UNIX grew up in an era when it was more important to be terse because keyboards weren't nearly so ergonomic and you didn't see more than 24 lines on screen and hard copy printouts were more common.
That and the fact that C at the time had a six-character limit for variable names.
You can play Guitar Hero DLC from an SD card, but yeah, I agree with you that this doesn't really sound like something that fits in with the Wii universe. Unlike the HD consoles, both of which set out to be media centers. When the Wii launched they were explicit that they did not want it to be one, which is why it doesn't play DVD movies even though it has a DVD drive.
Yes, CDE is still included in Solaris (as of version 9, but I'd be surprised if 10 didn't have it), including the free version of Solaris Intel. Gnome is the default, but it's there for anyone who's feeling nostalgic.
Solaris Intel also runs on VirtualBox, so there's no excuse for anyone not to be running CDE who wants it:-)
The rev command has got to be one of the most useless Unix commands I've ever come across. It's almost as if someone's first c program somehow got taken up as a part of standard Unix! Maybe in the days before sed and awk and perl it had some function in pipes that I can't grok, but nowadays other than making hints for video game websites I can't imagine what it's for.
Start with a basic discussion of SysV vs. BSD, then move on to shells and explain why the Bourne shell his historically prefered to csh for scripts.
You might demonstrate a little sed and awk, but keep in mind that these are just kids, so you might just jump ahead to perl. Maybe wrap it up by talking about NFS and how network filesystems have changed since Samba came along.
Oh, and if you feel like you're losing them along the way, you can probably win them back with an Itanic joke:-)
You have a short memory if you don't think a candidate's religion can be a political issue in the UK: press and pundits made a huge fuss over Tony Blair's sending his children to Catholic school, and tracked every mass he went to up to his conversion to Catholicism last year.
Interesting. I had always assumed the opposite: "bastard" being used as derogatory first and foremost by wives whose husbands had bastard children (very common historically, especially among the nobility and wealthy who would often provide for their bastard children). The wives would be very severe with the bastards and denigrate them in front of the rest of the household, and try to get others to do the same, in order to gain as much as possible for their own, legitimate, children. (And also out of jealousy for the mistresses.)
There is no finer long-range, fast-subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber aircraft on the planet right now, nor is there likely to be in the near future.
"exoteric": not a word (unless you just coined it with a subconscious combination of "esoteric" and "exotic", but we'll have to wait to see if it catches on).
I was talking about an "instance of Muslims invading Europe and killing Christians" (although I would argue that religion had a lot less to do with either war than most people assume), and not the Crusades specifically, which were obviously the other way round.
The Turkish conquest of southeast Europe (itself made possible in large part by the Crusaders' sacking of Byzantium) could've served as another example of the Europeans not being the aggressors.
We could have nuked stalin in the early 50's, before they had the bomb, and didn't. (Probably would have saved Millions of Russian lives too. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people.)
Um, yeah. Except that Stalin's purges happened in the 1930's. Other than that minor detail, it's a good theory though.
If I had the setup you describe I'd think the money would be better spent on upgrading your receiver than buying a second 360. Instead of using up your last digital input, you could open things up and have a bunch more digital audio and HDMI inputs at your disposal for whatever may come down the pipe in the next few years.
FYI, for the DS at least I know that localisation in Europe typically means SKUs with 5 languages, not 23. (French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian.)
Hungarian, Finnish, Greek, et al. may be official languages of the EU, but that doesn't mean they get their own video game translations.
Regina on Linux is my current weapon of choice. (Perl and Unix really do fit hand-in-glove in some ways, but Rexx is so easy to use and so easy to remember that I think it adapts really well to the Unix/Linux world*, even if it isn't 'native' to the platform's culture.) Not to diss hard-core Perl hackers, but for people who only occasionally have recource to a scripting language yet don't want to sacrifice power I think Rexx is a real win.
* So long as you are open-minded enough that you can get used to some syntactic idosyncracies like && meaning XOR and \ meaning !
Perl was long my scripting language of choice until I discovered Rexx, which to me has a very similar feel and philosophy, but is much easier to retain the whole syntax of, and (the big winner) *much* easier to reread a month later.
Of course, Rexx is not an *it* language, but even Perl seems to be waning in favour of Python and Ruby, so I'll take the risk in bringing it up even if it isn't something we're 'supposed to be' excited about. As if a robust and mature scripting language were a bad thing...
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Batman's a scientist!
You're telling me that SCIENTISTS, actual scientists, are turning to COMPUTERS, to do their work?
What is the world coming to?
UNIX grew up in an era when it was more important to be terse because keyboards weren't nearly so ergonomic and you didn't see more than 24 lines on screen and hard copy printouts were more common.
That and the fact that C at the time had a six-character limit for variable names.
You can play Guitar Hero DLC from an SD card, but yeah, I agree with you that this doesn't really sound like something that fits in with the Wii universe. Unlike the HD consoles, both of which set out to be media centers. When the Wii launched they were explicit that they did not want it to be one, which is why it doesn't play DVD movies even though it has a DVD drive.
Yes, CDE is still included in Solaris (as of version 9, but I'd be surprised if 10 didn't have it), including the free version of Solaris Intel. Gnome is the default, but it's there for anyone who's feeling nostalgic.
Solaris Intel also runs on VirtualBox, so there's no excuse for anyone not to be running CDE who wants it :-)
The second one is only verbs (I assume the speaker is addressing his troops).
The rev command has got to be one of the most useless Unix commands I've ever come across. It's almost as if someone's first c program somehow got taken up as a part of standard Unix! Maybe in the days before sed and awk and perl it had some function in pipes that I can't grok, but nowadays other than making hints for video game websites I can't imagine what it's for.
Start with a basic discussion of SysV vs. BSD, then move on to shells and explain why the Bourne shell his historically prefered to csh for scripts.
You might demonstrate a little sed and awk, but keep in mind that these are just kids, so you might just jump ahead to perl. Maybe wrap it up by talking about NFS and how network filesystems have changed since Samba came along.
Oh, and if you feel like you're losing them along the way, you can probably win them back with an Itanic joke :-)
Wow, nice reference!
You have a short memory if you don't think a candidate's religion can be a political issue in the UK: press and pundits made a huge fuss over Tony Blair's sending his children to Catholic school, and tracked every mass he went to up to his conversion to Catholicism last year.
Interesting. I had always assumed the opposite: "bastard" being used as derogatory first and foremost by wives whose husbands had bastard children (very common historically, especially among the nobility and wealthy who would often provide for their bastard children). The wives would be very severe with the bastards and denigrate them in front of the rest of the household, and try to get others to do the same, in order to gain as much as possible for their own, legitimate, children. (And also out of jealousy for the mistresses.)
There is no finer long-range, fast-subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber aircraft on the planet right now, nor is there likely to be in the near future.
:-p
Only because the Tu-95 isn't jet-powered.
"exoteric": not a word (unless you just coined it with a subconscious combination of "esoteric" and "exotic", but we'll have to wait to see if it catches on).
I was talking about an "instance of Muslims invading Europe and killing Christians" (although I would argue that religion had a lot less to do with either war than most people assume), and not the Crusades specifically, which were obviously the other way round.
The Turkish conquest of southeast Europe (itself made possible in large part by the Crusaders' sacking of Byzantium) could've served as another example of the Europeans not being the aggressors.
Saladin, no. But the Umayyads sure did, up until Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi anyway.
We could have nuked stalin in the early 50's, before they had the bomb, and didn't. (Probably would have saved Millions of Russian lives too. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people.)
Um, yeah. Except that Stalin's purges happened in the 1930's. Other than that minor detail, it's a good theory though.
If the USA was going to ever nuke anyone first
Um, what do you mean "ever"? I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the US is the only country to have nuked another one first.
Can someone please explain how a 340 pilot can see 5nm *behind* the aircraft?
I'm more amazed that they survived burning debris passing with in 5 nm of the plane!
If I had the setup you describe I'd think the money would be better spent on upgrading your receiver than buying a second 360. Instead of using up your last digital input, you could open things up and have a bunch more digital audio and HDMI inputs at your disposal for whatever may come down the pipe in the next few years.
FYI, for the DS at least I know that localisation in Europe typically means SKUs with 5 languages, not 23. (French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian.)
Hungarian, Finnish, Greek, et al. may be official languages of the EU, but that doesn't mean they get their own video game translations.
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Regina on Linux is my current weapon of choice. (Perl and Unix really do fit hand-in-glove in some ways, but Rexx is so easy to use and so easy to remember that I think it adapts really well to the Unix/Linux world*, even if it isn't 'native' to the platform's culture.) Not to diss hard-core Perl hackers, but for people who only occasionally have recource to a scripting language yet don't want to sacrifice power I think Rexx is a real win.
* So long as you are open-minded enough that you can get used to some syntactic idosyncracies like && meaning XOR and \ meaning !
Perl was long my scripting language of choice until I discovered Rexx, which to me has a very similar feel and philosophy, but is much easier to retain the whole syntax of, and (the big winner) *much* easier to reread a month later.
Of course, Rexx is not an *it* language, but even Perl seems to be waning in favour of Python and Ruby, so I'll take the risk in bringing it up even if it isn't something we're 'supposed to be' excited about. As if a robust and mature scripting language were a bad thing...
And yet, in 2006, the CAC-40 outperformed the S&P. Hardly an economic free-fall, if you ask me.