And what about the idiot riding your bumper? Hope he doesn't smash into you at 65 mph?
> The moral of this (exceptional circumstance) story is don't overtake roadtrains > when it not safe to do so.
No, the moral of this story is that SHIT HAPPENS and you need to be able to REACT when it does.
> Correct technique is to flash lights and make yourself seen, and use that horn.
Assuming that another driver on the road will see you and make you safe is just plain old stupid. What if said trucker was falling asleep? Having a heart attack? Drunk?
You seem to assume that accidents can't happen when you're driving without error. Sadly, this is simply not true. And if you'd like me to prove you wrong, give me your address and license plate number, and I'll smash into you when you're least expecting it.
A fellow at my dad's office (government...) was tasked with purchasing a box of 3.5" floppy disks (this was several years ago). He purchased a pallette instead.
Man, I had disks to spare all through high school.
> Almost all of the stuff you list came much later, in Windows 95, 98, etc.
FWIW, I have crystal clear memories of trying to get some internet software working on OS 2.1 -- Trumpet Winsock, maybe? -- because it was lacking Win32s.
I can't be 100% certain, but I'm fairly confident that Win32s came along before Windows 3.11 and before Windows 95.
> Now, in my opinion, OS/2 died for a lot of reasons.
NO APPS.
There were precious few apps worth using on OS/2 until Warp came out.
> Couldn't you have used the same argument to defend IE's extensions to DOM?
Damned straight. I'm no Microsoft apologist, but they clearly document which DOM functions are W3C and which are proprietary.
I have a book which is five years old from MS Press which documents each and every object, collection, property and method -- and the standard they belong to -- in IE4/5.
I have DHTML which I wrote for IE4 which still runs perfectly on FireFox.
For that matter, making a LOT of my code work with modern browsers was just a matter of changing the browser detection code from "if ie" to "not if netscape".
Now, if only the W3C would come out with something as powerful, elgant, and simple as the tabular data control. I'd LOVE to use it for real code. (for an example -- http://ninja250.kingston.net/ex250f-torque.html -- I turned a spreadsheet into a webpage in about 10 minutes. Ignore the Javascript, it's just for unit conversion. The HTML is what's interesting)
I also would not want microsoft to get rid of the HTA support in IE. It's simply awesome; it's a great way for a web-competent programmer to write simple GUIs for Windows without learning any new tools. I have written several simple applications which are IE/HTA in the front end, and cygwin/bash or cygwin/C in the back end.
This isn't a case of 'embrace and extend', microsoft-style -- this is a case of extra functionality needed to write extensions. Any web developer using these for public apps is clearly a butt-head.
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Only in C++. This behaviour isn't required in C, because constructors don't have side effects.
...although done will probably be optimized out under reasonable conditions anyhow.
A better nitpick would be to suggest the replacement of
int done = 0;
while (!done)
{
if (test_condition)
done = 1;
}
with
for (;;)
{
if (test_condition)
break;
}
Mine do, but only when you're not looking at them.
This is more like swimming in a pool left unfenced in the owner's front yard.
TWICE in TWO DAYS??!?!?!
/ 06/0217252&tid=193&tid=17 )
Mother of God, there must be a lot of War Drivers in Florida!
I wonder if Jeb Bush will start an anti-WiFi war?
(Yesterday's arrest here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07
..anybody have an easy way to switch over customized .xml/.xsl files from the mygmaps "GMaps Standalone" project to the new API?
> Hit the anchors and the truck is gone.
And what about the idiot riding your bumper? Hope he doesn't smash into you at 65 mph?
> The moral of this (exceptional circumstance) story is don't overtake roadtrains
> when it not safe to do so.
No, the moral of this story is that SHIT HAPPENS and you need to be able to REACT when it does.
> Correct technique is to flash lights and make yourself seen, and use that horn.
Assuming that another driver on the road will see you and make you safe is just plain old stupid. What if said trucker was falling asleep? Having a heart attack? Drunk?
You seem to assume that accidents can't happen when you're driving without error. Sadly, this is simply not true. And if you'd like me to prove you wrong, give me your address and license plate number, and I'll smash into you when you're least expecting it.
Wow, the moderators here must not watch the Simpsons!
LOL.
A fellow at my dad's office (government...) was tasked with purchasing a box of 3.5" floppy disks (this was several years ago). He purchased a pallette instead.
Man, I had disks to spare all through high school.
grep 'tel$' /usr/share/lib/dict/words
Uh, you know that RIM developed the BlackBerry, right?
I'd hardly call that riding a submarine.
That's the border. If you look carefully, you can see Soviet Russians asking for your papers.
...hanging out with the Vikings.
WOW, I can't believe I never thought of that!
I think it's time for a T-Shirt...
Yeah. And their "News Groups" boggling product.. man, that was like Dejanews all over again!
> Almost all of the stuff you list came much later, in Windows 95, 98, etc.
FWIW, I have crystal clear memories of trying to get some internet software working on OS 2.1 -- Trumpet Winsock, maybe? -- because it was lacking Win32s.
I can't be 100% certain, but I'm fairly confident that Win32s came along before Windows 3.11 and before Windows 95.
> Now, in my opinion, OS/2 died for a lot of reasons.
NO APPS.
There were precious few apps worth using on OS/2 until Warp came out.
Sure they are, you can even add pieces and make your own document! You just can't call it by the same thing
The "original" Christians did it, the Catholics did it, the Mormons did it, the Christian Scientists did it..
Wow, far out, man!
It's like... ASCII Art in Calligula, instead of Lucida Console!
Jesus Christ, that was six years ago?
Seems like only yesterday!!
> I wonder if it will work just as *perfectly* on IE7.
It will if they don't deprecate the tabular data control. Did you RTFS?
Is that when the doctor who is supposed to be performing your vasectomy accidentally makes a sinusoidal cut, making you sing sky-high arias?
> Couldn't you have used the same argument to defend IE's extensions to DOM?
Damned straight. I'm no Microsoft apologist, but they clearly document which DOM functions are W3C and which are proprietary.
I have a book which is five years old from MS Press which documents each and every object, collection, property and method -- and the standard they belong to -- in IE4/5.
I have DHTML which I wrote for IE4 which still runs perfectly on FireFox.
For that matter, making a LOT of my code work with modern browsers was just a matter of changing the browser detection code from "if ie" to "not if netscape".
Now, if only the W3C would come out with something as powerful, elgant, and simple as the tabular data control. I'd LOVE to use it for real code. (for an example -- http://ninja250.kingston.net/ex250f-torque.html -- I turned a spreadsheet into a webpage in about 10 minutes. Ignore the Javascript, it's just for unit conversion. The HTML is what's interesting)
I also would not want microsoft to get rid of the HTA support in IE. It's simply awesome; it's a great way for a web-competent programmer to write simple GUIs for Windows without learning any new tools. I have written several simple applications which are IE/HTA in the front end, and cygwin/bash or cygwin/C in the back end.
Thanks!!!
This isn't a case of 'embrace and extend', microsoft-style -- this is a case of extra functionality needed to write extensions. Any web developer using these for public apps is clearly a butt-head.
> In theory, the +++ should be spaced in time similar to someone pressing keys.
No. It should be surrounded by one second of nothing. The inter-plus timing is irrelevant.