Why is this modded "insightful"? The analogy is horribly crippled. A display that has to approximate 10% of its colors is not going to make any material difference
Actually it has to approximate 93% of its colors (all but 4096 of its "58000").
A CPU that miscalculates things is going to cause *actual* problems.
The miscalculations were actually hard to come by; they only happenened in the FPU and only under rare circumstances. The vast majority of Pentium users never encountered the bug.
let's not use false logic to make a point.
Let's not use misrepresentation to make a counterpoint.
glad you mentioned Python because I see they've managed to copy some Python regexp features - particularly that of returning matches to an array and the multi-line stuff.
Um, sorry, but those features have been in Perl regexes since the beginning.
I'm the lead architect for a federal agency's website. We have nearly 40K pages. We have pretty extensive requirements, and therefore researched a large number of commercial CMS products. We purchased one in the six figures, and we're sorry we did. I've come to the realization that most CMS systems are really toolkits and extensive consulting is needed to get them to do what you want. And the more changes you make, the more it becomes a custom system. Our consultants had to rewrite several parts of it to suit our needs, rendering some of the built-in features useless, and making future upgrades a major pain. In the end, it never worked as specified in their Statement of Work and we are pursuing our legal and financial options.
We've decided that the best thing to do is roll your own. Not to write a CMS from scratch, but rather to perform a tactical application of best-of-breed Open Source products (perhaps some inexpensive commercial ones where necessary) in a componentized fashion, using a database as the central hub for data and state information.
We're not the only ones in this predicament. Evidently this is quite common. See this recent press release from Jupiter Research, an internet industry analysis firm.
Here's one interesting quote from the article:
Although just under one-third (31 percent) of companies surveyed have developed homegrown content management systems, Jupiter analysts expect the number potentially to double by 2004 as companies recover from - and react to - expensive, failed systems.
Documentum is the leading vendor of Document Managment solutions. Document Managment is NOT the same thing as Content Management. While Documentum recently branched into the CMS space, it has very few customers that have purchased the system specifically for Content Management.
I believe the leading vendor in the CMS space is Interwoven.
it looks fairly intimidating just to connect to Netrek. I mean; "First, you need to get a client binary for your machine..." and "Once you have the binary, rename it to something logical like 'netrek' and run it with 'netrek -m' " (Netrek FAQ)...Huh? Client Binary? Did I see command lines in there too? Didn't those go out with DOS??? (chuckle).
It's obvious you've never used unix/linux. That's pretty much the way you install things today. What's so confusing about the term Client Binary? Does it really have to say "download the.EXE for your platform" before you understand it?
And no, command lines didn't start with DOS and they didn't go out with DOS. (chuckle).
I think that is true not for doctors, but for any professional when dealing with matters outside their area of expertise. It goes both ways. If your dentist tells you that you need a $2000 root canal, are you up on the latest dental technology to know if there's a new $300 procedure that would make the root canal unnecessary?
I wrote a perl script to check your claim against the unix dictionary (/usr/dict/words), and it seems to be true. However, uncopyrightable wasn't in that dictionary, so I'd need a better dictionary to really prove it true.
Trigonometry? Nah. It's simple binary logic. The key is the part:
printf(~r & c)
This takes the binary inverse (one's complement) of the row number, and performs a logical AND with the column number. When the result is zero (such as when the column number is 0 or when row=column) you get a "#". When the result is non-zero you get a "`". The rest is just spacing trickery to make it look like a pyramid instead of the triangle it really is.
The downside is that you have NO way of using Remote Desktop on a non-Windows box (barring x86 emulation & a copy of Windows running on top). None. Period. Zip. Nada. Nil.
Sure you could. Just VNC into the box running the Remote Desktop client.
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Plain ol' Rope Light is generally the best way to go, as it is spliceable and dimmable and relatively inexpensive.
I used to code robots for RoboWar (for the Mac) in the early 90's. It was great fun. It's so old you need the wayback machine to see a page:
RoboWar
Why is this modded "insightful"? The analogy is horribly crippled. A display that has to approximate 10% of its colors is not going to make any material difference
Actually it has to approximate 93% of its colors (all but 4096 of its "58000").
A CPU that miscalculates things is going to cause *actual* problems.
The miscalculations were actually hard to come by; they only happenened in the FPU and only under rare circumstances. The vast majority of Pentium users never encountered the bug.
let's not use false logic to make a point.
Let's not use misrepresentation to make a counterpoint.
glad you mentioned Python because I see they've managed to copy some Python regexp features - particularly that of returning matches to an array and the multi-line stuff.
Um, sorry, but those features have been in Perl regexes since the beginning.
why can't Americans distinguish between THAN and THEN?
Your sooo write. I guess its because their to busy misspelling they're other homophones.
AMD's 2.1ghz running better and faster then Intel's 2.5ghz. I wonder how Intel's marketing department is going to spin this?
Easy...
"2.5 GHz inside"
Care to explain?
It's fun to just click once to get it started, and then let it say what it wants to... I just did it, and it spelled out "pox today for the king."
Only as ridiculous as somebody mandating that his foot be used as a standard unit of measurement
Or one's yard.
Hmm.. the average Californian's yard now measures about a yard. Maybe it's not as ridiculous as it used to be.
No, its an English unit [...] Eventually you end up with smidgeons and skoshies.
For the record, skosh has a Japanese origin (sukoshi, meaning small).
- bp
Never mind, evidently that was just live stats. And part of it wasn't working.
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/en
We've decided that the best thing to do is roll your own. Not to write a CMS from scratch, but rather to perform a tactical application of best-of-breed Open Source products (perhaps some inexpensive commercial ones where necessary) in a componentized fashion, using a database as the central hub for data and state information.
We're not the only ones in this predicament. Evidently this is quite common. See this recent press release from Jupiter Research, an internet industry analysis firm. Here's one interesting quote from the article:
I believe the leading vendor in the CMS space is Interwoven.
And it will take an Estonian to fix it all for you sods
Or perhaps an Elbonian. But of course they're always waist deep in water.
But how would you feel if Slashdot started directing extra pop-up ads at posters who can't spell "that's" and "their" correctly?
Then there'd be no more Slashdot, as Cdr. Taco and crew would be too lost in pop-up windows to post any new stories!
I would wait for official reports from Microsoft before I would believe thats true.
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+5, Funny
It's obvious you've never used unix/linux. That's pretty much the way you install things today. What's so confusing about the term Client Binary? Does it really have to say "download the .EXE for your platform" before you understand it?
And no, command lines didn't start with DOS and they didn't go out with DOS. (chuckle).
I think that is true not for doctors, but for any professional when dealing with matters outside their area of expertise. It goes both ways. If your dentist tells you that you need a $2000 root canal, are you up on the latest dental technology to know if there's a new $300 procedure that would make the root canal unnecessary?
I wrote a perl script to check your claim against the unix dictionary (/usr/dict/words), and it seems to be true. However, uncopyrightable wasn't in that dictionary, so I'd need a better dictionary to really prove it true.
This seems reasonable, since it's not much different than the price of building one yourself.
The rest is just spacing trickery to make it look like a pyramid instead of the triangle it really is.
Doh! What I mean is it's still a triangle, but the spacing just makes the top centered like an equilateral triangle.
Trigonometry? Nah. It's simple binary logic. The key is the part:
printf(~r & c)
This takes the binary inverse (one's complement) of the row number, and performs a logical AND with the column number. When the result is zero (such as when the column number is 0 or when row=column) you get a "#". When the result is non-zero you get a "`". The rest is just spacing trickery to make it look like a pyramid instead of the triangle it really is.
I rewrote it in perl:
for ($r=-1; $r!=38; $c++){print"\n"," "x(38-$r+++($c=0)) if ($c>$r); print ~$r&$c?" `":" #";}
Does that help you understand it?
Sure you could. Just VNC into the box running the Remote Desktop client.
;-P