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(...) Hmmm... C++ uses generally the same syntax, and it can reference the Java API... That *must* mean... nah. The things that make Java Java, are not available in Javascript. These things include but aren't limited to: object-oriented (1) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) That's interesting. I've had many things crash Netscape for me -- Quicktime 3.0, Shockwave, HTML, etc. -- but never Java. Do you visit particularly bad applets? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What is "powerful"?
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(...) Boot up time issues aren't unique to Windows. I was always annoyed at how long OS/2 took to boot up at work. Now that I use AIX on an RS/6000, Windows and OS/2 start up instantly by comparison, though a large part of the slowness of AIX (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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Sproaticus wrote in message <376FD969.C35EB4B5@g...es.com>... (...) It uses generally the same syntax, and on netscape, it can reference the java api (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <377cbc95.9819689@lu...et.com>... (...) That reminds me, I once heard it was possible for javascript to file out a filename in the file area of the form(maybe with C:\windows\cookies) (In a hidden window , of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Perl rules!
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(...) It's no toy. (...) It's not a good language to teach Computer Science with. BTW, there is arguably never any "right" way. Just different ways to do things that either work correctly or don't work correctly -- or perform correctly but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) Java crashes Nutscrape. Javascript doesn't. (...) In my client, all it can do is open a mailto: window, or send an email with the contents of a form _after_ you click a button, IIRC. (...) Except crashing the computer. Jasper (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: X-Face: usage?
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(...) Hehe. It's kinda cool to have it as an option, yes, but you should be ab;le to turn it off ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Perl rules!
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(...) The problem with perl, I am told, is that it's also incredibly easy to do things exactly the wrong way. In fact, it's vastly easier than to do it the right way. Just like in any other language, of course, but in perl, "there is always more (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Good image-format converters
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(...) I use ThumbsPlus, which is my personal favorite image managing package. Worth every penny. (URL) is good too, and I have used that before. Both do batch processing. (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Good image-format converters
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Does anyone know of any good(windows) programs that can convert graphics from the .bmp to .gif or .jpg format. Or how do you make pov output a gif or jpg. -- webpage: (URL) AIM:Qbwiz -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s--:- a---- (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Anyone planning on taking a look at the $199 iToaster? (URL) only "bad" thing seems to be that you have to use their ISP, and it is $19.99 per month, which I guess is kinda average, but certainly a lot more than I pay (nothing). If there were (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Isn't "progress" great? ;-) (...) Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system vendor. They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Tasty!
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(...) Actually, wouldn't that be a pizza calling to order another pizza? (...) It's too bad - that legal letter should have said to use the term "Lego brand bricks". I have a feeling this was a reactive response rather than a proactive one. Has (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | anyone ordered stuff from x10.com?
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(URL) from the fact that this place seems to always be running "hurry up and buy it before it goes off sale in 2 days" promotions, their stuff looks pretty cool. My friends and I ordered a few of their "free" firecracker home automation kits the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jonathan Wilson: (...) Hey wow, you can!!! Cool! -- recursive pizza! (almost) Say, I wonder if this means that they finally worked out their issues with the LEGO Legal Department as to the use of the word "legos"... (URL) (HTTP date stamp of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
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(...) Oh, good. Then I wrote something close to correct. :) (...) That's probably a good idea. Most people will just scratch their heads at them, but some people would find it useful. Steve (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
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Hey now, that's beginning to look like the yacc grammer for LDRAW in the LDLite source code. If you want to get precise in the language spec, grab the LDLite lex and yacc files and either take them as the defacto standard or modify them to handle (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
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(...) Both of the above are common output from LDAO code. (...) Well, I was just throwing stuff out. I don't know if LDraw would take that one, or not. (...) Darned context-sensitive constructions. (...) I didn't say they made sense. Just that they (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) Todd, any reason there is no link to the traffic page from "(URL) The only link directly to Traffic I saw was the intro/setup screen. A link on the Traffic site from the page listing all the groups would be great. (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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