Julie wrote:
> Methinks she is referring to people with guns and clubs who have the
> authority to make you use certain programs and protocols.
>
> And no, Bill Gates hasn't bought the US Army yet. Next week, maybe.
> But so far he hasn't.
Maybe. But the US army has no authority to make ME use
From: Lothan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Fan, Laurel
> > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 8:16 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [issues] Standards?? PHOOEY!!!
> >
> > There are no standards in the computing
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Fan, Laurel
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 8:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [issues] Standards?? PHOOEY!!!
>
> There are no standards in the computing world. They're all agreements.
> There is no
thanks all for your responses to my cgi question -
i decided to give up completely on personal web server. any web server that
doesn't recognize perl as a valid cgi programming language is worthless to
begin with!! grrr! =)i signed all of my students up for accounts with
free web hosts that
JoAnne Abbott wrote:
> Jenn V wrote:
> > Could you define the difference between a protocol and a standard?
>
> A protocol is a generalised consensus of the way something is done.
>
> A standard is so many meters, liters or lines of code.
Sorry, I disagree with these definitions.
A (computi
[moving to techtalk. can we please stay on topic here?]
JoAnne Abbott, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> The standards are preventing me from making a 128 bit direct connection
> to a video chip as a innovation. I don't have enough room on the worktable
> for Four motherboards.
No. You are wrong. Th
I'm trying to teach myself something about Oracle for school. I've
started working with the book Oracle8 Programming: A Primer by
Sunderraman, which seems prety descriptive and good. However, I'm having
a couple of problems/questions that I just cannot seem to find answers for
anywhere:
- how d
[moving to techtalk to conform to the topic "standards"]
Yeah, who needs standards?
Why adhere to the outdated, archaic standards of punctuation
and grammar when I can nNOvate by writinglike this??!?!?!!!1!!
Why bother with the standard method of quoting by prepending
a character to each li
