they made these things in Belfast (northern ireland) and they handle like shit. i went to school with someone and his father actually owned one (possibly the last one left in the country?), so this is first hand information i heard.
if it weren't for Back to the Future, i swear they would have all been melted down. i heard the manager of the plant was skimping on materials to finance white powder for his nose at the time... but thats just all rumour.
fair enough; i haven't used VC++ for a few years now and it was pants back then. in fact... i doubt many people use the latest versions as they were just to expensive (until now).
i hope this helps improve the general level of stadards compliant code in the world:-)
gcc not standards compliant? well it might not be 100% C++ ISO yet, but its a hell of a lot closer than the M$ equivalent!! (if the grandparent was JUST using BCC, i would agree wholeheartedly with you)
THIS guy is brain dead! how does he get off saying stuff like that?
he seems be be one of those "fluffy" marketing-scientists (i.e. in no way a real scientist), so i will disregard everything he says. but how about this as food-for-thought; when radios first came out... EVERYONE was listening to shuffle, weren't they? i suppose that was also a braindead generation by this rationale?
to be honest... i like it, and i wish we had the same laws. there is no problem in asking the other person if you can record a chat (a bot could even initiate conversations with the warning); if it gives companies less right to store information about me (against my knowledge), then im all for it!
(from article)
NEW YORK (AP) -- America Online said its members have submitted more than one million AOL screen names for the Internet company' s unorthodox drawing for a spammer' s seized sportscar.
aaah, one million valid email addresses for phase two! WARRRAARARRAGAAARRAAGG!!
hmm, yeah, in hindsight maybe "eco friendly" isn't the word i was looking for. but i suppose in context alongside decaying uranium and plutonium i think it works just fine.
ho ho ho... i know it got a funny mod; but for anyone not in the know; nucear fusion is actually risk-free. it can be shut down at any stage (it doesn't catastrophe like fision does) and all the waste products are eco-friendly. assuming we get it... which i think most people have given up on hoping to see in their lifetime. it would be truly revolutionary.
the kind of fears that people have when they hear "nuclear", and their lack of understanding of that term actually have a major side effect in all forms of nuclear research... be it practical applications (like we see here) or just understanding-physics. i know a physics group who have been picketed in the last 15 years by anti-nuclear protestors because their work involved "nuclear modelling". they, of course, where simply modelling nuclei on computers and had absolutely no intentions of ever doing anything with energy producing techniques, but a lack of understanding led to the protest (and the usual idiots who show up at those kind of things) and that led to the funding being cut:-/
DO NOT!!! please mod him down!!! Xorg is a fork of XFree86 just before the license change so Xorg is under the old XFree86 license. the Xserver project (also hosted on freedesktop.org) on the other hand is LGPL'd, and written mostly from scratch.
and while i'm at it... do your friggin modding when you have the points, not itchy posting fingers!
well, what we also got to consider is "what are their chances of other people voting for them as well?", and unfortunatley, the green party don't have much of a base where i live. or anywhere, really in the UK.
i am not sure about how the MEP stuff works... but i know that most voters don't realise that certain candidates are up for EU election and think to themselves "i like the tories, im voting for this guy" when in actual fact thta candidate maybe never be doing a thing in his local area.
the local candidate i was refering to in edinburgh was this guy, i have emailed him several times, and he has known every little detail about aeverything and has always already begun forming an initiative against mad IP moves the EU makes. unfortunately he is a scottish nationalist, and seperation from england is their big thing... coming from northern ireland, i would be really annoyed if scottish people started coming over and voting for one of the hard-line parties without knowing the full score. so i feel guilty voting for him. but he does share my views on the copyright battles in the EU, and he stands every chance of getting in every year. (and ironically, was knighted by the queen)
this is one thing that really annoys me about the EU... don't get me wrong, i love the idea of it, but when they do something stupid like this, we all realise how little power the people have over the leaders. if a local party were to try and pass this... they would be voted out quicker than you could say goodbye. but, what do we do here?
there is one politician in my area who has a small voice in the EU, and he has pretty much the ideas that everyone has on slashdot when IP is mentioned. but he is a memeber of a controversial party and i am not sure if i agree with their other policies; but i think i will have to compromise my other views as this is much more important to me. but what difference would it make if that guy even got back next year:-/ not much.
seems that the bigger the powers get, the less sense they see... and the more dafties start voting!
i don't think you understand... the standard model IS wrong and has been prived wrong by the appearance of the neutrino mass. we ARE in that "period of doubt".
dude... you (and your tutor) have totally missed the point. string theory IS tested in experiment EVERY DAY. it predicts almost all the already known theories about the universe (General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory can be taken as approximations to string theory). the experimentally testable problem most people have about string theory is that the true tests of the new stuff it gives us cannot be tested yet, as our experimental apparatus cannot go to the high energies needed.
you should not have your mind made up for you by someone who has not explained the full story to you. as for your idea of not fixing a model until the experiment shows new things... that is only valid for the days when experiments were breaking the models faster than they were being created. now that we have theory prgressing faster than experiment, it is healthy to have models which predict more than we can observe with our apparatus... so that we can PREDICT what will happen when we go to higher energies (and hopefully observe it now). your Kuhnian model (which i have never heard of) is more applicablel to the engineers than the scientists nowadays. theoretical physics would not exist if people with your opinions were in charge. then science would be royally fscked when the experimentalists tell us the standard model is incorrect (which has just happened, by the way)
so the most authoritive figure on physics you know, rejects a theory before it has even been tested experimentally? please don't let his closed mind infect yours.
thats like saying "i drove 3 similar looking cars running on different petrol (gas) to see if Lotus had a better top speed. the only difference was the time of day i did it at (rush hour?), how long i did the test for and the place i did it (city/motorway(freeway)?). oh, and the 3rd car was a Ferrari.
the point i am trying to make is this: your variables were all over the show. if you want a fair test you need to compare with EVERYTHING identical, even the load (and there has to be a lot of it, different types, over a long period of time to get good stats) with the only difference being the stack. thats without even mentioning that you didn't even compare a BSD flavour (MacOS does not count), hence my Lotus gag:-/
you've been in the computer business longer than ten years, and your slashdot ID is THAT high? wow, you must have actually been working those ten years!
anyone got any decent pointers to easy to follow docs for using the scripting?
as an example for what i would be doing: i have a big bunch of PNG files which are all A4 size scans of 4 photographs each. if i could write a script which would crop the 4 photos each into their own file, rotate them and rescale them to 1000 pixels wide (maybe renormalise) and save as jpegs, i would be a very happy chappy.
If all your text is in images, then you're already not going to rank very highly in Google
yeah, you're correct. but there is the alt= flag which displays the alternative object should the main one not be displayable; thats what i use for all my text which is in an image... i duplicate it in alt= for lynx users to read [and help w3c validator happy:-)]
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if it weren't for Back to the Future, i swear they would have all been melted down. i heard the manager of the plant was skimping on materials to finance white powder for his nose at the time... but thats just all rumour.
i hope this helps improve the general level of stadards compliant code in the world :-)
gcc not standards compliant? well it might not be 100% C++ ISO yet, but its a hell of a lot closer than the M$ equivalent!! (if the grandparent was JUST using BCC, i would agree wholeheartedly with you)
he seems be be one of those "fluffy" marketing-scientists (i.e. in no way a real scientist), so i will disregard everything he says. but how about this as food-for-thought; when radios first came out... EVERYONE was listening to shuffle, weren't they? i suppose that was also a braindead generation by this rationale?
damn you and your archane language!
to be honest... i like it, and i wish we had the same laws. there is no problem in asking the other person if you can record a chat (a bot could even initiate conversations with the warning); if it gives companies less right to store information about me (against my knowledge), then im all for it!
am i the only one here who read this abstract and thought they were playing SimCity 2000? god, the flashbacks...
aaah, one million valid email addresses for phase two! WARRRAARARRAGAAARRAAGG!!
hmm, yeah, in hindsight maybe "eco friendly" isn't the word i was looking for. but i suppose in context alongside decaying uranium and plutonium i think it works just fine.
the kind of fears that people have when they hear "nuclear", and their lack of understanding of that term actually have a major side effect in all forms of nuclear research... be it practical applications (like we see here) or just understanding-physics. i know a physics group who have been picketed in the last 15 years by anti-nuclear protestors because their work involved "nuclear modelling". they, of course, where simply modelling nuclei on computers and had absolutely no intentions of ever doing anything with energy producing techniques, but a lack of understanding led to the protest (and the usual idiots who show up at those kind of things) and that led to the funding being cut :-/
i once seen the jive sketch redon in cartoon form with 1337 talk instead of jive... it was hilarious! has anyone got a link?
and then the moderator should be metamodded to hell and back! (what are you on? you buying from SCO?)
and while i'm at it... do your friggin modding when you have the points, not itchy posting fingers!
i am not sure about how the MEP stuff works... but i know that most voters don't realise that certain candidates are up for EU election and think to themselves "i like the tories, im voting for this guy" when in actual fact thta candidate maybe never be doing a thing in his local area.
the local candidate i was refering to in edinburgh was this guy, i have emailed him several times, and he has known every little detail about aeverything and has always already begun forming an initiative against mad IP moves the EU makes. unfortunately he is a scottish nationalist, and seperation from england is their big thing... coming from northern ireland, i would be really annoyed if scottish people started coming over and voting for one of the hard-line parties without knowing the full score. so i feel guilty voting for him. but he does share my views on the copyright battles in the EU, and he stands every chance of getting in every year. (and ironically, was knighted by the queen)
there is one politician in my area who has a small voice in the EU, and he has pretty much the ideas that everyone has on slashdot when IP is mentioned. but he is a memeber of a controversial party and i am not sure if i agree with their other policies; but i think i will have to compromise my other views as this is much more important to me. but what difference would it make if that guy even got back next year :-/ not much.
seems that the bigger the powers get, the less sense they see... and the more dafties start voting!
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i don't think you understand... the standard model IS wrong and has been prived wrong by the appearance of the neutrino mass. we ARE in that "period of doubt".
you should not have your mind made up for you by someone who has not explained the full story to you. as for your idea of not fixing a model until the experiment shows new things... that is only valid for the days when experiments were breaking the models faster than they were being created. now that we have theory prgressing faster than experiment, it is healthy to have models which predict more than we can observe with our apparatus... so that we can PREDICT what will happen when we go to higher energies (and hopefully observe it now). your Kuhnian model (which i have never heard of) is more applicablel to the engineers than the scientists nowadays. theoretical physics would not exist if people with your opinions were in charge. then science would be royally fscked when the experimentalists tell us the standard model is incorrect (which has just happened, by the way)
so the most authoritive figure on physics you know, rejects a theory before it has even been tested experimentally? please don't let his closed mind infect yours.
like i said, try social science...
thats like saying "i drove 3 similar looking cars running on different petrol (gas) to see if Lotus had a better top speed. the only difference was the time of day i did it at (rush hour?), how long i did the test for and the place i did it (city/motorway(freeway)?). oh, and the 3rd car was a Ferrari.
the point i am trying to make is this: your variables were all over the show. if you want a fair test you need to compare with EVERYTHING identical, even the load (and there has to be a lot of it, different types, over a long period of time to get good stats) with the only difference being the stack. thats without even mentioning that you didn't even compare a BSD flavour (MacOS does not count), hence my Lotus gag :-/
have you ever considered a career in the social sciences?
you've been in the computer business longer than ten years, and your slashdot ID is THAT high? wow, you must have actually been working those ten years!
as an example for what i would be doing: i have a big bunch of PNG files which are all A4 size scans of 4 photographs each. if i could write a script which would crop the 4 photos each into their own file, rotate them and rescale them to 1000 pixels wide (maybe renormalise) and save as jpegs, i would be a very happy chappy.
yeah, you're correct. but there is the alt= flag which displays the alternative object should the main one not be displayable; thats what i use for all my text which is in an image... i duplicate it in alt= for lynx users to read [and help w3c validator happy :-)]