Dave

This has to be bad news either way. To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't be overly surprised if Bush is trying to add Iran to his portfolio of sheer evil countries of doom™. This is certainly one way of making the country look bad and drum up support for another invasion of the stupidest proportions. Perhaps I'm just being too much of a sadist?

Indeed, they've just released the last security package for 2k, has a lot of fixes in it.

Well, that's a bit extreme from one explanation but whatever floats your boat Just bear in mind it takes a long time to get your head around what's going on in SR. Best way of understanding is to do examples, and lots of them.

Well, surely you can modify your example slightly? For example, it's certainly true that [imath]\frac{1}{2} \in \R, \Q[/imath] and [imath]1 \in \mathbb{Z}[/imath]. But [imath]\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1 \notin \mathbb{Z}[/imath] so it's not closed. Personally, I find the question a bit silly (without meaning to cause offense - I'm aware it's an assignment ). Every course I've seen has defined scalar multiplication as a map, [imath]F \times V \to V[/imath]. Since [imath]\mathbb{Z} \subset \R[/imath] and you're effectively using the same operation for scalar and vector multiplication it can't possibly be a well-defined operation. Perhaps this is what he's hoping to show.

Just as a very quick aside, you might want to consider using \mathbf in your LaTeX strings instead of \mathbb. The blackboard fonts are intended for use in naming sets and other mathematical objects (as far as I'm aware). Whilst I don't have anything against you using them, I think you want to represent vectors (normally done in a couple of ways); [imath]\mathbf{F} = \mathbf{B}Il[/imath] being the most common, I've also seen [imath]\vec{F} = \vec{B}Il[/imath]

To all people considering using offensive language on this forum: we don't want members like davepriority, thanks. (Hence, thread closed).

Whilst I don't think that string theory has completely gone down the tubes yet, I have to say that I feel that it's starting to get that way. My vote, for what it's worth, is in the "Slump Continues" category.

I'm guessing somewhere in the 550 region. I certainly don't expect it to go up, at any rate

rofl - I can just see blike buying pimpmysfn.net now

I think that's a pretty specific question, myself. Icheb, none of us is on some kind of crusade to rid the world of PHP and introduce client-side scripting everywhere. A lot of people just want to learn, and your answers are being rather abrupt at the moment I'd much rather not have this thread go the way that others have been going at the moment.

Yes, but only if you're willing to pay. This is rather besides the point, though. I was simply trying to point out the difference between interpreted and compiled programs

CGI is a "protocol" of sorts; it's just a set of guidelines for things like webservers to pass data to programs and receive content from them. Say you send a request to the webserver for test.cgi. In a perl script, the first line is usually something like #!/usr/bin/perl, which tells the webserver to execute: /usr/bin/perl test.cgi. Perl then parses the document, reads inputs from stdin from the webserver and outputs to stdout - the webserver then reads that output and serves it to the client. With an executable, it's exactly the same process. The first line might be something completely different, but apache "knows" to execute the program and pass in a load of data to the program to stdin, and expect a load of information from stdout.

Because Perl, PHP et al are interpreted scripts. Every time they're loaded, the parses has to go through it all line by line and translate to machine code. C/C++ programs are already compiled, so they can just be executed straight away.

The thing I really love about PHP is how it has so many links to various libraries. If you take a look at the documentation, you can see that there are things from image manipulation and pdf generation all the way over to .NET libraries and database communications. We're spoilt for choice, really. I'm also loving the new Zend Engine 2. It's making it a lot easier to program using objects - and it's also making it a lot quicker vs the normal procedural view. For instance, I've just about finished writing a rather complex backend which is extremely heavily OOP. As a part of that, I have things like object inheretance and abstract classes. Makes programming so much more interesting and elegant.

You also might want to try cleaning the heads.

Admittedly, I don't. However, my girlfriend does and so I spend a fair amount of time playing around with the wireless connection on that. I'd say that the main problem I encounter is you'll sometimes get a dramatic loss in signal strength (perhaps due to an obstruction or similar). Other than that, it's absolutely great - I can go outside, sit on the bench in the sun and read my e-mails

Perl is also open source I would say that the main reason is that PHP was designed specifically for the purpose of serving dynamic content via webservers. While perl, admittedly, is a great language, programming for it can be a real pain sometimes, especially since it has to be run under CGI (most of the time). As for the other question, it's perfectly possible to create "scripts" using C/C++. The advantage is that they will run extremely quickly, but the disadvantage is that they'll be quite hard to program under. Theoretically, you can create scripts under any language as long as that language has some standard i/o procedures. Python's a popular one at the moment.

I would imagine it's the people getting elected for office. They want to make themselves look good before they go under the public vote, so they say "look, we've increased the number of arrests for sex offenses!!!1111222" (or thereabouts). At the end of the day, it's all boiling down to political correctness and what is acceptable in today's litigious society.

I don't think I've ever had an experience where interference has played up with my internet/ethernet connections, especially wireless et al. As Ollie said, the wireless connections are generally set up in a band where they're not likely to receive interference from other signals (such as cellphones).

One of my favourite bands atm is Coldplay - their latest X&Y album is absolutely great. Apart from that, I'm into a lot of stuff - Evanescence has been played a lot recently, as has Green Day, Linkin Park, etc. Also, a lot of Jazz (Miles Davis, NYJO, etc) and Classical (mainly Handel). Favourite guitarist? Don't really have one, I'm afraid. They're all terribly good

Well, have fun to all that are going on holiday. I have to say it's been a bit quiet around here recently, but I'm sure it'll pick up soon enough

That's on the right track. I've not gone through it to check exact numbers etc, but the logic is reasonably correct.

I don't think the gold would go too well For your enjoyment purposes, the accompanying image is attached.

I made up a new batch of icons because I didn't think that the old ones fit in after the new style changes. I uploaded a batch quite a while ago (3-4 weeks) to gauge opinion, and they seemed to go down pretty well. I created another lot as well, but they've been sitting around on my hard-drive for a while since I haven't had the time to finish them off completely. There's still a couple that need to be replaced, but I should be able to either do this tonight or the day after. If people don't like them, then they can always be replaced by the old ones since they're all backed up

This isn't about protecting and defending the country anymore. It's all about how much the politicans can milk the terrorism card. I would very much like to know what acts managed to get passed "in the name of terrorism".