I couldn't vouch for 3.0, since I got 4.0, which comes with TCP/IP (works fine with a cable modem, even if the @home jokers say they only support Macs and the Evil Empire's OS), comes with Netscape (and there are people making sure that Mozilla will run on OS/2)--OK, actually as it comes off the CD-ROM you have to go get Netscape. but that's no big deal. Until the Project Magic people get the native OS/2 Opera going, one can if one wishes, run Win3.1 flavored Opera in a WinOS2 session. (I chose not to, because I don't want to send the Opera people the wrong signal.)
I think the new concept in justice, if there is one, is that proposed by kwsNI, i.e. that there's no point in even prosecuting sufficiently wealthy criminals...sort of the next stage after OJ, I guess. If that's really the way it works, then there's something very wrong with the American legal system.
Friend, if you claim that Microsoft has never prevented anyone from making a compatible system, you're either not familiar with computing history or pulling a Clintonesque word game. Are you not familiar with the FUD games Microsoft played with Windows to kill off DR DOS? Do you not know the history of win32s, and how Microsoft kept changing it in order to break compatibility with OS/2? I commend the book The Microsoft File to your attention.
Check out QED, a transcript of lectures by Feynmann on quantum electrodynamics. Particles evidently don't exactly travel in straight lines; in a way, they go every which way at once, and the path we see them take is the one of least resistance, the most likely path. If you remember your automata theory, they're reminiscent of nondeterministic machines, which can also be thought of as trying every possibility at once. If we have real live quantum computers, then, whether P=NP becomes a question of much less practical importance, because we'd all have NP capable hardware. Hence the concern in other messages on this thread about encryption, since public key cryptosystems count on NP complete problems being extremely tedious to solve.
(This is a lot of handwaving on my part, and corrections are welcomed!)
I don't know about that personal interaction part...didn't you see the article in Newsweek a couple of weeks ago? With the low unemployment rate and pay for salespeople well above the minimum wage, salespeople evidently don't feel any great motivation to exercise even minimal civility to customers. Much more of that, and I'd think that an online service could advertise not having to deal with obnoxious salespeople as a benefit.
The point of having more taxes is to increase government control. Politicians drool whenever they think of something sitting out there untaxed. Once it's taxed, there's that much more money that they can buy votes with.
That's a lot of sarcasm directed at something unrelated to what you're ostensibly replying to.
Of course, in the old days, patrons paid for art. We could always return to that--so that once again only the wealthy could afford music, since it would entail supporting the performer(s) rather than just buying individual performances, which wouldn't happen any more because only a fool would make something that only sells one copy which is then pirated.
Look, the bar's been raised on what people consider an acceptable performance. Og the caveman didn't need particularly amazing chops. Know any garage band players up there with Vai or Satriani? Didn't think so. If you can't make a living playing, you can't afford the time to keep your technique honed; Hanon takes a back seat to the next meal or mortgage payment. So in the world of widespread musical piracy, the level of excellence the average Joe has access to plummets.
Making their products available for Linux would "legitimize" Linux in the minds of the sheep, and raise the possibility of not using Windows--and that, above all, is what Microsoft will not tolerate.
I don't think so. That would require a fundamental change in the way Microsoft leadership thinks: for them, it's not enough to win; everyone else must be destroyed.
So not being able to fly to exotic locations with duty-free stores is "unfair" to me?
As for distorting preferences--government's been in that business for a long time, vide tax subsidies for ethanol, wind power, etc. If you're concerned about that, though, why not work to get sales tax relief for brick and mortar stores?
I believe that the tax take should be fairly spread among those who are able to pay...
i.e. you agree with Willie Sutton, who is supposed to have said, when asked why he robbed banks, "Because that's where the money is." I commend to your attention the works of Frederic Bastiat.
The income tax system is not perfectly good; it's a ghastly morass of attempts at social engineering (we'll let you have a little of your money back if you do what we say) and favors to various groups. It took an amendment to even make income tax constitutional.
Allowing an income tax to exist at all is essentially consenting to the status of slave; the only question then is how much of your income the government deigns to let you have.
BS. Taxation is theft. If the brick and mortar stores are kvetching about their sales being taxed, the obvious remedy is to stop taxing them. Yet another reason to vote Libertarian...
What makes operator overloading particularly obnoxious in C++ is that you're limited to the existing operators--which carry their own connotations (hard won over years, or in the case of the usual arithmetic operators, nearly a lifetime, of drill and use). These connotations mostly work for types with some algebraic structure, but once you get away from them, you're guaranteed confusion--the primordial example being the overloading of the shift operators for stream I/O.
In contrast, Algol 68 provides a wide variety of possible operator symbols--and if C assignment operators yielded reference modes like Algol 68 assignment operators, it would be convenient to use the operators for I/O that actually carry the connotations that make sense, += and -= (doing output appends to a stream, doing input removes something from it.
The only advantages that come to mind are that newspapers are disposable (nobody's going to line a birdcage with a laptop, and if someone snatches your newspaper on the subway you haven't lost that much:-), lightweight (try holding up a laptop while you read a long article:-), don't require any more power than is needed for a light source that people will require anyway...and people probably won't haul their laptops into the bathroom, either. (OK, enough with the emoticons.)
All the bad things Katz says about the papers are true. The First Amendment is a wonderful and great thing, but the press (indeed, the mainstream media) has become more the sort of thing the First Amendment was designed to protect us against than the agent of our protection. The pretense of newspapers providing "news" is a joke--perhaps they should be called "oldpapers" instead--as is their pretense of objectivity.
What do I think could replace newspapers? It would probably take the "digital paper" that I've read about; rather than generating lots of landfill fodder, keep a piece of digital paper that the newspaper, customized to your interests if you subscribe, can be downloaded into.
...and I doubt whether there are any individuals (besides you, that is) that know the entire definition by heart...
I don't even think it's a singleton set; recall the intro to the O'Reilly book titled something like C++: The Core Language, which quotes Stroustrup as not realizing the way in which two C++ features interact until someone pointed it out to him.
I think a T-shirt I had made puts it succinctly: C++ : C:: PL/I : FORTRAN
Agreed...but ultimately, I want direct optic nerve or brain interfacing, the ultimate heads-up (or down, or whatever) display. (That'll do until I get downloaded.:-)
Remember the story of IBM and Win32s; for a long time Microsoft kept "updating" Win32s so that Windows programs using it would no longer run in a Win-OS/2 session. Eventually, with Win32s 1.3, they finally broke compatibility in a way IBM couldn't readily fix--they added a call to grab memory past the 512M limit OS/2 put on DOS (and hence Win-OS/2) sessions. That limit must've been pretty well wired into OS/2; it has only recently been gotten around, with "Aurora" (now called "Warp Server for E-Business"). It's not as if any Windows app would ever need that much memory--the only possible purpose for it would be to make sure programs wouldn't run under OS/2.
You can be sure that if they do open the source, there'll suddenly be a new release, without open source, designed to break compatibility with what they provided open source for.
Useful info? Come on! It was just another shabby photo op for the white trash Caligula. Clinton's handlers would never let any worthwhile (read potentially embarrassing) questions through. The "chat" was already a joke; the guy who snarfed Clinton's handle just made it a little more obvious.
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Microsoft is free to innovate...perhaps they'll do it someday.
It does do Java...in fact, IBM is pushing Java heavily and trying to make sure its Java is very fast.
I couldn't vouch for 3.0, since I got 4.0, which comes with TCP/IP (works fine with a cable modem, even if the @home jokers say they only support Macs and the Evil Empire's OS), comes with Netscape (and there are people making sure that Mozilla will run on OS/2)--OK, actually as it comes off the CD-ROM you have to go get Netscape. but that's no big deal. Until the Project Magic people get the native OS/2 Opera going, one can if one wishes, run Win3.1 flavored Opera in a WinOS2 session. (I chose not to, because I don't want to send the Opera people the wrong signal.)
I think the new concept in justice, if there is one, is that proposed by kwsNI, i.e. that there's no point in even prosecuting sufficiently wealthy criminals...sort of the next stage after OJ, I guess. If that's really the way it works, then there's something very wrong with the American legal system.
Friend, if you claim that Microsoft has never prevented anyone from making a compatible system, you're either not familiar with computing history or pulling a Clintonesque word game. Are you not familiar with the FUD games Microsoft played with Windows to kill off DR DOS? Do you not know the history of win32s, and how Microsoft kept changing it in order to break compatibility with OS/2? I commend the book The Microsoft File to your attention.
(This is a lot of handwaving on my part, and corrections are welcomed!)
I don't know about that personal interaction part...didn't you see the article in Newsweek a couple of weeks ago? With the low unemployment rate and pay for salespeople well above the minimum wage, salespeople evidently don't feel any great motivation to exercise even minimal civility to customers. Much more of that, and I'd think that an online service could advertise not having to deal with obnoxious salespeople as a benefit.
The point of having more taxes is to increase government control. Politicians drool whenever they think of something sitting out there untaxed. Once it's taxed, there's that much more money that they can buy votes with.
Of course, in the old days, patrons paid for art. We could always return to that--so that once again only the wealthy could afford music, since it would entail supporting the performer(s) rather than just buying individual performances, which wouldn't happen any more because only a fool would make something that only sells one copy which is then pirated.
Look, the bar's been raised on what people consider an acceptable performance. Og the caveman didn't need particularly amazing chops. Know any garage band players up there with Vai or Satriani? Didn't think so. If you can't make a living playing, you can't afford the time to keep your technique honed; Hanon takes a back seat to the next meal or mortgage payment. So in the world of widespread musical piracy, the level of excellence the average Joe has access to plummets.
Making their products available for Linux would "legitimize" Linux in the minds of the sheep, and raise the possibility of not using Windows--and that, above all, is what Microsoft will not tolerate.
I don't think so. That would require a fundamental change in the way Microsoft leadership thinks: for them, it's not enough to win; everyone else must be destroyed.
As for distorting preferences--government's been in that business for a long time, vide tax subsidies for ethanol, wind power, etc. If you're concerned about that, though, why not work to get sales tax relief for brick and mortar stores?
Did you remember to count the 14+% for FICA?
i.e. you agree with Willie Sutton, who is supposed to have said, when asked why he robbed banks, "Because that's where the money is." I commend to your attention the works of Frederic Bastiat.
Allowing an income tax to exist at all is essentially consenting to the status of slave; the only question then is how much of your income the government deigns to let you have.
You're assuming that government is a rational parasite; I don't know if I can agree with that.
BS. Taxation is theft. If the brick and mortar stores are kvetching about their sales being taxed, the obvious remedy is to stop taxing them. Yet another reason to vote Libertarian...
In contrast, Algol 68 provides a wide variety of possible operator symbols--and if C assignment operators yielded reference modes like Algol 68 assignment operators, it would be convenient to use the operators for I/O that actually carry the connotations that make sense, += and -= (doing output appends to a stream, doing input removes something from it.
All the bad things Katz says about the papers are true. The First Amendment is a wonderful and great thing, but the press (indeed, the mainstream media) has become more the sort of thing the First Amendment was designed to protect us against than the agent of our protection. The pretense of newspapers providing "news" is a joke--perhaps they should be called "oldpapers" instead--as is their pretense of objectivity.
What do I think could replace newspapers? It would probably take the "digital paper" that I've read about; rather than generating lots of landfill fodder, keep a piece of digital paper that the newspaper, customized to your interests if you subscribe, can be downloaded into.
Sigh...I know, Godwin's Law, and all that, but...what is it going to take to make the Good Microserfs see what they've been making possible?
I don't even think it's a singleton set; recall the intro to the O'Reilly book titled something like C++: The Core Language, which quotes Stroustrup as not realizing the way in which two C++ features interact until someone pointed it out to him.
I think a T-shirt I had made puts it succinctly: :: PL/I : FORTRAN
C++ : C
Agreed...but ultimately, I want direct optic nerve or brain interfacing, the ultimate heads-up (or down, or whatever) display. (That'll do until I get downloaded. :-)
You can be sure that if they do open the source, there'll suddenly be a new release, without open source, designed to break compatibility with what they provided open source for.
Useful info? Come on! It was just another shabby photo op for the white trash Caligula. Clinton's handlers would never let any worthwhile (read potentially embarrassing) questions through. The "chat" was already a joke; the guy who snarfed Clinton's handle just made it a little more obvious.
Is there any concern about Third Voice, which allows dissenting opinions, commentary, and spin dissection to be immediately tied to the web page?