Err... all of London's trains are the same height... Well, at least, on the Picadilly, Northern, Victoria, Circle, District, Jubilee, and Central lines. Don't know about the Metropolitan or otherwise lines, though.
Uh, close. The deep tube lines (Picadilly, Northern, Victoria, Jubilee, Central, Bakerloo and W&C are all basically the same size, but the subsurface trains (Circle, District, Met, East London, and H&C) are much bigger, given that the cut-and-cover tunnels they run through are rather spacious compared to the (bored) tubes. Just look at the shapes of the doors...
Hmm, I think you get it more than lightspawn does, but when you said "generics are old news" I was expecting that you were about to point out that templates (as they exist in C++, Modula-3 ('generics'), and numerous other languages) are basically a kludge to work around limitations in the object model.
The Beta programming language has a much better object model than Java/C++, which completely obviates the need for templates while still providing type-safety; basically, it lets you override 'data members' as well as 'function members' of your classes when subclassing.
Of course, Beta is a bit hard to come to grips with if you first encountered the idea of an object-oriented language in the context of C++ or Java. Still, a little mind-bending can be good for one's perspective...
The original Zaphod's was on Laurier Avenue, east of downtown.
It was demolished about a decade ago to make way for - I'm not making this up - a Bell Canada central office. We thought this was pretty funny, of course.
It was replaced by a new Zaphod's in the Byward Market; a few years ago, Zaphod 2 was opened on Bank street.
I've never been to the first two Zaphods, but Zaphod 2 used to have the Brian Downey Big Band play every Tuesday, and a good crowd of swing dancers could usually be found there. I don't recall any leather or whips, as one poster described, but I did notice a few of what I took to be Zaphod's more "regular" customers looking a bit confused by all the social dance...
However... when was the last time you read a magazine with wider lines than that? Most publishers know that long lines of text makes it harder for the average person to read. It's one of the big reasons that most newspapers and magazines break stories up into columns instead of splaying them accross the whole width of a page. (and one of the big failings of a large number of websites)
I agree with you that long line-lengths can be distracting, and I'm definetely annoyed by people whose mail clients can't manage to word-wrap their messages, but whereas for mail it's clearly a problem with the sender's client, on the web, it should be the browser that takes care of enforcing this, not the web site - after all, line length is a feature of the presentation, not the content.
Have you tried making your web browser window narrower? What you say? But then viewing web sites with lots of big graphics and highly-tabelized layouts is very annoying?
It's those websites which are the problem, not the ones where the designer lets you pick the line lengths.
People in this forum seem unaware that what has become OS/X (and which started out as NeXTStep) has actually run on Intel hardware from the beginning. (Remember, it was based on NeXTStep, which already ran in Intel machines!)
Quite some time ago (1997 or so) a friend of mine who had been on workterm at Apple came back with a machine running this OS (which at the time sported a very bizzare blend of NeXT and Apple GUI elements!) But it wasn't his PowerMac that was running it - it was an intel box.
(How do I know for sure? Well, admittedly the other OS he *usually* ran on the machine was BeOS, which of course proves nothing. But he had Windows installed on it too, and last I checked windows *didn't* run on PPC hardware!)
I'm not sure whether the future OS X was even able to run on PPC hardware at that time - IIRC, the port was in progress, but was not yet usable. So the answer to the question as to whether OS X will run on Intel is almost certainly yes. Whether they will release it or not is of course another question.
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Hmm, I think you get it more than lightspawn does, but when you said "generics are old news" I was expecting that you were about to point out that templates (as they exist in C++, Modula-3 ('generics'), and numerous other languages) are basically a kludge to work around limitations in the object model.
The Beta programming language has a much better object model than Java/C++, which completely obviates the need for templates while still providing type-safety; basically, it lets you override 'data members' as well as 'function members' of your classes when subclassing.
Of course, Beta is a bit hard to come to grips with if you first encountered the idea of an object-oriented language in the context of C++ or Java. Still, a little mind-bending can be good for one's perspective...
The original Zaphod's was on Laurier Avenue, east of downtown.
It was demolished about a decade ago to make way for - I'm not making this up - a Bell Canada central office. We thought this was pretty funny, of course.
It was replaced by a new Zaphod's in the Byward Market; a few years ago, Zaphod 2 was opened on Bank street.
I've never been to the first two Zaphods, but Zaphod 2 used to have the Brian Downey Big Band play every Tuesday, and a good crowd of swing dancers could usually be found there. I don't recall any leather or whips, as one poster described, but I did notice a few of what I took to be Zaphod's more "regular" customers looking a bit confused by all the social dance...
I agree with you that long line-lengths can be distracting, and I'm definetely annoyed by people whose mail clients can't manage to word-wrap their messages, but whereas for mail it's clearly a problem with the sender's client, on the web, it should be the browser that takes care of enforcing this, not the web site - after all, line length is a feature of the presentation, not the content.
Have you tried making your web browser window narrower? What you say? But then viewing web sites with lots of big graphics and highly-tabelized layouts is very annoying?
It's those websites which are the problem, not the ones where the designer lets you pick the line lengths.
I mean, I know you 'Murkans don't know much about Canadian geography, but can't you even be bothered to check it out on MapQuest?
People in this forum seem unaware that what has become OS/X (and which started out as NeXTStep) has actually run on Intel hardware from the beginning. (Remember, it was based on NeXTStep, which already ran in Intel machines!)
Quite some time ago (1997 or so) a friend of mine who had been on workterm at Apple came back with a machine running this OS (which at the time sported a very bizzare blend of NeXT and Apple GUI elements!) But it wasn't his PowerMac that was running it - it was an intel box.
(How do I know for sure? Well, admittedly the other OS he *usually* ran on the machine was BeOS, which of course proves nothing. But he had Windows installed on it too, and last I checked windows *didn't* run on PPC hardware!)
I'm not sure whether the future OS X was even able to run on PPC hardware at that time - IIRC, the port was in progress, but was not yet usable. So the answer to the question as to whether OS X will run on Intel is almost certainly yes. Whether they will release it or not is of course another question.