I thought that the post was terrifically funny. I don't have any mod points, so I can't give you any. I can do something for you though. Since Slashdot is a zero sum game, my loss is your gain! I've got over 200 karma, and this message congratulating you should surely be modded down. You get your reward one way or another...
What can I say? Cable companies suck. The have a local monopoly in practically every place they exist. Their service is the worst of any business in any industry, with the possible exception of "mob boss" or "drug kingpin". Their technology is crap too. That Scientific Atlanta garbage changes channels slowly, and the digital cable looks worse than the analog cable.
Satellite companies like Direct TV don't necessarily *have* to be better than the cable companies, but there is always the possibility of competition which usually improves service and quality of a product. That's why I always try to get my friends to subscribe to satellite TV and drop their cable.
If your cable company buckles in and makes you jump through hoops to record your favorite shows, you are SCREWED. There is one cable company and nobody else.
If your satellite provider does the same thing, then you might have a choice of another satellite provider.
If you want to do that, then trust me, go out and get a conventional VCR.
I've got a TiVo and the features are amazing. When TV was invented, they used to say that it would be used to bring culture and science into everyone's living room, and our society would be improved because of it.
Well, with the TiVo, that idealistic dream has come true. Any time I want, I have a slew of good movies and documentaries at my disposal. I never have to see another inane episode of "Will and Grace" again. I don't have to break for commercials either.
If you get a TiVo, don't get the $10 a month service. Pay for the lifetime service for $200. You will save money if you use the unit for a year and 8 months.
I probably should have attached my note to the parent of your article. Yes, you did get it, but the clueless cowards who used the "overrated" tag so their bad moderation wouldn't stand in meta did not.
Squicking is a word that arose from a very specific story posted on alt.sex somewhere around 10 years ago. My comments were NOT trolls, and they didn't merit a -1 score.
My comments were meant as humor, to add to the thread with such a goofy programming language. Why not make a goofy virtual machine to go along with it?
The very fact that NOBODY seemed to know what squicking was is PROOF that the link to the admittedly sick squicking page was REQUIRED. Still, nobody got it.
10 years ago, squicking was an actual topic on alt.sex. Except for me, Elf Sternberg, and a few others, everyone else apparently has forgotten that.
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Get a TiVo. I have one and my distinct impression is that the intelligence of TV goes up.
1) My TiVo snags documentaries of all sorts. Somehow all those sitcoms with stereotypical humor about {blonds/women/men/gays/blacks/Jews/Poles/cat people/dog people/news reporters/etc.} has gone away. Good thing too, that crap should have gone out a long time ago for not being funny.
2) The commercials have almost disappeared.
Is TiVo expensive? Computer consultants make about $0.70 to $1 a minute. About 8 hours of work would roughly pay for a TiVo. At about 20 minutes an hour of commercials, you need to watch 24 hours of TV to skip enough commercials to pay for your TiVo with lifetime TiVo service.
I never used Watcom, but I respected them mightily. Back in 1992/1993, the compiler that I used was Borland C++ 2.0 and 3.1. That was the state of the art for inexpensive compilers. I had read for years about Watcom's compiler. It was more expensive than Borland's, but it supported the Weitek coprocessor chip that you could install instead of a 387. That made Watcom's compiler favored for scientific and engineering work.
But, what made me drool was the support for DOS Extenders! Back then I was using Borland C++ and those ghastly overlays to shoehorn a 1 meg+ sized executable into the roughly 580K left over after DOS 5.0 was loaded into memory, along with all the network and CD-ROM device drivers. The idea that I could write a program with a DOS extender that would occupy up to 16 megabytes was an incredible idea. I hoped that Borland would include a DOS extender in their upcoming compiler release.
Alas, it was not to be. Borland abandoned their hard-core DOS users and threw in some half-assed Windows 3.0 support instead. Sure, I could write a program that occupied up to 16 megabytes, but I was still stuck with a silly resource limitation and a flaky operating environment. What good was it to write a program that would only run for 5 minutes between OS crashes? I abandoned Borland, picked up Linux, and haven't looked back. From the looks of it, just about everybody else using BC++ back then also abandoned them.
If Watcom had made their C++ compiler just a little bit cheaper, college students everywhere could have afforded it, and perhaps DOS would have held the mainstream a bit longer.
The idea that women would design things so that houses would be closer together to promote easier domestic mechanics ignores two things:
1) That's a sexist idea. No further elaboration needed.
2) Women drive cars too. Our cities are not built for people, either men or women. They are built for the easy movement of cars. If you doubt this, just try to get around a typical suburban environment without a vehicle. You will sweat your ass to death as you try to cross the vast concrete spaces between the places you're going to and from.
Folks, it's our job as the smart people to spot and highlight the bullshit that various political forces want us to believe. And bullshit comes from a lot more places than just Microsoft.
Right now the biggest problem with TV is all the traditional commercials. Tivo takes care of that in a pretty good way (I love my Tivo!).
I don't think we're going to be able to remove all the commercials from an edited program though. It is preferable to insert the commercials into the programs rather than between segments of programs. The four minute gap is too big of a chunk of time, and it makes watching normal TV painful.
I think that after a certain point, you can't get moderated up. I've had a few highly rated posts recently and my karma is stuck at exactly the same point - 6.02E23.
It's stories like that which prevent me from getting a cable modem. I am not eligible for DSL where I live, but I will wait thank you very much.
I just called the cable company last night to return my Scientific Atlanta piece of crap to them (changes channels slower than my grandma). After putting me on hold for 20 minutes, they hung up on me.
My new house has a satellite dish.
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I also think that I only want a certain group of people to vote. In fact, I think that we should restrict citizenship to people who have served their country in a war.
Oh, and let's add one more little group: white male landowners.
Doesn't compile with g++. You need to change it to even get it to work.
1) you forgot #include
2) what is foreach? Do you mean for_each?
3) You've got the unary function declaration all wrong.
Anyway, your program isn't really fair because you're including a great deal of code that isn't obfuscated. I could play by the same rules and write a C program one line long that includes a great deal of code and isn't obfuscated. If I only count that one line, then I win the challenge!
The problem is not that the port of GCC is bad, it's that the port is specifically intended to be the best compiler for DOS that exists. That means that it's a 32 bit compiler running with a DOS extender and full memory protection.
Turbo C++ is a nice compiler, but it's 16-bit and no memory protection. It was an earlier, more innocent time. In other words, it was primitive, and it sucked. Just kidding... I learned C++ with Turbo C++.
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I thought that the post was terrifically funny. I don't have any mod points, so I can't give you any. I can do something for you though. Since Slashdot is a zero sum game, my loss is your gain! I've got over 200 karma, and this message congratulating you should surely be modded down. You get your reward one way or another...
Oops, you're an AC. Drat.
What can I say? Cable companies suck. The have a local monopoly in practically every place they exist. Their service is the worst of any business in any industry, with the possible exception of "mob boss" or "drug kingpin". Their technology is crap too. That Scientific Atlanta garbage changes channels slowly, and the digital cable looks worse than the analog cable.
Satellite companies like Direct TV don't necessarily *have* to be better than the cable companies, but there is always the possibility of competition which usually improves service and quality of a product. That's why I always try to get my friends to subscribe to satellite TV and drop their cable.
If your cable company buckles in and makes you jump through hoops to record your favorite shows, you are SCREWED. There is one cable company and nobody else.
If your satellite provider does the same thing, then you might have a choice of another satellite provider.
I always thought Trinity was a guy.
If you want to do that, then trust me, go out and get a conventional VCR.
I've got a TiVo and the features are amazing. When TV was invented, they used to say that it would be used to bring culture and science into everyone's living room, and our society would be improved because of it.
Well, with the TiVo, that idealistic dream has come true. Any time I want, I have a slew of good movies and documentaries at my disposal. I never have to see another inane episode of "Will and Grace" again. I don't have to break for commercials either.
If you get a TiVo, don't get the $10 a month service. Pay for the lifetime service for $200. You will save money if you use the unit for a year and 8 months.
It could be both. A fish that blows up could be a blowfish.
Too bad you didnt put the uptime stats in there.
If you did then I could say "Pandora's box love you long time."
I probably should have attached my note to the parent of your article. Yes, you did get it, but the clueless cowards who used the "overrated" tag so their bad moderation wouldn't stand in meta did not.
Oh for Brainfuck's sake.
Squicking is a word that arose from a very specific story posted on alt.sex somewhere around 10 years ago. My comments were NOT trolls, and they didn't merit a -1 score.
My comments were meant as humor, to add to the thread with such a goofy programming language. Why not make a goofy virtual machine to go along with it?
The very fact that NOBODY seemed to know what squicking was is PROOF that the link to the admittedly sick squicking page was REQUIRED. Still, nobody got it.
10 years ago, squicking was an actual topic on alt.sex. Except for me, Elf Sternberg, and a few others, everyone else apparently has forgotten that.
Get a TiVo. I have one and my distinct impression is that the intelligence of TV goes up.
1) My TiVo snags documentaries of all sorts. Somehow all those sitcoms with stereotypical humor about {blonds/women/men/gays/blacks/Jews/Poles/cat people/dog people/news reporters/etc.} has gone away. Good thing too, that crap should have gone out a long time ago for not being funny.
2) The commercials have almost disappeared.
Is TiVo expensive? Computer consultants make about $0.70 to $1 a minute. About 8 hours of work would roughly pay for a TiVo. At about 20 minutes an hour of commercials, you need to watch 24 hours of TV to skip enough commercials to pay for your TiVo with lifetime TiVo service.
I never used Watcom, but I respected them mightily. Back in 1992/1993, the compiler that I used was Borland C++ 2.0 and 3.1. That was the state of the art for inexpensive compilers. I had read for years about Watcom's compiler. It was more expensive than Borland's, but it supported the Weitek coprocessor chip that you could install instead of a 387. That made Watcom's compiler favored for scientific and engineering work.
But, what made me drool was the support for DOS Extenders! Back then I was using Borland C++ and those ghastly overlays to shoehorn a 1 meg+ sized executable into the roughly 580K left over after DOS 5.0 was loaded into memory, along with all the network and CD-ROM device drivers. The idea that I could write a program with a DOS extender that would occupy up to 16 megabytes was an incredible idea. I hoped that Borland would include a DOS extender in their upcoming compiler release.
Alas, it was not to be. Borland abandoned their hard-core DOS users and threw in some half-assed Windows 3.0 support instead. Sure, I could write a program that occupied up to 16 megabytes, but I was still stuck with a silly resource limitation and a flaky operating environment. What good was it to write a program that would only run for 5 minutes between OS crashes? I abandoned Borland, picked up Linux, and haven't looked back. From the looks of it, just about everybody else using BC++ back then also abandoned them.
If Watcom had made their C++ compiler just a little bit cheaper, college students everywhere could have afforded it, and perhaps DOS would have held the mainstream a bit longer.
The idea that women would design things so that houses would be closer together to promote easier domestic mechanics ignores two things:
1) That's a sexist idea. No further elaboration needed.
2) Women drive cars too. Our cities are not built for people, either men or women. They are built for the easy movement of cars. If you doubt this, just try to get around a typical suburban environment without a vehicle. You will sweat your ass to death as you try to cross the vast concrete spaces between the places you're going to and from.
Folks, it's our job as the smart people to spot and highlight the bullshit that various political forces want us to believe. And bullshit comes from a lot more places than just Microsoft.
Right now the biggest problem with TV is all the traditional commercials. Tivo takes care of that in a pretty good way (I love my Tivo!).
I don't think we're going to be able to remove all the commercials from an edited program though. It is preferable to insert the commercials into the programs rather than between segments of programs. The four minute gap is too big of a chunk of time, and it makes watching normal TV painful.
> I praise the Sun god "Ra" every day
Me too!
Sun God, Sun God, Ra! Ra! Ra!
He likes that one.
Don't worry about it. In meta I've noticed that many perfectly good posts are marked offtopic. The mis-moderation will get fixed.
Why do you worry about it?
I think that after a certain point, you can't get moderated up. I've had a few highly rated posts recently and my karma is stuck at exactly the same point - 6.02E23.
As one friend to another, I must clue you people in.
:-)
*lain* is not the same as *laid*. If you think that getting lain is the same as getting laid, please check again.
We geeks won't become the sex symbols of the 21st century if we can't even get the slang right.
Perhaps there was something about his anatomy that caused him to continually confuse an infinitesimal particle with his hardon.
Did he also say "erectron" instead of electron?
It's stories like that which prevent me from getting a cable modem. I am not eligible for DSL where I live, but I will wait thank you very much.
I just called the cable company last night to return my Scientific Atlanta piece of crap to them (changes channels slower than my grandma). After putting me on hold for 20 minutes, they hung up on me.
My new house has a satellite dish.
>sudo ./make_coffee -strength 10 -cups 3
Segmentation Fault - Core Dumped
Hey! Who shit in my coffee cup!
I also think that I only want a certain group of people to vote. In fact, I think that we should restrict citizenship to people who have served their country in a war.
Oh, and let's add one more little group: white male landowners.
That's it. Nobody else can vote.
(That was sarchasm.)
The cheapest one they had was 12500 DKR, which translates to $1507.50 US Dollars.
So, how many of these would you have to strap to a lawn chair to get it to fly with a person in it?
Dang! The html munger munged the line above that should have said
1) you forgot #include string (mentally add the angle brackets)
Doesn't compile with g++. You need to change it to even get it to work.
1) you forgot #include
2) what is foreach? Do you mean for_each?
3) You've got the unary function declaration all wrong.
Anyway, your program isn't really fair because you're including a great deal of code that isn't obfuscated. I could play by the same rules and write a C program one line long that includes a great deal of code and isn't obfuscated. If I only count that one line, then I win the challenge!
The problem is not that the port of GCC is bad, it's that the port is specifically intended to be the best compiler for DOS that exists. That means that it's a 32 bit compiler running with a DOS extender and full memory protection.
Turbo C++ is a nice compiler, but it's 16-bit and no memory protection. It was an earlier, more innocent time. In other words, it was primitive, and it sucked. Just kidding... I learned C++ with Turbo C++.