which allows you to change resolution on the fly (another pointless Windows concept).
So if I want to watch a full-screen movie on my computer using Mplayer, given that my computer doesn't have the power to software scale the file and my video card is a piece of junk, I should do what?
I can't tell you the number of good things that don't go to market because of piracy* concerns. From software to books to music to even more novel forms of everything that simply can't happen because people break the social contract that is copyright and steal. It's a shame really.
If you can't tell us, why should we believe you? You sound like someone waving their hands at the evil of masturbation; oh, it's evil, it's evil! Forget any evidence; it's evil I tell you!
Can anyone explain to me why the horizon of the hi-res images is bitmapped ?
Just a guess (IANANE}, but it looks like they cut out the sky and replaced it with a solid color. Instead of using various alpha levels to make it blend properly, they used one-bit transparency, making the line look bitmapped.
I would remind anyone who is inclined to think of America as an unusually heroic military force that they have never won a significant military victory without superior numbers or equipment. I don't believe any other nation in history has that distinction.
What wars has Vatican City won? What about Latvia or Estonia or Czechslovkia? There's lots of countries with that distinction, and worse, someone else provided the numbers and equipment.
sales drones exist to point to shelves and ring things up. At $5.80 an hour, with the abuse the average idiot customer provided, they were lucky I didn't spit in their faces and strangle them.
In my experience, the average person doesn't talk to sales drones, or are generally fairly polite. I've worked in customer service, and don't even remember any particularly hostile customers, and the people I've lived with have had bad customers, but those customers were the exception. (I've also had customers who were idiots, and they've generally been very nice people, even if they are really stupid.) I'm led to conclude that the problem is from your side, especially given the hostile and abuse tone of your posts.
I don't think you've read that much Heinlein, neither do you understand what he was trying to say
I haven't exhaustively read Heinlein, but I've read many of his books. He has a lot to say; you can't summarize the philosophy of any thinking person in one Slashdot post. The point was, his viewpoint is very deviant from any mainstream opinion, and isn't a good start to what anything means in modern society.
Theoretically, there would be three options, not two: being treated better, worse, and the same. Of course, since the other two options (better and the same) could be viewed as either neutral or better, that means that no matter how the breakdown works, the odds are STILL in favor of a woman NOT taking a man along,
How does that work? If 40% get better treatment with a man along, and 60% get treated as lousy either way, then the odds are in favor of a woman taking a man along.
I would wager that these contracters do not stereotype your wife out of any superiority complex, sexism, or any other nefarius motive. Rather my money says that it has merely been their experience that women ARE generally less competent than men when it comes to construction. Is this really so hard to believe?
It doesn't fit. If I'm a contractor, and my client says do it this way, I don't have the luxury of ignoring her, even if what she asked for is incrediably stupid. It's my job to clarify it and make it work, or explain to her why it won't work.
In any case, how much experience can they have if they don't even try to listen to the women?
And that's a bad thing? Why would you want to name the file a name unrelated to its contents? In a package/unit/class based programming language, it's entirely reasonable to require that you name file based on the package name, and makes it portable to systems without long filenames, since you can rename the files (compilers for such systems invariably include a name hash or a name mapping table) without editing the files.
At the end of the day, it's a whole lot of typing for a "Hello world" program.
Perl is a several megabyte binary. Echo is a few kilobytes. That's a whole lot of binary for a "Hello world" program. If you write "Hello world" programs all day, both echo and awk are superior to Perl.
(90% of it is required filler/overhead).
Yes, in a "Hello world" program. That's why useful language comparisons don't use "Hello world" programs.
U.S. hypocrisy won't allow the bombing of my city or Japan's to be called terrorism however.
Was your country's bombing of London terrorism? In war, you try to bring the war to an end, with your side having the uppper hand. War crimes are when you engage in completely gratitous acts of barbarism, not when you kill the enemy. Dresden may have been ineffectual in that goal, but Hiroshima brought the war in the Pacific to an end. War is hell; if WWI didn't teach the continental powers that, perhaps Dresden was appropriate in reminding them in WWII.
while 10 million civilian Germans were killed that way
Where the hell did you get that figure? Dresden was the worst of the German civilian bombings, and even the Holocaust deniers would say that was 200,000 deaths. (Other accounts would call it as 20,000 deaths.) Given the amount of political capital that could come from the number of civilian German deaths being more then the number killed in the Holocaust (by any account), I'm sure the neo-Nazis would have dragged that out if that number had even the remotest relation to reality.
We were never asked to read The Graveyard of The Fireflies (or watch the modern animation). Now that would tell us a bit more about WWII's reality.
I take it you never read about the bombing of Chinese civilians. Japan was the agressor; they could avoided attacking other nations, could have been smart enough to limit their attacks to weaker nations, or been smart enough to accept unconditional surrender when offered. Why should have America accepted a million deaths to take Japan (farmboy's lives don't become worthless when they are drafted), when they started the war?
If we did look bad, it meant the commies were the good ones, so that simply had to go.
The Commies that killed 30 million of their own people, with no possible justification of war?
I suspect the salesman would end up speaking more to whoever is asking more questions, in the end.
I've heard of a couple cases where the woman had to use the guy as an intercom, because the salesman would ignore her, despite the fact that she was clearly the one who knew what was going on.
But WTF cannot contractors respect the pover of the the chequebook (checkbook) and DO WHAT THEY ARE PAID FOR!
They are. You are enabling their behavior. You could fire them, or you could just let them screw up and refuse to pay them, or most effectively, chew them out for ignoring your wife and refuse to repeat it. If they want it repeated, let her repeat it.
Which one is simpler, more easily understood, less likely to break?
You need to port your code to a system that doesn't have a console, so you have to rewrite the entire I/O system. In Java, Ada, C or C++, you can search for class/package/header name for every case that uses I/O. How do you do that with "print "Hello, world\n";"?
Furthermore, in any non-trivial program, you're going to have to add some sort of function around your code that accepts args. That reduces the relative simplicity of your program immensely.
Perl is compiled down to an optree, and the the optree is run by the perl runtime (which is essentailly a VM, but the perl folks don't like to call it that). This all happens transparently. An interpeted language is quite a different thing.
So just like Java, except for the compiling to bytecodes is done at runtime. I don't know how you concieve of interpreted languages, but even some of the old-style BASICs did something similar. Translating each line from text every time it's run isn't done in modern non-toy interpreters, with the exception of very high level languages.
All the language performance comparisions I've read never take into account that perl programs are compiled just before they are run.
What? Knowing how Perl works doesn't change its speed at all. `time' really doesn't care.
IIRC, when I looked through the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) books, they claimed copyright to all work that students do there. I wouldn't be so confident that no college does this, even though it seem rare.
i take it Carmine Caridi didn't sign, therefore can the MPAA can't do much can they?
They could take legal action for copyright infringement. (That is somewhat unlikely.) They could prevent him from being a voter in future Academy Awards. (That is very likely.) They could see that he never gets another job with an MPAA afflicated company. (Possible, and could be very devasting.) They could pressure companies to edit him out of future releases of his movies, cutting off royalites. (Unlikely, but extremely damaging.) All of which could be done without the form.
Personally, I think that the war against piracy is unwinnable, and that piracy will destroy the business as it is today;. It has destroyed the Hong Kong film industry already.
How did it destroy the Hong Kong film industry? (Serious question; I don't follow foreign film much, and I bet a lot of other slashdotters don't either.)
As for the US, it may reduce the profitability of movies, but I doubt it will destroy the industry. The software industry has survived years with heavily pirated software. Porn on the internet is thriving despite piracy, and it's a lot easy to download 100k files then 4.7 GB files.
It's also impossible to download the social experience of a movie; surely after a hundred years of movies and several decades of VHS tapes and DVDs (and cable), we don't need to go to the theater just to see a movie.
The only proof is that a leaked copy with this guy's name on it is on the internet. We have no proof that he had anything to do with it being there.
I've sent chapters of my book out to a few friends. (Expect it on the shelves of your bookstore in, um, 2024.) If it gets leaked, I know how to bitch at. Fine, there's a small chance that some sysadmin copied it out of the email folder or something, but most likely they forwarded it to someone else. If they did, then they have primary responsibility for the leak. If this actor gave it to his kid, and his kid leaked it, then he's responsible, because it was his job to see that it didn't get leaked.
Who's going to read a message titled "deprecatory parrot bizarre dessert"?
I occasionally miss such messages in my scan for spam in my email box, or just start reading my email without throwing away the spam. The titles that get me are those that are "[SPAM] Vi.agr@". The [SPAM] should have been enough to toss the message with any decent spam filter, especially now that more and more messages have them. So why obfuscate the Viagra?
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which allows you to change resolution on the fly (another pointless Windows concept).
So if I want to watch a full-screen movie on my computer using Mplayer, given that my computer doesn't have the power to software scale the file and my video card is a piece of junk, I should do what?
I can't tell you the number of good things that don't go to market because of piracy* concerns. From software to books to music to even more novel forms of everything that simply can't happen because people break the social contract that is copyright and steal. It's a shame really.
If you can't tell us, why should we believe you? You sound like someone waving their hands at the evil of masturbation; oh, it's evil, it's evil! Forget any evidence; it's evil I tell you!
Can anyone explain to me why the horizon of the hi-res images is bitmapped ?
Just a guess (IANANE}, but it looks like they cut out the sky and replaced it with a solid color. Instead of using various alpha levels to make it blend properly, they used one-bit transparency, making the line look bitmapped.
I would remind anyone who is inclined to think of America as an unusually heroic military force that they have never won a significant military victory without superior numbers or equipment. I don't believe any other nation in history has that distinction.
What wars has Vatican City won? What about Latvia or Estonia or Czechslovkia? There's lots of countries with that distinction, and worse, someone else provided the numbers and equipment.
sales drones exist to point to shelves and ring things up. At $5.80 an hour, with the abuse the average idiot customer provided, they were lucky I didn't spit in their faces and strangle them.
In my experience, the average person doesn't talk to sales drones, or are generally fairly polite. I've worked in customer service, and don't even remember any particularly hostile customers, and the people I've lived with have had bad customers, but those customers were the exception. (I've also had customers who were idiots, and they've generally been very nice people, even if they are really stupid.) I'm led to conclude that the problem is from your side, especially given the hostile and abuse tone of your posts.
I don't think you've read that much Heinlein, neither do you understand what he was trying to say
I haven't exhaustively read Heinlein, but I've read many of his books. He has a lot to say; you can't summarize the philosophy of any thinking person in one Slashdot post. The point was, his viewpoint is very deviant from any mainstream opinion, and isn't a good start to what anything means in modern society.
Theoretically, there would be three options, not two: being treated better, worse, and the same. Of course, since the other two options (better and the same) could be viewed as either neutral or better, that means that no matter how the breakdown works, the odds are STILL in favor of a woman NOT taking a man along,
How does that work? If 40% get better treatment with a man along, and 60% get treated as lousy either way, then the odds are in favor of a woman taking a man along.
I would wager that these contracters do not stereotype your wife out of any superiority complex, sexism, or any other nefarius motive. Rather my money says that it has merely been their experience that women ARE generally less competent than men when it comes to construction. Is this really so hard to believe?
It doesn't fit. If I'm a contractor, and my client says do it this way, I don't have the luxury of ignoring her, even if what she asked for is incrediably stupid. It's my job to clarify it and make it work, or explain to her why it won't work.
In any case, how much experience can they have if they don't even try to listen to the women?
I'll leave you to do your do your own research on that one. Heinlein would be a good start...
So a gentleman sleeps with his daughters, his sisters, a grandmother and her granddaughter and just about anyone else he can sleep with?
You have a file that MUST be named HWorld.java.
And that's a bad thing? Why would you want to name the file a name unrelated to its contents? In a package/unit/class based programming language, it's entirely reasonable to require that you name file based on the package name, and makes it portable to systems without long filenames, since you can rename the files (compilers for such systems invariably include a name hash or a name mapping table) without editing the files.
At the end of the day, it's a whole lot of typing for a "Hello world" program.
Perl is a several megabyte binary. Echo is a few kilobytes. That's a whole lot of binary for a "Hello world" program. If you write "Hello world" programs all day, both echo and awk are superior to Perl.
(90% of it is required filler/overhead).
Yes, in a "Hello world" program. That's why useful language comparisons don't use "Hello world" programs.
U.S. hypocrisy won't allow the bombing of my city or Japan's to be called terrorism however.
Was your country's bombing of London terrorism? In war, you try to bring the war to an end, with your side having the uppper hand. War crimes are when you engage in completely gratitous acts of barbarism, not when you kill the enemy. Dresden may have been ineffectual in that goal, but Hiroshima brought the war in the Pacific to an end. War is hell; if WWI didn't teach the continental powers that, perhaps Dresden was appropriate in reminding them in WWII.
while 10 million civilian Germans were killed that way
Where the hell did you get that figure? Dresden was the worst of the German civilian bombings, and even the Holocaust deniers would say that was 200,000 deaths. (Other accounts would call it as 20,000 deaths.) Given the amount of political capital that could come from the number of civilian German deaths being more then the number killed in the Holocaust (by any account), I'm sure the neo-Nazis would have dragged that out if that number had even the remotest relation to reality.
We were never asked to read The Graveyard of The Fireflies (or watch the modern animation). Now that would tell us a bit more about WWII's reality.
I take it you never read about the bombing of Chinese civilians. Japan was the agressor; they could avoided attacking other nations, could have been smart enough to limit their attacks to weaker nations, or been smart enough to accept unconditional surrender when offered. Why should have America accepted a million deaths to take Japan (farmboy's lives don't become worthless when they are drafted), when they started the war?
If we did look bad, it meant the commies were the good ones, so that simply had to go.
The Commies that killed 30 million of their own people, with no possible justification of war?
I suspect the salesman would end up speaking more to whoever is asking more questions, in the end.
I've heard of a couple cases where the woman had to use the guy as an intercom, because the salesman would ignore her, despite the fact that she was clearly the one who knew what was going on.
But WTF cannot contractors respect the pover of the the chequebook (checkbook) and DO WHAT THEY ARE PAID FOR!
They are. You are enabling their behavior. You could fire them, or you could just let them screw up and refuse to pay them, or most effectively, chew them out for ignoring your wife and refuse to repeat it. If they want it repeated, let her repeat it.
Which one is simpler, more easily understood, less likely to break?
You need to port your code to a system that doesn't have a console, so you have to rewrite the entire I/O system. In Java, Ada, C or C++, you can search for class/package/header name for every case that uses I/O. How do you do that with "print "Hello, world\n";"?
Furthermore, in any non-trivial program, you're going to have to add some sort of function around your code that accepts args. That reduces the relative simplicity of your program immensely.
Maybe this is cheating,
In the context of a cell phone, of course it's cheating. The question is between Perl and Java, not Unix and Java.
Perl is compiled down to an optree, and the the optree is run by the perl runtime (which is essentailly a VM, but the perl folks don't like to call it that). This all happens transparently. An interpeted language is quite a different thing.
So just like Java, except for the compiling to bytecodes is done at runtime. I don't know how you concieve of interpreted languages, but even some of the old-style BASICs did something similar. Translating each line from text every time it's run isn't done in modern non-toy interpreters, with the exception of very high level languages.
All the language performance comparisions I've read never take into account that perl programs are compiled just before they are run.
What? Knowing how Perl works doesn't change its speed at all. `time' really doesn't care.
NO COLLEGE DOES THIS!
IIRC, when I looked through the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) books, they claimed copyright to all work that students do there. I wouldn't be so confident that no college does this, even though it seem rare.
"I love you, Fatima".
That was in response to your(?) remark that Hebrew was more complex becasue it needs English support too; so does Chinese.
But it's just more glyphs in Chinese; English in Hebrew runs the opposite direction of the base text.
Why would 99% of legitimate users ever need to scan a bill?
I scanned a bill because someone scribbled on it in Arabic and I wanted to find out what it said.
i take it Carmine Caridi didn't sign, therefore can the MPAA can't do much can they?
They could take legal action for copyright infringement. (That is somewhat unlikely.) They could prevent him from being a voter in future Academy Awards. (That is very likely.) They could see that he never gets another job with an MPAA afflicated company. (Possible, and could be very devasting.) They could pressure companies to edit him out of future releases of his movies, cutting off royalites. (Unlikely, but extremely damaging.) All of which could be done without the form.
Personally, I think that the war against piracy is unwinnable, and that piracy will destroy the business as it is today;. It has destroyed the Hong Kong film industry already.
How did it destroy the Hong Kong film industry? (Serious question; I don't follow foreign film much, and I bet a lot of other slashdotters don't either.)
As for the US, it may reduce the profitability of movies, but I doubt it will destroy the industry. The software industry has survived years with heavily pirated software. Porn on the internet is thriving despite piracy, and it's a lot easy to download 100k files then 4.7 GB files.
It's also impossible to download the social experience of a movie; surely after a hundred years of movies and several decades of VHS tapes and DVDs (and cable), we don't need to go to the theater just to see a movie.
The only proof is that a leaked copy with this guy's name on it is on the internet. We have no proof that he had anything to do with it being there.
I've sent chapters of my book out to a few friends. (Expect it on the shelves of your bookstore in, um, 2024.) If it gets leaked, I know how to bitch at. Fine, there's a small chance that some sysadmin copied it out of the email folder or something, but most likely they forwarded it to someone else. If they did, then they have primary responsibility for the leak. If this actor gave it to his kid, and his kid leaked it, then he's responsible, because it was his job to see that it didn't get leaked.
Who's going to read a message titled "deprecatory parrot bizarre dessert"?
I occasionally miss such messages in my scan for spam in my email box, or just start reading my email without throwing away the spam. The titles that get me are those that are "[SPAM] Vi.agr@". The [SPAM] should have been enough to toss the message with any decent spam filter, especially now that more and more messages have them. So why obfuscate the Viagra?