No sane programmers use the G word :-)

This is quite easy to do with Perl. A box with nothing in it has an undefined value. A box with something in it - even it's 0 or empty string has a defined value.

No I think he nailed it right there :-)

Not to mention, that self-modifying assembly code needs to know where it is right now (0-base) and how many bytes further on to write the new instructions. The pointer arithmetic there has nothing to do with arrays but the exact same principle applies.

They're really *7* years old. We started counting at 0 remember ;-)

Looks like I'll be locked out of most web sites that use Captcha if they start using these. I can't make head or tail of them either!

By' that wer't nowt. When I were't lad we toggled in th'instructions into't front panel. ;-)

And then it's good for you again - and then it's bad for you again...

Like brown bread or chocolate or any number of other things.

A recent study also showed it was good for being an anti-oxidant and was good for you.

Researchers really ought to talk to one another...

This is not Amazon's job to enforce. If sales tax is due then it is up to the consumer to declare it on their return.

I agree it's the act of writing. I use Buzan's iMindMap to prepare 40-min long presentations in the past - and did so using a wacom-enabled pen tablet. I found that the act of writing on the tablet to fill in the mind map stimulated the memorizing process for the talk far better than typing into the boxes. I wasn't distracted by anything else while undertaking this task, rather, fully focused on it. Typing didn't work as well at enabling recall. Writing did.

BTW: It's not the same using just a regular tablet - even with palm rejection - there is a distraction associated with that. Only a proper pen-enabled tablet has the same fluidity of note-taking as pen and paper.

Why not use pen and paper???

Two reasons...

1.) I have a permanent and easily transmissible and alterable record
2.) You should *see* my handwriting!!! :-)

Alvin Tofler's take on societal future written in 1970 is still a revealing read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

Also (not sure how many of these are in print currently - but - still may be available 2nd hand if not):

What will be: Michael Dertouzos: 0062515403
Release 2.1 A Design for living in the Digital Age: Esther Dyson: 0140266623
Interface Culture - How new technology transforms the way we create and communicate: Steven Johnson: 0062514822
The Technological Society: Jacques Ellul: 0394703901
Computer Ethics: 2nd Ed: Deborah G Johnson: 0132903393
The Cult of Information: Theodore Roszak: 0520085841
Megatrends 2000: John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene: 0380704374
Composing Cyberspace: Richard Holeton: 0070295484
Technics and Civilization: Lewis Mumford: 015688254X
Case Studies in Information and Computer Ethics: Richard A Spinello: 013533845X
Slaves of the Machine: The Quickening of Computer Technology: Gregory J.E. Rawlins: MIT Press 0262681021
Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing: Peter J. Denning & Robert M Metcalfe: 0387985883
Literacy, Technology and Society: Confronting the Issues: Gaile. E. Hawisher, Cynthia L. Selfe: 0132275880

No - these are not from a University reading list - I own each of these, and others that I don't have to hand right now, and read most of them some years back as I was researching writing a book of my own on the subject (which - I never got round to - oh well). Not all the information in these is focused on the subject evenly but is thought provoking in any case and relevant overall.

Kind regards

W.

How do you know that it didn't ? ;-)

I've used vmware since version 1 and like it a great deal, hosting on both Windows and Linux, and with all manner of Windows and Linux VMs under each and both and simultaneously on the same host. I've recently installed and used VirtualBox on MacOS X (it was the free alternative) and installed Linux as a VM there just fine and without any issues. Both are as easy as each other IMO. Virtualbox feels a tad faster, esp. since it is being used on an older Macbook and is very responsive, but I haven't done any quantitative comparison. I like both. Try each. See what works (BTW, can't understand why everyone was so negative above. The question was a very fair one which gentle (or genteel) slashdotters can step up to easily, esp. since a comparison based on experience was asked for, not "how do I run this because I can't read the help"). VMware has more server-side enterprise-level offerings, but free vmware player is a good end-user product and is comparable to Virtualbox. Adventurous folks might try User-mode Linux (hosted on Linux of course). Kind regards, W.

Well, at least I can pronounce the place name ;-) but of course we impose such limita..... .....tions on packet lengths that saying something out loud - or using carrier pidgeon (al.... .....beit with a broken leg after that message ;-) ) might be more reliable