Oh yeah, I put that there so I could get some mod points. Man, I don't know what I'd do without them. I would probably start bitching at every poster you got modded up because I get these withdrawal symptoms, you know, and I start thinking that my judgement about each individual moderation is absolute and that anyone who gets modded up becomes this big criminal that needs to chastised.
I'm not lazy. You're obviously the lazy one because you can't even be bothered to think about the damn subject! How's that for irony? You're just crying about mod points, as if they had any value at all. I'm getting kind of sick you whiners ruining the discussions on here because you're so obsessed with the numbers rather than thinking about people's posts. If you read at -1 like me you wouldn't have to worry about who's modding who. But I suppose you'd rather whine about so you don't have to bother thinking about anything.
I'll post a bare link if I want to post a bare link, so you can suck my big fat link, buddy.
Whenever you portray something, you do so with a certain amount of bias. You can minimise it, but you can't get rid of it.
How do you know this? If you could get rid of it, what would it be like? If you don't know what it would be like, then how can you say we can't get rid of it, since there would be no way for you to identify its elimination if it existed?
Another question, have you eliminated the bias in the argument you expressed above? If so, then it defeats itself. If not, then why should we pay any attention to it?
The reason why people don't consider piracy theft is becaue most people have never had a worthwhile thought, so they don't see the value of thought or how much effort it takes to come up with a useful thought and put it into action. In fact, they don't even see thought at all, only the materialistic aspects of it. Most people are oblivious to immaterial things.
I think for a lot of people, myself included, switching to a different operating system would mean having to discard the thousands of dollars of software I've purchased in the past and repurchase it. It would take at a minimum a whole software generation (however long that is) for OSX to overtake Windows in the market for that reason, I would think.
C is the perfect language for the job it was designed for.
Right, and C was designed for writing perfect programs. If getting something up and running quickly is your primary goal, then by all means stay away from C, but if you want the highest quality program, the kind where you want to meticulously work out every detail by hand, C is the fastest way to get there, hands down.
I really doubt that the maintenance would be high for a machine in your home, though. It's not going to get nearly as much use as being in a public arcade. My family had a Spirit of 76 machine when I was growing up and it never needed repair or anything. It's still working today, actually, in else's home.
I go the opposite route. I write the code and then a week later go in and write the comments. Doing it this way gives you time to get some perspective on the code, so when you go back to do the comments, you can get a sense of what's clear about the code and what isn't. So it not only helps you write more pertinent comments, it also forces you to think through the code again with a little emotional distance from it, which helps in finding flaws. Actually, it's best to read code and rewrite comments on a continual basis. You can find a lot of bugs by doing this.
That's because users don't know what they want because they are not programmers and don't spend their time thinking about software because they don't care about it. If they did, they would probably be programmers.
I like Mozilla because you can load it in memory and open it quickly. I also like having the browser and email client together sharing common DLL's. But I use Firefox (and by extension Thunderbird) because it has more extensions and I like the search box in the upper right corner. I don't prefer Thunderbird over Mozilla mail. They are identical to me, since I don't use email very much.
My question is, why did they fork off Firefox and Thunderbird and separate them from Mozilla? That was a really disappointing move. Why couldn't they take the time to make the different pieces of the Mozilla Suite modular so that they can work together if they are all loaded on one machine, yet separate if you only want one program like the browser? My biggest complaint is that now Firefox and Mozilla have different features, so now I have to make a decision every time a new version of Firefox or Mozilla comes out. I have to download the new version, check it out and decide which one is better.
It's not the internet that's important, it's communication. My question is, is all this mass communication helping us as a race or conditioning us to get our answers from outside ourselves, making us so dependent on it that we can no longer think for ourselves? Am I the only one who has noticed the decline in the quality of modern writing in contrast to the writings of, say, the 19th century?
I liked Doom 3, but I wasn't really looking for a good game when I bought it. Let's get something straight: Doom and Quake are for vegetating not thinking. But I can see why people think it's crappy. The AI really sucks. The guys pretty much always come straight at you. They never dodge or anything. It does get pretty lame, but for vegetating it's pretty good:-)
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Oh yeah, I put that there so I could get some mod points. Man, I don't know what I'd do without them. I would probably start bitching at every poster you got modded up because I get these withdrawal symptoms, you know, and I start thinking that my judgement about each individual moderation is absolute and that anyone who gets modded up becomes this big criminal that needs to chastised.
I'm not lazy. You're obviously the lazy one because you can't even be bothered to think about the damn subject! How's that for irony? You're just crying about mod points, as if they had any value at all. I'm getting kind of sick you whiners ruining the discussions on here because you're so obsessed with the numbers rather than thinking about people's posts. If you read at -1 like me you wouldn't have to worry about who's modding who. But I suppose you'd rather whine about so you don't have to bother thinking about anything. I'll post a bare link if I want to post a bare link, so you can suck my big fat link, buddy.
Figure it out yourself. Are you an idiot or something?
It describes what a dust devil is, the implication of the post being that the idea didn't originate from studying Mars.
It says what a dust devil is and that the idea didn't originate from studying Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil
How do you know this? If you could get rid of it, what would it be like? If you don't know what it would be like, then how can you say we can't get rid of it, since there would be no way for you to identify its elimination if it existed?
Another question, have you eliminated the bias in the argument you expressed above? If so, then it defeats itself. If not, then why should we pay any attention to it?
The reason why people don't consider piracy theft is becaue most people have never had a worthwhile thought, so they don't see the value of thought or how much effort it takes to come up with a useful thought and put it into action. In fact, they don't even see thought at all, only the materialistic aspects of it. Most people are oblivious to immaterial things.
It depends on what you want your kid to be when he/she grows up.
I think for a lot of people, myself included, switching to a different operating system would mean having to discard the thousands of dollars of software I've purchased in the past and repurchase it. It would take at a minimum a whole software generation (however long that is) for OSX to overtake Windows in the market for that reason, I would think.
C is the perfect language for the job it was designed for.
Right, and C was designed for writing perfect programs. If getting something up and running quickly is your primary goal, then by all means stay away from C, but if you want the highest quality program, the kind where you want to meticulously work out every detail by hand, C is the fastest way to get there, hands down.
Easily the best product they ever made, being the one with the fewest unnecessary features.
You'd have to be truly pathetic to be taken out by a four digit number.
I really doubt that the maintenance would be high for a machine in your home, though. It's not going to get nearly as much use as being in a public arcade. My family had a Spirit of 76 machine when I was growing up and it never needed repair or anything. It's still working today, actually, in else's home.
Or Natalie Portman's warm gritbowl.
That sucks.
Don't go and start rushing me now. It'll be done when I get it done.
I go the opposite route. I write the code and then a week later go in and write the comments. Doing it this way gives you time to get some perspective on the code, so when you go back to do the comments, you can get a sense of what's clear about the code and what isn't. So it not only helps you write more pertinent comments, it also forces you to think through the code again with a little emotional distance from it, which helps in finding flaws. Actually, it's best to read code and rewrite comments on a continual basis. You can find a lot of bugs by doing this.
That's because you know OS X better. That's what the question is really asking: what operating system do you know best?
I'll be productive when the Hurd comes out.
That's because users don't know what they want because they are not programmers and don't spend their time thinking about software because they don't care about it. If they did, they would probably be programmers.
I like Mozilla because you can load it in memory and open it quickly. I also like having the browser and email client together sharing common DLL's. But I use Firefox (and by extension Thunderbird) because it has more extensions and I like the search box in the upper right corner. I don't prefer Thunderbird over Mozilla mail. They are identical to me, since I don't use email very much.
My question is, why did they fork off Firefox and Thunderbird and separate them from Mozilla? That was a really disappointing move. Why couldn't they take the time to make the different pieces of the Mozilla Suite modular so that they can work together if they are all loaded on one machine, yet separate if you only want one program like the browser? My biggest complaint is that now Firefox and Mozilla have different features, so now I have to make a decision every time a new version of Firefox or Mozilla comes out. I have to download the new version, check it out and decide which one is better.
It's not the internet that's important, it's communication. My question is, is all this mass communication helping us as a race or conditioning us to get our answers from outside ourselves, making us so dependent on it that we can no longer think for ourselves? Am I the only one who has noticed the decline in the quality of modern writing in contrast to the writings of, say, the 19th century?
I liked Doom 3, but I wasn't really looking for a good game when I bought it. Let's get something straight: Doom and Quake are for vegetating not thinking. But I can see why people think it's crappy. The AI really sucks. The guys pretty much always come straight at you. They never dodge or anything. It does get pretty lame, but for vegetating it's pretty good :-)
I hear ya. A lot of the time I'm at work and all I have time for is to post some two-liner bullshit reply to the article.