Strangely enough the magic number for .class files was chosen long before the name Java was ever uttered in reference to this language. We were looking for something fun, unique and easy to remember. 0xcafebabe was better than the second runner-up, 0xdeadbabe. :-)

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The original of this report (1999) was posted under a domain owned by the Star-Telegram newspaper in Fort Worth, Texas. Since then, Star-Telegram has terminated their ISP services and their domain name has been taken over by a pornography site. The old version of this report still contained Star-Telegram's domain name in many links, thus taking today's users to the porn site.

The Matrix is neither meaningfully gnostic nor meaningfully Christian. Rather, it is simply a sci-fi action-adventure tale told in a mythic mode. While influences from both biblical motifs and pop mysticism are in evidence, the film references these sources — along with many other sources, including classical Greek culture, Lewis Carroll, and Star Wars — in a way that is of aesthetic significance, not religious.

I'm heartily sick of vendors pimping their latest gizmos with shiny demos and hordes of marketers squealing that 'people buy with their eyes'. I'd like to stab those people in their eyes with a butter knife. Let's see them buy 'with their eyes' then.

We have a project in the works that would normally be released as v4.0. One manager insists that the number 4 be skipped for the reasons that other softwares with v4.0 have been poor, and the word for 4 in Japanese also means death, so Japanese people won't want to buy it.

A stack of reasons - mostly relating to adoption within the workplace. As soon as I fire up Mozilla in front of a newbie they comment along the lines of 'playing games huh' or similar.

Im not suggesting the monster gets replaced with some prick with a laptop looking serious while rubbing his chin as his foxy secretary takes notes in their walnut and leather office - but something a little more businessy wouldn't hurt.

Branding gives you things to hang onto. Some people like their jeans more because missy elliot wears then (or says she wears them). I'd like Mozilla more if I didnt look like a dinosaur geek everytime it starts up.

It’s no wonder that pure text-based navigation, styled with CSS, is leaping back into web design. But most CSS-based tab design so far is a step back in appearance from what we used to do — certainly nothing to be included in a design portfolio. A newly adopted technology (like CSS) should allow us to create something better, without losing the design quality of previous table hacks and all-image-based tabs.

I keep hoping that maybe someday the clue-elves will arrive in the night and sort this out, but it's been years, and it hasn't happened yet. (And yes, I've sent these complaints to the developers too. I'm still waiting for the elves.)

This is, fundamentally, a list of Critical and Significant Dates, which is not quite the same thing as a list of dates which ought to be used in testing

Comics Revue is possibly the only sustained effort to reprint American comic strips on a regular basis, where the material has mostly been chosen according to aesthetic considerations rather than what was available or what was cheap. From the beginning, its editorial decisions have been driven mostly by knowledge and appreciation of the comics form on the part of the people putting it out

The name "Barney Google" is familiar to anyone who ever watched a TV retrospective of comic strips — he's the guy with the "goo-goo-googly eyes" in the 1923 Billy Rose song they always play in such retrospectives. Many newspapers use his name in the title of one of their comic strips. And in 1995, he was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in its "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative stamps.

But how many people actually remember seeing Barney Google in a comic strip?

Snuffy Smith, one of Hootin' Holler's more ornery and sawed-off residents, was introduced on November 17, 1934. Within a few weeks, he and Barney were pals, and not too long after that, he'd become co-star of the strip. By the late 1930s, the name of of the strip had become Barney Google & Snuffy Smith. In 1954, Google left the hill country but the strip's focus stayed, and Snuffy was its sole star. Today, Barney's name is still part of the strip's official title, but Barney himself is seldom seen.

As we can see, clearly weblogs are fucking retarded as a general rule. Most weblog authors either think they have something important to say (self-centered and egotistical authors), or believe that they have an audience that cares what they think (delusional and irrational authors.) What can be plainly seen is that most weblog authors need something to push them back into the real world from the self-centered and delusional world they have created for themselves.

Not only are there no silver bullets now in view, the very nature of software makes it unlikely that there will be any--no inventions that will do for software productivity, reliability, and simplicity what electronics, transistors, and large-scale integration did for computer hardware. We cannot expect ever to see twofold gains every two years.

If we accept that programmers are humans, one primary and interesting consequence is that human factors issues can be properly applied towards the tools they use. I'm not talking here about IDEs, which have GUIs that are clearly subject to human factors analysis. (Answer: They mostly suck.) I am speaking about the more basic tools programmers use every minute they do their work: programming languages and APIs.

I have been working with SGML/XML stuff for a few years now, and have seen a number of uses for it "as a technology". Many of these were theoretically good ideas, some of them even worked, and a huge, overwhelming majority were just bad jokes. I will describe here the jokes, and what went wrong. I want to make it clear from the onset that I do like XML in general, and use it all the time, and have no problem with its continued adoption. I am merely making an argument about what I think people are doing wrong with it, and suggesting an alternative.

First, let us give ant its due. Ant is designed to be a portable way to replace make. Ant was to be platform independent, so the obvious implementation choice was Java, which is fine, mostly. And the obvious data format for the project description -- saying what needs to be built -- was XML, which is not fine, as we shall see.

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This site is dedicated to helping you find software and supplies for that "old" IBM compatible personal computer. No software listed on this site requires a computer faster than a Pentium 133. Many programs in the DOS section will even run on an 8088. Of course, they all will run on the newer, faster computers.

' INIT THE SCREEN
SCREEN 0
DEF SEG = &HB800
CLS
cols = 80

' DRAW THE VERTICAL INDEX
FOR i = 0 TO 15
POKE ((i + 1) * cols * 2), ASC(HEX$(i))
NEXT i

' HORIZONTAL INDEX
FOR j = 0 TO 15
POKE j * 4 + 4, ASC(HEX$(j))
NEXT j

' DRAW ACTUAL CHARACTERS
CHAR = 0
FOR i = 0 TO 15
FOR j = 0 TO 15
POKE ((i + 1) * cols * 2 + 2) + (j * 4 + 2), CHAR
CHAR = CHAR + 1
NEXT j
NEXT i

In this article I'll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about "plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits" is not only wrong, it's hopelessly wrong, and if you're still programming that way, you're not much better than a medical doctor who doesn't believe in germs. Please do not write another line of code until you finish reading this article.

The Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS") is a cross-platform printing solution for all UNIX environments. It is based on the "Internet Printing Protocol" and provides complete printing services to most PostScript and raster printers.

Of the Tongues of Arda, the invented world of J.R.R. Tolkien. The most comprehensive site about Tolkien's invented languages that you are likely to find on the net.

The web's largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music since 1994.

The need for temperament arises because it is impossible to have octaves, fifths, thirds, etc., all pure at once, or, in other words, because the ratios of the different pure intervals are incompatible.

This Java applet demonstrates various historical tunings and temperaments and allows one to experiment with them. It was developed to accompany a text on Understanding temperaments

Of course, the harmonic series is infinite, but the most common just intervals are found among the lowest harmonics. As one goes farther up the series one finds more exotic intervals, until at some point the new intervals are no longer musically meaningful. This limit is not fixed, but is a matter of aural familiarity and personal taste. (For this article, we'll stop arbitrarily at 16.)

I think this may raise some real questions about XSLT. There's still much I like about the power of XSLT, but I hate the syntax and the walls you keep running into. I'm not going to convert my whole site over to Ruby tomorrow - most of the XSLT works fine - but I can certainly see my way to doing that at some point in the future. But the bigger question is whether you're better off with scripting language for this kind of task than XSLT.

A catalogue of examples of bad code gleaned from many projects over the years. Use these examples wisely and avoid the stinky patterns that they promote

Our modern system of tuning, called equal temperament, is a compromise. We divide the octave into 12 equal intervals not because it sound better that way - it doesn't at all, it's slightly buzzy with audible beating between sustained pitches - but so we can transpose any music to any key.

Many recent composers have come to feel that the compromise of equal temperament was a mistake. They feel that the musical logic of moving from any key to any other key became a priority at the expense of music's sonic sensuousness.

the idiotic Mallet Assembly. They think they're so great just because they're different, when what they do is really just plain dumb. They come off like they're better than the fraternities because they're "smarter," yet they still have the same drunk parties, the same stupid initiations... It's all a sham, just another way of pretending to be different. And the sad thing is, the people involved think they've found their niche, their raison d'être. And it's nothing more than another false image, just as bad as being a republican or a sorority sister. No, worse, because at least those don't pretend to be something they're not.

What's even more interesting to me is not so much what smart people can do, but what triggers those of us without any time on our hands to make some time anyway.
-- Philip Segrest

The SNIPPETS archives project started out in the late 1980's as a personal quest to collect useful snippets (hence the name) of C, and later C , code which would be free for reuse in a personal or commercial environment. Over time, it has grown to more than 94,000 lines of code in over 700 separate files. The goal of SNIPPETS was to collect and disseminate the best C/C answers to 'How do I...?' programming questions.

libclc is a project undertaken by comp.lang.c regulars in order to provide a portable API for most useful and common programming tasks. It aims at providing services for the following tasks among others: strings, file I/O, logging & error recovery, memory management, base conversion, date & time, sorting & searching, hashing, lists, queues, stacks, trees & other abstract data structures, random numbers, crypto, database, graphs.

O Websphere...you evil monster.

You also get a source xref. This I'm sure was useful back in the days when people didn't have suitable tools to browse source in a far easier and sensible manner than a stupid web UI. Java professionals will use IDEA. Even their retarded happy-idiot poor cousins will use Eclipse at the very least.

What's truly depressing is the amount of energy and effort that people have poured into this crap. They could have been out there making a difference, planting trees, preaching world peace, solving the middle-east crisis, advocating a two party system in the US, saving whales, work for an aid agency helping African societies decimated by AIDS (no US aid for them of course if they also preach contraception and family planning), but no, they instead make up little xml documents that define their humanity, or lack thereof. Grrrr.

Heaven forbid servlet container developers are actually forced to do any actual work or make the life of application developers vaguely tolerable. They're all too busy pimping their own idiotic implementations, in the few spare minutes they have between bouts of trying desperately to milk their book author credentials for all its worth.

The first picture shows the Beatles, facing a woman who has her back to the camera, and hanging on to a string of sausages. This picture was supposed to represent the 'birth' of the Beatles, with the sausages serving as an umbilical cord.

Claim: The Beatles planned the infamous butcher cover as a protest against Capitol Records' "butchering" of their album releases in America.

Status: False.

Each year, the list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places spotlights parts of the country's heritage that are threatened by neglect, insufficient funds, inappropriate development or insensitive public policy.

A collection of electric railroad, interurban, and streetcar photography from many eras

This web site is devoted "transit's step child": the electric trolleybus. Our aim is to provide a link to every known trolleybus site on the web. Additionally we provide many photos as well.

Ben McKay of Orlando, Florida has been demonstrating operating, driveable HO-scale trolley coaches at shows the past several years. This module includes a standard 2 track NMRA module lines so that it might be added to a module display. Standing alone, there is an interesting trolley line besides the trolley coach line

The San Francisco Municipal Railway operates the largest network of electric trolley coach routes in the United States. (In other cities, these vehicles are called "trolleybuses" or "trackless trolleys".) Trolley coaches excel at climbing steep hills, and cheap hydroelectric power is available from a city-owned reservoir and dam in the California mountains.

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