Why do we need three or four major word processors. We've got Word Perfect, Microsoft Office, and Lotus Smart Suite.
Back to now:
We currently have a monoculture of office suites. When we had competition we had ~$200 office suites, able to import documents, and innovation in office software. Look at what we have now. ~$500+ for MS Office, document lock in through.doc format, very few new features, buggy, and insecure. And also because of the monoculture we also have silly viruses running through the email systems.
Do you see the problem?
Now, in the open source world we also have another force at work which causes forks (Not ego as you might expect): motivation and application. Everyone has a different motivation behind the work they do. Some want one particular end result of their software, while another group may have a completely different result they are working towards.
KDE I think is great for folks newly coming into Linux, especially on high powered machines. I don't use KDE though, I use WindowMaker since it is much lighter weight. I like OpenOffice.org since it is fairly mature at this point even through its footprint is quite large. However, there are parts of KOffice that are useful for other folks.
Now, I know you are a troll here, but you mention ideas that not everyone understands. Some folks might think you were being insightful, but trollish is more like it.
They do some incredible and brilliant things in the IOCCC, but I can't help thinking that deliberately obfuscating C is immoral somehow:P
Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.
I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.
What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.
Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you have to use a specific language though.
In ICFP you have to solve their specific problem with any language you want.
Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.
I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.
What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.
Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you have to use a specific language though.
In ICFP you have to solve their specific problem with any language you want.
Hmm, lets see. How do we dump 768MB of data to the drive instantly? Um, you don't!
This fellow stinks of "I want it different for no good reason!" We don't change our computer interface just for the sake of changing it. We do it when something new is developed.
Should research be put into this area, maybe. But what we have now works. The concept isn't terribly difficult. Maybe you are dealing with folks from the stone age who have never seen a magic box before, but I highly doubt they'd understand how to use a car either.
I have absolutely no expertise in interface design, and almost as little REAL expertise in hard-core technology, but I am a designer by profession; I'm a Landscape Architect - mostly designing neighborhoods, resorts, and other places where we live out our day to day lives.
So, its your fault one neighbor is looking into his neighbor's bathroom while brushing his teeth. Here's a hint. Put more than 10 feet between houses in your neighborhoods.
I thought they usually had the contest late July and early August. I seem to remember last year not being able to look at the contest since it was my anniversery that week-end.
Personlly I look forward to IOCCC, much more interesting competition. But that contest hasn't been open for nearly two years now.:-(
Unobtainuim is a pretty rare substance, Sun would have to charge a mint for the chips.
Seriously, though. You are simply playing a semantics game here. JRE's are slow (relatively). There area few things that get done to help performance, but that does not change the fact. Because all of the JRE's (by nature) are slow, Java is slow.
Also, if you figure that creating a Java chip to do MM is going to increase the complexity of the chip far beyond the anything we know today.
I can't say for sure, but it has been in atleast grep (maybe you needed egrep?) and perl for as long as I've known. Also in Java since Pattern and Matcher classes have existed.
There might be some obscure regex libs without support, but it is posix regexs as far as I know.
Anyways, try the javadoc of the Pattern class for a complete and consise doc for regexs.
I recently was working with java 1.1 which didn't have the regex libs in it (afaik) so we were using some perl regex (java implementation) library one of the guys who get here before me chose. Well, I went through and reimplemented the entire library (one depending on the regex libs) with the java library. For the most part they were completely compatible, but there were slight differences. Mainly had to deal with.* and.+ when doing substitutions. That and perl seemed to be more forgiving (which lead to errors). Such as "[a-z0-9*" would not give you an error with the perl regex lib, but the new one would throw a fit (which is good since that isn't what was meant). The other thing I found was that the native java regex lib can be upto 2-3x faster than the perl one implemented in java.
[scene] US patent office reception desk. A woman dressed in business attire sitting behind the desk is intently looking at a page, picks up another page and glances back and forth between the two. A particularly nerdy fellow with a bow tie and pocket protector walks in.
USPTO-Woman: Yes, can I help you?
Nerdy Guy: Yeah, I here have a patent on a particularly interesting formula of hyper-glasniac-poatable freagle-snaks. It will totally revolutionize the world, bring world peace, end hunger, and raise the poor up to be equal contributors to society.
USPTO-W: Interesting. Please put your money into the slot and we'll let you know after our analysis if this makes it past our highly trained team of patent reviewers. NG: Thank you very much madam.
[scene] Nerdy Guy walks off stage and woman sits back down behind the desk. Camera goes over her shoulder to view what she is reviewing. In one hand is a patent application and in the other she shuffles through a stack of paper that has complete gibberish and brown smudges on it. Once that stack of paper is finished she stamps the patent application as approved andstands up and walks to a door.
[scene change] This room has a number of men in white lab coats watching over roughly 30 monkeys hanging from the ceiling and climbing over chairs. Most are throwing crap around at each other and the abandoned typewriters and the men in lab coats. Goatse happen to be handing from the walls also. USPTO-Woman walks in one of the doors.
USPTO-W: So. How are the researchers doing today? I've been reviewing a number of applications today and have not found any exact matches, so all applications have been approved since we didn't find any prior art.
I know this was written in jest, yet I think I would like to mention that using cups for printing in linux is great now. Its terribley easy to setup and it just does its thing without much intervention.
Hmmm, I'm not going to give you a hard time about not wanting a top end card for you computer, and as you have a laptop its not such an issue.
However, do consider that a reasonabley high end card can help for eye strain. Having a high refresh rate is a major plus on CRTs. Anything below 75HZ is tough on my eyes. I shoot for 85HZ though. Most cards now will do that, but on under-memory'd cards still have trouble doing that at a high resolution (1600/1200) at 24/32 bit color.
Big deal, so a couple blow up when rear ended, who needs road worthy. We haven't had a Ford Pinto or Firestone tire problem in a couple years. We need more excitement on the roads.
Granted cell phone users still add a bit of excitement to driving.
prompt> ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (216.239.33.101): 56 octets data 64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=90.3 ms 64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=91.2 ms 64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=97.4 ms - odd data message "Neo, follow the white rabbit." 64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=92.8 ms --- www.google.com ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss May be possessed by lost soul round-trip min/avg/max = 90.3/90.7/91.2 ms
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This reminds me of something my wife told me:
Hunter, fishermen, and army folks all get up before noon and want to kill things. Coincidence, I think not.
Good point...
.doc format, very few new features, buggy, and insecure. And also because of the monoculture we also have silly viruses running through the email systems.
Lets go back in history a couple years:
Why do we need three or four major word processors. We've got Word Perfect, Microsoft Office, and Lotus Smart Suite.
Back to now:
We currently have a monoculture of office suites. When we had competition we had ~$200 office suites, able to import documents, and innovation in office software. Look at what we have now. ~$500+ for MS Office, document lock in through
Do you see the problem?
Now, in the open source world we also have another force at work which causes forks (Not ego as you might expect): motivation and application. Everyone has a different motivation behind the work they do. Some want one particular end result of their software, while another group may have a completely different result they are working towards.
KDE I think is great for folks newly coming into Linux, especially on high powered machines. I don't use KDE though, I use WindowMaker since it is much lighter weight. I like OpenOffice.org since it is fairly mature at this point even through its footprint is quite large. However, there are parts of KOffice that are useful for other folks.
Now, I know you are a troll here, but you mention ideas that not everyone understands. Some folks might think you were being insightful, but trollish is more like it.
Tell you what, I'll let you use my class A network. I don't use it anyways.
10.0.0.0/8
Go ahead, I won't even charge you for it.
Only on slashdot would the text of the article get modded as Offtopic. I love it.
(Note, I am not the poster of the article text, it was some AC.)
An example would be the Creation Myth, Greek Mythology, etc.
;-)
You shouldn't be so hard on the big bang myth believers. I'm sure God won't hold it against you too much.
They do some incredible and brilliant things in the IOCCC, but I can't help thinking that deliberately obfuscating C is immoral somehow :P
:-P
Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.
I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.
What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.
Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you have to use a specific language though.
In ICFP you have to solve their specific problem with any language you want.
Six of one, half a dozen of another.
Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.
I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.
What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.
Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you have to use a specific language though.
In ICFP you have to solve their specific problem with any language you want.
Six of one, half a dozen of another.
Maybe you were entered into the "lightening" round of announcements. :-)
Thanks for playing, better luck next time.
The '*' at the end will not remove the directory.
Hmm, lets see. How do we dump 768MB of data to the drive instantly? Um, you don't!
This fellow stinks of "I want it different for no good reason!" We don't change our computer interface just for the sake of changing it. We do it when something new is developed.
Should research be put into this area, maybe. But what we have now works. The concept isn't terribly difficult. Maybe you are dealing with folks from the stone age who have never seen a magic box before, but I highly doubt they'd understand how to use a car either.
I have absolutely no expertise in interface design, and almost as little REAL expertise in hard-core technology, but I am a designer by profession; I'm a Landscape Architect - mostly designing neighborhoods, resorts, and other places where we live out our day to day lives.
So, its your fault one neighbor is looking into his neighbor's bathroom while brushing his teeth. Here's a hint. Put more than 10 feet between houses in your neighborhoods.
</rant>
I learned after the first one died bud. Maybe you should notice a pattern.
The MS Intellimouse I had was for work, which would just plain ol' shut off at random times (usually when compiling). What a peice.
Logitech if you want a decent mouse. I haven't had an issue with one of those at all.
It'd be easier to just:
rm -rf ~luser005/maildir/*
Save yourself from having to type so much. Atleast if you are going to mock MCSEs or what not, make sure you don't look like one.
I thought they usually had the contest late July and early August. I seem to remember last year not being able to look at the contest since it was my anniversery that week-end.
:-(
Personlly I look forward to IOCCC, much more interesting competition. But that contest hasn't been open for nearly two years now.
Unobtainuim is a pretty rare substance, Sun would have to charge a mint for the chips.
Seriously, though. You are simply playing a semantics game here. JRE's are slow (relatively). There area few things that get done to help performance, but that does not change the fact. Because all of the JRE's (by nature) are slow, Java is slow.
Also, if you figure that creating a Java chip to do MM is going to increase the complexity of the chip far beyond the anything we know today.
I can't say for sure, but it has been in atleast grep (maybe you needed egrep?) and perl for as long as I've known. Also in Java since Pattern and Matcher classes have existed.
.* and .+ when doing substitutions. That and perl seemed to be more forgiving (which lead to errors). Such as "[a-z0-9*" would not give you an error with the perl regex lib, but the new one would throw a fit (which is good since that isn't what was meant). The other thing I found was that the native java regex lib can be upto 2-3x faster than the perl one implemented in java.
There might be some obscure regex libs without support, but it is posix regexs as far as I know.
Anyways, try the javadoc of the Pattern class for a complete and consise doc for regexs.
I recently was working with java 1.1 which didn't have the regex libs in it (afaik) so we were using some perl regex (java implementation) library one of the guys who get here before me chose. Well, I went through and reimplemented the entire library (one depending on the regex libs) with the java library. For the most part they were completely compatible, but there were slight differences. Mainly had to deal with
To tell you the truth, I don't think I'd care to bank at a place that sounds like someone with a studder saying "bandit."
Nope, it wouldn't. Give it a try. I don't have access to a unix box here right now. But atleast the little java app I put together works correctly.
;-)
Assuming you wanted to capture "/* hello */" out of "/* hello */ hello */"
You see what you are missing is the '?' modifier that will cause the "(.*\r?\n)*" to not be greedy. Same with the ".*".
I think you are just missing the some of the functionality of regexes. You might want to pick up this book.
Doh! Good point. (Not the original poster, but someone who supplied a different solution to his suggested solution from his we site.)
/\*(.*\r?\n)*?.*?\*/
This should be a simple solution.
Give it a shot.
[scene] US patent office reception desk. A woman dressed in business attire sitting behind the desk is intently looking at a page, picks up another page and glances back and forth between the two. A particularly nerdy fellow with a bow tie and pocket protector walks in.
USPTO-Woman: Yes, can I help you?
Nerdy Guy: Yeah, I here have a patent on a particularly interesting formula of hyper-glasniac-poatable freagle-snaks. It will totally revolutionize the world, bring world peace, end hunger, and raise the poor up to be equal contributors to society.
USPTO-W: Interesting. Please put your money into the slot and we'll let you know after our analysis if this makes it past our highly trained team of patent reviewers.
NG: Thank you very much madam.
[scene] Nerdy Guy walks off stage and woman sits back down behind the desk. Camera goes over her shoulder to view what she is reviewing. In one hand is a patent application and in the other she shuffles through a stack of paper that has complete gibberish and brown smudges on it. Once that stack of paper is finished she stamps the patent application as approved andstands up and walks to a door.
[scene change] This room has a number of men in white lab coats watching over roughly 30 monkeys hanging from the ceiling and climbing over chairs. Most are throwing crap around at each other and the abandoned typewriters and the men in lab coats. Goatse happen to be handing from the walls also. USPTO-Woman walks in one of the doors.
USPTO-W: So. How are the researchers doing today? I've been reviewing a number of applications today and have not found any exact matches, so all applications have been approved since we didn't find any prior art.
I know this was written in jest, yet I think I would like to mention that using cups for printing in linux is great now. Its terribley easy to setup and it just does its thing without much intervention.
Hmmm, I'm not going to give you a hard time about not wanting a top end card for you computer, and as you have a laptop its not such an issue.
However, do consider that a reasonabley high end card can help for eye strain. Having a high refresh rate is a major plus on CRTs. Anything below 75HZ is tough on my eyes. I shoot for 85HZ though. Most cards now will do that, but on under-memory'd cards still have trouble doing that at a high resolution (1600/1200) at 24/32 bit color.
Big deal, so a couple blow up when rear ended, who needs road worthy. We haven't had a Ford Pinto or Firestone tire problem in a couple years. We need more excitement on the roads.
Granted cell phone users still add a bit of excitement to driving.
prompt> ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.239.33.101): 56 octets data
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=44 time=90.3 ms
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=91.2 ms
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=97.4 ms - odd data message "Neo, follow the white rabbit."
64 octets from 216.239.33.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=92.8 ms
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
May be possessed by lost soul
round-trip min/avg/max = 90.3/90.7/91.2 ms