> Every bit of the code that is in Qt to
> implement signals/slots is standard ISO C++
> code. No different than with Boost::Signals
But Qt code uses non-standard keywords such as "public slots" and "signals". Code which uses these keywords need to be fed into a preprocessor which then converts that code into legal C++. The Comeau C++ compiler is a C++-to-C translator. Your argument is like saying any C++ code is perfectly legal ANSI C code; you just have to feed the C++ code into a "preprocessor" (such as Comeau's compiler) first before you actually compile it.
A signal/slot implementation like boost::signals, on the other hand, is ANSI C++ code.
> What about laptops? You'd have to remount
> every time it comes back on the network,
Use an automounter like BSD amd or autofs. Export the map file via NIS, and all the client needs to do is join the NIS domain, start the automounter, and then be able to access the network filesystems on-demand. Almost like magic!
Also, you can play some neat tricks with how the automounter figures out what network filesystems to mount. For example, you can do a "cd/usr/local/programs" on the client and have the automounter mount "/export/programs/ia32-linux" if you're on a x86 Linux box or "/export/programs/mips-irix" if you're on a IRIX box. You can also start incoporating things like load balancing and redundancy while all being totally transparent to the user.
So in short, all the tools you need to do what you describe exist in the UNIX world and have been around for more than 10 years. All it takes is a competent administrator to bring it all together.
Jesus H. Christ.. that's NOT what he friggin' means. He's not saying "probably not the most practical" at all! I pray to $DEITY that you're not a native English speaker. That idiomatic expression means he's trying to say that Scheme is both a beautiful and practical language.
> WxWindows/GTK is a great cross platform gui > toolkit but its limited to mainly gui > development
I'd just like to point out that this is false. I use wxWindows in my professional work myself, and I can verify that wxWindows is *NOT* mainly for GUI development. It's focus is more like that of MFC or Qt. MFC tries to encapsulate the Win32 API in a (some would say "pseudo") object oriented framework. wxWindows tries to accomplish the same thing, except in a cross platform way (like Qt). The GUI classes are only a portion of wxWindows. wxWindows also includes things such as sockets, threads, cross platform filesystem access, generic container classes, database access and more.
I really think wxWindows is one of the greatest toolkits ever. And the thing I like about wxWindows more over Qt is that it's GUI classes are a wrapper around the native system's GUI widgets (unless you use the wxUniversal port of wxWindows which implements the widgets in a manner similar to Qt).
Speaking of SVG... I was fooling around with Adobe's SVG plug-in for MSIE the other day and it seemed somewhat... unstable. Are there other plugins available for SVG or is Adobe's the only one we got?
The Hulk story is actually pretty complicated and I'd be interested to see what version of the Hulk they'll use for the movie. I imagine it'll just be the dumb green version since thats the version of the Hulk most people associate the Hulk with. But it'd be cool if they could incorporate the other Hulk personas. It probably couldn't be done in a single movie though; otherwise it'd be like 8 hours long. Perhaps in the sequels.
> America seems more and more like some third
> world dictatorship every year...!
And the people who actually do live in some third world dictatorship all laugh in unison...
> Er, Atheists try to dismantle other religions. > Atheism is as religious a position as > Hinduism, or for that matter Agnosticism
Since when is the lack of a religion a religion? Thats like saying baldness is a hair color or that not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Atheism is no more a religion than baldness is a hair color. Atheists do not "believe there is no God". They "lack a belief in God." Conceptually, there is a difference. Just like someone who doesn't collect stamps lacks a hobby. They don't have a hobby of not collecting stamps.
Not believing in God is no more a religion than not collecting stamps is a hobby.
That only applies to game consoles. Not to PCs. I suppose they think that game consoles and PCs aren't in direct competition or something. They're probably right.
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> Or what about Common Lisp, the first
> object-oriented language with a published
> standard?
I thought that honor belonged to Ada 95?
> or embedded systems in Java.
J2ME.
> P.S. i like VS but recently switched to Python
>so I could run on ME and XP without having to
> compile for each
You can still have your VS and Python with Visual Python.
> On the other hand, there's no such thing as
> embedded dot Net just yet.
Then what the hell is this supposed to be?
> Every bit of the code that is in Qt to
> implement signals/slots is standard ISO C++
> code. No different than with Boost::Signals
But Qt code uses non-standard keywords such as "public slots" and "signals". Code which uses these keywords need to be fed into a preprocessor which then converts that code into legal C++. The Comeau C++ compiler is a C++-to-C translator. Your argument is like saying any C++ code is perfectly legal ANSI C code; you just have to feed the C++ code into a "preprocessor" (such as Comeau's compiler) first before you actually compile it.
A signal/slot implementation like boost::signals, on the other hand, is ANSI C++ code.
> But it can't.
What about boost::signal?
Tell your friend to simply omit that he has a PhD on his resume.
> What about laptops? You'd have to remount > every time it comes back on the network, Use an automounter like BSD amd or autofs. Export the map file via NIS, and all the client needs to do is join the NIS domain, start the automounter, and then be able to access the network filesystems on-demand. Almost like magic! Also, you can play some neat tricks with how the automounter figures out what network filesystems to mount. For example, you can do a "cd /usr/local/programs" on the client and have the automounter mount "/export/programs/ia32-linux" if you're on a x86 Linux box or "/export/programs/mips-irix" if you're on a IRIX box. You can also start incoporating things like load balancing and redundancy while all being totally transparent to the user.
So in short, all the tools you need to do what you describe exist in the UNIX world and have been around for more than 10 years. All it takes is a competent administrator to bring it all together.
Jesus H. Christ .. that's NOT what he friggin' means. He's not saying "probably not the most practical" at all! I pray to $DEITY that you're not a native English speaker. That idiomatic expression means he's trying to say that Scheme is both a beautiful and practical language.
> C++ has been an ANSI standard for way over a
> decade, hasn't it
No, since 1998.
> WxWindows/GTK is a great cross platform gui
> toolkit but its limited to mainly gui
> development
I'd just like to point out that this is false. I use wxWindows in my professional work myself, and I can verify that wxWindows is *NOT* mainly for GUI development. It's focus is more like that of MFC or Qt. MFC tries to encapsulate the Win32 API in a (some would say "pseudo") object oriented framework. wxWindows tries to accomplish the same thing, except in a cross platform way (like Qt). The GUI classes are only a portion of wxWindows. wxWindows also includes things such as sockets, threads, cross platform filesystem access, generic container classes, database access and more.
I really think wxWindows is one of the greatest toolkits ever. And the thing I like about wxWindows more over Qt is that it's GUI classes are a wrapper around the native system's GUI widgets (unless you use the wxUniversal port of wxWindows which implements the widgets in a manner similar to Qt).
Erm ... I think the idea is to get them to give thier big selling pitch, then walk away from the phone. And if it's a prerecorded message, even better.
Actually it's funny because thats what a usual conversation with your average idiot online really looks like.
Speaking of SVG ... I was fooling around with Adobe's SVG plug-in for MSIE the other day and it seemed somewhat ... unstable. Are there other plugins available for SVG or is Adobe's the only one we got?
The Hulk story is actually pretty complicated and I'd be interested to see what version of the Hulk they'll use for the movie. I imagine it'll just be the dumb green version since thats the version of the Hulk most people associate the Hulk with. But it'd be cool if they could incorporate the other Hulk personas. It probably couldn't be done in a single movie though; otherwise it'd be like 8 hours long. Perhaps in the sequels.
All I gotta say is ... your site kicks ass.
> America seems more and more like some third > world dictatorship every year...! And the people who actually do live in some third world dictatorship all laugh in unison...
> Version one and two of IE were based on
> SpyGlass. I'm not sure about 3. I do know that
> 4 is a completely new codebase compared to 2.
If its a completely new codebase, then why does it still say "Based on NCSA Mosaic" in it's "About" box?
> It replaces Me, as your parent correctly
> noted,
You, sir, are an IDIOT.
XP did NOT evolve from the Win9x line. Its a mere point release of NT5 (aka Win2k).
Lies .... SmallTalk was invented in 1983 at XEROX PARC while C came into being between the years 1969-1973.
> KDE 3.1 is as fast or faster than windows XP
> on my 1ghz box...it took a while to build, but
> it's well worth it.
So what you're saying an end user needs to rebuild the entire system from scratch just so it'll perform as well as WinXP on the same box?
> Er, Atheists try to dismantle other religions.
> Atheism is as religious a position as
> Hinduism, or for that matter Agnosticism
Since when is the lack of a religion a religion? Thats like saying baldness is a hair color or that not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Atheism is no more a religion than baldness is a hair color. Atheists do not "believe there is no God". They "lack a belief in God." Conceptually, there is a difference. Just like someone who doesn't collect stamps lacks a hobby. They don't have a hobby of not collecting stamps.
Not believing in God is no more a religion than not collecting stamps is a hobby.
That only applies to game consoles. Not to PCs. I suppose they think that game consoles and PCs aren't in direct competition or something. They're probably right.
wxWindows too difficult? You're just spoiled.
> As long as we still have the atheist influence in
> this state, people will never be required to become
> overly educated in ethics.
Surely you are not suggesting theism and ethics go hand-in-hand?