Heck, I have DSL at home. I still have to buy Quake3 though. Hmmm... maybe I'll do it since I messed up my Unreal Tournament install when trying to compile OpenUT.
DAT tapes are hopelessly crippled because they are hopelessly fucked. Magnetic tape? You must be joking. Deterioration of magnetic tape is measured in years - at least you can rely on a CD for decades.
Because... "copyright" regulates the right to copy. However the copyright mainly consists in the privilege of being able to restrict copying. Makes sense.
Eh eh I remember when I wanted to download it, a while ago, I just looked up a John Smith in California on four11.com, and used his data... it worked:)
Whenever I have to give personal information, I just fill in the form with bullshit -- I like to call myself "Pr. Nonnof YURBIZNESS" and my phone number comprises an astonishing number of "69". I also travel a lot, having lived in such countries as Anguila (don't know where that is), Burkina-Faso (it's in Africa, isn't it?), and lately, Antartica.
Well anyway, a good strategy against that kind of website would be to pollute their database as much as possible. That'd be cool, huh huh.
Well no we should'nt. And you know why? Because the DVD region control system is anticompetitive, hampers competition and the free market, and could certainly be considered illegal in several jurisdiction.
Yeah that's the most annoying part. It looks like 90% of the legal challenges WRT domaine names involve only legitimate use (etoy vs. etoys) while the real bastards, the domain squatters carry on their business.
Now I'm really glad ICANN has finally decided to open up new GTLD, and I'd love to see how the greatdomains.com kind of people looke like when it becomes a reality.
It's interesting to note that "slashdot dot org", when pronounced with a mouthfull of pebbles and with a bad cold, sounds pretty much like "microsoftsux" in the same conditions.
The panel therefore concludes that CdrTaco bend over and take it up the ass.
Yeah I noticed that a few months while browsing p5p's archive... and I was quite shocked. Larry Wall was commenting on a poster's obfuscated perl and told him that it took him only a split second to figure out what it meant... "but you have to keep in mind that I won the IOCCC both times I entered". Hell, me thinks he's been playing a bad joke on us for all that time...
XS is hmmm.. well quite complicated, never got around to use it. I used to extend TCL with C procedures, and even without dynamic libs it was a breeze.
Wrong, Perl excels at text manipulation and the web is mainly...text. Try doing text manipulation in C or Java and see how much more quickly it can be done in Perl.
C does'nt really have to suck at string manipulation, it just happens to, thanks (or no thanks at all) to the crappy, insecure, C library.
It's a shame nobody cared to spec out a standard text handling library in C? Or it has been done but I'm not aware of it. I know of DJB's effort... as used in Qmail... it's funky though, and not exactly standard by any means.
C++ is k3wl in that respect, but I used to get a bit alarmed at the the ASM code I was getting... oh wait that was a long time ago. 68k assembler. Duh. Nobody does that anymore. Oh forget it.
It's simple: Perl parses and compiles regular expressions at compile time. In C it has to be done at runtime. Now, compiletime == runtime in Perl for the most part... except if the script persists, as in mod_perl or fast_cgi or any daemon for that matter, as opposed to plain old CGIs and commands.
Yeah they scan and scan and scan. Not just spammers though: script kiddy do so as well. And Usenet spammer do as well. Just set up a bogus news server on port 119 and be amazed at the amount of crap that gets in after some point...
Perl can construct programs "on the fly". So can TCL, and so can (I believe?) Python. Probably not exactly with the same ease, since you must do it in ascii strings form (as in, you can't manipulate the syntax tree directly).
I however challenge your statement: "easier for the programmer to read". Human languages ARE *very* contextual. The real reason for Lisp being context free is because it is simpler to write a parser for it, and consequently, easier to make it bug free. Saying that a maze of parenthesis is easy to read is at best, hmmm, a fallacy.
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Heck, I have DSL at home. I still have to buy Quake3 though. Hmmm ... maybe I'll do it since I messed up my Unreal Tournament install when trying to compile OpenUT.
Idea: watch the stupid movie, then return it to the store and ask for a refund complaining about the stupid ads.
I've never encountered one of those but that would annoy me as much as spam.
Eh eh eh ... that was a good one.
DAT tapes are hopelessly crippled because they are hopelessly fucked. Magnetic tape? You must be joking. Deterioration of magnetic tape is measured in years - at least you can rely on a CD for decades.
Deterioration of CDRs is measured in MONTHS ...
By reading this text you agree to bend over and take it up the ass.
Because ... "copyright" regulates the right to copy. However the copyright mainly consists in the privilege of being able to restrict copying. Makes sense.
Re: Netscape
Eh eh I remember when I wanted to download it, a while ago, I just looked up a John Smith in California on four11.com, and used his data ... it worked :)
Whenever I have to give personal information, I just fill in the form with bullshit -- I like to call myself "Pr. Nonnof YURBIZNESS" and my phone number comprises an astonishing number of "69". I also travel a lot, having lived in such countries as Anguila (don't know where that is), Burkina-Faso (it's in Africa, isn't it?), and lately, Antartica.
Well anyway, a good strategy against that kind of website would be to pollute their database as much as possible. That'd be cool, huh huh.
Well no we should'nt. And you know why? Because the DVD region control system is anticompetitive, hampers competition and the free market, and could certainly be considered illegal in several jurisdiction.
So what about that company who registered 12000 combinations of common Family Name to sell them back at a higher price ... hey they were there first ...
Yeah that's the most annoying part. It looks like 90% of the legal challenges WRT domaine names involve only legitimate use (etoy vs. etoys) while the real bastards, the domain squatters carry on their business.
Now I'm really glad ICANN has finally decided to open up new GTLD, and I'd love to see how the greatdomains.com kind of people looke like when it becomes a reality.
It's interesting to note that "slashdot dot org", when pronounced with a mouthfull of pebbles and with a bad cold, sounds pretty much like "microsoftsux" in the same conditions.
The panel therefore concludes that CdrTaco bend over and take it up the ass.
Hey I did'nt notice but your user ID is quite high for a long timer. Anyway.
It's not that hard to get karma, even when I go on a flame spree, I make more positive Karma than negative.
Yeah I noticed that a few months while browsing p5p's archive ... and I was quite shocked. Larry Wall was commenting on a poster's obfuscated perl and told him that it took him only a split second to figure out what it meant ... "but you have to keep in mind that I won the IOCCC both times I entered". Hell, me thinks he's been playing a bad joke on us for all that time ...
sub foo { 'bar' }
T's not that hard, isn't it? Think of it as "substite foo by bar". Now it makes sense. Slightly better:
sub foo () { 'bar' }
FWIW, YMMV, IANAL, FSCK.
I've never used pack.
XS is hmmm .. well quite complicated, never got around to use it. I used to extend TCL with C procedures, and even without dynamic libs it was a breeze.
Wrong, Perl excels at text manipulation and the web is mainly...text. Try doing text manipulation in C or Java and see how much more quickly it can be done in Perl.
C does'nt really have to suck at string manipulation, it just happens to, thanks (or no thanks at all) to the crappy, insecure, C library.
It's a shame nobody cared to spec out a standard text handling library in C? Or it has been done but I'm not aware of it. I know of DJB's effort ... as used in Qmail ... it's funky though, and not exactly standard by any means.
C++ is k3wl in that respect, but I used to get a bit alarmed at the the ASM code I was getting ... oh wait that was a long time ago. 68k assembler. Duh. Nobody does that anymore. Oh forget it.
It's simple: Perl parses and compiles regular expressions at compile time. In C it has to be done at runtime. Now, compiletime == runtime in Perl for the most part ... except if the script persists, as in mod_perl or fast_cgi or any daemon for that matter, as opposed to plain old CGIs and commands.
who cares if it hurts the consumer. there are hundreds of REAL LIFE problems like suicide, drug use, poverty, war, AIDS, and mental illness.
You forgot Britney Spears.
I used to, but that was a while ago, and haven't touched it in years.
Yeah they scan and scan and scan. Not just spammers though: script kiddy do so as well. And Usenet spammer do as well. Just set up a bogus news server on port 119 and be amazed at the amount of crap that gets in after some point ...
Definition of read: to be able to tell the meaning of something written quickly. Ok, that does not necessarily fit perl very well ;)
Great Any! If you don't need something more natural than assembly code, why don't we just use assembly language?
Hm hm ... QMail would still generate those bounces as it does'nt check the user at the connection, but generates the bounce afterwards.
Perl can construct programs "on the fly". So can TCL, and so can (I believe?) Python. Probably not exactly with the same ease, since you must do it in ascii strings form (as in, you can't manipulate the syntax tree directly).
I however challenge your statement: "easier for the programmer to read". Human languages ARE *very* contextual. The real reason for Lisp being context free is because it is simpler to write a parser for it, and consequently, easier to make it bug free. Saying that a maze of parenthesis is easy to read is at best, hmmm, a fallacy.