@DOA said:
@NorseLaQuet said:
It sort of reminded me of GLaDOS for some reason.Ah, so I wasn't the only one.
But you two recognize the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference, dont you?
@DOA said:
@NorseLaQuet said:
It sort of reminded me of GLaDOS for some reason.Ah, so I wasn't the only one.
But you two recognize the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference, dont you?
Ah... Graphic designers... The (not so) fond memories.
Once a design firm tried to charge 1000€ to change the background color in a flash animation.
Why? Cause it was final art (as in the print trade) and so it costed extra.
As for the accessibility, flash and accessibility dont mix, ever.
As for the rest... i dont see the problem either
@morbiuswilters said:
I don't understand what you are saying. If I take GPL'd code and make changes to it, I do not have to provide anyone with my sources. However, if I give you a copy of my binary changes, I must also provide the sources to you. I am under no obligation to provide the sources to anyone I have not distributed the binaries to. What part of this doesn't fly with you?
@morbiuswilters said:
Copyright law only applies to redistribution of a work. If you do not give someone the binaries, then you cannot be required to comply with any license. The source only has to be provided to those you distrubute the binaries to.
@belgariontheking said:
@DOA said:
@burntfuse said:Or for me. Didn't any of you start with something like Tic Tac Toe or Poker?That must be a universal stage in programming or something - I did that too (with a ton of trig and all), but a few years ago and in Java.Not for me.
@Nandurius said:
@Lingerance said:
@Nandurius said:I also don't see the GPL source code for the embedded linux system made available anywhere on the site.
IANAL but you only have to hand out sources to people who get the binaries.You're right, of course, but most companies who actually comply with the GPL simply make the sources available on the website. I wasn't trying to suggest that they had to have it there, publicly available, I only took that as an indicator of their interest in being compliant. The OP, on the other hand, is entitled to receive all gpl sources that were used in the product.
Btw: The binaries (firmware images) are actually available on the website, and available to anyone. Since they are distributing these, and if these images contain any GPL code (such as the kernel module that claims to be GPL) then the source of the affected parts should be made available also.
@WWWWolf said:
@OperatorBastardusInfernalis said:* ["a"] == ["b"] return true, since it only checks for length
Worse in Perl:
"3" != "4"
"3" == "03"
"8" == "010"
"foo" == "bar"
"nanosecond" != "nanosecond"Am I correct assuming that the original poster's point was that in LSL, there's no official way to compare two arrays, and the intuitive way (using equals operator) is valid syntactically but doesn't work as expected?
Because in that case, comparison to Perl wouldn't be valid, because Perl does have perfectly functional string comparison operators ("eq" and "ne"), and its only sin is that the "normal-looking" comparison operator isn't overloaded.
But if my assumption is wrong and the situation is similar to Perl, well, Perl is hardly alone - I've given up relying on automatically assuming equals operations work in any languages in any non-trivial situations, and look at the documentation and do a test in worst case. Paranoia creeps in so easily. =)
yes that is the case, if you wish to compare two lists each of your scripts must include a user defined function to that effect.
You may not be aware of Second Life's scripting language the "Linden Scripting Language"
There is much to explore so here are a few bullet points found in the wiki http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/
Keep in mind that since there appears to be no official documentation all information is provided by volunteers (WTF #1)
in no particular order
10 byte length ints
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=MemoryUsage
no bool short circuiting
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=boolean
one function per type to retrieve an element from a list (there is no generic one)
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=list
the type system has issues, for instance, the list is used very often, but is very badly implemented
function parameters are always passed by value (even lists)
the best way to append a element to a list is:
myList = (myList=[]) + myList + ["new_item"];
because (quoting from wiki)
integer STRIDELENGTH = 3; // this is very helpful when dealing with strided lists to keep your code flexible
list visitors = ["Ama Omega", 5, "2004-06-12", "Catherine Omega", 12, "2004-06-28", "Ezhar Fairlight", 25, "2004-06-30"];
visitors += ["Mistress Midnight", 1, "2004-06-30"];
I believe there is much more to be found
This post had the collaboration of Sgeo and DrJokepu, my thanks :)
It may be interesting to note, that she is also paranoid about black helicopters. Her scrapbook is a trip into a weird mind.
She seems very normal when talking about her husband who likes to read, etc. , and then all of a sudden, starts talking about suspicious trucks and helis.
I bet Sepctate would find several aliens in the photo of the tree!
Doug Pederson vs Nacy Ross. A match made in heaven.
P.S. since i dint post for months, i must say it: the RWTF is still the forum software damnit!
@RayS said:
I was surprised about it at first too. Being in a smaller country (England), commuting daily by plane is just a nonsensical idea. Considering pinguis is from Portugal, not surprising that he though the same. It wouldn't make sense there, either. In a larger country like the U.S., it's a feasible plan for high enough salaries.
Then again, I have a 5 minute walk to work, so even a half hour drive seems excessive to me, never mind flying. I don't know how people do ~2 hour commutes (which that probably is with to/from airport travel both ways) each day, each way. I know some fools who spend 4-5 hours a day travelling, on top of their work hours. To my mind that almost halves your effective pay rate. shrug.
You are rigth on the money... The problem with long commutes (i have a one hour commute) is that is far more easy and frequent to change jobs than to change houses. Not to mention that where you work is just a factor in choosing where to live.
The fact that someone chooses to comute by plane says (to me at least) alot about how some countrys manage their resources. The tendency SHOULD be to adopt economic mass transit (suburban train, tube, bus, your milage may vary) than by car, or gasp plane.
As an aside, any of you know any other contrys were this happes besides the USA?
@Carnildo said:
Spokane to Seattle is common enough. The first page was almost entirely the morning commuter flights for people who live in Spokane but work in Seattle, with a few Spokane-to-Seattle flights via Portland.
Please tell me that there is no such such thing as people commuting DAILY by PLANE, please please??
Quick awnser, there is no such thing as general consensus regarding PHP, however most of the developers in this site seem prety hostile towards it.
(in short, you are begging for a flame war, so i shall start the show running by giving my opinion)
PHP is not a diffucult language to learn, and is somewath enjoyable to use, but i prefer to avoid it, especialy because, not beeing much of a web programmer, i have to integrate apps developed by others, into my systems. The whole package lacks polish.
For example, i had a system running PHP 5.0.4, and another running 5.1.6. The bundled xml library (simplexml) had a method missing in one of the systems.
Guess which? The most RECENT one. The revision for that library was older in the younger bundle.
So you may say this was an error on part of the packager, but...
Add to that , p.ex. some "programmers" who love to code with Register_Globals = On (very bad on security), or love to infect the system with pear librarys to make trivial tasks.
Anyway, this may seem unfair on the language, but it ist too easy to make mistakes on PHP.
So my recomendation would be: If you intend to do it alone, for fun, use it., no regret.
If you will use it for serious production code, stay away from it, its better for yourself (AND escpecialy for who inherits your code), ASP.NET seems good, JSP no problem.
Well as an aside, there is only on technology wich pisses me off daily more than PHP (Its flash) so take my comment with a grain of salt.
Cheers!
EDIT: SOrry about the formating, ti looks ok in preview (ah the forum software, a lesson in how no to use ASP)
[quote user="rien"]
[quote user="donazea"]
eep, server side COBOL?
[/quote]
This already exists: it is called a mainframe.
[/quote]
No it EXISTS!
Keeping somewath on topic... There is a new type of var on actionscript3 , its called int. yes gentleman the third version of this ...er... fine ..er... language, finaly added an int.
[quote user="Nandurius"]
Lastly there is also WebObjects, which I've seen in use a couple of times. It's a framework from Apple and it's driving, for example, the iTunes store or the TVTV.com website. I find this system quite intriguing and would like to know more about it.
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Having implemented our system from scratch on ObjectiveC/Cocoa, i can tell without fear of contraditcion that is simply the best development envirnoment I've worked with. I have not used WebObjects, mind you, but if they are at Apple standard, it may prove more addictive than illicit drugs.
[quote user="pinguis"]
To clear things up... when i said professionaly, its not in the present. Im not doing an web development at the moment, and wont be doing in a while so i consider at investment in myself (hence the my free time thing).
[/quote]
Guess what??? A while translated in a few days!!!!!!! My next project to start today, is an web application, that will read data from a SOAP server (in this case airline information) that will then integrate with our set-box system to display realtime departure and arrival information (one of our clients is a worldwide travel agency network). I can say that im flabbergasted, this comming up, just after I started the thread!!!!
So, the framework requires: 1) Running in Linux 2) Good SOAP support.
The good news, is that now i will learn it on company time. The bad news is that im still indecise on which framework to choose!
At the moment the three strongest contenteders are
1) Struts
2) Shale (Struts + Java Server Faces)
3) RubyOnRails
Any info on these particular three is welcome
P.S. Thanks for your informative replies guys!!!!
Thanks for your sugestions, but I sure wont side by the evil spawn of satan (Microsoft).
To clear things up... when i said professionaly, its not in the present. Im not doing an web development at the moment, and wont be doing in a while so i consider at investment in myself (hence the my free time thing).
Disclaimer: I dont intend to start a flamer war, this is a honest question.
So... Recently i've become more and more interested in database driven web aplications (for professional and personal motives) and for some reasons (the daily wtf, and some things i've seen at work ;) ) PHP/MySQL inst realy what im looking for. I have been looking at Struts, or Ruby On Rails, since they are both free and open source. But since there is a learning curve (to wich my company does not pay me for, and my free time is precious) i would like any rants on the matter you guys may have (i should assume 50% of this forum readers work with this kind of things). What do you think is a good move??? Any other sugestions besides the two i mentioned? Are they any good, or the good press about them is just hype???
Thanks in advance.
As a multimedia apps programmer (altough not for the web, mostly set-top boxes) I share your pain. Ive seen (and done) horrors while dealing with video files from clients. As a tip, when you doing video conversions use Autodesk Cleaner. It beats Final Cut's ass every day of the week, if you dont need editing.
[quote user="Manni"]
But VBScript has saved me countless hours of mind-numbing work by letting me write a quickie script in 5 minutes to parse out text files and query databases and other simple crap.
[/quote]
That is why my $deity invented perl.
This a external consultant way of implementing a listbox in PHP (the rest of the code is worse)
echo "Duration: ";
echo "<br>";
echo "<select name='duration'>";
echo "<option value='0'";
if ($pfp_duration == '0') {
$pselected = "selected";
} else {
$pselected = "";
}
echo " $pselected>0</option>";
echo "<option value='1'";
if ($pfp_duration == '1') {
$pselected = "selected";
} else {
$pselected = "";
}
echo " $pselected>1</option>";
echo "<option value='2'";
if ($pfp_duration == '2') {
$pselected = "selected";
} else {
$pselected = "";
}
<---- SNIP MANY LINES ---->
echo "<option value='400'";
if ($pfp_duration == '400') {
$pselected = "selected";
} else {
$pselected = "";
}
echo " $pselected>400</option>";
echo "</select>";
echo "<br><br>";
Login is broken on Konqueror 3.5.3 (im posting in FF 1.5.0.5). I suspect its about javascript. Anyone else uses Konqueror here?
@Maximilianop said:
Almost, since a "receptor" is a receiver ("receptores" receivers; "cabeza" head)
The
most addecuate translation from English to Spanish of Headsets is
"HeadSets", because there is not an spanish word for "earphones holding
a microphone".
Here in Argentina, some call it "Auriculares"
which is Earphones, because we tend to call things as what they came
from rather than what they are (excamples: Calling CD a DVD; Disc a CD;
Television aTV set, and so on...)
My WTF was seeing how much
little effort Microsoft staff put in localization of mails, news,
etc... Other thing like that was in WindowsUpdate site where they
translated Welcome as "Bienvenida" which is both the action of
welcoming and telling a woman welcome. Now it´s changed to
"Bienvenidos" wich is a plural and genre-less word for welcome.
rswafford said:
This is ridiculous...though I would love to
see what a 'recipe' looks like, and try to make something with this
package...not that I expect it to work though.
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I would guess it's a basic compiler :P, so a recipie is... (i will leave it as an exercise to the reader).
But i must say this is one of the best parody sites i've seen in a while. If it is REAL, im speachless.
El Foo said:
This is funny in itself, but what's even
funnier is that apparently spammers read TDWTF. Should we throw them a
welcoming party or something, wheel out goggles full of spam and
'BRILLANT' banners and hats? (hey - those aren't a bad idea - cafepress
t-shirts and hats with 'BRILLANT' or 'My eyes! The goggles, they do
nothing!' on them).
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Try this link
http://www.cafepress.com/thedailywtf -- its on the homepage for ages
Halcyon said:
fürjedes ( @objekte ) {
drücke @andere_objekte, foobarisiere ( $_ );
}
<br>Yes.. i had an old c++ book that translated keywords in snipets of code to portuguese (my native language). if it was the only i had, i would never be able to learn anything.<br><br>On a side note, if you feel programming in grand style try this<br><br>http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html<br><br></span>