Kids have an imagination. Kids that have equivalent of a high school education may logically know that certain things are impossible based on their education. That will not stop their imaginations from running. No matter how much book knowledge they obtain they will still, emotionally, be an 8 year old. That is probably would make someone who knows what is "possible", and "not possible", think and say things like that.
I had a similar experience. Failed to compile. I didn't have time to tinker with it either. Oh well. I had to use an OS that had a JDK because I needed a system for Java development.
Technically..... sure. I could very easily use a JavaScript interpreter written in C and provide the JavaScript with all of the hooks it needs to do its job. I do believe that the Mozilla/Firefox people have a nice JS langauge implementation.
It is not that language, but the implementation that you are saying is not equally functional. Functional in the sense they can get at the underlying operating system and libraries easily. Now.. the power and expression capabilities of two languages, you have a point there. It all depends on your problem domain.
And a cute lil beastie named chuck that looks almost sheepish with his pitchfork somehow DID install the feeling of authority? I think the logo is quite diverse because scaled down it still looks decent and captures the essence of it. Personal taste, maybe not. But as far as branding goes it is alright, so that is good.
I have helped mentor some people with programming. I have taught them just enough of the language to build a more complicated data structure like a binary tree or a hash table. Explain the math, it is all relatively easy, and the logic and most people have no trouble building these data structures. If you teach people these data structures and algorithms for efficiently working with the data structures those things become a part of their programming vocabulary and they can generally solve programming problems more effectively. In general you only need a data structure every once in a while. But when you need it and it is the only thing that really solves the problem nicely it makes all of the difference in the world to have that knowledge.
I think that one of the big advantages C has is that it is a more simple language. Whereas if you were to write a book on PHP and it had "just the language" you would disappoint quite a few people.
Though it always amazed me that they had time to go into things like binary trees in "The C Programming Langauge". They write about things like that as if they are perfectly natural to beginning programmers (In truth they are not that hard). I love that book, but most books are so big because readers want documentation on the standard library of the language as well as the language.
It does make a difference. I can send people an open office doc and have comfort knowing they can read it in. As long as MS does not cripple it somehow with scary warning messages on open or some such. Its still a good thing. Even if it is not the ideal thing.
By fox none the less. And get this.. Macromedia, the company that makes ColdFusion, the programming language used to power that site only has a Market cap of something like 2.96 bn.
I am pretty big on Java. I have done several years worth of Java work. I decided to finally try Rails out so I could finally see if the hype was worth it or not. I was *quite* impressed. I realize there are about 10 million concerns that pop into my head. Legacy applications, complex ORM mapping, ona nd on. But for new software it truly is amazing. Its fast and easy and it just seems to work. I am not generally to excitable about new technology I have seen a lot. When I was finished playing with RoR for about 4 hours the amount of working software I had was impressive.
It has to grow a lot. However, if you are implementing from the ground up it is a rather solid choice. The architecture and tools are quite good. You can get hung up on the semantics of things if you want to.. you just can't argue with the results. Fast and easy. When I started describing my initial experience I realized I sounded just like a sales person trying to convince people about the greatness of something. So I can actually understand. Years and years of doing Java work and configuring XML and working hard at throwing out skeleton code. Generating getters and setters and connecting together several layers of components to all play nicely together. I compare that to Rails and it makes me wish I had this power all along. I have not tried anything truly complicated in RoR yet, but I will. I don't think Ruby, or RoR will let me down in the long run. Its such a light weight framework that you can easily grow it to fit your needs.
Its amazing to me that the site was sold for $580 million. Obviously technical annoyances didn't stop him from making an insane amount of money off the whole deal.
Oh and % is used in LIKE queries, that may be why its filtered?
I just ahd this eerie thought of the EU ending up with a huge federal government in 50-100 years like the U.S. We (Americans) started out with states being quite powerful and independent too.
This is where having an understand of where IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 are very helpful. MySQL is only used for storing preferences and very limited amounts of data relating to user specific settings in RoundCube. The actual mail retrieval and sotrage is all handled via IMAP. This means that this program is really nothing more a stand alone mail client, only as a web application. SMTP pushes mail around. It is then stored somewhere. On Unix type systems that is typically maildir or the mbox format. Then IMAP and POP3 (independent of SMTP) look at, and modify, the maildir or mbox stores.
So MTA = transfering mail. SMTP strictly moves mail around. I don't know of many MTAs that use SQL for mail storage, though I am sure people have implemented them. RoundCube is a client and would start at the very top of a digram where the user is at the top and their phisycally stored mail is at the bottom.
Mail Client --> IMAP/Pop3 --> mbox/maildir
In the setup I manage we have Postfix using a MySQL database for all mailbox configuration. We use courier IMAP which reads the exact same database to get the configuration data. IMAP then goes and reads the actual mail stored in Maildir format. So the SQL database is an important part of storing routing information for email. It is not, yet, used to store the actual messages. Though I suppose a relational data store for an MTA would make for an interesting project. So we really have two separate databases. One that IMAP and Postfix use for handling mail account creation and aliasing and one for RoundCube preferences. I actually set RoundCube up. It is VERY basic, but what is there works reasonably well. Its a nifty project to play around with I imagine.
It wasn't compiled. It was hand written in machine code. When I first learned machine code and we had to write things in machine code on the little virtual machines we had I was starting to think of assembly as an easy to use language. Heh. That is when you know you are at the bottom of the barrel;) (It was actually pretty fun).
What you might be missing is the backend that these systems integrate with. The deployment and management infrastructure in place. No it isn't the kind of massive backend type enterprise deployments you like to hear about, but it is still a good win for Linux. If Linux performs well on all of the tills it makes it easier for that company to integrate more Linux boxes everywhere.
Ellipses and their focal points. If you make a room an Ellipse and then stand at the two focal points of the ellipse the sound bounces perfectly to the next focal point. So you can whisper and be heard 50-100 ft away. Same principles, lots more physics and sharp things;-)
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Kids have an imagination. Kids that have equivalent of a high school education may logically know that certain things are impossible based on their education. That will not stop their imaginations from running. No matter how much book knowledge they obtain they will still, emotionally, be an 8 year old. That is probably would make someone who knows what is "possible", and "not possible", think and say things like that.
I had a similar experience. Failed to compile. I didn't have time to tinker with it either. Oh well. I had to use an OS that had a JDK because I needed a system for Java development.
Jeremy
Technically..... sure. I could very easily use a JavaScript interpreter written in C and provide the JavaScript with all of the hooks it needs to do its job. I do believe that the Mozilla/Firefox people have a nice JS langauge implementation.
It is not that language, but the implementation that you are saying is not equally functional. Functional in the sense they can get at the underlying operating system and libraries easily. Now.. the power and expression capabilities of two languages, you have a point there. It all depends on your problem domain.
Jeremy
And a cute lil beastie named chuck that looks almost sheepish with his pitchfork somehow DID install the feeling of authority? I think the logo is quite diverse because scaled down it still looks decent and captures the essence of it. Personal taste, maybe not. But as far as branding goes it is alright, so that is good.
Jeremy
I have helped mentor some people with programming. I have taught them just enough of the language to build a more complicated data structure like a binary tree or a hash table. Explain the math, it is all relatively easy, and the logic and most people have no trouble building these data structures. If you teach people these data structures and algorithms for efficiently working with the data structures those things become a part of their programming vocabulary and they can generally solve programming problems more effectively. In general you only need a data structure every once in a while. But when you need it and it is the only thing that really solves the problem nicely it makes all of the difference in the world to have that knowledge.
Jeremy
I think that one of the big advantages C has is that it is a more simple language. Whereas if you were to write a book on PHP and it had "just the language" you would disappoint quite a few people.
Though it always amazed me that they had time to go into things like binary trees in "The C Programming Langauge". They write about things like that as if they are perfectly natural to beginning programmers (In truth they are not that hard). I love that book, but most books are so big because readers want documentation on the standard library of the language as well as the language.
Jeremy
And to add to the humor you are duplicating a theme that will get at least one hundred and eleventy one mod points today.
The real question is, did you make the beer yourself? ;)
(It is hard to find decent wheat beer around here
J
I just solved this problem. Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor -> desktop -> gnome -> screen. You can take it from there.
However I found it detected things fine for me. If you change monitors you will probably want to reboot, though.
Jeremy
It does make a difference. I can send people an open office doc and have comfort knowing they can read it in. As long as MS does not cripple it somehow with scary warning messages on open or some such. Its still a good thing. Even if it is not the ideal thing.
Jeremy
By fox none the less. And get this.. Macromedia, the company that makes ColdFusion, the programming language used to power that site only has a Market cap of something like 2.96 bn.
Heh Heh.
I am pretty big on Java. I have done several years worth of Java work. I decided to finally try Rails out so I could finally see if the hype was worth it or not. I was *quite* impressed. I realize there are about 10 million concerns that pop into my head. Legacy applications, complex ORM mapping, ona nd on. But for new software it truly is amazing. Its fast and easy and it just seems to work. I am not generally to excitable about new technology I have seen a lot. When I was finished playing with RoR for about 4 hours the amount of working software I had was impressive.
It has to grow a lot. However, if you are implementing from the ground up it is a rather solid choice. The architecture and tools are quite good. You can get hung up on the semantics of things if you want to.. you just can't argue with the results. Fast and easy. When I started describing my initial experience I realized I sounded just like a sales person trying to convince people about the greatness of something. So I can actually understand. Years and years of doing Java work and configuring XML and working hard at throwing out skeleton code. Generating getters and setters and connecting together several layers of components to all play nicely together. I compare that to Rails and it makes me wish I had this power all along. I have not tried anything truly complicated in RoR yet, but I will. I don't think Ruby, or RoR will let me down in the long run. Its such a light weight framework that you can easily grow it to fit your needs.
Jeremy
Its amazing to me that the site was sold for $580 million. Obviously technical annoyances didn't stop him from making an insane amount of money off the whole deal.
Oh and % is used in LIKE queries, that may be why its filtered?
Jeremy
I just ahd this eerie thought of the EU ending up with a huge federal government in 50-100 years like the U.S. We (Americans) started out with states being quite powerful and independent too.
Jeremy
Ahh.. its ok.. on Slashdot I think I immediately begin regarding everything as slightly annoyed regardless of actual writing tone ;)
This is where having an understand of where IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 are very helpful. MySQL is only used for storing preferences and very limited amounts of data relating to user specific settings in RoundCube. The actual mail retrieval and sotrage is all handled via IMAP. This means that this program is really nothing more a stand alone mail client, only as a web application. SMTP pushes mail around. It is then stored somewhere. On Unix type systems that is typically maildir or the mbox format. Then IMAP and POP3 (independent of SMTP) look at, and modify, the maildir or mbox stores.
So MTA = transfering mail. SMTP strictly moves mail around. I don't know of many MTAs that use SQL for mail storage, though I am sure people have implemented them. RoundCube is a client and would start at the very top of a digram where the user is at the top and their phisycally stored mail is at the bottom.
Mail Client --> IMAP/Pop3 --> mbox/maildir
In the setup I manage we have Postfix using a MySQL database for all mailbox configuration. We use courier IMAP which reads the exact same database to get the configuration data. IMAP then goes and reads the actual mail stored in Maildir format. So the SQL database is an important part of storing routing information for email. It is not, yet, used to store the actual messages. Though I suppose a relational data store for an MTA would make for an interesting project. So we really have two separate databases. One that IMAP and Postfix use for handling mail account creation and aliasing and one for RoundCube preferences. I actually set RoundCube up. It is VERY basic, but what is there works reasonably well. Its a nifty project to play around with I imagine.
Jeremy
Someone will come around and quickly crush all hope of your statement ever being correct. The "correction" posts follow a few general forms.
You have experienced Something between the helpful and the annoyed response.
Jeremy
Hindsight is a great thing isn't it?
J
So how many ops per second could you guys do?
Jeremy
It wasn't compiled. It was hand written in machine code. When I first learned machine code and we had to write things in machine code on the little virtual machines we had I was starting to think of assembly as an easy to use language. Heh. That is when you know you are at the bottom of the barrel ;) (It was actually pretty fun).
Jeremy
Except that the technology behind Linux is can scale from "Toasters" and "PVRs" to serious Enterprise applications.
What you might be missing is the backend that these systems integrate with. The deployment and management infrastructure in place. No it isn't the kind of massive backend type enterprise deployments you like to hear about, but it is still a good win for Linux. If Linux performs well on all of the tills it makes it easier for that company to integrate more Linux boxes everywhere.
Jeremy
eDonkey put out the exact opposite. They made you click several times saying you would not use it for pirating copyrighted materials.
J
Plato on Ethics
Ellipses and their focal points. If you make a room an Ellipse and then stand at the two focal points of the ellipse the sound bounces perfectly to the next focal point. So you can whisper and be heard 50-100 ft away. Same principles, lots more physics and sharp things ;-)