it does say it all. The Windows binary runs under Win32. Do you think they can offer a single *nix that runs under all *nix OS on all platforms? Do you think they can even offer a Linux-only, x86-only binary that will install and run on all x86 linux boxes?
Re:Problems with newer versions
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With Java, at least I know for a fact that some Java 1.1 code will work with Java 1.4 and as a result most ISPs keep their Java versions quite up-to-date.
I had the opposite experience on the client side... I was using a Java 1.4 Random method that wasn't available in Java 1.1. When I tested in JBuilder, it ran fine. When I tested in IE, it used MS's old Java classes, and didn't work. Thanks Microsoft. That's really innovative.
It's still lumped into a great big inconsistent namespace
That is my biggest complaint. And the sucky OO, which is improving now.
How often do I use PHP to output PDFs? Maybe PDF generation shouldn't be a compile time switch, maybe it should be a loaded extension that provides an OO class to access the PDF functions. If later down the road you decide you want to generate PDFs, you wouldn't need to recompile PHP, you would just download (or compiler) the PDF extension.
I bet admins at hosting sites would be more likely to drop in a module than to recompile PHP at a users's request.
Re:Problems with newer versions
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I agree. Even though there are huge differences between version 3 and version 4 (and now version 5), there are also lots of differences between minor versions -- stuff like new functions, changes to how functions work (beyond just bug fixes), etc. Nevermind that there are hundreds of optional libraries and setup parameters, making every installation unique.
If you're doing a non-trivial php site, and trying to make it work with different versions of php (osCommerce, for example), you end up having to rewrite many functions yourself to make sure they work consistently.
I like PHP, but it suffers from an "incrementalism" design approach. Some stuff really needs to be rethought, and I think PHP 5 is on the right track to doing that.
C++. Or any object-oriented language that would let you specify a class to store that information.
x86 has instructions for BCD addition/subtraction (and conversion, IIRC), dating back to the 8086 w/o an FPU coprocessor. The 6502 (apple II, commodore, Nintendo) had a setting for if math (add subtract) was BCD or normal.
shove it dick-face. Karma isn't worth anything. CmdrTaco has stated it
only exists to select moderators. It won't get you laid, it won't get you a
discount at thinkgeek. The only thing it is good for is posting shit at +2.
sure, a guy stretching his asshole in ways it was never meant to be stretched
is disgusting. But is it any less disgusting than group-think mentality of
the average slashbot? Think Different!
warning -- it looks like gtk2, not gnome, gtk2. That means no theme support, so java apps will run like unthemed gtk2 apps. Personally, gtk looks like a combination of ass and motif. I wouldn't call it much of an improvement
CmdrTaco:Your pretty funny DirtyKate:I don't remember you.. but thanx CmdrTaco:Wanna cyber? DirtyKate:OK, but don't tell anybody (wink) DirtyKate:Who are you? CmdrTaco: I've got blond hair, blue eyes, I work out a lot. CmdrTaco:And I have a part time job delivering for Papa John's DirtyKate:You sound sexy.. I bet you want me in the back of your car.. CmdrTaco:Maybe some other time. You should call up Papa John's and make an order DirtyKate: Haha! OK DirtyKate:Hello! I'd like an extra-EXTRA large pizza just dripping with sauce. CmdrTaco:Well, first they would say, "Hello, this is Papa John's, how may I help you", then they tell you the specials, and then you would make your order. So that's an X-Large. What toppings do you want? DirtyKate:I want everything, baby! CmdrTaco:Is this a delivery? DirtyKate:Umm...Yes DirtyKate:So you're bringing the pizza to my house now? Cause I'm home alone... and I think I'll take a shower... CmdrTaco:Good. It will take about fifteen minutes to cook, and then I'll drive to your house.
DirtyKate:Jdogg, I'm almost finished with my shower... Hurry up! CmdrTaco:You can't hurry good pizza. CmdrTaco:I'm on my way now though
DirtyKate:So you're at my front door now. CmdrTaco:How did you know? CmdrTaco:I knock but you can't hear me cause you're in the shower. So I let myself in, and walk inside. I put the pizza down on your coffee table. CmdrTaco:Are you ready to get nasty, baby? I'm as hot as a pizza oven DirtyKate:Oooohh yeah. I step out of the shower and I'm all wet and cold. Warm me up baby CmdrTaco:So you're still in the bathroom? DirtyKate:Yeah, I'm wrapping a towel around myself. CmdrTaco:I can no longer resist the pizza. I open the box and unzip my pants with my other hand. As I penetrate the gooey cheese, I moan in ecstacy. The mushrooms and Italian sausage are rough, but the sauce is deliciously soothing. I blow my load in seconds. As you leave the bathroom, I exit through the front door.... DirtyKate:wtf? DirtyKate:You perverted piece of shiat DirtyKate:Fuk
So it's "news for nerds, stuff that matters" when the Wind River CEO resigns unexpectedly (I use FreeBSD and I don't have any idea who they are), but it's not "news for nerds, stuff that matters" when VA Linux CEO Larry Augustin resigned unexpectedly?
The EFF and/or the FSF should be actively going out and patenting
every software idea that comes out of free software under the sun.
Actually, they did try doing that. Unfortunately, FREE/Open Source software
isn't as innovative as you might think, and there haven't been any patents
granted yet.
Re:Here's my Internet Emulator
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I don't want to know what your "sex emulator" involves!
if everyone got what they needed for free would anyone need to get paid?
No. However, there would be no incentive for anyone to do anything either. If you go to the store to buy groceries, there's a farmer, a distributor, truckers, bag boys, etc. all doing work because they're paid to do it.
If everyone got what they needed for free, you'd soon find there is nothing to get. Communism isn't utopia, it's shortages and rations. It's the government telling you what your job is. How productive would you (or anyone else) be in a situation like that.
so you go to concerts in case the speakers catch on fire or some other disaster occurs?
I go to listen to the music, see the performers up close (some closer than others), get it on with hot chicks, and do some drinking.
i listen to recorded music because i like how it sounds. It won't suddenly have new lyrics, but I may notice the bass line does something funky in the second chorus, or i may notice a riff i never noticed before.
I don't lounge around by the stereo listening to music, though. I listen to it in my car, while washing dishes, while coding, while eating a candle-light dinner with a girl, etc. Having a live band give a "performance" just isn't practical in those situations, regardless of how much enjoyment I might get out of having Britney Spears in my bedroom while i'm fucking some girl who'll put out for a lobster dinner.
After all, the perl foundation used to hire full time employees to work on perl 6, but had to stop because they ran out of money. Their major source of revenue being donations. If an important piece of open source software like perl can't pay for programmers from donations, is it really a viable business model?
i do that (and I've seen one of the editors suggest it).
however, googla can take a couple weeks to archive stories, and i think it only archives the default (1+, nested) view, so only top level comments (and 4+) are searchable.
Additionally, google can't search for a set of words within a comment, only within the entire page.
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it does say it all. The Windows binary runs under Win32. Do you think they can offer a single *nix that runs under all *nix OS on all platforms? Do you think they can even offer a Linux-only, x86-only binary that will install and run on all x86 linux boxes?
I had the opposite experience on the client side... I was using a Java 1.4 Random method that wasn't available in Java 1.1. When I tested in JBuilder, it ran fine. When I tested in IE, it used MS's old Java classes, and didn't work. Thanks Microsoft. That's really innovative.
That is my biggest complaint. And the sucky OO, which is improving now.
How often do I use PHP to output PDFs? Maybe PDF generation shouldn't be a compile time switch, maybe it should be a loaded extension that provides an OO class to access the PDF functions. If later down the road you decide you want to generate PDFs, you wouldn't need to recompile PHP, you would just download (or compiler) the PDF extension.
I bet admins at hosting sites would be more likely to drop in a module than to recompile PHP at a users's request.
If you're doing a non-trivial php site, and trying to make it work with different versions of php (osCommerce, for example), you end up having to rewrite many functions yourself to make sure they work consistently.
I like PHP, but it suffers from an "incrementalism" design approach. Some stuff really needs to be rethought, and I think PHP 5 is on the right track to doing that.
actually, smoking weed does NOT kill brain cells.
regular expressions *are* [ND]FAs. Maybe you're thinking of Context Free grammer (FA + stack so you can do brace matching)?
x86 has instructions for BCD addition/subtraction (and conversion, IIRC), dating back to the 8086 w/o an FPU coprocessor. The 6502 (apple II, commodore, Nintendo) had a setting for if math (add subtract) was BCD or normal.
in lisp 1/3 is stored as 1/3. Maybe the rest of the computer languages will catch up some day.
sure, a guy stretching his asshole in ways it was never meant to be stretched is disgusting. But is it any less disgusting than group-think mentality of the average slashbot? Think Different!
warning -- it looks like gtk2, not gnome, gtk2. That means no theme support, so java apps will run like unthemed gtk2 apps. Personally, gtk looks like a combination of ass and motif. I wouldn't call it much of an improvement
CmdrTaco:Your pretty funny
DirtyKate:I don't remember you.. but thanx
CmdrTaco:Wanna cyber?
DirtyKate:OK, but don't tell anybody (wink)
DirtyKate:Who are you?
CmdrTaco: I've got blond hair, blue eyes, I work out a lot.
CmdrTaco:And I have a part time job delivering for Papa John's
DirtyKate:You sound sexy.. I bet you want me in the back of your car..
CmdrTaco:Maybe some other time. You should call up Papa John's and make an order
DirtyKate: Haha! OK
DirtyKate:Hello! I'd like an extra-EXTRA large pizza just dripping with sauce.
CmdrTaco:Well, first they would say, "Hello, this is Papa John's, how may I help you", then they tell you the specials, and then you would make your order. So that's an X-Large. What toppings do you want?
DirtyKate:I want everything, baby!
CmdrTaco:Is this a delivery?
DirtyKate:Umm...Yes
DirtyKate:So you're bringing the pizza to my house now? Cause I'm home alone... and I think I'll take a shower...
CmdrTaco:Good. It will take about fifteen minutes to cook, and then I'll drive to your house.
DirtyKate:Jdogg, I'm almost finished with my shower... Hurry up!
CmdrTaco:You can't hurry good pizza.
CmdrTaco:I'm on my way now though
DirtyKate:So you're at my front door now.
CmdrTaco:How did you know?
CmdrTaco:I knock but you can't hear me cause you're in the shower. So I let myself in, and walk inside. I put the pizza down on your coffee table.
CmdrTaco:Are you ready to get nasty, baby? I'm as hot as a pizza oven
DirtyKate:Oooohh yeah. I step out of the shower and I'm all wet and cold. Warm me up baby
CmdrTaco:So you're still in the bathroom?
DirtyKate:Yeah, I'm wrapping a towel around myself.
CmdrTaco:I can no longer resist the pizza. I open the box and unzip my pants with my other hand. As I penetrate the gooey cheese, I moan in ecstacy. The mushrooms and Italian sausage are rough, but the sauce is deliciously soothing. I blow my load in seconds. As you leave the bathroom, I exit through the front door....
DirtyKate:wtf?
DirtyKate:You perverted piece of shiat
DirtyKate:Fuk
So it's "news for nerds, stuff that matters" when the Wind River CEO resigns unexpectedly (I use FreeBSD and I don't have any idea who they are), but it's not "news for nerds, stuff that matters" when VA Linux CEO Larry Augustin resigned unexpectedly?
Actually, they did try doing that. Unfortunately, FREE/Open Source software isn't as innovative as you might think, and there haven't been any patents granted yet.
I don't want to know what your "sex emulator" involves!
that's what makes it an internet emulator
Note that he didn't mention increasing his dick size or non-prescription viagra... micro soft indeed!
screenshots -- Be gentle, I'm on a cable modem :)
linux is a jeep (not the fancy kind) Or maybe a used station wagon.
No. However, there would be no incentive for anyone to do anything either. If you go to the store to buy groceries, there's a farmer, a distributor, truckers, bag boys, etc. all doing work because they're paid to do it.
If everyone got what they needed for free, you'd soon find there is nothing to get. Communism isn't utopia, it's shortages and rations. It's the government telling you what your job is. How productive would you (or anyone else) be in a situation like that.
I prefer white boxes, myself. Of course, I wouldn't kick Mariah Carey or Halle Berry out of my bed.
I go to listen to the music, see the performers up close (some closer than others), get it on with hot chicks, and do some drinking.
i listen to recorded music because i like how it sounds. It won't suddenly have new lyrics, but I may notice the bass line does something funky in the second chorus, or i may notice a riff i never noticed before.
I don't lounge around by the stereo listening to music, though. I listen to it in my car, while washing dishes, while coding, while eating a candle-light dinner with a girl, etc. Having a live band give a "performance" just isn't practical in those situations, regardless of how much enjoyment I might get out of having Britney Spears in my bedroom while i'm fucking some girl who'll put out for a lobster dinner.
Would you listen to a song, if, halfway through, they stopped playing and demanded you donate before they started playing again?
After all, the perl foundation used to hire full time employees to work on perl 6, but had to stop because they ran out of money. Their major source of revenue being donations. If an important piece of open source software like perl can't pay for programmers from donations, is it really a viable business model?
however, googla can take a couple weeks to archive stories, and i think it only archives the default (1+, nested) view, so only top level comments (and 4+) are searchable.
Additionally, google can't search for a set of words within a comment, only within the entire page.