(driving a motor vehicle on the streets without proper training or safety measures)
What's wrong with this? It's perfectly legal to ride a home-built electrical bicycle on the road, without training or safety measures. What's the difference between a bicycle and an office chair?
It's interesting how times have changed. Over the years, emacs has used pretty much the same amount of memory. (My big emacs with erc and gnus is using about 67M right now. Firefox is using 1.7G.)
In the 80s, the overhead of a lisp machine just to make your application customizable was absurd (hence the emacs jokes). Writing an editor all in C was a great idea. Speed! Memory savings! This approach made vi very popular.
Now that it's 2008 and every new computer has a few gigs of RAM, it's not so absurd to write an editor in a dynamic language running on top of a minimal core. An experienced elisp coder can add non-trival functionality to emacs in just a few hours. emacs makes that easy and enjoyable.
vi(m) may use less memory, but that just doesn't matter anymore. If you want to customize it (non-trivially), you have to hack vim and recompile. So while emacs jokes are hilarious, it dates you to the early 80s. There is no reason to write tiny apps in assembly anymore. Big apps that can be extended are a much better approach.
Ah, memories. I remember wanting a 500 for christmas (since it had Linux support, and I didn't have anything else), but ended up getting a 600 instead. I had to reinstall Mac OS 8 just to sync over some mp3s.
It's nice that this isn't a problem anymore. Mass storage has made every mp3 player the same to the computer, which is an idea I wish they had when they releasted the 600:)
> Look, if you can't handle that 99% of the world just doesn't care about containers and codecs, but use the file extension to determine media format, you are seriously lacking in social intelligence, and need to be confined to live in solitude for the rest of your life. May I suggest a career in computers?
Look, 99% of slashdot readers come here because they want to talk to other intelligent people. Stuff like codecs and containers matters to us. Slashdot isn't the real world, this is where geeks talk about geeky stuff. The rest of the world will figure it out eventually; in the mean time, we don't really care.
Anyway, you are seriously lacking in social intelligence, and need to head over to digg. May I suggest killing yourself?
Given %hash, it's called @hash{@keys} when you slice it, and $hash{$key} when you only want one element. References always are scalar, so even though $foo->{bar}[42][2]{baz} is referencing a hash of arrays of arrays of hashes, you have a $ on the front.
Once you know the rules, it's fine... but it's not necessarily Perl's finest point (and this all changes in Perl 6 as a result). Even if you like Perl, you have to admit that there are lots of things wrong with it.
There are just less things wrong with Perl than any other language:)
> Let's see which browser passed the ACID2 test first,
The ACID2 test is really irrelevant. It is a test for making invalid CSS render "properly". Except if you provide CSS that's against the spec, "proper" is not defined. Oops.
So basically ACID2 is "some guys pulled this out of their ass, now make it work". Great.
Pretty sure that you "can't" disseminate any accounts. Can't meaning they don't want you to... not that it's enforceable without a lot of bribes.
At some point, I had an idea to have people take audio recording equipment into a sports game and telecast (over a cell phone modem) the game live. I'm sure the "league" or whatever would love that, but I'm not sure what legal recourse they would have.
> MySQL is perfect for those applications. No licensing hassles, no funds requests, no major administrative overhead.
I use SQLite in those cases. No server to administer, and it's faster (since there's no network latency; the query happens in your memory space). Obviously SQLite is a terrible idea if you need multiple apps hitting the same database... but you often don't.
These two articles were some of the worst pieces of literature I've ever seen in my life. The GPL and BSD licenses are "too free"? "Ajax" is a programming language powered by MySQL? Etc., etc. Oh my God... what crap!
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I'm going to kill the president.
What's the difference between an engine and an electric motor?
What's wrong with this? It's perfectly legal to ride a home-built electrical bicycle on the road, without training or safety measures. What's the difference between a bicycle and an office chair?
It's interesting how times have changed. Over the years, emacs has used pretty much the same amount of memory. (My big emacs with erc and gnus is using about 67M right now. Firefox is using 1.7G.)
In the 80s, the overhead of a lisp machine just to make your application customizable was absurd (hence the emacs jokes). Writing an editor all in C was a great idea. Speed! Memory savings! This approach made vi very popular.
Now that it's 2008 and every new computer has a few gigs of RAM, it's not so absurd to write an editor in a dynamic language running on top of a minimal core. An experienced elisp coder can add non-trival functionality to emacs in just a few hours. emacs makes that easy and enjoyable.
vi(m) may use less memory, but that just doesn't matter anymore. If you want to customize it (non-trivially), you have to hack vim and recompile. So while emacs jokes are hilarious, it dates you to the early 80s. There is no reason to write tiny apps in assembly anymore. Big apps that can be extended are a much better approach.
Ah, memories. I remember wanting a 500 for christmas (since it had Linux support, and I didn't have anything else), but ended up getting a 600 instead. I had to reinstall Mac OS 8 just to sync over some mp3s.
:)
It's nice that this isn't a problem anymore. Mass storage has made every mp3 player the same to the computer, which is an idea I wish they had when they releasted the 600
The point is that someone else can do this on their behalf.
> Look, if you can't handle that 99% of the world just doesn't care about containers and codecs, but use the file extension to determine media format, you are seriously lacking in social intelligence, and need to be confined to live in solitude for the rest of your life. May I suggest a career in computers?
Look, 99% of slashdot readers come here because they want to talk to other intelligent people. Stuff like codecs and containers matters to us. Slashdot isn't the real world, this is where geeks talk about geeky stuff. The rest of the world will figure it out eventually; in the mean time, we don't really care.
Anyway, you are seriously lacking in social intelligence, and need to head over to digg. May I suggest killing yourself?
I don't think you actually replied anonymously :) Anyway, I removed you from the foes list.
> $ is for scalar, @ is for array, # is for hash
:)
% is for hash. And that's not really a good rule.
Given %hash, it's called @hash{@keys} when you slice it, and $hash{$key} when you only want one element. References always are scalar, so even though $foo->{bar}[42][2]{baz} is referencing a hash of arrays of arrays of hashes, you have a $ on the front.
Once you know the rules, it's fine... but it's not necessarily Perl's finest point (and this all changes in Perl 6 as a result). Even if you like Perl, you have to admit that there are lots of things wrong with it.
There are just less things wrong with Perl than any other language
Well, actually... there is a Perl MVC book on Catalyst:
:)
http://www.packtpub.com/catalyst-perl-web-application/book
It's much better than the Rails books though
"Sprint" is an agile programming term; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development).
> sorry but in this forum you never know when someone is being serious or not
We're never serious.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
That doesn't make any sense. In the US anyway, 3G HSDPA degrades to EDGE and then down to GPRS data.
I have this now and it's $5 extra a month. Much cheaper than having POTS.
It is a LISP execution environment, not an OS. Please learn something about computers before posting.
> Let's see which browser passed the ACID2 test first,
The ACID2 test is really irrelevant. It is a test for making invalid CSS render "properly". Except if you provide CSS that's against the spec, "proper" is not defined. Oops.
So basically ACID2 is "some guys pulled this out of their ass, now make it work". Great.
> vim is an editor that can be used as an ide. Emacs is an ide that can be used as an editor.
That's not at all true. Emacs is a LISP environment that happens to default to running a text editor written in LISP.
> Maybe the iPhone will have an accelerometer, so you set the phone from a known location and it keeps track of itself after that.
You're thinking of the wiiPhone.
> The rest AR N YUR FLIES, COMPRMISIN UR ID LOL.
Fixed that for you.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Pretty sure that you "can't" disseminate any accounts. Can't meaning they don't want you to... not that it's enforceable without a lot of bribes.
At some point, I had an idea to have people take audio recording equipment into a sports game and telecast (over a cell phone modem) the game live. I'm sure the "league" or whatever would love that, but I'm not sure what legal recourse they would have.
It would be fun to find out...
My first Mac was a "Performa 6112CD" emblazoned with PowerPC on the front.
_ 60.jpg for a picture.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Power_Mac_6100
> So while you think you are being either funny or cleaver, you are in fact showing your ignorance
What is a "PowerPC" then?
> MySQL is perfect for those applications. No licensing hassles, no funds requests, no major administrative overhead.
I use SQLite in those cases. No server to administer, and it's faster (since there's no network latency; the query happens in your memory space). Obviously SQLite is a terrible idea if you need multiple apps hitting the same database... but you often don't.
These two articles were some of the worst pieces of literature I've ever seen in my life. The GPL and BSD licenses are "too free"? "Ajax" is a programming language powered by MySQL? Etc., etc. Oh my God... what crap!