Comment Re:And another thing (Score 1) 607
Does OSX Mavericks come with a Sarah Palin or a Tom Cruise doll?
Just so long as they don't include a Grumpy Old Man McCain doll.
Does OSX Mavericks come with a Sarah Palin or a Tom Cruise doll?
Just so long as they don't include a Grumpy Old Man McCain doll.
You people keep lying about libertarianism is, trying to conflate it with its opposite. What is your motivation in doing this?
Was that a rhetorical question? I think it's fairly obvious what motivation is: Muddy the waters by using the BIG LIE technique. The left has a fear that liberty might appeal to some people, so they introduce a faux boogeyman ("Teh Corparashunz!") to compete with tyrannical government. The problem they (willingly?) fail to realize is that most of the abusive powers corporations wield over the masses are enabled by tyrannical government. Agricorps (ADM, Monsanto, et al.) can sue farmers whose crops get cross-contaminated by their GMOs, but farmers can't sue them for the same cross-contamination. Telecom corps get the government to make it illegal to "jail break" your phone so you can switch service providers, so-on and so-forth.
And you think everybody running to the press every 5 minutes is going to get things done any better?
If it slowed them down an extraordinary amount so they were able to pass fewer bad laws, then yes.
just look at Congress and ask yourself why a lot of the stuff that *does* get done is primarily negotiated in closed rooms.
That's exactly the problem.
I had an S80 T6, i will say that is one of the best road trip cars i've ever driven. and overall performance wise it wasn't bad. but it was one of the worst built POS's i've ever seen.
that was a Volvo, everything uses the same damn bus
How far off are we from drinking in the car again?
Today. It's called a limousine.
IANAL, but is there any reason the officer cannot decide to turn it into a full-blown arrest? After all, you are being charged with having committed a crime, right?
"Arrest this man, he's resisting arrest!"
Agreed. JavaScript and HTML5 is the way to go. Lightweight, capable, and ubiquitous. And it's probably going to be the most generally useful language for what people want to do these days.
Unfortunately, JavaScript itself has some major warts. You might want to read Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and avoid some of the worst of the language.
Every programming language I've encountered has its warts. However, I believe JavaScript is the best language for beginning programmers, precisely for the reasons you outlined above. I don't think that they should ONLY learn JavaScript though.
Agreed, by using the same core board/cpu they are bringing the lower end devices up to the same software lifecycle as the high ends.. and just as you said it allow them to avoid fragmentation which is a serious issue to manage.
Heavy languages like Java/C++ are tedious for kids/adolescents. Program in something fun and lite like Python/Ruby/Perl.
Javascript is better still. No compiler, near instant results. You just need a text editor & browser.
Agreed, if anything this sounds to me more like streamlining the supply chain and manufacturing by removing component variance. Using the same part a million times is significantly cheaper than using one part for 800k and another for 200k even if the single part used a million times is more expensive.
I'd expect the same result across the board as they roll it out.
"Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!" -- Alan Perlis
