I don't notice any speed difference, but my machines are all fairly high spec. What bugs me most about IE is the jerky scrolling, the Fox is much more even in its mouse-wheel scrolling.
Graffiti is not a crime because people are not allowed to convey a message without the government's permission, it is a crime because it destroys public or private property.
I disagree. Selectively cleaning in a pattern is no different to graffiti, they are both acts of defacement. Also, commercial messages have to be conformant to the relevant advertising laws.
That's just being petty. Why be civil? Why be polite? Why do anything for society? You make it sound like "the city" is your enemy, rather than your community.
That was a slashdot story a couple of weeks ago, and I was rather surprised that it was newsworthy - it just seemed obvious to me, having grown up with it.
The advantage of the Perl Memoize module is that you don't need to change your function or the code that calls it - it's transparent and easy to remove, almost as simple as a -O switch to the compiler.
Some might say it's too easy - just make sure that you don't accidentally memoize a function that has other effects than just to return a value, though, such as I/O!
That is unsurprising to me, as it is primarily computational. The only scope for Perl to win is in the print statement, and that's fairly simple. The function call overhead is a factor as well, which is another place where I would expect C to win (register optimisations). I would be interested to see a non-recursive implementation, which I would still expect C to win on.
# This is the documentation for Memoize 1.01
use Memoize;
memoize('slow_function');
slow_function(arguments); # Is faster than it was before
This is just one of the advantages of a compile-on-demand language.
Being an old C hack, I can't help believing that C or C++ should be faster than Perl, but every time I get around to writing equivalent programs and testing them, I find that I am wrong. I'm sure that if I did something purely CPU-intensive, then I would find C or C++ to be the winner, but most of my examples have been I/O based, and perl kicks ass for I/O.
the unsigned assent clause is the same one used by carparking companies and department stores; "by [parking your car here/shopping here] you agree to these terms and conditions"
Not the same - the company owns the car park, you have no right to park there without their permission, and their permission comes at the expense of you agreeing to there T&C. You do have a right to install the software without being further encumbered with any contract, so doing something that you do not need their permission for should not make you party to some bogus contract that they are forcing on you. If I said "By stepping on that flagstone, you agree to hand over your wallet", would you be scared to step on the flagstone? Would you call a cop?
Can someone with a regular CRT tell me whether that Windows theme screenshot looks discolored on the font antialiasing? It is a screenshot of a machine that is using ClearType to enhance the appearance on an LCD monitor, because you can see a slight red coloration on the left edge of the font and a slight blueness on the right, if you zoom in.
I don't think it's a good idea to publish screenshots taken from machines using ClearType. They look better if the viewer has an LCD monitor with matching subpixel arrangement, but probably worse for other users.
They contacted me first regarding my hosting of the DeCSS software, and a few emails were exchanged discussing the legality, and I ended up pulling the file myself due to the fact that I couldn't actually demonstrate that it had been correctly released under the GPL.
Google reveals that the only web sites with sitebuilder/tandc.htm in their URLs are Freeserve/Wanadoo, and the pdf of the article describing the takedown. Therefore it must have been Freeserve or Wanadoo, who are the same company now. I'm glad I have started to move away from Freeserve, although most of my web site is still on their servers, I haven't migrated most of it yet.
It doesn't make it absolutely illegal, but it provides legal remedies. If the purveyor of TV encryption technologies licences their technology to a TV manufacturer, they will obviously not pursue legal remedies against them. They also won't go after Dell for selling generic computers that don't come with TV-decryption software - they would have a hard time persuading a judge that a PC with a copy of XP on it is illegal because it can decrypt digital TV. A PC with appropriate software can do this, though, and if the decryption capability conform sto the appropriate standards (display only, no unencrypted file output), then there's no case either. It's only when Joe Hacker releases some decryption software that they would pursue those remedies against him.
The law isn't so stupid as to outlaw TVs, and that is not the only plausable reading of this text.
I write a lot of short perl scripts that read the clipboard, transform it, and then write it back. De-duplicating lines, converting each line to an entry in a comma-separated list, tr/-_/_-/, translate characters to HTML entities (< to < for instance - there, I just used that one!), wrap the text in <blockquote><i> </i></blockquote> (there - I just used them both!)
In addition, I have them bound to bucky combinations - Ctrl-Shift-Q for blcokquote, Ctrtl-shift-[-] for the -_ swap, thing, etc.
I don't know if this is possible on a *nix desktop, but I can't see a unified *nix clipboard module for perl.
I just came back from a roleplaying convention in Germany, and one of the traditions there is to auction a cigarette lighter, that comes with a free copy of one of the two worst RuneQuest supplements ever produced, either "Daughters of Darkness" or "Lost City of Eldarad". We then go out onto the battlements and burn it just after midnight. A couple of years ago, the immolation was in full swing, and a timid german accent piped up from the back, "Don't ve have laws against this, now?"
Absolutely priceless.
My opinion is: banning it is like sweeping it under the carpet. Not only do people forget about it, but the carpet gets bumpy.
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I don't notice any speed difference, but my machines are all fairly high spec. What bugs me most about IE is the jerky scrolling, the Fox is much more even in its mouse-wheel scrolling.
So how do I actually get WineX? I can't find where to download it from.
Is there a Knoppix-like CD-bootable gaming distro? I'd love to try it on my new laptop.
I disagree. Selectively cleaning in a pattern is no different to graffiti, they are both acts of defacement. Also, commercial messages have to be conformant to the relevant advertising laws.
That's just being petty. Why be civil? Why be polite? Why do anything for society? You make it sound like "the city" is your enemy, rather than your community.
Spyware is not detected by ABV software because the spyware companies have money, and can sue them.
That was a slashdot story a couple of weeks ago, and I was rather surprised that it was newsworthy - it just seemed obvious to me, having grown up with it.
The advantage of the Perl Memoize module is that you don't need to change your function or the code that calls it - it's transparent and easy to remove, almost as simple as a -O switch to the compiler.
Some might say it's too easy - just make sure that you don't accidentally memoize a function that has other effects than just to return a value, though, such as I/O!
That is unsurprising to me, as it is primarily computational. The only scope for Perl to win is in the print statement, and that's fairly simple. The function call overhead is a factor as well, which is another place where I would expect C to win (register optimisations). I would be interested to see a non-recursive implementation, which I would still expect C to win on.
Memoizing a function in Perl is even easier:
# This is the documentation for Memoize 1.01
use Memoize;
memoize('slow_function');
slow_function(arguments); # Is faster than it was before
This is just one of the advantages of a compile-on-demand language.
Being an old C hack, I can't help believing that C or C++ should be faster than Perl, but every time I get around to writing equivalent programs and testing them, I find that I am wrong. I'm sure that if I did something purely CPU-intensive, then I would find C or C++ to be the winner, but most of my examples have been I/O based, and perl kicks ass for I/O.
Can someone with a regular CRT tell me whether that Windows theme screenshot looks discolored on the font antialiasing? It is a screenshot of a machine that is using ClearType to enhance the appearance on an LCD monitor, because you can see a slight red coloration on the left edge of the font and a slight blueness on the right, if you zoom in.
I don't think it's a good idea to publish screenshots taken from machines using ClearType. They look better if the viewer has an LCD monitor with matching subpixel arrangement, but probably worse for other users.
Are you sure White Stripes are non-RIAA?
They contacted me first regarding my hosting of the DeCSS software, and a few emails were exchanged discussing the legality, and I ended up pulling the file myself due to the fact that I couldn't actually demonstrate that it had been correctly released under the GPL.
The word is "copyrighted" - as in the right to copy.
Technically, "copyright" is a noun, but any noun can be verbed. Verbing nouns weirds language, though.
Google reveals that the only web sites with sitebuilder/tandc.htm in their URLs are Freeserve/Wanadoo, and the pdf of the article describing the takedown. Therefore it must have been Freeserve or Wanadoo, who are the same company now. I'm glad I have started to move away from Freeserve, although most of my web site is still on their servers, I haven't migrated most of it yet.
It doesn't make it absolutely illegal, but it provides legal remedies. If the purveyor of TV encryption technologies licences their technology to a TV manufacturer, they will obviously not pursue legal remedies against them. They also won't go after Dell for selling generic computers that don't come with TV-decryption software - they would have a hard time persuading a judge that a PC with a copy of XP on it is illegal because it can decrypt digital TV. A PC with appropriate software can do this, though, and if the decryption capability conform sto the appropriate standards (display only, no unencrypted file output), then there's no case either. It's only when Joe Hacker releases some decryption software that they would pursue those remedies against him.
The law isn't so stupid as to outlaw TVs, and that is not the only plausable reading of this text.
I used to be a four-stone appology, but I followed Mr. Apollo's Body-Building Plan, and now I am two separate gorillas.
...if I switched to *nix.
I write a lot of short perl scripts that read the clipboard, transform it, and then write it back. De-duplicating lines, converting each line to an entry in a comma-separated list, tr/-_/_-/, translate characters to HTML entities (< to < for instance - there, I just used that one!), wrap the text in <blockquote><i> </i></blockquote> (there - I just used them both!)
In addition, I have them bound to bucky combinations - Ctrl-Shift-Q for blcokquote, Ctrtl-shift-[-] for the -_ swap, thing, etc.
I don't know if this is possible on a *nix desktop, but I can't see a unified *nix clipboard module for perl.
On the other hand, this MS patent looks remarkably like an idea, rather than an implementation of an idea.
I just came back from a roleplaying convention in Germany, and one of the traditions there is to auction a cigarette lighter, that comes with a free copy of one of the two worst RuneQuest supplements ever produced, either "Daughters of Darkness" or "Lost City of Eldarad". We then go out onto the battlements and burn it just after midnight. A couple of years ago, the immolation was in full swing, and a timid german accent piped up from the back, "Don't ve have laws against this, now?"
Absolutely priceless.
My opinion is: banning it is like sweeping it under the carpet. Not only do people forget about it, but the carpet gets bumpy.