Linux depends (and always did) on GNU software being readily avaliable.
No, someone else can just as easily make their own non-GNU clones of the tools that GNU cloned. Which is the point your failed moon-analogy tries to obscure. But most don't bother because the GNU tools work.
However, if GNU starts requiring that systems using GNU tools must have GNU in its name, that may change.
And why is Linux singled out? Where is the demand for GNU/FreeBSD?
(I'll start talking about GNU/Linux as soon as Emacs is called MIT/Emacs because of the "free" computing resources RMS used.)
Well if we'd been following the W3C all along we'd still be at the pathetic level of HTML 2.
Nonsense: Ever hear of HTML 3.0? Ever hear about how Netscape said they would implement it? Ever notice that they never did? Do you remember how W3C had to make the less featureful HTML 3.2 that tried to capture what the current browsers were doing instead?
Netscape did majorly push innovation
No, they made pointless hacks like Embed as substitutes for spec elements like Object. That's not innovation it's NIH-syndrome.
mainly by making up their own rules
Otherwise known as ignoring the innovation done in the context of the W3C. They couldn't even get CSS level 1 right!
Face it, Netscape 4 was an ungodly mess that held back web technology innovation with a plethora of proprietary extensions - worse than MSIE.
that little bar that appears in moz on some pages with the extra links like "up" and "email" or whatever
Ah, the HTML 2.0 Link element. Yes it's good browsers other than Mosaic and Amaya finally support that ages-old useful tag for other things than Author and Stylesheet.
If the things they "had in mind" were anything like their context-destroying Frame model, or their DTD-breaking Object substitute Embed: Good riddance.
Why didn't they implement proper support for Link relationships? Why did they feel the need to make their own Java security model? Why did they hack their own Javascript-based styling instead of just implementing CSS properly?
The software industry is better off without them. A worse case of "Not Invented Here" mentality is hard to find.
AFAIK all JCP decision are approved in Sun cubicles.
Then you don't know: Just because Sun have a permanent seat on the JCP Executive board they aren't omnipotent. There are other members there.
What all other people want (outside of Sun) is open standard (ECMA, ISO) expicitly defining what should be called Java.
Oh, you mean the "left to the implementation" guys who brought us the SQL standard noone fully implements would be better than the JCP at steering something? ISO standards are as "explicit" as their members' political wrangling let them be.
Perhaps Java under the ISO umbrella could become as popular as X.400 - after all, being a standard (ISO MOTIS) it must have won out against Internet mail? Right?
Pink Floyd's "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" is a "greatest hits"-like thingy that contains FRACTIONS of concept albums like The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. Since the artists/record companies are doing it already...
Or did you mean than whenever a radio station wants to play "Fixing a Hole" they have to play the entire Sgt. Pepper album?
Um, according to the Indians I know there is a large middle class there, but the caste system takes a while to get rid of. (IIRC some lower-caste people choose to stay poor because they consider it their fate.)
And every contry with a space program has something better to spend the money on if they looked around, e.g. homeless in U.S. cities and so on.
I reserve the right to keep those improvements private
So you want a BSD-licensed base to build on but don't want to license out your own code under the same rules that let you get at that code in the first place?
You are aware that if everyone thought like you there would be no BSD-licensed code?
will not be able to use (copy, modify, etc.)
What drugs are you on? GPL does not in any way, shape or form prevent you from copying or modifying software using the license.
What it does prevent is that you leech off the original code for your own financial gain.
Sort of like every commercial license I've seen...
So what you're saying is that American phone companies are unable to do something their European equivalents have done for years now?
Making you change your phone number when you move from phone company to phone company is like making you change your name when you move from city to city.
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Guinness is supposed to be drunk at room temp not 8-10 Deg C.
No, it's supposed to be returned to the bartender with the words "Pour this in the sink and give me a Beamish!"
There are two kinds of performance in this world, and I am sure our customers like to get their software three months earlier better than the 0.2 ms faster response times the C++ app would net them.
Try running Java apps without the -Xint flag next time, so the JIT/Hotspot can do its job.
Anyone convinced that Sun is anything different than Microsoft, oh, except for being less successful, is delusional. How's that Java standard comin'?
I am sure the MANY members of the JCP - of which Sun is one - are just as good at guiding a standard as those ISO committees and whatnot. Ever seen a full implementation of SQL 92 anywhere? Hey, look, this Win32 program doesn't compile on an ISO-certified C++ compiler, call the, er, what authorities exactly?
UMTS (3G) and later aren't volume-priced as GPRS is, but are "always-on" that you pay blood per month (probably 200 or so) to use, plus charges from service operators.
Still, I have no idea who will buy UMTS or 3.5G devices, though - I spend 90% of my time in the vicinity of an internet-connected computer, I am not interested in paying a fortune just to be able to use a small set of services when I'm not.
I don't sign anything when I buy my groceries at a store, but its still a binding contract because something have been exchanged.
That's because there's a law that regulates the purchase, and declares the money to be legal tender and that you own the goods after you have paid for it.
Streams. >> and graphically represent what is going on, and allow the chaining together of multiple elements.
But why does C++ use them contrary to shell programming? e.g. cout << "This isn't input but looks like it".
And in mathematics >> generally means "much greater than" anyway, so it's not really proper use from that viewpoint.
Iterators. hasNext and Next is overly verbose and unnecessarily complicated, compared to ++ and *.
What does getting the next element from an iterator have to do with multiplication? Oh, that's right, * can be anything so it's not intuitive at all what it means. Unary multiplication?
an operator is simply a function with a symbol and precedence
Not so: An operator is also part of a (small) set of symbols especially treated by the compiler's lexical analysis. Okay, so you get + and *, but what symbol can you use to express e.g. a mathematical sum over a function and range? Is the symbol for the square root @&-?
Traditional programming languages are terrible at expressing complex mathematical expressions anyway (and not just because of the microscopic set of operators available). Therefore it's misleading to drag out the needs for mathematicans as argument for operator overloading in traditional programming languages, since they aren't designed to do the job of MathCAD, Maple or Mathematica.
And why precedence? Smalltalk manages fine without it. Do the "precedence rules" for your class' problem domain fit the compiler's rules which assume numbers?
does what any decent browser should do, and treat it as and substitute the default type=text for the unknown type, and ignore the unknown attribute "crash".
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Linux depends (and always did) on GNU software being readily avaliable.
No, someone else can just as easily make their own non-GNU clones of the tools that GNU cloned. Which is the point your failed moon-analogy tries to obscure. But most don't bother because the GNU tools work.
However, if GNU starts requiring that systems using GNU tools must have GNU in its name, that may change.
And why is Linux singled out? Where is the demand for GNU/FreeBSD?
(I'll start talking about GNU/Linux as soon as Emacs is called MIT/Emacs because of the "free" computing resources RMS used.)
Well if we'd been following the W3C all along we'd still be at the pathetic level of HTML 2.
Nonsense: Ever hear of HTML 3.0? Ever hear about how Netscape said they would implement it? Ever notice that they never did? Do you remember how W3C had to make the less featureful HTML 3.2 that tried to capture what the current browsers were doing instead?
Netscape did majorly push innovation
No, they made pointless hacks like Embed as substitutes for spec elements like Object. That's not innovation it's NIH-syndrome.
mainly by making up their own rules
Otherwise known as ignoring the innovation done in the context of the W3C. They couldn't even get CSS level 1 right!
Face it, Netscape 4 was an ungodly mess that held back web technology innovation with a plethora of proprietary extensions - worse than MSIE.
that little bar that appears in moz on some pages with the extra links like "up" and "email" or whatever
Ah, the HTML 2.0 Link element. Yes it's good browsers other than Mosaic and Amaya finally support that ages-old useful tag for other things than Author and Stylesheet.
If the things they "had in mind" were anything like their context-destroying Frame model, or their DTD-breaking Object substitute Embed: Good riddance.
Why didn't they implement proper support for Link relationships? Why did they feel the need to make their own Java security model? Why did they hack their own Javascript-based styling instead of just implementing CSS properly?
The software industry is better off without them. A worse case of "Not Invented Here" mentality is hard to find.
Worse than WWII Online and Anarchy Online? The mind boggles.
AFAIK all JCP decision are approved in Sun cubicles.
Then you don't know: Just because Sun have a permanent seat on the JCP Executive board they aren't omnipotent. There are other members there.
What all other people want (outside of Sun) is open standard (ECMA, ISO) expicitly defining what should be called Java.
Oh, you mean the "left to the implementation" guys who brought us the SQL standard noone fully implements would be better than the JCP at steering something? ISO standards are as "explicit" as their members' political wrangling let them be.
Perhaps Java under the ISO umbrella could become as popular as X.400 - after all, being a standard (ISO MOTIS) it must have won out against Internet mail? Right?
The whole point of Swing was to eliminate native peers - all Swing needs is a 2D frame buffer.
Most of Swing, yes. The exceptions are the top-level containers (JFrame, JDialog, JWindow and JApplet) which extend the AWT components.
Care to explain? Or is this just something you've heard?
What's to explain? Just run JBuilder 9 and NetBeans on the same computer and see the differences in responsiveness.
"world's first 64-bit desktop processor"
I am quite sure there are some people out there who used Alpha-based workstations back when Digital made them.
Pink Floyd's "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" is a "greatest hits"-like thingy that contains FRACTIONS of concept albums like The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. Since the artists/record companies are doing it already...
Or did you mean than whenever a radio station wants to play "Fixing a Hole" they have to play the entire Sgt. Pepper album?
Um, according to the Indians I know there is a large middle class there, but the caste system takes a while to get rid of. (IIRC some lower-caste people choose to stay poor because they consider it their fate.)
And every contry with a space program has something better to spend the money on if they looked around, e.g. homeless in U.S. cities and so on.
I reserve the right to keep those improvements private
So you want a BSD-licensed base to build on but don't want to license out your own code under the same rules that let you get at that code in the first place?
You are aware that if everyone thought like you there would be no BSD-licensed code?
will not be able to use (copy, modify, etc.)
What drugs are you on? GPL does not in any way, shape or form prevent you from copying or modifying software using the license.
What it does prevent is that you leech off the original code for your own financial gain.
Sort of like every commercial license I've seen...
So what you're saying is that American phone companies are unable to do something their European equivalents have done for years now?
Making you change your phone number when you move from phone company to phone company is like making you change your name when you move from city to city.
Guinness is supposed to be drunk at room temp not 8-10 Deg C.
No, it's supposed to be returned to the bartender with the words "Pour this in the sink and give me a Beamish!"
It's sure starting to look like Syria is queued up for the next liberation.
s/liberation/colonization/
With none of the performance.
There are two kinds of performance in this world, and I am sure our customers like to get their software three months earlier better than the 0.2 ms faster response times the C++ app would net them.
Try running Java apps without the -Xint flag next time, so the JIT/Hotspot can do its job.
Anyone convinced that Sun is anything different than Microsoft, oh, except for being less successful, is delusional. How's that Java standard comin'?
I am sure the MANY members of the JCP - of which Sun is one - are just as good at guiding a standard as those ISO committees and whatnot. Ever seen a full implementation of SQL 92 anywhere? Hey, look, this Win32 program doesn't compile on an ISO-certified C++ compiler, call the, er, what authorities exactly?
At these prices 14.4Mbps is almost 2000 /sec.
UMTS (3G) and later aren't volume-priced as GPRS is, but are "always-on" that you pay blood per month (probably 200 or so) to use, plus charges from service operators.
Still, I have no idea who will buy UMTS or 3.5G devices, though - I spend 90% of my time in the vicinity of an internet-connected computer, I am not interested in paying a fortune just to be able to use a small set of services when I'm not.
I don't sign anything when I buy my groceries at a store, but its still a binding contract because something have been exchanged.
That's because there's a law that regulates the purchase, and declares the money to be legal tender and that you own the goods after you have paid for it.
Now, what law talks about EULAs as contracts?
Wait - wasn't SCO set up initially to make a product out of Microsoft's own clone, Xenix?
What goes around comes around, I guess.
Streams. >> and graphically represent what is going on, and allow the chaining together of multiple elements.
But why does C++ use them contrary to shell programming? e.g. cout << "This isn't input but looks like it".
And in mathematics >> generally means "much greater than" anyway, so it's not really proper use from that viewpoint.
Iterators. hasNext and Next is overly verbose and unnecessarily complicated, compared to ++ and *.
What does getting the next element from an iterator have to do with multiplication? Oh, that's right, * can be anything so it's not intuitive at all what it means. Unary multiplication?
an operator is simply a function with a symbol and precedence
Not so: An operator is also part of a (small) set of symbols especially treated by the compiler's lexical analysis. Okay, so you get + and *, but what symbol can you use to express e.g. a mathematical sum over a function and range? Is the symbol for the square root @&-?
Traditional programming languages are terrible at expressing complex mathematical expressions anyway (and not just because of the microscopic set of operators available). Therefore it's misleading to drag out the needs for mathematicans as argument for operator overloading in traditional programming languages, since they aren't designed to do the job of MathCAD, Maple or Mathematica.
And why precedence? Smalltalk manages fine without it. Do the "precedence rules" for your class' problem domain fit the compiler's rules which assume numbers?
There was, but the organization was wiped out by the Sith in the aftermath of the Clone Wars. A long time ago, in a galaxy far away.
Or something.
But otherwise the movie is perfect.
Except they spoil the big surprise in the initial voice-over, which is downright stupid.
Because "Plain Old Text" on /. is just HTML without entities and with significant whitespace.
does what any decent browser should do, and treat it as and substitute the default type=text for the unknown type, and ignore the unknown attribute "crash".
There is a word "copywriter" and another "copyright". No, they are not the same.
You could argue that the work of a copywriter is to copywrite and thus have a verb, but it's still not the same as to obtain copyright.