trek series that people dislike the least are the ones that never had any significant far-reaching story arcs outside of having a certain enemy (Klingons and Romulans in TOS, Romulans and Borg in TNG)?
Am I the only one who thinks this is just a little bit too mundane for the front page? This is supposed to be "stuff that matters", or at least stuff that I wouldn't come across in my daily Internet travels.
I've never had XP bluescreen once when there was no faulty hardware or really shitty drivers. Yeah, it's susceptible to spyware, worms, and trojans, but I don't have trouble with any of that (and I don't have a software firewall or any of that crap) and I'm sure that the same class of users who do pick all that crap up would get just as many bugs biting their machine if any other OS were the most popular desktop OS.
You didn't even mention the "real" farmers. People who raise wheat, so that the rest of us can eat bread and pasta, have $500,000 machines that they use two weeks of the year in their quest to, in a good year, make $20,000.
I bitch about my salary. It's not really that bad, and I come from a long line of farmers and others who worked harder than I do for far less money and less life expectancy. I someday hope to respect myself as much as I respect my grandparents, but that won't happen while I'm in IT.
Keep up the good work - it pays shit but you have to admit you feel good about yourself after an honest long day at work, even if it won't pay the bills.
I think HAL 9000 qualifies as the brains of a robot, since HAL had control of the entire ship, which could be considered its body. But HAL 9000 by itself was definitely a computer.
Another reason for making a character into a robot is because robots can get away with things on TV that humans doing would be censored. Futurama's Bender is a great example of this - he smokes, binge-drinks, pick-pockets frequently, and says things that a human character could never get away with on TV.
Like the 5th-season episode title says, "Bender should not be allowed on TV", but he is.
A "simulator" can be just about anything that pretends to be something else. All neural networks are simulators, as is bochs. Doom is most certainly a simulator, albeit not one based in any significant way on the real world.
Right, because most real people who spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen (behind it? why would you be there for any extended period of time?!?) sometimes step out from their office and spend millions of dollars to get into space for a hobby. Pretty "real" if you ask me.:P
The problem I've had is that I have a solid resume, a lot of skill, and a passion for the field. However, as I received my degree in May of 2003, I don't have more than 5 years of work experience, so I get lumped into the crowd of incompetents who have 2-5 years of experience from the last 90's.
Any rehiring will be of people with 10+ years of paid experience (that's apparently the difference) and of people who more or less invented the technologies required for the job (5+ years C# or 10+ years Java, for example).
Eventually, if you stick it out, you might be able to secure a real job and find the elusive egg to this chicken-and-egg problem. I, for one, have decided that programming is a more interesting hobby than career right now, and have started down the road to providing myself an egg in another field.
I'm not waiting for someone to hand me anything, and after being turned down for or chased away from more than one $90k+ job that I was the leading candidate for in the past 6 months because of my age, I've put myself into high gear down that other road.
You'll note that this article says salaries and budgets are going up. I'm late for work, so I didn't read it to determine if they went up proportionally, but, if they did, don't expect there to be a lot of new job openings - they're just paying the people they already have more as the money comes in from the budget.
I don't see it helping that much. The same idiots who have customized ringtones all go for their phones when any musical ringtone goes off. As an outdoors enthusiast, I keep my ability to locate things that are making sounds pretty well-honed; maybe if other people did, too, they could tell where the ringing phone is located.
Mixins just aren't elegant enough for what I needed, and I also don't know how well Ruby handles inheritance trees like the following (in C++ syntax for greatest audience):
class object; class mobile : object; class container : object;// contains mobiles class mobile_container : mobile, container;// like a box
Lisp handles this better than C++, by far. How do Ruby's mixins stack up?
They're going to the wrong place. The Federal Government can't do anything to limit our free speech (other than "unprotected speech" such as libel, slander, and fraud), but the companies running servers and major routers on the Internet can. It's mostly a privately-run system and your rights and privileges are limited by what those private entities allow; the Feds have no real power over this, thanks to our Constitution.:)
Then try expressing them in clear, correct, and succinct English. (Or any other language, as long as you are clear, correct, and succinct in doing so.)
You misunderstood - I don't install PuTTY, I just download and run from its temporary location the executable. There are exactly three remnants when I'm done: PUTTY.RND in the user's home folder, a registry key storing the host key of my server, and the PuTTY executable file in the temporary internet files directory. Java may provide a cleaner solution, but how does its terminal emulation compare (in terms of speed, beauty, and usability)? I'll probably give it a shot sometime, but I doubt it'll be any better for me than the Java Jabber client I tried to use when on the run for a while.
No, it's hard to argue with an idiot. You haven't proven anything, and I don't care to spend my day trying to prove to you things that you can't understand, especially when you're too afraid of the world to even post under an assumed name online, rather than as an AC.
Nope, no kidding necessary. C++ gives me most of what I want; Lisp just gives me more and in a much less painful form.
There certainly is no perfect language, but so far in my journey into Lisp I have hit fewer snags than I did in any other language I got deep into. It has its shortcomings (why else would Paul Graham be cooking up his own language?), but for the most part it stays out of your way, once you learn it. Lisp syntax is far simpler than anything else, at the very least. (Some exceptions apply, but they can be learned easily enough.)
Scheme is the dialect of Lisp currently best for such mathematical stuff. Lisp itself is a lot more procedural than most people think. It's a multi-paradigm language, you just have to think outside the box to get it. (It's funny - Lispniks have been thinking outside the box since before most people knew there was even a box to think outside of.:P)
Although I won't dispute the power of Haskell and its kin, Lisp's syntax is actually simpler and less ambiguous than Algol-like syntaxes. The parentheses are ugly to most people, yes, but they are not in any way bad syntax. Lisp's syntax is, indeed, much simpler than that of C++, once you see past the parentheses.
You may want to check comp.lang.lisp for copious counterexamples to your assertion that "Lisp is forever slated for obscurity and college kids who think they've found 'the next big thing'".
Saying Lisp is mathematical but not practical is the same as saying Linux is powerful but not useful. You just haven't learned how to use it, yet.
I find it easier to just download putty.exe. Here's my standard procedure when sitting down to a Windows box that isn't mine and needing to get access to my box via ssh:
1. Open IE
2. Address: google.com
3. Search term: putty.exe
4. Click hit #1
5. Click the putty.exe link
6. Click 'Open from current location'
7. Enjoy
I'm picky about terminals - I can't use the Gnome terminal emulator because it's so dang slow. KDE's terminal emulator is much better, although it always takes me several minutes to initially get it configured to what I want and a few more minutes to get it to remember those settings. xterm is really what I use the most.
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Why is it, then, that the two Trek series that people dislike the least are the ones that never had any significant far-reaching story arcs outside of having a certain enemy (Klingons and Romulans in TOS, Romulans and Borg in TNG)?
Am I the only one who thinks this is just a little bit too mundane for the front page? This is supposed to be "stuff that matters", or at least stuff that I wouldn't come across in my daily Internet travels.
I've never had XP bluescreen once when there was no faulty hardware or really shitty drivers. Yeah, it's susceptible to spyware, worms, and trojans, but I don't have trouble with any of that (and I don't have a software firewall or any of that crap) and I'm sure that the same class of users who do pick all that crap up would get just as many bugs biting their machine if any other OS were the most popular desktop OS.
Although the AC sibling to this reply didn't get the joke, I thought it was pretty darn funny. :)
You didn't even mention the "real" farmers. People who raise wheat, so that the rest of us can eat bread and pasta, have $500,000 machines that they use two weeks of the year in their quest to, in a good year, make $20,000.
I bitch about my salary. It's not really that bad, and I come from a long line of farmers and others who worked harder than I do for far less money and less life expectancy. I someday hope to respect myself as much as I respect my grandparents, but that won't happen while I'm in IT.
Keep up the good work - it pays shit but you have to admit you feel good about yourself after an honest long day at work, even if it won't pay the bills.
I think HAL 9000 qualifies as the brains of a robot, since HAL had control of the entire ship, which could be considered its body. But HAL 9000 by itself was definitely a computer.
Another reason for making a character into a robot is because robots can get away with things on TV that humans doing would be censored. Futurama's Bender is a great example of this - he smokes, binge-drinks, pick-pockets frequently, and says things that a human character could never get away with on TV.
Like the 5th-season episode title says, "Bender should not be allowed on TV", but he is.
With my salary and unpaid overtime in IT, I make less than $10 an hour. It's really that bad.
A "simulator" can be just about anything that pretends to be something else. All neural networks are simulators, as is bochs. Doom is most certainly a simulator, albeit not one based in any significant way on the real world.
Right, because most real people who spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen (behind it? why would you be there for any extended period of time?!?) sometimes step out from their office and spend millions of dollars to get into space for a hobby. Pretty "real" if you ask me. :P
The problem I've had is that I have a solid resume, a lot of skill, and a passion for the field. However, as I received my degree in May of 2003, I don't have more than 5 years of work experience, so I get lumped into the crowd of incompetents who have 2-5 years of experience from the last 90's.
Any rehiring will be of people with 10+ years of paid experience (that's apparently the difference) and of people who more or less invented the technologies required for the job (5+ years C# or 10+ years Java, for example).
Eventually, if you stick it out, you might be able to secure a real job and find the elusive egg to this chicken-and-egg problem. I, for one, have decided that programming is a more interesting hobby than career right now, and have started down the road to providing myself an egg in another field.
I'm not waiting for someone to hand me anything, and after being turned down for or chased away from more than one $90k+ job that I was the leading candidate for in the past 6 months because of my age, I've put myself into high gear down that other road.
You'll note that this article says salaries and budgets are going up. I'm late for work, so I didn't read it to determine if they went up proportionally, but, if they did, don't expect there to be a lot of new job openings - they're just paying the people they already have more as the money comes in from the budget.
I don't see it helping that much. The same idiots who have customized ringtones all go for their phones when any musical ringtone goes off. As an outdoors enthusiast, I keep my ability to locate things that are making sounds pretty well-honed; maybe if other people did, too, they could tell where the ringing phone is located.
Mixins just aren't elegant enough for what I needed, and I also don't know how well Ruby handles inheritance trees like the following (in C++ syntax for greatest audience):
// contains mobiles // like a box
class object;
class mobile : object;
class container : object;
class mobile_container : mobile, container;
Lisp handles this better than C++, by far. How do Ruby's mixins stack up?
They're going to the wrong place. The Federal Government can't do anything to limit our free speech (other than "unprotected speech" such as libel, slander, and fraud), but the companies running servers and major routers on the Internet can. It's mostly a privately-run system and your rights and privileges are limited by what those private entities allow; the Feds have no real power over this, thanks to our Constitution. :)
It's more fun to spend a day asking questions than to find out experimentally. :P
Then try expressing them in clear, correct, and succinct English. (Or any other language, as long as you are clear, correct, and succinct in doing so.)
You misunderstood - I don't install PuTTY, I just download and run from its temporary location the executable. There are exactly three remnants when I'm done: PUTTY.RND in the user's home folder, a registry key storing the host key of my server, and the PuTTY executable file in the temporary internet files directory. Java may provide a cleaner solution, but how does its terminal emulation compare (in terms of speed, beauty, and usability)? I'll probably give it a shot sometime, but I doubt it'll be any better for me than the Java Jabber client I tried to use when on the run for a while.
"putty.exe" is shorter to type in, but thanks for saving me a click (in exchange for two tabs).
No, it's hard to argue with an idiot. You haven't proven anything, and I don't care to spend my day trying to prove to you things that you can't understand, especially when you're too afraid of the world to even post under an assumed name online, rather than as an AC.
Your anonymous cowardice is duly noted.
Nope, no kidding necessary. C++ gives me most of what I want; Lisp just gives me more and in a much less painful form.
There certainly is no perfect language, but so far in my journey into Lisp I have hit fewer snags than I did in any other language I got deep into. It has its shortcomings (why else would Paul Graham be cooking up his own language?), but for the most part it stays out of your way, once you learn it. Lisp syntax is far simpler than anything else, at the very least. (Some exceptions apply, but they can be learned easily enough.)
Scheme is the dialect of Lisp currently best for such mathematical stuff. Lisp itself is a lot more procedural than most people think. It's a multi-paradigm language, you just have to think outside the box to get it. (It's funny - Lispniks have been thinking outside the box since before most people knew there was even a box to think outside of. :P)
Although I won't dispute the power of Haskell and its kin, Lisp's syntax is actually simpler and less ambiguous than Algol-like syntaxes. The parentheses are ugly to most people, yes, but they are not in any way bad syntax. Lisp's syntax is, indeed, much simpler than that of C++, once you see past the parentheses.
You may want to check comp.lang.lisp for copious counterexamples to your assertion that "Lisp is forever slated for obscurity and college kids who think they've found 'the next big thing'".
Saying Lisp is mathematical but not practical is the same as saying Linux is powerful but not useful. You just haven't learned how to use it, yet.
I find it easier to just download putty.exe. Here's my standard procedure when sitting down to a Windows box that isn't mine and needing to get access to my box via ssh:
1. Open IE
2. Address: google.com
3. Search term: putty.exe
4. Click hit #1
5. Click the putty.exe link
6. Click 'Open from current location'
7. Enjoy
I'm picky about terminals - I can't use the Gnome terminal emulator because it's so dang slow. KDE's terminal emulator is much better, although it always takes me several minutes to initially get it configured to what I want and a few more minutes to get it to remember those settings. xterm is really what I use the most.