Pascal has a is very simple and clear syntax and semantics. It has strong and static typing, making many errors very easy to catch at compile time. The case for Java is similar but the syntax and semantics are a bit more complicated.
C is terrible to teach, they'll have to deal with pointers all the time. Reading something from input? Pointers. Passing by reference? Pointers. Strings? Pointers. Sure you may omit that those are pointers but the segmentation faults will show up for regular reality checks. Same for C++. Python means working with dynamic typing. PHP dynamic and weak typing. Don't get me started on Visual Basic.
I want people to know that info anyway. Most, have it in the public part of the info section anyway. And this is nothing new to the advent of social networking. Plenty of people have had their own personal webpage with a bit of personal info and cv publicly available for ages.
GPL does not oblige you to make source freely available, and it most certainly does not mention making downloadable. Basically you are allowed to modify and distribute the source code. And when distributing a program (binary) obtained from the code or a modification of it you are also required to also provide the code.
That's pretty much it. No need to make it available for the whole world.
"Unless you have a privacy service agreement with every link in the chain with every provider between here and the person the information was intended for, presume it to be non-private henceforth."
After all if they break their compromise:
"you may be able to sue later but it doesn't put the genie back in the bottle."
Basically what you are saying is trivial and uninteresting. If you provide info to anyone at all, they may make it public.
To verify the software meets its specification the specification itself must formalised in the theorem prover. This in turn gives you the possibility of proving properties of the spec itself.
Soft evidence? Of what? That maybe some guy named Jesus actually existed? That this guy had some powers and was able to perform miracles? That he actually resurrected? That God exists and he was his son?
I find it very soft, really really soft, evidence for the first. And that's it! I wonder if you'd take evidence this soft to believe that some guy living nowadays is also the son of God. Seriously, would you?
It's actually easy to understand. Start with a simpler example like N0 {naturals with 0) and N (naturals without 0). Take the set N0, now rename all the elements to it's successor. So now 0 is called 1, 1 is called 2, 2 is called 3... etc. So you just obtained N. But the result must be the same size, you just renamed stuff. And you can do similar renamings to the Integers or Rationals. So they are all the same size.
Actually Rationals just like the Reals also have infinitely large rage and infinitely small granularity and yet, unlike them, they are the same size as Naturals.
Actually 4.1 was when they started getting careful with their words. That announcement was not to bad. Try searching for any words of warning in the one for 4.0.
Of course, but 3.5.10 is quite recent (well about two months old). OpenSUSE 11.1 will be released in December 18 and they already decided quite some time ago to go for KDE 4.1.2, even though KDE 4.1.3 will be more than one month old by the release date. That's normal. Not going for an 8 month old release would have just been weird;)
No I don't jest. Porting 3.5.8 is not easier than porting 3.5.7, or 3.5.9, or any other 3.5.x version for that matter. In terms of release schedule seemed to me like 3.5.9 would have been the obvious choice... and apparently I was absolutely right because the summary was wrong and that's the version they went for.
KDE 3.5.8? Why so old... even if KDE 3.5.10 released in late August was too late to make it, KDE 3.5.9 came out in February, that's over 8 months.
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What's the problem? C++ is far from being a pure object oriented language. If someone who knows C makes migrates to C++ to use some nice features he doesn't have in the first it should be perfectly fine.
Bullshit. I had RSI I recovered. Also while there might be some truth to what you just said, trying to isolate _one_ cause is nonsense.
It started slowly, bit of pain on wrist. Pain on neck, pain on back. Then it hit hard and fast. One day suddenly I started feeling pain shooting down may arm, stronger and stronger, it wouldn't stop. And it kept on going... for days. Even when that feeling stopped I couldn't even lift my arm to my chest. After some days I could move better, but typing immediately gave me pain. I couldn't type two lines without getting really serious pain. Clicking was impossible. I was just finishing my MSc thesis (just final touches), and was moving to the UK for a computer science PhD. This was around May 2005.
Doctors in Portugal didn't do much for me. Already In the UK I paid an insane amount of money to see a private doctor, muscular skeletal specialist. He said he couldn't do much either. Suggested that I could try some drugs (usually prescribed for people with brain related problems) that could reduce nerve irritation. I didn't go for that.
Today I'm perfectly fine. Typing this in my laptop right now. Not using ergonomic keyboards of any kind.
Chiropractors (to aling my back, back and neck was all messed up), Massage (muscles were obviously all messed up too, plus relaxation is very important), Acupuncture and chinese herbs (hoping it would make my nerves heal faster, and also relaxation, beats me how much it helped).
Combined that with personal improvement. Alexander Technique (to learn how to use myself, still doing it today), Yoga (Iyengar Style, still doing it too), also did some swimming, pilates, tai chi and chi kung, all quite nice.
Note that I've done martial arts since young. That probably helped me recover too.
KOffice has lots of potential. Quite light, the code is much cleaner and very modular. It's also going to be multiplatform. I wish a fourth of the effort being put in OpenOffice was being invested in KOffice instead.
First of all, these are not window managers but desktop environments. Window manager only manages windows.
I don't know when you made your choice, but what do you mean with KDE less capable than gnome? KDE has been ahead in most fronts, in term of technology (like kio slaves and kparts), user options, and quality of applications (like amarok and k3b). What exactly can you do with Gnome that KDE is not capable of?
Gnome cannot keep up because gtk sucks. Really. Qt (used by kde) is miles ahead of gtk (used by gnome), just look how much each of them as evolved in the last 5 years! Qt provides an amazing foundation on which KDE builds, no need to keep reinventing the wheel, you got Qt developers taking off much of the development weight off the kde team, Qt provides for much faster and safer development than Qt.
I really believe the Gnome team has a problem... The reason why there is no Gnome 3 in sight is not that they prefer incremental development. Is simply that they don't have an alternative. In KDE 4 moving to Qt 4.x was a big part of the motivation. With Gnome... they'd be using the same old gtk 2. When KDE 4 finally becomes stable and feature complete (my guess would be KDE 4.3), there will be an immense difference between the 2 desktops, a difference that can be measured in years of development.
"Here's a compilation of screen shots and descriptions that make it appear to be the case"
I honestly don't get it. Those screenshots and descriptions do not have no connection to the summary. The summary makes no sense. What's the point of this story really?
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I would go with Pascal. And if not, Java.
Pascal has a is very simple and clear syntax and semantics. It has strong and static typing, making many errors very easy to catch at compile time. The case for Java is similar but the syntax and semantics are a bit more complicated.
C is terrible to teach, they'll have to deal with pointers all the time. Reading something from input? Pointers. Passing by reference? Pointers. Strings? Pointers. Sure you may omit that those are pointers but the segmentation faults will show up for regular reality checks. Same for C++. Python means working with dynamic typing. PHP dynamic and weak typing. Don't get me started on Visual Basic.
Under any circumstances? Why not?
I want people to know that info anyway. Most, have it in the public part of the info section anyway. And this is nothing new to the advent of social networking. Plenty of people have had their own personal webpage with a bit of personal info and cv publicly available for ages.
Yes it does.
GPL does not oblige you to make source freely available, and it most certainly does not mention making downloadable. Basically you are allowed to modify and distribute the source code. And when distributing a program (binary) obtained from the code or a modification of it you are also required to also provide the code.
That's pretty much it. No need to make it available for the whole world.
Why even bother with saying:
"Unless you have a privacy service agreement with every link in the chain with every provider between here and the person the information was intended for, presume it to be non-private henceforth."
After all if they break their compromise:
"you may be able to sue later but it doesn't put the genie back in the bottle."
Basically what you are saying is trivial and uninteresting. If you provide info to anyone at all, they may make it public.
So basically you are saying we should stop assuming our emails, phone calls, and mail deliveries have a level of privacy?
To verify the software meets its specification the specification itself must formalised in the theorem prover. This in turn gives you the possibility of proving properties of the spec itself.
Soft evidence? Of what? That maybe some guy named Jesus actually existed? That this guy had some powers and was able to perform miracles? That he actually resurrected? That God exists and he was his son?
I find it very soft, really really soft, evidence for the first. And that's it! I wonder if you'd take evidence this soft to believe that some guy living nowadays is also the son of God. Seriously, would you?
Animals are multicelular eukaryotic. No animal there.
It's actually easy to understand. Start with a simpler example like N0 {naturals with 0) and N (naturals without 0). Take the set N0, now rename all the elements to it's successor. So now 0 is called 1, 1 is called 2, 2 is called 3... etc. So you just obtained N. But the result must be the same size, you just renamed stuff. And you can do similar renamings to the Integers or Rationals. So they are all the same size.
Actually Rationals just like the Reals also have infinitely large rage and infinitely small granularity and yet, unlike them, they are the same size as Naturals.
Work for Novell? The Novell-Microsoft agreement does not protect Novell in anyway from being sued. It protects Novell's clients.
Actually 4.1 was when they started getting careful with their words. That announcement was not to bad. Try searching for any words of warning in the one for 4.0.
First. If it's not for end users it should be beta or an alpha.
That's what these tags exist for.
Second. Where the fuck did they say that?
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/
I used to spend all day on Slashdot and now I only check it occasionally.
I guess some good came out of it after all.
Of course, but 3.5.10 is quite recent (well about two months old). OpenSUSE 11.1 will be released in December 18 and they already decided quite some time ago to go for KDE 4.1.2, even though KDE 4.1.3 will be more than one month old by the release date. That's normal. Not going for an 8 month old release would have just been weird ;)
I got it from the summary ;) But you're right, thanks!
No I don't jest. Porting 3.5.8 is not easier than porting 3.5.7, or 3.5.9, or any other 3.5.x version for that matter. In terms of release schedule seemed to me like 3.5.9 would have been the obvious choice... and apparently I was absolutely right because the summary was wrong and that's the version they went for.
Yes you're right. KDE 3.5.8 did sound fishy and I should have known better than simply trust the summary :)
Hopefully someone will mod you up.
KDE 3.5.8? Why so old... even if KDE 3.5.10 released in late August was too late to make it, KDE 3.5.9 came out in February, that's over 8 months.
What's the problem? C++ is far from being a pure object oriented language. If someone who knows C makes migrates to C++ to use some nice features he doesn't have in the first it should be perfectly fine.
Bullshit. I had RSI I recovered. Also while there might be some truth to what you just said, trying to isolate _one_ cause is nonsense.
It started slowly, bit of pain on wrist. Pain on neck, pain on back. Then it hit hard and fast. One day suddenly I started feeling pain shooting down may arm, stronger and stronger, it wouldn't stop. And it kept on going... for days. Even when that feeling stopped I couldn't even lift my arm to my chest. After some days I could move better, but typing immediately gave me pain. I couldn't type two lines without getting really serious pain. Clicking was impossible. I was just finishing my MSc thesis (just final touches), and was moving to the UK for a computer science PhD. This was around May 2005.
Doctors in Portugal didn't do much for me. Already In the UK I paid an insane amount of money to see a private doctor, muscular skeletal specialist. He said he couldn't do much either. Suggested that I could try some drugs (usually prescribed for people with brain related problems) that could reduce nerve irritation. I didn't go for that.
Today I'm perfectly fine. Typing this in my laptop right now. Not using ergonomic keyboards of any kind.
Chiropractors (to aling my back, back and neck was all messed up), Massage (muscles were obviously all messed up too, plus relaxation is very important), Acupuncture and chinese herbs (hoping it would make my nerves heal faster, and also relaxation, beats me how much it helped).
Combined that with personal improvement. Alexander Technique (to learn how to use myself, still doing it today), Yoga (Iyengar Style, still doing it too), also did some swimming, pilates, tai chi and chi kung, all quite nice.
Note that I've done martial arts since young. That probably helped me recover too.
Point is, you can recover from RSI.
KOffice has lots of potential. Quite light, the code is much cleaner and very modular. It's also going to be multiplatform. I wish a fourth of the effort being put in OpenOffice was being invested in KOffice instead.
First of all, these are not window managers but desktop environments. Window manager only manages windows.
I don't know when you made your choice, but what do you mean with KDE less capable than gnome? KDE has been ahead in most fronts, in term of technology (like kio slaves and kparts), user options, and quality of applications (like amarok and k3b). What exactly can you do with Gnome that KDE is not capable of?
Gnome cannot keep up because gtk sucks. Really. Qt (used by kde) is miles ahead of gtk (used by gnome), just look how much each of them as evolved in the last 5 years! Qt provides an amazing foundation on which KDE builds, no need to keep reinventing the wheel, you got Qt developers taking off much of the development weight off the kde team, Qt provides for much faster and safer development than Qt.
I really believe the Gnome team has a problem... The reason why there is no Gnome 3 in sight is not that they prefer incremental development. Is simply that they don't have an alternative. In KDE 4 moving to Qt 4.x was a big part of the motivation. With Gnome... they'd be using the same old gtk 2. When KDE 4 finally becomes stable and feature complete (my guess would be KDE 4.3), there will be an immense difference between the 2 desktops, a difference that can be measured in years of development.
They could still play chess.
"Here's a compilation of screen shots and descriptions that make it appear to be the case" I honestly don't get it. Those screenshots and descriptions do not have no connection to the summary. The summary makes no sense. What's the point of this story really?