Your second design shown in ASCII art: what is that? Is that the form with an over-sized delete button right next to a page-up and page down pair, with the home and end keys on top?
Yes. I have a couple Logitech keyboards that are like that. It takes a while to get used to the different layout. It kind of makes sense, since the Insert key is probably never used by most people.
PHP ? Real OO? Thanks for the great joke.
How can I add methods to Number? Ehm you know, the class used for numbers... In order to write 3.times() for instance... ah, it doesn't exist? Ok, so how can add methods to strings? Impossible, strings aren't objects either?
Sorry, by "real" I meant "useful". Obviously PHP is not a pure OO language, or even primarily OO like Java.
In many cases, all you need classes for is as a convenient grouping of functions and an array/hash. The system I work on, though, has quite a few abstract classes with several child classes, and it works just about exactly like Java.
As several people have already said, I don't know why you think PHP is missing the "static" keyword. PHP supports static function variables as well as the static properties and methods of OO.
PHP is far from dead. PHP5, with support for real OO, was a huge improvement. There's been a lot of hard work put in to PHP in the last few years to make it a much more viable modern programming language.
Then I see people suggesting \ for a namespace separator, and I wonder what happened to all the people that put so much work into making PHP5 good, and why we can't get them back.
Having obnoxious sound clips attached to every event you can think of was the epitome of the early 90s.
I was doing it well past the 90's. It just made too much sense to have my Windows error sound be "Out of order? Fuck, even in the future nothing works!"
...but being tied to this handset wastes that initial release PR boost.
How is Android tied to the Dream? HTC just happens to be the first company ready to announce a product, which doesn't even start shipping for another month. In theory, a company like Samsung or Nokia could make an announcement next week that an Android device will be shipping before the Dream. And since HTC is the one manufacturing the physical device, I would guess that they have more say in the exact release date than Google does.
And for damn good reason. It's a hella good book. No doubt Hollywood will fuck it up.
The screenplay is being written by J. Michael Straczynski, who has a lengthy history of writing good stories. There's always the possibility of half the script being replaced by explosions, but assuming that that doesn't happen, the movie should be good.
If you want to know what a general purpose PC which can only reliably run software blessed by a central authority looks like, go install Debian, then try and install a program that isn't included in the repositories. It'll probably make jailbreaking an iPhone look like a stroll through a grassy meadow.
There's been a HUGE movement among the Democratic circle to take a page from the Rove playbook this year, because we've had it up to here with Bush, and we don't want somebody who thinks the Bush program just needs a bit of tweaking.
I think they're using the Rove play book because they've seen how well it worked in the last two elections.
Oh please. Left wingers are just as happy to surrender their civil rights... And who voted for the Patriot Act? Yep, both sides of the aisle.
It's important not to confuse "left wing" or "liberal" with "Democratic Party". The current Democratic party holds to liberal ideals about as well as the current Republican party holds to conservative ideals.
I'm well aware (as well as I can be, at least, having been out of school for a few years now) of the benefits of all of the theoretical work with concepts like Turing machines. I'm certainly not saying that such concepts are useless or unimportant. Here on the outside of academia, though, we don't usually have wires with infinite bandwidth, disks capable of storing infinite frames of video, or users that can press infinite keys.
As for being an ass, I have to say that it's a bit deserved. Participating in a discussion that's arguably about computer science theory and grossly misusing the word "infinite" doesn't make you very credible.
On my computer, there's an infinite stream of ethernet frames arriving, an infinite stream of video frames leaving, an infinite stream of keyboard events arriving, etc.
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I call FUD. There's a lot of things that Lazy functional languages make easy, that mainstream languages don't. Here's just a few examples:
Infinite data structures can be handled naturally.
Might that be because infinite data structures don't often exist in mainstream and/or commercial software applications?
Actually, that phrase provides lots of free speech protections. I can say that I think taking the oil company profits and capping the price will cause oil shipments to stop to the US just like they did in the 1970's.
That isn't stating a fact about a person (or group of people), that's a prediction of the future based on possible actions and past events. The statement "Media Sentry's investigations are illegal" is a bit of a gray area, though. The statement really consists of two parts, the statement about what Media Sentry is doing, and the statement that what they are doing is illegal. The statement about what they are doing would definitely be subject to libel law, since you'd be falsely claiming that they've done something. The part about their actions being illegal would be a bit trickier, since you'd have to, at the very least, show that the person making the statement knew that it was untrue. That would be quite a bit easier to show if the person making the statement is a lawyer, since they should know whether or not Media Sentry's actions are illegal, but a random poster on Slashdot could probably get away with it by claiming ignorance.
Slashdot is focussed on US stories and issues, so yes, its language is going to be English. You've got a lot of nerve calling someone arrogant for expecting decent English (dunno if it is - you didn't quote the complaint or the bad English) on a site that's pretty much all English.
Most cities are entirely within one area code. You have to get up to sizes on the order of New York and Los Angeles before you need more than 10 million phone numbers.
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NONE of the DOS-based Windows (1,2,3,95,98/me) were stable. They were kludges sitting on top of an ancient DOS, trying to be a Mac-like environment.
Wait, are you talking about MS Windows or X Windows?
Yes.
Your second design shown in ASCII art: what is that? Is that the form with an over-sized delete button right next to a page-up and page down pair, with the home and end keys on top?
Yes. I have a couple Logitech keyboards that are like that. It takes a while to get used to the different layout. It kind of makes sense, since the Insert key is probably never used by most people.
PHP ? Real OO? Thanks for the great joke. How can I add methods to Number? Ehm you know, the class used for numbers... In order to write 3.times() for instance... ah, it doesn't exist? Ok, so how can add methods to strings? Impossible, strings aren't objects either?
Sorry, by "real" I meant "useful". Obviously PHP is not a pure OO language, or even primarily OO like Java.
In many cases, all you need classes for is as a convenient grouping of functions and an array/hash. The system I work on, though, has quite a few abstract classes with several child classes, and it works just about exactly like Java.
As several people have already said, I don't know why you think PHP is missing the "static" keyword. PHP supports static function variables as well as the static properties and methods of OO.
PHP is far from dead. PHP5, with support for real OO, was a huge improvement. There's been a lot of hard work put in to PHP in the last few years to make it a much more viable modern programming language.
Then I see people suggesting \ for a namespace separator, and I wonder what happened to all the people that put so much work into making PHP5 good, and why we can't get them back.
Trust no one?
Nope. Trust yourself, trust Ivanova. Anybody else, shoot 'em.
Having obnoxious sound clips attached to every event you can think of was the epitome of the early 90s.
I was doing it well past the 90's. It just made too much sense to have my Windows error sound be "Out of order? Fuck, even in the future nothing works!"
Also, in the US, companies are more interested in reliability
You misspelled "liability".
...but being tied to this handset wastes that initial release PR boost.
How is Android tied to the Dream? HTC just happens to be the first company ready to announce a product, which doesn't even start shipping for another month. In theory, a company like Samsung or Nokia could make an announcement next week that an Android device will be shipping before the Dream. And since HTC is the one manufacturing the physical device, I would guess that they have more say in the exact release date than Google does.
And for damn good reason. It's a hella good book. No doubt Hollywood will fuck it up.
The screenplay is being written by J. Michael Straczynski, who has a lengthy history of writing good stories. There's always the possibility of half the script being replaced by explosions, but assuming that that doesn't happen, the movie should be good.
If you want to know what a general purpose PC which can only reliably run software blessed by a central authority looks like, go install Debian, then try and install a program that isn't included in the repositories. It'll probably make jailbreaking an iPhone look like a stroll through a grassy meadow.
You can jailbreak an iPhone with just "dpkg -i"?
I suppose, but to me, the existence of a midpoint implies a spectrum (you could have a midpoint between the first midpoint and one extreme, etc.).
Political Compass is great. It's kinda fun to see the reactions when I describe myself as a socialist libertarian.
There's been a HUGE movement among the Democratic circle to take a page from the Rove playbook this year, because we've had it up to here with Bush, and we don't want somebody who thinks the Bush program just needs a bit of tweaking.
I think they're using the Rove play book because they've seen how well it worked in the last two elections.
Binary/polar viewpoints are often plainly wrong as the world isn't binary at all.
Isn't that almost exactly what the whole statement about there being a midpoint is trying to point out?
Oh please. Left wingers are just as happy to surrender their civil rights... And who voted for the Patriot Act? Yep, both sides of the aisle.
It's important not to confuse "left wing" or "liberal" with "Democratic Party". The current Democratic party holds to liberal ideals about as well as the current Republican party holds to conservative ideals.
I'm well aware (as well as I can be, at least, having been out of school for a few years now) of the benefits of all of the theoretical work with concepts like Turing machines. I'm certainly not saying that such concepts are useless or unimportant. Here on the outside of academia, though, we don't usually have wires with infinite bandwidth, disks capable of storing infinite frames of video, or users that can press infinite keys.
As for being an ass, I have to say that it's a bit deserved. Participating in a discussion that's arguably about computer science theory and grossly misusing the word "infinite" doesn't make you very credible.
Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion, I'm getting tired of it.
Yeah, it's taking the focus away from the KDE vs. Gnome and vi vs. emacs arguments.
On my computer, there's an infinite stream of ethernet frames arriving, an infinite stream of video frames leaving, an infinite stream of keyboard events arriving, etc.
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
When will we get a government that cares about our people more than appeasing the playground bully?
When someone pries it from their cold, dead hands.
I call FUD. There's a lot of things that Lazy functional languages make easy, that mainstream languages don't. Here's just a few examples: Infinite data structures can be handled naturally.
Might that be because infinite data structures don't often exist in mainstream and/or commercial software applications?
Actually, that phrase provides lots of free speech protections. I can say that I think taking the oil company profits and capping the price will cause oil shipments to stop to the US just like they did in the 1970's.
That isn't stating a fact about a person (or group of people), that's a prediction of the future based on possible actions and past events. The statement "Media Sentry's investigations are illegal" is a bit of a gray area, though. The statement really consists of two parts, the statement about what Media Sentry is doing, and the statement that what they are doing is illegal. The statement about what they are doing would definitely be subject to libel law, since you'd be falsely claiming that they've done something. The part about their actions being illegal would be a bit trickier, since you'd have to, at the very least, show that the person making the statement knew that it was untrue. That would be quite a bit easier to show if the person making the statement is a lawyer, since they should know whether or not Media Sentry's actions are illegal, but a random poster on Slashdot could probably get away with it by claiming ignorance.
Slashdot is focussed on US stories and issues, so yes, its language is going to be English. You've got a lot of nerve calling someone arrogant for expecting decent English (dunno if it is - you didn't quote the complaint or the bad English) on a site that's pretty much all English.
Fixed for you.
Most cities are entirely within one area code. You have to get up to sizes on the order of New York and Los Angeles before you need more than 10 million phone numbers.
Didn't this already happen? Or is this just Deja Vu all over again? I could have sworn I heard about this lawsuit several weeks ago.
Sure, whatever. As if old news would ever get posted on Slashdot.
"irrevocable excepting in cases where content has been removed by end user" or however the legalese would need to be
I've marked the tricky bit for ya.