You get to move around with the keyboard instead of the mouse (much quicker). You don't have to sit around all day waiting for some insignificant picture or banner ad to pop up. All you get is the straight goods -- the content. When I go browsing, I want the content. Occasionally I'll decide that some things are better viewed in Mozilla, and I'll pop into X to view it. Even while I'm in X, I'll use w3m before I'll use Mozilla for most sites.
Sorry, but Slashdot moderation doesn't seem to work quite as well as Usenet moderation in practice. Karma whoring posts are "good" and funny posts are "bad", which often leads to dry and tedious reading. AFAIC, there are only two types of "bad" posts on Usenet: junk (spam, trolls, etc.) and newbie posts. The amount of junk on Usenet is NOTHING compared to what it is on Slashdot. Even if you were to just look at the amount of junk that gets moderated to 5 (karma whoring posts), the amount of junk on good (read "not alt.") newsgroups is NOTHING. As for newbie posts, a swift kick in the ass by a few dozen people (I shudder to think how many email them privately) telling them to read the FAQ, stop crossposting, actually learn what newsgroup they're in (no, I'm sorry, C++ is not C) will set them straight pretty quick.
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There's nothing more annoying than people spam-proofing their email addresses. That has got to be by far the least effective spam-proofing method, and it has the added benefit of annoying anyone who wants to contact you. In fact it is considered discourteous on Usenet. Setting up your mailer to use rbl, etc. and (heaven forbid) bouncing junk emails to abuse@ have done wonders for me. I post about 20 messages a day to Usenet (using my real email address), and with about 5 minutes worth of work (setting up my mailer, bouncing to abuse@, and occasionally touching up my.procmailrc), I get on average one junk email a month.
And just to put my two cents in: I'd have to say the Usenet pounds webboards (like Slash) into the ground any day of the week. Mind you I haven't ventured into the <tt>alt.</tt> hierarchy in years, so maybe my view is a bit rose-tinted:). I view Usenet completely unfiltered, and I'd guess (a ballpark figure), well under 0.2% of the posts I get are junk (and almost all of them have subject lines like '$$$ MONEY JOBS QUICK' which are easy to filter, and even easier to ignore). Compare that to about 2% or higher on Slashdot:). I pray for the day when Slashdot gets an NNTP backend. Reading news on my news client, what a concept:).
Excuse me, but if I said something like "all blacks are communists and don't belong in America", I'd me moderated down instantaneously. This is no different. It's one thing to make a valid point (which the poister does), but it's another thing to make blind and sweeping insults.
Look at the SB Live and probably a bunch of other sound cards with SPDIF connectors. Even if you had two sound cards (which many people do without even knowing it), analogue->analogue would produce fairly OK quality I think. SPDIF->SPDIF would be much nicer though:), but there aren't many sound cards out that have SPDIF connectors.
Of course when you consider that there a lot of full duplex cards, it becomes even easier:)
No, the C++ binary will only run on the platform it was written on. This is no different from any other compiled language. Java is no exception is the rule; Java will only run on a Java platform. In fact Java seems to be worse since it never does work the same on all platforms ("all platforms" being 3 platforms according to Sun, though). Unix and C were developed with portability in mind, but source compatibility, not binary compatibility.
If you want obfuscated code, all you have to do is go down to your local high school and look at the code the students are writing in their introductory classes. Funny, they usually teach comments on the first day, but no one seems to figure them out until at least their second year:). Oh wait, you wanted correct code? Well maybe the local high school isn't such a hot idea after all.
OK good thing you caught some of your errors before I did, or you'd have had a real schooling:). However, you still have a gross error: structs can contain pointers to functions, not functions. Corrected code would look like so:
#include <stdio.h> int true(void) { return 1; } int main(void) { struct { int (*first)(void) } post = {true}; if (post.first()) printf("first post:(\n"); }// taking advantage of new C99 rules, woo
Yes, this news has been on the GNU site for at least two weeks. And believe, it or not, the original Slashdot article even predates that. What's kind of funny is the Roblimo himself posted the original story:)
Not to flame anyone (like Roblimo), but I just thought it was kind of amusing. As soon as I saw this story I though "hey another one! Two companies providing HURD, that's pretty good. Oh, no, wait a second..."
I'm not talking about the Jews are DVD at all. I was talking about people thinking before following orders. Unfortunately I'm pretty ignorant, so Nazi Germany is the only well-known incident I could think off the top of my head that showed that.
I think you're making life harder on yourself than you need to:). If I'm not mistaken, the only plaintiffs in this case are the Hollywood movie producers and the RIAA (am I right on that?).
Hollywood, big and wealthy as it is, is pretty small when compared to the whole world. I can understand boycotting the plaintiffs in the case, but I don't see any reason (yet) to boycott the myriads of movies made independently, by Trollywood, etc. Who knows, you might even like them *gasp*:)
hell..you can mount the disk in your linux box, copy the VOB files onto another DVD and voila - youre all set.
If I were to follow what you described with a normal DVD burner, I would end with an encrypted DVD with no keys -- in other words, a coaster. CSS was never ever ever designed to prevent professional bootleggers ("pirates"); it was intended to stop casual copying. Unless the average Joe spends over 10K$ on a DVD burner, then deCSS is essential for copying encrypted movies.
The point has been made that Jews have the right to live. Not being a lawyer myself, I don't know whether this is true or not. But that's the point; I don't know and neither do most of you. Let Hitler sort it out, and if he says to kill the Jews while he's still making up his mind, kill the Jews.
I was hoping this by now people would have figured out that we need fewer sheep in our society. Oh well:)
Of course his words are a bit inflammatory, but I can't say I'm completely surprised. There seems to be a lot of push to make things illegal because there's a potential for harm. "Do you always walk through the park late at night?" "No one needs to be having anal sex!" "Why would you buy a gun if you weren't planning to use it?" Just because you can't think of a good reason for doing something, doesn't mean no one else can:)
Once again, I long for "-1: missed the whole point". I don't know if geeks are inherently stupid or what, but there seem to be a lot of Slashdot readers with no sense of humour at all.
You must be the kind of person who buys tabloids at the supermarket and goes around telling everyone "hey did you read this?! Some alien chick in France gave birth to a 3000 pound elephant, and he's a Nazi and planning to take over Australia where he's going to signal Martians to come down and kill Jennifer Love Hewitt!!"
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAN, IT WAS A JOKE! (oh if only Slashdot allowed blink tags)
Those numbers are just including the people who decided to vote. It also includes the 95% of people who lied:).
There was a page a while back under "faq" or something (on the side bar) that displayed real statistics about what Slashdot readers were doing. I can't remember the exact number, but something like 80% or 90% or so were browsing from Windows; maybe 5% if that were browsing from Linux.
The poster could be an idiot, but it's not a given. You're almost entirely at the mercy of your drivers in Windows, which does make sense:). If you happen to luck out and get a hardware manufacturer that makes decent drivers, then you're set. Linux has the advantage and curse of having probably over 3/4 of its drivers created by someone other than the hardware manufacturer; that means generally better drivers, but a smaller selection of drivers.
You're right, and this was discussed, mostly because of me:(, on comp.lang.c some weeks ago.
There is absolutely nothing you gain from an int16_t (signed int, 16-bits long) over a short (signed int, able to contain values from -32767 to +32767 (usually at least 16 bits)). If I can do it with an int16_t, I can do it with a short and do it much more efficiently.
The place where people start crying is when you're trying to send stuff over the network or via files. int16_t again buys you nothing over short. You have to chop it up into chars (or 'bytes' for you non-C freaks) and endianise it first. In the end you're stuck with an unsigned char * (or a void *) which you're going to write to the FILE *, so int16_t doesn't buy you anything. This problem gets particularly sticky when you're dealing with platforms with chars ('bytes') of 9, 15, 18, 32, or 5.3e59 bits in size; in fact, I don't think there's any requirement in the C standard that the values have to be stored as bits at all. Mandating that an 'int' has to be exactly 32 bits long when the size of a byte is 64 bits on a platform is just retarded.
Something that would be nice is a standard class for C++ which would do that for you. You do 'cout some_integer_16' and it automatically endianises and chops it up for you.
One of the main reasons why drugs are illegal in the US is that there is more of a chance of you going out to hurt others under the influence of marijuana than you would after drinking alcohol.
Eek. I actually have never heard a decent reason behind the criminilisation of marijuana. I remember one senator a couple decades ago saying it "forced people to have sex with negros and satanists", but somehow I doubt that excuse would fly today.
And also, the reasoning that it could cause you to do bad things doesn't fly well with me either. It's the same thing as drunk driving laws -- we already have laws against impaired driving, so why do we need another law to do almost entirely the same thing? If someone can be over the legal limit and still not be impaired, then what's the harm? If someone's over the limit and is impaired, then there's already a law to cover it. The same thing can be carried over to drug laws. If someone takes drugs and acts recklessly, then there should be laws to arrest them on acting recklessly. If someone can take those same drugs and not act recklessly, then there's no harm done.
Slashdot Mirror
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
which leads me to believe that it's had some testing.
BTW what's with Slashdot not parsing HTML tags lately? It's pissing me right off.
You get to move around with the keyboard instead of the mouse (much quicker). You don't have to sit around all day waiting for some insignificant picture or banner ad to pop up. All you get is the straight goods -- the content. When I go browsing, I want the content. Occasionally I'll decide that some things are better viewed in Mozilla, and I'll pop into X to view it. Even while I'm in X, I'll use w3m before I'll use Mozilla for most sites.
Sorry, but Slashdot moderation doesn't seem to work quite as well as Usenet moderation in practice. Karma whoring posts are "good" and funny posts are "bad", which often leads to dry and tedious reading. AFAIC, there are only two types of "bad" posts on Usenet: junk (spam, trolls, etc.) and newbie posts. The amount of junk on Usenet is NOTHING compared to what it is on Slashdot. Even if you were to just look at the amount of junk that gets moderated to 5 (karma whoring posts), the amount of junk on good (read "not alt.") newsgroups is NOTHING. As for newbie posts, a swift kick in the ass by a few dozen people (I shudder to think how many email them privately) telling them to read the FAQ, stop crossposting, actually learn what newsgroup they're in (no, I'm sorry, C++ is not C) will set them straight pretty quick.
There's nothing more annoying than people spam-proofing their email addresses. That has got to be by far the least effective spam-proofing method, and it has the added benefit of annoying anyone who wants to contact you. In fact it is considered discourteous on Usenet. Setting up your mailer to use rbl, etc. and (heaven forbid) bouncing junk emails to abuse@ have done wonders for me. I post about 20 messages a day to Usenet (using my real email address), and with about 5 minutes worth of work (setting up my mailer, bouncing to abuse@, and occasionally touching up my .procmailrc), I get on average one junk email a month.
:). I view Usenet completely unfiltered, and I'd guess (a ballpark figure), well under 0.2% of the posts I get are junk (and almost all of them have subject lines like '$$$ MONEY JOBS QUICK' which are easy to filter, and even easier to ignore). Compare that to about 2% or higher on Slashdot :). I pray for the day when Slashdot gets an NNTP backend. Reading news on my news client, what a concept :).
And just to put my two cents in: I'd have to say the Usenet pounds webboards (like Slash) into the ground any day of the week. Mind you I haven't ventured into the <tt>alt.</tt> hierarchy in years, so maybe my view is a bit rose-tinted
Excuse me, but if I said something like "all blacks are communists and don't belong in America", I'd me moderated down instantaneously. This is no different. It's one thing to make a valid point (which the poister does), but it's another thing to make blind and sweeping insults.
Look at the SB Live and probably a bunch of other sound cards with SPDIF connectors. Even if you had two sound cards (which many people do without even knowing it), analogue->analogue would produce fairly OK quality I think. SPDIF->SPDIF would be much nicer though :), but there aren't many sound cards out that have SPDIF connectors.
:)
Of course when you consider that there a lot of full duplex cards, it becomes even easier
No, the C++ binary will only run on the platform it was written on. This is no different from any other compiled language. Java is no exception is the rule; Java will only run on a Java platform. In fact Java seems to be worse since it never does work the same on all platforms ("all platforms" being 3 platforms according to Sun, though). Unix and C were developed with portability in mind, but source compatibility, not binary compatibility.
oops ya, i caught that after i posted it. oh well.
If you want obfuscated code, all you have to do is go down to your local high school and look at the code the students are writing in their introductory classes. Funny, they usually teach comments on the first day, but no one seems to figure them out until at least their second year :). Oh wait, you wanted correct code? Well maybe the local high school isn't such a hot idea after all.
Either Scott Meyers is describing C++ or he's incompetent. A function prototype with an empty parameter list is not an ANSI function declaration.
OK good thing you caught some of your errors before I did, or you'd have had a real schooling :). However, you still have a gross error: structs can contain pointers to functions, not functions. Corrected code would look like so:
:(\n"); // taking advantage of new C99 rules, woo
#include <stdio.h>
int true(void) { return 1; }
int
main(void)
{
struct { int (*first)(void) } post = {true};
if (post.first()) printf("first post
}
Yes, this news has been on the GNU site for at least two weeks. And believe, it or not, the original Slashdot article even predates that. What's kind of funny is the Roblimo himself posted the original story :)
:)
Not to flame anyone (like Roblimo), but I just thought it was kind of amusing. As soon as I saw this story I though "hey another one! Two companies providing HURD, that's pretty good. Oh, no, wait a second..."
Oh well
OOP concepts have been championed for about a decade now, and OO concepts have crept in all over the place.
Dude, objects and classes were put into SIMULA even before the first implementation of C was released. A decade? Try three decades.
SIMULA history
I'm not talking about the Jews are DVD at all. I was talking about people thinking before following orders. Unfortunately I'm pretty ignorant, so Nazi Germany is the only well-known incident I could think off the top of my head that showed that.
Of course RIAA = MPAA. *duh* :)
I think you're making life harder on yourself than you need to :). If I'm not mistaken, the only plaintiffs in this case are the Hollywood movie producers and the RIAA (am I right on that?).
:)
Hollywood, big and wealthy as it is, is pretty small when compared to the whole world. I can understand boycotting the plaintiffs in the case, but I don't see any reason (yet) to boycott the myriads of movies made independently, by Trollywood, etc. Who knows, you might even like them *gasp*
hell..you can mount the disk in your linux box, copy the VOB files onto another DVD and voila - youre all set.
If I were to follow what you described with a normal DVD burner, I would end with an encrypted DVD with no keys -- in other words, a coaster. CSS was never ever ever designed to prevent professional bootleggers ("pirates"); it was intended to stop casual copying. Unless the average Joe spends over 10K$ on a DVD burner, then deCSS is essential for copying encrypted movies.
I was hoping this by now people would have figured out that we need fewer sheep in our society. Oh well
Of course his words are a bit inflammatory, but I can't say I'm completely surprised. There seems to be a lot of push to make things illegal because there's a potential for harm. "Do you always walk through the park late at night?" "No one needs to be having anal sex!" "Why would you buy a gun if you weren't planning to use it?" Just because you can't think of a good reason for doing something, doesn't mean no one else can :)
It was a joke.
Once again, I long for "-1: missed the whole point". I don't know if geeks are inherently stupid or what, but there seem to be a lot of Slashdot readers with no sense of humour at all.
You must be the kind of person who buys tabloids at the supermarket and goes around telling everyone "hey did you read this?! Some alien chick in France gave birth to a 3000 pound elephant, and he's a Nazi and planning to take over Australia where he's going to signal Martians to come down and kill Jennifer Love Hewitt!!"
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAN, IT WAS A JOKE! (oh if only Slashdot allowed blink tags)
Those numbers are just including the people who decided to vote. It also includes the 95% of people who lied :).
:(
There was a page a while back under "faq" or something (on the side bar) that displayed real statistics about what Slashdot readers were doing. I can't remember the exact number, but something like 80% or 90% or so were browsing from Windows; maybe 5% if that were browsing from Linux.
Rob took that page down, though
Anyone ever wish there were a "-1: Missed the whole point"? *sigh*
The poster could be an idiot, but it's not a given. You're almost entirely at the mercy of your drivers in Windows, which does make sense :). If you happen to luck out and get a hardware manufacturer that makes decent drivers, then you're set. Linux has the advantage and curse of having probably over 3/4 of its drivers created by someone other than the hardware manufacturer; that means generally better drivers, but a smaller selection of drivers.
You're right, and this was discussed, mostly because of me :(, on comp.lang.c some weeks ago.
There is absolutely nothing you gain from an int16_t (signed int, 16-bits long) over a short (signed int, able to contain values from -32767 to +32767 (usually at least 16 bits)). If I can do it with an int16_t, I can do it with a short and do it much more efficiently.
The place where people start crying is when you're trying to send stuff over the network or via files. int16_t again buys you nothing over short. You have to chop it up into chars (or 'bytes' for you non-C freaks) and endianise it first. In the end you're stuck with an unsigned char * (or a void *) which you're going to write to the FILE *, so int16_t doesn't buy you anything. This problem gets particularly sticky when you're dealing with platforms with chars ('bytes') of 9, 15, 18, 32, or 5.3e59 bits in size; in fact, I don't think there's any requirement in the C standard that the values have to be stored as bits at all. Mandating that an 'int' has to be exactly 32 bits long when the size of a byte is 64 bits on a platform is just retarded.
Something that would be nice is a standard class for C++ which would do that for you. You do 'cout some_integer_16' and it automatically endianises and chops it up for you.
One of the main reasons why drugs are illegal in the US is that there is more of a chance of you going out to hurt others under the influence of marijuana than you would after drinking alcohol.
Eek. I actually have never heard a decent reason behind the criminilisation of marijuana. I remember one senator a couple decades ago saying it "forced people to have sex with negros and satanists", but somehow I doubt that excuse would fly today.
And also, the reasoning that it could cause you to do bad things doesn't fly well with me either. It's the same thing as drunk driving laws -- we already have laws against impaired driving, so why do we need another law to do almost entirely the same thing? If someone can be over the legal limit and still not be impaired, then what's the harm? If someone's over the limit and is impaired, then there's already a law to cover it. The same thing can be carried over to drug laws. If someone takes drugs and acts recklessly, then there should be laws to arrest them on acting recklessly. If someone can take those same drugs and not act recklessly, then there's no harm done.