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| 2000/4/1-3 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:17903 Activity:nil |
4/1 DHCP for bsd. where are docs?
\_ man dhclient (at least on FreeBSD 4.0) --dbushong |
| 2000/4/1-3 [Computer/SW/OS, Computer/HW, Computer/Companies/Google] UID:17904 Activity:low |
4/1 http://www.google.com "Some users unaccustomed to concentrated thought may experience side effects such as headaches, dizziness or flashes of brilliance. These will quickly pass." \_ Google rules (at least for 90% of the searches i do) \_ Hey, when i tried to use MentalPlex it gave me an error: Error 001: Weak or no signal detected. Upgrade transmitter and retry. \_ dumbass... |
| 2000/4/1-3 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:17905 Activity:moderate |
3/31 I'm sick and tired of people claiming: "only merit should
matter", without defining merit. Does merit mean IQ? Or does it
mean "number of publications", or "number of hours worked gratis
for the SPCA", or perhaps "GPA+SAT+GRE+ACT/23skidoo"??? What a
bunch of rich fucking whiners. Live in a projects area for a
while, then come back and talk to me about merit.
\_ Just because *you* have trouble defining it doesn't mean others do.
Merit is your worth to the job, school, whatever. It's what you
contribute and "bring to the table". Some black junky whore brings
nothing. She had it tough as a kid? So what? Life is tough all
over. Life is unfair. Trying to force "fairness" into life only
makes it unfair for those more fit. Those who have merit suffer
while losers advance for no reason other than to make certain
powerful figures on the left feel good. The same powerful figures
who are unharmed by their ill conceived and poorly executed
policies of arbitrary unfairness.
\_ By your definition, it should be able to buy Merit with
Money. Since Money brings a lot to the table, people
with Money should have a lot of Merit. NOTE: I think
that some amount of Merit should be purchasable with
Money. If you have Money you should be able to buy
a undergrad and possibly a graduate degree (including
PHD) at a reputable school. What's the point of having
Money if you can't use it to buy the things that you
want.
\_ Hello? Context? Sure, if you work for a company and
_you_pay_them_ to work there then I guess you're bringing
quite a bit to the table. Uhm, yeah, whatever. This is
an incredibly stupid straw man argument. No. That is
*not* my definition of merit. I want my VC to have cash,
I want my company to pay me cash, but I don't expect my
employees to pay me to work at my company, nor my
students to pay me for a grade. Get real. I said
*nothing* like that and you know it.
\_ Money is one thing you can bring to the table, so in
places where money is important, having money equals
having merit. But you cannot buy ability with money,
and people care about ability, not degrees. So even
if you buy a good looking degree, which is certainly
possible, you will not fool anyone in the workplace
for long unless you have something to back that degree
up.
\_ Hey, I think people should be able to buy whatever
they want with their money (including an
educational degree). --Stanford MSEECS student.
\_ Who gets the cash though? If I can get a cut,
I'd have no problem with it.
\_ Merit at a company is how well you contribute. Merit in school
is how well you know your subject. Merit is NOT the colour of
your skin, or the past history of your ethnic group.
\_ what index do they accept at EECS these days? Does a 4.0+
GPA count for more than 4000 points?
\_ No. And if you want to get into EECS, the 500 to 700
extra points you have shouldn't matter since your SAT I&II
+ your 4000 GPA will put your over the 7700 mark. Also
4.0 in HS means jack at Cal since almost everyone was
4.0 in HS.
\_ I was 3.34 in HS! -blojo
\_ That explains a lot.
\_ man, jon, being a slacker was cool in the eighties,
maybe, or whenever it was Judd Nelson was cool. In
this day and age, cool = college superstar. get with
it, you aging hipster. -ali
\_ well, at least some of us look better than
these college superstars...
\_ "college superstar" = big fish, small bowl,
no car, noodle ramen diet. -John
\_ what are you talking about? 500 - 700 extra points? 4.0+ GPA?
they removed GPA weighting over 2 years ago.
\_ merit is growing up with a silver spoon up your ass, having
your mommie and daddie get you into good schools and giving
you your high-achieving psychie so that you can earn their
love. then you get to bitch about merit to kids that don't
get the same as you did, but somehow should have done just
as well as you even though they have to dodge bullets, drugs,
and gangs.
\_ Waaaah! This troll brought to you by silver spoon silly boy on
the motd.
\_ Losers. Stop bitching and go get some fucking work done.
\_ hey, the man's got a point. |
| 2000/4/1-3 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:17906 Activity:nil |
3/31 if Object o = new int[] { 1, 2, 3 };
then how do i cast it back to a Java array and traverse it? Thanks!
\_ int[] a = (int[]) o;
Reflection is cool, but you don't need it for this.
\_what is reflection?
\_ Sun realizing you can't, added java.lang.reflect.Array
java.lang.reflect.Array.get(o, i);
but you still have to strip the wrapper for primitives, duh... |
| 2000/4/1-3 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java, Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:17907 Activity:high |
3/31 how can i tell whether a Java object is an array?
ie applet.getClass().toString() -> java.applet.Applet
(new int[] { 1, 2, 3 }).getClass() -> ?
\_ Arrays aren't objects, they are primitive types. Your question
betrays a serious lack of understanding of what an object is, and
an array is. I hope you haven't graduated.
\_ Your reply betrays a serious lack of experience programming
in Java, Java isn't my first choice, but that's like one
of the first principles you learn coding in it.
\_ "Java arrays are objects" -- the opening words of Chapter 10,
Arrays, in the Java Language Spec.
\_ nevertheless, you can do:
1) (new int[] { 1, 2, 3 }).getClass()
2) Object o = (new int[] { 1, 2, 3 })
3) BUT NOT Object o = 1
so its not an object... ??? :p
go read: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document2712
and you'll see the reason for the question.
its a big kludge by Sun
\_ array.getClass().isArray() -> true
hope you haven't graduated either ;p
\_ the String class supports '+' and '+='
\_ that's just syntatic sugar,
but object vs primitive in Java is a Real Big Mess(TM)
\_ "Java=C++--" - Bill Joy
\_ GO Smalltalk!!! -purist
\_ PERL 5.6!!!
\_ ED! ED is the Standard Language!
\_ so how can you tell if an ED! object is
an array?
\_ Its all just memory anyway, just toggle
the right bits in RAM. How hard is that?
(Not hard at all, if you have ED fu!)
\_ It's easy in PERL.
\_ This thread looks similar to
Bresenham's algorithm.
\_ I wrote that in PERL with
ED once, just for kicks.
\_ NO, WINDOWS. WINDOWS IS
THE STANDARD EVERYTHING.
\_ Microsoft invented
the Internet.
\_ I heard that BG
wrote PERL with an
early version of
ED.
\_ cool.
\_ NO, MAC OS X WILL SQUASH
WINDOZE SOON. LONG
LIVE APPLE-NeXT
\_ NO, WINDOWS. WINDOWS
EATS EVERYTHING FOR
BREAKFAST. IT IS THE
SOLUTION TO ALL YOUR
PROBLEMS. NEED AN
ABORTION? WINDOWS
WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.
NEED TO HAVE YOUR CAR
FIXED. WINDOWS WILL
TAKE CARE OF IT. BILL
GATES IS MY GOD.
\_ NEGATIVE...THE
NEW HYBRID OF UNIX
AND THE MAC OS WILL
TURN THE TIDE IN
IN THE MAC/PC WARS
FOR YEARS TO COME.
MACS WILL NO LONGER
JUST LOOK GOOD...
THEY WILL ESTABLISH
A NEW PARADIGM IN
PERSONAL COMPUTING.
STEVE JOBS, THE
SMELLY-ASSHOLE,
DAUGHTER-DUMPING,
"REALITY DISTORTION
FIELD MAN" IS THE
TRUE MESSIAH WHO
WILL RESTORE
BALANCE TO THE
FORCE. REMEMBER:
THERE CAN ONLY
BE ONE. |