A subwoofer does not WRITE in Arabic, it _might_ SPEAK in Arabic though. The fact that it speaks Arabic doesn't it automatically speaks Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, Punjabi or Sindhy.
Those Italians are so fond of their wansy pansy "aqua minerale" and stupid diet food. Give that R&D money to our Irish astronomers and they will find planets with beer and whiskey.
I just turned 22, and just learnt what that means 4 days ago: I just bought a//e for $12, it comes with the 2 disks, manuals (user's guide, programmer's guide, applesoft tutorial and manual, disk 2 manual, rom listing, etc.) but no DOS, so I am stuck with the monitor:-(
Battle bots was a mole on Comedy Central, which is about the only chanel I watch, after HBO.
First of all, the robots went from beautiful works of art, to awful construction equipment: I don't want to see a miniature tank, with an axe mounted to its top. The "robots" where nothing more than evil looking lawnmowers.
They should not have rewarded the most destruction resistant robot, but the most technically advanced. The idea of a "fight" is simply flawed, and reeks of testestrone driven, cheap male entertainment.
Speaking of male entertainment, carmen electra has no business in a friken bot fight.
I would pay $$$$ to see autonomous robots, put into a "maze" and let them discover their own exit paths. It would also be a great idea to encourage alternative robot designs, not just wheels and tank chains, I wanna see snake like bots, flying bots, swimming bots, you could also explore alternative sources of energy, instead of just relying on batteries; give boneses to bots which power their onboard computer with sun lights, etc.
There is alot one could do with robot building skills, instead of investing resources on how to build the next destructive machine. They could cut down on the weight too, some of these beasts weight as much as 500 lbs.
They make fun of 34 year old boys all the time. Where was the PC movement when the "your parents basement" jokes where getting posted on/. ?
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If you are not going to use everyday, don't bother learning it. The P in "Perl" stands for practical.
Perl doesn't have much linguistic inovations of it is own, it is just a reimplementation of ages old techniques. The much celebrated syntax is lifted straight up from unix shell and it is stream manipulating siblings (sed, awk, et al.) That is where the funny $@% prefixes come from (we know @ is straight from Lisp's backquote and array splicing syntax, much used with Lisp macros.) The regular expressions are nothing but Lex on steroids, I almost always rewrite my production perl code with regexes in C and it is very easy to do this, I don't even write C, I just write Lex rules in a lexfile and implement the case handlers in simple C.
Perl is cool when you are a newbie coder who knows nothing but C/C++/Java, because those languages are expensive to "set up". You need alot of support code just to implement the simplest ideas. Perl has alot of things built in; high level data structures, memory management, clean string manipulation utilities, networking, GUI and more libraries than you can shake a stick at.
But you know what? Perl is only AWESOME because we -as student programmers- were introduced to very low level languages in school, and don't have any ideas there exists extremely powerful laguages, with elegant syntaxes to die for.
If you just want to learn about perl's "innovations", I invite you to learn Smalltalk, Prolog, or Lisp. Mostly Lisp.
Good one, but it was a math question, not lisp. I only used prefix notation because it is easier for me (I even pressed "M-(" subconsiously, and I don't wanna know what option did I select in my browser!) I know about the constant pi but I didnt' want him come back and ask me for the symbol-value of pi.
Well, that is if you are STILL reading this (the topic is 26 hours old;-)
I personally did some research and I figure he is some sort of an actor, but at first, I had no idea who "Wil" was.
But still, I have no idea WHY is he "News for nerds, stuff that matters". A little background on him would be good. I could have asked my clan-mate Junis, who is a real nerd, but he is busy compiling the new GCC on his commodore.
God:"That is it, you have only 48 hours to finish those damn books. You had 48 years, but you wasted them playing that damn organ at the church. You see, I have sent you to earth to research and finish MY book, I made you my coauthor and forgave you of all human responsibilies like worship and prayer. If your mother was an israeli, you could have been my second son, you know I have a thing or two for jewish chicks [must be the skirts]. But what have you done? you spent more time writing TeX than I spent writing all my holly books (I could have finished earlier, but I was busy automating a few things with emacs lisp, I got sick of assembler, God is a real programmer, dontcha know?)
Now, don't give me no damn excuses, I will not extend your life another second (I can't, I used a packed structure and I ran out of extra bits for the life field, I know premature optimization is the root of all evil, but I have a HUGE "human life" database and I need to squeeze the last iota out of this machine)
So, yeah, go ahead and do stuff, umkay? I need to do some apoclypse and stuff and I need a few algos. Just get off that damn organ and write something, willya? and give a copy of it to a guy called sinserve, he has slashdot ID 455889."
Timothy would never have done such a thing, Taco must have plugged him with electrodes while he was asleep./me thinks poor Timmy is now fetching taco's paper.
Slashdot Mirror
and talk funny too
(cons)s more like it.
It is vi, it inserts random Ms and Hs into your text. I am typHingM thMis in viH.
WORD, thas my nigga.
Canada Dry.
he is a geek, he doesn't know anything about gihehehehehe, ahem, girls .. I understand.
So you could get a job when you get your Record Keeping degree from Devry.
A subwoofer does not WRITE in Arabic, it _might_ SPEAK in Arabic though. The fact that it speaks
Arabic doesn't it automatically speaks Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, Punjabi or Sindhy.
Arabic is just ONE language, but the arabic writing is used by Farsi and most of the Paki/Afghan languages.
Yes, linux is fast when it comes to SECOND POSTING.
[take my karma take my karma, pleeeeease]
Those Italians are so fond of their wansy pansy "aqua minerale" and stupid diet food. Give
that R&D money to our Irish astronomers and they will find planets with beer and whiskey.
Listen you nigger, he wasn't talking to you, pleaseleavehimaloneok?
[posting anonymously to presserve kharma]
I just turned 22, and just learnt what that means 4 days ago: I just bought a //e for $12, :-(
it comes with the 2 disks, manuals (user's guide, programmer's guide, applesoft tutorial and
manual, disk 2 manual, rom listing, etc.) but no DOS, so I am stuck with the monitor
Battle bots was a mole on Comedy Central, which is about the only chanel I watch, after HBO.
First of all, the robots went from beautiful works of art, to awful construction equipment:
I don't want to see a miniature tank, with an axe mounted to its top. The "robots" where
nothing more than evil looking lawnmowers.
They should not have rewarded the most destruction resistant robot, but the most technically
advanced. The idea of a "fight" is simply flawed, and reeks of testestrone driven, cheap male
entertainment.
Speaking of male entertainment, carmen electra has no business in a friken bot fight.
I would pay $$$$ to see autonomous robots, put into a "maze" and let them discover their
own exit paths. It would also be a great idea to encourage alternative robot designs, not just
wheels and tank chains, I wanna see snake like bots, flying bots, swimming bots, you could
also explore alternative sources of energy, instead of just relying on batteries; give boneses
to bots which power their onboard computer with sun lights, etc.
There is alot one could do with robot building skills, instead of investing resources on how to
build the next destructive machine. They could cut down on the weight too, some of these beasts
weight as much as 500 lbs.
Judge Juggs is HOT too.
[posting anonymous to avoid ending up in the OP's foes list]
Google is run by hackers, not businessmen, I doubt they would do such an immoral thing.
Somebody mod this obvious luser up as "informative".
They make fun of 34 year old boys all the time. Where was the PC movement when /. ?
the "your parents basement" jokes where getting posted on
If you are not going to use everyday, don't bother learning it. The P in "Perl"
stands for practical.
Perl doesn't have much linguistic inovations of it is own, it is just a reimplementation
of ages old techniques. The much celebrated syntax is lifted straight up from unix shell
and it is stream manipulating siblings (sed, awk, et al.) That is where the funny $@% prefixes
come from (we know @ is straight from Lisp's backquote and array splicing syntax, much used with
Lisp macros.) The regular expressions are nothing but Lex on steroids, I almost always rewrite
my production perl code with regexes in C and it is very easy to do this, I don't even write C,
I just write Lex rules in a lexfile and implement the case handlers in simple C.
Perl is cool when you are a newbie coder who knows nothing but C/C++/Java, because those languages
are expensive to "set up". You need alot of support code just to implement the simplest ideas.
Perl has alot of things built in; high level data structures, memory management, clean string
manipulation utilities, networking, GUI and more libraries than you can shake a stick at.
But you know what? Perl is only AWESOME because we -as student programmers- were introduced to
very low level languages in school, and don't have any ideas there exists extremely powerful
laguages, with elegant syntaxes to die for.
If you just want to learn about perl's "innovations", I invite you to learn Smalltalk, Prolog, or
Lisp. Mostly Lisp.
Good one, but it was a math question, not lisp. I only used prefix notation because it is
;-)
easier for me (I even pressed "M-(" subconsiously, and I don't wanna know what option did I
select in my browser!) I know about the constant pi but I didnt' want him come back and
ask me for the symbol-value of pi.
Well, that is if you are STILL reading this (the topic is 26 hours old
Yes,
(* 2 (/ 22 7) radius)
I personally did some research and I figure he is some sort of an actor, but
at first, I had no idea who "Wil" was.
But still, I have no idea WHY is he "News for nerds, stuff that matters". A little
background on him would be good. I could have asked my clan-mate Junis, who is a real
nerd, but he is busy compiling the new GCC on his commodore.
God: "That is it, you have only 48 hours to finish those damn books. You had 48 years, but
you wasted them playing that damn organ at the church. You see, I have sent you to earth to
research and finish MY book, I made you my coauthor and forgave you of all human responsibilies
like worship and prayer. If your mother was an israeli, you could have been my second son, you
know I have a thing or two for jewish chicks [must be the skirts]. But what have you done? you
spent more time writing TeX than I spent writing all my holly books (I could have finished earlier,
but I was busy automating a few things with emacs lisp, I got sick of assembler, God is a real
programmer, dontcha know?)
Now, don't give me no damn excuses, I will not extend your life another second (I can't, I used a
packed structure and I ran out of extra bits for the life field, I know premature optimization is
the root of all evil, but I have a HUGE "human life" database and I need to squeeze the last iota out of this machine)
So, yeah, go ahead and do stuff, umkay? I need to do some apoclypse and stuff and I need a few algos. Just get off that damn organ and write something, willya? and give a copy of it to a guy
called sinserve, he has slashdot ID 455889."
Timothy would never have done such a thing, Taco must have plugged him with electrodes /me thinks poor Timmy is now fetching taco's paper.
while he was asleep.
> X2 (a snazzy gimicky name I just thought of, thankyouverymuch :p )
x10, depending on which base you count in.