I think one of the current theories is that the big bang formed this universe which is part of
and infinite multiverse. I dunno , the theory seems to change every week, they're making it up as they go along IMO.
These sorts of everything-could-exist proposals
for an infinite universe spring from a fundamental
misunderstanding of infinity. Just because something is infinite DOES NOT mean that all
possibilities will exist in it. For example, there are an infinite number of fractions between the numbers 0 and 1 but nowhere in that infinite list will you find the number 1.1. Similarly if this universe is infinite it does not mean that everything (eg you , me , your aunt etc) occurs in infinite amounts simply because there are an INFINITE number of possible alternatives that are not like us. Infinity confuses most people and in this case obviously even some scientists.
So what exactly is the difference between...
If ThisScreen.Checkbox.IsTicked
and
if IsTicked(checkbox.thisScreen)
Answer? Nothing. Its simply syntactical differences. I think you've just proved that
you know nothing about real OOP though given that your gave your examples in VB , why arn't I too
surprised... Hmm , I wonder...
If it works for him why should he change? He's probably fairly old and if that is the case
do you really think he gives a rats arse about some point and drool XP interface that is
designed to appeal to adolescents and women (IMO)? This guy obviously uses his computer as
a tool , not as some kind of coffee table show piece to impress Mr & Mrs Snob.
Nice to see journos getting there facts straight again. Not. It seems that the article writer
thinks that email in 1994 was in some sort of different form. Umm what form exactly? Ok it
was unlikely but not impossible to get HTML mail and attachments back then but I can't think of
anything else. Or maybe the jorno means that 1994 was before an AOLuser CD dropped through his letterbox.
If only there sites like that. I'm a unix fan but one thing that *really* p*sses me off about the unix world is that your somehow just expected to *know* how to get something to work and if you don't you just get the standard issue RTFM response when you seek advice. Of course that would be great if the man and help pages weren't generally written in an obscure dialect of Ancient Geek and only intelligable by their original authors and people whacked out on LSD.
I don't know about the other tech problems you mentioned but surely the easiest way to deal
with the high alpha emissions degrading surrounding materials is to make the polonium
powerpack with a shield covering that will be disposed of along with the powerpack when the useful power is all used up. It won't matter (as far as the rifle user is concerned) what state the shielding is in if he's going to bin it anyway.
What about compress? Or even good old "compact". Ah I remember the days when we had 20% compression and were glad of it and some of the old timers could have been confused with non living processes even without the help of gzip anyway!
64 bit server computing has been around for at least a decade. I was using a 64 bit DEC alpha
box back in 1994. Why is it that whenever middle aged or even old technology appears on in the PC world its suddenly a Big Deal? I realise that Joe Sixpack won't have ever heard of 64bit (or probably even be able to spell it)
but surely the more technologically savvy types who read this site should know better?
Where did you think up this lame analogy with crack dealers?? A crack dealer sells poison
to line his own pockets so it doesn't matter how little they sell its just as wrong. However
someone uses a car for day to day life usually because they have no choice so using the car itself is not wrong but its far better to use a car that uses less fuel since thats less worse for the enviroment.
And so what if SUVs can run on alternate fuels? I don't see any out there at the moment and anyway , an SUV that uses 2x as much gasoline as a compact will use 2x as much rape seel oil or methanol etc etc which still causes 2x as much C02. This is fairly simple stuff , if you have a problem grasping it I suggest you go back to school.
Any car that uses less fuel is better from an enviromental point of view compared to one
that uses more , so yes it DOES make a difference that SUVs use twice as much fuel as compact cars. Morality is a value judgement, CO2 output is basic physics so your analogy is utterly bogus.
Yeah , I can just see lots of C++ unix programmers disassembling their porgram to try and read the
Sparc or PA-RISC or PowerPC assembly code to check the optimisation levels. Not! You ever
tried to code in RISC assembler?? It aint quit the walk in the park that x86 assembler is by comparison!
Get real.
You have to remember that some guys are such wusses that much less talk to a girl they're actually *scared* of them and they use this kind of politically correct double-speak because they're afraid some rampant feminist will track them down and whip them till they bark if they mention anything male oriented in speech or writing.
Still , at least while your portfolio goes down the toilet you can enjoy the show while it lasts. I wonder if it could display the fortunes of Saddam.. no wait , I get depressed if I see too much red in a day...
Yeah but you're forgoeeting this in in america
where ANY sort of vehicle doing over 20mpg is a big deal. I Wonder how long before theres an all wheel drive V8 version of this bicycle...
Why is this marked as insightful? The poster hasn't even read the article because he seems
to think its about the united states government paying! Hey clueless , its about B.r.i.t.a.i.n!
But without subsidies how else would be produce quality films about low lifes living in piss covered and rat invested squats in some dystopian analogue of the real world that have inciteful social comment and deep philosphical points? Ok , maybe they're only watched by the terminally bored, Guardian readers and any homeless people who snuck in to the cinema but their of vital importance and are the future of films! *cough*
I have some ideas but they're generally not that good compared to ideas I've seen from other people one being a circular tree type structure denoting a file system which could be drilled down into. Unfortunately I've long since lost the link but I'm sure its around on google somewhere.
Go back to 1984 and throw a business person whose used to mainframe character based output in front
of a Mac and you'd probably get the same result. Thats no argument for not evolving something.
Perhaps we should still be using DOS boxes and ksh for doing everything?
And the WIMP interface will go precisely nowhere if everyone has the same "well , what else can we do with it" attitude.
I can't believe all the free software geeks on here truly believe that microsoft has got it so
spot on that the best they can do in response is just to copy them. Thats just pathetic.
God forbid anyone should disagree with the status quo on here because watch out, little 13 year old
jonny moderator will get all upset even though he hasn't a clue about the issues , and will mod your
post down.
With the exception of a few window managers such as Enlightenment the average unix desktop today just seems to be a clone (and frankly) a poor one at that) of Windows.
Theres so much potential with the free software movement for inventiveness so why are people just re-inventing the wheel?? For heavens sake some up with some new and interesting paradigms for the desktop!
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I think one of the current theories is that the big bang formed this universe which is part of
and infinite multiverse. I dunno , the theory seems to change every week, they're making it up
as they go along IMO.
These sorts of everything-could-exist proposals for an infinite universe spring from a fundamental
misunderstanding of infinity. Just because something is infinite DOES NOT mean that all
possibilities will exist in it. For example, there are an infinite number of fractions between
the numbers 0 and 1 but nowhere in that infinite list will you find the number 1.1. Similarly if this universe is infinite it does
not mean that everything (eg you , me , your aunt etc) occurs in infinite amounts simply because there are an INFINITE number of possible
alternatives that are not like us. Infinity confuses most people and in this case obviously even some scientists.
So what exactly is the difference between...
If ThisScreen.Checkbox.IsTicked
and
if IsTicked(checkbox.thisScreen)
Answer? Nothing. Its simply syntactical differences. I think you've just proved that
you know nothing about real OOP though given that your gave your examples in VB , why arn't I too
surprised... Hmm , I wonder...
OSS support? Yeah , that'd be "RTFM luser". Jee , I wonder why big corporations don't go for that.
HOw do you tell linux to do that? This is a genuine question because I don't know how and
it would be very useful for me.
If it works for him why should he change? He's probably fairly old and if that is the case
do you really think he gives a rats arse about some point and drool XP interface that is
designed to appeal to adolescents and women (IMO)? This guy obviously uses his computer as
a tool , not as some kind of coffee table show piece to impress Mr & Mrs Snob.
Thanks for the standard issue sarcastic response that just proves my point.
Nice to see journos getting there facts straight again. Not. It seems that the article writer
thinks that email in 1994 was in some sort of different form. Umm what form exactly? Ok it
was unlikely but not impossible to get HTML mail and attachments back then but I can't think of
anything else. Or maybe the jorno means that 1994 was before an AOLuser CD dropped through his letterbox.
If only there sites like that. I'm a unix fan but one thing that *really* p*sses me off about the
unix world is that your somehow just expected to *know* how to get something to work and if
you don't you just get the standard issue RTFM response when you seek advice. Of course that
would be great if the man and help pages weren't generally written in an obscure dialect of
Ancient Geek and only intelligable by their original authors and people whacked out on LSD.
I don't know about the other tech problems you mentioned but surely the easiest way to deal
with the high alpha emissions degrading surrounding materials is to make the polonium
powerpack with a shield covering that will be disposed of along with the powerpack when the useful
power is all used up. It won't matter (as far as the rifle user is concerned) what state the shielding is in if
he's going to bin it anyway.
What about compress? Or even good old "compact". Ah I remember the days when we had 20% compression
and were glad of it and some of the old timers could have been confused with non living processes
even without the help of gzip anyway!
HOw can you not have seen a pentium 60? It was only about 7 years ago. I assume your age is
in double figures , right?
64 bit server computing has been around for at least a decade. I was using a 64 bit DEC alpha
box back in 1994. Why is it that whenever middle aged or even old technology appears on in the PC
world its suddenly a Big Deal? I realise that Joe Sixpack won't have ever heard of 64bit (or probably even be able to spell it)
but surely the more technologically savvy types who read this site should know better?
Where did you think up this lame analogy with crack dealers?? A crack dealer sells poison
to line his own pockets so it doesn't matter how little they sell its just as wrong. However
someone uses a car for day to day life usually because they have no choice so using the car
itself is not wrong but its far better to use a car that uses less fuel since thats less worse
for the enviroment.
And so what if SUVs can run on alternate fuels? I don't see any out there at the moment and
anyway , an SUV that uses 2x as much gasoline as a compact will use 2x as much rape seel oil or methanol etc etc which still causes 2x as much
C02. This is fairly simple stuff , if you have a problem grasping it I suggest you go back to school.
Any car that uses less fuel is better from an enviromental point of view compared to one
that uses more , so yes it DOES make a difference that SUVs use twice as much fuel as compact cars.
Morality is a value judgement, CO2 output is basic physics so your analogy is utterly bogus.
Yeah , I can just see lots of C++ unix programmers disassembling their porgram to try and read the
Sparc or PA-RISC or PowerPC assembly code to check the optimisation levels. Not!
You ever tried to code in RISC assembler?? It aint quit the walk in the park that x86 assembler is by comparison!
Get real.
You have to remember that some guys are such wusses that much less talk to a girl they're actually
*scared* of them and they use this kind of politically correct double-speak because they're afraid
some rampant feminist will track them down and whip them till they bark if they mention anything male oriented in speech or writing.
Still , at least while your portfolio goes down .. no wait , I get depressed
the toilet you can enjoy the show while it lasts.
I wonder if it could display the fortunes of Saddam
if I see too much red in a day...
Yeah but you're forgoeeting this in in america
where ANY sort of vehicle doing over 20mpg is a
big deal. I Wonder how long before theres an all wheel drive V8 version of this bicycle...
Why is this marked as insightful? The poster hasn't even read the article because he seems
to think its about the united states government paying! Hey clueless , its about B.r.i.t.a.i.n!
But without subsidies how else would be produce quality films about low lifes living in piss
covered and rat invested squats in some dystopian analogue of the real world that have inciteful
social comment and deep philosphical points? Ok , maybe they're only watched by the terminally bored, Guardian readers and any homeless people
who snuck in to the cinema but their of vital importance and are the future of films! *cough*
I have some ideas but they're generally not that good compared to ideas I've seen from other people
one being a circular tree type structure denoting a file system which could be drilled down into.
Unfortunately I've long since lost the link but I'm sure its around on google somewhere.
Go back to 1984 and throw a business person whose used to mainframe character based output in front
of a Mac and you'd probably get the same result. Thats no argument for not evolving something.
Perhaps we should still be using DOS boxes and ksh for doing everything?
And the WIMP interface will go precisely nowhere if everyone has the same "well , what else can we do with it" attitude.
I can't believe all the free software geeks on here truly believe that microsoft has got it so
spot on that the best they can do in response is just to copy them. Thats just pathetic.
God forbid anyone should disagree with the status quo on here because watch out, little 13 year old
jonny moderator will get all upset even though he hasn't a clue about the issues , and will mod your post down.
Where is the originality in desktop enviroments??
With the exception of a few window managers such as Enlightenment the average unix desktop today just seems to be a clone (and frankly)
a poor one at that) of Windows.
Theres so much potential with the free software movement for inventiveness so why are people just
re-inventing the wheel?? For heavens sake some up with some new and interesting paradigms for the desktop!