I don't use Windows because I don't like it so why on earth would I install linux then use a
window manager that for all intents and purposes is just a windows explorer clone?? They've even
copied the drab grey look and the bloatware binary size!
I think I'll bet sticking to Afterstep for the time being thanks.
People tend to make the distinction Unix/Linux.
You never see Solaris/Linux or AIX/Linux etc
even thought the lines of original SysV or
BSD code inside them can probably be counted
on the fingers of one hand. So isn't it about
time that Linux was just accepted as another version
of Unix? Or is there some criteria it doesn't
yet meet?
Re:Messing things up or using Perl for what it fit
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You can program OO using C, plenty of systems
have used it in the past.
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Do people really say "false dichotomies" and "leverages" in real life? Or the above
post a joke by Scott Adams??
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Just WTF does currying mean? Aside from cooking rat in spices? Is this yet another "kewl" geek
term for something thats been around for ages but
doesn't sound so "happnin" when said in normal English?
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What fuckwit would build their house out of wood in the first place?? Hey , why not build one out
of lego while you're at it??
Well put. The Perl syntax is a joke and the only people who like it (as opposed to those who merely
use the language because it suits) are the same
sort of people who would write impentrable code
in COBOL just for the sake of being clever and laughing at other people trying to decipher it.
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WHy does that make Perl a good language? The library could equally rwrite the code in C/C++,
Fortran or even Serbo-Croat!
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Pattern matching in C is a no brainer despite
what some people would have us believe. Check
out the regcomp() and regexec() functions
amongst others. Dead easy to use.
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WTF does CPAN mean then? Bit of a wasted word that.
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Bear in mind that most IQ lists of races that
put blacks at bottom also put whites at second from bottom. Apparently the smartest "race" is the
japanese/chinese followed by indians. Why this
is such a taboo subject god knows. ITs fairly
obvious that orientals are of smaller physical
statue than other races and blacks on the whole
are more muscular. Its ok to say that but mention
IQ and all hell breaks out. Why? People are
strange.
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Previously most Perl programs looked like the
aftermath of an explosion in a typewriter factory.
Now they'll look like someone blew it up while
the million monkies were typing on them.
Why anyone uses Perl is a mystery to me. If you
want to do scripting use shell script+awk. If you
want to write a proper app use C/C++.
I'm sure it will happen now if they try the same
again with just knives. It only didn't happen
on the doomed flights because the passengers and
no doubt crew assumed the hijackers would land
somewhere and force demands. Ok , on one flight
they tried it but by then it could have been too
late with the pilot dead and no one able to
control the plane.
Yeah , like I've got 24 hours to wait for that
to download over my modem link.
Christ , surely they can put together a couple
of megabyte demo. Maybe the game engine plus a
few rooms/enemies etc for those of us who don't
have broadband yet and don't get free local calls.
Theres no such thing as a free lunch kids. If you
lot and millions of other people out there hadn't
decided to do wholesale piracy (sorry , I mean
"ripping") of CDs and god knows what else these
idiot politicians would never even have tried to
get this law through. But no, you never thought of
that did you, it was all short termism on your part, all me me me. You didn't think of the consequences. Well I think the phrase I'm looking
for here is reap what you sowed.
I don't agree with putting copy protection built
into the OS or anywhere else to be honest but
NEITHER do I believe this naive utopian view (that
only adolescents and burnt out hippies could
believe in) that everything should be free to
anyone who wants it. If you want to know why go
read the Dummies Guide to Economics.
The genre isn't obsolete. Just because you obviously don't like it doesn't mean a damn thing. I for one am sick of Quake-U-Like clones and I find 2D games more enjoyable because they generally have better gameplay. If all you're interested in is flash graphics go watch a sci-fi movie.
Unless x86's really could become a piece of some omnipotent AI mind. Just think, one day in the future Office 2050 in answer to Microsofts "Where do you want to go today" helpfully informs you that you should actually "Go to hell" and doesn't run because its not int the mood.
Time was not so long ago when computer geeks would spend time discussing how they could change the world, come up with exciting new products, benefot millions. Now they just seem happy to become clones of those guys who sit with a beer in a pub and discuss how to get an extra 2bhp out of their car engine by tweaking the injectors or resetting the turbo waste gate dump pressure etc etc etc..... Just replace pub with cafe, bhp with mhz and car with CPU. Sad isn't it?
I'd have thought extreme programming was
something more like last minute recoding of
a nuclear missile control system whilst NORAD
was at defcon 5.
Or will calling it "extreme" just get more column space and sell more lame books to dumb sheep than if it was called "common bloody sense programming" ?
Here we go again. Its OO therefor it must be better. Wrong. OO is something created for people to understand code-data relationships better, at the machine code level nothing changes. If the data makes more sense in a relational format then leave it that way, don't shoehorn it into an OO format simply because OO is currently flavour of the month. Also OO databases are non generic. Fine if you're only going to use the database for 1 thing but in the real world you may have dozens of apps accessing the same data in different ways.
Forcing every application to use the same class models regardless of their needs is a stupid idea. In the real world applications are written in a way to get a job done as fast and efficiently as possible, NOT in a way that would look cool in some ivory tower acedemics OO text book.
Even with this new advance LCDs will still be too
expensive, too complex and too power hungrey (the
backlight). Organic LEDs are a far better technology in very respect (except for maybe viewing in direct sunlight) and the sooner they start appearing in monitors the better.
Looks like the guys are egging each other on in those pics. But I guess if things go wrong they literally can't wing it! Still, its something to
crow about though I wouldn't want to be the salesman who has to hawk it as theres not much chance of it ruffling any feathers down at the likes of Cisco.
Ok, ENOUGH puns!
Higher level is not better since the low level operation of something is instrinsic to how it ultimately operates. Rule based / algorithmic programming cannot and never will be able to replicate true AI simply because rule based systems cannot work outside the boundaries of the rules they've been pre programmed with. Neural nets on the other had don't work by high level rules (ok , they need low level ones to run the operation of the net), they work by state sequences and comparisons which can in theory be dynamically altered so changing the nets behaviour without human intervention.
Admittedly we've got a way to go yet, no one really knows yet how the human brain works at a low level (natural neurons don't seem to use any
obvious back propagation unlike artificial ones) never mind a high level, but IMO (and lots of others) rule based AI is a dead end.
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I don't use Windows because I don't like it so why on earth would I install linux then use a
window manager that for all intents and purposes is just a windows explorer clone?? They've even
copied the drab grey look and the bloatware binary size!
I think I'll bet sticking to Afterstep for the time being thanks.
People tend to make the distinction Unix/Linux.
You never see Solaris/Linux or AIX/Linux etc
even thought the lines of original SysV or
BSD code inside them can probably be counted
on the fingers of one hand. So isn't it about
time that Linux was just accepted as another version
of Unix? Or is there some criteria it doesn't
yet meet?
You can program OO using C, plenty of systems
have used it in the past.
Do people really say "false dichotomies" and "leverages" in real life? Or the above
post a joke by Scott Adams??
Just WTF does currying mean? Aside from cooking rat in spices? Is this yet another "kewl" geek
term for something thats been around for ages but
doesn't sound so "happnin" when said in normal English?
What fuckwit would build their house out of wood in the first place?? Hey , why not build one out
of lego while you're at it??
Well put. The Perl syntax is a joke and the only people who like it (as opposed to those who merely
use the language because it suits) are the same
sort of people who would write impentrable code
in COBOL just for the sake of being clever and laughing at other people trying to decipher it.
WHy does that make Perl a good language? The library could equally rwrite the code in C/C++,
Fortran or even Serbo-Croat!
Pattern matching in C is a no brainer despite
what some people would have us believe. Check
out the regcomp() and regexec() functions
amongst others. Dead easy to use.
WTF does CPAN mean then? Bit of a wasted word that.
Bear in mind that most IQ lists of races that
put blacks at bottom also put whites at second from bottom. Apparently the smartest "race" is the
japanese/chinese followed by indians. Why this
is such a taboo subject god knows. ITs fairly
obvious that orientals are of smaller physical
statue than other races and blacks on the whole
are more muscular. Its ok to say that but mention
IQ and all hell breaks out. Why? People are
strange.
Previously most Perl programs looked like the
aftermath of an explosion in a typewriter factory.
Now they'll look like someone blew it up while
the million monkies were typing on them.
Why anyone uses Perl is a mystery to me. If you
want to do scripting use shell script+awk. If you
want to write a proper app use C/C++.
I'm sure it will happen now if they try the same
again with just knives. It only didn't happen
on the doomed flights because the passengers and
no doubt crew assumed the hijackers would land
somewhere and force demands. Ok , on one flight
they tried it but by then it could have been too
late with the pilot dead and no one able to
control the plane.
Yeah , like I've got 24 hours to wait for that
to download over my modem link.
Christ , surely they can put together a couple
of megabyte demo. Maybe the game engine plus a
few rooms/enemies etc for those of us who don't
have broadband yet and don't get free local calls.
Theres no such thing as a free lunch kids. If you
lot and millions of other people out there hadn't
decided to do wholesale piracy (sorry , I mean
"ripping") of CDs and god knows what else these
idiot politicians would never even have tried to
get this law through. But no, you never thought of
that did you, it was all short termism on your part, all me me me. You didn't think of the consequences. Well I think the phrase I'm looking
for here is reap what you sowed.
I don't agree with putting copy protection built
into the OS or anywhere else to be honest but
NEITHER do I believe this naive utopian view (that
only adolescents and burnt out hippies could
believe in) that everything should be free to
anyone who wants it. If you want to know why go
read the Dummies Guide to Economics.
The genre isn't obsolete. Just because you obviously don't like it doesn't mean a damn thing. I for one am sick of Quake-U-Like clones and I find 2D games more enjoyable because they generally have better gameplay. If all you're interested in is flash graphics go watch a sci-fi movie.
Unless x86's really could become a piece of some omnipotent AI mind. Just think, one day in the future Office 2050 in answer to Microsofts "Where do you want to go today" helpfully informs you that you should actually "Go to hell" and doesn't run because its not int the mood.
Time was not so long ago when computer geeks would spend time discussing how they could change the world, come up with exciting new products, benefot millions. Now they just seem happy to become clones of those guys who sit with a beer in a pub and discuss how to get an extra 2bhp out of their car engine by tweaking the injectors or resetting the turbo waste gate dump pressure etc etc etc ..... Just replace pub with cafe, bhp with mhz and car with CPU. Sad isn't it?
I'd have thought extreme programming was something more like last minute recoding of a nuclear missile control system whilst NORAD was at defcon 5. Or will calling it "extreme" just get more column space and sell more lame books to dumb sheep than if it was called "common bloody sense programming" ?
Oracle ported 8i to linux ages ago. You might want to check your facts before inserting your foot into your mouth.
Leave off the drugs. You're hallucinating again.
Here we go again. Its OO therefor it must be better. Wrong. OO is something created for people to understand code-data relationships better, at the machine code level nothing changes. If the data makes more sense in a relational format then leave it that way, don't shoehorn it into an OO format simply because OO is currently flavour of the month. Also OO databases are non generic. Fine if you're only going to use the database for 1 thing but in the real world you may have dozens of apps accessing the same data in different ways. Forcing every application to use the same class models regardless of their needs is a stupid idea. In the real world applications are written in a way to get a job done as fast and efficiently as possible, NOT in a way that would look cool in some ivory tower acedemics OO text book.
Even with this new advance LCDs will still be too expensive, too complex and too power hungrey (the backlight). Organic LEDs are a far better technology in very respect (except for maybe viewing in direct sunlight) and the sooner they start appearing in monitors the better.
Looks like the guys are egging each other on in those pics. But I guess if things go wrong they literally can't wing it! Still, its something to crow about though I wouldn't want to be the salesman who has to hawk it as theres not much chance of it ruffling any feathers down at the likes of Cisco. Ok, ENOUGH puns!
Higher level is not better since the low level operation of something is instrinsic to how it ultimately operates. Rule based / algorithmic programming cannot and never will be able to replicate true AI simply because rule based systems cannot work outside the boundaries of the rules they've been pre programmed with. Neural nets on the other had don't work by high level rules (ok , they need low level ones to run the operation of the net), they work by state sequences and comparisons which can in theory be dynamically altered so changing the nets behaviour without human intervention. Admittedly we've got a way to go yet, no one really knows yet how the human brain works at a low level (natural neurons don't seem to use any obvious back propagation unlike artificial ones) never mind a high level, but IMO (and lots of others) rule based AI is a dead end.