Buddism is just as much bollocks as every other religion , but at least it tries to make its followers think , even if its about nonsense. All the other religions just want obedience. End of. As for the imagery in proverbs, so what. Imagery and implication is easy. Hard facts arn't. Which is why science has hard facts, while religion just relies on hearsay from thousands of years ago, metaphor and if that doesn't work , outright threats. Religion was an ok belief system centuries ago when we were still ignorant about how the universe worked , anyone who believes in it now is either credulous, a fool or both.
(And yes I know we don't know everything about the universe yet and perhaps never will, but google for "god of the gaps" if you want to know what I think about religion in this scenario)
>If you want write truly cross-platform C, you write to the standard C API *only* and let the >users get their input and output via stdin and stdout. Not very graphical, but hey, you want >cross platform, right?
You're new to unix arn't you? He could use many of the X windows libraries that use a C API which will then run on (probably) all versions of unix. Apple include an X windows layer if you wish to use it instead of their wierd home-brew GUI system and Objective-C language which no one apart from Mac users and a few ivory tower university types bother to waste their time with.
The catholic church is nothing special. Judaism , islam, hinduism , they all do it. The only religion that makes you think (IMO) is buddism , but even that has some tenets that you have to just accept.
Religion is simply mind control of the weak by the strong.
What if the guy next door had been using it? Would they call the police for that too? If you adverstise wireless access as public then its public. End of. You can't say "oh , its public access , but you have to buy a coffee first". No , sorry. If you want that then implement a timed password based system. No doubt this place is run by a moron who can just about spell wireless access never mind understand its implications.
>I am slowly convinced, that any larger piece of C(++)-Code which handles strings, has in fact at least one Buffer overflow.
Well in that case that would include all your high level language interpreters and compilers too and possibly the code they generate. After all , at some point someone has to code to the metal.
>A C(++) Programmer without firm knownledge of assember on that plattform should never be allowed to write production-grade C(++)-Code.
Why? If they're writing device drivers I'd agree , but for other types of program then you have to ask what knowing the I/O timings or interrupt levels on a CPU has to do with whether a coder can use malloc() (for example) properly or not.
>If you switch to, for example, Scheme you will get a clean object oriented language without any large speed penality.
Why in gods name would someone whos got to deal with all the low level issues with device drivers want to write in some fluffy high level language that presents a completely different programming paradigm to the hardware he's trying to code to? Don't be an ass.
Or maybe they have work pressures that preclude them from doing so. Its very easy to be a student with very little work to take time out to learn something. I was an MSc student once and compared to the working world university was a walk in the park.
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"mostly university based people "
And therein lies the problem. A lot of these ivory tower academics have never worked in the real world where there are things known as deadlines, costs and "lots of work". Ie , people don't have a few weeks free to kick back and learn a highly complex API. They need to be able to learn it on the fly. And if the API is over complex and over engineered thats not going to happen.
Sending ATI* to anything connected to a serial port doesn't seem like a very clever idea since it could possibly have wierd effects on non modem hardware.
Heres a tip little boy: Just because someone disagrees with the prevailing view of you teenagers doesn't make it a troll.
I've been working with linux since 1994 and I've had just about enough of the "special" kernels that ship with various distributions having spent many long days trying to solve issues with the bleeing edge garbage they shove in.
I want the genuine kernel , not some hacked about fuckup of a kernel that may or may not be stable just because Charlie Coder at Deadrat who whoever thought it would be "kool" to port some bleeding edge code back into because 1 in a million people may have found it useful. With slackware you get the stock kernel. End of. And its always worked for me.
I think he was probably refering (correct me if I'm wrong grandparent poster) to that bloatware that is used to run web apps these days (Hello IBM , are you listening?) and not necessarily the coders themselves. Though IMO web programming is a bad place to learn how to code , even java , since you don't have to worry about memory management etc you can program somewhat sloppier than if you had to do C or C++.
In fact I'd go so far as to suggest that ALL coders should do at least a few months of C (not C++) or even assembler coding so they get a real feel of what really goes on with memory, cpu, interrupts etc and so a better feel of how a computer really works.
There are many dialects and accents of english spoken in britain and in just england itself so you can't say there is such a thing as "british english". However , given the language is called "english" I think its fair to say that whatever dialects and accents are spoken in england can safely be called "english" and any spoken in other countries called
english.
After all, you don't say "french french" when you speak about the french spoken in france , though you will say "canadian french".
Funny , thats just what happened to me before I even got close to the end of this lame excuse for "humour" which the poster has obviously been saving for a rainy day to cut and paste. Sad.
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Buddism is just as much bollocks as every other religion , but at least it tries
to make its followers think , even if its about nonsense. All the other religions
just want obedience. End of. As for the imagery in proverbs, so what. Imagery and
implication is easy. Hard facts arn't. Which is why science has hard facts, while
religion just relies on hearsay from thousands of years ago, metaphor and if that
doesn't work , outright threats. Religion was an ok belief system centuries ago
when we were still ignorant about how the universe worked , anyone who believes in it
now is either credulous, a fool or both.
(And yes I know we don't know everything about the universe yet and perhaps never
will, but google for "god of the gaps" if you want to know what I think about
religion in this scenario)
Come now and let us reason together... .... but at the end just agree with what I say or else.
Isiah (the bit that was edited out)
>If you want write truly cross-platform C, you write to the standard C API *only* and let the >users get their input and output via stdin and stdout. Not very graphical, but hey, you want >cross platform, right?
You're new to unix arn't you? He could use many of the X windows libraries that use a C API
which will then run on (probably) all versions of unix. Apple include an X windows layer
if you wish to use it instead of their wierd home-brew GUI system and Objective-C language
which no one apart from Mac users and a few ivory tower university types bother to waste
their time with.
The catholic church is nothing special. Judaism , islam, hinduism , they all do it.
The only religion that makes you think (IMO) is buddism , but even that has some
tenets that you have to just accept.
Religion is simply mind control of the weak by the strong.
What if the guy next door had been using it? Would they call the police for that too?
If you adverstise wireless access as public then its public. End of. You can't say
"oh , its public access , but you have to buy a coffee first". No , sorry. If you want
that then implement a timed password based system. No doubt this place is run by a
moron who can just about spell wireless access never mind understand its implications.
>I am slowly convinced, that any larger piece of C(++)-Code which handles strings, has in fact at least one Buffer overflow.
Well in that case that would include all your high level language interpreters and
compilers too and possibly the code they generate. After all , at some point someone
has to code to the metal.
>A C(++) Programmer without firm knownledge of assember on that plattform should never be allowed to write production-grade C(++)-Code.
Why? If they're writing device drivers I'd agree , but for other types of program
then you have to ask what knowing the I/O timings or interrupt levels on a CPU has to
do with whether a coder can use malloc() (for example) properly or not.
>If you switch to, for example, Scheme you will get a clean object oriented language without any large speed penality.
Why in gods name would someone whos got to deal with all the low level issues with
device drivers want to write in some fluffy high level language that presents a
completely different programming paradigm to the hardware he's trying to code to?
Don't be an ass.
... and had been given conflicting data by windows XP. And in the tried
and tested manner of computers from Star Trek in that situation, it blew up.
Did you just step out a time warp or something? They've been making pocket
dictaphones since the 1970s.
"Everything I've ever seen on this machine for the past year"
So that'd be slashdot and porn then?
"Every single web page I've ever visited "
Is that a good idea? What if you parents get to see it one day
when you're at school?
"There are some things you would want to forget"
Yeah , Anna nicole smith sites can do that to a man.
"so it would be really useful for me to record what they tell me"
Perhaps you should find out about the cutting edge device known as
a "tape recorder" then?
Or maybe they have work pressures that preclude them from doing so. Its very
easy to be a student with very little work to take time out to learn something.
I was an MSc student once and compared to the working world university was a
walk in the park.
"mostly university based people "
And therein lies the problem. A lot of these ivory tower academics have
never worked in the real world where there are things known as deadlines,
costs and "lots of work". Ie , people don't have a few weeks free to kick back
and learn a highly complex API. They need to be able to learn it on the fly.
And if the API is over complex and over engineered thats not going to happen.
Sending ATI* to anything connected to a serial port doesn't seem like a very
clever idea since it could possibly have wierd effects on non modem hardware.
Heres a tip little boy: Just because someone disagrees with the prevailing view
of you teenagers doesn't make it a troll.
I've been working with linux since 1994 and I've had just about enough of the
"special" kernels that ship with various distributions having spent many long
days trying to solve issues with the bleeing edge garbage they shove in.
Go play poke-the-dog with someone else moron.
I was thinking more of standard parallel and serial port devices.
I want the genuine kernel , not some hacked about fuckup of a kernel that
may or may not be stable just because Charlie Coder at Deadrat who whoever
thought it would be "kool" to port some bleeding edge code back into because
1 in a million people may have found it useful. With slackware you get the
stock kernel. End of. And its always worked for me.
"PCI or USB device ids"
Fine if its a PCI or USB device. If its not its back to the
old method of chucking modules at it and seeing what sticks.
I think he was probably refering (correct me if I'm wrong grandparent poster) to that
bloatware that is used to run web apps these days (Hello IBM , are you listening?) and
not necessarily the coders themselves. Though IMO web programming is a bad place to
learn how to code , even java , since you don't have to worry about memory management
etc you can program somewhat sloppier than if you had to do C or C++.
In fact I'd go so far as to suggest that ALL coders should do at least a few months
of C (not C++) or even assembler coding so they get a real feel of what really goes on
with memory, cpu, interrupts etc and so a better feel of how a computer really works.
Careful , or Linus might bash you up!
Oh well, you pays your money and you takes your choice....
That should have read "in other countries called [country name] english"
There are many dialects and accents of english spoken in britain and
in just england itself so you can't say there is such a thing as
"british english". However , given the language is called "english" I think
its fair to say that whatever dialects and accents are spoken in england
can safely be called "english" and any spoken in other countries called
english.
After all, you don't say "french french" when you speak about the french
spoken in france , though you will say "canadian french".
Lot of effort just for people to think him a wanker.
"Falls back asleep."
Funny , thats just what happened to me before I even got close to the
end of this lame excuse for "humour" which the poster has obviously been
saving for a rainy day to cut and paste. Sad.
One would hope its IP6 but the article doesn't state this. Does anyone
happen to know.
Also will it be using the SCTP/IP protocol which was specifically
designed for telecoms or something they've rolled themselves on top
of IP?