Man, that sure lends a new meaning to "Slashdot," doesn't it?
Yes, yes it does. That was the joke. I should have posted a link to the Slash code:
The source code for the site is called "Slash". The Slashdot Like Automated Story-telling Homepage. We've set up a site, using Slash, devoted to the development and use of Slash.
It was a troll you see. Moderators, do your duty! It has been at Score:1 for two hours already. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when I have to tell the moderators to mod down my own troll. Stupid, retarded, $3 crack smoking moderators.
The Adobe SVG Viewer plug-in is included with the Acrobat Reader download now, so it should be on a lot more computers soon.
Also, there's Batik, which is a Java-based SVG viewer plus some other tools.
VML does much less than SVG; it's pretty primitive in comparison. And it seems to have stagnated -- MS hasn't updated their support for it in IE for a long time.
I know saying Retarded Mod is redundant, but none the less... Who was the fuckwit that modded this as (-1, Offtopic)? It is already at -1, cuntstain! No wonder Slashdot is going down the shitter.
Heh, Turd Report, don't question the moderators. They are fickle -- who know's what motivates them to moderate one way or the other.
I wish I could post at a lower score. I face a dilemma: I wish to ask Turd Report a question and common courtesy requires that I be logged-in when doing so; but at the same time I can only post at Score:1, making my post stick out like dogs' balls to those good folks who read at Threshold:1.
No matter. Turd Report, I don't understand why Tuesday's turd (the chicken) only scored a 2. Here is a fascinating turd, I thought as I was reading the report, but was disapointed to see it score so low. I know it must have been an unpleasant experience, but often artists must suffer for their work.
Hard drive capacities are measured in powers of 10 (go to any HD maker's site and look at their spec sheets; they always have a footnote saying this). A petabyte, when talking about HDs, is 10^15 bytes precisely.
MB with a big B is megabytes
Mb with a small b is megabits
kB is kilobytes
kb is kilobits
(I don't think it matters much whether the K is big or small, but the convention in the sciences and engineering is to use a small k for kilo, big M for mega, and big G for giga.)
Also note that hard drive makers always use multiples of 1000 for their units:
1kB = 1000B
1MB = 1000kB
1GB = 1000MB
(RAM of course is always measured in multiples of 1024, e.g. 1GB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024B . And before anyone starts whining that the HD makers are ripping you off of those extra bytes, remember that using multiples of 1000 is an older convention in engineering.)
I'm glad I've got that off my chest. Now that you understand these conventions, I WON'T HAVE TO COME OVER AND KICK YOUR ASSES.
It's a great example of how an idea that seems good when discussing it in a CS class, falls apart where the rubber meets the road.
No, it's an example of a very real world thing called an engineering trade-off. They are trading-off feature richness for universality.
If someone needs a universal GUI library, and can live with the lack of features, then this could be a good solution. They are attempting to provide one solution to a particular problem. For free. That is commendable.
Exceptions and Design By Contract are all very good, but they still are bandaids on the problem. For example, Design By Contract is not really "design" at all, it's usually more like "Run With Contract".
Look at this: a = x / y
The above code snippet will crash if y is 0. Now, if you are a good DBC programmer you'll check y and throw an exception before attempting the division.
So, it seems like you've properly trapped the error, but that's not really the point. Can y in your code be 0 or can't it?
I think you are misunderstanding DBC. It's not a band aid; the whole point of it is to prevent errors in the first place. In principle at least, exceptions are never thrown in a correct DBC program (not counting exceptional circumstances that come from outside the program). The programmer can know (again, in principle) that y is not 0 because that condition would be expressed in a precondition, postcondition or invariant somewhere.
It may not happen that way in practice of course, but it is still a useful technique. As a design tool, it forces you to make decisions where they need to be made. As a debugging tool, bugs that otherwise might never be noticed, nasty subtle ones, tend to jump out at you.
I've never had the opportunity to write any real software in Eiffel, but I always use a "poor man's DBC" in C++ (ie. lots of assert statements, particularly for checking arguments to methods), and I've found it to be very useful indeed.
Why does it seem like there are as many people in the "community" criticizing open source as there are supporting it?
It's a backlash against the hype from not so long ago that said that closed-source software was not only technically inferior but also unethical to produce. Frankly it was pretty insulting.
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Balls. This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.
Churchill was twice the grammar troll you'll ever be.
That's what standards are for, such as CHRP and PPCP.
Apple couldn't compete with the clone makers who were releasing cheaper and superior hardware -- that's why the clones were killed.
Apple may have made the right business decision at the time; they were in bad shape and might not have survived. It's a pity though, I know I'd be using a PPC machine today (with a licensed copy of MacOS), instead of an Athlon machine, if they hadn't been killed.
They used a Soft Hyphen ( or ) character instead of a minus sign. Browsers are not supposed to display a Soft Hyphen unless the line is broken at that point.
But to her surprise, she found instead that the new material was magnetic even above 200 C. Until now, the highest temperature at which a non-metallic material was magnetic was 255 C. This record was held by a different form of buckyballs.
I can't make sense of that. 255C is higher than 200C. Did they mean -255C and -200C ?
(Rob, I just reread my post, and it sounded like an insult directed towards you. I didn't intend that -- I meant it to be directed to the/. story as a whole. Sorry.)
I haven't played Phantasy Star, but most RPGs don't require any quick-reflexes type of control; usually it's "point in some general direction and issue some commands". I think it could work okay on a table. Pity there isn't a bigger picture of it.
Yes, it's amusing to see these hyper-intelligent slashbots overlook a simple, low-tech solution like a table. It could also be placed on ones lap while sitting in chair.
What is this "table" you speak of? What is "chair"?
Kallahar, you misused the colon there. When addressing someone in written form, their name should be set off by commas. If the name occurs in the middle of a sentence, Kallahar, then it needs a pair of commas.
"Editors: You edit the..." means that it is the Editors saying "You edit..." (take a look at a script for a play sometime).
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Yes, yes it does. That was the joke. I should have posted a link to the Slash code:
It was a troll you see. Moderators, do your duty! It has been at Score:1 for two hours already. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when I have to tell the moderators to mod down my own troll. Stupid, retarded, $3 crack smoking moderators.
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Also, there's Batik, which is a Java-based SVG viewer plus some other tools.
VML does much less than SVG; it's pretty primitive in comparison. And it seems to have stagnated -- MS hasn't updated their support for it in IE for a long time.
Now to read the article!
Heh, Turd Report, don't question the moderators. They are fickle -- who know's what motivates them to moderate one way or the other.
I wish I could post at a lower score. I face a dilemma: I wish to ask Turd Report a question and common courtesy requires that I be logged-in when doing so; but at the same time I can only post at Score:1, making my post stick out like dogs' balls to those good folks who read at Threshold:1.
No matter. Turd Report, I don't understand why Tuesday's turd (the chicken) only scored a 2. Here is a fascinating turd, I thought as I was reading the report, but was disapointed to see it score so low. I know it must have been an unpleasant experience, but often artists must suffer for their work.
With 48 bits, and 512 bytes/sector, you have
2^48 * 512 = 144 115 188 075 855 872
which is enough to address 144 (HD) petabytes
144 PB = 144 000 000 000 000 000 bytes
A polygon is dead when it goes back to the Platonic realm of eternal forms.
All the games I've played recently worked fine in W2k. Win98 is crashed too easily by bugs in the games.
Neither you nor your girlfriend can reserve them why?
MB with a big B is megabytes
Mb with a small b is megabits
kB is kilobytes
kb is kilobits
(I don't think it matters much whether the K is big or small, but the convention in the sciences and engineering is to use a small k for kilo, big M for mega, and big G for giga.)
Also note that hard drive makers always use multiples of 1000 for their units:
1kB = 1000B
1MB = 1000kB
1GB = 1000MB
(RAM of course is always measured in multiples of 1024, e.g. 1GB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024B . And before anyone starts whining that the HD makers are ripping you off of those extra bytes, remember that using multiples of 1000 is an older convention in engineering.)
I'm glad I've got that off my chest. Now that you understand these conventions, I WON'T HAVE TO COME OVER AND KICK YOUR ASSES.
No, it's an example of a very real world thing called an engineering trade-off. They are trading-off feature richness for universality.
If someone needs a universal GUI library, and can live with the lack of features, then this could be a good solution. They are attempting to provide one solution to a particular problem. For free. That is commendable.
Look at this: a = x / y
The above code snippet will crash if y is 0. Now, if you are a good DBC programmer you'll check y and throw an exception before attempting the division.
So, it seems like you've properly trapped the error, but that's not really the point. Can y in your code be 0 or can't it?
I think you are misunderstanding DBC. It's not a band aid; the whole point of it is to prevent errors in the first place. In principle at least, exceptions are never thrown in a correct DBC program (not counting exceptional circumstances that come from outside the program). The programmer can know (again, in principle) that y is not 0 because that condition would be expressed in a precondition, postcondition or invariant somewhere.
It may not happen that way in practice of course, but it is still a useful technique. As a design tool, it forces you to make decisions where they need to be made. As a debugging tool, bugs that otherwise might never be noticed, nasty subtle ones, tend to jump out at you.
I've never had the opportunity to write any real software in Eiffel, but I always use a "poor man's DBC" in C++ (ie. lots of assert statements, particularly for checking arguments to methods), and I've found it to be very useful indeed.
It's a backlash against the hype from not so long ago that said that closed-source software was not only technically inferior but also unethical to produce. Frankly it was pretty insulting.
Churchill was twice the grammar troll you'll ever be.
You know, opinions are like assholes: everyone has one, and ... I forget how the rest of it goes. Something about g**ts probably.
I like to say "nuff said" as often as possible, and also "now, don't get me wrong".
Apple couldn't compete with the clone makers who were releasing cheaper and superior hardware -- that's why the clones were killed.
Apple may have made the right business decision at the time; they were in bad shape and might not have survived. It's a pity though, I know I'd be using a PPC machine today (with a licensed copy of MacOS), instead of an Athlon machine, if they hadn't been killed.
I found it by using a hex editor on the page source. It is clearly 0xAD (173), a soft hyphen.
They used a Soft Hyphen ( or ) character instead of a minus sign. Browsers are not supposed to display a Soft Hyphen unless the line is broken at that point.
yes, that's what is happening. IE5.5 isn't showing the minus sign on -255 even though it's there in the source. That's pretty scarey.
I can't make sense of that. 255C is higher than 200C. Did they mean -255C and -200C ?
I haven't played Phantasy Star, but most RPGs don't require any quick-reflexes type of control; usually it's "point in some general direction and issue some commands". I think it could work okay on a table. Pity there isn't a bigger picture of it.
What is this "table" you speak of? What is "chair"?
On behalf of my fellow Australians I would like to apologize for the crimes committed against comedy by Yahoo Serious.
Kallahar, you misused the colon there. When addressing someone in written form, their name should be set off by commas. If the name occurs in the middle of a sentence, Kallahar, then it needs a pair of commas.
"Editors: You edit the ..." means that it is the Editors saying "You edit ..." (take a look at a script for a play sometime).