Tell me, if you guys are so damn smart, then why are you out the presidency.
(Note: Americans are dumb is not an acceptable answer.)
The truth is never unacceptable to those in the know. The rest of the world sees the stereotypical american as fat, ignorant and gullible, so perhaps there is an element of truth in that stereotype. There's no smoke without fire and all that. It seems general consensus amongst the informed that Bush is a right wing, war mongering, low-brow liar. Do you have a hard time accepting that, or does it just not bother you?
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Use a simple data file format and allow for CRUD operations. Write a network server and GUI clients. Covers file IO, collections/data structures, networking and GUI.
Bit boring, mind:)
My interpretation of this was technologies that overlap - that you should never need to use together in the same job. I don't think "mutually exclusive" is the correct way to describe this either:)
My ex-manager: "I've written a lot of applications in MS ASP with VBScript." "I couldn't sleep one night so I wrote (crappy web app with absurdly grandiose name)."
The U.S. military forces in fact were shockingly successful.
I suppose that depends on your definition of success. If you consider barging in there with size 12s, blowing up innocent civilians left, right and centre thus alienating the entire population to be success, then yes.
Iraqis weren't ready to be liberated.
Correction, they weren't ready to be liberated by fuckwits barging in there with size 12s, killing innocent civilians left, right and centre, then setting up shop capitalising from the nations rich natural resources.
Not a troll - this is my opionion. You have yours, and this is mine.
... well, a 2.4GHz A64 CPU costs $600 or more, while this 3000+ is cheap, less than $180.
Very cool (haha) no doubt, but only if you don't mind a big old dirty car radiator under your desk. This may be an issue for people that have limited leg room or a very clean carpet:)
I see your point exactly - that numbers in general - both positive and negative - are an abstract concept. My point is that human brain (well mine anyway) has a harder time justifying the existence of negative numbers because they can't be represented physically, to the point that people devise mathematical equations to justify their existence.
So you're saying that a positive number can be easily thought of as have a psysical presence, but a negative number cannot. Thanks for re-iteraing my point.
i is the square root of -1, which is about as abstract a concept as you'll ever come up with
Negative numbers are pretty abstract in themselves. If I have 5 apples, you can't take away 10 because I only have 5. I can't possibly have -5 apples, because the fewest I can have is 0. So it's not surprising that the square root of a negative number is hard to fathom.
A standard implementation of a linked list of integers will now be 50 to 100% larger (depending on if you use 32 or 64 bit integers)
Use a linked list of arrays of 10 ints instead and use only 5 to 10% more space. They're only ints.. allocating memory for a few more then neceassary won't hurt in most situations:)
It looks like the Mozilla folks are going down the XUL route, which is more of a markup-and-script approach than a code-running-in-browser approach. It must be said that the markup-and-script approach seems to have been more successful thus far, despite the fact the markup was designed an age ago.
There are certainly similarities between these.NET controls and Java applets and I can't help thinking there's a chance these might go the same way as Java applets. Applets are problematic due to different VM vendors and versions. Do you think the.NET equivalent might suffer form the same problems? Are there any advantages over Java applets?
Actually, now you can embed.NET controls in webpages. Would be an alternative to ActiveX.
You're talking about.NET web controls, right? Web controls run at the server end and manifest themselves as bits of HTML and JavaScript in a web page. No.NET code is run on the client. The whole point of using ActiveX is that you need more that HTML and JavaScript have to offer. So, no,.NET web controls would not be an alternative to ActiveX:)
javascript is a horrible hack thought up by some drunk, off-duty engineer on toilet paper one day while reading the graphiti over the urinal at work
Nice troll! Seriously, what exactly is your problem with JavaScript? It is a standardised language that is quite powerful enough to handle anything reasonably expected of it. It's easy to learn and quite pleasant to work with.
Perhaps your beef with JavaScript lies with the variety of interpretations of the API, and bastardisation thereof. Don't confuse a language with an impementation of an API.
Obviously the developers of XUL think that JavaScript is worthy, and so they should. I'll be sideing with them, rather than your righteous self.
It's lousy, and not advancing
Taken from http://www.mozilla.org/js/js15.html: The next version of JavaScript will be the 2.0 release. 2.0 represents a rewrite of both the language specification and engine implementation... Your opinion that it's lousy is just that - your opinion. Please engage with some more considered argument before spouting your opinions.
Why can't a java VM be modularized so that language modules (javascript, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc) can be ported to the VM and let us use our language(s) of choice?
Yeap, because with a helthy dose of sarcasm, waiting half an hour for a VM load up which then consumes a tonne of system resources is really in the best interests of the user, not to mention that it's not complete overkill for simple maniplation of data and UI widgets.
Look at the securityfocus posting from a few weeks ago... firefox crashes on random HTML. All those crashes are potentially exploitable.
That doesn't really pose a real problem for using Mozilla as a development platform. The HTML parsing engine is a tiny part of the platform. Besides, crashes are simple to fix. Please remove your tinfoil hat now.
To be honest
You mean you were lying before?
the more I use Firefox, the more I dislike it. It really isn't that great
That's lovely, thanks for your opinon. Do you have any expanded points or references to back that up, or are we to take your opinion as the gospel truth?
Where is the -1 fuckwit mod option?
Matrox used to compete in the gaming market. In 97, the g400 had more advanced features than the equivalent Ati or nVidia card (bump mapping springs to mind). There was also a dual head version.
My opinion is that this card was too good for the gaming market, being both a good gaming and professional card.
I'd love to see someone write the unit test for this before coding as required by test-driven development:
You seem to be implying unit tests are only useful if you write them before the code. This is not the case. Also, it's not difficult to write tests that test behaviour parsing broken html. If the article author can do it, so can browser vendors.
Congratulations, you've just proven yourself an ignorant AC.
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Tell me, if you guys are so damn smart, then why are you out the presidency.
(Note: Americans are dumb is not an acceptable answer.)
The truth is never unacceptable to those in the know. The rest of the world sees the stereotypical american as fat, ignorant and gullible, so perhaps there is an element of truth in that stereotype. There's no smoke without fire and all that. It seems general consensus amongst the informed that Bush is a right wing, war mongering, low-brow liar. Do you have a hard time accepting that, or does it just not bother you?
Use a simple data file format and allow for CRUD operations. Write a network server and GUI clients. Covers file IO, collections/data structures, networking and GUI. Bit boring, mind :)
My interpretation of this was technologies that overlap - that you should never need to use together in the same job. I don't think "mutually exclusive" is the correct way to describe this either :)
My ex-manager:
"I've written a lot of applications in MS ASP with VBScript."
"I couldn't sleep one night so I wrote (crappy web app with absurdly grandiose name)."
The U.S. military forces in fact were shockingly successful.
I suppose that depends on your definition of success. If you consider barging in there with size 12s, blowing up innocent civilians left, right and centre thus alienating the entire population to be success, then yes.
Iraqis weren't ready to be liberated.
Correction, they weren't ready to be liberated by fuckwits barging in there with size 12s, killing innocent civilians left, right and centre, then setting up shop capitalising from the nations rich natural resources.
Not a troll - this is my opionion. You have yours, and this is mine.
Very cool (haha) no doubt, but only if you don't mind a big old dirty car radiator under your desk. This may be an issue for people that have limited leg room or a very clean carpet :)
How uninteresting and mediocre.
Hold on a minute, this is slashdot!
And some of the game consoles also show it can be done, if you get the volume high enough.
The XBox sells for £99 here in the UK - (about 190 USD) and MS are losing money on it.
I see your point exactly - that numbers in general - both positive and negative - are an abstract concept. My point is that human brain (well mine anyway) has a harder time justifying the existence of negative numbers because they can't be represented physically, to the point that people devise mathematical equations to justify their existence.
So you're saying that a positive number can be easily thought of as have a psysical presence, but a negative number cannot. Thanks for re-iteraing my point.
i is the square root of -1, which is about as abstract a concept as you'll ever come up with
Negative numbers are pretty abstract in themselves. If I have 5 apples, you can't take away 10 because I only have 5. I can't possibly have -5 apples, because the fewest I can have is 0. So it's not surprising that the square root of a negative number is hard to fathom.
What does that mean? :)
A standard implementation of a linked list of integers will now be 50 to 100% larger (depending on if you use 32 or 64 bit integers)
:)
Use a linked list of arrays of 10 ints instead and use only 5 to 10% more space. They're only ints.. allocating memory for a few more then neceassary won't hurt in most situations
Sorry, my bad :-)
IE only though :-(
It looks like the Mozilla folks are going down the XUL route, which is more of a markup-and-script approach than a code-running-in-browser approach. It must be said that the markup-and-script approach seems to have been more successful thus far, despite the fact the markup was designed an age ago.
There are certainly similarities between these .NET controls and Java applets and I can't help thinking there's a chance these might go the same way as Java applets. Applets are problematic due to different VM vendors and versions. Do you think the .NET equivalent might suffer form the same problems? Are there any advantages over Java applets?
Actually, now you can embed .NET controls in webpages. Would be an alternative to ActiveX.
.NET web controls, right? Web controls run at the server end and manifest themselves as bits of HTML and JavaScript in a web page. No .NET code is run on the client. The whole point of using ActiveX is that you need more that HTML and JavaScript have to offer. So, no, .NET web controls would not be an alternative to ActiveX :)
You're talking about
javascript is a horrible hack thought up by some drunk, off-duty engineer on toilet paper one day while reading the graphiti over the urinal at work
Nice troll! Seriously, what exactly is your problem with JavaScript? It is a standardised language that is quite powerful enough to handle anything reasonably expected of it. It's easy to learn and quite pleasant to work with.
Perhaps your beef with JavaScript lies with the variety of interpretations of the API, and bastardisation thereof. Don't confuse a language with an impementation of an API. Obviously the developers of XUL think that JavaScript is worthy, and so they should. I'll be sideing with them, rather than your righteous self.
It's lousy, and not advancing
Taken from http://www.mozilla.org/js/js15.html: The next version of JavaScript will be the 2.0 release. 2.0 represents a rewrite of both the language specification and engine implementation... Your opinion that it's lousy is just that - your opinion. Please engage with some more considered argument before spouting your opinions.
Why can't a java VM be modularized so that language modules (javascript, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc) can be ported to the VM and let us use our language(s) of choice?
Yeap, because with a helthy dose of sarcasm, waiting half an hour for a VM load up which then consumes a tonne of system resources is really in the best interests of the user, not to mention that it's not complete overkill for simple maniplation of data and UI widgets.
Look at the securityfocus posting from a few weeks ago... firefox crashes on random HTML. All those crashes are potentially exploitable.
That doesn't really pose a real problem for using Mozilla as a development platform. The HTML parsing engine is a tiny part of the platform. Besides, crashes are simple to fix. Please remove your tinfoil hat now.
To be honest
You mean you were lying before?
the more I use Firefox, the more I dislike it. It really isn't that great
That's lovely, thanks for your opinon. Do you have any expanded points or references to back that up, or are we to take your opinion as the gospel truth?
Where is the -1 fuckwit mod option?
She's better now, but those first few hours were pretty harrowing.
It was touch-and-go for the lawnmower.
Matrox still seem to be in the market
Which market? The gaming market?
Matrox used to compete in the gaming market. In 97, the g400 had more advanced features than the equivalent Ati or nVidia card (bump mapping springs to mind). There was also a dual head version.
My opinion is that this card was too good for the gaming market, being both a good gaming and professional card.
Wow, that's some feat of engineering. And I thought the A-Team were ingenious!
I'd love to see someone write the unit test for this before coding as required by test-driven development:
You seem to be implying unit tests are only useful if you write them before the code. This is not the case. Also, it's not difficult to write tests that test behaviour parsing broken html. If the article author can do it, so can browser vendors.
Congratulations, you've just proven yourself an ignorant AC.
This just in - a formal testing procedure helps reduce bugs.
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That's XSL-FO (eXtensible Style Language - Formatting Objects) - there's no such thing as XSLT-FO.
Use XSLT to transform your XML to DocBook, then use DocBook XSL to convert to XSL-FO, then Apache FOP to generate a PDF.
Alternatively, skip the DocBook step and transform straight to XSL-FO.