list[-1] is the last item in the list. To anyone coming from a functional programming background (such as lisp), the head of the list is the first element and the tail is everything else.
Lisp style cons lists are essentially a big nested set of tuples
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
translates to
(1, (2, (3, (4, (5, _)))))
so head (the lisp CAR) is the first element of this two item tuple, tail (lisp's CDR) is the 2nd element, or the rest of the list.
OK, so, under the DMCA, Sklyarov was taken to court for breaking a little security on PDFs, yet this guy can actively hack private networks and be portrayed as some sort of super-sleuth? Not only does he admit to being an ex-hacker, but he's using metaphors that imply illegal activities...
It depends on what you mean by 'support a family'. I live in a 375sf studio apartment that costs me $375/mo, utilities paid for. Two units down from me is a family of 3. You might not be able to support your family with a new SUV and a sportscar for yourself, $100 shoes for the kid, every new wiz-bang techno-toy that ocmes out and the like, but keeping them alive isn't that hard...
Lets face it; if you don't have education/training/skills then you can't rightfully expect a higher standard of living.
Shouldn't be too far off... the story about the diskless Lindows-on-a-CD systems had the single unit prices at $189. If there was a real demand for cheap thin-clients, I'm sure that Dell/Gateway/whoever could do one of those integrated-into-the LCD models for $50-75 over the cost of the monitro if there was any real demand for them.
To cary your analogy out, It's like trying to build a new car that doesn't quite fit on the existing roads and when you DO get your new automobile to fit on the roads, GM goes the roads so that your car still can't drive on them.
It's bad enough that web designers are specifying things like this. It's not just crap sites, but 'serious' commercial sites that use small-ass fonts that don't respond to IE's 'Text Size' modifications. I'm not sure who to blame more... MSFT, for not letting IE work, or the webmonkies who are convinced that their page must look EXACTLY like they want it to.
Q: In the example you used, both new poems still suck. Doesn't seem like evolution to me.
A: That's not technically a question, but it's true: breeding two poems won't necessarily produce a better poem. In fact, if either poem is any good to start with, it will probably produce a worse poem. But sometimes something better will be produced, and such offspring will tend to survive a long time, producing many more offspring. Evolution is all about preserving those rare beneficial developments amidst a sea of failed genetic experiments.
I'm getting sick of seeing FAQ authors that think they're witty use lines like this. It's not really original, and it was only halfway funny the first time I saw it; really... my jr. high history teacher had a better sense of humor than this.
But, do they have the right to download -my- rip of the song? I put work into ripping and encoding the song, clearly a derivative work. While they may be the original copyright owners, does that give them the automatic right to own whatever I do based on it (even if I don't have the right to distribute it).
If you've looked into any engineering/CS/physics/etc graduate programs in the US, you'll notice that Indian students make up a significant percentage of the student populations. By giving out these student visas, we've slit our own throats.
My only question is, how, at $6k/yr, are they going to pay back the student loans for roughly $40k (for just a 2yr MS degree, paying private school or public, out of state, tuitions + living expenses) worth of education?
my god. I can't believe that any real business would be so fucking childish as to post the picture, name & address of their detractors. that right there, regardless of any of the other stuff surrounding it, is enough to put them on my shitlist.
No... we want it open-sourced and put into the kernel. Didn't you forget that binary-drivers are evil and we should boycott any company that releases them?
A CPU is not a heating element designed to convert power to heat; some of the power actually gets used flipping bits and stuff like that. I can't really say how much, but, pulling a random number out of my ass, the real power consumption probably wouldn't be more than about 65W, based on the dif'c in other CPUs I've looked at.
Just for comparison, Intel lists the 2.4GHz P4 (non hyperthreading with the 533FSB) as having a 59.8W "thermal design power",which is the max ammount of waste heat the unit generates, so the chip's actuall power consumption is going to be a bit higher.
Well, they don't really want to target the workstation market with this since doing so would probably hurt relations with Apple (and possibly violate some clause in their contracts). It's really too bad; these things, if marketed right and given some graphics horsepower, make some inroads into the low->mid range workstation market. Right now the market's kinda ugly; low-cost x86 systems and overpriced, underpowered boxes from the 'traditional' workstation vendors (sun, hp, sgi, ibm).
You're spending $150 on a CDR (when good ones can be had for $50), $150 on a case (should be able to get a decent aluminum case for half that), $200 on a mobo ($100-150 gets you a really good board) and $30 for rounded cables (nice, but not really worth the money if it's tight) and you're whinging about spending $50-60 for a video card that doesn't completely suck (price range for GF4mx / GF fx5200 / Radeon 9[0,1,2]00)? I'm not even going to go into the insanity of spending $200 on XP, when you could pull an OEM copy for less than half that.
On top of that, if you look at pricewatch, Radeon 7500s cost almost as much as the 8500s, 9000s, 9100s and 9200s (as well as the nVidia entries in that price range); I get the feeling that you must really like throwing away your money.
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Faster at what? What kinda boxes are we talking? Can you at least make up some numbers?
list[-1] is the last item in the list. To anyone coming from a functional programming background (such as lisp), the head of the list is the first element and the tail is everything else.
Lisp style cons lists are essentially a big nested set of tuples
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
translates to
(1, (2, (3, (4, (5, _)))))
so head (the lisp CAR) is the first element of this two item tuple, tail (lisp's CDR) is the 2nd element, or the rest of the list.
OK, so, under the DMCA, Sklyarov was taken to court for breaking a little security on PDFs, yet this guy can actively hack private networks and be portrayed as some sort of super-sleuth? Not only does he admit to being an ex-hacker, but he's using metaphors that imply illegal activities...
It depends on what you mean by 'support a family'. I live in a 375sf studio apartment that costs me $375/mo, utilities paid for. Two units down from me is a family of 3. You might not be able to support your family with a new SUV and a sportscar for yourself, $100 shoes for the kid, every new wiz-bang techno-toy that ocmes out and the like, but keeping them alive isn't that hard...
Lets face it; if you don't have education/training/skills then you can't rightfully expect a higher standard of living.
Shouldn't be too far off... the story about the diskless Lindows-on-a-CD systems had the single unit prices at $189. If there was a real demand for cheap thin-clients, I'm sure that Dell/Gateway/whoever could do one of those integrated-into-the LCD models for $50-75 over the cost of the monitro if there was any real demand for them.
To cary your analogy out, It's like trying to build a new car that doesn't quite fit on the existing roads and when you DO get your new automobile to fit on the roads, GM goes the roads so that your car still can't drive on them.
You might want to consider setting one up when 2.6.0 hits
It's bad enough that web designers are specifying things like this. It's not just crap sites, but 'serious' commercial sites that use small-ass fonts that don't respond to IE's 'Text Size' modifications. I'm not sure who to blame more... MSFT, for not letting IE work, or the webmonkies who are convinced that their page must look EXACTLY like they want it to.
Corporate interests may be getting police powers, but I still have the right to bear arms; there's a reason we've got it.
Well, the Book Review Guidelines don't say anywhere that you shouldn't ruin the story for readers...
I'm getting sick of seeing FAQ authors that think they're witty use lines like this. It's not really original, and it was only halfway funny the first time I saw it; really... my jr. high history teacher had a better sense of humor than this.
It'll probably happen right after the US ecconnomy is made up of unemployed consumers that've had their jobs shipped overseas.
So much for saying "motefuce so tat s it"
Looks like O'Reilly woodcut stuff.
But, do they have the right to download -my- rip of the song? I put work into ripping and encoding the song, clearly a derivative work. While they may be the original copyright owners, does that give them the automatic right to own whatever I do based on it (even if I don't have the right to distribute it).
If you've looked into any engineering/CS/physics/etc graduate programs in the US, you'll notice that Indian students make up a significant percentage of the student populations. By giving out these student visas, we've slit our own throats.
My only question is, how, at $6k/yr, are they going to pay back the student loans for roughly $40k (for just a 2yr MS degree, paying private school or public, out of state, tuitions + living expenses) worth of education?
Don't forget the plumbers and janitors!!!
my god. I can't believe that any real business would be so fucking childish as to post the picture, name & address of their detractors. that right there, regardless of any of the other stuff surrounding it, is enough to put them on my shitlist.
No... we want it open-sourced and put into the kernel. Didn't you forget that binary-drivers are evil and we should boycott any company that releases them?
A CPU is not a heating element designed to convert power to heat; some of the power actually gets used flipping bits and stuff like that. I can't really say how much, but, pulling a random number out of my ass, the real power consumption probably wouldn't be more than about 65W, based on the dif'c in other CPUs I've looked at.
Just for comparison, Intel lists the 2.4GHz P4 (non hyperthreading with the 533FSB) as having a 59.8W "thermal design power",which is the max ammount of waste heat the unit generates, so the chip's actuall power consumption is going to be a bit higher.
Well, they don't really want to target the workstation market with this since doing so would probably hurt relations with Apple (and possibly violate some clause in their contracts). It's really too bad; these things, if marketed right and given some graphics horsepower, make some inroads into the low->mid range workstation market. Right now the market's kinda ugly; low-cost x86 systems and overpriced, underpowered boxes from the 'traditional' workstation vendors (sun, hp, sgi, ibm).
She sure as hell does count when she's rolling out of -my- bed.
You're spending $150 on a CDR (when good ones can be had for $50), $150 on a case (should be able to get a decent aluminum case for half that), $200 on a mobo ($100-150 gets you a really good board) and $30 for rounded cables (nice, but not really worth the money if it's tight) and you're whinging about spending $50-60 for a video card that doesn't completely suck (price range for GF4mx / GF fx5200 / Radeon 9[0,1,2]00)? I'm not even going to go into the insanity of spending $200 on XP, when you could pull an OEM copy for less than half that.
On top of that, if you look at pricewatch, Radeon 7500s cost almost as much as the 8500s, 9000s, 9100s and 9200s (as well as the nVidia entries in that price range); I get the feeling that you must really like throwing away your money.