It was NEVER known as Pavilion. It was (and to most people) known as The Summit. As pointed out earlier, It will be soon known as Lakewood Church. The new basketball arena will be ready for next season.
It would be nice if you'd back up this comment. Sounds like a troll to me. The fact is, for the purpose in which it was made, there are few better languages than PERL. Specifically, I use perl to grok around databases and use the regular expressions to help clean up foreign-key relationships that would be hard in other languages.
Again, comparing the two is like apples and oranges; VB is typically used as a GUI language, PERL is used primarily as a powerful scripting language.
I believe the reference was the U.S. incident with China. I doubt that with the spelling problems on/., we'd worry about the differences between U.S. and Contential spelling.
Indeed, I have a B&W Watchman manufactured in ~'88 with a side-shooting CRT. The gun is in the bottom of the unit with an angled (but not too bad) phosphor area.
Picture was (and is) quite good. Sucks some juice though.
Indeed, Adobe WAS there in '85. They had this thing called Postscript. You may have heard of it. It was a rendering language for printers. Adobe's push on the TAB has the same taste as the PS battle of yore (which they lost due to their crazy strategy of license costs).
Here we are in 2000 facing the same battle. This time you need only look at the Lotus 123 slash interface for inspiration. Lotus lost; Adobe will too.
Thomas Huxley first presented the case for the long history of earth; the idea that all observable events today happened previously and at the same rate.
However, we run into the problem of astronomical events such as the suspected meteor strike off the coast of the Yucatan penensula. This is being accepted as a plausible threory for the extinction of a complete period of biological history.
According to scientists as late as 1972, the idea of contential drift seemed ludicrous. Now, this is an accepted fact. In fact, this is the under-pinning of current oil exploration in South American and off the coast of Africa linking the continents together.
Before we foobar the ideas presented by creationists (which,admittedly, I am), I believe we need to get more facts. Just like other scientists, not all creationists believe the new-earth theory. We are allowed to accept or reject ideas in light of new information.
We have yet to explore the oceans and the secrets yet to be unlocked there. Is this world not amazing enough that we have to have microbes flying in from Mars aboard buring rocks?
To Steal from One is Plagiarism; To Steal from Many is Research.
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Reverse Engineering is the Mother of Invention. How many times have you tried something and said, "They almost got it right!"?
Case in point, remember Visicalc? Ok, maybe not... A company, Lotus, saw it; reverse engineered it, and improved it; Lotus 123 is born. Then, along comes all the clones and they get their panties in a wad (remember the slash-interface wars?).
Graphics got better (and the Mac came out), and we got MS Excel with a reverse-engineered slash-style interface as short-cuts for the pull-downs.
Compaq reverse-engineered the PC BIOS; Most lesser applications provide format-converters for their programs...
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It was NEVER known as Pavilion. It was (and to most people) known as The Summit. As pointed out earlier, It will be soon known as Lakewood Church. The new basketball arena will be ready for next season.
I'm on W2k & IE5.5; this PNG displays fine...
Embedded systems REQUIRE that you minimize time in ISR's. You're asking for trouble if you don't
BTW, we're using vxWorks & C++ on PPC. Very good platform for development. We're looking at RT/Linux but are reluctant to make the jump.
A good threaded model should negate (abstract) the role of the RTOS.
It would be nice if you'd back up this comment. Sounds like a troll to me. The fact is, for the purpose in which it was made, there are few better languages than PERL. Specifically, I use perl to grok around databases and use the regular expressions to help clean up foreign-key relationships that would be hard in other languages. Again, comparing the two is like apples and oranges; VB is typically used as a GUI language, PERL is used primarily as a powerful scripting language.
I believe the reference was the U.S. incident with China. I doubt that with the spelling problems on /., we'd worry about the differences between U.S. and Contential spelling.
Indeed, I have a B&W Watchman manufactured in ~'88 with a side-shooting CRT. The gun is in the bottom of the unit with an angled (but not too bad) phosphor area. Picture was (and is) quite good. Sucks some juice though.
Indeed, this is just what Micro$oft is doing with Atari. Some of the best old games are being sold rather than being given away.
Here we are in 2000 facing the same battle. This time you need only look at the Lotus 123 slash interface for inspiration. Lotus lost; Adobe will too.
However, we run into the problem of astronomical events such as the suspected meteor strike off the coast of the Yucatan penensula. This is being accepted as a plausible threory for the extinction of a complete period of biological history.
According to scientists as late as 1972, the idea of contential drift seemed ludicrous. Now, this is an accepted fact. In fact, this is the under-pinning of current oil exploration in South American and off the coast of Africa linking the continents together.
Before we foobar the ideas presented by creationists (which,admittedly, I am), I believe we need to get more facts. Just like other scientists, not all creationists believe the new-earth theory. We are allowed to accept or reject ideas in light of new information.
We have yet to explore the oceans and the secrets yet to be unlocked there. Is this world not amazing enough that we have to have microbes flying in from Mars aboard buring rocks?
To Steal from One is Plagiarism; To Steal from Many is Research.
Case in point, remember Visicalc? Ok, maybe not... A company, Lotus, saw it; reverse engineered it, and improved it; Lotus 123 is born. Then, along comes all the clones and they get their panties in a wad (remember the slash-interface wars?).
Graphics got better (and the Mac came out), and we got MS Excel with a reverse-engineered slash-style interface as short-cuts for the pull-downs.
Compaq reverse-engineered the PC BIOS; Most lesser applications provide format-converters for their programs...
This is the domain of Inovation, folks!