That's just nonsense. For several reasons. Whitespace formatting *is* indentation, so the indent-region command wouldn't change a thing to the code.
In any case, indent-region and other EMACS major programming mode commands totally depend on the specific active programming mode. If you're using the right mode (say the excellent Python mode) there won't be any problems with that.
Let's see - my desktop machine has not crashed once since I installed RedHat 6.2 on it four months ago. It has all the tools that my colleague's Windows PC has, and more (ever tried grep'ing or find'ing on a PC?).
I can grep and find just fine in my Windows computer. But then, I installed CygWin on it! And now it comes with gcc by default too, so I have a decent compiler on it too. Thanks to Cygnus (now RedHat.)
And I'm sure that allowing people to carry handguns in DC will help change the situation.
BTW, you probably didn't intend it as such, but talking about an "unarmed crowd in a church" is really funny. It's scary to think what kind of churches you've been to if you need to specify such things!
That's a load of BS. A reasonably knowledgeable person is as likely to be good managing a Windows-based than a **nix-based small infrastructure. One might look simpler from the outside, but pretty GUIs do not make an environment any easier. I know that this is just my opinion, but what you say is also just yours. If we provide no facts, studies, or whatever that all these are.
You, and your colleagues, must be making pretty stupid programs then. Lokk at the basic libraries needed to run any halfway decent program, and realize that calculus (and algebra, basically math in general) is necessary and heavely used in many of them.
It's sad that he once was an engineer. Another one gone to the Dark Side.
I have an absolutely serious belief that obtaining an MBA should invalidate any previous engineering degrees. This procedure should only be revised in very exceptional cases and after serious evaluation.
AFAIK, Galeon is just GTK+ stuff, not full Gnome. Hell, I use it under plain WindowMaker and it runs just fine. And if it wasn't for the lack of cookie support and the nasty things it does with bookmarks, it's be my basic browser.
I see, so you've never looked at your project settings? All the compiler options, build options are explained there with controls AND with plain text.
Whatever. If you bothered to read the dosumentation you would've realized that there are many more options that those available through the controls. The workspace/project stuff is absolutely unnecessary, and would be much better to kept in a makefile (I know you can generate those.) At least they are ASCII files, though!
That supposed "integration" is an absolute joke. The interfaces to VSS from VB and VC++ are radically different, and they only allow you to do a small subset of things compared to the full VSS GUI. Besides VSS is abit of a joke respect to "real" project management. Have you ever had to branch out projects or anything similar? Scary stuff. And let's not talk about version compatibility issues (but then that must be an M$ tradition!)
Also, it's worth noting that the GPL (and other similar licenses) apply to the redistribution of software. I doubt that a made to order product like that would be redistributed, so this is as moot point. As long as the software remains in house it's neither "free" nor "commercial".
There is a big differnce between being one and showing off being one. Lots of us can legally put fancy acronyms after our names, but only do so in relevant circumstances.
Does anybody know how these filtering tools deals with internationalization issues? Now that would be a humongous task. They'd need to deal with terms related to ant obejctionable material in ALL the world's languages and in many cases including tons of slang names. Just one more argument why all the web filtering business is just nonsense.
Linux has gotten this far with the attitude you dispise. There's no objective reason why doing things for "ourselves" should be in conflict with what a majority of users want. Also a bug and a new feature are two radically different things. The free software model has been proven to be much better to produce high quality low-bug software. Features we can live without, and bugs too!
I find quite ironic that a/. editor would dare critize flaming Linuz zealots. Basically, it's a question of not hitting the hands that feed you./. would be nothing without them. The original article looks to me to a big whine. Some corporate monkey crying because his lame consulting is not going to cut it for free software development. I'm actually insulted. How dare he talk about corporations "demanding" deadlines and accountability? If you want something doen either do it, pay somebody to do it, or wait until is done. Quite simple.
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This is having a very limited view of what Java is. Is it a language? A very wide set of librariues? A virtual machine? All of the above?
That's just nonsense. For several reasons. Whitespace formatting *is* indentation, so the indent-region command wouldn't change a thing to the code. In any case, indent-region and other EMACS major programming mode commands totally depend on the specific active programming mode. If you're using the right mode (say the excellent Python mode) there won't be any problems with that.
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Too late, dude. That kind of stuff's been illegal for years.
And I'm sure that allowing people to carry handguns in DC will help change the situation. BTW, you probably didn't intend it as such, but talking about an "unarmed crowd in a church" is really funny. It's scary to think what kind of churches you've been to if you need to specify such things!
That's a load of BS. A reasonably knowledgeable person is as likely to be good managing a Windows-based than a **nix-based small infrastructure. One might look simpler from the outside, but pretty GUIs do not make an environment any easier. I know that this is just my opinion, but what you say is also just yours. If we provide no facts, studies, or whatever that all these are.
You, and your colleagues, must be making pretty stupid programs then. Lokk at the basic libraries needed to run any halfway decent program, and realize that calculus (and algebra, basically math in general) is necessary and heavely used in many of them.
It's sad that he once was an engineer. Another one gone to the Dark Side. I have an absolutely serious belief that obtaining an MBA should invalidate any previous engineering degrees. This procedure should only be revised in very exceptional cases and after serious evaluation.
AFAIK, Galeon is just GTK+ stuff, not full Gnome. Hell, I use it under plain WindowMaker and it runs just fine. And if it wasn't for the lack of cookie support and the nasty things it does with bookmarks, it's be my basic browser.
The original poster should've checked the news a bit more carefully. Ivensys has a tentative to buy Baan, so I guess this is a non-issue.
That supposed "integration" is an absolute joke. The interfaces to VSS from VB and VC++ are radically different, and they only allow you to do a small subset of things compared to the full VSS GUI. Besides VSS is abit of a joke respect to "real" project management. Have you ever had to branch out projects or anything similar? Scary stuff. And let's not talk about version compatibility issues (but then that must be an M$ tradition!)
Just a hell of a lot better than when private business intervenes in government!
Also, it's worth noting that the GPL (and other similar licenses) apply to the redistribution of software. I doubt that a made to order product like that would be redistributed, so this is as moot point. As long as the software remains in house it's neither "free" nor "commercial".
There is a big differnce between being one and showing off being one. Lots of us can legally put fancy acronyms after our names, but only do so in relevant circumstances.
Does anybody know how these filtering tools deals with internationalization issues? Now that would be a humongous task. They'd need to deal with terms related to ant obejctionable material in ALL the world's languages and in many cases including tons of slang names. Just one more argument why all the web filtering business is just nonsense.
Linux has gotten this far with the attitude you dispise. There's no objective reason why doing things for "ourselves" should be in conflict with what a majority of users want. Also a bug and a new feature are two radically different things. The free software model has been proven to be much better to produce high quality low-bug software. Features we can live without, and bugs too!
I find quite ironic that a /. editor would dare critize flaming Linuz zealots. Basically, it's a question of not hitting the hands that feed you. /. would be nothing without them. The original article looks to me to a big whine. Some corporate monkey crying because his lame consulting is not going to cut it for free software development. I'm actually insulted. How dare he talk about corporations "demanding" deadlines and accountability? If you want something doen either do it, pay somebody to do it, or wait until is done. Quite simple.