I'd rather trust an anti-war veteran than a warmongering deserter. Technically, Bush isn't a deserter, but using contacts to go into the national guard was clearly an attempt to avoid going to war, which is also what a deserter does (avoid going to war).
We all know that Kerry is a war hero, and we all know he's against war. He has been since Vietnam. This "We know nothing about Kerry" is just more republican propaganda.
We also all know that Dick Cheney makes money because of the war through Halliburton. Isn't it clear that this war doesn't exist to "spread democracy" or "chase terrorists", but to give money to friends of the republican party? Sure, corruption would also exist if Kerry would have won, but I doubt it would be THAT blatant.
I'm glad I'm not american. Here in Canada, most of us can clearly see the sillyness of this all.
"but my stomach turns at just thinking about allocating memory for a single item"
If you have an array of objects, you will have to instantiate them one at the time anyway, so you will still have your memory fragmentation.
Huh, I just want to be sure: You're not using arrays with structures directly in it right? In this case, the cost of re-allocating the whole array is *much* higher than the cost of reallocating an array of pointers!
Anyway, this kind of array is only possible if you use structures, it won't work for objects (Well, in object pascal, an array of TObject is an array of pointer).
Besides, inserts and deletetions in an array are costly. In a linked list, it's only 4 pointers to change, or 2 if that's a single linked list.
Maybe my previous example wasn't good, because yes, just giving a callback function is a better way to proceed, but there *are* uses to linked lists.
Ok, now I will maybe sound stupid because I'm completely off-track, but I have an example where the best data structure to use would be a linked list.
If I have to get a list of files in a directory, including all the subdirectories. When I start the scan, I have no idea how many files I will have, so I can't alloc an array without either overallocating, or having to realloc several times during the scan.
I don't have to search through the results, I only have to go through it. To reduce the overhead, I could even use a single linked list instead of a double linked list.
Oh well, the structure choice all depends of what you want to do with the results after, but I do think that linked list are useful when you have no idea how many results you'll get and you know you'll have to do a lot of inserts. As long as you browse the structure with First/Next, and not indexes.
To be able to speak on a radio frequency is a "privilege" the CRTC gives. And it gives this privilege as long as you don't say stupid things on it.
I could say "Hey! how come I can't have my own radio program? I want my speech freedom back!".
This silly "Jeff Fillion" can say *everything* he wants in the street, nobody is going to put him in jail. Thus, his speech freedom is respected.
Besides, even in the US, libel is illegal I think, and THAT is what he did.
If I could have my own radio station in the US, I would claim that dick cheney is a goddamn corrupted politician who pushed the war to get richer with halliburton. Without proofs, it would be libel, and my radio program would be shut down.
This radio station *really* had unnaceptable content (a.k.a nearly neo-nazi content). It's a good thing they're shutting them up (It isn't even shut yet!).
Your freedom starts where other's freedom ends.
There might be a lot, but certainly not 100% of the slashdot readers. Besides, the comment says it: only 30% of the/. readers use FF.
I'll probably get flamed to death for writing this, but I think a lot of OSS people are hypocrits. They claim "Source should be free! Source should be free!" and then beg for money. I know that "free software" is not like "free beer", but if you expect to make a lot of money from an OSS, you're a fool.
Besides, is all the donated money distributed to every single developer who worked on FF? Or is it all going into aol's pockets (mozilla is netscape is aol right?)? I see this as a kind of disguised slavery "Work on an OSS project for free, people! It's for a good cause. (And then I collect money from donations)". I almost prefer paying for Opera instead (In fact, I did buy it, but I use FF). At least, I know that every developer who worked on Opera has been paid for their work.
Bottom line: OSS is a cute philosophy, but as long as you don't start begging for money to your users.
Before taking back the web, I think Firefox team should start by making their website W3C valid.
I noticed that today: Firefox page and "spread firefox" page are both invalid html code. Is it just be or they are supposed to be the ones caring about standards?
Oh That's in my plans. However, I wouldn't use freepascal for window binaries because their compiler is not as optimized as borland's. However, FPC/Lazarus is extremely interesting for cross platform development.
Oh well, I'd really like to be proved wrong here, because I know that since Anders left, Borland's going down, but as a developer who is not in the OSS stuff, what better option do I have than Delphi?
Python: This really look interesting. I would gladly jump in this bandwagon BUT, I'm not in the OSS stuff. How the heck am I supposed to distribute applications on the internet without also distributing the sources? If there's a way, I'd like to know:)
C#: This too, looks interesting, but from what I read, it has few advantages over Delphi. Remember that it is the creator of Delphi who created C#, and he included a lot of Delphi concepts in C#.
VB: Don't make me laugh.
C++: I don't like the language, and it has few advantages over Delphi. And Object Pascal is much more graceful.
Java: even uglier than C++.
Since I have a quite large code library in Delphi, I don't think I'll move anytime soon. I guess I'm not the only one in this situation. Thus, stop saying Borland is dead, or tell me about an alternative language I should learn.
Even if this comment is modded as funny, it is quite an insightful comment.
This is role-playing. If I play D&D and I can't enter the realm of elves because I am a mere human, will I quit playing because this game is racist? No, because that is "Role-playing", and playing a role in a defined environment is the *point* of the game.
The female players could have decided to play a male character instead, and they would *never* have been treated inequally because they were women.
Thus, it is not the *player* who is victim of sexism, but the *character*. If you can't make the difference, you shouldn't be role-playing.
Right on. If I can get a PS2 cheap, I'll finally be able to play GT3! yay!
Besides, Zelda on the N64 is still as good as it was a couple of years ago (as long as you play it for the first time).
Waiting is the best way to make good choices. And when more people will do it, maybe it will send a strong signal to game publishers/developers: Stop overhyping, I'm not going to buy your game right away anyway. Aim long term.
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In the same cell as a gay rapist. It should be enough for him to never spam again.
I'm not sure if I remember the quote correctly, but it was quite funny:
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... I'm out of gum."
I'd rather trust an anti-war veteran than a warmongering deserter. Technically, Bush isn't a deserter, but using contacts to go into the national guard was clearly an attempt to avoid going to war, which is also what a deserter does (avoid going to war).
We all know that Kerry is a war hero, and we all know he's against war. He has been since Vietnam. This "We know nothing about Kerry" is just more republican propaganda.
We also all know that Dick Cheney makes money because of the war through Halliburton. Isn't it clear that this war doesn't exist to "spread democracy" or "chase terrorists", but to give money to friends of the republican party? Sure, corruption would also exist if Kerry would have won, but I doubt it would be THAT blatant.
I'm glad I'm not american. Here in Canada, most of us can clearly see the sillyness of this all.
"but my stomach turns at just thinking about allocating memory for a single item"
If you have an array of objects, you will have to instantiate them one at the time anyway, so you will still have your memory fragmentation.
Huh, I just want to be sure: You're not using arrays with structures directly in it right? In this case, the cost of re-allocating the whole array is *much* higher than the cost of reallocating an array of pointers!
Anyway, this kind of array is only possible if you use structures, it won't work for objects (Well, in object pascal, an array of TObject is an array of pointer).
Besides, inserts and deletetions in an array are costly. In a linked list, it's only 4 pointers to change, or 2 if that's a single linked list.
Maybe my previous example wasn't good, because yes, just giving a callback function is a better way to proceed, but there *are* uses to linked lists.
Ok, now I will maybe sound stupid because I'm completely off-track, but I have an example where the best data structure to use would be a linked list.
If I have to get a list of files in a directory, including all the subdirectories. When I start the scan, I have no idea how many files I will have, so I can't alloc an array without either overallocating, or having to realloc several times during the scan.
I don't have to search through the results, I only have to go through it. To reduce the overhead, I could even use a single linked list instead of a double linked list.
Oh well, the structure choice all depends of what you want to do with the results after, but I do think that linked list are useful when you have no idea how many results you'll get and you know you'll have to do a lot of inserts. As long as you browse the structure with First/Next, and not indexes.
Bush can always say "We're at war", but saying "We'll still be at war in 4 years" might not be a good idea.
To be able to speak on a radio frequency is a "privilege" the CRTC gives. And it gives this privilege as long as you don't say stupid things on it.
I could say "Hey! how come I can't have my own radio program? I want my speech freedom back!".
This silly "Jeff Fillion" can say *everything* he wants in the street, nobody is going to put him in jail. Thus, his speech freedom is respected.
Besides, even in the US, libel is illegal I think, and THAT is what he did.
If I could have my own radio station in the US, I would claim that dick cheney is a goddamn corrupted politician who pushed the war to get richer with halliburton. Without proofs, it would be libel, and my radio program would be shut down.
This radio station *really* had unnaceptable content (a.k.a nearly neo-nazi content). It's a good thing they're shutting them up (It isn't even shut yet!). Your freedom starts where other's freedom ends.
"Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Launches"
I'm not buying that. Here's the cost of your early SWG release, SOE.
"Vote Bush in november" is the next thing you'll say I guess.
"do you really think IBM rely on donations?"
That is *exactly* what I meant: Great, make some OSS, but do not rely on donations (a.k.a. begging users for money).
There might be a lot, but certainly not 100% of the slashdot readers. Besides, the comment says it: only 30% of the /. readers use FF.
I'll probably get flamed to death for writing this, but I think a lot of OSS people are hypocrits. They claim "Source should be free! Source should be free!" and then beg for money. I know that "free software" is not like "free beer", but if you expect to make a lot of money from an OSS, you're a fool.
Besides, is all the donated money distributed to every single developer who worked on FF? Or is it all going into aol's pockets (mozilla is netscape is aol right?)? I see this as a kind of disguised slavery "Work on an OSS project for free, people! It's for a good cause. (And then I collect money from donations)". I almost prefer paying for Opera instead (In fact, I did buy it, but I use FF). At least, I know that every developer who worked on Opera has been paid for their work.
Bottom line: OSS is a cute philosophy, but as long as you don't start begging for money to your users.
The product page (invalid one) has been created last.
Interesting. I wonder which page has been created first: The project page or the product page.
Before taking back the web, I think Firefox team should start by making their website W3C valid.
I noticed that today: Firefox page and "spread firefox" page are both invalid html code. Is it just be or they are supposed to be the ones caring about standards?
Thanks. I'll certainly have to look for that, because I really do like what I know of python :)
Well, even if they would pull the plug, I could still develop in Delphi: I still use Delphi 5.
Yes, if they would do that, I would really have to start to think about migrating to another language, but that wouldn't be urgent, nor dramatic.
Oh That's in my plans. However, I wouldn't use freepascal for window binaries because their compiler is not as optimized as borland's. However, FPC/Lazarus is extremely interesting for cross platform development.
Oh well, I'd really like to be proved wrong here, because I know that since Anders left, Borland's going down, but as a developer who is not in the OSS stuff, what better option do I have than Delphi?
:)
Python: This really look interesting. I would gladly jump in this bandwagon BUT, I'm not in the OSS stuff. How the heck am I supposed to distribute applications on the internet without also distributing the sources? If there's a way, I'd like to know
C#: This too, looks interesting, but from what I read, it has few advantages over Delphi. Remember that it is the creator of Delphi who created C#, and he included a lot of Delphi concepts in C#.
VB: Don't make me laugh.
C++: I don't like the language, and it has few advantages over Delphi. And Object Pascal is much more graceful.
Java: even uglier than C++.
Since I have a quite large code library in Delphi, I don't think I'll move anytime soon. I guess I'm not the only one in this situation. Thus, stop saying Borland is dead, or tell me about an alternative language I should learn.
Delphi 5 works well with SP2 here... Where have you heard that delphi + sp2 thing?
I can't remember his name, but he was indeed behind all the greatness of Delphi, and was hired by Microsoft. IIRC, he's the one behind C#.
*sigh* Imagine what Delphi would be today...
Even if this comment is modded as funny, it is quite an insightful comment.
This is role-playing. If I play D&D and I can't enter the realm of elves because I am a mere human, will I quit playing because this game is racist? No, because that is "Role-playing", and playing a role in a defined environment is the *point* of the game.
The female players could have decided to play a male character instead, and they would *never* have been treated inequally because they were women.
Thus, it is not the *player* who is victim of sexism, but the *character*. If you can't make the difference, you shouldn't be role-playing.
Right on. If I can get a PS2 cheap, I'll finally be able to play GT3! yay!
Besides, Zelda on the N64 is still as good as it was a couple of years ago (as long as you play it for the first time).
Waiting is the best way to make good choices. And when more people will do it, maybe it will send a strong signal to game publishers/developers: Stop overhyping, I'm not going to buy your game right away anyway. Aim long term.
"there have been a TON of large projects done using Pascal"
And everyone knows that it takes a *lot* of source code to make a ton of it.
There are much more (and good!) application written in Pascal than you think. Sourceforge has, I think, a good amount of project written in Pascal.
Basides, C is so ungraceful. bleh!