why should a computer user possibly need to know the kernel version they're running (unless they're one of the ~1% of computer users that feed off that kind of stuff)? do you know the alloy composition of your screwdrivers?
apparently Gauss' teacher gave his class this puzzle (add up all the numbers from 1-100) to keep them occupied while he marked papers thinking it would take them a while. Gauss, of course, worked out the above solution within minutes. he was 8.
yeah, you have a point - don't try to write a class library when all you mean to do is write a program.
but on the other hand most tasks aren't as simple or well defined as 'Hello World'. remember the last time your boss/client said "hey can we change it to do [this]" and you groaned because [this] wasn't anywhere near the original spec and you knew how much work it would need to hack it in? at that point you're wishing you'd abstracted just a little bit more at the outset.
My corollary: the boss is always going to ask for something that you didn't expect. twice.
The grand-parent has a point, experience is the most valuable asset in any project. Regardless of choice of language, understading of the problem domain, or design paradigm, the knowlegde that certain approaches just wont work well is invaliable. Of course, finding the one that works the best, is a different question, but there again, experience will often lead to the more correct answer.
The article states that the reason we can run DirectX games on Linux is the same as the reason that we don't have to buy PCs from IBM. But I'm not sure that's the case.
When Compaq reverse engineered IBM's bios they had two separate teams, one to study (reverse engineer) IBMs BIOS and to write a detailed specification of its workings and another to interpret that spec and produce a working copy.
I wonder if TransGaming's developers work like this, or if they're just debugging DirectX on one machine and writing code on another?
If that's the case, does that put them in a difficult legal position?
It is, just use the control panel to add bindings for the 'Cycle Windows'/'Cycle windows backwards' key combos. I think they're bound to win-tab by default.
who are we trying to protect here? some visiting aliens who'd be smart enough to stay away if they saw an atmosphere filled with radiation from a disaster/war, or a bunch of mindless idiots who were foolish enough to blast themselves back into the stone-age?
fuck it, i say, if we're too stupid not to blow ourselves up then we deserve to die a long, horrible, toxic death from forgetting how to heed our own warnings.
the very real threat of nuclear disaster is much more important than the remote possibility that someone might stumble into nevada and not know what the hell's going on there. I can't believe taxpayer's mony was spent on this. Jesus, feed the starving children or something, for fuck's sake.
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why should a computer user possibly need to know the kernel version they're running (unless they're one of the ~1% of computer users that feed off that kind of stuff)? do you know the alloy composition of your screwdrivers?
maybe they chose to invest it in the future
a new class of troll. very good.
yup, i'd like to see Debian's dpkg/apt for cygwin...
it's not the tools: they're all GNU, and as you know, GNU's not Unix.
is it just something that implements read/write/fork/exec - a kernel? well, cygwin implements those.
you can use the 'ftp' user instead of 'anonymous'
how do you replace the selection with the contents of the clipboard?
shows my perl is fucked up, basically.
apparently Gauss' teacher gave his class this puzzle (add up all the numbers from 1-100) to keep them occupied while he marked papers thinking it would take them a while. Gauss, of course, worked out the above solution within minutes. he was 8.
ugh.
but on the other hand most tasks aren't as simple or well defined as 'Hello World'. remember the last time your boss/client said "hey can we change it to do [this]" and you groaned because [this] wasn't anywhere near the original spec and you knew how much work it would need to hack it in? at that point you're wishing you'd abstracted just a little bit more at the outset.
My corollary: the boss is always going to ask for something that you didn't expect. twice.
The grand-parent has a point, experience is the most valuable asset in any project. Regardless of choice of language, understading of the problem domain, or design paradigm, the knowlegde that certain approaches just wont work well is invaliable. Of course, finding the one that works the best, is a different question, but there again, experience will often lead to the more correct answer.
"Extremely cool" would be a lego robot that can build other logo robots. Or at least other lego stuff.
When Compaq reverse engineered IBM's bios they had two separate teams, one to study (reverse engineer) IBMs BIOS and to write a detailed specification of its workings and another to interpret that spec and produce a working copy.
I wonder if TransGaming's developers work like this, or if they're just debugging DirectX on one machine and writing code on another?
If that's the case, does that put them in a difficult legal position?
We need more crap on the internet.
Oh, wait...
maybe because many more people use it than know what '2.4.18' or 'gcc' means?
Yeah, like the /. community will ever be able to agree on anything! Sheesh.
try win-left/win-right?
sawfish has options to change this. i believe there's bunch of defaults (windows, motif, next, macos)
It is, just use the control panel to add bindings for the 'Cycle Windows'/'Cycle windows backwards' key combos. I think they're bound to win-tab by default.
1) It reads right in english.
2) It's type-safe in C++ for -Wall.
3) It doesn't use antequated or obfuscated C-isms.
I can't stand things like: ;;
...
#define ever
for (ever) {
Counter-suit.
i'm not necessarily assuming that we stick around. i'm just saying that if we do we can change the signs, and if we don't then it doesn't matter.
and the ejyptians didn't even mention that in their scribblings.
who are we trying to protect here? some visiting aliens who'd be smart enough to stay away if they saw an atmosphere filled with radiation from a disaster/war, or a bunch of mindless idiots who were foolish enough to blast themselves back into the stone-age?
fuck it, i say, if we're too stupid not to blow ourselves up then we deserve to die a long, horrible, toxic death from forgetting how to heed our own warnings.
the very real threat of nuclear disaster is much more important than the remote possibility that someone might stumble into nevada and not know what the hell's going on there. I can't believe taxpayer's mony was spent on this. Jesus, feed the starving children or something, for fuck's sake.