Here in the UK, mobile web browsing is (I believe!) starting to become a lot more popular. And it is NOT a matter of simply creating an extra CSS stylesheet for smaller browsers - ever heard of WML?
Mobile internet has so much potential - the other day, on the train coming back from a meeting, I was able to watch decent quality (i.e. good audio and non-grainy pictures on a 2 or 3 inch screen) LIVE television. I can get over 300Kbps on my phone Internet connection and am able to do a lot of stuff a few years ago I woulnd't have thought possible. Sure, there are smaller screens, but since when did fancy graphics and wasted space == good content?
Who exactly is going to take the decision to allow Linux to be distributed under a BSD style license as opposed to (or as well as) the GPL? Surely Linus himself couldn't even make that decision?
Surely you would have to get the permission of each individual who has ever contributed to Linux to allow their code to be released under a different license than the one they gave it to the community under? That sounds like hard work to me, and likely to result in a lot of segments of code being reqritten (if the original author does not agree for example).
i mean, first off, you're complaining that linux doesn't work well with other systems while actually pointing out the its microsoft office that doesn't supprot OO.org files. well, at least open office tries to open.doc files.
what your saying doesn't exactly sound like a proper analysis of gnu/linux systems (or whatever) as a desktop alternative, more like a person bitching because their own half assed attempt didn't work.
"to understand recurssion, you must first understand recurssion"
(something like that)
unfortunately, the recurssion you've described is never ending - an infinite loop. for recurssion to be of any use, it must have a terminating condition so that eventually it will cease to call on itself and perhaps instead bubble up a useful result.
i'm sure you know this, and after all, this is the humour of your sig - the recurssion is never ending, and if someone were to truly try and work out how recurssion works using it they would either end up falling asleep out of exhaustion or get bored.
however, the real reason it bugs me is because it isn't true. for one to have to understand recurssion, they would first need to be aware of the concepts of structured programming (sequence, selection, iteration) and then the idea of function calls and then the theory behind run time stacks.
this is incredibly off topic - no offence intended, i'm just sleepy and prattling on. i'm sure you actually knew this and really i'm just being dumb.
let's see me get modded off-topic for my sins anyways.
i bank with hsbc in the uk for both my personal accounts and business accounts.
for my personal account, to use internet banking, i go to their website (secure by ssl) and enter an eleven digit unique id. this then takes me to another page which asks my dob and three random digits from my security number. once in, i can do whatever i want. not bad methinks.
my business account though is considerably more secure. to set up the online banking i had a forty digit unique alphanumeric id, sent to me in the post, a password that i decided at the bank and several security questions to answer. this let me then set up a new username and password and download my own unique security certificate.
now, anytime i want to log into my business account online, my browser has to have the certificate in its store (i could carry it around on a usb keychain i guess and import it anywhere i go) and use my username and password.
all in all, quite secure. nothings perfect, but i'm not too worried about somebody getting to my accounts.
Sorry - I disagree!
Why should a programming language have to be able to theoretically do anything that any other programming language can in order for it to be considered a programming language?
Just because HTML can only do "sequence" out of "sequence, selection, iteration", and is thus unable to carry out many calculations, does not mean it is not a programming language.
At the end of the day, HTML instructs a browser to carry out specific tasks in order to display a page in a specific way. Imho, that makes it a programming language, although I won't dispute that it is a very limited one.
Actually, who is to say that HTML isn't a programming language? Who says it's nothing more than a data file, read in by a web browser to determine what it should display, much in the same way that a.doc file is read in by MS Word?
There's a thin line between what consitutes a file containg code and a data file. After all, to a C++ compiler, C++ is simply a data file.
Just because HTML doesn't fit into our standard view of a procedural/OO programming language, doesn't mean that it isn't a programming language at all!
I once bought a kit from Paia for their Fatman synth. It was great and I almost had it working (it made bleepy noises, but not quite the right ones) but then it sort of never quite got finished. Oh well! But it was a lot of fun and a good cheap starter if you're interested in those things.
don't worry about it - i installed the test 2 of fedora core 1 and it didn't even come close to being functional. pretty much everything i did resulted in my machine going slightly crazy. i was quite alarmed that fedora was gonna suck and never be much good, but by the time the final release of fedora core 1 came out, it installed perfectly and ran wonderfully on my laptop. so, hey, submit your bugs (or, if you're a better person than myself, fixes) and then wait for the final to come out and blow you away!:o)
that quote was from george bush senior, not george w. although i still find it appalling (and i'm not an atheist) it's good to check such things first.:o)
couldn't the student have claimed that he was protected under section 512 of the dmca? seems to me (admitidely after only a very quick glance) that he qualifies for the safe harbour provision.
ooh, this is my first ever post. been reading for ages and just never said anything... how embarressing!:o)
Slashdot Mirror
did you see the re-run two days ago too?
uhm, the people making and sharing the valued content are the people who are paying google ...
Here in the UK, mobile web browsing is (I believe!) starting to become a lot more popular. And it is NOT a matter of simply creating an extra CSS stylesheet for smaller browsers - ever heard of WML?
Mobile internet has so much potential - the other day, on the train coming back from a meeting, I was able to watch decent quality (i.e. good audio and non-grainy pictures on a 2 or 3 inch screen) LIVE television. I can get over 300Kbps on my phone Internet connection and am able to do a lot of stuff a few years ago I woulnd't have thought possible. Sure, there are smaller screens, but since when did fancy graphics and wasted space == good content?
Not trying to be a dick, but surely it was the western influence that started apartheid in the first place?!?
might i add that i'm drunk
then get a job with your government and be a database admin and remove your name. duh.
i'm a bit drunk but that made me laugh a lot. i like you.
Who exactly is going to take the decision to allow Linux to be distributed under a BSD style license as opposed to (or as well as) the GPL? Surely Linus himself couldn't even make that decision?
Surely you would have to get the permission of each individual who has ever contributed to Linux to allow their code to be released under a different license than the one they gave it to the community under? That sounds like hard work to me, and likely to result in a lot of segments of code being reqritten (if the original author does not agree for example).
really, this seems incredibly stupid.
.doc files.
i mean, first off, you're complaining that linux doesn't work well with other systems while actually pointing out the its microsoft office that doesn't supprot OO.org files. well, at least open office tries to open
what your saying doesn't exactly sound like a proper analysis of gnu/linux systems (or whatever) as a desktop alternative, more like a person bitching because their own half assed attempt didn't work.
i'm drunk.
i'm sorry - your sig doesn't sit well with me ...
"to understand recurssion, you must first understand recurssion"
(something like that)
unfortunately, the recurssion you've described is never ending - an infinite loop. for recurssion to be of any use, it must have a terminating condition so that eventually it will cease to call on itself and perhaps instead bubble up a useful result.
i'm sure you know this, and after all, this is the humour of your sig - the recurssion is never ending, and if someone were to truly try and work out how recurssion works using it they would either end up falling asleep out of exhaustion or get bored.
however, the real reason it bugs me is because it isn't true. for one to have to understand recurssion, they would first need to be aware of the concepts of structured programming (sequence, selection, iteration) and then the idea of function calls and then the theory behind run time stacks.
this is incredibly off topic - no offence intended, i'm just sleepy and prattling on. i'm sure you actually knew this and really i'm just being dumb.
let's see me get modded off-topic for my sins anyways.
ciao!
i bank with hsbc in the uk for both my personal accounts and business accounts.
for my personal account, to use internet banking, i go to their website (secure by ssl) and enter an eleven digit unique id. this then takes me to another page which asks my dob and three random digits from my security number. once in, i can do whatever i want. not bad methinks.
my business account though is considerably more secure. to set up the online banking i had a forty digit unique alphanumeric id, sent to me in the post, a password that i decided at the bank and several security questions to answer. this let me then set up a new username and password and download my own unique security certificate.
now, anytime i want to log into my business account online, my browser has to have the certificate in its store (i could carry it around on a usb keychain i guess and import it anywhere i go) and use my username and password.
all in all, quite secure. nothings perfect, but i'm not too worried about somebody getting to my accounts.
Sorry - I disagree!
Why should a programming language have to be able to theoretically do anything that any other programming language can in order for it to be considered a programming language?
Just because HTML can only do "sequence" out of "sequence, selection, iteration", and is thus unable to carry out many calculations, does not mean it is not a programming language.
At the end of the day, HTML instructs a browser to carry out specific tasks in order to display a page in a specific way. Imho, that makes it a programming language, although I won't dispute that it is a very limited one.
Actually, who is to say that HTML isn't a programming language? Who says it's nothing more than a data file, read in by a web browser to determine what it should display, much in the same way that a .doc file is read in by MS Word?
There's a thin line between what consitutes a file containg code and a data file. After all, to a C++ compiler, C++ is simply a data file.
Just because HTML doesn't fit into our standard view of a procedural/OO programming language, doesn't mean that it isn't a programming language at all!
Hey! I hadn't got to that part of the movie yet! I took a five minute interval to check slashdot and you've gone and ruined my afternoon!
In fact, if you follow the "What is R?" link from the R-projects main page, you'll see that:
...
It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment
And I wouldn't bet against there being a link to a "T" language on the S project's homepage or something.
What next? AB language? Eventually we'll get to COBOL all over again! Oh No!
I once bought a kit from Paia for their Fatman synth. It was great and I almost had it working (it made bleepy noises, but not quite the right ones) but then it sort of never quite got finished. Oh well! But it was a lot of fun and a good cheap starter if you're interested in those things.
don't worry about it - i installed the test 2 of fedora core 1 and it didn't even come close to being functional. pretty much everything i did resulted in my machine going slightly crazy. i was quite alarmed that fedora was gonna suck and never be much good, but by the time the final release of fedora core 1 came out, it installed perfectly and ran wonderfully on my laptop. so, hey, submit your bugs (or, if you're a better person than myself, fixes) and then wait for the final to come out and blow you away! :o)
that quote was from george bush senior, not george w. although i still find it appalling (and i'm not an atheist) it's good to check such things first. :o)
couldn't the student have claimed that he was protected under section 512 of the dmca? seems to me (admitidely after only a very quick glance) that he qualifies for the safe harbour provision.
... how embarressing! :o)
ooh, this is my first ever post. been reading for ages and just never said anything