Oh come on, the last time i tried to go at a local book store, the biggest of my city (!!) it didn't have "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. It's not like it's an unkown book, for fuck sake. Fuck that shit. I'd rather have free market, thank you very much.
You fucking socialist. Lang is wrong. I prefer to eat sane food than regulating culture. I *do* buy food at markets and try to put all the money i can in sane ingredients. Regulating the food market would do better for all of us than regulating culture. Tax the supermarkets and try to give the incentive for people to go at the local market.
They meant the php interpreter itself, not the apps using it. While it's true that PHP-the-programming-language-and-its-libraries have a *lot* of bad practice regarding security, it doesn't have to mean that the interpreter should have a lot of security bugs.
PHP is the most used programming language in shared hosting. That's for a reason. I hate PHP as a language but still there is no other platform than PHP that can be decently used and locked down in a shared hosting setting with ok performances. PHP doesn't need virtualization.
Hubble certainly is more worth the money than the stupid International Space Station. If you try to find space missions that cost money for nothing, Hubble shouldn't be your priority.
All those goddamned fucking web 2.0 retards need a serious history lesson. Web 2.0 IS the old paradigm, the paradigm of the days where everyone thought we would be using light PCs terminals connected to big mainframes, plugged to the network like when you plug a power cable. Ajax itself is "new" but the paradigm its using is the old one. Do you remember time sharing with dumb terminals ? Sun once had a slogan : "The network is the computer". It truly had been a success for Sun, has it ? There was a time where ISPs were offering "free" underpowered PCs for net access. We all know how great a success it was.
People wanted to own and be in control of their machines. They wanted PERSONAL COMPUTERS. You can fucking stick your fucking paradigm in your fucking ass.
The future is in smaller, portable but powerful computing devices. Not dumb terminal with only a web browser inside. Better laptops, tablets and PDAs are the next paradigm, not webapps.
JRuby is using A LOT LOT more memory and its startup is so sluggish it simply doesn't make sense to write any script in it.
Ruby is a scripting language, making it eat all the memory and slowing its startup is basically rendering it useless for the task it's meant to accomplish.
Reading and posting comments on slashdot isn't going to save you any money while building your own computer is. You already are losing your valuable time here and it doesn't save you a penny.
I still think the ipod is lame and I still long for something like the Creative Jukebox 3 with today technology (creative now abandoned their own innovations for some lame ipod ripoffs..).
I want to stay in control of my data and computer. Fuck web apps, they only belong to things that already had something to do with the web, like mail (and even then, rich clients are so much better), not with my local data. I recently saw someone at Adobe saying Photoshop will become a web app : I predict a shift in popularity for the GIMP even if it's still not as good as even Photoshop 4.0.
There's a reason for the paradigm switch toward the desktop PC. Before the PC was the era of time-sharing and I certainly don't want to return to that kind of era. The desktop PC is 'freedom'.
Are you saying that the United States is not as civilized, as say, the united kingdom, france, germany or italy ? Of course. That's where the problem lies. The United States is powerful and rich but as a civilization it's more primitive than any West European country. That's why you need to mention China, India or islamic countries. Your standards are so low you wouldn't even think of comparing yourself to us.
Here in France, I know plenty of Christians but none of them ever heard of intelligent design, and they think of young earth creationism (adam, eve et al.) as a metaphor, a "picture", not the actual numbers and reality. I never heard a french christian on a french forum ever mentioning "intelligent design".
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I find MS's C# compiler works on at least 80% (being generous on how far windows has fallen) of computers. recent versions of gcc work on less than 20% of computers, as I can't find a windows copy of gcc 4+ anywhere."
WHAT ?
http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/
As it's free software, someone outside from the core team can and did port the latest gcc to windows. Tell me how I can port Visual Studio C++ to linux even if I was competent enough to.
You are so right. Gaming on windows sucks because they pull all kind of stuff that requires root access, Starforce, Securom, Punkbuster are tools running with root credentials, if there is any security hole in these tools it renders the Windows Vista security model - executing software with user credentials - useless.
Yeah right and you didn't mention the price of those "wheel chair replacement" utopia you're speaking of. If most disabled cannot afford it it's basically useless.
I don't even think such a thing will exist in my lifetime. And i'm only twenty.
Markets that virtually don't compete ? well, I always paid my windows tax until my last desktop. My last desktop was windows-free. I had enough of the bullshit. Now i'm a linux convert, I even learned how to live with nearly every apps i use being console/text applications because the mouse gave me painful RSI (repetitive strain injury) unlike the keyboard. My firefox has the Hit a Hint extension so I never touch the mouse. Ever. I use shortcuts for everything and the hit a hint extension let me "click" the links without a pointer, just by typing two or three letters. Of course, my text editor is vim, not this damn son of satan named Emacs, its keyboard shortcuts could certainly give me more RSI pains than even heavy mouse using.
Windows is expensive for what it is. Yes Apple makes money on the hardware but even taking that into account, I do think the whole shebang makes for a better value than a windows PC. I'm not a mac user and I don't personally own a mac, i prefer linux and the command line but if I had to recommend a computer to a novice i'd tell him to buy a mac and stay away from the windows hell.
We complain about the Vista versions like Ultimate because the competition is giving the whole shebang, for only one price. Mac OS X 10.4 is on the Apple Store for 129$, everything included. The Family pack is for 200$ and can upgrade FIVE macs ! Linux distributions have much more useful stuff for any self respecting geek than Vista Home will ever give. Using Vista or XP Home feels like being crippled.
Vista Ultimate is way too overpriced. Its price is higher than OSX+iLife+iWork. 287 $ versus 320 $ for Vista ultimate. Who are you joking ?
Good lord. Most of the things you said are useless, and the useful things are available with third party software. System restore doesn't help, it's a problem in itself. Driver rollback is a nice feature but even when I had XP I never had to use that, what kind of faulty hardware and drivers do you have to think this is a great feature ? you could always install the old version without that. The built-in firewall didn't appear before a service pack it hardly counts against windows 2000 when XP was shipping and new. Smart card support ? what are you smoking ? 2000 already supported them. Remote assistance is a funny crippled remote desktop system, you can get better third party software for, exactly, FREE, and it's called UltraVNC. Remote desktop in the pro version ? who cares, UltraVNC is better.
Be serious, XP didn't have anything worth mentioning over 2000. It was a funny, stupid blue GUI for the masses and that's all.
When those new companies grow they reach a point where they get enough power/money to build their own infrastructures.
See the ISP named "Free" in france ( www.free.fr ) they are building a fiber network in Paris.
http://freebre.org/
They are also in the line to, maybe, become the fourth 3G cellphone service provider.
USA form of capitalism is like living in the middle age.
In some countries you can't. In france you don't have the right to release to "public domain". That's stupid but you can't decide that your work is public domain, you HAVE to put a license on it so people can use it, without a license the users can't get any right to modify or redistribute.
MIT is like public domain btw.
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Oh come on, the last time i tried to go at a local book store, the biggest of my city (!!) it didn't have "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. It's not like it's an unkown book, for fuck sake.
Fuck that shit. I'd rather have free market, thank you very much.
You fucking socialist. Lang is wrong. I prefer to eat sane food than regulating culture. I *do* buy food at markets and try to put all the money i can in sane ingredients. Regulating the food market would do better for all of us than regulating culture. Tax the supermarkets and try to give the incentive for people to go at the local market.
They meant the php interpreter itself, not the apps using it. While it's true that PHP-the-programming-language-and-its-libraries have a *lot* of bad practice regarding security, it doesn't have to mean that the interpreter should have a lot of security bugs.
PHP is the most used programming language in shared hosting. That's for a reason. I hate PHP as a language but still there is no other platform than PHP that can be decently used and locked down in a shared hosting setting with ok performances. PHP doesn't need virtualization.
Hubble certainly is more worth the money than the stupid International Space Station. If you try to find space missions that cost money for nothing, Hubble shouldn't be your priority.
If you can't prevent your children from playing those games, you shouldn't be a parent in the first place you are obviously not up to the job.
The governenment shouldn't have any hand about it.
Please, kill yourself. You take this slashdot thread way too seriously.
Wirth's law, even though he's not the one who came up with it.
Bandwith will always be a problem. ISP are already complaining about the bandwith used by google or the video sites like Youtube, and Bittorrent.
All those goddamned fucking web 2.0 retards need a serious history lesson.
Web 2.0 IS the old paradigm, the paradigm of the days where everyone thought we would be using light PCs terminals connected to big mainframes, plugged to the network like when you plug a power cable.
Ajax itself is "new" but the paradigm its using is the old one. Do you remember time sharing with dumb terminals ?
Sun once had a slogan : "The network is the computer". It truly had been a success for Sun, has it ?
There was a time where ISPs were offering "free" underpowered PCs for net access. We all know how great a success it was.
People wanted to own and be in control of their machines. They wanted PERSONAL COMPUTERS.
You can fucking stick your fucking paradigm in your fucking ass.
The future is in smaller, portable but powerful computing devices. Not dumb terminal with only a web browser inside. Better laptops, tablets and PDAs are the next paradigm, not webapps.
JRuby is using A LOT LOT more memory and its startup is so sluggish it simply doesn't make sense to write any script in it.
Ruby is a scripting language, making it eat all the memory and slowing its startup is basically rendering it useless for the task it's meant to accomplish.
Reading and posting comments on slashdot isn't going to save you any money while building your own computer is. You already are losing your valuable time here and it doesn't save you a penny.
I still think the ipod is lame and I still long for something like the Creative Jukebox 3 with today technology (creative now abandoned their own innovations for some lame ipod ripoffs..).
I want to stay in control of my data and computer. Fuck web apps, they only belong to things that already had something to do with the web, like mail (and even then, rich clients are so much better), not with my local data. I recently saw someone at Adobe saying Photoshop will become a web app : I predict a shift in popularity for the GIMP even if it's still not as good as even Photoshop 4.0.
There's a reason for the paradigm switch toward the desktop PC. Before the PC was the era of time-sharing and I certainly don't want to return to that kind of era. The desktop PC is 'freedom'.
Are you saying that the United States is not as civilized, as say, the united kingdom, france, germany or italy ?
Of course. That's where the problem lies. The United States is powerful and rich but as a civilization it's more primitive than any West European country. That's why you need to mention China, India or islamic countries. Your standards are so low you wouldn't even think of comparing yourself to us.
Here in France, I know plenty of Christians but none of them ever heard of intelligent design, and they think of young earth creationism (adam, eve et al.) as a metaphor, a "picture", not the actual numbers and reality. I never heard a french christian on a french forum ever mentioning "intelligent design".
No it's not virtualization, it's THE ACTUAL 32 BITS LIBS installed inside a 64 bits system.
Like under linux with a multilib system.
" I find MS's C# compiler works on at least 80% (being generous on how far windows has fallen) of computers. recent versions of gcc work on less than 20% of computers, as I can't find a windows copy of gcc 4+ anywhere." WHAT ? http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/ As it's free software, someone outside from the core team can and did port the latest gcc to windows. Tell me how I can port Visual Studio C++ to linux even if I was competent enough to.
My my my. It's just an old troll /macro, nothing serious.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22I+don't+want+to+start+a+holy+war+here%2C+but+what+is+the+deal+%22&btnG=Search
Usually it was a humorous troll against the mac community but it seems Vista is now deserving the same treatment.
You are so right. Gaming on windows sucks because they pull all kind of stuff that requires root access, Starforce, Securom, Punkbuster are tools running with root credentials, if there is any security hole in these tools it renders the Windows Vista security model - executing software with user credentials - useless.
Yeah right and you didn't mention the price of those "wheel chair replacement" utopia you're speaking of. If most disabled cannot afford it it's basically useless. I don't even think such a thing will exist in my lifetime. And i'm only twenty.
Markets that virtually don't compete ? well, I always paid my windows tax until my last desktop. My last desktop was windows-free. I had enough of the bullshit. Now i'm a linux convert, I even learned how to live with nearly every apps i use being console/text applications because the mouse gave me painful RSI (repetitive strain injury) unlike the keyboard. My firefox has the Hit a Hint extension so I never touch the mouse. Ever. I use shortcuts for everything and the hit a hint extension let me "click" the links without a pointer, just by typing two or three letters. Of course, my text editor is vim, not this damn son of satan named Emacs, its keyboard shortcuts could certainly give me more RSI pains than even heavy mouse using. Windows is expensive for what it is. Yes Apple makes money on the hardware but even taking that into account, I do think the whole shebang makes for a better value than a windows PC. I'm not a mac user and I don't personally own a mac, i prefer linux and the command line but if I had to recommend a computer to a novice i'd tell him to buy a mac and stay away from the windows hell.
We complain about the Vista versions like Ultimate because the competition is giving the whole shebang, for only one price. Mac OS X 10.4 is on the Apple Store for 129$, everything included. The Family pack is for 200$ and can upgrade FIVE macs ! Linux distributions have much more useful stuff for any self respecting geek than Vista Home will ever give. Using Vista or XP Home feels like being crippled. Vista Ultimate is way too overpriced. Its price is higher than OSX+iLife+iWork. 287 $ versus 320 $ for Vista ultimate. Who are you joking ?
Good lord. Most of the things you said are useless, and the useful things are available with third party software.
System restore doesn't help, it's a problem in itself. Driver rollback is a nice feature but even when I had XP I never had to use that, what kind of faulty hardware and drivers do you have to think this is a great feature ? you could always install the old version without that. The built-in firewall didn't appear before a service pack it hardly counts against windows 2000 when XP was shipping and new. Smart card support ? what are you smoking ? 2000 already supported them. Remote assistance is a funny crippled remote desktop system, you can get better third party software for, exactly, FREE, and it's called UltraVNC. Remote desktop in the pro version ? who cares, UltraVNC is better.
Be serious, XP didn't have anything worth mentioning over 2000. It was a funny, stupid blue GUI for the masses and that's all.
You made my day.
When those new companies grow they reach a point where they get enough power/money to build their own infrastructures. See the ISP named "Free" in france ( www.free.fr ) they are building a fiber network in Paris. http://freebre.org/ They are also in the line to, maybe, become the fourth 3G cellphone service provider. USA form of capitalism is like living in the middle age.
What about Java ?
In some countries you can't. In france you don't have the right to release to "public domain". That's stupid but you can't decide that your work is public domain, you HAVE to put a license on it so people can use it, without a license the users can't get any right to modify or redistribute. MIT is like public domain btw.
They dumped Hula because it was not going to go anywhere anytime soon and was just not worth it, nothing to do with the MS deal.