Bump! I loved this book. I had a working understanding of Javascript when I started reading it (e.g. I knew how to create a function, how to create an "onclick" event handler for a button). By the time I finished it, I had a much deeper, more fundamental understanding of the language.
Actually, I think you're right. I don't think it matters to the kernel what the directory structure is because the kernel is concerned with more lower-level things like memory management.
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Don't worry, we don't think the less of you all in the States for it. Well, that's not actually true, we think it's kinda cute and sweet that you have your precious little antique measurement systems - aww, how retro! - but we figure eventually you'll grow out of it and become a proper country.
Haters gonna hate. Write your own word processing software then.
What if it is a conspiracy, but a different one. We as human beings need an Other to focus our attention on, otherwise we tear ourselves apart. But we can't afford to have wars anymore because there comes the risk that somebody will use a nuclear weapon and destroy all life on the planet. Aliens, UFOs, etc are a good way of taking our attention off of ourselves.
There are so many web frameworks out there, like the author says. New ones are released and existing ones are updated on a regular basis. The truth is it takes time to learn a framework and become comfortable with it. We can't possibly keep up with it all.
...but who is playing the piano in those sound samples? Does Emily Howell also say when to play louder and when to play softer? As a piano player myself, this is just as important as the musical notes when it comes to bring an emotional "feel" into the music.
I actually RTFA and the guy is very well spoken. He seems to know what he's talking about and seems to have realistic expectations. The screenshots aren't half bad either.
This assumes a sufficiently advanced civilization could survive itself for a sufficient span...I don't see how its realistic to expect [human] survival into the "millions of years" range.
Crocodiles on the other hand - those bastards are believed to be around 200 million years old...If crocs could somehow work space travel into their lifestyle, this could lead to something...
I'm reading a really good book now called Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It's a story about an alien race invading Earth, except the aliens hadn't developed their technology on their own. They learnt everything that they know from these stone tablets that another intelligent race, long since extinct, had left on their planet.
What if we end up being that exinct race? (which seems quite possible, given what we are doing to the environment) The dinosaurs left behind their dead bodies which we used for energy (fossil fuels). Maybe we will leave behind our knowledge which sentient crocodiles will use to colonize the galaxy?
The neighborhood that you live in is a "community". The purpose of communities is to ensure that everyone gets along. This includes written rules (like no murdering) and unspoken rules (like "no cussing at people from your front porch").
City of Heros, however, is a "game". With games, the purpose is to win, not make friends with your opponent. When you enter a chess tournament, you don't get threatened with death because you used your queen, which "no one uses because it's a totally overpowered and unfair piece".
Anyway there is a rearrangement of the pharynx/larynx at the venerable age of 1/2 years old which is needed to be able to physically speak. Without it you can't.
They should try teaching her to use one of those speaking machines that Steven Hawking uses. Because of her underdeveloped brain, teaching her to read/write doesn't seem possible, but maybe in a number of years it will be. It's possible her brain development just hasn't started yet, since the growth of different parts of her body are out of sync.
I don't understand why people think it's a monopoly when Microsoft bundles IE with Windows. Doesn't Apple do the same thing with Safari? Why don't you hear anyone complaining about that??
Given the nature of the corruption this process showed, I don't think sending email is going to do much good unless said email contains bank account numbers pointing to a few million dollars. This kind of talk kills me. Just send a blasted email. Like with voting, it's not necessarily about making a difference...it's about expressing your opinions. The difference made becomes apparent when the sum total is taken into consideration. Indeed, one email will not make a difference, but 10,000 emails just might.
...advanced to the point where really stupid people can safely breed with other really stupid people, the predicions of "The Marching Morons" [wikipedia.org] and "Idiocracy" [wikipedia.org] will come to pass. And don't forget the predictions of H. G. Wells in his book "The Time Machine".
I think that given even a minor change to the luck of the draw, Earth's species would have turned out looking much differently than they do today. And just imagine how different Earth would be if that asteroid had never wiped out the dinosaurs.
Here in France we have had photos of Chirac selling a communist newspaper while he was young or our ex-prime minister dancing shirtless at a private party. It didn't matter much. Well, that's France. Here in the US, thanks to the "in-depth reporting" of our 24 hour news networks, we're lead to believe that what a presidential candidate did forty years ago during his freshman year at college is as important as, if not more important than, what he did five years ago during his actual political career.
I wouldn't say that the French are "the first country" to do this. The Brits seemed to have done something similar months ago by having the Ministry of Defense release all UFO reports it received from 2002-2006 under the Freedom of Information Act. Though I have no links to back me up, I believe Brazil has also freed up its UFO information, or at least is in the process of doing so.
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Bump! I loved this book. I had a working understanding of Javascript when I started reading it (e.g. I knew how to create a function, how to create an "onclick" event handler for a button). By the time I finished it, I had a much deeper, more fundamental understanding of the language.
Actually, I think you're right. I don't think it matters to the kernel what the directory structure is because the kernel is concerned with more lower-level things like memory management.
Reorganizing the file system like this would have been a good change to implement for v3.0 of the kernel.
Perhaps its precisely due to the internet that we have so many people acting on their neurotic tendencies.
Maybe there is a grain of truth in China restricting internet access and outlawing Western pop culture.
...because Gates was the only one who built the company from the ground up. That kind of experience surely shapes a person
...being able to assume that everyone is using the latest version of their browser.
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Don't worry, we don't think the less of you all in the States for it. Well, that's not actually true, we think it's kinda cute and sweet that you have your precious little antique measurement systems - aww, how retro! - but we figure eventually you'll grow out of it and become a proper country.
Haters gonna hate. Write your own word processing software then.
What if it is a conspiracy, but a different one. We as human beings need an Other to focus our attention on, otherwise we tear ourselves apart. But we can't afford to have wars anymore because there comes the risk that somebody will use a nuclear weapon and destroy all life on the planet. Aliens, UFOs, etc are a good way of taking our attention off of ourselves.
There are so many web frameworks out there, like the author says. New ones are released and existing ones are updated on a regular basis. The truth is it takes time to learn a framework and become comfortable with it. We can't possibly keep up with it all.
Yeah well we no longer have a Cold War to give us reason to be bold.
...but who is playing the piano in those sound samples? Does Emily Howell also say when to play louder and when to play softer? As a piano player myself, this is just as important as the musical notes when it comes to bring an emotional "feel" into the music.
The gameplay video on his site doesn't appear to be working (at least for me). Here's a YouTube copy of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc-MmieTyLQ
I actually RTFA and the guy is very well spoken. He seems to know what he's talking about and seems to have realistic expectations. The screenshots aren't half bad either.
This assumes a sufficiently advanced civilization could survive itself for a sufficient span...I don't see how its realistic to expect [human] survival into the "millions of years" range.
Crocodiles on the other hand - those bastards are believed to be around 200 million years old...If crocs could somehow work space travel into their lifestyle, this could lead to something...
I'm reading a really good book now called Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It's a story about an alien race invading Earth, except the aliens hadn't developed their technology on their own. They learnt everything that they know from these stone tablets that another intelligent race, long since extinct, had left on their planet.
What if we end up being that exinct race? (which seems quite possible, given what we are doing to the environment) The dinosaurs left behind their dead bodies which we used for energy (fossil fuels). Maybe we will leave behind our knowledge which sentient crocodiles will use to colonize the galaxy?
The only reason he was "unbeatable" was because he built a character optimized to exploit a cheap trick that didn't rely on his own strength.
Sounds like the fault lies with the game designers who allowed for such a trick to exist in the first place--not with Myers.
If it was so unfair, then the designers should have nerfed the teleport skill or something.
The neighborhood that you live in is a "community". The purpose of communities is to ensure that everyone gets along. This includes written rules (like no murdering) and unspoken rules (like "no cussing at people from your front porch").
City of Heros, however, is a "game". With games, the purpose is to win, not make friends with your opponent. When you enter a chess tournament, you don't get threatened with death because you used your queen, which "no one uses because it's a totally overpowered and unfair piece".
Anyway there is a rearrangement of the pharynx/larynx at the venerable age of 1/2 years old which is needed to be able to physically speak. Without it you can't.
They should try teaching her to use one of those speaking machines that Steven Hawking uses. Because of her underdeveloped brain, teaching her to read/write doesn't seem possible, but maybe in a number of years it will be. It's possible her brain development just hasn't started yet, since the growth of different parts of her body are out of sync.
I don't understand why people think it's a monopoly when Microsoft bundles IE with Windows. Doesn't Apple do the same thing with Safari? Why don't you hear anyone complaining about that??
...advanced to the point where really stupid people can safely breed with other really stupid people, the predicions of "The Marching Morons" [wikipedia.org] and "Idiocracy" [wikipedia.org] will come to pass. And don't forget the predictions of H. G. Wells in his book "The Time Machine".I wouldn't say that the French are "the first country" to do this. The Brits seemed to have done something similar months ago by having the Ministry of Defense release all UFO reports it received from 2002-2006 under the Freedom of Information Act. Though I have no links to back me up, I believe Brazil has also freed up its UFO information, or at least is in the process of doing so.