Next time you release an API, don't tell us "Instead of sorting through the techno-babble, let's just say [whatever]." This phrase immediately engages my bullshit sensors. You've apparently got a nice wrapper around the cross-site problems, just say that. Anyone who understands will be interested, anyone who doesn't won't care either way.
> On the other hand, when an unknown person from another country makes a joke about a landmark tragedy in a foreign country without a previous record of doing so, then that's not funny.
I don't think that's true at all.
But hey, don't let me get in the way of your misplaced feelings of self-righteous indignation.
Probably. See, that's the trick: sometimes things that are offensive when said seriously can be funny when they're phrased in joke form. Or rather, they can be to people who aren't too busy being self-righteously indignant for no discernable reason.
I guess that would depend whether your intent was to amuse. If so, welcome to lafftown, population: YOU! If you were serious, then you're an idiot. Humor can be a wily foe!
(a) The fact that the ISP oversells their bandwidth isn't my problem, just as I don't feel personally responsible when someone gets bumped from a flight I'm on because United overbooked.
(b) I'm aware that most ISP contracts specify that basically the ISP has zero responsibility to provide you anything close to the service they're advertising. I view this as a cop-out and it reeks of false advertising. Just like I can't tell you that your car gets 110 mpg (tiny disclaimer: while going downhill in neutral) when I'm trying to sell it to you, I believe this sort of deceptive sales should be illegal.
> How can any interference be justified (or claimed to bring about an improvement) if the outcome of such policies cannot be accurately predicted in advance?
Well, obviously it's something that needs to be dealt with as a fact of life. All I'm saying is that it's a mire not unlike literary critisism that I choose not to descend into.
> as long as democratic (republican) governments insist on meddling in economics, voters should take it upon themselves to learn something of economics and employ that understanding in choosing their representatives, for themselves and for the other individuals their choices will affect.
I have some understanding of economics. For the parts I don't understand, I look to what little consensus exists among economists, and failing that (which is often) I turn to my elected and/or appointed officials who are theoretically more knowledgeable on the subject. That's the point of a representative democracy. I don't have time to both do -my- job and become an armchair expert on every subject.
well, no, it's because you pay through the nose for the bidness connections. Someone else posted that if the ISPs didn't oversell then broadband would be a lot more expensive, which is certainly true, although how much "a lot" means is sort of up for debate.
don't be dense, by 'religion' I meant it's theories are not provable. It's not science. People simply believe in, for instance, the Laffer curve or the gold standard or whatever. There's persuasive arguments and you can look to history to validate your ideas, but that's about it.
(a) in the same article he states "Gaming has effectively turned me into a mummy - a motionless,dessicated South American mummy like you'd see on Nova, though, not the Egyptian kind that can climb walls and punch a hole through your chest."
(b) sometimes on humor sites the webmasters will write articles that consists of several jokes. It might be edifying for you to further research this phenomenon.
Like I said, I'm no economist, but I've simply never been convinced that economics is anything close to a science. So I'm sure your paper might be persuasive, but I simply view economic theories as religion. I mean, hell, look at something as fundamental as the gold standard. It seems to me that if there was wide agreement among economists that it was a great idea, you'd have a better political spokesman than Lyndon LaRouche, ya know? Or was he the silver guy? I can never remember.
You can't really lay everything at the feet of the teachers - they generally teach what they are required to. Society in general has decided that a whole bunch of things are not important enough to bother our children with, and penmanship is just one of them. Others include (horror of horrors) 'rote memorization' of trivial facts such as multiplication tables, historical events, geography, or any kind of real geometry. Also a causalty: respect for their elders and authority in general.
Thanks, 'me generation', way to go. It's a small consolation knowing you'll reap a bitter harvest in your old age, but knowing you, you'll just blame someone else.
You'll forgive me if I simply choose to observer a far longer period of prosperity off the gold standard than on it and deduce my conclusions from there. No offense, but economic theories are a dime a dozen and each of them has a diametric opposite which refutes it. It's more art than science, as far as I can tell.
Good to know, thanks, I'll update. I checked last night, and my problem was with 3.1. It was a problem where for whatever reason the linker arguments were running together because it was reading parameters from xml, and xml strips whitespace.
erik: Die Hard Trilogy 2 just keeps getting better. It defies logic. Chet: I can't believe it's so much better than Doom. erik: Science is not about your feelings.
I'm no economist, but they moved off it for a reason. From what I understand, it stifled inflation at the cost of dramatic boom/bust swings. A little constant inflation is better than cyclic depressions.
(a) it doesn't do C, which was kind of the point of the question (b) as an IDE it's quite good, but it's the refactorings that make it the Best Java IDE.
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Next time you release an API, don't tell us "Instead of sorting through the techno-babble, let's just say [whatever]." This phrase immediately engages my bullshit sensors. You've apparently got a nice wrapper around the cross-site problems, just say that. Anyone who understands will be interested, anyone who doesn't won't care either way.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_344.html
so sayeth Cecil
> On the other hand, when an unknown person from another country makes a joke about a landmark tragedy in a foreign country without a previous record of doing so, then that's not funny.
I don't think that's true at all.
But hey, don't let me get in the way of your misplaced feelings of self-righteous indignation.
Just a heads-up: you're arguing with a guy who thinks robots are going to destroy the economy and that money is fake because "dude, it's just paper."
Probably. See, that's the trick: sometimes things that are offensive when said seriously can be funny when they're phrased in joke form. Or rather, they can be to people who aren't too busy being self-righteously indignant for no discernable reason.
I guess that would depend whether your intent was to amuse. If so, welcome to lafftown, population: YOU! If you were serious, then you're an idiot. Humor can be a wily foe!
just more evidence that it's an elaborate hoax. yes ... all the pieces are starting to fit together ...
(a) The fact that the ISP oversells their bandwidth isn't my problem, just as I don't feel personally responsible when someone gets bumped from a flight I'm on because United overbooked.
(b) I'm aware that most ISP contracts specify that basically the ISP has zero responsibility to provide you anything close to the service they're advertising. I view this as a cop-out and it reeks of false advertising. Just like I can't tell you that your car gets 110 mpg (tiny disclaimer: while going downhill in neutral) when I'm trying to sell it to you, I believe this sort of deceptive sales should be illegal.
> How can any interference be justified (or claimed to bring about an improvement) if the outcome of such policies cannot be accurately predicted in advance?
Well, obviously it's something that needs to be dealt with as a fact of life. All I'm saying is that it's a mire not unlike literary critisism that I choose not to descend into.
> as long as democratic (republican) governments insist on meddling in economics, voters should take it upon themselves to learn something of economics and employ that understanding in choosing their representatives, for themselves and for the other individuals their choices will affect.
I have some understanding of economics. For the parts I don't understand, I look to what little consensus exists among economists, and failing that (which is often) I turn to my elected and/or appointed officials who are theoretically more knowledgeable on the subject. That's the point of a representative democracy. I don't have time to both do -my- job and become an armchair expert on every subject.
well, no, it's because you pay through the nose for the bidness connections. Someone else posted that if the ISPs didn't oversell then broadband would be a lot more expensive, which is certainly true, although how much "a lot" means is sort of up for debate.
I think spam goes in either a different pipe or a truck, I'm not 100% sure of how it works though.
You don't want your customers actually using the stuff they're paying you for, after all.
Honestly, who could have predicted this? I am at a loss for words.
don't be dense, by 'religion' I meant it's theories are not provable. It's not science. People simply believe in, for instance, the Laffer curve or the gold standard or whatever. There's persuasive arguments and you can look to history to validate your ideas, but that's about it.
Glad to help. I'll do whatever I can to help those trying to overcome their crippling lack of a sense of humor. Keep reaching for the stars, sskang!
(a) in the same article he states "Gaming has effectively turned me into a mummy - a motionless,dessicated South American mummy like you'd see on Nova, though, not the Egyptian kind that can climb walls and punch a hole through your chest."
(b) sometimes on humor sites the webmasters will write articles that consists of several jokes. It might be edifying for you to further research this phenomenon.
Like I said, I'm no economist, but I've simply never been convinced that economics is anything close to a science. So I'm sure your paper might be persuasive, but I simply view economic theories as religion. I mean, hell, look at something as fundamental as the gold standard. It seems to me that if there was wide agreement among economists that it was a great idea, you'd have a better political spokesman than Lyndon LaRouche, ya know? Or was he the silver guy? I can never remember.
You can't really lay everything at the feet of the teachers - they generally teach what they are required to. Society in general has decided that a whole bunch of things are not important enough to bother our children with, and penmanship is just one of them. Others include (horror of horrors) 'rote memorization' of trivial facts such as multiplication tables, historical events, geography, or any kind of real geometry. Also a causalty: respect for their elders and authority in general.
Thanks, 'me generation', way to go. It's a small consolation knowing you'll reap a bitter harvest in your old age, but knowing you, you'll just blame someone else.
Wow, I kind of got off on a tangent there. Sorry!
I know kids have shitty handwriting that's hard to read, but is "let's buy a buttload of laptops every 3 years" really the solution?
You'll forgive me if I simply choose to observer a far longer period of prosperity off the gold standard than on it and deduce my conclusions from there. No offense, but economic theories are a dime a dozen and each of them has a diametric opposite which refutes it. It's more art than science, as far as I can tell.
I'm guessing you don't have kids.
Good to know, thanks, I'll update. I checked last night, and my problem was with 3.1. It was a problem where for whatever reason the linker arguments were running together because it was reading parameters from xml, and xml strips whitespace.
Allow me to present Exhibit A: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html
Ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.
I'm no economist, but they moved off it for a reason. From what I understand, it stifled inflation at the cost of dramatic boom/bust swings. A little constant inflation is better than cyclic depressions.
I'll agree with that, with the exceptions:
(a) it doesn't do C, which was kind of the point of the question
(b) as an IDE it's quite good, but it's the refactorings that make it the Best Java IDE.