"You have to pay us even when you sell a competitor's product" sounds like bullying to me. Tricking IBM into buying a cheap low-function clone of CP/M instead of the real deal doesn't sound like honesty to me. (Even though DR had some blame in that.) Exploitng a legal hole in a contract (the Apple GUI thingy) sounds like less-than-honest practices, too.
And if you want to defend little William III, you need arguments, not insults, coward.
Scene: Stock trader rushes to his boss. - Boss, boss, my computer is gone! - Not to worry: Some "slashdaughters" were here and removed it for safety reasons. They said something about not allowing people with very little computer experience and not a whole lot of reference manuals access to Pentium III-class machinery. You still get to keep your cellular phone, though, because one of them swore something like "cntrnlinxont".
1. They split California into north and south, because, well, everyone does, 2. They didn't hear that Puerto Rico turned down applying for statehood, and erroneously believe they have applied, 3. They count the D.C. as a state.
Amazing how ^K^B, ^K^K, ^K^V, ^K^C all came back even though I haven't used an editor with those key combos in years.
I used an editor supporting those commands... yesterday! Borland still uses them, so JBuilder 3 - and probably C++Builder 4, Delphi 5 - can be set up to use the ole' WordStar standard.
RimArts, a Japanese shareware company, also use the WordStar commands for their Dana editor/word processor for Windows, including the editor in their excellent Becky! email client.
However, unless the folks that Borland sold Turbo Prolog to (PDC - Prolog Development Corp) open up and let Prolog for DOS go free (they've got "Visual Prolog" now, for Win9x, NT, and supposedly Linux), we probably won't see a free usable version of Prolog. Especially for DOS.
Win32 Visual Prolog was on a PC Plus cover disk a few months back - fully functional, with the usual restrictions about being for non-commercial use etc., IIRC. Tried it a bit, but didn't like the mandatory type system (you have to predeclare everything with the argument types).
We first define a "site" as a set of related documents, scripts etc, that is considered a "whole".
Some documents and/or scripts are then defined by the authors/customer as "entry points". The links to these are what the customer "announces" to the world. These we call "shallow links" - you end up at the "top layer" of the site.
Other documents - those transitively linked from these entry points while still part of the same site and which aren't entry points themselves - are envisioned by the customer/author, as being hierachically "below" the entry points.
Now, HTTP is by-and-large stateless, so that every URL fetch is independent on the fetches done before; the aforementioned "depth" therefore only exists in the author/customer's mind. A request for any site URL can come from any source. If the visitor followed a "non-site" link to one of the "internal" pages, that is a "deep link".
However, there is some state information that can be used, in particular cookies anf the HTTP Referer header. The latter is AFAIK not mandatory, though - for instance, Opera lets the user turn them off.
Places like dejanews were blocked for reasons I could not comprehend. What got me was many technical sites that possibly had specs on products were blocked.
No problemo: Just add two new project tasks:
"0666 Fruitlessly trying to find information I could have gotten in 30 seconds without the filter": 4 hours.
"0668 In desperation, calling a friend without filtered access to find the information for me": 1 hour.
Maybe they would pick up the message after seeing these every day...:-)
Excellent movie, by the way: Had a very European feel to it, not much "emotifying" music but just a plot spiralling towards the final confrontation, as it should be. Funniest scene: When he fumbles with an anti-tank rocket and a twelve year old kid instructs him how to use it.
That Sun let Netscape rename LiveScript was a sad sin that all Java newsgroups still are paying for in articles that belong elsewhere.
Anyway, IE JScript in IE5 is allegedly compliant with ECMAScript, and Netscape's JavaScript will be compliant in Communicator 5, whenever that is released under whatever name.
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I only yawningly respond to your pitiful AC remark by pointing out that the appropriate verb is "write", not "talk".
Oh, and RedHat still don't have a product with a version number of 2.2.3.
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Did they compile the Java to native code? If not, what VM and JIT compiler did they use? This will affect the results a lot.
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What's so bloated about Java? People have decent subsets of Java running in well under 1 meg of memory. Or are you talking about Sun's JDK?
*shrug* Once I get my copy of the Python reference book from Amazon UK, I'll probably ditch Perl for any development anyway...:-)
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But that wasn't what was written. RedHat do have a product - a Linux distribution - but the last version numbers of that were 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0, unless they have a new release out.
Unless one is careful, one may end up with the confusing version numbering that Microsoft use.:-)
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Once typecasted as non-technical, forget everything you know about computers.
You could ask the well-known linguist Larry Wall whether he have had any success in our industry.:-)
... but too high market-entry costs. There _may_ be profits quite a few years ahead, but until then it's pouring money with no return. Who do you think are willing to do that?
I seemed to read something like that, too... back in 1996. That in a transitional period, IPv4 should map to IPv6 via the notation 0::10.0.0.1, for instance.
One hypothesis that could be forwarded is that by preventing export of strong export of crypto the only gain is a lack of encrypted international traffic. Combine this with the recent news of eschelon and everything makes sense.
This rests on a very shaky assumption: That the rest of the world are willing to give up their security so that they can use American software. And I don't think that is much more than a patriotic wet dream with those who come up with such restrictions.
The only parties hampered by the laws are American software firms and those doomed to exchange encrypted data with American partners.
"IndiaSoft are proud to present their latest 2048-bit encryption plugin to Microsoft Exchange.":-)
Not that I understand why anybody would want to work on source code just so others could profit from it...
A company that uses GPL'ed software in place of commercial software saves money, and thus profits. There is nothing in the GPL which prevents this. "Why should we pay Sun for their Solaris C compiler when we can get GCC for free?"
I think you got that reversed. It would be zero G's while in free fall and ~1 G as they reached terminal velocity.
Relativity's acting up again: We're both right. In free fall, both they and their surroundings accelerate at ~1 G, which means they have 0 G relative to the cabin. On terminal velocity, their surroundings stop accelerating (0 G), while they're still subjected to the ~1 G.
Um, what Gs? When you are falling in Earth's gravitational field pretty close to the surface you have an acceleration of ~1 G (by definition), up to the point of max speed, after which yo have 0.
On impact, however, the "reverse Gs" would be quite high...:-\
Jingo? Boring. Oh yes, the storyline was there, but it just ambled along without the humour that made him so popular in his early days.
I like "Jingo" and "Hogfather", but note that both of these differ from most others (except "Soul Music") because the bad guys are extremely evil and not funny at all. Much of the lighter humour in the early books dissipates in the later, but the books themselves remain good.
The only Discworld book I had trouble getting through was "The Last Continent", mainly because there were two plotlines that didn't seem to get properly "joined" at the end: I felt that the plot involving the wizards of Unseen University was a side-tracking...
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"You have to pay us even when you sell a competitor's product" sounds like bullying to me. Tricking IBM into buying a cheap low-function clone of CP/M instead of the real deal doesn't sound like honesty to me. (Even though DR had some blame in that.) Exploitng a legal hole in a contract (the Apple GUI thingy) sounds like less-than-honest practices, too.
And if you want to defend little William III, you need arguments, not insults, coward.
You don't see a need for a processor with instructions like
but have no problem with processors with instructions likeWhat is the difference you percieve other than the Java machine is stack-based? In what way are the x86 instructions not "interpreted"?
Scene: Stock trader rushes to his boss.
- Boss, boss, my computer is gone!
- Not to worry: Some "slashdaughters" were here and removed it for safety reasons. They said something about not allowing people with very little computer experience and not a whole lot of reference manuals access to Pentium III-class machinery. You still get to keep your cellular phone, though, because one of them swore something like "cntrnlinxont".
"who are the other three states?"
:-)
1. They split California into north and south, because, well, everyone does,
2. They didn't hear that Puerto Rico turned down applying for statehood, and erroneously believe they have applied,
3. They count the D.C. as a state.
Probably.
I used an editor supporting those commands... yesterday! Borland still uses them, so JBuilder 3 - and probably C++Builder 4, Delphi 5 - can be set up to use the ole' WordStar standard.
RimArts, a Japanese shareware company, also use the WordStar commands for their Dana editor/word processor for Windows, including the editor in their excellent Becky! email client.
Win32 Visual Prolog was on a PC Plus cover disk a few months back - fully functional, with the usual restrictions about being for non-commercial use etc., IIRC. Tried it a bit, but didn't like the mandatory type system (you have to predeclare everything with the argument types).
The way I understand it:
However, there is some state information that can be used, in particular cookies anf the HTTP Referer header. The latter is AFAIK not mandatory, though - for instance, Opera lets the user turn them off.
No problemo: Just add two new project tasks:
Maybe they would pick up the message after seeing these every day... :-)
Nothing so large: An Uzi, IIRC.
Excellent movie, by the way: Had a very European feel to it, not much "emotifying" music but just a plot spiralling towards the final confrontation, as it should be. Funniest scene: When he fumbles with an anti-tank rocket and a twelve year old kid instructs him how to use it.
I think you mean "have a life, thus cannot be tricked into working 90-hour weeks". :-)
Anyway, any remote excuse for quoting Dilbert is a good one:
PHB: - Are you a COBOL programmer?
Bob the Dinosaur: - No, but the likeness has been pointed out to me.
That Sun let Netscape rename LiveScript was a sad sin that all Java newsgroups still are paying for in articles that belong elsewhere.
Anyway, IE JScript in IE5 is allegedly compliant with ECMAScript, and Netscape's JavaScript will be compliant in Communicator 5, whenever that is released under whatever name.
I only yawningly respond to your pitiful AC remark by pointing out that the appropriate verb is "write", not "talk".
Oh, and RedHat still don't have a product with a version number of 2.2.3.
Did they compile the Java to native code? If not, what VM and JIT compiler did they use? This will affect the results a lot.
What's so bloated about Java? People have decent subsets of Java running in well under 1 meg of memory. Or are you talking about Sun's JDK?
:-)
*shrug* Once I get my copy of the Python reference book from Amazon UK, I'll probably ditch Perl for any development anyway...
But that wasn't what was written. RedHat do have a product - a Linux distribution - but the last version numbers of that were 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0, unless they have a new release out.
Unless one is careful, one may end up with the confusing version numbering that Microsoft use. :-)
You could ask the well-known linguist Larry Wall whether he have had any success in our industry. :-)
... but too high market-entry costs. There _may_ be profits quite a few years ahead, but until then it's pouring money with no return. Who do you think are willing to do that?
I seemed to read something like that, too... back in 1996. That in a transitional period, IPv4 should map to IPv6 via the notation 0::10.0.0.1, for instance.
Well, both the equally relevant fick.de and ficken.de exist... apparently German domain name authorities are more relaxed... :-)
Yes... but for Alpha, if I recall correctly what I read about Compaq a while ago. :-)
This rests on a very shaky assumption: That the rest of the world are willing to give up their security so that they can use American software. And I don't think that is much more than a patriotic wet dream with those who come up with such restrictions.
The only parties hampered by the laws are American software firms and those doomed to exchange encrypted data with American partners.
"IndiaSoft are proud to present their latest 2048-bit encryption plugin to Microsoft Exchange." :-)
A company that uses GPL'ed software in place of commercial software saves money, and thus profits. There is nothing in the GPL which prevents this. "Why should we pay Sun for their Solaris C compiler when we can get GCC for free?"
Relativity's acting up again: We're both right. In free fall, both they and their surroundings accelerate at ~1 G, which means they have 0 G relative to the cabin. On terminal velocity, their surroundings stop accelerating (0 G), while they're still subjected to the ~1 G.
Um, what Gs? When you are falling in Earth's gravitational field pretty close to the surface you have an acceleration of ~1 G (by definition), up to the point of max speed, after which yo have 0.
On impact, however, the "reverse Gs" would be quite high... :-\
I like "Jingo" and "Hogfather", but note that both of these differ from most others (except "Soul Music") because the bad guys are extremely evil and not funny at all. Much of the lighter humour in the early books dissipates in the later, but the books themselves remain good.
The only Discworld book I had trouble getting through was "The Last Continent", mainly because there were two plotlines that didn't seem to get properly "joined" at the end: I felt that the plot involving the wizards of Unseen University was a side-tracking...