I'm pretty thrilled with what came out of AJAX myself.
Just google maps alone makes it well worth it.
The main Javascript object that does AJAX is XMLHttpRequest, which was originally a Microsoft ActiveX object. It had nothing to do with Google or HTML standards.
They can accept that, and find a way to profit from it, or turn away people who want to be paying customers.
... and they consistently choose to do the latter.
I would argue that they've finally changed that decision with the Wii. Nintendo realized that there are plenty of people out there (myself included) who will pay $5-10 for an easy way to download and play old NES, SNES, etc. games instead of going through the hassle of finding an emulator that works well and finding the games for free.
So how do you explain the continued existence of doctors and lawyers?
A good programmer can usually write code that even someone less skilled than the original programmer can understand the code. In the case of doctors, there isn't much we can do to simplify biology and anatomy; we're pretty much stuck with what we have.
But take some hack's C or Python code and then have to sift through it and fix it up just so you can make it a bit more modular.
Bad programmers will be bad programmers no matter what language you give them. Some languages, however, are easy enough to figure out that even bad programmers can write something that mostly works.
So in these 6 decades, has anyone even heard of a problematic interaction between caffeine and alcohol? I certainly haven't.
It's not like mixing ammonia and bleach. One or two cups of Irish coffee won't do much to you. Most people can handle two drinks without being affected much at all, and a can of Red Bull probably has more caffeine than two cups of Irish coffee.
Are you saying that people have no idea that they're imbibing concoctions that contain alcohol and caffeine, and that they further have no idea of the effects of those chemicals?
Yes, yes we are. You obviously haven't spent enough time in bars near college campuses.
Booze gets you hammered, and you are still ok maybe two to three days later.
Holy shit, what are you drinking that takes three days to recover from? If it takes more than one day to recover from a night of drinking, you're probably in the hospital (or the morgue) for alcohol poisoning.
Interpreted languages can most certainly be faster/slower than other interpreted languages due to semantic design alone.
Pick one language that you would call slow and one language that you would call fast. I guarantee that I can write an interpreter for your "fast" language that is slower than the most commonly used interpreter for your "slow" language.
But Christianity at once put Christian masters under restraint
That wasn't a new idea at all. The Torah spends a decent amount of time on laws about how someone must treat their servants. There's a whole lot more in there about not mistreating slaves than there is about other things that religious zealots tend to consider important.
The intention isn't to make everything 100% secure at first.
The intent of the law isn't to improve security at all. The law is supposed to force companies to notify the people that might be affected when a data breach occurs, so that the people whose data was lost can take appropriate action, such as contacting their credit card company that their card number has been stolen. No security system is perfect, so there needs to be a requirement that people are notified when their data is stolen, no matter how much security was in place.
When the teeny-tiny black hole collides with another carbon atom
First of all, the odds of that happening are almost immeasurably small. Gravity is practically negligible at the atomic scale, never mind the huge number of other particles pulling in every other direction anyway. If this black hole is moving, it will just pass through the empty space that most atoms are made of. My semi-educated guess of the cross-section of a single-atom black hole would be somewhere on the order of neutrinos.
it will absorb it right?
Someone with more knowledge of astrophysics will have to answer the question of what happens if a black hole absorbs particles that are nearly as massive as itself.
Seriously, the article uses the term several times, the summary uses the term...googling "psycho acoustic simulation" just brings up various regurgitations of the same article.
I realize that it's just some term the guy made up.
Can any1 explain why it's a good idea to be messing around with a machine that 'might' produce teeny-tiny black holes that 'shouldn't' cause any problems?
Because a black hole with the mass of a carbon atom exerts exactly the same gravitational force on other particles as a normal carbon atom. You don't see normal carbon atoms causing the collapse of the galaxy, do you?
As a side note, I think that this confirms my pet theory concerning time travel: any attempt to do it will change the past, which changes the conditions of the travel slightly, which changes the past, and so on, until the travel never occurs and the past stops changing.
Or traveling back in time is what caused events to occur the way they did, so the time travel doesn't change the past. See Babylon 5, particularly the nice summary line, "It all happened just the way I remember."
They're divided into short files, so that you can use just the parts you want and not have to download one big file.
The last time I used a JavaScript library like this (Ext), I discovered that this actually makes your pages slower. The overhead of each request quickly passes the time it would take to download an extra 100-200 KB. Also remember that the file can be cached, so the client only has to download the file once. Some libraries actually encourage you to source the JavaScript files from their servers instead of your own, so that browsers can cache a single copy of the files and use the cached versions on every site that uses that library.
It's also faster than Python And Ruby, PHP and Perl.
Languages can't be faster or slower than other languages, since a language is just a syntax specification. Compilers, interpreters, and other runtime environments are what you would compare for speed. In the case of JavaScript, you have several competing implementations (at least 4 or 5 that are well known, plus many others that aren't well known), and speed is probably the only significant selling point in any of them. With the rest of the languages you list, there's really only one commonly used implementation of each, and it's written by the same group that's responsible for the language specification, so there tends to be less focus on speed of the interpreter and more focus on adding new features to the language itself.
And flash pretty much depends on javascript (Well, last time I checked, actionscript was pretty much an implementation of Ecmascript).
ActionScript and JavaScript are both variations of ECMAScript, so they are similar languages, but there are some differences, especially since browsers still only support older versions of JavaScript. The most obvious one that I remember is that ActionScript defines classes in the normal Java way, and that variable types are checked at compile time. I've read that newer versions of JavaScript (1.6 or 2.0, maybe?) add support for normal class definitions.
I've only been using Kubuntu regularly since 7.04, so I can't really comment on kdesu problems from before that. I can say that Kubuntu releases have generally gotten a lot better in the last couple years, though there have been a few decisions that ended up not working out so well.
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I'm pretty thrilled with what came out of AJAX myself.
Just google maps alone makes it well worth it.
The main Javascript object that does AJAX is XMLHttpRequest, which was originally a Microsoft ActiveX object. It had nothing to do with Google or HTML standards.
500 pages... so 80/20 rule. So, about 80 pages are actual information and the rest is B.S.
Maybe you should consider a Ph.D. in mathematics
They can accept that, and find a way to profit from it, or turn away people who want to be paying customers.
I would argue that they've finally changed that decision with the Wii. Nintendo realized that there are plenty of people out there (myself included) who will pay $5-10 for an easy way to download and play old NES, SNES, etc. games instead of going through the hassle of finding an emulator that works well and finding the games for free.
So how do you explain the continued existence of doctors and lawyers?
A good programmer can usually write code that even someone less skilled than the original programmer can understand the code. In the case of doctors, there isn't much we can do to simplify biology and anatomy; we're pretty much stuck with what we have.
As for lawyers, well, I've got nothing.
But take some hack's C or Python code and then have to sift through it and fix it up just so you can make it a bit more modular.
Bad programmers will be bad programmers no matter what language you give them. Some languages, however, are easy enough to figure out that even bad programmers can write something that mostly works.
Hm, no idea why Slashdot thought I wanted to post that anonymously.
So in these 6 decades, has anyone even heard of a problematic interaction between caffeine and alcohol? I certainly haven't.
It's not like mixing ammonia and bleach. One or two cups of Irish coffee won't do much to you. Most people can handle two drinks without being affected much at all, and a can of Red Bull probably has more caffeine than two cups of Irish coffee.
Are you saying that people have no idea that they're imbibing concoctions that contain alcohol and caffeine, and that they further have no idea of the effects of those chemicals?
Yes, yes we are. You obviously haven't spent enough time in bars near college campuses.
Is alcohol actually physically addictive? I had always thought that it was, like marijuana, only psychologically addictive.
Booze gets you hammered, and you are still ok maybe two to three days later.
Holy shit, what are you drinking that takes three days to recover from? If it takes more than one day to recover from a night of drinking, you're probably in the hospital (or the morgue) for alcohol poisoning.
I think Fiesta is usually the first example people use.
Interpreted languages can most certainly be faster/slower than other interpreted languages due to semantic design alone.
Pick one language that you would call slow and one language that you would call fast. I guarantee that I can write an interpreter for your "fast" language that is slower than the most commonly used interpreter for your "slow" language.
But Christianity at once put Christian masters under restraint
That wasn't a new idea at all. The Torah spends a decent amount of time on laws about how someone must treat their servants. There's a whole lot more in there about not mistreating slaves than there is about other things that religious zealots tend to consider important.
The intention isn't to make everything 100% secure at first.
The intent of the law isn't to improve security at all. The law is supposed to force companies to notify the people that might be affected when a data breach occurs, so that the people whose data was lost can take appropriate action, such as contacting their credit card company that their card number has been stolen. No security system is perfect, so there needs to be a requirement that people are notified when their data is stolen, no matter how much security was in place.
the "there's a map for that" commercials have to be striking a bad chord over at AT&T headquarters right about now...
You missed that whole lawsuit thing a couple days ago, huh?
When the teeny-tiny black hole collides with another carbon atom
First of all, the odds of that happening are almost immeasurably small. Gravity is practically negligible at the atomic scale, never mind the huge number of other particles pulling in every other direction anyway. If this black hole is moving, it will just pass through the empty space that most atoms are made of. My semi-educated guess of the cross-section of a single-atom black hole would be somewhere on the order of neutrinos.
it will absorb it right?
Someone with more knowledge of astrophysics will have to answer the question of what happens if a black hole absorbs particles that are nearly as massive as itself.
Seriously, the article uses the term several times, the summary uses the term...googling "psycho acoustic simulation" just brings up various regurgitations of the same article.
I realize that it's just some term the guy made up.
Why do you think he was laughed out of court?
Can any1 explain why it's a good idea to be messing around with a machine that 'might' produce teeny-tiny black holes that 'shouldn't' cause any problems?
Because a black hole with the mass of a carbon atom exerts exactly the same gravitational force on other particles as a normal carbon atom. You don't see normal carbon atoms causing the collapse of the galaxy, do you?
As a side note, I think that this confirms my pet theory concerning time travel: any attempt to do it will change the past, which changes the conditions of the travel slightly, which changes the past, and so on, until the travel never occurs and the past stops changing.
Or traveling back in time is what caused events to occur the way they did, so the time travel doesn't change the past. See Babylon 5, particularly the nice summary line, "It all happened just the way I remember."
They're divided into short files, so that you can use just the parts you want and not have to download one big file.
The last time I used a JavaScript library like this (Ext), I discovered that this actually makes your pages slower. The overhead of each request quickly passes the time it would take to download an extra 100-200 KB. Also remember that the file can be cached, so the client only has to download the file once. Some libraries actually encourage you to source the JavaScript files from their servers instead of your own, so that browsers can cache a single copy of the files and use the cached versions on every site that uses that library.
It's also faster than Python And Ruby, PHP and Perl.
Languages can't be faster or slower than other languages, since a language is just a syntax specification. Compilers, interpreters, and other runtime environments are what you would compare for speed. In the case of JavaScript, you have several competing implementations (at least 4 or 5 that are well known, plus many others that aren't well known), and speed is probably the only significant selling point in any of them. With the rest of the languages you list, there's really only one commonly used implementation of each, and it's written by the same group that's responsible for the language specification, so there tends to be less focus on speed of the interpreter and more focus on adding new features to the language itself.
And flash pretty much depends on javascript (Well, last time I checked, actionscript was pretty much an implementation of Ecmascript).
ActionScript and JavaScript are both variations of ECMAScript, so they are similar languages, but there are some differences, especially since browsers still only support older versions of JavaScript. The most obvious one that I remember is that ActionScript defines classes in the normal Java way, and that variable types are checked at compile time. I've read that newer versions of JavaScript (1.6 or 2.0, maybe?) add support for normal class definitions.
I've only been using Kubuntu regularly since 7.04, so I can't really comment on kdesu problems from before that. I can say that Kubuntu releases have generally gotten a lot better in the last couple years, though there have been a few decisions that ended up not working out so well.
Out of all the sites I have ever used, Facebook is the worst when it comes to bugs.
All three of them?
It's so I don't have to be like you and brag about your mega-uber friend list which is solely derived off your MySpace hit counter.
Instead you can brag about how you're too good to have an account on any such sites.
I think The Onion needs to do a follow-up to the feature article about the man who doesn't have cable television.