Without Tim Berners-Lees very first web site at CERN no one would have seen the potential and the web wouldn't exist. Without any argument this site by its very nature was the most influential web site that ever has and ever will be created.
>As if the only reason not to be asshole is fear for your mortal soul. Quite a commentary on your own morality.
That sums up most religious sheep. They only behave themselves because they're scared of what their little book tells them will happen to them after they die if they don't. They don't actually have any built in morality , just built in fear of the consequences. Which explains why they're quite happy to kill in the name of their if it says they can.
"But rail requires a huge expenditure in dedicated land"
And highways don't? Think about the width of a highway that can at most take 40 - 50 ton trucks compared with the with of a railway track which can take 20,000 ton trains.
"Planes require just the airport,"
Oh is that all. Obviously its FAR easier to build an airport in the middle of a big city than a train station and some tunnels. Right.
Sad though it was the only people who died in those bombings were the people in the same carraige as the bombs - the whole train didn't nose dive to the ground and blow up killing everyone on board.
Well this is where personal opinion comes in. I don't happen to think pop culture is really that important since even the Beatles will probably just be a footnote in history 50 years from now whereas the moon landings will be in the history books for millenia (global catastophies and upheavals notwithstanding). Obviously it meant a lot to the people at the time but for people like me who weren't alive when the fab 4 had girls fainting in front of them or Jagger was swinging his stuff on stage they're just a bunch of nasaly sounding 60s groups. Same goes for TV shows of the day. I've seen some old Dr Who and IMO its frankly rubbish but I respect the opinions of people who think otherwise. Cultural tastes comes and go, technological achievement generally lives on.
Sure , the BBC lost some (vaguely watchable if you're a certain generation) TV programs that could have made them a few pounds in DVD sales by now. NASA has lost of the most pivotal moments of mankinds technological achievements. Comparing the two is a bit like comparing some moles digging up your lawn with the destruction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
>Of course things won't work if you purposefully do them incorrectly.
Theres a world of difference between not working correctly and crashing. Any program that crashes when its input its slightly malformed was written by and/or tested by lazy idiots.
At least FreeBSD anyway. Play around plugging in and pulling out UBS devices without unmounting them first while processes are still accessing them and see how long it takes for the kernel to crash. Believe me , it won't be long. The same trick also works for mounted floppy disks. Someone in BSD land seriously needs to revisit the kernel mount subsystem.
For all intents and purposes the POSIX API *is* the C API given that C was developed on Unix. If other OSes don't support various portions of it then thats a failing on their part, but on OSes that do support it theres no reason to use Boost unless you really like obfuscated code.
>Ah yes, the classic sign of the typical Daily Mail reader. "I am a True British >person, so what I say is right and everyone else is wrong".
Actually I don't read it. But thanks for the typical lefty response ie: to get defensive and start the scattergun ad homenim attacks when faced with the truth.
Aside from Boost being horrid bloatware , what exactly is wrong with the standard POSIX regexp functions? Look up regcomp() , regexec() etc which have been part of the standard C API for years.
Oh really? Funny , I thought the muesli eating yoghurt knitters like yourself had been running the place for the last 10 years, co-incidentaly when socially its gone right downhill. But hey , maybe its all a dream and I'll wake up from this left wing nightmare soon and find myself in a world where the majority opinion carries weight (thats known as democracy btw, look it up) and arrogant psuedo intellectual marxist know-it-alls like yourself arn't around preaching to us about how we should think.
Pride before a fall mate. If "doing the right thing" is telling some cop he's an arsehole and then spending a night in the cells plus a large fine for no gain whatsoever except for some self-righteous chest beating, and doing the wrong thing is gritting my teeth and sucking up for 5 mins then getting on with my life then I'll do the wrong thing everytime thanks.
Young and frustrated student radical are we? When you grow up a bit you might have lived enough to realise that some of the points of view of the DM are shared by a majority of the british (and I mean people who were born in the country, not bought citizenship for convenience or fell off a lorry at dover) population. In the meantime you enjoy waving your red flag and wearing your CND badge. Theres nothing like a bit of 1970s nostalgia.
>Forgive the analogy, but your position is a little like implying that paedophilia >is a "healthy counterpoint" to violent child-abuse, since one is motivated by >exessive anger and the other by excessive "love".
Thats a crap analogy. Everyone has opinions and papers express those opinions. Very very few people are paedophiles. Theres no such thing as unbiased reporting because by the nature of the job reporters give a subjective view of what they're reporting on. Therefor all points of view are required to give a full spectrum of opinion for people (if they wished) to evaluate.
Unfortunately in the real world, giving up some of your self respect if its going to get you off a large fine or a trip down to the station is a necessary evil. Its called sucking up and it happens in all walks of life. Deal.
Unfortunately due to the desperation to fill posts in the police they're hiring all sorts of clueless morons who can't exercise judgement because frankly they don't have any. They're little more than robots who follow a set of rules to the letter no matter how inappropriate that may be at the time.
>We're talking about a paper which bemoaned the number of Jewish immigrants into Britain during the 30s and 40s
Wtf has the opinion of the paper 70 years ago go to do with it now when most if not all of the people who worked on it then are probably dead? Many papers have swung from right to left and back again several times in that period. Unless you buy the standard issue lefty party line of inherited guilt, suffer the children and all that.
The DM might lean a bit too far to the right but its a healthy counterpoint to the Stalin worshipping rags such as the Morning Star and its ilk.
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Would this change the atmospheric pressure of mars significantly or even in
the local area of the vents?
Without Tim Berners-Lees very first web site at CERN no one would have seen the potential and the web wouldn't exist. Without any argument this site by its very nature was the most influential web site that ever has and ever will be created.
Not all CPUs support BCD. Besides which even BCD uses binary as a storage method even
though it doesn't do base 2 calculations.
>As if the only reason not to be asshole is fear for your mortal soul. Quite a commentary on your own morality.
That sums up most religious sheep. They only behave themselves because they're scared of what
their little book tells them will happen to them after they die if they don't. They don't
actually have any built in morality , just built in fear of the consequences. Which explains why
they're quite happy to kill in the name of their if it says they can.
"But rail requires a huge expenditure in dedicated land"
And highways don't? Think about the width of a highway that can at most take 40 - 50 ton trucks compared with the with of a railway track which can take 20,000 ton trains.
"Planes require just the airport,"
Oh is that all. Obviously its FAR easier to build an airport in the middle of a big city than a train station and some tunnels. Right.
Sad though it was the only people who died in those bombings were the people in the same carraige as the bombs - the whole train didn't nose dive to the ground and blow up killing everyone on board.
Well this is where personal opinion comes in. I don't happen to think pop culture is really that important since even the Beatles will probably just be a footnote in history 50 years from now whereas the moon landings will be in the history books for millenia (global catastophies and upheavals notwithstanding). Obviously it meant a lot to the people at the time but for people like me who weren't alive when the fab 4 had girls fainting in front of them or Jagger was swinging his stuff on stage they're just a bunch of nasaly sounding 60s groups. Same goes for TV shows of the day. I've seen some old Dr Who and IMO its frankly rubbish but I respect the opinions of people who think otherwise. Cultural tastes comes and go, technological achievement generally lives on.
Actually its spelt "arse"hole. An ass is a member of the equine family you retard.
Sure , the BBC lost some (vaguely watchable if you're a certain generation) TV programs that could have made them a few pounds in DVD sales by now. NASA has lost of the most pivotal moments of mankinds technological achievements. Comparing the two is a bit like comparing some moles digging up your lawn with the destruction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
... is a cannabis smoking session. Though having met a few web developers in my time perhaps IBM they chose the right name after all!
>Of course things won't work if you purposefully do them incorrectly.
Theres a world of difference between not working correctly and crashing. Any program that crashes when its input its slightly malformed was written by and/or tested by lazy idiots.
At least FreeBSD anyway. Play around plugging in and pulling out UBS devices without unmounting them first while processes are still accessing them and see how long it takes for the kernel to crash. Believe me , it won't be long. The same trick also works for mounted floppy disks. Someone in BSD land seriously needs to revisit the kernel mount subsystem.
Which means Paranount would never go for it as they couldn't just warm over the previous 4 decades star trek plots and use those to save money.
For all intents and purposes the POSIX API *is* the C API given that C was
developed on Unix. If other OSes don't support various portions of it then
thats a failing on their part, but on OSes that do support it theres no reason
to use Boost unless you really like obfuscated code.
>I know. And it scares me.
Then emigrate. We'll all be happier for it.
>Ah yes, the classic sign of the typical Daily Mail reader. "I am a True British >person, so what I say is right and everyone else is wrong".
Actually I don't read it. But thanks for the typical lefty response ie: to get defensive and start the scattergun ad homenim attacks when faced with the truth.
Aside from Boost being horrid bloatware , what exactly is wrong with the standard POSIX regexp functions? Look up regcomp() , regexec() etc which have been part of the standard C API for years.
Oh really? Funny , I thought the muesli eating yoghurt knitters like yourself
had been running the place for the last 10 years, co-incidentaly when socially
its gone right downhill. But hey , maybe its all a dream and I'll wake up from this
left wing nightmare soon and find myself in a world where the majority opinion
carries weight (thats known as democracy btw, look it up) and arrogant psuedo
intellectual marxist know-it-alls like yourself arn't around preaching to us about
how we should think.
Pride before a fall mate. If "doing the right thing" is telling some cop he's an arsehole and then spending a night in the cells plus a large fine for no gain whatsoever except for some self-righteous chest beating, and doing the wrong thing is gritting my teeth and sucking up for 5 mins then getting on with my life then I'll do the wrong thing everytime thanks.
Young and frustrated student radical are we? When you grow up a bit you might have lived enough to realise that some of the points of view of the DM are shared by a majority of the british (and I mean people who were born in the country, not bought citizenship for convenience or fell off a lorry at dover) population. In the meantime you enjoy waving your red flag and wearing your CND badge. Theres nothing like a bit of 1970s nostalgia.
>Forgive the analogy, but your position is a little like implying that paedophilia
>is a "healthy counterpoint" to violent child-abuse, since one is motivated by
>exessive anger and the other by excessive "love".
Thats a crap analogy. Everyone has opinions and papers express those opinions. Very very few people are paedophiles. Theres no such thing as unbiased reporting because by the nature of the job reporters give a subjective view of what they're reporting on. Therefor all points of view are required to give a full spectrum of opinion for people (if they wished) to evaluate.
Unfortunately in the real world, giving up some of your self respect if its going to get you off a large fine or a trip down to the station is a necessary evil. Its called sucking up and it happens in all walks of life. Deal.
Unfortunately due to the desperation to fill posts in the police they're hiring
all sorts of clueless morons who can't exercise judgement because frankly they
don't have any. They're little more than robots who follow a set of rules to
the letter no matter how inappropriate that may be at the time.
>We're talking about a paper which bemoaned the number of Jewish immigrants into Britain during the 30s and 40s
Wtf has the opinion of the paper 70 years ago go to do with it now when most if not all of the people who worked on it then are probably dead? Many papers have swung from right to left and back again several times in that period. Unless you buy the standard issue lefty party line of inherited guilt, suffer the children
and all that.
The DM might lean a bit too far to the right but its a healthy counterpoint to
the Stalin worshipping rags such as the Morning Star and its ilk.
Its called Unix.
Would have been a bit more useful than a bloody DOS box.