Canon is the only company I can buy a printer from now. Everyone else has pissed me off in some inexcusable way.
HP: ridiculously overpriced ink, all colours in one cartridge, chipped cartridges
Epson: ridiculously overpriced ink, all colours in one, chipped cartridges. Also, my previous printer, an Epson Stylus Photo 820, was an appalling piece of shit.
Lexmark: ridiculous overpriced ink, all colours in one, chipped, demonstrated willingness to resort to barratry to protect their monopoly.
Canon: ridiculously overpriced ink
I got so pissed off with my Epson clogging every two days, I went and bought a Canon i960. It's been great. Quiet, fast, never once clogged on me, even after sitting idle for a month. Ink is still crazy expensive, though.
I love the STL like a brother, but you're right about the shortcomings of "template meta-programming".
There is a language that has the sort of compile-time coding you suggest: Waterloo Port. Among it's many unique features was that variable definitions were written as a block of code that executed in the compiler. You could, for example, define an array of "unsigned[32]" that was initialized by a "for" loop with values from 1 to 100. All done at compile-time.
Sadly, Waterloo Microsystems is long-dead, and with the collapse of Hayes, all traces of the language and operating system I loved are gone:-(
I've been enjoying the book very much, so far. Low-budget film-making fascinates me. I especially like the descriptions of some of the tricks used to make Evil Dead. But I was struck by one thing that wasn't there: any mention at all of how the infamous tree scene (you know the one I mean) was done. I'm pretty sure it was filmed in reverse, but I would have thought it merited at least a mention. I'm especially curious about how the cast and crew dealt with it, emotionally.
I guess I haven't actually asked a question yet. So, ummm, any thoughts on this?
I haven't finished the book yet, so please forgive me if this is actually covered.
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Canon is the only company I can buy a printer from now. Everyone else has pissed me off in some inexcusable way. HP: ridiculously overpriced ink, all colours in one cartridge, chipped cartridges Epson: ridiculously overpriced ink, all colours in one, chipped cartridges. Also, my previous printer, an Epson Stylus Photo 820, was an appalling piece of shit. Lexmark: ridiculous overpriced ink, all colours in one, chipped, demonstrated willingness to resort to barratry to protect their monopoly. Canon: ridiculously overpriced ink I got so pissed off with my Epson clogging every two days, I went and bought a Canon i960. It's been great. Quiet, fast, never once clogged on me, even after sitting idle for a month. Ink is still crazy expensive, though.
This idea has been proposed before by Slashdot's favourite cyborg, Steve Mann. http://www.wearcam.org/
Now I know what they mean by "freedom for the Iraqi people": Free evenings and weekends.
I love the STL like a brother, but you're right about the shortcomings of "template meta-programming". There is a language that has the sort of compile-time coding you suggest: Waterloo Port. Among it's many unique features was that variable definitions were written as a block of code that executed in the compiler. You could, for example, define an array of "unsigned[32]" that was initialized by a "for" loop with values from 1 to 100. All done at compile-time. Sadly, Waterloo Microsystems is long-dead, and with the collapse of Hayes, all traces of the language and operating system I loved are gone :-(
I've been enjoying the book very much, so far. Low-budget film-making fascinates me. I especially like the descriptions of some of the tricks used to make Evil Dead. But I was struck by one thing that wasn't there: any mention at all of how the infamous tree scene (you know the one I mean) was done. I'm pretty sure it was filmed in reverse, but I would have thought it merited at least a mention. I'm especially curious about how the cast and crew dealt with it, emotionally.
I guess I haven't actually asked a question yet. So, ummm, any thoughts on this?
I haven't finished the book yet, so please forgive me if this is actually covered.