You call your pathetic tabletop fusion reactor a hobby??? I laugh at your feeble inadequacy. My Zero Point Energy Extractor will leave you and your puny efforts as a minor footnote of history. As soon as I figure out how to get my dog back through the inter-dimensional vortex, I'm going public with it, and the world will see what a hobbyist can do, quantum bifurcation anomalies and fractional dimensional rifts be damned!
It's not about parsers, or parser generators, and particularly not about "parsing theory" at all. It's about writing programs that read and write programs; in the case of DSLs, it's about writing a program in one language, that accepts a program written in another (domain specific) language, which then either performs actions or writes yet another program. As an example, make, written in C, reads a makefile, which contains a domain-specific language which tells make what to do. Or, in the case of lex and yacc, two C programs which read files written in their own mini-languages and output a third program, the lexer/parser itself.
Back in the early 80's, I wrote a control program for a HIPOT tester (in FORTH) which read in a file that looked like:
Test1: Pin 5, 10000 volts, 10 seconds;
Test2: Pin 3, 15000 volts, 5 seconds; etc.
The control program ran the tests, determined pass/fail, printed failure tickets, etc. The test engineers never knew they were "writing programs", they just thought they were describing a series of test steps to perform.
"'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care"
Does this sentence bother any one else? Just me?
As physicists, they already suspended disbelief when they studied/accepted the Standard Model.
Errrr... So that would make Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, et al. the Maxwell's Demons who keep the idiots in? I think I'm beginning to understand...
It's not that the camera shakes more, it's that longer lenses magnify that shake more. Think about it, all other things being equal, if you're hand-holding two different lenses, say 100mmm and 200mm, the 200mm will have an image at twice the magnification, but half the area, and therefore, given the same amount of shake, will have exactly twice as much visible shake. I hope I explained that understandably.
Thousands and thousands of administrators from the education establishment all over the country unanimously agree to NOT exercise a single photon of power in their individual fiefdoms. goodluckwiththat.
1. Jesus saves - early and often. Or maybe you could just configure him to auto-save?
2. Who needs backups when you have faith?
3. Wait until you see our "firewall"!
4. Well, good, at least they're trying to convert those Linux heathens.
5. Some tools not included: head, finger, fsck...
6. "missionary" the only available filesystem (mount -t missionary - and then only for procreation)
7. Good news! Jesus healed the Gimp! Zombies raised from the dead!
8. Thou shalt not take the hostname in vain.
9. Honor thy PPID.
10. Thou shall not kill -9.
11. Those are penguins, not nuns!
Known bugs:
Sometimes Jesus thinks he's Richard Stallman.
Some of these, Parted Magic in particular, are just meant to be on a Live CD/DVD. Not all of the people who are going to use the Live CD are going to be full-time Linux users, or want to give up a partition for something they use once in a blue moon.
No, but it does serve to remind us just how tight tolerances and manufacturing procedures can be.
If you know anything at all about Dell, you know they're an assembler. The burden of quality should be on the motherboard manufacturer. Meanwhile, the ethics of replacing a bad motherboard (for a known component quality issue) with one with the same potential issue falls squarely on Dell.
Still, the employees tried to play down the problem to customers and allowed customers to rely on trouble-prone machines, putting their businesses at risk.
This is interesting to me because every open-source license, and every click-through license I've ever laid eyes on has the "merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose" clause in it. So how, then, does Turing MACHINERY have to meet this criteria, when the Turing TAPE does not?
P.S. Why are <blockquote> and <br> so borken in teh slashcode???
Slashdot Mirror
And what happens when I scratch my nose?
You must be new here! Shame on you!
Because lots and lots (and lots and lots) of people don't see the Genuine Advantage? That's how you get SP3 via Windows Update.
As created by computer scientists:
<Indian accent>
Yes, hello, I am here to be teaching you how to speak proper English, OK, OK.
</Indian accent>
You call your pathetic tabletop fusion reactor a hobby??? I laugh at your feeble inadequacy. My Zero Point Energy Extractor will leave you and your puny efforts as a minor footnote of history. As soon as I figure out how to get my dog back through the inter-dimensional vortex, I'm going public with it, and the world will see what a hobbyist can do, quantum bifurcation anomalies and fractional dimensional rifts be damned!
Think of it as the moderator modifying himself "clueless".
It's not about parsers, or parser generators, and particularly not about "parsing theory" at all. It's about writing programs that read and write programs; in the case of DSLs, it's about writing a program in one language, that accepts a program written in another (domain specific) language, which then either performs actions or writes yet another program. As an example, make, written in C, reads a makefile, which contains a domain-specific language which tells make what to do. Or, in the case of lex and yacc, two C programs which read files written in their own mini-languages and output a third program, the lexer/parser itself.
Back in the early 80's, I wrote a control program for a HIPOT tester (in FORTH) which read in a file that looked like:
Test1: Pin 5, 10000 volts, 10 seconds;
Test2: Pin 3, 15000 volts, 5 seconds;
etc.
The control program ran the tests, determined pass/fail, printed failure tickets, etc. The test engineers never knew they were "writing programs", they just thought they were describing a series of test steps to perform.
I LOL'ed. Shame this didn't get modded any better.
As physicists, they already suspended disbelief when they studied/accepted the Standard Model.
Oh puhleeeese. "The App" will only bring a lovely Chardonnay, with apple and melon notes, and a light, smooth, oak finish.
Voting is always a case of choosing between the lesser of two weasels.
Errrr... So that would make Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, et al. the Maxwell's Demons who keep the idiots in? I think I'm beginning to understand...
It's not that the camera shakes more, it's that longer lenses magnify that shake more. Think about it, all other things being equal, if you're hand-holding two different lenses, say 100mmm and 200mm, the 200mm will have an image at twice the magnification, but half the area, and therefore, given the same amount of shake, will have exactly twice as much visible shake. I hope I explained that understandably.
It's not near that noble. They simply can't be bothered.
Oh, and hat's off to the original GP troll for originality.
About the same number that buy $20 reading glasses from Wal-Mart at the wrong strength.
That's awesome! What I wouldn't give for a pair of the eyeglasses-mounted loupes like dentists/surgeons wear that could do that.
Yeah, we need to make sure they're an optician to run a smart-phone app, because there's so much science in repeatedly asking "Better, or Worse?".
Wearing a Microsoft product to advertise your "health" (as defined by Microsoft) to others would indicate severe brain damage.
The whole concept of "weight" is arbitrary - based on some LOCAL gravity.
Thousands and thousands of administrators from the education establishment all over the country unanimously agree to NOT exercise a single photon of power in their individual fiefdoms. goodluckwiththat.
I cracked myself up with "Honor thy PPID".
I swear to $DEITY I've never heard of Ubuntu Christian Edition before now.
1. Jesus saves - early and often. Or maybe you could just configure him to auto-save?
2. Who needs backups when you have faith?
3. Wait until you see our "firewall"!
4. Well, good, at least they're trying to convert those Linux heathens.
5. Some tools not included: head, finger, fsck...
6. "missionary" the only available filesystem (mount -t missionary - and then only for procreation)
7. Good news! Jesus healed the Gimp! Zombies raised from the dead!
8. Thou shalt not take the hostname in vain.
9. Honor thy PPID.
10. Thou shall not kill -9.
11. Those are penguins, not nuns!
Known bugs:
Sometimes Jesus thinks he's Richard Stallman.
vlc only plays G-rated AVIs.
$ mesg y
$ write god
write: god is not logged in
Some of these, Parted Magic in particular, are just meant to be on a Live CD/DVD. Not all of the people who are going to use the Live CD are going to be full-time Linux users, or want to give up a partition for something they use once in a blue moon.
No, but it does serve to remind us just how tight tolerances and manufacturing procedures can be.
If you know anything at all about Dell, you know they're an assembler. The burden of quality should be on the motherboard manufacturer. Meanwhile, the ethics of replacing a bad motherboard (for a known component quality issue) with one with the same potential issue falls squarely on Dell.
This is interesting to me because every open-source license, and every click-through license I've ever laid eyes on has the "merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose" clause in it. So how, then, does Turing MACHINERY have to meet this criteria, when the Turing TAPE does not?
P.S. Why are <blockquote> and <br> so borken in teh slashcode???