You should really stop posting your programs, despite how much you want the slashdot fame. any number of idiots can now copy and submit that, and anyway, the rules explicitly forbid posting it publically until may 1st
by the way, i got my java program down to 589 bytes
assuming apple is currently planning on implementing OS X on these chips, how long will it be until we see some 2.5 ghz machines being sold by apple? will laptops be feasible, and if so, will they take any longer to appear?
would they be available by august? (asks the soon to be college student)
insightful? that was one of the most overrated trolls i've seen in a long time
do you think every member of congress has time to read every bill that comes their way? hundreds and hundreds of many dozen page bills about topics that they have no reason to have an opinion on. To expect each member to know the intricacies of every bill they must vote on is simply unrealistic. voting on the party line is a valid and practical method of deciding what to vote for. obviously, if a politician tends to agree with the party line, they will evaluate and most likely go along with what the whip informs them on. If they are party outsiders, they'll be more cautious.
and your criticism of pork barrel legislation? which is it slashdot? do congressmen do what big businesses tell them or what the most corrupt of their constituents tell them?
you seem to forget that pork barrel bills are what the citizens want. what would you prefer? a congressman voting his conscience? every time a politician votes what he believes in (or what he is told to believe in by interest groups, for you conspiracy theorists out there), the system of representative democracy is failing. it is up to the congressman to vote for what the people have put him in office to vote for. it is not a question of right and wrong - it is a question of respect and support for the american constitution and political system
and don't try to tell me that this would lead to mob rule - there are other safeguards built into our constitution that prevent that - the principle of representation for every interest and location. it is up to the congressperson to do what the citizens of the area they represent want.
i've been thinking of ways of preventing duplicate stories... and the most effective method that i've thought of would be an algorithm that compared new stories with older stories and searched for identical links. if they were found, it could notify the editor
i can't imagine it would be that difficult to implement, but i'm not actually familiar with slashcode story management.
if searching through all past stories is too intensive, a simple script could be written that would be run every time a story is posted. it would parse out each linked address in the post and add it to a database. searching an indexed database consisting of addresses every time a story is posted would be trivial...
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i don't know what winzip you are using, but the version i have can definitely handle both tar and gzip files
http://winzip.com/aboutzip.htm
You should really stop posting your programs, despite how much you want the slashdot fame. any number of idiots can now copy and submit that, and anyway, the rules explicitly forbid posting it publically until may 1st
by the way, i got my java program down to 589 bytes
assuming apple is currently planning on implementing OS X on these chips, how long will it be until we see some 2.5 ghz machines being sold by apple? will laptops be feasible, and if so, will they take any longer to appear?
would they be available by august? (asks the soon to be college student)
insightful? that was one of the most overrated trolls i've seen in a long time do you think every member of congress has time to read every bill that comes their way? hundreds and hundreds of many dozen page bills about topics that they have no reason to have an opinion on. To expect each member to know the intricacies of every bill they must vote on is simply unrealistic. voting on the party line is a valid and practical method of deciding what to vote for. obviously, if a politician tends to agree with the party line, they will evaluate and most likely go along with what the whip informs them on. If they are party outsiders, they'll be more cautious. and your criticism of pork barrel legislation? which is it slashdot? do congressmen do what big businesses tell them or what the most corrupt of their constituents tell them? you seem to forget that pork barrel bills are what the citizens want. what would you prefer? a congressman voting his conscience? every time a politician votes what he believes in (or what he is told to believe in by interest groups, for you conspiracy theorists out there), the system of representative democracy is failing. it is up to the congressman to vote for what the people have put him in office to vote for. it is not a question of right and wrong - it is a question of respect and support for the american constitution and political system and don't try to tell me that this would lead to mob rule - there are other safeguards built into our constitution that prevent that - the principle of representation for every interest and location. it is up to the congressperson to do what the citizens of the area they represent want.
i've been thinking of ways of preventing duplicate stories... and the most effective method that i've thought of would be an algorithm that compared new stories with older stories and searched for identical links. if they were found, it could notify the editor
i can't imagine it would be that difficult to implement, but i'm not actually familiar with slashcode story management.
if searching through all past stories is too intensive, a simple script could be written that would be run every time a story is posted. it would parse out each linked address in the post and add it to a database. searching an indexed database consisting of addresses every time a story is posted would be trivial...