A programming language is more than just syntax and semantics. The standard library and other community projects create a platform. Leveraging this platform is essential to productive development. Learning syntax/sematics takes an hour or two. Learning the rest is a long career.
That is an argument that I keep hearing, and it is simply wrong. The very logic of the argument is flawed. It is one-way thinking... Seems to me that if you want to develop for both platforms, you are still free to. Just write your code in Objective C, and use your fancy cross-platform tools to port it to android.
it's not rocket science, people... THINK about your arguments, don't just repeat something you heard somebody else say that they heard another guy say he heard from his sister's niece's best friends dad...
And I just realized that you weren't the one to start the analogy, though my thoughts in general still stand.
To return to the car analogy, it's like you bought a car which was advertised as being the best off-road vehicle on the market, if you just upgraded to monster truck wheels and tires. The dealer then finds out that people are using 4x4 vehicles to get to a magical land where vehicle accessories are cheaper than those sold by the dealer; in fact, they have accessories that make the vehicle useful for more purposes, so that the users are less compelled to buy another vehicle. So the dealer institutes a policy that whenever a vehicle is brought in to the dealer, they remove the front axle and the transfer case, and it becomes a 2WD vehicle; the user is simply lied to, and told that this change is necessary to make the vehicle safe, or perhaps to improve road safety. Now you're stuck with these gigantic wheels on a 2WD vehicle, and you look like an idiot driving down the road with 'em. They can be removed, but it's going to take additional labor, and you're going to have to put the original wheels back on. Unfortunately, in this car, you have to rebuild the entire car and replace all the fluids when you replace the wheels so now you have to do the oil, coolant, trans fluid...
I'm updating the slashdot firmware to remove the bad analogy option.
This is an obvious misuse of authority. The punishment is far far more severe than the crime. If the school administrators are unwilling to use judgment and discretion in their enforcement of the rules then they don't deserve my support as a parent. If you are going to give my kid detention for bringing a Jolly Rancher to school or receiving one from a friend you should expect me as a parent to sick and army of lawyers on the school district and not let up until the case gets to the Supreme Court. Why? Because the law you are enforcing is stupid if it doesn't allow you the discretion to inflict a punishment that fits the situation.
And, for sure, if you were willing to take the issue that far, it could be productive. You could get the stupid rule changed - which is often (and, specifically, in this case) beyond the power of the teacher or principal, and a much more worthwhile end than simply negating the immediate consequences of one violation of the rule.
Specifically what I do not approve of is people responding to things like this by going to the teacher or principal and verbally abusing them, threatening them, etc. First off, it's just flat-out rude to do so. Second, it undermines their authority, giving your child the sense that any time the teacher does something they don't like, they can just come running to you to overrule the teacher's authority. That, to me, is absolutely the wrong lesson. It's not always right to yield to unjust rules, but most of the time rebelling against authority isn't the right decision either. What happens when you get a speeding ticket? Do you yell at the police officer, threaten him with lawsuits, etc.? Most people would say that's a bad idea because of the possibility that this will just get you in more trouble. Beyond that I contend that this is simply wrong. Contradict the officer if he is wrong, but show respect, because he has a position that commands respect. If you want to fight the charge, there's a process to follow, and yelling at the guy who enforces the rule is not part of it.
In one sense, that's a pretty ugly idea - resigning oneself to the fact that there are powers in the world to which one must submit. But that's a reality in this world. Authorities exist, and rebellion against them is something you reserve for desperate situations.
It's because this is one case where the pencil and paper solution is preferable. Just because it uses new technology doesn't make it better.
As percent of GDP? What about as percent of total expenditure? Or percent of income generated by the state itself (taxes)?
Doesn't seem like such a low number then.
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png
Especially considering a very large percent of that slice of the pie is actually spent on foreign invasion instead of just keeping up a military for protection.
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Might've been a bad time for you to stop taking those meds.
webOS is a Linux-based OS as well but due to the larger form factor and the to be expected increase in processing power I want something more productive rather than having to deal with a castrated "phone edition" (coming from an N900 owner).
That was so not what I was hoping for when I followed a link labelled "Jamie Oliver's forehead hitting the nearest wall, over and over again".
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Too bad you opened your mouth.
...built into your taxes or not, even if you choose to send your kid to private school, you still pay those taxes (with limited exception for vouchers or grants), and if you home school, you still pay those taxes, and if you HAVE NO KIDS you still pay those taxes...
You are taxed. Is that to say all roads are not free to drive on, that they're the equivalent of Toll roads?
I did not agree that the kid should be punished so for having candy, but in many districts common practice has become a positive reinforcement program involving the REWARD of contraband like candy or soda, and if they can bring their own, they have no positive reinforcement to behave.
Do i think the district did the right thing? perhaps, because likely this action is to GET media attention to get the law (or local policy) CHANGED. Our schools do this all the time... It;s called propaganda, and it works.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison