Around 80% of the IM-using population in Sweden use ICQ. The rest (younger ppl mostly) use MSM (exception are some Mac users that have an AIM-account to use iChat, but they also have ICQ).
MPW had something called a worksheet, a window in which you could type commands. It only executed commands if you pressed keypad enter or cmd + return. You could also use a worksheet as a code editor; although it kinda sucked for that.
The tools where strictly command line, but usable from a GUI, as you could get a window in which you could check boxes for the options instead of typing "command -opt other param". The GUI-way was very awkward I think.
MPW was also almost totally useless for any real CLI-use as it didn't do any terminal emulation.
I never used the MrJ/MRJ/whatever java compiler, but I believe it was a standalone application not usable from the MPW-shell. Correct me someone, if I'm wrong.
I can't blame you for not knowing about MPW, few people have. MPW was quite expensive IIRC up until when they released it for free (that is gratis) a few years ago. It runs perfectly well from Classic, so if you want to try it out just for fun, you should still be able to download it from http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/
Up until recently, the Mac O/S wasn't really that geek-friendly in the sense that it didn't have a command line interface (the older ones had A/UX, but that went away for a while), it wasn't multiuser, it wasn't as powerful as Linux, and so on. So it has a reputation as "that user-friendly end user thing" among the kind of people who are into tweaking their Linux boxes. Plus there were all the cutesy touches that turned some people off, like calling their Java development environment "MrJ" (WTF???).
Old MacOS did have a command line, just not by default. It was called MPW (Macintosh Programmer Workshop) and provided CLI-developer tools. There are a lot of unix-tools (including lex, yacc, sed and awk) ported to MPW. But since no one use MPW anymore, any existing ports are probably 5 to 10 years old at least
I've seen it written both ways, actually. So, OK, it's in my head -- but I'm not the only one who thinks it's not such a hot name.
I believe that the MrJ spelling comes from the fact that the MPW developer tools from Apple included MrC, or Motorola C. Some developers were probably to used with the MrC spelling, so they took it with them.
First of all. How did Nemesis do vs. the other StarTrek movies? And how much have it earned outside the U.S? I personally found Nemesis to be quite good, one of the better ST movies.
Secondly. IMHO, Enterprise is by far the best of the ST series, it beats the hell out of TNG. There is however one HUGE flaw in Enterprise: The terrible theme music, it really makes me want to throw the TV out of the window.
"I think somebody needs to look up the term "certainty". Unless you can point to an asteroid presently on a collision course, its just a question of probability. Since the universe is finite, there's no logical reason to suggest another asteroid "must" hit the earth."
One did 65 M years ago, and although not proven to be an asteroid 95 % of all species became extinct some 250 M years ago. Other events when lots of species have become extinct has happened 195, 365, 440 and 500 M years ago.
If it has happened so many times it is logical to assume that some catastrophe will occur on the Earth within a not so long time (geologically speaking). It might be an asteroid and it might be something else, but it will happen, most definitely.
This rumour seem to surface about once a month or something. I really hope this is true, but I've read the same thing on/. about one month ago, and half a year before that; all said that Bush would announce a Mars trip within a week and clearly this hasn't happened yet.
First of all: Some (around one tenth) of the fighters are at the disposal of the EU. Secondly: Swedish troops have been involved in many international peace keeping forces. Currently there are troops in Kosovo (1 battalion) and iirc Afghanistan (around 20 men). Last summer there was an EU-force in Congo consisting of mostly French and Swedish troops that saw some pretty heavy fighting.
The last major conflict in wich Sweden took a side was the Winter War in which Sweden offered Finland aircrafts and several thousands of infantry to help in the fight against the Soviet Union.
Of course, it is only stupid to comment something like:
i ++;/* increase i with 1 */
However, all functions should have a descriptive comment about the args, what it does and so on. All loops should have a comment about what it does, or if that is trivial: why it does it.
What I am trying to say is: comment the algorithm used in you code and what the code's purpose is, not what every line of code does.
I found the post to be very insightful, but there is one thing I must disagree with: "I suspect that The world preferd the Isolationist America of 1906 or 1936 to the Gulliver Unchained of 2003."
This is plainly not true. I am a European and I know how the debates went here, when Bush was elected. The big problem was that he withdrew the US from the international arena; especially the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The gripe when Bush became interested in foreign affairs after 9/11 was not that US invaded Afganistan, most people in Europe agreed with this. The opposition is always the loudest though.
The real critique came when Bush decided to invade Iraq. The reason people generally opposed this in Europe is (I asume) that Saddam had made no real agressive moves, and thus the US/UK conducted an unprovoked aggression against Iraq.
Of course, while a lot of European voices were raised against the invasion, a lot of voices were raised for it as well.
If viewed from as a state to state matter, a lot of things in the decision to invade are discussable. However, when viewing the invasion from a moral and philosophical point of view, there really isn't much to discuss. Ayn Rand said: "The evil of the world is made possible by only the sanction that you give it"
Just why the H was I modded offtopic for. I commented that it would be good to have some Cocoa based classes elsewhere, and added that I at least survived in my current school.
They have not been facing DDoSing attacks, they have been facing 3 articles on slashdot / h during the last 6 months. On the other hand... the outcome is the same.
As far as I know, DNA is not patentable (in Europe at least). However, what is patentable are the means to find and identify the genes and the technical inovations in order to do that.
If another company / scientist invent another way to identify the gene they can do that.
Basically, the "patentable gene" is a MYTH invented by some far left groups. And I don't mean left as in American leftists, who are usually called liberals. I mean it in the European way; that is, the now day "democratic communists". These people are typically against ownership of any kind and I've debated with several of these. They are typically as "confused" as the neo-nazis are (oups Godwins law); one guy I debated with about using the Euro in Sweden actually denied the crimes against humanity committed by Stalin, Pol-Pot and Mao.
No sane person would allow patenting of genes, but it is another thing to allow patenting of the methods and gadgets needed to find these genes. It cost huge amounts of to develop these methods, and in the end, someone must pay for this.
(Sorry for the ranting, it's just bad that a misconception such as patentable genes exist)
Yes, hardware support seem to be missing. This isn't good, I want to use the Swedish postal services electronic ids (smart-card based) since the S/MIME support in this would allow me to sign LEGALLY BINDING contracts via e-mail.
Then I don't have to meet a person in real life... ever : )
S/MIME use x.509 certificates. While you theoretically could generate one your self and self-sign it, no client would trust it.
www.thwate.com are giving out free mail certificates, you do however have to give them lots of personal data, but I would assume that Thwate is a trustable company.
If you do get a certificate from them with Mozilla:
Select preferences->Privacy & Security->Certificates. Click on manage certificates Select the Thwate Freemail certificate Click on Backup and save the certificate with some password. Start Evolution and import the certificate through the S/MIME prefs dialoge. Done!
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Reminds me of a Perl joke:
Perl: A language combining the power of C with the speed of Java and the simplicity of Assembler.
Actually, a 2-bit NAND in CMOS takes 4 transistors, 2 PMOS and 2 NMOS. A NOT-gate takes 2 transistors though.
Around 80% of the IM-using population in Sweden use ICQ. The rest (younger ppl mostly) use MSM (exception are some Mac users that have an AIM-account to use iChat, but they also have ICQ).
I do work hard on converting them all to Jabber.
MPW had something called a worksheet, a window in which you could type commands. It only executed commands if you pressed keypad enter or cmd + return. You could also use a worksheet as a code editor; although it kinda sucked for that.
The tools where strictly command line, but usable from a GUI, as you could get a window in which you could check boxes for the options instead of typing "command -opt other param". The GUI-way was very awkward I think.
MPW was also almost totally useless for any real CLI-use as it didn't do any terminal emulation.
I never used the MrJ/MRJ/whatever java compiler, but I believe it was a standalone application not usable from the MPW-shell. Correct me someone, if I'm wrong.
I can't blame you for not knowing about MPW, few people have. MPW was quite expensive IIRC up until when they released it for free (that is gratis) a few years ago. It runs perfectly well from Classic, so if you want to try it out just for fun, you should still be able to download it from http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/
Old MacOS did have a command line, just not by default. It was called MPW (Macintosh Programmer Workshop) and provided CLI-developer tools. There are a lot of unix-tools (including lex, yacc, sed and awk) ported to MPW. But since no one use MPW anymore, any existing ports are probably 5 to 10 years old at least
I've seen it written both ways, actually. So, OK, it's in my head -- but I'm not the only one who thinks it's not such a hot name. I believe that the MrJ spelling comes from the fact that the MPW developer tools from Apple included MrC, or Motorola C. Some developers were probably to used with the MrC spelling, so they took it with them.
First of all. How did Nemesis do vs. the other StarTrek movies? And how much have it earned outside the U.S? I personally found Nemesis to be quite good, one of the better ST movies.
Secondly. IMHO, Enterprise is by far the best of the ST series, it beats the hell out of TNG. There is however one HUGE flaw in Enterprise: The terrible theme music, it really makes me want to throw the TV out of the window.
Just my 0.02
"I think somebody needs to look up the term "certainty". Unless you can point to an asteroid presently on a collision course, its just a question of probability. Since the universe is finite, there's no logical reason to suggest another asteroid "must" hit the earth."
One did 65 M years ago, and although not proven to be an asteroid 95 % of all species became extinct some 250 M years ago. Other events when lots of species have become extinct has happened 195, 365, 440 and 500 M years ago.
If it has happened so many times it is logical to assume that some catastrophe will occur on the Earth within a not so long time (geologically speaking). It might be an asteroid and it might be something else, but it will happen, most definitely.
This rumour seem to surface about once a month or something. I really hope this is true, but I've read the same thing on /. about one month ago, and half a year before that; all said that Bush would announce a Mars trip within a week and clearly this hasn't happened yet.
First of all: Some (around one tenth) of the fighters are at the disposal of the EU.
Secondly: Swedish troops have been involved in many international peace keeping forces. Currently there are troops in Kosovo (1 battalion) and iirc Afghanistan (around 20 men). Last summer there was an EU-force in Congo consisting of mostly French and Swedish troops that saw some pretty heavy fighting.
The last major conflict in wich Sweden took a side was the Winter War in which Sweden offered Finland aircrafts and several thousands of infantry to help in the fight against the Soviet Union.
I beleve you are right on the spot here. The failures was due to an "error" in the specification, eg disregarding a pilots reflexes/instincts.
;)
It wasn't a bug, it was a feature.
Of course, it is only stupid to comment something like:
/* increase i with 1 */
i ++;
However, all functions should have a descriptive comment about the args, what it does and so on. All loops should have a comment about what it does, or if that is trivial: why it does it.
What I am trying to say is: comment the algorithm used in you code and what the code's purpose is, not what every line of code does.
Mars?
I found the post to be very insightful, but there is one thing I must disagree with: "I suspect that The world preferd the Isolationist America of 1906 or 1936 to the Gulliver Unchained of 2003."
This is plainly not true. I am a European and I know how the debates went here, when Bush was elected. The big problem was that he withdrew the US from the international arena; especially the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The gripe when Bush became interested in foreign affairs after 9/11 was not that US invaded Afganistan, most people in Europe agreed with this. The opposition is always the loudest though.
The real critique came when Bush decided to invade Iraq. The reason people generally opposed this in Europe is (I asume) that Saddam had made no real agressive moves, and thus the US/UK conducted an unprovoked aggression against Iraq.
Of course, while a lot of European voices were raised against the invasion, a lot of voices were raised for it as well.
If viewed from as a state to state matter, a lot of things in the decision to invade are discussable. However, when viewing the invasion from a moral and philosophical point of view, there really isn't much to discuss. Ayn Rand said: "The evil of the world is made possible by only the sanction that you give it"
Oh well, enough ranting!
Pagan, begone!
/me rallies all Trekkies in the proximity (30% of slashdot methinks)
Thou shalt not make StarWars references within StarTrek context.
GET HIM!!!
: )
Just why the H was I modded offtopic for. I commented that it would be good to have some Cocoa based classes elsewhere, and added that I at least survived in my current school.
HOW IS THIS DEMED OFFTOPIC?
They have not been facing DDoSing attacks, they have been facing 3 articles on slashdot / h during the last 6 months. On the other hand... the outcome is the same.
Now I just have to get one of these into my school Chalmers... oh well, at least we don't us Windows that much here in the CE-department.
As far as I know, DNA is not patentable (in Europe at least). However, what is patentable are the means to find and identify the genes and the technical inovations in order to do that.
If another company / scientist invent another way to identify the gene they can do that.
Basically, the "patentable gene" is a MYTH invented by some far left groups. And I don't mean left as in American leftists, who are usually called liberals. I mean it in the European way; that is, the now day "democratic communists". These people are typically against ownership of any kind and I've debated with several of these. They are typically as "confused" as the neo-nazis are (oups Godwins law); one guy I debated with about using the Euro in Sweden actually denied the crimes against humanity committed by Stalin, Pol-Pot and Mao.
No sane person would allow patenting of genes, but it is another thing to allow patenting of the methods and gadgets needed to find these genes. It cost huge amounts of to develop these methods, and in the end, someone must pay for this.
(Sorry for the ranting, it's just bad that a misconception such as patentable genes exist)
Yes, hardware support seem to be missing. This isn't good, I want to use the Swedish postal services electronic ids (smart-card based) since the S/MIME support in this would allow me to sign LEGALLY BINDING contracts via e-mail.
Then I don't have to meet a person in real life... ever : )
OpenPGP-signed and encrypted e-mail work fine between Apple Mail.app and Evolution. I know, I do that all the time.
S/MIME use x.509 certificates. While you theoretically could generate one your self and self-sign it, no client would trust it.
www.thwate.com are giving out free mail certificates, you do however have to give them lots of personal data, but I would assume that Thwate is a trustable company.
If you do get a certificate from them with Mozilla:
Select preferences->Privacy & Security->Certificates.
Click on manage certificates
Select the Thwate Freemail certificate
Click on Backup and save the certificate with some password.
Start Evolution and import the certificate through the S/MIME prefs dialoge.
Done!
You took the words out of my mouth.
: )
... but the other way around would basically be true as well. If Jon is acquitted "the crime" he committed will be fully LEGAL in Norway.
:)
Sorry for the grammar...
Well, the rules of war define the term "combatant". A combatant receive protection according to the rules of war when captured.
"Illegal combatants" or "bandits" receive no such protection when captured. You do however have to play by the rules when fighting them.
Clearer?