There's a little book called SICP, or, the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It covers stuff like writing interpreters, but it's mostly aimed at college freshmen without any previous computer experience, so it doesn't go into any great depth.
It certainly wouldn't cover interpreted languages as deeply as a college senior writing a thesis on interpreted languages would appreciate.
Do you really think things like the firebombing of Dresden were really neccessary, though? I don't.
Killing 100,000 civilians in a single night, without warning, is a horrible, horrible, horrible thing. Make no mistake about that. But, through the lens of history, Dresden may have been the right thing.
Stalin was not a nice man, and killed more people than Hitler. He needed to be neutralized by the Allies every bit as much as Hitler did. We could have done that by marching on Moscow (which would have cost millions more lives). Instead, we demonstrated our ruthlessness and incredibal destructive power, at Dresden, at Nagasaki, and at Hiroshima.
We salvaged the parts of Europe we could after the war; had we been more ruthless at the time we may have saved more of Europe (and Asia) from that ruthless bastard.
Interest rates right now are at an all-time historical low. If they really did pay off the debt, this is Apple's way of telling investors:
There is no way we can use that $300 million to make more than a 3% return. We're out of ideas. Done. We may as well just dissolve the company now and give everyone their money back, because you could do better investing in turnip futures.
There may be valid reasons Steve Jobs doesn't want to be in debt. I have no way of knowing how that debt was structured. Jobs was already forced out of the company once, and he might be trying to avoid that happening again. Or, Jobs may be betting on long term interest rates spiking in the next 6 to 12 months. Or, maybe he met George Soros at a coctail party. Who knows.
Whenever I'm out in public and I see someone's bare ass, I giggle. Seriously. I'm probably scarred for life, because I once saw a bare ass somewhere before I turned 18.
During Christmas it was discovered that my niece stole her mother's s3x toys to play with them.
But, SSX 3 is just a snowboarding game for the Nintendo! I can't believe it's that unsuitable, unless there's some sort of "leisure suit larry -- doin' the ski lodge" mini-game in there I don't know about.
But, if you meant "sex toys," then I'd have to agree -- using your moms sex toys is just plain gross. Someone should take the poor kid shopping to buy her own damned toys, so she doesn't have to risk an infection from her mom (and vice-versa).
I think it's odd to see buildings numbered like "Fab 30", and the only other time I can think of seeing it in pop culture was in the book "Slaughterhouse 5" which was, coincidentally, a book about building also in Dresden.
Well, its really not about the building, but that's not the point.
Anyhow, after the Americans killed a hundred thousand innocent civilians in Dresden in a single night to impress Stalin with their air superiority and cold-blooded ruthlessness, what happened to the city? Did Stalin rebuild it in the same place, or was it moved, or what? And why the hell do they give buildings numbers like that there?
If you're so concerned about time that you can't be bothered to say "dub-dub-dub" (or "weh-weh-weh", or however you think "w-w-w" is stuttered), why don't you just not say "www" at all?
I mean, are there any sites out there configured badly enough to required the www anymore?
The user interface of analog-display watches is significantly better than the user interface of digital-display watches.
The user interface of analog-display watches better in two ways. First, the output of analog-display watches is more intuitive (in addition to being better looking). Second, the input (setting the time) of analog-display watches is standardized, and is often significantly simpler than the input to digital-display watches.
But, I wouldn't mind an analog-display watch with a battery and a little vibrating crystal to tell time, and some mechanical and electrical mechanism that translates the digitally kept time into the analog display.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could get an electronic watch with an analog display?
Address limits depend on the Operating System, the Hardware, and the Compiler all working together. I'm suprised you can't find some combination of the three that does what you need.
But, Medical Imaging and DVD playback are NOT enterprise applications.
What combination of compiler, language, platform, and operating system currently allow 64-bit array indices for long doubles?
I mean, when you're doing your computations in Fortran 90, or FORTRAN 77, or C (or whatever), what platforms are you currently using to compile and run your programs?
I don't think anyone knows why motherboards come with the connectors they come with.
Why can't I buy a motherboards without a serial port, a parallel port, two ps/2 ports, and a line-in audio port? Why do motherboards come with built in video, but not bluetooth and wireless networking?
Why isn't there a standard for external power supplies, instead of having a blasting-hot power supply inside the temperature sensitive case, while a half-dozen wall-warts hang off my power supply driving all my peripherals?
In short, why are PC compatibles such heaps of shit?
Called Greifers, these people usually tend to haunt MMORPGs but can be found in just about any game. They get bored with the "standard" gameplay, and so attempt to ruin the game for other players.
So, they're like Slashdot Trollers, Crap Flooders, and Karma Whores then.
The cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
The forces to which the crew were exposed during orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and
The crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure."
The parent poster didn't claim the astronauts were alive, he claimed they were most likely aware. The linked articles say that is possible, but they certainly don't say that it is "most likely."
In contrast, it took years for NASA to admit that, yes, the astronauts aboard Challenger were most likely aware during their final descent,
Can you give any citation for this? I've never seen this backed up by statements from a knowledgable person (i.e., someone who's run simulations or has access those simulations). All I've ever read were bogus transcripts, though I've long suspected there's more.
The White House, as a symbol, is more important than the life of any human beings. People die all the time, but the United States Empire will exist for eternity.
I'm pretty sure that the professor can copy the songs all he wants for his personal use. He can't distribute those copies to the students in his class. Whether or not they already own their own copies is irrelevant.
Second, there is nothing to prevent students from selling their CD's back at the end of the term, or lending the CD's to each other during the term. That's perfectly legal.
Copyright isn't a license. It's a set of laws about who has the legal right to make and of distribute copies.
Middle Earth is a past earth, in the same way that Beowulf is a past earth, or The Illiad is a past earth. That was Tolkein's intention.
And, there was much more to Gandalf's reluctance to touch the ring. Remember, Gandalf was no more human than Sauron or the Balrog were human -- he was an immortal. He was also part of the last song; it was impossible for him to fight directly against Sauron. He moved, he shaped, he cajoled, he prodded, but he took no direct action. Ever. That was the fate laid out for him at the dawn of the world.
Well, except against the Balrog. I guess Immortal Beings Created at the Dawn of Time can fight each other directly.
There letter X has been trademarked about 50 times. One of the trademarks is on the X (tm) Window System.
Windows has also been trademarked by several companies. One of the trademarks is on the Windows (tm) Operating System.
There may also be some sort of "X-Windows" trademark, though I don't know what sort of product it's on. I keep reading about it on slashdot, so I suppose it may exist. People on slashdot are generally supersmart.
I hope like hell RedHat does defend its trademark.
Trademarks law, unlike copyright or patent law, protects the consumer. If I buy "Fedora Linux" I want to be certain I'm actually getting Fedora Linux, and not some third rate knockoff. I'd be awfully damned pissed if RedHat didn't even provide the first level of customer support for a product, namely "give the customer a reasonable expectation that the name on the box is truthful."
Now, I have no idea what the assholes at Cornell are yammering about. If they seriously believe "our request to withdraw its trademark applications and reverse its claims of usage restrictions on the name" is reasonable, then it's pretty clear they haven't bothered to speak to their own legal department.
dickheads with no clue and a coincidentally named webpage ran out of Pabst Blue Ribbon and cheap Ganga,
dickheads wrote a jackoff letter to RedHat,
information about their jackoff letter got posted on Slashdot,
slashdot fills with more posts from clueless assholes living in their mother's basement,
Slashdot Mirror
There's a little book called SICP, or, the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It covers stuff like writing interpreters, but it's mostly aimed at college freshmen without any previous computer experience, so it doesn't go into any great depth.
It certainly wouldn't cover interpreted languages as deeply as a college senior writing a thesis on interpreted languages would appreciate.
You've confused the word "interactive" with "interpreted." Don't feel bad -- it's a common mistake made by freshmen at bad colleges.
Do you really think things like the firebombing of Dresden were really neccessary, though? I don't.
Killing 100,000 civilians in a single night, without warning, is a horrible, horrible, horrible thing. Make no mistake about that. But, through the lens of history, Dresden may have been the right thing.
Stalin was not a nice man, and killed more people than Hitler. He needed to be neutralized by the Allies every bit as much as Hitler did. We could have done that by marching on Moscow (which would have cost millions more lives). Instead, we demonstrated our ruthlessness and incredibal destructive power, at Dresden, at Nagasaki, and at Hiroshima.
We salvaged the parts of Europe we could after the war; had we been more ruthless at the time we may have saved more of Europe (and Asia) from that ruthless bastard.
But, financially, this isn't good news.
Whenever I'm out in public and I see someone's bare ass, I giggle. Seriously. I'm probably scarred for life, because I once saw a bare ass somewhere before I turned 18.
During Christmas it was discovered that my niece stole her mother's s3x toys to play with them.
But, SSX 3 is just a snowboarding game for the Nintendo! I can't believe it's that unsuitable, unless there's some sort of "leisure suit larry -- doin' the ski lodge" mini-game in there I don't know about.
But, if you meant "sex toys," then I'd have to agree -- using your moms sex toys is just plain gross. Someone should take the poor kid shopping to buy her own damned toys, so she doesn't have to risk an infection from her mom (and vice-versa).
I don't get it. Why was this marked troll?
I think it's odd to see buildings numbered like "Fab 30", and the only other time I can think of seeing it in pop culture was in the book "Slaughterhouse 5" which was, coincidentally, a book about building also in Dresden.
Well, its really not about the building, but that's not the point.
Anyhow, after the Americans killed a hundred thousand innocent civilians in Dresden in a single night to impress Stalin with their air superiority and cold-blooded ruthlessness, what happened to the city? Did Stalin rebuild it in the same place, or was it moved, or what? And why the hell do they give buildings numbers like that there?
The new plant will be located in Dresden, adjacent to Fab 30 and will be called Fab 36
Where is Fab 30 in relation to Slaughterhouse 5?
If you're so concerned about time that you can't be bothered to say "dub-dub-dub" (or "weh-weh-weh", or however you think "w-w-w" is stuttered), why don't you just not say "www" at all?
I mean, are there any sites out there configured badly enough to required the www anymore?
The user interface of analog-display watches is significantly better than the user interface of digital-display watches.
The user interface of analog-display watches better in two ways. First, the output of analog-display watches is more intuitive (in addition to being better looking). Second, the input (setting the time) of analog-display watches is standardized, and is often significantly simpler than the input to digital-display watches.
But, I wouldn't mind an analog-display watch with a battery and a little vibrating crystal to tell time, and some mechanical and electrical mechanism that translates the digitally kept time into the analog display.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could get an electronic watch with an analog display?
Address limits depend on the Operating System, the Hardware, and the Compiler all working together. I'm suprised you can't find some combination of the three that does what you need.
But, Medical Imaging and DVD playback are NOT enterprise applications.
What combination of compiler, language, platform, and operating system currently allow 64-bit array indices for long doubles?
I mean, when you're doing your computations in Fortran 90, or FORTRAN 77, or C (or whatever), what platforms are you currently using to compile and run your programs?
I don't think anyone knows why motherboards come with the connectors they come with.
Why can't I buy a motherboards without a serial port, a parallel port, two ps/2 ports, and a line-in audio port? Why do motherboards come with built in video, but not bluetooth and wireless networking?
Why isn't there a standard for external power supplies, instead of having a blasting-hot power supply inside the temperature sensitive case, while a half-dozen wall-warts hang off my power supply driving all my peripherals?
In short, why are PC compatibles such heaps of shit?
Called Greifers, these people usually tend to haunt MMORPGs but can be found in just about any game. They get bored with the "standard" gameplay, and so attempt to ruin the game for other players.
So, they're like Slashdot Trollers, Crap Flooders, and Karma Whores then.
In contrast, it took years for NASA to admit that, yes, the astronauts aboard Challenger were most likely aware during their final descent,
Can you give any citation for this? I've never seen this backed up by statements from a knowledgable person (i.e., someone who's run simulations or has access those simulations). All I've ever read were bogus transcripts, though I've long suspected there's more.
Ha! You made a joke about General Protection Fault.
In return, I will make a joke about Kernel Panic and Major Failure.
Hee Hee.
The White House, as a symbol, is more important than the life of any human beings. People die all the time, but the United States Empire will exist for eternity.
If some chick wants to show her breasts at a bar and the owner doesn't have a problem with it then don't complain. Nobody forced them to watch her.
Actually, it was the bar owner who complained.
I'm pretty sure that the professor can copy the songs all he wants for his personal use. He can't distribute those copies to the students in his class. Whether or not they already own their own copies is irrelevant.
Second, there is nothing to prevent students from selling their CD's back at the end of the term, or lending the CD's to each other during the term. That's perfectly legal.
Copyright isn't a license. It's a set of laws about who has the legal right to make and of distribute copies.
Titan A.E. was not a good movie.
There were a few spots of reasonable animation, but overall the animation was as flat and uninspired as the plot.
Middle Earth is a past earth, in the same way that Beowulf is a past earth, or The Illiad is a past earth. That was Tolkein's intention.
And, there was much more to Gandalf's reluctance to touch the ring. Remember, Gandalf was no more human than Sauron or the Balrog were human -- he was an immortal. He was also part of the last song; it was impossible for him to fight directly against Sauron. He moved, he shaped, he cajoled, he prodded, but he took no direct action. Ever. That was the fate laid out for him at the dawn of the world.
Well, except against the Balrog. I guess Immortal Beings Created at the Dawn of Time can fight each other directly.
There letter X has been trademarked about 50 times. One of the trademarks is on the X (tm) Window System.
Windows has also been trademarked by several companies. One of the trademarks is on the Windows (tm) Operating System.
There may also be some sort of "X-Windows" trademark, though I don't know what sort of product it's on. I keep reading about it on slashdot, so I suppose it may exist. People on slashdot are generally supersmart.
Wow. Way to refute my points! You linked to a site giving the legal definition of trademarks! And nothing there contradicted anything I said!
You're so fucking smart, it makes baby jesus cry.
Trademarks law, unlike copyright or patent law, protects the consumer. If I buy "Fedora Linux" I want to be certain I'm actually getting Fedora Linux, and not some third rate knockoff. I'd be awfully damned pissed if RedHat didn't even provide the first level of customer support for a product, namely "give the customer a reasonable expectation that the name on the box is truthful."
Now, I have no idea what the assholes at Cornell are yammering about. If they seriously believe "our request to withdraw its trademark applications and reverse its claims of usage restrictions on the name" is reasonable, then it's pretty clear they haven't bothered to speak to their own legal department.