Re:There is an improved VB...
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Delphi's nothing to do with VB. Delphi was the counter to VB by MS's arch-enemy, Borland, and was an evolution of their TurboPascal. It's an imperative, object-based, language, but that's all it shares with VB.
Re:Performance, anyone?
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This reminds me of Greenspun's Tenth Rule:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
As long as it can send mail, that's the only feature that matters (and whose rule is that?).
"This makes no sense. If Timbaland lives and works in the US, and is restricted by US laws, why should he answer to any court in Finland? "
Because of this little thing called the Berne Convention: """ (1) The protection of this Convention shall apply to: (a) authors who are nationals of one of the countries of the Union, for their works,... """ Janne's protected by the convention, the US is a signatory to the convention. 2 plus 2 is 4.
Don't debase tiddlywinks. It's a noble game played by honorable gentlemen with vicious streaks a mile wide.
Which reminds me, I was planning on forming a Finnish (or Scandinavian, or Nordic) tiddlywinks club; perhaps this dude might want to join, if your advice is actually sensible?
"Hip-hop was around before Rap became a part of it."
Absurd suggestion. The term hip-hop was first used by a *rapper* in what was probably the single biggest *rap* band at the time. Hip-hop was nothing more than a simple specialisation of a pre-existing genre.
All the white boys were stealing the black bluesmen's licks back in the 'All Stars' era. One can't lay the blame on just Jimmy Page.
And if you want weird-ass, you don't need jazz - Hendrix broke plenty of new ground. Sure Holdsworth makes his guitar sound like no-one else (though Vai has sometimes tried), but after a while (I once listened to about 8 albums in a day), I just thought "yes it was a cool sound once, get over it".
Changing over is possible. Look at Ireland. They performed the change in two phases. Firstly, they changed the speed limits to km/h, but somewhat bizarrely, left the distance signs in miles. Then in the last 2 years (was there a few weeks ago, and 2 years ago, and noticed the chance, but don't know exactly when it took place), they changed the distance signs to kilometers. (Or was it the other way round? Either way, it did strike me as being rather "Irish".) I hear now that Ireland is making plans to flip to the European side of the road too, which is a far bigger change.
... commissioned by a company that's a Microsoft partner. But no, honestly, it will be independent; we even paid extra for them to put "an independent study" in their abstract.
It/always/ happens, and I've not seen a "Upgrading to Vista is cheaper than Linux" report yet this year, so it's due some time soon.
Getting to the store during the daytime, right? So build it without lights, and it'll be smaller and lighter, so drive more quickly. Also build it without burglar alarm - that will save the battery, so that will last longer.
Lets try a little Milloy-style deduction, shall we?
That Wiki entry says: """ When another researcher published a study linking secondhand smoke to cancer, Milloy wrote that she, "…must have pictures of journal editors in compromising positions with farm animals. How else can you explain her studies seeing the light of day? """
So, how can we explain Milloy's blatherings reaching reaching the light of day on junksciece.com? He must have pictures of the web-page editor in compromising positions with farm animals. He, however, it the junkscience.com editor. Therefore he has pictures of himself in compromising positions with farm animals.
I think we can all agree to the likelyhood of that.
"Correlation does not *necessarily* imply causation but it gives you the right to be damned suspicious that it does."
No, no, no, no, no. That's bad science. That's tabloid scare-mongering science, it's not real science.
Strong correlation gives you the right to invent and investigate testable hypotheses for causation, and to publish those results for reproduction or refutation by others. However, you had that right anyway, it's just that it's statistically easier to distinguish significance from noise when the correlation is strong.
The article was so badly written it was hard to know if it knew whether it was talking about base stations of handsets. And it only mentioned "general purpose processors such as the Intel Pentium or Xeon".
I can assure you that there are plenty of general purpose processors (such as the Power Architecture) in base stations, and plenty of general purpose processors (such as ARMs) in handsets already. I in no way take a "such as" in such a poorly written article as any indication that pentia or Xeons are the ones that will actually be used.
And ARMs do now have a vector floating point architectureal extension, so it's not necessarily such a large ratio any more.
Straw man. You can get general purpose CPUs, such as ARMs but there are many others, which consume less power than many DSPs. Just because you can name a CPU with high power drain doesn't mean that CPUs use more power than DSPs.
It is if you also need to keep a general purpose CPU active while your custom hardware is doing its stuff. Most of the RF stuff's done in a dedicated RF chip anyway, the modem processor (be it a DSP, GPCPU, or custom ASIC) just processes a string of 0s and 1s.
Parent was not a troll, parent was certainly stating a simple earnestly-held view.
If you look at the Arabic root of the word 'Allah' it literally just means 'The God'. It's no more a _name_ of any god that there might be than 'God' is. 'Lah' is effectively the 'God' part, but nouns don't really start to mean anything until given some context, and 'al-' is basically the equivalent of a definitite article. (which is why it can be seen in so many words, many of which have made it into English. Algebra, alcohol, admiral, even Guadalajara.)
So asking those calling in to say "Allah is a whore" is exactly equivalent to asking them to say "Dios is a whore" "Deus is a whore" "Deva is a whore" "Jumala is a whore" "Gott is a whore" and of course... "God is a whore" because non-English languages have that as their word or god too.
Yup, and if we're going to mention 2 text-mode browsers, I feel obliged to name-drop my favourite - w3m. Particularly fun when run in an Xterm or similar...
Just because you are too stupid to understand something does not make it incoherent.
It's a very simple concept to anonymously make somethig public. Think of governmental or business leaks. The information becomes public. The identity of the source is unknown. Someone, anonymously, has made something, with which they have some involvement, public.
My emails are as public as my postcards. However, I have copyright over all the material within. Thus no-one may redistribute them without my express permission. My telephone calls are covered by a promise of privacy by the carrier that has the licence for service provision here, and therefore are non-public.
What have either emails or telephone calls got to do with stuff some slut sticks on a blog?
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Delphi's nothing to do with VB. Delphi was the counter to VB by MS's arch-enemy, Borland, and was an evolution of their TurboPascal. It's an imperative, object-based, language, but that's all it shares with VB.
This reminds me of Greenspun's Tenth Rule:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
As long as it can send mail, that's the only feature that matters (and whose rule is that?).
"This makes no sense. If Timbaland lives and works in the US, and is restricted by US laws, why should he answer to any court in Finland? "
Because of this little thing called the Berne Convention:
"""
(1) The protection of this Convention shall apply to:
(a) authors who are nationals of one of the countries of the Union, for their works,...
"""
Janne's protected by the convention, the US is a signatory to the convention. 2 plus 2 is 4.
Don't debase tiddlywinks. It's a noble game played by honorable gentlemen with vicious streaks a mile wide.
Which reminds me, I was planning on forming a Finnish (or Scandinavian, or Nordic) tiddlywinks club; perhaps this dude might want to join, if your advice is actually sensible?
Milli, not Neli.
I wish I didn't know that.
"Hip-hop was around before Rap became a part of it."
Absurd suggestion. The term hip-hop was first used by a *rapper* in what was probably the single biggest *rap* band at the time. Hip-hop was nothing more than a simple specialisation of a pre-existing genre.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - White lines. ... and Melle Mel depending on which country you heard it in, I believe)
(or
But I can't remember _any_ since!
FatPhil - old-school metaller, can you tell?
All the white boys were stealing the black bluesmen's licks back in the 'All Stars'
era. One can't lay the blame on just Jimmy Page.
And if you want weird-ass, you don't need jazz - Hendrix broke plenty of new ground.
Sure Holdsworth makes his guitar sound like no-one else (though Vai has sometimes tried),
but after a while (I once listened to about 8 albums in a day), I just thought "yes it
was a cool sound once, get over it".
FatPhil
Thanks for the clarification. Quite why my memories of Irelend aren't 100% clear, I simply can't imagine!
Erm, care to reconsider?
Close enough for military work.
Changing over is possible. Look at Ireland. They performed the change in two phases. Firstly, they changed the speed limits to km/h, but somewhat bizarrely, left the distance signs in miles. Then in the last 2 years (was there a few weeks ago, and 2 years ago, and noticed the chance, but don't know exactly when it took place), they changed the distance signs to kilometers. (Or was it the other way round? Either way, it did strike me as being rather "Irish".) I hear now that Ireland is making plans to flip to the European side of the road too, which is a far bigger change.
Miles, being an exact multiple of feet, which are an exact multiple of inches, are metric.
Yes, inches are metric, as they are now _defined_ as an exact multiple of the standard metric unit.
tish boom!
... commissioned by a company that's a Microsoft partner. But no, honestly, it will be independent; we even paid extra for them to put "an independent study" in their abstract.
/always/ happens, and I've not seen a "Upgrading to Vista is cheaper than Linux" report yet this year, so it's due some time soon.
It
Getting to the store during the daytime, right?
So build it without lights, and it'll be smaller and lighter, so drive more quickly.
Also build it without burglar alarm - that will save the battery, so that will last longer.
They missed one important detail:
-O6 -funroll-loops
There, now the article's complete!
Lets try a little Milloy-style deduction, shall we?
That Wiki entry says:
"""
When another researcher published a study linking secondhand smoke to cancer, Milloy wrote that she, "…must have pictures of journal editors in compromising positions with farm animals. How else can you explain her studies seeing the light of day?
"""
So, how can we explain Milloy's blatherings reaching reaching the light of day on junksciece.com? He must have pictures of the web-page editor in compromising positions with farm animals. He, however, it the junkscience.com editor. Therefore he has pictures of himself in compromising positions with farm animals.
I think we can all agree to the likelyhood of that.
You can't beat logic!
"Correlation does not *necessarily* imply causation but it gives you the right to be damned suspicious that it does."
No, no, no, no, no. That's bad science. That's tabloid scare-mongering science, it's not real science.
Strong correlation gives you the right to invent and investigate testable hypotheses for causation, and to publish those results for reproduction or refutation by others. However, you had that right anyway, it's just that it's statistically easier to distinguish significance from noise when the correlation is strong.
The article was so badly written it was hard to know if it knew whether it was talking about base stations of handsets. And it only mentioned "general purpose processors such as the Intel Pentium or Xeon".
I can assure you that there are plenty of general purpose processors (such as the Power Architecture) in base stations, and plenty of general purpose processors (such as ARMs) in handsets already. I in no way take a "such as" in such a poorly written article as any indication that pentia or Xeons are the ones that will actually be used.
And ARMs do now have a vector floating point architectureal extension, so it's not necessarily such a large ratio any more.
Straw man. You can get general purpose CPUs, such as ARMs but there are many others, which consume less power than many DSPs. Just because you can name a CPU with high power drain doesn't mean that CPUs use more power than DSPs.
It is if you also need to keep a general purpose CPU active while your custom hardware is doing its stuff. Most of the RF stuff's done in a dedicated RF chip anyway, the modem processor (be it a DSP, GPCPU, or custom ASIC) just processes a string of 0s and 1s.
Parent was not a troll, parent was certainly stating a simple earnestly-held view.
If you look at the Arabic root of the word 'Allah' it literally just means 'The God'. It's no more a _name_ of any god that there might be than 'God' is. 'Lah' is effectively the 'God' part, but nouns don't really start to mean anything until given some context, and 'al-' is basically the equivalent of a definitite article. (which is why it can be seen in so many words, many of which have made it into English. Algebra, alcohol, admiral, even Guadalajara.)
So asking those calling in to say "Allah is a whore" is exactly equivalent to asking them to say
"Dios is a whore"
"Deus is a whore"
"Deva is a whore"
"Jumala is a whore"
"Gott is a whore"
and of course...
"God is a whore"
because non-English languages have that as their word or god too.
Yup, and if we're going to mention 2 text-mode browsers, I feel obliged to name-drop my favourite - w3m. Particularly fun when run in an Xterm or similar...
Just because you are too stupid to understand something does not make it incoherent.
It's a very simple concept to anonymously make somethig public. Think of governmental or business leaks. The information becomes public. The identity of the source is unknown. Someone, anonymously, has made something, with which they have some involvement, public.
My emails are as public as my postcards. However, I have copyright over all the material within. Thus no-one may redistribute them without my express permission. My telephone calls are covered by a promise of privacy by the carrier that has the licence for service provision here, and therefore are non-public.
What have either emails or telephone calls got to do with stuff some slut sticks on a blog?