Oh, in case you're with the Humane Society, even if a bird does fly through the laser, it doesn't come out looking like fried chicken; the lasers used wouldn't even hurt your eye, according to the AirFiber folks.
We vote for a fraction of the population (congressman) that are(presumably) smarter than the rest of us.
I don't ever remember voting for someone that I thought was smarter than me. Although, I admit sometimes I'll vote for someone because he doesn't appear to be as stupid as his opponent.
Why do people have their car dealer's name plastered all over their license plate holder? I would be willing to leave that on my car if the dealer gave me a fee for advertising their product, but so many people are more than willing to advertise a product for free (or worse yet pay to advertise for someone)
The stupid cheap plastic holder surely doesn't add any structural value to the license plate.
My guess is that the rich yuppies in their SUVs don't know how to put the license plate on themselves so they take it to the dealer to install.
I'm sort of teaching my 7 year old son about programming using the graphical development environment that comes with the Mindstorms. He is still in the early stages of programming it and learning basics like conditionals and loops. I figure that when he outgrows the graphical environment I can get him a C compiler or any of the other environments to create Mindstorm programs.
Get this thing fixed already 2.3.x is very much faster than 2.2 and im sick of using buggy software If you are sick of bugy software why are you using test kernels? Switch back to a stable version. To quote from www.kernel.org "The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.15 " Or better yet, how many patches have you submitted? Thats how open source is supposed to work. If you don't like it, fix it yourself or shut up and wait. I'm sure everyone would appreciate it being done sooner, but you to come here and bitch about it not being stable should not be tolerated. For the record, I've never submitted a patch to the kernetl, but I've never bitched that the "test" kernels were buggy!
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AFAIK, the real expense of a mainframe isn't the hardware. Most mainframe software is priced based on the speed of the machine. So when you add a new CPU to your machine you have to pay more for *every* software package you have installed on the mainframe. It makes no difference if the software will ever physically be used on the new CPU. A former employer of mine regularly added CPUs to the mainframe. The hardware only cost around $20K but the software licensing cost around $400K. This included software like our debugger that *only* ran on the test partition and would never in a million years be able to touch the power that the new CPU added.
You might want to look at CGI::Minimal. From the readme:
Provides a micro-weight alternative to the CPAN CGI.pm module
Rather than attempt to address every possible need of a CGI programmer, it provides the _minimum_ functions needed for CGI such as form decoding (including file upload forms), URL encoding and decoding, HTTP usable date generation (RFC1123 compliant dates) and _basic_ escaping and unescaping of HTMLized text.
So I hope your not saying that your C++ example is so much easier than perl. I could just as easily write: $letter = chr( rand( 25 ) + ord('a') ); looks remarkably like your C++ example of: char letter = rand() % 26 + 'a';
I can't actually see what Microsoft will get out of it
That's an easy one. Didn't you notice the timing of Terraserver coincided with the release of MS SQL Server 7.0? This is the same thing. They are trying to show that their software is scalable, fast, robust, other buzzword, more buzzwords, etc.
They are trying to show off their software and the Northwind sample database really doesn't show off the ability to store multiple gigs of data.
For video editing, I don't know that IDE will cut it.
Well, that isn't true at all. I just spent the majority of this weekend editing an ~ 20 minute video and used a Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM 40 GB hard drive and everything went just fine. The original data was just over 6 GB and the machine didn't even flinch.
Here is my complete system:
Epox KX133 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 650, slightly overclocked
512 MB generic 133 MHz SDRAM, overclocked to about 146 MHz
*WARNING* I had major problems with the video capture under Windows 2000. It would capture about 30 seconds or so just fine and then it would shutter and stutter (nice technical terms eh?) and the rest of the video would be completely unusable. I ended up capturing the video on Win98 SE and transferring it to the Win2K machine to edit it. Note that the captured video is HUGE and I really don't recomment transferring multi GB of data over a 10 Mb network.
It is obvious that your hammer is ANSI C. In the original post, the author says I am comfortable in C++, Java, Delphi. Why then would you recommend any other language to him? From the original post you don't know anything about his particular application so how could you recommend that ANSI C is better or worse than Java?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--
Well, I searched for "adult naked women sex cookies" on AltaVista and there was not one single page in the top 50 that had anything to do with anything other than internet cookies and baked cookies!
So does that mean that AltaVista doesn't give good results?!?!?
Maybe I'm just picking a nit here, but I don't see mp3.com as broadcasting the information. Merriam-Webster defines broadcasting as this:
Main Entry:
broadcast Function: verb Inflected Form(s): broadcastalsobroadcasted; broadcasting Date: 1813 transitive senses 1: to scatter or sow (as seed) broadcast 2: to make widely known 3: to transmit or make public by means of radio or television
I think the relevant item is "3 : to transmit or make public by means of radio or television". mp3.com is not making the data public. It is a private exchange of information between me and mp3.com.
I have another problem with the lawsuit. As an example, say you and I each own a copy of a CD. If I have a nice tape deck but you only have a cheap tape-playing walkman (remember those) but you want to go jogging and listen to the CD, can't I legally make you a copy to play on your walkman since you own the CD too?
Isn't mp3.com just converting the CD I paid for into a more usable format that meets my particular desires? This is assuming that mp3.com actually bought all 45,000 CDs that they ripped to mp3.
No, you don't actuallly rip your CD into an MP3 and upload that. They just verify what CD is in the player and compare that against their database of CDs they have already ripped. If they don't have your CD, you are out of luck.
A Java developer looks at all those formats and thinks, yuck! Shouldn't we have a standard so I can read them all without so much work? A Perl developer looks at all those formats and thinks, with just 10 or so lines of code for each format, I can decipher them all. Look how superior Perl is! So the Perl programmer starts coding all those regular expressions to decipher an infinite number of different text formats.
No. A good (lazy) perl programmer installs the XML Parser and lets it do all of the hard work!
I love writing code, but I'm not dumb enough to rewrite the world. There are tons of modules in Perl that make a lot of the hard things easy.
In fact, I doubt if all but the most experienced Perl coders could write anything non-trivial without looking at a manual.
I guess I don't understand why it is so wrong to read the manual. Whenever a newbie asks a question is seems that the first response is always along the lines of "rtfm". If you follow comp.lang.perl.misc at all you will quickly learn that reading the manual is a "Good Thing". Linux has a similar culture around it. That's why all those HOWTO's are included with every distro.
I use Perl a lot and I'm not thumbing through the manual all the time. However, when I switch to C, C++, or Java I do look stuff up because I'm used to the Perl way of doing things.
My point is that when you only use a language occasionally (and especially when you only use it when you "have no other choice"), it might be difficult to remember all of the intricate details of the syntax. I'm just guessing that it is the intricate details because the if() blocks and the for() loops can be made to look exactly like C (but they don't have to). Also, most of the operators I use are exactly like every other language I use.
Perl is unquestionably a powerful language. There is a lot of obfuscated syntax (but all of that syntax is well documented). Even when you are writing "non-trivial" applications, Perl doesn't force you use all of the syntax of the language.
But for a lot of people in the Western countries the sums payed are just not enough to interest them
I disagree. I make a decent living, but I sure wouldn't mind a few hundred bucks to finally buy my Lego Mindstorms or a new Athlon.
I'm surely not going to quit my day job for these projects, but for people who *enjoy* coding in their spare time, why not get a little extra spending cash
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I've never seen a gasoline engine thats 95% efficent
Apparently neither has he. He said "While good motor with a good controller can give you close to 95% efficiency" (my emphasis).
Realize that motor != engine.
We vote for a fraction of the population (congressman) that are(presumably) smarter than the rest of us.
I don't ever remember voting for someone that I thought was smarter than me. Although, I admit sometimes I'll vote for someone because he doesn't appear to be as stupid as his opponent.
I have a gripe along the same lines as this.
Why do people have their car dealer's name plastered all over their license plate holder? I would be willing to leave that on my car if the dealer gave me a fee for advertising their product, but so many people are more than willing to advertise a product for free (or worse yet pay to advertise for someone)
The stupid cheap plastic holder surely doesn't add any structural value to the license plate.
My guess is that the rich yuppies in their SUVs don't know how to put the license plate on themselves so they take it to the dealer to install.
I'm sort of teaching my 7 year old son about programming using the graphical development environment that comes with the Mindstorms.
He is still in the early stages of programming it and learning basics like conditionals and loops.
I figure that when he outgrows the graphical environment I can get him a C compiler or any of the other environments to create Mindstorm programs.
Get this thing fixed already 2.3.x is very much faster than 2.2 and im sick of using buggy software
If you are sick of bugy software why are you using test kernels? Switch back to a stable version. To quote from www.kernel.org "The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.15 "
Or better yet, how many patches have you submitted? Thats how open source is supposed to work. If you don't like it, fix it yourself or shut up and wait. I'm sure everyone would appreciate it being done sooner, but you to come here and bitch about it not being stable should not be tolerated.
For the record, I've never submitted a patch to the kernetl, but I've never bitched that the "test" kernels were buggy!
6868107482
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If you want to retry.
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5322940981
Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
AFAIK, the real expense of a mainframe isn't the hardware. Most mainframe software is priced based on the speed of the machine. So when you add a new CPU to your machine you have to pay more for *every* software package you have installed on the mainframe. It makes no difference if the software will ever physically be used on the new CPU.
A former employer of mine regularly added CPUs to the mainframe. The hardware only cost around $20K but the software licensing cost around $400K. This included software like our debugger that *only* ran on the test partition and would never in a million years be able to touch the power that the new CPU added.
So I hope your not saying that your C++ example is so much easier than perl. I could just as easily write: $letter = chr( rand( 25 ) + ord('a') ); looks remarkably like your C++ example of: char letter = rand() % 26 + 'a';
That's an easy one. Didn't you notice the timing of Terraserver coincided with the release of MS SQL Server 7.0? This is the same thing. They are trying to show that their software is scalable, fast, robust, other buzzword, more buzzwords, etc.
They are trying to show off their software and the Northwind sample database really doesn't show off the ability to store multiple gigs of data.
Well, that isn't true at all. I just spent the majority of this weekend editing an ~ 20 minute video and used a Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM 40 GB hard drive and everything went just fine. The original data was just over 6 GB and the machine didn't even flinch.
Here is my complete system:
*WARNING* I had major problems with the video capture under Windows 2000. It would capture about 30 seconds or so just fine and then it would shutter and stutter (nice technical terms eh?) and the rest of the video would be completely unusable. I ended up capturing the video on Win98 SE and transferring it to the Win2K machine to edit it. Note that the captured video is HUGE and I really don't recomment transferring multi GB of data over a 10 Mb network.
It is obvious that your hammer is ANSI C. In the original post, the author says I am comfortable in C++, Java, Delphi. Why then would you recommend any other language to him? From the original post you don't know anything about his particular application so how could you recommend that ANSI C is better or worse than Java?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--
How about mod_auth_smb?
If you are running apache on Win32 then you can use mod_ntlm
Well, I searched for "adult naked women sex cookies" on AltaVista and there was not one single page in the top 50 that had anything to do with anything other than internet cookies and baked cookies!
So does that mean that AltaVista doesn't give good results?!?!?
Maybe I'm just picking a nit here, but I don't see mp3.com as broadcasting the information. Merriam-Webster defines broadcasting as this:
I think the relevant item is "3 : to transmit or make public by means of radio or television". mp3.com is not making the data public. It is a private exchange of information between me and mp3.com.
I have another problem with the lawsuit. As an example, say you and I each own a copy of a CD. If I have a nice tape deck but you only have a cheap tape-playing walkman (remember those) but you want to go jogging and listen to the CD, can't I legally make you a copy to play on your walkman since you own the CD too?
Isn't mp3.com just converting the CD I paid for into a more usable format that meets my particular desires? This is assuming that mp3.com actually bought all 45,000 CDs that they ripped to mp3.
No, you don't actuallly rip your CD into an MP3 and upload that. They just verify what CD is in the player and compare that against their database of CDs they have already ripped. If they don't have your CD, you are out of luck.
Check out the TRG Pro. It has a CF slot and supports the IBM Microdrive. It looks pretty cool to me.
No. A good (lazy) perl programmer installs the XML Parser and lets it do all of the hard work!
I love writing code, but I'm not dumb enough to rewrite the world. There are tons of modules in Perl that make a lot of the hard things easy.
I guess I don't understand why it is so wrong to read the manual. Whenever a newbie asks a question is seems that the first response is always along the lines of "rtfm". If you follow comp.lang.perl.misc at all you will quickly learn that reading the manual is a "Good Thing". Linux has a similar culture around it. That's why all those HOWTO's are included with every distro.
I use Perl a lot and I'm not thumbing through the manual all the time. However, when I switch to C, C++, or Java I do look stuff up because I'm used to the Perl way of doing things.
My point is that when you only use a language occasionally (and especially when you only use it when you "have no other choice"), it might be difficult to remember all of the intricate details of the syntax. I'm just guessing that it is the intricate details because the if() blocks and the for() loops can be made to look exactly like C (but they don't have to). Also, most of the operators I use are exactly like every other language I use.
Perl is unquestionably a powerful language. There is a lot of obfuscated syntax (but all of that syntax is well documented). Even when you are writing "non-trivial" applications, Perl doesn't force you use all of the syntax of the language.
Exactly!
I just cracked the screen on my Palm III :-( ... er ... need more, a new Palm (Visor, IIIc, or V) or Lego Mindstorms.
Now I can't decide which I want
Decisions, decisions.
But, 3Com is still retaining 80% of the stock. They have a huge interest in making Palm work on its own.
I disagree. I make a decent living, but I sure wouldn't mind a few hundred bucks to finally buy my Lego Mindstorms or a new Athlon.
I'm surely not going to quit my day job for these projects, but for people who *enjoy* coding in their spare time, why not get a little extra spending cash