Exactly. And people will continue to be just as indifferent to the WoT as they are about the WoD. Occasionally something happens to remind the public why our government wastes money and lives (civilian and otherwise) on fighting an enemy that isn't there and cannot be beaten.
I've got a 10.1 iso sitting around, but am wary to install it, because it breaks Xfree. Not read yet whether or not it's easily fixed, just what the ol' Mac boards are telling me.
I wish OmniWeb wasn't so slow. It used to be pretty nice under OpenStep and Rhapsody/DR2. Kind of slow on my NeXT cube, but eh. But slow on my iBook is more disapointing.
So, would you say these indivudials have been "possesed" by "agents of Satan?" Absolute morality is a farce- relativism is the only obvious truth simply because there is a range of ideas. Those who did this felt righteous in what they did- or they wouldn't likely have done it. There are no such things as people that are evil and "desire nothing other than to prey upon their fellow human beings." Or maybe we're all these people- after all, we've all done something immoral.
Absolutism smacks of religion, especially Christianity, which more than most religions, claims that all morals are absolute, and (surprise!) their morals are the absolutely correct ones.
Just because you think you're right doesn't mean you are- regardless of whether or not your religion justifies it. Nor does it mean those who differ from your are wrong. But such is the purpose of religion- to give people something behind which to rally (absolute morality), and an enemy to against which to fight (those with a different set of absolute morals).
No one buys one, for everyone waits for the review. Now tell me, who is going to review it unbiased, when no one is buying the thing?
I doubt a review made by a person who bought something purely on the basis of it running Linux or the fact that it was dirt cheap would be unbiased. A lot of the times, it's a web site or a magazine which reviews these things first. And why not? That's what review articles are for. Often enough, they get a free demo unit to keep or borrow, where individuals do not. But I suppose it's good for some irrational boobs or a magazine/website to waste her money than me.
Squeak Smalltalk has a plugin available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Dolphin Smalltalk has a plugin as well. However, like Dolphin Smalltalk itself, it is Win32 only.
One of the bigger, more business oriented Smalltalks, VisualWorks, also has a plugin. It looks like it too is Win32 only, but VisualWorks itself is cross-platform, and runs on Windows, Mac OS, and a big number of Unices.
The coolest plug-in for a language I've ever seen has got to be Oberon's Juice, by far. Unlike the Java and Squeak VM plug-ins, which take bytecode for their respective VMs, the Juice plugin takes pre-parsed Oberon code and compiles and executes it on the fly. This makes for really fast applets. I tried it a while back and it took a heckuva lot less time for Juice to download, compile, and execute the applet than it took for a comparitive Java applet to start up. Really cool stuff. However, it seems it's not been maintained in a while, and is Windows and Mac only. Seeing how Oberon itself has source available (IIRC), I'm sure that some Oberon enthusiast who wanted to get a generized Unix version going of Juice could do so.
I am a college student. One of my jobs outside of my classes is some undergraduate ecology research. Fun stuff. Basically, I write code to analyze various ecological datasets. Interesting stuff. While I don't shoot nerf arrows at the scientists who work around me, I get to go camping occasionally as a part of my job, in addition to doing something that fascinates me. For me, this is a lot cooler than being just another capitalist whore with a bonus of nerf weapons... But that's just me.
Admitted, it would confuse the normal Palm user, but how hard is it to program a "softkeyboard" which just displays the graffiti zone at users will? And how hard is it to grab written graffiti from all over the screen? The answer to both: "not very".
That is the way Graffiti is implemented on the Newton. Why one would bother with Graffiti on a Newton is beyond me- the actual HWR (not character-recog) is a lot faster and far more natural. But if one chooses to use Palm Computing's Graffiti, the window can be moved around whever the user chooses.
If you're looking to waste money on a piece of junk, with your rationale being that it's "still cheaper than any MS license fee," please send me $75, and in return I will send you something fun. It may or may not be useful, but not only is it "cheaper than any MS license fee," it is also cheaper than one of these puppies! With deals like this, how could you even consider passing it up?
You can afford $99 on a product that very well may be a piece of crap and has only the built-in apps, but not $149 on something that has a proven record of being a pretty nice PDA with tons of users and apps behind it? I mean christ, at least wait until a review comes out, so you can hear if they even ship you one after they take your cash! But then again, it runs Linux, so it must be good, eh?
A quote penned by a retard, seeing how it's incorrect. If I said "Creationism is true in every and any sense of the word!" you could quote me- but that wouldn't make it any less incorrect, or you any less stupid.
If you put it that way, it's harder. Java, just as a word leads to coffee, which leads me to think about yuppies that are agressive because they have no self-worth. Lisp makes me think of... well, a little kid with a lisp, but at least that's cute.
Definately Lisp. Lisp conjures up visions of hippy coders, drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Late nights at Berkeley, coding in Lisp fueled by LSD. Java evokes a vision of a stereotypical nerd, with no life or social skills, who code in Java because it means a job- and that job means money, which could possibly buy him friends and or a whore, to give him some hollow sense of identify or life enjoyment. Java brings to mind the image of a IT manage sucking off the collective cock of Sun for the sake of a greasy buck.
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I don't remember about Blockbuster, but a local supermarket had a video rental cubby, where you could also rent CD-ROMs. I remember thinking, around 12 at that time: "heh! Too bad I don't have a CD-ROM drive, or I'd be pirating some games!"
Rather, GNU is slowly becoming irrelevant as people decide to release free software on their own terms.
That's what he said, and to that you gave a call right outta the eighties: NOT!
You:
I did get my facts straight. And I didn't even come close to saying that all GPL'd software is GNU software. But that wasn't the topic, now was it?
See the above. The question: "is gnu still relevant?" Part of GNU is officially "GNU Software." Not all free software. Not all GPL'd software. It doesn't matter how many of those projects on Sourceforge are under the GPL or the LGPL- they're not official GNU software, or part of GNU as an organization. Get over yourself buddy.
Now, if you're a non-native english speaker, I think I could look past this.
Heh. The funny this is that bigForth seems to have more mature tools than the Python and Ruby, which both boast their OO-productivity. bigForth has a GUI editor, an Object system, a class browser, and a whole bunch of other stuff- all written in Forth.
I'm no Forth bigot, but give bigForth a try- it's fun! I say, I'm impressed!
Interesting. Not the same thing I'm talking about though, however- this was a programming language with an interpreter for DOS. I can still see the greeting banner it displayed when you started it up.
PostScript and Forth may be based on some of the same ideas (stack-based), but they're far different in purpose, so I wouldn't say PS is Forth's successor.
Aside from the fact that I don't see why Forth would *need* OO, I think that calling its successor "Fifth" is far too sensible, and doesn't lead into a dead-end.
Why would anyone need OO? They don't. Why does anyone need C? They don't. Maybe we should just all be using hexeditors and doin raw binary. Don't really need assembly, or the OO macros for assembly (yes, they exist).
There are actually quite a few Forth object systems. MOPS and bigForth come to mind. Come to think of it, Forth plus an object system is probably about the fastest OO you can get.
On the other hand, you could propose that "Forth" be followed by "Further". After that, you need to *think* before finding a new name.
Ignoring the obvious fact that choosing a name like "Further" for no reason but that would be stupid, one could just as easily say "Farthest," and "Damn, we're serious about being Far now (DWSABFW)".
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Exactly. And people will continue to be just as indifferent to the WoT as they are about the WoD. Occasionally something happens to remind the public why our government wastes money and lives (civilian and otherwise) on fighting an enemy that isn't there and cannot be beaten.
We are at war with Eurasia... not anymore, now with Eastasia. Better revise all official knowledge!
I've got a 10.1 iso sitting around, but am wary to install it, because it breaks Xfree. Not read yet whether or not it's easily fixed, just what the ol' Mac boards are telling me.
I wish OmniWeb wasn't so slow. It used to be pretty nice under OpenStep and Rhapsody/DR2. Kind of slow on my NeXT cube, but eh. But slow on my iBook is more disapointing.
...then install iCab.
Absolutism smacks of religion, especially Christianity, which more than most religions, claims that all morals are absolute, and (surprise!) their morals are the absolutely correct ones.
Just because you think you're right doesn't mean you are- regardless of whether or not your religion justifies it. Nor does it mean those who differ from your are wrong. But such is the purpose of religion- to give people something behind which to rally (absolute morality), and an enemy to against which to fight (those with a different set of absolute morals).
Just like that little thing called the Crusades, that goes to prove that Christians are also morally bankrupt.
I doubt a review made by a person who bought something purely on the basis of it running Linux or the fact that it was dirt cheap would be unbiased. A lot of the times, it's a web site or a magazine which reviews these things first. And why not? That's what review articles are for. Often enough, they get a free demo unit to keep or borrow, where individuals do not. But I suppose it's good for some irrational boobs or a magazine/website to waste her money than me.
Dolphin Smalltalk has a plugin as well. However, like Dolphin Smalltalk itself, it is Win32 only.
One of the bigger, more business oriented Smalltalks, VisualWorks, also has a plugin. It looks like it too is Win32 only, but VisualWorks itself is cross-platform, and runs on Windows, Mac OS, and a big number of Unices.
The coolest plug-in for a language I've ever seen has got to be Oberon's Juice, by far. Unlike the Java and Squeak VM plug-ins, which take bytecode for their respective VMs, the Juice plugin takes pre-parsed Oberon code and compiles and executes it on the fly. This makes for really fast applets. I tried it a while back and it took a heckuva lot less time for Juice to download, compile, and execute the applet than it took for a comparitive Java applet to start up. Really cool stuff. However, it seems it's not been maintained in a while, and is Windows and Mac only. Seeing how Oberon itself has source available (IIRC), I'm sure that some Oberon enthusiast who wanted to get a generized Unix version going of Juice could do so.
I am a college student. One of my jobs outside of my classes is some undergraduate ecology research. Fun stuff. Basically, I write code to analyze various ecological datasets. Interesting stuff. While I don't shoot nerf arrows at the scientists who work around me, I get to go camping occasionally as a part of my job, in addition to doing something that fascinates me. For me, this is a lot cooler than being just another capitalist whore with a bonus of nerf weapons... But that's just me.
That is the way Graffiti is implemented on the Newton. Why one would bother with Graffiti on a Newton is beyond me- the actual HWR (not character-recog) is a lot faster and far more natural. But if one chooses to use Palm Computing's Graffiti, the window can be moved around whever the user chooses.
If you're looking to waste money on a piece of junk, with your rationale being that it's "still cheaper than any MS license fee," please send me $75, and in return I will send you something fun. It may or may not be useful, but not only is it "cheaper than any MS license fee," it is also cheaper than one of these puppies! With deals like this, how could you even consider passing it up?
Allah forbid you use something that is popular! What would all the other kids at school think?!?
Not quite. I've seen the VTech Helio around for $50-$120 brand new.
You can afford $99 on a product that very well may be a piece of crap and has only the built-in apps, but not $149 on something that has a proven record of being a pretty nice PDA with tons of users and apps behind it? I mean christ, at least wait until a review comes out, so you can hear if they even ship you one after they take your cash! But then again, it runs Linux, so it must be good, eh?
A quote penned by a retard, seeing how it's incorrect. If I said "Creationism is true in every and any sense of the word!" you could quote me- but that wouldn't make it any less incorrect, or you any less stupid.
If you put it that way, it's harder. Java, just as a word leads to coffee, which leads me to think about yuppies that are agressive because they have no self-worth. Lisp makes me think of... well, a little kid with a lisp, but at least that's cute.
Definately Lisp. Lisp conjures up visions of hippy coders, drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Late nights at Berkeley, coding in Lisp fueled by LSD. Java evokes a vision of a stereotypical nerd, with no life or social skills, who code in Java because it means a job- and that job means money, which could possibly buy him friends and or a whore, to give him some hollow sense of identify or life enjoyment. Java brings to mind the image of a IT manage sucking off the collective cock of Sun for the sake of a greasy buck.
Common Lisp has a huge library as well.
I don't remember about Blockbuster, but a local supermarket had a video rental cubby, where you could also rent CD-ROMs. I remember thinking, around 12 at that time: "heh! Too bad I don't have a CD-ROM drive, or I'd be pirating some games!"
I realized I was pretty nerdy when I caught myself taking my iBook to the bathroom to read some STk documentation whilst pooping. heh.
Read it again:
Rather, GNU is slowly becoming irrelevant as people decide to release free software on their own terms.
That's what he said, and to that you gave a call right outta the eighties: NOT!
You:
I did get my facts straight. And I didn't even come close to saying that all GPL'd software is GNU software. But that wasn't the topic, now was it?
See the above. The question: "is gnu still relevant?" Part of GNU is officially "GNU Software." Not all free software. Not all GPL'd software. It doesn't matter how many of those projects on Sourceforge are under the GPL or the LGPL- they're not official GNU software, or part of GNU as an organization. Get over yourself buddy.
Now, if you're a non-native english speaker, I think I could look past this.
I'm no Forth bigot, but give bigForth a try- it's fun! I say, I'm impressed!
PostScript and Forth may be based on some of the same ideas (stack-based), but they're far different in purpose, so I wouldn't say PS is Forth's successor.
Why would anyone need OO? They don't. Why does anyone need C? They don't. Maybe we should just all be using hexeditors and doin raw binary. Don't really need assembly, or the OO macros for assembly (yes, they exist).
There are actually quite a few Forth object systems. MOPS and bigForth come to mind. Come to think of it, Forth plus an object system is probably about the fastest OO you can get.
On the other hand, you could propose that "Forth" be followed by "Further". After that, you need to *think* before finding a new name.
Ignoring the obvious fact that choosing a name like "Further" for no reason but that would be stupid, one could just as easily say "Farthest," and "Damn, we're serious about being Far now (DWSABFW)".