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Ask Larry Wall
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Larry, I am a perl user for quite sometime now, infact in many organizations like us perl is the defacto language for scripting. And I feel Perl has reached a pinnacle. Perl as such will be difficult to improve. Of course better regex and such minor issues can be fixed, but for all that matters I waould call it perfect, so do you plan to branch into something completly differnt, yet on the same philosophy. Perhaps perl with more intution, more power, an altogether differnt language with the same underlying philosophy of perl?
yes you are right. But mostly while delivering such training programs the company has a number of constraints.
Current Market demands
Project Goals
Long term investment to gain ratio
Value addition Index
So though geeks for geeks is a good idea, managers need to intervene. The right balance should be struck between employee gain and company gain. But then deciding is not a easy job, and in my expirience employee gain is sacrifised for company gain. One option would be to be slightly more vocal and talk it out. The complete geek way is also not theway to go coz then company wont gain everything.
Whoa, does that mean i gotu learn regex all over again? quoting from the article
"Even more importantly, as powerful as Perl 5 regexes are, they are not nearly powerful enough. Modern text manipulation is predominantly about processing structured, hierarchical text. And that's just plain painful with regular expressions. The advent of modules like Parse::Yapp and Parse::RecDescent reflects the community's widespread need for more sophisticated parsing mechanisms. Mechanisms that should be native to Perl."
Will these be compatible with the older, i mean backward compatibility, i certainly hope so.
There's a lot of new syntax there, so let's step through it slowly.
this goes a real whoa over my head man. Seriosly i dont wanna be trolling, but i wish the language used was simpler. For a regex expert this is good, but for a newbie or mediocre level guy like me this is bad!! And there are not many free regex courses on the net!
Thats just 4 bits man, and so much hue and cry.. people have run away with millions of dollars, sure cant we let palm dearie to have 4 itsy bitsy teeny weeny bits? And if you want colours GeForce is always there;-)
"using covert communication and steganographic techniques"
Good idea, but IMHO it will be expensive to implement, and then the question is who would really want it. Of course dont expect your office people to install it. Maybe certain organizations want it... and then also what garuntee is that it wont be made illegal under some god awful bill.
Till now it has been true that technology has always been a step ahead of censorship, but with the current state of laws, this wont be true for long.
I am positive that by the time a proper implemention comes out somebody will table the bill to ban it, then we will all cry hoarse in slashdot. The story will make to/. hof...
Paranoia? Not exactly.. censorship is here to stay... and it is getting bigger.
"If impregnating an Indian elephant with mammoth sperm produced young, that offspring would be impregnated with more mammoth sperm and the process repeated in the next generation, producing a creature that was 88 per cent mammoth. The process would take about 50 years."
This is not really cloning, this is similar to producing hybrid dogs by cross-breeding. And this does not really advance research, man has been doing this to crops, livestock and all for so long.
It just seems like researchers with nothing to do. The real step forward would be the Dolly method. That would be cloning.
Infact such a bit is underway in australia. Scientists are planning to clone a tasmaniana Tiger.
Now that would be the perfect push for cloning tech!
Wi Fi is unregulated in most countries.. including US
And currently most chipsets support frequency hopping to aviod cluttering.
The problems are coming in becuase Telco's are trying to make it east for themseleves by sticking to one channel. This saves on equipment costs and stuff.
In the long run this causes problems.. but remember thats how most people operate.... Find a solution only when problem comes... if preplanning was the norm the level of chaos would be much less.
The 802.11b standard is beautifuly designed but most people do not implement all the features to cut costs
"However, no manufacturer has presently made this aspect of driver performance a priority."
Why should they, was anybody complaining till now. The well wont come to horse, the horse has to go to the well to drink water.
So unless a large number of people want it nobody wants to mess around with a perfectly working driver.
And it is not a piece of cake. Recording its own rendrings the software way would be a bitch, the best way would be to provide an access point on the bus itself, though it would play havoc with the board timings and noise issues.
In the end it will call come down to.. Will it justify the cost
I doubt. If this was the case, it would cause a stir in stock markets, and by law when such a thing happens the public has to be notified officially.
*Nobody* does this. Rumours and more rumours.
And if you go to the visiontek site, the still have buying information and everything intact. If they were really being liquidated this wasnt possible, unless they all want to go to jail.
Another anomaly is that no company with such a large customer base is liquidated like this.
It is a long drawn process!
The company will be given time to turn around, it will file for bankrupcy and so on
So hold on to your horses my gut feeling is that it is just a hoax.
What about my toaster.....
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LinuXbox Boots
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· Score: 3, Funny
wont that be nice.. i boot linux on my toaster.
Then I telnet.
and then i check status
eeks the toas has burned
\rm -rf *toast*
mkdir toast
chmod soft-eatable-noblack toast
Thats the only problem... i have to check various modes check which suits.
And i was wondering can the quake III bots just use some plasma weapons and telnet the fire to my toaster. I will save electricity
And now you are wondering why i am trolling about my toaster, rather than the x-box whew you never learn huh I CANNOT AFFORD XBOX but i can afford a toaster thats why.
wow. these were good. After stories of slowdown and RIAA and the bot and what not, comes chicken soup for the soul.
I esp like the attention to detail. Most of the space art tends to be macro oriented, so you have classy supernovas and stuff like that, but it takes vision an ingenuity to plan reflections on solar panels!
Esp commendable is saturn from TITAN, the lighting is great and the attention to shadows is real igneous. Hopefully our sci-fi movie ppl also take a vue adn start giving more attention to small details rather than grandoise.
"I hope the introduction of AOL gecko clients, especially for windows, will put a damper on the attitude of many web authors that "IE is all that matters," and "mozilla sucks because it doesn't support industry standards.""
Unfortunately not. Remember it boils down to end profits. Suppose 99% of your customer base is win+IE. And you have to spend a lot to redesign your web site, would you do it.. well no.
The owner would be considering the end results. Is the ire of a minority community making a dent in his/her sales. If no then there is no reason for migration
Of course, if the mozilla user base is significantly large only then people will migrate.
And there are many such sites which have the attitude that win + Ie is all that matters. They dont simply care and they wont because they will get a steady stream of visitors on Ie_Win
But Neverthless, this is a step in the right direction and one can olnly hope that common sense prevails
Meanwhile you could check out Any Browser.org, another site dedicated to browser independent WWW
"short version: spend your time coding, not lobbying."
Its easy to say sdo, but when those laws actually take away your right to code and create new technologies.. where do you go.
The current decade is like dark ages. Then you could be put do Jail for preaching that Earth is not center of universe, and now you are put to jail for preaching that Hollywood is not center of universe, isnt it ironic now history repeats itself...
What next... Newton?
Not exactly, Walking is more of a behavioral thing.
And the reason why small changes in the gentic code produce such drastic changes is that the information coefficent of genetic code is high.
What may seem to a layperson as one little change here and there is actually very very big in terms of nature.
"On the same note... one wonders if this same backwards thing applies to the pointy hair boss species of the human race.
Not exactly! But its funny;-)
"IE and Konqueror don't both to check the issuer of this intermediate cert making SSL in both browsers something of a joke."
And it was caught so late! And that makes me think wether the abouve statement is right? If it was somehting very serious and obvious... then it should have been caught long time ago.
I wonder how many more bugs are lurking!
hrmmph, I have a device in my home. Its totally non invasive no electrodes nothing, but just the presence of it can completely mind control anybody. It can completely hypnotise the person, and make it do what the controller wants to. It can make persons but the chocolates, get a shirt which is not needed at all, or just splurge on anything.
In case you are wondering what am i talking about, well its the TV, or the idiot box. No electrodes, no funny fires, just plain old mind control:-)
"Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile"
The will settle out of court, and then come to you.
They will take your recorder and junk it in the loo
they will break your burner and scare you wil their boo
AOl bit the dust, and you will too
AFAIK, most software is without warranty. Even windows. Nobody provides warranties. If this comes into force, it will basically kill the software industry, wether open-source or closed source. Software can never be without problems. Just imagine half the population putting lawsuits! Law will have to be outsourced mebbe!
I dont want to be trolling, but come to think of it most countries have laws which Prohibit breaking into computer networs. I cant seem to get the point in this story.
Of course of you crack a EU computer, you will be punished as soon as you go to EU.
Whats happening to slashdot.. This is no news!
Whats Next "Stealing Illegal in germany....Murder illegal in sweden..."
yes, a war should be declared on australia. Movie execs are such honourble citizens and such great contributors to the society. Any body daring to arrest them should be nuked!
the thing about opening our minds is right. We have always lived in three dimensions, so visualizing 4 dimensions Per Se is almost impossible coz our nuerons have been hardwired for 3 dimensions.
So we can observe 4 dimensions in transit. For example if youwere a 2 dimensional being(thats not possible coz 3 is the minumum number of dimensions to sustain life) and a 3D sphere passed through your space, you will see a point, growing into a circle and then again into a point. So if a 4D object came it would look like a morphing 3D object. If mankind were able to create and use 4D's travel would be a whole new frontier. Esp since space-time is curved, Just imagine traveling a million miles instantaniosly Confused! Go through stephen hawkings works! you will be even more so:-)
Flash crowd, slashdot effect.... whatever you call it but the fact is that technology takes the instincts to a next level. Its called herd mentality, no matter how much we shrink the globe or what we do, is so wired in our genes or lets say jeans;-), you go I come i go you come and we go they come!
This is definately amusing:-). Centuries ago the same thing used to pass by word of mouth, and people used to flock for witch executions. And now sound has been replaced by electricity..The irony is that the meduim which is supposed to promote free thinking and freedom is also simultaniosly promoting whats it against!
"Should we allow it? Why not?" Goldinstein said Tuesday.
Certainly not. It is becoming fashinable to link everything about sharing as legitimate. To some extent it is alright, but when people want to interperet freedom as free beer thats when the things go wrong
Moreover if Wi-Fi access is shared, going by the inherent nature of 802.11m you dont really have control over the person who give it to sharing it with other. So you may have exponential growth! This is what the article also warns about.
In reality it is difficult to keep control, so its better to let wireless access inside same home, allowing it would open up a hornets net, and unless the security issued with WiFi are resolved, its better no to open the can
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Larry, I am a perl user for quite sometime now, infact in many organizations like us perl is the defacto language for scripting. And I feel Perl has reached a pinnacle. Perl as such will be difficult to improve. Of course better regex and such minor issues can be fixed, but for all that matters I waould call it perfect, so do you plan to branch into something completly differnt, yet on the same philosophy. Perhaps perl with more intution, more power, an altogether differnt language with the same underlying philosophy of perl?
- Current Market demands
- Project Goals
- Long term investment to gain ratio
- Value addition Index
So though geeks for geeks is a good idea, managers need to intervene. The right balance should be struck between employee gain and company gain.But then deciding is not a easy job, and in my expirience employee gain is sacrifised for company gain.
One option would be to be slightly more vocal and talk it out.
The complete geek way is also not theway to go coz then company wont gain everything.
quoting from the article
"Even more importantly, as powerful as Perl 5 regexes are, they are not nearly powerful enough. Modern text manipulation is predominantly about processing structured, hierarchical text. And that's just plain painful with regular expressions. The advent of modules like Parse::Yapp and Parse::RecDescent reflects the community's widespread need for more sophisticated parsing mechanisms. Mechanisms that should be native to Perl."
Will these be compatible with the older, i mean backward compatibility, i certainly hope so.There's a lot of new syntax there, so let's step through it slowly.
this goes a real whoa over my head man. Seriosly i dont wanna be trolling, but i wish the language used was simpler. For a regex expert this is good, but for a newbie or mediocre level guy like me this is bad!! And there are not many free regex courses on the net!
here is gif of the same in case you dont like quicktime ;-) hurray
Thats just 4 bits man, and so much hue and cry.. people have run away with millions of dollars, sure cant we let palm dearie to have 4 itsy bitsy teeny weeny bits? ;-)
And if you want colours GeForce is always there
"using covert communication and steganographic techniques"
/. hof...
Good idea, but IMHO it will be expensive to implement, and then the question is who would really want it. Of course dont expect your office people to install it. Maybe certain organizations want it... and then also what garuntee is that it wont be made illegal under some god awful bill.
Till now it has been true that technology has always been a step ahead of censorship, but with the current state of laws, this wont be true for long.
I am positive that by the time a proper implemention comes out somebody will table the bill to ban it, then we will all cry hoarse in slashdot. The story will make to
Paranoia? Not exactly.. censorship is here to stay... and it is getting bigger.
"If impregnating an Indian elephant with mammoth sperm produced young, that offspring would be impregnated with more mammoth sperm and the process repeated in the next generation, producing a creature that was 88 per cent mammoth. The process would take about 50 years."
This is not really cloning, this is similar to producing hybrid dogs by cross-breeding. And this does not really advance research, man has been doing this to crops, livestock and all for so long.
It just seems like researchers with nothing to do. The real step forward would be the Dolly method. That would be cloning.
Infact such a bit is underway in australia. Scientists are planning to clone a tasmaniana Tiger.
Now that would be the perfect push for cloning tech!
Wi Fi is unregulated in most countries.. including US
And currently most chipsets support frequency hopping to aviod cluttering.
The problems are coming in becuase Telco's are trying to make it east for themseleves by sticking to one channel. This saves on equipment costs and stuff.
In the long run this causes problems.. but remember thats how most people operate.... Find a solution only when problem comes... if preplanning was the norm the level of chaos would be much less.
The 802.11b standard is beautifuly designed but most people do not implement all the features to cut costs
"However, no manufacturer has presently made this aspect of driver performance a priority." .. Will it justify the cost
Why should they, was anybody complaining till now. The well wont come to horse, the horse has to go to the well to drink water.
So unless a large number of people want it nobody wants to mess around with a perfectly working driver.
And it is not a piece of cake. Recording its own rendrings the software way would be a bitch, the best way would be to provide an access point on the bus itself, though it would play havoc with the board timings and noise issues.
In the end it will call come down to
I doubt. If this was the case, it would cause a stir in stock markets, and by law when such a thing happens the public has to be notified officially.
*Nobody* does this. Rumours and more rumours.
And if you go to the visiontek site, the still have buying information and everything intact. If they were really being liquidated this wasnt possible, unless they all want to go to jail.
Another anomaly is that no company with such a large customer base is liquidated like this.
It is a long drawn process!
The company will be given time to turn around, it will file for bankrupcy and so on
So hold on to your horses my gut feeling is that it is just a hoax.
wont that be nice.. i boot linux on my toaster. Then I telnet.
and then i check status
eeks the toas has burned
\rm -rf *toast*
mkdir toast
chmod soft-eatable-noblack toast
Thats the only problem... i have to check various modes check which suits.
And i was wondering can the quake III bots just use some plasma weapons and telnet the fire to my toaster. I will save electricity
And now you are wondering why i am trolling about my toaster, rather than the x-box
whew you never learn huh I CANNOT AFFORD XBOX but i can afford a toaster thats why.
wow. these were good. After stories of slowdown and RIAA and the bot and what not, comes chicken soup for the soul.
I esp like the attention to detail. Most of the space art tends to be macro oriented, so you have classy supernovas and stuff like that, but it takes vision an ingenuity to plan reflections on solar panels!
Esp commendable is saturn from TITAN, the lighting is great and the attention to shadows is real igneous. Hopefully our sci-fi movie ppl also take a vue adn start giving more attention to small details rather than grandoise.
"I hope the introduction of AOL gecko clients, especially for windows, will put a damper on the attitude of many web authors that "IE is all that matters," and "mozilla sucks because it doesn't support industry standards.""
Unfortunately not. Remember it boils down to end profits. Suppose 99% of your customer base is win+IE. And you have to spend a lot to redesign your web site, would you do it.. well no.
The owner would be considering the end results. Is the ire of a minority community making a dent in his/her sales. If no then there is no reason for migration
Of course, if the mozilla user base is significantly large only then people will migrate.
And there are many such sites which have the attitude that win + Ie is all that matters. They dont simply care and they wont because they will get a steady stream of visitors on Ie_Win
But Neverthless, this is a step in the right direction and one can olnly hope that common sense prevails
Meanwhile you could check out Any Browser.org, another site dedicated to browser independent WWW
"short version: spend your time coding, not lobbying."
Its easy to say sdo, but when those laws actually take away your right to code and create new technologies.. where do you go.
The current decade is like dark ages. Then you could be put do Jail for preaching that Earth is not center of universe, and now you are put to jail for preaching that Hollywood is not center of universe, isnt it ironic now history repeats itself...
What next... Newton?
Not exactly, Walking is more of a behavioral thing. ;-)
And the reason why small changes in the gentic code produce such drastic changes is that the information coefficent of genetic code is high.
What may seem to a layperson as one little change here and there is actually very very big in terms of nature.
"On the same note... one wonders if this same backwards thing applies to the pointy hair boss species of the human race.
Not exactly! But its funny
"IE and Konqueror don't both to check the issuer of this intermediate cert making SSL in both browsers something of a joke."
And it was caught so late! And that makes me think wether the abouve statement is right? If it was somehting very serious and obvious... then it should have been caught long time ago.
I wonder how many more bugs are lurking!
hrmmph, I have a device in my home. Its totally non invasive no electrodes nothing, but just the presence of it can completely mind control anybody. It can completely hypnotise the person, and make it do what the controller wants to. It can make persons but the chocolates, get a shirt which is not needed at all, or just splurge on anything. :-)
In case you are wondering what am i talking about, well its the TV, or the idiot box. No electrodes, no funny fires, just plain old mind control
"Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile"
The will settle out of court, and then come to you. They will take your recorder and junk it in the loo
they will break your burner and scare you wil their boo
AOl bit the dust, and you will too
AFAIK, most software is without warranty. Even windows. Nobody provides warranties. If this comes into force, it will basically kill the software industry, wether open-source or closed source.
Software can never be without problems.
Just imagine half the population putting lawsuits! Law will have to be outsourced mebbe!
I dont want to be trolling, but come to think of it most countries have laws which Prohibit breaking into computer networs. I cant seem to get the point in this story. Of course of you crack a EU computer, you will be punished as soon as you go to EU. Whats happening to slashdot.. This is no news! Whats Next "Stealing Illegal in germany....Murder illegal in sweden..."
yes, a war should be declared on australia. Movie execs are such honourble citizens and such great contributors to the society. Any body daring to arrest them should be nuked!
the thing about opening our minds is right. :-)
We have always lived in three dimensions, so visualizing 4 dimensions Per Se is almost impossible coz our nuerons have been hardwired for 3 dimensions. So we can observe 4 dimensions in transit. For example if youwere a 2 dimensional being(thats not possible coz 3 is the minumum number of dimensions to sustain life) and a 3D sphere passed through your space, you will see a point, growing into a circle and then again into a point.
So if a 4D object came it would look like a morphing 3D object.
If mankind were able to create and use 4D's travel would be a whole new frontier. Esp since space-time is curved, Just imagine traveling a million miles instantaniosly
Confused! Go through stephen hawkings works! you will be even more so
This is definately amusing :-). Centuries ago the same thing used to pass by word of mouth, and people used to flock for witch executions. And now sound has been replaced by electricity..The irony is that the meduim which is supposed to promote free thinking and freedom is also simultaniosly promoting whats it against!
How will you find out.....
Certainly not. It is becoming fashinable to link everything about sharing as legitimate. To some extent it is alright, but when people want to interperet freedom as free beer thats when the things go wrong
Moreover if Wi-Fi access is shared, going by the inherent nature of 802.11m you dont really have control over the person who give it to sharing it with other. So you may have exponential growth! This is what the article also warns about.
In reality it is difficult to keep control, so its better to let wireless access inside same home, allowing it would open up a hornets net, and unless the security issued with WiFi are resolved, its better no to open the can