The summary isn't entirely accurate. The candidates were actually chosen at the state party conventions over the summer. Please remember that when you vote for President, you're not actually casting a vote for the presidential candidate of your choice, but instead for a slate of electors. Those electors were chosen by their respective parties long before the election date.
Thus, the candidates were nominated and officially listed. The candidates' names are simply short-hand for a slate of electors--the people you're really voting for.
For a party that claims to be about enforcing the Constitution, the Libertarians seem to know very little about the document.
This is why I really think a version of XNA ported to Mono would be totally awesome. Ideally, it'd allow binary compatibility between games written against that API on any platform.
You wouldn't write a client side app in Ruby or Python only because you've never tried. It's remarkably easy--easier than any of the.NET languages. Sure, it's not WinForms (which has the benefit of being the native set on Windows), but honestly, I don't really care much about widgets, as long as they don't look like ass.
C has it's place, and sometimes, that place is in business code. There are times when the code has to go really fast, after all. However, using it right out the gate qualifies as premature optimization.
If you want an app that does X as soon as possible without security holes, C# (I assume this is what you mean by.NET, which is a marketing buzzword and framework) and Java aren't the answer. Python and Ruby are. If it must run against the CLR or Java virtual machines, then use a version of a productive language running on that VM (but oh dear god please not Visual Basic).
My entire opinion of C# and Java is that they're overhyped, overmarketed languages that offer few real benefits over other languages that are either faster or allow programmers to be more productive.
Penn and Teller's show on the Boy Scouts was fascinating - turns out a huge chunk of the Boy Scouts is financed by the Mormon church. This is particularly true in the Rocky Mountains. My troop (back in the day) went to Colorado for summer camp one year, and the best two weeks of the summer were reserved for LDS (Mormon)-affiliated troops only.
In the South, it's the Southern Baptist Church that dominates the Scouting conversation. My troop wasn't affiliated with a church (the scoutmasters were largely atheist/agnostic), and thus had some rather interesting struggles (finding meeting locations, getting feeder relationships with Cub Scout packs).
My knowledge of Scouting in the Midwest is rather shaky, as my only contact with it was with a Methodist-associated troop (as was my original troop, from which my agnostic one split mostly because the original troop grew far too large to be managable). That said, I remember a more developed outdoors program than in my native part of the South. I don't know what things are like on the coasts.
Hell, even the Boy Scouts of 10 years ago (the group I knew) is not the Boy Scouts of today. The group was inclusive even at that point. It was shortly after I stopped going to meetings regularly that things really started changing for the worse.
Simply put, the group got taken over by the Kentucky Fried Christians, and ever since that time, I've been rather ashamed of the organization. There's also the major problem of the fear of litigation getting in the way of the things that were fun/educational/awesome/whatever. We'll not mention the asinine paperwork that just doesn't need to exist.
That said, I do still keep my Eagle Scout card in my wallet after all these years.
[1] does this mean it's the 'porn browsing' edition? Actually, that was the preview release of Warty Warthog (4.10, for those of you with poor memories). You know, the one with naked people in it.
Along with several other minuses, such as "Just Plain Wrong", "Talking Out of His/Her Ass" (yes, there are women on Slashdot, and yes, there are naked pictures, too), and "Obvious Fanboy/Hater". On the other side, there really ought to be a [+5, IAWTC].
I'm not sure that I'd fully blame Microsoft for Netscape's demise. The fact is that Netscape made some very serious mistakes that caused major problems. If their version 5 had been released and been good, I'm fairly certain people would have still paid for it in deference to MSIE being on their machines. After all, look at Firefox today. Every computer comes with a web browser on it, but with very few exceptions, that browser isn't Firefox (or even closely related to Firefox), yet the project is still successful.
No, the fact that Microsoft actually did make a better browser than Netscape had available at the time was just as much at fault for the once great browser's demise.
If you're doing SQL stuff, #6 poses a really good question. Getting another job there isn't going to be a problem, unless you're tied to a small town or something, and are entirely unable to travel.
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The summary isn't entirely accurate. The candidates were actually chosen at the state party conventions over the summer. Please remember that when you vote for President, you're not actually casting a vote for the presidential candidate of your choice, but instead for a slate of electors. Those electors were chosen by their respective parties long before the election date.
Thus, the candidates were nominated and officially listed. The candidates' names are simply short-hand for a slate of electors--the people you're really voting for.
For a party that claims to be about enforcing the Constitution, the Libertarians seem to know very little about the document.
This is why I really think a version of XNA ported to Mono would be totally awesome. Ideally, it'd allow binary compatibility between games written against that API on any platform.
Of course, this is probably a pipe dream.
I'd learn it for a good reason (say, patching security holes). This just doesn't happen to qualify. It's just a political stunt.
You wouldn't write a client side app in Ruby or Python only because you've never tried. It's remarkably easy--easier than any of the .NET languages. Sure, it's not WinForms (which has the benefit of being the native set on Windows), but honestly, I don't really care much about widgets, as long as they don't look like ass.
C has it's place, and sometimes, that place is in business code. There are times when the code has to go really fast, after all. However, using it right out the gate qualifies as premature optimization.
If you want an app that does X as soon as possible without security holes, C# (I assume this is what you mean by .NET, which is a marketing buzzword and framework) and Java aren't the answer. Python and Ruby are. If it must run against the CLR or Java virtual machines, then use a version of a productive language running on that VM (but oh dear god please not Visual Basic).
My entire opinion of C# and Java is that they're overhyped, overmarketed languages that offer few real benefits over other languages that are either faster or allow programmers to be more productive.
The same can readily be said of Republicans. Or have you not read the national news lately?
In Texas, if we didn't have a part-time legislature, they'd wind up shooting each other fairly quickly. And honestly, nobody wants that.
If C isn't okay for business apps, what do you suggest? Java? Please. C will work just fine.
As for COBOL, I doubt anyone would learn it for a political stunt done by some washed up action movie star.
Nope. He's still very much alive, thankfully.
For the record:
I am a Christian, but I have severe reservations about supporting a group whose purpose has nothing to do with religion excluding atheists.
Worse. A Scilon.
In the South, it's the Southern Baptist Church that dominates the Scouting conversation. My troop wasn't affiliated with a church (the scoutmasters were largely atheist/agnostic), and thus had some rather interesting struggles (finding meeting locations, getting feeder relationships with Cub Scout packs).
My knowledge of Scouting in the Midwest is rather shaky, as my only contact with it was with a Methodist-associated troop (as was my original troop, from which my agnostic one split mostly because the original troop grew far too large to be managable). That said, I remember a more developed outdoors program than in my native part of the South. I don't know what things are like on the coasts.
The Army's tolerance standards aren't very high, either.
Hell, even the Boy Scouts of 10 years ago (the group I knew) is not the Boy Scouts of today. The group was inclusive even at that point. It was shortly after I stopped going to meetings regularly that things really started changing for the worse.
And this is why I will not support them.
Simply put, the group got taken over by the Kentucky Fried Christians, and ever since that time, I've been rather ashamed of the organization. There's also the major problem of the fear of litigation getting in the way of the things that were fun/educational/awesome/whatever. We'll not mention the asinine paperwork that just doesn't need to exist.
That said, I do still keep my Eagle Scout card in my wallet after all these years.
Nope, no configuration file edits necessary. You can if you want to, though.
Well, AD&D may have been a long time ago, but newer versions are far too legalistic for many players' tastes.
Along with several other minuses, such as "Just Plain Wrong", "Talking Out of His/Her Ass" (yes, there are women on Slashdot, and yes, there are naked pictures, too), and "Obvious Fanboy/Hater". On the other side, there really ought to be a [+5, IAWTC].
I'm not sure that I'd fully blame Microsoft for Netscape's demise. The fact is that Netscape made some very serious mistakes that caused major problems. If their version 5 had been released and been good, I'm fairly certain people would have still paid for it in deference to MSIE being on their machines. After all, look at Firefox today. Every computer comes with a web browser on it, but with very few exceptions, that browser isn't Firefox (or even closely related to Firefox), yet the project is still successful.
No, the fact that Microsoft actually did make a better browser than Netscape had available at the time was just as much at fault for the once great browser's demise.
WMA is just a codec, and plays just fine on my Ubuntu machine.
If you are in the United States, this is a crime punishable by 20 years in prison, as to do so involves a violation of the DMCA.
You've obviously not heard: killall works quite well on OS X.
Good, I'm not the only one who sees that title and mentally segues into "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", chanting, "We don't need no education!"
Maybe I'm not crazy after all.
If you're doing SQL stuff, #6 poses a really good question. Getting another job there isn't going to be a problem, unless you're tied to a small town or something, and are entirely unable to travel.
True fans only rip so that they can have it on their iPod. When we can, we listen to the original recording.