A computer from circa 1999 will run the latest Ubuntu just as fine as it'll run Vista. sarcasm...
Problem is fat Linux distros with fat desktop managers. Put on some tuned Slackware with Fluxbox or XFCE and let it go with some lightweight apps (no OpenOffice, please!)... also turn off most useless daemons...
sadly, vi is not for notepad-minded folk. vi won't ever change its way of doing things to acomodate the notepad paradigm, because otherwise it'll lack the one thing that makes it special: making so much with so little typing.
So, you either continue with notepad-alikes or learn to use vi to your best advantage...
"omni" completion has been available for years in vim. The only difference now is that it can show all completions in a text box. This text box is available in a simple text terminal as well, but you can turn it off. It's there to please IDE-fans. The biggest change for vim7 is the spell-checking.
just as vi was a valuable superset of ex, vim is a valuable superset of vi.
"The PS3, due in November, has gotten serious negative press in the past few months, and this refreshing good news may win back the hearts of gamers still undecided about purchasing the system"
this marketing stunt is so lame i can't stand. Perhaps it'll cure cancer, but what good is that when hardware this powerful will also be used to control nuclear missiles from menacing countries?...
for-each is part of the R5RS standard library and of course can be fully emulated in terms of a recursive function wrapped in a macro for syntax sweetness...
(define (range a b) (if (= a b) '() (cons a (range (+ a 1) b))))
so, now, you're code looks almost like Python's one
(for-each print '(range 1 10))
oh, ok, Scheme doesn't have a simple for, so let's do it:
(define-syntax for (syntax-rules (in ->) ((for i in ls -> cmd...) (for-each (lambda (x) (cmd x)...) ls))))
so, again:
(for i in (range 1 10) -> print)
I could go on and on and end up having a completely customized Scheme.
With some effort, you can redefine for-each so that it takes iterators rather than lists. Or both. Remember, Lisp is a programmable programming language.
There really are completely out-of-reality nuts literally living in Orkut here. Most of my friends and family members use it and share futile photos and conversations in tons of stupid groups. Over here it's Orkut and MSN.
I must be the black sheep. I live in Slashdot instead and use Linux...:P
The Cell processor is vastly superior to the "Emotion Engine" and yet, Sony doesn't seem concerned that it'll be used to build supercomputer networks by menacing countries...
...when an olditie like another C descendant imperative language receives hurrahs for finally getting GC, when much more modern, robust, type-and-thread-safe languages like Haskell, Scala, OCaml, Erlang and others go on pratically unoticed...
"For $5, $10, you download Mario 1. Then another $10 for 2, 3, Mario Kart, etc. You play these games (as is the point of the post) for a short period of time, and then download more"
fuck, no!
I own the original cartridges, they are mine!! My SNES still works, but it's much more convenient to store backups of said games in my HD and play them in an emulator. I don't give a fuck to the legalese Nintendo will sprout once they are profiting from the old gems again: they are still mine!
I won't pay for them again, Nintendo! You hear that?
They'll try to close down legitimate open-source software projects like SNES9X or ZSNES, but it's too late because the source is already out there. It'll also probably get harder to get ROM dumps from the web, but they can't stop me from owning my cartridges and a ROM dumper...
fuck, no! Time to move on and profit from new franchises, Nintendo...
"still user unfriendly and sometimes buggy nature of many Linux distributions"
You know, back in the 1970s, "visual" editors like vi and emacs were coming to fruition and were considered highly userfriendly when compared to the likes of ed -- itself userfriendly going backwards a little more.
At first, i thought the goal of user-friendly design would be to produce a clean interface consisting on one button only. You click it and it makes your wishes come true. However, i'm sure there will be unhappy users claiming the interface is not perfect: it demands to many clicks and their fingers will grow tired.
At this pace, in 2035 or something, user-friendness will mean being fed at regular periods by a machine while sunk into some organic warm liquid, your mind lost in dreamland never to wake up...
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A computer from circa 1999 will run the latest Ubuntu just as fine as it'll run Vista. sarcasm...
Problem is fat Linux distros with fat desktop managers. Put on some tuned Slackware with Fluxbox or XFCE and let it go with some lightweight apps (no OpenOffice, please!)... also turn off most useless daemons...
sadly, vi is not for notepad-minded folk. vi won't ever change its way of doing things to acomodate the notepad paradigm, because otherwise it'll lack the one thing that makes it special: making so much with so little typing.
So, you either continue with notepad-alikes or learn to use vi to your best advantage...
"omni" completion has been available for years in vim. The only difference now is that it can show all completions in a text box. This text box is available in a simple text terminal as well, but you can turn it off. It's there to please IDE-fans. The biggest change for vim7 is the spell-checking.
just as vi was a valuable superset of ex, vim is a valuable superset of vi.
he sounds like an ass.
you can always have tons of CTRL+META+ALT-SHIFT schizofun with Emacs. :)
or you can have your basic and featureless CTRL-C/CTRL-V fun and mouse-select with the many editors following the notepad school...
I want the powerful features and easy-typing of vi-like editors...
thanks, man.
and if someone doesn't like the stupid name:
"The PS3, due in November, has gotten serious negative press in the past few months, and this refreshing good news may win back the hearts of gamers still undecided about purchasing the system"
this marketing stunt is so lame i can't stand. Perhaps it'll cure cancer, but what good is that when hardware this powerful will also be used to control nuclear missiles from menacing countries?...
[sarcasm]
"You're also omitting the function declaration -- You'd need this in Python (or similar)"
not at all! it's a scripting language! You don't need no stinking declarations! ;)
anyway:
for-each is part of the R5RS standard library and of course can be fully emulated in terms of a recursive function wrapped in a macro for syntax sweetness...
you can also emulate python's print:
as well as a range function that returns a list:
so, now, you're code looks almost like Python's one
oh, ok, Scheme doesn't have a simple for, so let's do it:
so, again:
I could go on and on and end up having a completely customized Scheme.
With some effort, you can redefine for-each so that it takes iterators rather than lists. Or both. Remember, Lisp is a programmable programming language.
"it will cause features to be thought and debated about more, which I believe results in cleaner, nicer languages"
I can see where this will lend to: a convoluted syntax more close to Java and less of the conciseness of Smalltalk and Perl...
ok, forget. sorry. here it is:
p e=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-09-08T124607Z_01_T73859 _RTRUKOC_0_US-SONY.xml&from=business
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?ty
yes, something smells bad...
link, please. i searched reuters ken kutaragi in google and came empty handed. Why not stop the Sony bashing, please?
"you basically eliminated any possibility that anyone would take you seriously as a professional by using a word like 'Windoze.'"
wow! i can even see the guy shivering of fear: "boo hoo! the slashdot crowd don't take me seriously as a professional"...
yeah, and when the guys ejaculate it's just acting as well... it's all fake...
wouldn't it be cool if he adopted the name "Ajax Amen"? i mean, it's like he'd be truly faithful to Web2.0...
"They've open sourced the slower one, and are keeping the faster one closed"
:P
they're probably ashamed of the faster: it must be one big ugly hack to be so much better than most competitors'...
Imagine open-sourcing such a mess and try to evolve it by the chaotic nature of patch-applying open-source development...
There really are completely out-of-reality nuts literally living in Orkut here. Most of my friends and family members use it and share futile photos and conversations in tons of stupid groups. Over here it's Orkut and MSN.
:P
I must be the black sheep. I live in Slashdot instead and use Linux...
it won't be $600 for all those 5 years. more likely it'll drop the price substantially, like all consoles...
The Cell processor is vastly superior to the "Emotion Engine" and yet, Sony doesn't seem concerned that it'll be used to build supercomputer networks by menacing countries...
;)
sarcasm here, please...
...when an olditie like another C descendant imperative language receives hurrahs for finally getting GC, when much more modern, robust, type-and-thread-safe languages like Haskell, Scala, OCaml, Erlang and others go on pratically unoticed...
i like the "Decapitations of the day" section. :P
"For $5, $10, you download Mario 1. Then another $10 for 2, 3, Mario Kart, etc. You play these games (as is the point of the post) for a short period of time, and then download more"
fuck, no!
I own the original cartridges, they are mine!! My SNES still works, but it's much more convenient to store backups of said games in my HD and play them in an emulator. I don't give a fuck to the legalese Nintendo will sprout once they are profiting from the old gems again: they are still mine!
I won't pay for them again, Nintendo! You hear that?
They'll try to close down legitimate open-source software projects like SNES9X or ZSNES, but it's too late because the source is already out there. It'll also probably get harder to get ROM dumps from the web, but they can't stop me from owning my cartridges and a ROM dumper...
fuck, no! Time to move on and profit from new franchises, Nintendo...
just another stupid rant by trollist-mor to gain a few more hits. The guy openly confessed to use that tactic!...
you know, "COO" sounds just like "cu" in Brazil, which means, literally, "asshole".
:)
yay! on more funky foreign dirty word for you americans to have fun with...
"still user unfriendly and sometimes buggy nature of many Linux distributions"
You know, back in the 1970s, "visual" editors like vi and emacs were coming to fruition and were considered highly userfriendly when compared to the likes of ed -- itself userfriendly going backwards a little more.
At first, i thought the goal of user-friendly design would be to produce a clean interface consisting on one button only. You click it and it makes your wishes come true. However, i'm sure there will be unhappy users claiming the interface is not perfect: it demands to many clicks and their fingers will grow tired.
At this pace, in 2035 or something, user-friendness will mean being fed at regular periods by a machine while sunk into some organic warm liquid, your mind lost in dreamland never to wake up...
since athletes can't go further into record breaking all by themselves, let's start artificial methods of obtaining a few more milliseconds...
when are we going to see genetically engineered super athletes?