So python doesn't allow operator overloading? if it did you coulda done it yourself. and that's no fun not having
operator overloading. it's always good to make a class whose + operator subtracts and whose - operator adds. or
something...
What are you talking about? Python has had operator overloading for as long as I have used it (which is only since version 1.5;). Of course operator overloading _doesn't_ mean create new operators at will, it means overload the existing ones. So you have always been able to overload the + operator and now you will be able to overload the += operator. Joy!
The text terminals at uni don't. My server here at work doesn't. The windows ssh client I am sometimes forced to use doesn't. My new box before I get X running and I need to look up the web to find docs on how to get an X server running.
Bandwidth is often an issue. w3m looks a shitload better than netscape et al with images turned off.
Theres just a couple of situations. I'm also guessing that if and when any wants to write a voice browser it would be a lot easier to work with the code base of w3m or lynx which than netscape/ mozilla (although that is _pure_ speculation;)
XHTML is basically just HTML4.0 rewritten so that is complies with the XML standard. Luckily this doesn't break older browsers at all. Actually not really luck, just good design.
The reason this is done is so that you can use a generic XML parser to parse (X)HTML files as well, which is great if you need to manipulate/create HTML files dynamically.
Your last comment bugs me the most so I'll start their:
>And, I'm sorry, but/. shouldn't be interviewing >convicted felons.
Why not? That is a ridiculous. I thought the whole point of gaol was for rehabilitation (well that is the idea here in Australia anyway). Surely if he has been released then the courts believe he is ready to go back into society.
He seems perfect for a slashdot interview. He seems like an interesting person. Would have some intereresting 'insights' after serving 5 years in prison. Might actually be a deterent to those crackers out there to here how shit life in prison is. Didn't slashdot interview l0pht a while back? Surely Kevin is just as worth of an interview as they are.
Now to my second comment:
Sorry, Kevin, you're just going to have to go be something other than an IT worker. That still leaves lots open. And plenty of non-menial jobs, too.
Whilst this is true, try and think of one where a computer isn't involved? Dcotor? scratch. Lawyer? scratch. Engineer? scratch. Mathemtician? scratch. Business? scratch. Secretary? scratch. Shop Assistant? scratch.
Come nearly every job these days require some computer interaction. Both my parents use computers and there job isn't at all IT related (Travel Agent and Nurse). My uncle uses a computer and he is in the army. For fsck sake my grandfather uses a computer and he is a farmer.
There really aren't going to be that many jobs available for him.
I like the way you say "the layman is smarter than you give him credit for" and yet your signature says "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Lazarus Long"
There are too many reasons why to enumerate here however I suggest checking out http://www.zope.org for more information.
I think one vey good part of Zope is that it encourages you to seperate presentation from system logic.
(Also acquisition is _really_ powerful, not to mention the way it allows multiple people to easily help create the one website, also the fact that it supports many open protocols, one interesting one being XML-RPC.)
He was no more off-topic than the original post. If anything that should be the one marked as off-topic.
It is quite obvious that fizik was pointing out, in a humurous manner, that having linux on a Palm is about as useful as having Linux on a toaster and microwave.
I am by no means a Latex nerd, and definately not a maths nerd. I use LaTeX and XFig to typeset all my Digital Design Work. It is great for doing things like tables and makes things like overstrikes dead simple.
I do think there are provisions for sharing the load between two or more servers. I think it would be worth checking the docs if this is a problem for youi.
However I agree that since it directly reads the fs it isn't really the best solution. I am at the moment attempting to rewrite _some_ parts of it in Zope as a front end and imap and postgres as the backend.
Actually I have it running quite swimmingly under Debian, and I'm pretty sure it is under the GPL. (Although they do prefer it if you get a support contract from them) Benno
I somewhat agree with this your assertion. It would be nice if people were judged on their skills and not a piece of paper.
As an employer however I think that a piece of paper does actually represent something. Having a degree in computer science or computer engineering *does* mean something to employers. It is proof that someone has at least completed the minimum requirements for this degree. This makes it a lot easier for an employer. They don't need to extensively test prospective employees as the university has already done this.
Sure academic smarts are only one factor you look for in a prospective employee but it is a big factor, and having a degree lends a certain amount of proof to this.
(I realise that this is not true in 100% of cases, there are people that do get degrees and are totally clueless. However I am talking in the majority of cases.)
Yeah, used gcc lately?? There is also the cygwin project which has ported a lot of GNU software to linux using its posix layer. If you want to create native windows exe (ie without the cygwin posix extension) then you can use mingw for this purpose. Hell you can even cross compile from your linux box to windows which really rocks. Benno
Slashdot Mirror
Surely the advantage of better graphics cards is to provide higher resolution rather than huge fps at low res?
I mean if you can do 200fps at 640x480 you should be able to bump it up to 1024x768 and still maintain a decent frame rate.
Benno
> IA64 blows. Nobody uses it nor will they ever. Time to grow up, intel.
Nobody uses it? Well since it hasn't really been released yet that is kinda of understandable.
Also have you actually looked at the instruction set? They have some really novel stuff. If it is new then go for it, patent it.
However like a previous poster said, the patent system would be great if it was 3-5 years patents, not 20 year patents.
Benno
So python doesn't allow operator overloading? if it did you coulda done it yourself. and that's no fun not having
operator overloading. it's always good to make a class whose + operator subtracts and whose - operator adds. or
something...
What are you talking about? Python has had operator overloading for as long as I have used it (which is only since version 1.5
Should that be Tweele-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber ;)
Steps to getting a geek house
1/ Find some friends
2/ Go rent house
3/ Get hi-speed net axs
4/ Connect computers to network
Come on, really it isn't that hard! Which part are
you actually having trouble with? (I'm guessing
it is part 1).
Am i the only one that can't reach this site. I get server reset errors.
Oh well
Pointless comment of the night!
Not everything has X. Pretty simple reason.
;)
The text terminals at uni don't.
My server here at work doesn't.
The windows ssh client I am sometimes forced to
use doesn't.
My new box before I get X running and I need to
look up the web to find docs on how to get an X
server running.
Bandwidth is often an issue. w3m looks a shitload better than netscape et al with images turned off.
Theres just a couple of situations. I'm also
guessing that if and when any wants to write a
voice browser it would be a lot easier to work with
the code base of w3m or lynx which than netscape/
mozilla (although that is _pure_ speculation
Benno
OK
XHTML is basically just HTML4.0 rewritten so that
is complies with the XML standard. Luckily this
doesn't break older browsers at all. Actually
not really luck, just good design.
The reason this is done is so that you can use a
generic XML parser to parse (X)HTML files as well,
which is great if you need to manipulate/create
HTML files dynamically.
For more information check out http://www.w3.org
Cheers,
Benno
Yeah but at least Austrlia is the greatest
sporting nation in the world.
World Cup Rugby
World Cup Cricket
Hockey World Cup
Davis Cup
Netball World Cup
Baseball World Cup
Damn we're good
Better still lets create MST (Microsoft Standard Time) which can run striaght throught the center of Redmond.
Then all will be good with the world.
Benno
Your last comment bugs me the most so I'll start their:
/. shouldn't be interviewing >convicted felons.
>And, I'm sorry, but
Why not? That is a ridiculous. I thought the whole point of gaol was for rehabilitation (well that is the idea here in Australia anyway). Surely if he has been released then the courts believe he is ready to go back into society.
He seems perfect for a slashdot interview. He seems like an interesting person. Would have some intereresting 'insights' after serving 5 years in prison. Might actually be a deterent to those crackers out there to here how shit life in prison is. Didn't slashdot interview l0pht a while back? Surely Kevin is just as worth of an interview as they are.
Now to my second comment:
Sorry, Kevin, you're just going to have to go be
something other than an IT worker. That still leaves lots open. And plenty of non-menial jobs, too.
Whilst this is true, try and think of one where a computer isn't involved? Dcotor? scratch. Lawyer? scratch. Engineer? scratch. Mathemtician? scratch. Business? scratch. Secretary? scratch. Shop Assistant? scratch.
Come nearly every job these days require some computer interaction. Both my parents use computers and there job isn't at all IT related (Travel Agent and Nurse). My uncle uses a computer and he is in the army. For fsck sake my grandfather uses a computer and he is a farmer.
There really aren't going to be that many jobs available for him.
Benno
There is already open source code which will
make a Slashdot like site. Try http://www.zope.org and check out the Squishdot product.
Down goes my Karma but I don't care.. I want to see how long this stupid thread will go...
I like the way you say "the layman is smarter than you give him credit for" and yet your signature says
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Lazarus Long"
So which one is it? Are we smart or stupid?
Benno
Why is this moderated down?
Zope is better than PHP.
There are too many reasons why to enumerate here however I suggest checking out http://www.zope.org for more information.
I think one vey good part of Zope is that it encourages you to seperate presentation from system logic.
(Also acquisition is _really_ powerful, not to mention the way it allows multiple people to easily help create the one website, also the fact that it supports many open protocols, one interesting one being XML-RPC.)
Benno
Would the moderators try and get a clue?
Why was this moderated down?
He was no more off-topic than the original post.
If anything that should be the one marked as
off-topic.
It is quite obvious that fizik was pointing out,
in a humurous manner, that having linux on a
Palm is about as useful as having Linux on a
toaster and microwave.
I guess some people just don't get sarcasm!
No not at all.
I am by no means a Latex nerd, and definately not
a maths nerd. I use LaTeX and XFig to typeset
all my Digital Design Work. It is great for doing
things like tables and makes things like
overstrikes dead simple.
Benno
Oh yeah I'd just _love_ to see that on an exam
paper during my Complex Analysis test next week.
I'm sure it would look real professional in a
journal as well.
Mmmm well I use reddwarf for all some of my boxes
holly, lister, kryten
Then there are a couple from the wonderful
on line comic goats:
neil and bob
and finally my router is very unimaginatively called
'router' oh well..
Someone might also want to inform our good
friends over at Google about this.
It is hard to justify "worst operating system"
coming up with www.microsoft.com. Especially
when I think only the word operating is on the
page.
The same is also with "best operating system"
coming up with linux.com
Also "more evil than satan" also takes you through
to microsoft.com.
Sure this is funny and all but why is this any
different to the Lycos case.
Benno
BTW google is my favourite search engine,
and I prefer linux to windows (mostly) but lets
not be too hypocritical here.
I do think there are provisions for sharing the
load between two or more servers. I think
it would be worth checking the docs if this is
a problem for youi.
However I agree that since it directly reads the
fs it isn't really the best solution. I am at the
moment attempting to rewrite _some_ parts of
it in Zope as a front end and imap and postgres
as the backend.
Benno
Actually I have it running quite swimmingly under Debian, and I'm pretty sure it is under the GPL. (Although they do prefer it if you get a support contract from them) Benno
I somewhat agree with this your assertion. It would be nice if people were judged on their skills and not a piece of paper.
As an employer however I think that a piece of paper does actually represent something. Having a degree in computer science or computer engineering *does* mean something to employers. It is proof that someone has at least completed the minimum requirements for this degree. This makes it a lot easier for an employer. They don't need to extensively test prospective employees as the university has already done this.
Sure academic smarts are only one factor you look for in a prospective employee but it is a big factor, and having a degree lends a certain amount of proof to this.
(I realise that this is not true in 100% of cases,
there are people that do get degrees and are totally clueless. However I am talking in the majority of cases.)
She's still the Queen of Australia too.
In fact I _think_ she is probably the Queen of
the Commonwealth.
Either way she is still the Queen of England even if she is also the queen of a bunch of other countries as well.
Yeah, used gcc lately?? There is also the cygwin project which has ported a lot of GNU software to linux using its posix layer. If you want to create native windows exe (ie without the cygwin posix extension) then you can use mingw for this purpose. Hell you can even cross compile from your linux box to windows which really rocks. Benno