I'd rather stick knitting needles in my eyes than debug a regular expression.
The only cure for that is getting a good reference and having a go at some tutorials until you get good enough to slay the beast. Then you'll be everyone's buddy at the office, because a lot of people feel the same way. It's not all that hard if you format them properly with/x first.
If you're using Perl anyway, dunno if others have that feature too. I don't need anything but Perl:)
I keep wondering about this myself all the time given that we wrote a regex engine with NFA-to-DFA conversion in 3rd semester CS way back when. That was kind of enlightening after weeks of DFA, NFA, formal languages, grammar and Chomsky hierarchy tedium.
This sounds like the mythical "near line storage" that tapes ceased to be years ago... A 5.25 full hight 3200rpm drive would be reasonably cheap, very big, quiet and power conserving. Not all that fast, but that is the point of near line storage. I'm involved with disk based nearline and backup storage. Believe me, even 7200 rpm SATA drives are always too slow. Nobody wants a Quantum Bigfoot in there.
Store the hydrogen at atmospheric pressure in a large, oblong balloon-like vessel, and strap your vehicle underneath it. You not only have a fuel source, but you have buoyancy as well and can soar above the traffic. We'd finally have those flying cars they've been promising us.
Oh, the humanity! Yes! Mooring available at Lakehurst, NJ.
So in order to totall screw someone all you have to do is get on their box, phisically or by cracking and download some kiddy porn. Then drop a dime on them (just in case you did not click on the honey pot) and voila! Instant conviction. Yes. some men have been convicted of child port violations with zero evidence above the files in their cache. Now combine this with some good phishing techniques and think of all the people you really don't like.
Big deal is medics they are dealing with: if dead person is worth up to 250 000 $, how hard would you really work to keep them alive?
Hell, some could have idea of killing of healthy (aka, only minor issue like broken leg) patients to get body with top quality organs (people who get organ-preserving damage done to body like broken legs are generally healthy+active life types with bodies in good shape.). And medic can easily get untraceable kill. Embolism is bitch.
And imagine if common thugs could cash you in too... you would be walking quater million for them. Some kill for 100$, its quite imaginable them to kill for much, much more. My sister who is a MD told me to keep on riding fast, I'll make an excellent organ donor. She works in a hospital next to a crash prone section of Autobahn and has first hand experience. I hope she was only half serious.
Yes I do have organ donor paperwork in my wallet and I don't care what happens to my body, but reading this makes me think of good old Coma.
I agree completely and will move my "customer experience" from Comcast to Verizon FioS ASAP. And how long until Verizon's backbone creaks and they'll throttle your connection? With more promised bandwidth the tradeoff must be even more difficult for them. Do they promise unlimited usage?
Everything about it seemed backwards and inside out to me. If you knew COBOL it would look familiar:)
I had to learn a little COBOL once to hack an interface for a C library that some COBOL folks needed to call.
Yuck.
But it has one "cool" feature like no other language: PERFORM label1 THROUGH label2. Call a piece of code that's inline somewhere else - no RETURN needed! The ultimate spaghetti ingredient! I hear compiler writers don't like it. Always reminds me of Intercal's COME FROM.
how major Internet service providers and portal operators should deal with Internet censorship in China. Put a prominent link to TOR and other anonymity tools on your home page.
Joy. The 5400 rpm 5.25" DEC drives sound more like a F16 spooling up when they start. And as if the turbine is losing a few blades when the heads load:)
Our current morally superiority is not inherent in our biology, it is the product of our traditions and cultures that have been honed in the past millenia.
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The world is not one culture, so it's nonsensical to say we (the world) are morally superior to civilizations 3,000 years ago, because there are societies that exist today that have learned, collectively, nothing in the past 3,000 years. Aren't you contradicting yourself? And how do you throw the "moral" values of "the world" all in one basket? I'm pretty sure the moral values of somebody well-off in the western world are not very congruent with those of somebody fighting for survival in Africa for example.
640 Cores should be enough for anybody. No, 640K cores! We're still a ways off.
I keep wondering when we're going to put processing closer to the memory again. As in, put a couple of SPUs right on the memory chips. At least an FPGA with a couple 1,000 gates, that would be very general purpose.
In theory, yes. In practice, the whole Zebibyte thing is complete nonsense. It's actually very simple. While many Americans have issues with units of measurements (no surprise), in most countries SI is the *law* and there is no ambiguity. Just remember how "Quarter Pounder" is illegal as a commercial item in Germany. There is SI, and everything else is *illegal* to use in commerce.
Does anybody know is your typical battery-backed CMOS RAM is susceptible to corruption by cosmic rays too? I've looked into a few systems that arrived DOA due to a corrupt CMOS RAM (they were OK after resetting them with the jumper on the motherboard) after air shipment from the US to Europe or Asia and I wonder if that's the root cause.
Can we not get them fined for being publicly stupid as a bag of hammers? We don't need to. They're wearing a big sign around their necks saying "WE'RE STOOPID" now.
So, how is all the new demands for electricity going to be satisfied.
I know everyone likes Electricity and such, but current demands are taxing the existing power grid / infrastructure. Check out the article in the January SciAm: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan They include a new long haul HVDC grid in the proposal.
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There's already a built in regular expression tutorial:
man perlretut And man perlrequick for regex noobs.The only cure for that is getting a good reference and having a go at some tutorials until you get good enough to slay the beast. Then you'll be everyone's buddy at the office, because a lot of people feel the same way. It's not all that hard if you format them properly with
If you're using Perl anyway, dunno if others have that feature too. I don't need anything but Perl
I keep wondering about this myself all the time given that we wrote a regex engine with NFA-to-DFA conversion in 3rd semester CS way back when. That was kind of enlightening after weeks of DFA, NFA, formal languages, grammar and Chomsky hierarchy tedium.
No problem here except for the "interesting" background pic. :)
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Store the hydrogen at atmospheric pressure in a large, oblong balloon-like vessel, and strap your vehicle underneath it. You not only have a fuel source, but you have buoyancy as well and can soar above the traffic. We'd finally have those flying cars they've been promising us.
Oh, the humanity! Yes! Mooring available at Lakehurst, NJ.
Research into prosthetics always blooms during and after a war.
Of course it's a good thing for civil injuries too, but it's still a sad occasion.
You can use that term when they have DRM free content.
Hell, some could have idea of killing of healthy (aka, only minor issue like broken leg) patients to get body with top quality organs (people who get organ-preserving damage done to body like broken legs are generally healthy+active life types with bodies in good shape.). And medic can easily get untraceable kill. Embolism is bitch.
And imagine if common thugs could cash you in too
Yes I do have organ donor paperwork in my wallet and I don't care what happens to my body, but reading this makes me think of good old Coma.
Everything about it seemed backwards and inside out to me. If you knew COBOL it would look familiar
I had to learn a little COBOL once to hack an interface for a C library that some COBOL folks needed to call.
Yuck.
But it has one "cool" feature like no other language: PERFORM label1 THROUGH label2. Call a piece of code that's inline somewhere else - no RETURN needed! The ultimate spaghetti ingredient! I hear compiler writers don't like it. Always reminds me of Intercal's COME FROM.
Joy. :)
The 5400 rpm 5.25" DEC drives sound more like a F16 spooling up when they start. And as if the turbine is losing a few blades when the heads load
The world is not one culture, so it's nonsensical to say we (the world) are morally superior to civilizations 3,000 years ago, because there are societies that exist today that have learned, collectively, nothing in the past 3,000 years. Aren't you contradicting yourself?
And how do you throw the "moral" values of "the world" all in one basket? I'm pretty sure the moral values of somebody well-off in the western world are not very congruent with those of somebody fighting for survival in Africa for example.
I keep wondering when we're going to put processing closer to the memory again. As in, put a couple of SPUs right on the memory chips. At least an FPGA with a couple 1,000 gates, that would be very general purpose.
Just remember how "Quarter Pounder" is illegal as a commercial item in Germany. There is SI, and everything else is *illegal* to use in commerce.
Rooted ftp sites have been used for warez and malware since the beginning of time, and the F-Secure folks discover this *now*?
Pretty lame.
Does anybody know is your typical battery-backed CMOS RAM is susceptible to corruption by cosmic rays too?
I've looked into a few systems that arrived DOA due to a corrupt CMOS RAM (they were OK after resetting them with the jumper on the motherboard) after air shipment from the US to Europe or Asia and I wonder if that's the root cause.
And don't insult the hammers please.
I know everyone likes Electricity and such, but current demands are taxing the existing power grid / infrastructure. Check out the article in the January SciAm: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
They include a new long haul HVDC grid in the proposal.
You're talking about data rate.
So, make that LibrariesOfCongress/nanofortnight for example.