Dude, there's so much more that's wrong in just that first line...
Perl scalar variables start with $. Your script won't even run.
Why are you using the comma operator in "1,000,000"? It has the highest precedence, so "$x<=1,000,000" is always going to evaluate to 0, regardless of what $x is. Even after fixing #1, your script wouldn't print anything.
Including the aforementioned >= instead of <=, that makes 3 bugs in 1 line--a new record?
Yes, but I didn't mean in the domain name, but the rest of the text, they still leave it out...
Ah, I guess I didn't explain what I meant well at all:) I meant that voila.fr seems to be a web portal type thing where they basically are their domain name--i.e. they're named after their domain name. Whereas voila.hu is the domain for a magazine--the domain is named after the magazine.
Doing it in the same way that I'm used to doing it... is greatly preferable to learning a whole new layout...
Okay... well I admit I have no idea why you need to type accented chars, or how often you need to do it. I just do it occasionally, and for me, it's no big deal to switch between the Windows US-International layout and the Mac layout. Since the majority of my typing is English, I don't think of the Mac as a whole new layout (even though they are completely different for the accented chars). Anyways, my feeling is that the majority of users will be happy with the standard layouts... people in the US will happily use the US layout, people in Germany will use the German layout, etc... and it'll be the same between Windows and the Mac. I think the percentage of people who want to use the US layout, but also want to type accented characters is small and not worth worrying about.
Actually, I do have a keyboard layout complaint, but it applies to both Windows and Mac... neither provide the standardized Thai keyboard layout, but rather use their legacy layouts that have been around since Win 3.1 and System 6, respectively. While it's understandable that they'd keep their old layouts around since the Thai layout was only standardized in 1995, they really should include the standard one now that it exists.
I doubt it has anything to do with French or Icelandic. Look instead at old and middle English and it makes perfect sense.
Old and middle English are dead languages... Icelandic is still spoken, but it's a comparatively minor language. The ð and are in ISO 8859-1 for Icelandic, not for old and middle English. As this page about Latin1 says, "This character (), originally a runic letter, was included into ISO Latin 1 due to its use in Icelandic. It is also used in Old English." and "ISO Latin 1 was designed mainly for use with languages of western Europe. These languages use Latin alphabets with some extensions. More exactly, ISO Latin 1 was designed with the following languages in mind: Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. However, for Finnish and French it is not quite sufficient; see my notes on ISO Latin 9."
Grrr... note to self, don't experiment with character encoding in Mozilla while you have a large buffer in a form... it disappears.
Slashdot used to let you type in &#whatever to get any Unicode character you wanted... it seems to filter them out now:(
voila.fr for instance usually seems to not use an accent at all
Well, that seems to be their domain name, and originally, you couldn't have non-ASCII chars in domain names (and even now, it seems like it's a huge hassle and nobody does it). voila.hu's a Hungarian site... I don't expect them to get it perfect, especially since they don't use the grave accent in their language:) (Whereas they do use the acute accent... it makes a short vowel long). (But it does seem like they should at least be consistent between the magazine and the webpage:) I bet the problem is that ISO 8859-2 doesn't have the à character). But anyways, the French word is voilà... see a French dictionary.
I do know how to access these characters using the US and US Extended keymaps, but that's not a good solution to me.
Ah, okay... I thought you just meant that you needed to be able to type foreign characters, but keep the familiar US English layout for the majority of your typing, rather than wanting to duplicate the Windows US-International layout. In that case, hopefully the Technote will help... but I think it's a bit unfair to list the lack of a Windows-specific keyboard layout as a bad point against OSX:)
Is odd that there is no Ð or yes
Nobody cares about Icelandic;) I find it strange that ISO 8859-1 included ð and , but left out oe and OE, since the latter's used in French, which is a much bigger Western European language than Icelandic. Ah well... 8859-15 adds them in (while keeping ð/)... ½,¼ will be oe,OE in 8859-15, or 1/4,1/2 in 8859-1.
Oh, forgot to mention that if you switch from the standard US layout to US Extended, you get deadkey input of carons, ogoneks, breves, and other funky things mainly used by Czech, Polish, and other Central European languages... I think with US Extended, you could type any language that used Roman characters except for Vietnamese.
I need to have strange characters like öåäñáóéíç etc. handy... In Windows... you just choose US-International keymap and voilá!
Okay, but I hope you learn how to use those strange characters properly:) It's spelled "voilà".
Anyways, if you're using Jaguar, check Technote 2056. But you do know that the standard US English keyboard layout supports deadkey input of most Western European accented characters, right? And it has for at least a decade? (System 6 had this, and maybe it's been that way since System 1 back in 1984). Option-e followed by a vowel (and maybe a few other letters) will get you that vowel with an acute accent. Option-` followed by a vowel will get you the vowel with a grave accent. Option-n followed by a vowel, or "n" will get you a tilde. Option-u for dieresis, Option-i for circumflex. Option-c for ç, Option-a for å, Option-o for ø. No edh or thorn, but you can get the oe ligature, which is strangely missing from iso-8859-1. Anyways, run the Key Caps utility to see what's available. You probably don't need to hack any keyboard layout files at all.
Consider providing some evidence for your position, rather than just saying that I'm wrong.
Bulleted lists are pretty. I can do that too.
If you guys have some evidence that the paper I referenced is no longer valid, please post it (or references to it). Don't just tell me "oh, that paper's ancient; things are different now."
'Cuz up until fairly recently, they weren't.
P.S. And if anyone wants to compare Windows XP's scheduling performance with NT's, be my guest... I don't think you'll see much of a change. Remember that XP is just NT 5.1, and I haven't heard about any significant performance improvements in NT's scheduler. (The only vaguely scheduler-related change I remember is the addition of "fibers" in NT 4.0 SPsomething (3?))
Okay, you're wrong. This O(1) scheduler in 2.5.x is the "massive overhauling." (Yes, the patch has been around for a while... but as the article says, it's only recently been merged into 2.5)
Gigantic performance problem in Linux code fixed after several years of "many eyes" scanning over it.
Uh, why did that get moderated as a troll? Oh, right, Linux is absolutely perfect, and anyone who says otherwise must be a troll.
Come on, Linux's scheduler has long been known to have performance problems once you have a lot of processes/threads... for example, read this paper [text version] (appropriately subtitled "How I Learned to Love the Alpha and Hate the Scheduler"):
0.8.1 Create a fixed priority scheduler.
Currently, the Linux scheduler is very different than the traditional Unix schedulers. Although the Linux scheduler is very efficient when only several processes are running, it is not scalable. In order to match the performance of *BSD and other Unices, another scheduling algorithm must be used.
Moderators, don't be Slashbots, moderating according to the groupthink. Educate yourselves, and you'll be better moderators, and better people.
I havn't run across a DVD-ROM drive that can't be flashed yet.
Okay, where can I find a region-free firmware for either of the Plextor PlexCombo drives (combination DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives)? firmware.fr.st says there isn't one yet.
My NES could run 1942 without lagging. Good lord, what kind of ancient hardware do you use?
It's been a while since I last played 1942 on a NES, but I seem to recall that it did lag a little when some of the bosses came up, with their attendant swarm of little planes.
Yeah, I was seeing a whole slew of Linux development kernel announcements on the front page (Linux 2.5.17 is out! Linux 2.5.18 is out! Linux 2.5.18-ac7 is out! Linux 2.5.18-ac7pl2 is out! Linux 2.5.18-ac7pl2r2.7182818 is out!), so I wanted to see if a NetBSD development kernel would make it to the front page. It didn't, of course.
Actually, SMP on i386 is still on a CVS branch--if you download the released 1.6, it'll only use one of the processors. However, 1.6 does support SMP on some architectures, such as alpha,
vax, and sparc. And PowerMacs will have SMP support in the next release.
Man, I was about to make a post (to the NetBSD foundation board election results story) wondering if 1.6 would make the front page or not... I guess it did, which is nice for a change.
gcc 2.7.x and older have a local root hole allowing anyone with a valid account to get root
Got a link to more info on that? I don't see how a non-suid-root program like gcc can allow anyone to get root by itself. I did find references to a "put symlinks in/tmp" style vulnerability in gcc 2.7.x, but that requires root to run gcc for anything really interesting to happen.
Actually, I'm right. The point size of a font is the height of the font (specifically the distance from the lowest descender to the highest ascender, plus a bit of leading)--it's a unit of linear measurement, not areal. And the majority of fonts are proportionally spaced--and even the monospaced ones aren't necessarily square. If you want to take the width into account, you'd have a different number for every character. An "!" is usually much thinner than a "W".
Unfortunately, I don't think X is smart enough to use a different DPI setting for each screen resolution.
With XF86, you can use the DisplaySize setting in XF86Config to specify the physical size of your display. X will then use that and your current screen size in pixels to compute the number of dots per inch.
Good explanation, but your math is off:) On a 72 dpi screen, one pixel is one point. A 12 point character is 12 pixels high. On a 200 dpi screen, the same character is 33 pixels (and looks much nicer).
My laptop has a 133 dpi screen (1600x1200 pixels, 15" diagonal), and text looks much better than it does on a regular CRT. I'd love a 200dpi display, although I can wait until the prices come down some:)
Uh, "Joseph Park" just happening to appear on the same page as "Harvard Business School" doesn't mean that Joseph Park, co-founder of kozmo.com, is a Harvard Business School professor. Try reading the pages that you linked to.
Anyways, as the Fortune article says, he's a student there.
The parent said, "Not only is he free to rape children"--he didn't say that Mr. Naughton actually succeeded in doing so, thank goodness. The point is that Mr. Naughton managed to avoid imprisonment despite his guilty plea, so he is indeed free to try again if he hasn't learned his lesson.
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Dude, there's so much more that's wrong in just that first line...
Including the aforementioned >= instead of <=, that makes 3 bugs in 1 line--a new record?
Ah, I guess I didn't explain what I meant well at all :) I meant that voila.fr seems to be a web portal type thing where they basically are their domain name--i.e. they're named after their domain name. Whereas voila.hu is the domain for a magazine--the domain is named after the magazine.
Doing it in the same way that I'm used to doing it ... is greatly preferable to learning a whole new layout...
Okay... well I admit I have no idea why you need to type accented chars, or how often you need to do it. I just do it occasionally, and for me, it's no big deal to switch between the Windows US-International layout and the Mac layout. Since the majority of my typing is English, I don't think of the Mac as a whole new layout (even though they are completely different for the accented chars). Anyways, my feeling is that the majority of users will be happy with the standard layouts... people in the US will happily use the US layout, people in Germany will use the German layout, etc... and it'll be the same between Windows and the Mac. I think the percentage of people who want to use the US layout, but also want to type accented characters is small and not worth worrying about.
Actually, I do have a keyboard layout complaint, but it applies to both Windows and Mac... neither provide the standardized Thai keyboard layout, but rather use their legacy layouts that have been around since Win 3.1 and System 6, respectively. While it's understandable that they'd keep their old layouts around since the Thai layout was only standardized in 1995, they really should include the standard one now that it exists.
I doubt it has anything to do with French or Icelandic. Look instead at old and middle English and it makes perfect sense.
Old and middle English are dead languages... Icelandic is still spoken, but it's a comparatively minor language. The ð and are in ISO 8859-1 for Icelandic, not for old and middle English. As this page about Latin1 says, "This character (), originally a runic letter, was included into ISO Latin 1 due to its use in Icelandic. It is also used in Old English." and "ISO Latin 1 was designed mainly for use with languages of western Europe. These languages use Latin alphabets with some extensions. More exactly, ISO Latin 1 was designed with the following languages in mind: Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. However, for Finnish and French it is not quite sufficient; see my notes on ISO Latin 9."
No, you're just stupid and can't read. Your post is currently scored at 1, with 1 Flamebait mod. But I'm sure you'll be at -1 soon enough.
Slashdot used to let you type in &#whatever to get any Unicode character you wanted... it seems to filter them out now :(
voila.fr for instance usually seems to not use an accent at all
Well, that seems to be their domain name, and originally, you couldn't have non-ASCII chars in domain names (and even now, it seems like it's a huge hassle and nobody does it). voila.hu's a Hungarian site... I don't expect them to get it perfect, especially since they don't use the grave accent in their language :) (Whereas they do use the acute accent... it makes a short vowel long). (But it does seem like they should at least be consistent between the magazine and the webpage :) I bet the problem is that ISO 8859-2 doesn't have the à character). But anyways, the French word is voilà... see a French dictionary.
I do know how to access these characters using the US and US Extended keymaps, but that's not a good solution to me.
Ah, okay... I thought you just meant that you needed to be able to type foreign characters, but keep the familiar US English layout for the majority of your typing, rather than wanting to duplicate the Windows US-International layout. In that case, hopefully the Technote will help... but I think it's a bit unfair to list the lack of a Windows-specific keyboard layout as a bad point against OSX :)
Is odd that there is no Ð or yes
Nobody cares about Icelandic ;) I find it strange that ISO 8859-1 included ð and , but left out oe and OE, since the latter's used in French, which is a much bigger Western European language than Icelandic. Ah well... 8859-15 adds them in (while keeping ð/)... ½,¼ will be oe,OE in 8859-15, or 1/4,1/2 in 8859-1.
Yes, they are.
Oh, forgot to mention that if you switch from the standard US layout to US Extended, you get deadkey input of carons, ogoneks, breves, and other funky things mainly used by Czech, Polish, and other Central European languages... I think with US Extended, you could type any language that used Roman characters except for Vietnamese.
Okay, but I hope you learn how to use those strange characters properly :) It's spelled "voilà".
Anyways, if you're using Jaguar, check Technote 2056. But you do know that the standard US English keyboard layout supports deadkey input of most Western European accented characters, right? And it has for at least a decade? (System 6 had this, and maybe it's been that way since System 1 back in 1984). Option-e followed by a vowel (and maybe a few other letters) will get you that vowel with an acute accent. Option-` followed by a vowel will get you the vowel with a grave accent. Option-n followed by a vowel, or "n" will get you a tilde. Option-u for dieresis, Option-i for circumflex. Option-c for ç, Option-a for å, Option-o for ø. No edh or thorn, but you can get the oe ligature, which is strangely missing from iso-8859-1. Anyways, run the Key Caps utility to see what's available. You probably don't need to hack any keyboard layout files at all.
- Consider that the Linux scheduler hasn't changed significantly in those THREE years.
- Consider Ingo Molnar's post on the subject.
- Consider providing some evidence for your position, rather than just saying that I'm wrong.
- Bulleted lists are pretty. I can do that too.
If you guys have some evidence that the paper I referenced is no longer valid, please post it (or references to it). Don't just tell me "oh, that paper's ancient; things are different now."'Cuz up until fairly recently, they weren't.
P.S. And if anyone wants to compare Windows XP's scheduling performance with NT's, be my guest... I don't think you'll see much of a change. Remember that XP is just NT 5.1, and I haven't heard about any significant performance improvements in NT's scheduler. (The only vaguely scheduler-related change I remember is the addition of "fibers" in NT 4.0 SPsomething (3?))
Okay, you're wrong. This O(1) scheduler in 2.5.x is the "massive overhauling." (Yes, the patch has been around for a while... but as the article says, it's only recently been merged into 2.5)
Uh, why did that get moderated as a troll? Oh, right, Linux is absolutely perfect, and anyone who says otherwise must be a troll.
Come on, Linux's scheduler has long been known to have performance problems once you have a lot of processes/threads... for example, read this paper [text version] (appropriately subtitled "How I Learned to Love the Alpha and Hate the Scheduler"):
Moderators, don't be Slashbots, moderating according to the groupthink. Educate yourselves, and you'll be better moderators, and better people.Okay, where can I find a region-free firmware for either of the Plextor PlexCombo drives (combination DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives)? firmware.fr.st says there isn't one yet.
It's been a while since I last played 1942 on a NES, but I seem to recall that it did lag a little when some of the bosses came up, with their attendant swarm of little planes.
I find it unconscionable that such a gaping hole has been allowed to remain over a month... shame on the Mozilla team :(
Yeah, I was seeing a whole slew of Linux development kernel announcements on the front page (Linux 2.5.17 is out! Linux 2.5.18 is out! Linux 2.5.18-ac7 is out! Linux 2.5.18-ac7pl2 is out! Linux 2.5.18-ac7pl2r2.7182818 is out!), so I wanted to see if a NetBSD development kernel would make it to the front page. It didn't, of course.
Actually, SMP on i386 is still on a CVS branch--if you download the released 1.6, it'll only use one of the processors. However, 1.6 does support SMP on some architectures, such as alpha, vax, and sparc. And PowerMacs will have SMP support in the next release.
Man, I was about to make a post (to the NetBSD foundation board election results story) wondering if 1.6 would make the front page or not... I guess it did, which is nice for a change.
Got a link to more info on that? I don't see how a non-suid-root program like gcc can allow anyone to get root by itself. I did find references to a "put symlinks in /tmp" style vulnerability in gcc 2.7.x, but that requires root to run gcc for anything really interesting to happen.
The setting itself works fine for me (xdpyinfo shows the right resolution); it's just that nothing seems to actually use that number.
So it is in fact you who are wrong.
Damn, you're a profane motherfucker!
With XF86, you can use the DisplaySize setting in XF86Config to specify the physical size of your display. X will then use that and your current screen size in pixels to compute the number of dots per inch.
My laptop has a 133 dpi screen (1600x1200 pixels, 15" diagonal), and text looks much better than it does on a regular CRT. I'd love a 200dpi display, although I can wait until the prices come down some :)
Anyways, as the Fortune article says, he's a student there.
The parent said, "Not only is he free to rape children"--he didn't say that Mr. Naughton actually succeeded in doing so, thank goodness. The point is that Mr. Naughton managed to avoid imprisonment despite his guilty plea, so he is indeed free to try again if he hasn't learned his lesson.