Re:Good book, questionable language.
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Practical Common Lisp
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Where the hell have you been? It has better exception handling than most langauges (including java, read the book), and was one of the first languages to use garbage collection.
In addition, you'll find all the normal data structures in all the other languages, threading, and so on that you're used to. CL of today is not CL of the past.
Re:This is not a troll, but a query...
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Practical Common Lisp
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1) macros will blow your mind. Read Paul Grahams' 'On Lisp' 2) takes bottom-up programming to the extreme. Really does help, but takes a while to get used to. 3) Much better to develop in...interact with the interpreter, compile individual functions and run them, change variables in a running image...
Um, they say this right on the foreverpet page: ``It is widely believed that the technology to affordably clone many pet species from properly preserved tissue is close at hand. Cat and horse cloning is now a reality, and dog cloning is expected to follow soon.''
A college degree simply states that you know the material...or at least should. I know many people that didn't know shit when they graduated, and many that knew more before they even entered.
The material in the book is exatly the same, but you have no proof that you _know_ it if all you did was read the book.
Force of a stick of dynamite? I think not. If that was true, all terrorists would be using lighters instead of sticks of dynamyte. Just trying blowing up some rock with a lighter, let me know what it does.
Modern medicine hasn't really extended your life at all (to any large degree, much less 40+ years ), rather they have decreased the infant mortality rate (so that most infants survive, increasing the 'expected life-span')
Then you realize that 'real life' means a wife, kids to support, a giant house (as opposed to sharing a room the size of your kitchen with someone else), a car instead of a bus/bike, and think maybe, just maybe, I've decided to have it slightly better then those young kids, but I have to work harder to keep it too.
You equate lawful and acceptable, and unlawful and unacceptable, as if when something becomes law, it becomse ok to do moraly, which is total b.s. That's why some laws don't stick around for long. Just because a company acts lawfully doesn't mean it is acting moraly. If the musicians have little choice but to sign the contract to the record industry because they control all the channels of distribution due to monopoly, by the law it is not 'stealing', but it may have just as well have been.
Re:I can attest to the overvaluation of producers.
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Cheap Audio Production
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I highly agree. A good mic and sound room makes all the difference...sure, anyone could then mix it if the take is good, but what costs lots of money is the equipment..
Contrary to popular belief (and, yes, contrary to my own usage patterns in college), Universities provide network resources for academic uses.
This is true for most on-campus activities, but what about the dorms? One can't expect a student to do 100% academic activites just because they live in the dorms.
Analogous situation: I have the key to the front door of a building, but it's inconvenient to use the front door so I blow a little secret hole in the back wall and use that instead.
Not exactly. He said he would remove the door when the product ships. So this is more like construction workers making a secret hole in the back wall to help them build the building, then sealing it up when they are done.
Damn Straight, and thank you very much (I'm American).
I think the problem is rather Americans stupidity (to put it bluntly), in that they really don't know what is going on outside their country.
America is as corrupt (if not more, in fact, I'm sure it's more), than everyone else out there, we just happen to be doing the best job of it at the moment.
They lied, this is actually suspend-to-disk, or swap, to be specific. The difference between this and the apm suspend, is that the apm suspend counts on the bios to do most of the work, while this addition (formerly called software-suspend) does it all in software, without any bios help.
So, the computer doesn't still need to be on, and the bios can be from 1890 and it will still work.
I'm not exactly sure wha sam's club is, but I'd guess you get a discount for buying things there....does AOL give you a discount for buying, say, shoes online while using their service?
Your analogy is completely flawed. They _pay_ for AOL service, you don't pay to walk into wal-mart. The whole point of wal-mart is to try and get you to buy something, while with AOL, you've already bought it....
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Tux comes out and smokes IIS 5 and everyone laughs... according to the results of my beta tests with IIS6, we'll see who's laughing when it's publically benched.
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Wait, so you mean the newer the software, the faster it is likely to go?
Slashdot Mirror
ah, but have you advertised on slashdot yet? ;)
Where the hell have you been? It has better exception handling than most langauges (including java, read the book), and was one of the first languages to use garbage collection. In addition, you'll find all the normal data structures in all the other languages, threading, and so on that you're used to. CL of today is not CL of the past.
1) macros will blow your mind. Read Paul Grahams' 'On Lisp'
2) takes bottom-up programming to the extreme. Really does help, but takes a while to get used to.
3) Much better to develop in...interact with the interpreter, compile individual functions and run them, change variables in a running image...
Um, they say this right on the foreverpet page: ``It is widely believed that the technology to affordably clone many pet species from properly preserved tissue is close at hand. Cat and horse cloning is now a reality, and dog cloning is expected to follow soon.''
A college degree simply states that you know the material...or at least should. I know many people that didn't know shit when they graduated, and many that knew more before they even entered. The material in the book is exatly the same, but you have no proof that you _know_ it if all you did was read the book.
I can live without computers, but computers without the 'net are nearly just as useless...
Force of a stick of dynamite? I think not. If that was true, all terrorists would be using lighters instead of sticks of dynamyte. Just trying blowing up some rock with a lighter, let me know what it does.
Modern medicine hasn't really extended your life at all (to any large degree, much less 40+ years ), rather they have decreased the infant mortality rate (so that most infants survive, increasing the 'expected life-span')
Holy shit my name is on that page.... :)
I must thank you for informing me my game was now on a satillite thingy...I never would have guessed
Then you realize that 'real life' means a wife, kids to support, a giant house (as opposed to sharing a room the size of your kitchen with someone else), a car instead of a bus/bike, and think maybe, just maybe, I've decided to have it slightly better then those young kids, but I have to work harder to keep it too.
You equate lawful and acceptable, and unlawful and unacceptable, as if when something becomes law, it becomse ok to do moraly, which is total b.s. That's why some laws don't stick around for long.
Just because a company acts lawfully doesn't mean it is acting moraly. If the musicians have little choice but to sign the contract to the record industry because they control all the channels of distribution due to monopoly, by the law it is not 'stealing', but it may have just as well have been.
I highly agree. A good mic and sound room makes all the difference...sure, anyone could then mix it if the take is good, but what costs lots of money is the equipment..
I smell a contradiction! How could the remote spark if it had no batteries?
If you're an admin and you don't know how to edit a text file, then, well, I don't know how you can be calling yourself an admin.
Damn Straight, and thank you very much (I'm American). I think the problem is rather Americans stupidity (to put it bluntly), in that they really don't know what is going on outside their country. America is as corrupt (if not more, in fact, I'm sure it's more), than everyone else out there, we just happen to be doing the best job of it at the moment.
Hahaha....that's great stuff!
Could you elaborate on 'much more advanced' for me? I've never used NT...
Actually, I meant to type '1980', but thought the better of it.
They lied, this is actually suspend-to-disk, or swap, to be specific. The difference between this and the apm suspend, is that the apm suspend counts on the bios to do most of the work, while this addition (formerly called software-suspend) does it all in software, without any bios help. So, the computer doesn't still need to be on, and the bios can be from 1890 and it will still work.
It appears that it's so transparent that it made the page invisible too. -Dave Watson
I'm not exactly sure wha sam's club is, but I'd guess you get a discount for buying things there....does AOL give you a discount for buying, say, shoes online while using their service?
Your analogy is completely flawed. They _pay_ for AOL service, you don't pay to walk into wal-mart. The whole point of wal-mart is to try and get you to buy something, while with AOL, you've already bought it....
- Snip - Tux comes out and smokes IIS 5 and everyone laughs... according to the results of my beta tests with IIS6, we'll see who's laughing when it's publically benched. - Snip - Wait, so you mean the newer the software, the faster it is likely to go?