[Computer porn in 1979] [W]as pretty much relegated to ASCII versions of Raquel Welch that printed on five feet of continuous feed paper in a dot matrix.
Yeah, but with a print-out, you could just throw out whatever got, uh, "messy".
[OP's hard drives won't be read, he claims] not if i've cracked them open and cum/shit/bled on the platters after perforating them with an awl
Well, in that case, first they'll read your DNA, have uncontestable proof you (or your identical twin) had had possesion of them, and then they'll read your data.
I don't understand. You want to rip cds on a portable CD/mp3 player? Do you have a hard drive on your CD/mp3 player? I don't think I've ever seen one of those. Please provide a url.
Well, I've got an Archos Recorder. I'm not sure if by "CD/mp3" player you mean "a CD player that plays MP3s", or if you mean "CD or MP3 player". If the latter, the Archos Recorder is a hard-drive based MP3 player (18 GB). It also records to MP3 format at up to 160kps.
By connecting a CD player's audio out to the Recorder audio in, I could in theory rip directly onto the Archos. I've never done this, and probably won't, as I'd have to manually enter song names, which is tedious, and as I like to rip CDs at a somewhat higher (~ 192kbps) quality. On the othr hand, the Recorder also contains a built-in microphone, so it can be useful for voice recording.
I've tried using a proportional font for C++ before, but it didn't work out. How do you deal with tab/space alignment? I do Win32 coding, so I often have to use those Win32 APIs that have 17 parameters and must be spread across multiple lines.;-)
SciTE deals with this tolerably well. Tabs are a certain size, and I use however many I need to get the text to align.
That's not a problem. The problem is that SciTE allows you to magnify/shrink the text (much as you can in a web browser). At magnifications (shrinkages) other than what you've used to align the text, the text becomes misaligned. (I other words, the whitespace doesn't grow at exactly the same rate as the non-whitespace; I assume the problem lies in the system fonts.)
Of course, you can always tell SciTE to use a monoface font, or you can use some mix of fonts (different fonts bases on syntax highlighting).
I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them.
2:00 am to 5:00 am?? That's when I do most of my browsing!!!!
Of course, not at Kuro5hin.org...
I uh, do, uh, anatomy research... and uh, changes in primate mating habits caused by the ubiquity of digital cameras.
If this thing's really a web browser, and it runs completely on the client computer, any web pages it's requesting are coming down the line as HTML, uncompressed (except insofar as the modem's protocol might compress). Without a compresser on the other end, the speed's not coming from compression.
If it does require a server side piece, it's not a web browser, per se; but as a general question, is it worthwhile to look into "compressed" web pages, e.g., foo.html.zlib? (I tend to doubt the savings are that much for the "average" page, but shoving graphics into an archive might keep down the number of requests needed to fetch a whole page and its graphics.)
If it's not server side compression, the only thing I can think of (and fortunately smarter people than me will think of other things I'm sure) is that he's pre-fetching and caching pages to make the apparent speed faster.
So is the "secret" that he has some hueristic that sensibly guesses what links you'll click next, combined with regularly fetching, oh say, your most requested bookmarks? (In my case it might look like: slashdot -- New York Times -- slashdot -- sourceforge -- slashdot -- freshmeat -- eurekareport -- slashdot.)
In other words, is he mirroring sites locally in the background? And if so, how must bandwidth is wasted just sitting in the cache until it's stale?
(On the other hand, could I point his browser at/., refreshing every five seconds to make sure I got a local copy of pages about to be slashdotted?)
It may be a factor - but the biggest reason by far is:
Girls do not like doing anything that involves concentrating on one single thing for long periods. They like to switch from one thought to another, and keep many balls up in the air at one time.
God knows they like keeping my balls up in the air.
For me, the big advantage of the SliMP3 is the ability to interact with the large vacuum fluorescent display via a remote control from anywhere in the room.
But at $250, SLIMP3 sounds pretty expensive for (correct me if I'm wrong) an ethernet card and an MP3 decoder DAC chip. Plus it only plays MP3s -- I'd want to play my losslessly compressed CDs too.
I'll agree with you that C and C++ don't have an overriding philosophy
C++ has, if not a "overriding philosophy", very well and rigorusly thought out principles of design. If you're interested in what those are, or the question, in general, of what factors must be considered in language design, there's a whole book about it: Stroustrup's The Design and Evolution of C++.
D&E (for short) can be read almost as a novel; it's engaging and instructive, as it takes the reader on the journey from C to C with Classes to C++ circa 1993. Along the way, many of the questions you might have about why C++ has or does not have some feature are answered.
If C++ does have an overriding philosophy, a key element of it is that the programmer should not have to pay for any feature he does not use. This is why, for example, all functions are by default not virtual (as in Java and D).
Another key element is that, for good or ill, C++ had to be backward compatible with C, if it was to gain acceptance by enough programmers.
Perhaps most importantly, C++ gives the programmer as much control as he needs to do the job as he thinks best (so for example, unlike Java, potentially unsafe pointer operations are available to the programmer), but also attempts to protect the programmer from his inevitable mistakes by means of a more stringent compiler than C's (especially by means of strong type checking and new style casts).
The fact that so many styles of programming (among them structural, object oreiented, and generic) are supported for so many programming goals (low level drivers to GUIs to some embedded projects) on so many target architectures (how many architechtures/OS are not targeted by least a C++ cross compiler?) is a strong indication the C++'s design has worked, and worked very well indeed.
One final bitch: I want the person pulled into the street and shot who was responsible for the font used in the Stroustrup C++ book's code examples. Who the hell writes code in an italic, proportional, serif font?! The only thing more painful than programming in C++ is reading about programming in C++.
Well, I code in a proportional font. I started doing it after reading Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language.
While I agree that reading proportionally spaced code is difficult at first, as Stroustrup comments in the (?) foreward, it quickly seems natural, and becomes easier to read that code in a m o n o s p a c e d font.
Honestly, at this point I hate having to use a monospacing editor, so I'm lucky that SciTE, a free and GPL'd editor with customizable symtax highlighting is available. Apparently, the SciTE programmer feels as I do, as a proportinal font is the standard for must of languages supported by the built in SciTE lexers.
What I'm looking for are ways other nerds in the community have made their bedrooms into a place where they can release tension of the day and improve their overall quality of life?
Well, I'd suggest getting a girlfriend. They can be very helpful about the "release tension" thing, and a significant minority can even improve your "overall quality of life."
Oh wait, this is/., so maybe I should suggest a hooker.
Oh wait. This is/. I mean a hooker who works the Renaissance Festival as a "tavern harlot".
And comes equiped with a WiFi port, and runs linux, speaks awk, looks like Natalie Portman with a a pantsuit full of hot grits, and who and will do anything for a buck --
I won't deny that that's possible, but in all my reading I don't recall ever seeing it until about two years ago - here online.
Besides, the plural usage just doesn't seem to make any logical sense. Companies are just like collective nouns - man members, but still referred to with in the singular because they are a whole group.
It's Brit English, and has been for centuries. It actually makes more sense than American usage:
We Americans says, "The government has done thus-and-so," as if the government is one monolithic entity, with a single will. It's not. Like most collectives, it is made up of many faces and many wills, each with his (or her) own agenda and desires.
The British version connotes, much more clearly, what's really going on.
This is what usenet's for. In September. In any of the comp.lang hierarchy, anyway.
"Do my homework"s, sometimes dressed-up as "I'm writing this cool open source program to, uhh, transfer the contents of these three towers in Vietnam, and uhh, I just need some help with, uhh, teh high level algorithm."
Slashdot Mirror
[Computer porn in 1979] [W]as pretty much relegated to ASCII versions of Raquel Welch that printed on five feet of continuous feed paper in a dot matrix.
Yeah, but with a print-out, you could just throw out whatever got, uh, "messy".
[OP's hard drives won't be read, he claims] not if i've cracked them open and cum/shit/bled on the platters after perforating them with an awl
Well, in that case, first they'll read your DNA, have uncontestable proof you (or your identical twin) had had possesion of them, and then they'll read your data.
So how much more dark matter must we account for to get the right Omega value?
I don't understand. You want to rip cds on a portable CD/mp3 player? Do you have a hard drive on your CD/mp3 player? I don't think I've ever seen one of those. Please provide a url.
Well, I've got an Archos Recorder. I'm not sure if by "CD/mp3" player you mean "a CD player that plays MP3s", or if you mean "CD or MP3 player". If the latter, the Archos Recorder is a hard-drive based MP3 player (18 GB). It also records to MP3 format at up to 160kps.
By connecting a CD player's audio out to the Recorder audio in, I could in theory rip directly onto the Archos. I've never done this, and probably won't, as I'd have to manually enter song names, which is tedious, and as I like to rip CDs at a somewhat higher (~ 192kbps) quality. On the othr hand, the Recorder also contains a built-in microphone, so it can be useful for voice recording.
I've tried using a proportional font for C++ before, but it didn't work out. How do you deal with tab/space alignment? I do Win32 coding, so I often have to use those Win32 APIs that have 17 parameters and must be spread across multiple lines. ;-)
SciTE deals with this tolerably well. Tabs are a certain size, and I use however many I need to get the text to align.
That's not a problem. The problem is that SciTE allows you to magnify/shrink the text (much as you can in a web browser). At magnifications (shrinkages) other than what you've used to align the text, the text becomes misaligned. (I other words, the whitespace doesn't grow at exactly the same rate as the non-whitespace; I assume the problem lies in the system fonts.)
Of course, you can always tell SciTE to use a monoface font, or you can use some mix of fonts (different fonts bases on syntax highlighting).
At any rate, if it can burn, some rocket has used it as a fuel.
Cats?
Oh please, please, please say yes.
Meeeeeeoooooooooooow!
It was a joke, it was a joke!
I know I should feed the trolls, but...
Man who died on the cross... to preserve the American way of life?
Would that be Medgar Evers (no, wait, he was shot) or Matthew Shepard (he was tied to a fence post, if I recall correctly).
What's with the non-standard UI? Why fix something that isn't broken?
Who do these people thing they are? GNOME or KDE developers?
Everybody knows [reader please select one of:
- Windows XP style gigantic red and blue buttons
- Apple style one button mice and one menu bar
- a pure command line interface, an ESCape meta key and a vi-style seperate insert mode
- three different meta keys, a built-in Mayan calendar and a LISP interpreter in your emacs editor
]is the only true interface!
All else is the devil's spawn! Burn the heretics!
wow, an accurate buisness plan on slashdot! Amazing.
PS #5 could be hiring lawyers to defend charging $100 per linux pc.
And #7 could be: "#7 Lawyers profit!!!"
I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them.
2:00 am to 5:00 am?? That's when I do most of my browsing!!!!
Of course, not at Kuro5hin.org...
I uh, do, uh, anatomy research... and uh, changes in primate mating habits caused by the ubiquity of digital cameras.
If this thing's really a web browser, and it runs completely on the client computer, any web pages it's requesting are coming down the line as HTML, uncompressed (except insofar as the modem's protocol might compress). Without a compresser on the other end, the speed's not coming from compression.
/., refreshing every five seconds to make sure I got a local copy of pages about to be slashdotted?)
If it does require a server side piece, it's not a web browser, per se; but as a general question, is it worthwhile to look into "compressed" web pages, e.g., foo.html.zlib? (I tend to doubt the savings are that much for the "average" page, but shoving graphics into an archive might keep down the number of requests needed to fetch a whole page and its graphics.)
If it's not server side compression, the only thing I can think of (and fortunately smarter people than me will think of other things I'm sure) is that he's pre-fetching and caching pages to make the apparent speed faster.
So is the "secret" that he has some hueristic that sensibly guesses what links you'll click next, combined with regularly fetching, oh say, your most requested bookmarks? (In my case it might look like: slashdot -- New York Times -- slashdot -- sourceforge -- slashdot -- freshmeat -- eurekareport -- slashdot.)
In other words, is he mirroring sites locally in the background? And if so, how must bandwidth is wasted just sitting in the cache until it's stale?
(On the other hand, could I point his browser at
It may be a factor - but the biggest reason by far is:
Girls do not like doing anything that involves concentrating on one single thing for long periods. They like to switch from one thought to another, and keep many balls up in the air at one time.
God knows they like keeping my balls up in the air.
For me, the big advantage of the SliMP3 is the ability to interact with the large vacuum fluorescent display via a remote control from anywhere in the room.
But at $250, SLIMP3 sounds pretty expensive for (correct me if I'm wrong) an ethernet card and an MP3 decoder DAC chip. Plus it only plays MP3s -- I'd want to play my losslessly compressed CDs too.
Or am I missing something?
I'll agree with you that C and C++ don't have an overriding philosophy
C++ has, if not a "overriding philosophy", very well and rigorusly thought out principles of design. If you're interested in what those are, or the question, in general, of what factors must be considered in language design, there's a whole book about it: Stroustrup's The Design and Evolution of C++.
D&E (for short) can be read almost as a novel; it's engaging and instructive, as it takes the reader on the journey from C to C with Classes to C++ circa 1993. Along the way, many of the questions you might have about why C++ has or does not have some feature are answered.
If C++ does have an overriding philosophy, a key element of it is that the programmer should not have to pay for any feature he does not use. This is why, for example, all functions are by default not virtual (as in Java and D).
Another key element is that, for good or ill, C++ had to be backward compatible with C, if it was to gain acceptance by enough programmers.
Perhaps most importantly, C++ gives the programmer as much control as he needs to do the job as he thinks best (so for example, unlike Java, potentially unsafe pointer operations are available to the programmer), but also attempts to protect the programmer from his inevitable mistakes by means of a more stringent compiler than C's (especially by means of strong type checking and new style casts).
The fact that so many styles of programming (among them structural, object oreiented, and generic) are supported for so many programming goals (low level drivers to GUIs to some embedded projects) on so many target architectures (how many architechtures/OS are not targeted by least a C++ cross compiler?) is a strong indication the C++'s design has worked, and worked very well indeed.
One final bitch: I want the person pulled into the street and shot who was responsible for the font used in the Stroustrup C++ book's code examples. Who the hell writes code in an italic, proportional, serif font?! The only thing more painful than programming in C++ is reading about programming in C++.
Well, I code in a proportional font. I started doing it after reading Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language.
While I agree that reading proportionally spaced code is difficult at first, as Stroustrup comments in the (?) foreward, it quickly seems natural, and becomes easier to read that code in a m o n o s p a c e d font.
Honestly, at this point I hate having to use a monospacing editor, so I'm lucky that SciTE, a free and GPL'd editor with customizable symtax highlighting is available. Apparently, the SciTE programmer feels as I do, as a proportinal font is the standard for must of languages supported by the built in SciTE lexers.
Yeah, but imagine the confusion of a door with the word "Wall" written on it...
Who has to imagine confusion when they can read Perl source code?
Or was that Perl? Maybe it was line noise, I couldn't tell?
Turning would be turing in his grave.
Actually, I think you mean his tape is caught in an infinite loop of read forward--print zero--read backward--print zero--read forward--....
What I'm looking for are ways other nerds in the community have made their bedrooms into a place where they can release tension of the day and improve their overall quality of life?
/., so maybe I should suggest a hooker.
/. I mean a hooker who works the Renaissance Festival as a "tavern harlot".
Well, I'd suggest getting a girlfriend. They can be very helpful about the "release tension" thing, and a significant minority can even improve your "overall quality of life."
Oh wait, this is
Oh wait. This is
And comes equiped with a WiFi port, and runs linux, speaks awk, looks like Natalie Portman with a a pantsuit full of hot grits, and who and will do anything for a buck --
unless it's with Bill Gates --
in Soviet Russia.
Yeah but real live people don't come with a volume control. :P
On the other hand, surreptitiously turning up the volume on your mp3/CD player or Walkman does the trick nearly as well.
And something good, say, Holst's The Planets, makes even the most boring yammerhead's flapping lips seem closer to the sublime.
Of course, it's more discreet and polite if your hair is long enough to cover your ears, and earphones.
Why, oh why in this age of deranged stalkers, nutters and neverending digital identity theft would I tell the world where I live?
Just so half of this planet's socially challenged would appear on my doorstep and want a beer?
Knock, knock.
Uhm, ok, Noodlenose, where's that beer you promised me?
(/me: Socially challenged and not real good at reading comprehension.)
I won't deny that that's possible, but in all my reading I don't recall ever seeing it until about two years ago - here online.
Besides, the plural usage just doesn't seem to make any logical sense. Companies are just like collective nouns - man members, but still referred to with in the singular because they are a whole group.
It's Brit English, and has been for centuries. It actually makes more sense than American usage:
We Americans says, "The government has done thus-and-so," as if the government is one monolithic entity, with a single will. It's not. Like most collectives, it is made up of many faces and many wills, each with his (or her) own agenda and desires.
The British version connotes, much more clearly, what's really going on.
Picky note: Dude better not be looking for a Nobel prize. There is no Nobel prize in Mathematics [mathforum.org].
Sigh. Yeah, that's why I said, "(excuse me!) Fields Medal".
Show me a chimp that can "say" four words....
/. editor.
And I'll show you the next
(Come on, I can't have been the only one to come up with this one, right?)
This is what usenet's for. In September. In any of the comp.lang hierarchy, anyway.
"Do my homework"s, sometimes dressed-up as "I'm writing this cool open source program to, uhh, transfer the contents of these three towers in Vietnam, and uhh, I just need some help with, uhh, teh high level algorithm."