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Re:A (hopefully) unbiased opinion on Perl v. Pytho
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Don't be a Python zealot or a Perl zealot; be a programming zealot, learn as many languages as possible, and which one to use in a given situation.
You have a point there, but I'd put it in a slightly different way. I'd not tell people to learn as many languages as possible, but rather learn programming and its basics (knowing the architecture behind the scenes, the CPU, is really a lot of fun).
There isn't much point in knowing every programming language, but a much better deal to know the syntax used in those languages. Also, when learning programming it's important to have a certain sense of logic (especially for object-oriented and/or heavily nested functions) because you need to keep things apart.
Why do you want to learn the syntaxes? Let's use me as an example (not a very good one as I don't know very many languages, but I cope)... I've started programming using simple QBasic (where one learnt horrible spaghetti programming since one was 8 yrs old at the time) and Pascal (where I learnt about functions and procedures, something very important for any programmer). I've then moved on to C and asm (PIC16F84) where I've learnt about pointer arithmetics, references and the joys of loose pointers. I have since then learnt C++ and asp (vbscript/visual basic/com)... Later on when you need to use another language (in my case PHP) it's very easyto just utilize the knowledge you already have. For PHP it was just for me to learn how they handled arrays and strings. That's it. All I needed then was a list of functions (php.net is most excellent), because I already knew its syntax (being based on among others C). Macromedia Flash and Javascript (ECMAScript) were also very easy to use...
That said I know I have to test Python... I've never actually used it, but since they all say it's very nice I should really try it out... ^^
I hope this was a far too long comment for most people to put up with, but I don't really care.
Actually, 3GHz is 3002,933 times faster than 1,023 MHz... Not 1 million times faster. Then again, it's new hyper threading vs. old well... Mac... Maybe it is 1 million times faster after all... Or maybe the words grew more complex and thus it takes more time for the human mind to proofread anything that pops out from Office autocirrection schemas...
Because it's a government ran internet service provider would the government be held accountable for file sharing crap going on?
And I who thought governments ruled a state...
Aren't states by definition supreme powers, with the power to do anything that pleases them (unless they made an agreement that imposes these rights...). Also, since the government usually controls local law enforcement, could it really be held accountable?
No, this dude forgot some of its main features: Mouse gestures. Just hold the right mouse button down, move the mouse down and to the right: No more page, for critical times when your boss approaches your room. Right button followed by left lets you navigate backwards in history (^^). New porn features in 7.10 is centered jpeg's when they don't come in a web page (á la picture gallery)...
Opera is very much navigatable with only one hand (and the easiest to use if you have none, using screenreader/etc, some says) irregardsless if you're navigation using keyboard or mouse....
It is when the display problem is the web page's fault. I took a look at the page in Konq 3.1. By default, it rendered wrong. Then, I told Konq to lie to the web server and report that it was IE. Behold, a perfectly rendered page!
Actually, did you try changing the mode Opera identifies as? IIRC, if you identify as Internet Explorer, Opera will use some hacks to emulate it.
Also, rendering mode in Opera is dependant on the correct doctype being specified at the very top of a document.
Also note that a web browser may render a page in any way they like as long as a page is not standards compliant (like msn.com in Bork edition Opera).
You do however have to admit it's a very fast browser, with (for me) loading and rendering times of less than half a second for the slashdot main page...
Well... I for one live in Sweden, and I can tell you this:
Any spam I get is trying to: 1) Give me good banking offers (provided I live in the US) 2) Make me participate in pyramid games/etc. trying to make me believe there is no loser in such a game (and with all the people who're supposed to recieve $xx living in the US) 3) Make me download porn dialers/etc. (and with that, virii I suppose) 3) Send me virii straight out 4) Advertise
Well... Most of the spam that enters my inbox have got american mail headers (except for the ones that clearly come from the US - those uses foreign spammers, read: pyramid games).
I am on the other hand quite lucky, since I don't have to post my own e-mail to the public (and the fact that I have an own ISP handling my mail). It's worse off for my dad, who's receiving 100's of spam mails a day (with an even higher ammount from the US). The really funny part is that we aren't the main target for the spammers as we don't live in the US... We're just victims getting our bandwidth and precious time eaten alive...
The short answer to "How much spam is really sent from within the US of A?" is: A lot...
I would be a lot more intrested in having QT ported to linux.
As if qt (KDE libs) were not already ported to Linux.... ='
It'd be nice to see qt ported and merged with Microsoft Windows CE code though, in order to see true speed/stability differences (except that MS would then maybe be allowed to use that code without regard to GPL licenses(?)... Didn't read that paragraph from that article...)
It's like my old Brother HL-x... It's so old that Microsoft stopped shipping drivers for it back in Win98 (good thing the newer drivers - for other Brother series - worked though...).
It is however a fine printer that is older than I can remember, and it's only eaten one cartridge out of the ten we have (we got some for free by a company who decided their printers were outdated, so they didn't need the cartridges)...
I also have a "new"-ish HP 670C... An absolutely terrible printer that sucks in every way imaginable... I for one like the laser better for printer colour even though it's in grayscale - the HP just smothers everything out >.
Speed: You can convert a two hour long DVD movie into a high quality DIVX movie within 5 hours. Ever tried converting DVD-MPEG-4 yourself? You want your postprocessing done at 2-pass encoding and usually a resize and deinterlace. Say 5fps/pass and PAL framerate. Let's call it 20 hrs... Anything less and you sacrifice quality.
Space: Two hours long of DVD quality fit on a 750MB CD-(R)W
Come on, give me a break. You do a fast lousy MPEG-4 encode... and try to fit 2hrs on a CD? Make that two CDs, especially if you want decent 6-channel audio.
Ease of use : Every try to copy a DVD? One-click DVD to DIVX ripping is a lot easier than having to make VCDs [vcdhelp.com]. (Even newbie guides [dvdrhelp.com] can be a little cumbersome)
Nothing wrong with (S)VCD's. There are tools that make creation of VCD's heaven. Though one-click ripping is nice. Not that I'd ever do it of course, I prefer my DVD's untouched by artifacts.
Cost : Ever price out DVDRs? They're hella expensive. Compare that to, say, a 100 pack of CDRs after rebate.
Hmmmm... The best price I ever get on CD-R's (in bulk) is 30/100-p. DVD-R in 500-p cost 450. Yeah, that's less than half the cost of CD-R's where I come from (Swedish taxes included on both)...
All in all, a nice piece of hardware, easy to use, somewhat expensive (I purchased mine for 400 Euros). But it sits there beside your TV set and it just works.
Damn... That's expensive...
I remember when I got an offer to buy it when it was new... Some 250... I still think that's too expensive...
(It can't play ogm/xvid/any.mp4 or DVD+R(W) - though it can play DVD-R)...
Sure it's neat, but I already have a computer with TV-IN/OUT, and if I wanted a stand-alone device, I'd probably go and buy+modify an Xbox. I'll wait 'til the next generation mpeg-4 players.
You are supposed to be able to download a bootable.iso and burn its contents to a CD-R, thus upgrading firmware and being able to play new formats (it didn't support ogg/div5.03 at first, but the new versions apparently do, and old users can upgrade).
1. Tariffs (at least in Europe), you usually pay it per cent (based on its resale value, I think). 2. You download the software from a U.S. server. Should be no problem. 3. If you download it from a server outside of the U.S.:
If laws and regulations get really strict, resort to https protocol.
I'm no lawyer, but... Since its resale value is nil, it doesn't have a value/you can't profit from it. It's like bringing home a bottle of alcohol from a vacation. You don't pay any whatsoever tariff on that (in Europe, up to a couple of litres), why should one pay for free software?
Still, best sollution would be U.S. software mirrors. I also don't hope or think that one would harm OSS by imposing fees for getting a free software product.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't be a Python zealot or a Perl zealot; be a programming zealot, learn as many languages as possible, and which one to use in a given situation.
You have a point there, but I'd put it in a slightly different way. I'd not tell people to learn as many languages as possible, but rather learn programming and its basics (knowing the architecture behind the scenes, the CPU, is really a lot of fun).
There isn't much point in knowing every programming language, but a much better deal to know the syntax used in those languages. Also, when learning programming it's important to have a certain sense of logic (especially for object-oriented and/or heavily nested functions) because you need to keep things apart.
Why do you want to learn the syntaxes?
Let's use me as an example (not a very good one as I don't know very many languages, but I cope)... I've started programming using simple QBasic (where one learnt horrible spaghetti programming since one was 8 yrs old at the time) and Pascal (where I learnt about functions and procedures, something very important for any programmer).
I've then moved on to C and asm (PIC16F84) where I've learnt about pointer arithmetics, references and the joys of loose pointers.
I have since then learnt C++ and asp (vbscript/visual basic/com)...
Later on when you need to use another language (in my case PHP) it's very easyto just utilize the knowledge you already have. For PHP it was just for me to learn how they handled arrays and strings. That's it. All I needed then was a list of functions (php.net is most excellent), because I already knew its syntax (being based on among others C). Macromedia Flash and Javascript (ECMAScript) were also very easy to use...
That said I know I have to test Python... I've never actually used it, but since they all say it's very nice I should really try it out... ^^
I hope this was a far too long comment for most people to put up with, but I don't really care.
Actually, 3GHz is 3002,933 times faster than 1,023 MHz... Not 1 million times faster.
Then again, it's new hyper threading vs. old well... Mac... Maybe it is 1 million times faster after all...
Or maybe the words grew more complex and thus it takes more time for the human mind to proofread anything that pops out from Office autocirrection schemas...
Because it's a government ran internet service provider would the government be held accountable for file sharing crap going on?
And I who thought governments ruled a state...
Aren't states by definition supreme powers, with the power to do anything that pleases them (unless they made an agreement that imposes these rights...). Also, since the government usually controls local law enforcement, could it really be held accountable?
So, this makes opera the anti-pr0n browser ?
No, this dude forgot some of its main features:
Mouse gestures. Just hold the right mouse button down, move the mouse down and to the right: No more page, for critical times when your boss approaches your room. Right button followed by left lets you navigate backwards in history (^^). New porn features in 7.10 is centered jpeg's when they don't come in a web page (á la picture gallery)...
Opera is very much navigatable with only one hand (and the easiest to use if you have none, using screenreader/etc, some says) irregardsless if you're navigation using keyboard or mouse....
It is when the display problem is the web page's fault. I took a look at the page in Konq 3.1. By default, it rendered wrong. Then, I told Konq to lie to the web server and report that it was IE. Behold, a perfectly rendered page!
Actually, did you try changing the mode Opera identifies as? IIRC, if you identify as Internet Explorer, Opera will use some hacks to emulate it.
Also, rendering mode in Opera is dependant on the correct doctype being specified at the very top of a document.
Also note that a web browser may render a page in any way they like as long as a page is not standards compliant (like msn.com in Bork edition Opera).
You do however have to admit it's a very fast browser, with (for me) loading and rendering times of less than half a second for the slashdot main page...
Well... I for one live in Sweden, and I can tell you this:
Any spam I get is trying to:
1) Give me good banking offers (provided I live in the US)
2) Make me participate in pyramid games/etc. trying to make me believe there is no loser in such a game (and with all the people who're supposed to recieve $xx living in the US)
3) Make me download porn dialers/etc. (and with that, virii I suppose)
3) Send me virii straight out
4) Advertise
Well... Most of the spam that enters my inbox have got american mail headers (except for the ones that clearly come from the US - those uses foreign spammers, read: pyramid games).
I am on the other hand quite lucky, since I don't have to post my own e-mail to the public (and the fact that I have an own ISP handling my mail). It's worse off for my dad, who's receiving 100's of spam mails a day (with an even higher ammount from the US). The really funny part is that we aren't the main target for the spammers as we don't live in the US... We're just victims getting our bandwidth and precious time eaten alive...
The short answer to "How much spam is really sent from within the US of A?" is: A lot...
I would be a lot more intrested in having QT ported to linux.
As if qt (KDE libs) were not already ported to Linux.... ='
It'd be nice to see qt ported and merged with Microsoft Windows CE code though, in order to see true speed/stability differences (except that MS would then maybe be allowed to use that code without regard to GPL licenses(?)... Didn't read that paragraph from that article...)
It's like my old Brother HL-x... It's so old that Microsoft stopped shipping drivers for it back in Win98 (good thing the newer drivers - for other Brother series - worked though...).
It is however a fine printer that is older than I can remember, and it's only eaten one cartridge out of the ten we have (we got some for free by a company who decided their printers were outdated, so they didn't need the cartridges)...
I also have a "new"-ish HP 670C... An absolutely terrible printer that sucks in every way imaginable... I for one like the laser better for printer colour even though it's in grayscale - the HP just smothers everything out >.
Speed: You can convert a two hour long DVD movie into a high quality DIVX movie within 5 hours.
Ever tried converting DVD-MPEG-4 yourself? You want your postprocessing done at 2-pass encoding and usually a resize and deinterlace. Say 5fps/pass and PAL framerate. Let's call it 20 hrs... Anything less and you sacrifice quality.
Space: Two hours long of DVD quality fit on a 750MB CD-(R)W
Come on, give me a break. You do a fast lousy MPEG-4 encode... and try to fit 2hrs on a CD? Make that two CDs, especially if you want decent 6-channel audio.
Ease of use : Every try to copy a DVD? One-click DVD to DIVX ripping is a lot easier
than having to make VCDs [vcdhelp.com]. (Even newbie guides [dvdrhelp.com] can be a little cumbersome)
Nothing wrong with (S)VCD's. There are tools that make creation of VCD's heaven. Though one-click ripping is nice. Not that I'd ever do it of course, I prefer my DVD's untouched by artifacts.
Cost : Ever price out DVDRs? They're hella expensive. Compare that to, say, a 100 pack of CDRs after rebate.
Hmmmm... The best price I ever get on CD-R's (in bulk) is 30/100-p. DVD-R in 500-p cost 450. Yeah, that's less than half the cost of CD-R's where I come from (Swedish taxes included on both)...
All in all, a nice piece of hardware, easy to use, somewhat expensive (I purchased mine for 400 Euros). But it sits there beside your TV set and it just works. Damn... That's expensive... I remember when I got an offer to buy it when it was new... Some 250... I still think that's too expensive... (It can't play ogm/xvid/any .mp4 or DVD+R(W) - though it can play DVD-R)...
Sure it's neat, but I already have a computer with TV-IN/OUT, and if I wanted a stand-alone device, I'd probably go and buy+modify an Xbox. I'll wait 'til the next generation mpeg-4 players.
Actually, it is correct.
.iso and burn its contents to a CD-R, thus upgrading firmware and being able to play new formats (it didn't support ogg/div5.03 at first, but the new versions apparently do, and old users can upgrade).
You are supposed to be able to download a bootable
1. Tariffs (at least in Europe), you usually pay it per cent (based on its resale value, I think).
2. You download the software from a U.S. server. Should be no problem.
3. If you download it from a server outside of the U.S.:
If laws and regulations get really strict, resort to https protocol.
I'm no lawyer, but... Since its resale value is nil, it doesn't have a value/you can't profit from it. It's like bringing home a bottle of alcohol from a vacation. You don't pay any whatsoever tariff on that (in Europe, up to a couple of litres), why should one pay for free software?
Still, best sollution would be U.S. software mirrors. I also don't hope or think that one would harm OSS by imposing fees for getting a free software product.