Of QNX, maybe. But a Hail-Mary open sourcing pass doesn't assure a company's future, e.g. Sun. And it costs money to do, so there's economic incentive to let the codebase rot. I wish this weren't the case, but it is.
I just read the headline and thought "RIM is so fucked." I read "There's very little or no compatibility between the old and new operating systems. Existing apps can't be carried forward to QNX and BB 10." and thought "they're not developing now, why are they going to bother?" I'm hoping RIM will last until I've actually finished paying for my BlackBerry 9300...
He was very smart at politics, but incompetent at running a war. This is pretty well documented. He had excellent generals and he didn't listen to them.
Pretty much. Like any bible, Mein Kampf isn't actually meant to be read by its believers. I tried to read it because I thought it'd be good to know what Nazis were about, and in my student activist days I spent a bit of time working against neo-Nazis. IT'S TERRIBLE! It's boring, repetitious, tedious, egowank... so yeah, it's a perfect bible. The footnoting is the only use it has. Hitler starts bullshitting from the very first page.
The current English edition is actually peppered with footnotes calling out every time Hitler lies or exaggerates. It's like a side by side refutation.
I must point out that I will never apply that link in practice... having had a friend end up working somewhere I'd worked four years previously and discover my name in the documentation. Always leave the documentation in the form you'd like to have found before you did whatever it was.
Know what's worse? Most ancient dinosaurs probably didn't go "RAWWWWRRRR." In fact, they probably didn't have voices at all - vocal chords in the larynx are a mammalian invention, and birds make sounds with the syrinx, which came along later.
My daughter is 4yo and dinosaur-mad. Her very favourite day out is the Natural History Museum (with the fucking huge diplodocus in the entry hall). How do you break it to a small child that dinosaurs didn't go "RAWWWWRRRR"? Santa is nothing to this.
If you're using Ubuntu/Debian, you don't have to block IcedTea - per comments on their blog, it's the Debian version of IcedTea, and has been blocked in error. The IcedTea maintainer concurs. Hopefully Mozilla can re-enable it...
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Of QNX, maybe. But a Hail-Mary open sourcing pass doesn't assure a company's future, e.g. Sun. And it costs money to do, so there's economic incentive to let the codebase rot. I wish this weren't the case, but it is.
What's in it for RIM?
... nothing to see here. The success of the corruption program has reached far enough they can pull blatant shit like this and it's hard to stop them.
So what are the likely consequences of this terrible, terrible idea?
"BECAUSE WE CAN: Doing Cool Shit Just Fucking Because."
This would be nice, but what's in it for RIM?
Yep. Specifically, iPad. There's iPad and then there's, er, nothing else.
I just read the headline and thought "RIM is so fucked." I read "There's very little or no compatibility between the old and new operating systems. Existing apps can't be carried forward to QNX and BB 10." and thought "they're not developing now, why are they going to bother?" I'm hoping RIM will last until I've actually finished paying for my BlackBerry 9300 ...
... and similarly (my original reason for mentioning it), neo-Nazis don't actually read Mein Kampf either.
Oh, indeed. I was originally alluding to the fact that people who call themselves Christians don't actually read the Bible. It's like they got the Bible, said "tl;dr" and ticked "I accept the EULA."
"There's a long tradition of "read it for yourself" in Judaism and Christianity."
Actually, no - the Catholic Church didn't let people read the Bible itself until printing and Martin Luther forced their hand.
The KJV followed (and used) large chunks of the Tyndale bible. Now, what happened to Tyndale?
Fucked if I know. I got twenty pages in and gave up 'cos it was juuuuust shiiiiit.
He was very smart at politics, but incompetent at running a war. This is pretty well documented. He had excellent generals and he didn't listen to them.
That's completely wrong. Europe is the revlval of the Belgian Empire, and has even crowned a new Belgian emperor.
Pretty much. Like any bible, Mein Kampf isn't actually meant to be read by its believers. I tried to read it because I thought it'd be good to know what Nazis were about, and in my student activist days I spent a bit of time working against neo-Nazis. IT'S TERRIBLE! It's boring, repetitious, tedious, egowank ... so yeah, it's a perfect bible. The footnoting is the only use it has. Hitler starts bullshitting from the very first page.
The current English edition is actually peppered with footnotes calling out every time Hitler lies or exaggerates. It's like a side by side refutation.
... Wow. Did Valve just monetise Internet dickishness?
Oh, it's often me. I frequently find myself cursing my past self's stupidity. That guy was a dick.
I must point out that I will never apply that link in practice ... having had a friend end up working somewhere I'd worked four years previously and discover my name in the documentation. Always leave the documentation in the form you'd like to have found before you did whatever it was.
A Kuro5hin classic: HOWTO: write bad documentation that looks good.
Learn Python The Hard Way.
They are surmising the chambers were resonators.
This is way cool: Reconstructed parasaurolophus call.
Oh, I do, I do!
There is a polite refutation to a whole string of stupid creationist arguments on RationalWiki.
Know what's worse? Most ancient dinosaurs probably didn't go "RAWWWWRRRR." In fact, they probably didn't have voices at all - vocal chords in the larynx are a mammalian invention, and birds make sounds with the syrinx, which came along later.
My daughter is 4yo and dinosaur-mad. Her very favourite day out is the Natural History Museum (with the fucking huge diplodocus in the entry hall). How do you break it to a small child that dinosaurs didn't go "RAWWWWRRRR"? Santa is nothing to this.
Sure you have: birds. Biologists routinely treat birds as dinosaurs these days. Because saying "birds are dinosaurs" isn't just being clever with words, it's a statement with useful predictive power. Even the Wikipedia article on dinosaurs has given up and now talks about dinosaurs in the present tense.
If you're using Ubuntu/Debian, you don't have to block IcedTea - per comments on their blog, it's the Debian version of IcedTea, and has been blocked in error. The IcedTea maintainer concurs. Hopefully Mozilla can re-enable it ...