Assembly - You code your foot, your gun and the bullet from scratch, then shoot yourself in the head because your hand is big-endian.
C++ - You accidently create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible, because you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."
sh,csh,etc. - You can't remember the syntax for anything, so you spend 5 hours reading the manual before giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.
Visual Basic - You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a 3270 terminal.
APL - You hear a quite gunshot, and there's a hole in your terminal, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.
FORTRAN - You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue with the attempts to shoot yourself anyways because you have no exception-handling capability.
Pascal - The compiler refuses to let you shoot yourself in the foot.
COBOL - Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be re-tied.
LISP - You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds...
FORTH - Foot in yourself shoot.
Prolog - You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't permit it to explain it to you.
BASIC - Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On large systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.
HyperTalk - Put the first bullet of gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.
Motif - You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the bullet, its trajectory, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.
Paradox - Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can, too.
dBase - You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled to actually shoot bullets.
PL/I - After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires two new mainframes and drops the original on your foot.
ALGOL - You shoot yourself in the foot with a musket. The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.
SCHEME - You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds... but none of the other appendages are aware of this happening.
LOGO - You tell a turtle to draw a picture of a foot and a gun, then shoot the turtle.
ORACLE - You decide to shoot yourself in the foot and go out to buy a gun - except the gun won't work without "deploying" a shoulder holster solution, and relational titanium alloy bullets, and body armour infrastructure, and a laser sight assistant, and a retractable arm stock application, and an enterprise team of ballistics experts and a chiropodist.
Does FreeDB weed out burnt/bogus/etc CDs, unlike the CDDB? I'm thinking you could check newly signed submissions against a sufficiently large and clean database of track listings, it would make it easier to identify the majority of copyrighted music.
He's probably referring to the fact that POSIX C code can be compiled on any platform supported by a compliant UNIX. (Linux hardly counts as compliant even today, though...)
Also, changing the license from the GPL to a BSD-style one would be useless. Either way, it's their code and they can make it proprietary at the snap of a finger.
Why is this such a bad thing? If everyone and their mother can reverse-engineer C# code, that will eliminate one more reason for developers not to open their source.
Believe it or not, it's actually quite a good deal in the server market- about toe-to-toe with most Xeon boxes I believe, and cheerfully eating other non-x86 servers' lunches.
Yes, us FreeBSD users all love how dedicated NVidia is at keeping our cards supported and ultra-stable under the latest versions, compared to that lazy drm-kmod guy and his crappy Radeon drivers:)
Everyone downloads something sizable once in a while. Maybe it's a few MP3s, maybe it's a movie, maybe it's their Windows XP Auto-Updater doing it for them. That's when broadband is convenient for the home user.
Actually, this is a good technique. Laundering tiny amounts of cash is one way to lessen the chance that the fraud will be noticed or addressed by the victims. Some crooks have amassed thousands and even millions by swiping a few pennies from every transaction made on a certain banking system.
Maybe they don't think they can get the rendering software they need for OS X or Linux/PPC or whatever. Though with a customer like Pixar, I'd think some of the developers would be delighted to arrange a special build.:/
Bingo. Manga costs a good $10 more in the US then in Japan and still comes on cheap-ass paper (some books literally fall apart in months.) And guess what, its still a better deal then American comics.:p
Well then, how about we keep the good old electoral college and cut the Presidents power down to size, so that instead of sticking his nose in Congresss business he can concentrate on things that only he can deal with effectively (e.g. national security. Not things like the Patriot Act, but making intelligence and the INS start working again.)
Im sure a few businesses would love to have Libertarians in power, but when the major parties will do almost anything and are a lot less of a gamble to support, the status quo works just fine for everyone else.:)
If you weren't around, the reason is because was sitting on the front page with no posts for many minutes, attracting glory seekers and trolls like flies. Same with the article below it.
The principle we cheerfully rip off music on is that of "fair use".
We believe that we should have the right to back up and recover from others music that we paid for, and do so. We believe we have the right to listen to music to see if it's worth the purchase price, and do so. However, we don't believe Castle has the right to violate reasonable restrictions on linking and source release placed by the GPL on their use of Linux source code.
For a counter-example, let's say that the head of the ARM Linux project (who I'm sure would never actually do such a thing) notices Castle is using the source code in fully GPL-compliant ways in their commercial RISC OS distribution. He promptly flies into a rage and demands royalties for the use of his GPLed code. Castle refuses, and a big stink is created in which most reasonable Slashdotters ought to be on the corporation's side for once.
The OS, maybe, but I'd suggest you devote your hardware attentions to Intel's desktop strategum. (Although they own a controlling interest in ARM now...)
A similar true story happened quite recently on a lesser scale in SNES emulation land, when a private beta of DeJap's Tales of Phantasia translation patch got leaked and some dorks claimed it was their work. No one really believed them in the first place, as DeJap provided an alpha snapshot... but it does present a case for not removing cool easter eggs from your products:)
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Two buttons are for weenies. Real mice have three buttons, four more programmable ones, a 3D scroll wheel and a built-in keypad.
C - You shoot yourself in the foot.
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Assembly - You code your foot, your gun and the bullet from scratch, then shoot yourself in the head because your hand is big-endian.
C++ - You accidently create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible, because you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."
sh,csh,etc. - You can't remember the syntax for anything, so you spend 5 hours reading the manual before giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.
Visual Basic - You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a 3270 terminal.
APL - You hear a quite gunshot, and there's a hole in your terminal, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.
FORTRAN - You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue with the attempts to shoot yourself anyways because you have no exception-handling capability.
Pascal - The compiler refuses to let you shoot yourself in the foot.
COBOL - Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be re-tied.
LISP - You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds
FORTH - Foot in yourself shoot.
Prolog - You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't permit it to explain it to you.
BASIC - Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On large systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.
HyperTalk - Put the first bullet of gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.
Motif - You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the bullet, its trajectory, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.
Paradox - Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can, too.
dBase - You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled to actually shoot bullets.
PL/I - After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires two new mainframes and drops the original on your foot.
ALGOL - You shoot yourself in the foot with a musket. The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.
SCHEME - You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds... but none of the other appendages are aware of this happening.
LOGO - You tell a turtle to draw a picture of a foot and a gun, then shoot the turtle.
ORACLE - You decide to shoot yourself in the foot and go out to buy a gun - except the gun won't work without "deploying" a shoulder holster solution, and relational titanium alloy bullets, and body armour infrastructure, and a laser sight assistant, and a retractable arm stock application, and an enterprise team of ballistics experts and a chiropodist.
Does FreeDB weed out burnt/bogus/etc CDs, unlike the CDDB? I'm thinking you could check newly signed submissions against a sufficiently large and clean database of track listings, it would make it easier to identify the majority of copyrighted music.
He's probably referring to the fact that POSIX C code can be compiled on any platform supported by a compliant UNIX. (Linux hardly counts as compliant even today, though...)
Also, changing the license from the GPL to a BSD-style one would be useless. Either way, it's their code and they can make it proprietary at the snap of a finger.
Why is this such a bad thing? If everyone and their mother can reverse-engineer C# code, that will eliminate one more reason for developers not to open their source.
How about a universal wrapper that can translate to and from both versions of GTK+, Qt and Open Motif?
In this case, it's "Greed Related Intelligence Deficiency".
Believe it or not, it's actually quite a good deal in the server market- about toe-to-toe with most Xeon boxes I believe, and cheerfully eating other non-x86 servers' lunches.
Bwahaha. I wouldn't lose a PCI slot, I'd lose my AMR slot or whatever that crappy little one is called. What a pity :)
Yes, us FreeBSD users all love how dedicated NVidia is at keeping our cards supported and ultra-stable under the latest versions, compared to that lazy drm-kmod guy and his crappy Radeon drivers :)
Everyone downloads something sizable once in a while. Maybe it's a few MP3s, maybe it's a movie, maybe it's their Windows XP Auto-Updater doing it for them. That's when broadband is convenient for the home user.
Actually, this is a good technique. Laundering tiny amounts of cash is one way to lessen the chance that the fraud will be noticed or addressed by the victims. Some crooks have amassed thousands and even millions by swiping a few pennies from every transaction made on a certain banking system.
Maybe they don't think they can get the rendering software they need for OS X or Linux/PPC or whatever. Though with a customer like Pixar, I'd think some of the developers would be delighted to arrange a special build. :/
Are you sure that one's female?
Bingo. Manga costs a good $10 more in the US then in Japan and still comes on cheap-ass paper (some books literally fall apart in months.) And guess what, its still a better deal then American comics. :p
IMO, more like:
1) Milk money from everything that cant or wont sue (schools and kilobytes... but no axe murderers serving 25-to-life)
2) ???
3) Profit!
Well then, how about we keep the good old electoral college and cut the Presidents power down to size, so that instead of sticking his nose in Congresss business he can concentrate on things that only he can deal with effectively (e.g. national security. Not things like the Patriot Act, but making intelligence and the INS start working again.)
Im sure a few businesses would love to have Libertarians in power, but when the major parties will do almost anything and are a lot less of a gamble to support, the status quo works just fine for everyone else. :)
Hey, cool. I wonder how much my vote would sell for on eBay.
Yeah, there's that, but do you know any 'gamers' that play Sims? I don't.
If you weren't around, the reason is because was sitting on the front page with no posts for many minutes, attracting glory seekers and trolls like flies. Same with the article below it.
The principle we cheerfully rip off music on is that of "fair use". We believe that we should have the right to back up and recover from others music that we paid for, and do so. We believe we have the right to listen to music to see if it's worth the purchase price, and do so. However, we don't believe Castle has the right to violate reasonable restrictions on linking and source release placed by the GPL on their use of Linux source code. For a counter-example, let's say that the head of the ARM Linux project (who I'm sure would never actually do such a thing) notices Castle is using the source code in fully GPL-compliant ways in their commercial RISC OS distribution. He promptly flies into a rage and demands royalties for the use of his GPLed code. Castle refuses, and a big stink is created in which most reasonable Slashdotters ought to be on the corporation's side for once.
The OS, maybe, but I'd suggest you devote your hardware attentions to Intel's desktop strategum. (Although they own a controlling interest in ARM now...)
A similar true story happened quite recently on a lesser scale in SNES emulation land, when a private beta of DeJap's Tales of Phantasia translation patch got leaked and some dorks claimed it was their work. No one really believed them in the first place, as DeJap provided an alpha snapshot... but it does present a case for not removing cool easter eggs from your products :)