SCO: I present to the court exhibit A. Judge: What is it? SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I am a evil penguin", look at the way he waddles along in his "innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, OH NO! he doesn't fool SCO... Judge: Get the hell out of my court!
SCO: I present to the court exhibit A. Judge: What is it? SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I'm Evil", look at the way he waddles along in his "oh so innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, oh no, he doesn't fool SCO... Judge: Get the hell of my court!
This and an iPod combined, is a bad idea for presents:
"Awesome, got me a iPod! You know what's great about these, they are idiot proof, you don't even need the manual they're so easy to use, I think only a complete moron would need to read instructions on how to use these things, in fact I'm almost offended it includes a instruction manual. [...] So, what else did you get me? looks like a some kind of book.."
Ohio Inmate #7779: What you here for? Ohio Inmate #2466: I massacred almost an entire town, for the hell of it. What about you? Ohio Inmate #7779: I spam inboxes Ohio Inmate #2466: You make me sick! Ohio Inmate #7779: *Lowers head in shame*
If still not convinced - check out how many CPU instructions are wasted for such a simple thing as returning a C++ string object from a function. When I show it to C++ "gurus" many are enlightened.:)
Maybe you shouldn't do it then: take a pointer to a string object as an argument, and modify it directly, then you don't have to return anything.
BTW, why would you want to get more proficient in C? Programmers are abandoning C in droves. It's just not programmer-time efficient to do things in C anymore. It's one thing if you are maintaining a project that was written in C originally, but for new projects, C is a non-starter.
I think one of the problems is too many people are still spreading the myth that it's essential to learn C before moving on to C++, which is totally false, C++ is a language in itself, and can be treated as such. Learning C (unless you intend to use it) is a waste of time, and I would go so far to say learning C first will make you less producive in C++, because it teaches concepts which are not applicable, or are actually bad habits when used in C++. At least that's my view on the subject.
That said, C still has its uses, but for many projects (like parent said) it's a "non-starter"
That's just like saying that the Java people should work on building a language more like Python, instead of polishing Java. [...] This GUI is not buggy, it doesn't lack important features, but they made the choice to not copy Photoshop, and that's what it's all about.
This is true with some features (or lack of), but others are just common sense usability, for example: GIMP's lack previews for most filters.
I'm not the parent, but one of my major issues is the lack of previews for filters, applying an un-sharp mask (as an example) to an image, with no preview box is extremely time-consuming, and a major issue in my opinion.
I wasn't trolling, at least not intentionally. The GIMP (in my opinion) does have a very bad GUI, and this deserves far more focus, than the fairly irrelevant splash screen.
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Here's an extract:
...
SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
Judge: What is it?
SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I am a evil penguin", look at the way he waddles along in his "innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, OH NO! he doesn't fool SCO
Judge: Get the hell out of my court!
Here's an extract:
...
SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
Judge: What is it?
SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an *EVIL* penguin. Look at it's eyes, look at his eyes! the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I'm Evil", look at the way he waddles along in his "oh so innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us, oh no, he doesn't fool SCO
Judge: Get the hell of my court!
Maybe you just need to clean the inside of your mouse?
I don't have one, and I get along fine as a ++C programmer
This and an iPod combined, is a bad idea for presents:
.."
"Awesome, got me a iPod! You know what's great about these, they are idiot proof, you don't even need the manual they're so easy to use, I think only a complete moron would need to read instructions on how to use these things, in fact I'm almost offended it includes a instruction manual. [...] So, what else did you get me? looks like a some kind of book
Amazon: If you liked this book, we also recommend:
- You and your mouse: Learn all the tricks, and move your mouse in ways you've never imagined
- Hacking your kettle: 101 hacks and mods for your electric kettle
> Couldn't we follow this up the chain
I tested this theory once, the results are revealing:
Spam:
Spammers -> Zombie computers -> OS -> Microsoft -> Bill Gates
Road accidents:
Car manufactures -> Electrical malfunction -> On-board software -> Microsoft -> Bill Gates
Lack of cancer cure:
Inadequate Science -> Scientists -> Science education software -> Microsoft -> Bill Gates
World hunger:
Poverty -> Evil governments -> Government policy decision software -> Microsoft -> Bill Gates
And, that was about the time computer user "Secrity" postings mysteriously stopped appearing on /.
Seriously your views are rather stupid. Have you seen the Hitchcock film Rope? maybe you should, you might learn something.
Ohio Inmate #7779: What you here for?
Ohio Inmate #2466: I massacred almost an entire town, for the hell of it. What about you?
Ohio Inmate #7779: I spam inboxes
Ohio Inmate #2466: You make me sick!
Ohio Inmate #7779: *Lowers head in shame*
I prefer the Betamax Player defense; it involves indefinitely hitting the *AA over their arrogant heads with an industrial Betamax Player
Fair enough. I lost more karma complaining, so I've learnt my lesson.
> i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement and force them to memorize numbers.
This isn't the sort of thing you're supposed to tell people!
> Then why does it clearly say 1.2TB on the front of the case?
You missed the sub-text: "0.4TB of complimentary porn included"
> You don't get karma for funny mods.
I know but a lot of the time they get modded insightful or interesting also
Suprnova, oh sorry you said without stealing it.
You stole this line from me. Karma whore.
I buried my Microsoft keyboard ...
and now I have weeds.
I thought you meant this:
string hello_world()
{
return "hello world";
}
hello_world();
Which fits your description perfectly
Maybe you shouldn't do it then: take a pointer to a string object as an argument, and modify it directly, then you don't have to return anything.
I think one of the problems is too many people are still spreading the myth that it's essential to learn C before moving on to C++, which is totally false, C++ is a language in itself, and can be treated as such. Learning C (unless you intend to use it) is a waste of time, and I would go so far to say learning C first will make you less producive in C++, because it teaches concepts which are not applicable, or are actually bad habits when used in C++. At least that's my view on the subject.
That said, C still has its uses, but for many projects (like parent said) it's a "non-starter"
thanks, it's good to hear.
This is true with some features (or lack of), but others are just common sense usability, for example: GIMP's lack previews for most filters.
I'm not the parent, but one of my major issues is the lack of previews for filters, applying an un-sharp mask (as an example) to an image, with no preview box is extremely time-consuming, and a major issue in my opinion.
> Slashdot's topic icon for the GIMP is animated (the only animated icon). Watch his eyes. :-)
It's almost hypnotic ...
I wasn't trolling, at least not intentionally. The GIMP (in my opinion) does have a very bad GUI, and this deserves far more focus, than the fairly irrelevant splash screen.