KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
Alice: First participant in all the protocols Bob: Second participant in all the protocols Carol: Participant in the three- and four-way protocols Dave: Participant in the four-way protocols Eve: Eavesdropper Mallory: Malicious active attacker Trent: Trusted arbitrator Walter: Warden; he'll be guarding Alice and Bob in some protocols Peggy: Prover Victor: Verifier
Because not everyone reads Fark. If slashdot never posted a story which anyone else linked to, it would never have any news. Sometimes there's a delay, but what do you expect?
But it's hard to see why a kernel hacker needs more than 2^7 characters.
Or more than 640KBytes of RAM. Or more than a 33MHz processor. For that matter, why do they need both uppercase and lowercase? Why do they want monitors? What's wrong with a VT100?
The days of "sorry, no accents or unAmerican characters" are over. Unicode support at every level would be a big help for non-US-English development.
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"This PC comes with Command Line Interface Technology!"
That wouldn't be a good idea, someone would be bound to make an acronym out of it. Okay, making Linux sound sexy may be a good thing, but you're taking it too far...
It was one of the conditions of the merger of AOL and TW. They were only allowed to merge if they met certain conditions (anti-monopoly measures), one of which was allowing interoperability with other IM clients.
Yes, they can. Basically, the compiler links your code to a GPLed library. Therefore, by the terms of the GPL, you are required to GPL your own app.
The 'commercial' versions don't do this, so you can license in any way you want.
For the curious, they link to the same library, but only with the commercial version do you get the dual license option (you can choose between GPL or a non-restricted license that way).
of a programming assignment (in z80 assembly) I was given -- basically a bit of number crunching. It was to be marked purely on execution speed, with the lecturer betting a considerable (to a student anyway) sum that no-one could beat his code. He was rather upset when I wrote something two orders of magnitude faster. I'd precalculated all the results and stuck them in a lookup table. I even aligned the lookup table in memory, so the entire thing was three ld operations.
Just bear that in mind when someone says speed is everything. If you've got time, give them a lookup table and see if they really mean that.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Troll community when last month the FBI confirmed that Vladinator accounted for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all complaints received. Coming on top of of the latest Slashdot survey which plainly states that Trolls have lost more page space, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by Geekizoid failing dead last in the recent ZDNet comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be Bob Cringely to predict a Troll's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Trolls face a bleak and miserable existance from now on. In fact there won't be any future at all for Trolls because Trolls are dying, with the few remaining members of the Troll population going off to write for Adequacy instead. Things are looking very bad for Trolls. As many of us are already aware, Trolls continue to lose market share to the cheaper Adequoid mass-marketing. Green ink flows like a river of blood. Anonymous Trolls are the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Former Troll leader Vladinator states that there are 7000 Anonymous Trolls, all of which are him. How many Trolls with names are there? Let's see. The number of Anonymous versus Named posts on/. is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Trolls with names. Fake Troll posts on/. are about half of the volume of Named Troll posts. Therefore there are about 700 Trolls with fake names. A recent article put/. Editorial Trolls at about 80 percent of the Troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Editorial Trolls. This is consistent with the number of Editorial Troll/. posts.
Due to the troubles of Trolling, abysmal biting and so on, CompuServ went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sells another troubled product to goatsex Trolls. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to another Troll-Lover.
All major surveys show that Trolling has steadily declined in comment share. Trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Trolling is to survive at all it will be among Anonymous hobbyist dabblers. Trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Trolls are dead.
I know I'll get modded down for this. It'll sound too much like a certain *BSD post. Ah well...
I've been using perl since the Pink Camel. I've been using it a lot. Perl 5 is an extremely good language for quick scripting things. That's what it was designed for. Sure, you can do big projects in it, but it's not exactly ideal.
One of the goals of Perl 6 is to remove this problem. That's good. The way it's being done is bad. Perl was once a lightweight, extremely flexible language. Now it's become a huge ugly monster. People wanted OO, so a nasty hack was bolted on top to allow some semblance of it. Now this nasty hack is being expanded. Sure, the code's different, but the basic form is the same.
The same goes for the syntax. All the switching between $, @ and % is really irritating (ask a newbie how to get at a hash inside a hash, for example), and the changes proposed for 6 are just making this worse. Perl was only designed for the three data types, and adding more is a mess.
Perl 6 is a complete rewrite, but it keeps all the mess which has accumulated over the previous versions. This is not good. Sure, my const int $var = 27; may look neat, but $var isn't entirely constant, or entirely an integer, it's just a hack which makes it sort of behave like one.
I won't be going on to use 6. It's a nice idea, but it's completely unnecessary. It won't make large projects any easier to manage (the language is still, at heart, an almighty hack -- an impressive one, but still a hack). It won't make OO any cleaner. It won't make development any faster.
Perl 6 will be nice, but I'm guessing it will be the end of Perl. It can't do what it wants to do whilst still being based upon a nasty mess. There are now other options (and if that link didn't get me a -1, Troll I don't know what will...), which provide all of Perl's power and none of the mess. Sorry, but *BSD, erm, Perl is dying.
There was one bit right at the end when he was walking round telling Obi Wan he could train Manakin. The "Agree with you the council does" bit was CGed.
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"though I haven't verified this yet"
You're posting to slashdot. Of course you haven't verified it.
A better place to ask this would be the cypherpunks or wasabisystems.com crypto mailing lists...
KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
From Applied Cryptography:
Alice: First participant in all the protocols
Bob: Second participant in all the protocols
Carol: Participant in the three- and four-way protocols
Dave: Participant in the four-way protocols
Eve: Eavesdropper
Mallory: Malicious active attacker
Trent: Trusted arbitrator
Walter: Warden; he'll be guarding Alice and Bob in some protocols
Peggy: Prover
Victor: Verifier
There's a difference? I thought they were the same thing...
Michael's only interest is in bashing Seth.
Because not everyone reads Fark. If slashdot never posted a story which anyone else linked to, it would never have any news. Sometimes there's a delay, but what do you expect?
Or more than 640KBytes of RAM. Or more than a 33MHz processor. For that matter, why do they need both uppercase and lowercase? Why do they want monitors? What's wrong with a VT100?
The days of "sorry, no accents or unAmerican characters" are over. Unicode support at every level would be a big help for non-US-English development.
It was one of the conditions of the merger of AOL and TW. They were only allowed to merge if they met certain conditions (anti-monopoly measures), one of which was allowing interoperability with other IM clients.
Yes, they can. Basically, the compiler links your code to a GPLed library. Therefore, by the terms of the GPL, you are required to GPL your own app.
The 'commercial' versions don't do this, so you can license in any way you want.
For the curious, they link to the same library, but only with the commercial version do you get the dual license option (you can choose between GPL or a non-restricted license that way).
of a programming assignment (in z80 assembly) I was given -- basically a bit of number crunching. It was to be marked purely on execution speed, with the lecturer betting a considerable (to a student anyway) sum that no-one could beat his code. He was rather upset when I wrote something two orders of magnitude faster. I'd precalculated all the results and stuck them in a lookup table. I even aligned the lookup table in memory, so the entire thing was three ld operations.
Just bear that in mind when someone says speed is everything. If you've got time, give them a lookup table and see if they really mean that.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Troll community when last month the FBI confirmed that Vladinator accounted for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all complaints received. Coming on top of of the latest Slashdot survey which plainly states that Trolls have lost more page space, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by Geekizoid failing dead last in the recent ZDNet comprehensive networking test.
/. is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Trolls with names. Fake Troll posts on /. are about half of the volume of Named Troll posts. Therefore there are about 700 Trolls with fake names. A recent article put /. Editorial Trolls at about 80 percent of the Troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Editorial Trolls. This is consistent with the number of Editorial Troll /. posts.
You don't need to be Bob Cringely to predict a Troll's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Trolls face a bleak and miserable existance from now on. In fact there won't be any future at all for Trolls because Trolls are dying, with the few remaining members of the Troll population going off to write for Adequacy instead. Things are looking very bad for Trolls. As many of us are already aware, Trolls continue to lose market share to the cheaper Adequoid mass-marketing. Green ink flows like a river of blood. Anonymous Trolls are the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Former Troll leader Vladinator states that there are 7000 Anonymous Trolls, all of which are him. How many Trolls with names are there? Let's see. The number of Anonymous versus Named posts on
Due to the troubles of Trolling, abysmal biting and so on, CompuServ went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sells another troubled product to goatsex Trolls. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to another Troll-Lover.
All major surveys show that Trolling has steadily declined in comment share. Trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Trolling is to survive at all it will be among Anonymous hobbyist dabblers. Trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Trolls are dead.
I know I'll get modded down for this. It'll sound too much like a certain *BSD post. Ah well...
:)
I've been using perl since the Pink Camel. I've been using it a lot. Perl 5 is an extremely good language for quick scripting things. That's what it was designed for. Sure, you can do big projects in it, but it's not exactly ideal.
One of the goals of Perl 6 is to remove this problem. That's good. The way it's being done is bad. Perl was once a lightweight, extremely flexible language. Now it's become a huge ugly monster. People wanted OO, so a nasty hack was bolted on top to allow some semblance of it. Now this nasty hack is being expanded. Sure, the code's different, but the basic form is the same.
The same goes for the syntax. All the switching between $, @ and % is really irritating (ask a newbie how to get at a hash inside a hash, for example), and the changes proposed for 6 are just making this worse. Perl was only designed for the three data types, and adding more is a mess.
Perl 6 is a complete rewrite, but it keeps all the mess which has accumulated over the previous versions. This is not good. Sure, my const int $var = 27; may look neat, but $var isn't entirely constant, or entirely an integer, it's just a hack which makes it sort of behave like one.
I won't be going on to use 6. It's a nice idea, but it's completely unnecessary. It won't make large projects any easier to manage (the language is still, at heart, an almighty hack -- an impressive one, but still a hack). It won't make OO any cleaner. It won't make development any faster.
Perl 6 will be nice, but I'm guessing it will be the end of Perl. It can't do what it wants to do whilst still being based upon a nasty mess. There are now other options (and if that link didn't get me a -1, Troll I don't know what will...), which provide all of Perl's power and none of the mess. Sorry, but *BSD, erm, Perl is dying.
Okay, I'm done, you can mod me down now
What is this GNU/Linux of which you speak?
GNU/Hmmmm... GNU/Better GNU/post GNU/anonymously... GNU/Ach, GNU/why GNU/bother? GNU/It's GNU/only RMS/Karma.
There was one bit right at the end when he was walking round telling Obi Wan he could train Manakin. The "Agree with you the council does" bit was CGed.
gcc 2.x. Just not 2.96, because it doesn't exist.