Seeing as we've #defined PEDANTIC 1 You forgot the \n 's at the end of your printf's, as well as the ()'s for main... Still, in the interests of open source, here is the reworked source...
void main (void) { printf("SLASHDOT SUCKS!!!\n"); printf("I PIMP TACO'S MOM!!!\n"); printf("SLASHDOT IS FOR COMMIES!!!\n"); }
Due to the viral nature of GPL, this is also GPL code. Although I dub it the "7337 h4xx0r d00d" release, which I believe is my right (if not I'm sure some/.er out there will correct me. Thank _you_, AC Dr Kool. Glad to see your coding is as good as your spelling...
Wasn't Qubit a 3D platform game with a cute jumping sprite about 15 years ago? And before anyone gets to it.... I guess a Beowulf cluster of these things is/is not possible!!!
No, you fumbduck, it's just that the media can get more mileage out of an established artist saying "this is bad" than Joe Nobody saying the same thing...
Yep. But it still takes money. Even with the availablity of cheap recording methods, like MP3 et al, who pays for my kit? I've been playing guitar for some time now, and I'm nearly at a professional rig. £850 - guitar (heavily modified Jackson Pro) £2000 - amp & speakers (There is only one Marshall) £1500 - rack effects (there are many effects!)
That's quite a bit of cash there. And how can I afford it? I'm a well paid professional nerd. Now, imagine your archetypal skint musician, a "Johnny B Goode" -"never really learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar just like ringing a bell" - where is this money going to come from? And before you say "well,s/he can get by with cheap equipment", don't even go there! Cheap equipment sounds cheap, so if what you want to hear is cheap garage bands then that's fine, but if you want quality then it costs. And whilst the media is ephemeral and easily distributable, you still need it created in the first place!
Nice. I've used Interbase on NT for the last year, and it's pretty much rock solid. Three crashes last year, full recovery each time - nice. The real kicker for Interbase is the fact it's so bloody small - it hardly eats any resources. OK, it does lack some features, but you can get around these with a little effort. As Linux gets ported to more and more embedded devices, there will be situations when a database will be useful. Interbase would plug that gap admirably. Inprise are to be congratulated on this bold move - I am hoping to see a resurgence of Borland as a market leader in compiler technology. They already are, IMHO, except in market share...
Yep. I've written what I would consider some of my finest whilst barely able to type... Wonder if there's any official study done into this... UN, if you're listening, grant me a million quid, and I promise to research faithfully!!!;) Hey, come on, I seem to recall experiments done with spiders & how they wove their web whilst under the influence of hash, coke and speed...
how many people would use a computer when they're drunk *holds hand up high* Yep. Pissed out of my tiny mind. Had to type with 2 fingers, and close one eye, because depth perception of vision had gone. Doesn't sound too hard? I was on call overnight for a trading system at a _large_ international merchant bank at the time..... Fixed the problem, the got a free taxi home !!! Hehehehe!!!!:) Anybody else got tales of drunken support?
If you had an unpublished technique and were prepared to publish it, then you got a 17 year monopoly on its use This is where the patent system and OSS conflict with intent. Patenting stuff enables you to be rewarded for your efforts, but still benefit society after you've made your money on your research investment. OSS, on the other hand, is never really driven by profit in the cash sense - the real "currency" of OSS is peer recognition and appreciation. And you only really begin to get that paid to you as an OSS developer by letting people freely use what you've written, then reading exactly how it was done.
The problem of all of the "prior art" arguments here is the patent issue is still an adversarial process. Even if there is "prior art", it must still be proved in a court of law, which cost money. Consider MegaBucks Inc, patenting, say the idea of a microkernel. Who is going to take them to court, even if there are 100 publicly available working microkernels already out there? I don't know how it works in the US, but one of the best part of the UK courts is loser pays. That way, a poor defendant with a good case is willing to go to court, because their legal expenses are met by the aggressor...
And the "over the shoulder boulder holder" - the bra. Designed to allow women to do more strenuous tasks without their bits flopping around (first prototype was made out of handherchiefs and string, IIRC..) My jury is still out on the WonderBra, though... Excellent when worn, although removal can sometimes disappoint... Advertising standards, anyone?
#include "offtopic.h" Seeing as the trained squirrels at/. (a description I'm beginning to feel is increasingly accurate...:( )don't seem to think that an online citizenship is either news for nerds or stuff that matters, I'll put the link in here... Join the first cyber nation! #include "rant.h" Would be nice if the submission process got a reason for rejection - something like "already posted/not interesting enough/poorly worded...". I've submitted 5 stories recently, all rejected for no apparent reason. So, fuck it, I'll restrict my contribution to/. to just comment postings...
Microsoft will release service packs of course (and probably charge for them) #include "FlameProofArmour.h" Nope. Micro$lop don't do that. And although it will piss people off (hell, it pisses _me_ off...) you can download most MS OS SP's through their web pages. And as I can hear the flamethrowers being ignited, I would say that a good few years ago, their bugfix for not being able to view global variables in the Visual C++ V1.0 debugger was "buy VC++ V1.1"... But then, you either pay for the CD, or for the net uptime to d/l 30+ MB... Linux will be WAY ahead of it very quickly I don't see that happening. Change will be driven & heavily involved with the major players first, and even if Red Hat manage to bump up their market share (fingers crossed) up. Think about it - you have to pay M$, Sun, Apple etc to develop device drivers so you can sell your product, and they will. But in the hardware market these days, the margins of "time to market" are increasingly slim. You try and cut a deal with Red Hat, and even if they develop the drivers in house, with programmer s signing NDA's, they still must publish the source... There's a big cut in your time to market, already. And also, Linux development is slow. Not that I'm knocking it; quite the opposite in fact. Linux is rock solid because hasty "bleeding edge" technology is never included. The hardware gets time to settle down; system programmers cut their teeth and make early mistakes. Then, after their lesson are learned, they write it into the kernel. That is Linux's strength, but I doubt Linux will ever be "cutting edge" stuff, as you comment suggests. Possibly, with the newfound capital that Linux companies can now inject into enhancements, Linux will catch up. But I don't want Linux to be playing the early adoption game - it burns capital and it results in uptime problems. aging Windows 2000 No again. Windows will always be at the forefront of technology. And it will continually suffer the reliability problems that I experience on a daily basis at work.
If you're talking about out and out raw speed, the there are no performance advantages in using Java. None. Java is slow. That said, it runs pretty much _anywhere_. If you doubt the enormous benefit of this, check the source of some fancy webpages. You'll see "if browser == netscape then elseif browser == IE" type statements in the page code. This is a huge pain in the arse when you're banging out the web pages - you must effectively write and test _each_ webpage for a variety of browsers. So, now, back to Java - it pretty much runs uniformly on anything. Not perfectly, but not far off, either. Multi platform code is a doddle. So if you write all your web server processes in Java, you can easily persuade your PHB to ditch NT in favour of a Linux box, with little re-testing, for example. You've just future proofed your webservers from shifts in hardware design, and all the associated costs. Nice.
magnesium burns very hot, but you can't just start it with a match Yes you can. You just have to make sure that the sulphur is still burning whilst you hold it to the Mg ribbon. I used to wind the Mg ribbon around a couple of match heads, then hold a match to that. You can also light Mg ribbon with a cigarette lighter, too - the trick is to make a few tears in the end you're trying to light, and hold the Mg right at the hottest part of the flame. Catalytic lighters rock, too!:)
Does this mean we should be less "nice" regarding the opposite sex? It works. I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing ('til they got a hold of me...:) with chicks, and although I had many female friends, they all "valued me too much as a friend" to want to start anything romantic with me. And every time their knobjockey boyfriends messed them around, they'd come to my shoulder to cry on. Then I got wise. I started being a bit of a bastard. I got laid more treating women as sex objects than people. Terrible thing to say, but it is true. This was an interesting experiment for a while. Then I woke up to how empty this all was, and how I was mistreating people. And I started to pull my head out of my arse, because I didn't like what I had become. (For the interested, I bet you never thought how "social engineering" concepts could get you laid... Email me privately (see my webpage for email link, at the bottom) if you want to talk to me further) ). So I kind of came full circle. And I think I've got the balance right, now - been seeing a lovely girl for 8 months, and all is well (as long as I tell her gcc means nothing to me:) So, in short, if you find yourself being used as a surrogate boyfriend without actually being one, start being a little less nice. But never stop treating your SO as a princess - just don't be a doormat. If you must put your SO on a pedestal, make sure it's so you can look up her skirt...
Absolutely!:) But don't forget that the word "robot" comes from the slavic "robota", meaning slavelike worker, so the usage can be considered correct in this instance. And don't forget, you get more "human interest" angles by having them controlled by RC... interviewers can ask "well, what went wrong there, Stuart" instead of "Well, here's the stack dump after the pneumatic axe smashed through the RAM chips, notice how the return address at offset 0xffe7 is corrupted..." Still, I think true robots should have their own league, too - they've been making maze navigator AI's for years now. And I remember a descendent of Core Wars which was a birds eye view of little tank creatures, which were programmed in a C like language, so there's a prototype of a simulator... Anybody remember what this was called / got a link?
'home gun ownership' is why we're free in the first place. Mmmm, I'm sure that a bunch of NRA enthusiasts will be able to easily defend their homesteads against a "wayward" government... They've got missiles, rockets, helicopters, spy satellites, cruise missiles et al. Still, the NRA's can buy Uzi 9mm, so I guess that evens it out a bit... I seem to remember that the Waco compound was quite well defended... Who won there?
...what US stands for. It is called Freedom. I thought it was "United States". Am I missing something here? The US also stands for doughnuts, piss beer and home gun ownership.
And who decides that it is poor choice? You? Nope. Dictionaries, grammar books and a decent education in the English language. I'm merely trying to educate - see what I get in return? Lead a horse to water and all that...
Thank you for upholding my point of many people holding the "Americans are idiots because they're not us" attitude. Thank you for upholding mine that by and large that you are... Proof... It is sadly true that Americans suffer a sever irony deficiency... And the scary thing is they let people like you breed... Bring on the gene mods, Prof Zarkoff!!!
Notice how another one of your post falls in line with your snotty superior attitude: See, there you go again!!! Incorrect words in place again.... Surely you meant to say :
Notice how another one of your post falls in line with your
vastly superior attitude:
school teachers may not like it, but everyone I converse with on a daily basis knows exactly what I mean.
Hmmm, much the way marmosets communicate with screams and grunts, I'm sure... Ug see, Ug kill, Ug eat...
Now, this also AIN'T the UK, so take your 'quality choice of words" and "true English fashion" and fuck off, you English-centric snothead.
Mmmm, best cut down on the tartrazine, old chap. Or the nurse will have to be called. Go get some education, lardboy. And some manners. The reason I flamed you first off was because you were arrogant and rude - two recognisably American traits. The word "fuck" is generally considered quite rude, and "Europe" is more than one country. And now you're whining about being picked on. Typical American - "I demand freedom, but I'm not prepared to accept the consequences of having it. Grow up, you fumbduck.
Yeah, the cynic in me growled a tad about this, as well... I think that the DVD consortium may have "informed" the judge that there would be hordes of seriously pissed off nerds congregating around the courthouse... Although nerds are not by nature violent. Vindictive, but not violent. So you have a bunch of nerds (or should it be a (Beowulf) cluster of nerds?:) with their laptops sitting outside the courthouse... And the news of a court case being dropped recently with one of the reasons being listed as the number of hack attempts on the litigating company... A nonviolent protest but they're all trying to outdo each other hacking? Hmmm, I don't know how good any of the protestors are... But I sure wouldn't want them poking at my servers... Worryingly, if I am correct, it just shows what side the judge is on already... I'm not advocating any h4x0ring of anything... But I wouldn't be surprised if there was an online backlash of more than empty rhetoric...
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You forgot the \n 's at the end of your printf's, as well as the ()'s for main...
Still, in the interests of open source, here is the reworked source...
void main (void)
{
printf("SLASHDOT SUCKS!!!\n");
printf("I PIMP TACO'S MOM!!!\n");
printf("SLASHDOT IS FOR COMMIES!!!\n");
}
Due to the viral nature of GPL, this is also GPL code. Although I dub it the "7337 h4xx0r d00d" release, which I believe is my right (if not I'm sure some
Thank _you_, AC Dr Kool. Glad to see your coding is as good as your spelling...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
And before anyone gets to it....
I guess a Beowulf cluster of these things is/is not possible!!!
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
ROTFLMFAOTSDME!!!
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
But it still takes money.
Even with the availablity of cheap recording methods, like MP3 et al, who pays for my kit? I've been playing guitar for some time now, and I'm nearly at a professional rig.
£850 - guitar (heavily modified Jackson Pro)
£2000 - amp & speakers (There is only one Marshall)
£1500 - rack effects (there are many effects!)
That's quite a bit of cash there. And how can I afford it? I'm a well paid professional nerd.
Now, imagine your archetypal skint musician, a "Johnny B Goode" -"never really learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar just like ringing a bell" - where is this money going to come from?
And before you say "well
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
The real kicker for Interbase is the fact it's so bloody small - it hardly eats any resources. OK, it does lack some features, but you can get around these with a little effort.
As Linux gets ported to more and more embedded devices, there will be situations when a database will be useful. Interbase would plug that gap admirably.
Inprise are to be congratulated on this bold move - I am hoping to see a resurgence of Borland as a market leader in compiler technology. They already are, IMHO, except in market share...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
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1 4|\/| 7h3 |_|71m473 31337 h4xxx0r @@@@###'''####!!!
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#include "stddisclaimer.h"
Just kidding, CT!
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Wonder if there's any official study done into this... UN, if you're listening, grant me a million quid, and I promise to research faithfully!!!
Hey, come on, I seem to recall experiments done with spiders & how they wove their web whilst under the influence of hash, coke and speed...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
*holds hand up high*
Yep. Pissed out of my tiny mind. Had to type with 2 fingers, and close one eye, because depth perception of vision had gone.
Doesn't sound too hard? I was on call overnight for a trading system at a _large_ international merchant bank at the time.....
Fixed the problem, the got a free taxi home !!! Hehehehe!!!!
Anybody else got tales of drunken support?
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
This is where the patent system and OSS conflict with intent. Patenting stuff enables you to be rewarded for your efforts, but still benefit society after you've made your money on your research investment. OSS, on the other hand, is never really driven by profit in the cash sense - the real "currency" of OSS is peer recognition and appreciation. And you only really begin to get that paid to you as an OSS developer by letting people freely use what you've written, then reading exactly how it was done.
The problem of all of the "prior art" arguments here is the patent issue is still an adversarial process. Even if there is "prior art", it must still be proved in a court of law, which cost money. Consider MegaBucks Inc, patenting, say the idea of a microkernel. Who is going to take them to court, even if there are 100 publicly available working microkernels already out there?
I don't know how it works in the US, but one of the best part of the UK courts is loser pays. That way, a poor defendant with a good case is willing to go to court, because their legal expenses are met by the aggressor...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Designed to allow women to do more strenuous tasks without their bits flopping around (first prototype was made out of handherchiefs and string, IIRC..)
My jury is still out on the WonderBra, though... Excellent when worn, although removal can sometimes disappoint... Advertising standards, anyone?
#include "offtopic.h"
Seeing as the trained squirrels at
#include "rant.h"
Would be nice if the submission process got a reason for rejection - something like "already posted/not interesting enough/poorly worded...". I've submitted 5 stories recently, all rejected for no apparent reason. So, fuck it, I'll restrict my contribution to
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
#include "FlameProofArmour.h"
Nope. Micro$lop don't do that. And although it will piss people off (hell, it pisses _me_ off...) you can download most MS OS SP's through their web pages. And as I can hear the flamethrowers being ignited, I would say that a good few years ago, their bugfix for not being able to view global variables in the Visual C++ V1.0 debugger was "buy VC++ V1.1"... But then, you either pay for the CD, or for the net uptime to d/l 30+ MB...
Linux will be WAY ahead of it very quickly
I don't see that happening. Change will be driven & heavily involved with the major players first, and even if Red Hat manage to bump up their market share (fingers crossed) up. Think about it - you have to pay M$, Sun, Apple etc to develop device drivers so you can sell your product, and they will. But in the hardware market these days, the margins of "time to market" are increasingly slim. You try and cut a deal with Red Hat, and even if they develop the drivers in house, with programmer s signing NDA's, they still must publish the source... There's a big cut in your time to market, already.
And also, Linux development is slow. Not that I'm knocking it; quite the opposite in fact. Linux is rock solid because hasty "bleeding edge" technology is never included. The hardware gets time to settle down; system programmers cut their teeth and make early mistakes. Then, after their lesson are learned, they write it into the kernel. That is Linux's strength, but I doubt Linux will ever be "cutting edge" stuff, as you comment suggests. Possibly, with the newfound capital that Linux companies can now inject into enhancements, Linux will catch up. But I don't want Linux to be playing the early adoption game - it burns capital and it results in uptime problems.
aging Windows 2000
No again. Windows will always be at the forefront of technology. And it will continually suffer the reliability problems that I experience on a daily basis at work.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
That said, it runs pretty much _anywhere_. If you doubt the enormous benefit of this, check the source of some fancy webpages. You'll see "if browser == netscape then elseif browser == IE" type statements in the page code. This is a huge pain in the arse when you're banging out the web pages - you must effectively write and test _each_ webpage for a variety of browsers.
So, now, back to Java - it pretty much runs uniformly on anything. Not perfectly, but not far off, either. Multi platform code is a doddle. So if you write all your web server processes in Java, you can easily persuade your PHB to ditch NT in favour of a Linux box, with little re-testing, for example. You've just future proofed your webservers from shifts in hardware design, and all the associated costs. Nice.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
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Notes to secret squirrels everywhere - I'm kidding, OK?
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Yes you can. You just have to make sure that the sulphur is still burning whilst you hold it to the Mg ribbon. I used to wind the Mg ribbon around a couple of match heads, then hold a match to that. You can also light Mg ribbon with a cigarette lighter, too - the trick is to make a few tears in the end you're trying to light, and hold the Mg right at the hottest part of the flame. Catalytic lighters rock, too!
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
It works.
I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing ('til they got a hold of me...
Then I got wise.
I started being a bit of a bastard.
I got laid more treating women as sex objects than people. Terrible thing to say, but it is true.
This was an interesting experiment for a while. Then I woke up to how empty this all was, and how I was mistreating people. And I started to pull my head out of my arse, because I didn't like what I had become. (For the interested, I bet you never thought how "social engineering" concepts could get you laid... Email me privately (see my webpage for email link, at the bottom) if you want to talk to me further) ).
So I kind of came full circle. And I think I've got the balance right, now - been seeing a lovely girl for 8 months, and all is well (as long as I tell her gcc means nothing to me
So, in short, if you find yourself being used as a surrogate boyfriend without actually being one, start being a little less nice. But never stop treating your SO as a princess - just don't be a doormat. If you must put your SO on a pedestal, make sure it's so you can look up her skirt...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
A friend of mine swears by champagne. He calls it "the universal knicker solvent"...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
But don't forget that the word "robot" comes from the slavic "robota", meaning slavelike worker, so the usage can be considered correct in this instance.
And don't forget, you get more "human interest" angles by having them controlled by RC... interviewers can ask "well, what went wrong there, Stuart" instead of "Well, here's the stack dump after the pneumatic axe smashed through the RAM chips, notice how the return address at offset 0xffe7 is corrupted..."
Still, I think true robots should have their own league, too - they've been making maze navigator AI's for years now. And I remember a descendent of Core Wars which was a birds eye view of little tank creatures, which were programmed in a C like language, so there's a prototype of a simulator... Anybody remember what this was called / got a link?
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Mmmm, I'm sure that a bunch of NRA enthusiasts will be able to easily defend their homesteads against a "wayward" government... They've got missiles, rockets, helicopters, spy satellites, cruise missiles et al. Still, the NRA's can buy Uzi 9mm, so I guess that evens it out a bit...
I seem to remember that the Waco compound was quite well defended... Who won there?
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
I thought it was "United States".
Am I missing something here? The US also stands for doughnuts, piss beer and home gun ownership.
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Quite apt, really...
Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
Nope. Dictionaries, grammar books and a decent education in the English language. I'm merely trying to educate - see what I get in return? Lead a horse to water and all that...
Thank you for upholding my point of many people holding the "Americans are idiots because they're not us" attitude.
Thank you for upholding mine that by and large that you are... Proof... It is sadly true that Americans suffer a sever irony deficiency... And the scary thing is they let people like you breed... Bring on the gene mods, Prof Zarkoff!!!
Notice how another one of your post falls in line with your snotty superior attitude:
See, there you go again!!! Incorrect words in place again.... Surely you meant to say :
school teachers may not like it, but everyone I converse with on a daily basis knows exactly what I mean.
Hmmm, much the way marmosets communicate with screams and grunts, I'm sure... Ug see, Ug kill, Ug eat...
Now, this also AIN'T the UK, so take your 'quality choice of words" and "true English fashion" and fuck off, you English-centric snothead.
Mmmm, best cut down on the tartrazine, old chap. Or the nurse will have to be called. Go get some education, lardboy. And some manners. The reason I flamed you first off was because you were arrogant and rude - two recognisably American traits. The word "fuck" is generally considered quite rude, and "Europe" is more than one country. And now you're whining about being picked on. Typical American - "I demand freedom, but I'm not prepared to accept the consequences of having it.
Grow up, you fumbduck.
Yeah, the cynic in me growled a tad about this, as well... I think that the DVD consortium may have "informed" the judge that there would be hordes of seriously pissed off nerds congregating around the courthouse... Although nerds are not by nature violent. Vindictive, but not violent. So you have a bunch of nerds (or should it be a (Beowulf) cluster of nerds? :) with their laptops sitting outside the courthouse...
And the news of a court case being dropped recently with one of the reasons being listed as the number of hack attempts on the litigating company...
A nonviolent protest but they're all trying to outdo each other hacking? Hmmm, I don't know how good any of the protestors are... But I sure wouldn't want them poking at my servers... Worryingly, if I am correct, it just shows what side the judge is on already...
I'm not advocating any h4x0ring of anything... But I wouldn't be surprised if there was an online backlash of more than empty rhetoric...