To me it looks like or a combination of BASIC and Java, or Java in a much more readable form. I personally liked because I always had the opinion that Java works (if you ignore the fact that it uses RAM like water) but could have a more friendly syntax.
After all, a programming language syntax does not need to be "encrypted" to be effective.
I always wonder why Linux never had an effective means of notification of changes to the file system (file created, modified, deleted, etc.) while in Windows it always worked perfectly. Why?
As an example, on my computer is common to Konqueror only show changes in the file list when I deliberately use the F5 key, even though I have iNotify up and running. Windows in turn shows any change when it occurs, without requiring the user to manually update.
The problem is that the fat cats have the government control. And for them, their own pockets is more important than travel to Mars or even the future of humanity
Is it just me or the legal world totally and absolutely crazed? What the lawyers of a company like Blizzard have in their heads for ideas like this, shit?
From now on I'm officially considering that lawyers are not intelligent life forms
I'm selling - cheap - kits for creative ways to eliminate lawyers (and best selling kit so far is all chainsaw + jason mask)
It's only me who have the impression that lawyers are going crazy? What most lack happen, someone wanting to sue humanity to breathe without a contract for this?
"In a nutshell, Linux is not as simple as windows is, but has it's own MAJOR advantages. The longer I look at it, the more user friendly it becomes.
It probably is NOT for your grandma, nor girlfriend(or boy friend for that matter) or a dog or whoever/whatever it is for.
It's for you! It's for your security, for your sanity, for your performance."
When you are trying to make your Linux box the default to all your family and/our friends, the OS need to be simple to use. When you are creating one server is fine, but when you need one desktop to all on your home, you are in trouble.
How do you even noticed the problem of Linux desktop is not the OS itself, but the applications.
I also tried using my Radeon 4870X2 under Linux and the result was disastrous. The ATI proprietary (the "free" version does not even work) driver for Linux achieves the feat of being even worse than the Windows version, think of a F-16 turbine in afterburner roaring on their side and you will have my video card running under Linux.
The Linux Kernel is excellent, I have no objections. However, the kernel just makes the computer work, the user uses applications, not the kernel.
Is because this issue of user programs is that the Linux desktop "dies"... An incredibly bizarre confusion of standards, programs that run at half or even work, applications "GUI" in which the features are 80% at the command line, Hell, as example the latest version of Compiz Fusion (0.9.0) is neither possible to compile because he has missing vital files for do that!
The "normal" computer user do not want to know all the dozens of command-line options for a DVD burning application "GUI" to be able to use the same... He wants to turn on the computer, open the program and use it, nothing more than that. And Linux fails miserably at that point.
(And importantly, the author of TFA does not mean that Linux has "died" in the sense of ceasing to exist, but in the sense that he'll never have a user base large enough to stop being a "curiosity" because defects described above. Maybe a more correct title is "Linux fails as desktop and why").
Oops, Troll with low capacity of Interpretation detected, raise shields and prepare torpedoes!
Usually I do not answer people low enough to offend gratuitous under the protection of anonymity, but in this case I open an exception to prevent someone read what you spit and unintentionally may think that is the truth.
Anonymous, in my country most people think the firefighters' work is just putting out fires. And I stress the part "most". And they are not "dunces", simply do not know, is rare here to show on TV the cops doing the salvaging job when the firefigthers are not available. And in particular, they, again mostly, think the police only fight crime, when they do much more than that. In my country. I do not know how it is there - I can only assume by the way the north-americans are paranoid - but here is how I describe. And I honestly can not understand why you are angry at this.
I can't consider OpenOffice a serious competitor to MSOffice when the first can not even draw the text correctly when the system freetype has LCD support and bytecode enabled (cause gross errors in design and kerning of text, and this happens only in OO, all the others applications shows the text fine). Even when the first uses about 110MB of RAM to open a document, when the MSOffice works with approximately 30MB to show a document of the same size.
I like to have options, but please, when you try to make a "MSOffice Killer", do it right.
Note: I tryed Abiword to open the OpenDocument format and then do the job fine (no ugly kerning errors, small footprint, crispy and clean text rendering like the rest of the system), but seens the ODF format from Abiword is not the same thing from OpenOfficem, and vice-versa. Ouch.
It's a good idea. I work indirectly for a section of the government whose goal is to solve disasters in cities, and because of that I have access to recorded events attended by firefighters. Happens things all the time every day, more than 30, 50 events per day, and the most varied situations as possible. The public thinks that firefighters only fights fires, but when you are there "in" seeing what happens see that they actually do much more than that. The same for the cops.
Simply ignore the patents... And if any laywer appeared at the door of your company trying to extort you because of such patents, return then to his employer by mail. Just the head.
Kill the "big company", with bullets, literally. There is no dialogue with the kind of company that says such things. You do not tell to the bad guy "please, do not shoot me!", you shoot him. Twice.
I agree. The author of TFA can research about writing on Windows services, boot blocks, etc, and write your own (and funny) virus to get some fun for yours students. I as example write some time ago a very funny and simple program with just one function: Draw random icons in a non-stop fashion on the "main window" of Windows (acessible by windows API, the window id where all windows are draw). Is funny trying to stop this when your desktop is flooded with cute icons and any program you try to open is flooded too:)
True, and I am grateful for their willingness to fund long-term research. Unfortunately, however, for all the same reasons you listed, the military sometimes does nothing but burn huge amounts of money for years and years on projects that are clearly wasteful and going nowhere. Worse, they allow defense contractors screw them over and over and over: going over budget and not meeting deadlines. Projects and spending decisions no longer get made on merit and priorities: they get made by career bureaucrats who never built anything in their life, or by bought-and-sold politicians who need to bring home the bacon
It's the price you pay when you are researching new things. Not all of them will work well or be useful, and you have no way of knowing what will work because you are the first to try. Private corporations prefer to wait for someone to run it all the risks to innovate and then buy (or better to CEOs, simply steal) innovation ready, without having to take the risks inherent in innovation.
Very funny, but true too... Give a goal good enough (for example, asteroids have lots of rare and precious metals) and soon we will have the necessary technologies, funded by the corporations interested
The aircraft needs to be towed off the ground. And at least for me, everything that she is able is to glide some distance, and unable to gain altitude.
It reminded me two brothers who guarantees that have achieved the first flight of a heavier than air long time ago...
It's because he's "cheating"... People buy the iPhone more because he is a symbol of status (thanks to propaganda and the high price), and status symbols do not need to be usefull or customizable. But when they see a competitor that is interesting enought and useful, the game is over.
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To me it looks like or a combination of BASIC and Java, or Java in a much more readable form. I personally liked because I always had the opinion that Java works (if you ignore the fact that it uses RAM like water) but could have a more friendly syntax.
After all, a programming language syntax does not need to be "encrypted" to be effective.
Only a complete moron measures something important as the conquest of space solely in terms of money...
We must learn to live and travel through space, period. This small planet where we live on does not have infinite space, nor will sustain us forever.
I always wonder why Linux never had an effective means of notification of changes to the file system (file created, modified, deleted, etc.) while in Windows it always worked perfectly. Why?
As an example, on my computer is common to Konqueror only show changes in the file list when I deliberately use the F5 key, even though I have iNotify up and running. Windows in turn shows any change when it occurs, without requiring the user to manually update.
The problem is that the fat cats have the government control. And for them, their own pockets is more important than travel to Mars or even the future of humanity
Is it just me or the legal world totally and absolutely crazed? What the lawyers of a company like Blizzard have in their heads for ideas like this, shit?
From now on I'm officially considering that lawyers are not intelligent life forms
I'm selling - cheap - kits for creative ways to eliminate lawyers (and best selling kit so far is all chainsaw + jason mask)
It's only me who have the impression that lawyers are going crazy? What most lack happen, someone wanting to sue humanity to breathe without a contract for this?
"In a nutshell, Linux is not as simple as windows is, but has it's own MAJOR advantages. The longer I look at it, the more user friendly it becomes. It probably is NOT for your grandma, nor girlfriend(or boy friend for that matter) or a dog or whoever/whatever it is for. It's for you! It's for your security, for your sanity, for your performance."
When you are trying to make your Linux box the default to all your family and/our friends, the OS need to be simple to use. When you are creating one server is fine, but when you need one desktop to all on your home, you are in trouble.
How do you even noticed the problem of Linux desktop is not the OS itself, but the applications.
I also tried using my Radeon 4870X2 under Linux and the result was disastrous. The ATI proprietary (the "free" version does not even work) driver for Linux achieves the feat of being even worse than the Windows version, think of a F-16 turbine in afterburner roaring on their side and you will have my video card running under Linux.
Totally agree with you.
The Linux Kernel is excellent, I have no objections. However, the kernel just makes the computer work, the user uses applications, not the kernel.
Is because this issue of user programs is that the Linux desktop "dies"... An incredibly bizarre confusion of standards, programs that run at half or even work, applications "GUI" in which the features are 80% at the command line, Hell, as example the latest version of Compiz Fusion (0.9.0) is neither possible to compile because he has missing vital files for do that!
The "normal" computer user do not want to know all the dozens of command-line options for a DVD burning application "GUI" to be able to use the same... He wants to turn on the computer, open the program and use it, nothing more than that. And Linux fails miserably at that point.
(And importantly, the author of TFA does not mean that Linux has "died" in the sense of ceasing to exist, but in the sense that he'll never have a user base large enough to stop being a "curiosity" because defects described above. Maybe a more correct title is "Linux fails as desktop and why").
I don't understand you. For me is a good thing the thief acts suspiciously, makes easy to detect and put then on jail.
Oops, Troll with low capacity of Interpretation detected, raise shields and prepare torpedoes!
Usually I do not answer people low enough to offend gratuitous under the protection of anonymity, but in this case I open an exception to prevent someone read what you spit and unintentionally may think that is the truth.
Anonymous, in my country most people think the firefighters' work is just putting out fires. And I stress the part "most". And they are not "dunces", simply do not know, is rare here to show on TV the cops doing the salvaging job when the firefigthers are not available. And in particular, they, again mostly, think the police only fight crime, when they do much more than that. In my country. I do not know how it is there - I can only assume by the way the north-americans are paranoid - but here is how I describe. And I honestly can not understand why you are angry at this.
I can't consider OpenOffice a serious competitor to MSOffice when the first can not even draw the text correctly when the system freetype has LCD support and bytecode enabled (cause gross errors in design and kerning of text, and this happens only in OO, all the others applications shows the text fine). Even when the first uses about 110MB of RAM to open a document, when the MSOffice works with approximately 30MB to show a document of the same size.
I like to have options, but please, when you try to make a "MSOffice Killer", do it right.
Note: I tryed Abiword to open the OpenDocument format and then do the job fine (no ugly kerning errors, small footprint, crispy and clean text rendering like the rest of the system), but seens the ODF format from Abiword is not the same thing from OpenOfficem, and vice-versa. Ouch.
It's a good idea. I work indirectly for a section of the government whose goal is to solve disasters in cities, and because of that I have access to recorded events attended by firefighters. Happens things all the time every day, more than 30, 50 events per day, and the most varied situations as possible. The public thinks that firefighters only fights fires, but when you are there "in" seeing what happens see that they actually do much more than that. The same for the cops.
And without a parachute? Sure
He's worse than a troll. He is a lawyer.
And when you need to pay a fortune for a "middleman" to have yours rights respected, is a sign something is terribly wrong with the system.
Simply ignore the patents ... And if any laywer appeared at the door of your company trying to extort you because of such patents, return then to his employer by mail. Just the head.
Kill the "big company", with bullets, literally. There is no dialogue with the kind of company that says such things. You do not tell to the bad guy "please, do not shoot me!", you shoot him. Twice.
Very interesting coincidence. And, if some day a researcher discover that mankind has begun four million years ago, Clarke will smile above us.
I agree. The author of TFA can research about writing on Windows services, boot blocks, etc, and write your own (and funny) virus to get some fun for yours students. I as example write some time ago a very funny and simple program with just one function: Draw random icons in a non-stop fashion on the "main window" of Windows (acessible by windows API, the window id where all windows are draw). Is funny trying to stop this when your desktop is flooded with cute icons and any program you try to open is flooded too :)
True, and I am grateful for their willingness to fund long-term research. Unfortunately, however, for all the same reasons you listed, the military sometimes does nothing but burn huge amounts of money for years and years on projects that are clearly wasteful and going nowhere. Worse, they allow defense contractors screw them over and over and over: going over budget and not meeting deadlines. Projects and spending decisions no longer get made on merit and priorities: they get made by career bureaucrats who never built anything in their life, or by bought-and-sold politicians who need to bring home the bacon
It's the price you pay when you are researching new things. Not all of them will work well or be useful, and you have no way of knowing what will work because you are the first to try. Private corporations prefer to wait for someone to run it all the risks to innovate and then buy (or better to CEOs, simply steal) innovation ready, without having to take the risks inherent in innovation.
Very funny, but true too... Give a goal good enough (for example, asteroids have lots of rare and precious metals) and soon we will have the necessary technologies, funded by the corporations interested
Who makes the laws often do not know anything about the target of them.
The aircraft needs to be towed off the ground. And at least for me, everything that she is able is to glide some distance, and unable to gain altitude.
It reminded me two brothers who guarantees that have achieved the first flight of a heavier than air long time ago...
Running Crysis with a literally red-hot CPU inside the case? I love this idea! :)
It's because he's "cheating" ... People buy the iPhone more because he is a symbol of status (thanks to propaganda and the high price), and status symbols do not need to be usefull or customizable. But when they see a competitor that is interesting enought and useful, the game is over.