Just an off-topic rant here, but this is the Apple section, so that's expected.
I hate BSD top. It's too plain and austere. Where are all the fucking options? Same goes for a lot of BSD utilities. Ah well, nobody has stopped me from compiling and installing them on my Mac.
I'm sure that you are smarter, more philosophical, and a better coder than Stallman so you are absolutely right.
You twit. The GPL was designed for a purpose, and it serves that purpose admirably. If you don't like it, don't use it. The GPL isn't forced on anyone.
It'd be great if it came with a million dollars in diamonds and a free trip to the moon as well, but you can guess how likely that'll be. They'll wait until developers already have PS3 development units, and then announce a console that is twice as powerful. It doesn't matter if it is, or not. That'll buy them about 2 years while each and every Nintendo fanboy polishes their spec sheet for the announced product. Then, they'll release something stupid, with fucked-up controllers (Sony owning the patent on the only game controller that makes sense) and less features, for more money, but with that Yu-Gi-Oh title (or whatever the 5-11 year olds are watching / playing / lusting after) and every Mom in the country will be inundated with the screams of a lusty child. MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!! MOMMY!!!!! I NEED the new Intendo!
Grow up and look for an adult product like the PS2. I played with Duplos when I was a kid, but eventually it was time to move on to Mindstorms.
Don't you know this is just another plan by Nintendo to fuck you over? Seriously, they sell a console that has few games, less features (DVD anyone?) and the most screwed-up controllers I have ever used (with the possible exception of the XBOX) to a group of zealots who are apparently blind, deaf, have serious hand problems, and a penchant for self-punishment. What's the greatest racing game available on a console? GT3: A Spec! What's the best fighting game out? Tekken. Why buy Nintendo? Too much disposable income!
Aww shit, shareholders don't demand accountability from their officers anymore, they just want a pretty show and assurances that profits are up or losses are down.
I would in no way deny that GCC has had problems. Speed problems, broken compiler (was it 2.95?), and general version change bitchiness. It's really coming along though, and I can forsee a time in the future where it is THE compiler to use for speed, portability, and features. It may be there already (at least portability and feature-wise).
OS X is so also extremely portable. The vpu on the G4 is really nice, and Apple is doing wise things like contributing GNU math libraries that take advantage of it. I realistically expect OS 10.3 to be much faster in comparison to 10.2, just as 10.2 is to 10.1 and the latter to 10.0. And, some day when it's time to mave on to a different architecture (or power up the G4, come on IBM and Apple).
I would disagree. GCC actually rules. It is fast enough to work quite well (afaik Linux can only be compiled on GCC and the performance of Linux is faster than commercial systems compiled with 'better' compilers), the third revision is looking extremely promising (even this early), and it is portable to many (most?) architectures! Additionally, as research into advanced compiler technology is conducted and applied to the program, it can't but help to get better in many ways.
Then again if they stuck to C and not C with C++, Objective-C (we'll maybe keep Objective-C), Fortran, Java, and Ada
Linux will never be as stable as FreeBSD, because the unofficial Linux development mantra is "Let's include every cool experimental thing that we can!" while the FreeBSD mantra is "Incorporate proven stable technology."
It's the result of each system having separate design goals. Which one is better depends on what you what to do.
This reminds me of when I was a kid. I would be riding in the back seat with my sister, and any time there was trouble, she would lean back and belt one of us. Didn't matter who was causing the trouble.
If you are already paying a fee, which you have no choice to pay, that is earmarked as your fee for what you inevitably will pirate with your internet connection, where's the theft? I would say on the RIAA's side of things unless you pirate. If you choose to obtain all your movies / music legally, then you have been ripped off. You pay anyway. SO PIRATE AWAY!
Huh? I am not the one having problems here./ I'm just saying that you can't forsee every problem. If YOU can, then Whoopee! Hurrah! Huzzah! Jesus has returned.
How the fuck is checking with your browser going to sell MS more software? That's what they're after.
XML can be really cool. If you just limit yourself to text and ASCII graphics. But with Microsoft, what's inside the XML? Nuggets of binary data. Some of these are unreadable. They might as well just leave the XML out.
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if we join the army we get a automatic rifle and even some bullets to keep at home (it's part of our militia system)
I understand you can only keep a limited number of bullets, correct?
In America, we are limited to semi-automatic weapons, but one can have as many guns and ammo as one wants.
We have a lot of gun crime compared with any European nation though.
Just an off-topic rant here, but this is the Apple section, so that's expected.
I hate BSD top. It's too plain and austere. Where are all the fucking options? Same goes for a lot of BSD utilities. Ah well, nobody has stopped me from compiling and installing them on my Mac.
I'm sure that you are smarter, more philosophical, and a better coder than Stallman so you are absolutely right.
You twit. The GPL was designed for a purpose, and it serves that purpose admirably. If you don't like it, don't use it. The GPL isn't forced on anyone.
Stallman doesn't look like he works out all that much, but Jobs get more and more ripped every year.
I didn't like looking for tiny things all over the place. It wasn't fun like Ultima 7, more like King's Quest!
Metroid Prime. Find the gold key, open the door, destroy boss. Rinse, repeat.
Definately NOT even in the to 50 of all time. It's a rehash of DOOM.
It'd be great if it came with a million dollars in diamonds and a free trip to the moon as well, but you can guess how likely that'll be. They'll wait until developers already have PS3 development units, and then announce a console that is twice as powerful. It doesn't matter if it is, or not. That'll buy them about 2 years while each and every Nintendo fanboy polishes their spec sheet for the announced product. Then, they'll release something stupid, with fucked-up controllers (Sony owning the patent on the only game controller that makes sense) and less features, for more money, but with that Yu-Gi-Oh title (or whatever the 5-11 year olds are watching / playing / lusting after) and every Mom in the country will be inundated with the screams of a lusty child. MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!! MOMMY!!!!! I NEED the new Intendo!
Grow up and look for an adult product like the PS2. I played with Duplos when I was a kid, but eventually it was time to move on to Mindstorms.
Will it be backwards compatiable with the Gamecube much like the PS2 is with the PSX?
Nope!
Don't you know this is just another plan by Nintendo to fuck you over? Seriously, they sell a console that has few games, less features (DVD anyone?) and the most screwed-up controllers I have ever used (with the possible exception of the XBOX) to a group of zealots who are apparently blind, deaf, have serious hand problems, and a penchant for self-punishment. What's the greatest racing game available on a console? GT3: A Spec! What's the best fighting game out? Tekken. Why buy Nintendo? Too much disposable income!
Get a life.
Aww shit, shareholders don't demand accountability from their officers anymore, they just want a pretty show and assurances that profits are up or losses are down.
I would in no way deny that GCC has had problems. Speed problems, broken compiler (was it 2.95?), and general version change bitchiness. It's really coming along though, and I can forsee a time in the future where it is THE compiler to use for speed, portability, and features. It may be there already (at least portability and feature-wise).
OS X is so also extremely portable. The vpu on the G4 is really nice, and Apple is doing wise things like contributing GNU math libraries that take advantage of it. I realistically expect OS 10.3 to be much faster in comparison to 10.2, just as 10.2 is to 10.1 and the latter to 10.0. And, some day when it's time to mave on to a different architecture (or power up the G4, come on IBM and Apple).
b) gcc sucks
I would disagree. GCC actually rules. It is fast enough to work quite well (afaik Linux can only be compiled on GCC and the performance of Linux is faster than commercial systems compiled with 'better' compilers), the third revision is looking extremely promising (even this early), and it is portable to many (most?) architectures! Additionally, as research into advanced compiler technology is conducted and applied to the program, it can't but help to get better in many ways.
Then again if they stuck to C and not C with C++, Objective-C (we'll maybe keep Objective-C), Fortran, Java, and Ada
Linux will never be as stable as FreeBSD, because the unofficial Linux development mantra is "Let's include every cool experimental thing that we can!" while the FreeBSD mantra is "Incorporate proven stable technology."
It's the result of each system having separate design goals. Which one is better depends on what you what to do.
Since about 2 years ago. Gnutella is chock full of goodies.
Shit, you already have a licence to pirate! If you have bought a blank CD, video cassette, or audio tape, you have paid *AA for your right to pirate.
This reminds me of when I was a kid. I would be riding in the back seat with my sister, and any time there was trouble, she would lean back and belt one of us. Didn't matter who was causing the trouble.
Obviously the artists. If they are foolish enough to tolerate this kind of business, year after year, with no end in sight, then I pity them.
Form a label, sell your own CD's, MP3's or whatever. Or just tolerate this treatment.
If you are already paying a fee, which you have no choice to pay, that is earmarked as your fee for what you inevitably will pirate with your internet connection, where's the theft? I would say on the RIAA's side of things unless you pirate. If you choose to obtain all your movies / music legally, then you have been ripped off. You pay anyway. SO PIRATE AWAY!
Sorry, that's 'audiophiles'.
And, you can hook those $3000 speakers up with lamp cord and most audiophiles won't know the difference!
... and poke it with a stick?
Or finally just give up?
Huh? I am not the one having problems here./ I'm just saying that you can't forsee every problem. If YOU can, then Whoopee! Hurrah! Huzzah! Jesus has returned.
Dolt.
How the fuck is checking with your browser going to sell MS more software? That's what they're after.
XML can be really cool. If you just limit yourself to text and ASCII graphics. But with Microsoft, what's inside the XML? Nuggets of binary data. Some of these are unreadable. They might as well just leave the XML out.
Dude! It must be great to loive on a planet where nothing ever goes wrong!
If you are having DB or other problems "multiple nigths in a row" you are doing something wrong. Learn to do your job.
What if the problem is upstream? What if the problem is flaky hardware that is just about to barf?