Don't take this guy's comments personally. This is slashdot. He's a troll. What he says might be true or it might not, but he's still being an asshole about it.
1. Install Perl. 2. Copy the perl program code into a file called whatever.pl. 3. From a command prompt in the directory where the script file is located, execute perl whatever.pl.
You could also probably do it in PHP if you wanted. It would be very similar, though I don't know PHP so I couldn't help you with that.
I was bored and I hadn't written any perl in a while, so I implemented your script:
#!/usr/bin/perl @chars = qw( a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ! @ # $ % ^ & * ); @keys = a..z; $cnt=0; foreach $x (@keys) { print "$x "; print $chars[rand($#chars)]; print $chars[rand($#chars)]; $cnt++; if ($cnt == 3) {
print "\n";
$cnt = 0;
} else {
print " "; } } if ($cnt != 3) {
print "\n"; }
I had to remove whitespace to fix Slashdot's "Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted." filter. Reformat according to taste.
People don't buy games based on framerate though, they buy them based on how cool the screenshots are and sometimes what the reviews are like and what games are popular. People LOVE the games that have the best story, enjoyment, and gameplay. Those are the games that are considered classics. Too often though gamers spend money on stuff that looks cool but isn't fun. It's unfortunate.
The Kent State protest didn't result in a revolution and neither did the Tiananmen square protests. Revolutions that start with university students protesting in public end with university students getting shot in public. Successful revolutions start with powerful, well-respected people meeting in secret behind closed doors and waiting until the right time to commit to their intentions (e.g., American revolution).
coupled with research restrictions (e.g., stem cells).
There are no restrictions on research with stem cells in the United States. The restriction is on what the federal government will use taxpayer money to fund. Right now the federal government will not use tax revenues to pay for research projects using stem cells from embryos. They can get tax money for use on other types of stem cells or other types of more promising research work, but not stem cells from embroys. If they want to work on stem cells from embroys, researchers can pay for it themselves or get non-government groups to pay for it.
As no one really knows whether or not stem cell treatements will actually work, I don't think this restriction actually matters. Even if it does work, the U.S. still funds enormous amounts of university research in dozens of fields. Missing out on one potentially patentable biological device or process probably won't kill the U.S., as much as its critics might like it to.
By the way, biotech firms sucessfully duped California voters into passing a $3 billion bill to fund stem cell research from California taxes.
One of the only forms of income in the U.S. that is not taxed is money awarded from lawsuits. This may be one reason why Americans seem to like to sue each other so much.
Uncle Sam takes a third, but the state he lives in takes a cut too. It's probably worse if they tax him in California. That might be another 10%. Plus, California voters just passed an extra 1% tax on income earned over $1 million. I guess that would be an extra $15,000 in taxes he'd have to pay if it's CA.
He should probably call H&R Block as soon as Jeopardy cuts them the check.
Ahh... It's been a while. I remember back when that was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. There was so much great spin-off stuff too, like the clip of the girl who called the LoveLine radio show and said, "my boyfriend has this phrase he wants me to say during sex. It's 'all your base are belong to us'".
Yeah, it's kinda creepy, isn't it. I heard it on Love Line (late night sex question/answer radio show). It's probably less than 10% of the general population, but it's probably about 10% or so of the guys who go to strip clubs. Hell, I'd go more often too if I were in that group. I'd be done after 15 minutes and out only $20, instead of spending hours and at least $100.
The girls probably hate the 10% guys since they don't make as much money.
Prices on books in Japan are pretty much fixed. The price including or excluding tax (which is a standard 5% across the country) are printed on the book by the publisher. I guess there are discounters, but Amazon doesn't seem to be one of them. All prices there seem to be standard, or maybe 5% or so off.
Japan does other weird things like splitting books into two halves. I'm not sure what purpose this serves, since usually they're sold together. I guess you could maybe buy the first half and then decide if you want to buy and read the second half or not. Maybe it's easier to hold one small book at a time rather than one large book.
My kanji and vocabulary are so weak that all I can read are manga for kids. Even then, I need a dictionary, and I'm probably picking up all kinds of weird childish or goofy expressions.
Maybe he's one of those fortunate 10% of men who can have an orgasm from a lap dance at a strip club. Most guys will just end up handing over 20 after 20 and end up jerking off later at home.
Also, I wouldn't count on pussy in your face/lap at a titty bar. Last time I checked around here, the places that were all nude weren't allowed to serve alcohol. To put it in geeky terminology, the law is "all nude XOR alcohol". Yeah, I don't get any either.
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And let's not forget the interstate highway system,
The FCC is probably a better analogy.
Is an acronym in English.
English acronym is a reference to Asimov.
Japanese pronunciation is like "ashi mo" (legs too!).
Some may disagree, but I think that's cooler than the recursive acronyms used in free software.
Alyx from Half-Life 2 looks to be an excellent turnaround from all this, though. And she was hotter than all of those others.
You probably mean non-removable software, not uninstallable.
Don't take this guy's comments personally. This is slashdot. He's a troll. What he says might be true or it might not, but he's still being an asshole about it.
You're not a lawyer, are you?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Code usually isn't hard. Most programming languages are meant to be human readable as well as machine readable. There are exceptions, of course.
Actually, before I went to university, my main programming experience was extensive BBS hacking/rewriting.
1. Install Perl.
2. Copy the perl program code into a file called whatever.pl.
3. From a command prompt in the directory where the script file is located, execute perl whatever.pl.
You could also probably do it in PHP if you wanted. It would be very similar, though I don't know PHP so I couldn't help you with that.
People don't buy games based on framerate though, they buy them based on how cool the screenshots are and sometimes what the reviews are like and what games are popular. People LOVE the games that have the best story, enjoyment, and gameplay. Those are the games that are considered classics. Too often though gamers spend money on stuff that looks cool but isn't fun. It's unfortunate.
What about giving an url?
Maybe because everyone knows about Google.
The Kent State protest didn't result in a revolution and neither did the Tiananmen square protests. Revolutions that start with university students protesting in public end with university students getting shot in public. Successful revolutions start with powerful, well-respected people meeting in secret behind closed doors and waiting until the right time to commit to their intentions (e.g., American revolution).
coupled with research restrictions (e.g., stem cells).
There are no restrictions on research with stem cells in the United States. The restriction is on what the federal government will use taxpayer money to fund. Right now the federal government will not use tax revenues to pay for research projects using stem cells from embryos. They can get tax money for use on other types of stem cells or other types of more promising research work, but not stem cells from embroys. If they want to work on stem cells from embroys, researchers can pay for it themselves or get non-government groups to pay for it.
As no one really knows whether or not stem cell treatements will actually work, I don't think this restriction actually matters. Even if it does work, the U.S. still funds enormous amounts of university research in dozens of fields. Missing out on one potentially patentable biological device or process probably won't kill the U.S., as much as its critics might like it to.
By the way, biotech firms sucessfully duped California voters into passing a $3 billion bill to fund stem cell research from California taxes.
One of the only forms of income in the U.S. that is not taxed is money awarded from lawsuits. This may be one reason why Americans seem to like to sue each other so much.
Uncle Sam takes a third, but the state he lives in takes a cut too. It's probably worse if they tax him in California. That might be another 10%. Plus, California voters just passed an extra 1% tax on income earned over $1 million. I guess that would be an extra $15,000 in taxes he'd have to pay if it's CA.
He should probably call H&R Block as soon as Jeopardy cuts them the check.
they're batting for the other team.
With a double-ended bat, I presume.
You appear to be correct.
CGI is dead
Not until Netcraft confirms it.
I'm not THAT bad, really. At least, I hope not.
Ahh... It's been a while. I remember back when that was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. There was so much great spin-off stuff too, like the clip of the girl who called the LoveLine radio show and said, "my boyfriend has this phrase he wants me to say during sex. It's 'all your base are belong to us'".
Yeah, it's kinda creepy, isn't it. I heard it on Love Line (late night sex question/answer radio show). It's probably less than 10% of the general population, but it's probably about 10% or so of the guys who go to strip clubs. Hell, I'd go more often too if I were in that group. I'd be done after 15 minutes and out only $20, instead of spending hours and at least $100.
The girls probably hate the 10% guys since they don't make as much money.
Prices on books in Japan are pretty much fixed. The price including or excluding tax (which is a standard 5% across the country) are printed on the book by the publisher. I guess there are discounters, but Amazon doesn't seem to be one of them. All prices there seem to be standard, or maybe 5% or so off.
Japan does other weird things like splitting books into two halves. I'm not sure what purpose this serves, since usually they're sold together. I guess you could maybe buy the first half and then decide if you want to buy and read the second half or not. Maybe it's easier to hold one small book at a time rather than one large book.
My kanji and vocabulary are so weak that all I can read are manga for kids. Even then, I need a dictionary, and I'm probably picking up all kinds of weird childish or goofy expressions.
Maybe he's one of those fortunate 10% of men who can have an orgasm from a lap dance at a strip club. Most guys will just end up handing over 20 after 20 and end up jerking off later at home.
Also, I wouldn't count on pussy in your face/lap at a titty bar. Last time I checked around here, the places that were all nude weren't allowed to serve alcohol. To put it in geeky terminology, the law is "all nude XOR alcohol". Yeah, I don't get any either.
I thought IKEA was Swedish.