Re: Lack of fax in Home Premium vs XP Home cause for action? ... Try comparing the features of the two operating systems. ... It's "good practice" for consumers to determine whether or not any given product will meet their needs *before* making a purchasing decision. ... The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
Re: ZONE_PADDING wastes 4 bytes of the new cacheline ... > far better (aside from the minor fact they won't compile!).... doubt it makes much difference in practice, but it makes sense in theory ... so I'll keep those new features of course (especially the RT one could ... send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in ... (Linux-Kernel)
Re: OO and Extending (Was: Is Procedural Paradigm a basis of OO Paradigm?) ... the features can be independent of one another such that you can add ... this usually doesn't work well in practice because there is ... the pattern I showed works ... Bubble Memory or the like (an OODBMS of sorts).... (comp.object)
Re: How to get better with C++? ... think about a problem you can use to practice with it - kind of like a ...solution waiting for a problem. ...Joec wrote: ... It seems that I always use the same features.... (alt.comp.lang.learn.c-cpp)
Re: What defines *really* knowing Lisp, in your opinion? ... You need to learn just enough about the different parts of Lisp to know how to use them, and then practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. ... Learn enough about macros to feel that you could write many of the macros that are already in COMMON-LISP. ... Lisp's features allow you to abstract away patterns in simple, direct, yet fast ways that no other language has. ... (comp.lang.lisp)