Here in England, we can say what we like about the Queen, and the last time an English monarch complained about it, we cut his head off for treason! Prince charles says that when he becomes king he will use his position for political dissent. Yeah, try it mate... actually nobody will listen to the pro-homeopathy nutcase with a business selling overpriced biscuits (cookies)
I love karma whoring. You make a sarcastic humourous comment about the reality of trains (I get the london underground every day), and we get "insightful" comments about the advantages of trains over aeroplanes or cars. I've learnt nothing except that there's a lot of karma whores on slashdot.
If I was going to be idealistically republican rather than pragmatically democrat (I'm neither, I'm pragmatically a British lib-dem for all the good that got us), then I would refer thee to the way corporations used to be before, er, corporations took over. Where you could invest a few dimes into building some railroads, and get them back as a shareholder once they are built. Figuring out what went wrong with the economy and why the people at the top of corporations are ambitious in the process of making money rather than doing it for a reason is for you guys to figure out.
Actually, we need to figure that out too. And work out how to fix it. And when we do, we have to assassinate all lawyers or we won't be allowed to.
one thing I've learned in recent years is to stop pissing about with my window manager and get off my stupid arse and code something. And I can do that in any OS which includes using windows visual studio express which I can download for free.
IDEs are full screen anyway. Yeah, I'm an expert at vim (it's got so many shortcuts that each user has their own quirky way of using it. None of us use more than about 20% of them). The point is to stop moaning about how many clicks it takes to do something, and do something useful. As long as you open-source it, it doesn't matter what window manager you wrote it in, and as an IDE convert, I'm doing it quicker these days in fullscreen mode.
KDE, or rather QT has an absolutely awesome programming interface, and qmake makes hand-writing makefiles a thing of the past for unix people. Microsoft did this long ago. kdevelop 4 is bloody brilliant (semantic highlighting is awesome.. you spot bugs a mile off because your variable is the wrong colour). You start referring to a member function you haven't written yet and it gives you the option of creating the prototype in a class you didn't even have open, then bookmarks it. genius.
it's a shame kdevelop switched to cmake for me. i had to read a lot of manual to make it do what I want. which is ironic, because I knew what to do in raw make, for its sins (yes, it's a tab.. shut up)
Call me some kind of neophile, but after all the "where's the bloody taskbar?" and "too much clicking!" (read the manual! you don't have to click it!) gnome 3 is actually being the first gnome to actually convert me from gnome 3.<br> <br> I got well into tiling window managers. I used ION for 2 years and swore that I would never go back. Then the author started acting like a cunt. On the question of anti-aliased fonts he said "if you want your fonts dragged through mud". Well no. He went on to say "until monitors have the same resolution as printers, i will never use anti-aliasing" which is ironic because printers don't use anti-aliasing, they use floyd-steinberg dithering to achieve the same effect because of the resolution so there is no need for antialiasing. he then changed the licensing and started using windows.<br> <br> So gnome 3. it's actually converted me. I don't mind swinging my mouse around to find shit. I'm a sysadmin. Ask any sysadmin how many terminals they have open while they're at their desk. Probably about 20. Then ask them how many they are using:-)<br> <br> That's the problem. The taskbar contains hundreds of terminals I should've closed when I'd stopped using them, but they just sit there, and when I want to click on one I AM using, the list is too long. That's the point of the gnome3 thing. trying to persuade the masses is another story.
Perhaps for raw instructions, but the amount of checking and recalculations required for fixed point to come even close to keep an accurate orthogonal basis without shearing would probably end up slower. Why waste time shifting fixed point back and forth when the hardware can do the shifting for you? As long as you stop the floats getting denormalised (which isn't hard), and don't spent too much time hogging the bus with transfers (read: inline functions in FPU-only sections) then it should end up faster.<br> <br> 32-bit fixed point is horribly inaccurate. I've seen some pretty good fixed point 3D engines (demos by TBL for example), but there's an awful lot of fudging going on to make those demos. An interactive game would be a very different story. You would have to use floats occasionally for recalculating things that have started to drift.
ARM doesn't even have an FPU (although it does have a matrix multiplier), so even emulating an x86 fir anything other than integer logic would be a challenge.
Nah, that's Dell laptop batteries. Nintendo would prefer to make you mentally ill by causing you to have dreams about nauseatingly cute characters making stupid noises, bouncing around platforms, talking in speech bubbles and overusing the word "destiny".
Actually, I think they just do that anyway whether you've annoyed them or not. Anyway, screw this, I'm off to buy a copy of "moron power 3: batshit edition" with the free keyring.
Given that btrfs doesn't yet have an equivalent to fsck, not 100%. Then again, if you're running fsck on ext3/4, you've lost some data anyway. It's journalling, so chances of corruption are pretty low. Then again, anything I actually want to keep is in about 4 clones of a git repo. I believe the term for this is "backups":-)
2. How quickly can I access it?
About the same as ext4, give or take. The reasons for going from ext4 to btrfs are much the same as going from UFS to ZFS. Features.
No, this is slashdot. Anything made by or used by microsoft, no matter how well designed or useful, or open, is inherently evil and should be avoided, even at the expense of being completely irrational. You'll just have to use perl. Sorry.
I AM KANU YAKUBU FROM THE PLANET GLIESE 581D. I AM CROWN PRINCE AND BENEFACTOR OF AN OIL COMPANY WORTH 4,100,000,000,000 (FOUR POINT ONE TRILLION) BITCOINS, WHICH I... etc.
Yet you can do vastly more than python without importing a single lib
Some would argue that this is a bad thing..:-) It's not an accident that python without any libraries is completely useless.
In answer to the comments a bit further down about how languages getting more mature makes them harder to extend - well python has about 30 keywords. Perl has about 600. Python usually just has to replace a few libs. Python 3000 mostly fixes some 10 year old issues which date back to the infancy of the language, which will hopefully be the last time for a very long time someone has to do it.
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Actually, I've always thought there should be one more common operator - "===". In floating-point context, it would be "approximately equal to", returning true if the arguments are within 10 times the smallest representable value.
You can already do that in the language. More to the point, why 10 times? That's a bit decimalist isn't it? Shouldn't that be configurable, and if so, surely you would do so via a function. So now we have a function controlling the behaviour of an operator.. yuck! As for unicode, that's just getting speculative about its meaning. Is perl supposed to understand the shape of glyphs now?
You've probably gathered by now that I'm one of those crazy new-age freaks who dropped perl in 2003 for all but the odd 6-line sed/awk replacement (which is how it started out and did very well at it) for python precisely because of stuff like this that just makes it more and more confusing. Any suggestion like this on the python mailing list would be shot down by the language-nazis long before somebody made a terrible mistake which would have been an awful legacy. They spent 3 years arguing about how to implement ternary operators, and after much debate came to the following conclusion: just use 'if'.
What you want is a CPAN module. if (wavy($x, $y)) { do something }. OK, so you have to type 5 more characters, but do you honestly spend more time typing than thinking when you're programming? You can be thinking about what you're going to do next whilst you're typing w..a..v..y..
his point does have some merit. muslims (particularly fundamentalist) strive to live like mohammed who was according to hadith "a most excellent character". This includes pass times, such as horse riding and archery which he actually did, as opposed to chess or (god forbid) listening to music. In his rhetoric, he regularly dismissed certain things like wearing jeans as "western".
Meanwhile, there is nothing in my views which says I can't be pragmatic about where the stuff I buy is made. Fundamentalist muslim doesn't know the meaning of pragmatism unless it involves killing infidels. Case in point, you must never lie.. unless it enables you to win the battle of the Trench, where he did exactly that to turn the confederation against each other.
"a guest on the third floor had some late night guests who made far too much noise. the common area was a mess the following morning, and there was a helecopter up on cinder blocks. no wifi"
She's a fucking teenager. Teenagers don't have the life experience to write a good song.
Or enough life experience to practice her singing voice by that logic. I was writing music at 13, and I had enough taste at the time to realise it would take more years of practice to release any of it. Her parents tried to buy her a shortcut to fame. Its the parents that need kicking. She cites Justin Bieber as an idol. For his sins, at least he writes his music.
She could grow up to be brilliant
Hmm, lets see. Doesn't write music. Pays someone else to do it. Voice sounds like a hornet stuck in a tin can. With all the practice in the world, she'll need a larynx transplant to do something about that. The death metal remix on the other hand. Now that was awesome.
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Here in England, we can say what we like about the Queen, and the last time an English monarch complained about it, we cut his head off for treason! Prince charles says that when he becomes king he will use his position for political dissent. Yeah, try it mate... actually nobody will listen to the pro-homeopathy nutcase with a business selling overpriced biscuits (cookies)
I love karma whoring. You make a sarcastic humourous comment about the reality of trains (I get the london underground every day), and we get "insightful" comments about the advantages of trains over aeroplanes or cars. I've learnt nothing except that there's a lot of karma whores on slashdot.
If I was going to be idealistically republican rather than pragmatically democrat (I'm neither, I'm pragmatically a British lib-dem for all the good that got us), then I would refer thee to the way corporations used to be before, er, corporations took over. Where you could invest a few dimes into building some railroads, and get them back as a shareholder once they are built. Figuring out what went wrong with the economy and why the people at the top of corporations are ambitious in the process of making money rather than doing it for a reason is for you guys to figure out.
Actually, we need to figure that out too. And work out how to fix it. And when we do, we have to assassinate all lawyers or we won't be allowed to.
we can all get crammed into a tin can that runs at 300 mph rather than 150!
one thing I've learned in recent years is to stop pissing about with my window manager and get off my stupid arse and code something. And I can do that in any OS which includes using windows visual studio express which I can download for free.
IDEs are full screen anyway. Yeah, I'm an expert at vim (it's got so many shortcuts that each user has their own quirky way of using it. None of us use more than about 20% of them). The point is to stop moaning about how many clicks it takes to do something, and do something useful. As long as you open-source it, it doesn't matter what window manager you wrote it in, and as an IDE convert, I'm doing it quicker these days in fullscreen mode.
KDE, or rather QT has an absolutely awesome programming interface, and qmake makes hand-writing makefiles a thing of the past for unix people. Microsoft did this long ago. kdevelop 4 is bloody brilliant (semantic highlighting is awesome.. you spot bugs a mile off because your variable is the wrong colour). You start referring to a member function you haven't written yet and it gives you the option of creating the prototype in a class you didn't even have open, then bookmarks it. genius.
it's a shame kdevelop switched to cmake for me. i had to read a lot of manual to make it do what I want. which is ironic, because I knew what to do in raw make, for its sins (yes, it's a tab.. shut up)
shit... forgot i switched it to plain text :-D
Call me some kind of neophile, but after all the "where's the bloody taskbar?" and "too much clicking!" (read the manual! you don't have to click it!) gnome 3 is actually being the first gnome to actually convert me from gnome 3.<br> :-)<br>
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I got well into tiling window managers. I used ION for 2 years and swore that I would never go back. Then the author started acting like a cunt. On the question of anti-aliased fonts he said "if you want your fonts dragged through mud". Well no. He went on to say "until monitors have the same resolution as printers, i will never use anti-aliasing" which is ironic because printers don't use anti-aliasing, they use floyd-steinberg dithering to achieve the same effect because of the resolution so there is no need for antialiasing. he then changed the licensing and started using windows.<br>
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So gnome 3. it's actually converted me. I don't mind swinging my mouse around to find shit. I'm a sysadmin. Ask any sysadmin how many terminals they have open while they're at their desk. Probably about 20. Then ask them how many they are using
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That's the problem. The taskbar contains hundreds of terminals I should've closed when I'd stopped using them, but they just sit there, and when I want to click on one I AM using, the list is too long. That's the point of the gnome3 thing. trying to persuade the masses is another story.
Am I the only one with a desperate urge to push it over?
Perhaps for raw instructions, but the amount of checking and recalculations required for fixed point to come even close to keep an accurate orthogonal basis without shearing would probably end up slower. Why waste time shifting fixed point back and forth when the hardware can do the shifting for you? As long as you stop the floats getting denormalised (which isn't hard), and don't spent too much time hogging the bus with transfers (read: inline functions in FPU-only sections) then it should end up faster.<br>
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32-bit fixed point is horribly inaccurate. I've seen some pretty good fixed point 3D engines (demos by TBL for example), but there's an awful lot of fudging going on to make those demos. An interactive game would be a very different story. You would have to use floats occasionally for recalculating things that have started to drift.
ARM doesn't even have an FPU (although it does have a matrix multiplier), so even emulating an x86 fir anything other than integer logic would be a challenge.
Well, we got there, although I'm not sure anybody was doing anything constructive at the time..
$ svn log -r10000:10001 README.txt
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r10000 | g........ | 2010-03-22 14:59:06 +0000 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 1 line
10000th COMMIT!! I WIN!!
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r10001 | e..... | 2010-03-22 15:26:46 +0000 (Mon, 22 Mar 2010) | 1 line
BASTARD!!!
Nah, that's Dell laptop batteries. Nintendo would prefer to make you mentally ill by causing you to have dreams about nauseatingly cute characters making stupid noises, bouncing around platforms, talking in speech bubbles and overusing the word "destiny".
Actually, I think they just do that anyway whether you've annoyed them or not. Anyway, screw this, I'm off to buy a copy of "moron power 3: batshit edition" with the free keyring.
Given that btrfs doesn't yet have an equivalent to fsck, not 100%. Then again, if you're running fsck on ext3/4, you've lost some data anyway. It's journalling, so chances of corruption are pretty low. Then again, anything I actually want to keep is in about 4 clones of a git repo. I believe the term for this is "backups" :-)
About the same as ext4, give or take. The reasons for going from ext4 to btrfs are much the same as going from UFS to ZFS. Features.
No, this is slashdot. Anything made by or used by microsoft, no matter how well designed or useful, or open, is inherently evil and should be avoided, even at the expense of being completely irrational. You'll just have to use perl. Sorry.
either that, or..
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I AM KANU YAKUBU FROM THE PLANET GLIESE 581D. I AM CROWN PRINCE AND BENEFACTOR OF AN OIL COMPANY WORTH 4,100,000,000,000 (FOUR POINT ONE TRILLION) BITCOINS, WHICH I... etc.
Yeah, especially when they realise that they can't spot a joke either
yeah.. we stop stop wasting people's times with frivolous death threats and actually MURDER the bastards! :-)
Some would argue that this is a bad thing.. :-) It's not an accident that python without any libraries is completely useless.
In answer to the comments a bit further down about how languages getting more mature makes them harder to extend - well python has about 30 keywords. Perl has about 600. Python usually just has to replace a few libs. Python 3000 mostly fixes some 10 year old issues which date back to the infancy of the language, which will hopefully be the last time for a very long time someone has to do it.
You can already do that in the language. More to the point, why 10 times? That's a bit decimalist isn't it? Shouldn't that be configurable, and if so, surely you would do so via a function. So now we have a function controlling the behaviour of an operator.. yuck! As for unicode, that's just getting speculative about its meaning. Is perl supposed to understand the shape of glyphs now?
You've probably gathered by now that I'm one of those crazy new-age freaks who dropped perl in 2003 for all but the odd 6-line sed/awk replacement (which is how it started out and did very well at it) for python precisely because of stuff like this that just makes it more and more confusing. Any suggestion like this on the python mailing list would be shot down by the language-nazis long before somebody made a terrible mistake which would have been an awful legacy. They spent 3 years arguing about how to implement ternary operators, and after much debate came to the following conclusion: just use 'if'.
What you want is a CPAN module. if (wavy($x, $y)) { do something }. OK, so you have to type 5 more characters, but do you honestly spend more time typing than thinking when you're programming? You can be thinking about what you're going to do next whilst you're typing w..a..v..y..
the headline also works if you take away the words "nuclear reactor"
his point does have some merit. muslims (particularly fundamentalist) strive to live like mohammed who was according to hadith "a most excellent character". This includes pass times, such as horse riding and archery which he actually did, as opposed to chess or (god forbid) listening to music. In his rhetoric, he regularly dismissed certain things like wearing jeans as "western".
Meanwhile, there is nothing in my views which says I can't be pragmatic about where the stuff I buy is made. Fundamentalist muslim doesn't know the meaning of pragmatism unless it involves killing infidels. Case in point, you must never lie.. unless it enables you to win the battle of the Trench, where he did exactly that to turn the confederation against each other.
I should really stop reading into this shit.
"a guest on the third floor had some late night guests who made far too much noise. the common area was a mess the following morning, and there was a helecopter up on cinder blocks. no wifi"
random google image search..
:-)
Here's two tourists "hey, lets check out that nice town" who have now discovered that fucking UBL is probably somewhere in the background
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2347384304_785d311309.jpg
yeah. they should put them in the worst places.
Or enough life experience to practice her singing voice by that logic. I was writing music at 13, and I had enough taste at the time to realise it would take more years of practice to release any of it. Her parents tried to buy her a shortcut to fame. Its the parents that need kicking. She cites Justin Bieber as an idol. For his sins, at least he writes his music.
Hmm, lets see. Doesn't write music. Pays someone else to do it. Voice sounds like a hornet stuck in a tin can. With all the practice in the world, she'll need a larynx transplant to do something about that. The death metal remix on the other hand. Now that was awesome.