A single page may not sound like it would make much difference, but less than a thousand out of nearly 40,000 visitors from SlashDot ever clicked links to other resources on the same site after visiting the page in question.
Does this say more about the attention span of typical Slashdot readers or how interesting his site is?
I have my start page set to a local HTML file with about 20 of my most-used search forms. I can search dictionaries, translate text and web pages, look up movies at Rotten Tomatoes, and look up maps, all from a local HTML file. This saves quite a bit of typing. Of course, there are plenty of bookmarks, too.
It's a local HTML file, but I also have a copy of it on the web (linked above) for when I'm using someone else's machine.
here's a few main types of programming styles: Object Oriented (Java), Functionally Oriented (C), Procedurally Oriented (LISP), and hybrids (C++, Perl). Once you learn how to think in the way required by each of these styles, all that's left is memorizing syntax and commands. And that's what man pages are for.
I believe you had a typo in there. LISP is functional, and C is procedural.
Or a pro-mugging measure. Why bother accosting people at random when your RFID gun tells you the little old lady on the corner is toting around $5,000 in cash?
I was going to mention something about how little old ladies shouldn't be carrying around $5,000 in cash, but then I realized that owners of mom and pop stores probably need to carry around a large amount of cash when they take their weekly (or daily?) revenue to the bank.
In addition to sibling replies, even if you could forge the RFIDs easily, it would only be referring to an entry in the store's database for the product, correct? So you wouldn't be able to change the price, only replace it with the RFID of a lower-priced item, which would look kinda suspicious to the checkout clerk if the product wasn't very similar. People do this already by cutting out UPC barcodes. I've heard of people getting furniture for insanely cheap prices. I'm guessing that the checkout clerks, in general, don't pay a whole lot of attention to this kind of stuff.
I'm guessing most new laptops sold these days come with at least 4 USB ports. Even so, consider getting a USB hub. My laptop only has 2 USB ports, and I'm always plugging and unplugging USB peripherals (my Logitech mouse takes up one port, so all my other peripherals have to share the other port).
On the other hand, another page says go got started in China:
One of the oldest strategy game in existence is the game called GO. It came to existence over 3000 years ago in China where it was given the name, "Wei-chi".
I've always thought go was Japanese, not Chinese. m-w.com seems to agree with me:
a Japanese game played between two players who alternately place black and white stones on a board checkered by 19 vertical lines and 19 horizontal lines in an attempt to enclose the larger area on the board
Wow, Lord of the Rings and 2.6 Kernel released on the same day? This just shows the dedication the Linux developers have. To not go see the movie and to work to release the kernel. My hats are off to these guys. They have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Maybe 2.6 actually isn't ready, and they're only pretending it is so that they can go watch ROTK.
Hey, I went to high school with the guy who wrote the review! I even stabbed the dude with a staple in 7th or 8th grade (our high school was 7th-12th grades). Sorry, Alan!
It could be argued that much of his code was not readable as well. Lots of one letter variable names, and wrapper around functions that didn't need them. I mean, he did the equivalent of wrapping strlen with a function named StringLength. This was to improve readability.
Interesting that he'd create separate functions just to improve readability and still use one-letter variable names.
A problem? Maybe not, but I see an obvious difference. A Red Hat distribution includes tons of applications (e.g., Open Office and language compilers/interpreters). A Microsoft Windows distribution doesn't include much more than the OS. Yes I know that it includes stuff like Windows Media Player and Outlook Express, but that's still nothing compared to what comes with most Linux distros.
And CTRL-SHIFT-TAB to move to the tab on the left. Yes I know, it should be obvious, but in retrospect, CTRL-TAB should have been obvious in the first place, and I've been uncomfortably using CTRL-PgUp and CTRL-PgDn this whole time.
>My friend just got laid off because the company is moving the whole operation to China...
Interesting. My colleague, who has temporarily relocated from China, tells me that programmers there are having a hard time finding jobs, too.
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RMS would get his ass kicked:
"I have practiced Moo Do, an eclectic martial art based on Tae Kwon Do. In November 1997 I attained the rank of Black Belt (1st Dan). I am now studying aikido at Turk's Head Aikikai." -- ESR (from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/personal.html)
I've heard that in the UC Berkeley libraries, the staff are actually trained NOT to bother people looking at porn. Playing games is not allowed, though (probably only the installation-required games are disallowed, not the ones at games.yahoo.com). Porn, yes, games, no.
"RAC, or Real Application Clusters, is what Oracle has been toting as the 'Unbreakable' part of its software. The idea is to divide a large task into subtasks and distribute the subtasks among multiple nodes."
By "unbreakable," I think they mean reliable, not uncrackable.
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Does this say more about the attention span of typical Slashdot readers or how interesting his site is?
Are you sure about this? I've tried this a handful of times, and still got sent back to the page asking me to register.
I have my start page set to a local HTML file with about 20 of my most-used search forms. I can search dictionaries, translate text and web pages, look up movies at Rotten Tomatoes, and look up maps, all from a local HTML file. This saves quite a bit of typing. Of course, there are plenty of bookmarks, too.
It's a local HTML file, but I also have a copy of it on the web (linked above) for when I'm using someone else's machine.
here's a few main types of programming styles: Object Oriented (Java), Functionally Oriented (C), Procedurally Oriented (LISP), and hybrids (C++, Perl). Once you learn how to think in the way required by each of these styles, all that's left is memorizing syntax and commands. And that's what man pages are for.
I believe you had a typo in there. LISP is functional, and C is procedural.
How about an icon of a keychain flash drive?
Or a pro-mugging measure. Why bother accosting people at random when your RFID gun tells you the little old lady on the corner is toting around $5,000 in cash?
I was going to mention something about how little old ladies shouldn't be carrying around $5,000 in cash, but then I realized that owners of mom and pop stores probably need to carry around a large amount of cash when they take their weekly (or daily?) revenue to the bank.
In addition to sibling replies, even if you could forge the RFIDs easily, it would only be referring to an entry in the store's database for the product, correct? So you wouldn't be able to change the price, only replace it with the RFID of a lower-priced item, which would look kinda suspicious to the checkout clerk if the product wasn't very similar.
People do this already by cutting out UPC barcodes. I've heard of people getting furniture for insanely cheap prices. I'm guessing that the checkout clerks, in general, don't pay a whole lot of attention to this kind of stuff.
I'm guessing most new laptops sold these days come with at least 4 USB ports. Even so, consider getting a USB hub. My laptop only has 2 USB ports, and I'm always plugging and unplugging USB peripherals (my Logitech mouse takes up one port, so all my other peripherals have to share the other port).
(see original title)
Guess it wasn't so funny.
Eh. Never know who you can trust on the internet.
Wow, Lord of the Rings and 2.6 Kernel released on the same day? This just shows the dedication the Linux developers have. To not go see the movie and to work to release the kernel. My hats are off to these guys. They have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Maybe 2.6 actually isn't ready, and they're only pretending it is so that they can go watch ROTK.
Hey, I went to high school with the guy who wrote the review! I even stabbed the dude with a staple in 7th or 8th grade (our high school was 7th-12th grades). Sorry, Alan!
A good deal of my spam these days comes from the email address I used solely to sign up for Audiogalaxy.
It could be argued that much of his code was not readable as well. Lots of one letter variable names, and wrapper around functions that didn't need them. I mean, he did the equivalent of wrapping strlen with a function named StringLength. This was to improve readability.
Interesting that he'd create separate functions just to improve readability and still use one-letter variable names.
A problem? Maybe not, but I see an obvious difference. A Red Hat distribution includes tons of applications (e.g., Open Office and language compilers/interpreters). A Microsoft Windows distribution doesn't include much more than the OS. Yes I know that it includes stuff like Windows Media Player and Outlook Express, but that's still nothing compared to what comes with most Linux distros.
And CTRL-SHIFT-TAB to move to the tab on the left. Yes I know, it should be obvious, but in retrospect, CTRL-TAB should have been obvious in the first place, and I've been uncomfortably using CTRL-PgUp and CTRL-PgDn this whole time.
>My friend just got laid off because the company is moving the whole operation to China...
Interesting. My colleague, who has temporarily relocated from China, tells me that programmers there are having a hard time finding jobs, too.
RMS would get his ass kicked:
"I have practiced Moo Do, an eclectic martial art based on Tae Kwon Do. In November 1997 I attained the rank of Black Belt (1st Dan). I am now studying aikido at Turk's Head Aikikai." -- ESR (from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/personal.html)
What's even easier is to use CTRL-SHIFT-LEFTCLICK, which loads a link in a new tab in the background, no matter what your settings are.
I've heard that in the UC Berkeley libraries, the staff are actually trained NOT to bother people looking at porn. Playing games is not allowed, though (probably only the installation-required games are disallowed, not the ones at games.yahoo.com). Porn, yes, games, no.
"RAC, or Real Application Clusters, is what Oracle has been toting as the 'Unbreakable' part of its software. The idea is to divide a large task into subtasks and distribute the subtasks among multiple nodes."
By "unbreakable," I think they mean reliable, not uncrackable.