That's my main interest. I want it for three things:
1. I want to be able to edit the XML when I can't get Word to do what I want through the user interface. 2. I want to see what's going on when I receive documents from other people that use features I'm not familiar with. 3. I want to generate Office documents with XSLT from XML data. Is this feasible?
Even within computer books, a discrete math book, K&R, Strousoup, or early E.F. Codd writings (although these were generally articles, not books) ought to qualify. Knuth should, when he's finished.
My Discrete Math textbook is showing up as $126.40 on Amazon, which is the list price. At the beginning of the semester, I think it was more like $130, and the college bookstore wanted $137.
Some have pointed out that RAID enclosures are moving towards IDE drives. This is due to the fact that the integrators are using optimizing logic in the controller to handle emulating TCQ. So you can have a stone-dumb drive in there and it doesn't matter as long as the physicals are there.
Couldn't the operating system handle this, as well?
Well where I work we have many number crunching apps that VB or VB.Net just couldn't touch. And I'm sure you also have apps that are mostly just telling the database what to do, as he said.
Sure, however, I have yet to meet one that ONLY knows VB. Who the hell hired idiots that only know one language? VB is not to blame, here; look to PHB's hiring based on a certification.
Oh, and 6 1/2 years with QuickBasic (legacy crap), VB, Java, PostScript (yes, it really is a programming language), C++, T-SQL and XSLT, if you insist on dickwaving.
IS SQL Server written in VB? How about the explorer shell, or MOM or MS Office or IIS or... Because those are in wide enough use to be worth spending the extra effort to use a systems programming language and pay attention to what's going on at a lower level. Application languages like VB, Java and Delphi are for internal and vertical market aps.
Considering that it's the language I'm required to use for most client-side work, yes, absolutely. I'd rather use Delphi, but there are hardly any jobs, and what there are pay $5-10k less than VB jobs.
VB doesn't bear much resemblance to Dartmouth BASIC, and Kemmeny and Kurtz would tell you the same thing.
No, there actually was a point in there, even if he or she was a bit too cryptic about it. I was about to say the same thing, so I'll elaborate here:
Java has two kinds of inheritance: full inheritance including implementation, like in C++, using the "extends" keyword, and interfaces, which support polymorphism but require you to write the implemention code anew.
VB 5.0 and 6.0 (maybe 4.0; I don't know) include interface support, so polymorphism actually is supported.
Java has been around longer and has stood the test of time
Not really. MS denies it, but.Net is basically Java with six years of hindsight included in the first version.
As for standing the test of time, from my experience, Java seems to have more backward compatibility kludges in the libraries (where they ought to be avoidable) than VB (6 and prior) does throughout the language, and Java is only supporting back to 1994, while VB is supporting back to 1975. I do have a lot more VB experience than Java, but I don't think you're going to find many people who can comment expertly on both.
Also,.Net would have locked us into just MS which would have been a bad choice. Yes, there you have a point. If Sun goes under, you still have IBM, and I think a couple of others.
Another portion that springs massive amounts of code to life is VB's lack of good error handling. In order to catch errors, you have to use a fricken GOTO statement. Who the heck uses GOTO statements in higher level languages anymore? It's considered bad style for God's sake.
It uses the GOTO keyword, not a GOTO statement. The choice of keyword was unfortunate, but they really don't have much in common. "On Error Goto Handler" is really more like an event-driven GoSub.
The error handling is so bad that once an exception is handled, there's no going back to regular execution within the same function/procedure unless you write it all over again in the handler, or you call the function/procedure recursively.
That's just plain not true. "Resume 0" will take you back to the line that failed, or "Resume Next" will take you to the line after it.
Speaking of that, is there a way to resume normal execution in a Java try-catch-finally group? I've never figured out how to do it.
I liked my Treo 180 as a phone, because all the other cell phones out there are just too damn small, and flip phones are getting to be scarce. It died in a year, though, so I'm back to just a text-pager, combined with 800 numbers for my house and my wife's cell phone, so I can just wander up to a payphone and call.
Andy refused to integrate the 386 patches into Minix because it would ruin Minix as a teaching aide
It doesn't surprise me that he would make teaching a major priority. My networking class last year used his book on the subject, and it was one of the best textbooks I've ever seen.
Every time you use plastic, you become a foreign key in SOMEBODY's database.
Um, no. You've created a new row in the purchase table, which has a foreign key to the customer table, where you have a single row, referenced by the primary key.
I have no wish to have storm troopers drilling holes in my ceiling because my name is one letter off from a terrorist
Really, this is a good argument for a national ID system. I don't like the government tracking me in detail, but if they're going to do it, I'd feel a little safer if they at least had the ability to do it correctly.
I think we've reached the point where we need to concentrate on figuring out how to protect our freedom given the fact that we've already lost our privacy.
Because it was always considered better to let a guilty man go free than to imprison an innocent one. And America is one of the few nations, to this very day, the still believes in this principle. At least, I hope we still do.
From my wife's account of the murder jury she was on, no. The concept of reasonable doubt was not even brought up by the defense attorney.
I totally agree that using a person's SSN as a global identifier is a baaaaaaad thing.
What people's complaints here amount to is that knowing the ID number for a person tells them the ID number for a person. Whether this is an SSN or anything else, the problem is still there.
Why not just require a password, too? The government (Social Security Agency? Federal Trade Commision?) would then just have to verify "Yes, that is this person's current password."
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You missed the point. The energy used in growing the plants is for planting and harvesting.
Use the original jig to make a jig, then use the new jig to make a jig, and viola, no stupid restrictions.
Don't forget, this is analog copying, so there would probably be some accuracy lost.
That's my main interest. I want it for three things:
1. I want to be able to edit the XML when I can't get Word to do what I want through the user interface.
2. I want to see what's going on when I receive documents from other people that use features I'm not familiar with.
3. I want to generate Office documents with XSLT from XML data. Is this feasible?
Even within computer books, a discrete math book, K&R, Strousoup, or early E.F. Codd writings (although these were generally articles, not books) ought to qualify. Knuth should, when he's finished.
My Discrete Math textbook is showing up as $126.40 on Amazon, which is the list price. At the beginning of the semester, I think it was more like $130, and the college bookstore wanted $137.
Some have pointed out that RAID enclosures are moving towards IDE drives. This is due to the fact that the integrators are using optimizing logic in the controller to handle emulating TCQ. So you can have a stone-dumb drive in there and it doesn't matter as long as the physicals are there.
Couldn't the operating system handle this, as well?
"It was as though the Internet and the real world were two different worlds, but this ruling shows that there is only one world"
In the real world, you can run a magazine ad, or put up a billboard saying "Are you in the market for a Honda? Take a look at Kia, first.".
Paper, once written, cannot be changed
True, but you have no way of knowing that the paper was written when you think it was.
Sorry, I don't get it.
Well where I work we have many number crunching apps that VB or VB.Net just couldn't touch.
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And I'm sure you also have apps that are mostly just telling the database what to do, as he said.
Sure, however, I have yet to meet one that ONLY knows VB.
Who the hell hired idiots that only know one language? VB is not to blame, here; look to PHB's hiring based on a certification.
Oh, and 6 1/2 years with QuickBasic (legacy crap), VB, Java, PostScript (yes, it really is a programming language), C++, T-SQL and XSLT, if you insist on dickwaving.
IS SQL Server written in VB? How about the explorer shell, or MOM or MS Office or IIS or
Because those are in wide enough use to be worth spending the extra effort to use a systems programming language and pay attention to what's going on at a lower level. Application languages like VB, Java and Delphi are for internal and vertical market aps.
Considering that it's the language I'm required to use for most client-side work, yes, absolutely. I'd rather use Delphi, but there are hardly any jobs, and what there are pay $5-10k less than VB jobs.
VB doesn't bear much resemblance to Dartmouth BASIC, and Kemmeny and Kurtz would tell you the same thing.
No, there actually was a point in there, even if he or she was a bit too cryptic about it. I was about to say the same thing, so I'll elaborate here:
Java has two kinds of inheritance: full inheritance including implementation, like in C++, using the "extends" keyword, and interfaces, which support polymorphism but require you to write the implemention code anew.
VB 5.0 and 6.0 (maybe 4.0; I don't know) include interface support, so polymorphism actually is supported.
Java has been around longer and has stood the test of time
.Net is basically Java with six years of hindsight included in the first version.
.Net would have locked us into just MS which would have been a bad choice.
Not really. MS denies it, but
As for standing the test of time, from my experience, Java seems to have more backward compatibility kludges in the libraries (where they ought to be avoidable) than VB (6 and prior) does throughout the language, and Java is only supporting back to 1994, while VB is supporting back to 1975. I do have a lot more VB experience than Java, but I don't think you're going to find many people who can comment expertly on both.
Also,
Yes, there you have a point. If Sun goes under, you still have IBM, and I think a couple of others.
Another portion that springs massive amounts of code to life is VB's lack of good error handling. In order to catch errors, you have to use a fricken GOTO statement. Who the heck uses GOTO statements in higher level languages anymore? It's considered bad style for God's sake.
It uses the GOTO keyword, not a GOTO statement. The choice of keyword was unfortunate, but they really don't have much in common. "On Error Goto Handler" is really more like an event-driven GoSub.
The error handling is so bad that once an exception is handled, there's no going back to regular execution within the same function/procedure unless you write it all over again in the handler, or you call the function/procedure recursively.
That's just plain not true. "Resume 0" will take you back to the line that failed, or "Resume Next" will take you to the line after it.
Speaking of that, is there a way to resume normal execution in a Java try-catch-finally group? I've never figured out how to do it.
I liked my Treo 180 as a phone, because all the other cell phones out there are just too damn small, and flip phones are getting to be scarce. It died in a year, though, so I'm back to just a text-pager, combined with 800 numbers for my house and my wife's cell phone, so I can just wander up to a payphone and call.
You'd have a point with ICQ, but Yahoo Messenger doesn't display ads.
Andy refused to integrate the 386 patches into Minix because it would ruin Minix as a teaching aide
It doesn't surprise me that he would make teaching a major priority. My networking class last year used his book on the subject, and it was one of the best textbooks I've ever seen.
Every time you use plastic, you become a foreign key in SOMEBODY's database.
Um, no. You've created a new row in the purchase table, which has a foreign key to the customer table, where you have a single row, referenced by the primary key.
I have no wish to have storm troopers drilling holes in my ceiling because my name is one letter off from a terrorist
Really, this is a good argument for a national ID system. I don't like the government tracking me in detail, but if they're going to do it, I'd feel a little safer if they at least had the ability to do it correctly.
I think we've reached the point where we need to concentrate on figuring out how to protect our freedom given the fact that we've already lost our privacy.
I don't know if you've read it, but you're basically just repeating the basic idea of David Brin's The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
Because it was always considered better to let a guilty man go free than to imprison an innocent one. And America is one of the few nations, to this very day, the still believes in this principle. At least, I hope we still do.
From my wife's account of the murder jury she was on, no. The concept of reasonable doubt was not even brought up by the defense attorney.
Now it would have to be FM for the right frequency range. See how far we've come?
You can add 2 tons of useless shielding to an aircraft
I think fly-by-light is a lot more likely than just more shielding.
"And would you prefer sand or hot sauce in the lube?"
I totally agree that using a person's SSN as a global identifier is a baaaaaaad thing.
What people's complaints here amount to is that knowing the ID number for a person tells them the ID number for a person. Whether this is an SSN or anything else, the problem is still there.
Why not just require a password, too? The government (Social Security Agency? Federal Trade Commision?) would then just have to verify "Yes, that is this person's current password."