I don't know, but I'm posting this from work right now, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want someone else who has nothing to do with my work determining when I've made enough money from it and telling me I'm "whining" if somebody steals it.
I think I'm going to lead a movement to shut these people up. For the record, I'm a comp sci student. I've been programming since I was eight years old. I love the aesthetic appeal of code. Do I think it's art? Hell no. Programming is not an art. I don't consider my code an expression of my sentiments, because I'm not on crack. Code solves a problem. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't show me code poetry. It's a nice trick, it takes some creativity, but it has nothing to do with programming proper. As for the demo scene- programs that create something that might be considered art are not themselves art. I don't argue that paper or paintbrushes are art.
I think the wealth of SDL/OpenGL comments you see pretty much spells out what's wrong with game development on Linux. I'm fairly sure that the Linux gaming crowd is a vocal minority at best, and few companies can afford to target this group. IIRC, profit margins on your average PC game are rather slim. It doesn't matter how good your APIs are- if people don't think they can profit from their work on your platform, they won't write for it. Just look at BeOS, which had a beautiful API but failed because it simply wasn't commercially viable.
People call this a crazy idea sometimes, but I think it makes sense from a marketing point of view. If they were feeling daring, they could make a Linux distro.
And they could make it the worst Linux distribution ever. Nothing would work right. The stock kernel would be utter crap. Everything would be configured to maximize vulnerability and minimize performance. And it'd all be intentional.
With Microsoft's level of brand recognition, they could make Linux seem like it was their own idea which never quite took off- sort of like Bob 2. Most people in the mainstream don't know what Linux is, or they've just vaguely heard of it, so this isn't far-fetched. Of course, I really don't think MS wants to destroy their karma like that, but it's an interesting idea...
Isn't it funny how these threads always say "what's wrong with you?" Obviously there's nothing wrong with him personally. His experience just happens to differ from yours.
I have to defend hate speech precisely because I don't agree with it and think it is completely valueless; I wouldn't want anyone restricting my right to free speech because they think what I say is valueless. The most important factor in a society where freedom of speech is widespread is education, though education can only go so far- I know plenty of educated idiots.
I grew up in Virginia Beach and New York City. Everyone I knew- all of my friends and neighbors- was black. Then I moved to N.E. Pennsylvania and was exposed to an awful lot of racism. Did it cause me to become racist myself? No, I knew better. Exposure to hate speech does not guarantee the development of racist attitudes, and banning it on the web doesn't mean they won't hear it at home or from their friends.
Screaming "fire" in a crowded theater is quite different, because it causes nearly anyone who hears it to believe there's an immediate danger. Writing hateful web sites only causes those who are dumb enough to believe what's being said to adopt the views presented.
I wouldn't want this kind of speech banned, but not because I intend to practice it myself. I just don't think it's good to let a government dictate what individuals can and cannot say (yes, I know there are many laws which do this for other types of speech).
This has more to do with the type of problems people will perceive when developing software. Coders are much more likely to notice that an algorithm's worst case is O(n^2) and could be replaced by some O(n) algorithm than they are to notice an interface flaw. When you get a few programmers adding to the code and only adapting the interface as it suits their changes, serious problems will develop.
Slightly OT, but I always wondered- how does one ensure portability across different platforms when it comes to character encodings? Even on Linux, GTK likes UTF-8 and QT is strictly UTF-16, IIRC. Windows has the TCHAR type, which is really just wchar_t in most situations. How can these be kept straight?
The horrid color scheme has been replaced with a ridiculous red fedora in place of the start menu. Just when you thought that nothing stupider than the start menu could come along, too- now he have the "hat" menu, or the "red hat" menu, or the "is that a wool or a felt fedora?" menu.
The teacher already has a formal education and a degree. The kids are inventing a new mode of speech because they're lazy. Ergo, the only lazy idiots in this arrangement are the students.
One cannot just invent a new mode of thought/speech/whatever to avoid work.
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Why not use Mozilla's type-ahead find?
I don't know, but I'm posting this from work right now, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want someone else who has nothing to do with my work determining when I've made enough money from it and telling me I'm "whining" if somebody steals it.
Please tell me I'm not the only one to read that as "Large Hardon Collider."
It must be the Slashdot->Goatse.cx->Giver thing. I need to get out more.
I think I'm going to lead a movement to shut these people up.
For the record, I'm a comp sci student. I've been programming since I was eight years old. I love the aesthetic appeal of code. Do I think it's art? Hell no.
Programming is not an art. I don't consider my code an expression of my sentiments, because I'm not on crack. Code solves a problem. Nothing more, nothing less.
Don't show me code poetry. It's a nice trick, it takes some creativity, but it has nothing to do with programming proper. As for the demo scene- programs that create something that might be considered art are not themselves art. I don't argue that paper or paintbrushes are art.
Nothing beats Gandhi 2. That and every scene with Michael Richards. That movie would have sucked entirely without him.
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Change the "inherits" property to your desired cursor set.
I think the wealth of SDL/OpenGL comments you see pretty much spells out what's wrong with game development on Linux. I'm fairly sure that the Linux gaming crowd is a vocal minority at best, and few companies can afford to target this group. IIRC, profit margins on your average PC game are rather slim.
It doesn't matter how good your APIs are- if people don't think they can profit from their work on your platform, they won't write for it. Just look at BeOS, which had a beautiful API but failed because it simply wasn't commercially viable.
People call this a crazy idea sometimes, but I think it makes sense from a marketing point of view. If they were feeling daring, they could make a Linux distro.
And they could make it the worst Linux distribution ever. Nothing would work right. The stock kernel would be utter crap. Everything would be configured to maximize vulnerability and minimize performance. And it'd all be intentional.
With Microsoft's level of brand recognition, they could make Linux seem like it was their own idea which never quite took off- sort of like Bob 2. Most people in the mainstream don't know what Linux is, or they've just vaguely heard of it, so this isn't far-fetched. Of course, I really don't think MS wants to destroy their karma like that, but it's an interesting idea...
Isn't it funny how these threads always say "what's wrong with you?" Obviously there's nothing wrong with him personally. His experience just happens to differ from yours.
It wouldn't make sense for anyone to get a desert, so, yeah, you are a jackass. ;-)
I believe they're thousand millions.
I have to defend hate speech precisely because I don't agree with it and think it is completely valueless; I wouldn't want anyone restricting my right to free speech because they think what I say is valueless. The most important factor in a society where freedom of speech is widespread is education, though education can only go so far- I know plenty of educated idiots.
I grew up in Virginia Beach and New York City. Everyone I knew- all of my friends and neighbors- was black. Then I moved to N.E. Pennsylvania and was exposed to an awful lot of racism. Did it cause me to become racist myself? No, I knew better. Exposure to hate speech does not guarantee the development of racist attitudes, and banning it on the web doesn't mean they won't hear it at home or from their friends.
Screaming "fire" in a crowded theater is quite different, because it causes nearly anyone who hears it to believe there's an immediate danger. Writing hateful web sites only causes those who are dumb enough to believe what's being said to adopt the views presented.
I wouldn't want this kind of speech banned, but not because I intend to practice it myself. I just don't think it's good to let a government dictate what individuals can and cannot say (yes, I know there are many laws which do this for other types of speech).
He didn't exactly have to circumvent any copy protection to do this.
Holy crap... someone's been reading way too many articles by John C. Dvorak...
This has more to do with the type of problems people will perceive when developing software. Coders are much more likely to notice that an algorithm's worst case is O(n^2) and could be replaced by some O(n) algorithm than they are to notice an interface flaw. When you get a few programmers adding to the code and only adapting the interface as it suits their changes, serious problems will develop.
Slightly OT, but I always wondered- how does one ensure portability across different platforms when it comes to character encodings? Even on Linux, GTK likes UTF-8 and QT is strictly UTF-16, IIRC. Windows has the TCHAR type, which is really just wchar_t in most situations. How can these be kept straight?
I'd have quite a laugh if MS sued to maintain their exclusive rights to Clippy.
The horrid color scheme has been replaced with a ridiculous red fedora in place of the start menu. Just when you thought that nothing stupider than the start menu could come along, too- now he have the "hat" menu, or the "red hat" menu, or the "is that a wool or a felt fedora?" menu.
Way to steal jokes from The Register...
Try Galeon from CVS. If you're using Gentoo, there's an ebuild in portage now.
The teacher already has a formal education and a degree. The kids are inventing a new mode of speech because they're lazy. Ergo, the only lazy idiots in this arrangement are the students.
One cannot just invent a new mode of thought/speech/whatever to avoid work.
He might, but I get the feeling he chats too much.
Man, the Herald is one colorful paper. No objectivity there. And "Ashfaq A. Butt?" Interesting name.
(his "performance" in Much Ado About Nothing was embarrassing)
You've obviously never seen "Little Buddha." We'll talk about embarrassing after you get a look at that.