The end of X-Wing? A great idea, but rather flawed in the execution. Keep bumping into things in the Death Star trench? No problem! Just crank the detail level down, and all those nasty laser cannon will disappear!
>...the U.S. is the starting point of democracy...
A popular view in the US, although some of the inhabitants of ancient Greece would probably want to disagree, if they hadn't inconveniently died several thousand years before major trans-Atlantic colonial efforts began.
You're a bit behind, aren't you? I got my first CTX *years* ago. I particularly appreciate the big screen on the side that lets me see what's going on inside my computer.
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...although the converse is admittedly true AFAIK.
Funnily enough, it seems only to be the opposition who ever want the voting system changed. From the perspective of the people who got elected by it, it always works just fine......in other words, I expect the system to be improved at roughly the same time as Microsoft GPLs Windows.
As you admit, most tasks in programming _do_ operate on predictable data; the main area in which an algorithm wants to handle unpredictable data is surely the construction of generic libraries, for which purpose static, but polymorphic, typing, as in Haskell or ML, or to a lesser extent C++ templates, does a pretty good job. The earlier AC reply to your post mentions a type-inferring version of Common Lisp - type inference being a mechanism which provides the security (and speed!) of static typing with nearly all the simplicity and extensibility of dynamic typing.
To bring this back on topic, it's worth noticing that the ICFP programming contest has never been won by a dynamically-typed language...
Funnily enough, I came away with the impression that C++ had an advantage this year, since the removal of the requirement that the judges run the program themselves meant, in theory, that a brute-force approach combined with a supercomputer could have beaten the most delicately honed algorithm imaginable. That the winner was not an example of this surprised me.
Ah well. Those of us with functional inclinations can console ourselves with the knowledge that at least the winning program didn't use COBOL...
> He also states that 2001 is boring, so he's obviously a Philistine.
Now look me straight in the eye and tell me you've _never_ been tempted to fast-forward through the bit with the men jumping around in ape suits, or the endless psychedelic sequence.
The journey to the moon, and the HAL sequence, are a great film. The rest of it could be compressed into five minutes, and would be all the better for it...
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Following your link, I can't help noticing that the compact.Net framework is a small subset of the full.Net runtime. In fact, it seems to bear pretty much the same relation to.Net as, oh, J2ME does to J2EE.
Well, obviously the fact that their press releases appear contradictory to us merely indicates that we fail to understand their deeper meaning. Only by meditating on these seeming paradoxes will we achieve enlightenment.
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> IBM rock and SCO paper.
I think you mean "SCO scissors".
Er, I think that refers to a program called "c++", i.e. a particular implementation of a C++ compiler.
> Unfortunately this kind of targetted spam won't happen until we pass a law requiring users to register their penis size with their ISP.
Nah, that would just mean they'd change the tack of the spam: "never have to lie about your size again!!!!"
> Will the European nations be the first to mine the moon?
No - we've all ratified the Ottowa Convention.
>...they kicked SCO's big'n'salty donkey balls.
First time through I read that as "kissed". Maybe I'm too much of a cynic...
Please, PLEASE tell me you're trolling. Restore my confidence in humanity. Please.
The end of X-Wing? A great idea, but rather flawed in the execution. Keep bumping into things in the Death Star trench? No problem! Just crank the detail level down, and all those nasty laser cannon will disappear!
> ...the U.S. is the starting point of democracy...
A popular view in the US, although some of the inhabitants of ancient Greece would probably want to disagree, if they hadn't inconveniently died several thousand years before major trans-Atlantic colonial efforts began.
> First we have to get through CTX...
You're a bit behind, aren't you? I got my first CTX *years* ago. I particularly appreciate the big screen on the side that lets me see what's going on inside my computer.
...although the converse is admittedly true AFAIK.
Funnily enough, it seems only to be the opposition who ever want the voting system changed. From the perspective of the people who got elected by it, it always works just fine... ...in other words, I expect the system to be improved at roughly the same time as Microsoft GPLs Windows.
As you admit, most tasks in programming _do_ operate on predictable data; the main area in which an algorithm wants to handle unpredictable data is surely the construction of generic libraries, for which purpose static, but polymorphic, typing, as in Haskell or ML, or to a lesser extent C++ templates, does a pretty good job. The earlier AC reply to your post mentions a type-inferring version of Common Lisp - type inference being a mechanism which provides the security (and speed!) of static typing with nearly all the simplicity and extensibility of dynamic typing.
To bring this back on topic, it's worth noticing that the ICFP programming contest has never been won by a dynamically-typed language...
Okay, but what about BSD? That's still dead, right? :p
5. Profit!
Funnily enough, I came away with the impression that C++ had an advantage this year, since the removal of the requirement that the judges run the program themselves meant, in theory, that a brute-force approach combined with a supercomputer could have beaten the most delicately honed algorithm imaginable. That the winner was not an example of this surprised me.
Ah well. Those of us with functional inclinations can console ourselves with the knowledge that at least the winning program didn't use COBOL...
I thought the US military bought all its simulation software from ID these days.
> Basically, I want to see my govt use standards that will allow me to interact with their systems using the platform of my choice.
Then surely we do want them to run Windows - it makes it MUCH easier to interact with their systems, as SoBig and Blaster demonstrated!
> What good will a 3D text file be?
You'll have the answer to that as soon as the Befunge0x standard is finalised.
What's step 6 doing there? I think step 4 pretty much fills that one in.
> as for your biblical verse, you know how it got there? years of oral tradition; finally being collected and written down...
If Old Testament, probably yes. If Apocrypha, probably no. If New Testament, certainly no.
> He also states that 2001 is boring, so he's obviously a Philistine.
Now look me straight in the eye and tell me you've _never_ been tempted to fast-forward through the bit with the men jumping around in ape suits, or the endless psychedelic sequence.
The journey to the moon, and the HAL sequence, are a great film. The rest of it could be compressed into five minutes, and would be all the better for it...
Following your link, I can't help noticing that the compact .Net framework is a small subset of the full .Net runtime. In fact, it seems to bear pretty much the same relation to .Net as, oh, J2ME does to J2EE.
HIBTBAC?
I'm not really sure I want all my incoming emails to be categorised under "shut the fsck up, you stupid machine"...
Well, obviously the fact that their press releases appear contradictory to us merely indicates that we fail to understand their deeper meaning. Only by meditating on these seeming paradoxes will we achieve enlightenment.
Notepad runs quite well under Wine. 64 kb should be enough for any file!