Um, if the #4 desktop computer manufacturer should "die", what about #5, #6,... Or do you want the Big Three - Compaq, Dell and Gateway - to be the only game in town?
) Potentially #3 - I don't know how large portion of the others' markets are made up by servers, where Apple are practically non-present - yet.
*Bzzt* Nope. A fatwah is a "statement" about a question of faith in Islam, IIRC - and quite a few other religious leaders appear to have stated that Khomeini's letter wasn't a real fatwah, but that Western media have presented it as such.
A more real example of a fatwah is the one from Algerian religious leaders which allowed women raped by the "revolutionaries" take an abortion (which normally is prohibited in Moslem countries).
Umn, folks, the Quake GL-miniport, Mesa on Linux, basically _all_ of the hardware-accelerated OpenGL implementations _depend_ on Glide for their 3Dfx support.
... the operative word being 3Dfx. OpenGL for other cards does of course not "depend on Glide", which seems to indicate that no proper native OpenGL drivers exist for 3Dfx.
"JBuilder - competes with Visual J++"? Nope. VJ++ does not support Java 1.2.
"C++ Builder - competes with Visual C++"? Sort of.
"Delphi - competes with Visual Basic (Bill's first and favorite)"? Hardly. Pascal and Basic are not the same language.
"Visibroker - competes with DCOM"? Nope. The technologies are not compatible.
"Turbo Assembler - competes with MASM"? Possibly. Do Borland still make it? I thought it only shipped as part of C++ Builder.
"DBase - competes with Access/ SQL Server"? Irrelevant. DBase is no longer a Borland product, and Paradox existed long before there was an Access.
"Inprise just got bought out!"? No, they just got some more money. Why are you reading so much more into the press release than is actually there? Are you going to boycott schools which Microsoft have donated money to as well?
Since it is closed source we have to wait for them to make upgrades, and we are dependent on them to write the software the way we want it. If we had a GPLed browser we could give it the features that geeks want, keep the code slimmed down, and not have to worry about the issues of closed source and proprietary software.
Then use Emacs/W3. It supports CSS1, frames, and whatnot - if your Emacs is up for it, and not if it's not.
What I don't like is how the space bar mapps to whatever the mouse last clicked on
Blame Microsoft accessibility guidelines: The space works as the mouse button.
Use "simple" button bar, then you only have six buttons.
Plus, I've become too accustomed to keyboard navigation using Q/A (link navigation), Z/X (back/forward), W/S (heading navigation) and +/- (zooming) to ever switch. The customizability is hard to match, too.
It drives me nuts not being able to hide all windows of a particular application at once. And it also drives me nuts when I hit Alt-F4 intending to close, say, one image window in Photoshop and having it close the entire application, rather than just the document window I wanted to close.
Well, in that particular case, Windows MDI is somewhat consistent: The keyboard shortcuts using Alt on the "top level", are represented using Ctrl on the MDI level - that is, closing a MDI window is accomplished using Ctrl+F4.
Non-MDI programs of course use them differently: On Netscape, Ctrl+Tab will cycle between the open "top level windows", whereas on MSIE will cycle between the frames and location bar on the active window.
When I got a pirated copy of Strata Studio Pro, it doesn't mean that Strata lost $800. I was never going to buy it anyway. I wasn't going to buy MS Office either, Nor was I going to buy NT Server, nor whatever I happened to pirate.
No, you just take the advantages provided by the software (I assume you use it) without compensating the companies providing those advantages to you. Leech.
If choosing a profession as a software developer means you will effectively work for a bunch of lazy sods without any compensation except from a few individuals who are decent enough to value your effort, one might be tempted to choose a career as a plumber or something instead.
Sure you can. Just get an editor and a compiler, and get to work. Same thing with the metal bits and tools you would need to build the copy of the bicycle. Where's the problem?
The car analogy is bogus: a car has intrinsic value (metal, glass, etc.), software has almost none (a CD and some paper).
Are you saying only physical objects have value? That e.g. "the ability to edit documents" is not of value to you? Why do you use a given piece of software? Isn't the answer to that question indicative of the value that program can be said to have?
Two other analogies:
Shoud a teacher be paid for their job? After all, they produce no physical objects to speak of, just put information into the student's head - information they probably could have gained in other ways.
If I am not hungry, can I be excused for taking an apple? Since I won't eat it immediately, it can be said to be of no value, apples grow on trees (new ones will appear within a year - no sweat), and it would probably spoil later anyway.
If you don't want to pay for software, write it yourself, or be satisfied with free software. Just don't be a leech on the software industry.
Pirates may not be thieves, but they are leeches: They use resources they're not entitled to.
If persons A and B uses the same software product, but only person A bothers to pay for it, person B gains the same advantage as person A but without the cost associated with it.
A person using pirated software can be compared to someone entering a bus without paying the fare. When addressed, the person defends their action with: "The bus is going to my destination independent on whether I pay or not, so there is no point in paying." The problem with this logic is that the bus company still has expenses related to running the bus route: If some people don't pay for the privilege of traveling with the bus, the paying passengers either need to pay even more, or the route is cancelled.
The same goes with software: Either users pay what the publishers ask, or all software ends up as "garage-ware", written by somebody in their spare time, or subsidized through other means like documentation and support. "Oh, you got our very free software product, but cannot understand a bit of it? You need to buy our $200 instruction manual..."
Well practically every Windows-originated app is MDI, the exception being Notepad. So it's quite natural, really...
I prefer having multiple windows inside one app window rather than a Windows taskbar with two pixel wide "buttons" because of an excessive number of top-level windows.
A lot of people - myself included - have happily paid for the Windows version, because it's fast, small, featureful, and not made by Microsoft.
You see, not everyone feels software should be "free" through cross-subsidizing from sales of other software, like the Big Two are.
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Deserve? It's not a question about "deserve", it's a question about who actually bother to market "their" distribution (RedHat), and who don't give a damn about media/market presence (apparently everybody else). The success of RedHat does not come at the cost of other distributions, because the proponents of those distros have had the same opportunity to make their "product" known to the public, but have effectively chosen not to.
I seem to remember FTP Software announced support for IPv6 in their 32-bit Winsock implementation back in, oh, 1996. Dunno what happened to that product, though.
In a sense "guaranteeing" that a number is prime, is the same thing as factoring it.
There is a difference between "factoring a prime number" (which is a no-brainer), and "using factoring to determine whether a particular number is a prime number" (which is the costly part). The question is, should we be nice to the III-man and assume that the latter was what was really meant?:-)
Does that mean that a web-page on Demon which links to a well-written and informative article automatically becomes well-written and informative? I see the potential for Brits to become star journalists with hardly any effort at all...:-)
(A couple of universities in Norway also tried to add such "transitive responsibility closure" rules for linking to use of their computer resources. A consequence would have been that the University's own web paged would have to be removed, since they linked to universities in Sweden they co-operated with, which linked to students' web pages, which often contained porn - Sweden being Sweden and all that.)
Well, my client workstation has been running Linux for more than two years. It can do just about anything I want except play modern games.
'Cept Civ: Call to Power, but the jury is out on how modern that graphical update of CivII really is.:-) Also, Myth II and Quake III are on the way, and other game companies are looking at the platform, since it's actually used by their target group.
But with xpilot available, what do you want with other games anyway?
By the same token, the "we own your data, and hence your company" software companies probably are _for_ it...
- "Hello, this is Micros~1. You may have noticed that your customer database - hosted on SQLSRVR - shut down two hours ago. We will be happy to restart it if you put $10,000 in unmarked bills in a black bag and deposit it on the corner of..."
- "This is outrageous!"
- "Now, now, be nice - you don't want your Office installation to have an 'accident', would you? Good. By the way, make that $15,000."
However, I think LW's point comes down to the sheer pointlessness of the whitespace construction in Python, almost syntax for syntax's sake.
Rather, it's a consequence of the observation that people indent their programs anyway, even though in the languages which use various symbols for marking "blocks" (whether {/}, begin/end, if/fi/do/done,...) don't require it. You could say Python enforces the readability people normally would add to their code.
(The only reasonable argument against it, IMHO, is that it makes looking for "block end" slightly more difficult than to look for '}'.)
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Um, if the #4 desktop computer manufacturer should "die", what about #5, #6, ... Or do you want the Big Three - Compaq, Dell and Gateway - to be the only game in town?
) Potentially #3 - I don't know how large portion of the others' markets are made up by servers, where Apple are practically non-present - yet.
*Bzzt* Nope. A fatwah is a "statement" about a question of faith in Islam, IIRC - and quite a few other religious leaders appear to have stated that Khomeini's letter wasn't a real fatwah, but that Western media have presented it as such.
A more real example of a fatwah is the one from Algerian religious leaders which allowed women raped by the "revolutionaries" take an abortion (which normally is prohibited in Moslem countries).
... the operative word being 3Dfx. OpenGL for other cards does of course not "depend on Glide", which seems to indicate that no proper native OpenGL drivers exist for 3Dfx.
I guess you are right. In the OSS case, software installation proceeds along these steps:
Okay, hands up any OSS advocate that actually performs step 2.
OSS does _not_ provide more security than the effort you are willing to put into it does.
Ah. "DO NOT TRUST THIS PERSON" in the subject of an Anonymous Poster. The everyday ironies.
Yeah, Perl died when Sybperl and Oraperl were made, what with being proprietary extensions and whatnot. Not!
"JBuilder - competes with Visual J++"? Nope. VJ++ does not support Java 1.2.
"C++ Builder - competes with Visual C++"? Sort of.
"Delphi - competes with Visual Basic (Bill's first and favorite)"? Hardly. Pascal and Basic are not the same language.
"Visibroker - competes with DCOM"? Nope. The technologies are not compatible.
"Turbo Assembler - competes with MASM"? Possibly. Do Borland still make it? I thought it only shipped as part of C++ Builder.
"DBase - competes with Access/ SQL Server"? Irrelevant. DBase is no longer a Borland product, and Paradox existed long before there was an Access.
"Inprise just got bought out!"? No, they just got some more money. Why are you reading so much more into the press release than is actually there? Are you going to boycott schools which Microsoft have donated money to as well?
Since it is closed source we have to wait for them to make upgrades, and we are dependent on them to write the software the way we want it. If we had a GPLed browser we could give it the features that geeks want, keep the code slimmed down, and not have to worry about the issues of closed source and proprietary software.
Then use Emacs/W3. It supports CSS1, frames, and whatnot - if your Emacs is up for it, and not if it's not.
What I don't like is how the space bar mapps to whatever the mouse last clicked on
Blame Microsoft accessibility guidelines: The space works as the mouse button.
Use "simple" button bar, then you only have six buttons.
Plus, I've become too accustomed to keyboard navigation using Q/A (link navigation), Z/X (back/forward), W/S (heading navigation) and +/- (zooming) to ever switch. The customizability is hard to match, too.
But Opera isn't a part of the OS, it's an application for it. You're not forced to buy it, you're not forced to use it, what's the problem?
Or do you also argue against free Windows software, since the OS costs money?
Well, in that particular case, Windows MDI is somewhat consistent: The keyboard shortcuts using Alt on the "top level", are represented using Ctrl on the MDI level - that is, closing a MDI window is accomplished using Ctrl+F4.
Non-MDI programs of course use them differently: On Netscape, Ctrl+Tab will cycle between the open "top level windows", whereas on MSIE will cycle between the frames and location bar on the active window.
No, you just take the advantages provided by the software (I assume you use it) without compensating the companies providing those advantages to you. Leech.
If choosing a profession as a software developer means you will effectively work for a bunch of lazy sods without any compensation except from a few individuals who are decent enough to value your effort, one might be tempted to choose a career as a plumber or something instead.
Sure you can. Just get an editor and a compiler, and get to work. Same thing with the metal bits and tools you would need to build the copy of the bicycle. Where's the problem?
Are you saying only physical objects have value? That e.g. "the ability to edit documents" is not of value to you? Why do you use a given piece of software? Isn't the answer to that question indicative of the value that program can be said to have?
Two other analogies:
If you don't want to pay for software, write it yourself, or be satisfied with free software. Just don't be a leech on the software industry.
Pirates may not be thieves, but they are leeches: They use resources they're not entitled to.
If persons A and B uses the same software product, but only person A bothers to pay for it, person B gains the same advantage as person A but without the cost associated with it.
A person using pirated software can be compared to someone entering a bus without paying the fare. When addressed, the person defends their action with: "The bus is going to my destination independent on whether I pay or not, so there is no point in paying." The problem with this logic is that the bus company still has expenses related to running the bus route: If some people don't pay for the privilege of traveling with the bus, the paying passengers either need to pay even more, or the route is cancelled.
The same goes with software: Either users pay what the publishers ask, or all software ends up as "garage-ware", written by somebody in their spare time, or subsidized through other means like documentation and support. "Oh, you got our very free software product, but cannot understand a bit of it? You need to buy our $200 instruction manual..."
*tsk, tsk* Did we forget our http:// again? :-)
Well practically every Windows-originated app is MDI, the exception being Notepad. So it's quite natural, really...
I prefer having multiple windows inside one app window rather than a Windows taskbar with two pixel wide "buttons" because of an excessive number of top-level windows.
A lot of people - myself included - have happily paid for the Windows version, because it's fast, small, featureful, and not made by Microsoft.
You see, not everyone feels software should be "free" through cross-subsidizing from sales of other software, like the Big Two are.
Deserve? It's not a question about "deserve", it's a question about who actually bother to market "their" distribution (RedHat), and who don't give a damn about media/market presence (apparently everybody else). The success of RedHat does not come at the cost of other distributions, because the proponents of those distros have had the same opportunity to make their "product" known to the public, but have effectively chosen not to.
I seem to remember FTP Software announced support for IPv6 in their 32-bit Winsock implementation back in, oh, 1996. Dunno what happened to that product, though.
There is a difference between "factoring a prime number" (which is a no-brainer), and "using factoring to determine whether a particular number is a prime number" (which is the costly part). The question is, should we be nice to the III-man and assume that the latter was what was really meant? :-)
Does that mean that a web-page on Demon which links to a well-written and informative article automatically becomes well-written and informative? I see the potential for Brits to become star journalists with hardly any effort at all... :-)
(A couple of universities in Norway also tried to add such "transitive responsibility closure" rules for linking to use of their computer resources. A consequence would have been that the University's own web paged would have to be removed, since they linked to universities in Sweden they co-operated with, which linked to students' web pages, which often contained porn - Sweden being Sweden and all that.)
'Cept Civ: Call to Power, but the jury is out on how modern that graphical update of CivII really is. :-) Also, Myth II and Quake III are on the way, and other game companies are looking at the platform, since it's actually used by their target group.
But with xpilot available, what do you want with other games anyway?
By the same token, the "we own your data, and hence your company" software companies probably are _for_ it...
- "Hello, this is Micros~1. You may have noticed that your customer database - hosted on SQLSRVR - shut down two hours ago. We will be happy to restart it if you put $10,000 in unmarked bills in a black bag and deposit it on the corner of..."
- "This is outrageous!"
- "Now, now, be nice - you don't want your Office installation to have an 'accident', would you? Good. By the way, make that $15,000."
Rather, it's a consequence of the observation that people indent their programs anyway, even though in the languages which use various symbols for marking "blocks" (whether {/}, begin/end, if/fi/do/done, ...) don't require it. You could say Python enforces the readability people normally would add to their code.
(The only reasonable argument against it, IMHO, is that it makes looking for "block end" slightly more difficult than to look for '}'.)