I disagree. In part, kanji offset the lack of spacing between words. Interesting point, I've never actually thought of that before....when I see a huge block of kana, it's next to impossible to read; kanji interspersed through it make it either an order of magnitude easier to read Just out of curiosity, if you read it out loud does it help you? Also can you read hiragana without pauses, and fluidly? When I was learning the kana I noticed I couldn't understand what it was that I was reading until I could read it without pausing at all.
Kanji is amazingly easier to read if you do know the kanji. I have the kanji vocabularly of a 2nd grader or so... it's annoying when trying to read something but you get over it.
Something else that may help you out is read kids books. They may be boring, but they'll help you. If you have access to some Japanese children, offer to read to them. It'll help you out:)
Hmm, that's an interesting theory, but do you have any sources or info to back that up?
He probably has personal experience. As far as Japanese goes, I can tell you as well that kanji is much easier to read than pure kana, and I can barely read kanji.
A good comparison with efficiency in english is having two words that are spelled the same or sound the same, but mean different things. (Their/there, etc) Now, in Japanese the hiragana to display one of these words is going to be the same. Hiragana is based off of the 46 basic sounds in Japanese, so something that is said outloud the same will definitely be spelled the same. Score one for Japanese efficiency right there. Now, if you have two words (Butterfly and Lower Intestines is said the same) that are different, they are differentiated by seperate kanjis. You can also represent many hiragana characters, as well as difficult constructions, by easy kanji characters. Hokkyokusei, the word for north star, is 7 hiragana characters, but 3 kanjis.
More efficiency.
In conclusion of my little diatribe, Language does not become more bloated, it becomes more objectified. There are definitely more vocabulary and more constructions, but they serve to illustrate a point that is more clearly defined with the new terminology. It is still optional usage. You can communicate just fine using simple constructions in any language, but you can speak your ideas more clearly by joining objects together.
In Spanish, there is the subjunctive conjugation which allow complex sentences to be constructed. However, you can definitely say what is needed without it.
Think of it as Windows with IE that can really be removed and it still works fine. With real-time loading and no memory leaks:)
I'm not denying that you're having problems, but they may not be indicative of a larger pattern.
I can second your comment, I use nVidia drivers and use GLX often, and have no stability problems. The only problem I have is Japanese input is buggy as hell on Mdk9...
Which would be why telecoms companies have been doing so well recently, right...?
Sorry to inform you, but the wireless carriers are doing good. Or did you think they can hire Jamie Lee Curtis and Katherine Zeta Jones and not do good?
Telecom companies have no clue what is going to be the next hit. GSM, SMS and i-mode were surprise successes; IDSN, WAP and 3G have been disastrous failures. The companies are to some degree aware of this, and they hire legions of geeks to help them forecast the future, but often greed takes over -- and sometimes the geeks are just wrong. (For instance, I guessed right on the failure of 3G and WAP, and I'm pretty sure GPRS and MMS will take off, but if you'd followed my advice and dumped Nokia stock for SonyEricsson you would have regretted it.)
Sorry, but you just completely and totally discredited yourself. First, name one full 3G network in the US. Second, WAP sucks, outside of the US And inside. Third, Only the US is having any problems getting their networks up. This is because there is too much competition.
Do you even know what 3G is? How can you say GPRS and MMS will take off but 3G is a failure? My guess is you don't have a flying fuck of a clue. No offense, but your entire post sounds like you are a janitor trying to speak on behalf of the tech department. I'm not in the wireless world, but I know that most of what you said is wrong.
bad input system + bad camera + bad connection + expensive phone = good?
T9 isn't a bad input system. I use it often, and it works just fine. Sure, it's not as fast as a full keyboard, but it's not a hard system to learn.
If the cameras are anything like what they have in Japan, they won't be bad cameras. The pictures are a bit small (320x200 I think) but they look pretty crisp. Connections aren't that bad, in the US I have an ATT GSM phone and it's bandwidth rates are not that horrible. 19.2kbps at the moment, so uploading a couple pictures and some text will take what.. 10 seconds at most?
Somebody tell me who's making the decisions at the telecom industry. Do they read slashdot? Sorry to tell you this, but the telecom industry doesn't care about a handful of geeks that think they know what the revolution in mobile communication is. I'd say it's pretty safe that they know much more about the market than anyone else here.
The best example of this, and I'm not sure why it happens, is Driver 2. I haven't seen a game that has more problems with it. They must do some strange things with the graphcis for PSX that just don't translate over to PS2. Walls disappear, things are overly pixelated in some places, and a lot of stuff along those lines.
However, most games render fine. I think it's how close they adhere to the PSX specs instead of hacking for additional features/speed.
I think the idea here is that people will start using the Segway when they would normally walk the 1 block to the corner market. I'm sure they can burn the 100 calories in some other way. Walking two blocks doesn't do much in the way of excercise.
And plenty of people who now ride bikes might switch because its easier.....and then they'll start putting on the pounds.
My guess is that the people who now ride bikes instead of drive do it because it is cheaper and they can't readily afford a car. If it's for polution, there are plenty of EV or hybrids that make that point moot. These people aren't going to be able to purchase a Segway for a long while.
This article [sfweekly.com] contains many of the best reasons that this device is a complete waste of time.
That is the worst article I have ever seen in SF Weekly, and that's saying a lot.
A tsunami of Lard? What the hell, like everyone who is going to use a Segway wont just drive in a car? Why is a scooter going to make people fat when they have to stop using it out of safety concerns if they start to weigh in over 110kg.
Their arguments are this, "Segway makes you fat, and cracks marble walls." They have no evidence of either, as I read it. Are they claiming she ran into the wall, or did her segway do it after she jumped off? Either way, it's a stupid remark that seems like she didn't do it because there is zero documentation on her "vandalism."
There are no reasons why it was a waste of time, there were a few speculations and a lot of bitterness. I think whoever wrote the article was probably just pissed his bicycle shop is going to take a hit.
Because if it does become popular, its gonna need to handle much more... Yeah.. because efficient transporation makes people fat. News flash, people get fat for other reasons. Fat people don't ride bikes, unless it's for excercise. Their fat long before the Segway came along. End of story.
This FUD is worthy of Anti-Microsoft or Anti-Linux posts, you should be proud.
From what I've seen of PHP's file uploading in the past, it's not much better. This is a limitation of HTTP. Uploading anything of significant size via HTTP is handled like a special olympics runner.
I agree with you on Cold Fusion, it's definitely not an enterprise level solution. Especially when reliability is a concern for said enterprise.
FlashMX does seem to be making a pretty good foothold in webbased applications. I'm not talking about bubblegum animations. At my company we have a flash programmer who writes actual applications. He's writing what basically amounts to a word processor mixed with a content management system, all in Flash that talks to a java servlet system and stores everything in XML.
I'll be happy when PHP works just fine and dandy with Apache 2. I can't believe how freaking long Apache 2 took to get here and now that it is here, it has virtually no 3rd party module support.
I've seen code from one of our vendors with comments such as "whoever wrote this should be shot. but it was probably me. no time to fix it." He both admitted it was sketchy code and said it like that - and then we bought it.
That is frighteningly similar to something I wrote in some code a couple years back. It was never anything that would have left the office. At least I hope not. It was one of those "Here ya go, you have till 5pm" projects. I've also posted about management conditions, such as "When you have to produce over 5K lines a week, you do stuff like this:"
Huh? Why bother with a vendor when you could just apt-get? I used to work in one of those clueless cubicle farms. They had all sorts of M$ problems, from insecure email to equipment they could not use because the software had changed. The worst part was how they could not share information efficiently. Propriatory formats, hopless networking and all that M$ incompetentce. The stupid big dogs that made decisions kept trying to chase data security, but simply made life hell and security remained non existant.
You like discrediting yourself. The only thing clueless about your cube farm was probably you.
Microsoft is not the only providor of proprietary software. You will know this when you get a real job. My guess is your little cubicle farm job was some highschool work education. If you are over 18 I think I'll just lose faith in whatever country you come from.
Then some people [slashdot.org] blow smoke about "usability" and "not compatible with as much hardware as Windows XP." What shit.
You discredited your entire post with one sentence. Congratulations.
Free Software does not do it all anyway. Where's my free software GLX driver for nVidia? Well, it's free, yes, but it's not "Free as in Freedom" The only people that believe that Linux is an easier solution and one that you can get by without any proprietary systems are people who don't work in corporate environments. When you grow up you'll realize that you need to depend on vendors, because when things break if you are the dumbass that installed some new l33t freedom fighter application instead of a tried and true, supported, proprietary app you lose your job. End of story.
M$ is dead, long live freedom. M$ screwed the pooch with all their stupid conquer the world dreams and obnoxious practices. Who would use a browser that alows an advertiser to pop open a window and send you piles crap you did not request? Who would use an O$ that lets third parties rummage through your files and life? No, it's really over. M$ never had anything sepcial, got in the way of much innovation and everyone knows it. Their billions of dollars will evaporate like some kind of bad dream. Equipment makers who want to sell equipment will have to be honest about it
You really do need to grow up a little bit. This is slashdot, but when you apply for a job I wouldn't suggest putting "M$ sucks" on it. The whole dollar-sign-for-an-S thing is really rather silly. Microsoft isn't dead, their billions that you claim will evaporate are enough to keep them alive for years without ever selling a product. Many, many years in fact. They could go from the time it takes you to finish high school, get a PhD without selling a dime or laying off people, and they wouldn't have a problem.
Because each distro has its own little quirks, I can't imagine a sane company releasing something as large as Office for all distros. Even the differences between RH and Mandrake are pretty big. So they'd have to pick 1 or 2 distros and test for them.
Test, yes, that's true. But if someone goes to the store they buy either Mandrake or Red Hat if they don't know anything about Linux. A few people buy SuSE but so what.
As for it only running on one or two distros, that really is just absurd. If Microsoft were to release Office for X11, it would run on X11. End of story. It may take a few more steps to work on Debian, but it would still run just fine.
The kernel and the gui is the same. The file system is the same. Those little quirks wont make a damn bit of difference in the app space. Mozilla doesn't seem to have a problem.
How's the secret project going, or is that classified? Well, very very well.
Hope you're feeling better/bitter. No, check my journal. I may have to get surgery soon. Thanks for your concern.
Email activation script still not going? Yes, it works but not on that site.
That's, what, 3 weeks ago? I guess you miscalculated that timeline, huh? What timelime? That's a project that I work on when I get free time and nothing more.
Oh nice. I'm talking to a button programmer. No, that was actually my first desktop application I've ever written. I do more server side development. Network services interfaces with databases, and sometimes I have to write GUIs. Preference is console, but that is strangely declining amongst todays users.
Not at all. I've implemented 6000 lines in 1 week, with no bugs at all. Congratulations, then why do you find it so alien and hard to believe others can do the same?
Those backrubs are paying off. Good for you. That almost sounds like jealousy. Nothing wrong with showing appreciation.
First it was 1000 lines with a 15% failure. Now it's 2000 lines with 5% failures. And what app has 2000 lines of code? Maybe you only write little applets for your web pages. I'm not saying 15% failure. I also was asking what is braggable. If your development skills are on level with your reading skills, I fear for the world.
A lot of supportive applications are only 2,000 lines anyway. I recently had to write a simple desktop application that connected to a server and displays a nice little treeview. I used QT for Linux and Windows binaries, and the total amount of code I wrote was about 2,100 lines of code. Includes recursive data structures, authentication, network communication, and a nice little HTML display using QTextBrowser. It took me 3 days to get the Release Candidate out, and in it's beta run had one bug reported.
You sound like one of those guys who when asked when it will be done alternates between "real soon" to "about a half hour". Then they work on it for the next two weeks.
No, I'm one of those guys that those guys want to be like. Maybe you are just too dense and cynical to realize there are actually people who can write a 2100 line application in 3 days and have it be stable. And my manager absolutely loves me, he bought me a very nice christmas gift too.
So if you write 1000 lines of code, someone has to go in behind you and rewrite 150 of those lines to get your stuff to work? No, it's called QA. You must not be part of a large development team. Lets say an app had 2000 lines. Of which, lets say, 300 are minor fixes. Even GUI changes or something. Then I had zero bugs, and 300 changes that QA decided would be a better product.
That's not much to brag about... What is? 2000 lines with a 5% failure? Considering most programmers I see can't break more than 200 lines a day, and it's riddled with bugs and contains overly long and complex functions to do simple tasks, more programmers need to just do it, do it right.
Yes. No doubt. It would probably take one programmer several months of time just to create a decent version of CGI.pm . Maybe I underestimated the hours, maybe it should be around 35,400.
Damn you are overpaid. If I had a spec sheet of what functions it needed, I could recode CGI.pm in a week at most. Maybe it is odd for you to code over 1,000 lines a day. I do it regularly, and I'd say 85%+ goes into production without change.
I used to know, and still know, dozens of contractor's like you. You are the type of contractor that estimates you can do anything in one weeks time. Then you have to keep pushing back your deadlines until the entire project goes under. No, it depends if I have the spec sheet. If it's a re-write than yeah, it's no problem. Number of estimated lines divided by 800 is the number of days. If it's a new project, then it extends much much longer. I take a good two weeks for design, then another week sitting on my ass staring at the same thing to ensure I don't miss anything.
Maybe you are used to being surrounded by idiots, as it seems you are one.
It would have cost tens of thousands of hours to make the software function without the GPL'd software. Uhm, I'll call bullshit right here. Tens of Thousands? You are saying in excess of 10,000 hours, lets just go of single hour, time to redevelop the GPLd packages?
You do realize you just said that one programmer, working 40 hour weeks, couldn't accomplish the task in 5 years?
But you know what? These companies don't have a clue what GPL even means. As far as they are concerned, the GPL software is just free.
Of course they don't if you are their liason to the GPL world. Why don't you stop artificially inflating numbers. My guess is you also told them, "Well, I can do this for you and it's GPLd software and doesn't cost you a dime, or the alternative is buying a small country in Africa, a 1908 dime, and a pool bool named Juan but we can settle for Raul, and oh yeah, a billion trillion dollars."
I used to know a contractor that sounds like you... He personally went through and edited "Two Thousand Five Hundred" HTML files instead of running a parser on them and expected to be praised for his work.
"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's really a different kind of life" -- Buckminster Fuller
I love that quote, another I like is: Everything that exists is slowly growing obsolete.
Life changes, what you felt was success 6 months ago may not be now. It may even be the worst feeling you've had in your life. The only thing you can be succesful in is your happiness. Live your life doing what you want, and hopefully that's to make a little contribution to the world and live by doing it.
Just live a good life! Happiness is a way of living, not a goal. Excellent way of putting it.
I don't know about you guys but if I am having a panic attack the last thing I want to do is talk to anyone. You just want to get out of where you are, fight or flight. Having a robot asking me questions about how I feel really wouldn't ease any of my anxiety. Although a nice feature would be for the robot to dispense some xanax.
Well, to make you feel better, I'm pretty sure that you are definitely not in the target audience here. Combat personnel tend to get weeded out of they have panic attacks.
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I disagree. In part, kanji offset the lack of spacing between words. ...when I see a huge block of kana, it's next to impossible to read; kanji interspersed through it make it either an order of magnitude easier to read
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Interesting point, I've never actually thought of that before.
Just out of curiosity, if you read it out loud does it help you? Also can you read hiragana without pauses, and fluidly? When I was learning the kana I noticed I couldn't understand what it was that I was reading until I could read it without pausing at all.
Kanji is amazingly easier to read if you do know the kanji. I have the kanji vocabularly of a 2nd grader or so... it's annoying when trying to read something but you get over it.
Something else that may help you out is read kids books. They may be boring, but they'll help you. If you have access to some Japanese children, offer to read to them. It'll help you out
Hmm, that's an interesting theory, but do you have any sources or info to back that up?
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He probably has personal experience. As far as Japanese goes, I can tell you as well that kanji is much easier to read than pure kana, and I can barely read kanji.
A good comparison with efficiency in english is having two words that are spelled the same or sound the same, but mean different things. (Their/there, etc) Now, in Japanese the hiragana to display one of these words is going to be the same. Hiragana is based off of the 46 basic sounds in Japanese, so something that is said outloud the same will definitely be spelled the same. Score one for Japanese efficiency right there. Now, if you have two words (Butterfly and Lower Intestines is said the same) that are different, they are differentiated by seperate kanjis. You can also represent many hiragana characters, as well as difficult constructions, by easy kanji characters. Hokkyokusei, the word for north star, is 7 hiragana characters, but 3 kanjis.
More efficiency.
In conclusion of my little diatribe, Language does not become more bloated, it becomes more objectified. There are definitely more vocabulary and more constructions, but they serve to illustrate a point that is more clearly defined with the new terminology. It is still optional usage. You can communicate just fine using simple constructions in any language, but you can speak your ideas more clearly by joining objects together.
In Spanish, there is the subjunctive conjugation which allow complex sentences to be constructed. However, you can definitely say what is needed without it.
Think of it as Windows with IE that can really be removed and it still works fine. With real-time loading and no memory leaks
I'm not denying that you're having problems, but they may not be indicative of a larger pattern.
I can second your comment, I use nVidia drivers and use GLX often, and have no stability problems. The only problem I have is Japanese input is buggy as hell on Mdk9...
Which would be why telecoms companies have been doing so well recently, right...?
Sorry to inform you, but the wireless carriers are doing good. Or did you think they can hire Jamie Lee Curtis and Katherine Zeta Jones and not do good?
Telecom companies have no clue what is going to be the next hit. GSM, SMS and i-mode were surprise successes; IDSN, WAP and 3G have been disastrous failures. The companies are to some degree aware of this, and they hire legions of geeks to help them forecast the future, but often greed takes over -- and sometimes the geeks are just wrong. (For instance, I guessed right on the failure of 3G and WAP, and I'm pretty sure GPRS and MMS will take off, but if you'd followed my advice and dumped Nokia stock for SonyEricsson you would have regretted it.)
Sorry, but you just completely and totally discredited yourself. First, name one full 3G network in the US. Second, WAP sucks, outside of the US And inside. Third, Only the US is having any problems getting their networks up. This is because there is too much competition.
Do you even know what 3G is? How can you say GPRS and MMS will take off but 3G is a failure? My guess is you don't have a flying fuck of a clue. No offense, but your entire post sounds like you are a janitor trying to speak on behalf of the tech department. I'm not in the wireless world, but I know that most of what you said is wrong.
bad input system + bad camera + bad connection + expensive phone = good?
T9 isn't a bad input system. I use it often, and it works just fine. Sure, it's not as fast as a full keyboard, but it's not a hard system to learn.
If the cameras are anything like what they have in Japan, they won't be bad cameras. The pictures are a bit small (320x200 I think) but they look pretty crisp. Connections aren't that bad, in the US I have an ATT GSM phone and it's bandwidth rates are not that horrible. 19.2kbps at the moment, so uploading a couple pictures and some text will take what.. 10 seconds at most?
Somebody tell me who's making the decisions at the telecom industry. Do they read slashdot?
Sorry to tell you this, but the telecom industry doesn't care about a handful of geeks that think they know what the revolution in mobile communication is. I'd say it's pretty safe that they know much more about the market than anyone else here.
PSOne(on PSOne) > PSOne(on PS2)
The best example of this, and I'm not sure why it happens, is Driver 2. I haven't seen a game that has more problems with it. They must do some strange things with the graphcis for PSX that just don't translate over to PS2. Walls disappear, things are overly pixelated in some places, and a lot of stuff along those lines.
However, most games render fine. I think it's how close they adhere to the PSX specs instead of hacking for additional features/speed.
I think the idea here is that people will start using the Segway when they would normally walk the 1 block to the corner market.
I'm sure they can burn the 100 calories in some other way. Walking two blocks doesn't do much in the way of excercise.
And plenty of people who now ride bikes might switch because its easier.....and then they'll start putting on the pounds.
My guess is that the people who now ride bikes instead of drive do it because it is cheaper and they can't readily afford a car. If it's for polution, there are plenty of EV or hybrids that make that point moot. These people aren't going to be able to purchase a Segway for a long while.
This article [sfweekly.com] contains many of the best reasons that this device is a complete waste of time.
That is the worst article I have ever seen in SF Weekly, and that's saying a lot.
A tsunami of Lard? What the hell, like everyone who is going to use a Segway wont just drive in a car? Why is a scooter going to make people fat when they have to stop using it out of safety concerns if they start to weigh in over 110kg.
Their arguments are this, "Segway makes you fat, and cracks marble walls." They have no evidence of either, as I read it. Are they claiming she ran into the wall, or did her segway do it after she jumped off? Either way, it's a stupid remark that seems like she didn't do it because there is zero documentation on her "vandalism."
There are no reasons why it was a waste of time, there were a few speculations and a lot of bitterness. I think whoever wrote the article was probably just pissed his bicycle shop is going to take a hit.
Because if it does become popular, its gonna need to handle much more...
Yeah.. because efficient transporation makes people fat. News flash, people get fat for other reasons. Fat people don't ride bikes, unless it's for excercise. Their fat long before the Segway came along. End of story.
This FUD is worthy of Anti-Microsoft or Anti-Linux posts, you should be proud.
Sauron commands you to murder all Harry Potter fans!
Damn man, I don't need Sauron or anyone to command me to do that...
that any true Christian could do this anymore than I believe a true Jew or a true Muslim could have done it.,
No, of course not. Because we all know that the most wars have not been fought in the name of opposing religious beliefs...
From what I've seen of PHP's file uploading in the past, it's not much better.
This is a limitation of HTTP. Uploading anything of significant size via HTTP is handled like a special olympics runner.
I agree with you on Cold Fusion, it's definitely not an enterprise level solution. Especially when reliability is a concern for said enterprise.
FlashMX does seem to be making a pretty good foothold in webbased applications. I'm not talking about bubblegum animations. At my company we have a flash programmer who writes actual applications. He's writing what basically amounts to a word processor mixed with a content management system, all in Flash that talks to a java servlet system and stores everything in XML.
I'll be happy when PHP works just fine and dandy with Apache 2. I can't believe how freaking long Apache 2 took to get here and now that it is here, it has virtually no 3rd party module support.
I've seen code from one of our vendors with comments such as "whoever wrote this should be shot. but it was probably me. no time to fix it." He both admitted it was sketchy code and said it like that - and then we bought it.
That is frighteningly similar to something I wrote in some code a couple years back. It was never anything that would have left the office. At least I hope not. It was one of those "Here ya go, you have till 5pm" projects. I've also posted about management conditions, such as "When you have to produce over 5K lines a week, you do stuff like this:"
Huh? Why bother with a vendor when you could just apt-get? I used to work in one of those clueless cubicle farms. They had all sorts of M$ problems, from insecure email to equipment they could not use because the software had changed. The worst part was how they could not share information efficiently. Propriatory formats, hopless networking and all that M$ incompetentce. The stupid big dogs that made decisions kept trying to chase data security, but simply made life hell and security remained non existant.
You like discrediting yourself. The only thing clueless about your cube farm was probably you.
Microsoft is not the only providor of proprietary software. You will know this when you get a real job. My guess is your little cubicle farm job was some highschool work education. If you are over 18 I think I'll just lose faith in whatever country you come from.
Then some people [slashdot.org] blow smoke about "usability" and "not compatible with as much hardware as Windows XP." What shit.
You discredited your entire post with one sentence. Congratulations.
Free Software does not do it all anyway. Where's my free software GLX driver for nVidia? Well, it's free, yes, but it's not "Free as in Freedom" The only people that believe that Linux is an easier solution and one that you can get by without any proprietary systems are people who don't work in corporate environments. When you grow up you'll realize that you need to depend on vendors, because when things break if you are the dumbass that installed some new l33t freedom fighter application instead of a tried and true, supported, proprietary app you lose your job. End of story.
M$ is dead, long live freedom. M$ screwed the pooch with all their stupid conquer the world dreams and obnoxious practices. Who would use a browser that alows an advertiser to pop open a window and send you piles crap you did not request? Who would use an O$ that lets third parties rummage through your files and life? No, it's really over. M$ never had anything sepcial, got in the way of much innovation and everyone knows it. Their billions of dollars will evaporate like some kind of bad dream. Equipment makers who want to sell equipment will have to be honest about it
You really do need to grow up a little bit. This is slashdot, but when you apply for a job I wouldn't suggest putting "M$ sucks" on it. The whole dollar-sign-for-an-S thing is really rather silly. Microsoft isn't dead, their billions that you claim will evaporate are enough to keep them alive for years without ever selling a product. Many, many years in fact. They could go from the time it takes you to finish high school, get a PhD without selling a dime or laying off people, and they wouldn't have a problem.
Maybe you should do BSD is dying trolls..
Because each distro has its own little quirks, I can't imagine a sane company releasing something as large as Office for all distros. Even the differences between RH and Mandrake are pretty big. So they'd have to pick 1 or 2 distros and test for them.
Test, yes, that's true. But if someone goes to the store they buy either Mandrake or Red Hat if they don't know anything about Linux. A few people buy SuSE but so what.
As for it only running on one or two distros, that really is just absurd. If Microsoft were to release Office for X11, it would run on X11. End of story. It may take a few more steps to work on Debian, but it would still run just fine.
The kernel and the gui is the same. The file system is the same. Those little quirks wont make a damn bit of difference in the app space. Mozilla doesn't seem to have a problem.
How's the secret project going, or is that classified?
Well, very very well.
Hope you're feeling better/bitter.
No, check my journal. I may have to get surgery soon. Thanks for your concern.
Email activation script still not going?
Yes, it works but not on that site.
That's, what, 3 weeks ago? I guess you miscalculated that timeline, huh?
What timelime? That's a project that I work on when I get free time and nothing more.
What is this? Perhaps your blood DOES burn with the heat of code battle. Perhaps your heart is Klingon after all?
I'm sure you would rest easy knowing that I also did some assembly code 10 years ago, too?
The wreckless days, writing stupid DOS games in between college classes.
Oh nice. I'm talking to a button programmer.
No, that was actually my first desktop application I've ever written. I do more server side development. Network services interfaces with databases, and sometimes I have to write GUIs. Preference is console, but that is strangely declining amongst todays users.
Not at all. I've implemented 6000 lines in 1 week, with no bugs at all.
Congratulations, then why do you find it so alien and hard to believe others can do the same?
Those backrubs are paying off. Good for you.
That almost sounds like jealousy. Nothing wrong with showing appreciation.
First it was 1000 lines with a 15% failure. Now it's 2000 lines with 5% failures. And what app has 2000 lines of code? Maybe you only write little applets for your web pages.
I'm not saying 15% failure. I also was asking what is braggable. If your development skills are on level with your reading skills, I fear for the world.
A lot of supportive applications are only 2,000 lines anyway. I recently had to write a simple desktop application that connected to a server and displays a nice little treeview. I used QT for Linux and Windows binaries, and the total amount of code I wrote was about 2,100 lines of code. Includes recursive data structures, authentication, network communication, and a nice little HTML display using QTextBrowser. It took me 3 days to get the Release Candidate out, and in it's beta run had one bug reported.
You sound like one of those guys who when asked when it will be done alternates between "real soon" to "about a half hour". Then they work on it for the next two weeks.
No, I'm one of those guys that those guys want to be like. Maybe you are just too dense and cynical to realize there are actually people who can write a 2100 line application in 3 days and have it be stable. And my manager absolutely loves me, he bought me a very nice christmas gift too.
Does it hurt to be wrong?
So if you write 1000 lines of code, someone has to go in behind you and rewrite 150 of those lines to get your stuff to work?
No, it's called QA. You must not be part of a large development team. Lets say an app had 2000 lines. Of which, lets say, 300 are minor fixes. Even GUI changes or something. Then I had zero bugs, and 300 changes that QA decided would be a better product.
That's not much to brag about...
What is? 2000 lines with a 5% failure? Considering most programmers I see can't break more than 200 lines a day, and it's riddled with bugs and contains overly long and complex functions to do simple tasks, more programmers need to just do it, do it right.
Yes. No doubt. It would probably take one programmer several months of time just to create a decent version of CGI.pm . Maybe I underestimated the hours, maybe it should be around 35,400.
Damn you are overpaid. If I had a spec sheet of what functions it needed, I could recode CGI.pm in a week at most. Maybe it is odd for you to code over 1,000 lines a day. I do it regularly, and I'd say 85%+ goes into production without change.
I used to know, and still know, dozens of contractor's like you. You are the type of contractor that estimates you can do anything in one weeks time. Then you have to keep pushing back your deadlines until the entire project goes under.
No, it depends if I have the spec sheet. If it's a re-write than yeah, it's no problem. Number of estimated lines divided by 800 is the number of days. If it's a new project, then it extends much much longer. I take a good two weeks for design, then another week sitting on my ass staring at the same thing to ensure I don't miss anything.
Maybe you are used to being surrounded by idiots, as it seems you are one.
Please leave the IT field, you are tainting it.
It would have cost tens of thousands of hours to make the software function without the GPL'd software.
Uhm, I'll call bullshit right here. Tens of Thousands? You are saying in excess of 10,000 hours, lets just go of single hour, time to redevelop the GPLd packages?
You do realize you just said that one programmer, working 40 hour weeks, couldn't accomplish the task in 5 years?
But you know what? These companies don't have a clue what GPL even means. As far as they are concerned, the GPL software is just free.
Of course they don't if you are their liason to the GPL world. Why don't you stop artificially inflating numbers. My guess is you also told them, "Well, I can do this for you and it's GPLd software and doesn't cost you a dime, or the alternative is buying a small country in Africa, a 1908 dime, and a pool bool named Juan but we can settle for Raul, and oh yeah, a billion trillion dollars."
I used to know a contractor that sounds like you... He personally went through and edited "Two Thousand Five Hundred" HTML files instead of running a parser on them and expected to be praised for his work.
"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's really a different kind of life" -- Buckminster Fuller
I love that quote, another I like is: Everything that exists is slowly growing obsolete.
Life changes, what you felt was success 6 months ago may not be now. It may even be the worst feeling you've had in your life. The only thing you can be succesful in is your happiness. Live your life doing what you want, and hopefully that's to make a little contribution to the world and live by doing it.
Just live a good life! Happiness is a way of living, not a goal.
Excellent way of putting it.
I don't know about you guys but if I am having a panic attack the last thing I want to do is talk to anyone. You just want to get out of where you are, fight or flight. Having a robot asking me questions about how I feel really wouldn't ease any of my anxiety. Although a nice feature would be for the robot to dispense some xanax.
Well, to make you feel better, I'm pretty sure that you are definitely not in the target audience here. Combat personnel tend to get weeded out of they have panic attacks.
I'm still wondering how you made this spelling mistake.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.. he's havening some serious problems.