Alan Moore did nothing of the sort. The V from the comics is shown to have very personal motivations for his killings.
The Wachowski brothers, on the other hand, achieved that by writing a completely twisted version as a screenplay, which loses all the context of the character and of country's situation.
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history. (...)
[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives â" which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.
The bank didn't "earn" that money either. The only earned whatever fees and/or interests contracted with the account holder. If they hold it for 30 years, then they have 30 years of fees to subtract from the account, nothing more.
From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git Date: 2007-09-06 17:50:28 GMT (2 years, 14 weeks, 16 hours and 36 minutes ago)
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd: > 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability, > it's BS.
*YOU* are full of bullshit.
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.
C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
- infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full of BS that it's not even funny)
- inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any idiotic "object model" crap.
So I'm sorry, but for something like git, where efficiency was a primary objective, the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional advantage.
If you want a VCS that is written in C++, go play with Monotone. Really. They use a "real database". They use "nice object-oriented libraries". They use "nice C++ abstractions". And quite frankly, as a result of all these design decisions that sound so appealing to some CS people, the end result is a horrible and unmaintainable mess.
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > This is the "We've always used COBOL^H^H^H^H" argument.
In fact, in Linux we did try C++ once already, back in 1992.
It sucks. Trust me - writing kernel code in C++ is a BLOODY STUPID IDEA.
The fact is, C++ compilers are not trustworthy. They were even worse in 1992, but some fundamental facts haven't changed:
- the whole C++ exception handling thing is fundamentally broken. It's _especially_ broken for kernels. - any compiler or language that likes to hide things like memory allocations behind your back just isn't a good choice for a kernel. - you can write object-oriented code (useful for filesystems etc) in C, _without_ the crap that is C++.
In general, I'd say that anybody who designs his kernel modules for C++ is either (a) looking for problems (b) a C++ bigot that can't see what he is writing is really just C anyway (c) was given an assignment in CS class to do so.
Your knowledge is outdated. Firefox has separated plugins like Flash into their own processes using plugin-container multiple versions ago. You can kill the process without bringing Firefox down, and in fact I've done just that many times.
Apparently you can't read. I'll help you try again: "The schools says (...) "its fees are the total price for the studies, independent of how long the studies last."".
So, someone who takes much longer to graduate should pay the same, since the fees are independent of how long the studies last.
I believe you are confusing the USian corporatist system with a socialist system. Last time I went to the doctor, I paid $4, and I don't have health insurance.
So, how exactly can a patient be assured that a medical practitioner is competent?
Well, you go by their track record. Obviously new doctors don't have one, so they offer very low prices, so poor people go there, and if they die you know you should avoid it later. The Free Market(tm) works!
You mean the Apple who launched a phone without so much as copy-paste, not to mention third-party apps and many other features that were considered standard in every smartphone at the time?
That's an argument against leaving them lying on the original device, not for printing them. I don't care if I can read my original IDE drive, because all the data worth saving is already in two SATA drives and on Tarsnap, and when we move to a new storage technology, they'll come along, as will the videos, audio recordings, etc.
Mobile phones can't generally make adhoc connections.
Both the iPhone and at least some Android models can connect using ad-hoc, though at least in the former case the app can't set up itself the connection.
But in any case, nobody said it had to be over ad-hoc: public APs (with and without passphrases) are common, and syncing over them is equivalent to an ad-hoc connection for the purpose.
it's The Laws of Physics, and they are suing you for defamation.
And what Laws would those be, considering that IBM has already achieved storing 1 bit in just 12 atoms, which would just take 10^-6 cm3 to store a petabyte?
Sure, it's far from practical - for now. But it's certainly possible.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I'm definitively an animal. You can be a fungus or something if you want.
Alan Moore did nothing of the sort. The V from the comics is shown to have very personal motivations for his killings.
The Wachowski brothers, on the other hand, achieved that by writing a completely twisted version as a screenplay, which loses all the context of the character and of country's situation.
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history. (...)
[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives â" which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.
-- Alan Moore
The bank didn't "earn" that money either. The only earned whatever fees and/or interests contracted with the account holder. If they hold it for 30 years, then they have 30 years of fees to subtract from the account, nothing more.
Linus:
I don't actually know the details. I mean Java I really don't care about. What a horrible language. What a horrible VM.
:)
From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2007-09-06 17:50:28 GMT (2 years, 14 weeks, 16 hours and 36 minutes ago)
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
>
> When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
> 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability,
> it's BS.
*YOU* are full of bullshit.
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.
C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
- infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full of BS that it's not even funny)
- inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any
idiotic "object model" crap.
So I'm sorry, but for something like git, where efficiency was a primary objective, the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional advantage.
If you want a VCS that is written in C++, go play with Monotone. Really.
They use a "real database". They use "nice object-oriented libraries". They use "nice C++ abstractions". And quite frankly, as a result of all these design decisions that sound so appealing to some CS people, the end result is a horrible and unmaintainable mess.
But I'm sure you'd like it more than git.
Linus
- - -
From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: Compiling C++ kernel module + Makefile
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:46:23 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>
> This is the "We've always used COBOL^H^H^H^H" argument.
In fact, in Linux we did try C++ once already, back in 1992.
It sucks. Trust me - writing kernel code in C++ is a BLOODY STUPID IDEA.
The fact is, C++ compilers are not trustworthy. They were even worse in 1992, but some fundamental facts haven't changed:
- the whole C++ exception handling thing is fundamentally broken. It's _especially_ broken for kernels.
- any compiler or language that likes to hide things like memory allocations behind your back just isn't a good choice for a kernel.
- you can write object-oriented code (useful for filesystems etc) in C, _without_ the crap that is C++.
In general, I'd say that anybody who designs his kernel modules for C++ is either
(a) looking for problems
(b) a C++ bigot that can't see what he is writing is really just C anyway
(c) was given an assignment in CS class to do so.
Feel free to make up (d).
Linus
How did you manage to read misogyny in parent's post? Do you consider having no sexual inhibitions to be a positive thing?
The government should stop them - by not enabling them with software patents.
Mobs sometimes fight each other.
Why do you assume they only have one account? They might have some joint account(s) and some separate ones.
Your knowledge is outdated. Firefox has separated plugins like Flash into their own processes using plugin-container multiple versions ago. You can kill the process without bringing Firefox down, and in fact I've done just that many times.
Lrn2Slashdot. My parent is hidden because it's at -1. The one you're talking about is my grand-parent.
Apparently you can't read. I'll help you try again: "The schools says (...) "its fees are the total price for the studies, independent of how long the studies last."".
So, someone who takes much longer to graduate should pay the same, since the fees are independent of how long the studies last.
I believe you are confusing the USian corporatist system with a socialist system. Last time I went to the doctor, I paid $4, and I don't have health insurance.
If you took what I wrote seriously, you need a sarcasm doctor.
So, how exactly can a patient be assured that a medical practitioner is competent?
Well, you go by their track record. Obviously new doctors don't have one, so they offer very low prices, so poor people go there, and if they die you know you should avoid it later. The Free Market(tm) works!
So they finally caught up to Symbian? That's nice.
You can't grab videos from a domain. A domain is just a name you give to some IP. The physical machine can be everywhere from Germany to Cambodia.
Why would they encrypt the package? Do you mean sign? Because then the whole packages does need to be hashed.
Where exactly in that post did PopeRatzo implied anything about religion or religious people? I think you have a bit of a persecution complex.
You mean the Apple who launched a phone without so much as copy-paste, not to mention third-party apps and many other features that were considered standard in every smartphone at the time?
Seriously? Google is evil because they don't want to support a free service that is probably burning cash?
Sigh. And people call file sharers entitled.
That's an argument against leaving them lying on the original device, not for printing them. I don't care if I can read my original IDE drive, because all the data worth saving is already in two SATA drives and on Tarsnap, and when we move to a new storage technology, they'll come along, as will the videos, audio recordings, etc.
Mobile phones can't generally make adhoc connections.
Both the iPhone and at least some Android models can connect using ad-hoc, though at least in the former case the app can't set up itself the connection.
But in any case, nobody said it had to be over ad-hoc: public APs (with and without passphrases) are common, and syncing over them is equivalent to an ad-hoc connection for the purpose.
it's The Laws of Physics, and they are suing you for defamation.
And what Laws would those be, considering that IBM has already achieved storing 1 bit in just 12 atoms, which would just take 10^-6 cm3 to store a petabyte?
Sure, it's far from practical - for now. But it's certainly possible.
There's no "Java" part in the OS (the part that actually runs on the machine).
Android has Dalvik, which is a very different VM with a different bytecode. The only Java part runs in the developer's desktop.
I don't go to /b/. The only boards I go to - and even those, it's rare - are /hr/, /lit/ and /wg/.