You avoided people with degress? What job was this? Shelf stacking?
If you're a "motivated geek" I would have thought you would love univeristy - an academic enviroment away from the corporate pointy-haired boss bullshit.
And since when has a degree been "a course in Pascal programming"? And since when have professors "only ever written dorky recipe-reminder programs"?
I think a lot of businesses in places such as China simply do not even consider paying for software. China is a big country so the numbers might be right.
Your C++ program might not need the standard library, but your C# program will. Everything in C# is reflected and so on, so if you don't have the.NET framework with the Type object, for example, you can't have any types, which leaves you screwed. With no.NET framework you can't have objects, methods, or anything.
I want Roberts (Robertson?) to stand up and explain what happened to the Wine intergration he promised. It just seems to have disappeared without trace. I don't think Wine is even installed by default now.
"I'm sorry, did you just claim that Slashdot tries to stay neutral?"
A quick look at my comment would suggest "no". But it does complain like an old lady when anyone else is not up to the required standard (of which Slashdot itself does not meet)
Why do geeks like to leave off the "www" on URLs? http://google.com/ simply redirects you to http://www.google.com/ (taking more time because of the redirection).
http://www.slashdot.org/ redirects you to http://slashdot.org/ however. Very odd. What do the slashdotters have against "www"?
I think OOP speeds development (it certainly speeds changing and expanding existing code) so you could say that you "by the time you've written everything using a procedural approach you probably have finished and be wating for the next client with OOP..."
People seem to be more concernded with development speed on the web (most web languages are interpreted, which speeds development at a massive expense of runtime speed) so OOP is natural for web languages.
You could really do some damage with one of these - think Carmagedon in the centre of a city - and you'd stay pretty undetected. There was a "Murder She Wrote" episode about that once.
"VCDs are MPEG too" - really? That's exactly what I said, moron: "It's MPEG you see".
I wonder if they could build something in to multiple disc changers that most players currently come with. As one disc ends, it as quickly as possible changes to the next disc. It could even buffer the last few seconds of one disc to cover the time it takes to change, so it's seamless.
VCDs are shitty quality for a whole movie (I'm not even sure you can put an entire movie on a VCD in PAL format). It's MPEG you see - DivX is more compressed but still looks good.
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"Duke had humor and attitude"
And that's in the source code is it?
"Ah! So that's how you program an attitiude in C!"
You avoided people with degress? What job was this? Shelf stacking?
If you're a "motivated geek" I would have thought you would love univeristy - an academic enviroment away from the corporate pointy-haired boss bullshit.
And since when has a degree been "a course in Pascal programming"? And since when have professors "only ever written dorky recipe-reminder programs"?
Are you sure about his details? How did you get them? You could be in some serious slander shit if you're wrong, you know.
I think a lot of businesses in places such as China simply do not even consider paying for software. China is a big country so the numbers might be right.
No! Fools! This will be the new troll! Don't you realise what you're doing?
Your C++ program might not need the standard library, but your C# program will. Everything in C# is reflected and so on, so if you don't have the .NET framework with the Type object, for example, you can't have any types, which leaves you screwed. With no .NET framework you can't have objects, methods, or anything.
You meet twice a month? To study a single book? If it was the Bible (not the K&R edition, the Disciples' one) I might understand...
Give it a rest, Taco!
I want Roberts (Robertson?) to stand up and explain what happened to the Wine intergration he promised. It just seems to have disappeared without trace. I don't think Wine is even installed by default now.
It was /.ed
How did it do DVD? Did it have a propeitary software or hardware decoder?
"I'm sorry, did you just claim that Slashdot tries to stay neutral?"
A quick look at my comment would suggest "no". But it does complain like an old lady when anyone else is not up to the required standard (of which Slashdot itself does not meet)
But Slashdot thinks it's better than that - so it should at least try to live up to the standards it sets for the rest of the world.
A little disclaimer, "submitted by Ian Whatshisface, founder of Progeny", wouldn't have hurt either.
Why do geeks like to leave off the "www" on URLs? http://google.com/ simply redirects you to http://www.google.com/ (taking more time because of the redirection).
http://www.slashdot.org/ redirects you to http://slashdot.org/ however. Very odd. What do the slashdotters have against "www"?
Yes, I know. Offtopic.
I think OOP speeds development (it certainly speeds changing and expanding existing code) so you could say that you "by the time you've written everything using a procedural approach you probably have finished and be wating for the next client with OOP..."
People seem to be more concernded with development speed on the web (most web languages are interpreted, which speeds development at a massive expense of runtime speed) so OOP is natural for web languages.
Couldn't thow me a url, could you? Cheers.
"Knoppix 3.2 Available"
I don't know what you mean by "available" - I certainly can't find any mirrors that will respond
You could really do some damage with one of these - think Carmagedon in the centre of a city - and you'd stay pretty undetected. There was a "Murder She Wrote" episode about that once.
QT does not wrap the windowing systems - it provides it's own windowing system, just emulating the native widgets and stuff.
"VCDs are MPEG too" - really? That's exactly what I said, moron: "It's MPEG you see".
I wonder if they could build something in to multiple disc changers that most players currently come with. As one disc ends, it as quickly as possible changes to the next disc. It could even buffer the last few seconds of one disc to cover the time it takes to change, so it's seamless.
VCDs are shitty quality for a whole movie (I'm not even sure you can put an entire movie on a VCD in PAL format). It's MPEG you see - DivX is more compressed but still looks good.
"Of course I clicked it"
What were you expecting on the other end of a porn add?
So why not say "DVD quality DivX movies"?
"This could make the purchase of dvd burners slow down in my opinion."
Why? You need a burner to make the DivX DVD, don't you?
I don't think it's in danger of being in a sitution where "through inaction, [it would] allow a human being to come to harm" quite yet.