You're kidding, right? In this case, Slashdot was directly responsible for distributing the hearsay of hearsay in the first place.
It's pretty routine to have a just plain wrong articles on the front page of Slashdot, and posts pointing out the editor's idiocy buried deep in the comments. It's amazine to me that you think this is a positive thing.
Learn to read, dumbass. I didn't say finite state machines were trivial.
I said that every decent university covers finite state machines, and that regular expressions are a language for describing finite state machines. The poster I replied to said that learning new langauages was trivial. The logical conclusion, then, is that learning regular expressions is trivial.
Of course, every finite state machine is trivial. If you don't know that, you need a few more years of school under your belt.
This book isn't for programmers. It really is for managers, project managers, administrators, and anyone else who dabbles in programming without the time or inclination to get a formal education in computer science.
Most programmers aren't going to learn anything from these books they didn't already know from the "classic" books, plus a half hour reading the perldocs.
What, exactly, is the "old tech" referred to in the summary?
The article talks about devices that are being developed now, based on ideas someone had 10 years ago. Apparently, Slashdot land "very old tech" means anything older than 1997.
Oh... the claim that British intelligence agents (not law enforcement agents) working in Pakistan with Pakistani authorities intercepted a call placed from Pakistan? And, said call did not tip off law enforcement agents in the UK to the plot, but did prompt them to move up their arrests?
Yes, we all agree that has been discussed in several articles. It's too bad the submitter didn't bother to discuss any of it, and instead decided to lie.
British sources reveal that the UK -> US plane-bombing plot was uncovered by a UK wiretap.
Claims by a Pakistani official:
'He has been staying here for quite some time and has been under strict surveillance since then,' a Pakistani intelligence source said. 'His calls to Britain and internet communications have been under surveillance that helped in revealing the plot.'
You see, no Bristish source. No UK wiretap. The summary was a fabrication easily refuted by reading the linked article, and Hemos was trolled by the submitter.
Slashdot Mirror
You're kidding, right? In this case, Slashdot was directly responsible for distributing the hearsay of hearsay in the first place.
It's pretty routine to have a just plain wrong articles on the front page of Slashdot, and posts pointing out the editor's idiocy buried deep in the comments. It's amazine to me that you think this is a positive thing.
PHP isn't broken. It's almost as good as Microsoft's ASP technology was in 1998!
BSD
The most interesting thing in this thread is that more than 10% of the posts are about badly written HP printer software.
That is one seriously messed up company.
Learn to read, dumbass. I didn't say finite state machines were trivial.
I said that every decent university covers finite state machines, and that regular expressions are a language for describing finite state machines. The poster I replied to said that learning new langauages was trivial. The logical conclusion, then, is that learning regular expressions is trivial.
Of course, every finite state machine is trivial. If you don't know that, you need a few more years of school under your belt.
Regular expressions are just a language to describe finite state machines. You should be able to learn them virtually at will.
If you didn't learn finite state machines at university, I suggest you find a better university.
This book isn't for programmers. It really is for managers, project managers, administrators, and anyone else who dabbles in programming without the time or inclination to get a formal education in computer science.
Most programmers aren't going to learn anything from these books they didn't already know from the "classic" books, plus a half hour reading the perldocs.
Sure, 90% of game adaptations will be crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.
As is often pointed out on slashdot, this is why it's so important to have a good backup plan. Like most slashdotters, I recommend RAID.
Well, it's one louder, isn't it?
You're probably encountering Macrovision copy protection. Do a lot of reading, or call a professional A/V consultant.
According to the figures in your link, the growth rate in the 90's was 3.7% a year. The growth rate from 2000-2005 is 6.7% a year.
In the future, you might want to link to pages that support your argument, not refute your argument.
Slashdot: why ignore the article when you can ignore the summary?
Mod parent up. It's the only response this article deserves.
The article talks about devices that are being developed now, based on ideas someone had 10 years ago. Apparently, Slashdot land "very old tech" means anything older than 1997.
Oh... the claim that British intelligence agents (not law enforcement agents) working in Pakistan with Pakistani authorities intercepted a call placed from Pakistan? And, said call did not tip off law enforcement agents in the UK to the plot, but did prompt them to move up their arrests?
Yes, we all agree that has been discussed in several articles. It's too bad the submitter didn't bother to discuss any of it, and instead decided to lie.
Claims by a Pakistani official:
You see, no Bristish source. No UK wiretap. The summary was a fabrication easily refuted by reading the linked article, and Hemos was trolled by the submitter.
According to the artcle, it the writetap was done in Pakistan, by Pakistani authorities, as part of a Pakistani investigation.
There is no mention of any UK wiretapping in the article. Hemos got trolled by the submitter.