It's not that I'm a leech, it's just that desktop apps aren't my bag, man. What I hated the least about NetBeans is it allowed me to concentrate on coding my code without telling me I had to write plugins or whatever. I don't want a platform or an SDK or anything; I just want a usable text editor that works nicely with a few different types of code. I don't need something that tries to run all my tests and run my dev servers or anything, I want a lightweight editor. Some syntax highlighting options (pluginable, if you must), RegEx search/replace, that's about all I need. I want to use it, I don't want to learn its fucking macro language. Right now I'm using jEdit. I hate it. But I hate it less than I hate vi or emacs.
Chevrolet bribed some ethics-free academics to come up with a fake equation for publicity purposes. The academics took the money and invented a stupid equation per spec. Then Chevrolet issued a press release, and gullible media outlets obligingly reprinted it and discussed it. A victory for Chevrolet's marketing department, a defeat for academic integrity and sensible journalism. Don't be part of these scams.
IE 6 and IE 7 are completely different animals. For most uses, IE 7 is just a bit weird and broken, whereas IE 6 is a complete mutant clusterfuck. It's much easier to support 7 than 6.
I'm with you. My contempt for Heinlein is the reason my Karma here is so terrible -- people are religious about it. He's just awful, offensive, nasty, talentless and boring.
Have you seen the show, and do you know anything of the Civil War and American history in general? It is entirely obvious to anyone with a brain and relevant knowledge that there is a a pro-slaver, pro-south agenda at work here. If you got duped by his window-dressing then you're exactly the sort that Whedon wanted to reach -- gullible idiot nerds who don't know anything about history and will recycle his hateful slaver propaganda for him ad infinitum. You think you're smart, but you can't reliably identify a single thing that happened before "The Trouble With Tribbles" in the real world. You know nothing of history or politics; you just know Heinlein novels and Simpsons quotes. That makes you a perfect useful idiot for filthy racist propagandists like Whedon. You lap this racist filth up and regurgitate it without ever having the faintest clue what you're doing.
"Firefly" is racist, slaver, southern propaganda and if you think otherwise you're deluding yourself. It spells it out in bright, clear letters and the only reason you don't see them is because you don't understand. You know far more about the Romulan Neutral Zone than you do about the real history of the actual world you live in. That makes you a perfect dumb recruit for this kind of thing.
I parted company with Joss Whedon on this one. I can't see "Firefly" as anything other than southern/racist propaganda for the wrong side in the Civil War.
I'm terribly sorry if I've upset some central truth you think exists about Heinlein. Do you enjoy the classic writings of Dan Brown, too? How about Caleb Carr's "Killing Time"? Did you consider that a classic? Because it sucked donkey balls.
If all you read is Honor Harrington, then, sure, Heinlein's probably a genius by comparison. Among literate people who appreciate books and literature in general, rather than science fiction exclusively, I don't think there's anything controversial about my opinion at all. I would say that, in fact, anyone who exalts Heinlein as a serious, quality writer is far, far outside the mainstream, for whatever that's worth.
I find Heinlein's work notable for:
* Leaden, ugly dialogue. * Clichéd, central-casting characters. * Puerile, distasteful attitudes towards women and sexuality. * Convoluted, boring plots. * A nasty, racist political agenda. * A pervading sense that the writer simply doesn't understand people and has never really met any.
You are affronted by my opinion and demand an explanation which I don't believe I owe -- but you're not explaining what is in any way *good* about him. His imagination? Nothing new, ever. Escapades in space ships. Yawn. His characters? Name a few of his characters and illustrate how they represent three-dimensional real people instead of cardboard cut-outs. His narrative? His ear for dialogue? Sorry, no. Of all the basic, fundamental things that writers need to create quality work, he has none of them. The result is ugly, turgid, leaden stupidity enjoyed by people who don't like books.
Compare another SF writer of a broadly similar vintage. Jack Vance is no Nobel winner, but he lightly sketches out ambitious fantasty settings, and creates characters like Cugel: a conflicted, complex anti-hero who retains some of our sympathies despite committing appalling atrocities. Vance is not a great writer, but he has an infinite amount more talent than Heinlein because he can do things like that consistently and competently. If you truly appreciated books, language, and writing instead of cleaving to your I'm-a-geek-therefore-Heinlein-is-God certainty, you'd think about this critically and would unescapably come to the same conclusion.
Here's a challenge that no sensible, literate adult can accomplish:
* Read "The Number of the Beast"
* No, no cheating. Finish it. Every last word.
* Look me in the eye and say "Robert Heinlein is a good writer" without giggling.
Why is this vile, talentless hack being given an opportunity to commit further crimes against literature and the English language twenty years after his long-overdue demise?
There is not a worse writer in any language or any genre than Robert Heinlein. He is atrocious. By comparison, Jewel is a Nobel-winning poet, Shatner is an Oscar-nominated actor and Scientology is a sensible and sane belief system.
What's Java got to do with anything?
And what's Perl got to do with browser compatibility? Weren't you using Java a minute ago?
I suspect you have no idea what you're doing.
It seems like a trivial thing, but it makes a difference and it highlights Google's attitude.
Google has a toolbar thingie that you can install in various browsers. It decides that certain fields -- "Name", "E-mail address", etc. -- should be a pale yellow colour.
When I've gone to some trouble to coordinate my work with what the design team wants and what various browsers are capable of, I really, really object to having Google randomly decide to break everything and screw everything up and make me use a confusing and inappropriate { !important } CSS declaration to make the page render as it should.
I complained. It is, apparently, a feature.
This about takes it: "Open-source startups and relative newcomers must target a new breed of CIOs, which Graf dubs chief process innovation officers. Rather than old-school CIOs who focus on a company's data management, these guys design processes with the company's network."
This has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. It's just dick-waving stupidity.
Immature/buggy/flaky software of any stripe -- OSS or shrinkwrap or whatever -- doesn't make it for reasons which should be obvious.
PHP out of the box is, indeed, "too close to the HTML", and PHP and HTML code are often interlarded together in the same file. This is fine for quick & dirty applications, but for anything even a little bit more advanced, Smarty templating -- http://smarty.php.net/ -- is a very elegant solution. Logic and layout can be completely separated. It also simplifies the dev cycle: create simple, interim PHP files that just declare arrays and variables stuffed with fake data and have your HTML/front end coders working with that, then when your dev work and db stuff is done the switchover can be seamless if you've done it right.
"Now we know that the Cortes expedition had some African slaves in it. Here is a question on the subject, while research is done on the many aspects of European Slavery, how much research is done on inter-African slavery or Islamic slavery in regards to Africa? I know we hear a bunch about slavery in the United States, but how about the United Kingdom or French slavery?"
This is a classic example of "whataboutery". You've been presented with facts and information about the AMERICAN, trans-Atlantic slave trade. Your immediate reaction is to start talking about anything OTHER than the American, trans-Atlantic slave trade: "What about Arabia?" "What about France?" "What about this?" "What about that?"
All the while you're waving a Confederate flag and jerking off to pictures of lynchings.
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It's not that I'm a leech, it's just that desktop apps aren't my bag, man. What I hated the least about NetBeans is it allowed me to concentrate on coding my code without telling me I had to write plugins or whatever. I don't want a platform or an SDK or anything; I just want a usable text editor that works nicely with a few different types of code. I don't need something that tries to run all my tests and run my dev servers or anything, I want a lightweight editor. Some syntax highlighting options (pluginable, if you must), RegEx search/replace, that's about all I need. I want to use it, I don't want to learn its fucking macro language. Right now I'm using jEdit. I hate it. But I hate it less than I hate vi or emacs.
Chevrolet bribed some ethics-free academics to come up with a fake equation for publicity purposes. The academics took the money and invented a stupid equation per spec. Then Chevrolet issued a press release, and gullible media outlets obligingly reprinted it and discussed it. A victory for Chevrolet's marketing department, a defeat for academic integrity and sensible journalism. Don't be part of these scams.
IE 6 and IE 7 are completely different animals. For most uses, IE 7 is just a bit weird and broken, whereas IE 6 is a complete mutant clusterfuck. It's much easier to support 7 than 6.
I know of people whose idea of fun / Is throwing stones in the river in the afternoon sun
Scotland is not now, and never has been, part of England.
And a lot of the people in this database fought *against* Scotland, one of the constituent kingdoms of the UK.
I'm with you. My contempt for Heinlein is the reason my Karma here is so terrible -- people are religious about it. He's just awful, offensive, nasty, talentless and boring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Zone_(Scientolog y)
Have you seen the show, and do you know anything of the Civil War and American history in general? It is entirely obvious to anyone with a brain and relevant knowledge that there is a a pro-slaver, pro-south agenda at work here. If you got duped by his window-dressing then you're exactly the sort that Whedon wanted to reach -- gullible idiot nerds who don't know anything about history and will recycle his hateful slaver propaganda for him ad infinitum. You think you're smart, but you can't reliably identify a single thing that happened before "The Trouble With Tribbles" in the real world. You know nothing of history or politics; you just know Heinlein novels and Simpsons quotes. That makes you a perfect useful idiot for filthy racist propagandists like Whedon. You lap this racist filth up and regurgitate it without ever having the faintest clue what you're doing. "Firefly" is racist, slaver, southern propaganda and if you think otherwise you're deluding yourself. It spells it out in bright, clear letters and the only reason you don't see them is because you don't understand. You know far more about the Romulan Neutral Zone than you do about the real history of the actual world you live in. That makes you a perfect dumb recruit for this kind of thing.
I parted company with Joss Whedon on this one. I can't see "Firefly" as anything other than southern/racist propaganda for the wrong side in the Civil War.
I'm terribly sorry if I've upset some central truth you think exists about Heinlein. Do you enjoy the classic writings of Dan Brown, too? How about Caleb Carr's "Killing Time"? Did you consider that a classic? Because it sucked donkey balls.
If all you read is Honor Harrington, then, sure, Heinlein's probably a genius by comparison. Among literate people who appreciate books and literature in general, rather than science fiction exclusively, I don't think there's anything controversial about my opinion at all. I would say that, in fact, anyone who exalts Heinlein as a serious, quality writer is far, far outside the mainstream, for whatever that's worth.
I find Heinlein's work notable for:
* Leaden, ugly dialogue.
* Clichéd, central-casting characters.
* Puerile, distasteful attitudes towards women and sexuality.
* Convoluted, boring plots.
* A nasty, racist political agenda.
* A pervading sense that the writer simply doesn't understand people and has never really met any.
You are affronted by my opinion and demand an explanation which I don't believe I owe -- but you're not explaining what is in any way *good* about him. His imagination? Nothing new, ever. Escapades in space ships. Yawn. His characters? Name a few of his characters and illustrate how they represent three-dimensional real people instead of cardboard cut-outs. His narrative? His ear for dialogue? Sorry, no. Of all the basic, fundamental things that writers need to create quality work, he has none of them. The result is ugly, turgid, leaden stupidity enjoyed by people who don't like books.
Compare another SF writer of a broadly similar vintage. Jack Vance is no Nobel winner, but he lightly sketches out ambitious fantasty settings, and creates characters like Cugel: a conflicted, complex anti-hero who retains some of our sympathies despite committing appalling atrocities. Vance is not a great writer, but he has an infinite amount more talent than Heinlein because he can do things like that consistently and competently. If you truly appreciated books, language, and writing instead of cleaving to your I'm-a-geek-therefore-Heinlein-is-God certainty, you'd think about this critically and would unescapably come to the same conclusion.
Here's a challenge that no sensible, literate adult can accomplish: * Read "The Number of the Beast" * No, no cheating. Finish it. Every last word. * Look me in the eye and say "Robert Heinlein is a good writer" without giggling.
Why is this vile, talentless hack being given an opportunity to commit further crimes against literature and the English language twenty years after his long-overdue demise? There is not a worse writer in any language or any genre than Robert Heinlein. He is atrocious. By comparison, Jewel is a Nobel-winning poet, Shatner is an Oscar-nominated actor and Scientology is a sensible and sane belief system.
"Did you ever see that film 'How to Murder Your Wife'? Awfully good, I saw it six times" -- Basil Fawlty.
What's Java got to do with anything? And what's Perl got to do with browser compatibility? Weren't you using Java a minute ago? I suspect you have no idea what you're doing.
Max Payne has its moments.
It seems like a trivial thing, but it makes a difference and it highlights Google's attitude. Google has a toolbar thingie that you can install in various browsers. It decides that certain fields -- "Name", "E-mail address", etc. -- should be a pale yellow colour. When I've gone to some trouble to coordinate my work with what the design team wants and what various browsers are capable of, I really, really object to having Google randomly decide to break everything and screw everything up and make me use a confusing and inappropriate { !important } CSS declaration to make the page render as it should. I complained. It is, apparently, a feature.
Who overestimated it? Who said it was more? Why you then start wittering on about cellphones as if you're making some sort of point is beyond me.
This about takes it: "Open-source startups and relative newcomers must target a new breed of CIOs, which Graf dubs chief process innovation officers. Rather than old-school CIOs who focus on a company's data management, these guys design processes with the company's network." This has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. It's just dick-waving stupidity. Immature/buggy/flaky software of any stripe -- OSS or shrinkwrap or whatever -- doesn't make it for reasons which should be obvious.
Wikipedia is useful, but it's not a source. You might as well link to another /. post to prove a point.
there's nothing in the XHTML 1.1 spec about b being deprecated ...
is not deprecated. Everyone thinks it is for some reason.t _modules.html#s_presentationmodule
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstrac
sure, or PEAR DB ...
PHP out of the box is, indeed, "too close to the HTML", and PHP and HTML code are often interlarded together in the same file. This is fine for quick & dirty applications, but for anything even a little bit more advanced, Smarty templating -- http://smarty.php.net/ -- is a very elegant solution. Logic and layout can be completely separated. It also simplifies the dev cycle: create simple, interim PHP files that just declare arrays and variables stuffed with fake data and have your HTML/front end coders working with that, then when your dev work and db stuff is done the switchover can be seamless if you've done it right.
"Now we know that the Cortes expedition had some African slaves in it. Here is a question on the subject, while research is done on the many aspects of European Slavery, how much research is done on inter-African slavery or Islamic slavery in regards to Africa? I know we hear a bunch about slavery in the United States, but how about the United Kingdom or French slavery?" This is a classic example of "whataboutery". You've been presented with facts and information about the AMERICAN, trans-Atlantic slave trade. Your immediate reaction is to start talking about anything OTHER than the American, trans-Atlantic slave trade: "What about Arabia?" "What about France?" "What about this?" "What about that?" All the while you're waving a Confederate flag and jerking off to pictures of lynchings.