Parent AC is a troll, in case readers/mods don't spot it.
Some of those quotes are taken totally out of context. Some of them are true! Carmack also says Direct3D > OpenGL.
How about I choose some quotes from terjeber:
"I also have to do cross-platform stuff. In such cases I am on Linux primarily. Some times I wander into Solaris territory."
"Ruby/Rails". (His preferred web dev platform, ahead of.NET MVC, Play! and Spring.)
"Being religious about what platform you use is a sure sign that as an IT professional you are ready for replacement."
Yes, really: too much work. Heh, I don't fit into the lazy but desperate group you allude to above.
One of my guys is writing a SL app that looks great. It still took a good amount of (great) work.
Another guy is writing a different part of our suite in HTML (because it's public facing).
Getting it working took more than SL, but not too much because his knowledge is good.
Getting it working on 3 versions of 3+ browsers was too much work, IMO.
HTML & JS aren't the platform. That and 9+ browser implementations are the target platform.
Tweaking the L&F in 2 or 3 libraries' CSS to match and get a consistent look is also too much work.
I actually agree with points in your comment, but as the guys who replied to you point out there _are_ more productive platforms.
An Apple one and another 2 with IPS panels.
You need this when running 5 instances of Visual Studio.
(Perversely, he has VI plugins for VS, Firefox etc.)
I make sure all my guys have at least 2 if they want them.
My J-wife uses IP streamed 1-seg with a USB decoder.
The only alternative where I live is to get a satellite TV "Asian" package with a bunch of Chinese channels and *one* J-channel for like US$40/month.
Looking at Jack Vance's books on Amazon, many from the 2nd page onwards are not in print, which is a huge shame.
The only way to get some of his older stuff was to spend thousands on the VIE.
(MS's Paul Allen bought dozens of these collections for libraries around the world.)
Even when I lived 15 minutes away every visit was confusing because everything there changed so often.
And it's not as diverse and interesting as it used to be anyway. Things are moving online or into super-stores like Yodobashi.
Think about it like this:
- Ms-PL (and 4 or so other licenses)
- CodePlex
- Free versions of Visual Studio
Now developers can write open source for Windows &.NET with MS versions of everything the traditional open source world used to provide.
Instead of developing with Java or gcc for other VMs or Linux!
That idea also bothers cosmologists - we should assume there is nothing special about our place in the universe (except for the Anthropic Principle).
In fact, given the recent Kepler data there are 100 million reasons why we're likely not special, and probably not the first space-faring civilization.
Slashdot Mirror
"Few if any legal systems have a process for reliably donating works to the public domain."
Yes, I agree. Acorn did this with their Archimedes (ARM-based) computers in the late 80's with a BBC (6502-based) emulator in ROM.
10 PRINT CHR$(INT(.5+RND(1))*45+47);:GOTO 10
If they can do this with two qubits, why not 4? Why not 8, or 128, or 512?
Quantum decoherence.
=> Google Native Client.
I think neither of you is giving Gates enough credit... most of the first wave of personal computers, including the Apple II, ran MicroSoft BASIC
The Apple I & II originally ran Integer Basic, written (on paper) and hand-assembled entirely by Woz.
... and it still sucks at that, though marginally less so than Google.
Parent AC is a troll, in case readers/mods don't spot it.
.NET MVC, Play! and Spring.)
Some of those quotes are taken totally out of context. Some of them are true! Carmack also says Direct3D > OpenGL.
How about I choose some quotes from terjeber:
"I also have to do cross-platform stuff. In such cases I am on Linux primarily. Some times I wander into Solaris territory."
"Ruby/Rails". (His preferred web dev platform, ahead of
"Being religious about what platform you use is a sure sign that as an IT professional you are ready for replacement."
Yes, really: too much work. Heh, I don't fit into the lazy but desperate group you allude to above.
One of my guys is writing a SL app that looks great. It still took a good amount of (great) work.
Another guy is writing a different part of our suite in HTML (because it's public facing).
Getting it working took more than SL, but not too much because his knowledge is good.
Getting it working on 3 versions of 3+ browsers was too much work, IMO.
HTML & JS aren't the platform. That and 9+ browser implementations are the target platform.
Tweaking the L&F in 2 or 3 libraries' CSS to match and get a consistent look is also too much work.
I actually agree with points in your comment, but as the guys who replied to you point out there _are_ more productive platforms.
Here.
Lots of interesting comments there, and yet MS keeps fueling the fire.
HTML(5)/JS is still too much work compared with SL for LOB apps.
I don't see SL going away any time soon.
An Apple one and another 2 with IPS panels.
You need this when running 5 instances of Visual Studio.
(Perversely, he has VI plugins for VS, Firefox etc.)
I make sure all my guys have at least 2 if they want them.
I hear that ballerina costumes offend the prophet.
But perfect for broad reproduction.
"Relational SQL and key-value NoSQL models are mathematically dual, and provides a monadic query language for what they have coined coSQL."
I'm glad somebody clarified that! (Time to RTFA.)
Agreed. I've always called it Semi-Quasi-Language.
... is the title on the cards I've had since the early 90's.
It's an easy way to exchange email addresses, and business cards are still vital in Japan of course.
a business opportunity!
My J-wife uses IP streamed 1-seg with a USB decoder.
The only alternative where I live is to get a satellite TV "Asian" package with a bunch of Chinese channels and *one* J-channel for like US$40/month.
Looking at Jack Vance's books on Amazon, many from the 2nd page onwards are not in print, which is a huge shame.
The only way to get some of his older stuff was to spend thousands on the VIE.
(MS's Paul Allen bought dozens of these collections for libraries around the world.)
Even when I lived 15 minutes away every visit was confusing because everything there changed so often.
And it's not as diverse and interesting as it used to be anyway. Things are moving online or into super-stores like Yodobashi.
Show your face coward! ...)
(Honestly, I don't know why I'm bothering
My point is that MS finally gets it now.
They have found ways to _harness_ open source developers rather than fighting them.
You make a valid point despite your sarcasm.
J++ (and so J#) was a failed attempt to do the above.
... has really been to "embrace" it. (As usual!)
.NET with MS versions of everything the traditional open source world used to provide.
Think about it like this:
- Ms-PL (and 4 or so other licenses)
- CodePlex
- Free versions of Visual Studio
Now developers can write open source for Windows &
Instead of developing with Java or gcc for other VMs or Linux!
Castle Wolfenstein 30 years late.
That idea also bothers cosmologists - we should assume there is nothing special about our place in the universe (except for the Anthropic Principle).
In fact, given the recent Kepler data there are 100 million reasons why we're likely not special, and probably not the first space-faring civilization.
Wouldn't surprise me. Bet the conspiracy theorists are already using this one.
Thanks a lot for the info. ...
... thanks guys!
This is for the wife's iBook G3, but a quick google around found only marginal success with Ubuntu.
Maybe Gentoo then
Gee, all these nice replies but no mods - weird