So I, as a programmer, don't have to use Windows or MacOS. I can only have a job programming on UNIX/Linux if there are people using it. Perfectly valid reason to promote UNIX as far as I'm concerned.
Read 'em and weep, Linux people. Read 'em and weep.
Oooh, you're right! I'm swiching back to windoze right now! Hey, it's no big secret that Linux doesn't do AA as well as windows. Nobody's going to be shocked about this.
I'm sick of these stupid fucking questions that are really nothing but poorly veiled open
source advocacies.
I don't think that was the case here. I think the person asking the question just does not know much about databases. Anyone who tries to compare Oracle with MySQL needs a heap 'o learnin.
C coding is not taught in any standard form in current university settings. I have learned Pascal, C++, bash, ksh, and csh but I never touched C because it wasn't
formally taught.
If you know C++, then C's easy. It's just C++ without all the good parts.
Usage Note: The label Non-Standard does only approximate justice to the status of irregardless.
More precisely, it is a form that many people mistakenly believe to be a correct usage in formal
style but that in fact has no legitimate antecedents in either standard or nonstandard varieties. (The
word was likely coined from a blend of irrespective and regardless.) Perhaps this is why critics
have sometimes insisted that there is "no such word" as irregardless, a charge they would not think
of leveling at a bona fide nonstandard word such as ain't, which has an ancient genealogy.
I've already been cut off. I've been at 768Kbps SDSL for two years now, for a very reasonable $60/mo. I used to pay more for 128K ISDN. I think I'd rather have no connection than go back to ISDN or dialup. I do not have a cable option.
I live in Verizon town, and have heard such bad things about their service that I think I'll go back to the dark ages until Boston gets a clue.
A long time ago I mentioned here that there were scaleability problems with Gnutella, everyone told me to shut up and stop spreading FUD.
I hate to be an I-told-you-so but, oh wait, no I don't: I told you so!
Seriously, we who use OpenSource software shouldn't be afraid to accept constructive criticisim. Telling ourselves to stop spreading FUD isn't going to fix real problems.
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This is an artistic and humerous comment on patent law, something that interests and concerns many/. readers. Too bad you didn't get it.
Just for the record, I didn't say communisim was bad or that Linux was not a communal entity, I said that some people have come to associate communisim with badness or evil.
The phrase "communist" or "socialist" is, at least in the US, a powerful term generally used by the few people who wouldn't benefit from a particular idea to scare the rest of us away from that idea. For example wealthy people who use the phrase "socialized medicine" or developers are heavily invested in closed source software that call Linux and *BSD "communist."
Linix is a communual or socialistic OS, but that's not bad. We live quite happily with socialistic instituions every day, only they aren't labeled that way because most people like them. For example, the police and fire departments, city sanitation, national defense. These are are public institions, and thefore socialized.
I actually don't believe that communisim is fatially flawed, just the version of communisim that has recently failed so miserably. It's worth noting that Plato found democracy as distasteful as most people find communisim today. Democracy failed Plato's Athens tragically, to same degree and effect as communisim has had on Russia.
It's pretty sad when the idea of sharing is considered bad or equated with evilness, as in how some people have come to think of communisim. Do these people that equate Linux with communisim share anything in their life or does every exchange require a cash transaction?
Maybe the next time I invite the boys over to watch the game, I'll need to charge them for the beers so I won't be thought of as evil or a looser. Maybe it really is immoral for me to donate blood, I should be selling it instead. After all, I don't want to be communist!
Come to think of it, I'm sharing some of my thoughts in this post. Ok, everybody cough up a micro payment right now, or face charges of communisim!
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it seems like they're hiring the (mentally) handicapped for
their billing department
If you want to talk to the mentally handicapped, you should call their tech support department.
Yeah, that's an interesting idea all right. Let's set the clock back to 1998 to make the load on the internet lighter. Save the internet: Don't use it! Just get your mail and get off!
Wait, even better idea: let's go back to 1938 when we only used electricity for light bulbs. That'll save the power companies! Save the power companies: Don't use electricity!!!
Wait! best idea yet! Let's go back to the before we had plumbing. Just crap in a hole!!! Save the water supply: Crap in a hole!!!
I need sound support on my servers because I have a little script that picks up the phone, dials the user and echos the string, "You have mail" to my speech synthesizer, which is connected to the phone. It does this when any mail for any of our approximatly 2000 clients come in. So you can see how important sound is to me.
You know, that really doesn't make too much sense at all. Linux and *BSD aren't physical objects, like motorcycles, so they don't have the limitations of physical objects, specificially, it's easy to add and remove parts of an OS to suit your need. There's no reason that both OSs can't be good on the server and the desktop.
You've misused the phrase, "begs the question." You have the right to remain silent, etc. etc.
Here is a discusion of how to actually use the phrase correctly so you won't make a fool of yourself in public again in this way.
Hey, I'm just doing my job, but you're welcome anyway!
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Of course, mondern all wheel drive is far better than only front or rear wheel drive. Note that I'm *not* talking about four wheel drive that can really suck on things like Jeeps etc.
Please don't argue with me, I already know I'm right!:)
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So I, as a programmer, don't have to use Windows or MacOS. I can only have a job programming on UNIX/Linux if there are people using it. Perfectly valid reason to promote UNIX as far as I'm concerned.
Don't forget that there'd also be about 20 more forms to fill out.
Oooh, you're right! I'm swiching back to windoze right now! Hey, it's no big secret that Linux doesn't do AA as well as windows. Nobody's going to be shocked about this.
I don't think that was the case here. I think the person asking the question just does not know much about databases. Anyone who tries to compare Oracle with MySQL needs a heap 'o learnin.
find /mnt/aan -name "*GreenDay*mp3"
where /mnt/aan is the root of your Apartment Area network.
If you know C++, then C's easy. It's just C++ without all the good parts.
in what way?
Could this be used on something like a microprocessor?
Yeah, but it'll void the warrenty :)
In order to update Gnapster, it requires that I update my kernel!!!! One step closer to Microsoft land!
Wait, you're "out" but no one at your workplace knows you're gay? Did the meaning of, "out" change recently?
adv. Non-Standard
Regardless.
[Perhaps from ir(respective) + regardless.]
Usage Note: The label Non-Standard does only approximate justice to the status of irregardless. More precisely, it is a form that many people mistakenly believe to be a correct usage in formal style but that in fact has no legitimate antecedents in either standard or nonstandard varieties. (The word was likely coined from a blend of irrespective and regardless.) Perhaps this is why critics have sometimes insisted that there is "no such word" as irregardless, a charge they would not think of leveling at a bona fide nonstandard word such as ain't, which has an ancient genealogy.
I live in Verizon town, and have heard such bad things about their service that I think I'll go back to the dark ages until Boston gets a clue.
I hate to be an I-told-you-so but, oh wait, no I don't: I told you so!
Seriously, we who use OpenSource software shouldn't be afraid to accept constructive criticisim. Telling ourselves to stop spreading FUD isn't going to fix real problems.
This is an artistic and humerous comment on patent law, something that interests and concerns many /. readers. Too bad you didn't get it.
The phrase "communist" or "socialist" is, at least in the US, a powerful term generally used by the few people who wouldn't benefit from a particular idea to scare the rest of us away from that idea. For example wealthy people who use the phrase "socialized medicine" or developers are heavily invested in closed source software that call Linux and *BSD "communist."
Linix is a communual or socialistic OS, but that's not bad. We live quite happily with socialistic instituions every day, only they aren't labeled that way because most people like them. For example, the police and fire departments, city sanitation, national defense. These are are public institions, and thefore socialized.
I actually don't believe that communisim is fatially flawed, just the version of communisim that has recently failed so miserably. It's worth noting that Plato found democracy as distasteful as most people find communisim today. Democracy failed Plato's Athens tragically, to same degree and effect as communisim has had on Russia.
Maybe the next time I invite the boys over to watch the game, I'll need to charge them for the beers so I won't be thought of as evil or a looser. Maybe it really is immoral for me to donate blood, I should be selling it instead. After all, I don't want to be communist!
Come to think of it, I'm sharing some of my thoughts in this post. Ok, everybody cough up a micro payment right now, or face charges of communisim!
it seems like they're hiring the (mentally) handicapped for their billing department If you want to talk to the mentally handicapped, you should call their tech support department.
Wait, even better idea: let's go back to 1938 when we only used electricity for light bulbs. That'll save the power companies! Save the power companies: Don't use electricity!!!
Wait! best idea yet! Let's go back to the before we had plumbing. Just crap in a hole!!! Save the water supply: Crap in a hole!!!
I've tried OpenBSD twice, both times it didn't support my IDE controller. How's that for fine howdy-do?
I need sound support on my servers because I have a little script that picks up the phone, dials the user and echos the string, "You have mail" to my speech synthesizer, which is connected to the phone. It does this when any mail for any of our approximatly 2000 clients come in. So you can see how important sound is to me.
You know, that really doesn't make too much sense at all. Linux and *BSD aren't physical objects, like motorcycles, so they don't have the limitations of physical objects, specificially, it's easy to add and remove parts of an OS to suit your need. There's no reason that both OSs can't be good on the server and the desktop.
That is the most spectacularly ugly car I've seen since the Slashdork car. Gaudy and stupid looking, it's the perfect car for most 'Merkins.
It's related because /. is a hive of raving anti-Java, anti-OOP amatures who will say anything to discredit either technology.
Here is a discusion of how to actually use the phrase correctly so you won't make a fool of yourself in public again in this way.
Hey, I'm just doing my job, but you're welcome anyway!
Please don't argue with me, I already know I'm right! :)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...